Author's Note: I forgot to mention in the first chapter, that the heroes and villains will be travelling through other dimensions where they will meet characters from other things such as video games. All characters and places are copyrighted to their respectful owners. Professor Frizzle is copyright to LightningFlash.
Chapter 2: The Cyber Stalker
Ace walked down a corridor towards a large metal that said "Secret Laboratory" on it. Ace pulled down the door handle and stepped into the lab. It was a large white room with large lights hanging overhead that you would have found in a library. Many shelves of formulas and potions were lined up all over the room. A large workbench stood in the middle of the room and a strange capsule containing a one-eyed skeleton creature stood in a corner of the room.
"Hello? Professor Frizzle?" called Ace, only to be hit in the back of the head by something heavy.
Ace turned around, ready to blast whatever attacked him, only to find a small man with frizzy red hair staring up at him angrily. He wore spectacles and a lab coat.
"Ace Lightning! How did you get into my secret laboratory!" shrieked the man, leaping up and down in rage.
"Because it says on the door that it is a secret laboratory…" said Ace.
"Oh…" said Professor Frizzle. "Anyway, vat do you vant?"
"I need a new weapon to use against Lord Fear," said Ace. "And a translation booklet".
"Lord Vear is back, that cwazy skeleton can't even pway the organ!" said Frizzle.
Frizzle led Ace to a closet and swung the doors open, one hitting Ace it the head. Frizzle took a strange blue pistol from a low shelf and handed it to Ace.
"This is my Supreme 3000 Super-Mega Ultra Deluxe Version 5.0 MK II Lightning Blaster Gun!" declared Frizzle "The pistol is able to fire lightning at great velocity and strength!".
Ace looked at it proudly and placed it in his jacket.
"And vat about that translation book you require. Vy do you need vat?" asked Frizzle.
"Well I've located a piece of the Amulet in Dimension One, The Mushroom Kingdom," said Ace. "But I'm not sure that the people who live in that Dimension speak English, so that is why I need the translator book, as well as a creature guidebook".
"Very vell" said Frizzle and he quickly dashed to a bookshelf, grabbed two books, shoved them in Ace's arms and shoved him out of his laboratory.
"Now get your backside out of my laboratory!" shouted Frizzle and pushed Ace out of the lab.
Ace was quite taken back by Frizzle, but then again, the professor was always like that. He quickly walked away, not noticing Anvil sneak around a corner and smash the door of the lab down.
Frizzle angrily dashed at Anvil and leapt up to perform a flying kick, but Anvil easily grabbed Frizzle in midair by the foot and tossed him away. Frizzle collided with a shelf full of beakers and testtubes and one fell into his hand. Anvil approached Frizzle angrily.
"Lord Fear needs potion to destroy puny Ace Lightning!" shouted Anvil, his eyes staring darkly at Frizzle.
"You vant potion, you got it!" snapped Frizzle and threw the test-tube at Anvil. It hit him in the head and explosion of green smoke engulfed Anvil. When the smoke cleared Anvil was clutching him head, and then he looked up, his eyes wide.
"My god, it appears that I have become ludicrously intelligent…" said Anvil and with a shriek, he fled.
Frizzle chuckled and then ran to a capsule where a piece of cheese floated.
"Zoon my cheeze monster will be alive and I shall destwoy… something!" announced Frizzle.
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It was evening at the Carnival of Doom, and as the creepy winds whirled through the corners of the haunted theme park, Lord Fear sat in the haunted house, hammering down on the organ keys with his long bony fingers. Spooky organ music echoed throughout the building as Lord Fear played; wraiths flying out of the organ's pipes.
Staff Head stood beside Lord Fear, stretching his frog legs with little strength. Lord Fear then finished playing and an applaud instantly homed in.
"That was simply blood-curdling, sir" said a female voice, but it was not of Lady Illusion's.
"Thankyou, Poison Ivy!" said Lord Fear and turned to face a young girl.
Poison Ivy was a young woman who was in her early 20's. In fact she was only 21 years of age. She had long green hair that went down to her hips. Amazingly her hair was made of long thorny vines. She had pale green skin and emerald coloured eyes. She wore a frock completely made up of leaves and no shoes, just bare feet which shivered on the cold stone floor.
She had recently been summoned by Lord Fear when he used the third Amulet piece he had with another.
"Hey Poison, maybe you could use your vines to make a large leaf fan for me, I need some shade!" giggled Staff Head.
He got more than he bargained for when Poison Ivy started changing shape and formed into a monstrous flycatcher. Her gorgeous emerald eyes shrunk into ditty black eyes and sharp fangs formed in her mouth, eye one dripping with mucus. Her long elegant hair morphed into spiky, short rotting weeds on the back of the leviathan plant's head. Long rippling vines lashed out and twirled around Staff Head's body, blocking off his pathways to air.
