Super Smash Bros adventures chapter 8
"Hey guys." greeted Link as he entered the mansion's lounge, his face flushed with excitement.
Mario and Pit looked up from the board game they were playing. "Hey Link." greeted Mario. "How was your date with Zelda?"
"It went great actually." Link replied, having expressed a little nervousness prior to that afternoon. "We walked around the park and had a picnic there." The Hylian smiling as he thought of how well things were going so far with his love interest.
"Did you guys kiss yet?" Pit asked, nudging Link playfully with his elbow.
Link's face turned about as red as a Heart Container. "Wh-What are you talking about?" The Hylian stammered with embarrassment. "We maybe dating, but we're not there yet." He declares defensively.
"Come on Link, you saved Zelda a bunch of times, and you haven't kissed yet?" Pit asks incredulously.
Link folds his arms across his chest and glares at the angel boy. "Have you kissed someone yet?" Link shoots back pointedly.
Pit's face turns as red as Links had been. "No, because I don't have a crush on anyone." The angel says quietly.
"Come on, guys! I found a mission that we can go on." Mario suggests, trying to change the subject and stop the argument before his roommates resorted to using their blades rather than their mouths. The plumber waves a piece of paper he had snagged from the mission board in front of his roommates' faces.
Link grabs the piece of paper and reads it aloud for them. "'Please reverse this dark magic!' Oh, so we're going to your world again, huh Mario?"
"This ought to be a snap," says Mario.
"Let's do this!" Pit cheers excitedly. "And while we're at it, we can help Link find something for Zelda!"
"Can we stop talking about my relationship?" Link spat angrily, about ready to explode on the young angel.
A minute later, Mario, Link, and Pit were transported to a village in the Mushroom universe. "Where is everyone?" asks Link, gazing around at the empty streets of the little town. The place was a little too quiet for their tastes, so the three Smashers decide to explore further.
"Maybe the villagers are inside their homes." Pit suggests.
They walk around the silent streets until they come to a large home in the middle of the village. "The Mayor should be able to tell us what's going on here." Mario explains to his friends, and knocks on the door.
The door opens, but instead of the Toad mayor, a Goomba stands on the doorstep. "Oh Mario, it's nice to see you." the Goomba greets, a look of relief on his face.
"Hello… mayor?" Mario asks, his eyebrows raised in shock.
"Yes! It's me." The Goomba replied hurriedly, as if afraid he would be mistaken for another. "Thanks so much for coming!"
"This Goomba is the mayor?" asks Link, perplexed.
"Yep. But I don't understand. The mayor is supposed to be a Toad…" Mario responds, scratching his head.
"You think this has something to do with the dark magic request?" Link asks, pulling out the piece of paper with their mission on it.
"That's right!" The Goomba cried excitedly, then frantically started explaining things to the three Smashers. "It happened yesterday afternoon! The villagers and I were having a meeting to discuss foreign policy, when suddenly this wizard flew above us and cast a spell on all of us! We went to other villages to try to get help, but they attacked us, and-!"
"Whoa! Hold on, Mayor!" Mario cried, holding up his hands to try to get the frantic Goomba to slow down. "Don't worry. We'll help you out."
"You will? Oh, thank you! Thank you!" The mayor acknowledged, calming down a little.
"Do you know which direction this wizard went?" asks Link.
"He went north, but I don't know how far he went." the Mayor answers.
"Don't worry. We'll go find him for you." Mario reassures.
"Thank you Mario, and friends. Expect a nice reward when you're coming back." says the Mayor.
Mario, Link, and Pit left the mayor's house and begin their search for the evil wizard. Mario begins to think about their mission and finds that there is something familiar about the situation. "Hm, I'll bet Kamek is behind this." The plumber muses to himself.
Pit, who had heard him, speaks up. "Where can we find Kamek?" He asks.
"I'll bet he's in the Sacred Forest." Mario answers. "That's just north of here, like the mayor said."
"The Sacred Forest?" Link asks. "I don't imagine that's anything like the Kokiri Forest, is it?"
"Uh, not exactly." Mario answers.
"I thought not." Link responds.
The three Smashers leave the village and enter the woodland surrounding the little dwelling. Link and Pit begin to notice that the dense forest seems to be shrinking all around them. "What is it with this place?" the Hylian asks, bending down to examine a tiny tree that only went up to his chest.
"Kamek used his magic to make this place really big and really tiny." Mario explains. "I went here with Huey to find a few mini paint stars once. Just watch out for the tiny Goombas."
Unfortunately, Mario's warning came a little too late. "Aahh!" Pit screams, flying around like crazy. "Get it off me! Get it off me!"
Mario and Link look and notice that a tiny Goomba had jumped onto Pit's back and was now holding on for dear life. Link grabs Pit with his Hookshot and flips him upside down. The little Goomba lets go and runs off into the forest.
"Come on. We have to find Kamek." Mario says, and continues to lead them through the forest of tiny trees and bushes.
Eventually, they come to a warp pipe, but it is much too small for the three of them to fit through. "How are we supposed to get in there?" Link asks in disbelief.
"Like this!" Mario says confidently. He activates a Magnifying Glass Thing Card and points it at the pipe. The green pipe immediately grows to normal size and the three Smashers plunge themselves in.
