Mudder's Day part 2
"Aladdin!" I hollered and turned on my heel as the others started to run.
"Hurry!" Al yelled and I scowled.
"Easy for you to say!" I yelled back and Genie came to my rescue. He came back and grabbing hold of me pulled me quickly to where they were.
"Alright. I've had enough." Genie stated. "Fear not! These muddy marauders are no match for…" He trailed off and letting go of me he went towards the Al Muddi monsters. But when he ran up to it, he had to run back to avoid getting squished. They chased him around a small rocky hill and at the top I spotted two boulders.
"Al!" I showed him the boulders. "We can crush them like we did with Mechanicles' machine!" He smiled and nodded and we all ran up to the very top to help Genie. Pushing on the boulder, we finally managed to make them budge and the Al Muddi paused to see what we were doing.
"Now!" Al shouted and we shoved. Genie moved out of the way just in time to see the boulders hit their marks, squishing the muddy people back into the ground.
Celebrating we came back down and crowed around Genie. Al smiled and ruffled my hair.
"Nice job, Rick. That takes care of them." Genie made a face then.
"Uh, don't be too sure." He pointed behind us and slowly we turned to see the muddy creatures slowly rising up again out from underneath the rocks.
"Uh-Oh." I said and we turned and fled as the two monsters lurched towards us with a snarl. They chased us around the rocks again and down another passageway.
"Genie, we've got to fly." Al said as we ran. "Try it again." Genie nodded. "But not an ostrich." Al added through clenched teeth.
"Don't sweat it." Genie scoffed, coming to a halt in his running. "I'm not stupid." He poofed and I turned to see what he had turned himself into. It was a penguin. "A little bottom heavy." Genie added as he landed on his large bottom. "But not stupid." I groaned and we ran back to help him up off the ground which was easier said than done.
"At least try something that runs!" Al exclaimed and Genie poofed again. Now he was a large blue nose in Al's palm.
"How's this?" Genie asked in a nasally tone and Aladdin tossed the nose from his hands.
"Aladdin!" I hollered as he was grabbed too by the Al Muddi monster. Jasmine tossed Genie the nose to Iago who muttered about not having a 'hanky' and she grabbed a torch off the wall. She took a swing at the creature holding Al.
"Let him go you, mud pie!" She hollered, surprisingly it let go of Al and he dropped to the ground. "It worked!" She exclaimed. "They're afraid of fire!" The creature then took a hold of the torch and blew it out.
"You were saying?" I said and she gave me a sheepish grin. Al took hold of the both of us and dragged us along as we ran again.
"I like to pick my friends but this is just too weird." Iago muttered and I sniggered. "Heads up, princess!" Iago called and he tossed the Genie nose to Jasmine.
"We need something with legs." Jasmine told the nose.
"Sorry." Genie apologized. "Okay, right, legs…legs. Okay coming up." He turned into a table. We were doomed.
"Genie!" Jasmine groaned and I sighed.
"Legs that move." Al snarled and Genie jumped down and scooped us up on his back.
"Well, it's moving." I offered and Al rolled his eyes before looking behind us.
"The Al Muddi can't keep up!" I grinned, but that grin slid off my face when I saw the creatures merge together to form a centaur.
"Um, Al?"
"Uh-oh." He murmured and then the centaur Al Muddi ran towards us and leap over us in a matter of seconds. We screamed as it landed in front of us and I was sure we were going to hit it.
"I-I can't stop!" Genie hollered and we went sliding towards the creature which raised its pitchfork to stab us when we were near.
"Genie, do something!" I hollered and he got an idea. Suddenly he transformed into a sled and we all were sitting comfortably as we slid quickly past the Al Muddi and the pitchfork.
"We got away!" Jasmine sighed as we passed the creatures and went sliding down silent muddy passageways.
"Hey, hey, not bad huh?" Genie said and I was about to say something when we suddenly were flying through the air.
"Giant bird?" Genie called.
"One that flies well!" Jaz called back and Genie turned into…a cooking chicken. Not having time to say anything we just screamed as we dropped further down towards the ground. Suddenly something made us slow down and I looked up to him wearing a parachute.
"Heh, heh, I thought you said fries well." I shook my head and we gently floated down towards the ground. "I mean flies well, fries well. Anyone could make a mistake like that heh heh."
