Toad Town and Peach's Castle (Super Mario)

Commander Gold: You'll see once you read this.

*He pulls out scroll, and waves it in the air. He tosses it to Mario before flying off.*

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*Her "Shadow" mimics her as best as it can.*

Alanna starts to do movements with her hair that are very hard to mimic.

*The Shadow once again moves out of place, but not once, twice.*

Alanna catches this, then turns to her shadow. Wondering if it will work, she stabs the ground where her shadow is with her sword.

*Alanna's shadow suddenly screeches, and black smoke suddenly starts to fill the room, making the only visible thing two glowing, souless, blue eyes.*

Alanna stabs the eyes.

Karasz: WHAT WAS THAT???

Toniyo: Alanna, what's going on?!

Alanna: HOW THE HECK SHOULD I KNOW?!

*The Sword hits nothing, but something suddenly grabs Alanna by the neck. Eventually, the smoke clears, but the room's light is dim. What appears to be a large black being with three claws replacing fingers, and holding Alanna up in the air with one of them, with black-ish smoke coming out of the creature, is revealed.*

Toniyo: ALANNA!!

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Mario: I'm-a-guessing you're one of the robots, are ya?

Alanna attempts to slice the creature's arm off.

*The attempt doesn't work. The creature's mouth opens up and stretches down to the floor, and it lets out a hidious roar before throwing Alanna into Toniyo.*

Alanna fires an arrow into the Creature's mouth.

*Karasz pulls out his Grand Blade and stabs the creature.*

*The figure is hit by three 3 light blasts*

Karasz: I regonized that blast!

Domino, Bahamut, and Anubis IV finally warp to Toad Town, square.
<Bahamut> That took way too long.
<Domino> I'll say...
Anubis IV then notices something awry.
<Anubis IV> ...Hold on! Where's Lava and Valkyrie? And Fenrir for that matter?!
Domino and Bahamut are equally startled when they notice this.
<Bahamut> You don't think...
<Domino> They got dropped somewhere else?!
<Anubis IV> I'll go look for--
<Domino> Don't worry! We still have GPDS contact with them.

*The Arrow disappears when it falls into the creature's mouth. It's arms suddenly split into two each, and it grabs Karasz, Toniyo, Alanna, and Sarina. While lifting them up off the ground, the monster starts looking around the room for the sources of the blast.*

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*CG can't hear Mario as he has left. The scroll seems to be tempting Mario to open it.*

Domino contacted Lava on the GPDS.
<Lava> Domino? Is that you?
<Domino> Yeah! We're in Toad Town. Where are you?
<Lava> Oh. I'm in Springfield, about to enter Krusty's latest theme park.
<Domino> This isn't a time to go to a theme park!
<Lava> Seems some guy messing up the space stream is hiding here. So I'm gonna deal with him.
<Domino> Oh. Well, good luck with that.
Bahamut gets in touch with Valkyrie.
<Bahamut> Valk, you there?
<Valkyrie> Yeah. I'm here in Lindblum with this boy.
<Bahamut> Lindblum...That's in Gaia, isn't it?
<Valkyrie> Mm-hmm.
<Bahamut> How did you wind up in Gaia, anyway? We were all coming to this spot in Toad Town.
<Valkyrie> Not sure. We'll try and find out.
<Bahamut> Actually, Lava's finding that out, too. Says some guy in Springfield is messing with space.
<Valkyrie> Oh. Well, send him my best regards!
<Bahamut> Got it. Later.
Bahamut changes signals to contact Fenrir...but is unable to.
<Bahamut> Huh...I can't find Fenrir.
<Anubis IV> You don't think...he's lost in the space stream?!
The three are silent for a moment.
<Domino> Well, let's leave that to Lava and Valkyrie. For now, we gotta find those Black Apple victims.

<OOC> Where are those Black Apple victims?

Alanna, using this as a last resort, bites the Creature's hand.

*The monster screams, letting go all four of them to clutch it's hand, then grabs Alanna again and throws her out a window.*

Alanna grabs onto the window frame and pulls herself back in.

*Light appears* Light: Hey, need help?

OOC: The black apple plot is over. What I need is some of your villains for a NEW plot. Don't worry.

*The monster, realizing that light is starting to pour in through the room from the window, shreiks and melts into the shadows, where it quickly darts away.*

??????: NOT SO FAST CREATURE!

*Calvin appears and fires his Transmogrifier at the shadow, which should turn it into a cardboard Box*