Ever since they were invented, Video Games have captivated the world. They bring gamers to a new reality, allowing them to escape from the worries and cares of their own lives for a little while, while assuming the roles of their favorite heroes, embarking on exciting quests and vanquishing evil foes. From the simplest of games, like Pong or Pac-Man, which were all the rage of yesteryear, to the most complex and advanced RPGs and strategy games of today; Video Games remain one of the most popular franchises in the world. Many gamers often wish they could live out the great adventures experienced in the game. They wish they could be like their favorite characters, and experience the wonders and marvels of the game.

However, a wise man once said “be careful what you wish for”, and a small group of gamers are about to learn that phrase the hard way. They thought buying the newest, state-of-the-art wireless controllers would improve their gaming and increase their fun – they never imagined it would twist their entire world upside down; but it did. This is their story. This is the story of what happens when Video Games and Voodoo mix inside a small apartment building in a busy city in the United States.

Our story, however, does not start with the junkies whom it revolves around. Nor does it start with the video game characters that make up such a vital portion of the tale. No, it starts with a truck driver named Les. Les was a good man. He had a son who lived in Florida, and he had a love of beer and fireworks. Heck, Les was also a great neighbor. He even mowed his neighbor’s grass all the time, since he had a riding lawnmower. So as you can tell, Les was a good guy. He never meant to cause so much trouble for the Junkies, but he did.

The night air was cold and the stars filled the sky. The streets of New Orleans, Louisiana, were alive with sounds, sights, smells and colors just like every other night. Now, for as long as people have lived in the town nicknamed “the Big Easy”, there have been tales of voodoo and witchcraft. Tourists flock to the seedier side of town to be enchanted by these tales, and the locals love to tell ‘em. But Les, he never took that stuff seriously. Which is the cause of our entire story. You see, Les’s truck got a flat tire just outside a small voodoo shop. Les decided to head into the shop to ask for a jack, so he could change to his spare tire.

When he got inside the shop, he found all sorts of strange and wondrous things. There were shrunken monkey hands, strange assorted spellbooks, why, there was even something called an “enchanted pie”. (XD! Could not resist.) Les ignored all of the strange things and went to the shop owner. The shop was owned by a smug man with a pale, pointed face, a big nose and beady eyes which he hid behind dark sunglasses. The man wore a white suit and a purple silk tie, and Les got a creepy vibe from him.

“Can I help you sir?” The voodoo shop owned asked with a thick accent.

“Yeah. My truck busted down. Y’all got a jack I can use?”

“Certainly.” The voodoo shop owner was a nice enough fellow, or so it seemed, and he gave Les the jack without a word. Les exited the shop and went about changing his tire, completely unaware of his destiny. It didn’t take the old pro long to change the tire, and when he was finished, tired and sweaty, he returned to the shop to give the jack back. The voodoo shop owner returned the tool to the back room after Les handed it to him, and then he noticed Les start to leave, which is when the trouble began.

The voodoo shop owner cleared his throat. “Sir, might I interest you something? A tarot reading, perhaps? Or one of my enchanted pies?”

“Nope. Don’t believe in that stuff.” Les replied.

That did not set well with the voodoo shop owner. “Now sir, I showed you great kindness in lending you my jack. The least you can do is help a poor man’s store by buying a mummified kappa eyeball, or a shrunken monkey paw.”

Les ignored the man and left the shop without buying so much as a lucky rabbit’s foot. That angered the voodoo shop owner. The owner reached for one of the odd tomes on the wall, and opened the ancient book’s crusted pages. He then read a spell while looking at Les’s truck. He decided he’d get even with Les by placing an old voodoo hex on him. However, the voodoo man’s eyes were focused on the truck, not its driver, and unbeknownst to him he wound up cursing the contents of that truck.

And so Les the truck driver continued on his route, unaware that the contents of his truck had been cursed by an ancient voodoo spell. Les drove all the way from New Orleans to the city in which our story takes place without ever knowing the danger and adventure he was bringing with him. Les arrived at the local store and unloaded the boxes to its owner. Now what Les had been delivering were the brand new “wireless” controllers for video games. They were custom made and brand new. Worked with any system, and did it without wires or cords (as long as you had an attachment).

The store wasn’t going to release them to the public for another month, but some customers had pre-ordered them. While Les drove away into the night, the owner of the store sent his son out to deliver the wireless controllers to the people who pre-ordered them. Oddly enough, all of those people lived in the same nearby apartment complex. The store owners son zipped own the road on his bike, the boxes loaded on the back and tied on with a belt, and one by one he left them in the mailboxes of those who had preordered them. Then he went home to have some homemade flan and watch TV.

The next morning, one by one, the people who our story revolves around would go out to their mailboxes and find the controllers. This is what happened when they found them. This is the beginning of our story.

This is the story of voodoo and video games

This is the story of friends and flan.

This is the story of a handful of Video Game Junkies.

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(The Next Day)

This is Johnny Wannaroku, with WTTKICUPXYZ radio, and your morning wake up call! So wake your lazy butt up, boy!

The radio was blaring in the bedroom of seventeen year old Brandon Troy Rice. He was your typical teenager. Well, not really. A typical teenager would have a job, or a car – and they’d also have enough sense of style to get rid of the goofy haircut that Brandon had; so I suppose he was not your typical teenager. But he was a teenager, and he had preordered the new wireless video game controller. Although since it was pretty early in the morning right now, he had completely forgotten about the controller being deliver. No, he was more focused with grunting at his alarm clock and covering his head with a pillow in a pathetic attempt to go back to sleep.

Which did not work.

Muttering something along the lines of “this is the last time I stay up to watch Fullmetal Alchemist” (which, of course, was untrue) Brandon slowly went about the usual morning routine of dressing, teeth brushing, and then he spent about an hour wrestling his hair with a comb and gel before giving up in defeat and deciding to just let it do whatever the heck it wanted.

His next stop, unfortunately, was not the mailbox attached next to his front door, but the kitchen. He rooted around the refrigerator, but all he could find to eat was some leftover flan from last night, and a note on the door informed him that his mother planned to pick up groceries later.

“Great, but what do I do till then?” He asked himself. Sighing, he ran a hand through his hair (which was a bad idea, since his hair still had ruminates of gel in it and it made his hand all sticky) and then he noticed the calendar. Today’s date was circled. That was strange. Why had he circled today’s date?

“Oh yeah, that controllers is supposed to come today!” He remembered, and quickly went to check his mailbox. Brandon grinned when he saw the package and wasted no time in forgetting all about breakfast and instead heading to the living room for game time.

Pressing a button on the controller, a red light shot out, similar to a laser pointed.

“Cool. Betcha I could use this to shine in the neighbor’s window.” Brandon snickered, then he realized his hand was still sticky. “Don’t wanna ruin my new controller already.” So he tossed the controller on the ground and ran to the bathroom, unaware that the red light was still shining, and it had now hit a stack of his games.

Just as he finished washing the gel off of his hand, he heard a loud bang, and ran back to the living room. He noticed that four of his games that had been stacked up were now on fire.

