Chapter 6
The Horror of it All! Eggman Strikes Again!


On the same day the six Smashers left for Japan, there was a fun fair held in Soleanna. Seeing that they have nothing else to do, the Smashers and the princess decided to head over there for some fun time.

Having the princess with them was like Moses parting the Red Sea, as the crowd would make way whenever she passed by, thus there was no 'traffic jam' at all. "Having a royal person with us sure has its own benefits!" Popo said.

"I couldn't agree any less!" Young Link said.

"Go on ahead and have fun!" Elise said to them. "Don't worry about me; nothing will surely go wrong here!"

"All right! I'm heading for the food fair first!" Yoshi said, and he ran off.

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Luigi, Mario, and Peach walked around and looked at the sights that were around them. Peach saw a stand that was selling women's clothes, and she went up there and looked at some of the beautiful clothes, especially the pink dress that looks identical to what she was wearing currently. "Wow! This dress is beautiful! I really want it!"

"I'll buy anything for you, Peachy!" Mario said.

"I'll go on my own," Luigi said, and he walked off. He soon came across a chiseling contest that was being held, and so he decided to give it a try. "Got nothing to do, so why not? The prizes look pretty good too!"

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Link and Zelda were walking together, and they came to a stand that had a ping-pong table and a guy was saying loudly into a megaphone, "Beat your rival in the ping-pong game to win prizes!"

"Hmmm… I think I'll give it a try!" Link said.

"You sure you'll do all right?" Zelda asked him.

"C'mon! How much harm can there be in a ping-pong match?" So Link went up to the guy and told him that he wanted to play, so the guy gave him a paddle and he stepped to the front of the table.

"Okay, we have a challenger here! Who wants to challenge him?" the guy said. "Aha! Looks like someone else is stepping up!"

Link rolled up his sleeve and stretched his arm as a little warm-up for the match, and he saw Waluigi coming up to the other side. "So you're up, eh?"

"I'll show you why I got perfect mark in gym class throughout my whole school years!" Waluigi said.

When the guy announced the start of the match, the two of them began smacking the ping-pong ball back and forth. Both sides showed skills and it was a very equal match that looked very intense. Many people gathered over to watch the furious match of ping-pong. "Wow! They both are good!"

Link smacked the ball to the side and Waluigi leaned over and, thanks to his long limbs, was able to catch and smack the ball back. Link hit the ball back to him again and Waluigi swung hard to shoot the ball back like a bullet. The ball struck Link's paddle with such a force that he took a step back, and when Waluigi hit the ball again, Link countered hard and smacked it to him again.

This time the ball flew into the air above Waluigi, but he jumped up and did a spectacular spin and hit the ball from midair and made it smash down onto Link's side of the table with such a force that the table actually jumped and tilted to one side! Link was also very skilled, he leaped back and smacked the ball as it bounced into the air and it landed onto Waluigi's side. The speed of the ball was something to be talked about and it flew pass Waluigi. However, he gave chase and managed to run faster than the ball!

Link was surprised when Waluigi sent the ball flying back to him, and he thought, "This will not go anywhere! Time to end this!" He pulled back the paddle as if it is a sword and unleashed the Whirling Blade!

SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!

The ball shot back to Waluigi at such a speed that one couldn't see the ball. Waluigi held up his paddle in front of himself defensively, but the ball bored through the paddle and struck him in the body, and Waluigi was pushed all the way back by the ball. "YAAAAAAAAAAA!!"

Waluigi crashed into a pole and bounced off it slightly and sat onto a lever that was down there, and the weight thingamajig on the other end bounced to the top of the pole and struck the bell there.

RING!

Everyone was amazed at what Link just pulled off and they clapped hands and cheered loudly. "WOW! THAT WAS AMAZING!!"

Zelda was equally amazed too. "Wow! I didn't know you're this good, Link!"

"Don't underestimate me!" Link said. "I got all these practice from hitting energy balls!"

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Peach and Mario were still shopping for clothes, and then Luigi ran up to Mario with a stone football in his hand. "Hey Mario, look what I made!

Mario looked at the stone football and said, "It's-a a stone, Luigi. You didn't make-a eet!"

Luigi shook his head and claimed, "It's a football! I chiseled it!" But Mario and Peach went to another place and ignored what he said. "I didn't win any prize either…"

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"Hiya!" YL threw a ball and knocked down the large pile of plastic bottles in a single strike, and everyone was amazed.

"Amazing! Llooks llike we have a winner!" said the owner of the game, an anthropomorphic llama. "There was never been anyone who can knock down all the bottles in one blow! This is a record breaker!"

"That was nothing actually," YL said.

"Congratulations! You won first prize! Here, have this llovely llava llamp made in Lluxemburg! Llook at its beauty and brightness!" He presented YL with a tall lava lamp that glowed in the color of a rainbow. "I cannot tell a llie, but this is the most expensive llava llamp in the world and is made by the finest crafter you can ever imagine!"

"It's really beautiful indeed! Wait a minute… I think I saw that lamp somewhere before…"

Just then, some policemen came into the scene and shouted to the llama. "There is he! Llary the Llama! He's the one who stole the lava lamp from the Museum of Wonders and Arts!" they shouted.

"Busted… It's the llaws…" the llama said, and he made a run for it while the police chased him.

"That was random…" YL said.

