Chapter 5: The Canyons of Canyone

Bomberman and the Mario Brothers flew out of the deep, deep caves of Grunwata and got into their rocket. And as soon as they were out into space, they focused on getting the next Ultrimax Crystal before the Hige Hige Bandits did.

"So where to next?" asked Mario.

"Be patient." said Luigi.

As they were talking, Bomberman was screwing a nail into a hole cover. Luigi, curious as he was, went up to the white warrior and said:

"What are you doing?"

"I'm upgrading our Ultrimax Crystal Locator so that it also tells us the name of the planet it's on." said Bomberman.

"Cool."

"Yeah. I know."

A few hours later, our three heroes were bored out of their minds. But they were wakened when the Ultrimax Crystal locator detected something.

"All right! Let's see what we got this time!" said Bomberman, woken from his beauty sleep and not caring about it. The white warrior checked the locator and it showed that a red Ultrimax Crystal was located on a granite looking planet named Canyone.

"All right. The next Ultrimax Crystal is on Canyone." announced Bomberman to the Mario Brothers."

"Canyone?" said Mario, puzzled but certain. "That sounds like the world 'canyon'."

"It does." said Luigi correcting him.

"That's because it's a canyon planet. DUH!" said Bomberman with some optomism and humor.

"Well if it was a fire planet then wouldn't it be called 'Faiyore'?" said Luigi sarcastically.

"Well, yes. But enough of your sarcasm. Let's go!" said Bomberman with some dignity.

And so, Bomberman turned the ship around and headed towards Canyone, which was located right next to them as they were talking.

As soon as they landed, our three heroes stepped out of the rocket, and they were in the middle of an empty plain of nothing but rock and granite.

"This planet is completely barren!" said Luigi.

"Is it?" said Mario pointing.

Luigi turned to see what his brother was pointing at. He could not believe what he saw. He saw a large canyon that went on for miles. It seemed much larger than the Grand Canyon on Earth.

"Wow. Cool!" said Luigi with awe.

The two plumbers ran over to the edge of the canyon, careful not to fall of the edge and plummet to their doom. They stood on the edge, their faces pointing towards the vast beauty of a canyon that Mario was the first to lay his eyes on.

"I could just stare at it forever!" said Mario with rapture.

"Me too!" said Luigi, also raptured.

"Ok. I've seen enough." said Bomberman, who was standing right next to the two brothers, not amazed by the sight. "Let's go!"

"That looks like a way down." said Luigi pointing to a road that went straight down the canyon.

"According to my Ultrimax Crystal locator...." said Bomberman while holding a palm-sized version of it in his hands, "...the Ultrimax Crystal is straight through this canyon! We just have to get far enough to find it."

"All right! Let's go!" said Mario, excited as he and Luigi started to cross the canyon with Bomberman, who led the way as they began walking down the path.

"All right. We should be at that Ultrimax Crystal in no time!" he said while looking at his locator.

But our three heroes were not the only one looking for that Ultrmax Crystal. Because somewhere on the other side of the canyon, the Hige Hige Bandits have landed on top of a large stable rock formation that had a flat surface on the top.

"Ok. We need to split up if we want to cover more of this canyon." said the evil Dr. Mechard who was stepping out of the ship, talking to the groups of Hige Hige Bandits already outside the ships.

"All right! You will all be divided into groups!" said Mujoe in his tough voice.

All the Hige Hige Bandits responded to him with a "Yessir!"

"Group 1 searches the northern part of the canyon! Group 2 searches the south! And....."

After a few minutes of diving and telling each group of bandits where to go, they all split up and went exploring. Leaving him and the doctor alone.

"Don't worry. Bomberman and his two new sidekicks will never get the next Ultrmax Crystal!" said Mujoe.

"They better not." said Dr. Mechard. "But just in case....."

The doctor went back into the mothership, and came out with his attack ship that was shaped like his head. It even had that glass left side that exposed the circuits that make up the head as the left side of the doctor's brain is shown through glass.

If you played Bomberman Jetters, and got to World 6, Planet Bomber, and you defeated Mujoe and his big blade spacs ship, and saw that Dr. Mechard had a big attack ship that looks a lot like his head, then you know what ship I'm talking about.

