Super Mario: Galaxies Finest
Chapter 3
Boo!!!
He sat there at the bed he was given. Thinking, not about Killer Croc, but how he'd get back home. Deep inside he felt as if something was laughing at him. His thoughts then turned back to Killer Croc. The laughter within began to build up. Tim then thought of his family and friends back at home. The Laughter grew louder until it was almost as if it wasn't just in his head. Tim became so agitated he took a birdarang and threw it into the wall.
He then sat up as he walked over and pulled his birdrang out of the wall. To his surprise the hole in the wall his birdrang had left vanished.
"What is going on here?" The Boy Wonder thought to himself.
Robin knew something was going on and he wanted answers. He threw his cape and mask back on as he opened the door and headed back into the hall. It was dark, very dark as he made his way down the long hallway. From the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of Yoshi kicking the wall for no apparent reason. He ignored this as he moved on.
As he continued to walk down the hall three toads seemed to stare at him with sinister smiles. He brushed this off as well. Suddenly he came to a room where the door was cracked open. He could see Princess Peach sitting in her rocking chair as he slowly tapped on the door.
"May I come in?" Robin asked with a low tone.
She did not reply. He slowly entered as the laughing began again, but this time it seemed like it was coming from all directions. Tim was then beginning to worry if he was indeed crazy. Suddenly Peach stopped rocking in her chair, and with that the laughter came to a dead stop. What Robin saw next could only leave him speechless. Peach's head spun totally around as she looked him dead in the eyes.
"Go back to your nest bird boy." She said.
Her tongue then slowly slithered out to about eight inches. Blood then slowly began to come out of her eyes as her head cracked back into place. She then began to give off a low pitched weep. Tim Drake was still stunned by all of this as the Mario brothers entered the dark room.
"What happened a Princess?" Mario asked.
"He hurt me." She pointed.
"He must pay." Luigi said as his eyes as well as Peach and Mario's eyes turned red.
"What kind of deception is this?" Robin muttered
Yoshi came into the room as he lunged forward. With his quick awareness Robin spun around as he punched the creature. Now he was even more surprised then ever. His punch went right through Yoshi.
"Alright I'll bite, what's going on here?"
With that Peach, Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and the toads entering the room surrounded him as they all began to laugh. These weren't human laughs, but the laughs he had been hearing all night since he had entered this castle.
"You all are obviously not human, enough games, who are you?" Robin asked as he pulled out his staff.
They all began to laugh again as the castle around him began to transform, and as it did so did the Mario and the others. A dark light shined as Robin quickly coverd his eyes. Once he reopened them the room had totally changed and what sat in front of him left him even more light headed.
"What the?"
"Hello Robin, we are the Boo Ghosts!" one of them shouted as they raced forward at him.
Robin quickly used his grappler as he went to the ceiling.
"So this is just a big game for you ghost's, what is this place anyway?" Robin asked.
"Just one of our many hideouts, run by the Mario brothers." One replied
"Figured, what exactly do you want from me?" Robin yelled down.
"Your head on a plate for our king, the great King Boo!"
"Good luck with that."
With that said Robin jumped down as he tossed a few smoke bombs down. After the smoke cleared Robin was nowhere to be seen.
"Where did he go?" One asked.
"Find him, it's not like he's a ghost." Another replied.
Tim ran down a dark hall with so many mixed thoughts going through his head. He knew it was fishy coming to a castle with some guys he just had met, but at the same time he needed to find a way home. One thing was for sure through his mind was King Boo was an enemy and as were the Mario Brothers. Robin could hear many boo ghosts in the distance as they all continued their search for him. Suddenly he came across a window. Thinking quickly he grabbed his staff as he broke the window. As soon as he did he rushed down the hall.
His plan worked, all of the boo ghosts left the building as they searched outside for him.
"Now to find another exit while those guys are occupied." Robin said as he continued down the dark halls.
Suddenly he came upon another window. He slowly jilted it open as he glided to the ground about sixteen yards down.
"This should work out to be alright, those boo ghosts are clear on the other side of this building."
Robin then ran into the dark forest that sat right in front of him. It wasn't long after that the building was no longer in sight. He had made his escape, but not from this world. Tim finally came to a stop after about two hours of traveling as he laid up against a tree. As he did he pulled out the birdrang he had previously thrown at the wall.
"I'll defiantly have to analyze this; it may teach me more about those ghosts I ran into." Tim said as he stuck it into a secure place in his utility belt.
It was a warm night so he had no problems falling asleep at all. As he awoke at the crack of dawn his muscles felt tensed up as the memories of last night poured in.
"I really need to find Croc and get out of this loony place." He said as he brushed his cape off and got to his feet.
He walked on for about an hour through the tall bushes and what not as a city finally came to view. Robin was a little disappointed to see that it was the Mushroom Kingdom yet again.
"Great now I'm back at square one, just great." Robin said as he sat down up on the hill.
"I guess I'll have to wait until night before I can make a move, you never know who you can trust these days."
