Chapter 7: What's happening to us?

"The 50 zombies were sent out sir. They should arrive in Glitzville any minute now." Lola said.

"Good, good, and I thought I told you to stop calling me sir?" The figure said.

"Oh, I forgot, sorry. What do you want me to call you?" Lola asked.

"Hmm...just call me "Miracle"." He said.

"Miracle? Um...why do you want me to call you that?" She asked.

"Because...I was born with a special gift. But enough about that, we'll talk about it later. Any news on Ashley Mush for now?" Miracle asked.

"For now, no. The last time she was spotted was back in Poshley Heights, but it seems that the city is completely abandoned." Lola replied.

"Interesting...but, we need to have this Ashley possesed person to this place as soon as possible. We can use her to rule the world."

"Oh...so that's what you're going to do with her? But...how will you make her obey you? She's possesed by a strong evil!"

"Don't worry...my "special gift" will come in handy for that. But for now, we must focus on the mario crew. We have to either lead them here to our base so I can use my "special gift" on them, or we'll have no choice but to wipe them out, if they find out about us soon."

"This should be entertaining. Oh Jojora!" Lola called out. Jojojora entered the room.

"Lola! You know I was busy doing my make up so I'd look beautiful while causing destruction! Ha ha!" She laughed.

"Um...right then. We need you to go to get Ashley Mush for us. She should be around Poshley Heights. Teleport her here so um, Miracle here, can use his special ability or whatever." Lola heartily replied.

"Sounds cool! Do you mind if I bring Mr. White Sheet, Nastashia, and Pinker with me? I might need some backup." She asked.

"Um, fine, I guess. The more the merrier." Lola replied.

"Alright then... MISTER WHITE SHEET!! NASTASHIA!! PINKER!!" Jojora yelled. Three people entered the room.

"I told you that my name was Doopliss! DOOPLISS!!" He yelled.

"Yes, what do you want, birdy?" Nastashia asked.

"Ooh! Are we in for a new mission?" Pinker asked cheerfully. Pinker was a Pink Yoshi, so Pinker would be a female since pink is mainly a girls' color.

"I like calling you mister white sheet, so shush. And Nastashia, I'm a fairy. A beautiful crystal colored one at that. And yes, we are on a mission! We need to find Ashley Mush and get her over here so um, Miracle can use a gift on her! Or something like that!" She explained.

"Awesome! So like, where do we go?" Pinker cheerfully asked.

"According to Lola, she's in Poshley Heights. So let's go!" Jojora said. Then, the four baddies ran off.

"Let's just hope things don't go wrong..." Miracle had said in a whisper.

Meanwhile...

In Glitzville, 50 more zombies had entered the place, and helped the other zombies try to break open the doors. But since zombies were so weak on their arms and legs, it would take a while to get them open.

Meanwhile (again)...

In the glitz pit on the second floor from the flooded storage room, Toad, Toadette, Goombella, Bow, Sushi, Koops, Watt, and Goombario were figuring out what to do.

"So...how do we get out of here? The storage room is filled with water, Yoshi Jr is dead, and the water will eventually come flooding in here, so we'd all get shocked to death and/or drowned if we don't figure out something!" Watt shrieked.

"Just calm down. We'll just find like an air duct or something to get us out. There may even be supplies up here so let's just check." Goombario said.

"Poor Daisy...she didn't deserve to die. Let alone die a such unexpected death!" Sushi said.

"Yeah I know...do you think we should break the news to Luigi?" Toadette asked.

"Well, we have to. He's gonna find out sooner or later. And I guess we should presume that Yoshi Jr was one of the people who created this zombie virus since how he acted so mysterious and he killed Daisy." Toad realized.

"Hmm...first Wario and now him. But isn't it weird, how they both got killed though?" Bow asked mischievously.

"Yeah, it is. But Wario's death was a suicide attempt and Yoshi Jr's was an accident." Watt replied.

"Well, yes. But it still seems really weird though. Oh well, let's just go." Goombella replied. They all went through the door on the right wall. It lead to a room with a bunch of pile of boxes. There was one huge box in the end of the room.

"Wow, there has GOT to be something in that big box!" Koops spoke out loud.

"Just be careful. There could be traps or something..." Bow said with caution.

"Yeah, yeah. Koops, help me get this box door open!" Toadette said. They both tried to get it open but it just wouldn't budge.

"Here, try it this way..." Said Watt. She slowly floated to where the box was at. She used a lightning attack on it, and it blasted open. But what they saw inside, was very unexpected.

A zombie was apparently hiding in the box and he flinged out and bit Watt.

