And there stands the bag of worms, laughing at the ones down in the pit of doom.
-Cow and Chicken, chapter 1
Chapter 26: Defeat Oogie Boogie! The Missile of Holy Power!
Ganondorf's group is on the path to the castle. All of a sudden, Jack shouts out, "Hide!"
"Where?" asks the three.
"Anywhere!"
Fortunately, there is a large rock on the side of the road, so they quickly run behind it and hide there. Jack points into the sky to show them the reason for hiding—a Darkling flying in the sky!
"That's a winged Darkling," explains Jack. "It is called like that because it can fly."
"I can see it," says Ness. When the coast is clear, they quickly got back on the road and run straight for the castle door. When they got to the door, Bowser smashes it open with his head.
"You're going to get their attention!" Jack tells him.
"How else do we get inside?" Bowser asks him. "Be happy that we can get in."
They go into the castle and walk through the seemingly empty hallway.
"Oogie Boogie doesn't keep his castle security tight at all," says Ness. "There's not a single trap, guard, or security camera around here."
"People rarely invade his castle, so he never gave a thought about security," Jack tells him. Suddenly, they all hear a loud clank.
"Anyone heard a clanking sound?" asks Bowser.
"I doubt no one has heard it," says Ganondorf. "It's really loud!" They all look back and see a knight walking towards them!
"The guards are late for their job," says Ness.
"No! Look into the helmet!" points out Jack. They look into the helmet's visor and see purple light behind it, and that can only mean one thing…
"Darkling!" scream the Smashers. Knowing they can't defeat the Darkling without the holy weapons, they quickly make a run for it. As they run through the hallway, the furniture around them comes to life and chases them! Chairs, sofas, tables, portraits, everything!
"All those things are possessed by Darkling!" says Jack. They all run into a small room, which appears to be a dead end.
"This isn't a dead end!" says Jack. "It's an elevator!" He presses the buttons on the wall and the door in front of them closes, shutting the Darkling outside.
"Phew… We're safe…" says Ness. They feel the elevator starting to move upwards, and then it eventually stops. The door opens and they step outside and meet…
"It's them!" shouts Bowser, pointing to those three kids in the room.
"Oh no! They are here!" scream the kids in unison.
"Give back the weapons or face some spanking!" Bowser shouts at them.
"Nyah nyah! Try and get us!" taunt those kids. Bowser angrily hurls himself at them, but the kids all scatter away and Bowser crashes into a table.
"You cannot catch us!" say the kids. "We are too fast for you!"
"Hey kids! Look at this!" says Ness, creating a green spark in his hand. The three kids are curious about it and they all step forward to check it out.
"Cool!" says Shock. "How did you do that?"
"Like this!" replies Ness, and then the spark explode, sending the three kids flying backwards and into Bowser's arms.
"Got you!" says Bowser.
"Oh no!"
Then Bowser gives them some good spankings. After he is done…
"We're sorry for what we did," says Lock.
"We're just following Oogie Boogie's orders!" explains Shock.
"You'll have to ask him if you want the weapons back," says Barrel.
"Then where is Oogie Boogie?" Ganondorf asks them.
"That's one thing we'll never tell you," replies Barrel.
"Right, we promised to him that we'll never tell you he is hiding in the room behind us!" says Lock.
"Right, we'll never tell you!" says Shock.
"So they're not telling us. I wonder what we should do now," says Bowser sarcastically. He walks up to the wall behind the kids and breaks through it, revealing stairs behind it!
"Thanks for telling us!" says Jack. "We promise not to hurt you!" So the four walk up the staircase, leaving the kids to regret on what they said.
The four climb up the winding staircase.
"What was the builder thinking when he built this staircase?" says Ness. "These stairs can make you dizzy just climbing it!"
"Shut up and move!" Bowser shouts at him.
After several minutes of climbing, they eventually reach the second to the top floor.
"That's a lot of climbing," says Bowser. "It's too much for someone big like me."
Suddenly, all the lights in the room go out, and a loud voice booms out of nowhere. "Hohoho! Welcome to the Playroom of Doom!"
"Who are you?" asks Ganondorf, trying to look through the darkness. "Show yourself!"
Some spotlights turn on and focuses on a specific spot of the room, revealing Oogie Boogie! "It is I, the great Oogie Boogie!" And then the lights came back on.