A little later we found ourselves in a large underground world and everything was bigger than we were. It was odd being smaller than a mushroom but here I was looking up to see it. We were headed towards a large castle at the end of the large road and light coming from the large crystals that stuck up from the ground on either side of the road. They gave off an eerie glow but it allowed us to see much better.
"It's as bright as day down here." Jasmine commented and I nodded.
"It's really neat!"
"And the stones shine like tiny suns!" She added as we walked among them. Abu screeched and jumped on my back and I turned to see Iago's angry face ten times larger, since he was behind a crystal.
"We're all going to die, and she's waxing poetic." I rolled my eyes at his dramatics.
"We are NOT going to die." Al scowled. "I'll…get us out of this yet." He said and I rolled my eyes this time.
"Oh how reassuring." Iago scoffed and he landed on a small crystal beside me and Jasmine. "I think I'll write my will, I'm so reassured."
"Calm down Iago." I said and he scowled at me. "It'll be fine."
"Yeah, sure. This from the guy whose brother is always makin' friends." I grinned a little and he shook his head. Al turned around in a full-fledged glare.
"We are going to march straight in, find whoever runs this place, and demand to be returned to the surface."
"We'll make him an offer he can't refuse." Genie said as a well dressed old man. Iago and I exchanged looks and shrugged.
"I see." Jasmine said not liking this one bit. She marched over to Al. "And if he does refuse?"
"Then we go down fighting." AL declared.
"There's that 'We' business again." Iago grumbled and I snickered as Abu jerked off the rock to follow Al.
"Whoever owns this place has a reaallyy biiiig door." Genie said and I nodded.
"Yup." I stated as we looked up and up at the door.
"Maybe we should come back later." Iago muttered from behind me and I smiled a little.
"Just ring the gong, Genie." Al said and I frowned at him.
"Can do!" He materialized a small mallet and acted as if he was going to tap it gently. But instead he smacked it loudly. We all covered our ears trying to block out the noise of the echoing gong. Al shouted something at Genie, but I couldn't hear and Genie shouted something back. Shrugging, waited until the ringing stopped. Once it did the sounds that replaced it made us stare at the door in alarm. Loud crashing footsteps came closer and closer to the door. Suddenly it burst open. We all stumbled back in fright then and I dove behind Genie and Al. in the doorway was the biggest Al Muddi that we had ever seen.
"What do you want!" The extra large Al Muddi snarled at us in a slight snooty tone and we all gulped.
"Um, nothing." Al said frightfully and we turned to flee. But as we did, dozens of Al Muddi, as big as the ones before, stood blocking us.
"Well?" The giant Al Muddi king snapped getting in our faces. "What is it?"
"Well go on, leader man." Iago hissed at Al from my shoulder.
"Uh, we were just, uh, um…Genie help me out here." Al said and Genie grinned.
"Um, we were just commenting that," He changed into a woman's outfit, much like he had when he scolding me for not getting my 'greens' the other night at dinner. "-this place could use a woman's touch." The giant Al Muddi looked confused and it raised an eyebrow at Genie.
"Really, don't you think things here are a squish untidy?" He then darted back down towards us, his voice deepening and he changed his clothes into a purple suit. "Lucky for you we are the Genie-way distributors to the Greater subterranean area!" He zapped us into cleaning outfits. "This week we are featuring a complete line of cleaning impertinences. Our brushes get rid of mud, muck, slop, glop, ooze, slide, crud, guck, and turbidity." At each word he popped out a new arm with a brush attached to it. "And just look at the power of the Genieway Mini-Vac!" He went over to one of the guard Al Muddi's and tsked at him. "Hygiene is just a foreign concept to you, isn't it?" Genie sucked up the Al Muddi with the Mini-Vac and he motioned for us to get going. We started backwards.
"Tell you what," Genie continued. "We'll just pop out to our van for a complete catalogue." We started to run then. "We'll have your mud problem wiped away in no time!" Before we could get very far, we found ourselves being grabbed up by the large mud man.
"Nobody wipes up my mud!" The large Al Muddi Sultan snarled at Genie and he winced.