"AAHHHHHH!! GET HIM OFF ME!" Watt screamed. Goombella grabbed a pipe from the wall, and blew it right through the zombie's eye. The zombie fell right to the ground leaving a bloody mess behind.

"Ohh...my neck!! AAH!" Watt yelled in pain

"Damnit! He got bit!! This can't be good!" Goombario yelled.

"He'll be alright. He got bit, I'm sure it's not a huge deal...is it?" Toadette asked in wonder.

"What are you saying!? The virus is in the zombie's, meaning, that the other zombie took a bite out of Watt, spreading the virus into him." Goombella explained.

"WHAT!? Are you saying I'm gonna turn into...into a zombie!?" Watt yelled.

"Yes...it's only a matter of time until you become one of them." Goombella replied.

"Well, we have to kill her then. Because before you know it, she'll get a surpise attack on any of us!" Said Koops.

"No, you are NOT killing me." Watt replied.

"We have to keep her alive because she'll be useful still for this. So, we kill her when she turns into one of them." Toad replied.

"I said, you're not killing me." Watt said yet again.

"Sigh...fine, we'll tie you up or something. Let's just get some supplies and get out of here." Goombario said. He looked in the huge box and all he saw was bob-ombs. He picked up one.

"Bob-ombs? Is that it?" Sushi asked.

"I guess it is..." Goombario replied.

"Pfff, we don't need that junk! We already have Bombette!" Bow pointed out.

"Wait, wait...Hey! I think I found some guns in this um, this side up label box!" Toadette yelled.

"This side up means a side of the box needs to be up..." Goombella explained.

They all got to the box and eack picked up a weapon except for Toad and Toadette.

"Hey...me and Toadette don't know how to use weapons! What are we suppose to do?" Toad complained.

"Um, you can cheer us on in the background!" Sushi exclaimed.

"Wow, real useful." Toadette replied.

"Awesome! I found a sub machine gun!" Goombario cheered. He put the bob-omb down on a separate box.

"Oh, what's this?" Bow asked to herself . She picked up a shotgun lookking gun. Except it looked like it had more features. "Hmm...looks like a high tech shotgun! I wonder where the trigger is..." Bow looked around for it and accidentally pressed it, which shot off a super large fast bullet. The bullet zoomed right into the match on top of the bob-omb whoch lit it up.

"Hey! Watch where you are shooting!" Koops jumped.

"Sorry! I couldn't find the trigger!" Bow yelled back.

"Um, guys..." Toad said. He pointed to the lit bob-omb. If the bob-omb was to explode, then the whole box of bob-ombs would explode, meaning it would leave a huge hole in the wall, so it would send the zappy water from the storage room into the second floor.

"I suggest we all run while we still can." Sushi said.

"Yep, let's go!" Watt replied. They all ran out of the room as fast as they could, and as soon as all of them had gotten out of that room, the bomb exploded, causing the other bombs to explode, resulting in a massive explosion. The walls were destroyed and on fire, a spike had impaled right through Toad's leg, a pile of rocks had piled over Sushi. Gallons of zappy water had rushed into the fiery room.

"Oh my god...my leg! Uhh!" Toad yelled.

"Someone...please help me!!" Sushi yelled as she was crushed by tons of rocks.

"Hold on!!" Bow yelled. She turned Sushi invisible and got her out from the rocks.

"Ugh...thanks. I couldn't even breathe!" Sushi panted.

"We need to get out now! The water is still electrified so we need to stay from it!" Koops yelled.

"But my leg is impaled though!!" Toad yelled.

"Ugh, here!!" Goombario yelled. He grabbed the spike and pulled it out as quick as he could.

"OW!! What the hell was that for!!" Toad yelled.

"I helped you, now let's go!!" Goombario yelled. The water was rushing in very fastly. The group climbed over a bunch of crates and found a path downstairs that lead to an air duct.

"Well, that sure was fun. Where is the way out of here?" Goombella asked.

"Hmm...down there?" Watt pointed. There was an AC Door with bars in them so you can see through it. The office of the Glitz Pit was just below.

"Okay then. How do we get down there?" Toadette asked.

"Hehehehe. I know a way..." Bow snickered. She grabbed everyone and made them turn invisible, went through the AC Door and down into the Glitz Pit office.

"So...what do we tell the others? The water is eventually gonna flood the whole second floor, and the water will rush through the ac door down into here and it will flood the whole glitz pit!" Sushi shrieked.

"Hmm...it seems like a really complex plan because, the water is still zappy, zombies are outside the pit and the only way out of here is through the blimp!" Goombella replied thoughtfully.

