NESSBOUNDER
Smash Master
CHAPTER 3: PART 7
Ness shivered as the cold night wind swirled around his body. He and his friends where sitting under a hedge, observing mutansprite valley.
Mr. Game and Watch was using a telescope-like device to scan for any signs of movement.
Fox sighed and began digging in the ground to pass the time.
Paula and Jeff where playing a game of thumb war, and Poo was meditating, chanting all sorts of silly gibberish and occasionally floating off the ground.
Paula: one two three four, I declare a thumb war, five six seven eight, meet you at the garden gate. (wiggle,wiggle,wiggle,wiggle,wiggle) Ha! I win!
Jeff: It’s so hard to do this when you’re 2-dimensional.
Poo: aaaaayeeeewashonaligooliestumstrumakyikkyikkywaaah…oogie!
G&W: I can’t see any movement down there…and I thought mutansprites where nocturnal…
Ness turned around to see fox dangling an earthworm above his open mouth, and quickly turned the other way.
Ness: should we sneak down there and start searching?
G&W: yeah, let’s go. Get your disguises on, everybody.
Paula and Jeff woke Poo and pressed a button on their hologram devices, activating the mutansprite disguise.
Ness, Mr. Game and Watch did the same.
Fox was still digging in the ground.
Ness: come on Fox!
Fox: oh, yeah, sorry…
Ness: did you actually eat that worm?
Fox: yeah…I haven’t had an earthworm in ages!
Ness: bleahg!
Now disguised as mutansprites, the six heroes walked silently into mutanframe valley. The mutanspritess built huge temples instead of cities, and the first temple they came across was pretty big, and looked like someone important lived there.
This temple was surrounded by lots of small houses.
Ness marveled at the mutansprite architecture, it was intricate and beautiful as well as looking strong.
A big mountain loomed at the back of the village, with houses built up along it. At the very top of the mountain was another huge temple.
G&W: let’s check the temple in the middle of the village first.
Ness: right…I wander where everybody is? What if that temple is holy or something and we’re not allowed in?
Fox: there’s only one way to find out…
* * *
Inside the temple it was brightly lit by glowing blobs of LCD. Black, 2D bats flew around the ceiling. Ness felt a strange feeling deep within himself, kind of like the one he felt when the meteorite crashed near his house.
Mr. Game and Watch walked ahead, cautiously, while Fox and the others stayed back at the rear.
Ness: so Mr. Game and Watch…you’re a big hero here…
G&W: yup
Ness: um…excuse me for saying so, but your deeds don’t seem so heroic to me…
G&W: can you tell me why?
Ness: um…well…saving a bunch of kids from falling down a manhole doesn’t seem…
G&W: those kids where possessed by Master Disaster. If they came into contact with water, they went psycho and tried to destroy the world.
Ness: oh…what about defending a bunch of turnips from moles?
G&W: the turnips where magical life-fruit!
Ness: what about juggling circus balls?
G&W: those where bombs…
Ness: I’ll shut up now…
The passageway suddenly opened up into a beautiful chamber, there was a huge stone tablet in the middle. The walls where painted with many different colours.
A single mutansprite was in the room, staring up at the stone tablet.
Ness found that since he had become 2D he was able to tell how the features on a sprite really looked. This one had a gentle, mystical look and Ness even thought she looked quite pretty.
The mutansprite turned quickly and faced them in a startled way. She cleared her throat and stood up to her full height.
???: I’m sorry, but civilians are not allowed inside the shrine.
G&W: oh, I’m sorry, we’re new here…
???: that is fine…my name is Kirivia, I am the royal seer.
Fox: very sorry to disturb you, Kirivia.
Kirivia: it is alright. It is usually only the royal family who are allowed down here, but you spent your time and energy to get here so I will allow you to look around.
Ness: um…there’s supposed to be an entrance to the underground shrine, right?
Kirivia: that there is. The powerful one takes his residence in there. He and Princess Rizzasca Falin are the only ones to know how to enter it. Unfortunately, the Princess was lost in the battle yesterday.
Ness: yes, I heard, terrible isn’t it? Um, anyway, what is that big tablet?
Kirivia: that tablet has many hieroglyphs on it that many of us cannot read. Some say they are not meant to be read, but have some kind of connection with the four life temples that surround the valley. The Princess knew of this connection, but I do not.
Ness suddenly realized something: on the tablet where many animal hieroglyphs. And missing from them where hieroglyph shapes of an owl, an elk, a snake and a lantern fish.
What was more, Ness could see that all these hieroglyphs could be pulled off!
Ness: excuse me for asking, noble seer, but where exactly are all the others?
