Chapter 1 - The Haunted House

"Heke?! What's going on?!" Hamtaro exclaimed.

"I don't know..." Pikachu said.

Then a evil laugh came to him as they saw Tökkentäkker on top of the Shooting Gallery. "Greetings you fools... I am Ludwig von Tökkentäkker!"

"So you're Tökkentäkker!" Hamtaro shouted as he and the others were ready to fight.

The man chuckled. "A little eager are ve? Don't you vant to have a little fun before you spoil everything?"

"By the sound of his voice and his German accent I'm guessing he's an old German guy." Squirtle said, identifying the crazy old.

"Hehehehe... Go on, enjoy ze carnival and then come down to ze Big Top for the main event!" Tökkentäkker declared, throwing something down and disappearing behind a smoke screen.

"Huh? He's gone?!" Kirby exclaimed.

"Okay so... the legend is true" said Hamtaro, caused Pikachu, Kirby & Squirtle to fall down anime style.

"SEE I TOLD YOU! BUT YOU NEVER LISTEN TO ME! YOU JUST HAD TO PROVE MY POINT!" yelled Pikachu, making an angry anime face.

"Okay I'm sorry... you don't have to yell at me!" Hamtaro said, apologizing to him while sweat dropping.

"Heeheehee..." Just then as they heard the sound of a mysterious laughter, the skull Jester, Umlaut, flew around the four friends. "You four are trapped here, like rats! What are you going to do about it? Heeheehee!" Umlaut giggled as he disappeared. Hamtaro looked over at the shooting gallery. There were 4 handguns laying on the counter.

"We'll just fight our way out," said Hamtaro. He turned to his pals. "Right guys?"

"Yeah!" Pikachu agrees as he picks a gun. Both Kirby and Squirtle already had their games ready in their hands. The 4 of them were finally ready for some action.

"So, where do we go first?" Squirtle asked. There were three choices; Haunted House, Rickety Town and Freak Show.

"Let's do the Haunted House first," said Hamtaro.

"Yeah!"

The team ran off into the carnival while up in the airship Ludwig was watching them through his monitors

"So they wish to leave so soon, I don't think so" said Ludwig "Umlaut!"

"Yes master?" said the jester head

"Keep an eye on them, and don't hurt them just yet. I want to see how far they go" said Ludwig

"Yes my master, I won't disappoint you." said Umlaut as he vanished down into the carnival

"Those foolish creatures will never see the light of day again." said Ludwig

*Dark Void*

"Welcome to the Haunted House.

Meet a ghoul who lost her head.

If you'd like to stay and join us,

You're always welcome — alive or dead!"

Huahaha! Ahahahahahaha!"

The 4 Heroes pushed through the gates leading into the front lawn of the Haunted House. Almost instantly they were greeted by an ugly, moaning zombie.

"Let's go guys!" Hamtaro raised his his guns and shooting the zombie in the head and arm. The zombie's head exploded into blood as its rotted arm flew off before it fell to the ground, dead.

"Thunderbolt!" Shouted Pikachu as he shoots an Electric thunder attack on the bats. Then they ran to the base of the stairs. Hamtaro jumped at a slight sound and drew his weapons when a coffin emerged from the ground and opened its top half, revealing nothing but a neon red sign over it which said Tickets.

"Uh... do we need tickets?" Squirtle asked, but didn't get a reply.

They ran up the stairs, firing wildly and reducing the zombie on top to a bloody torso with legs until Squirtle shot it down. "Well that was easy..." He said as he and the others examined the mansion.

The mansion looked like a much bigger version of the miniature with a blue and red color scheme along with a heavily dilapidated look. To the right was a sloping, double-door passage and opposite that was what looked to be the mansion's entrance. It had a small porch with pillars and a small roof. A rail ran between the two entrances.

"Wow, this place is scary." Squirtle said, shaking.

"Don't remind me..." Pikachu said, feeling uneasy.

"Guys! Incoming!" Hamtaro shouted out as they were being swarmed by angry bats. They all screamed as the bats clawed, bit, and screeched, and one even flew into Kirby's open mouth. But the pink star warrior simply swallowed it and became Bat Kirby!

