One day Eddie was riding on the bus and going home from school. He was looking for kids to be in the Numnum Club. He was asking 2 girls if they wanted to be in the Club. They said no. "They're just stinkers that my Hypnotized Sea Urchins will eat." thought Eddie. But these were no ordinary school girls. They were two of the toughest badguys Eddie would ever fight.
Or rather, one of them was a moderately tough bad guy and the other would never be mentioned again, not even in this very story. Yeah, the second girl -- who this introductory paragraph implied would be an important character later on -- seems randomly vanish after this point, with only the first of the two reappearing. I can't even remember who Girl #2 was supposed to be, actually.
Also, apparently Eddie has an army of hypnotized sea urchins, for some odd reason. Specifically, this refers to the Sea Urchin in the old NES game Clu Clu Land, which I had recently played for the first time. That's a recurring pattern in my old stories -- random, blatant references to stuff I liked at the time. Sometimes they were changed around to a point where they became their own thing only loosely inspired by the original (like "Kirbys" that weren't pink and didn't have Kirby's power-copying ability, which later developed their own unique set of traits as a species and even later became K'hyurbhis, sharing nothing with Kirby but his general body shape... and even that not 100% now that they have feet with toes rather than red lumps), but most of the time in the early stories I just threw them in completely unchanged. While I still do slip references to other things into my stuff, I actually slip them in now rather than just "wham, there's a random character/enemy/item/etc. from this game I played recently."
As Eddie came home, he noticed all of the cars his parents owned were gone. A note was tied to the doorknob. It showed a picture of a Numnum with a strange sword Eddie had never seen before stabbed through it. He decided to ask the Smartest Numnum about the sword. "It looks like an Ancient Kirbyish NumKiller." said the SmartNum. "What! Kirbyish! The Kirbys! They're the enemies of the Numnums!" said Eddie. "Who would know where the Kirbys had this?" asked Eddie. "I don't know" said the SmartNum. The next day, Eddie found out that the 2 girls were the ones who found the sword. "Uh-oh, no wonder they didn't want to be in the Numnum Club!" Eddie thought.
Another thing that tended to happen in the old stories: characters are introduced in one story, made to seem importantish, and then never appear again. That's the case with the "Smartest Numnum" that Eddie goes to for advice here, who is never so much as mentioned in any other story.
I'm not sure how Eddie knew that the two girls (oh wait, Girl #2 does get mentioned again! well, once) were the ones who found a Numkiller sword and, by extension, probably the ones who left the note on the door... but considering that they'd all be elementary school kids at this time, they probably were bragging about finding a sword during lunch or something.
Also, notice the "cars are gone (which means parents were kidnapped)" thing mentioned here. Just like Girl #2, this element of the story is never mentioned again. By the end of the story everything just kind of randomly goes back to normal, apparently. Later stories even feature Eddie's parents (and one of their cars, even), so they clearly didn't just stay missing. As I mentioned above, apparently I just forgot some of the details of this story's earliest bits when I was writing the later parts. Whoops.
Eddie secretly got off the bus at one of the girls' houses in the afternoon, but he forgot to bring his Num Coin. "Ugh, she's even got a pet Fat Kirby. Now I've got to get past that stupid Kirby too!" thought Eddie. Since Eddie brought his KirbyPopper, he easily killed the Kirby. In a hidden room on the side of the house, the girl kept her Kirbyish weapons. Another sword like the one that was stabbed through the note. A Yuckow Sword. A set of Kirby Bombs. All kinds of them. Then he looked in the backyard.
Forgetting to bring your Num Coin is a pretty bad mistake to make. Of course, Eddie usually wouldn't need it at school and he hadn't planned on sneaking off to one of the girls' houses to investigate when he left home that morning, so it does sort of make sense that a kid wouldn't think to bring it along in that situation.
The "Kirby Popper" was one of those random items mentioned in a few stories I wrote back then, and unlike most it actually appeared more than once. It was basically just a sharp thing that you could jab into a Kirby which would cause it to "pop" and die. Which didn't make a whole lot of sense considering that the "Kirbys" in my stories didn't actually have the ability to inflate and fly like Nintendo's Kirby did (not even this early on), and just poking Kirby with a sharp thing wouldn't kill him anyway... but eh, I was 7 years old when I wrote this.