Kirivia: the powerful one has the strong and capable up in the hills at this time, mining for the white rocks. I am lucky enough to be allowed to stay behind to make sure no-one touches this tablet. The powerful one wishes it that way.
Suddenly, a torrent of red light surged from within the tablet, making the room glow with an eerie light.
There was a loud clapping sound and Master Disaster materialized in front of the glowing tablet. He turned around to face the tablet as it went back to being gray. Ness was startled to see four more hieroglyphs appear on the tablets, filling the blank spaces.
Kirivia fell to her knees.
Kirivia: master, I…
Master Disaster gave her a vicious kick to her chest, she collapsed on the stone floor, coughing and gasping for air.
M.D.: do not talk unless I tell you to! Don’t think I’ve forgiven you for the way you failed to predict those off-dimension warriors interfering with my attack on cardboard city!
Ness could feel hatred flowing through Mr. Game and Watch, he could feel anger and shock flowing through Fox and the others, and he could feel that strange feeling flowing through himself.
Master Disaster turned and noticed them for the first time. He walked slowly up until he right in front of them.
M.D.: who are you? You lot should be up in the hills mining for quartz!
Ness noticed Mr. Game and Watch was scowling at his foe. If Master Disaster saw him, it would ruin everything!
Ness: sorry, we are travelers from a distant country…we don’t know the rules here.
M.D.: where are you from?
Ness: the east…
M.D.: well I can tell you the rules. You must work for me, night and day, and obey my every command. The breaking of the rules is punishable by death.
Ness: but we are only passing through, and we just want somewhere to stay for the night…
M.D.: I’m sorry to hear that…because you are now my slaves, and you will go up into the hills to mine quartz or die.
Ness: but…
Fox: this is madness! You can’t do this to us!
M.D.: I can, and I will…
Master Disaster clicked his fingers and an amazingly strong force pushed the heroes onto the ground, Ness tried to move, but it was too much for him.
M.D.: You will become my slaves, or I shall crush you against the ground, take your pick.
Ness felt the force getting stronger, he had no choice.
Ness: O.K! O.K! W-We’ll work in your mines!
Oh no! It looks like Master Disaster is too hot to handle! Will they escape? Why does Master Disaster want so much quartz? Find out in Chapter 3: Part 8!
CHAPTER 3: PART 8!
Ness shivered as the cold night wind swirled around his body. He and his friends where sitting under a hedge, observing mutansprite valley.
Mr. Game and Watch was using a telescope-like device to scan for any signs of movement.
Fox sighed and began digging in the ground to pass the time.
Paula and Jeff where playing a game of thumb war, and Poo was meditating, chanting all sorts of silly gibberish and occasionally floating off the ground.
Paula: one two three four, I declare a thumb war, five six seven eight, meet you at the garden gate. (wiggle,wiggle,wiggle,wiggle,wiggle) Ha! I win!
Jeff: It’s so hard to do this when you’re 2-dimensional.
Poo: aaaaayeeeewashonaligooliestumstrumakyikkyikkywaaah…oogie!
G&W: I can’t see any movement down there…and I thought mutansprites where nocturnal…
Ness turned around to see fox dangling an earthworm above his open mouth, and quickly turned the other way.
Ness: should we sneak down there and start searching?
G&W: yeah, let’s go. Get your disguises on, everybody.
Paula and Jeff woke Poo and pressed a button on their hologram devices, activating the mutansprite disguise.
Ness, Mr. Game and Watch did the same.
Fox was still digging in the ground.
Ness: come on Fox!
Fox: oh, yeah, sorry…
Ness: did you actually eat that worm?
Fox: yeah…I haven’t had an earthworm in ages!
Ness: bleahg!
Now disguised as mutansprites, the six heroes walked silently into mutanframe valley. The mutanspritess built huge temples instead of cities, and the first temple they came across was pretty big, and looked like someone important lived there.
This temple was surrounded by lots of small houses.
Ness marveled at the mutansprite architecture, it was intricate and beautiful as well as looking strong.
A big mountain loomed at the back of the village, with houses built up along it. At the very top of the mountain was another huge temple.
G&W: let’s check the temple in the middle of the village first.
Ness: right…I wander where everybody is? What if that temple is holy or something and we’re not allowed in?
Fox: there’s only one way to find out…
* * *
Inside the temple it was brightly lit by glowing blobs of LCD. Black, 2D bats flew around the ceiling. Ness felt a strange feeling deep within himself, kind of like the one he felt when the meteorite crashed near his house.
Mr. Game and Watch walked ahead, cautiously, while Fox and the others stayed back at the rear.