"Wouldn't dream of it." he said in a slight strangled tone and I flinched when the Al Muddi turned his gaze to us.
"You must be new around here." He started and Iago murmured low in my ear.
"Gee, you think?" I frowned at him before turning back to look at the Al Muddi.
"Oh, of course! You're from the oasis trap! Come in, come in." he said with a smirk and took us into his great, big mud castle. "You see, I'm a bit of a gourmet and every now and then, I like to have a few people over…for dinner." We all cowered then and Genie gulped loudly.
"I don't suppose you'd go for a nice salad instead?" He tried, but the Al Muddi Sultan wasn't falling for it. Instead he pretty much hummed cheerily the entire time he carried us and could only imagine what he was going to do with us. On the table he carried us towards, there was three glass bottles. One large one was empty and there was one that was small empty too, but the one next to the large one had flamingos in it. The Al Muddi opened a large glass bottle and shoved all of us inside it, except Genie, who was put in a smaller bottle he couldn't get out of without help. We were doomed.
Minutes later…
Iago scowled for the umpteenth time and I knew that before long he was going to explode. I sat at the side of the glass that was closet to Genie and watched Al as he paced a little in thought, Abu walking near him. Jasmine stood watching the Al Muddi Sultan cook and prepare his soup. I had long ago stopped watching him.
"Oh, excellent! Delicately seasoned, yet provocative." The Al Muddi murmured as he tossed trees and large mushrooms into the pot. On my shoulder, Iago bristled and I felt him intake a large breath. Here it comes.
"A few short hours ago, I was dying of thirst." He said, loudly and he flew off my shoulder to clutch at Abu. "But now, Wolfgang Muck over there is going to boil me into soup!" Abu growled at him as Iago flew off into Al's face. "Thank you so much." He said sickly sweet and Abu grabbed hold of him as Al threw him an irritated glare.
"Shh."I hissed at the animals as Al pounded a fist to the glass. The fighting duo quieted.
"Genie are you sure you can't get out of there?" Al asked, slightly flustered.
"Trust me, it's a genie thing." He said squished up against the glass and I gave him a sad look. "Don't worry, shortie. It's just a little cramped in here." He gave a small smile, but I barely returned it.
"How am I going to get us out of here without Genie?" Al asked and he slid down the side of the glass, sighing heavily. "Guess I am a lousy leader?"
"Hear that?" Iago said mockingly from across the small floor. "That's the sound of no one disagreeing with you."
"Iago." I said, reprimanding him, and Abu leapt on him, shoving his fez down on the parrot's head. Iago's screeching was muffled and the monkey gave him a shove towards me.
"Aladdin, you're a great leader. I know you can get us out." She winked at me then and gave a small smirk, making me arch an eyebrow as to what she was up to. "A street rat can get out of anything!" Al beamed up at her and I grinned back. Confidence boosted Al stood.
"Well, I guess I do have a few tricks up my sleeve." Beside me, Iago grumbled and I sniggered lifting the fez off and tossing it back to Abu.
"Well, it's about time!" He snarled at me and I was about to respond when we were suddenly picked up. The Al Muddi took the cork out of the jar and tipped us over shaking the jar to get one of us out. Al fell out.
Satisfied the monster set up back up and clenched Al in its fist.
"Al!" I yelled, hitting on the glass. "Al!" Jasmine gasped and hugged me both of us watching Al being toted upwards.
"Wait! Wait!" Al cried as he was lifted and the Al Muddi rolled his big yellow eyes.
"Oh, you're not going to be are you? I hate begging. 'Don't eat me! Oh, don't cook me!' I swear all you people talk about is yourselves." He was about to put Al into the pot and Jasmine covered her eyes. I watched as Al got a look on his face I knew all too well. He had a plan. I grinned and poked Jaz, pointing up at Al.
"But, I'm not begging! It's an honor to be consumed by such a great personage as yourself." Al said with an air of false flattery.
"Flattery? Oh, that's novel. Stick to begging." The Al Muddi hadn't bought it. C'mon, Al!
"It's a shame your soup has to be second rate." Al stated in a tone, much like the one he had when tricking Jafar into the genie wish.
"My soup is fit for kings!" The Al Muddi snarled at Al.