Standing in the backyard, looking straight at Eddie, was a huge Julia Dragon. "Uh-oh, this time I'd better use my Num Gun or I'll be Eddie soup!" thought Eddie. While Eddie was looking for his Num Gun, three more dragons crept up behind him. There was a Baby Dragon, a Num Dragon, and a Big Dragon. "Yum!" said all of the dragons. "Taste the Yummo Food!" said Eddie as he stuffed the baby dragon's mouth with Yummo Food. The baby dragon was dead, but there were three more left. The Big Dragon swung its huge tail, but Eddie jumped out of the way. Eddie found the Num Gun and used its Numnum Wave on the big dragon.
This is the only one of my old stories where dragons make an appearance, with the exception of the Julia Dragon, which later on became a transformation that the actual Julia could make... but apparently in this story it's just a random monster. Apparently in the early stories, the Num Gun was a separate item from the Supernum transformation (unlike the Numnum Sword and Num Armor and various gadgets, which only appeared when Eddie transformed) and Eddie could carry it around with him even when he wasn't in Supernum form. Also, he apparently brought a gun and a sharp thing to school with him but left the Num Coin, which probably wouldn't get confiscated by school people if it was found, at home. Whoops.
This is one of those odd old stories where stuffing a monster's mouth with Yum randomly kills it even though it isn't even a yuckfood-based creature which should be harmed by Yum. Apparently baby dragons only like yucky food, or something.
The dragon was washed away by the Numnum Wave. Now only the Julia Dragon and the Num Dragon remained. But they were tougher than the other dragons. Eddie killed the Num Dragon by feeding it Yummo Food. Then the Julia Dragon ran away. Eddie was relieved to notice there were no dragons left. He went into the normal-looking house, expecting some kind of badguy to jump out at him. He looked in the kitchen. Something was cooking on the stove. It was Yuckow Food! He immediately threw Yummo Food on it. The yuckow food was killed by the Yum that Eddie threw. In the living room, Eddie didn't see any badguys. Next he went up to spy on the girl's room. Then he found a hole in the wall.
And once again, another dragon is killed by... force-feeding of yummy food. Apparently it's not just the babies who only eat yucky stuff, I guess. And the Julia Dragon runs away rather than fighting at all -- which makes it a little unclear as to whether this was the actual Julia in Julia Dragon form or just a random monster.
And another Yuckow Food appears, only to be almost instantly killed by having Yum thrown onto it. This time, the Yuckow Food is actually referred to as "the Yuckow Food" rather than just being called "Yuckow Food" as thought that was its name... well, the second time it's mentioned, anyway. The first time it's called "Yuckow Food" in a name-ish way. Apparently Yuckow Food (capitalized) was the name of all yuckow foods (lowercase) back then, or something.
The hole was a secret cave! He went in and walked a very long way. He noticed baby Kirbys crawling across the floor of the cave. When he finally got out of the cave, he was in a forest. "This must be the Roarasaur Forest!" thought Eddie. But he had forgotten about what lived in the forest: The Roarasaurs! The Roarasaurs were more dangerous than Big Kirbys and were bigger than Big Dragons. Just as Eddie started to remember that, a Roarasaur was sneaking up behind him! He heard it roaring, and after a few moments, turned around with the Num Gun. But since the Roarasaur was neither a Dragon or Barney, he didn't know what to use on it. Roar! Roar! It roared and roared some more until Eddie decided to run. It's a good thing Roarasaurs didn't run fast, because if they did, Eddie would be Roarasaur food by now. Eddie outran it, but he was still in the forest.
"More dangerous than Big Kirbys" doesn't exactly make them sound all that dangerous, considering that Eddie was able to kill one effortlessly with his Kirby Popper earlier in this very story. Though that was a Fat Kirby rather than a Big Kirby, so I guess there could be a difference in danger level between the two.
He finally got to Nummy's, which was just behind the forest and where he had left his Num Coin. He planned to trap Christy, somehow. But how would he catch the leader of the badguys? He didn't know. But he would try. He called for Nummy, the manager of Nummy's, and asked him if he knew what could trap Christy. "I think a food fight will get her. But not just you're everyday, Yuck-Vs.-Yum foodfight. A special one." said Nummy. "A Yummo foodfight. I'll call Yummo Food. He's the best at foodfights. He even beat that Yuckow Food that attacked FoodTown. Kersplat!!" said Nummy. So Nummy called Yummo Food, and he came to Nummy's to plan the foodfight. They knew it would be hard, but they knew how they would do it.
