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Chapter 12: The Sixth Day; Late Afternoon

"Bring it fatty," she cried. "I got more than enough skill to take you on!"

"Says the overconfident green and purple freak!" Wario ran fast, building speed, and attempted to ram her but she did some crazy flips in the air, avoided the oncoming attack all together, and landed safely behind him, which caused Wario to make a hole through the wall.

"At this rate," Yorkie taunted. "I already won."

Wario stumbled up, a little dazed from the attack but not to badly hurt either. "I'm just getting started!" Wario tried the same trick again, only this time Yorkie did not move. Instead, she stood there smirking. "Foolish girl," Wario bellowed as he picked up his pace. "You think you can withstand my... Arghh!" He was hit, straight in the gut by one of Yorkie's powerful kicks with a shocking effect of electricity running through as well. Wario tumbled wildly back, he didn't expect something like that; neither did Yorkie as she stated, "Well that is cool." (You didn't expect her to have electric strands of green hair and electric earrings for nothing, did you?) Wario slowly got up, shaking the dizziness out of his throbbing head. "Impressive loser," he growled, "But I have yet to even be trying."

"Bring it on," was Yorkie's only response to his snotty remark.

"You asked for it." Wario took out keys from his pocket and promptly pushed a button. The result was a slowly louder roaring outside and in just an instant a big yellow motorcycle burst inside the castle; Wario hopped onto it and laughed. "Say hello to my Wario Bike! And you can say hello to my bike by becoming road burn!"

"Oh no..."


"He's huge," Will commented as he looked up to the tall Piranha Plant. "What do we do?"

"Simple," Sheri smiled, pulling out several ninja stars from who knows where. "I will use my newly acquired skill to throw these at him!" She focused intently at Petey Piranha, who was wondering what she was going to do with such sharp, pointy objects. "Concentrate and relax," Sheri whispered to herself. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes... Then she gave out a battle cry and threw all the ninja stars at once toward Petey Piranha, surprising him and forcing him to crouch and and close his eyes tightly in hopes of not getting poked with them.

However, every one of those ninja stars completely missed Petey Piranha altogether.

"You need more practice Sheri," Will sighed.

"Thanks, like I couldn't tell!"

"I was just saying Sheri..."

Petey Piranha finally opened his eyes and inspected himself; finally laughing when he realized that he was all perfectly fine. He laughed so hard that gunk fell out of his mouth and straight on top of Sheri and Will.

"This is disgusting beyond anything I ever felt before," Will mumbled to himself as he sprayed water on himself and Sheri, washing away all the slimy gunk they had on themselves. Petey Piranha flapped his stubby plant arms and started rising in the air slowly. He hovered over above the two and stopped flapping – he was attempting to crush the them! Sheri disappeared through a puff of smoke as Will used Aqua Jet, both of them barely escaping in time.

"That was mean," Sheri complained as she reappeared in a puff of smoke next to Will.

"There must be some way to get him," Will mused, when it suddenly occurred to him. "Sheri! I have an idea!"

"Please tell; I don't have one."

"You remember one of our history lessons in the chapter?"

"Which one?"

"Dark Days in Isle Delfino, Chapter 2-1: Bianco Hills' Plant Invasion?"

"Bianco Hills... Bianco Hills... Wait, you mean that?" She was still uncertain even he though Will nodded in confirmation. "Alright expert, shoot away!"

Will nodded again and then he used Hydro Pump, shooting water straight down Petey Piranha's mouth. The huge Piranha Plant could do nothing as he swallowed huge gulps of water down his throat until he could not take no more and fell on his back, squirming around in his spot trying to get back up on his two stubby plant feet. Sheri disappeared once more and reappeared high above Petey Piranha's exposed belly button and let gravity take the rest. Her forced weight caused Petey Piranha to spew the excess water from his stomach and groan in pain.

"Yes," she cried. "It worked!"

"Told ya it would!"

But Petey wasn't finished yet, he got up and stared down at Sheri and Will, giving them an ear-piercing roar and spitting gunk all around him in a full circle.

"He's not down yet," Will said, pointing out the obvious.

"But we know how to take him on now! So let's win this!"


"Why do I get some prissy girls to..."

"Who are you calling 'prissy,'" Wonder snapped. "You think you can just go around insulting us like that?"

"Why yes I do! All of you annoying girls, thinking you're all independent and strong by yourself. Ha, you all make me laugh; you all are nothing but just weak and defenseless!"

"That's stereotyping," said a strangely calm Zeena. "And I do not like it one bit."

"Me neither," Wonder agreed, pulling out her magic wand from her shell. "We're going to teach you the meaning of girl power!" Wart only laughed at her remark, which only agitated both girls.

"So what does your wand do?" Zeena asked, "Does it shoot fireballs just like your other cousin's wands?"

"Uh no, mine works a little different." The two all of a sudden lost their focus on the the frog king, making him very much agitated and frustrated.

"Don't you dare ignore me you uptight..." Green hexagonal polygon shapes suddenly surrounded Wart and moved faster and faster around the frog king.

