CHAPTER 3 - Cracking the Case

"Row row row your boat, gently down the stream," Link sang in the backseat.

"Merrily merrily merrily merrily," Marth joined. "Life if but a dream!"

Roy drove steadily down the highway. "Oh will you two grow up!" He scolded.

Link looked at Marth and started giggling. "Mooka wooka." He whispered.

Marth looked back at him with wide eyes. "A walla ooka bamo!"

"Waka waka shooki!" Link replied.

"What on earth are you two saying...?" Roy turned around to see them.

Marth looked up. "Nothing!" He answered. He looked back at Link and whispered, "wooka wooka shiko wako"

Roy looked back at the front windshield. "What are you two saying!"

"Nothing..." Link giggled to himself.

Falco, Fox and Kirby sat in the very back of the van.

"What's all that funky talk...?" Falco leaned foreward in his seat.

"Nothing." Marth replied.

"Oh I'll find out..." Falco said suspiciously. He slipped on a pair of sunglasses. "I'll crack this case alright..."

"Falco this isn't a secret mission okay? We're going grocery shopping." Roy said.

The van pulled into the parking lot of the Super Store - Smasher Style. (Try saying that three times fast...)

"We're here!" Kirby bounced up and down in her chair.

Everybody unbuckled their seatbelts and climbed out. Falco put his sunglasses on. "I'm going to find out that secret talk of yours." He said while he walked up to the front doors with Marth.

Link followed close behind. "How are you going to do that exactly?"

"I have my sources." Falco replied.

The six walked into the room with the carts.

Link ran up and grabbed a cart. Then Marth ran over and grabbed the cart from him.

"Waka mako!" Link yelled, grabbing the cart back.

Marth took the handle and pulled it to his side. "Waka mako wami!"

The other people getting carts, just slowly inched away.

"Hmm... waka meko wami..." Falco took out a notebook and scribbled down some notes. "Hmm, that makes sense..." He said to himself.

"What makes sense?" Roy peered over Falco's shoulder.

"Waka, must mean 'to whack' something..." Falco pointed his pencil. "Then meko... hmmm..." He thought. He continued walking with the others inside, after Link got his cart back.

They stopped at the revolving doors.

"Ooooh I love these things!" Link pranced around in circles.

"Oh come on guys, just go in..." Roy sighed.

Link immediatly ran to the bar and pushed it, he zoomed around in circles. "Wheeeeee!"

Marth ran in to join him. "Weeeeeeeeeee!" They both cheered.

Roy stuck his leg in the door and it stopped. "Come on guys!"

Falco and Kirby both followed Roy through the door.

"Oooh! Candy!" Kirby charged towards the candy rack.

"Well, there goes Kirby." Fox watched him run. "Roy, what's first on the list?"

Roy took out a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket. He unfolded it and read, '1- Bread'.

"Okay, c'mon guys." Fox took the cart and steered it down the isle. Everybody followed except Kirby.

"Oh my Gosh!" Link stopped and stared blankly at all the different hair spray cans. "Guys, I'm gonna stick around here for a minute or two..." He said, gazing at the shelf.

Fox, Roy, Falco and Marth walked to the bread isle.

Marth scanned the shelves for some Ben's bread.

"Fox! Fox!" Falco put down his notebook. "I just had a major breakthrough!" He shouted. "Okay, see, 'to whack' then... meko could be... mech, like, mechanical-o..." Falco thought.

"Mecahnical-o?" Fox raised his eyebrow. "What's with the O?"

"On the end of meko." Falco explained. He pointed his pencil at wami. "Then uh... wami is 'to wham', so that means like, hit." He took a short breath. "Whacking the mechanical, WAIT NO! Technical... technology..." He continued thinking.

Fox rolled his eyes and rode the cart back down the isle. Roy and Marth followed. Falco walked behind them, scribbling in his notebook. "Technology..." He whispered to himself. "Techno!" His eyes widened. "That could be one..."

"What's next on the list?" Fox asked Roy, walking down the frozen food isle.

Roy looked at his list. "Umm, we need butter and milk." He looked up.

"Anything we can get here?" Fox asked. "We'll head over to the dairy section in a minute."

Roy looked back at his list. "Oh, Kirby wanted us to pick up a frozen pizza to cook when we get back."

Fox looked around the frozen food. "Oh, speaking of Kirby... where is he?"

Kirby was venturing through the toy isle. "Barbies... neat." He said to himself. "Ooooh a talking cabbage!" Kirby looked up at all the toys.

Suddenly, Link came down the isle.

"Oh!" He said surprized. "I didn't see you here."

Kirby looked over at Link. "HEY LOOK!" He took a strange looking thing off the shelf.

Link walked over. "Ohh, it's one of those things that shoots out balls."

"COOL!" Kirby looked at the instructions. "Can we try it?"

"Oh I don't know if we should..." Link said quietly.

Kirby looked at the On button. "Oh come on, only for a second!"

"Ohhh... okay fine, just don't aim it at anything." Link sighed.

