The Mushroom Kingdom... always relatively peaceful with Bowser's occasional interference. That is, until a growing menace appears and shifts that balance to his favor. What is the motive behind the kidnappings, experiments, and alliances? For now, the pirate Johnny is the trump card to follow; his being is at stake…
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Enemies: Cloaked minions- so far, nothing much is mentioned about the cloaked minions other than their names and small details like those mentioned in earlier chapters.
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Heroes! Hasten your Rescue!
Location: Mountain range in western Desert Hill
Yoshi clasps his chin as he inspects the crags. Geno interrupts his thoughts.
"Everything okay, Yoshi?"
"Hmm… Last time I was in the mountains, I used some vitamins that Professor E. Gad gave me. They may help us out again."
Geno opens Stuffwell 2.0 and takes the brown glass jar and the manual without releasing the other contents.
"You mean this, right?"
After Yoshi nods, he inspects it and quickly scans the booklet. "I see… these grant temporarily the powers specific to the Yoshis. Flight, glowing, blimp…"
Yoshi gets excited once more as if being near cookies, flailing his arms about. "That's it! I used that one!"
Geno raises his hand. "Jerk in your chain chomp, there. These things may be life savers in a pinch, but if I read correctly, the powers last about half an hour. Say we use this blimp power… You were on your own that time; now, we're four. I can propel myself just fine with my gun power, but you have to carry a big-boned Koopaling and a princess, and who knows how long it will take you to get to the top."
Morton suddenly interjects, "I ain't big boned, you chump! I'm faaa…. Oh you got it right…"
Yoshi sighs as he pushes the Koopaling away as Daisy cries, "So, what now, Gee?"
Geno opens the jar, and pours a few vitamins in his hand, using his finger torch to discern the colors. He picks a purple one and puts the rest away.
"Here, Yoshi, take this grape one. Apparently, this particular one contains all of the bubble powers that transform you into a vehicle or tool, which is genius science to me. It was vague on the reaction, though. I didn't see many of these, so these should be last resort only.
"Hey, chumps! You're talking too much!" snapped Morton Jr., "Let's see that thing already!"
The wind howls again amidst the group's silence. They stare at the dark skinned Koopaling as he retorts, "What, chumps?"
One awkward silence later, Geno picks up Stuffwell 2.0, while Yoshi swallows the purple pill. But nothing happens.
"What the hay?" Daisy blurts out.
"I feared it was a placebo," adds Geno.
Morton joins in, "It's not made of hay, or plessie, or a boo. How can anything be made out of a boo? They're just floating bags with slurppy tongues. You green donkeys have slurpy tongues too, and eat fruit. But some of it is poison so…." Morton's eyes widen; he runs toward Yoshi and starts smacking Yoshi across his back. "Chump, that's poison! Spititoutspititoutspititoutspititout!"
When Yoshi felt he was going to be split in two, he burps out some bubbles and writhes in pain on the ground.
"ImgonnakillyouImgonnakillyouImgonnakillyou!" repeated Yoshi as Morton and Daisy watch him squirm on the floor. Geno grabs a bubble containing a helicopter.
"Hmm… I can't pop it. Perfect, it must be sensitive to Yoshies only." He tosses the bubble ay the green dinosaur. "Here, Yosh."
After tossing the bubble, it bounces off Morton's belly onto Yoshi and pops.
A transformation sequence ensues where Yoshi floats up and slowly morphs into a helicopter about 1.5 times the size of Morton.
Yoshi tries flying at first but crashes. Three minutes later, he whizzed to and fro, forgetting the task at hand.
"This is fuuuun!" exclaims Yoshi zipping by with a loop-de-loop. "It has been a while since the last time I transformed!"
Geno stops him. "Yosh! It may be fun, but we need all the time we can have for the rescue. I'll already packed extra bubbles inside my left elbow. Can you carry Daisy and Morton?"
Yoshi stops and lands near the other two. "You're right. Besides, we need Johnny to get to the Same-Same Kingdom soon."
"Same-Same? Does such a place exist?" asks Geno, but he holds up his right hand, "We can talk later. Let's get this show on the road!"
Yoshi floats aloft, permitting Morton to hold onto the copter rails on the bottom. Daisy holds onto the Koopalings neck with a loose but firm hug. Geno propels himself with his secret guns inside his shoes, while holding onto Stuffwell 2.0 with his left hand.
"This would be so much easier if you weren't fat," strained Yoshi, his copter face getting a slight blush from forcing himself a bit.
"Watch it, chump," retorts the Koopaling, "I'm only big boned!"
"Yay, we're flying again!" yells Daisy, as Geno rose along with Yoshi at Yoshi's pace.