“Aww, man! Not cool!” Brandon yelled as he ran to grab the fire extinguisher from under the kitchen sink. By the time he returned, the flames had turned . . . green.

“Whoa. That can’t be good.” He muttered to himself. Suddenly, a large flaming green skull shot from the fire and began flying around the room, laughing in a high pitched laugh. “Definitely not good!”

Brandon sprayed at the flaming skull with the fire extinguisher, but just as the white foam flew, the skull let out a loud “HAHAHAHA!” and the four bright lights shot from each of the burning games. One light was red, another was blue, a third one was white and the last was brownish-yellow. Brandon decided now was a good time to yelp and jump behind the couch, since things were officially freaky beyond belief.

The skull then vanished with a loud pop like a gunshot and a flash of white light. The light was so bright Brandon had to shut his eyes, and when he finally opened them again, he saw the weirdest thing he’d ever seen.

The flames were gone, and there was no evidence a fire had ever been there (aside from the extinguisher fluid on the walls). However, on the floor four glowing lights had appeared, and slowly those four lights transformed into four figures.

The first was short, red and looked like some sort of human, anteater hybrid, in green shoes and white gloves. Brandon recognized the strange creature as Knuckles the Echidna, one of the characters from his Sonic the Hedgehog game; which made no sense at all. The blue light transformed into a dark haired man with white gloves and black shoes – Roy Mustang, one of the bosses of his Fullmetal Alchemist video game. That only added to the insanity.

The white light morphed into a short man whose head looked an awful lot like a television screen. He was Bomberman, from the game of the same title, and how he’d wound up in Brandon’s living room was beyond him. The yellowish-brown light had turned into a blonde-haired boy with a wrench on his belt and a red gem on his chest. It was Max, the hero of Dark Cloud 2.

Brandon had to blink several times as these four video game icons appeared in his living room. Well, he knew what was going on. Weird rainbow-colored fire, video game characters coming to life, laughing, flying skulls – there was only one possible, rational explanation.

That flan must have been way past its expiration date.

((Well, there you have it. XP I hope this turns out well. Now come, post! Post! May the insanity thrive! XD))

(Great intro ... enchanted pie. XD Yes!)

Half of a girl's body was hanging off the top bunk, which wouldn't do any good for her neck. She was never the type to wake up before noon. Suddenly, an annoying beeping sound was set off, causing the girl to wake up.

"Uh... what the?" She lazily checked her pocket and took out her cellphone which seemed to be the cause of the noise and pressed a button. 'Stupid alarms.' The girl closed her eyes again, hoping to catch some more shut eye.

"Johanna..." A voice said. "Johanna!" The owner of the voice now proceeded to pull on the girl's hair; who's name was obviously Johanna.

"Joha-" "WHAT?!" Johanna interrupted the girl, who turned out to be her 11 year old sister.

"You got mail." (XD) Her sister said as she pointed to the living room. Johanna obviously couldn't see what she recieved and immediately got annoyed. She grabbed a stuffed animal from her bed and threw it at her sister.

"Could you at least get it so I know what it is? Jeez." Johanna, who was still hanging off the bunk bed sighed. She lived in a small place with her two sisters, and parents, who seemed to annoy her to no end. It didn't get any better when her sister threw a package at her head, causing Johanna to completely fall off the top bunk and contacting with the hardwood floor.

"Thanks a lot! Loser face." (I really do say that. Now that I type it, it sounds retarted.) Johanna rubbed her head as she opened the package. Getting the controller out, Johanna started dancing around.

"Finally! I've been waiting for this for forever!" Johanna yelled to nobody. Apparantly someone was listening.

"Shut up Johanna, you only ordered that about a week ago!" Her sister shouted from the kitchen. Johanna rolled her eyes and placed the controller on the bottom bunk, accidentally pressing a button. She made her way to the kitchen, not even noticing the bright purple light (can I have purple XD) coming from the controller.

"Richelle, you better not have eaten all the flan." Johanna threatened as she purple light hit the T.V., reflecting the light to the mirror, and then to three of the millions of games scattered on the floor. </Exagerration.> As Johanna was enjoying her flan, she heard a bang followed by the yells from her mom.

"Johanna! You better turn down that T.V.!" Johanna sighed, not even trying to argue. She walked back to her room to see what happened and dropped her flan, as well as her jaw. (NOOOO!) Three of her favorite games seemed to be on fire. Being a total idiot, Johanna stood there and watched the fire grow bigger until it turned a different color. And when it did, a strange skull flew out of it, causing Johanna to shriek at the top of her lungs.

"Ok, it must be one of those- AHA! Brandon got one of those spiffy design cap things for his lasers! He's just using it to irritate me." She glared out her window to the house across the street. The skull however laughed and dissapeared. Johanna rubbed her eyes and looked back to where her games were on fire and saw something she totally didn't expect.

"Wow." Her eyes widened as she saw three figures roaming about in her room. One of them was a white female bat, who Johanna immediately recognized as Rouge the Bat from Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. The second one was a fox who wore clothes and carried a gun; Fox McCloud. And the third one... the third one was just about Johanna's favorite dude in the history of history; Bam Margera. He wore baggy clothes, a beanie, and carried a skateboard.

"Johanna, what was- OW!" Richelle came in to see what Johanna yelled about before she slammed the door in her face.

"Nothing, just nothing! Now go away and eat some flan- or something." Johanna leaned back against the door, locked it, and slid to the floor.

"Wow."

((Flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flan, flannity-flan-fla-flan! CHARGE!!!!))

Kevin was at home, up early in the morning, playing Punch-Out!! on his NES with his dog, Duke, by his side. His parents were out of town, and it was summer, so there was no school. He was beating the crap out of King Hippo, when suddenly, his doorbell rang.

"What?! Is the fight over?!" His dog barked. "Oh... it's the doorbell... ^_^;"

Kevin walked up to the door and saw his package... "YES!! It's here, boy! It's my new controller!" He started petting his dog and went back to his game, about to plug the controller he had taken out of the box, when suddenly it began to emit a glowing yellow light.

"This must be the wireless laser thingi..." said Kevin. He set the controller down and started reading the instructions, when suddenly the light hit his stack of games and they were on fire. Kevin wasn't even paying attention to the fire, though Duke kept barking at him.

"What do you want, Duke? I just fed you... what? I fed you already... will you shut up, I'm trying to read this!!"

After the fire changed color and the skull appeared, laughing, Kevin noticed something was amiss.

"Oh... I guess that's what you're barking about... man, maybe that left-over flan-flavored pizza was a little on the raw side..."

The skull disappeared, and out emerged some figures that turned into video game characters...

Mario

Ash

Megaman

and Pit!

Kevin's expression... O_O

(( Sorry if I wasn't as creative with my post, I'm kinda rushing it so I can get some other crap done... don't worry, I'll put more effort in my next post. ^_^; ))

((YAY!!!!! XP Enchanted Pie))

"NO!" Kimi shouted at her computer. "PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE don't die! I don't wanna have to buy I new one!" She finally got out of her blue computer chair and kicked the computer's hard drive. "FIne, who neeeds ya? I'll go play my....uh...." She scurried over to GameBoy Advanced and turned it on. "HAHA! See? I have a ton of stuff to do, I don't need the compu--" She suddenly glared back into the screen and realized she was losing. Her pride would NOT stand for that. "HEY! ....er.....AH!" She threw her head up. "NO! Kirby! You creampuff! Don't die!" She turned her GameBoy off and pulled the game out. SHe pulled the game to her face and stuck her tongue out at it. "I can never beat that stupid eyeball!" SHe tossed it into a different corner as her gameboy.