"Ahahaha! Meet my newest Copy form... Bat Kirby!" He exclaimed. Pikachu, Hamtaro & Kirby just stared. Kirby then proceeded to menace the vampire bats until they were forced to fly away, shrieking. "Haha!" Kirby said triumphantly. He discarded his bat ability and put it into his Ability Bag so he could use it later whenever he wished.

"I didn't konw you have new forms!" Hamtaro said, amazed.

"Well, when it comes to copy abilities, I can discover more of them." Kirby replied, as the doors to the right opened and a flaming three-wheeled car that looked like something out of the early 20th century rolled out and passed in front of them before tipping over at the turn near the entrance.

They continued to the entrance. But, before he could open the double doors, a zombie kicked down the left door and lumbered towards them. Hamtaro shot it dead before collecting its egg and continuing into the mansion.

Inside the entrance was an arching hall that led to the foyer which, at the end of the hall, had a stand to the left and a door to the right. Kid slowly walked in, his guns raised and ready, looking for any signs of attack while following the rail embedded in the ground. He hoped it would lead to a possible exit.

"Bwaaaaaaaar! We shall kiiiiiiiiiill you!" they screamed. Then our heroes just shot the ghouls and they died.

"Well, so far, so good," Pikachu said. The team then proceeded through the front door. But once they got in, they heard a horrible snarl. Turning around, they saw a big, tall monster with an iron mask and a Gatling Gun attached to its left arm. And it was also on fire.

"I IS HAMBONE!" it roared. "Me kill yew!"

"Heke?! What the hell is that thing?" Hamtaro shouted as the monster, Hambone, continued shooting at the floor and wall near him.

"I don't know, but we better get rid of it fast," Squirtle said before Hamtaro nodded and turned the corner once the firing stopped and began shooting at the creature.

"OK! We'll Mr. Hambone, but we can't stay and chat," said Kirby. The three turned around. Iron bars blocked their way deeper into the house.

"Okay, then...um..."

"ME KILL YEW LIEK YEW IS BUGS! ROAR!" Hambone screamed, firing off his Gatling Gun. The Gatling Gun's bullets bounced off of the walls and ceilings. The 4 heroes dodged as best as they could, but still suffered the occasional hit. Squirtle managed to protect himself a little bit thanks to his shell but he still got hurt, and Hamtaro relied on his speed for his own fist to dodge the bullets but was hit by an occasional stray one. The bullets, however, didn't hurt Kirby. They simply bounced off of his rubbery body. Hambone laughed like a crazy guy.

"You no win! You get hurted! HAHAHA!"

Kirby, fed up, finally started shooting Hambone. The big guy roared with pain.

"Ow! Graaaaah! Arrgh!"

Kirby continued his vicious onslaught until Hambone fell over backwards, dead. The iron bars disappeared, allowing further passage into the Haunted House.

"Let's go, you guys," said Kirby, and the three went further into the Haunted House.

A little further into the Haunted House, the trio were in what appeared to be a living room.

"Well, what a generic haunted house," said Kirby. Zombies shuffled towards our heroes, growling, but were quickly slain. Then the closet door flung open.

Then a knife-wielding zombie stumbled out of the closet, but it tripped and fell on its own knife and died.

"That was unpleasant..." Hamtaro said.

They continued shoot down the Zombies down as they procceed to the dark hallways where hands burst through the walls trying to grab them.

"AH! Leave me alone!" Squirtle screamed as he fired his Water Gun attack on them. "Why is it always up to me?" He muttered.

Team SuperStars proceeded and came upon a narrow, winding hall with hands sticking out of the wall at head-height, trying to claw at whatever passed by. Hamtaro ducked and rushed through the corridor, the hands barely touching him as he soon made it out. At the end of the hall he found the upper half of a corpse beneath a large, webbed hole in the wall. To the left of this passage was a long, dark hall dripping with blood. To the right was a pair of blood-soaked kitchen double doors. The corpse itself was that of a man. His face was frozen in fear while his torso was seemingly eaten with some flesh missing and the ribs sticking out.

