Chapter 5
"THIS is it?" Waluigi gasps as he takes a
look around. There are forty
people on deck at once, but if you
don't count the clones, the only people
even there are Lemmy,
Jawful, Syrup, and himself.
"Yeah, pretty much,"
Jawful replies. "How do you think I felt when I first
joined?
It was just a ship full of Lemmy clones!" The group then sees in
the
distance a ship. It appears to be working for the Navy.
The
guns on the ship fire as Lemmy looks up at the flag of a skeleton
riding
a ball and sighs. "I knew I should've had a kitten
instead." The Blue Ball
crew quickly runs towards the
cannons placed nearby. However, only Waluigi
can even make
contact with the Navy Ships.
"Remind me to give you guys
lessons if we live through this," Waluigi tells
the others
as he barely manages to sink one of the Navy Ships by himself. A
few
Bullet Bills hit the Merrykoop, doing a little damage, all while
Waluigi
continues firing away. Eventually, one of the ships
shoots off a Bonzai
Bill! The bullet easily blows the ship over,
with all four of them landing
on an island containing a thick
forest.
"Ow..." Waluigi moans, feeling serious pain from the blast.
"Hey, where are we?"
"I'm
not too certain, but I don't think we have time to find out right
now!"
Syrup tells him. She then points out towards the
ocean, and the crew
notices that the Navy ships are
approaching
the island.
"Quick, we've got to hide!" Lemmy tells
his crew. He then rolls into the
forest, followed by the others.
The four run into the forest, lying low
in a bush. The Navy, upon
failing to see anyone, turns around, probably
hoping to find a
restaurant at sea or something like that.
"Well, that was
close," Syrup says as she pulls herself out of a bush.
"Yeah,
you can say that aga-" Waluigi starts to comment, but the purple
plumber then feels something tugging on his sleeve. He looks
behind him, and
immediately freaks out as he sees some mutant
Koopa/Mr. I hybrid eating his
shirt! "WHAT ON PLIT IS THAT
THING?" Jawful gasps as he looks at the
monster. The
fork-user immediately starts to run away, but stops when he
sees
a Clubba/Boo blocking the path.
"Crew, I think we really
messed up this time!" Lemmy comments as he looks at the
different hybrids surrounding them. The entire crew is rather freaked
out over this whole mess, but they almost went insane as a
blue-colored
bush from nearby
began to speak to them!
"Who
dares walk throughout my island, yo?" the bush-thing asks in a
freaky
manner.
"A talking bush? This is just plain
crazy!" Jawful screams. He then sticks
his fork into the
blue bush, trying to shut it up. However, it turns out
that it
isn't a bush at all!
"Hey man, why'd ya have to do
that?" Jimmy T., formerly the talking blue
bush, asks the
crew. However, the disco dancer is currently stuck inside a
giant
treasure chest.
"Um... we thought you were a bush?" Jawful answers.
"Oh. Well, I'm not a bush!"
"Alright." And with that, Jimmy jumps up and runs away into the jungle.
"Follow
that bush!" Lemmy yells as Syrup, Jawful, and Waluigi all sigh.
The
Blue Ball crew eventually catches up to the disco dancer, who
is hiding
nearby a very steep hill.
"What on Plit are
you doing here?" Waluigi asks, knowing that Jimmy T. used
to
work for his brother's Microgame company.
"Well, dawg, it
all started 'bout a month or two ago, fo' shizzle," Jimmy
T.
explains in his own way. "Me, Papa, Mama, and the sibs
were on tour,
spreading funk and disco through the islands! We
stopped here fo' a
breather, and I looked around. About here, I
found an empty treasure chest,
and thought there were more on dat
hill up there. But, I slipped while
climbing it, fell, and got
myself wedged into this chest, yo! Could ya help
a brother out,
and get that treasure for a groove dawg like me?"
"...That
has to be the most idiotic story that I have ever heard,"
Syrup
replies. "But, since treasure is involved, we'll help
you get those
chests!"
"Ya will? That's just fo' shizzle, yo!" Jimmy T. replies.
"Do us all a favor
and stop talking slang, okay?"
"Sure, whatever."
"Good,
'cause the only thing that bothers me more than slang
is
French-speaking turtles," Syrup answers.
"Well," Waluigi breaks in, "where are these chests anyway?"
"Like
I said," Jimmy T. replies, "they're on top of the hill I'm
standing
beside!"
"WHAT?" Waluigi gasps.
"Are you kidding? It will take hours for us
to-"
Lemmy,
deciding not to wait any longer to get to the treasure chests,
merely
bounces off a nearby tree and to the top of the
hill.
"...Then again, I may not take that long,"
Waluigi comments upon seeing
this.
"Alright, Lemmy, toss' em on down!" Syrup yells up to the Koopa.
"No can do!"
"Oh no... they're empty, aren't they?" Jimmy shouts in return.
"Oh yeah, sure, empty,"
Lemmy answers while stuffing gold into his shell,
being careful
to avoid being seen.
"Oh well, I should've known,"
Jimmy sulks. "Man, I can't believe I spent
all these years
stuck on this island for a treasure that didn't even exist,
yo."
Lemmy, once he finishes packing the gold into
his shell, hops back down.
"You know, if you'd like, you
could come join our crew and get off this
stinking island! In
fact, you could be our...uh...well, once I think of
something,
you can be it!"
"Oh boy," Waluigi groans,
imagining how it would be having one of his
brother's ex-employees
doing the disco on board the ship all day.
"...Forget
it, dawg," Jimmy answers. "I'd rather stay here with
these
freaky hybrids. I don't know how, and I don't know why, but
I just can't
leave them here all alone. But, if you want to stop
by once you're done
this whole adventuring-thing, I'm always
available!"
"...Sure, whatever," Lemmy
replies.
"Hey guys!" Jawful yells at the others. "I
think those Navy ships have
finally left! Let's get out of here
before they come back!"
"Sounds good to me!" Lemmy cheerfully yells back. "Let's go!"
And so, in
a matter of moments, the Blue Ball crew leaves Jimmy's Island,
and
sets sail once more in search of adventure, danger, and gigantic bags
of
money.