She looked around for another game she could play to make her computer jealous. She turned on her Game Cube and sat in front of the TV. "See? I still have DOnkey Ko--" Her eyes widened as she looked down at her controller. "Come on you stupid MONKEY!" She pulled the game out of the GameCube and put it in its case. She then tossed it over where she'd thrown Nightmare in Dreamland. "Damn it; everything is dying on me today!" She reached for another game and came out with the game her brother had rented from the store; a remake of the classic Mario Brothers game. She put it into the GameCube, not even bothering to consider that her brother would kill her later. She opened her brother file --another thing she hadn't put much thought into-- and began playing where her brother had left off.

"Wow, David already got Yoshi, I'm impressed." She played for a full six minuted before she drove Yoshi straight into a pool of lava. "CRAP!" She pulled the game and took the same procedure as she did the other games. "Ugh! Today is NOT my day." She heard a loud knock at the door. "WHat?! Are you the police or something!? Knock a little louder, why don't cha?" She got up to answer the door. "I swear, you'd think there was a loud ninja at the door." She opened the door and looked around. She looked down and saw a small package. "Oh, it's here." She looked around once more; looking for the person who delivered it. "Huh, guess it really WAS a loud ninja." She closed the door and ran inside.

"Oh, this is so great!" Kimi jumped up and down as she ran back to her room. "My NEW controller is finally here! Maybe THIS'LL make that computer wish it hadn't totally died." She put down the package and ran into the kitchen to get some snacks; can't enter the new age of advanced technology on an empty stomach. "Gotta cover the five food groups; sweet, salty, crunchy, chewy, and nocho cheese." Kimi pulled out a ton of junk food. "Let's not forget THe Other catagory."

Suddenly, there was a loud crash coming fro mher room. "WHA!?" She dropped all of her snacks and looked at her room. "HEY, WHAT'S GOING--?!" The door slammed and Kimi was locked out. She put her ear to the door to hear what was going on, but she began to feel the door getting warmer. She didn't have to pulled a Jimmy Kudo to figure out what was going on. "FIRE!" SHe ran around screaming in the hallway. "OH MY GOD! FIRE!!!!" SHe ran into the living room and started digging throuh the piles of junk on her couch. "OH MY GOD! WHERE'S MY CELL PHONE!? CELL PHO--!" She looked over at the kitchen table and found the cell phone. She dialed the number for the fire departemtn, but only got they're machine:

"Hi, you've reached the Fire Department. We're not here right now--"

There was an explosion from Kimi's room and she dropped her phone on the ground. "Um..." She got up and went into her burnt to a crisp room.

"SHEE!" Came a cry from her room.

"WHat?" She waved her hand to clear the smoke from her room.

"SHEE!" SHe heard again. This time, a small green lizard-like creature jumped up from the smoke and landed on Kimi's head.

"Yoshi?" SHe asked, lifting the fictional reptile in fron tof her. "How in the--"

"Who's there?" Another voice came from beyond the smoke. THere were footsteps as a large ape walked up in front of Kimi. "What's with the face?"

"It's not everyday a giant monkey appears in my room." Kimi said, dropping Yoshi on the ground.

"Hey, I'm an APE! No tail."

"And argues with me over the whole ape vs monkey scenario." She put her hand to her fore head. "That smoke must've gotten to my head. Maybe I'm in the Twilight Zone." She looked around again. "Anyone else here that I don't know about?"

"Not unless you include that pink pillow over there." Donkey Kong said, pointing behind him with his thumb.

"Okay, good let's just--" Kimi stopped. "Wait, I don't have a pink pilow." Donkey Kong went into the smoke and brought back a pink block. "And I definatly don't have a pink pillow with shoes!" The pillow turned into a round puff with eyes and a mouth. "Kirby?!" Kimi began pacing in her room. "Great, I'm going crazy. David always warned me this would happen, I just never thought it would happen with three imaginary video game characters in my room! Okay..."

(( O.o I'm late! I'm late! For a very important date! ))

One day, a teenage boy with the alliterative name of Bur Burburry woke up late. Very late. He hopped out of bed groggily and sat on the floor.


That... would be about it for the next hour or so, had he not ordered a package, which had come and been put in his room by his parents before they left. Now, finding a box in front of him, he opened it. It was his new game-thingy! Yay!

Still sitting there tiredly, he turned it on. A thin blue light shot out of it and hit a pair of sunglasses, at which point it divided into four thin strips of light- one hit a GBA game, one a Gamecube game, one a computer CD, and one a very old and unique game system he'd got at some junk shop. All burst into flames, and a giant flaming skull flew insanely around the room.

This would have woken most people up. Just, not him. He looked at the flames and looked at the skull, and yawned. He'd figure out how he should react when he woke up.

Then the skull faded away and the four games glowed. From the GBA game stood a red reploid warrior with a green lightsaber; that was Zero. From the Sega Collection CD, more specifically, Sonic R contained on that CD, came a robotic echidna known as RoboKnuckles, Cyber Knuckles, Mecha Knuckles, and Awesome, but as the official name is apparently "Metal Knuckles", let's go with that. .metalknuckles. From the old system (I dunno which one XD) and the game Sonic the Fighters, came a green duck, Bean the Dynamite. -bean- And finally, from the GameCube game came a life-force sucking Metroid.

Bur yawned again. Then, without warning, the duck tossed a bomb at him.

THAT woke him up.

Kevin was in awe.

"So, is this real? Are you really Mario, Ash, Pit, and Megaman?"

The 4 characters looked at each other. Mario was first to respond, "Well, I'm-a definitely Mario... but I can't answer for the others, since-a I've-a never met them, before! Oh, Mama-mia, what's-a goin' on, here? Oh, Fetuccini Alfredo, this-a no make-a any sense!"

Megaman nodded and said, "You got that right... one moment I'm fighting Dr. Wily, the next I'm... here!"

Ash said, "Hey, I still didn't beat Misty! I need that 2nd badge!"

Pit flew up to Kevin and said, "Please, take us back! I have to rescue my lady Parthena from the evil Medusa! Why did you bring us here?"

Kevin was silent for a moment and then said, "Ummmm... it was... an accident?"

Mario exclaimed, "Pasta Fazola! You mean to tell-a me we be-a stuck here with you?!"

