Chapter.. Uh.. Oh yeah! Eight!
A/n: Ohmigosh! A GIANT Gomen nasai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I totally forgot about the damn fic!!! VERYVERYVERYVERY SORRI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know, I know, it's dragging on waaaaayyyyy too much, and it's not very exciting, but I'm going to try to give this an uplift by incorporating some of Lemmy's ideas. Oh, and the whole Koopa Village being destroyed thing? My dark side talking. Not the normal me writing that.
{ } is me talking
Disclaimer: I only own half of my Paper Mario game, let alone the copyrights and everything. It belongs to Nintendo. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Okay guys, we're here! Let's do this thing!" said Linguini, trying to look brave. She stepped up to the doors and slowly opened them.
"You'd think the Koopa Fort would have better secur-" started Koopi, but stopped because of what she saw.
"Holy heck what is that thing?" asked Cerulean, staring at the creature in front of them. It was a strange sight indeed. It looked like a mutant ParaTroopa. It had big, black wings, a bright green turtle shell, and stood about 6 feet tall.
"Who dares enter the great Koopa Fort?" it rumbled.
"Woah, someone seriously needs a Tic Tac," said Fire. Goomia quickly hushed her.
"I wouldn't make that thing mad if I were you," she warned.
"W-we do," said Linguini, stepping forward.
"Well, you'll have to get through me first!" the creature roared.
"Why did the Troopa Kids put the powerful beast first? Usually, in all the dungeons Mario has faced, the big monster thing doesn't come until later," said Bob thoughtfully.
"Beats me," said Biza. "But right now, I'd be more worried about this beast thing!" Bolt quickly called Skarre and the others.
"TO BATTLE!"
The monster, now known as Mutroopa, was the only opponent. Before anyone made a move Bolt called the Toad Town crew and let them in on what was going on. The battle started off with a jump attack from Linguini for 6 damage, followed by a Bomb Blow from Biza for 7.
"Ha-ha, smelly fool! Take that!" taunted the Bob-omb. Goombar used a Tackle attack for 4 damage. Bolt powered up for a Lightning Cannon attack. Suddenly the battlefield started to shake. Mutroopa roared.
"What's happening?" shouted Goombar. A green mist set in. The mutant Koopa laughed.
"Foolish children! I have impaired your fighting abilities!"
"What?"
"Well, you see, I have made it so now only 3 of your party members can attack, Princess!"
"S h i t!" exclaimed Linguini, while holding a hand in front of Goomia. "Don't start with me."
"Best of all, this will affect you until you find the Spring of Many! Mwa- ha-ha-ha-ha!!!" The monster paused. "I probably shouldn't of told you that."
"This isn't fair! The big, strong, powerful, power-limiting guy shouldn't be in the beginning of our quest! Has Bowser no mercy?" asked Emerald angrily.
"Apparently not," replied Biza dryly. "Who's gonna fight this turn?"
"Bolt, Fire, and Cerulean," said Linguini without hesitation. Koopi opened her mouth to protest, but was cut off by Linguini. "Bolt's got his Lightning Cannon powered up. Fire can use Fire Sphere. Cerulean can use his Tidal Cover."
"Oh."
"What will the rest of us do?" asked Bob.
"Keep talking to Skarre, and wait over there on the side."
"Roger that." Bob ran off with the others as Linguini, Bolt, Fire, and Cerulean turned their attention to Mutroopa. Linguini used a Jump-kick attack, doing 5 damage to the beast. Bolt let out a howl as he unleashed Lightning Cannon for 10 damage. Fire spun in a circle, waved her hands, then let loose Fire Sphere for 7 damage. While Mutroopa was still wondering what hit him Cerulean fired his awesome Tidal Cover attack for 14 damage. {If you haven't noticed, people have more HP and attacks do more.} The giant was left with just 30 HP.
"Take that, monster!" yelled Linguini. "We may only have 4 fighters but we're still strong!" Mutroopa only grunted as he prepared for his next attack.
"Uh oh, looks big guys," warned Latik from Toad Town. "I would do something defensive."