"Silence you talking toothpick! I will not be insulted by your pathetic voice!" hissed Poison, her vines tightening around Staff Head.
"Mmmhmmmhmmm!" muffled Staff Head desperately. He was not able to launch a blast of energy at Poison, for he needed air was one of the essential ingredients for his heat beams.
"Try to do that again and you'll be snapped in half and put through a wood chipper! Understood!" shouted Poison.
Staff Head nodded cowardly and Poison released her grip on the frog and reverted back to her humanoid form. With a quick glance to Lord Fear, Poison marched out of the haunted house and snuck away into the darkness.
"She is powerful" said Lord Fear.
"And dangerous, milord!" cried Staff Head, who lay on the floor, panting for air.
Lord Fear knelt down and picked up Staff Head, just as Dirty Rat flew in, looking as if he had just been laughing for ages.
"LF, Anvil got into a spot of trouble at the Thunder Tower, but the result may please you!" chuckled Dirty Rat.
Anvil entered the room, a pair of spectacles placed in front of his beady eyes. A book was hiding most of his face, the title reading "History of the Lightning Knights".
"Ah! So that is how the Lightning Knights were able to use electricity!" said Anvil intelligently.
"Looks like Anvil has been spending the time revising for a place at college! Hehehehe!" cackled Staff Head.
"Laugh if you want, buffoon!" cried Anvil, glaring at Staff Head, "But this is an important study. We could discover some amazing facts about the Lightning Knights and find their most powerful weakness!".
"I agree with Anvil, besides his new intelligence may help us create a weakness for the Lightning Knights!" announced Lord Fear and he started cackling tremendously.
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In the Fortress of Solitude, the evil Master Programmer sat in a seat, typing away at a large computer console. On the screen above him, large red worlds flashed.
"Project Kilobyte 2 is now completed…" announced the computer.
"Excellent, prepare to download the project! My master plan in now in session!" cried the Master Programmer.
"Affirmative!" said the computer and the project was downloaded.
"The time has come, Kilobyte!" whispered the Master Programmer and he smirked, his red eyes glowing in the darkness.
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At the carnival, Lord Fear and his growing army were all attracted to a strange presentation happening on the carnival's giant ferris wheel. A strange new being was flickering its way into the dimension. It then took its form and with four long strange arms, it leapt off the ferris wheel and down onto the ground.
It was a tall humanoid figure with no hair. He had many tattoos scattered around the back and sides of his head. He wore greenish-grey body armour all over his body and werewolf-like feet. He has long black nails on his hands. He has colourless eyes and a fierce looking expression on his face. The weirdest thing about this creature was the four long, green octopus tentacles lancing out of holes in his back.
"Who are you!" asked Lord Fear to the eight-limbed being.
"I am Kilobyte, the Cyber Stalker…" said the man with a cold voice, "I have come to take over the Carnival of Doom!".
"I don't think so, Doctor Octopus!" shouted Lord Fear and fired laserbeams at Kilobyte. They didn't even harm Kilobyte. Anvil and Pigface ran forward and smashed into Kilobyte. He fell to the ground, but in the process, two of his tentacles lashed out and curled around the two heavyweights and threw them across the carnival.
"Never underestimate my power again, Lord Fear!" said Kilobyte, "Now bow to me!".
Dirty Rat dumbly bowed towards Kilobyte, and so did Rotgut. Lord Fear, Lady Illusion and Poison stood their ground.
"We will not bow to you…but we are willing to help you destroy Ace Lightning!" said Lord Fear.
"Ace Lightning… that foolish Lightning Knight will be eliminated…permanently!" said Kilobyte.
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In Dimension One, in the Mushroom Kingdom, Ace and Sparx stood kneeled before Princess Peach. Peach was blonde-haired girl in a pink dress, white gloves and a golden tiara. Beside Peach was Mario, a small moustached man dressed in a red cap and shirt and blue trousers.
"And so you see your majesty, we must have the piece of the Amulet you found, otherwise our world will be in jeopardy" explained Ace to the princess.
"Hmmm… so this Lord Fear needs your Amulet to gain untold powers and destroy the universe… I see!" said Peach and took a piece of the Amulet from a pocket in her gown and handed it to Ace.
"Thankyou your royal highness" thanked Ace and he began to make for the exit.
"See ya!" said Sparx and followed after Ace.
The castle then started shouting and Sparx fell over. The wooden doors were shredded to pieces and entered Bowser, a giant fire-breathing demon with more spikes on his back than you could shake a star rod at. Behind him came several Goombas, grumpy looking mushrooms, and Koopatroopas, flying turtles with wings.
"Muhahaha, Princess Peach! Time to kidnap you again!" laughed Bowser.
