Celestial Black Avenger
Author's Note: If you want to follow the secret message, you can. Don't tell the end result because it spoils the fun for everyone. And yes, I know that this chapter isn't all that funny, but I needed plot filler. I don't own any trademarks or SSBM.
The search for the bombs was on.
Roy found two bombs marked 13-R and 49-H inside the laundry chute. Fox found bomb number 27-R in the oven. Yoshi got a lot of painful scratches, but he found bombs number 55-N and 3-O in the rosebush.
"So what do we have so far?" Yoshi asked, putting iodine on his scratches.
"Not much." Fox said.
They explored the cellar, and Yoshi accidentally bumped a shelf, breaking several bottles of cider, which he got a mouthful of. While he stumbled around, Fox nabbed 20-I and 60-! behind the shelf.
Roy went into the laundry room and picked up 59-! in the washing machine, along with 32-M in the detergent box.
"Hey, Roy, why are you foaming at the mouth?" Fox asked when he emerged.
They explored the bedroom, and Yoshi explored under the pillows and bed. He snatched 43-I, 19-W, and…a cheat book for Mario Kart: Double Dash?
"So THAT'S why you almost always win!" Yoshi and Fox yelled.
Roy backed into the closet and smacked his head on 25-V.
"MUHAHAHA! Those stupid smashers will never find all 60 bombs! I'm so smart!"
Crazy Hand then accidentally bashed himself in the wall of his hiding place.
"Darn! Why does this stupid cave in Mt. Everest-"
"-have to be so small!" Fox's Threat Detector buzzed.
"What the-?" Roy and Yoshi said.
Fox smiled. "I knew this would happen, so while we were fighting him, I threw an adhesive sound recorder onto him. It pays to take small precautions."
They headed to the living room and found out twelve bombs: 1-F, 6-S, 10-A, 14-R, 17-O, 23-N, 29-I, 35-A, 40-I, 48-T, 53-O, and 57-R. (I'm not repeating that.)
"How many bombs do we have?" Yoshi said, brushing dust off of himself.
"25."
"Only 35 more to go," Fox muttered.
They scouted the hallway and found five bombs lying in vases: 2-O, 5-I, 9-M, 15-S, and 34-E.
Fox and Yoshi went into the bathroom and discovered 12-H and 24-E in the medicine cabinet, along with a few other things.
"Mints!" Fox yelled. They split the "mints" 50-50 and gobbled them down.
Roy went into the garage and after a long, painful, dirty search, he found seven bombs:
11-S, 21-L, 22-L, 31-D, 33-E, 41-N, and 42-G.
Roy went up because he had to go to the bathroom, but when he tried to go in, he found that it was locked. Frustrated, he went to the other bathroom, but it was blocked as well.
'YARRGGH!"
About an hour later, all three smashers continued with their search. Hunting under the rugs, they found six bombs: 4-L, 7-H, 8-S, 18-U, 26-E, and 30-N.
"Wait a second." Fox said.
"What?"
"I just realized something. If Crazy Hand wants to detonate the bombs, he needs a power source to do that, because 60 of these can't make a powerful enough shockwave by themselves. Hey, isn't there a furnace in here somewhere?"
After a tramp down to the cellar yet again, Roy located the furnace, along with the last 15 bombs: 35-A, 36-M, 37-H, 38-I, 39-D, 44-N, 45-A, 46-N, 47-O, 51-R, 52-C, 54-U, 56-T, and 58-Y.
"Now what do we do?"
Without warning, Yoshi ate all the bombs, and then washed them all down with a bottle of antacids he found in the medicine cabinet.
BURRPP!
Fox wrote all the letters in order on a notepad and displayed the message.
"We spent that much time looking for the bombs, and this is what we get? A stupid worthless message!" Yoshi and Roy yelled.
"Not quite. You know how Crazy Hand mentioned that he was in Mt. Everest? Notice the letters with asterisks. Put them in order and you get a number. So that's the number of feet we have to climb."
"Mt. Everest, here we come!" Yoshi yelled.
"Now, I'll just rustle up a bit of cash for our plane tickets and equipment." Fox said, slipping off.
Later…
"HEY! What happened to that collector's baseball I caught in a World Series game!" Falco yelled.
On the flight…
"You know, we do have 3,000,000 left over from the soda caper," Roy said.
"Yeah, but I'm just getting retribution for when Falco accidentally shot me in the back with his blaster."
"Mehehehe…The time is nearly over!" Crazy Hand cackled.
"Well, for you it is." Fox said.
"What the-!"
Fox, Roy, and Yoshi then proceeded to beat up Crazy Hand and stole all his treasure, allowing them to buy Microsoft and Dunkin' Donuts.
THE END
