Chapter 9: Haunted Getaway
First of all, I would like to dodge every bullet that is coming straight at me right now for not uploading anything in a month. *Shot* School for me has been super busy and I had handed in 5 assignments within the last week and now I still have 4 and a lot more to come. Since it is so close to the report season all teachers need the best results they could get out of our assignments, hence I had no time to even open up a document. But now as things have been loosening up and I wanted to apologize, I'm writing this chapter. Yay!
I actually have another thing to say… about The Mole and my upcoming TAR fic. Since I've announced that TAR shall be coming up, I'm trying to get some things sorted for it, I've got so many ideas for it, but I could only use one for each leg. So while I get TAR a smooth start, I'm afraid that I must put The Mole on a very, very short hiatus… As you can see, I'm starting to have that period where writers just can't focus on one fic and want to write another badly, and that happened to me before. As of current, I've come to a small conclusion: while I get TAR started, I shall be trying to get another Whodunnit chapter in, I'll try to complete Deadly Party, and I'll get this fic sorted out. So that kinda leaves no time for The Mole…
I do apologize if you would like me to get on with the fic, but I'll get it done ASAP, it's just that TAR has to start, Whodunnit must get another chapter in it, and this fic has to get everything sorted out. Don't forget about my short murder story Deadly Party as well, it'll be done.
For this A/N, I shall be talking about the evolvement of the characters, which has been raised by someone about their drastic change of personalities. As you may have noticed, if you compare the latest chapters with the first one, you can clearly see people's personalities changing slightly. To be honest, before I knew that personalities on characters were very important, everyone was so… bland in a way. I have now added much more characters onto the people, and I'm hoping that I'm doing a good job. I've also noticed how all of the teams now have a small humor theme that I could use. Team Argument Peoples aren't all that popular, but I think they are pretty humorous with their all different personalities and all could be pretty funny. Team Aqua Shell are mainly the most random people you can find in this game, if you're wondering about how different Toadette has kinda become, I've decided that the original setting for her is so similar to Noki's, so I decided that she need to be the random girl. XD Floating Spookers are mainly people that play with their texts and speech, and small bits of randomness. Finally, the Stupid Idiots, they are all very dumb in some ways, so they deserved their name. XD
Fanfict: I thought that Hammer being sent to the dungeon because of being sucked into quicksand was not very logical and was a bit unfair. But either way, he's going to get out of the game. XD So I pity him, lol. Getting out when it's clearly not his fault. XD I've explained how the characters changed throughout the fic in the other author's notes part, but it's mainly for more character for each of them. Currently, they are almost the same. XD I will put up the facts in the next chapter, because it's going to be a bit short, I will reveal why later on. XD
Happy Yoshi: I thought your profile was pretty nice and well written, so I don't see why not. XD Besides, I should be the one saying that. XD Being the only one that is still sane isn't the best when you are stuck with a bunch of people like Team Floating Spookers, huh. XD The Katty vs Shy Guy battle has officially started, and it's only gonna get intense-er. XD So I hope you will enjoy those! And yes, there was a Pokemon reference, and the fact that Flona attacking Shy Guy will not hit is also part of the joke, but oh well! XD
Guest: Sorry, but I'm not exactly interested in those type of parties… especially when I haven't played Luigi's Mansion. But I've heard of it. XD I could actually do those with different characters, just those characters… I've never heard of them before. XD
Toady: Tess Z was designed to be the block that always hinders the players' progress. So I'm glad that worked out well. XD Cake is her weapon, even in Cluedo! XD Team Floating Spookers is just unpredictable, I find it very ironic how I'm the one writing them yet I have no many ideas how to express the humor within all of the characters, but then it'll be too long. XD Luma could very well come back from the dungeon, I mean, she's a very funny person, and I regretted getting her out of the game. Heck, I even laugh at her dumbness. XD
Players:
Team Argument Peoples:
- Vivian (Eliminated Round 5)
- Jenny
- Lily
- Goombella
- Evan (Eliminated Round 6)
- Blooper
- Keegan
Team Aqua Shell:
- Parker
- Steven
- Kooper
- Toadette
- Yoshi (Eliminated Round 3)
- Noki
- Dry Bones
Team Floating Spookers:
- Toad
- Flona
- Bootler
- Katty
- Luma (Eliminated Round 4)
- Boo (Eliminated Round 2)
- Shy Guy
Team Stupid Idiots:
- Allen (Eliminated Round 1)
- Andy
- Birdo
- Frank
- Hammer (Eliminated Round 7)
- Nicole
- Sabrina
Board: King Boo's Haunted Hideaway
Game: Mario Party 8
Team Argument Peoples:
Lily raised her glass of vodka and toasted with her team. "Yeah! Back to our streak!"
"Meh, I don't really care at this point." Blooper looked out of the window without any emotion in his voice or his face.
"What has got him to this state?" Jenny begun thinking scientifically, but she skipped over the possibility of 'emotion'.
Keegan brought out some 'food' that is charred black. "Rely on me! Look at this wonderful creation, and I'm going to name it 'steak'!"
"You realize that steak is actually what we just had last night?" Lily raised an eyebrow.
"Like, yeah Keegan! Like, we just, like, had steak, like, last night. Like, are you, like, sure that, like, you're not, like dreaming something?" Goombella quickly checked Keegan's forehead temperature with her imaginary hand.