Before Hamtaro could comment, a giant spider appeared out of the hole and attempted to jump on him but he shot it and completely destroying it.

"Giant spiders? This place is just getting silly now," Kirby joked before they heard a familiar cry.

"Come on let's go!" Hamtaro said as he and the rest of the Team were interrupt by interrupted as a very familiar voice roared through the dark hallway in front of them.

They turned to the left hall and saw the monster from earlier run out from the darkness. He seemed slightly bigger this time and his chain gun had been replaced by a cannon. The cannon fired off strange skull-like projectiles which Kid shot at, causing them to explode.

"I KILL YEWS NOW! BUHAHAHAHA!"

Everyone gasped.

"Shit!" Hamtaro said. "I thought we killed his ass!"

"Let's kill it again!"

They started shooting at Hambone again, but they didn't seem to do much damage. It then began to mount and fire its cannon. Pikachu quickly shot it in the face, causing it to recoil. The shot to the face broke the monster's mask, revealing a hideously burned and deformed, skull-like visage. Despite their heavy barrage, it managed to fire off three more skulls. They continued to shoot him down as he rampages through the Dark Hallway, trying to kill them, but it back fired when he got killed in the process.

"Phew! Thank God he's dead!" Pikachu said, releved.

"Come on let's go!" Hamtaro said as they ran to next room.

Inside they found a wide open kitchen with a long counter, a fridge and a sink directly in front of them. To their right, they saw a shelf with various broken china next to a large fireplace and a table with two zombies eating a corpse directly in front of it.

"Eww..." Kirby and Hamtaro said, disgusted.

"Disgusing..." Pikachu and Squirtle said in the same state as Hamtaro and Kirby.

They then got out of their "gross out" state and killed the two zombies before looking left and seeing another zombie hacking at a severed limb on a butcher's block; a bucket full of severed limbs sat in front of the block. Behind the zombie was a 19th century stove. A zombie in a chef's hat was standing over it and cooking something. Hamtaro

nearly became sick as he caught the scent of burning flesh and, upon actually looking around, realized that the entire tile floor and the walls near the butcher's block were covered in blood.

Kirby killed the other two zombies wanting to get out as quickly as possible. They followed the rail in the floor to an incline at the end of the kitchen, which led to a set of double doors. Hamtaro then pushed through and found himself back in the foyer from before. A single zombie wandering about.

"Hmmm, I wonder where we go next?" Pikachu asked, dispatching the zombie.

"Maybe we should go-" suddenly the trap door opened up again and a bear-sized spider came rushing out, snatching up Squirtle and crawling upstairs.

"Squirtle!" Hamtaro and Pikachu cried as Kirby ran upstairs after the spider, following it down a winding hall with double doors. He managed to suck up the knife that was left from the kitchen and transformed into Cutter Kirby and managed to twice upon reaching an intersecting corridor, killing it and causing it to drop Squirtle.

"Are you alright?" Kirby asked, worrying as he transformed back and rushed up to his friend.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Squirtle responded with a groan.

Then another one of the huge spiders came crawling down the hall and attempted to jump at them but Hamtaro shot it to pieces.

"Thanks Hamtaro!" Kirby thanked him as he and Pikachu arrived.

Shortly afterwards, there was a loud creak and Kid turned to see a portrait of a white woman fall forward on a mechanism, revealing a red-lit hidden passage that lead upwards. Curious, they crawled up the passage and, after getting passed a false wall on another mechanism, found himself in an attic. The attic was small and mostly empty with only an empty wardrobe, a red trunk and shelf with some dusty books but what really caught Kid's eye was a hole in the roof.

Climbing out and onto the slanted roof, he quickly jumped onto a nearby platform which turned out to be a widow's walk between the mansion's spires. Looking down, Hamtaro could see a second graveyard and a large mausoleum in the center of it. He turned around and was confronted with a wraith barreling towards him. The wraith managed to scratch Hamtaro's other shoulder with its sharp claws before he shot it down.

