Chapter 3. Clowning Around
Ace woke up and the first thing he saw was slimy stuff all over the place. "Yuck! Don't tell me this is Pigface's house!?" asked Ace as he jumped out of the dumpster and wiped the grime off of his chest. He picked up his Lightning Lance and placed it on his back. He looked around for movement and then he noticed a giant red and yellow tent with a entrance that looked like a clown with bogies hanging from it's nostrils. Ace red the inscription on the entrance. It said: Welcome to the greatest show in all the dimensions...THE CIRCUS OF DOOM!
Ace got out his lance and prepared to enter the circus. Inside the tent, Lord Fear and his staff were searching for the villain called "Googler". "Where is my clown of mayhem?" called Lord Fear "Googler!". They came to a cannon and out of it came a spiky ball. It split open and a colourful jester wearing glovepuppets and a metal mask appeared before the lord. "Reporting for duty your scariness...hahahahaha!" laughed Googler as he rolled up into a ball and bounced madly around the place. "That's enough entertainment for now Googler!" cried Lord Fear "Ace Lightning is here!". Googler halted and glared at the boneman. "The same Lightning, that sent me to White Hot Oblivion...in dimension two!?" shouted Googler. "The very one..." said Lord Fear. "Goody! Googler gets to play..." cackled Googler as he watched his glovepuppets, Zip and Snip laugh. "What are you going to do?" asked Staff Head curiously. "I'm gonna googlerize him!" laughed Googler. "Very well...do not fail me Googler...or you will be googlerized yourself!" snarled Fear. Googler muttered something and bounced away.
A few minutes later Ace arrived and spotted the jester handing upside down on a pole. "GOOGLER!" bellowed Ace. "Hahahahaha! I'm in pole position!" laughed Googler. "You cackling clown! Your going down!" announced Ace and fired lightning bolts from his hands at Googler. Googler leapt from his spot and bounced around, avoiding all the bolts. "You really have grown weak after our past fights!" said Googler "Besides, I'm going to find the amulet piece in this circus before you!". "No need to look! Now hand over the amulet piece you have!" said Ace. "How did you know!?" shrieked Googler. He then grinned. "So I have the amulet piece, big deal!" said Googler "If you want it...your gonna have to catch me first!". He cackled and bounced away. "Hey get back here!" shouted Ace. As he chased the bouncing ball, he found himself in a circus ring. In the ring itself, three large elephants wearing clowns hats were walking around in circles. And also a lion with a green mane and a clown nose was watching Ace. It roared and pounced. Ace pulled out his Lightning Lance and struck the lion down. The lion then mysteriously vanished in a vail of smoke. Then a monkey in a clown costume leapt from a trapeze a kicked Ace in the head. Ace stumbled backwards, but then blasted the monkey with his lightning bolts. The monkey vanished like the lion. Ace looked at the elephants who shrieked and stampeded off.
Ace then noticed a platform high above him. He took off into the air and landed on the platform, which turned out to be a walkway. The circus floor had vanished and was replaced with a bottomless pit. Ace spotted a cage on the other side of the walkway, and the amulet piece was inside it. Ace took off and raced across the walkway, killing acrobatic men and strongmen on the way. Ace then approached the cage and was about to open it, when Googler came bouncing along and snagged the amulet fragment. "What the!?" cried Ace. "Hahahaha! Did I give you a fright knight?" laughed Googler. "You giggling goon! I'll..." began Ace, but was cut off when Googler laughed madly and bounced off toward the edge of the walkway. "Oh no you won't! BYE!" laughed Googler and bounced off down the bottomless pit. Ace plucked up the courage and jumped down after him.