A/N – I thank those of you who have reviewed my previous chapter so quickly! This chapter will not be as long as the previous one, and was meant to be a bit shorter. Keep on reading and reviewing please! Again, I own nothing. Enjoy.
Chapter Five – Jail Time
Jimmy sat in the gloom of what appeared to be a castle. The room was extremely large, with a pool of slimy water occupying the center. Balcony-like structures were perched high up on the walls, but there appeared to be no way to reach them. The only light in the room filtered through six windows on a far wall.
The young Peach Creek boy had been bound and gagged by the Koopa Bros. and carried all the way to their fortress. Now, he sat on the dirty floor, struggling weakly against his binds as he listened to the koopa's conversation.
"What do we do with the squirt now that we got him here?" Green asked, glancing at Jimmy, who was still squirming.
"What do ya think we do? We keep him hostage!" Red replied, whapping his companion upside the head.
"Yes, yes, but where to keep him…" Yellow pondered, looking around the large room. "I'm sure those mouthy friends of his will be here soon to retrieve the little brat."
"Ya, and didn't you see Mario among those kids? He'll be traveling with them, and he's the one we really have to look out for…"
As the koopa's continued to talk, Jimmy turned his head. He saw a door at the far end of the room, with a mean looking guard patrolling it.
'What should I do?' he thought. 'This place looks disgusting! I wonder how long I'll be here before Sarah and the others come…' Jimmy thought of his friends, and looked sadly at the ground. Suddenly, something came to Jimmy's attention. As the koopas continued to plan and argue, their voices carried around the large room, echoing loudly off the high stone walls. Jimmy had a plan.
"…I don't know, Black! We haven't even set up that…hey, what's that kid doing?" Red said, looking strangely at Jimmy, who was now making odd noises. His face was also bright red.
"I don't know. It sort of looks like he's choking," Yellow said. Suddenly, their eyes grew wide.
"CHOKING?" All of the koopas scrambled over to their hostage, pulling the cloth that they had used to gag him with out of his mouth. Jimmy panted for a moment, before taking in a large breath, and screaming at the top of his lungs.
Jimmy's shriek was loud to begin with, but because it carried and echoed around the large room, the noise was nearly deafening.
"Ahhh, no! That little weasel's trying to attract his friends! Black, stuff up his mouth. Hurry!" Red screamed, barely audible, as he clapped his hands over his ears. The large cloth was jammed back into Jimmy's mouth, and after a few more seconds of echoing, the room was quiet once again. Red stormed up to Jimmy.
"Did you think you could outsmart us little boy? Well think again! Nobody outsmarts the Koopas Bros.! Got it?" he spat nastily in Jimmy's face. Jimmy fearfully nodded, tears beginning to well up in his eyes. Red smiled. "Good. Yellow, Black, take this little nuisance and throw him in the prison cell."
Jimmy's eyes widened with fear, and he began to struggle violently. 'Jail? But I can't go to jail! How will the others rescue me? Sarah! Save me!' Jimmy continued to squirm all the way down to the prison cell.
Yellow and Black had stripped Jimmy of his binds and had tossed him into the prison cell. The two koopas closed the door with a loud clang, and locked the door.
"We've got to get back and help Red get the fortress 'ready' for those kids," Yellow said, grinning evilly as the two koopas exited through the door.
"Owie," Jimmy said as he sat on the ground, rubbing his scuffed elbow. "Fate is such a cruel mistress." Jimmy looked up and took in his surroundings. He was in a medium sized jail cell, with blank, stone walls. Jimmy noticed a large crack in one of the walls.
To Jimmy's surprise, there were several other creatures in the jail. They were all bomb like creatures with eyes, feet, and what looked like wind-up keys sticking out of their backs. Suddenly, one walked right up to Jimmy, who was still sitting on the floor.
"Hello," the creature said.
"NO! Get away! I'm not like you! I know what delinquents like you do to people like me!" Jimmy screamed in the creatures face. He scrambled to a dusty corner and curled up into a ball, crying.
"Woah, get a hold of yourself. I'm not a bad guy. It's those Koopa Bros. who are the bad ones. They imprisoned me!" the creature said. Jimmy picked his head up out of his knees.
"You too?" he said, sniffing as he dried his eyes.
"He imprisoned all of us in here," the creature said. "Long story short, it was my short fuse that got us all in here. My name's Bombette. In case you hadn't noticed, I'm a bob-omb. Pleased to meet you!" Bombette said. Bombette was a small, pink bob-omb. Jimmy smiled, standing back up.
"Hello, Bombette. I'm sorry, but I'm not familiar with, er, bob-ombs," Jimmy said.
"That's Ok. So what do you think those koopas meant when they said something about guests?" she asked, looking around at the others in the jail. Jimmy's eyes lit up as he remembered his friends.
"Oh! They were talking about my friends, I'm sure of it! I was traveling with them before I got captured by those evil Koopa Bros.! They'll be here soon to rescue me…I hope."
"Well, if they've come to defeat the Koopa Bros., then all power to them. I'll even help them!" Bombette said.
Jimmy looked up the wall to the small windows sitting high above his cell. Light was glaring through it, casting long, gloomy shadows across the whole chamber.
Jimmy gazed sadly at the windows as he sat on the ground next to his new friend. "I hope they're on their way."
A/N – This chapter was just to set up Jimmy's situation. I didn't want to leave the little guy hanging! Next chapter will probably be the longest one yet, and will deal with the main group once again. Make sure you all read and review, so I can get the next chapter up sooner. Until next time.