Slowly but surely, they fly to the top of those mountains, which seem much shorter now that they were flying. They pass those mountains and almost reach the sand on the other side when the transformation expires, popping Yoshi back to normal. Morton still held onto Yoshi's legs and Daisy hugs onto them as well. All three scream their lungs out as Geno watches them plummet quickly. A sand plume splashes upward; Yoshi gets sandwiched between the princess and the Koopaling, who is dizzy from the fall's shock.
Daisy gets of her dinosaur friend, as he and Morton recover from the fall.
"That was fun!" she exclaims, raising her arms in victory.
Geno floats down and releases more bubbles from his elbow. "Ah, this car one looks good. Hope it has good traction in the sand. And no playing around this time, Yosh." He finds a bubble containing a Jeep-looking vehicle, promptly giving it to Yoshi, putting the others away.
Another transformation sequence later, Yoshi speeds as fast as he could to a building to the distance. Even at a distance, they tell it is in fact enormous. Excitement filled the air, but the four knew that they would be entering a danger zone, with a large chance of never coming out to see the sun again.
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Location: Ruins of the Beanbean Kingdom
The sun has set, and a gleaming moon rises over the horizon as it illuminates across the devastated land. While Yoshi and the crew try to penetrate the jail, a haunting desolation and destruction runs rampant as far as the eye can see in these formerly lively plains. Beanish soldiers are strewn across the battlefield, bruised and unconscious. Iggy suddenly crashes in from a dense forest near the ruined castle on a small hill and the adjacent town with his three chain-chomp drawn chariot, and is heading furiously toward the castle.
He exclaims while cackling like a sadist, mad scientist, "HA, HA, HA, HA! WHO'S NEXT? WHO DARES CHALLENGE MY CUTESY CHOMPIES? WHO? WHO! MWA, HA, HA, HA! LET THE CARNAGE CONTINUE!"
The town near the Beanbean Castle is up in flames and devoid of life; luckily, everyone was evacuated safely. The castle is in a dire state, among its ruins; some walls are still holding up solidly, while some others are either missing or on the verge of collapsing. Roy, Wendy, and the cloaked minions present are almost done obtaining victory in their respective battles. Larry is busy with a pair of nabbits looting the place. After the small climb up the hill, Iggy orders his chain-chomps to tear at the east wall.
Before they could, the eastern wall to the throne room suddenly explodes, revealing Prince Peasley on his knee, exhausted and panting from fighting the Bowser marionette. A gloved hand holding a marionette cross emerges from the shadows produced by the moonlight shining on perfectly placed rubble. A flicking motion from the pinky agitates the control cross.
"Peasley, my boy, like I said, I'm quite a reasonable… man," a voice calls out from the shadows, clearly being the Master's. His evil red eyes shimmer in the darkness that veils his body as he continues, "Either resist and become my toy's first victim, or we can make this less painful if you just surrender peacefully, with no need to battle any longer."
The Bowser puppet lunges at the Beanish prince with multiple claw strikes, who in turn defends masterfully with his silver rapier. The Master becomes more and more intrigued as he witnesses the skillful swordplay, and then retaliates by better handling of the his cross. The Bowser puppet crosses his arms at the wrist and swipes his arms both ways, sending Peasley's weapon at the intact part of the western wall, wedging it tightly between two stone slabs.
"What to do, what to do?" thought the Beanish prince, "I can't play King Arthur while I fight a dragon…" He looks at the Master. "Or rather, two."
"So, what will it be, Beanish peasant?" inquires the Master, "Surrender by will or force?"
"As if I will succumb to the likes of you!" exclaims Prince Peasley defiantly, ignoring the insult. "My people fought 'til the end to try and stop you and your fiendish ways. And as their prince, so shall I, and I'll stop you, even if it means death."
"Hmm… No good… You wish for your own slaughter, you Beanish peasant? Well, I won't give you exactly what you want, moron!"
The Master then flicks his wrist violently down and up once, causing a combined aura similar to that of a Goomba, a Koopa foot soldier, and a Paratroopa to radiate from the gigantic puppet body.
Similarly, the Beanish prince emits a green glow, causing the Master's eyes glow fiendishly red within a shadowy veil, as if waiting to witness such a move. All cuts, bruises and fatigue completely disappeared from Peasley's body, and the prince crouches. In a blinding move, he kicks off both of the puppet's arms. The Master drops the marionette crosses, the one still hidden falling into sight, and claps. The Bowser puppet falls lifeless on the torn carpet floor of the throne room in a sitting pose.
"Bravo, my Beanish foe, simply the cat's meow. Now that I've seen with my own eyes the once-thought, lost regenerative ability of the royal Beanish family, I can now affirm you're the next one I need for… my plans."
The crosses begin to glow ominously and float up to about the hand level of the Master. Peasley rushes at the Master, trying to stop him from gaining control of the puppet once more but a gloved had snatches a wooden cross and the other goes back into the darkness before he could kick them away. The puppet sprouts some wooden wings, flies upward, staying aloft with his back toward Peasley.