Keegan shook his head, "If you want to have any more delicious stuff, just rely on me!"
"Not much better than Jenny's, to be honest." Blooper scratched his chin.
The noki in question jumped up, "Humph! Let's see, if you can avoid at the speed of pi, I can attack you with pie that I made with the logic of pi, then you are going to be pied!"
"… What?" Lily raised an eyebrow. "I swear we are getting more insane chapter by chapter."
Keegan decided to eat his own cooking before getting food poisoning and requiring Goombella to perform 'surgery' on him as Jenny slapped a cake onto Blooper's face, causing her to be mixing potions for getting rid of the unknown strong poison in her own cooking.
Lily sighed, "I expect us to fail today, considering how two people are defeated by the power of food."
"Like, don't worry! Like, I've got, like, everything sorted!" Goombella cheerfully shouted as she raised her chainsaw up high. Keegan on the other hand was strapped to an operation table by her, and was begging for his life. As for Jenny and Blooper, Jenny is feeding her potions to Blooper, not realizing that her potions are also poisoned.
Lily only grunted and slapped her forehead.
Team Aqua Shell:
"Ahh, the nice view." Kooper commented on the spooky forest with the big mansion they are descending to.
Noki put a finger to her chin, "Hmm… could we get him to snap out of his trance?"
"Oh, I think I know how to do it!" Steven quickly ran up to Kooper and punched him across the face.
Silence fell.
"What the heck are you trying to achieve?!" Parker asked as he broke the ice.
The absentminded koopa tilted his head towards the side. "Umm… slapping him?"
"That seriously hurt!" Kooper jumped around, holding onto his cheek.
Noki opened up her palm and showed Steven, "Alright, when you slap people, you do it with an open palm. You just punched Kooper right across the face!"
"Oh, did I? Then I should take that back?" Steven asked before punching Kooper across the other cheek.
Kooper broke down into tears as he collapsed to the ground.
Noki slapped her forehead in frustration. "Okay, I think we should act a bit more normal."
"Dry Bones, I want a deep fried toadette omelet here!" Toadette shouted into the kitchen.
Everyone else immediately raised an eyebrow.
Dry Bones rolled his eyes, "We've ran out of the ingredients, besides, it's called 'deep fried toe de ette'. It's a French dish, geez! Did you actually want me to cook you?"
"Err… I'll get one of that then." Toadette clapped her hands together.
Parker motioned for Kooper and Noki to get nearer, "I thought he said that we are out of ingredients for that?"
"Clearly, she is out of her mind." Kooper now has ice packs glued onto either side of his face by Steven's creativity.
"Or if she has a brain in order to have a mind." Noki suggested as the other two agreed.
Team Floating Spookers:
"Kyaaa! I'm scared of spooky places!" Katty ran around in panic.
Shy Guy laughed next to her. "See, you're laughing at me yesterday. As the saying goes, payback's a biscuit!"
"Did you ever pass a third grade English test?" Toad asked next to him in wonder.
Shy Guy proudly slapped a hand over his chest. "Nope! I dropped out before I even begun preschool because of how dumb I am!"
Now it's Katty's turn to laugh back at him. But seconds later, it turned out to be a full on brawl between the two.
However the most awkward thing was when Bootler came back from his morning jog around the airship with a towel around his neck, he was carrying a pot of cookies which Flona is snacking on.
Flona threw another cookie into her mouth and gulped the huge sweet down in one whole. "GWA HI HAHAHA! Let us begin today's fun events."
"Let's see, trying to beat Tess Z, trying to win, trying not to lose, trying to settle Shy Guy and Katty down." Bootler recited before nodding in confirmation.
Toad started to tear up. "Ugh! Tess Z is pretty much invincible, we are not going to win, we will lose, and the duo will just kill us instead!"
"Not so fast!" Flona smacked him repeatedly with her fan. "We are not going to lose tonight!"
Katty suddenly got out of the fight with Shy Guy, "Oh, I've got today's checklist!" She pulled out a list and a crayon.
"You actually carry that around with you?!" Shy Guy shouted in surprise.
Katty smiled, "Flona's laughing again, tick. Toad's having a breakdown, tick. Bootler's being a huge idiot, tick. Shy Guy is pissing me off again, tick. Last but not least, I'm being my beautiful self, tick!"
Immediately, Katty raised an eyebrow at people looking at her weirdly at her last ticked thing.
Team Stupid Idiots:
"I have lost all faith in humanity." Everyone else cleaned the mold in their ears at Nicole's quote, staring at Frank's moronic eating once again.
Sabrina opened up a book, "Um, I have to learn how to talk without saying um! Um, I'm ready! Um, I think I'm doing good… um, um, um, um, um, um, um."
"That book is for fourth graders, I'm pretty sure your intelligence in higher than that." Andy decided to point part of the problem out.
Birdo carried out an entire cart full of cheap and strange makeup. "Now, the beautiful Birdo shall enchant you with the great knowledge of putting makeup on!"
"What's this?" Andy went over to her, seeing Sabrina reading the book holding it upside down. "Err… does this count as makeup?" He picked up a bottle of blooper ink.
Birdo poured it onto her face, messing her already horrible makeup up. "Definitely! Don't I look beautiful?"
