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Ch 2. The Goomba, natures sad little jokes… or are they?
Magirl didn't know where it would lead, but she was expecting more of a welcoming committee on the other side of the Warp Pipe and all there was forest area and a wide open space.
She came up out of the pipe in a standing upright position and that's about as far as she got as she looked around at the weird things that were moving around in this world, white fuzzy things were floating in the air and there were little black fuzzy things bouncing around wildly on the ground.
If anything everything looked tame, serene…. and ultimately to Magirl boring as having to listen to a Breloom that likes to make itself sound like the most important thing for 30 minutes.
She just sighed and hopped of the pipe and she landed on top of something squishing it, she quickly stepped off of it and looked down at what looked like a brown pancake with eyes.
"OW! You will pay for that, once king Bowser hears what you've done he'll throw you into his lava moat or maybe leave you chained up to be beaten up by us Goomba's since that is the ultimate humiliation or maybe he'll just fry you to your Dry Bones." The flattened brown creature said.
"I doubt throwing me into lava would hurt and I certainly don't plan on being captured anytime soon, by the way you look kind of Shroomish like." Magirl said getting a look at the strange figure; it just said "us Goomba's" so she figured out what it is called if you took the S off.
"You didn't have to call attention to my height disorder, by the way my brother will get you back for this he's up that path there and there's no possible way you can stomp him flat since he's wearing a spiked helmet HAHAHAHAAAA…. you are doomed since you have no hammer with which to strike him down nor can you stomp his head in like you did mine while he's wearing that spike." The Goomba said while getting a little angry about being a height challenged Goomba and it being noticeable by a complete stranger.
"Say did any one that looked like me and was a bit shorter come through here?" Magirl didn't feel too threatened by an armless walking mushroom with a pointy hat and was going to find out one way or another which direction to go in preferably where the Goomba's brother is for the fun of it.
"Even if I did know, why should I tell a Goomba masher like you?" The Goomba said bravely and it didn't seem like he understood the position he was in since he was already flattened, Magirl just grabbed him….
We zoom out to over look the quaint forest full of wide open spaces and place an arrow to indicate where Magirl and the Goomba are, as they are completely out of sight.
"AAGGGGHHHHHHhhhh!" Several birds flew into the air, from the Goomba's scream in pain.
Now we zoom back to a very pale looking Goomba that wasn't flat anymore being held upside down by one of its feet twitching a bit, as Magirl had a firm grip on it.
"Okay, okay, I'll tell you anything you want; even my half, twice removed, second cousin of my third uncle's shoe size if you want and no I haven't seen anyone else fitting your description except, although I've heard rumors of someone having been recently been captured by a bunch of Goomba's and is trapped inside some kind of giant tank near here, but I don't get much information out here anyway and those Goomba are said to be at war with some guy called erm… Peecard…. Meebad…. OH RIGHT! HIS NAME WAS PROFESSOR E.GADD! It was from the same direction down that path…. my name is Goomidget the Goomba… now please…. let me go..." Goomidget said all the while crying, he whimpered out that last part.
"One more thing, how do Goomba's normally fight?" Magirl asked, because if this was a height challenged Goomba she might come across one of a much bigger size.
"I'll tell you this much, not very well and all normal Goomba's can do is stumble into you, jump into you a head bonk attack or bite you." The Goomba answered almost immediately without hesitation on his part, Magirl then dropped him and noticed that he scurried off like he was set on fire and was being chased by a Tyranitar at the same time.
"Well at least they don't have any special powers or anything like that, because he didn't look like he was lying…. maybe I should have asked what his cousin's shoe size was." Magirl said with a shrug and started walking down the path grassy path.
30 minutes later…
"HEY YOU! I'M HERE BECAUSE I HEARD SOMEONE SQUASHED A GOOMBA! WELL YOU AREN'T SQUASHING ME!" A Goomba of a slightly larger size with a spiked hat jumped out from behind some bushes in front of Magirl.