Kevin said, "Well... I guess... if I have no idea how I brought you here, I have even less of an idea how to send you back... ^_^;"

(Same didnt know it started by the way I am going to use the name Cole instead of Rio.)
Cole got out of bed. Another beautiful day of being home alone in summer. It is about 70 degrees out with no cloud in the sky. So what should I do today? Oh yes.
" Play some video games!" Ding Dong. Cole got to the door to find a package labeled To: Cole Johnson From: Gamedawgs." SWEET"
Cole opened the box inside was a controller no one had ever dreamed of.
"I never dreamed it could be so cool. It even tastes better than I would have thought. It tastes like flan even though I dont know what flan tastes like." Cole said as he licked it. Then he accidently licked a button which turned on the controller. An Orange light shot out and hit his 3 favorite games. Sonic adventure 2,Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time, and Super Smash Bros. Melee.Then the skull went around laughing at him." Stupid frikin skull!" Cole yelled as he took out his sword that he kept underneath his bed.( Its true) He swung at the skull but missed putting dents in the walls.Once the skulls disappeared his video games started to glow. Until they took the forms of # of Coles Heroes. Shadow The Hedgehog, Link, and Falco Lombardi.
" Am I dreaming again?"
" SHAAAH HUH HIYAH!" Link Shouted.
" OK"

"Ahh!" said Burburry as the bomb headed straight for his face. The black metallic sphere hit his head and bounced off. "Ow! What'd you do that for?!" he said. The duck turned to him. "Oh, sorry, was that a dud? Terribly sorry, lemme get you another one," he said, checking his pockets.

"Are you insane?!" Bur exclaimed. The bird froze, and looked at him sharply with gleaming eyes. He walked closer and leaner in towards him as the human leaned back. The duck put his beak to Burburry's ear and whispered- "The cow croaks at midnight." He then stepped back. "I think that's a yes," commented Zero.

"Here, hold this, mac," said the rare bird as the Metroid let out a screech and latched itself onto Bean's head. He handed Burburry a ticking round black bomb, and began going through his pockets again. "Hey mac you got a quarter?" he said. Burburry looked at him oddly, handing him a quarter off his nightstand. "A- a quarter?" The duck nodded. "Yeh, thanks mac. Hey, you got a soda machine in this rooma yers?" he said, looking around.
Burburry coughed. "Um- no, but there's a fridge in the kitchen with soda in it," he said. The duck handed him his quarter back. "How much, mac?" he asked. Burburry took the quarter. "Um, it's free." Bean snatched the quarter back and kicked him. "Gimme that back then, you rip-off artist!" he said, and ran out the door, his feet making little squelching sounds as he went. "Hey! Come back!" called Burburry. "And my name's not Mac!!"

Metal Knuckles spoke up. "Sensors indicate immediate danger of explosion." Burburry looked at him wildly. "Wha-" BOOOM!!! The bomb in his hands blew up, sending a wave of smoke throughout his room and effectively singe-ing off his eyebrows. Zero pointed his Z-Saber at Bur's head and said, "You had better explain who you people are and what we're doing here before I get mad."

This was all a bit much for Burburry. He had just gotten up, and it was, after all, a Thursday. He could never get the hang of Thursdays. (( ;) ))

"Pretty nice place." Bam Margera said as he plopped down on the bottom bunk.

"I could say the same." Rouge the bat said, picking up a pearl necklace from Johanna's vanity desk. Even if she was confused as heck as to what was going on, any kind of jewelry nevel failed to catch her eye. And Bam... he just took everything as a joke. Now Fox McCloud just placed his gun in his belt as he looked around.

"Well, you guys don't seem like a threat. But do you mind telling me what the heck is going on?"

Johanna scurried over to Rouge to snatch the necklace back and placed it in her jewelry box and smiled sheepishly at everyone.

"I wish I knew, seriously! Bam! What are you doing?" Johanna turned to Bam who seemed as if he were going to jump off the second floor.

"What does it look like? I'm checkin' this neighborhood out." Bam said as he jumped off.

"No! ;_;, what's going on?!" Johanna held her head and yelled, ignoring her sister, who continued knocking on her door.

"What're you doing?" Donkey Kong asked, standing next to Kimi as she looked at herself in the mirror, pulling her bottom eyelids down.

"CHecking if I'm dead."

"How can you tell by pulling your eyelids?"

"No clue." She replied. "But I've seen it in a lot of Tom and Jerry cartoons." She turned around. "Okay, I'm still alive and this is really happening. WOw." She got down on her knees andspoke to Donkey Kong. "So you're the only one who can talk, eh?"

"Looks like it." He replied.

"YO!" Yoshi chimmed scuddling over to the bathroom and sitting next to Kimi. Kirby made an odd sound that no human could possible spell as he floated next to YOshi.

"Well, looks like I'm stuck taking care of you guys until I regain my sanity." She stood up. "You guys hungry?" The three of them nodded. ""Bananas, apples and cherries." Kimi said to herself. She dug through her kitchen for any fruit. SHe came back into the dining room where the video game characters were waiting. She tossed a small container to DK, a box to Yoshi, and a cold plastic bag to Kirby. "Leftover banana split, artificially flavored cherry gushers, and a caramel apple. Eat up." They started eating their junk food as Kimi walked over to the couch. She lied down and sighed.

SHe then heard her upstairs neighbor, Johanna, who'd just shouted out the window. She looked out her own window, but quickly pulled her head back in when she saw Bam over her. "Ah!"

“Okay, how about an explanation?” Knuckles the Echidna had his arms crossed and was tapping one of his feet on the floor. He looked impatient and angry, which made Brandon a bit nervous since he knew Knuckles, by game standards, had the strength to break boulders with his oversized fists.

Bomberman jumped up and hit his chest with one of his pink, ball-like hands. Apparently the silent hero was trying to say something. Knuckles blinked when he looked at Bomberman.

“Hey you, TV-head, what are you, some kind of robot? One of Robotnik’s, I guess…”

Bomberman’s eyes took on an angry expression and he made a rather obscene hand gesture. Having a circular hand with only one circular finger, it was hard to tell if he was really trying to give Knuckles the finger, but Knuckles took it like he was.

“Why you little…” The red anteater began advancing on Bomberman, who jumped backwards and whipped a bomb out of his belt. Brandon sweatdropped and picked up the fire extinguisher again.

“Hey! Calm down y’guys!” He yelled.

Roy Mustang walked over to Bomberman and placed a hand on the top of the bomb. Bomberman blinked his large eyes, but Roy merely traced a symbol with his finger and then touched the bomb again. There was a flash of light, and the bomb had been transmutated into a large bowling ball – which was too heavy for Bomberman, who dropped it right on the floor and it went crashing through the floor into the apartment below.

“Oh great.” Brandon sighed.

Bomberman yelled some angry words at Roy, but they weren’t understandable.

Max, meanwhile, had taken a keen interest in Brandon’s television.

“What a fascinating device… I wonder how it works.” He poked it with a screwdriver from his belt.

“Hey, knock that off!” Brandon yelled.

“You. Kid.” Roy grabbed Brandon by the shirt collar and held him up against the wall. “What’s going on here?”

“I’ll be dipped if I know.” Brandon replied.

Roy raised an eyebrow. “How did we all get here? Who are you? What is this place?”

“I have no clue, the names Brandon, and this is my living room.”

Roy shook his head. “That isn’t what I mean. Where are we? Which providence? Is this area controlled by the State?”