Jigglypuff tugged his shirt and said, "I want that!" She pointed to a doll that on the cupboard of the ball-throwing stand.

"Guess they wouldn't mind that I take some prize from here myself," YL thought. "After all, I did win, right?" He reached to the stuffed doll and gave it to Jigglypuff.

Jigglypuff looked at the doll and squeezed it, and it made a sound that goes, "Desu!"

"I like it!" she said.

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Captain Falcon was walking around the place and G&W came up to him. "Hey there, having fun?" CF asked him.

"Sure do!" G&W replied. "Look what I bought! A cute little turtle!" He showed him a small aquarium containing a black, flat, LCD turtle.

CF looked at the turtle and said, "Sure looks cute! I can see the resemblance between the both of you too!"

"What do you mean by that?"

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Elsewhere, Elise was wandering around with Parry perched on her shoulder. They came across an ice-cream stand.

"Come buy some ice-cream! Buy one get one free!" the seller shouted. "Now we are having the unique egg yolk flavored ice cream!"

"You want one?" Elise asked Parry.

"I'm a parrot; I don't eat that kind of thing," he replied. "But if you insist, I'll take that as a yes!"

Elise went over to the stand and the seller said to her, "How nice it is to have the princess as my first customer!"

"Can I look inside?" Elise asked him.

"Why yes! Have your pick, your highness!" the seller said, and he slid open the covering of the ice-cream cart. The moment the cover was opened; gas came out of it and spread throughout the place at a fast rate.

When the people smelled this gas, they began feeling drowsy and soon everyone fell asleep. Elise also inhaled a large amount of gas, and began to lose consciousness and her legs wobbled as she grew weaker. Parry fell asleep first and fell onto the ground. The seller, however, had a gas mask. Elise finally lost consciousness and she fell over headfirst into the cart and the seller quickly stuffed the rest of her body inside before closing it. "Haha! I caught her at last!" the seller said with delight, and he took off the hat that he was wearing to reveal himself as Eggman! "Now the power of Everything is at hand!"

However, not everyone was asleep though. Asides from Eggman, ROB, who was nearby, was not asleep because he doesn't need to breathe! "The princess has been kidnapped," he said. "The enemy has been sighted."

"Busted! Gotta run!" Eggman said, and he pressed a button on the side of the cart and the whole thing flew up into the air while he sat on top of the cart. "Haha! You'll never catch me!"

ROB tilted up his head and his eyes glowed brightly as he fired a laser beam. Eggman quickly ducked down to avoid the beam, and he stuck out his tongue and laughed at him.

Then a large airship of sorts appeared above Eggman, and its size alone was enough to block out the sun and make the whole place dark. An opening appeared underneath the airship and Eggman went in there. ROB could do nothing but watch the airship fly off afterwards. "The situation is urgent and serious," he said to no one in particular. "The princess has been taken. The others must be warned immediately."

ROB turned his head and saw Fox and Falco lying nearby, and he went over to Fox and lowered his head next to him. He then picked up Fox by the head and shook him rapidly like a vibrator, causing him to wake up. "Whoa! What the?!"

"The princess has been kidnapped while you were out of commission," ROB told him.

"Oh, the princess is kidnapped… WAIT?! ELISE IS KIDNAPPED?!"

ROB looked around and saw DK and Diddy lying down too, so he woke them up using the same method.

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Soon afterwards…

"Sorry… I wasn't a good bodyguard…" Parry said with his head lowered in shame.

"We have no choice but to go after Eggman and take her back, "Falco said.

"If only we have a way to get up there…" Fox said.

"I see that you are in need of help, Star Fox," said a familiar voice, and as you can guess, it turned out to be Wolf.

"You heard everything?" Fox asked him.

"You can't hide your secrets from me," Wolf said to him. "You should be ashamed of yourself that you failed to protect such an important person."

"Look, if you're here to laugh at us, you might as well laugh at the performance clowns instead!" Falco said to him.

"Anyway, if you need a lift, I'll give you one," Wolf said.

"What? You're willing to help us?" Fox asked.

"All right! Now we can rescue the princess!" Diddy said with excitement.

"Let's do it!" DK said.

"Much as I hate to sit with our rivals, there's really no other way left," Falco said.

"We better get going fast. We don't have time!" Fox said. He turned to ROB and said to him, "Would you mind staying behind and tell the others about the situation? We will be back as fast as possible. Also, do not let the people other than our friends now about this! We do not want this to startle the whole city!"

"Affirmative," ROB replied.

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And so, there was no time to waste and before you know it, the three Wolfens took off into the air. Fox and Wolf shared one Wolfen together, Falco and Leon in another, and Panther had to share with the both the Kongs. "I was hoping to carry someone of great comeliness, not one of great hairiness…" Panther grumbled in his head.

They eventually spotted the massive airship over the horizon. "Prey has been spotted," Wolf said. "Let's move out!"

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On the other side of the sky, the Blue Tornado was also speeding towards the airship. "There's Eggman's airship!" Tails said.

Sonic, who was standing on the left wing, said, "All right! Time to teach that egg-head a lesson!"


TO BE CONTINUED

I bet none of you were expecting this, right? Surely you all thought I'm going to focus on the six Smashers. That's not happening at the moment yet.

Trivia:
1. Notice the popular Internet meme in this chapter?

2. Guess what the doll Jigglypuff got is, desu.