"We'll find a way. But we have to go now, come on!" Koops rushed.

"No, that's the chocolate muffin, you're thinking of the blueberry muffin." Iggy said. They were talking random stuff in the minor league locker room.

"I know right! They look so similar!" Wendy replied.

"What about the Mushroom Muffin? I heard that tastes really bad!" Ludwig exclaimed.

"It's actually pretty good if you put salt on it." Lemmy said.

"And it only costs 5 coins as well, too bad they're only sold at retail stores." Larry said.

"Um, no. The blueberry muffin costs 5 coins, the mushroom one costs 10 coins." Morton replied.

"Well, thank god I have my muffin coupon slip! I can get any muffin for free and I can buy as much as I want!" Roy cheered.

"Lucky. I've been trying to get my hands on this ticket things all month!" Kammy Koopa replied.

"This conversation is just going nowhere..." Bowser said in a whisper to him self.

Meanwhile, Dry Bones, Boo, Flurrie, Bombette, Ms. Mowz, Parakarry, Vivian, Dixie, Diddy, Kooper, Yoshi, and Birdo were exploring the glitz pit arena on the first floor.

"Did anyone find anything yet?" Yoshi asked out loud.

"Nope." Everyone else replied.

"I highly doubt that there is anything in this place. I mean, look at it, this place is sooo empty!" Boo exclaimed.

"Hmm? What's this?" Dixie said. She stepped on a high raised black from the floor, and a secret passage way had opened in the very back.

"OH MY GOD!! WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED!!" Ms. Mowz yelled.

"Um, the wall revealed some hidden passage..." Said Flurrie with a raised eye brow.

"Oh yeah, sorry about that. Heh heh..." Ms. Mowz shamely said.

"Hmm...maybe that will lead to a basement of some sort!" Bombette cheered.

"Yeah, we might even find some useful items. Let's go!" Birdo said. Everyone started to go down the passage way. It seemed to be a long staircase down.

"Wow, sure is dark down here..." Parakarry pointed out.

"I like the dark, heh." Vivian giggled.

As they ventured down the stairs, the air started to get colder, but it was also getting lighter in there.

"Weird...why is the walls getting...kind of blue-ish?" Dry Bones asked.

"I don't know. Maybe we're going to Antarctica!" Diddy exclaimed.

"Let's just keep going..." Birdo replied. The air continued to get colder as they went down, the walls were getting more and more frosty blue. They finally reached ground level and gasped at amazement at what they saw.

The group was on a icy bridge, hundreds of feet above the ocean. Everywhere they looked, there was ocean. They looked in front of them, and saw a huge ice castle.

"Wooooooooaaaaahhh...like, where the hell are we?" Dry Bones asked. No one knew the answer.

"HEY!!" A voice yelled from somewhere. "Hey, you peoples!"

A small figure flew toward the group. It was a fairy!

"What are you people doing here? How did you find this place!" Exclaimed the fairy.

"Um, we somehow got here by Glitzville. We mean you no harm! We're just looking for some weapons to defeat against those zombies!" Flurrie pleaded.

"Oh yeah, the zombies. Yeah, they were all over the news. Turns out that Mushroom City, the Mushroom Kingdom, and Rogueport have been completely invaded now. Don't know about other places though." Said the fairy.

"Yeppity. We saw the whole invasion of the zombies back at the kingdom and at Rogueport. So...what is this place?" Dixie said.

"Oh this place? This is Joke's End. The place where cruddy jokes are never to be heard of again!" The fairy cheered.

"Huh, weird name. Anyways, what is your name? And do you have any useful items we can use to defend or attack against the zombies?" Kooper asked nicely.

"My name? It's Teehora. I am the guardian of Teehee Valley, and I am the sister of the guardian of Joke's End. And yes, I do have something that can be useful for you guys! But...you'll have to come to the top floor of Joke's End Castle to get it! I'll be waiting for you all!" The fairy then flew off.

"Oh great. More challenges. This should be fun." Yoshi said with sarcasm.

"Let's just get this overwith, shall we." Said Boo. The group walked in to the castle preparing to find this useful item.

Goombella, Goombario, Koops, Toadette, Toad, Bow, Watt, and Sushi returned to the lobby where Peach and Mario were.

"Oh! Hey, guys! Did you find anything useful!" Mario asked gleefully.

"Yep, we got a lot of weapons from the second floor..." Goombella replied in a weird way.

"Um, okay. Hey...what happened to Watt?" Peach asked as she noticed spots of blood on her.

"She got um...bit by a zombie." Sushi explained in a low voice.