“Umm… Yeah… I think this is going to require a lot of explaining.” Brandon sighed.

“Just tell me how to get back to Angel Island, and I’m outta here.” Knuckles joined the conversation.

“Angel Island? Where’s that?” Max asked, intrigued.

Bomberman muttered something in his language.

“Look, fellas, I think you four better sit down. This might take a while to explain.” Brandon said. “And could you let me go, Mustang?”

Roy reluctantly released the boy. Brandon dusted his shirt off and sat on the couch. This was freaky as could be.

“Look… you’re all video game characters. I don’t know how you wound up in my living room, but I think It must have something to do with the new controller I bought…”

“What’s a video game?” Roy, Max and Knuckles all asked at once. Bomberman probably asked the same thing, but Brandon couldn’t be sure because his language was just weird noises.

“Oh boy…” Brandon smacked his forehead. This was getting really, really freaky. Well, he knew one thing for sure. There was no way these four could stay in his living room. He needed to get some help, but who? His parents would probably call the police, or the Government, or something. He didn’t want that. Suddenly, Brandon realized something. When he’d been talking to the video game store owner the other day… he told Brandon that several other people in his same apartment building had ordered the same controller he did. Maybe he wasn’t the only one having a freaky time.

“Look, you four stay here and try not to break anything. I need to use the phone.” Brandon quickly ran to the kitchen and picked up the phone. Let’s see… who did the shop owner said had bought the other controllers? He couldn’t remember. Shrugging, he decided he’d try all of the other people in the building. So Brandon picked up the phone and dialed Mr. Wilson, down the hall.

Five minutes later, after Mr. Wilson had yelled at him over the phone for calling him in the morning, Brandon decided to try that kid Fred upstairs. But Fred hadn’t ordered one. Getting annoyed, he figured Joha probably bought one, so he dialed her number and waited as the phone rang.

((Dude, Cojo do you really keep a sword under your bed? Haha, cool dude. I keep my Claymore beside my bed, right next to my BB gun. XD The katanas are in the living room... Anyway, just thought it was cool I'm not the only person who actually bought a sword. :P ))

Bur got up woozily and stepped away from the flansaber. (( XD! I meant to type "Z-Saber", but I'm so leaving that there! :lol: )) "Okay... calm down there. This skull dude came and did this thing, and all the light and the sunglasses and the games and the bomb and Kabam! and all that." Bur babbled wildly, hoping not to get stabbed.

"Okay I'm sorry I killed you on that train level so many times but I liked those sparky things that come out of you when you explode except that I don't anymore 'cause you're the best, Zero!" said Bur, giving the thumbs-up.

Zero put down his Z-Saber. "I think this one is broken," he said to his fellow robot. "Let's go find this skull guy and we can both be on our merry way." Zero walked out the door and Metal Knuckles followed. "Wait!" called Burburry. "You can't go out! There's all kinds of stuff out there! Somebody's gonna sue me! Wait!" It was too late. Zero had already slashed through the door and gone out into the hall, Metal Knuckles close in tow. "The door!" said Bur, holding his head.

Then the kitchen exploded.

Burburry ran in in horror to the fridge in peices. "Hey mac your big cold thing's busted." said Bean, sipping a soda with his feet up on the table and wearing the Metroid like a hat, "Better go get a new one in case I wanna 'nother drink!" Burburry clutched his head. Today was not going so well. He scooped up the duck and ran into the hall, carrying him. "Zero! Wait! Stop that, you!" he said to Bean, who was busily dropping a trail of little tiny bombs behind him.

Johanna looked out and down her window to see Kimi who brought her head back in as soon as Bam passed by.

"Sorry Kimi! Something weird is going on- BAM!" Johanna stared as Bam skated across the street. She stuck one foot out of the window, tempted to jump off and stop Bam when Fox spoke up.

"Isn't that a little dangerous?" He jumped up when he heard something ringing. He checked the device he had on his belt. "I think the Lylat system is trying to contact me." He said, but was dissapointed when he saw that it wasn't his device.

"Must be that flashing thing in the girl's pocket." Rouge pointed at Johanna back pocket, revealing that it was her cell phone ringing.

"Ah! Ok," Johanna got back into her room and checked her phone. "Rice... RICE! He ordered one of these things! Hello? Rice? I need your help!" She yelled into the phone. Rouge crossed her arms as she walked out into the hallway, searching for ... something shiny obviously as Fox just stood there, waiting for an explanation.

Kimi climb out her window, since she was on the first floor and wouldn't brake her bones from a three foot drop. She scurried out into the street and turned back to yell to Johanna's window. "JOHA!" Kimi screamed. "WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR SIDE OF TEH APARTMENT?!"

Meanwhile, DK, Kirby, and Yoshi had followed Kimi outside and started messing things up out there, too. Several neighbors in the community started running at the site of a giant ape nearby, and the children werew tempted to pet Yoshi and hug Kirby.

Brandon was relieved when somebody finally picked up. Although from the sound of things over the phone, it sounded like Johanna was having some kind of problem. Maybe he was right. Maybe the controllers had done something freaky.

"Joha! Hey, listen -- wait, need my help? What happened?"

Suddenly there was an explosion from Brandon's living room. He turned around to see Bomberman lying on the ground, Roy was standing a few feet away, and the carpet between them was on fire. Max was staring at the fire with wide eyes, and Knuckles had an eyebrow raised.

"That was only a taste of what I can do." Roy was saying to Bomberman.

Bomberman said something in his strange language, and took out another bomb. Roy held up his hand with his fingers ready to snap. Brandon groaned.

"Uhh... Joha, I've got a bit of a situation, can you hold on a sec? Thanks." He put her on hold and grabbed the fire extinguisher, again, and quickly sprayed the carpet. Then he stood between the Colonel and ... whatever the heck Bomberman was.

"Yo! Calm down you two! I don't want my apartment blown up, okay? Now let me get back to my phone call... I'm trying to help y'all out."

"I'd hurry if I were you." Knuckles observed.

"Gee, thanks Mr. Wizard." Brandon snapped.

"Who? What wizard?" Knuckles asked.

"A wizard? Where?" Max looked around.

"Oh, nevermind." Brandon returned to the phone. "Hello? Joha. Listen, you ordered one of those new wireless controllers, right? Tell me... it didn't... do anything weird... did it?"

Brandon didn't really want to ask "did it bring video game characters to life?", because if she said no, she'd probably think he was insane. Although he was starting to think he was insane anyway... Still, he didn't need rumors going around the builidng that he'd finally snapped.

Dang it! thought Bur, running down the stairs and outside. He'd lost track of Zero and Metal Knuckles. Then he saw Kimi. "Kimi! Um, You might think this is a little strange but um... His voice kinda faded upon seeing DK, Kirby, and Yoshi. "So, you too, huh?" he said.

Meanwhile, Bean squeezed his way out of Burburry's hands and started climbing the wall up to Joha's window. "Hey you! Got any soda?" he called, tossing a bomb up through the window and into her room nonchalantly.
"Noo! Come back!" cried Bur, trying to no avail to reach the duck or grab him; he was too far up.