"I have lost all faith in humanity." Nicole repeated, "Listen, you have to take this out, same with that, and this cannot be stored here at all." She threw out things like glue, dirt, and something brown and sticky. If you haven't noticed, the final thing on the list is actually a riddle, can you figure it out?
Andy rolled his eyes, "The narration is getting closer and closer to breaking the fourth wall day by day."
A wall in the distance marked with the number four broke down into crumbles.
"Um, am, um, I, um, speaking, um, perfectly, um, now?" Sabrina suddenly asked, not knowing that the so called useful book made it even worse than it already is.
Nicole pulled some imaginary hair out, "I have lost all faith in humanity! IhavelostallfaithinhumanityIhavelostallfaithinhumanityIhavelostallfaithinhumanity!"
Deciding to do one thing to help his own sanity, Frank decided to put a chicken leg into Nicole's mouth in order to shut her up. The rest of the team clapped for his contribution to the entire world.
"I have lost all faith in humanity! What was that supposed to mean?!" Nicole pulled out her trusty hammer.
Birdo pulled out a drill, "Sweeties, let's drill the entire bunch mold out of our ears first."
"… Literally?" Andy asked.
Everyone was in front of a very spooky mansion, and Bowser just brought Luigi's vacuum with him because he's actually scared of ghosts. "S-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-o…" The koopa king tried to speak, but was scaring himself with the leaves rustling.
"Let me predict, we are going to be inside the house and the first team to make it out wins?" Jenny guessed.
Bowser nodded shakily. "E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-ex-ex-ex-ex-ex-ex…"
One eternity later…
"Exactly…" Bowser finally finished as the people asleep finally woke up.
Kamek sighed besides him, "While I take the king to the physician, I'll be teleporting you into the house."
Team Floating Spookers:
A boo tried to scare Flona, but she scared him instead as the boo ran away crying like a little girl. Bootler was on the bicycle to generate light again, trying to help his team. With the small amount of lights produced, Toad was able to hold the lamp, but Shy Guy still cowered as Katty haunted over him. Speaking of Katty, she decided to sell a basket full of flowers she brought with her today, but sadly for her, no one's brought any money with them.
"Katty, I think you are actually using those poor flowers for your own enjoyment." Toad commented on the luma's behavior.
Katty took out another flower from her basket and began plucking the petals off and throwing them over her shoulder without a care, obviously bored. "What?"
"Nothing." Toad replied before peeking over the closet they are hiding in. "What are we hiding from again?"
"GWA HI HAHAHA!" Flona scared a bunch of boos away. "How should I know? Maybe it's how Bootler is pedaling inside there?"
"Hohoho, I believe I'll just carry it around with me then." Bootler heartily chuckled before throwing the bike over his shoulder and carried it with him.
Shy Guy whimpered as he tried to advance, "Help me, mama!"
"Ugh, I can't even be bothered to be teasing this child anymore." Katty threw another flower stem behind her before grabbing another one.
Shy Guy suddenly jumped up and punched her in the jaw, which is quite old by now if you've noticed. "What was that supposed to mean?!"
"Wow Shy Guy, you're better than me on this!" Flona complimented from the side as she saw a horde of boos running away with their imaginary boo legs.
Katty put a flower into her mouth and chewed on it angrily. "You don't have to punch me that many times that I've developed a resistance for it!"
"No, they are psychotic again!" Toad screamed as he dropped to his knees.
Bootler put a stand in front of him. "The Dr. Darkly psychology treatment shack, anyone?"
Toad retorted to run around, hoping that he isn't going to go insane from their infectious personalities. Well, if ignorance really is bliss, then most of the cast will be in heaven right now, so he thought. But sadly, compared to the others, he is actually the odd one out, hence how they are all paranormal.
Team Aqua Shell:
"Oh no, Tess Z!" Toadette ran around in circles, the group has already encountered the dreaded old chef.
Tess Z chased the toad girl around, assaulting her with cake.
"Why is it always her?" Parker raised an eyebrow.
Kooper shrugged, "No idea."
"Hey, get that bottle of yours! You can scare her away with it!" Noki suddenly suggested smartly and dumbly at the same time.
Steven nodded in agreement, "Yeah! That will work!"
"That will NOT work." Kooper corrected with a facepalm.
Toadette waved her arms around helplessly. "Help me! This old hag is not going away anytime soon!"
"I'm actually enjoying this, surprisingly." Dry Bones randomly said as everyone looked at him in confusion, but then they realized that he's only snacking on the bits and pieces of cake everywhere and complimenting Tess Z's cooking.
Tess Z gritted her teeth in frustration. "Oh, come back! Get back here this instant!"
"How about a no?" Toadette smugly said before chocking on the incoming cake.
Parker rolled his eyes in boredom. "Is it just me, or could we just completely ditch Toadette and go on?"
"Or rather, maybe she could run ahead and we could run with her?" Kooper suggested more smartly.
Noki sighed, "But I don't feel like running."
"Same here." Steven concurred.
Toadette was still running around, screaming desperately for help. "Maybe you guys could try to help me!"
"No." The others chorused as they went ahead without her.
Team Argument Peoples:
"I found a book!" Jenny raised one of her favorite objects in the world.
Keegan immediately pushed her away and snatched it from her hands. "Rely on me, I'll read it aloud!"
"Oh shush! You'll just mess up again anyways!" Lily slapped him across the face as the two fought over a pathetic book.
