Chapter 7
Marshmallon, Winged Kuriboh, and Eggy were sleeping in their hotel room, unaware that they were being watched. A dark figure observed them up high, invisible to the naked eye. But if they were to focus on the ceiling corner, they would catch a glimpse of Number 96.
"Well well well. So this is the place where that little marshmallow is hiding. And he also brought another precious friend!" Number 96 said to no one in particular. He laughed as he floated through the ceiling, flying away from the sunrise. Marshmallon and Kuriboh just snored on.
Marshmallon woke up with Eggy and Kuriboh the next day. He stretched and looked over at the other two, which were still sleeping. He lay in his bed until a loud knock came from the door. Marshmallon glanced at the the two sleepers, and decided to open it. He floated over to the hotel door, where the knocker was still knocking.
"Hello?" he said as he opened the door.
A short man was holding an important-looking red envelope. "Hello." the man said, his moustache wiggling. Marshmallon stifled a laugh. The man's moustache was very long, and stretched all around his face. "I've got an important message for you from . . ." he checked the address on the mail. "The Government of Marshmania. Hmmm. I wonder what's this all about." Marshmallon took the bag from the man and said a word of thanks, and closed the door. When the man left the area, Marshmallon ripped the envelope open and tried to wake up Winged Kuriboh and Eggy. "HEY GUYS! WAKE UP! WE GOT MAIL FROM THE GOVERNMENT!"
Kuriboh woke up instantly, shooting up and bumping the ceiling. "Ow . . ." he said, but then he flew back down to join Marshmallon. "WOAH! EGGY, WAKE UP! THIS IS SO COOL!" he shouted.
Eggy did not wake up as fast as the others, instead, he mumbled sleepily: "Five more minutes mom . . . ." and he back to sleep once again. Marshmallon and Kuriboh shook him. "C'MON EGGY! WE GOT MAIL FROM THE GOVERNMENT!" they screamed at him.
Finally, after several painstaking minutes of vigorous shaking, Eggy finally woke up. "What was all of that about?!" he demanded, getting fully dressed.
"Weren't you listening?" Kuriboh asked. "We told you that Marshmallon got a metal device from the Government of Marshmania. It's a hologram projector, and it contained a message."
"Oh. OK. Let's hear the message, then" said Eggy.
Marshmallon unwrapped the metal device, and set it on the ground. The projector beeped as he did so, signalling its activation. "HOLOGRAM INITIATED. YOU HAVE ONE NEW MESSAGE. TO VIEW, SAY VIEW. TO REMOVE, SAY REMOVE. TO POSTPONE, SAY POSTPONE. TO SELF-DESTRUCT, SAY SD. PLEASE SELF-DESTRUCT AFTER VIEWING MESSAGE."
Kuriboh opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, a family walked loudly outside of their hotel room. "Mom, do you think that SD will win the Championships?" a boy innocently asked, unaware that he was destroying a very complex system. "NO!" Eggy and Marshmallon screamed.
"CANCEL! CANCEL!" Marshmallon shouted desperately. But it was too late. The projector was beginning to smell like burnt metal. It melted into a lump of metal. The three stared at it, wondering how on Marshmania that could have happened. "What the . . ." Kuriboh said.
Suddenly, that Marshmallon floated much higher than normal and as Eggy breathed a sigh of relief, the hologram said, "CANCEL COMMAND DETECTED. REPAIRING . . ."
After five minutes, the machine was back to normal. "View." said Eggy firmly and clearly. Immediately, a hologram of Gopher, the GMSHQ representative that had shown himself to Marshmallon and Kuriboh the other day, appeared on the hologram interface. "Hello, Marshmallon and Winged Kuriboh. " said Gopher. "And Eggy too, if you're there. I forgot to give you something which might help you on your quest. Two pieces of information, and one item under the hologram. The item is a Marshozite detector. It will help you locate Marshozite. The information is that there are only seven Marshozite pieces around the world. We need at least one sample to duplicate it. But in case the experiment fails, we need more deposits. If we cannot collect the required Marshozite, we will have to resort to using Plasmallow." On the screen, Gopher grimaced.
Marshmallon was confused and paused the hologram recording. "What's plasmallow?"
"Well," explained Eggy. "Plasmallow is a highly reactive substance that almost works like plutonium in the past. It is at least fifty times as dangerous and radioactive as uranium, which is why it was never used in producing power. Plasmallow is created by fusing hot plasma and marshmallows with a special process, hence the name plasmallow. It can cause an accident as big as a Zero Reverse, or even bigger. It came after the second Ener-D Kaboom. However, people discovered that it produced more power than Ener-D, and the kaboom resulting literally created the Arc-V World. But if used very carefully, it might not explode and kill billions of people." said Eggy, putting emphasis on the word 'might'.
Marshmallon and Kuriboh nodded and they said 'Play' and so the recording began to play again.
"The second piece of information is that we have found the other Marshozite Hunter." continued Gopher.