"Well…kings who've never tasted matamata spice perhaps." Al grinned slyly and I snickered at his quick thinking. The Al Muddi Sultan looked confused for a moment and slowly set Al onto the countertop.
"Matamata spice?" He asked in both suspicion and confusion.
"Y-Yes! Very rare, but very delicious. It is said when the Sultan of Calamari first tasted matamta spice, he bestowed half his kingdom upon his cook." He lied swiftly without missing a beat and the Sultan bought it with a grin that was really big.
"But, sadly, it only grows on the surface…I've got it! Return us to the surface and we shall bring you all you can use!" The Sultan considered what Al told him and all of us pleaded quietly. Next to us Genie bounced up and down in the small bottle.
"Please, please, please, please, please!" He begged and I grinned at him.
"…I shall let you go." The Al Muddi said and Genie grinned.
"Yes!" He shouted and his bottle fell over and winced. "OW!" I winced too because his head bounced around, clanging in the glass.
"You go." The Sultan jabbed Al with a finger. "They stay. They didn't make me Sultan cause I'm the tallest, you know." We all gasped as Al had to duck to avoid getting stabbed by a large skewer. "And I can always change the recipe to shish kabob."
"Jasmine, I can't." Al said coming up to our jar. Jasmine smiled at him.
"Go, Aladdin." she said and I put hand on the glass.
"Its okay, Al. Go on." He placed his hand where mine was on the glass and smiled at me grimly.
"I can't, Rick, I can't do it."
"If you don't. Who will?"
"Well, little man, what's it going to be?" The Sultan thundered at Al. Abu chattered sadly and Jasmine hugged him to her.
"Go." She said again and he turned away from us.
"Don't take any wooden drachma!" Genie hollered and I looked at him in confusion.
"Oh, so he gets to leave? Yeah, life is fair." I patted Iago, knowing that he was being cynical to hide his feelings again and to prove I was right; he let me hug him comfortingly. He was worried for Al too.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Al demanded as the Al Muddi picked him up and started dripping mud onto him.
"Helping you, on your way of course." We all gasped as Al was sputtering mouthfuls of the mud as it dripped onto his head.
"Looks, like the kids going to come out of this with a great complexion." Iago murmured.
"If he gets out of it!" Jasmine said worriedly.
"But how will I get to the surface? You've closed up the entrance!" Al asked loudly, gaining our attention again. The Al Muddi smirked.
"Then I shall just have to reopen it. Deep breath now." He covered Al's head completely and then opened a window. Uh-oh. "Easy out." He threw Al out the window, leaving us to wonder if he was alright and Iago sank into my arms.
"Now what are we going to do?" Nobody answered. The Al Muddi went back to stirring his pot of soup.
"Surface dwellers are so demanding." He scoffed. "Next they'll be wanting me to roll out the carpet for him!" A little later he started to get impatient.
"Oh, this is taking much too long. Perhaps a nice refreshing frosty snack while I'm waiting?" He went over to a small fridge and took out an igloo from the freezer part. After shaking it, he frowned and twisted the top to peer inside. "Oh, drat. I do so hate when someone puts the container back empty." He grabbed a pot then and started up the fire again. "I can't wait any longer; hunger makes me terribly cranky."
We all fell against the bottom of the jar as the Al Muddi lifted us up and uncorked the top. Jasmine pulled me close to her and Iago gulped frantically.
"Okay, everybody who can fly, make a break for it!" Iago flew a little ways, not really wanting to leave us behind and just as I was sure we were about to be turned over and shook out, Al flew in on a familiar rug.
"CARPET!" I yelled and the rug waved a tassel at me.
"What?" The Sultan Al Muddi, snarled.
"There's been a change of menu, sludgy!" Al shouted back and the Al Muddi slammed the cork back into our jar, slamming us onto the counter. Iago fell down from the impact and hit the ground.
"Ow, that hurt!"
"Are you okay?" I asked and he gave a dramatic look.
"Carry me, I can't fly!" I rolled my eyes and picked him up, shaking my head a little at him. Above us, Al flew around the large creature dodging hits from a large swatter.
"This is what I get for not putting screens on the windows! Next week I start aerial spraying." The Al Muddi muttered to itself, suddenly I got an idea.
