Smg4 Fanfiction: Crystal Splezter - The Minecraft plague

Plot: A mysterious cube shaped plague falls across the Mushroom Kingdom.

(September 7th - 2019)

In the giant lake outside the castle, it was a lovely day for a swim. Now that she was human, Meggy could finally go in water without drowning or burning up.

She did simple laps around the lake, while Boopkins swam around gracefully. Being a fish, it was natural for him to be a good swimmer.

Meggy: Yeah! Being a human isn't so bad.

She turned around to a heartbreaking sight. Crystal stood by the edge of the water, wearing rubber wings and backing away every time the water washed by her feet. She swam over in concern.

Meggy: Crystal, cmon! It's not that bad...

Crystal: No! I don't wanna get an ouchie...

Meggy frowned. Crystal had touched water few times back when she was an inkling and had gotten burned, but it had been enough to mentally scar her.

Meggy: Crystal...I know your scared, but you don't have to fear anything now.

She brushed her hair a bit, referencing their different bodies.

Meggy: The water won't hurt you now, okay? Just trust me, take my hand.

Meggy held Crystal's hand, helping her walk as she swallowed her fear.

When her feet finally went far enough so the next splash enveloped them...she opened her eyes in shock. It was cold but...

Crystal: It...it's not hurting!

Meggy: See? C'mon, I'll help you.

She moved forward with a bit more confidence, then when she finally got to the ledge, she took a small leap. She mostly landed in the water, holding onto her Mom tightly and hyperventilating.

Meggy: Shh, shh. It's okay, I gotcha Crystal. Just paddle your feet, then you can stay afloat like me.

Crystal: Don't let go...

Meggy: I won't. Promise.

Taking her Mom's hands, Crystal slowly pulled away and did what she was told. Her whole perspective of the world was changing before her eyes, no longer held back by water causing her pain.

Crystal: Heh...hehehehe! Mommy, look! I'm swimming!

Meggy: Yeah, you got it Sunshine!

She laughed, Meggy joining in before Crystal pulled her goggles over her face and put her face in the water. Frightened, Meggy pulled her out as she had a bit of a coughing fit.

Meggy: Crystal, are you okay?!

Crystal: (Cough) Sorry Mommy, I was trying to be brave like you...

Meggy: Aww, it's okay Crystal. Just warn me next time and...try to hold your breath.

Crystal: Hehe! Okay Mommy.

Around them, Meggy noticed Boopkins doing full laps like it was nothing.

Meggy: Boopkins, could you not show off like that? I'm literally teaching my daughter to swim.

Boopkins jumped up and posed in the suns glow.

Boopkins: I am beautiful!

He landed back down, a mysterious cube floating towards him.

Boopkins: Oh, whatever do you mean-Ah!

Feeling the cube touch him, Boopkins got scared and knocked the cube back onto dry land.

Boopkins: Oh, sorry sir! I wasn't looking-Huh?

Curious, The three swam back onto shore. Meggy and Crystal put their boots back on before Meggy picked up the strange cube.

Meggy: It's just a Minecraft block...

Crystal: Mommy, what's Mine-crap?

Meggy: Crystal! That is very bad language!

Crystal: But auntie Saiko says it all the time!

Meggy: That explains it...but what I can't explain is why this thing is here?!

Boopkins: Don't worry, I have my poking stick!

Boopkins poking the block made it emanate a strange noise, making Meggy drop it.

Meggy: What the heck?!

The cube started flashing between different colours and drawing worry from all 3 of them. It finally settled on red as it started smoking, turned the ground around it into its land of Origin.

Boopkins: Oh, no no no no! Stop doing that Mr Minecraft-Ah!

Boopkins tried to get close and stop it, but he was suddenly frozen in place as he stood on the Minecraft floor.

Boopkins: Ugh, I feel funny-

Before their eyes, Boopkins flashed and his appearance changed into a Minecraft character's.

Meggy: Boopkins!

Crystal: Boopy!

Boopkins: Ugh, Meggy, Help! I can't move!

Meggy moved to help him, but knew it would be suicide as a bird landed on Boopkins head, meeting the same fate. The Minecraft corruption spread faster and Meggy had to think.

Crystal: Mommy, what do we do?!

Meggy: I-I'm going to be right back with some help, okay Boopkins?

She picked Crystal up and hightailed it towards the castle.

Meggy: Just wait right there!!!

Boopkins: Please hurry!

...

Inside the castle, Luigi and Tari watched with concern as Mario prepared to throw a knife at his target.

Mario: Uhh bro, are you sure about this?

Tari: Yeah...this seems pretty dangerous.

Turns out Mario's target was Toad tied to a pole, with an apple placed on top of his head.

Toad: Mario, when I'm down from here, I'm gonna rip you a new spaghetti hole!!!

Mario: Relax, Mario saw someone do this on Tv once, it doesn't seem that hard.

Mario prepared to throw the knife, but the sound of the front door slamming shut caused his aim to go off at the last second.

