SBS Time!
SlasherMask: Fawful is being too much of a generic henchman in this story.
Game2002: Sit quietly and let this story progress first or else you'll get MY fury.
Chapter 4
I'd never thought I would run into this kid here! Now I must get my hands on him no matter what!
Dragohoho was easily knocked out by the Smashers and it was a feat that surprised everyone. When the dinosaur had fallen, it started to glow in rainbow color brightly and then kept on shrinking in size until it was as small as pea and then it disappeared into nothing.
"Okay… That was unexpected…" Captain Falcon said, referring to how Dragohoho died.
"We took care of whatever that thing was all right," Marth said as he sheathed his sword. "But I still don't really get what happened yet."
"Whoa… Did you see that…? They knocked out that giant dinosaur really easily!" Asuna said in awe.
"So what's da story here?" Mario asked the students. "Would-a you mind explaining everything to us?"
"Oh yeah… Thanks for cleaning things up around here, even though I don't really know who you guys are," Negi said. "But I'll explain everything to you guys." The child teacher explained the situation to them and the Smashers easily got what he was talking about.
"Okay, let's put it in summary," CF said. "A villain stole something important from the museum and you guys tried to stop to her, and then she summoned the dinosaur from earlier only to have it get defeated by us."
"Why is it that things like this happen everywhere we go…?" Luigi asked. "We can never get some peace time, can we?"
"Wait… Speaking of which…" Kotaro turned to look at the roof top and saw that Cackletta and Fawful were no longer there. "Dammit! We forgot all about them!"
"Oh no!" Negi gasped.
"They were over there just now?" Marth asked. "They must've escaped while we weren't paying attention. What is the thing that was stolen anyway?"
"It's something… How do I put it…?" Negi began to explain. "Okay, it's an evil spirit that was sealed away in a container that was stolen."
Gyde was surprised when he heard this. "Do you mean the Spirit of the Cruncher?!"
"Yes, that's the one."
"Oh my god! That thing is stolen?! What do we do?! If that thing were to fall into the wrong hands, Lycia will be in danger! What do we do?!"
"Whoa, hold on a second!" G&W said. "What's the big deal? What is the Spirit of the Cruncher?"
"If I remember correctly," Meta-Knight said. "There was a time in the history of Lycia where a giant monster known as the Cruncher terrorized this country."
"That's not the entire story," Gyde continued. "The monster was said to be invincible, but a mage managed to defeat it by extracting its soul and sealing it away inside a spherical container, so without its spirit, the Cruncher was basically dead. After that, the body was disposed of and the spirit was considered to be harmless now that it can no longer reunite with the body, and that's why it is placed in this museum as an exhibition without hesitation."
"I don't really think that's a smart idea in the first place…" Red said.
"But if what you say is true," Dedede said. "Why would the bad guy want to steal a spirit that is now worthless due to having no body?"
"Um… I have no idea also…" Negi said. "We only tried to stop them from stealing it and didn't bother to ask anything else."
"Negi sensei!" shouted the voice of girls. They all turned around to see the entire class running up to them.
"Negi sensei, are you all right?" Ayaka asked him. "I was so worried about you!"
"Thank for the concern, but I'm all right," he replied with a smile. "These people helped us settle the matter."
"What about the thing that was stolen?" Makie asked. "Did you recover it?"
"Unfortunately…" Setsuna said with a sigh. "The thief escaped with it… We failed to get back the stolen property…"
"Though not like it should be of any big concern considering what the tour guide told us just now," CF said. "But still, I think something should still be done. You'll never know what the thieves have in mind when they stole that thing."
When Kazumi saw the Smashers, she said, "Hey, I think I know you guys!"
"You do, Kazumi?" Negi asked her. "Who are they?"
"If I remember correctly… You guys were on the news before about something big, wasn't it?"
"If you mean the Alias Lobby incident and all," Marth said, "That's us all right."
"Aha! So I remembered right! That was one of the biggest and most shocking news of all time!" Kazumi said.
"I remember too!" Konoka said. "I saw you guys on newspaper before!"
"But that's-a all gone to pass," Mario said. "The government gave uz a chance to redeem ourselves by stopping a rebellion army, and then we are pardoned for what-a we've done at Alias Lobby afterwards."
"I'm just glad that we don't have to live a life of being chased by the law anymore," Pikachu said. "Horrible memories back then…"
"Hey, cheer up now that it's all over!" Pichu said, giving him a pat in the back.