"Yeah that was an accident and yeah... I will squash you if you intend to do me any form of harm." Magirl said tugging at her gloves a bit and waiting to see his reaction.
"Of course I'm going to attack you; forty-seven percent of the evil Goomba population work for an evil fire breathing jerk and you can't stomp on me because I'm wearing a spiked helm." The Goomba suddenly charged pointing its spike at Magirl.
Magirl just stood there patiently, waiting for it to finally get close enough and then she just stepped to the side and held out her hand and the Goomba almost ran entirely by only to stop and find out it wasn't going anywhere.
"Huh?" The Spiked Goomba said before he noticed Magirl holding onto the left edge of his helmet, she then gripped the other side of his helmet with her other hand and held him up in the air facing her.
"Is this thing glued on to your head?" Magirl asked shaking him a bit, because the spiked helmet appeared to be stuck on his head.
"Well….:" Before the Goomba can elaborate, she smiled wickedly showing a row of sharp teeth.
"You boast that I can't jump on you and you have a helmet stuck to your head that if I were to drop you into an upside down position like so." Magirl flipped the Goomba upside down and then just dropped him and his spike went straight into the ground leaving him stuck upside down.
"Uh oh… the others said there would be days like this..." The Goomba said with a sudden understanding of what Magirl had in store when she jumped above him, who was now flailing his legs about as he was stuck in his helmet upside down.
Needless to say the outcome was squished Goomba Soup, poor misguided spiked helmet wearing Goomba.
"My poor spine, how am I posed to get help like this?" The Goomba said as he was stuck in his helmet upside down and flattened to the shape of the insides of his helmet.
"See you later after you get that intelligence transplant." Magirl said as she walked off choking on her laughter, she wandered down the path humming happily.
It wasn't that long until she was attacked by two more Goomba's, but at this point she was getting rather lazy about it.
"I am a winged Goomba and this is my brother winged and spiked helmet Goomba and we will be victorious with our hit and run tactics!" the winged pronounced proudly as Magirl just let out a groan and then just fired two streams of fire at them.
They both fell to the ground wingless and out cold twitching, Magirl just shrugged and walked on, then she was stopped when she noticed an entire pack of Goomba's that where attacking someone wearing a white lab coat and owlish glasses.
"Leave me alone or I might have to go get my newest invention to use on you." Said the weird pale skinned and in danger person, there were nine Goomba making sure he couldn't escape as their leader moved forward.
These Goomba where a lot more different then the previous Goomba, they had wings, jetpacks, spiked helmets, swords and even shields.
"Oh this is getting just ridiculous, I mean jetpacks and wings? How are they even holding those swords or shields?" Magirl said as she stalked forward after setting down her carryall box and plucked a few Blast Seeds out.
"You're not getting away Mr. E.Gadd; you've been a thorn in our sides long enough." The lead Goomba had a twitch in his left eye and he was wearing metal pants, the only difference from the other nine Goomba behind him and he was holding his sword out at the man.
"HEY! Leave him alone." The Goomba's turned to look at the new figure that had arrived and they gawked because it looked familiar.
"Uhh… Boss didn't we capture her already?" One of the soldiers commented, which got Magirl glaring as she understood what that meant, they had her sister.
"So she escaped… GET HER!" The nine Goomba advanced on Magirl from the ground.
"Have any of you ever heard of a Blast Seed?" Magirl asked with a bland look on her face.
"No, but what does it matter your outnumbered by the Rocket Goomknights." Said one of the Goomknights as it pointed it's sword at her.
"Just a few things before we start, why do you guys have wings and jetpacks? Also how are you holding those swords and shields?" Magirl was dying to know the answer to those questions.
"We still don't need to answer to you about the wings and the jetpacks, however if you must know about the sword and shields, well it's not easy to explain but they are touching our skin at least." The Goomknight said with a bit of apprehension.