Blooper raised a tentacle. "Is it just me, or are we inside a library?"
"Like, hence why, like, there is, like, a book." Goombella looked at the very stupid duo fighting over a picture book suitable for children under 5. The most ironic thing is that Keegan doesn't recognize a single word inside. Don't ask why.
Jenny took another book, "Oh! This book is from exactly 48 years, 5 months, 2 days, 13 hours, 54 minutes, and 19 seconds ago! Wait, make that 20 seconds, I mean 21, err… 22, 23, 24, 25, 26…"
By this time, Blooper and Goombella have fallen asleep from Jenny's counting, thinking that she's counting sheep.
"Fine then! You try to read it!" Lily demanded.
Keegan smiled and took the book. "This book says… gibberish."
"So we can translate the mysterious language of gibberish into English?" Jenny asked, and ironically, the author is actually Chinese, so that's not very good… right?
Keegan shook his head. "Nope, it's all gibberish!"
"Then we have to translate this mysterious language ourselves?!" Jenny fainted at the pressure.
Lily gritted her teeth and tightened her fists. "Keegan?"
"Yeah?"
"The book is upside down."
"That makes perfect sense now! Rely on me! Even though it's a bunch of letters, I have no idea what it means!"
"… It's a teaching the alphabet book."
"… What's that?"
"…"
Team Stupid Idiots:
"Mmmph, this is good." Frank continued to munch on a chicken leg as they continued to walk down the long hallway with red carpeting.
Nicole's face is as plain as always. "I have lost all faith in humanity."
"Good thing that we drilled the mold out!" Birdo clapped her hands together as blood dripped from her ears.
Andy nodded in agreement. "I know right? It's so good that I can't even hear her!"
"… I have lost all faith in humanity." Nicole concluded.
"Ah, no!" Birdo held onto her head. "I feel… the mold growing! I thought we made ourselves deaf!"
Andy held onto his head as well. "You're right! It's not working!"
"Um… have you ever tried… earplugs?" Sabrina pulled the earplugs out of her ears, and stuffed it back right before Nicole said her catchphrase again.
Frank pointed at a painting they reached. "Look! Dead end!"
"Look, painting!" Birdo shouted with a drill in her ear.
"Look, morons!" Andy shouted as well.
Nicole's face dropped again. "Look, I have lost all faith in humanity, alright?"
"Um, look at the mold that is growing out of Andy's ears!" Sabrina pointed at the dry bones.
Meanwhile, Birdo's ears are all bloody, and Andy took the deadly devise with grace and drilled his ears as well. Oh well, look, there's blood around here everyone!
"Look, I don't want to spoil it or anything, but I've lost all faith in humanity, and I think the narration is false as the devise is not deadly and there's no blood, they're just using ketchup." Nicole told everyone.
Birdo put her hands on her hips. "Look, it's just for fun! You don't have to uncover us!"
"Look, we're saying the word 'look' too much!" Andy also joined in.
Sabrina gasped at something in the distance. "Um, look! King Boo is coming and by video game logic, it's going to chase us around!"
"Look, it is Nintendo logic, alright?!" Frank corrected her before the entire team trying to run away from the king of boos, only to crash into the painting and disappeared from the very conveniently placed portal behind it.
"Look at that! A hidden passage!" Birdo cheered.
Birdo was about to step towards the door, until Andy pushed her away. "Look out!" The dry bones shouted as where the two was a second ago was smashed by a statue of King Boo.
Team Floating Spookers:
"Oh, thank you for the help." Flona bowed gracefully to a very terrified boo inside the castle. "We should go that way."
Toad raised an eyebrow, "Oh? Where's that?"
"Oh, we are just saying too much of a repeated word over here." Bootler informed them and became captain obvious.
Katty put her hands on her hips. "Oh, but that will take all fun out of things!"
"Oh, shut up!" Shy Guy punched her yet again as the two got into yet another fight.
Flona whacked them with her fan. "Oh, stop being childish! I demand!"
"Oh, you don't want to know how much he annoys me!" Katty shouted.
"Oh, this is just stupid!" Toad held his head, cannot take it anymore.
Shy Guy punched Toad this time in the face. "Oh, get a hold of yourself!"
Immediately, Bootler held his arms together.
"Oh, not you!" Shy Guy shouted at him.
Bootler took a whole 10 minutes to realize the meaning. "Oh… oh! That is what you mean!"
"Oh, can we please stop saying 'oh'? I'm getting tired of it." Flona bended her fan 95 degrees.
Toad banged his head on a nearby wall. "Oh, please stop!"
"Oh, but I can't be bothered to!" Katty retorted.
"Oh, that's fashion!" Shy Guy agreed with Katty for once.
Bootler sighed deeply. "Oh, I fear that we are not getting any work done."
"Oh! Now I remember, the boo told us that it is to the right, I believe." Flona grandly announced before bursting into laughter yet again.
Katty puffed her cheeks up. "Oh, there I thought she'll finally stop laughing."
"Oh, that can remain a dream." Shy Guy told her before the two fought again for the umpteenth time of the day.
Toad slapped everyone in the team to get them back into their senses, and every ganged up on the small toad and slapped him into a pulp instead of the usual beating someone into a pulp.
"Oh, let's just stop saying 'oh' and get moving, GWA HI HAHAHA!" Flona suggested smartly.
Bootler nodded, "Oh Flona, I'm always with you!"
