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Chapter 7: Battle of the Elders

"It`s too late!" Junior shouted to everyone. "Bowser and his three allies are on their way to Peach`s Castle, and you can do nothing to stop them!"

"My son! Go back home now or you`ll lose your weekly money forever!"

"I don`t care, father!" Junior said. "It`s all between you and me now! And Mario will pay for his crime! Let me summon… The greatest threat ever! Even you, Mario, you would be unable to face it off with your loser friends!"

"Run away, Mario and your friends!" Frogfucius said. "We`ll fight against it."

"But, you two are too old, and…"

"GO! If youth knew, if elders could…" (1)

Mario and his friends left without any word. After climbing a small hill, they decided to step back and look at the battle, They would help if it was to become too dangerous.
"Ha! This document represents the smallest but biggest threat Mario has ever faced. Let me summon the Hundred Thousand Goombas!"

One Goomba appeared out of the document. Then two, then three, and they were forming something… After a few seconds, the Goombas were getting out by hundreds, and rapidly they placed themselves to form a gigantic Goomba who would have been powered by a dozen of Mega Mushrooms. That monster`s top was lost in the clouds, and a really dangerous look appeared on the face made up of thousands of Goombas. Even Mario would need a hundred lives before defeating it. Finally, the last Goombas popped out of the document and placed themselves somewhere on a foot, which measured easily seventy meters high. The creature was maybe two hundred fifty meters high, two hundred meters long and a hundred fifty meters large. It was the biggest Goomba ever. Well, actually, it was the biggest threat ever for sure… Calculating that every Goomba had 1 HP, that monster would have about 100,000 HP!

"Oh no! He probably read the document providing very little information on EVERY Goomba that has been stomped," Luigi said.

"We have to help them absolutely!" Peasley said. "That`s the biggest thing I`ve ever seen!"

"We can`t. Toadror is a powerful magician, and Frogfucius is a martial arts master who taught everything to Mallow. They can defend themselves."

"Okay then…" Kylie ended the conversation. They stood on the hill and looked the battle.

While Toadror was attacking with his scepter, Frogfucius was kicking around. These two maneuvers only damaged a little, however, and the giant monster only lost a tiny bit of its height. The two elders were running around, attacking every side of it, and the gigantic creature fell on its butt, nearly crashing Toadror. But Toadror grew wings on his back, thanks to one of his spells, and continued the battle in the air. Frogfucius also, always fighting, looked like he was flying. Despite all that, the Goomba still had a part of his head in the clouds (yes, they are low clouds, but in the Mushroom Kingdom, anything can happen).

After ten minutes, Geno stood up and shouted to Mario:

"WE MUST DO SOMETHING! They won`t win, they have eliminated only ten thousand Goombas until now… I don`t think they`ll survive long enough to battle until the end. I must use the Geno Whirl."

"Are you crazy?" Mario said. If you do that so many times, you`ll drop dead! And if you hit Frogfucius or Toadror, they`ll die as well! It`s too dangerous."

"Trust me, Mario, I can do that. I improved my skills while I was up there, looking for Star Road. I can use it five times at best, and I also improved it so the timed hit is easier to get, and so I can damage 9999 Goombas at once now!"

Mario looked at the battle, the gigantic monster was really too powerful for two elders – might they be such powerful…

"Okay then, but don`t use them too much, only use it four times."

"Got it!" Geno put a thumb up.

Geno prepared himself.

"What is he doing?" Luigi asked.

"He`s using the Geno Whirl, that attack that could cause 9999 points of damage on an enemy! In this case, it`ll eliminate many Goombas. I hope the battle will get easier for our friends."

"Right…" Peasley said. "Isn`t it a bit too easy for him?"

"Nah, he wasn`t able to perform it very often, back in that time."

"GENO WHIRL!" the puppet cried as many circles appeared in a straight line from his hands. The beam touched the side of the Goomba and passed through it, revealing a hole, which was soon filled up by other Goombas.

"I forgot that!" Geno said. "Since my attack goes in a straight line, it will just destroy the Goombas in its way… That makes maybe five thousand Goombas, I dunno… That`ll do. GENO WHIRL!"

The beam passed again through the giant creature, and the hole was filled. However, the others could see the giant was getting a bit smaller. We could see all its facial features, but also it had lost a lot of its original height. Now it was about two hundred meters high.

Geno was already feeling weak, but he continued and launched two more Geno Whirls, at a fast pace. Actually, because the Goomba was losing its largeness, the move would cause less damage! But Geno ended up with a last Geno Whirl, which he did very weak due to his loss of energy in the other assaults. And as soon as the creature got hit by it, Geno fainted.

"Tell the higher authority I succeeded in my mission…"

"Geno!" Luigi said, before remembering: "I have a 1-Up Mushroom with me, I should give him, and he would continue his series of attacks to get rid of that Goomba!"

"AND IT IS ONLY NOW THAT YOU SAY IT???" Mario, Kylie and Peasley said.

"Wait, we have to tell him our plan first… And I don`t think he`ll like it."

In next episode: the end of the battle! And you must be wondering about what was happening during that time in Bowser`s Castle… That`s to read! Well, if you like bad surprises… or only if you want to know.

(1) "If youth knew, if elders could": French proverb (Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait) means that youth ignores some things it would be able to accomplish while the elders know a lot of things they cannot do because of their old age.