Through the use of the dreaded "plot device", the inseparable duo were no longer dealing with a megalomaniacal farceur. Now, with Atari controllers in hand, were somehow controlling two supreme fighters from Fatal Fury and Street Fighter.
"Oh no!" Mario exclaims as the restaurant comes under attack. The men and women inside duck beneath tables for cover. But Mario does not duck. Mario never stands down in the face of danger. Such an attitude would not have made him such a valiant hero in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Mario's search for Luigi would have to wait. Right now, there were people to save.
Without another thought, Mario leaped into the restaurant, dodging bullets and strange attacks. Mario moved faster than the Imps and Zombies were prepared for.
"Let's go!"
Mario delivered several high-flying kicks to his opponents. For a middle-aged plumber, Mario was very nimble. Grabbing one Imp, Mario continued to hit him rapidly in succession. If they were in the Mushroom Kingdom, a coin would pop out for every hit. However, those rules did not apply in this world. Nonetheless, this attack served its purpose. The Imp collapsed on the ground when Mario was finished.
Mario was so overwhelmed that he didn't see an attacking Zombie. The Zombie hit Mario with a blast from his rifle. The plumber was thrust across the destroyed restaurant, falling to the ground in a heap.
Then, something unexpected happened. Mario felt a strange sensation. He instinctively placed a finger to his lip, and he noticed blood. Mario, to his recollection, had never bled before. The new laws of physics in this world must have fundamentally changed him in some way.
Something catches Mario's eye in the kitchen. On the cutting board is an all-too-familiar mushroom. It sticks out in this world due to its abnormal size and color. Seeing that his enemies weren't looking, Mario made a dash for the kitchen. He grabbed the mushroom and swallowed it in one gulp.
Suddenly, Mario's pain stopped. He saw his reflection in the metal freezer door. His bleeding had stopped, and his wounds had disappeared. Furthermore, Mario had grown almost 6 inches! Feeling recharged and ready for battle, Mario grabbed the attention of his opponents.
"Nice try."
John looked around "We got to get to the bottom of this."
Mewtwo's head spun as Umbreon's Dark Void attack spun through his mind. Even he couldn't shake the sleep-causing attack, let alone shake the bind that Ivysaur had on him.
"You fools. You serve this boy as though you owe him something. You are fools!" Suddenly, Mewtwo forced his way into Ivysaur's head using a psychic attack. "Foolish creature. Release me!"
Ivysaur's vines loosened and he collapsed to the floor in pain, grasping his head. He then suddenly lifted off the ground and slammed into Squirtle, knocking them both out cold. Mewtwo then looked at Umbreon, and up toward Red.
"I'll be back for you." He hurled himself into the air towards Red, Fox, and Charizard.
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"I'm getting a signal, but its weak. How much higher can you go?"
Charizard flew even higher, the air thinning. Red has having a difficult time breathing from way up here.
Suddenly, Red saw him. "Oh s***!" He turned to Fox. "You might want to hang on. This could get rough." Mewtwo suddenly appeared infront of them, a glare of hatred in his eyes.
"You know, Red, the Elite Four talk about you all the time. About how you came in and beat every one of them with ease!" He stopped and smiled. "I have to say, from what your Pokemon have shown me, you're really not all they said you are."
Red snickered a bit. "Well, I'm afraid you havn't met Charizard yet, have you?" Suddenly, Charizard sent an enormous fireball into Mewtwo's chest, sending it spiraling backwards through the air. "Good Fire Blast, Charizard. Now, give him a Headbutt!"
Charizard lunged forward towards the recovering Mewtwo and laid its head into its back, sending it speeding towards the Earth. With an enormous slam, Mewtwo hit the concrete hard. For several seconds, it did not move.
Charizard landed safely on the sidewalk, allowing Fox and Red to get off. Red instinctively grabbed an empty Pokeball from his belt as he watched for movement. Suddenly, Mewtwo turned its head and stared at Red. "We will meet again, Champion." In a flash of purple light, Mewtwo disappeared from sight.
Red shook his hand as he patted Charizard on the back. "Nice work, pal. You saved our bacon up their." He turned to Ivysaur and Squirtle, who were picking themselves up from the beating they had taken. "Come on guys, its over. We won." He called Ivysaur, Squirtle, and Umbreon into their Pokeballs and returned them to his belt.