"Oh, just stop!" Toad begged the team to stop the 'oh' so he can get back to normal as well.
Shy Guy nodded as Katty took the chance to dump an entire basket of flowers onto his head. "Oh-kay!"
Team Aqua Shell:
"Help me!" Toadette was still getting assaulted by cake, struck by Tess Z.
Tess Z pulled out yet another batch of cakes. "Take this! And this, this, don't forget about this!" She threw a bunch of cake with the word 'this' on it written in chocolate.
"So literal." Noki stated as the group finally decided to come back for some comedy, suffering from incoming pastries occasionally which the old chef wasn't able to hit the toad girl with.
Parker threw some popcorn into his mouth. "Well, I don't expect too much from them."
"Same here." Everyone else on the side agreed.
Kooper pulled out a torch, "This place is dark, we should light it up sometime."
"Silly Kooper!" Steven scolded him as everyone gave him a strange look. "You should be lighting up the court with the torches on your phone!"
"HUH?!" Everyone else present, including Toadette and Tess Z, who ironically doesn't even know there is a torch on the phone, wondered at once.
Steven raised an eyebrow, "What? I once lit up a tennis court with my phone's torch."
"Wait, you can hold a tennis racquet?" Dry Bones wondered, alerting everyone his presence.
"Ah!" Noki screamed a flung her hands backwards, hitting Dry Bones, "There's a ghost!"
Dry Bones scoffed, "Hey! I've been so underused in this fic so far except for the chapter that I came in that no one even remembers about me!"
"True that, I think people could list me out faster than you!" Tess Z chuckled darkly.
Dry Bones immediately burst into tears. "Why do you do this to me?! Why?! I cannot stand being mocked! Bring it on, you wasteful chef!"
"Excuse me?!" Tess Z wondered out aloud, "I'm a fantastic chef! Maybe a flying cake from here and there, but I'm not wasteful at all!"
"No! You are! You are ruining the basic rules of culinary!" Dry Bones pointed a finger of accusation at her as she fell to the ground dramatically with shock displayed all over her.
Noki slammed the wall for the noise for the effect she wanted. "Objection!" Everyone immediately turned to her, "It's her cooking, so she could do whatever she wishes to do with it!"
"Yes, that is definitely the case…" Tess Z cackled like a witch in a certain crossover. "Or maybe… it is you who is seeking attention?"
Dry Bones looked shocked for a moment, and crumbled into a bone heap. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Silence fell.
"Meh, at least she's not attacking me anymore." Toadette winked as she brushed some cake off from her clothing. Hearing this, Tess Z immediately slammed a cake into her face. "Why is it always me?!"
Team Argument Peoples:
"The language of gibberish must be defined!" Jenny declared as she broke down bookshelves into dust twice smaller as Vivian's and searched through all of the books. "I demand that this strange way of communication has to be solved!"
"You realize that it's actually just a bunch of nonsense?" Lily asked her as she carried some books containing pieces of artwork, hoping to be able to snatch them away.
Jenny immediately pointed behind Lily, "Look! That is the mysterious communication of gibberish!"
"Mehghsomehgiohsions, ghisondioghjsion!" Keegan excitedly told Blooper.
Blooper looked confused, "Hiodiainsometa? Mahd, theiojagiona."
Goombella looked utterly confused, "Kile, thiat thioad, kile, maiongioha dhiaogha, kile, ghiaogja acrobrtiang!"
"Oh gosh, I've figured it out!" Jenny gasped dramatically.
Lily's eyes immediately widened in confusion, speechlessness, and clearly said 'excuse me' into Jenny's face.
"At least, a part of it." Jenny explained, "Listen back at what Goombella said again… yes, that's right, audience… 'Kile' is the word 'like' jumbled all up together! That means, in the language of gibberish, 'kile' means 'like'!"
Goombella immediately gulped as Keegan and Blooper told her that she ruined it, "Like… like… like… like… like… KYAAAAAAAAA!"
The goomba fainted as if she's in a certain series in which witnesses will be driven insane by the defender, much like Dry Bones did.
Lily wiped the sweat off from her forehead. "Alright, this is absolutely ridiculous!"
"No, it's not!" Jenny argued back dramatically, "Or rather, would you like to battle it out with words?"
"Bring it on!" Lily challenged her.
Blooper grabbed Keegan and smashed him onto Goombella's head like a judge. "The court shall now ask Ms. Rockler to testify about the language of gibberish!"
Lily's Testimony
Gibberish
There is no language of 'gibberish' from the start.
All of that is completely your imagination and their silly-doings blended together.
If you use the dictionary to define it, it will come up as 'a language of complete randomness without any sense'.
The above definition is from the Rockler Dictionary 5th Edition, page 42.
Lily smirked smugly, "See? I'm perfect, you cannot find a flaw in that perfect testimony!"
"I would like to cross-examine the witness!" Jenny stormed with rage.
Blooper slammed Keegan onto Goombella again for the effect, "Very well, your wish shall be granted… after the commercial break!"
"Huh?" Everyone else wondered.
Team Stupid Idiots:
The group had finally found a way into the secret room, at the cost of Andy being squashed by the statue so the rest could get in and pull him out.
"Look at that!" Frank pumped a fist in the air before running towards the obvious chest on a podium… and fell into a trapdoor under his feet when he reached it.