The knife landed in Toadsworth's head, but that became the least of their concerns when Meggy ran in with a panicked expression, Crystal clinging onto her back like her life depended on it.

Meggy: Guys! Boopkins is in trouble!

Tari: Oh no! Did he get dumped in his dating sim again?

Meggy: What? No, there's this creeping plague thing that's-

Crystal: (Turns around) Mommy, it's coming in!

Everyone turned and saw the Minecraft plague taking over the front door.

Everyone screamed in panic, but Toad didn't realise even as it creeped up right behind him.

Toad: What's everyone looking at-?

The infection caught toad, making him scream as he slowly transformed into Minecraft.

Tari: Toad! Hang on, I'm coming!

"Tari, No-!"

Meggy couldn't stop Tari as she rushed toward and tried to free Toad. It failed, her hand getting stuck as the plague grabbed her.

Tari: No!!! Guys!!!

The plague spread across her, turning her into Minecraft.

Meggy: Tari!!!

Meggy collapsed to her knees in anguish as Luigi helped her back up. The plague spread to Toadsworth, then the surrounding wall.

Mario: My god! They've been turned into...Roblox Characters!!

Tari: Guys, run and save yourselves!

Meggy: No, Tari!

Tari: Meggy, I'll be fine, go!

The 4 remaining looked around as everything turned into Minecraft, even the stairs.

Luigi: Oh no guys, we're trapped!

Meggy: Don't worry, we got this! Mario! Demolition formation - spear mode!

Mario obliged. Raising his arms above his head like a spear, Meggy picked him up and threw him through the wall, breaking it.

Meggy: Good job Red!

When everyone ran outside to finally catch their breath, Meggy put Crystal down as they saw the castle had been entirely Mine-Crafted.

Luigi: Oh guys, this is really bad. What do we do?

Meggy: Tari...

Mario: There's only one man who can help us in a situation as bad as this.

Meggy: Who?! Scientists?! Secret agents?! Superhero's?!

Crystal: Wizards?!

Mario: Yeah, something like that!

...

In town was Steve, the only Minecraft citizen of the Mushroom kingdom.

As he made his way into the laundromat, he put everything he had in when Mario, Luigi, Meggy and Crystal appeared behind him.

Mario: Hey!

Crystal: Hi mr block man!

Steve turned around and greeted them.

Mario: Shut up Steve, this is an emergency!

He sat down and asked what the problem was.

Meggy: I was teaching Crystal to swim when we found a Minecraft block on the beach.

Crystal: Then Boopy touched it and...and-!

Luigi: That started happening!

Luigi pointed outside the window, seeing various people running away from the Minecraft terrain and failing. As they turned into block statues, Crystal shrieked and leapt onto Meggy's head.

Meggy: Steve, we need your help!

Steve pondered for a moment and decided to help them...but only because he still had an hour on his laundry. Running out the laundromat, the others ran after him at full speed away from the transforming terrain.

When they caught up with Steve, he guided them into his house. He casually broke the door open and guided them to the basement where a chest lied on a table.

When he opened the chest, he showed them a manuscript. Instructions to make an anti-matter gun to fix the Minecraft terrain.

Luigi: This thing will be able to fix all the Minecraft stuff?

Steve assured them.

Meggy: Well, that doesn't seem so hard. All we have to do is build it.

Just when things seemed to be going up, they all came crashing down as Mario saw the Minecraft terrain was seeping into the basement. The walls changed before their very eyes as their only way out was gone.

Luigi: Oh, we're going to die!

Meggy: Not on my watch! Mario! Demolition formation - Lance form!

Mario: Meggy, Mario can only transform so much. It's really tiring you know. Why you gotta be so rude...

Meggy groaned. Somehow, she knew Mario would be the death of her.

Luigi: Well...it was nice knowing you all...

Everyone huddled against the walls as the infected terrain surrounded them...

Meggy: Looks like this is the end...

They all closed their eyes and waited to embrace the end...

When they all felt themselves being lifted off the ground. Surprised, Steve had lifted them all away from certain doom and since he WAS a Minecraft character, he was unaffected by the terrain.

He carried them throughout his house and threw them through a nearby door, throwing the anti-matter gun instructions in after them.

Meggy: Wait, what is this!?

Steve closed the door as everyone found themselves falling, everyone but Mario screaming.

Luigi was the first to hit the ground, followed by Meggy and Crystal. To her luck, Meggy got out of the way just in time to avoid being flattened by Mario as he landed on Luigi.

The 4 of them were in the world of Minecraft.

Luigi: What? Minecraft? Weren't you just here a few weeks ago Mario?

Mario: Ummm, No. That was definitely Roblox...

Meggy: Come on guys, there's no time to waste! We have to build this thing quickly and we don't even have any tools.

Luigi: Way ahead of you!

Luigi got to work and started hitting a tree, getting a single block of wood.

