I have returned! Fwee! By the way, in Chapter One, when I wrote "proto-tip", I knew it was "prototype", I just made Roy say it incorrectly because, you know, he's not the brightest bulb in the tool shed. Anyway, here's Chapter Two.
Roy grumbled. He jerked, but he only got even more stuck. He waited, but nobody came by. His siblings were probably having fun, doing whatever they wanted.
Hmph. Chumps. Can't wait to beat on them again.
Although they seemed to be his only hope at this point, Roy couldn't help but get angry with them for taking so long to get here. Finally, he heard footsteps. He hoped it would be Morton, or Ludwig, or even Lemmy.
As the footsteps got closer, Roy's eyes zoomed in again. He noticed... Iggy.
"Yo, Iggnoramous!" Roy barked. He saw Iggy turn around, confused.
"Roy? Where are you?" Iggy shouted out in the opposite direction. Roy's temper rose.
"Over here, you imbecile!" Roy shouted at him. Iggy discovered Roy halfway through the hole, and then began to panic.
"Roy! What are you doing there?" Iggy squealed.
"I nearly escaped from the dungeons, but I got stuck in this hole," Roy explained. "Could you get me out?"
At first, Iggy was more than happy to get Roy out, but then he smiled mischievously.
"Uh, Iggy?" Roy said. "Why are you smirking?"
"I'll get you out..." Iggy began. "On one condition."
"Oh, come on!" Roy shouted.
"Keep it down!" Iggy hushed. "Bowser's right across the garden. He might hear you."
"So what's the condition?" said Roy a bit more quietly, although he was frustrated.
"You won't pound on me," Iggy said smugly. Roy's mouth fell open.
"Are you kidding me?" Roy burst out, although he was whispering. "I love to pound on you! It's all I do! It's one of my main hobbies!"
"Well, I guess you can get stuck there for the rest of the week," Iggy bribed.
Roy was fuming.
"Fine!" he hissed.
"Actually, I'd like to add another condition," Iggy decided.
Roy restrained himself from shouting at the top of his lungs.
"WHAT?" he whispered very, very loudly.
"You'll be nice to me and the others for a whole week," Iggy told him.
"Fine, whatever!" Roy murmured furiously. "Now can you get me out of here?"
"All right."
Iggy walked over to Roy, grabbed his arms, and began to pull with all his strength. Unfortunately, Iggy isn't (and never was) considered very powerful, and this was no exception. He managed to move Roy a little more, but he couldn't quite get him out. Within little time, Iggy was rubbing his arms.
"Ouch!" Iggy whispered in pain as he massaged his arms. "I can't get you out of there."
"No duh," Roy mocked.
"Maybe Ludwig can help?" Iggy said thoughtfully.
"Good idea," Roy remarked. "Go get him."
Iggy ran off into the distance, his footsteps soon disappearing. Roy waited. A few minutes later, the rainbow-haired turtle made his way back to Roy, accompanied by a Koopa with wacky, blue hair.
"Roy!" Ludwig said, astounded. "You managed to find a way out of the dungeons! I spent weeks trying to counterbalance the chemicals in the wall with my explosives—"
"Will you just get me out?" Roy complained, running out of patience.
"Yes, right," muttered Ludwig. He pulled out a tiny bomb, no bigger than the A Button on a Nintendo Game Cube, lit it with a candle and placed it next to Roy. It began ticking down.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Roy shouted, unable to keep whispering. "THAT BOMB IS GOING TO BLOW UP ALL OVER ME!"
"Roy, shut up!" Iggy silenced.
"Ah, don't worry about that," Ludwig reassured him. "I programmed this bomb so it would be impervious to turtles and it wouldn't make any noise."
"Yeah, well, it better not mess everything up," Roy warned. Within a few seconds, the bomb blasted the wall. What was interesting was that (a), Roy wasn't hurt by it, and (b), it made absolutely no sound. Roy got out of the wall and brushed himself.
"Wow, Kooky," Roy remarked, looking impressed. "I'd say that was one of your better inventions."
"Don't call me Kooky!" Ludwig said angrily. "I resent it!"
"GUYS! King Dad's coming!" Iggy yelped frantically. "Roy, get back in the dungeons! We'll be hiding in that bush!"
Roy obeyed and reentered the chamber; Iggy and Ludwig dived into a nearby shrub. Bowser swept past the big hole in the wall. He had his mind on something else, so he didn't notice it. Once Bowser was back in the castle, Iggy and Ludwig came out of the bush and Roy went back outside.
"That was close," Iggy sighed.
"This is urgent!" Ludwig cried. "If King Dad glimpses you ambling around, you're going to be in a gargantuan dilemma!"
"In English?" Roy scoffed.
"That was English," Ludwig pointed out. "But what I meant is that if King Dad notices you, you're busted!"
"What are you going to do?" Iggy questioned.
"I don't know," Roy said anxiously. "You guys are the smart ones!"
"I've got it!" Ludwig exclaimed. "You may hide out in my room! That way, King Dad will never find out that you were never in the dungeons because I'll keep you inside."
"But isn't King Dad going to go to the dungeons to check on him?" Iggy asked. "He's going to notice that Roy isn't there."
"Good point, Iggy! Luckily, I have it all worked out," Ludwig advised him. "I shall use my hologram projector to create a copy of Roy and put it in the dungeon. It'll act like Roy, talk like Roy, even eat like Roy. King Dad will never tell the difference."
"And how am I going to eat?" Roy asked the child prodigy of a turtle. "Am I just going to starve?"
"Nonsense," Ludwig said. "I'll sneak some food up to my room so you can eat it."
"But wait!" Iggy chimed in. "How long will he have to stay in his room? I mean, if he stays for too long, he may get out of shape!"
Roy suddenly seemed alarmed.
"That's right!" he said loudly. "I might not be strong enough to continue boxing!"
"Roy, Roy, Roy," Ludwig sighed. "Didn't you remember? You're going to get powered up by my new machine, the Energy-Giving Gear, or E.G.G for short! I told you yesterday."
Roy nodded; he sure did want to get his power increased tenfold.
"I remember the name by saying the word egg. It's very simple!" Ludwig told him.
"Egg..." Roy said aloud. "Egg! I left an egg in the dungeons!" He remembered the egg that he had before he had gotten stuck in the hole.
"Egg?" Ludwig asked, confused.
"What egg?" Iggy inquired him.
"I'll show you." Roy scurried back inside, clutched his egg, ran back outside, and presented it to his two brothers. Ludwig and Iggy were completely shocked.
"Amazing!" Ludwig finally said, dumbfounded. "I've never seen this kind of egg before! Unbelievable!"
"I wonder what it'll hatch into?" Iggy asked the others curiously.
"Let's get back up to my room, but be very careful, because we don't want to get caught," Ludwig explained to the others. Roy, clutching the egg, followed the other two into the castle. He hid close behind them so nobody would notice.
Finally, they reached Ludwig's room. It looked a lot more like an inventive lab than a bedroom, but it had a bed nevertheless.
"I can't wait to study this fine specimen!" Ludwig cheered, and he placed the egg under a microscope. "Iggy, Roy, you guys can sit on my bed for now. I'll zap you with my E.G.G. in just a minute, Roy."
Roy took a seat next to Iggy on the organized, white bed. He looked at Ludwig's machines curiously, wanting to know what happens next...
Thanks for reading! Expect Chapter Three up soon!
