Chapter 2
Bowser and Friends Strike!
Andrew woke up after what seemed like hours. He looked around. He was in a medical room on a hospital bed. Andrew looked to his left. Ed was lying down next to him. Andrew nudged Ed.
"Ed. Ed, wake up." Andrew pleaded.
Ed moved and sat up. "Gravy." Ed replied.
Andrew sighed. "Good. Your brain still sorta works."
"Oh, good. You're both awake." Andrew and Ed turned their heads towards the door. In front of it was a mushroom creature with a mushroom cap on its head, white with red spots. He was wearing blue pants and a doctor's coat.
"You two just appeared out of nowhere. Luckily none of the guards were out to lunch. Apparently, there were no injuries on either of your bodies."
Andrew and Ed just gave him a blank expression.
"Can I help you with anything?" The mushroom man asked.
"Yeah." Ed said. "Why do you look like Mushroom Man from 'The Adventures of Mushroom Man'?"
"Excuse me?" The doctor asked. Andrew clamped his hand over Ed's mouth.
"What my friend means is: 'Can we please see where we are?' We're kinda not from around here."
"Yes, I understand. We have a couple more guests with the same problem. Let me show you." Andrew and Ed got out of bed and walked out the room, following the mushroom man through a hallway. They came out into a foyer decorated for a party. The mushroom man walked up to a person not visible to Andrew and Ed. The toad man walked back over with three people in tow. The first was a ten year old boy with brown hair like Andrew's and green eyes wearing a white shirt with a black line down the middle, dark green pants, black shoes, and a weird device on his left wrist that was black with white lines and a white symbol on top. Next to him was a thirteen year old boy with beady black eyes, wearing a white bear head hat that covered his head revealing only his face, a blue shirt, light blue shorts, a green backpack and black shoes. The other person wasn't a human at all. It was a bipedal yellow dog with black and white eyes and jowls that looked like a mustache.
"So, these are the other two you told us about?" The thirteen year old asked.
"They don't look that tough." The ten year old boy stated.
"Says you!" Andrew mocked. "I'm two years older than you!"
The boy reached for the device on his wrist, but the doctor stopped him. "Now, now, young master. There's no need for that kind of violence here. Now, kindly introduce yourselves."
The ten year old grunted. "I'm Ben. Ben Tennyson." (Sorry if I spelled his last name wrong. I only call him 'Ben 10')
"I'm Finn the Human. Nice to meet you guys." The thirteen year old, Finn, introduced. "And this is Jake." He motioned to the dog next to him.
"Hi there." Jake greeted.
"Now…" The doctor continued. "I have to go meet someone. Please get acquainted with each other." The doctor left the foyer.
"So…" Finn said, trying to make conversation. "Where are you guys from?"
"Ed and I are from Peach Creek, Arizona." Andrew said, answering the question.
"I'm from Bellwood." Ben said.
"Jake and I are from the Land of Ooo." Finn said.
"Gee, that's funny. I can't remember where I was born."
Andrew, Ed, Ben, Finn and Jake looked up the stairs. They saw a fifteen year old teen with black hair and orange eyes in unusual clothing: an orange jacket, black shirt, blue jeans and black shoes with orange goggles.
"Who are you?" Andrew asked. The teen jumped down from the floor above, landing in front of Finn.
"I'm Rex." He answered.
Andrew and Ed were staring at him in a amazed expression.
"You're so cool!" Andrew and Ed yelled simultaneously.
"Uh…" Rex didn't know how to respond. "Thanks?"
Suddenly, the castle began rumbling and quaking.
"Whoa!" Andrew yelped.
"We're toast!" Jake yelled.
"Toast?" Ed exclaimed, looking for a warm slice of toast with no such luck.
Outside, the castle began to rise into the air with another more sinister castle underneath. It rose higher and higher into the sky.
Finally, the rumbling stopped.
"What happened?" Andrew asked. All the guests hid behind the stairs.
Suddenly, the foyer doors burst open revealing the oddest trio ever seen. The leader seemed to be a large mechanized albino wolf humanoid with red piercing eyes underneath the metal mask. Next to him was a large green reptile humanoid with a large crystal for a left hand standing on four feet. The third was the most normal looking. She was dressed like a schoolgirl, wearing a white buttoned shirt and red skirt. She had gray skin and four arms, two of them large the other two normal.
The leader stepped forward. "Listen up! All guests please step forward and we won't have to use force."
Rex growled in anger. "The Pack." Rex turned to the others. "You guys stay here while I take care of these guys." Rex ran forward yelling. His hands transformed into giant orange metal fists. The large reptile creature (Forgot his name.) launched a round of crystals at Rex, who in turn blocked it with his fists.
Ben, Finn and Jake looked at Andrew and Ed concerned. "Okay. You two stay here while we help Rex."
"What can you do?" Andrew asked.
Finn pulled out a yellow chipped sword (My favorite sword in the series ;)) Jake turned his fists into giant fists. Ben pushed the button on his device. The top popped up, the white hourglass symbol started glowing green with a four armed silhouette on it. Ben turned the dial until it was on a fire like guy silhouette. Ben slammed it down. Green light surrounded his entire being, blinding Andrew and Ed. The light cleared revealing Ben transformed into a fire being with the same symbol on his chest.
The trio ran out, trying to attack. Finn and Jake were instantly frozen by two separate beams. A being flew down from the ceiling. He was old with a long white beard and blue skin. He was wearing a blue tunic and a yellow jeweled crown. Ben got smacked aside by a hodgepodge like being of aliens.
"Quick, Ed." Andrew whispered. "Let's escape while we still can."
"But what about the others?" Ed asked concerned.
"They can take care of themselves, but we can't. Let's live to fight another day." Andrew and Ed snuck around the stairs, trying to get away. The gray skinned girl appeared grabbing both Andrew and Ed by their necks.
"Well, well." The girl said. "What have we here? Two boys thinking they can escape?"
The others crowded around her and the two boys.
"Who are they?" The wolf asked.
"I don't know." The reptile said.
"Maybe their spies for that Mario guy Bowser told us about." The king looking man suggested.
"Mario?" Andrew and Ed exclaimed
"See? They do know him!" The king shouted.
"Quiet, Ice King!" The wolf shouted. The Ice King shut himself up.
"What should we do with them, Biowulf?" The reptile asked.
"Let's just throw them over. They're just two weak kids." The alien said.
Biowulf nodded. The Ice King ran over and opened the doors. Biowulf hung Andrew and Ed over what looked like a 100 mile drop. Andrew gulped. There was no way they could survive the drop.
"Sorry. You're just too cowardly to be prisoners."
With that, Biowulf let them go, letting them hurtle toward the ground. Andrew and Ed screamed as they fell through the sky. The wind stung Andrew and Ed, almost as though the wind were mixed with broken glass and razor blades. Through the piercing wind, Andrew saw another figure falling through the sky as well. Andrew blacked out from the winds.