Me: Ok, time for the final part of this update. And this is one you'll really be proud of Gantz.

Gantz: So, this is the one with that idea I gave you?

Me: Yep. Oh before I forget, Ace may want to leave for a while as this one may scare her beyond what had happened with the Zombie Wizpig battle from Mario science Theater.

MMSB: Already taken care of.

Ace: (yells from inside a metal box) LET ME OUTTA HERE!!!!!!

Gantz: You'd better let her out before she kills us.

Servo: But-

Me: Just do as he says.

Servo: (sighs. Sets Ace free)

Ace: I promse I wont be that scared again. I've watched a nearly endless maratho of horror movies to prepare for whatever you've got cooked up!

Me: Ok, whatever you say... BTW, this chapter is pretty scary in parts, so this kinda pushes the rating. Just thought it'd be fair to warn you. Another note, like in Gantz's story, Haze of Darkness, the evil figure known as Haze will have two distinct voices. Bolded text will be his normal voice, while underlined bolded text is his horrifying demonic voice.

Gantz: Good move.

Chapter 33: House of Horrors

The heroes decided to have a little break along the road to Mahogany Town. But, they had no clue that a sinister presence was watching them from a realm just outside their sight. "Soon, these fools will meet their demise. They've been a thorn in my side for too long, especially those plumbers. The young pokemon trainers have also been meddlesome as well ever since they decided to side with the plumbers and their friends from the Mushroo Kingdom. They too will have to die."

The dark figure watched the individual behaviors of the heroes in a crystal ball. He was soon joined by a dark specter whom looked like a more grown up version of Vivian. The specter, the Shadow Queen, then said to the other individual, "How should we rid ourselves of them? Should I ambush them and destroy them with my shadow magic?

The dark figure then said, "No, I have a better idea. Perhaps having them succumb to their own fears wil be sufficient? They each have a particular fear which would render them all worthless to themselves and others. With that done, nothing will stand in my way!" The Shadow Queen was dissapointed by the figure's decision, and said, "Haze, after what that fool, Clay and that traitorous daughter of mine did to me, I deserve the right to exact my revenge on them!!!"

The figure, Haze, said, "In case you have forgotten, your destruction that one time a few years ago was as much as a defeat to me as it was to you. Same with every other beast I sent to destroy those fools. Smithy, Wizpig, the Shroobs, and even at this moment they're dealing blow for blow to the Dentes Rhohos! Though I could care less about the latter, they're still some of my most powerful servents! By letting me deal with them, you yourself will get your revenge! I wish to deal with them all personally. If you fail to remember what happened with Prophet, let me remind you." At that moment, Haze caught the Shadow Queen by the throat and threatened to strangle her. Haze then said, "I. DO. NOT. TOLERATE. MY. SERVENTS. UNDERMINING. MY. AUTHORITY!!!!!!!!! IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, I CAN SEND YOU BACK TO HELL SO MY BROTHER, SATAN CAN ROAST YOUR SORRY CARCASS LIKE HE WANTED!!!!!!"

Haze let the Shadow Queen go. The demon hit the ground and was gasping for air. She got back up, and said, "Not to make you angrier, but are you sure that you still don't have feelings for Vivian? With how you prevented me from killing her, that sure seems like a likely reason to me." Haze turned to the Shadow Queen with a frown upon his face. He then said, "Any feelings I had or her disappeared the moment she decided to assist Clay in your defeat. She's no more an enemy as those plumbers and every other friend they have made. I want her to die by my hand alone. Now, it's time to send Death an invitation! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Back with the heroes, everyone is seen enjoying the sunshine. Eventually, Pikachu's ears twitch as he sensed something was coming. "Huh?" said the electric mouse. After staring into the sky, he ran off towards the others and yelled, "Guys, we'd better find shelter! A storm is on its way!" Luigi then said, "What are you talking about!? There isn't a cloud in the-" At this moment, it starts to rain heavily. Luigi then sheepishly says, "Sky..."