"You see with my wand," Wonder continued her conversation with Zeena. "It has the ability to move anyone I desire to any direction I so choose. If I were to swing it up..." Wonder swung her wand up, unaware that Wart was also moving upward – so high up that his head crashed onto the ceiling. "...That person would also go up."

"You dirty little, rotten..."

"Mind if I give it a shot?" Zeena asked. Wonder approved and politely handed her the wand; Zeena began twirling it around her, and once again, making Wart move in every direction Zeena was moving the wand, making his head spin in dizziness.

"What about if I twirled it around like I just did?"

"Then whoever is caught in my magic will go the same way as the wand goes." Zeena nodded, throwing the wand in the air and catching it as it went down, spontaneously causing a loud tremor in the process. But it was only Wart on the floor, knocked out cold.

"Wait what?" Wonder said in a confused state.

"Oh him. You accidentally set those green hexagonal polygons at him, so that was why I asked you for your wand," Zeena said in confirmation.

Wonder giggled, "Really? Well, at least we got him!"

"What a prissy frog he was."


King K. Rool grabbed Rugtugba and threw him over his shoulder; Ace acted quickly and caught him on his back.

"Onward loyal steed," Rugtugba cried out.

"Dude, if you don't get off me..."

"Geez Ace, calm down. I was just joking, somebody got to liven up the mood you know." Ace was about to interject with Rugtugba's statement until Anna motioned them to stay focused on their task. King K. Rool and Waluigi were huddled together, forming a devious plan to take them out.

"Can't we just get them now," Rugtugba asked. "I mean look at them, they are practically begging for it."

"You know what Rugtugba, that's a good idea," Ace complimented. He then used Leaf Storm on the two unaware opponents; only to have them explode in a cloud of cotton. Before the group could comprehend what just happened, King K. Rool and Waluigi suddenly appeared behind Rugtugba and Ace and grabbed them.

"That went perfectly," Waluigi cheered, "Using those fake replicas of us was just genius!"

"Now we have two of you," King K. Rool smirked. "Just one more."

"Um, no. You only have one of us," Rugtugba confirmed.

"Oh yeah," Waluigi, the one holding him, snickered. "And how so is that? Are you not good at Math or something?"

"Oh I am plenty good at Math, just that..." Rugtugba smacked Waluigi's leg with his free tail; Waluigi let go of Rugtugba in pain and in the instant, Waluigi was punched straight in the face and sent almost flying.

"I know Krav Maga!" He paused for a minute, thinking of what to say. "And don't ever try to hold me hostage again!"

King K. Rool took a step back, still holding Ace within his grasp. "Tough crowd," he murmured.

"And it's only going to get tougher if you do not release my boyfriend right now," Anna threatened.

"Boyfriend?" Ace thought to himself, "That has a nice ring to it." Now Ace was completely distracted, although he didn't really have to worry about his captor for much longer.

"Well Missy, it will only get..." King K. Rool never finished his sentence because Ace used Bite on his arm (Ace never tasted anything so foul in his life). King K. Rool yelped in pain as he unconsciously let go of Ace; Anna wasted not time and used Flamethrower on fearsome king, promptly setting his butt on fire and making him run in a crazy frenzy, knocking down everything in his way. Rugtugba took notice of the situation, pushed Waluigi back on the floor as he was trying to get back up again for the sixth time, waited for King K. Rool to run over his direction, moved out the way, stuck his leg out and tripped the huge king right on top of Waluigi. King K. Rool fell flat on his face and Waluigi was crushed under the weight, both knocked out like sleeping babies.

"And that's us: 6, them: 0," Rugtugba proudly proclaimed.


"My bike," Wario cried out. "My precious bike... Ruined!" He picked up various parts of his now destroyed bike, trying to piece them all together only to have them fall back to their destroyed state onto the ground.

Yorkie, on the other hand, was breathing heavily. "That's... What... You get... For trying to... Run me over..."

Wario, however, was enraged by her comment. "Nobody destroys my bike, you loser!" He slowly rose up from his knees and stared a coldly at Yorkie. He moves his hand around his thick body and fishes inside his back pocket, pulling out what appeared to be a raw piece of garlic.

Yorkie only smirked."What are you going to do with that? Stink up the place?"

"More than just that..." Taking one slow, slobbery bite, a white light suddenly engulfed him, forcing Yorkie to cover her eyes. When the light faded and she was able to see again, she observed Wario in his new outfit. He was draped in some kind of purple clothing that covered every part of him except the area around his nose, mustache, and mouth, orange W's littered the entire clothing, and he donned a cape.

All and all, Yorkie thought he looked ridiculous.

"Say hello to Wario-Man," Wario-Man introduced himself vigorously.

"So what, do you have like super powers or something?" Yorkie asked sarcastically, completely unaware of the immediate danger she was getting herself into.

