When last we left the Smashers,Yoshi had just been captured by..someone, don't ask me.. Unfortunately, this person wants to eat him! Blech! Let's hope the rest of the Smashers can rescue him before it's too late!

The Journey To Restore Our Waterfall Chapter 3: No Dinner Tonight, Fiend!


"Yoshi's kidnapped?! I didn't know that!"

That isn't your line, Mario! You're supposed to say-

"Oops, I remember now, sorry about that! Guys,you know what? I haven't seen Yoshi in a lloonngg while. I wonder where he's gotten to now?"

Peach said: "You know Mario, you're right! I haven't seen him either!"

Falco, without looking up from the wild berry salad he'd made, said, "I suppose I'd better go get a bird's eye view of this odd place and see if I can spot him."

"I'll go with you." added Mewtwo. So they both flew off.

Meanwhile, in a dark, scary cave, where a cage containing a certain green dino swung back and forth from the stalagmite-decorated ceiling, trouble was certainly brewing. Yoshi had never felt more scared- or hungry- in his life. "P-please, sir, I-I don't taste g-good, I mean, really, an icky, sticky dinosaur, heh-heh ,of c-course that's not gonna taste good.."

"I think not. I am a great lover of meat, no matter what it tastes like!"cackled the voice.

Yoshi threw himself back and forth, rocking the cage. "Help me, someone, anyone! I don't wanna be fooooddd!"

Suddenly a figure leaped out of the shadows. "Silence!"it cried.

To Yoshi's surprise, the voice sounded tiny and far below him, yet deep and foreboding. More curious now then scared, Yoshi stopped tantrum-ing and leaned over to see. Standing below the cage, almost to short to see, was a filthy, dust-gray rat.

"YOU are the one who wants to eat me!"cried Yoshi. He started laughing and laughing. "You..wanna..eat..ME! Bwa ha ha ha! You..couldn't..eat..a..sqaush! Bwa ha ha ha ha!" He rolled around laughing in the cage.

"I SAID SILENCE, BUFFOON!"cried the rat, trembling with rage, its red eyes glinting. "I may be small, but do not think that my size hinders my strength in any way!" it hissed. He began scurrying up the wall toward the cage, but then he stopped halfway up and said, "You know, you'd taste even better with a sauce or dressing of some sort." And he scurried back down to construct one.


"See anything?" Falco asked Mewtwo as they flew slowly over the pastel, storybook-like land.

Suddenly a small fairy wearing a dress made out of silky red and pink rose petals bumped into Mewtwo's nose. "Oh, excuse me!" it said. "I'm Rose. They are my favorite flower, after all!"

"I'm Mewtwo, and this is Falco. We're searching for Yoshi, a green dinosaur."

Immediately her small face went pale. "A dinosaur! How terrible! You must wish to bring ruin to us all! Help, help! They have a dinosaur with them! He-" Falco clapped a feathered hand over her mouth.

"What are you talking about?!" cried Mewtwo. "You are being absurd!"

Falco, holding in laughter, said "Yeah, Yoshi's only about the same size as us, and he wouldn't hurt a fly!"

Rose looked at them with an embarrassed face. Suddenly she perked up, as if she'd just remembered something. "Oh, I saw a little green thing wandering around sort of over..uh..there! Follow me!" And she flew off, with her two new friends following.

"Uh, I think you mean their new friend, because this story is about us, isn't it?"

Well, yes, I..uh..oh, forget it!

The rest of our heroes, however, were stumped on where they should go or what they should do next. "Well," said Bowser, "We'll never find Yoshi or The Sparkly Crystal Rod by just standing here!" He was then informed that they had walked approximately ten miles from where they'd been standing earlier.

"And my feet are killing me!"cried Pichu.

"Well," said Roy, "We will not accomplish much by simply roaming about aimlessly, either."

Suddenly Mewtwo, Falco and Rose came swooping down in front of the group. "We found Yoshi!" cried Falco, "And this is Rose. She helped us find him."

The fairy looked shocked at how many people there were. Mewtwo noticed and said "I would introduce you, but we are so many and Yoshi needs our help right now."

Rose nodded in agreement and said "Follow us, everyone!"

Back in the cave, the rat had just concocted a dressing and started a bonfire with an arrangement of three sticks over it so he could.. tie Yoshi to them and roast him!

"Everything's ready. It's time!" the rat hissed as he darted up the wall to the cage.

But Yoshi was not impressed. "Feh! As if! You'll never get me outta this cage! And even if you do, I'll just run away before you can tie me onto that roaster-thing!"

The rat made his way onto the bottom of the cage, clinging to the underside of it, and pulled some kind of switch that made it flap open, so Yoshi fell out. Now the cage was directly over the topmost roasting stick, so unless Yoshi wanted to smash his nose in, he'd have to grab it. As soon as he did, the rat hastily tied him up.

"Well..I never thought of doing it like that.." he said in a groggy voice. "Oh no, I'm starting to get hot already!" He burst into tears. "It can't end this way! It can't!" he bawled as the rat turned the spit slowly.

Suddenly something that was only a blur swooped in and snatched him off so hard the ropes just ripped right off!

"Unhand that dinosaur, fiend!" cried a heroic, overalls-clad figure in the cave door.

"Uh, Mario ,I have him already."said Mewtwo, who was holding Yoshi.

"Well, still, I must sound heroic!" said Mario.

"Hey! That's my lunch- no, dinner you're making off with!" cried the rat.

"EEeeEeEEewwww! That's what had you? A gross rat! Those things disgrace the name of rodent!" said Pikachu in disgust.

"Not just any rat! A talking rat!" said Roy excitedly, "I must study this fascinating specimen!" he said, picking up the rat by his tail. Then he noticed everyone else was gone!

"Hey!" He dropped the gray animal and rushed out after them. Jigglypuff hadn't gone far, however.

"I wanted to wait for you!" she said in her cutest voice. Roy did a cute smile of his own and walked away with her.

"Fools! You will never find me, or your precious Rod! You will wander around in this overly cute, sweet land forevermore!" cackled Sinister Guy, who had been watching them in his crystal ball from his evil lair. "HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA H-HACK-HACK-CHOKE!"

Well, our Smashers have successfully saved Yoshi from being eaten, but more difficult dangers lie ahead! Tune in next time, when the Smashers deal with one of the not-so-cutesy forests of The Realm of The Toaster! Let's just say they'll be quite bugged about it!

Thanks, Announcer! Whatever could he mean?! See ya next time!