Author's Note: SCREW CHAPTER 7! Updating will resume as normal! Only... a little slower?
FOREST GIRL
"Oh, crappity-croo."
We had arrived at Peach's Castle. But there was a little issue. I mean, we were at where the Castle was supposed to be. There was no-one around, however. But that's not the bad bit. The badbit is that...
"WHERE THE FRACKTAIL IS PEACH'S CASTLE?" I yelled, then went running around everywhere, searching for the Castle frantically.
L stopped me on about my sixth run all around the blank, empty field. "Raven! You really do live up to your name, doncha? Ravin' and yellin' round like that!"
"Why don't we think this through logically and carefully?" asked Dimentio.
Before I could even open my mouth to scoff at him, there was a giant explosion in the blank field.
A giant cylindric metal robot was standing in front of us. Its "legs" were longer, slightly skinnier cylinders than its "body", and its feet looked like flat discs. It had about a dozen "arms", each topped with a metal claw. In four of those claws, there was a prisoner.
"Mario, Luigi," muttered L, pointing at the red-clad and green-clad figures.
"And Peach and Daisy," murmured Dimentio, indicating the princesses. "Apparently, our auburn-haired princess was taking a little holiday..."
"Well, we can't just STAND here!" I yelled. "I'm gonna rescue 'em!"
And before those cowards could even shout "Raven! GET BACK HERE!", I was already climbing up the robot's leg.
Fortunately, it didn't notice anything. It simply turned around and made its way to the hills in the distance. I scaled the leg until I reached the flat top of the robot. I then considered the arms, which were far too dangerous to climb on. Instead, I summoned the aura around my sash and gloves, and delivered some karate chops to the top of the robot. It left practically nothing.
Unperturbed, I clicked my fingers, and my dagger appeared instantly in my right hand. It had a razor-sharp point, a gleaming, mirror-like blade, and a golden handle, with an emerald set in the middle on either side. I slashed at the steel, but to no effect. I then tried a less head-on approach. I carved around the side of the top until I had made a circle. I then somersaulted into the air and delivered a kick to the weakest point: the centre.
The "lid" immediately collapsed under my weight, and I found myself amidst a mess of colour-coded wires and blinking lights and switches and about every other friggin' thing you'll find in a robot. I looked around and selected a nearby red wire, which I slashed with my dagger.
The entire thing blew up in flames.