"On the contrary..." He ran at blinding speed at the unprepared girl and knocked once right in her kisser, sending her through that same wall Wario caused earlier. "I actually do." He took more quick steps toward Yorkie, but he was suddenly stopped as vines came around him from out of nowhere and tangled themselves around him. He tugged forcefully at the vines, but they wouldn't budge. He looked back to see where the vines were originating from and he saw a Bayleef Pokemon holding his grip with them as tight as he could, plus many of his supposed friends that beat up his comrades – one thing Wario-Man noticed was that they all were holding him back, each holding a vine. Wario-Man struggled to no avail, only freeing one of his arms – which exactly what he needed. Using his free arm, he grabbed hold of all the vines and pulled with all his might causing the others to greatly tighten their grip.

"Come on Yorkie get up," Zeena yelled. "He won't stay like this forever!"

Yorkie was too dazed by Wario-Man's sudden power boost, but she struggled up nevertheless and tried to focus in on the images coming through her eyes. At the same time, Wario-Man tugged at the vines harder and was able to send everyone flying high and falling around him.

"You can't beat the magnificent and great Wario-Man," he taunted. "And now for the grand finale!" The group began smelling something foul in the air, something not pleasant at all... And soon they all realized what was coming to them. Wario had some terrible farts, often knocking someone out if it was powerful enough.

As Wario-Man, it was even worse. The blast knocked everyone out within the perimeter, including the ones captive in the bubbles, not to mention the lingering smell of horrible smells upon everybody, the immediate grass and trees around Wario-Man also withered and died the instant it came in contact with the blast.

Needless to say, only Wario (His powers have run out and he was back in his old clothes) was the only one conscious to take in all the glory. "Ha ha ha ha! I'm bad, I'm bad!" He did a little break dancing to himself to sink in the moment. "Now to get my gang and..."

Wario was suddenly hit with a forceful blast of water, knocking him down but not enough to knock him out – in fact, it only enraged him. "Who dares to..." His voice dropped as he looked at his attacker. Only hatred and envy flickered through his eyes, "You... I thought we had you back at that dumb school."

"Yeah well, maybe you should have hit just a little harder."


"Hey wake up."

She fluttered her eyes multiple times until she was able to see the moon shining down upon her. Someone helped her up as she rose from the wet ground. "That's funny, it wasn't raining when I... Before I was knocked out I guess."

"That was because someone used water here, a lot of it too."

Sheri turned to look at her helper, and at once felt so much happy emotion that she nearly fainted again. Shadow caught her just in time and now the two were just looking at each other, gazing into each others' eyes, time and reality moving slowly for the two of them, the moon helping their eyes shine, the dew...

"Shadow, what are you doing?"

Shadow lost his grip on Sheri and almost let her fall on to the ground again, but he caught her just in time again and let her stand on her own two feet. "Just making sure she was alright Rouge." He was feeling very awkward now.

Rouge just smirked. "Yeah okay Shadow, whatever you say. Anyway, I came to tell you that the boss said we could all go home now that everyone is all fine and dandy now." She left to go back into the castle, but not after popping her head back out. "Play nice Shadow."

Shadow was about to scold her, if she given him enough time to; however, he just brushed it aside and diverted his attention back to the half tiger/half scorpion girl. "Well your friends are around the front of the castle so... You can go see them if you want..."

His voice was a little shaky and he kept rubbing his head as if he was embarrassed, as Sheri thought but it amused her as well. "You aren't exactly the Mr. Hotshot, Lone Wolf kind-of-guy everyone at school says you are."

"Of course they don't; it's true that I tend to stay to myself but how they say that I hate everyone around me and how I dislike the world is just a rumor. I mean, my father was like that when he was a teenager but then he met my mom and..." He stopped short, not willing to finish his sentence mainly because, "Why am I telling you this? I barely even know you!"

"You can tell me Shadow, it's fine with me," Sheri assured. "Maybe if you stopped to make more friends, you would feel more comfortable right?"

Shadow took one look at Sheri's big eyes, feeling comfort from it. He smiled and told her,"Yeah, I guess you are right."

Yorkie kept tugging at her wrist, for some reason it hurt constantly. She moved it around again once more, only to feel the same effect as before but slightly less painful. All of her friends were all inside the castle again with everybody else, while she sat outside alone, trying to remove this horrid pain from her wrist. Besides her hurting wrist, she overheard a couple of the police Toads that Wario's gang was put behind bars in juvenile detention, in which pleased her greatly, but she also learned that Wario was the only one missing from the group and is still missing to this very minute.

The pain from her wrist was finally subsiding, now she wanted to figure out why her clothes were wet. It had not raining the whole day, the sprinklers are programmed to go off only during the early morning, so the whole thing had not made sense to her.

What did make sense to her though was that one person was not here the whole day neither; and he just so happened to be a water Pokemon himself. But like Wario, he too had gone missing. She was so sure he came to their rescue, but now she was wondering, "Just where the heck is he?"


What is this? I don't even...

Editing all this brings back the nostalgia that I miss back in the days. Ciao! :P