And finally, nearing the end of the story, the girl's name finally gets mentioned. Well, the one who actually appears in the story past the first paragraph, anyway -- Girl #2, it seems, will remain a mystery for all time. Anyway, Christy (who as of 2010 has a full name, Christy Telamora) is referred to as "the leader of the bad guys" here, which is a little odd. Looking back at other stories I wrote, it seems that there is a time period where Killer Kirby would be out of the picture due to being sealed away, so I guess this story could take place in that gap... but still, a random human girl being promoted up to "Leader of All Bad Guys on Nummorro" all of a sudden seems a little strange, especially when you consider that she's not particularly smart and can't really fight all that well (at least in this story -- in a later appearance she seems to have improved a bit.)
Also, here's the first and only appearance of "Yummo Food" in my old stories. He's basically a red Yuckow Food, made out of yummy food rather than yuck (because back then, Yuckow Foods were literally made of disgusting cafeteria food rather than just being alien blob monsters that only smelled like it.) Apparently he fought a Yuckow Food in a place called "FoodTown" at some point, though I don't remember if that was referencing another story or just a random backstory bit that I never expanded on.
While Nummy and Yummo Food were planning the foodfight, Christy was getting her toughest badguys ready. She didn't know about the foodfight, but she suspected that Nummy would probably attack soon. Some of the toughest badguys she had were: Killer, MARCHING MILDE, The Dummest Num on Earth, and Blubbery Blurby. Once Nummy, Yummo Food, Eddie, and the Numnums were ready, they got a lot of Yum Food Bombs and some rubber yuck food (used to trick the bad guys later on). They had their weapons and were ready to begin the Yummo Foodfight. Christy and her bad guys were now stomping through the Roarasaur Forest and were heading straight for Nummy's. The Dummest Num On Earth started to lose his brain again and started to sing "The Ants Go Marching To Nummy's", but Blubbery Blurby stuffed a huge glob of Blubber down his throat to shut him up. Nummy had heard the Dummest Num On Earth and threw a Yum Food Bomb into the forest. As soon as the badguys noticed the bomb, they also noticed they were at Nummy's and they were surrounded by Numnums and Yummo Food.
"Marching Milde" is in all-caps due to the fact that the original version of this story gave the bad guys' names in different fonts when they were first mentioned, and his name happened to use a font that looked all-caps-ish anyway. Speaking of Marching Milde, he's taken directly from Yoshi's Island -- the Clu-Clu Land Sea Urchins weren't the only random game reference appearing in this story.
The Dummest (sic) Num on Earth has a bit of a bizarre name, even ignoring the fact that "dumb" is misspelled in it. In case it's not obvious... they're not even on Earth. There generally aren't Numnums on Earth, barring the occasional visit, so of course he'd be the dumbest one if he actually did go to Earth. Also, Blubbery Blurby apparently has the power to yank off hunks of his fat and use them as a weapon (or to shut up a moron who's randomly singing when they're trying to sneak up on someone, as the case may be.)
At that time they were ready to surrender (that is, until Nummy and Eddie started to use their tricky rubber yuck food trick). As soon as the good guys were an inch away from the bad guys, Nummy and Eddie signaled the good guys to back away. Nummy came out of the restaurant, holding a plate of the [rubber] yuck food. Nummy and Eddie began to eat the rubber yuck food, and since it wasn't real yuck, it didn't even hurt them. And since it looked just like the real thing, most of the bad guys were tricked. "Hey Christy, these guys are eating yuck. They aren't good guys!" said Blubbery Blurby, the toughest bad guy there.
Much like how the dragons and various others couldn't eat yummy food back in these old stories, it was a known fact back then that good guys were physically incapable of eating anything with a high yuck content without getting sick. By eating rubber yuckfood, they've tricked Christy's gang into thinking that they're not actually the good guys at all and that their boss either made a really stupid mistake or is intentionally having them fight against their allies, or something.
"Yeah, Christy!" said the other guys. As Blubbery and the other bad guys planned what they would do to Christy, Nummy, Eddie, Yummo Food and the numnums were escaping to the Numnum Club Hideout. The good guys had just reached their hideout when the badguys found out a really bad thing to do to Christy. They squished her flat as an Eggo Waffle, then cut little square holes in her, then they shicked her, and finally they roasted her, put yuckfood syrup on her, and ate her like a pizza.
And the story ends, apparently with Christy being crushed into a waffle/pizza shape and eaten by her own minions. Except she appears in another story later on (where she also dies) that pretty much has to take place later than this one, since it's about Killer Kirby being unsealed and escaping. It's never actually explained how she randomly came back to life between stories -- it's possible I just forgot that she had died in the first place, or I'd decided that the older story didn't count anymore or something along those lines.
...and still, Girl #2 goes unmentioned. I guess maybe they could be identical twins and the surviving one takes on Christy's name after she's killed, explaining away her mysterious "resurrection" in that later story. XD
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