Chapter 4
“Uhhhh…what is that humming noise?”
Mario woke up strapped to a table with duct tape. Jars full of liquids, huge machines, and operating tools were all over the room he was in. He knew exactly where he was, he was in Dr.Efer’s laboratory.
He saw Luigi in front of the door holding a spear. He still had the same gaze on his face that he had before. He noticed a small star shaped mark on Luigi’s forehead.
He was wondering where Luigi got that mark when Dr.Efer burst into the room. Mario and Dr.Efer had been friends for quite sometime now. He cured Mario from the Delfino Flu just a few months ago and Mario felt that he was in his debt.
“Ah Mario how nice of you to come.” said Dr.Efer in a oily voice
“Why am I strapped to this board?” said Mario, “And why has all the Mushroom Guards and Luigi acting like zombies? Are you behind this?”
Dr.Efer smiled crookedly.
“Now Mario my dear friend don’t get so angry!” said the doctor, “If you calm down I will be more than happy to tell you what is going on.”
Mario laid his head back and took a few deep breaths. He knew he couldn’t break free of the amount of duct tape that strapped to him, he was too small. So he just sat back and waited what the doctor had to say.
“Well since you are calmed down now I will tell you what is going on.” said the doctor, “You see thousands of years ago the continent on the upper part of the globe was at war. The war was between the Koopa and the Mushroom People. The war dragged on for almost half a century. Then the Mushroom People made a huge advance on the Koopa’s capital city. They destroyed everything in the city and hardly let anything live. The Koopa surrendered that day and the war was over. Got that so far?”
Mario nodded his head.
“Now the remaining Koopa that were alive fled to the eastern desert of the continent. They wanted revenge badly, but they didn’t know how. One day a Magikoopa name Gurnto passed by the Koopa settlement in the desert. In exchange for money Gurnto agreed to help them. Gurnto took a bunch of cicadas and transformed into 7 foot humanoids with 10 inch claws. They called them jiggertenuoso, translates to “Cicada Beast from Hell”.
The Koopa set loose the jiggertenuoso upon the villages of the Mushroom People. In a few short years the jiggertenuoso destroyed all of their settlements and slaughtered countless people. The Mushroom People decided it was best to leave the continent in search of somewhere else. The Koopa celebrated their victory, but it was short. Since the jiggertenuoso were pretty much large cicadas they needed to suck on the juices of plants to survive. All over the continent all the plants were dieing. Although the Koopa were meat eaters they were affected by this because the animals they ate were plant eaters and were dieing off.
The Koopa made a decision to kill all the jiggertenuoso on the continent. It took many years to kill off them, but they finally did. By the time they killed them off however, all the animals the Koopa fed on were dead. So they decided to leave the continent in search of another continent to live on. As you know that continent is here where Mushroom People came several years before them.”
Mario was confused.
“If they were all slaughtered off how come the plants are all turning brown? Plus that still doesn’t explain why you strapped to this board and why everyone is acting like a zombie.”
Dr.Efer laughed.
“Patience Mario, Patience. Now before the jiggertenuoso were all killed off a lot of them laded their eggs in the ground. Eggs that could only be activated by juices from goat liver. And this is where I come into the story. A few months ago me and some of my colleagues went to that abandon continent. I was carrying some goat liver in jar in my backpack. I clumsily tripped over a rock and the goat liver flew out of my backpack. The glass broke and the liver landed on a pointy rock that was jutting out of the ground. The contents spilled out and the creatures bursted out of the ground.
With their enormous claws they sliced the necks of my colleagues and killed them. They however could tell that I was a great man of science and let me live, for a price. They told me to hypnotize all the people in the world so they can take it over with ease.”
Mario was stunned. He couldn’t believe that his friend was working for the cause of evil.
“Now in order to get everyone in the world hypnotized,” continued Dr.Efer, “I had to hypnotize everyone that was in the castle first so I can put my Hypno Beam on the roof without suspicion .”
He pointed to the large machine at the other side of the room.
“So you strapped me down to this table so you can hypnotize me?”
Dr.Efer shook his head no.
“I strapped you to the table because I think you can be use for me without being hypnotized. I need you strapped down so you won’t go blabbing to the king of what I am going to do”
Dr.Efer picked up a needle and injected it’s contents into Mario. Mario suddenly felt very sleepy.
“By the time you wake up, all of the Mushroom Kingdom will be hypnotized. Now if you excuse me I have an appointment with the Royal Family.”
[ July 23, 2004, 10:41 AM: Message edited by: ^Lava64 has lost his mind ] |