"Hey! It's a Pichu again!" Fuuka said when she saw him. "And this one can talk too!"
"For your record, it was I that you girls saw back at the hotel!" Pichu told her as he walked up to them.
"Awww! So cute!" Most of the girls immediately gathered around Pichu and started petting and touching him all over the place.
"It's so cute! I've always wanted to own a Pichu!" Sakurako said.
"This is my first time seeing one!" Makie said. "I've always wanted one as pet too!"
"Pichu gets all the girls, doesn't he?" Yoshi said.
"Hey! There's a Jigglypuff over there!" Fumika pointed out, and the girls immediately rushed over to the balloon Pokemon to pet and touch it.
"Jigglypuff!" Jigglypuff said happily.
"Awww! So cute!!" they squealed happily.
"So… Now what?" Wario asked as he dug for gold if you know what I mean.
Gyde walked back from the museum and said, "I talked to the guards just now and they say the museum is in a state of ruin after what happened, so I'm afraid going inside is out of words for now… I'm sorry that all this happened…"
"You do not have to apologize," ROB said. "It is not your fault that all this happened. You only tried to bring us here and had you not bring us here earlier; I am afraid that things would have gotten worse as the monster goes on rampage and cause fatality."
"Thanks… I'm glad that I tried my best…"
Satomi spotted ROB and walked over to him and looked at him with great interest. "Whoa, a robot! The design is pretty simple, but the way you talked just now… That's very advanced A.I.!"
"Thank you for your compliments," ROB replied.
"Who created you?"
"Nah, nobody created him," G&W said. "You probably wouldn't believe it, but he came from a planet full of robots. But the origin of those robots… Okay, I don't know that…"
"It was said that human civilization once existed in Cybertron thousands of years ago and their advanced technology created our ancestors, but as time passed, the humans faded away and the machines took over," ROB explained. "Since then, the robots would create new ones to fill the population and replace the one that deceased."
"How come you never told us anything about this?" Luigi asked.
"You did not question me my race's origins."
"Amazing… There really is a planet like you say out there in space?" Satomi asked, sounding very interested. "Really wish I can go there someday!"
"I see that the girl with green hair is also a robot, and a very advanced one at that too," ROB said when he saw Chachamaru.
"Oh yeah, I have to introduce you to my creation!" Satomi said, and she called Chachamaru over. "This is Chachamaru, an android that I created."
"It is a pleasure to meet you," Chachamaru said to ROB and even bowed down politely.
"A pleasure to meet you too," ROB replied, giving a bow.
As they talked among each other, Kirby noticed a classy limousine accompanied by motorcycles coming over to the museum grounds. "Looks like a crowd is coming," Kirby said.
"Oh my! It's the king's limousine!" Gyde said in surprise "King Roy is coming here!"
"The king?!" gasped Class 3-A.
"Roy!" exclaimed the Smashers instead.
The vehicles all came to a stop and the driver stepped out with a rolled up red carpet in under his arm and laid it out in front of the car door before opening it. After that, the teenager king himself stepped out from the limousine followed by his wife while the bikers blew a loud fanfare using trumpets. The advisor came out from the front door of the limousine and shouted out loud, "Make way for the king of Lycia! King Roy has now made his entrance!"
"All right, Merlinus," Roy said to the advisor. "You don't have to be so formal. I'm not… really used to it yet." He walked towards the Smashers and raised his hand and said, "Yo!"
"Roy!!!" Pichu and Jigglypuff exclaimed happily. They both rushed up to Roy and jumped into his open arms and gave him a big hug. "We miss you!"
"Haha! I miss you guys too!" he replied happily.
"Nice to see you again!" Lilina said to the two Pokemon.
"Nice to see you again too!" Pichu said to her.
The other Smashers walked up to him to greet him. "How's it been?" Marth asked.
"Fine! Thanks!" Roy replied. "I hope you love what you've seen in this country until now!"
"Yeah, it's good."
"Hey… He's the king and those people treating him very casually…" Asuna said. "Is that all right?"
"Before he ascended onto the throne, King Roy used to spend his time living with those people," Gyde explained. "Even until now, he considers them to be his family and is very close to them."
"I see…"
Roy spotted the students and waved his hand at them, and they instantly all bowed down in order to pay their respects. "All right, you can raise your heads," Roy said to them. "You guys are here touring the museum, right? I hope you like this place!"
"Wow… He's really handsome!" Sakurako said quietly.
