Chapter XXIV: Adrenaline Only Carries You So Far ~Mazzic

After walking for a bit, still with no word from the professor, Kyanosa stopped, looked around cluelesly, and collapsed. Kaye, Kaia, and Nubi all headed over to where he had fallen and all came upon the same conclusion...sheer exhaustion. Taking command once more, Mazzic just looked at Kyanosa's sleeping figure and made an executive decision to leave him behind. Actually he didn't, but it worried you didn't it?

Turning around he waved his arm about and called for everyone's attention, and said, "It looks like we will be making camp here alright? Good, now we will set up a watch as we already know that there are people here who don't like us very much, so who will volunteer?" Mazzic waited for a second...and another second...a couple of minutes...another coup...."Fine I'll do it" Startled everyone looked over at Pyrina, unperturbed by the attention she just went on, "Don't worry about it if anything happens I'll give you a call."

Mazzic nodded, "Thanks, now the rest of you get to sleep, I plan to get working on our escape from this blasted planet tomorrow."

To Mazzic's surprise there was actually only a few protests, and those quiet at that. Turning around he found a nice tuft of grass, and laid down to sleep...
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He awoke in the same position a few seconds later. Looking around he noticed something was different...for one thing he felt like he weighed a couple of hundred pounds more then usual. Trying to stand up he looked down at himself and nearly screamed...or at least curse mildly. Instead of seeing his feet as he usually did when he looked down, all he saw was a great bulging, jiggling, blob of fat where his trim muscles had been before.

Managing to stand up he looked around and noticed everyone else was just as huge as he was. This, as you can imagine, is very disconcerting. Waddling over to Kyanosa, who looked kind of like the state-puff-marshmallow man, or maybe the Pillsbury doughboy, he gave him a good kick. Mazzic watched as the fat wobbled out from where he kicked it and was fascinated at the same time he was disgusted. So like any normal person he kicked him again...and again...and again.

Kyanosa sat up a little while later. Looking down at himself, he did scream, and doing so woke up everyone else. Some took it better than others. Which was surprising. Perhaps the funniest things were the fat yoshi's. Just because no one had ever seen a fat yoshi before. But before long all were gathered in one waddling mass in the middle of the field.

Mazzic spoke first, "Alright, does anyone know what happened?"
Kyanosa replied, "I knew we shouldn't have eaten those mushrooms we found under the trees back there..."
"We never found any mushrooms you dolt!"
"Stop complaining we need to find a way to change ourselves back"
"I don't want to be fat! Waaaaaaaa!"
"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr."
Mazzic sighed and ignored this horribly not funny discussion. Looking up he noticed a large, jolly, but slightly evil looking, elvish thing. It noticed Mazzic staring at him and disappeared in a puff of smoke. Instead of telling the others he turned and waddled away as fast as he could, following the energy signature that the elfy thing had left.

Upon arriving at a dark dank cave he looked down and saw some deep footprints in the ground.
*Haha, I've found my prey...* he thought, and as quickly as he could, he entered.

About this time he noticed a slightly annoying angry beeping noise that was coming from his hip. Also about this time, he woke up from this bizarre and slightly unnerving dream...

Looking about quickly he saw that everything was as it should be and grabbed the radio from his hip. After a quick inspection he decided that the little red button on top was the 'talk' switch. Pressing it he said, "Yeah?"
The professors scholarly voice replied, "Yes I've taken inventory of my equipment and I'm afraid to admit that there is nothing much of use here. A few transistors and power cells that could whip up a toaster or something, but the majority of the other stuff is just junk."
"Alright, bring what you can out and we'll help you get the rest."
"OK."

Sighing Mazzic looked at the others. Most were still sleeping, Magikia appeared to be meditating and Pyrina...Pyrina wasn't anywhere to be found. Looking about he saw a small, but brilliant red bird in the distance and smiled. *Oh well, I guess she couldn't endure Kyanosa any more*. Glancing over and groaning as he saw Kyanosa babbling in his sleep. *As it is I can hardly live with him as he sleeps!*

On this final note, Mazzic sat down and picked up where Pyrina had left off.