Everyone runs off to find cover from the storm until they see an old mansion at the edge of a nearby forest. Everyone quickly runs to the mansion, hoping someone might let them in. The rain is coming down even harder now, and at this moment, Brock says, "The rain's coming down awful hard for this time of year..." Jessie looked through a window and said, "It doesn't look like anyone's home..." Luigi then said as he leaned against the door, "It seems we're stuck out here..." At that moment, the door gave way and opened up, causing Luigi to fall down.

Zane then said, "Hey Luigi, are you ok?" Luigi then said, "I'm ok. For a place where no one's home, they certainly don't mind people going in or out of this place." Clay was deep in thought, and then said, "I don't like it guys... Something seems fishy about this." Meowth then said, "Whaddaya talkin' about!?! Haven't you heard the sayin' 'Never look a gift Ponyta in da mouth!?' I say we go inside to dry off." Crow, deciding to mock Meowth's words because he was a cat, said, "You would..."

Luigi gave a quick look at the mansion, both inside and out, then said, "I don't know. I think Clay's right here..." Lucy rolled her eyes, and then said, "Luigi, we have no time for games! What if it starts to hail!?" Luigi replied with, "I'm not going in there. It looks like a boarding house for vampires!" Jessie was begining to get fed up with Luigi, and said, "Of all the idiotic-" She was cut off when Servo said, "Luigi, no one believes in vampires anymore!"

Clay and Luigi then said fearfully at the same time, "I-I-I-I d-d-do..." The two were imedeately grabbed by Ash's Sceptile as everyone headed inside. Looking from his safe haven, Haze said, "I knew my little storm trick would work, heh heh heh... Now it's time for the game to begin!" The inside of the mansion was dark and spooky. Luigi was shivering out of fear, and said, "I'm telling ya, there's vampires here!!!!"

Vivian then said, "Listen guys, if they say something bad might happen, then perhaps we should take their advice and leave. I've known Clay long enough to tell if something bad might happen if he acts this way." Meriee tok Vivian's words into consideration and decided to do a reading on this mansion with her powers to determine if it was safe or not. She then let out a gasp as her eyes widened in horror.

Zane then said, "What? What's wrong!?" All Meriee could say was, "We have to get out, now!" Luigi ran for the door, but the door wouldn't open. He then said, "It's locked!!!! Now will you guys believe me!?!" Clay then said, "For all we know, it's probobly too late now!" The heroes then heard a sinister voice say, "You are correct, Clayton Mario!"

The voice, which was owned by Haze (but none of the heroes knew that of course) nearly caused everyone to jump out of their skin. Clay then yelled, "Who's there!?! And how do you know my name!!?!" Haze then said, "My name is of no importance... At least right now, anyway. You are all condemed to rot in this place for all eternity!" Luigi then said, "That sounds nice, but we have a busy schedual to keep. So if you would please let us out, we'd like to get going now."

Haze then said in a voice that dripped with mock dissapointment, "Leaving so soon? I wont have that! You are to stay so you can entertain me and my guest, whom by the way has been wanting to see you again for some time, Clay, and you too, Vivian." Before anyone could ask Haze what he ment, Clay and Vivian heard a voice they never wished to hear again. "Hello Clay and Vivian. Are you anxious to die? I hope so." Clay and Vivian felt their hearts stop for a split second before Clay said fearfully, "T-t-t-t-he S-s-s-s-hadow Queen..."

The Shadow Queen then said, "Yes it's me, and you are going to pay for what you did to me back in my palace! And as for you Vivian, you are going to share the same fate since you decided to side with those foolish creatures." Vivian became enraged at what the Shadow Queen said, and then yelled back with, "Why, because I never felt the desire to be a heartless dictator like you!? If you want to be mad at anyone because of that, yell at Beldam! It's because of her constant insults and my beatings at her hand that got me to thinking that I didn't wish to hurt others in the first place!"

The Shadow Queen then said, "Don't talk about your sister that way! She may be no better than you right now since she decided to abandon her loyalty to me to save herself, but she is still a better Shadow Siren than you could ever be!" Clay then said to the Shadow Queen, "How can you be so cruel to your own daughter!?" The Shadow Queen then said, "You bore me now, but I'll delight in your suffering when my associate decides to start the torture, fufufufufu."