Robin headed back into the forest as he walked around looking for any possible thing he could do in the meantime. His mind began to trail off as he trotted along. He began to wonder just how dangers King Boo and the true Mario brothers were. His mind began to daze off as he walked on. Suddenly he came across a large cave. He stopped in his tracks, wondering just exactly what was in their.
"Guess it wouldn't hurt to have a small look around." Tim said as he walked up to the cave.
Robin went in slowly knowing this cave could be home to an unwelcoming creature. As he got deeper in he became more comfortable. It was dark, just like any other typical cave. Robin dug into his utility belt as he pulled out a mini flash light to help guide him through the cave. As he walked on he could see many marks engraved onto the walls.
First thought that came to mind was an ancient language of some kind. As he continued on he could hear water sliding by through the walls. Not to long after Robin came upon a small water fall as he flashed his light downward to see the water fell miles down. Then he flashed his light to the ceiling as bats came swarming down. Robin put his cape in front of him as they flew passed him.
"This place is starting to feel more and more like home." Robin said with a slight smirk.
Robin gave his search another hour as he came to a stop.
"Well this seems to be a very legit place to set up shop." Robin said as he stretched his arms.
"I guess I better return to that junk yard I ran into a couple days ago; I could use some of that to make this place a bit more livable."
He left the cave but with the intention of returning. Using his stealth while in the heart of day Robin made many round trips to the junk yard and the cave, collecting anything valuable. Some of the things he acquired were microchips, wires, monitors, tires, engines, broken lava lamp, rusted car parts, and many other things he couldn't identify but could be useful.
Night time had finally struck as Robin organized everything into certain piles for different tasks.
"It looks like I'll have a lot of work to do tomorrow, but right now I need to hit the streets, with any luck I might bump into Croc." Robin said as he tossed his mask and cape back on and headed to the streets.
As he stood watching down at the streets it was clear there was a sharp pain in Tim's heart, he wanted to get home. But he knew before he could focus on that he had to find the merciless Killer Croc. More then anything he was surprised Killer Croc had not striked, but why?
"Where are you Croc?"
All he could do was wonder, but that would have to wait. A few blocks down screams and an explosion can be heard.
"Guess that's my cue."
Robin was on the scene within seconds. What he saw was Petey Piranha flying around in what appeared to be a low budget jet.
"How bad can it be, it's just the same common scum all over again."
Then Robin realized Petey was firing aced out of his jet.
"Things are going to get ugly fast if I don't put an end to this madness."
Robin threw several birdrangs at Petey who just dodged them all.
"Well, well you're still alive." Petey Piranhalaughed as he flew over Robin.
"What gave you the assumption I wasn't?" Robin asked sarcastically
"Heard the Boo's had done you in."
"Not a chance." Robin said as he lunged forward at Petey.
Petey quickly dodged him as he flew around the city blasting anything in site. Robin chased after him as best as he could. This wasn't good, he knew he had to think of a way to stop Petey's assault, the big problem was the speed of Petey's jet.
"If I can't catch him, I'll have to out think him." Robin said as an idea popped into his head.
Instead of following Petey, Robin took a more angular route knowing Petey Piranha would be flying into that general area momentarily. The only thing working against Robin was the right timing. As predicted Petey came flying around the corner. Tim waited a couple seconds as Petey Piranha got closer.
"Now!" Robin yelled as he shot his grappler to the building straight across from him.
As Petey Piranha flew right by his neck hit the cable as he fell out of his jet.
"Curse you Robin!" He yelled as he fell to the ground.
Robin quickly went down after him as he got them both safely to the ground. Cop cars immediately surrounded them as Robin hand cuffed Petey Piranha.
"Put this animal back in its cage." Robin said as he handed him over to the authorities.
"Hold it right there punk, you're coming with us." One of the toad officers said as they all held their guns to him.
"I don't have time to explain myself to the police." Robin thought to himself as he quickly used his grappler and headed back to the rooftops.
Even in another world, the authorities were always on guys like him. Maybe wearing a mask had a big thing to do with it. The rest of the nigh went pretty smoothly. Just a couple jaywalkers and a couple verbal arguments but overall all went pretty well.
Tim returned to the cave and went to sleep on the mattress he had gotten from the junk yard. Out of all the nights he had spent in this world that night by far had been his best.
"Whelp, time to turn this dump into the birds nest."
To start the day Robin started off by making eight different electrical plugs which corresponded with the whole city's system. That took up about four hours of his time as he began to work on other things for the cave. He made three chairs, a table, and one couch. That took up about another hour or so.
"Wasn't too much wrong with them, they just needed a little care. Now for the heavy artillery."
Robin then began constructing what would help him monitor the city as well as hunt down Killer Croc. That took up pretty much the rest of his day as night came at a fast rate. By the time night had struck Robin had created his own little super computer along with two other smaller models.
"Looks like all servers are a go; I should be hooked to the main network by dawn. In the mean time, it's work time."
With that Robin took to the streets yet again. Tonight was different; it almost felt like he was at home, in his own established city. Robin breathed in the scent of ginger and cinnamon like he had most other nights, unlike how it was back in Gotham. His daze was cut short when he heard loud thumping coming from down in the sewers.
