Mushroom Kingdom: ...Mushroom Kombat?

[TurkwithStyle]

Ahhhh the Mushroom Kingdom! Where everything was happy and the sun was shining. Toad Town, which wasn't too far away, was just as busy as ever. Koopas, Goombas, and all the little mushroom kingdom oddities were going on about their every day routines except...something odd was happening. It seemed there were dark clouds growing, almost ominously, above a hill on the outskirts of the kingdom.

Two goombas were playing on said hill. "Hey! What's that!" the armless mushroom people waddled up to where the clouds were forming. Such an odd sight for the Mushroom Kingdom. Especially since it was...cold? "BBbbbbrrrr..." the Goombas said as they shook. Their eyebrows seemed to almost swaggle out of curiosity, because a ball of some kind seemed to be forming. This ball was made out of pure darkness. The Goombas jumped in fear, because out of this darkness showed many images that they didn't wish to see. Violent creatures, beating on eachother, grabbing eachother, smashing eachother...breaking eachother. Nothing like anything else in This World at all. For instance...what was that red stuff flying everywhere? The Goombas just gazed in horror as they stood their ground. One word rang through their heads, one horrifying word managed to scar them for life, because this one word seemed to bring on such a terrible act.

[shadow=black,left,300]FATALITY![/shadow]

Fortunately for the Goombas, this horrible imagery had ended...but something else seemed to be happening. The orb that they were staring at began to cover itself in...ice? There had never been ice in this part of the Mushroom Kingdom. But it seems this orb had continued to cover itself in this frigid coating, and it soon spread all over the ground below it. A form seemed to be residing behind the unclear ice wall. The form within the ice ball awoken, as it's eyes opened and glew. It began to move it's arms abruptly, and broke free. Ice shards were blasted everywhere.

It was a man dressed in blue ninja garb, and he was gasping for air.

The Goombas jumped in the air in excitement. They never saw such a thing! Very little humans came to the Mushroom Kingdom, but this one came by ways of ice? And why was he dressed so funny? "Hey! Mister! Are you okay!?" The other Goomba said, "Yeah! And who are you anyway!?"

The man's head shot up and looked the two Mushrooms in the eyes and gave a piercing stare. "..." he just stared.

"Uh...hey, guy, are you okay?"

"..." The man turned his neck to the side and allowed it to crack. He then rose, putting a hand on his head. "Talking Mushrooms? What sorcery is this?"

"..." both Goombas sat there perturbed at him calling them mushrooms. "Hey that's racist you know!!"

He just slowly raised his head once more, then slowly took a step forward. "Tell me, what realm is this?"

"uhhh sir? SIR!? PLEASE!? DON'T STEP TOO CLOSE NOW PLEASE!?"

"I do not understand. I am merely asking a question, why is it you fear m---" he felt a pain in his heart and tripped, falling to one knee...on top of the Goombas.

"AUUUGH!" The two mushrooms immediately trophetized upon impact to their heads.

The man's eyes widened as he fell backwards on his knees, holding one of the trophies in his hands. "...Where...am I?"

[AnT]

Somewhere, not too far, near the edge of a lake, bunny ears floated, lifelessly on the edge of the waters, as red little fishes hesitantly tried to reach for them. But since people uses many strange things for fishing, the red water creatures were always too careful.

But HARK! They were correct, for these dead ears can move, as they wiggled about, scaring away the fishes into the depths.

@arina@ "uuuugh...." But these brown furry ears happened to be attacked to a person's head...a browned haired human-like girl. Her short brown hair was over a cute face of a teenager's. Her blue spandex suit hugged her toned body, as they were under a small white jacket. She also wore red hi-tops.

And this girl finally sat up after what seemed to had been one rough sleep. "W-Where am I?"

[ninetalesuk]

Standing nearby, upon a hill, meditating calmly...

@lucario@

He breathed calmly, unaware of anything happening...

Just wait till his stomach is rumbling, then he'll notice...

[TurkwithStyle]

The Lin Kuei warrior just stood up and looked around. Whatever "realm" this was, it was definitley...odd. He began to descend down the hill he had portaled on to, still holding the Goomba trophy he held earlier. Down near the foot of the hill, there seemed to be two creatures.

@lakitu@ @shy Guy@ It was one Lakitu, and one Shy Guy. The Lakitu noticed the figure approaching said aloud to his friend, "Hey! What's that he's got in his hand?"

@shy Guy@ "Heh heh heh...I can see it shine. I'mma try to steal it." The Shy Guy shuffled off to the nearest bush, "Keep him distracted will ya?"

@lakitu@ "You got it!" the Lakitu flew up high in the sky on his cloud and headed for Sub-Zero.

He continued to walk on, ignoring the Lakitu. He was still so very confused.

@lakitu@ The Lakitu then started to release several spinies on Sub-Zero.

The warrior looked upward at the falling spinies and the world in his eyes suddenly went dark. The oncomming spinies appeared as fire balls, much like the ones Shang Tsung utilized. He dodged them and quickly hurled an iceball at the sky, "Ha! I knew it, Shang Tsung! Your sorcery cannot fool me."

