*This is part three of my entry in Conrad Zimmerman's Dreamcast Giveaway Contest (link here). **UPDATE: I won!** I will be releasing one part a day between now and July 7th, when the contest ends. Previous entries can be found here: Part 1, Part 2. Enjoy.*
When I finally came to, I was strapped to a chair in a large office. Before me was the tiny man who had sucker-jumped me earlier. He was seated before a desk so large that it looked like a city bus in comparisson to his tiny body. He just stared at me.
I shook some of the cobwebs out of my head before asking him, "Well?"
"Do you know who I am, Mr. Pickman?"
"One of Santa's elves come to renegotiate my Christmas List?" He didn't like that. He nodded a signal to the giant standing behind me. I then felt that pleasant sensation that you get when a tire iron is smashed across the back of your neck by Andre the Giant's bigger brother. Once the pain from the immediate impact died away a bit, I looked behind me to see a large, fat, bipedal turtle-dragon-thing. He was a nasty sucker and I could tell that he was itching to turn my skull into a soup bowl.
"Thank you, Bowser," the tiny man said to my attacker. He then turned his attention back to me. "My name is Mario. I am a local entrepreneur. I own various businesses that operate as fronts for some of my more delicate franchises." He stopped talking for a moment. Gangsters love their dramatic pauses. Makes them feel tough. But it always comes off as a bad Christopher Walken impression. "My brother Luigi is a plumber. That is to say that he takes care of odd jobs for me. He told me that you were sneaking around his home. This was coincidental, seeing as how he also saw you being contacted by an old flame of mine while on a surveilance assignment.
He stared at me with his expressionless gaze, giving me another of his pauses. Finally, he spoke again. "So, I ask you: what is all of this about? Also, why shouldn't I kill you right now?"
The truth was, I didn't know. Obviously the dame fed me a some tired line and I fell for it like a green cheep-cheep. Swallowed it hook, line and sinker. Not wanting to deal with death so much, and realizing that the Princess was playing me somehow from the start, I spilled my guts. This made Mario laugh. He liked the protrayal. Him, some tiny, obsessed, little man caught by her spell.
When he had finally composed himself, he looked me over. "I like you, Pickman. You make me laugh. This is why I'm going to allow you to make this insult up to me. You're in contact with this girl. This magic star necklace that you're seeking is not something of hers that I have stolen. It's something of mine that she has stolen.
"You're a stupid man, Mr. Pikman. But I believe that you may have a use to me. This necklace is a valuable heirloom that was given to me by my mother. And when that hussie, Peach, left, she took it with her. I want it back. She has threatened to destroy it if we do not back off. So, we've been surveiling her in hopes that she will lead us to it. SO, far we have not a clue.
"You have 24 hours. If that necklace is not back in my possession by then, you will become Bowser's new chew toy."
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if you want your chick to get into a game, get super rub a dud. every chick i've brought to my house and played it absolutely loved it. (i was reading your profile) keep posting.
@qraze,
Thanks for the advice. I'll give it a look. She's getting much more into games than ever before. She's currently playing Pokemon Diamond like mad, and we're slowly but surely getting through ChronoTrigger together.She usually doesn't find time to game on her own, but she's got an illness that's keeping her tied to her bed a lot lately, so it's definitely helping her through.