"Hope they're ready." Robin said as he glided down to the streets and quickly made it to the sewer.
It had a damp sea smell down there which made it a little hard to breath. There were small purple lights on the ceiling guiding those who traveled in the sewer at night. Robin walked along as the sewer water came within reach of his knees. Suddenly the thumping sounds stopped. Robin knew this was a red alert, he'd been spotted. Robin pulled out his staff as he gripped it tightly. Suddenly a mini missile comes flying at him, Robin easily side flips over it as it crashes into the wall a few yards away.
The impact from the blast lights the wall on fire. Robin can then clearly see who his opponent is.
"Dry bones, I see you have a new machine there."
"And I see you're alive." Dry Bones said as he fired two more missiles which Robin easily dodged.
"Try dodging them this time, these two missiles are designed to follow their opponent, where your going won't be pleasant!" Dry Bones yelled as he pressed the fire button.
Tim smiled as the missiles flew in. He maneuvered around a bit as the missiles continued to follow him. All Dry Bones could do was close his eyes and fall back in laughter. When he opened his eyes Robin was on the glass of his vehicle waving goodbye to him. Then Robin jumped off.
"Ah shucks." Dry Bones managed to say as his two missiles hit him knocking his machine over leaving him nearly unconscious.
Robin busted the glass of his robot open as he grabbed Dry Bones.
"I'm not sure where I'm going but I know where you're going. Trust me it won't be pleasant, behind cold bars of steal." Robin said.
It didn't take long; Dry Bones was hung upside down over police headquarters with a note on his head.
After having a small snack Robin was in the last hour of his patrol period when he heard someone being attacked in a dark ally.
"Just great, and here I thought my night was going to have a next to perfect ending." Robin said as he swooped into the narrowed ally.
Two tall (around 6 ft) lizard creatures wearing brown jackets along with brown hats were beating down on what appeared to be an innocent civilian. Robin didn't know the full story but felt this kind of behavior was unacceptable in 'his city'.
"You think it's ok to cross the great King!!" One of them yelled
Robin swung down kicking one of the creatures sending him crashing up against the wall. He was immediately knocked unconscious. The other creature turned around as he threw three punches at Robin who just knocked them away. Then using the strength of his right arm he pinned the creature up against the wall.
"Leave!" Robin yelled to the civilian who lay upon the ground.
Robin then directed his attention back to the lizard creature.
"You mentioned crossing some King if I heard you correctly."
"You must be that new boy scout running the streets I heard about." The Lizard choked.
"Who, is it King Boo, is he planning an attack?" Robin asked increasing his grip.
"Ha hahaah haha, the king I speak of makes King Boo look like your common street punk." He said with laughter.
"Who!"
"I aint talking, he'd kill me."
"I could make you wish you were going down that path." Robin said with darkness in his eyes.
"Who are you anyway, one of the Mario brothers allies?"
"I'm actually at odds with them, their little group tried to kill me."
"Neither you nor the Mario brothers will be able to stop him." He laughed yet again.
"First off this King you speak of knows nothing about me, 2ndly I haven't met anyone around here to be feared, Last, I'm nothing like the Mario brothers."
"Might as well let me go masked vigilante, I'm not talking."
"I beg to differ."
It took him a few minutes, but Robin found the tallest building he could as he held the creature over it with his bird grappler.
"So, still don't want to talk?" Robin yelled down in a comb matter.
"Ok, I talk!!" The creature yelled up.
Robin slowly sprung him back up a little.
"Talk." Robin said in a serious tone.
"There's going to be a war, a war between the big groups."
"When?"
"I'm not sure exactly, I was told a few days ago it would begin in a few days."
"Who's involved?"
"King Boo's group, the Cyborgs, and Ki..ng….Ki..Kin..g.."
With that the lizard creature fainted.
"Just great, just when we were making progress."
Robin left his body next to the other lizard creature's body as he returned back to his cave.
He looked over at his computer and was glad to see that all was going as planned. He knew from here on out things were going to get worse.
"So basically a gang war is going to break out, but why?"
"And who could be this other King of crimes?" He thought to himself.
All of this went through his head as he called it a night and went to sleep.
Miles and miles away someone else to wondered how this war was going to turn out. He stood up from his chair as he looked at his calendar. It would be only seven more days before the Mario brothers and the Princess returned. He smiled at this as someone entered.
"B.. Boss we got ourselves a problem."
"Is it about that new guy?" He asked.
"Yes Boss."
"I thought the Boo's took care of him."
"Not exactly, they say he can fly, and disappear just like them."
"Does he have a name?"
"Not that I know of Boss."
"Tommorrow night we strike, that gives us a week before the Mario's return."
"But Boss, what about the new guy?"
"You let me worry about that, and you know I don't like to be called boss, it's King Koopa!!" He roared
"Yes Bowser sir, I mean King."
"Leave me my little koopling; I have some preparations I need to make." Bowser said as he began to laugh.
To Be Continued