In case anyone who is strict with grammar shows up: You might say that I have put wrong end marks to some sentences like "What the hell". Normally, people will end it with both a question mark and then followed by an exclamation mark. There's a problem with this site though, that makes it not possible to put more than one end mark. No matter how many you put, you will only get one and that's the last one you inputted. Therefore, if ever you see a sentence like this: What are you doing! Don't say I did not put a question mark in it. I did, but it didn't show up. And lastly, Mario speaks in Italian accent, so the spellings in his quotes are intended to spelled like that.

Team 2: Link, Zelda, Ganondorf, Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser, Ness, Kirby

WORLD NAME:

HALLOWEEN TOWN

Chapter 22: Welcome to Halloween Town, the Town of Spooks!

In a dark and quiet place, a shining object streaks across the sky and eventually towards the earth. The star crashes into the ground with a loud bang and dust fills the air, not to mention that it created a big crater.

"Another rough landing," says Kirby. "This warp star isn't the same kind as the one I used to pilot."

"Where are we?" asks Luigi. "We're in Halloween Town," Link tells him. "There's a dark reactor somewhere here."

"This town name gives me the creeps…"

Suddenly, they all heard eerie wailing sounds coming from nowhere. Luigi screams and latches onto Mario in fear.

"Newcomers of Halloween Town…" says an eerie voice from nowhere. "What are your intentions here? Say your names!"

"We should know our manners and tell him our names," says Zelda. "I'm Zelda."

"Link."

"Ganondorf the former king of evil."

"It's-a me, Mario!"

"Luigi…"

"Peach!"

"Bowser the king!"

"Ness."

"Hi, I'm Kirby!"

"What do you want here?" says the voice again. "We're here to destroy the dark reactor and free this place from the Darkling's grasp," replies Link.

"Destroy the dark reactor? Can it be? You are the ones the hand said?"

"Hand? Do you mean Master Hand or Crazy Hand?"

"It seems that you are the one. Very well, I will appear before you."

"About time," says Ganondorf.

All the eerie voices went quiet. "This doesn't look good," says Luigi. Suddenly, a skull slowly fades into existence, followed by the entire body.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" screams Luigi at the top of his voice upon seeing the skeleton, and then he passes out. "Now that's the loudest scream I've ever heard!" says the skeleton. He sees Luigi foaming severely in the mouth. "Um… Did I overdo it?"

"I think-a so…" says Mario.

"I welcome the chosen ones to Halloween Town!" says the skeleton. "I am the most famous scare master in Halloween Town, Jack Skellington!"

"I have heard of you!" says Ganondorf. "It's a pleasure to meet you here!" He then shakes hand with Jack.

"You are the chosen ones, so you must have the holy weapons," says Jack. "We have!" replies Bowser, showing him the Sharp Claws.

"That's the one! Quick, we must go see Dr. Finklestein! He wants to meet you all!"

The Smashers follow Jack as he leads them towards Dr. Finklestein's lab. Thanks to Ness's telekinesis, Luigi is floating in midair, following him.

As they walk through the outskirts of Halloween Town, they hear lots of ghostly cries and wails. "I can't imagine living in a place with all these scary sounds going around," says Peach. "It's normal to hear these sounds around here," Jack tells her. "You'll get use to it eventually."

When the lab is about a kilometer away, a long black arm shoots up from the ground! "It's a Darkling!" says Jack. "Watch out!" A black creature with arms about three times the size of its body rises from the ground and growls at them!

"It's a Long Arm Darkling!" says Jack. "Its arms are very long; therefore, it has a long reach!"

"We can see that even without you explaining!" Link tells him.

The Darkling stretches his hand forward to attack the Smashers and Jack, but they all jump aside to avoid it. Bowser puts on the Sharp Claws and jumps toward the Darkling, and with one strong blow, he tears the Darkling's head off the body. "Too easy!" says Bowser.

"You guys are good with the holy weapon!" says Jack. "No wonder Master Hand chose you all as the ones who will bring down the king of Darkling!"

They continue walking and eventually got to the lab. Jack introduces them to a short professor sitting on a wheelchair. "Ladies and gentlemen!" says Jack. "I introduce you to the one and only genius, Dr. Finklestein!" The Smashers clap and cheer. "Yeah, I'm such a genius that I fear my inventions may cause trouble," says the doctor. "Anyways, so you guys are the Smashers, right?"

"Yes," replies Link.