"SHE WHAT!?" They both yelled.

"Yes and uhh...well, here's else what happened. Yoshi Jr was acting all weird while we were in the storage room like saying he would be entertained watching you guys get killed and stuff, suddenly the lights went off for some reason, so he asked Daisy to flip the switch back on and she did and she got zapped to death! Yoshi Jr said that he meant to kill her so all of us were exceedingly angry at him, next, the water sprinklers turned on, while having sparks jump into the water making it zappy. Eventually all of us escaped te flooded room except for Yoshi Jr whom got drowned and zapped to death. ext, we found a big box with bob-ombs and a zombie in it and that zombie bit Watt, but we killed the zombie, found some guns, one of the bob-ombs lit for accidental firing and blew up which caused the other bob-ombs to blow up making a huge hole in the wall so the water could come in, so we had to escape to an air duct, Bow got us down from the air duct, and we escaped." Goobmella explained it all with a few pants.

"Oh my god...so Yoshi Jr killed Daisy, eh? Aw, man...Luigi is not gonna like this at all." Said Mario.

"Well, we're gonna have to tell him at the right time that she is dead." Peach replied.

"And we presume that Yoshi Jr was one of the people who created the virus so, yeah." Toadette said.

"Alright, so that's 2 people then: Wario and Yoshi Jr whom both are dead. Very strange..." Mario said.

"But however, the water is still leaking in, and if I'm correct, the water should be flooding the glitz pit office by now. If we don't do something, the whole place will be flooded!" Bow exclaimed.

"Alright then! We just need to search a bit more and if we can find anything else, then we'll take out the zombies outside, since there are only about 20 of them so it should be easy." Mario answered.

"Okay, but where are the others?"Goombario asked.

"Bowser, Kammy, and his kids are looking in the locker rooms, Luigi is in the bathroom, and the others are looking in the arena." Peach answered.

"Cool...so, now we just wait..." Koops said calmly.

Meanwhile...

"Hmm...Lola! Give me information about Joke's End, some of the mario crew have gotten there." Miracle demanded.

"Alright...aha! Here it is. Joke's End is a sacred place where all bad jokes are forgotten forever. It's an icy place that has temperatures around Zero degrees. Only few have traveled here. It is a frosty castle with traps galore. Nobody knows what's hidden at the top of the castle, but it is said that something very legendary is hidden there..." Lola read out loud.

"Something legendary that is hidden? Hmm...sounds incredibly interesting. Lola! I say, we shall go to Joke's End! Transport us to the top of the castle!" Miracle demanded.

"Can't do that sir, for some reason a mystical force is guarding us from doing that." Lola replied.

"Darnit! Heh. Whatever, we'll just wait for those little pests to get it ourelves, then we will steal it from them! Hahaha!" Miracle laughed.

"Um, Miracle can I say something? Unfortunately, Joke's End is a very sacred place, going there now for any reason is like trying to swim across the ocean!" Lola said.

"WHAT!? Are you kidding me!? Grrr...ah, oh well. I will rule the world anyway, so I'll get this legendary item from them when they become my slaves!!" Miracle had laughed yet again.

"Hmm...I wonder if Joke's End is the perfect place for placing that thing into there. It says I need a safe and sacred place to put that thing but I'm not so sure...Joke's End could be incredibly dangerous for all I know. Still, I can't help but get the feeling that I'm suppose to go to Joke's End for that..." Lola whispered to herself.

"What you say, Lola?" Miracle asked.

"Oh! Um, nothing sir, I mean Miracle. Just um, humming to myself! Yeah." Said Lola.

"Okay then. Hey...give me news on where Jojora, Doopliss, Nastashia, and Pinker are." He asked.

"Alright, let's see...they are at the outskirts of Poshley Heights. Nothing else seems to be suspicious about the place for now." She explained.

"Uh huh...and what about the zombies? Have they been invading anywhere else?"

"Nope. It seems that Rogueport was the last major place to be invaded for now. The whole place is a zombie town for now, sir."

"Alright...what about the Beanbean Kingdom? Any news on there?"

"That place has yet to be invades sir, I mean, Miracle. Well, the Kingdom is only 30 miles from Rogueport."

"Hmm...yes. But...how do you get to the Beanbean Kingdom? I never knew a way to get there..."

"You go through Neon Heights, through Teehee Valley, and then you'll reach the kingdom. There is also daily planes that go there as well."

"Okay then. That will be the place where it all begins for us...hahahaha..."

EOC.

Um, nothing to ask I guess. Uhh, just review maybe and post who you want to live I think...yeah.