"No problem-o!" Kirby smiled. "Okay, here we go..." He aimed the ball shooter down the isle, then clicked the button.

A single ping-pong ball flew out.

"NEAT!" Kirby said. "Link, go get that."

Link walked down the hall, he bent over to pick up the ball.

"INCOMING!" Kirby shouted, then shot another ball and it hit Link.

"Ouch!" Link stood up.

Kirby laughed, then shot another ball.

"Okay Kirby... you might want to stop now..." Link looked at the three balls he shot out.

"Nooo c'mon Link this is fun!" Kirby pleaded. He continued shooting balls down the isle.

"Kirby! Shut it off!" Link shouted.

"Okay okay fine," Kirby looked around the toy for the Off button. "Off...off...off... OH! This must be it!" He clicked a red button.

Suddenly ping-pong balls started shooting out of the toy, faster and faster.

"Uh oh..." Kirby looked up.

"KIRBY! WHAT DID YOU DO?" Link yelled, he ran over to the toy.

Ping-pong balls flew out, one after the other. Every few mili-seconds, a ball would fly out.

Link grabbed the toy, then flipped it upward. More balls flew out of the top.

"AHH! DUCK AND COVER!" Kirby yelled, he ran around the isle.

More and more balls flew around the isle, bouncing off the shelves and the floor, ...and off of Link's head.

"Ouch! Ow! OWW!" Link shouted.

Balls flew EVERYWHERE, coating the whole isle.

Kirby dug through the piles of bouncing balls, "LINK! LINK COME ON!" He shouted through the noise.

"HOLD ON KIRBY, I GOTTA FIND A WAY TO TURN THIS THING OFF!" Link yelled back. He spun the toy around, causing more balls to fly around.

Pretty soon, Roy, Falco and Fox walked down the hallway, then Roy looked at the toy isle. Balls were going wild, bouncing every which-way.

Roy yelled down the isle. "GUYS! WHAT'S GOING ON!" He shut his eyes and bravely walked down to where Link and Kirby were.

Fox hollered, "GUYS! WHAT'S GOING ON!"

Kirby jumped up and down, "THERE'S PING PONG BALLS GOING EVERYWHERE!"

"THANKS FOR THE NEWSFLASH!" Fox hit his forehead.

BOING BOING BOING

Sooner or later, the ping-pong balls piled up, almost all the way to the tops of the shelves. More shot out from the toy, closing Roy, Link and Kirby in the middle.

"FOX! WE'RE GETTING CAVED IN!" Roy waved his arm in the air.

Link was forced to drop the toy, and climb up through the balls to where Kirby and Roy were.

"Hold on guys!" Link dug upward through the huge pile of ping-pong balls.

Kirby stepped to the side as Link dug up through the ground. "Link!" Roy grabbed his hand and hoisted him up. More balls piled up around them, until there was a complete wall. While more balls kept shooting out.

"Oh Gosh guys..." Roy looked up at the ping-pong ball wall surrounding them. "What do we do now?"

"Well Fox obviously saw us, let's call him for help." Link looked up. "FOX! FOX CAN YOU HEAR US!"

There was no reply.

"Oh well that's just great." Roy said sarcastically. "Now we're stuck?"

"Not quite yet!" Link whipped out his cell phone. "We can call him!"

"Oooh good idea." Kirby said.

Link quickly dialed Fox's number.

"Link!" Fox said. "Are you guys okay!"

Roy stole the phone from Link. "Oh yes Fox, we're in the middle of Attack of the Killer Ping Pong balls, but NOOO we're fine!"

Link took the phone back. "Roy calm down... Sorry Fox, umm yeah, we're sorta closed in..."

Fox leaned on one leg. "Well, should I come dig you a path?" He asked.

"That's a good idea I guess?" Link said back.

"Okay, just wait a second." Fox replied. He hung up the phone.

Fox ran over to the next isle and grabbed a snowshovel.

"I'll just uh, stay here and... supervise." Falco kept scribbling in his notebook. "Hmm, techno... whamo? Tech... wham." He thught. "Oooh I'll get this somehow..."

Fox ran over to the isle.

"Okay guys..." He took a breath. "INCOMING FOX!" He threw himself at the pile, and dig through with the shovel.

He dug,

and dug,

and dug,

and dug,

until...

WHACK!

"OW!" Link shouted.

Kirby squinted his eyes, "hey what's that...?"

"I don't know, but it just hit me." Link said.

Roy walked over and dug a small hole where the 'thing' was.

"Hey!" Roy shouted. "I think it's... it's Fox!"

Fox dug his way through the wall. He took quick heaving breaths. "H- ... Hi guys!"

Link pulled Fox through.

"Wow..." Fox panted. "That was... that was a long trip!"

Kirby looked infront of him. "...You brought a snow shovel?"

Fox sat down. "Well how else do you think I got in here so fast!"

The ping pong balls continued to pile up, until they went straight over Roy, Link, Kirby and Fox's heads.

"Uh oh, guys!" Kirby started to panic. "We're getting buried!"

Roy looked around.

"...So now what do we do."

OKAY! R&R while I write my next chapter!