Next chapter done! We're almost reaching my favorite part of the game turning into a way more interesting part!
Enjoy! ;)
Chapter 14: Fake Alert!
Aboard the Mother Ship…
Inside, the round blue door opened up and it started to shoot everyone out one by one.
"WOAH!" Mario screamed, as he was the first one to be shot out.
"WHOA!" Sonic was the next one to be launched.
"AAAHH!" followed up by Tails, and then Veronica.
"Are you guys okay?" she asked.
"We're fine, but where are the kids?" Sonic asked.
"WOOHOHOHOO!" just then, they heard Baby Mario having fun while being launched upwards. Then, Young Sonic and Young Tails came out and landed normally.
Mario rose his hands up and aims to catch Baby Mario, who was starting to fall down. Soon, he managed to catch his younger self just fine.
"Hahahahaha! That was fun! I kinda want to do it again!" Baby Mario exclaimed.
"Glad you liked it!" Mario smiled.
"Hey, where is Luigi?" Tails asked.
"WAAAAAAAAH!" Luigi came out from the door and was launched upwards, just like what happened with Baby Mario.
"WOWOWOWOWOAAAAH!" Baby Luigi was the last one to be shot upwards, and the door closed.
"Uh oh… That landing is going to hurt…" Tails murmured.
"So, anyone got a pillow or something?" Young Tails asked.
"I got just the magic we need." Veronica said and used her magic to create a bluish-white fluffy cloud for the two to land.
Luigi started to get closer to the floor, and he landed...
*THUD!*
…two inches away from the cloud.
"Ow…" he groaned.
"…Are you kidding me?" Sonic sweatdropped.
"Ooh… That's going to hurt in the morning." Tails cringed at his best friend's pain.
Baby Luigi, on the other hand, landed successfully on the fluffy cloud.
"Thanks, Veronica!" Baby Luigi thanked.
"No problem!" Veronica smiled. She then looked at Luigi on the floor. "Are you alright, Luigi?" she asked in concern.
"Yeah…the floor cushioned the blow…" Luigi muttered.
"Hang on…" Veronica used her Reversing Time magic on Luigi to revert him back to his state before he crashed on the floor, and all of the pain was gone.
Then, Stuffwell came out and looked around before speaking:
"Travesty! Princess Peach is nowhere to be seen!"
"Are you serious? Hmm… That's not good." Mario shook his head.
"Perhaps she's been taken farther into the ship." Stuffwell guessed. "We MUST find her!"
"You bet we have!" Sonic agreed, and Stuffwell jumps back. "Come on, let's go find Peach." They started to walk. However, Veronica was having a bad feeling as she was flying with the heroes.
"Why am I getting a vision from the future that the Princess Peach we'll see it's a fake? What's going on?" she thought with a worried expression. "I think she is a fake, but my other visions show that the boys won't believe me… Why are they always focusing on Peach so much?"
The Shroob Mother Ship is the UFO that Princess Shroob uses for combat and transportation. It has a futuristic interior with pink floor and neon green walls. There were also some rooms where a strange green liquid was pouring inside some large tubs, and some Shroobs were relaxing in that liquid.
One long trip around the Mother Ship later…
"Well, that was weird." Sonic said once the heroes approached a door.
"What was?" Tails asked.
"Nothing. It's just… We couldn't hit the Adult Shine Block when it was dark, and yet when our younger selves hit the light, we could hit it."
"I'll have to agree; that seemed a bit odd than I imagined." Luigi said.
"Do you think maybe the Shroobs made it impossible to hit objects in the darkness? With their advanced technology, that could be the reason." Mario pondered.
"Well, whatever. That was just annoying. Let's just go inside that door." Sonic shrugged as they went inside the door.
On the other side, they saw Peach with her back turned standing in the middle of the room.
"Hey! Peach!" Mario called, but Peach strangely didn't respond.
"Hold on… Something is not right." Baby Mario noticed something odd on her for some reason and walked towards her. What shocked the entire group except Veronica was that Baby Mario pulled out his hammer and lifted it up!
"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!" Young Sonic yelled in shock. He attempts to dash and stop Baby Mario, but Veronica grabbed his arm.
"Wait! Look!" Veronica exclaimed as they saw Baby Mario's hammer passing right through Peach.
"WHAT THE HELL?" Sonic shouted in shock.
"The real Peach would've dodged that." Veronica concluded. She then saw Baby Mario sticking his hand through 'Peach'. "See? It's a hologram."
