CHAPTER 12: Jiggly!!!!!

"Pikachu? Oh Pikachu?" said a musical voice.

"Yes, Jigglypuff?" said Pikachu, stirring from his rug on the ground as the sun peeked through the window. "What time is it?"

"It's time for your fight!" Jigglypuff said excitedly. "And I want to watch! Come on, get up, get up!!!" She began shoving him, and finally he rose to his feet and yawned.

"Hey, how come you don't shock her when she wakes you up early?" Kirby complained, walking out of the bathroom.

"Because I'm cute and cuddly!" Jigglypuff cut in, rolling in a circle on the floor. "Oh, Kirby! Where'd you get that cute hair?"

Kirby ran his hand through his new hair curl. "I did my hair this morning," he answered stoutly, but then turned around, ducked, and it was gone.

"Kirby freaks me out a little," Yoshi whispered to Pikachu, who nodded.

"Come on, Peeky, get dressed, get dressed!" Jigglypuff squealed, "For the time to fight is nigh!"

"Jigglypuff, I don't wear any clothes!" Pikachu cried in exasperation.

Jigglypuff gasped. "Ooooooh such a scandal!!"

Pikachu rolled his eyes. "Can we just go down to breakfast, please?"

"Yeah of course!" Yoshi said. "I'm so hungry I could eat a whole Shyguy! Or even a Snifit!"

"Well let's be off then." Kirby said, and he jumped on a warp star. "Meet ya there, suckers!" He cackled as he sped off.

"PUFF! Not fair!" Jigglypuff whined.

"Well we won't get there any faster by whining," Pikachu said. "Now let's go."

As they walked through the large doors to the dining hall, a cloak and hood person appeared from behind the door and hissed, "The puff must come with me."

"Uhhh, which puff?" Kirby asked, turning around.

"The pink one." the person replied.

"Uhh, again, not helping." Kirby said.

"Oh for cryin' out loud," The cloak and hooder grabbed Jigglypuff and carried her off.

"Noooo! Stop! Put me down!!! HELP! Pikachu, don't leave me! Help me please! Put me down or I'll draw on your face with a marker!!! HEELLLP!!" Her cries died off as she disappeared over the hill.

"Hey, we should go look for her!" Yoshi cried.

Pikachu didn't have to think twice before agreeing. Although he couldn't admit it, he sort of liked Jigglypuff. You're right. Come on!"

(PPL, don't be alarmed!! There's not going to be ANY R or NC-17 content between "creatures," meaning Yoshi, Kirby, Pikachu, etc… Just wanted to let you know before you started freakin out. ^_^ F.H.)

They ran into the dining hall and started yelling at the top of their lungs. Of course, nobody could understand them at all.

"This is hopeless!" Pikachu groaned. "They'll never understand us!"

At the far table, Ness whispered something hurriedly to Captain Falcon, who nodded. Ness jumped down from the table and walked forward.

"What is he doing?" Mario whispered to Link.

"I don't know…" Link whispered back.

Ness bowed to Pikachu, then placed his hand on Pikachu's head and began to glow.

Fox snapped his fingers. "Of course! In our battles, Ness uses psychic energy! He must be reading Pikachu's mind!"

"Well, who made you so smart?" Samus said, noogie-ing him.

Finally, Ness stopped glowing and looked up. "They have taken his friend captive!" Ness cried. "A cloak and hood folk took her! He wants us to help him!"

This gave rise to murmurs of confusion. "They work for Mr. Handey, don't they? "I never thought they were bad people." "Maybe she'll be all right!" "I don't know, maybe not…"

Finally, Mario said, "Well, let's go help Jigglypuff!" And everybody agreed, and they formed an army and marched towards the headquarters. They lit torches and picked up pitchforks and chanted, "Save the puff! Enough is enough! Save the puff!! Enough is enough!"

Just as they picked up a log and were ready to ram down the door, it opened, and who should walk out but Jigglypuff!!

They stopped short, dazed and confused.

"What happened, Jigglypuff?" Pikachu asked. "Tell us! Well, you can tell me, but they wont…"

Jigglypuff interrupted him by picking up a bright red microphone, and spoke into it in perfect English, "It's okay, everyone!!! I'm ok!"

Everybody gasped. "She's talking! OMG She's talking!"

"How are you able to talk?" Pikachu asked in amazement.

"It's this microphone," Jigglypuff replied. "Mr. Handey's assistants gave it to me. They said it would be important for my battles."

"Battles???" Everyone asked.

"Oh I forgot to tell you…" She waved a yellow ticket in front of her. "I've been accepted into the tournament! I was lucky, too. A lot of people didn't make it through."

"What went on in there?" Peach asked.

"Well, I sat in line, and one by one they asked people into a small room where they would demonstrate their fighting skills. And then, the judges would tell them how good they did. But the one judge was really horrible… I think is name was Dan… he kept saying things like, 'You can't fight. That's all there is to it.' and, 'That's like a form of fighting I've never seen anywhere on earth!' and, 'You are quite possibly the worst fighter I've seen in my entire life!' I think I was the only one to make it." Suddenly, she looked around at the torch-holding, pitchfork-waving crowd and said, "What are you guys all doing, anyway?"

Everybody looked at each other nervously, and then Pikachu stepped forward and took the microphone. "Uhh, uh, we've come to… congratulate you! Yes, that's it. Yeah. We knew that they were going to test you, and we knew you'd win, so we came here in advacne! Isn't that right, guys?"

Everybody took the hint and nodded vigorously.

"And we made you a special celebration!" He took out the cooler of Coke that they had dragged along, because being under those torches made you sweat sometimes. "Cokes for everyone!!!"

Everyone cheered and popped the Cokes open.

"For you, my lady," Pikachu said, bowing and handing Jigglypuff her Coke. "In honor of your entry into the tournament!"

Jigglypuff got all teary-eyed. "Ohhh Pikachu! You did all this for me??? You're sweet!" She pecked him on the cheek. Pikachu got a big "Charlie Brown" smile on his face and fell over, hearts circling around his head.

Jigglypuff jumped up on the cooler. "I'd like to sing a song to thank you all!" She declared. Everybody clapped. She began to sing. It was a lovely song, the notes flowing together wonderfully, and her voice was directly on key. She sang with such passion that it's a shame nobody was awake at the end of the song.

Her eyes darkened. "They fell asleep during my victory song??? Grrr….PUFF!!!" She seized her marker.

That night, everyone trudged back to their cabins to try to scrub the funny faces off the backs of their heads.

"I hope this isn't permanent," Samus groaned.

"Hey Princess," said Falcon, running over to Zelda. "I'll wash you up if you want!"

She slapped him.

"At least she's a good singer," Peach said.

"Very." DK grunted.

Back in Pikachu's cabin, Yoshi and Kirby were furiously scrubbing the backs of their heads.

"Hey guys when you're done can you help me?" Pikachu called. Yoshi came out from the bathroom and said, "I don't know, Pikachu. You might want to leave yours alone. I think she put special care into that one."

"What are you talking about?'

"I don't know," Yoshi said, rubbing his chin and smiling. "I just have a hunch."

Written on the back of Pikachu's head, in careful cursive writing was, "Q T Pie."

COMING UP NEXT

Donkey Kong confronts some inner demons.