Meanwhile, meanwhile, Zero slashed through an apartment door, hearing an explosion inside. He stepped in, seeing an echidna and a few other humanlike things. "Is anyone here a floaty skull thing?" he asked in total seriousness.

Johanna listened carefully to Brandon until she fell over.

"WHAT was that?!" Johanna rubbed her butt as she picked up her phone again.

"It was an explosion." Fox observed, looking out the window and up. "I think it was in this building." Johanna gulped.

"Rice, PLEASE don't think I'm crazy." She took one deep breath. "I ordered one of those spiffy new controller and some fire thing happened and some video game characters came to life and they're here right now! Except I lost Bam Margera, he's out across the street. I need to get out of here before my mom comes in and--"

"Johanna! What's that? Who are you talkin' to?" Johanna clenched her teeth as her mom yelled from the other side of the door. She motioned to Fox to jump off as he looked at her bewildered.

"JUST DO IT!" She grabbed a lava lamp and threw it at Fox, who fell out the window and onto the bushes below. She shot a stare at Rouge who narrowed her eyes at her.

"If you're thinkin' what I think you're thinkin' ... I think you're crazy!" Rouge put her hands on her hips as Johanna's mom continued knocking.

"Mom! I'm talking to Ri- err. Brandon." Suddenly, a bomb appeared in the room. Johanna's eyes widened at the bomb that was just thrown into her room and stared at Rouge, who had the same expression.

"Oh! You mean that nice boy? Let me say hi to him!" Johanna's mom began to open up the door. That wouldn't be good since her room was a mess, and there was a white bat. Without thinking she ran to lock the door and then towards Rouge, grabbed her shoulders and dove out the window.

"FLAP YOUR WINGS DAMMIT!" Johanna yelled, still on the line with Rice.

"I can't carry us together! What are you like 100 pounds?!" Rouge yelled as they landed right on Fox and as the bomb exploded in her room.

"Errr get offa me!" Fox yelled as Johanna dusted her shirt. She looked at her phone and was surprised she hadn't pressed the "End" button by accident yet.

"Rice, just look out your window. I got a fox and bat with me and I'm looking for a skateboarder. Tell me you know what's going on. And I'm 89 pounds thank you very much!" Johanna spat at Rouge before looking at Bur.

"Uhh.. fancy meeting you here?"

Brandon blinked. Zero, the reploid who had first appeared in Megaman X before getting his own game, had just slashed through his apartment door and burst into the living room. He sighed and sweatdropped. Well, at least he knew he wasn't the only person having controller difficulties.

"Whoa! Another freaky robot... Eggman must really be up to something." Knuckles muttered to himself. He did not attack Zero, however, he merely stood there looking at him.

Bomberman yelled something in his language, but nobody ever understands Bomberman.

Roy backed up and held up his hand once again. He was having a very strange day, and was beginning to become tempted just to torch this entire place. Unfortunately this "Brandon" seemed to be the only one who knew what was going on, and was probably his best bet of getting back to Central.

Max ran up to Zero and oogled at him. "Wow... are you a robot? Who built you? How they do it? You're so much cooler than Ridepod... I wish Monica was around to see this..."

Brandon sighed. Then he heard a lot of comottion from Joha's end of the phone call. From the sound of things, she was having the same problem he was. After she finished talking, Brandon ran to his window and looked out, where he spotted both Joha and Bur.

"Hey! Y'guys! Up here!"

Brandon, who lived on the third floor, decided to go out on the fire escape. He quickly jumped on the fire escape and ran down to where Joha and Bur were located.

"Geez... you guys too huh?" He said into the phone. Then he sweatdropped and hung up. "This is getting freaky. Bomberman nearly trashed my apartment..."

"ROUGE!" A loud voice suddenly called out. Knuckles had apparently followed Brandon, and when he spotted the familiar face he quickly ran over.

"What the heck is going on?" Knuckles asked.

Suddenly a loud explosion was heard. Rice sighed. "I betcha that was Mustang and Bomberman again..."

Rouge looked at Knuckles and smirked. "I could ask ya the same thing. I'd think you know something. Spill." The treasure hunter was expecting an answer from the guardian until a fangirl shriek was heard.

"Mustang!" Johanna yelled, throwing up her cellphone, not giving a care where it landed. Fox who was still rubbing his head from his previous land, just got up.

"You know Rice, if you had let me borrow that FMA game when I asked, Roy would've probably appeared in my room instead of-"

"Ok! Don't go any further. I- actually, everyone wants to know what's going on... so if everybody would just CALM DOWN, I think we'd learn something!" Fox yelled, placing a hand over Johanna's mouth to stop her from her fangirling.

"Sorry Rouge, I haven't got a clue. And of the two of us, I'M the trustworthy one, so you'd better believe me." Knuckles replied, crossing his arms and tapping his foot as he had done in the apartment before.

Brandon ignored the echidna as he talked to the bat, and he also ignored Johanna's random fangirl outburst when she learned that Mustang was here, alive and in the flesh. He shook his head and sat down on the curb, looking up at his apartment window.

"I dunno what’s going on. I’m just glad I didn’t get stuck with Armstrong in my living room. That guy gives me the creeps." He admitted. He looked out and spotted Kimi and Bur, also out here, and he noticed the great cavalcade of video game characters running around. "All I know is a big freaky skull came out of my video game controller, and then these guys appeared. Bomberman, Roy Mustang and Max are all still in my apartment... hopefully not fighting..."

He rubbed his chin. “Hmm. So, you, me, Bur and Kimi all got stuck with weird controllers. I wonder if we’re the only ones. I think Kevin mentioned something about wanting to pre-order a controller too… and so did Cole, I think… I wonder if they’re having the same trouble we are?”

He paused. “I should call ‘em.” He looked down to his cordless kitchen phone that he’d brought with him. The low battery light was on. “Dang. Lemme use your cell real quick, Joha—oh, nevermind.” He quickly remember she’d lost it when she heard Mustang was here.

Bur looked around wildly. First the skull... then the video game guys... now Kimi and Joha and Rice were here with even more people. He took a deep breath. "Will somebody please explain to me what is going on?!"

"I can tell you!" said a heroic voice.

The heroic voice's owner, Bean, stopped climbing and jumped down. "This all occurred because of a truck driver!" he said brilliantly. "And now I am out of corn!" he continued heroically, checking his duck-pockets. "Yeah, so anyway, as I was saying, you're going to need to hold this!" he said, handing Brandon a bomb.

Bur sweatdropped. "I'm sorry about this thing. Something's seriously wrong with this duck. I think it's that Metroid sucking out his life-force."

Bean leapt up, and said in his normal-yet-abnormal voice, "Nonsense! I feel fine! Also! Hold this!" he said, handing Joha a bomb. "Where was I? Oh yes. This itches." He scratched his head and the Metroid screeched.

Upon seeing Knuckles fly down to the others, Metal Knuckles followed, leaping to the ground, and since everybody else was leaving, Zero did too, saying, "I'll tell you later. Right now there are more important things at hand!"

"Hey, does this phone belong to anyone? It totally clonked me when I was skating." A voice piped up, holding Johanna's phone. Johanna turned around to see none other than Bam Margera.

