Okay, time for another chapter!

(all the Smashers) YEEEAAA!

I'm afraid you guys might want to take your excitement back when you see- well, uh, here we go..!

The Journey To Restore Our Waterfall! Chapter 4: Bewaretheinsects! Forest

Hello everybody! When last we left the Smashers, they'd successfully rescued Yoshi, and now they are headed toward..well, they don't know! Will they find out which way to go? Or will they become aimlessly lost in a place of utter terror?


"WHERE ARE WE GOING?!" Mario yelled.

"We're supposed to be finding the lair of that Sinister Guy.", Peach said.

"Which is apparently" said Roy," more difficult than we thought."

"Well, aren't lairs supposed to be hard to find?" questioned Pikachu.

"Of course! And I should know,since I used to have one!" said Bowser.

"Uh, is it just me, or are these woods getting darker and..gulp..scarier?" said Kirby.

"No, it is not just you, they are." observed Mewtwo.

"Well, in that case, Mewtwoey, hold my paw!" cried Jigglypuff, grabbing his three-fingered hand.

"Look!" said Nana. There was a wooden sign post stuck in the ground in front of them.

Link read it aloud. "Lower your voice and watch your step, try in vain not to fret, for grotesque creatures of terror are near, and even the trees have very sharp ears, lest you wish to be stung to dust, or bitten 'til you really must, attempt to flee from there, but 'tis no use, stranger, for you dared, to enter the sacred Bewaretheinsects! Forest, and, fool, be filled with dread, for only those with a purpose of good don't end up dead."

Link gulped as he finished. There was a long silence, as the Smashers shivered and shuddered.

Finally Captain Falcon said in a quivering voice, "Wyell..Ah hope w-we make it.."

Beyond the sign post, Bewaretheinsects! Forest loomed, dark and wildly overgrown, the trees as tall as towers and bunched so closely their leaves formed a sort of canopy, shading the entire forest with an eerie shadow, only penetrated here and there by a streak of sunlight.

Mario, being the leader, gathered his courage and said bravely to his comrades,"Come on guys! We must do it, or we'll never get the Sparkly Crystal Rod back!"

This awakened the adventuring spirit in all of them, so they swallowed their fear and headed in. Two seconds in, Kirby started hearing a chattering noise. It sounded close by, and seemed to be getting closer. Closer..and closer..a long shadow appeared over him..

"Luigi! You scared me silly!" cried Kirby.

Luigi's teeth were chattering as if he were in the middle of a ferocious blizzard. "S-s-sorry.." he said.

As they progressed into the forest, the shadows grew deeper, the ground grew muddier, Luigi's teeth chattered harder- "Hey, give me a break! We have been walking in this frightful place for over one minute!"

Erm, anyway, the forest was getting scarier with each step.

D.K. was beginning to gain confidence. Just because he hadn't seen any bugs yet meant there wasn't any, after all! "Scary place no have bugs!" he thought, "I safe, after all!" He let out a loud ape screech and began to do the hula spin on his head, and shake, shake, shake his booty while a victory song played blaring loud.

All the Smashers covered their ears and began yelling over the ruckus. "STOP, DONKEY KONG! THAT'S TOO LOUD, STOP!" they all cried.

But D.K. was too happy to listen to them. "I SAFE!" he sang, "I SAFE! I-" As he was in the middle of shaking his boo-tay right in the other's faces, something sharp as a nail lodged itself right into it, therefore ceasing the shaking. The music shut off. ("Aw, I was diggin' that groove..!" muttered )

"OWWWWIIIIEEEEEEE!" D.K. whirled around to confront the Smasher who'd dealt him the boo-boo, and found himself face to face with an angry cloud of wasps, buzzing low and menacingly. He stared at them, not understanding. "You sting?" he asked nervously. For answer, the wasps swooped toward him, buzzing loud. "AAAAAHHHH!"cried the ape, and he began running as fast as he could, the wasps chasing close behind.

The other Smashers, who 'd been hiding behind a large tree since spotting the wasps, now had the faintest inkling that something was approaching their hiding spot.

"See, I told you guys I heard something!" said Luigi annoyingly.

Ka-bonk! "Ow! !"cried Luigi, rubbing his head.