"Ack! It is a' Bowser!" cried Mario and ran to the demon and kicked him in the head.
Ace and Sparx fired lightning bolts and fired Bowser and his minions. Bowser retreated and ran out of the castle, cursing Mario as he went.
"I rule!" cried Mario, doing some sort of dance. Peach joined in.
Then, another figure entered the castle. It was the giant wasp. Sitting on the bug's back was a tall muscular man with octopus tentacles wriggling in the air like mythical serpents.
"Who are you? How dare you infiltrate the princess' castle!" cried Toadstool, a small man wearing a toadstool for a hat.
"I am Kilobyte the Cyber Stalker… and you have just signed all your death warrants!" said Kilobyte and his four tentacles shot forward like ropes and grabbed Ace, Sparx, Mario and Princess Peach. Kilobyte's grip tightened around Ace more than the others.
"So you are the powerful Ace Lightning" laughed Kilobyte "You are weaker than I expected".
"Oh really!" breathed Ace and fired a lightning bolt from his free wrist cannon and damaged Kilobyte, striking his chest.
Kilobyte groaned and loosened his grip on his hostages. Sparx and Mario got free and started attacked Fred and Kilobyte flinging tentacles. Mario pulled a yellow cape from a pocket and flung it at the wasp. It slapped him across the head. The wasp, who Kilobyte had named Fred, screeched and smacked Mario away. Sparx leapt into the air and with a cry of war, came hurtling down on one of Kilobyte's tentacles, and slashed it clean off. The tentacle went falling to the grow and it faded it out. Kilobyte roared with anger and threw Princess Peach across the room. She landed in the safe arms of Luigi, Mario's brother.
"Thankyou, Luigi!" said Peach happily. Luigi nodded and then ran to help Mario fight off Fred.
Ace formed a lightning ball and it collided with Kilobyte, who was flung off Fred and onto the floor. Ace walked to Kilobyte and powered up his wrist cannons.
"Nice meeting you Kilobyte, but you're about to go back to your fist tank!" said Ace.
Lord Fear then burst into the room, via through a brick wall and blasted Ace with a well aimed laserbeam. Ace fell to the floor, the newly acquired Amulet falling out of his jacket. Lord Fear successfully picked it up.
"Let us leave!" said Lord Fear and he left. Kilobyte clambered onto Fred's back and the giant wasp flew away.
"We're in trouble…" said Sparx.
"No kidding," whined Peach "I broke a nail!".
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The villains arrived back at the carnival, and Lord Fear was eager to summon a new minion to do his evil bidding. But what surprised Kilobyte was that Lord Fear had another thing in mind.
"Lord Fear, if you even try to connect all the piece of the Amulet you have collected so far, you will probably destroy yourself" said Kilobyte.
"Silence! I will not listen to your pathetic warnings!" said Lord Fear and he ignorantly connected the pieces together. A powerful burst of energy exploded from the pieces as they met and sent Lord Fear and Kilobyte flying to the ground. The two villains watched as the pieces spun around in the sky, becoming a blur of purple energy.
Then the pieces fired a giant beam across the carnival midway and a gigantic portal appeared, swirling with green light. A giant dark shape squeezed its way out of the portal and out into the carnival. It was a giant metallic ghost ship. A glowing green was its colour and it hovered in the air with giant rocket boosters. Several spikes jutted out of the sides of the old ghostly galleon. Four long wings shot out diagonally in different directions, in the formation of an X. Like all ships, the name of the ghost ship was written on the underside of the ship, which was covered in flashing lights and gun turrets. The ghost ship was called: The Deathstrike.
"What in the Sixth Dimension?" cried Lord Fear.
"Blimey, it is huge!" stated Staff Head.
The Deathstrike slowly set foot on the ground and the transparent anchor that was built onto the ship vanished into the ground. A hatch in the ships underside opened and out of it came the weirdest creature Lord Fear had ever set eyes upon.
The creature had a centaur body structure. The lower body was a spider's abdomen, complete with eight long legs, all coated in armour. The upper body was more humanoid and coated in orange knight-like armour. It had long spiked arms with perfectly shaped human hands. His head was protected by a metal helmet with spikes angled outwards. A pair of yellow eyes stared at the viewers. The creature scuttled down towards Kilobyte, smirking.
"Greetings Kilobyte. I am Spidertor, the leader of the ground forces of Behemoth X!" said the spider creature, "My master has been searching for you…for a very long time!".
To be continued…
Who are these mysterious people named Behemoth X and who is Spidertor's master? Could he possibly a "relative" of Kilobyte? Will Ace get back the pieces of the Amulet? Will Princess Peach be able to fix her broken nail? Find out next time on Ace Lightning: Wrath of the Master Programmer, Chapter 3: Enter Behemoth X.