"Bam! Where were you?" Johanna quickly took the phone from Bam and tossed it to Brandon.

"Here, there. This place totally bites. Where's Vito?" Bam asked about his overweight uncle.

"Uhm... I don't know. Aren't you the least bit confused about what's going on?"

"Are you kidding me? Weird shxt like this happens all the time." The skater continued looking around the neighborhood. Johanna sweatdropped and looked over at Brandon, who was sitting on the curb.

"I have Kevin's number in there somewhere. He should know what's going on." Suddenly, a green bird placed a bomb in her hands.

"What- O_O" Out of instinct, Johanna threw the bomb straight ahead, going right for Bam's head.

"Ow! What was that for?" Bam asked annoyed, kicking the bomb onto the street as it blew up. Johanna fell back to where Rouge and Knuckles were.

"Well, it's nice to know that you two know each other, but could you stop bickering?" Johanna covered her ears. But quickly uncovered them when she remembered Bean's words.

"Truck driver? What truck driver?"

Brandon yelped and threw the bomb as hard as he could in a direction where there were no people or cars. Bur was right, there was something seriously wrong with Bean. Shaking his head, he let out a groan as he noticed Bomberman climbing out of the fire escape of his apartment.

"Oh great, as if one bomb-throwing maniac wasn't enough..."

Bomberman was followed by Max, who jumped down and landed on his feet, then dusted off his overalls. He adjusted his hat and looked around, his eyes catching on Zero and Metal Knuckles, marveling at the technological wonder.

Finally Mustang strolled cooly down the fire escape, an annoyed look on the colonel's face. He looked around until he spotted the group of humans near the bushes, and he quickly made his way over.

"There you are kid, you didn't finish answering my questions." Roy demanded.

"Well, seeing as how I don't HAVE any answers..." Brandon muttered.

"Bean said it was a truck driver." Knuckles observed. Then he raised an eyebrow at Metal Knuckles. "Great... what's THAT doing here?"

Brandon decided to ignore the group as Johanna handed him her cellphone. He quickly went through the speed dial until he found Kevin’s number, and he dialed, hoping that their mutual friend would be home, and would be having better luck than the rest of their little circle.

"I only said it was a truck driver because it IS a truck driver!" said Bean. He lowered his voice and tried to speak creepily. "One truck driver to rule them all, one truck driver to find them... one truck diver and blah blah blah! Also! Does anyone have soda?" He sat down and laid down in the grass and paused, then started tossing bombs all over the place.

Burburry turned towards the others. "I don't think he knows-" "Voodoo!" screeched the duck. Bur sweatdropped. "-anything."

Zero turned to Max. "Breifly- I am not a robot, I am a reploid; I'm not sure who built me, all I know is I need to get back." He looked towards Brandon, who seemed to be the most in control. "What has happened here?" he asked. Metal Knuckles, meanwhile, took this opportunity to leap on Knuckles and start punching him.

Brandon looked up as Zero spoke to him. It was odd, talking to Zero, but not quite as odd as everything else that had been happening. He shrugged his shoulders. “Well… all I know is you guys, all of you, are characters from different video games. And our new controllers somehow brought you out of the games. For me, there was a weird flying, flaming skull. I dunno what the deal is with the others…”

Brandon trailed off, officially freaked out by this whole deal. He looked over to his right, where Metal Knuckles was beating the tar out of the original. Knuckles used one hand to block Metal Knuckles’s most recent punch, and used the other to punch the robotic version in the face, knocking him off.

“Geez, you don’t waste any time, do ya pal?” Knuckles asked, jumping up and holding up his fists. “Great, just what I need!”

Roy raised an eyebrow. Bomberman glared at Bean, apparently offended that someone else had an arsenal of explosives. Max blinked.

”Reploid? Never heard of a reploid before…”

Johanna was ready to burst out in tears, totally tired of dodging the explosions from the bombs that Bean carelessly threw around. Rouge, being a bit irritated, flew back up to Johanna's floor and came back out with a soda.

"Here, ya happy?! Now would you stop it?" Rouge threw the can of soda at the hyperactive, odd-colored, bird. Johanna wiped the sweat from her forehead and stood up only to see Roy Mustang. Quickly, she faced the opposite direction and breathed.

"Ok, Johanna. Calm down. He's not even real... but he's right there!" She turned around again, opened her mouth to say something, but again turned away in shame. "I'm really gonna lose my cool." She gave up, for now, and looked at Brandon.

"Any luck getting a hold of Kevin?"

Zero nodded. "That skull thing again... We've got to locate it and defeat it, preferably in a side-scroller format!"

Metal Knuckles stopped fighting and looked at Knuckles sharply. "You are obsolete. Stand down!" the robot said, blasting him.


"Yummy soda! Thanks, lady!" called Bean, chugging it down. He ran up to Rouge. "Want flan, soda-giving-lady-person? I've got flan!" he said, handing her a plate of flan from one of his duck-pockets. "It probably doesn't have too many bombs in it!" he said cheerfully.

Just then Cole holding shadow landed right next to them.
" Darn it Link stop trrying to beat us up." He yelled.Falco landed next to him until he saw Fox he went over to talk.
" Let me guess a wierd skull came out of your controllers and brought these clowns to life." Cole said. Shadow stood there in awe. Link jumped off his perch and landed next to them.
" HIYAH<SHAAH WAHH?"
"Link shutup " Shadow said.

((My gosh, everyone posted so much while I was gone! X_X))

Kevin had been explaining as much as he could to everyone, and trying to ignore all the noise from outside, as he thought nothing could be bigger than what was happening in his living room.

Mario asked, "So, lemme-a get this straight? We're all from different worlds contained in these odd disks and cartridges? And some strange plastic... thing brought us here?"

Kevin nodded, "Ya... that's about the gist of it... I'm... sorry... I honestly don't know what happened."

Pit said, "Well... that's just great... but, I sense that you're not evil. I can trust you."

Megaman said, "Ya... I get the feeling, too. It's too bad that I can't contact Dr. Light, but... I'm sure we'll find a way to get back, somehow!"

Ash got up and enthusiastically shouted, "YA!!! If we all work together, there's no way we can lose!"

Kevin was like ^_^; and thought to himself, "Man, these guys have no idea how things work here in the real world..."

Suddenly there were several large explosions heard outside. Kevin got up and said, "Okay, as weird as things are in here, I need to find out what that noise i--"

His phone began to ring, "Oh, great, probably someone else trying to contact my parents, not knowing they're outta town and blah, blah, blah, this is all stupid and Hello? Huh? Rice?"

Rouge reluctantly took the plate of flan from Bean and looked at it with a disgusted face. The bat handed over to Johanna who also took on the same look. Normally she would've looked pleased, but since it was from Bean... well, you know.

Johanna dropped the plate and turned her head after hearing a muffled voice. It came from her phone in Brandon's hand who seemed to be interested in the quarrel between Knuckles and Metal Knuckles.

