A/N: In this chapter, the Hammer Bros that did the Border jump rope test appear. I know that in the game, they were both green...but, in this story I made one red and the other green so that they could be differenciated from one another.
Chapter 2: Illegal Immigrant
It was a long time before Fawful finally reached the division, and by that time he was exhausted. "I am not in the condition that is being ideal for such a walk as this." That was his way of saying that he was physically inept.
Fawful sat down in front of the door to the border crossing room for a few minutes to recover from the walk. The sad thing was that Cackletta's lair wasn't all that far from where Fawful was now.
He finally stood up and, without thinking, entered the door in front of him.
"Halt!" A voice shouted as soon as Fawful entered the room.
Fawful halted.
The owner of the voice was a green Hammer Bro who obviously worked as a guard between the Mushroom and Beanbean Kingdoms.
"Fink-rat!" Fawful said irritably, "I must be getting into the Kingdom of Mushroom!"
The guard stared. "Umm...yeah...well, you're not getting in just like that."
The other guard; a red Hammer Bro; shouted from across the room, "Yeah! You have to pass the border-crossing test, first!"
The green guard, who had been formerly unnerved by Fawful's strange speech pattern, seemed reassured by what his red partner had said. "Exactly. The test for crossing over from the Beanbean Kingdom to the Mushroom Kingdom is...wrestling a wild chain chomp."
Fawful was a bit put-off by that little tidbit of information. "I was believing that the test was to be playing the game of jumping rope..."
The red guard laughed as if this was the funniest statement in the world. "No, you're mistaken. The jump rope test if the one that residents from the Mushroom Kingdom take when coming to the Beanbean Kingdom. The one for Beanbean Kingdom residents is totally different."
Fawful didn't say anything. Instead, he thought about how awful his life was. In fact, he seemed to do that quite a lot.
The green guard gave him a pat on the shoulder, as if sensing his distress. "Don't worry, buddy. We'll give you an easy one."
"Yeah," agreed the red guard. He went into a back room, saying "Let me get 'er real quick."
Fawful looked nervously at the door, not wanting the guard to come back, especially since he was bound to bring a chain chomp with him when he did.
"So," asked the green guard, "What d' you wanna go to go the Mushroom Kingdom for?" He could tell that Fawful was the kind of person who would panic in a situation like this, so he tried talking to calm him down.
Fawful continued staring at the door that the red guard had gone through. "I am going to the Kingdom of Mushroom to be getting a job."
"Oh, that's nice," responded the guard, wondering if this guy knew about the coin exchange rate, "What do you think is taking him so long?" The green guard shifted his gaze to the door that Fawful had been staring at.
Fawful didn't have time to respond.
"Whoa, girl!" The red guard said from behind the door, "Calm down, now!"
"Uh-oh," the green guard appeared alarmed at his partner's words.
There was suddenly the barking of a chain chomp followed by an earsplitting scream. The red guard burst out from the door, followed closely by a vicious looking pink chain chomp.
"She's gone rabid!" shrieked the guard, "everybody run!"
Fawful emitted a high-pitched screech and ran towards the door that led to the Mushroom Kingdom, heaving it open and then dashing through.
The green and red Hammer Bros, meanwhile, ran the opposite way and slammed the door behind them.
As they sat panting by the closed door, the red Hammer Bro looked suddenly irritable. "That guy didn't have a passport!"
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Well, that was Chapter 2. I hope you enjoyed it, despite the fact that it was short. Chapter three will definitely be longer.