"Jasmine!" I ran over and started rocking the jar. She got the idea and together along with Abu and a not so dramatic Iago we managed to knock the bottle onto its side. Now we headed for the lid.
"Hurry! It's giving!" Jasmine cried as we shoved against the cork.
"Hey, your elbows in my eye!" Iago squawked at Abu who only scowled.
"Not now, guys." I said as they gave each other an evil look. Finally with a loud pop, the lid flew off and we were able to clamber out of the jar. I reached Genie and picked him up as Jaz called to Aladdin.
"Aladdin, down here!" Al and Carpet came down to get us and we all settle quickly onto Carpet.
"Go, go!" Al urged Carpet and we dodged several more of the Sultan's attacks.
"Come back here you little croutons!" he snarled at us and I patted Carpet as we made it out the window.
"Thanks Carpet." He gave me a thumbs up and I laughed. A sound caught my attention and looking behind me I gave a yelp.
"Al! He's coming!" Al looked over his shoulder and gulped.
"Faster, Carpet, he's gaining!" Al hollered and Carpet zipped us up thought the passageways and tunnels and soon we saw the bright sunlight coming through a large hole in the ground. Squinting we made it into the sun just above the place guards.
"On your camels! Run, hurry!" Al shouted at them and Rasoul for once didn't hesitate.
"You heard him!" They took off at the same time that Al got that calculating look again.
"It's got to work." He muttered and I turned as a large shadow appeared. It the Sultan Al Muddi growing taller and taller up out of the ground. Jasmine gasped and Al gave a roll off of Carpet. I followed.
"What are you doing?" Jaz asked and Al smirked at her.
"I've got a plan trust me!" He called up to her and then looked at me. "What are you doing?"
"Helping!"I said to him and he rolled his eyes.
"Then get ready to run." He muttered, I nodded and we turned to the Al Muddi who was about to step on Fazal. I whistled and he looked up at us.
"Hey, over here! I was the one who spoiled your soup!"
"You're shish kabob, boy! You and your friends!" He snarled at us and we took off running as he reached for us. I tripped over something halfway and Al came back towards me. We both cowered as the Al Muddi stood over us, a fist raised to do us in.
"Sorry, Al." I said and he winked at me.
"Watch." Confused I looked back up at the creature.
"Eat mud, little men." The Sultan was about to strike when his fist hardened. Al grinned and I grinned too knowing what was happening.
"He's…drying out?" Jasmine said in amazement and Al beamed.
"It's the sun! He's never been in this kind of heat before!" Suddenly he began to crumble and dry faster and Al tucked his arms around me as the Al Muddi finally dried out completely. I felt something tugging on me and blinked into the sunlight again as Rasoul helped Al out of the rocks and Al pulled me out.
"I was wrong." Rasoul said stiffly. "The Sultan did put the right man in charge." He walked away and I shook my head at him.
"Was there any doubt?" Jasmine asked tossing her arms around Al's neck.
"Yeah," Iago muttered from my shoulder. "I hate to admit it but…I guess you're a pretty good leader after all." Al grinned impishly and taking his fez off stuffed it onto Iago's head, causing him to fall to the ground.
"Hear that? That's the sound of no one disagreeing with you." I snorted and Jasmine giggled as Iago huffed from on the ground.
"Hey, what…hey, get me out of here! I can't breathe! Hey, wait! Wait! Ah! Where is everybody?" I finally freed him after a few more laughs and he grumbled, moving away from Al and the rest of us. Al released Genie and he gave us all hugs.
"At least that is over!" he said we all nodded. Genie patted me and dust rose in the air. Tsking he started dusting me off with a feather duster. I rolled my eyes as Al snickered.
"You missed a spot." He said and I aimed a kick at him.
"Oh, yeah well just look at you!" Genie turned to him next and I grinned as he started attacking Al. Jasmine giggled at them and I went over Iago.
"Come on, don't be mad." I said nudging him playfully with my toe. He shuffled a little and glowered. "Besides I thought you couldn't fly." I teased and he turned to face me.
"Oh shut up!" He said with a grin and tackled me. I grinned knowing I had won and together we went back to where Al was.
Okay, so next on my list is Some Enchanted Genie! Yay! Eden! So you know what to do! R&R! please!