"I have lost all faith in humanity! Can't you see that it is obviously a trap?!" Nicole raged as usual, "Here, I'll show you how it's done."
Nicole immediately jumped and landed expertly on top of the podium, she touched the treasure chest, and it sucked her inside then locked itself.
Birdo giggled, "Oh look Nicole! I've lost faith in you!"
"Grr! I'll show you what I can do when I get out of here!" Nicole's screams were heard from the chest, however, as the chest in entirely sealed, the goomba is most likely experiencing ringing ears through the loud echoes she created herself.
Sabrina turned to Birdo. "Um… there are traps around, but I think there is something here…"
"Maybe this will inform your cluelessness?" Birdo pointed at a sign in the corner of the room that says 'Trolling Room'.
Sabrina squinted at the sign, "Um, I didn't wear my contacts today."
"Wait, you're shortsighted?" Birdo suddenly wondered.
"Um, yes, but others are too." Sabrina replied. "Such as Jenny, she wears glasses all the time. Vivian needs glasses when she's designing, Steven wears glasses when he's reading something from a distance, and I'm surprised that he could read in the first place. Nicole wears contacts, Frank is shortsighted but doesn't wear glasses, Toadette sometimes wears her glasses in mornings, Kooper wears contacts, Noki wears contacts, Mimi denies that she needs glasses when she clearly squints at everything more than 2 meters away, Luvbi sometimes wears glasses, same with Dry Bones, and I'm surprised that Goombella still has perfect vision."
Birdo's jaw dropped, "How'd you know that?! I thought you just joined our circle for about a month!"
"Um, I've read the most basic information about our group." Sabrina replied.
Birdo was even more shocked. "Wait, I never knew such thing existed."
"Um, it's at Moley Koopa's house, so yeah…" Sabrina casually replied, "Like, everything is written inside, such as everyone's eyesight as I've mentioned, if they have problems within the group, and all that jazz."
"Wait, does it say that I never had an English degree, yet I'm still an English teacher?!" Birdo demanded an answer and revealing her secret at the same time.
Sabrina shook her head as Birdo slapped a hand over her mouth before wincing in pain. "Um, no. But thanks to yourself, expect a call from your school for a very friendly and casual chat when this is released."
"Ugh! Bowser, you have to cut this part out, or I shall murder you and eat you raw!" Birdo stomped the ground.
Sabrina sighed, "Um, I think you're just getting more troubles with your future career instead."
Team Floating Spookers:
Katty chewed on the stem of a flower. "Oh, this is the perfect snack in the afternoon!"
"I thought we are over the word?" Shy Guy smirked at her before getting punched in the face, or should I say, mask.
Toad checked his watch, "One, it's called 'afternoon tea', two, it's only eleven thirty in the morning."
"Silly Toad!" Flona smacked him on the head with her fan, "Everyone knows that your watch is 3 hours late! It is currently two in the afternoon, GWA HI HAHAHA!"
"That's 2 and a half hours, not 3." Toad corrected her before getting brutally smacked again.
Bootler laughed heartily, "Hohoho, let us get to work."
"To what?" Katty questioned.
"To work!" Shy Guy answered for Bootler as he punched her in the face as the two began fighting as well.
Flona took a deep breath, "Bootler! I demand an arrangement for this disaster please!" However, Flona should know better than just expressing the fights as a 'disaster' and asked for an 'arrangement'.
"Very well!" Bootler pulled out a pen and a notepad and drew a surprisingly good disco ball which he called a rectangular room. "Katty and Shy Guy's wedding. Katty is the bride, Shy Guy is the groom, Nicole will be the bridesmaid, and Keegan will be the best man. Maybe two will not be enough, so I'll put Vivian and Lily as the other bridesmaids and Evan and Andy as the other best men. Frank can be the one tasting the food, Dry Bones will cook the food, Yoshi, Toad, and Steven could serve the food. Jenny, Flona, Allen, and Parker could perform whatever they are good at."
Before the old boo could ramble on about the impossible pair, Katty and Shy Guy are already working together to punch the heck out of him.
Flona facepalmed, "Oh well, at least they are not arguing anymore, GWA HI HAHAHA!"
"You said 'oh'!" Toad pointed out smartly before getting slapped by Flona again.
Bootler is now screaming mercy, Flona is busy slapping Toad, Toad is busy being slapped, Katty is dumping flowers onto Bootler, and Shy Guy is telling Bootler ghost stories. But ironically, Shy Guy is the one that is scared of his own stories and Bootler is a ghost himself, so Katty mocked Shy Guy and the two got into another fight. Bootler tried to intervene, but his efforts came fruitless when Katty retorted to grumpily eating an apple and Shy Guy eating a banana, leaving him with no fruit to eat himself. Thus, proving Bootler's situation to be fruitless. Hashtag pun.
"I know right?" Katty agreed with the narration.
Team Aqua Shell:
"This is not happening!" Dry Bones pounded the wall for sound effects as he pretended to be a character in a series that includes trials. "I must not fail here! Tess Z is obviously a witch, can't you see?"
"I cannot." Toadette waved a stick around as she tried to remove the taped sunglasses on her head.
Noki sighed and helped her friend with getting rid of the props she pulled out from nowhere. "Dry Bones, you should stop arguing with Tess Z, let the elders have their way."
