Chaos, Chaos, How I love it so! Yup, that's the theme of this Chapter! Chapter 7 of Engulfed by Evil: ……………You know. By the time this is posted, I'll have a title so no need to put one now. And I'm very VERY sorry for the long delay people. I really am. Procrastination is a horrible, horrible thing.
And for such a solemn chapter, there's a lot of comic relief.
Blame my love of including Crazy Hand.
On the note of Crazy Hand, Merry Christmas Everyone! I know it's a bit late for that, but my internet was down all of Christmas day so…..blame Comcast for the additional 24 hour delay.
While I'm here lets listen to some reviewers! First up is The Review of Ripper.
Well, many people cried out for DeDeDe's inclusion. At first I thought of him being an evil shaded character but then thought of comic relief. I then decided to have this story's DeDeDe have the characteristics and notions of Survivor: Nintendo's DeDeDe. So there you are.
Bustman: Yes, I love those 2 as well. Writing for both is hilarious and I can always put bad puns in.
Colton: Well, I didn't know you had a Fanfic account. Well that answers your P.S. And for the murderer, well I might drop a few clues here and there, but it'll become clearer as the story goes by and candidates are eliminated. There was actually a possible slogan I was thinking of for the story. 'Not everything is as it seems'. But then again some things ARE as they seem in this story so I dropped it.
So that's it for answering reviews!
So….Eeny meeny miny mo. Pikmin. Do the disclaimer.
Pikmin: (In VERY squeaky voices) SmashEd44 does not own Nintendo, Konami, Sega, or Capcom!
….Why did you say Capcom. It is true I don't own it but no Capcom chars will appear in this!
Pikmin:…..Just to show you don't own Gaming Companies!
…Whatever.
P.S.- Canadian Viewers. Watch out for invisible Orangutans. They are really nasty buggers.
Anywho, on with the chaotic and maple syrup filled show!
Saturday, March 8th, 2008- 5:09 PM-Mansion Walkway
Loud and repeating 'BANG's were echoing through the grounds causing eardrums to shake like their instrumental counterparts. Immediately after the bangs started Fox, Falco, and Wolf, using their illusion moves, skidded far out of the line of fire, within seconds of the blasts going off. Obviously, the rest didn't react as quickly, except for Lucario who used Extremespeed in the same fashion.
Olimar tackled Yoshi and Diddy Kong, with the threesome rolling several feet. "What's going on!?" Olimar yelled looking to his 2 companions. They looked forward to see the crowd of smashers scattering. Pikachu was lugging the suitcase with Pichu in it. It seemed he had given up and then hurled the suitcase down the walkway. Somehow the suitcase bounced and bounced and flew into the mansion.
"Pikachu has good arm…." Yoshi observed.
"I still don't get what's going on….." Olimar stated his pikmin equally as confused.
"Look out!" A cold voice bellowed. Meta Knight scooped up the 3 (the pikmin holding on to Olimar's foot via Pikmin Chain) and flew behind a utility shed. About 50 bullets dug up dirt where the 3 just were. Meta Knight dropped them off behind the shed, where a few smashers were taking cover. They were made up of Lucario, Wolf, Samus, and Mario.
Did I tell you!? Or did I not!?? Lucario barked.
"Smashers are falling left and right. The murderer laid a trap for us. Seems Lucario was right." Wolf stated looking grim. He fired a few shots towards the source of the bullets and ducked back, many bullets answering his fire.
"Yoshi! Any casualties?" Yoshi asked.
"Well, Jigglypuff's dead I think. The turrets opened fire on the front of the group. She took a lot. I doubt she survived." Samus responded. She fired off a few shots of her own, the turrets quickly returning fire.
"Wait. Turrets?" Diddy Kong asked.
"Turrets-a. The murderer had-a one heck of a plan-a." Mario responded grimly. "I'll-a say that-a it fires at least-a 4000 rounds per minute-a between the 2 of them-a." Mario paused. "They are of-a military weaponry. He-a must have some wild-a resources."
"Boy. Gets better and better." Diddy responded coldly.
"So. Any word on the other smashers?" Olimar asked worried.
"I know that Luigi took Princess Peach to safety. Right through heavy fire. Luigi really is courageous when needed. They're taking shelter in the baseball dugout." Wolf responded. He pointed to the baseball diamond across the lawn that the smashers played in. You could clearly see a green figure huddled beneath a bench.