Mario, Link, and Pit emerge from the pipe and find that they have entered a dark cave. The plants are normal size here, but there are a lot of Toads trapped inside the small area.
"Look at all of these Toads." says Pit, staring at the imprisoned mushroom people trapped in cells made of vines. "We have to help them somehow."
Mario walks up to the trapped Toads when suddenly, he is startled by a voice from behind him.
"Well, well, it's Mario." The voice cackled evilly.
Mario looks behind him and sees a Koopa wizard with glasses and a blue robe and pointy hat floating on a broomstick. "Kamek!" Mario growls. "You're the one who turned the village into Goombas, aren't you?"
"That's right. Since Master Bowser is not here, I decided to do my own evil deeds." replies Kamek.
"Why are you turning Toads into Goombas?" Pit demands angrily.
The wizard cackled again. "They seemed so poor and helpless. They never do anything on their own." Kamek said mockingly. "Once I turn them into Goombas, they'll be in my command. Then they won't have to worry about doing anything because I will control them. They will serve in my own personal army of underlings!"
"We're not letting you get away with that!" Mario declares, clenching a fist. Link and Pit get into a fighting stance, pulling out their swords. "Link, Pit, I'll handle him, you two rescue the Toads."
"Right." Link and Pit say in unison. The two swordsmen rush to the imprisoned Toads and hack at the vines that held them bound. Then, the two Smashers hurriedly lead the large group to the warp pipe exit.
"Oh, I don't think so!" Kamek cries. He waves his Wand and a massive boulder appears in front of the warp pipe, blocking the only exit from the cave. Link and Pit grunt as they try to push the boulder away, but the massive rock won't budge. "Now, Mario. Let's see what you are made of!"
Mario narrows his eyes in frustration, then jumps in the air and throws Fireballs at Kamek.
"You'll have to do better than that!" Kamek taunts, and with a twirl of his wand, Mario's flames are stopped in mid-air as if they are frozen in time. Kamek then points his wand and shoots his Fireballs back at him!
Mario darts to the right to avoid the flaming projectiles, then jumps up, landing five successful Stomps on the evil wizard. The entire cave lights up as Kamek charges his wand for another spell. Mario pulls out his cape to deflect the magic, but then realizes that the wand isn't pointed at him.
Kamek cackles wickedly. "I think your friends will enjoy being part of my Goomba army, don't you think?" he taunts.
Link and Pit turn around, astonished by the brightness of Kamek's wand.
"Leave my friends out of this!" Mario orders fiercely.
"Why should I?" Kamek asks. "After all, you and your friends destroyed that wonderful giant book I made back in Peach's castle library."
Mario stops what he is doing. "That was you?" he asks in astonishment. But, this moment of distraction is just what Kamek needs. The wizard narrows his eyes, and with a twirl of his wand, Link, Pit, and all of the Toads are turned into Goombas!
"Aahh! What has he done to us?" Pit cries in shock.
Kamek's wand emits an eerie, red glow, and the Goombas' eyes turn a piercing red. "Now, my army, I order you to attack!" Kamek cries triumphantly.
"Oh, no you don't!" Mario screams, leaping into the air. His hand shoots forward and grabs a hold of Kamek's wand. The plumber and the wizard struggle.
"Ugh! Let go!" Kamek cries, jerking the wand upwards, but Mario hangs on, his grip like iron, and wrenches the wand from Kamek's grasp.
"Kamek, your plans will stop here." says Mario. He waves the wand and the evil wizard is turned into a Goomba.
"I'll get you next time." says Kamek as he runs away, deeper into the cave. Mario turns to Link, Pit, and the Toads and lifts Kamek's Goomba spell.
"Wow. Thanks Mario." Link says, glad to be back to normal. All the Toads cheer for the Mushroom Kingdom Hero.
"I never want to be a Goomba again." Pit says. "I mean, how do they manage without hands?"
Mario blasts the boulder to bits with Kamek's Wand and everyone exits through the warp pipe. The Toads return to their homes, and Mario, Link, and Pit are walking back through the forest to the village they had originally gone to.
They are passing through the Sacred Forest, this time taking a different route. Link and Pit stare in awe at the giant trees and bushes around them. Suddenly, Link stops and kneels down. He is staring at a yellow flower that is larger than his head. "I think Zelda will love this!" he says, a dreamy smile on his face. The Hylian carefully plucks the large flower and the three of them head back to the village.
"Thanks so much for helping us!" the mayor says when the three Smashers had returned to his house. The spell on the village had been lifted, thanks to Kamek's wand.
"No problem, Mayor." says Mario as he, Link, and Pit accept the bags of gold coins offered to them. "Thanks for the money."
"I have one more thing for you, Mario." The mayor says, handing Mario a rather large box.
Mario looks inside and grins excitedly. "Ooh, a Spaghetti set!" he exclaims.
"I know how much you love Spaghetti, so I decided to give it to you." the Mayor says with a chuckle.
"Thank you very much." Mario says. "I can't wait to try it out!"
"Hope you come again." says the Mayor, and the three Smashers teleport back to the Smash mansion.