"Well you asked for it." shrugged the doctor.

"Guys, drop the fighting and RUN!" yelled Samus, who was already running a good distance from the tree. The Smashers took one glance over their shoulders and joined her, because D.K. was charging toward them at full speed with a swarm of buzzing wasps behind him!

Zelda turned around and called out to D.K., "TURN AROUND! RUN ANOTHER WAY, NOT TOWARD US!"

"IT'S NO USE, ZELDA," yelled Marth, ducking under a low branch as he ran, 'HE CAN'T HEAR YOU!"

Mr. Game&Watch, absorbed in the drama of the situation, suddenly noticed that they were all headed toward a steep mud bank! "Guys-" he started,but it was too late. They all tumbled and fell down the steep bank, including D.K.!

Zelda, determined not to dirty her gown, formed a Nayru's Love shield just as she fell, and so avoided any mud. Peach, with the same goal in mind, opened her parasol and held it in front of her, splashing all mud away from her like a shield, to the dismay of Daisy, who developed from that action a large dunce cap of mud.

They finally crashed down in a tangled heap at the bottom of the hill. They looked up and saw the wasps buzz straight over them, oblivious to the fact that D.K. was now at the bottom of the mud bank and not in front of them. Every Smasher, despite being covered in mud, let out a huge sigh of relief.

Samus, who was sandwiched at the bottom of the pile, began wriggling herself out, therefore causing the whole pile of Smashers to teeter, and the ones on top to fall off. Fox was one of those who fell off the top, but the only one who landed on what felt like the spire of a sand castle.

"Oh! What's this?" He looked down and found himself sitting on a pile of demolished sand. He leaned in closer and an ant scurried from the ground onto his snout. "Oh, it must've been an ant hill..Wait..." He quickly brushed the ant off his snout and tried to stand up, but found his tail was stuck and preventing him from standing up. He looked behind him to free his tail, and found that it was not stuck, but weighted down by the entire colony of ants whose home he'd just destroyed! "EeeEEWW! GET THEM OFF! HELP, GUYS, GET THESE ANTS OFF MY TAIL!"

Popo's eyes widened. "Ants?" he cried. He looked down. He, too, had ants all over his lap. "WWAAHH!"

Ganon looked down at Fox's tail and formed a ring of purple magic around it, which then moved quickly down the tail, eliminating all ants from it. "Hey, thanks, Ganon!" said Fox.

Ganon shrugged and said "We gotta get these ants off! There's too many of us for me to use magic, but I know another sure-fire way to do it! Guys, follow me!"

So, Ganon led them to- "A lake!"

Roy raised an eyebrow(in which three ants had taken residence)skeptically and said "And?"

"And all we have to do is dive in! Eeyah!" replied Ganon, jumping in with a large splash.

Zelda made a disgusted face. "Ew..that water's all muddy and murky.."

"Who cares?" said Pikachu, "As long as it gets these ants off, I'm cool with it!" And he dived in.

"Well, I'm not!" muttered Zelda, using the same tactic as Ganon did on Fox's tail to herself. "That's more like it!"

Once everyone had cleared themselves of ants, they set off to resume their journey. "You know, guys, if it weren't for my intelligence, we'd never have gotten those ants off!" boasted Ganon.

Roy crossed his arms. "I'M the intelligent one around here!" he grouched.

"Well it was MY idea!" protested Ganon. They began arguing loudly. Okay, guys, you might want to stop that! Mario?

Mario turned to them. "YOU GUYS, STOP NOW! IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO IS THE SMARTEST CUZ I'M THE LEADDDEERR!" Mario had just fallen backwards into some kind of rabbit hole! Oh, now what?!

Roy and Ganon stopped arguing and turned around at Mario's yell. But they were too close, and they fell down, too!

"Come on!" yelled Bowser, diving in. The rest followed.

"IT'S AN UNDERGROUND SLIDE DOWN HERE! JUST LIKE OUR LITTLE TYKES ONE!" yelled Popo and Nana as they hurtled down the huge, curving underground slide amidst the rest of the screaming Smashers.

"ISN'T THIS FUN, MEWTWOEY?" called Jigglypuff excitedly.