"Very well! I must show you all something! Follow me!" The doctor takes them into a deeper part of the lab, where they see a large missile about the same size of a bus—in width, length, and height.

"That's a pretty big missile!" says Ness. "Though I'd seen bigger ones."

"Master Hand, an old friend of mine, came a few days ago," says the doctor.

"Really!" reply the Smashers in unison. (There IS a question in the 'really')

"He told me you would come some day."

"So?"

"He told me to make a powerful missile that can destroy Darkling."

"How?"

"The missile is infused with Master Hand's cells and tissues. He let me extracted some of it to make this missile possible!"

"Really!"

"You know the Hand family, who are able to destroy Darkling without the weapons."

"Yeah."

"Therefore, this missile can destroy Darkling because it is infused with Master Hand's cells and tissues! But I'm afraid it isn't strong enough at the moment."

"So what are you gonna do about it?" asks Kirby. "I want to borrow your holy weapons and extract some of its holy powers and add it into the missile."

"But our weapons will lose their powers!" says Link.

"I'm only going to take a little bit. In fact, the weapons will automatically refuel themselves as long as their owners are holding it."

"But how are you going to do it?" asks Peach.

"I have the machines necessary for doing it."

The Smashers take out their holy weapons and place it into a bag Dr. Finklestein handed out. Once all the weapons are in, Dr. Finklestein moves toward a strange machine on the other side of the room. Suddenly, a rod sticks out from beneath the table, and when the doctor's wheelchair touches it, he falls over and the bag of weapons flew into the air! Three little kids rush out from beneath the table and catch the falling bag, and then they quickly run out the backdoor. "That's Lock, Shock, and Barrel!" says Jack.

"Those kids took our weapons!" says Ganondorf. "Curse those brats!" says Dr. Finklestein angrily. "They're always making pranks!"

"We must get the weapons back!" says Bowser. He rushes to the backdoor to follow them, but when he got near it, he heard someone shouting…

"Scorch Wheel!"

"Noise Crush!"

Then the backdoor explodes, pushing Bowser back with a strong force! When the explosion cleared, the backdoor is covered by several rocks and debris. "What was that?" says Bowser.

"We'll never be able to catch them now!" says Link. "Without the holy weapons, we're helpless in front of Darklings!"

"There's no s in Darkling," Zelda corrects him.

"Those three surely must be following Oogie Boogie's orders," says Jack, rubbing his chin.

"Why does this Oogie Boogie guy want our weapons?" asks Kirby.

"Oogie Boogie is a Dark Agent. He stole the weapons from you in order to make you helpless in front of Darkling."

"I'm gonna get him for this!" says Bowser angrily. "He'll pay!"

"But we're in big trouble without the weapons!" says Luigi. "We'll die for sure when a Darkling appears!"

"I don't care about Darkling! I'm gonna barge through their way and get the weapons back!"

"I know where Oogie Boogie lives," says Jack. "But first, I'll have to fetch my dog, Zero."

Somewhere in Halloween Town, there stands a medium-sized house made totally out of wax. Some monsters—citizens of Halloween Town—are looking at the house curiously.

"You're in our way, ugly!" says a voice from somewhere.

"I'll handle them, Shademan. Scorch Wheel!" Several fireballs are shot forward at those monsters, instantly burning them to ashes. Shademan and Turboman step up in front of the door and knocks. "It's us!" says Shademan.

"Come in!" says a voice from inside.

The two robot masters open the door and go inside the house. Inside, they see a man with a weird hairdo and a little girl wearing a top hat sitting at the dining table, having snack.

"So you've done the mission, have you?" the man asks the two robots.

"We did," replies Shademan. "Those three kids successfully stole the holy weapons and we both stopped the Smashers in their tracks."

"What's our next mission, Mr. 3?" asks Turboman.

"Now that they don't have their holy weapons, they cannot kill Darkling anymore," says the man, named Mr. 3. "But I say we go kill them ourselves, since it will be a good exercise."

"Yippee! Now I can get my revenge!" says Turboman happily.

"Mr. 3, can we leave this scary place after we finished our mission?" the little girl asks Mr. 3.

"Of course we can, Ms. Goldenweek," replies Mr. 3. "And you can also get all the rest you want."

"When do we start?" asks Turboman. "I can't wait!"

"We can start now and ambush them. I really want to add them to my wax statue collection. Hehehe!

TO BE CONTINUED…

For those who are limited to the One Piece dub (which sucks), Mr. 3 and Ms. Goldenweek are future villains Luffy will meet.