@lakitu@ The lakitu screamed and quickly rushed out of the way. "Quickly! Grab it!"

@shy Guy@ The shy guy rushed and grabbed the Goomba trophy out of Sub-Zero's hands. "WHAT THE!? It's a trophy!"

@lakitu@ "What!?" He was then pelted with an iceball and he turned into a trophy and hit the ground.

The man picked up a near by spiny and wailed it at the trophy, causing it to break completely and leave nothing behind but a trophy stand.

@shy Guy@ "What did you do to him!?"

He turned around and gave a cold stare toward the Shy Guy. "I finished him." He slowly walked toward the Shy Guy. "And you will be finished soon enough as well, Quan Chi."

Soon enough, nothing could be heard but a loud scream.

[AnT]

@arina@ "Huh?" Her large furry ears perked up at the sound of the frightening shriek. The girl, climbing to her feet, then dashed up the hill.

[ninetalesuk]

@lucario@

He snapped out of his meditation and looked up frowning. "Hmm?"

[xenomina]

It was not long before the scream floated upon the ears of the kingdom's ruler. one Princess Peach Toadstool. After having had time to recover from her over exertion, the Princess had returned to her kingdom to take care of some internal matters and prepare for the tournament.

...and by prepare for the tournament, Peach was preparing her entire wardrobe for the events instead of doing some actual physical training.

It just happened to be that today, the ruler had decided to take a break from arguing with her tailor and take a lovely stroll through her kingdom, and just happened to be within earshot of the ice warrior.

"Oh my!" Peach exclaimed, turning towards the scream. Although investigating trouble was usually a job she left towards Mario, she was the only one around, and therefore, she had to at least 'try' to investigate...

So, the Princess made her way towards the scream as quickly as possible wearing high heels.

The Princess sincerely hoped that is wasn't Bowser up to his old tricks again.

[TurkwithStyle]

Sub-Zero was usually a calmer spirit, but something was messing with his head. He was consumed by rage. The world was turning around him, and he fell to the ground holding his heart. Why was nothing bleeding? Why was everything turning into a trophy? Why did he see the two sorceror's faces on these...creatures? And what are these creatures anyway? Sub-Zero took a few minutes to pull himself together and rid himself of the "Kombat Rage". He heard a female voice,

"Oh my!"

Sub-Zero looked back, looking for the voice that shouted. Could this person, or maybe this "thing", help him find out what was going on? Well it was worth a shot.

[AnT]

@arina@ Finally reaching to the top of the hill, the bunny girl would find a large red castle on the distance of the green land. That castle with a stain-glass picture of a princess on the center...looked quite a walk. But since she can't find the source of the shout, maybe she can get some answers on where she is by heading to that town by the castle.

[xenomina]

As soon as Peach saw the intimidating warrior, she hid behind a bush. She had never seen someone like him before, so it was only natural to assume that he had just arrived...but was he friend or foe? Though Peach feared the latter, she had to at least try to find out. After all, what if he was a kind-hearted man you enjoyed a good cup of tea? Peeking out from behind the bush, the timid princess stepped out and walked casually towards the large frost-wielding man.

"H-hello?"

[TurkwithStyle]

Sub-Zero made his way over to the woman. "Hm. It seems I'm not the only human thing in this odd realm. Who are you?"

[xenomina]

Despite the fact that the warrior seemed to be even more intimidating up close, the Princess stood strong. She was representing her kingdom now and Mario wasn't around to save face if she chickened out and the Princess would just have to suck it up for once and do her job. Taking the most royal looking stance she could think of, Peach summoned up all the courage she could muster and introduced herself.

"I am Princess Peach Toadstool of the Mushroom Kingdom- where you are now. And who would you be?"

[TurkwithStyle]

The man stopped where he was now that he was closer, "I am Sub-Zero, leader of the Lin Kuei Warriors. Mortal Kombat champion." He looked around, "What is this...Mushroom Kingdom? In what realm does it lie? It most certaintly doesn't look like Earthrealm."

[Mage]

Oh it seems Sub-Zero wasn't the only foreign martial artist to drift into this little town of Toads, because at that very moment a portal opened in the air and spat out what seemed to be a young lady flying to the ground at great speeds. "Waaaaah?!" The blond saw the ground coming up quick and had to think of something, so she tucked herself in tight and managed to spin a few times before landing on her feet with her arms out. Surprised that she fell... 6 to 7 feet in the air and landed safely. "Ahhh..." She looked around at the Toads looking up to her blinking. "This is sort of embarris..." Unfortunately it only got worse for the girl as she suddenly ended up under her large backpack and a Bo Staff, he bottom sticking up slightly as the bag landed directly on her back for a rather loud crash. "GAH!" Leaving the mushroomy people to cringe in pity for her.

[xenomina]

Peach stared at the warrior for a moment, before giggling. "Earthrealm? Oh my! You're not in Earthrealm, you're in This World. You must be a newcomer if you haven't heard of my kingdom yet..."