Luigi: Look bro! I'm doing it! This Craftmine game sure is F-

Mario got frustrated, grabbing the block and throwing it at a nearby pedestrian. He blipped away,dropping his mining gear.

Meggy: Eh, that works. Let's go get the materials...

Crystal: Let's go! Yay!

Luigi cried at his failure as Mario agreed.

Mario got to working in the mines, but his rapid pace only successfully broke his pickaxe. His next plan involved luring some creepers into the mine by posing it as a motel and scaring them with a spider. When they blew up in fright, the mines valuables were his for the taking.

Meggy's efforts ended up with her fighting a skeletal archer with a sword.

Crystal: Go Mommy!"

Crystal stood nearby with a sign cheering her Mom on, while Meggy made short work of her enemy. After stabbing him in the ribcage and launching themselves a mile away, one stab in his head ended the fight. A pile of loot was her reward as she took it in pride.

Meanwhile, Luigi continued his menial efforts of manual collecting, including taking another piece of wood from a tree.

Luigi: Oh boy! That was some good work, and I only suffered severe arthritis!

One look at his fingers showed they were all broken and bent out of place from continually punching trees. He took the wood block and placed it with his other collected materials.

Luigi: Guys! I got 3 blocks of wood! I hope I was helpful.

With their gigantic piles of loot behind them, Meggy, Crystal and Mario exchanged awkward glances.

Mario: Yay! You uhhh...helped bro.

Meggy: You did very well Luigi.

Crystal: Yay uncle Weegee?

Luigi cheered for his "Victory."

Everyone gathered at the construction table and Mario put everything they'd gathered onto it. Usually, the table would automatically build the materials into what they needed...

Instead, it just shook for a few seconds before stopping. Confused, Mario compared the items they had with the instructions for the item.

Mario: Why doesn't mine look like that?!

Frustrated, he threw the instructions at Luigi and knocked him down as Meggy took a second look at the instructions.

Meggy: Guys, I think we missed something...

Crystal: What Mommy?

Muggy looked in the corner and saw what they were missing-A human Soul...

Meggy: A human soul? How are we meant to get that?

Then to their shock...

Luigi: Use mine...

Mario looked in shock.

Crystal: No Uncle Weegee!

Meggy: What? Luigi, No!!!!

Luigi: It's okay Meggy, if it means saving all our friends...t-them I'm fine with sacrificing myself...

Mario ignored his brother and threw a villager onto the pile of materials. The kind man said hello...right before the process of building started. He screamed in pain as Meggy covered Crystals eyes.

Finally, the process ended as in the place of the construction table, they finally had the Anti-matter hun within their grasp.

Meggy: Good thinking red!

Mario switched the gun to "Anti-Minecraft" mode and shot a nearby tree, turning it into a normal tree. A villager looked on with shock at this shocking transformation, before Mario zapped him with the gun, Turning him into Squidward.

Luigi: Well that's good, but how do we get out of here?

Meggy thought for a minute, then Had an idea. She took a deep breath, then called out...

Meggy: STEVE!!!!

He heard them from the door in the sky, listening.

Meggy: Can you get us out of here? It's time to save the world!

Steve thought for a moment, then agreed...but only because he still had an hour till his laundry was done.

Throwing a fishing line down, everyone grabbed ahold and were pulled back up onto the table he was holding. Mario used the gun to turn the room back to normal, allowing them to stand safely on the floor.

Mario: Alright, time to rid the world of Minecraft, once and for all.

Being Minecraft, Steve understandably took offence.

Mario: Except for you Steve!

Steve forgave him, doing a quick spin as he turned into...Captain Steve!

Riding on the hero's back, Mario soared about Town as he turned Everything Minecraft back to normal. The spider back into spider man, the creeper back into an anime girl and Enderman back into SlenderMan.

Flying by the castle and turning back, everyone on the inside was freed from their blocky transformations.

Tari: I'm free? I'm free!!!

Tari excitedly grabbed her phone and ran out the castle...forgetting Toad still tied to the pole.

Toad: Hey, get me out of here!

...

Outside Steve's house, Meggy was on a call as she, Crystal and Luigi waited for Mario and Steve's return.

Meggy: So you're okay?! Oh, thank god. Just...stay right their, I'll be their soon Tari. Okay, love you.

Hanging up, Luigi gave her a snide look.

Luigi: Checking on her, are you?

Meggy: Oh, can it you!

Mario and Steve returned, crashing back to the ground.

Meggy: Nice job guys. You didn't forget any sites, did you?

Mario: Of course not, Mario has 100,000 IQ.

Luigi: Well, that's great then! Glad everything's back to normal!

Crystal: Yay! Let's get Chocolate cake!

Meggy gave Crystal a playful squish as everyone ran off to do just that.

Finally...everything was back to normal.

Boopkins: Help! Anybody!? I'm still here!

Except Boopkins. Apparently, Mario had forgotten he was frozen by the lake with a bird on his head. To add to his suffering, a creeper became attracted to him, getting really close...

Boopkins: Oh man...

To be continued...