"I figured it was false because how come she's already wearing her crown? I still have it right here!" Baby Mario confirmed as he showed Peach's crown before putting it back into his pocket.
"So we walked ALL this way just to find a STUPID hologram?!" Sonic growled under his breath. "Gimme a break!"
"If that's a hologram, then where is the real Peach?" Mario questioned.
"()*#(%$!" suddenly, the whole ship began to shake and a Shroob noise was heard, startling the heroes.
The double doors opened up and many Shroobs came out, surrounding the heroes.
"Oh, crap! We're surrounded!" Sonic flinched.
What was more shocking was that the Shroobs aimed their laser guns at our heroes! Everyone had a different reaction to that: Mario, Sonic and Young Sonic braced themselves, Tails, Young Tails and Veronica were frightened, Luigi and Baby Mario were freaking out and Baby Luigi was the only one crying.
Then, the Shroobs at the front opened their way for…Princess Peach? She wasn't wearing her crown and still had the attached Shroob Mushroom unlike the hologram, but why would the Shroobs open way for their main enemy?
"Eh? Hey! Guys! There's Princess Peach!" Baby Mario called out upon noticing her. "And she isn't wearing her crown! So this one must be real!"
"Huh?" everyone questioned, until they shifted their gazes at Peach. "Peach!"
But then, 'Peach' suddenly chuckled in a strange voice, confusing the heroes. They then watched her pulling out the Shroob Mushroom off of her face, revealing a pair of red demon eyes before she shoved away her costume with a swift arm movement, revealing that she was actually Princess Shroob in disguise!
"WHAAAAAAAAAAT?!" all of the heroes except Veronica yelled in shock.
"Oh no… So my visions were true…" Veronica murmured.
"(I AM PRINCESS SHROOB.)" Princess Shroob spoke. "(YOU INTERLOPERS...WILL BE CONSUMED!)" She cackled alongside the Shroobs.
Just then, one of the Shroobs took out a camera and started to take snaps before shoving another Shroob out of the way. It then took out its laser gun and shot all of the Shroobs in the room, much to everyone, including Princess Shroob's surprise. The princess ran off, and the Shroob stood in front of the shocked heroes, who still haven't got rid of their widened eyes ever since Princess Shroob revealed herself.
The Shroob does a fancy spin before a cloud of smoke popped up, revealing none other than Kylie Koopa! She stops spinning and strikes her pose.
"Kylie!" Baby Mario and Baby Luigi chirped.
"Now's our chance, whiskers! This way!" Kylie directed them to the elevator.
They all entered the elevator, which would take them to the Mother Ship's second floor.
"I still can't believe we fell for this that easily…" Sonic muttered.
"Yeah, those Shroobs are such great tricksters." Young Sonic threw in.
"Gee whiz! You were in the frying pan but good, weren't you, boys?" Kylie asked. She then strikes her pose again. "Who knows what woulda been your fate if a certain gorgeous reporter weren't around?"
"You're right! Imagine that! So thanks for saving us just in time, Kylie!" Sonic thanked while giving thumbs up.
"Well, you scratched my back, whiskers, I scratched yours! Now we're all square." Then, something came into her mind. "Say, by the way, fellas… Did you really think that was the real Princess Peach this whole time?"
"Yeah… Unfortunately." Mario nodded.
"I actually had visions from the future telling me that this Peach was fake, but I didn't want to tell you guys because I had another vision where it shows that you didn't believe me." Veronica said.
"We…wouldn't believe you? Oh god…" Luigi said surprised.
"And what's worse is that we actually took Princess Shroob to our time period…" Mario added. "That was probably part of her plan."
"What's that? You took that dame through a time hole to the future Mushroom Kingdom?" Kylie questioned.
But Baby Mario and Baby Luigi, who were just playing around in the elevator, interrupted Kylie's thoughts when they began to call the adults' attention with their jumping noises.
"Not now, boys, Kylie Koopa is trying to speak." Veronica told them.
"Oh… Okay, mom." Both baby brothers replied and stayed quiet. Kylie then continued:
"Gee whiz, I gotta say, fellas, I'm all back-to-front on this whole can of Wigglers… Are you saying you think that was Princess Shroob's plan all along? Talk about a twist!"
"What do you mean?" Luigi asked.