"The only other thing I saw was Link taking Zelda to safety. But that was a pretty obvious scenario." Samus responded.
"So basically we just stay here? And wait until we get help?" Olimar squeaked.
"Pretty much yeah." Wolf responded quickly. He, along with Samus fire more shots at the turrets.
"Yoshi surprised that Master Hand not knows yet!" Yoshi stated clearly astonished.
Master Hand's Office
Master Hand floated out of his seat. "What is that noise?" Master Hand asked himself quietly. A small green pea smashed into his face.
"Sorry! I'm trying my new pea shooter!" Crazy cackled. A straw was located in his hands and as he (somehow) blew, peas shot out making a machine gun like noise.
"Crazy……" Master Hand mumbled.
Behind the Utility Shed
"Forget this. I'm going out to see if anyone needs help. Better than waiting here." Wolf mumbled. He peeked around the side of the shed and saw the turrets were concentrating their fire on 2 figures. From a distance it seemed like 2 blobs. One very large and one very small.
"You see anything?" Samus asked the wolverine.
"From here I think its DeDeDe and Kirby. Wait, I think Lombardi's there as well, giving them covering fire." Wolf observed.
In the middle of the front lawn
Kirby was kneeling. He was hovering over Lucas who had taken a shot to the leg. A red liquid, easily recognized as blood, was slowly oozing out of the wound. A round gray bullet was shining just beneath the skin. Doctor Mario was also huddled around the injured boy giving Medical treatment.
"Keep-a the covering fire-a!" The doctor yelled to his companions. Kind DeDeDe was swinging his hammer around somehow deflecting the bullets that were shot in his direction. Alongside him was Falco shooting wildly at the turrets, most likely as fast as his gun could fire.
"What the hell's going on!???" Falco hollered diving to avoid the bullets.
"I told you!" DeDeDe boomed. "They are after my pie stash!" Falco had not heard him over the roar of the turret fire. Suddenly DeDeDe clutched his hand as the hammer flew out of his hand. His blue flipper was beginning to turn red with blood. "Crap. Waddle Dee! Retrieve my hammer!" From within his sleeve DeDeDe clutched a Waddle Dee and threw it into the hail of gunfire.
The Waddle Dee jumped up in fright and sprinted towards the hammer stuck in the ground; handle under the dirt, standing straight up.
"Don't get hit….don't get hit…." The Waddle Dee murmured. It picked up the hammer dived towards DeDeDe and slid on the ground. He then jumped into DeDeDe's sleeve, with the hammer landing in his other, un-shot hand.
"These Waddle Dee's continue to impress me." DeDeDe murmured.
Falco dived again avoiding another group of bullets. "Can we move him!!?? I can't keep dodging these!" Falco roared at Doctor Mario, who was still treating Lucas.
"Alright-a. Kirby. You help-a me carry him. DeDeDe and-a Falco. Please continue the cover." Doctor Mario stated, strangely staying calm. Kirby and the Doctor began to walk Lucas over towards another Utility shed where the door was wide open.
"How can you stay calm in a time like this!???" Falco yelled shuffling backwards firing at the turrets.
"Doctor-s are used to-a pressure filled situations and thus stay-a very calm-a. Surgeries and all-a."
"Pie!" DeDeDe yelled as another bullet hit the wooden hammer and then ricocheted away.
"Poyo!" Kirby cried. He and Doctor Mario entered the Shed with DeDeDe and Falco quickly following. Inside was a small bed, on which sat Bowser and Sonic. Bowser was watching the scene from the very small window, while Sonic was clutching his awkwardly limp leg, muttering under his breath about something that couldn't be heard.
"It's hell out there. Thousands of bullets every second! It's a warzone on our own front lawn!" Falco roared slamming the door behind him.
Behind Utility Shed
"Lucario. Can you sense what's going on? Where everyone is?" Meta Knight asked, also calm.
Not a thing! Lucario roared. My Aura's being blocked!
"I'll go over to the other side, and see what else is going on. You guys try and make it to the mansion! Tell Master Hand what's going on!" Wolf hollered.
"You can't just go out there gun's a blazing! You'll be massacred!" Diddy Kong chirped.
"Odds never stopped me before, probably never will." O'Donnell countered. Smirking he ran out from the shed firing at the turrets.
"He's crazy……" Olimar mumbled.
"How long you wanna bet he'll last out there?" Diddy Kong asked the captain.
