Chapter 6: Can yon find it?

Ignoring the ban pun in this chapter's title, our three heroes continued to search the might canyons of Planet Canyone for the shiny Ultrimax Crystal that awaited them somewhere.

"Where to look......" said Bomberman.

"But before any of our three heroes coud say another word, Luigi spotted a large rock tower in the distance that seemed to blend into the background if you don't look at it hard enough. But Luigi's eyes were perfectly able to see it.

"Hey guys!" said Luigi, all excited.

"What?" said Bomberman and Mario in unison.

"That tower!" he said while pointing at the tower.

"What about it?"

"Maybe the Ultrimax Crystal is there!"

"How can you be so sure?"

"Bomberman, take out your locator."

"Ok." said Bomberman. The white warrior reached into his pocket, and then the locator started going crazy, it was picking up Ultrimax Radiations coming from the direction that the hidden tower was.

"You're right! Let's go there!"

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

"Yay!" said an excited Luigi.

And so, our three heroes made their way towards the hidden tower. It sometimes blended into the background as Mario and Bomberman sometimes didn't look hard enough. But Bomberman kept going in the same direction anyway, as his locator's signal got stronger as they got closer. The two Mario Brothers following them.

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In time, the three heroes have reached the tower, and they were standing right at the metal door that led inside.

"Maybe we should knock." suggested Luigi.

"Umm...I don't think we should...."

But ignoring him, Luigi knocked on the metal door, and the metal door fell forward as if it stood there for thousands of years, and was just waiting to collapse.

"Wow." said Luigi, with his fist still in the position of when he knocked.

"Wierd." said Bomberman. "Whatever. Let's move on!"

As our three heroes stepped into the tower, something very unexpected happened. The floor opened up all of a sudden, and the two plumbers plus the white warrior fell into a bottomless pit. They were all screaming as they fell endlessly.

"GRAB MY HANDS!" screamed Bomberman, as Mario and Luigi continued screaming. Bomberman grabbed the hands of the two plumbers with his two pink ball hands, and then he took out his Bomber Copter. Two propeller blades popped out of the pink ball on the back of Bomberman's head, and they began spinning as soon as they were outside.

Bomberman saved Mario and Luigi before they hit the bottom, for there was spike pit directly below them. It was visible all of a sudden.

"Whew. That was waaaay too close." said Mario.

"Tell me about it." sighed Luigi.

Bomberman hovered over the spike pit and over to a platform that was next to the spikes. Then, Mujoe came down from the high hole that our three heroes fell through inside the black pod that he rides in.

"Ha! You fell for our trap! Now you'll never find that Ultrimax Crystal!"

"We may not know you as well as Bomberman does, but you'll never get away with this!" teasted Mario.

"And I may not be YOUR archrival, but it doesn't matter! Any friend of Bomberman's is an enemy of mine!"

"I bet he set up that trap hole for us." said Luigi.

"That's right!" said Mujoe.

"Who cares! The Ultrimax Crystal's this way!" said Bomberman, who was looking at his locator. "Follow me!"

And so, Bomberman went down a path that led right to the chamber of the Ultrimax Crystal. The two Mario Brothers followed him. And then, they were there.

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Right in front of them stood a large generator that contained an Ultrimax Crystal. It was bright red just like the fake one from outside, except it gave off energy unlike the one from outside.

"Wow! We made it." said Mario, and Luigi preceded what he said by saying "Yeah!".

But as they stared at it, someone came right out of nowhere. To the surprise of our heroes, the man had a beard, and wore a robe, and has a sceptor in one hand. He looked exactly like the man on Grunwata. Except he was red instead of blue.

"Greetings, heroes! You've probably seen one of my other six identical brothers before, right?"

"Yes we did." agreed Luigi. "Are you the guardian of the red Ultrimax Crystal?"

"That is correct." said the guardian. "And now that you're here, the Ultrimax Crystal is yours!"

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Bomberman, Mario and Luigi got out of the tower, and they got back at the rocket.

"Hey Bomberman, isn't it weird how Mujoe and the Hige Hige Bandits didn't try to stop us this time?" asked Mario.

"I don't know." said Bomberman.

Meanwhile............

"What happened?" asked Dr. Mechard.

"I don't know...." groaned Mujoe, who was half knocked out. "First, Bomberman got away with the Ultrimax Crystal, then we were attacked. And the rest is a blank."

"It must have been those two plumbers!" said Dr. Mechard.

"No. It wasn't. But I got a good look at the attackers......I know who they are........."

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Bomberman and the Mario Brothers were back in outer space with two Ultrimax Crystals, headed for the next planet.

"That was fun. I had a great time." said Mario.

"Me too." said Luigi.

While they were talking, Bomberman saw a large space ship out the window. He thought he recognized it, but he had to look harder.

"That ship........I wonder what it is."

"If it's Mujoe and the Hige Hige Bandits, we gotta stay away!" teased Luigi.

"It's not. I know what their ships looks like. This is something else."

Then, the ship approached close. Close enough for Bomberman to be able to see it in plain sight. Bomberman's eyes widened for he could not believe what he saw.

"No.............way..........."

END OF CHAPTER

What was that ship? And what's with the title? You can find one of these answers in the next chapter.