All the pokemon became tense as they expected the worst to happen. Suddenly, everyone began vanishing one after the other. The last two to disappear were Clay and Vivian. Suprisingly to Clay, Vivian did not vanish like the others. Then, a dark hand rose from the floor, and grabbed Vivian, and pulled her into the floor. The hand reappeared and did a taunting gesture as a nearby door opened revealing a dark hallway. The hand vanished once more.

Clay then said to himself, "Whoever's responsible for this is begging for trouble!" Clay charged through the open door, which then disolved in a shadowy mist, shortly followed by an outburst of sinister laughter. Clay ran down the dark hallway as fast as he could. There were no obsticals in his way, so Clay knew he was making good time. He'd get Vivian out of here, and then save the others by any means nessesary.

Haze then began taunting Clay by saying, "You had the chance to save her before she was taken by the monster you saw earlier. Your hesitation will cost both you and Vivian her life!" Clay knew the dark figure was only trying to tick him off, so he ignored the taunting. Haze caught on to Clay's tactic, and said, "Ignoring me will do you no good." Clay then said "You may be right about that, but I'm not letting you get to me, so back the fucking hell off!"

Haze chuckled, and said, "Rather strong words from such a kind person. If I didn't know any better, I'd say I was getting to you since you had the nerve to try and tell me off!" Clay kept running as Haze kept up the taunting. Eventually, he came into a large room which looked like a torture chamber. There, he saw Vivian bound on a large table with scratches and cuts all over her. Haze smirked in his hideout, delighted at the look of horror on Clay's face when he saw Vivian in such a condition, even though it was all an illusion.

The fake Vivian said, "Clay, help!" Clay charged in to release her from her binds when a group of demons appeared. Clay then said, "Vivian, I will get you out of here, but I have to fend these guys off first! Otherwise there would be no one to save you!" Haze then said, "Some hero. Putting your saftey before others?" Clay didn't pay any attention to Haze, as he knew that a hero was of no use to anyone if the hero was killed in action. He knew Vivian would understand. Clay fought the monsters off to the best of his ability, but all the work he spent on getting to the room took it's toll as one of the demons took him by suprise and threw him across the room, nearly rendering him unconcious.

The demon marched towards Vivian, who was cowering in fear as the monster approached with a wicked-looking dagger. Clay tried to move to save Vivian, but he couldn't move fast enough and the demon plunged the dagger into Vivian. Clay froze as his blood turned cold at the site of Vivian being impaled. Haze then said, "Your hesitation resulted in her death. You are no hero. You are a coward like your brother Luigi!" Clay knew this had to be a trick, but he still couldn't help but cry at what he was forced to endure. Clay then heard Haze's wicked laughter before Haze left Clay to his misery.

Haze then turned away from Clay, then thought to himself, "Let's see how the others are doing." He looked into his crystal ball to check up on his other victims. His gaze then fell upon the small red robot known as Tom Servo. "This may be a challenge... This one has endured a barrage of tortures from those horribly produced movies he was forced to watch. Oh well, let's see what he can take!"

Servo was alone in a dark room. He couldn't see anything other than his own gloved hands, and he couldn't hear anything than the near silent sound of the jets that keep him afloat in the air as well as the sound of his oil pump thumping like that of a human's heart. Servo then said out loud, "Ok, I'm in a dark room, bound to endure horrible torture. It can't be as bad as what I went through on the S.O.L., can it?"

Suddenly, the lights came on, and Servo saw something he thought was never possible! He was in a theater, and he saw on the movie screen the words, 'Hobgoblins 2'! Servo then screamed like he never screamed before. Haze then began laughing hysterically at how Servo reacted at the new Sci-Fi channel's upcoming movie based upon one of the B Rate slices of hell Servo and his friends Crow and Mike were subjected to for so many years.

Haze then said, "HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! That worked better than expected! When I take over the universe, I must spare the lives of the Sci-Fi Channel's staff so they can mak more movies like this to torture my slaves with! Perhaps I should demand for them to make a sequel to that one movie, Manos: The Hands of Fate! That one was a particularly harmful nugget of Hollywood to those stupid robots! Now to see how that moron, Crow is doing!"