"1 million pokos that he'll be shot within the next 5 seconds." Olimar stated grimly. A sharp cry rang out and, 3 yards away, Wolf crumbled.
"You sir, owe me a large fortune." Olimar stated. "Pikmin. Get Wolf please. Be in and out in a flash of lightning."
The Pikmin, much against their will, ran out and lifted Wolf up. They brought him back whilst dodging many bullets and laid him down gently on the grass.
"So arrogant-a. He thinks he can-a just rush out-a there and be-a the hero." Mario stated while shaking his head.
"So……how bad is it?" Olimar asked with caution.
Samus looked down at Wolf. He had taken 3 bullets, all in the chest.
"Bad. Very, very bad." Samus stated.
"Yoshi…..How are we going to get out of this Yoshi?" Yoshi asked. He looked around the corner. The guns were firing rapidly into the sky. Apparently it couldn't 'see' anybody so it was spending the time randomly shooting.
"My guess is that the hands will figure it out eventually. I mean come on! There's millions of bullets being fired every 5 minutes or so!" Diddy Kong cried out. He turned to Lucario and Meta Knight who were staying quiet. "Any big ideas!!???"
Pichu Lucario stated simply.
"Yes. Pichu." Meta Knight stated simply.
Olimar looked as if he had that clichéd light bulb go off in his head. "Of course! Pikachu threw his suitcase into the mansion when the attack began! Pichu was in the suitcase! Remember how I commented that Pikachu has a good arm Yoshi?" Olimar stated rapidly. Yoshi nodded.
"So…..we wait on a little miniscule mouse?" Diddy Kong asked.
"We wait on a miniscule mouse." Olimar confirmed.
"We're dead."
Outside the Hands Office
The large suitcase was, believe it or not, still rolling. Pichu, obviously, was becoming very sick from all the rolling. As the suitcase tapped on the door, Pichu slumped out, on the verge of kicking the bucket. The knock seemed to have done it because the door then opened.
"Crazy Hand's office!" Crazy cackled. "If you're here about the Lawn Nome Invasion that I made in Switzerland then I didn't do it!" He then looked down to Pichu who stood up, though still wobbly.
"Pichu! How nice to see of you! So I take it you aren't leaving and want to help me to take all of Canada's Maple Syrup next week during my full blown invasion using my invisible Orangutans?" Crazy Hand asked. Apparently, he had planned all sorts of mischievous deeds.
"Pichu." Pichu shook his head. "Pichu Pichu pi!"
"Alright." Crazy might have pouted. "If you really want to see him…..OH NON CRAZY BROTHER OF MINE!!!!" Crazy screamed.
"I'm right behind you….." Master Hand muttered, his mysterious ears ringing.
"Pichu Pichu Pichu pi!" Pichu spoke rapidly.
"You wanted a glass of water?" Master asked trying to make sense of his rapid talk.
"Lassie's in the well! OH NO! SOMEBODY GET A PAINTER!!!!" Crazy yelled thinking that his pet dog was in the well.
"No Crazy…..Plus you don't even HAVE a dog!" Master Hand responded calming Crazy down.
"For once you are Crazy, brother of mine. I do have a dog as he is resting in the kennel at this very moment." Crazy spoke intelligently with a British accent.
"Either it's the apocalypse, your sane which would point to the first outcome, or you're acting so crazy you're sane."
"LAST ONE IS THE BEST OPTION!!!" Crazy cackled. "I'm off to the Kennel!" Crazy zoomed towards the door but slammed into the nearby wall.
"PICHU PI!" Pichu yelled, clearly agitated by him being ignored.
"……Something's happening out front?" Master Hand asked the miniscule mouse.
"Darn Teenagers! They always have to waste eggs pegging them at people's houses!" Crazy Hand said randomly, he coming out of the wall suddenly.
"Pichu pi……" Pichu spoke with a possible inclusion of sarcasm.
"True. You wouldn't have been thrown around in a suitcase for nothing I suppose. Come Crazy, I'll give you 5 Doggy Biscuits!" Master Hand stated.
"Make it 20!" Crazy Hand cackled.
"2."
"Deal!" Crazy cackled. Crazy zoomed into Master Hand's office. "WHERE ARE THE DOGGY BISCUITS!!!??"
Master Hand sighed in anguish.
"On my desk."
"YUMMY YUMMY!" Crazy Hand screeched as he zoomed out, crumbs on his 'face'.