"I SUPPOSE, BUT I DON'T THINK LUIGI'S ENJOYING IT!" Mewtwo called back.

Luigi had turned green as his shirt and was apparently on the verge of fainting.

Roy rolled his eyes. "THIS IS MERELY A PRIMITIVE SLAB OF ROCK THAT HAS BEEN SHAPED OVER THE EONS INTO A FORM WHICH RESEMBLES A SLIDE! THE CHANCES THAT IT COULD PROVIDE ANY REAL THRILLS ARE SLIM!"

At that moment, they went up, then came down a dip at full speed, went upside down, and turned a loop-de-loop accompanied by roaring dragons and King Kong, who attempted to grab them, but at that moment they were shot upward and out another rabbit hole to land safely on the ground above.

"Well..call me a rutabaga.." muttered a very astonished Roy, brushing dirt off himself.

"That was soo exciting!" exclaimed Mario as they headed onward.

"I'll say!" said Young Link, taking a gulp of Lon-Lon milk.

"That was fun, but that up ahead doesn't look like it!" shuddered Daisy, pointing to the even darker area ahead.

"Oh, great!" said Mr. Game&Watch, "First wasps, then ants, then a thrill-ride slide, now what?"

Captain Falcon thought his hardest, then said "Ah know! Mutant pun'kin pahs that shoot whipped creaym at ya!"

Mr. Game&Watch stared at him a moment, then went to the sink and took an aspirin.

"Come on, guys, what's so bad about darkness?" asked Link as they entered the dark area, "It's not like it can hurt you!"

As he said this, a long, hairy thing longer than him came down and scooped him up into the trees. "AAAHH! NOT THE WALL MASTER AGAIN!"

Pichu watched with eyes the size of serving platters. All of a sudden, more hairy things came down and scooped all of them up!

"AAAAAAAAHHHH!" was all that could be heard throughout the forest.

Once up in the high, thick branches of the trees, the Smashers discovered that the legs belonged to HUGE, HAIRY TARANTULAS! AND THEY WERE SPINNING A THICK, FOOL-PROOF WEB AROUND EACH SMASHER!

"Oh no! I won't live to see my grandkids!" wailed &Watch.

All of a sudden, to make matters worse, they heard a buzzing noise getting closer..closer..

"NO! NOT WASPS AT A TIME LIKE THIS!" shrieked Peach, struggling a little.

"Oh, what did I do to deserve this? WHAT?!" cried Luigi as dramatically as he could.

As the wasps got closer, one of the tarantulas reached out and slapped a wasp out of the air. Immediately, the two insects- "Hey, we're not really insects, remember?" My bad, tarantula- began fighting each other!

The Smashers watched, wide-eyed. "Well, at least we get to watch some monster movie entertainment before we die!" said Falco, whose tarantula had hung him upside down from the web.

Soon enough, most of the wasps had fought their way through the tarantulas, who were each occupied with fighting a singular wasp.

"Who would've thought we'd be captured by tarantulas, but killed by wasps?" said Samus.

"Wait a minute!" said Marth, "Remember the sign post? Only those with a purpose of good don't end up dead! Our purpose is good! I don't think those wasps want to kill us,they're helping us!"

Sure enough, each wasp began to use its stinger to rip the webbing around the Smashers.

"Cool!" said Kirby. Once they were all free, they dropped to the ground and hurried away. "Thank you!" called Mario to the wasps. One of them waved its stinger, then resumed fighting.

The Smashers ran the rest of the way. There wasn't much forest left beyond the dark tarantula's lair, so they were soon out of the entire forest.

"YES! SUNLIGHT! WE'RE OUT!" Marth cried joyfully. Sure enough, the pastel cutesy fields of The Toaster Realm spread out before them once more. In fact, they could see a village not too far off.

"Hey, look, another sign post!" said Ness.

"'Congratulations, 'O Brave One, you have made it out! You're a true hero, without a doubt.'" The Smashers smiled at one another, letting the message sink into their hearts.

Aw, happy ending! But the Smashers have more journey ahead of them! They reach Su Amaryl Village, named after an ancient magic carpet merchant, where there's a problem afoot! Can the village's traditional magic carpets be the key to the mystery?

Tune in next chapter and find out!