At that moment, Crow was in a similar dark room like the one Servo was in. However, Crow was about to re-live a past nightmare here. The lights came on, and Crow found himself in a typical American home. He saw a van outside being filled with camping gear. Crow being curious went outside to look at what was being packed. He then saw a woman packing food into a cooler.

Crow then heard the voice of his creator/father, Joel Robinson saying, "Crow, here's your camping gear." Crow turned and saw Joel wearing a panty and bra apron, and Joel had a bellhop costume in his hands. Crow's eyes widened in terror, as he screamed, "MOMMY!!!!!!!!!!!" Suddenly, his mother turned, and he saw she was not a human woman in a standerd woman's clothing anymore. Instead, he saw his evil twin, Timmy, dressed in a clown suit!

Timmy then said in a sociopathic voice, "What's wrong, Crow?" Crow screamed even louder, and literally fell to pieces. Haze stared at the scene with a blank expression on his face. He then said, "As funny as that was, it just didn't seem to appeal to me as it did with Servo and Clay... That robot needs some serious psychiactric help."

Haze then looked towards Luigi, who was surrounded by every form of ghost imaginable, both from the Mushroom world, the Pokemon world, the Real World, and even worlds which he hadn't yet visited. The ghosts seen were boos, poes, Shedinjas, a Giratina, demons, zombies, and even the infamous specter that was responsible for the Amityville Horror. Luigi was to terrified to scream, as he fainted imedeately.

Haze then said to himself, "He did give of a great amount of fear, but it wasn't satisfying without the scream... I guess I'd better wake him up and do it over." Suddenly, he heard a voice filled with anger say, "You will do nothing of the sort! Release them now, or I will destroy you!!!" Haze was brought out of his thoughts, and was enraged. How could anyone get to where he was?! Haze then said, "SHOW YOURSELF, COWARD!!!!!!"

A piller of flame appeared before Haze, and he saw a large bird with rainbow colored feathers floating before him. The bird then said in a telepathic voice, "I am HO-OH! For whatever reason you are tormenting these kind souls, I demand you release them! Or else you shall die by my flames!" HO-OH whipped up a wall of flames to emphasize his point. Haze then said, "Why do you care about these creatures!? You yourself saw what the people of this world tried to accomplish long ago because of your powers! Let me destroy them, then you'll be at peace!"

HO-OH spat a fireball at Haze, who dodged by the skin of his teeth, then said, "Don't try to tempt me, fool! I can see the future, and I saw that a horrible monster, you, would destroy these kind mortals for your own selfish gain! They are acting out a prophecy I made, and it WILL come to pass! Even if I have to make myself known before the prophecy is realized!"

Haze then thought to himself, "(I'm still not at full power here! Even if I were to fight this bird, I may wind up weaker than before, and that'll force me to continue biding my time instead of making my grand apperance! I have no choice but to flee...)"

Haze then said to HO-OH, "Ok bird, you win... For now. I'll step aside since I'm not at full power. At least this gives me the time I need to not only destroy those mortals, but also get rid of you for getting in my way, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!"

With that, Haze vanished, and with it, so did all of the illusions he set up, the Shadow Queen, as well as the mansion the heroes were trapped inside of. When everyone noticed the nightmares were gone, everyone cheered happily. Clay set his eyes on Vivian, who was alive and well, and tackled her to the ground as he gave her the biggest hug he could muster.

Vivian then said, "Clay, I'm glad to see you too, but can you let go? It hurts a little..." Clay imedeately let go, not wanting to hurt Vivian after what he, and whatever Vivian had just gone through. When everyone saw his eyes were puffed up as if he had been crying non-stop, they decided to not bother Clay about what he went through. Servo, Cambot, and Crow were rambling like old ladies as they described the horrors they endured.

Crow said, "Joel in bra and panty apron! Timmy wearing clown costume posing as my mother!!!!!" Servo then yelled, "NO MORE HOBGOLINS!!!!!!!!!!! WHY DIDN'T MIKE LET ME KILL RICK SLOAN!!?!!??!!" Cambot was seen crying heavily as he kept muttering, "Those poor cameras! Brutally murdered left and right!!!!!!!!" Everyone sweatdropped at the robots as they underwent their nervous breakdowns. Everyone else was also trying to recover from their individual torture sessions when Ash saw HO-OH before them.

