Why you should never lock a soul in a room full of body parts.
Hello AnimationNut and Ghostbuster5. And assorted unknown readers. Here's my next chapter! Roll film!
"Fryin' a giant mushroom. Bum bum bum bum. Just fryin' a giant mushroom. Bu bu bu bu bu bum." Smiles sang happily.
"Are you singing about frying a mushroom?" Olimar asked.
"Sure am!"
"Maybe we need to sing more." Ruby thought aloud.
"No way!" Olimar yelled.
"It grows on you." Smiles grinned. "Phineas and Ferb usually sing each day, while using or building an invention."
"*groan* I'd go crazy."
"Hey!" Smiles yelled, upset. "I may be crazy, but that doesn't mean you can make fun of me." He said, pouring the sauce mixture onto the space noodles and layed it out in front of them. He even had carved a little bowl for Mini, the white pikmin. After setting it all out, Ruby and Olimar gave him funny looks.
"What?" He asked. "If I wanted to poison your noodles, wouldn't I have done it by now?" Despite being bonkers, he did have a point. The two dug in, slurping loudly. Another masterpiece, as usual. He sat down and slurped quietly on the noodles. Thinking hard. Olimar had landed the ship in the unknown region that Smiles was given the opportunity to name. Out of the window, odd lifeforms walked around. There were creatures that sort of looked like bulborbs, except they had huge shells on their backs, and pulled themselves along on long arms.
"Anti-matter Woods." Was Smiles answer. Anti-matter Woods was a very creepy place, and it wasn't just the mutated flora and fauna. It just seemed that something was watching them. And there was the sound of something shaking the ground, and the sound of gargling, and something cracking.
"What do you think that noise is?" Ruby asked, her knees knocking together.
"Could be anything, really." Smiles replied. "There are creatures that I have never seen before here." The small squadron of thirty white pikmin that we brought with us trailed close behind us.
"That isn't good if there is a place in a videogame that isn't supposed to be there." Olimar said, glancing at the trees, as if they would rear up and attack them.
"Ssssssssso you have finally arrived." The three of them leap a foot in the air. "I wassss ssssssstarting to get a tad bit bored." Rattlesnake Jake slithered out from between leafless trees, followed close behind by Deus ex Machina.
"A-a-alright." Deus ex Machina crackled. "Let's see yo-yo-your game face."
"Your game fassssssse?" Jake hissed.
"You wouldn't compute." Deus replied.
"Compute?"
"Why was I paired up with the gun slinger?"
"At leassssst I have a beating heart. You're jusssssst a bunch of ssssscrap metal."
"Scra-ra-rap metal!" Deus ex Machina whirred angrily. "Why-y-y-y I outta- Wait! They're gone!"
"Thisssss isssss all your fault you bucket of boltsssssssss." Jake hissed.
"Incorrect. It is yo-yo-your fault."
Container
I've had enough. I've got to get out. 500 years of the same thing over and over and over again. No more. I may not be strong enough to claim the vampric body, but I will get out of here! I shove my gaseous form against the seal. It may be sealed with vampire blood, but I might be able to... no. The seal was too strong.
"There is always a way out." I mumble to myself. The seal was too strong... but the glass was weak from years of being exposed to the elements. I slammed myself hard against the glass wall, causing the entire jar to rattle. There was one good thing about being a disembodied soul. I couldn't feel. I slam again, and the jar rattled once more. I slam again, and again, and again.
I was starting to get a soul-ache. The glass was teetering. I could see the ground twenty feet below. Just one more shove. I slam hard, the glass pauses for a second, before falling off the stone pillar. The glass shattered loudly. I float up out of the glass shards. I glance around at all of the dead bodies of that vampire's failed expirements. Maybe he shouldn't have stored my jar with plenty of body parts. If I had a face, a smile would be covering it. I float towards the head of a rotting shearwig.
Ruby
I try not to scream as Rattlesnake Jake slithered right past the knothole where we were hiding.
"Screw Zanzulus. I'm using the bomb now." Deus ex Machina hissed. The giant laser pointer on his tail shot forward, and a round object of about five feet around was formed, a purple X over it. Two robots came from behind it, shoving their hands in it, and pulled. The sphere came apart, revealing a glass cylinder, with a small black core. Purple sparks travelled around it. Three jars appeared out of his side, holding sparks inside. Sparks of blue, white, and black.
"That's my friends energy!" I whisper to the others. "We have to get those back." Deus grabbed them and inserted them into the bomb.
