Part XIV: The Ninth Pure Heart
The five heroes traveled to the Overthere, the land of clouds and a good afterlife, even though the heroes weren't even dead. They immediately started searching for King Boo, each of them going in different doors. Then, Luigi saw a group of people, who weren't really people, but could talk.
"Hey, who's that?" One of the flying things said.
"Hey, that's... LUIGI! What's up, man? How've you been? By the way, where's Mario?" A hammer shaped flying thing said.
"Is that... Cudge? And Carrie, Boomer, Barry, Slim, you guys are all here! Wait, where's Tippi?" Luigi said.
"Um... we don't know. But... what eva!" Boomer said, and everyone continued talking.
"Oh, and about Mario... he's... dead," Luigi said. And when Luigi said, "dead" everyone stopped talking.
"What? What happened?" Carrie asked. And Luigi told them all about the time bomb that blew up the underground city in Rougeport, and how Boolossus Jr. was actually a hero, but he had been forced to kill Mario. All of the pixels were stunned.
"Hey wait. I sense a pure heart around somewhere," Luigi said.
"What? But only Tippi can do that!" Slim said.
"Yeah. It's coming from- hold on! Is that a hot dog stand? Because that's where the pure heart seems to be coming from," Luigi said, confused.
"Oh, don't be confuzzled, man. That's the pure heart smelling hot dog stand! Where every hot dog gives you that after smell of a pure heart!" Boomer said. Luigi just slapped his hand to his forehead.
"You gotta be kidding me," He mumbled.
Luigi now saw the other four heroes come into sight. They all met the pixels one by one, and in time, they were all friends.
"Hey wait. I sense a pure heart around somewhere," Gerb said.
"What? But only Tippi can do that!" Cudge said.
"Is it that hot dog stand you're smelling, or is it King Boo up on that hill holding a pure heart?" Luigi said.
"Wait a second! KING BOO!?" Johnny shouted, and to everyone's horror, they saw King Boo up on a hill, somehow holding a pure heart.
"But... how!?" Bobbery said.
"A ninth pure heart?" Boolossus Jr. said also.
"It cannot be! But seriously Gerb, I think it was the hot dog stand you were smelling," Luigi said.
"Enough yippidy yappidy, let's get'em!" Bobbery shouted, and everyone ran up to the hill. King Boo shortly spotted them.
"Oh, hello. Hope you like my Black Heart 6000! You see, all I had to do was take a pure heart, or a model of one, and just reverse its purposes! Now, everything a pure heart would normally do is the opposite! And since a pure heart normally is used to save the world, it will now be used to destroy the world! Ha ha ha!" King
Boo said. Everyone just stared at the heart in terror.
"Who cares? First, we're gonna destroy the black heart, then, we're gonna kill you!" Johnny said.
"Well, too bad," King Boo said, and placed the heart into some sort of stand. Suddenly, day became night, and all of the people turned into stone.
"See? Now don't worry, the people won't stay stone for long. They'll just come right back, as evil as possible! And the only ones unaffected are those pixels, you five, and me!" King Boo shouted, laughing, and flew away. Everybody started kicking the heart, but it wouldn't break or budge. No matter what they did, the heart just stayed there, casting a shadow upon the whole sky. Suddenly, all of the pixels started singing to the tune of, "Makes Me Wonder".
"And it really makes me wonder, why you never tried to stop King Boo! Give me somethin' to believe! Cuz' I don't know why you guys, don't attack! Don't attack!" All the pixels kept singing.
"They're right. Why do the heroes always wait for the bad guy to stop speaking and get out his weapon before they fight him?" Luigi asked.
"Me? I was too focused on the heart to focus on King Boo," Johnny said, and everybody replied with a "Same here". Then, Johnny's portable e-mail thingy rang.
"Hey! My portable e-mail thingy is ringing! I must have a new message!" Johnny said, and pulled out his portable e-mail thingy.
"Deer Jhony,
4 daes. By by unevers.
-ur mom"
"Hey, Johnny. Since when did your mother get such bad grammar?" Luigi said.
"It's obviously a trap. That's just King Boo disguised as a guy who can't spell," Gerb said.
"Ohhh. But what does he mean? I think he means the universe is going to end in 4 days," Boolossus Jr. said.
"Exactly. So let's follow him!" Bobbery said, and everyone grabbed on to Boolossus Jr., who was the only one who could fly. The heroes held on to Boolossus Jr., and Boolossus Jr. flew in the direction that King Boo went in.