"Can someone young like him be the king?" Yuuna wondered. "But then, we have a ten years old teacher, so I don't think this is too farfetched."
Roy walked up to the class and shook hands with them happily, and you could tell that he's enjoying it. Lilina, who was standing behind him, cleared her throat loudly as a reminder that he shouldn't be enjoying this too much. "I know, sweetheart…" he said under his breath.
"Heheh! He called her sweetheart!" Makie said with a giggle.
When Roy approached Negi, the child teacher bowed down politely and said rather nervously, "It's an… honor to meet you… King! I am… the teacher of Class 3-A from Mahora Academy in Japan, and they are all my students! My name is Negi Springfield!"
"Teacher?" Roy said in surprise, and the Smashers were all equally surprised to hear this.
"You're the teacher of all these girls?!" Kirby asked. "At this age?!"
"Yes, even though it sounds weird. I'm 10 years old," Negi told him.
"Whoa! Being a teacher at the age of ten?!" Red said in shock. "That's the youngest teacher I've ever seen!"
"Negi sensei may be young, but he's a very excellent teacher!" Konoka said cheerfully.
"And cute too!" Ayaka added.
"I still have a hard time accepting this fact…" Chisame said in her mind.
"I guess this world really has all kinds of people," CF commented, "Nice to know you, Mr. Negi Springfield!"
"Nice to know you guys too!" he said.
Merlinus came up to Roy and said to him, "Your majesty, it seems that something has happened to the museum before we came. I asked the guards about it just now."
"What is it?" he asked him.
"The Spirit of the Cruncher is stolen."
"What?!"
"Oh yeah, that happened earlier," Marth said. "And when we came, we saw the child teacher and some of his students facing off against a giant dinosaur."
"I'll explain everything," Negi said, and he told Roy everything that happened. "And that's what happened."
"That's horrible…" Roy said in a worried tone. "To think that one of the most dangerous things in the museum would be stolen… We must reclaim it before the thief does something bad to it…"
"But shouldn't it be all right if the body of the monster doesn't exist anymore?" Dedede asked.
"Yeah, that's what I heard, but for safety measure, we must find the thief at all cost and get that thing back! Do you guys know who stole it?"
"We don't know their names," Kotaro replied. "We do know their faces though. One is an ugly green-skinned hag…"
"Here, I've drawn them on the paper!" Haruna said, showing Roy her sketchbook, and it showed well drawn images of both Cackletta and Fawful.
"So these are the thieves?" Roy asked.
"And if I remember correctly," Asuna said. "They're called Cackota and Awful, I think…"
"My lord, if I remember correctly," Merlinus said to Roy, "Cackletta is a witch from the country of Beanbean Kingdom. She is the worst criminal of that country and has caused all sorts of offense using evil sorcery."
"No wonder she was able to break through the barrier that was set up around the container," Roy said. "If a sorceress like her would steal that, I'm even more afraid what she will do with it…"
"Whose idea was it to put the spirit on display at the museum in the first place anyway?" Red asked. "I didn't think that was a good idea…"
"Ask the previous kings… I want to know that too…"
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Somewhere in Lycia was a hideout that Cackletta and Fawful were staying at. They escaped from the museum while Negi was busy explaining the situation to the Smashers by flying. Cackletta could fly using magic while Fawful used his headgear to fly.
As Cackletta placed the Spirit of the Cruncher onto a table, Fawful said to her from behind, "O Great Cackletta, what is your next nastiness that you plan to do for your sandwich of doom? The kids of annoyingness at the museum gave me fury that I really want to give them a taste of my fury! Those fink rats!"
"I'm surprised that we managed to find someone part of the Springfield family this fast," Cackletta said. "He totally saved me the trouble of looking for him! I will not let this opportunity pass no matter what. That kid will be mine and I will do anything to get my hands on him. Heheheh! Speaking of which…" She got out a cell phone from underneath her cloak and dialed it. "Hello? Yes, it's me. Any news on your side? No? Hop to it fast! I managed to steal the spirit from the museum already and it won't do until you finish what you are supposed to do! What? Yes, I know about that. I've also happened to find the person I've been looking for, so rest assure that everything will go as planned! All right, let me know if you have anything to tell me. Geheheheh!" And then she ended the call. "Okay, we need to know more about that kid. Fawful, look up any information regarding that kid we met at the museum. I want to know all that I need to know about him before coming up with a plan on how to get my hands on him!"
"As you say, O Great Cackletta!"