"Aw man! I swear these things are just popping out of thin air," Hamtaro complained as he examined his injured shoulder. Luckily, the scratch was only shallow but it still bled.

"You sure you're going to be fine?" Squirtle asked with mild concern. Hamtaro nodded.

Hamtaro decided to head into one of the spires to see if there was a way down when one of the cars came out and pushed him off the roof and into an open grave below. He hit the ground with a grunt, along with Pikachu, Kirby & Squirtle. Upon sitting up in the open grave, he noticed a tombstone over it which read Rest in Pieces.

"Cute," he groaned weakly as he got out of the grave and assisted Pikachu while Kirby flies up out of the grave and Squirtle climbs out.

"That was quite a fall, Hamtaro" Kirby pointed out as Hamtaro stretched.

"Oh, please I fall in steep places then this." Hamtaro reassured, oking at the large mausoleum he saw from the roof. The mausoleum had four entrances over it, all blocked by iron gates, and a crest of two axes crossing over one another. Suddenly, Hamtaro felt a strong presence as pink energy surrounded the mausoleum.

"What the?" Hamtaro said as this was about to happened.

"I am Evil Marie!" a distorted, feminine voice declared, one of the gated entrances blew out and a ghoulish woman floated out. She was a tall and pale, very well-endowed woman clothed in a pink, corset Victorian dress. A blue bow tied around her waist, and a tall powdered wig sat atop her head. Her face wore a toothy grin with sharp teeth and she had a visible, bleeding scar across her neck. She wielded a bloody axe, she held with her crimson-stained hands.

Here is their reaction... Hamtaro's nose dripped a small trail of blood as he saw the woman in a pink dress with her bouncy breast hovering over him, Pikachu got his eyes widen and a small amount of blood drip from his nose, Kirby, having a same reaction as Pikachu and Hamtaro, and Squirtle... (uh... the same thing with the 3 said heroes). Then the women flew over and started slashing at them with her gory axe. They regained their composure and started shooting at her before she could swing. She let out an almost aroused noise as she teleported far up into the air and behind him.

"Where she's go?" Squirtle looked back and forth.

"Squirtle, behind you!" Pikachu called and Squirtle turned to see Evil Marie start throwing axes at him, which he quickly dodged by dropping his head to his shell, but not before one could graze his arm. He grunted as he poured fire into her, causing her dress to visibly rip and deteriorate before she let out another odd noise and teleported again.

"Whoa..." Squirtle responded. He turned and saw her running towards a nearby bridge.

"AH! Water Gun!" Cried Squirtle as he shoots his water blast attack at her then he quickly circled around the mausoleum and to the other side of the short bridge where they met up and began to fight again.

Evil Marie licked the back of her axe head before she started slashing at Hamtaro once more, occasionally nicking him on the arm. Then Pikachu shot her with full force with his "Thunderbolt" attack, along with Kirby who transformed into Fire Kirby due to the fire, and Hamtaro who uses his machine gun to shoot her down. Her dress eventually gave way to a black leather belt corset which caused not Squirtle's nose to bleed more heavily but also affected Hamtaro, Pikachu and Kirby.

After taking some heavy fire, Evil Marie then teleported over an obelisk-shaped grave and summoned a pillar of blue energy as she cackled.

Hamtaro drew a bead on her and continued his barrage while Evil Marie fired blue balls of energy at him, which he either dodged or shot down. As he concentrated on hitting Evil Marie, a ball of energy blindsided him and hit him in the chest. It knocked him onto his back and to near unconsciousness as Evil Marie laughed.

"Hamtaro, get up!" Pikachu cried. Hamtaro barely managed to sit up and aim Marie.

"Come on, you can do it!" Kirby cheered as Hamtaro fired one last shot at Evil Marie, hitting her right in the face and blinding her with her own blood.

The blue energy pillar disappeared and Evil Marie cried out as she fell forward onto the obelisk gravestone. It impaled her through the stomach, killing her. Her blood began trickling down the obelisk and into a small pond around it. The pond and a nearby creek were stained red.

The last thing Hamtaro saw before he passed out was Evil Marie's strangely pink soul emerging from her body.