"You fiend!" says Bowser angrily. "Return our holy weapons now or face beatings!"
"Do you think I'll give it to you that easily?"
"Then we'll take it by force!"
"Try and do so!" OB presses a button on a controller behind him. This cause several steel bars to rise up in front of him, separating him from the Smashers. Then the floor the Smashers and Jack are standing on starts to lower down.
"What the hell is happening!" says Ness.
"It's the Playroom of Doom!" replies OB. "You will be doomed down in the pit!" He presses another button on the controller, and darts shoot out from the walls at where the Smashers are. The Smashers and Jack scream in fear and runs around wildly to dodge the darts.
"Want some more?" asks OB, and then he pushes another button. This time, large pendulum blades lower down from the ceiling and swings around! The four scream louder than before and runs around even more wildly to avoid the pendulums of doom.
"This is getting fun!" laughs OB, and then he presses another button. This time, the entire floor those poor fellows are standing on starts spinning in circles like a merry-go-around. The Smashers and Jack scream their heads off, because the moving floor makes it even harder to avoid the traps. OB laughs even harder and he presses another button! Spikes now stick out randomly from the floor!
All four of them are badly cut by the blades. Blood drips down from every part of Ness's body and his shirt is full of holes. There are many scratches on Bowser's hard carapace. Jack's clothes are also badly cut. Ganondorf, too, is covered with bloody cuts all over his body. OB just stands there and laughs harder than ever.
"Enough is enough!" shouts Ganondorf at the top of his voice. He jumps into the air and grabs the steel bars with Dark Dive. Electric currents flow out from his hand and zap the steel bars, and then the bars shatter into pieces!
"What!" gasps OB. Ganondorf delivers a strong punch in OB's face, knocking him backwards. Ganondorf then walks up to the controller and destroy it with a single punch. This deactivated all the traps in the Playroom of Doom.
"That's the way to go!" cheers Bowser. Ganondorf turns to OB and glares at him evilly. OB trembles in fear and walks backwards slowly, and then pulls out a knife and throws it at Ganondorf. Ganondorf uses his hand to swat away the knife when it got near him. OB screams in fear and runs off into the next room.
"Get back here!" shouts Ganondorf, and then he runs after Oogie Boogie.
OB hurriedly runs up a winding staircase, with Ganondorf following behind him. Several Darkling appear in front of Ganondorf to block his path. This didn't stop him though. He continues to run forward and charge through the horde of Darkling. Eventually, he reached the highest floor of the castle. When he got there, he sees three things: First, the bag containing the holy weapons. Second, the Dark Reactor, and third, a large mounted gun pointing at him!
"Meet the Boogie Cannon!" says Oogie Boogie from behind the gun. "Now say your prayers and get blast to bits!" He pulls the trigger and the gun fires out a powerful blast at Ganondorf.
Outside the castle, the other six Smashers and Zero are standing there.
"So this is his castle," says Link. Suddenly, an explosion bursts out from the top of the castle.
"What's-a happening up-a there?" wonders Mario.
When the smoke clears, a large hole can be seen on the wall.
"Heh heh! Don't underestimate me!" says OB, who is very sure that he had blasted Ganondorf to bits.
"It's you, who shouldn't underestimate me!" says a voice from behind OB. He turns around and is shocked to see Ganondorf standing behind him! Ganondorf grabs him by the neck and hurls him against the wall.
"You stole our holy weapons and took advantage of it by sending Darkling after us. Then you tortured me and my friends in the room earlier. Yet, you laughed and enjoyed what you did," says Ganondorf. "You surely are a heartless one."
"Please forgive me…" stammers OB.
"You'll have to face consequences for this." Ganondorf's right hand starts to glow in a purple light, and he clenches it into a fist and draws it back.
"Forgive me! I'll return you the holy weapons!"
"War…"
"I'll tell you all you want to know about the king of Darkling!"
"Lock…"
"I'll do anything for you! I'll be your slave or whatever!"
"PUNCH!"
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!"
Outside the castle, the six Smashers hear another exploding sound. They look up and see the top of the castle explode again, and this time, several worms and bugs rain down from the sky! Both Peach and Zelda scream upon seeing tons of disgusting worms falling down. The worms and bugs all fall to the ground and pile up together, freaking out both the girls. Link pulls out a bomb and hurls it at the pile, blasting all the worms and bugs to kingdom come.