-
After the incident at the museum, the Smashers were taken to tour around the city instead while Class 3-A went their own way under their own schedule, so what both sides were doing now had nothing to do with each other.
Time went by and before you knew it, nighttime had come. Class 3-A had already returned to the hotel after having dinner outside but the Smashers were still out enjoying their time in the city's nightlife such as shopping around in department stores, having fun at pubs, and eating at restaurants. They were truly having a great time for themselves at the moment. Wario was enjoying at a pub, Lucas and Pit were having fun at an amusement park within a department store, CF was at a vehicle exhibition, etc.
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"It sure is a tiring day, isn't it, bro?" Chamo said to Negi as he walked back to his hotel room.
"Yeah, a lot sure happened during the first day of our trip," Negi said. "I was hoping to have an enjoyable and relaxing trip with my students, but who knew that something like this would happen."
"Take it easy, bro! The king will do something about this by himself, so you do not have to burden yourself to do something. Have fun with your students instead and forget everything that happened this morning."
"I'm trying to, but I still… All right, I'll try to forget everything that happened to day."
"Want to use a memory-erasing spell?"
"There's no need to go that far…"
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"600 gold coins for this shirt?!" Luigi said to the seller. "I can get this at E-Bay at a lower price! I demand a half price of 300 gold coins instead!"
"How about 590?" the seller asked him. "Is that a deal?"
"300!"
"550?"
"300!"
"How about 500?"
"300!"
"This guy thinks he can ask for a huge discount?" the seller said in his mind. "Heheh! I'll show you my experience in this sort of things until you comply with me!"
While Luigi and the seller argued over the price, Mario decided to go take a walk. "I'll be taking a walk at da marhet-a outside da store," Mario said to Luigi, who may or may not be listening. "Contact-a me with da phone if you cannot-a find-a me." And then he left.
On his way outside, he ran into Red who said to him, "Hey, enjoying your time here?"
"Yeah!"
"Where's Luigi?"
"Fighting over da price."
"I see…"
"He can get-a very aggressive when eet comes to theez."
"Doesn't look like it, eh? By the way, I'm heading to the market out at the streets."
"That's-a where I'm going too! Let's-a go together!"
-
At the back part of the hotel, three blue slimy puddles were seen oozing across the ground. Since there was nobody else around there, nobody noticed these three slimes moving. Eyes poked out from the slimy puddles and took a gander around until they noticed the hotel building in front of them. "That's the hotel, I think," one of the slimy puddles said.
"We can find the kid in there, right?" asked another one.
"But we're not here to find the kid, but to make him come to Master Cackletta," said the third one. "Since he's a teacher of 30 students, there's no way he'll ignore this if his student is in danger."
"All right, let's go and get our hands on some of his students. Any number will do."
And the slimes slowly crawled towards the building and entered through the nearest window. They can climb walls too.
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Haruna, Nodoka, and Yue were walking down the hallway together with basins containing bathing materials in their hands. "This place sure is great!" Haruna said happily. "They even have hot springs here! That totally makes the bathrooms in our rooms unnecessary!"
As they got close to the door leading to the hot springs, Haruna suddenly noticed something. "Oops! I forgot to bring new clothes! You guys go in first. I'll be back soon!" And she turned to return to her room. "Dang… On the fourth floor and way on the left end of the hotel… That's quite a run long…"
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"This place is pretty big!" Nodoka said when she entered into the spring area with Yue.
They looked around and spotted Kazumi and Ku Fei taking a dip at a small pool nearest to them. "Hey guys! Wanna come over here?" Kazumi said to them while waving her hands.
The two girls went down to join their two friends. Do you expect them to be wearing anything in the hot springs? No. Do you wish that there are illustrations in this story now? Mostly yes, I bet.
"So… Did you enjoy today?" Kazumi asked them. "I sure do! I've learn a lot today and there's going to be a lot to write about for the newsletter regarding this trip!"
"I saw lots of cool things-aru!" Ku Fei said. "It was fun-aru!"
"Though what happened today was unexpected…" Nodoka said.
"Yeah, but good thing none of us were hurt in the end," Yue continued. "Hope nothing bad will happen after this. The thing that was stolen is very dangerous, wasn't it?"
"As long as the body of that monster isn't recovered, I think it won't be any deal," Kazumi said. "Forget about those and enjoy yourselves. So let's talk about what happened afterwards. Did you buy anything today?"
