Chapter 25: Hypnotic Color Traps and the Ultimate Candle Champion!
In the cemetery, Ganondorf's group is still fighting the zombies. "Now I wish there were no zombies!" he complains as he slices the zombies with his sword. "I'm actually enjoying this!" says Bowser while choking a zombie by its neck. "They're too hard too kill!" complains Ness while beating the zombies with his bat. A zombie swings its decayed hand at Jack, but he counters it by grabbing the zombie's hand and hurls him at another horde of zombies. "Undead are hard to kill. What do you expect?" says Jack.
Back in the forest, Mario isn't willing to rescue his trapped friends. "What's wrong with you, Mario!" yells Link.
"He is stepping on the black color trap I painted on the ground," explains Ms. Goldenweek. "Black is the color of betrayal. He will betray even his blood-related relatives and best friends."
"Snap out of it, Mario!" yells Link. "You shut-a up!" Mario shouts back rudely. "You can all go to hell and eat crap-a!"
An idea came to Zelda and she shouts to Mario, "If you hate us very much and want us dead, then disappear from our sight!"
"Fine! I don't-a wanna see your butt-a ugly face anyway!" Mario turns around to leave and steps out of the black color trap, so he instantly snaps back to his sense. "Hey! What-a am I doing? I should-a be rescuing my friend-a!"
Mario runs to the wax cake to attack it, but when he got near, he stops in his tracks and says, "But-a before that-a, I'll laugh. HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"What's wrong with you, Mario!" screams Link.
"I just painted yellow onto his back," explains Ms. GW. "It is the color of laughter. He will do nothing but laugh as long as the paint is on him."
Mario falls onto his back and rolls around while laughing wildly. Rolling his back against the ground is a good thing, as it rubs off the paint from his back, so Mario came back to his sense again! "Mamamia! What-a am I doing just-a now? I must-a rescue them fast-a!"
Mario stretches his hand forward to shoot a fireball. Right when he is about to shoot, he suddenly turns around and shoots the fireball at a red marking on the ground. He turns to the cake to shoot again, but like before, he is forced to turn to that red marking when he tried to shoot. "What da heck-a!"
"The red color trap forces you attack it," explains Ms. GW. "Just like a bull charging for the color red, you will be forced to attack red if it is near you."
"You brat, would you stop doing that!" Link shouts angrily at Ms. GW.
"I can't. Mr. 3 will get angry if the wax cake is destroyed."
Mario angrily tramples his feet against the red marking until it disappears, and then he turns to the cake to attack it again. Suddenly, Mario says, "I don't-a feel like fighting anymore. I wanna have some rest!"
"I painted green onto his back. It is the color of peace," explains Ms. GW. "Do you want to have snack with me?"
"Sure yes!" replies Mario. Ms. GW lays down a cloth on the ground, and they both sit on it, eating snacks and drinking tea happily. "MARIO!" screams poor Link, Zelda, and Peach in unison.
Meanwhile, Luigi, Zero, and Kirby are still being chased by the two robot masters. The three of them run back to the middle of the forest and straight for Mario and Ms. Goldenweek! Ms. GW sees them coming and quickly jumps aside to avoid getting trampled. Luigi, Zero, and Kirby run straight into Mario and they all crash together.
"Oh… You're still alive… Mario…" groans Luigi. "You're all right-a… Luigi," says Mario. The paint on his back must've been rubbed off a bit when they all crash into each other, so Mario is back to his normal sense. "Now I must-a rescue them!"
"Oh no you don't!" shouts the voice of Mr. 3. Mario turns around and sees Mr. 3 in a large battle suit made of wax! The suit consists of a large round body and thick arms and legs. At the tip of the arms are large round sphere for hands. "This is my ultimate wax creation, the Candle Champion!" says Mr. 3. "You will surely be crushed by this!"
"Looks like I have too fight-a him first," says Mario with a sigh.
"You go fight him, Mario!" says Kirby. "I'll go stop the cake myself!" Then he hears someone shouting Scorch Wheel from behind him. Kirby turns around just in time to see several fireballs flying towards him! He isn't able to escape and the fireballs blast him. "YAAAAAAAAA!"
"Ha! That burns, right?" says Turboman.
"Oh no! Kirby's down!" says Luigi. "I must think of something!" Shademan suddenly flies into the scene and punches Luigi straight in his face. Luigi flies back and crashes into a tree, and then passes out. "What can a weak coward like you do?" says Shademan. "You're better off dead!" Zero jumps to Shademan's arm and bites it viciously, but Shademan swings him off easily. "Dumb dog!"