Suddenly, a large group of police surrounded them and held them at gunpoint. "Put your hands in the air and no one gets hurt!"
Red turned to Fox. "Did they miss what just happened? I think you need to teach your new friends some manners."
Or a fireflower, the Italian thinks to himself. But since he did not have one on hand, Mario settled for working with these weird strangers. This truly was a peculiar place. Oh, how Mario wondered what troubles Luigi could be getting into...Sam & Max and The Spider Mastermind
Through the use of the dreaded "plot device", the inseparable duo were no longer dealing with a megalomaniacal farceur. Now, with Atari controllers in hand, were somehow controlling two supreme fighters from Fatal Fury and Street Fighter.
"Hey Sam, watch this!" Max spun his joystick in a 360-like motion, and pressed the top button twice to release Terry Bogard's Power Dunk. The blonde fighting-guy picked up Ryu, jumped in the air, and slam dunked him against the ground. Blood flew everywhere. "Nice one, but I bet you can't top this move!" Sam threw the controller in the air, grabbed it, push the joystick upward and to the left, and pushed the red button. This commanded Ryu's Hadoken, which obliterated Terry to pieces.
"Argh ..." In his anger, the hyperkinetic rabbity thing went up to the acclaimed Street Fighter and kicked him in the balls. "Bastard," he said under his breath. He then walked back over to Sam, forgetting about the fight, with a simple question on his mind. "Hey Sam, when do we actually do something meaningful with the main plot?" "Well, we did get to talk to Fox McCloud." "No, when do we get to go on a calamitous rampage." "In a minute little buddy, after some ... selfless promotion!"
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The three, minus one, musketeers hear a feint sound ... something shadowy approaches. Before the two know it, Shadow and Soldier Heartless appear all around them!
"Never saw THAT coming." "Dear god Max, Heartless! Kingdom Hearts! Ansem, Xehanort, Xemnas!" "Wha'?" "Nothing, just making for idle conversation." The Freelance Police strung into action, equipping their pistols. Max went on a furious frenzy, shooting at all he could, Sam as backup. The two found their choice of weaponry quite useless, as most of their cartoony bullets went right through the cartoony anomalies. "Well I'll be ..." "Sam, my bullets , they ..." "I'm right behind you." Sam got out a slingshot from his coat pocket, bundled up his buddy into a ball, and launched it at a Soldier Heartless, destroying it instantly. The white rabbit grabbed out a large double axe from his invisible pockets and swung it like Jack the Ripper.
When Max found that the black beings only disappeared in a cloud of smoke, he was sorely disappointed. "E-rated Violence sucks!" To appease him, the crime dog looked about to find some destruction of a more bloodier kind, and found it. "Looks like there's some M-rated violence across the street."
Max looked over at the animated shadows, and then over at the demons attacking a local restaurant. "Heartless be damned, I'm hunting demons." And so our heroes walked past the Shadows and Soldiers that surrounded them, leaving the black beings free to terrorize the city.
"Foul mortal, thou shalt punish for thy sins!" The Spider Mastermind was infuriated with the red plumber that was destroying her Zombies and Imps. "Slay the red one unto me!" She called to her forces of Hell.
Sam and Max had gotten back into their Desoto, watching the ensuing slaughter from a distance. "Any ideas Mr. President?" "Nope. Just the usual." "That's sounds good enough for me." Sam pressed hard on the gas petal. Speeding fast down the road, he saw a piece of scrap that sloped up from the ground. He steered towards it, and the Desoto went flying. It landed on the top of the hellish Spider, and kept going forwards, doing a barrel roll, until the automobile hit back on the asphalt. "Eat that Dukes of Hazard!"
The Mastermind peered over to the dog and rabbit in the car. "Challenge me thou hast, but burn thee will in the pits of Hell!" The Freelance Police jumped out of the Desoto while the behemoth shot its chaingun at it. With all the explosives set in the car, it blew sky high from the blast. The two tumbled away from the explosion.
Sam looked over towards the fat plumber that was fighting off Zombies and Imps from inside the Italian restaurant. "Looks like you could use a hand."