"Are you calling me old, young lady? I'm what? Only 1600 years old!" Tess Z slammed a piece of cake onto Noki's face.
Kooper looked up in thought, "I thought last chapter she stated that she was 60?"
"Oh, I know!" Steven jumped up and down. "That's a concentration in her testimony! Er… connection? Conduction? Concoction?"
"Maybe… contradiction?" Kooper suggested.
Steven clapped his hands together. "Yes, that!"
"That is a contradiction!" Dry Bones pointed at Tess Z.
Tess Z on the other hand, waved it off as if it is nothing. "Meh, I couldn't be bothered thinking about it. Besides, it's my own age, right?"
"But that doesn't say that you're not a witch!" Dry Bones continued.
Toadette suddenly felt a sensation as a temporary brain grew itself inside her brainless skull. "That actually means nothing. I mean, like, Tess Z didn't use witchcraft, and it's not illegal in this world, either. So why are you talking about it?"
"Look, I was just… trying to reference to a game, alright?" Dry Bones defended himself.
Tess Z smirked, "Maybe it's because that you are trying to get attention. Let be review the case. Mr. Dry Bones Bonisk felt like that he didn't play enough of a part in this story as of current, so he decided to try to frame an innocent old lady as a witch so that he could get a bit of attention! But he forgot the fact that witchcraft isn't even illegal!"
Dry Bones breathed heavily for a second, before crumbling into another bone heap. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
That is when Tess Z stuffed a slice of cake into his mouth to shut him up. Despite the fact that he's still in a bone heap.
"So… what next?" Parker alerted everybody of his presence.
Toadette's brain disappeared, "Oh! I forgot that you are there! Here, have some cakes, Tess Z, I would like some cake to share with my friend here please."
"No way!" Tess Z slammed a cake onto Toadette's face.
Team Argument Peoples:
"Lily, I clearly demonstrated the art of Gibberish right in front of your face. Besides, they have already admitted to their guilt!" Jenny shouted at her highest volume, which is fairly quiet and Lily even needed hearing aids just for it. Well, maybe if she didn't try to shout and fail epically, Lily would've heard her easily. Oh well, too bad, too sad.
Blooper resumed the trial, "Very well, now I guess it's time to resume the trial. Keegan Heath, can you take the witness stand please?"
"Rely on me, then!" Keegan exclaimed and pushed Lily right out of the stand, despite the fact that Jenny's not even finished with her. "I'll be giving my very reliable testimony! Gibberish exists!"
"Wait, your job is to convince her that it doesn't exist!" Lily argued back.
Keegan nodded, "Yep! I got it!"
Keegan's Testimony
Gibberish
Gibberish exists, I can put 100 coins on that! If I have that much in my wallet, since Sab always takes care of the money.
I know that this will sound weird, but it's just as reliable as me! Lily's copy of her own dictionary is wrong!
In fact, what Blooper, Goombella, and the trustworthy Keegan were talking about earlier is gibberish!
That proves it, Gibberish exists!
Lily began banging her head on the wall as Jenny giggled to herself. "Good Keegan, see Lily? Keegan agrees with me."
"Yep, I can prove it, Gibberish exists!" Keegan took a book out of his robe. "This book is written in Gibberish!"
"That's French." Jenny immediately corrected him, despite the fact that she wanted to win the trial, she felt like that she had to correct him.
Keegan looked confused as he read it out, "Gjioadsaghidaondigaohgidaohsgi, how's that English?!"
"Try turning it upside down." The noki advised as the idiotic shy guy did so, finally realizing it. Until he noticed that he couldn't read any of it because he doesn't know how to speak or read French. Jenny sighed and took the book, "It's bookmarked on the favorite dish of Toadette's, well, the most recent one as she has a lot. Toe de ette. Not only it's a cute name that sounds like hers, I bet she really likes the crispy taste of its."
Goombella raised an eyebrow, "Like, but she, like, said 'Toadette', like, when she, like, asked for, like, one of, like, that dish."
"To answer your questions, it's Toadette. Don't expect too much." Jenny's wise words hit Goombella hard, and she immediately nodded and took notes mentally. Ironically, whenever Goombella makes mental notes, nine out of ten she will forget about it within the first ten minutes.
Blooper scratched his head, "So… what's next? We're really not getting anything done. And I'm not even kidding."
"I know right? There's literally nothing. Oh well, rely on me! I shall ask for directions from that friendly looking boo over there!" Keegan rushed towards the glaring, knife wielding boo. After a short 10 seconds of conversation which includes drugs, alcohol, and death threats, Keegan ran away crying like a little girl. Being as dumb as they are and Jenny and Lily not thinking about it, the team followed him.
Team Stupid Idiots:
"Found it!" Birdo flipped a switch, which she presumed was the exit to the door and maybe the exit to freedom.
However, her hopes were brutally snuffed when honey dripped all over her and bees were released.
Sabrina panicked, "Um, run for my life!" Sabrina ran around everywhere moronically, until she stepped on a switch and a spring sent her flying away through the floor and outside into the garden of the mansion.
Nicole banged on the chest, "Help me!"
"Help me!" Frank shouted from beneath the floor.
"I. Need. Medical. Help." The flattened Andy choked out.
Birdo decided that she is no match for the bees, and decided that she's going to suck then in and eat them raw. Which she did. "Haha! I rock!"
"I never knew that was possible. I have lost all faith in humanity." Nicole plainly stated.