"Yeah, she sets herself up as Princess Peach and infiltrates Peach's Castle in the future… What she's really after…is the chance to conquer the Mushroom Kingdom of your time, too! The gal of this gal!"
"WHAT?!" the adult boys flinched.
"Oh NO! This is bad!" Mario said shocked.
"Conquering both Mushroom Kingdoms… We CAN'T let that happen!" Sonic growled. "We HAVE to find a way to stop these Shroobs ASAP!"
"But things didn't work out so well for our Ms. Purple Poison, now did they?" Kylie pondered. "If that lump Bowser, if that's what you called him, hadn't gotten into the mix..." she then decided to change the subject. "Oh… I'm just blowing hot air over here!" she pulls out the same purple key she had shown them in Gritzy Caves. "Remember this little beauty? Yeah, sure you do! It just may be the key to victory, whiskers!"
Soon, the elevator finally reached the second floor and the door opened.
"This dame's got a hunch…at day's end…this…will be…the biggest, bestest scoop in the history of scoops!" Kylie strikes her pose. This left the kids confused. "Show a little get-up-and-go, whiskers! It's gravy time! Feast your peepers on my big break!" Kylie then walks out of the elevator, with the rest following suit.
They reached a room where there was a large keyhole in a strange mushroom cap-like machine.
"Look, fellas!" Kylie exclaimed as she shows them the key. "You can bet your whiskers this is where the key goes!" she then inserted the key into the keyhole and twisted it. Then, some earthquakes came in as Kylie speaks "And now, at long last… The secret of the Shroobs… The scoop of a lifetime…"
Eventually, the purple mushroom inside the machine emitted a glow and some of its energy flowed into the cables.
"Ah-ha! Ah-ha! The mystery! The scoop!" Kylie exclaimed with excitement as she took snaps with her camera.
While she was doing that, Baby Mario was so excited that he began to run around in circles, but accidentally bumped into Baby Luigi in the process, causing him to cry. Thankfully, Luigi calmed him down by tossing him into the air.
"LET'S SEE IT!" Kylie finished.
All of a sudden, a trap door opened up below them!
"Hey… What gives?" Kylie questioned. "This ain't good…"
"Does it feel like we're standing on nothing?" Young Sonic asked awkwardly as he looked down. "…Uh oh…"
Everybody then started to go in a panic state as they stood in the air in cartoony fashion.
"AW, RASPBERRIES! WE'RE DONE FOR!" Kylie panicked.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" everyone fell. Fortunately, Kylie managed to hold on to the key just in time to avoid falling. Unfortunately, for our heroes, that same blue door from where they entered opened up and they all fell in.
"NOOOO! WHY?" Kylie lamented. "Why does everything always comes up lemons? SOMEBODY, HELP! SOMEBODY! ANYBODY!" then, many Shroobs gathered next to Kylie, followed up by Princess Shroob. "…Hello? YOIKS!"
"$(#)%&" Princess Shroob spoke.
"Wh-What gives?" Kylie asked. She saw one of the Shroobs picking up another one and holding it above its head. "Put that Shroob down!" she panicked. The Shroob threw the other at her, and knocked her off the key and she fell as well: "YOOOOIKS!"
")(#)&%)()!" Princess Shroob and the Shroobs cackled.
At the top of the Mother Ship, Baby Bowser was still there and he jumped above the Thwomp Elevator.
"GWAH HA!" Baby Bowser laughed. "What's all the racket about? Somebody eating cookies in there? I'm starving up here! Here I come, cookie-hogs!"
He then stomped the glass of the dome to try to break through, but it didn't break.
"HEE-YAAAARGH!" Baby Bowser roared in frustration and stomps harder. This time, it worked; the glass shattered and he fell in through.
Once inside, he quickly hid behind the machine as one Shroob became confused, thinking it had heard something from behind. But it just shrugged it off and continues to join the cackle.
Meanwhile, in Yoshi's Island…
"Come on, Yoshis! We've got to repair the village!" Amy exclaimed. But then, she stopped for a second and clutched her head. "Ooh… That image keeps popping up in my brain…" but she decides to snap out of it. "Know what I decided? I'm not gonna think about it anymore! I'm having fun with the Yoshis, and that's good enough for me!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" Kylie screamed…and landed right on Amy's head before bouncing off. "Whatta escape… And whatta drop!" she scratched her head.
"…I REMEMBER!" Amy suddenly shouted, startling Kylie. What did she remember?
To be continued…
Where did our heroes land? Find out next time! Please review.