"Are you gonna- nevermind, I will." Johanna grabbed the phone from Brandon and immediately talked into it. "Yellow? Kev! Don't ask how I got your number, it was my sister, but listen! Did you get that controller you pre-ordered? I ask because I got it too- along with Rice and some of the other people in the apartment. And- just look out your window." Johanna flipped her phone closed and sighed. A couple of feet away, Fox looked at Falco and took out his communicator.

"You think we were sent here on a mission to save Corneria?" Fox asked. Johanna rolled her eyes and looked up at one of the windows, where she was expecting Kevin to look out.

Kevin was a little astonished... but he looked out the window and saw it all...

"Well, this explains all that noise... guys, I may not even be the one responsible for you being here in this world. It seems there's a lot of others out there in the same situation as you guys..."

Ash asked, "So, what should we do...?"

Kevin saw Johanna and waved back, "Hey, J! To answer all your questions, well, ya, I have video game characters in my living room!"

Kimi sat on the sidewalk while the video game characters made a huge fuss outside the apartment. "Ah...."

"Hey!" DK said, jumping next to Kimi. "There sure are a lot of people here, are you guys havin' a party?"

"No, we're not having a party." Kimi replied. She looked over at Kirby who was bouncing around the yard where everyone stood, bumping into people every so often. "WHere's Yoshi?"

"YO, YO, YO, YO, YO!" Yoshi sang outside Kevin's window, knowing that Maior was nearby. "YO YO YO!"

Mario stood up, and heard the voice of his dinosaur pal. He ran towards the window and jumped out from the 5th story! Kevin was like O_O and shouted, "MARIO!!! ARE YOU COMPLETELY INSANE?!!!!!"

Mario took out a feather and instantly had a cape that he used as a parachute to gently land on the ground. As he landed on the ground, he put away the feather and the cape disappeared in a poof!

"Yoshi, I'm-a so glad to-a see a familiar face!" Then he noticed the son of his arch-rival several years ago, the son of the original Donkey Kong, who shared the same name as his now cranky old father. "You... also look familiar... but I can't put my finger on it..."

If this Donkey Kong looked familiar, it could be because Mario met him before, when he was a baby ape trying to save his father from Mario, who was getting revenge for the incident at the construction site with Pauline. Mario didn't know this was actually the smaller Kong, but he still immidiately took notice, anyway. "Wait... no, you can't be him! I thought apes aged faster... you'd have to be at least 100 in human years by now! It's impossible!" said Mario, mistaking Donkey Kong for his father.

Zero looked up at Kevin's room and saw what he thought was a familiar face.... the face of his former friend, and newest enemy. He was wrong, as this was the original incarnation of Megaman and not the one he knew, but he was right in that it was Megaman. "X!" he said, taking out his Z-Saber.

Bur picked up Bean and held him tightly, not letting him toss more bombs. Bean struggled for a minute, quacking annoyedly, and then stopped. He sighed sadly and looked at Burburry with Bambi eyes. "Why are you hurting me, mishter mac?" he said cutely. "Aww...." "NOW!"

The Metroid on Bean's head let out a screech and flew off of him and on to Bur's face with such force Bur was thrown on his back, releasing Bean. Now standing and free, Bean laughed as the Metroid returned to his head. "Haha! Take that! Nobody messes with Bean the Dynamite!! Hahahahahey! Check out the monkey!" Bean squeaked over to look at DK, stepping on his tippy-toes to peer into his face. "Do you do birthday parties?"

Megaman, being mistaken for X, looked down at Zero, and thought to himself, "Why does that robot look at me that way... hmmm... it's as if he recognizes me... but I have no idea who he is..."

Falco said to fox." I think so maybe we should find the leader and ask him how we can help."

Cole was like " Yeah guys Im ok. Thanks for asking."(Ill be gone rest of day later.)

Brandon shook his head. He had been so preoccupied watching Knuckles and his Metal Counterpart fight that he'd forgotten all about Kevin and the phone. He hadn't even notice Joha taking the phone from him. The next thing he knew, Cole was here too -- and so were even more video game characters. He sweatdropped, recognizing Link and Fox and shaking his head.

"Whoa... this is insane." He muttered. He looked over at Bean, who seemed to be completely out of control, and watched helplessly as the metroid attacked Bur.

"Hey! Alright!" He said, standing up and taking on a deep voice. "Let's have some peace and quiet people! We need to calm down and think!"

... Nobody seemed to listen to him. The fights continued, and the video game characters either ignored him completely or shrugged him off. Brandon sweatdropped, and nearby Roy laughed and shook his head.

"Not like that kid. It's more like this." Roy stood up on the curb, adding an extra foot of height to the colonel. "Alright, calm down." When no one did, Roy snapped his fingers and a spark of fire ignited a nearby parked car's engine -- which caused it to explode and blow several feet into the air. "I said calm down!"

"You're not helping." Brandon sighed.

Knuckles shook his head and climbed off the ground. He growled and charged back at Metal Knuckles, throwing his fist of fury at the robotic version of himself. Max was looking at Zero and Megaman with wide eyes and a drooling mouth. Bomberman was looking at Bean, and muttering something in his own language.

"... This is crazy." Brandon sighed and sat back down on the curb. "We gotta figure out a way to settle these psychos down."

Bean stopped looking at DK upon hearing Bomberman's odd noise-talk. He walked over. "Oh really?" he said confrontationally. "Well! I'll have you know that I... hmm," the duck spaced out and looked away for a moment. "Here, hold this while I try to remember what we were just talking about," he said, handing Bomberman a bomb.

Metal Knuckles stopped fighting for a moment and stood back. "Physical resistance futile and contrary to your purpose. You seek to protect Angel Island, and, thus the Master Emerald as well, correct?" it asked Knuckles.

Bur turned to Brandon. "Well, is there anything around here that could make a really loud noise, like a roar or..." he sweatdropped. "...An explosion?"

Brandon turned to Bur and sweatdropped. "Loud explosion? You mean BESIDES the psychotic bird, box-headed hero and pyromaniac colonel here?"

Bomberman was handed a bomb by Bean, and as soon as the bomb touched his pink hand it grew twice as big in size. Bomberman, who had the remote control powers so that bombs he held would not detonate until he decreed it, tossed the bomb into a nearby trash can. A moment later, it exploded and the street was showered with the contents of the can, covering the group in trash.

"Yeah, that's my job metal-head. So?" Knuckles replied, ignoring the banana peel that had just landed on his head from the trash can explosion.

Roy shook his head and leaned against a nearby tree, using the branches as cover from the falling, flaming trash.

Max was pelted with a piece of rotten watermeleon, but didn't even notice since his eyes were focused on Megaman and Zero.

Johanna looked towards the trashcan which just blew up, sending pieces of flaming trash to fly everywhere. Rouge lifted her wings above her head to protect herself while Fox took cover under the same tree Roy did. Having nowhere else to go, Johanna stood next to Bam, who used his skateboard as an umbrella.

Shaking off the trash on her wings, an annoyed bat stomped her foot.

"What was that for?!" Rouge asked Bomberman as Bam proceeded to have some baseball practice using the trash as the ball and his board as the bat. And having no cover, Johanna was immediately pelted with crumpled paper.

"THIS is nice." Johanna groaned sarcastically.