"I fixed the problem," says Link. "But how come there are so many bugs falling down from the sky?"
Suddenly, several Darkling emerge from the ground and growl at the Smashers.
"Darkling!" screams Luigi. "We're done for!"
"Oh no! We can't do anything to them without the holy weapons!" says Link.
Suddenly, a bright light flashes out from the castle. All the Darkling scream and cry in despair, and then they all disappear into thin air.
"What happened?" asks Kirby.
"Someone must've destroyed the Dark Reactor," replies Zelda. "And that must mean Ganondorf, Bowser, and Ness found the holy weapons!"
"They beat us here already!" gasps Link.
On the top floor, Ganondorf was the one who killed Oogie Boogie and destroyed the Dark Reactor using the Quake Trident, his holy weapon. He looks down at the torn yellowish cloth on the ground and thought to himself, "So Oogie Boogie was nothing more than a bag of worms..."
He goes back downstairs to reunite with Bowser, Ness, and Jack. Together, they all go back down to the first floor and leave the castle, where they meet up with the others.
"You guys did a great job!" says Zelda.
Zero jumps onto Jack's arms and licks his face happily.
"It's good to you safe, Zero!" says Jack happily.
"Peach! I did everything you told me!" says Bowser happily. "Now where's the kiss you promised?"
"Okay, close your eyes and I'll give you one!" replies Peach. Bowser happily closes his eyes and waits for the kiss. Peach pulls out a turnip with a smiley face and smooches it against Bowser's mouth. Bowser cheers happily and jumps around like wild, thinking Peach really did kiss him.
Ness sees the hole behind Peach's skirt and says, "Uh… Your skirt is torn…"
Peach blushes a little bit and replies, "It's the latest fashion trend."
"Now that you all got back your weapons, we should go back to Dr. Finklestein!" says Jack. So they all return to the lab.
They got back to the lab and report to Dr. Finklestein the news. He is very pleased to hear it, and he proceeds to work on that giant missile. He takes their holy weapons and puts them into a strange machine. He then connects several tubes and wires onto the missile, and he goes to his computer and works on it. The machine starts to make weird sounds and begins shaking. The tubes and the wires that are connected to the missile starts to glow in a bright white light! It is so bright that everyone had to cover their eyes to avoid getting eye damage.
After several minutes, the light finally dies out.
"Finished!" says Dr. Finklestein. "The Holy Missile is now complete! It is the ultimate Darkling-destroying weapon!"
"But it's so big! How do we take it back with us?" asks Kirby.
"May I be of assistant?" asks Crazy Hand
"Of course you can… Wait a minute! When did you get here?"
"Oh, I was here an hour ago."
"Good thing you're here!" says Link. "You will help carry the missile back with us!"
"My brother sure is smart!" says CH. "This missile will surely come in handy! All right, now that your mission is finished, let's go back!"
The Smashers say their farewells to Dr. Finklestein and they leave his lab. Jack and Zero go along with them because they want to see them depart.
They soon came to the landing site of the warp star. The Smashers got onto the warp star and say their last farewells to Jack.
"You can come here anytime you wish!" says Jack. "Now go on ahead and save the world!"
"You bet-a we will!" replies Mario.
"I'm glad you will. Halloween Town used to be a happy place, but after the Darkling invasion, things start to go down. No longer are there night markets and parties. It has turned into a gloomy ghost town."
"It's already a ghost town…" says Luigi quietly to himself.
"Don't worry, Jack," says Link. "We will destroy all the Darkling and return happiness to your town!"
"I'll be waiting until that day comes!" says Jack. After saying this, Jack and Zero slowly fades out of existence. Luigi gets freaked out by it and passes out again…
"All right! Let's get going!" says CH. He flies up into the air, carrying the holy missile with him. The warp star takes off into the air and follows CH back to the Final Destination.
WORLD COMPLETE!
TO BE CONTINUED...
Halloween Town arc is complete! Coming up next is Tokyo arc!
One thing you should remember, it's Roronoa Zoro, not Zolo! Say it with me: Z-O-R-O. Zoro!