Suddenly the armless Bowser Puppet drop kick Peasley almost at his blinding speed, but Peasley retaliates by kicking that leg off. The puppet tries to swiftly trip the Beanish prince with its remaining leg, but he jumps in the nick of time, landing on the leg and fracturing it slightly, soon proceeding to kick the body away, leaving the leg under his foot. Although the Koopa King marionette crashes next to the prince's rapier, the Master quivers in excitement.
"This is more grand than I had assumed," he says, "I see that not only does your body instantly heal, but you also get a good adrenaline rush for a time , accompanied by great strength, all without a hint of exhaustion."
As the Beanish prince backs away to make his next move, the Master narrows his glowing red eyes at the prince as another gloved hand emerges from the shadows and presses the marionette cross into his palm.
"But I have… NEEED to know… With such a natural high, how low will be the fall?"
The Bowser puppet levitates again, and begins radiating lots of energy. The prince shields his eyes from the light being produced by the puppet, so he didn't notice the disjointed limbs beginning to vibrate, and after a few seconds, they zoom at the puppet's main trunk, reattaching themselves. The right leg loosely hangs from the body due to it being stomped by the prince.
The Bowser puppet stops resonating, the wings being gone for the moment. Soon after, its head, limbs, and tail retract into the wooden Koopa shell. The shell spins, forming a nauseating violet tornado and launches at the young monarch. Peasley tries to dodge, but his legs lock into place and the rest of the body suffers an extreme fatigue, almost a full paralysis.
SMACK!
The shell sends the prince flying onto some debris close by. The puppet sprouts wings as the retracted body parts emerge, and dives a kick into the dizzy prince's abdomen, causing the prince to cough out blood.
Although the world spins around Prince Peasley, he is still rational as he lay shaking on the debris. "That has to be Bowser, that puppet there! But those extra powers… they can't be his! These guys… What in the world are they trying to do?"
A ringtone of a device more advanced than a Smartphone interrupts his thoughts, though his body shakes violently as he coughs out a little blood. The Master releases a cross as he casually responds this mobile device, flicking his free hand still holding a marionette cross. The flying puppet loses its wings again and headbonks the prince once, rendering the already weakened Beanish monarch unconscious. It then falls lifeless next to the Beanish prince, all while the Koopalings present at the ruins and some of the cloaked minions barge in.
A creepy, deep voice comes from the device, "Kiss me, I'm Irish."
"Stop using the code, Lemmy. What's going on?"
"A giant thunderstorm made us stop by Rougeport first. And with a little… persuasion, Don Pianta and Ishnail agreed to ally with us. Since you needed boats for our next big move, I told them to set sail for the Same-Same Kingdom A.S.A.P. Pianta is sending his secret service to assist us in Glitzville in case something goes bad."
"Excellent. And you Ludwig, what are you thinking?"
Ludwig lies. "Not much."
Lemmy continues, "The book you wanted is up for grabs in the tournament. We should send Roy to try and win it. And if he is defeated, Larry can nab it. What d'ya say?"
"Not bad," replies the Master, as Wendy, Iggy and Roy look over Prince Peasley. "The less suspicious, the better. Let's meet at the base in max 5 hours. I got Peasley, so get me the fruit and the other sacrifices, pronto."
"We'll succeed without fail," replies Lemmy, hanging up afterwards.
"That's so not fair! Why does the Master get to keep that hunky Peasley to himself?" complains Wendy while admiring the injured but still handsome prince. "I want to have him in my room, and have tea, and he'll take me to a moonlit hill, and…"
"HE, HE! PRINCE CHARMING LOOKING MORE CHARMING THAN PINK BALDY-LOCKS HERE!" screeches Iggy.
"Yo, Meister! That foo' Iggy be tripping. Betta put that homeboy in check befo' I punch in his grill, dawg."
"Oh, I will, Roy," said the Master as he hung up, "I need him to operate the machine to absorb Peasley into the puppet, but that can wait. How about you and Larry go and fight some more at Glitzville? "
Roy smugly smirks and cracks his fists as his shades twinkle. "Fo' shizzle. Hey shorty, where y'at?" No response. Roy scowls while banging the wall, making a booming echo resonate across the desolate ruins. "Yo squirt! Get yo' greedy butt over here!"
Larry arrives along his personal nabbits and bandits. "Dang, Roy! What the heck you want? Can't you not see I'm getting the mullah?"
"We iz gots a job. Drop the dough and let's dip." Roy begins walking away.
Larry smirks. "What if I told you there's manly, pink throne in another room close by?"
Roy stops walking. He slowly turns and lowers his shades. "Say wut?"
As everyone else face faults, the Master face palms just as Slyklyde arrives flying down and retracts his wyvern wings into his serpentine body. "I better send someone else."
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Before anyone asks, I am taking advantage of Larry being the youngest to make him speak in improper English, like double negatives and such. Anyways, it begins next chapter. See you there!