"This'll stop them! And I've made improvements so Bomberman can't get any bombs into it's weakpoints!" said Dr. Mechard. The evil doctor did an evil laugh afterwards, and thus doing so, he took off. Mujoe followed him a few second later inside his blade space ship.

Meanwhile, Bomberman and the Mario Brotherss kept exploring.

"It's been a while. Can we rest?" said Mario who was too tired to take another step.

"Yeah. Can we?" interrupted Luigi who was also tired.

"Fine." said Bomberman sternly, impatient to find the Ultrimax Crystal before Mujoe and his league of Hige Hige Bandits.

Our three heroes sat down in the shade of a huge boulder right next to them.

Ten minutes later, Mario, who was rested and ready, finally got up and said:

"Ok. Let's keep going!"

But then, a group of Hige Hige Bandits surrounded them. So there was no escape.

"Uh oh." said Luigi, getting up.

"I'll get 'em!" said Bomberman, who sobbered up quickly and started pelting the bandits with bombs.

As soon as the Hige Hige Bandits were taken out, Bomberman accidently threw one more bomb at this huge pile of rocks next to them. The pile of rocks started to collapse.

"Run!" yelled Bomberman.

And just like that, the three heroes ran away from the collapsing pile of rocks that was coming down on where they were previously. As soon as the rocks stop coming and things cooled down, Bomberman and the two plumbers looked around, and then Luigi found something.

"Hey! You guys! Look what I found!" yelled Luigi. Bomberman and Mario went over to where he was as soon as they heard him and went to see what it was.

"What is it?" asked Mario.

"It's an Ultrimax Crystal!" said Mario, and he was right of course. In his hands was large Ultrimax Crystal that looked like the one on Grunwata, except it was red.

"Wow! That means we have two! Awesome!" said Luigi.

"Ummm.....I don't know if this is it you guys." said Bomberman with doubt.

Mario and Luigi turned their heads away from the crystal and to Bomberman's.

"What are you talking about?" said Mario.

"Yeah. This is it." said Luigi.

"I don't know....because if we were to find an Ultrimax Crystal, this locator would go crazy! But it's doing nothing." said Bomberman with the locator in his hands.

"Well, maybe it-"

But Luigi's sentence was broken off when Dr. Mechard used a large claw from his ship to grab the Ultrimax Crystal.

"HEY!" yelled Luigi.

"Sorry boys, but this Ultrimax Crystal is ours now!" said the doctor with an evil laugh.

"Blast! I can't believe we let that one slip through our hands!" said Bomberman with regret.

"Well, too bad! You gotta be quicker next time!" said Dr. Mechard, with an evil laugh afterwards.

But then something that no one wanted happened. The Ultrimax Crystal which was in the claw of Dr. Mechard's slip suddenly started to crack. It's red glow started to fade. And after a few seconds, the bucket-sized crystal shattered into hundreds of pieces. The pieces were blown away in the wind.

"Whaaaat?" said Dr. Mechard, who was surprised and suddenly outraged by what happened.

"I knew it! It's a fake!" said Bomberman.

"That would explain a few things." said Mario.

"Like how Bomberman's locator was NOT going crazy when we saw this thing?" questioned Luigi.

"Yeah. That's it."

"Very well then."

"AAUUGH!!! ALL THIS WAY FOR A FAKE CRYSTAL!!!!" screamed Dr. Mechard while pounding on his controls. "You guys found a fake Ultrimax Crystal, and now you're gonna pay!" said the doctor with a furious tone.

"MEGATON HAMMER!"

Then a large red hammer with "100+" popped out of the right ear of the head ship replacing the right claw. Then he started pounding on the three heroes with it. But unluckily for him, our three heroes ran away just in time. The Mario Brothers hung on to Bomberman's hands since Bomberman was much faster than they were.

"That was close." said Bomberman.

But just as he panted from running away from Dr. Mechard, the locator started beeping faster than usual.

"We're getting closer!" said Bomberman.

"Awesome! Let's go!" said Mario.

END OF CHAPTER

A fake Ultrimax Crystal? How many of these are there? Good thing Bomberman's locator can tell. Read the next chapter and find out what happens when they find the real one!