"Isssssss that-?" Jake asked.
"Agnes Glumchester's energy."
"But... eh... wouldn't ussssssing it in the bomb... You know."
"What do you care? Without her precious energy she will cease to exist."
"You're right." Deus ex Machina inserted the jars next to the jar filled with the small ball of blackness. Deus ex Machina crawled away, Jake slithered quietly behind him. He glanced back at the bomb, a look of indecision on his face.
"Jake!"
"C-Coming." Jake slithered away. We quickly approached the bomb and tugged at the jars of energy. They wouldn't budge an inch.
"Hold on. I'll go get a branch." I tell them, and run off to find something that I could use to pry the energy apart.
Smiles
A/N: I do understand that putting Author notes in the middle of a chapter isn't exactly good, but the following is NOT for the faint of heart. If you have a problem with blood, then you don't want to read this chapter. Just skip to Akuma's part.
"So, I have a sequel?" Olimar asked.
"Yup."
"What happens?" Olimar asked eagerly. "I get to see my family again, right?"
"Well... no." I say, and watch as Olimar's smile sank.
"Oh. I do at some point, right?"
"Err... no."
"Oh." I was about to say something encouraging, when there was a deep growl behind us, and warm wind tickles my neck.
"Olimar?"
"Not me." We both turn slowly. Behind us was the most grotesque thing I've ever seen. The face was rotting away, but it sort of looked like a bulbear, it's only eyestalk glowing bright red. It moved its jaw, which had several holes in the flesh, and maggots crawling inside of it. Its body was mostly composed of green and yellow flesh, large holes here and there revealing the inner skeleton. It's right arm was a huge brown claw, which was flaking in places, while its other hand was an exoskelteton of some kind, and nerves. It's large backside drooped, nearly touching the ground. Which was saying something, because is four soider-like legs that protruded from its back held it nearly ten feet off the ground.
It roared loudly. I grabbed Olimar's arm and pulled him away as the giant claw came slamming down where he was not a second before. After we were ten feet away from the creature, its small hand reached into the bomb, and dislodged the energy jars. It looked through them, one at a time, before shoving them into one of the holes in its backside. It stopped when it reached Misery's jar, and squinted with its only eyestalk at it. It nodded once, before placing it in with the others.
It glared at the bomb, before giving it a kick that knocked the bomb on its side. The robots seemed to not notice that they were suddenly on their sides. He then turned to us. I gulp audibly. It reached a claw out and swiped at us. We ducked, and instead it grabbed a bud pikmin.
"Help! Help! Smiles!" The pikmin I recognized as Mini squealed as the creature shoved her into its mouth.
"You spit her out or face my slightly-below-average sanity!" I yell, grabbing the creature's single eye stalk and pulling. It roared loudly.
"Stop!" The creature halted. "Spit- it- out." The creature spat the pikmin out. Ruby? The creature sits itself down, while the red-headed youth comes back, with a large stick in hand. The creature gurgled loudly, before it started... compacting. It's face pulled in, the sharp, triangular teeth pulled into its gums, the eye stalk pulled into its face, and two eyes poked free.
Its claw cracked loudly, before shifting into a five-fingered hand. Its small hand grew out. The legs on its back moved southwardly, and pulled together into two legs. Near the bottom, the legs bent into a foot. The large abdomen pulled itself in, forming around it's body.
"Hehe. S-Sorry. I s-s-saw the bomb and I assumed that you were... oops! Guess you aren't with... Akuma." The boy said, scratching the back of his head with the hardened claw-turned-hand.
"Woah! You were- but then you- how'd you?" I ask. The hideous creature had become a normal looking boy.
"Oh, this is how." A bright green mist came from the body, and the body fell apart, turning into rotting body parts. Shearwig wings, bulborb eye stalks, and wogblax tails stuck out from the mess. Basically, a pile of rotted bodies. "This is my soul. My body was taken by... Akuma. A-Anyway, sorry about attacking you."
"No problem... what's you're name?" Ruby asked.
"...Kaiman Puvera" The soul finally said.
"Nice to meet you." Ruby said, smiling.
"Here, let me see if I can help your plant-creature." The smoke said, drifting into Mini, who started spasming, and purple floated from where her mouth would be. The green smoke drifted out again, and into the corpses. The corpses came together, until it was a boy once again. A groos green-yellow boy, but a boy nethertheless.
"S-Smiles?" Mini asked weakly, her red eyes opening slowly.
Hooray! Friendship and corpses!