Mario is having a hard time against Mr. 3. The Candle Champion is too big for the tiny fireballs he shoots! Mr. 3 charges forward and punches Mario hard, and then trashes him around like a rag doll! "You're finished this time! Your friends only have a few seconds left to live! Say good-bye to them!" Indeed, Link, Zelda, and Peach are becoming whiter and whiter, and they even started to breathe slower than usual.
Kirby gets up from the ground after getting burned by the Scorch Wheel. "I must rescue them! Wax is vulnerable to fire, but there's no big fire around here!" Suddenly, an idea came to Kirby. He turns to Turboman and says, "I counted the fireballs you shot just now and I see only 4! I bet you can't fire more than 10, can you?"
"Don't underestimate me!" says Turboman. "I'll show you that I can fire up to 10 and more! SCORCH WHEEL!" Turboman fires several large fireballs at Kirby. Kirby opens his mouth wide and begins sucking in the fireballs into his mouth! After Turboman have fired around 20 fireballs or so and stopped, Kirby, with a large mouthful of fireballs, turns to Mr. 3, who is adjacent to the cake, and spits out the entire barrage of fireballs at him!
"What!" screams Mr. 3 as the fireballs approach him. The fireballs impact with his Candle Champion suit and burn it severely. The force of the impact also pushed the suit backwards and onto the cake. The cake instantly bursts into flames and burns up! Turboman and Shademan look at the fire in shock with their mouths wide open.
Mr. 3 runs out from the fire and his shirt is on fire. "HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT!" he screams as he rushes off into the forest and disappears from their sights, though they can still see an orange light moving around madly in the distant. Ms. GW sees Mr. 3 running off, and then she turns to Mario and sees him glaring evilly at her, so she says, "Sorry for the troubles we caused. Now I have to go." Then she zooms off in the same direction Mr. 3 went.
"Well done, Kirby!" exclaims Mario. Turboman turns to Kirby angrily and says, "So this was part of your plan all along… I'LL KILL YOU!" Turboman jumps into the air to perform a flying kick at Kirby.
Suddenly, a boomerang shoots out from the fire and hits Turboman in the head, knocking him onto the ground. He gets back up just in time to see Link, wielding a flaming sword, rushing towards him and performing Whirling Blade Technique. Turboman screams in pain and agony as the blade grinds against his body. The last thing he knew is his body getting sliced in half and then he explodes into pieces.
"Fire is such a good weapon," says Link as he sheathes his sword which had just stopped burning.
"How dare you kill Turboman!" says Shademan angrily. "I'll avenge for him!" Before he has a chance though, two figures pop out from the fire and heads straight for Shademan. It should be noted that one of the figures has its rear pointing at Shademan.
The two figures impact with Shademan, creating an explosion and blasting him backwards. Kirby pulls out a hammer and smashes Shademan as he flies towards him. Kirby then flies into the sky above Shademan and transforms into a 100-ton weight! He drops down towards Shademan with maximum velocity and smashes his head into smithereens.
"Thanks of you for rescuing us," says Zelda, who was the one that attacked Shademan just now, along with Peach, the one pointing the rear towards him—AKA Peach Bomber . "Can't you use a less dangerous way next time?" asks Peach. "Look what you have done to my dress!" Her dress is slightly burned up and torn around the sleeves. There's even a big hole on the back of her skirt, fully revealing her panty. She didn't seem to mind though, as long as her bare buttock isn't showing.
"Be happy that you're still alive!" says Kirby.
Luigi wakes up from getting knocked out and looks around. "Oh, my head… Where are those two robots?"
"They're taken care of," replies Link. "That's great! I thought I'm a goner," says Luigi.
"What about da fire?" asks Mario, pointing to the still burning wax cake. Kirby takes out a mint leaf and says, "I brought a mint leaf, and if I eat it, I can breathe out large, cool air that will surely blow away the fire!" Kirby eats the leaf, and as soon as he swallows it, he feels cool air running throughout his body. He opens his mouth and lets a gush of cool wind, blowing out the fire. Within a few seconds, the fire is totally blown out.
"Good, now let's get going. The others must've got to Oogie Boogie's castle already!" says Link.
Sure enough, Ganondorf's group had killed all the zombies and is heading for Oogie Boogie's castle. In fact, they are in front of the main gate! "That's his castle," says Jack.
"It's a really tall castle!" says Ness. "But it looks rather flimsy," comments Bowser. "Enough talking already!" says Ganondorf. "Let's go in and get back the weapons, kill Oogie Boogie, and destroy the dark reactor!"
"I'll open the gate!" says Bowser. He bashes his head against the gate and breaks it in just one but strong blow. The group of four steps through the demolished gate and into the castle grounds…
TO BE CONTINUED…
This chapter sure came fast, didn't it? I wish you all have high hopes for this story! Be sure to give good reviews and no flames, because flames will melt Mr. 3's wax, and he won't be happy if they melt!