Before Ash could speak, HO-OH said to the team, "I'm glad I wasn't too late. If that demon had been able to go along with his plan, you all would have died from those psychological tortures!" James then said, "So all of that was an illusion! Thank goodness! I was stuck in a wedding chaple being forced to marry Jessiebelle!"

HO-OH ignored James, and then said, "I had to bring myself out of hiding to save you. Besides, it was my intent to assist you all whenthe ones known as the Dentes Rhohos invaded this world and started to transform innocent pokemon into the beasts you know as the DR Pokemon."

Misty then asked, "But how do you plan on doing that?" May then said, "Yeah, the Shadow Pokemon that were used in Orre were saved by replaying their memories prior to their lives as Shadow Pokemon. From what we learned from Luigi and Crow, who in turn learned from some wiseman, they said the DR Pokemon were brought into existance the same way the Dentes Rhohos induct new members to their society!"

HO-OH then said, "It's true what they say about the method of how they were transformed. But that still does not mean they cannot be saved! Even the dinosaurs who were turned into the Dentes Rhohos that the offworlders know can be rescued by my method of purification!"

Zane then said with an enthusiastic tone, "WOW, REALLY!?!" HO-OH then said, "Really. I will depart for the new Tin Tower this minute. I shall also expect you to return to Ecruteak shortly, and be sure to bring all of the DR pokemon you currently have captured. I shall use my powers to fee their souls, and they too shall fight alongside you to save this world!" With that, HO-OH spread his wings, and let out a loud screeching roar as he flew off towards Ecruteak.

Luigi then yelled out, "What are we waiting for!? Let's go!" Luigi ran off after HO-OH so that he could help fix this prblem quickly so he and his brother as well as his friends can return home. After shaking off the fact Luigi was acting out of character for once, Clay and the others followed closely behind.

To be continued...

Ace: (is out cold again)

Otto: Damn it, we tried to warm her!!!!

Gantz: We'll deal with her later. BTW Nutcase, that came out EXACTLY like I envisioned! That was pretty funny how you had Haze seem disturbed by Crow's fear. BTW, what was with Servo and Crow's fear!?

Me: Well, Cambot's is kinda easy to figure out. Since Cambot is a camera, he has similar feelings about the rights of machies as Crow and Servo do since they see all forms of machinery like how you and i see each other as a human being. Camera's fall into this catagory for Cambot for an easily inderstandible reason. Plus, in one MST3K episode, the movie they watched featured cameras getting blown up, and at the end of the episode Cambot is seen actually crying. This was one of the few times Cambot made his presence known on the show other than being mentioned in the Robot Roll Call, or being talked to by the S.O.L crewmembers.

Gantz: What about Servo's then?

Me: Well, to know this requires a trip to the Sci-Fi channel's website. It has come to my attention one day while watching MST3K at YouTube that Sci-Fi channel is making a sequel to the infamous season nine episode, Hobgoblins, which is probobly the worst thing to come out of the 1980's.

Wally: It's THAT bad!?

Me: You have to see the episode yourself. The guy who posted the episode at YouTube said, "Take everything bad about the 80's (which includes the hairstyles, the music, ect) and then roll it into a giant joint and then smoke it." (note to kids: I am not encouraging drug use here!) As to why Sci-Fi channel is making a sequel, with many of the same actors portraying the characters in this film, I have no clue. Perhaps their ratings have gotten so low now that they're trying to reclaim their old audiance by making movies based upon old MST3K episodes.

MMSB: What about Haze's comment about that other movie?

Me: You mean Manos? That film is aguibly the worst film ever to have been made. To understand what I mean, you must watch that episode of MST3K. It was so bad, even Dr. F and Frank apologized to Joel and the bots for showing it to them.

Everyone but Nutcase and the bots: Wow...

Me: Anyway, this chapter is over, and now it's time to R&R.