A blurry photo of a black outline with many red and green patterns on the face of the Hunter was shown, replacing the image of Gopher for a couple seconds. Kuriboh squinted. "It kinda looks like Astral." he deduced.
Marshmallon gasped as the realization of who it was hit him.. "It's Number 96!"
Eggy and Kuriboh turned to look at him. "Who's that?" they asked.
"Number 96 is that guy who almost killed Astral, remember? And I happened to meet him in my dream." he added. Marshmallon told them all about his dream way back in chapter 2.
"No way!" exclaimed Eggy.
"Well, let's SD the hologram then." said Kuriboh. The machine instantly melted down again, but this time for good.
"Let's order room service or something." suggested Marshmallon.
"Sure!" they said.
Marshmallon picked up the hotel phone and dialled room service. "Hi, this is room 472938, and we'd like some room service, please. Um, let's see . . . So we'd like seven pancakes with marshmallow syrup, a couple glasses of orange juice, and a big pitcher of a Infinite Drinker™ please." ordered Marshmallon, reading off the menu.
"Okay. We'll be right up." said the voice on the other end.
Twenty minutes later, someone knocked on the door. Kuriboh rushed to get it. "I'll get it!" Kuriboh gingerly received their food, and Marshmallon paid for it from his wallet. Kuriboh brought the tray of food over to the table. "Okay! So we got our Pancakes . . . Check! Juice . . . Check! Infinite Drinker™ . . . Check! And oh! They also gave us some bacon, eggs, and marshmallows!" exclaimed Kuriboh.
The trio took out the metal forks and knifes, and started to sort out and eat the food. While they attacked their food, Eggy started tinkering with a power disk using his portable combination center. He'd been working on it for a long time now. Marshmallon wondered what he was working on. Whenever he tried to ask, all Eggy said was 'It will help us on our mission'. Kuriboh was also looking at him as he poured a Kuribsoda from the Infinite Drinker™. The Infinite Drinker™ was a small device that gave you anything you wanted that was drinkable. It could fit into Marshmallon's shirt jacket pocket quite easily, so that's where they kept it for the time being. All was silent, except for the sound of the forks and Eggy's power disk combination centre, which sounded like metal repetitively 'tink'-ing onto the floor. Marshmallon got the feeling that Eggy had been working on this project for a long time, and hoped that it would contribute to their mission.
After breakfast, the trio set off towards the World Cup stadium, where they discovered that most of the Block A Duels had gone on in the night, and now they were going onto the second round. The winners of every block participated here, and the winner of the final round would win the Cup. Yugi had come out top in the Block A Tournament, with him beating William's Penguin Soldier Ultimate and then attacking him. He was now Dueling against Jaden Yuki and it was hard to tell who Winged Kuriboh would pick sides for, as Yugi gave the 'Winged Kuriboh card to Jaden, so he decided not to take sides and just cheer for both Duelists. "Wow, I can't believe how fast this tournament's going!" he exclaimed. Eggy nodded in agreement. All blocks had finished and had moved on to the second round. Yugi narrowly missed defeat, due to an amazing card called Royal Decree that negated all his traps. He couldn't even destroy it as his opponent activates a card that prevented him from using spells, but Yugi won in the end by summoning Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl to destroy his opponent's monsters, moving on to the finals against Egg, Eggy's father. The trio stayed to watch the duel, but before they could start, a heavy storm came along, and even the World Cup's stadium protection couldn't stop it, so the final match resulted in being postponed.
On the way out, Egg bumped into the group. "Oh! Hello, son! How are you?"
"Great, thanks." Eggy replied. When Egg stared at Marshmallon and Kuriboh and looked at his son's eyes quizzically, he said, "Oh. These are my friends. Do you mind showing them your deck?" he asked. Marshmallon and Kuriboh's eyes all lit up. They looked at him eagerly, waiting for him to make a decision.
Egg thought for a moment. "Sure." he said. He brought a deck from his back pocket, and showed it to the group. Egg proudly looked on at the duo as they repetitively said things like "This card is awesome!" or "Woah, that's so OP". It made sense, as Egg played an 'Egg' deck, which suited him nicely. It included Eggbound Immortals and White Egg Soldier. After they were done examining it and commenting on its possible combinations, Eggy took the deck, gave it a good shuffle, and returned it to his father. Egg held on to the deck, and putting it back into his back pocket and watching them as they walked away, waved goodbye. "Goodbye!" he called, and the trio looked back and waved too. Marshmallon, Eggy, and Winged Kuriboh headed back to their hotel, with Egg going the other way to the Duelists' rooms, and they felt light-hearted and excited for the Duel ahead, not even minding that they were almost soaking wet.
Sorry for the delay, I had to work on a school project. Hope you're still enjoying this fanfic, if this goes along smoothly I might open up a sequel called Tales of Marshmallon II or something? Anyways, thanks to those who faved this story, I really appreciated it!