"PICHU PICHU PI PI!" Pichu roared, which caused the nearby lamp to shatter.
"That's 2 lamps you owe me Pichu. Onwards to the front lawn." Master Hand spoke angrily, and grumbling floated towards the front door. Crazy Hand floated towards Pichu.
"Don't tell anyone the lawn nome thing buddy." Crazy Hand whispered. "Nor the Maple Syrup plot or the whole big scheme I have planned for Chicago. Wait……I didn't tell you about Chicago did I?"
Pichu shook his head.
"Drat!" Crazy cried.
"WHAT THE HELL!?????" Master Hand boomed. Crazy Hand floated in midair, silent and clearly frightened as he stared in the direction of Master Hand's voice.
"Big Bro's mad….." Crazy whispered.
Crazy floated and Pichu waddled over to the front door to see the warzone in front of them. Smashers were huddled everywhere, a certain few injured or even dead where they lay.
Master Hand floated, speechless. Pichu let out a little yelp, as he saw it got worse.
"BAWM BAWM BAWM BAAAAAAAWM!" Crazy Hand roared. "CRAZY HAND TO THE RESCUE!" Crazy Hand had a pair of underwear on his head and he flew out into the chaos.
"Pichu Pichu pi?" Pichu asked Master Hand.
"That's actually a first for him….."Master Hand mumbled. "I'll go get Dr. Mario."
"Pichu." Pichu told him.
"…………DAMN IT!"
Behind Utility Shed
Olimar, Diddy, and Yoshi were seated together playing cards. The pikmin were also playing, so obviously…..there were A LOT of cards.
"PI!" A red pikmin squeaked. He laid down a full house and carted all of the chips over to his side.
"…..I keep getting 1s, 10s, and 2s." Olimar mumbled.
"Ahem. Horrific situation-a here-a." Mario announced. He glanced over to Wolf, who groaned in pain.
"YOSHI YOSHI YOSHI!!!!!" Yoshi cried out.
"What?" Diddy Kong asked, particularly uninterested.
"CRAZY HAND!......With…..Underwear on his head?"
Crazy Hand zoomed over to Yoshi and skidded into a tree. "Crazy Hand here!"
Diddy Kong groaned. "Great. Crazy Hand's here. We're safe."
"Yes you are!" Suddenly a purple shield expanded over the shed providing easy cover all the way back to the mansion.
"……We are?" Diddy asked astonished, and mouth agape.
"I'M GETTING OUTTA HERE!" Olimar screamed quickly collecting his cards. He was absorbed by the pikmin stampede as they rushed towards the door.
"One of these days I'll feel bad for Olimar" Meta Knight said coldly as he walked back towards the mansion. Diddy rode Yoshi back as Samus and Mario carried Wolf. Lucario calmly walked back as well, bringing up the rear.
Mansion Entrance
"Pichu!" Pichu cried.
"Pikmin Stampede." Master Hand stated non-chalantly. He picked up Pichu and floated above the arriving crowd of pikmin, Olimar's hand barely visible, reaching to get out of the large crowd. Yoshi and Diddy rushed into safety along with Meta Knight and Lucario. Mario and Samus struggled with Wolf.
"Wolf?"Pichu uttered. Since it was a name, obviously it would be said aloud by a pokemon.
"Oh god. And Dr. Mario's still out there as well." Master Hand groaned.
"Gets better and Yoshi!" Yoshi commented, staring out into the chaos.
"I'll go out there with-a Crazy." Mario stated in a rush as he ran back to the front lawn.
"Yoshi help too!" Yoshi announced as he quickly followed Mario.
"I hate Saturdays." Master Hand grumbled.
Chapter 7, after months of hard work and procrastination, is finally finished! This, to tell the truth, is probably the chapter I'm most iffy about. I think I've been playing too much Call of Duty. I can promise that the next Chapter will return to the dark, mysterious murder story that it should be.
But what else could be better than this update?.....Oh yeah. The fact Chapter 8 will be up by New Year's Eve! That's what could be better!
What will become of the other smashers? Will Wolf survive? Who is the highly feared Murderer? What has become of Young Link and Snake? What does Crazy have planned for Chicago? Will Meta Knight feel sorry for Olimar? Is the murderer REALLY after DeDeDe's pie stash? Does mentioned stash even exist? Why am I asking so many irrelevant questions? Is the sheer amount annoying you?
I doubt a lot of those questions shall be answered in Chapter 8 of Engulfed by Evil!