As they chatted with each other happily, the three slimes were seen oozing across the place. "Look at the four over there," one of them said as quietly as possible. "They were on the picture shown to us, right?"
"That's them all right, and at a perfect location too. They just had to choose a small pool while everyone else took the large pools. If we get them here, nobody will notice."
"Let's get to work then," the third one suggested.
The three slime puddles moved towards the pool and stayed as flat as possible to avoid being noticed. The floor was also colored blue, so they were able to camouflage themselves to a certain extent also. They carefully slipped down into the water and then swam towards the four girls from underwater.
"And I brought a new digital camera! Can't wait to use it soon!" Kazumi said.
Yue suddenly felt something lingering around on the lower part of her body underwater. "Did you guys feel something?"
Suddenly, a massive glop of blue slime shot up from behind them like a tidal wave. They turned around to look at it but before they could react or scream; the slime crashed down on top of them.
SPLASH!
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""Hot enough for you?" Yoshi asked Dedede after dumping a bottle of water into his mouth.
"I still feel my mouth burning…" Dedede said with bits of tears flowing down his eyes.
"The winner of the Tabasco drinking contest goes to Kirby then," Meta-Knight said, pointing to Kirby.
"I need more water…" Dedede cried, and he quickly ran off to find more water.
"You're good!" Pikachu said to Kirby. "I didn't know you can take spicy things without any problem."
Kirby giggled and said, "You can do it as long as you secretly change the contents in the bottle with ketchup beforehand!"
Pikachu remained silent at first, but then burst out laughing knowing that Kirby cheated all along.
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"That's better!" Negi said, stepping out from the toilet.
Chamo was lying on the bed puffing smokes from a cigarette and asked him, "Why didn't just take a bath along?"
"You know I don't like taking baths."
"Whatever…"
Then there was a knock at the door and then a piece of paper was slipped into the room from underneath the door. Negi responded to the knock and picked up the paper that was on the floor and read it. It wrote:
Dear Mr. Springfield,
If you are reading this letter, that means some of your students have been taken by us! If you value their lives, I want you to come to the fighting arena on the map drawn at the back side of this paper at once. You must come alone; otherwise your students are dead the moment I see someone else accompanying you. If you do not come by tomorrow morning, I will send your students back to you… in pieces! Geheheheh!
From Cackletta
A look of shock appeared on his face when he read this. Chamo hopped onto his shoulder and read the letter and was shocked also. "Oh man! This is bad! The thief from this morning kidnapped some of your students?!"
"I must rescue them at once!" Negi said.
"Want to let Asuna sis know about this?"
"No, the letter said for me to go alone, otherwise they will be in danger!" Negi quickly ran over to pick up his staff and then ran to the veranda. "Chamo, don't let anyone know about this! I will be back as soon as I can!"
"You sure about this?" Chamo asked him one last time. "What if this turns out to be a trick by the bad guys to lure you over? Maybe I should go around and ask the others if anyone is missing?"
"I'll still go over there anyway in case this is real, but please don't let anyone know about! I'm off!" After saying this, Negi sat onto his staff and took off on it as if it were a flying broom. Thanks to the night sky, nobody down at the courtyard saw him taking off.
"Be careful, bro…"
-
Mario and Red walked back to where their bus was parked and saw that nobody had returned yet. "Let's put our bags here and then go back to the others again," Red said.
Mario looked at his watch and said, "There eez still about-a thirty minutes before everyone returns, so I think-a theez eez all right."
The parking a lot was mostly empty except for a few cars, and there was a single guard patrolling the place. The parking a lot was also located at a part of the street that was very quiet at night, so there was nobody else besides them there. As Mario and Red turned to leave, they suddenly noticed something flying in the air. "Hey, what's that?" Red asked.
They eyed the flying thing as it slowly descended and landed in front of a stadium-like building not too far away from the parking lot.
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"This is the place!" Negi thought. He checked the map one last time to make sure that this was the right place and then walked through the entrance. He made his way up the stairs and then finally emerged in an arena-like place. Instantly, lights turned on and lit up the entire place, giving him a good view of the arena. "What is this place?"
He looked around and then saw Cackletta and Fawful standing across of him. "Geheheheh! So you've come!" Cackletta said. "I'm going to make sure you leave behind something of yours that I want! Geheheheh!"
TO BE CONTINUED
Things are already getting intense even though this is only the beginning. I assure you however that this will be a very long story, possibly spanning more than 40 chapters. So don't expect it to end anytime soon even if it looks like it's going to end.