Birdo raised an eyebrow, "Excuse me, but if you are really trapped inside that chest, you will not be able to see what I'm doing right now."
"Oh, so I'm out!" Nicole rolled right out of the chest for some reason, and jumped up and down happily, until a net fished her right up again. "Ugh!"
Sabrina's shriek was heard by everyone inside the mansion, and people's eardrums were popped for real this time. "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum!"
"That's… an original shriek. Normally people go 'eek' or 'ah', but 'um' is certainly Sabrina-like." Andy commented as he returned back to normal.
Frank was also helped out by Birdo. Well, by helped out, it means that she stepped on a switch by accident and he was shot out by a spring. Unlike Sabrina however, he crashed right into the roof and fainted.
"I have lost all faith in humanity." Nicole commented.
Sabrina shrieked the Sabrina shriek again, until everyone was magically teleported outside.
"SABRINA HAS MADE OUT OF THE MANSION VIA THE BACK GATE! TEAM STUPID IDIOTS HAS WON TODAY!" Kamek shouted.
"Huh? Yay!" Was everyone else on the team's first reaction to the news.
All Teams:
"Team Stupid Idiots, nice job, head back to your airship!" Kamek commanded.
Jenny raised a hand, "Excuse me, but where's Bowser?"
"The king is too afraid of ghosts, and required some medical attention." Kamek answered.
Nicole's face dropped, "I have lost all faith in humanity."
Everyone that isn't on her team wondered why Birdo and Andy were drilling their ears with dangerous drills. But in the end, they tensed up for the bonus stars as Team Stupid Idiots retreated for the day. Heck, they were so tensed up that Dry Bones even crumbled into a bone heap, and Keegan almost fainted.
Kamek took out the 5 bonus stars. "Today we have…"
Red Star
Running Star
Dumb Star
Brain Star
Argue Star
"The Red Star goes to…" Kamek waved his wand up high.
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"That really hurt, you know, Flona. That's why we got the star." Toad lectured the boo, and in return, the boo only smacked him even more.
"The Running Star goes to…" Kamek continued.
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Lily jumped up high, "Yes! Good job Keegan, you were useful, for once!"
"The Dumb Star goes to…" Kamek waved his wand up high again.
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Blooper caught the star, "Perfect!"
"The Brain Star goes to…" Kamek took the star up.
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"Wait… what?" Noki wondered as the star fell into her hands.
Kamek smirked, "The Noise Star can either cause a tie, or a team losing. But anyways, it belongs to…"
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"Good, Katty and Shy Guy, you two are useful for once as well." Flona laughed.
Kamek smirked, "Team Argument Peoples and Team Floating Spookers, go back to your airships!"
"See ya, suckers!" Shy Guy taunted before heading back and pathetically tripping on a pebble.
Kamek turned to the team, "Please vote."
"Dry Bones, he is just seeking for attention now." Parker suggested.
Dry Bones looked offended, "Parker, because he doesn't really exist."
"True that, he's worthless." Noki agreed.
Toadette raised a hand, "Is that the latest fashion now?"
"Yes." Dry Bones answered her stupid question.
Toadette giggled, "I vote to evict Parker, final answer."
"This isn't Big Brother, you know." Steven corrected her, his reality show knowledge getting into useful for once. "Oh well, I guess I'll vote for Parker as well, why not."
"What? No!" Parker waved his arms around.
Kamek cackled, "Parker, with 4 votes… you are the weakest link, goodbye!"
"NOOOOOOOOO!" Parker was sucked into the pipe.
Kamek turned to the rest of the team. "Head back, see you tomorrow."
"I wonder if anyone even noticed me…" Kooper wondered to himself.
Remaining Players: Lily, Jenny, Goombella, Blooper, Keegan, Steven, Kooper, Noki, Toadette, Dry Bones, Flona, Bootler, Katty, Toad, Shy Guy, Frank, Birdo, Nicole, Andy, Sabrina
Losers: Allen, Boo, Yoshi, Luma, Vivian, Evan, Hammer, Parker
Winners' Thoughts:
Frank – We won again, woohoo!
Nicole – I have lost all faith in humanity.
Birdo – The trolling room deserved its name, it is a trolling room.
Andy – I hate being squashed flat! It's not fun! Try it yourself sometime!
Sabrina – Um, I think I might've screamed a bit too loud…
Losers' Thoughts:
Toadette – Meh, anything for fashion.
Dry Bones – Darn, the attention seeking methods aren't working.
Kooper – I'm still wondering how people forgot me at the vote.
Noki – Our team is slowly dissolving. I mean, Dry Bones plus Toadette plus Steven equals to a ticking bomb.
Steven – Wait, I still don't really get it. Did we lose?
Sorry for no dungeon view this time! Because next time, it's going to be the revival session! Yay! XD
So I apologize for no update in ages, but here it is. Thanks for reading, I'm officially back again! XD
Anyways, I would like to hear your opinions on the next actual challenge, because I have these listed below… I just want to know which one I should do next. One more thing, the above lists that were spoken by two characters (glasses and wedding) was made up on the spot. So many of them aren't true, and was just made for the very long list effect. XD So please, tell me which one of the following should I do next.
Mario Kart Balloon Battle
PW Trial
Murder Mystery
Star Hunt
So please tell me which one you would like to see next! Bye! :D