Smash City Outskirts - Time will Tell

[AnT]

"Oh this?" She pulled the layer of the bee-designed tights. "Well I am a bee, but I can't show that...urm, 'alone' other than the antennas and the wings." Her little wings flapped with a buzzing sound. "Hey, mind telling me where am I, strange silver shark-finned one? Some villainous looking fiend wouldn't give me a truthful answer."

[Native One]

Did she just call him a shark? Oh well.

"Well, I don't know much about the city that we're in, but I've been told by someone that this world is called... well, 'This World'. Also known as the World of Trophies." He sweatdropped, "And that's all I've figured out so far."

[AnT]

Great, he too said something about trophies, just like that fiendish man she left with those robots. Hey, she was captured. But, this little one looked truthful enough.

"Trophies...oh boy...well, I been on weirder planets. I wonder why those robots were bothering me." The woman then looked out at the city. "Great, where did I left my ship? I can't remember where those robots dragged me. I knew I should've installed that car alarm Jim gave me for my birthday."


Meanwhile, on the higher layer of the majestic heaven, known as clouds, our spineless worm hero descended quickly towards those clouds on his traveling jet engine. With him on back seat was the amphibian pilot, and his canine sidekick.

"Curiosity abounds! Did Earth looked a little bigger to you, Fuzz-Buddy? It was as if paleogeomorphology made an early opening on its schedule since we were here!"

[slomoto]

"I must not fear, fear is the mindkiller, fear is the little death that brings total oblivion, I must not fear..." Peter opened one eye and saw they were safely within the blue sky-line. "Eehhhahh..It's times like this I'm glad that we ever get to where we're going at all."

[Native One]

Silver took a quick look around. He didn't see any more of the little bots, so he figured that the two were safe for now.

So he decided that he'd take his leave.

"As much as I'd love to stay and chat about this place, I have a city to explore." Silver walked over to the edge of the building. "See ya!"

And Silver just fell off the building. But that's what it seemed like - he instantly manipulated his self and flew out towards the farther reaches of the city.8

[AnT]

"Hey wait!" It shame he had to leave, for she still need help getting around this place. She had to find a space-auto shop for her ship ... assuming she can find it. "Rats..."

But luck was just around the block...or over it, as Earthworm Jim spotted quite the familiar figure on the rooftop below. "Hey...!"

Twirling down, Jim drove the rocket to a floating stop near the princess. "Ah, it's my blueberry muffin of lusciousness!"

The woman suppressed a beaming smile the moment Jim came. She didn't wanna admit how much she needed his help...that much. "Uh...hi Jim!"

A goofy grin he made as he looked back at Peter and Slippy. "Don't you just love it when you're far from home and you run into people you know?"

[SHM 128 III]

Slippy hadn't said anything for a while, and for a good reason, too: His player didn't realize they changed threads Riding on the back of a rocket, through space, unprotected, was a rather forigen experience for someone who was used to flying in the (relative) safety of a cockpit, and one that had scared him into silence. However, now that they were on the ground again (or rather, hovering right above it), Slippy was able to mutter a reply to the earthworm, shaking like a leaf all the while.

"Y-Yeah, Jim... W-Wonderful..."

Cue the toad sliding off the side of the rocket, hitting the ground with a comical "THUD!"

[slomoto]

"Ow-Ow-Ow," Peter said as he was knocked on his back and his torso was squashed by a disembarking frog. "Ow-Rooooooar!"

To any newcomer's surprise, the tiny unassuming puppy had grown into a gigantic purple monster. It loomed over the frog, panting and growling, but then bypassed the actual assailant to pounce on Jim and attack him in a ferocious mauling surrounded by a comical cloud of dust.

[AnT]

"AAAAAAAGH!! DOWN BOOOOY!!!!" Jim will forever be...almost helpless against the fury that is Monster Peter. Again for he suffered the agony mauling from his sidekick.

Though this was something the princess was in no mood for. Sighing, she walked over to the fight cloud and reach in there with no fear of losing a hand. Searching for any fur, she proceeded with the tickling technique.

[slomoto]

"Hahahahah....hehehehe....*burp*"


Peter changed back from the purple monster he became. His tiny body was still wrapped around Jim's leg and he still eagerly chewed away at it despite the inability to do the massive lug any harm.

[SHM 128 III]

By the time the toad finally manged to get the strenght to pull his head up off the ground, he found himself staring at Peter simply gnawing on Jim's leg. Apparently, he had missed Peter's entire monster rampage, which, considering Slippy's mental stability at the moment, was probably a good thing.

"Oh... Um... Hi, there," Slippy said to the woman standing before him as he quickly picked himself up and dusted himself off, "you know Jim?"

[AnT]

"Huh?" She jumped, like she wasn't expecting him to talk to her. "Oh, uh...yeah, pretty much."

"YES!!" Jim happily bounced back up, not even bothering prying Peter off his leg. The suited worm zipped behind her and wrapped his large and loving arms around her. "This is my sweet potato of delight; my candy-apple of ecstasy, Princess What's-Her-Name!"

The princess pressed her lips together, as if trying to make an annoyed look on her red face. "Jim! Huggies! Stapled lips, remember?"

"Oh, right! My bad!" And the arms were off her.

Closing her eyes, diligently, the woman loosened her shoulders. "Hey Jim, Peter? Have you noticed anything strange? Because the moment I flew out of my home planet, I somehow was smack dabbed in some space storm and wound up in the middle of space-nowhere, crashing into some other ship."

[slomoto]

"Well Jim and I thought we were somewhere else but...we just got back from Planet Heck where we rescued this guy....But then, we're in a whole different place here, aren't we?" Peter scratched his head. "Gosh, things must be really bad if I can't come up with an explanation."

[SHM 128 III]

Slippy was going to ask what the princess' name really was, but considering how... "ecentric" Jim was, he quickly concluded that it was entirely possible that really was her name.

"Well... Um... If you guys are lost, maybe you should go to City Hall," the toad suggested, pointing in the direction the building was, "they should have some information there, although it might be pretty crowded at this time with people signing up for the Smash Tournament... And I always thought the Master Hand made sure everyone knew about Smash City..."

[AnT]

"Uh...Smash Tournament?" the earthworm looked at his 'beloved' for answers.

The princess shrugged, "Eh...yo no se."

While he wondered where she learned Spanish, he decided to save that question for later. Questions came for Slippy. "Hmm...tell me, my young Bufonidae friend ... this Smash Tournament ... is it an event where great warriors go to test their suburb skills in an epic yet unnecessarily violent fashion?"