4:21-The Football Stadium

The sky was now very dark. The kids were all around a nearby football stadium, looking for Calvin. The Kankers marched back and fourth, zapping kids who didn't go fast enough.

"Search under those seats!" ordered Lee. "And by that goalpost! We're finding this kid, or no more food!"

"We don't even have food!" said Jimmy. Lee zapped him. Sarah lunged at the Kanker, but was hit, too. Calvin and his friends peeked in. "Well, Sarah in pain is always fun..." smiled Calvin.

Suddenly, Johnny ran in, being chased by the Koopas.

"Monsters!" cried the kids.

"No!" explained Rolf. "This is a terrorist in a costume!"

"Hey, it's that weird guy who escaped!" said Marie.

"Punish him!" roared Bowser. "Punish all of them!"

The Kankers and the Koopas all raised their wands at everyone when Calvin jumped out. "Stop! I'm the one you want! Look at him, guys! He's been bossing you around through the Kankers! He's had you make weapons for him, he's eaten all you food, and he's put three insane girls in charge of you!"

Bowser strolled over. "Calvin...how nice to see you..." he glared at the Kankers. "...alive." The Kankers looked at each other and shrunk away.

"Enough of this!" yelled Calvin. "You're crazy! You took over a camp full of kids! That's it! Big deal! Who cares?"

"THAT'S IT!" bellowed Bowser. "I've had it with you! You're going to have the worst death ever! I'm going to have your fellow kids kill you!" he turned to the kids and pointed at Calvin. "GET HIM!"

The kids didn't move. "Let's see..." said Lucy. "Would we rather kill an annoying kid...or some nut in a costume who tried to enslave us!"

The kids started fighting the Koopas, and were doing a pretty good job of it, too. Johnny swung around dressed as Captain Melonhead, and his Plank as his sidekick, Splinter. "Captain Melonhead to the rescue!" Johnny knocked away all the Koopas' wands. "Yeah! That'll show them! Another day, another doughnut, eh, buddy!"

Edd was hiding in fear of the Koopas when Eddy and Ed knocked them away. Edd looked up happily. "Eddy? Kevin said you moved!"

"Kevin says a lot of things! Now, are you gonna sit there and let yourself be killed by a Koopa or what?"

"It's good to see you again, too, Eddy."

"And I can sing!" said Ed.

Suddenly, the Kankers jumped out. "Ah, yes. I knew we were missing someone," sighed Edd. They ran off in terror. Some things never change.

At the top of the stadium, on the very edge, Calvin stood fighting Bowser...actually, Calvin was mostly dodging Bowser's fire breath and other attacks. There wasn't much he could do, aside from insulting Bowser. "You've had this coming for a long time, Bowser!"

"Yeah, but you can't transmogrify your way out of this one, kid! No warp pipes or cardboard boxes to save you this time!" Bowser grabbed Calvin and dangled him over the edge of the stadium. "Soon you'll be like Mario down a pit!"

Both of them looked over and noticed Hobbes calmly sitting. "You know, that looks familiar, Bowser...oh, yes! It's how I looked...before YOU threw me in the line of traffic!"

Hobbes sprung at Bowser and Calvin kicked him in the face. Bowser lost his balance and almost fell. He dug his huge claws into the stadium and looked up in fear at Calvin.

"Admit it, Koopa!" growled Calvin. "You set up the traffic jam!"

"Yeah, it was me! Why doesn't anything kill you guys?"

Calvin laughed. "Have you SEEN what we've been through, Bowser? Besides, you can't even kill a pair of plumbers!"

Bowser managed to swing up and kicked Hobbes. Hobbes fell painfully down the stairs, through the rows of seats. "Long live the king!" Bowser called after the poor tiger.

Calvin looked at Bowser with pure hatred. "I don't know why you said that, but you're gonna get it now!"

Calvin jumped for Bowser, who just kicked him away. "Just give it up, wimp! No one's about to help you!"

The Eds flew by on a Blue Paratroopa and tossed Calvin a Super Mushroom. Calvin grew to a huge size. Bowser looked up at the now giant figure that was Calvin. "A...Super Mushroom!"

Calvin reached down and grabbed Bowser, holding him over the edge. "Wait a second! I'm not the one you want! It was...uh...Gannondorf! He's the enemy!" Calvin clearly didn't believe this.

Gannondorf, meanwhile, sat in Hyrule, watching this in a mystical pool. "And to think I was about to go down there and help him! What an idiot."

"Well, you're not really about to kill me?" Bowser managed to weakly say. "Are you?"

"No. I'm not like you. This isn't a video game, Bowser. It's the real world. You kill someone and they stay dead. I don't do that."

"What a weakling!"

Calvin threw Bowser down to the ground. It looks as if he was really about to die when he fell into a book Jason and Marcus were holding open. Bowser ended up landing painfully in a castle dungeon. Gannondorf walked out of the shadows.

"Gannondorf...buddy...help me out..."

"Buddy?" said Gannondorf, with an evil smile. "I though you said I was the enemy..." Gannondorf closed in on Bowser.

Meanwhile, all the other Koopas were losing the battle. With Bowser gone, the rest of the Koopalings and their minions were quickly tossed into the books.

"Is that all of them?" asked Marcus.

At that moment, Roy jumped out. "I haven't given up yet, ya runts! Now here's something to remember me by!" Roy pulled out a Fire Flower, and started a blaze. He would have made it bigger if Jason and Marcus hadn't jumped on him with a book. The fire started to spread. Suddenly, it began to rain, quenching the fire.

"Summer rains..." Edd said quietly, "you never can predict them..."

This was a ton of fun to write. I love this chapter. Gannondorf was random at best, but there's supposed to be a running gag about how Bowser is actually his personal punching bag and is terrified of him. If you want to know what the Eds were doing, read the sequel.