Ness: so Mr. Game and Watch…you’re a big hero here…
G&W: yup
Ness: um…excuse me for saying so, but your deeds don’t seem so heroic to me…
G&W: can you tell me why?
Ness: um…well…saving a bunch of kids from falling down a manhole doesn’t seem…
G&W: those kids where possessed by Master Disaster. If they came into contact with water, they went psycho and tried to destroy the world.
Ness: oh…what about defending a bunch of turnips from moles?
G&W: the turnips where magical life-fruit!
Ness: what about juggling circus balls?
G&W: those where bombs…
Ness: I’ll shut up now…
The passageway suddenly opened up into a beautiful chamber, there was a huge stone tablet in the middle. The walls where painted with many different colours.
A single mutansprite was in the room, staring up at the stone tablet.
Ness found that since he had become 2D he was able to tell how the features on a sprite really looked. This one had a gentle, mystical look and Ness even thought she looked quite pretty.
The mutansprite turned quickly and faced them in a startled way. She cleared her throat and stood up to her full height.
???: I’m sorry, but civilians are not allowed inside the shrine.
G&W: oh, I’m sorry, we’re new here…
???: that is fine…my name is Kirivia, I am the royal seer.
Fox: very sorry to disturb you, Kirivia.
Kirivia: it is alright. It is usually only the royal family who are allowed down here, but you spent your time and energy to get here so I will allow you to look around.
Ness: um…there’s supposed to be an entrance to the underground shrine, right?
Kirivia: that there is. The powerful one takes his residence in there. He and Princess Rizzasca Falin are the only ones to know how to enter it. Unfortunately, the Princess was lost in the battle yesterday.
Ness: yes, I heard, terrible isn’t it? Um, anyway, what is that big tablet?
Kirivia: that tablet has many hieroglyphs on it that many of us cannot read. Some say they are not meant to be read, but have some kind of connection with the four life temples that surround the valley. The Princess knew of this connection, but I do not.
Ness suddenly realized something: on the tablet where many animal hieroglyphs. And missing from them where hieroglyph shapes of an owl, an elk, a snake and a lantern fish.
What was more, Ness could see that all these hieroglyphs could be pulled off!
Ness: excuse me for asking, noble seer, but where exactly are all the others?
Kirivia: the powerful one has the strong and capable up in the hills at this time, mining for the white rocks. I am lucky enough to be allowed to stay behind to make sure no-one touches this tablet. The powerful one wishes it that way.
Suddenly, a torrent of red light surged from within the tablet, making the room glow with an eerie light.
There was a loud clapping sound and Master Disaster materialized in front of the glowing tablet. He turned around to face the tablet as it went back to being gray. Ness was startled to see four more hieroglyphs appear on the tablets, filling the blank spaces.
Kirivia fell to her knees.
Kirivia: master, I…
Master Disaster gave her a vicious kick to her chest, she collapsed on the stone floor, coughing and gasping for air.
M.D.: do not talk unless I tell you to! Don’t think I’ve forgiven you for the way you failed to predict those off-dimension warriors interfering with my attack on cardboard city!
Ness could feel hatred flowing through Mr. Game and Watch, he could feel anger and shock flowing through Fox and the others, and he could feel that strange feeling flowing through himself.
Master Disaster turned and noticed them for the first time. He walked slowly up until he right in front of them.
M.D.: who are you? You lot should be up in the hills mining for quartz!
Ness noticed Mr. Game and Watch was scowling at his foe. If Master Disaster saw him, it would ruin everything!
Ness: sorry, we are travelers from a distant country…we don’t know the rules here.
M.D.: where are you from?
Ness: the east…
M.D.: well I can tell you the rules. You must work for me, night and day, and obey my every command. The breaking of the rules is punishable by death.
Ness: but we are only passing through, and we just want somewhere to stay for the night…
M.D.: I’m sorry to hear that…because you are now my slaves, and you will go up into the hills to mine quartz or die.
Ness: but…
Fox: this is madness! You can’t do this to us!
M.D.: I can, and I will…
Master Disaster clicked his fingers and an amazingly strong force pushed the heroes onto the ground, Ness tried to move, but it was too much for him.
M.D.: You will become my slaves, or I shall crush you against the ground, take your pick.
Ness felt the force getting stronger, he had no choice.
Ness: O.K! O.K! W-We’ll work in your mines!
Oh no! It looks like Master Disaster is too hot to handle! Will they escape? Why does Master Disaster want so much quartz? Find out in Chapter 3: Part 8!
CHAPTER 3: PART 8!