"Okay let's see what you got now." Magirl said as she grinned wickedly.
Unknown location.
"LET ME OUT OF HERE!" Pyran yelled and began moving around in whatever she was trapped in, she wasn't to happy a bunch of Shroomish like creatures managed to overpower her and forced her onto a large similar looking mechanical thing, then they have the nerve to stuff her into an enclosed space after they brought her on to this monstrosity.
Back to the battle.
Magirl tossed a Blast Seed up and caught it in her mouth, then unleashed a powerful explosive blast into the nine advancing Goomknights sending them scattering and destroying their shields.
"Get up! You guys are the Goomba elite for crying out loud! You can't be losing to that thing." The Goomknight Leader said while waving his shield and sword around trying to rally them together.
They all started flying and then ignited there jetpacks and started attacking Magirl from all sides moving almost too fast for her to manage, while they were busy E.Gadd managed to slip away unnoticed to go get one of his inventions preferably before that nice girl who managed to avert their attention is attacked by the Rocket Goomknights secret weapon.
Magirl had managed to slam two into some trees and managed to cause ones jetpack to rupture using another Blast Seed causing the Goomknight immense pain when it exploded, the two Goomknights retreated carrying the third who couldn't move all that much, while Magirl turned to face the other six in an onslaught until there was a large noise that sounded like a trumpet.
"Retreat, it's finally here!" The Leader said with enthusiasm as he jetted into the sky followed by six other vapor trails.
The ground started rumbling and Magirl was looking around for what was causing it, then a large shadow fell over her, she looked at the three grounded Goomba's make their way up the ramp into a set of sliding doors that opened to let them in then closed shut.
"What the…. holy… Mew…." Magirl said quietly looking up from the doors the retreating Goomba went into and finally noticed what it was she was looking at… a sixty foot tall Goomba shaped tank with a smiling mouth that and had two cannons pointing out of its eyes as pupils and on the bottom of it's feet were heavily reinforced treads, it also had thick powerful gleaming armor.
"Hah! I doubt even you can beat… THE ALMIGHTY GOOMTANK! The ultimate in Goomba technology, made by Goomba's and it leaves a statement that we Goomba's will be the ones who do the squashing, also our leader and yes we have a leader that's much higher then me… Megoomba who is driving this thing will make sure you won't stop us." The Leader of the Rocket Goomknights said with a copious amount of arrogance coming out of him.
"I think you are just overcompensating for the fact that you guys are short and need a lot of soap." Magirl said as she looked up at the tank, she was somewhat injured and the speedy little buggers were vicious with those swords.
"You will pay for those remarks… ready the heavy ammunition and fire." The Goomknight Leader said.
One of the cannons pointed towards Magirl and the world slowed down, the cannon fired and the thing that came out of the cannon was larger then the cannon itself, it was a large rectangular object with spikes encircling it and it was rotating at high speeds as it flew towards Magirl.
Thanks to a last second inspiration of instinct Magirl managed to jump into the air and avoid a mass amount of pain as the thing slammed into the ground where she was standing and the shockwave sent her flying backwards, after a few seconds of lying on the ground she got up and ran over to her carryall box picked it up and slung it over shoulder and looked at what was shot at her.
"I've heard of live ammunition, but this is ridiculous!" Magirl said as she looked at what she could only describe as a large Golem or Graveler embedded into the ground, it was large rectangular and it had a face with gritted teeth and angry looking eyes.
"HEY! MISS! Come over here, we need to go quickly before they find out they missed!" E.Gadd had gained her attention; she turned around and saw what she could only describe as the weirdest mode of transportation she's ever seen and accepted the fact she couldn't beat something that big.
End chapter.
What can Magirl do against that kind of firepower?
Does E.Gadd have anything under his sleeve to combat such a dangerous thing?
So the first few Goomba's were just a bunch of random basic wimps? Yep, you really need something over the top like the Goomknights to stop Magirl.