"Emerald! Koopi! Parky! You're up!" called Linguini. The three ran to join her.
"Em, use Cloud Cover. Parky, Wing Chain. Koopi, Turtle D," ordered the Princess as Mutroopa finished his preparations. Emerald called upon a string of clouds to protect the group. Parky grew giant wings to shield the fighters. Koopi, on top of everything, made a giant Koopa shell to cover them all. Linguini just defended.
"YAAAHHH!!!!" screamed the mutant Koopa as he unleashed his attack. It easily blasted through Koopi's shell, and was making good headway on Parky's wings. The small ParaTroopa struggled under the pressure. After an intense bit Mutroopa finally broke through, but that's where his beam stopped and ran out of power.
"Phew!" said Linguini, wiping her forehead. "That sure was a powerful attack!"
"You can go offensive now, Ling," said Violet through the Insta-talk.
"Gotcha. Goomia, Bob, Biza, you're up!" The three partners ran up, eager to help.
"Okay. I'm gonna use a Jump Quake, so Goomia, use GooHeart. Bob, Biza, Double Bomb should do nicely to finish Mutroopa off." The party members nodded as they got in position. Linguini, true to her word, used Jump Quake for 7 damage. Goomia used her very mushy GooHeart attack that made all the immature, 12-year-old guys in the party cringe. Fortunately it did 8 damage. Bob and Biza jumped up simultaneously and spun around, then blew up at the same time, causing a GIANT explosion for 15 damage. The evil monster Mutroopa was defeated! Little green things floated in the air and Linguini absorbed them. They filled her with power for some reason.
"Yeah!" came the cry from the onlookers, hugging and celebrating. Linguini sat down to catch her breath.
"Hey guys, I wouldn't use those big powerful attacks so much," said Calimari. "Look at the toll it's taking on Ling!"
"I'm fine," argued the panting princess. She couldn't fool the Cheep Cheep though.
"You are not! Those party attacks have taken a lot of FP out of you! You've only got 20 left!" Linguini gasped. She hadn't realized it was that much. At full power she had 60! Goomia came to her rescue.
"Here, I swiped a bunch of these from our cabinet at home. You know me and my healing dream, and what's a better way to start than carrying around healing items?" said Goomia merrily as she handed Linguini a Jammin' Jelly. Linguini ate it all within a few seconds.
"Thanks 'Mia, you're a lifesaver."
"I know!" Goomia smiled cheerfully.
"Hey. we won! We won!! YEAH!!!!" screamed Linguini, their win finally dawning on her. She jumped up and started dancing with Biza. "We're number one! We're number one! YEAH!" As the girls danced and everyone celebrated, a door opened. Everything stopped.
"H-how did you beat MuTroopa?! No one's ever inflicted more than 10 damage to him!" stuttered a Koopa. Linguini smirked.
"We're the best, and we're gonna save our parents!" Koopi just stared.
"Hey, Koopi, y'okay?" asked Fire. She jumped in front of Koopi and started waving her hands around. Koopi just continued glaring daggers at the Troopa Kid and his brothers who appeared behind him her fiery with eyes.
"You monsters," she said quietly. "YOU STUPID F U C K ING MONSTERS!!!!!" With rage in her eyes she started to charge at the Toopa Kids. Linguini quickly stepped in to hold her back.
"I know you're angry, Koopi, but you've gotta hold back a bit and think about your battle tactics. Calm down for a second," she said quietly. Koopi relaxed a bit. "Good. Now, Bolt, work up your machine thingy and get Skarre and the others. Now." Bolt ran off to do so.
"Another battle?" came Skarre's surprised voice.
"With the one and only Troopa Kids," replied Bolt.
"Oy. Well, start off with Koopi, Biza, and Emerald," she directed.
"Em?" questioned Bolt. "But she's not much of a fighter, she'z more of a healer and defense..."
"Trust me Bolt. You greatly underestimate the power of Cloud."
"If you say so.." He muttered. "Em! Koopi! Biza! You're up!"
"Me?" asked Emerald. "Why me?"
"The almighty Skarre says so," the Sparky replied, shrugging. "Just go out there and use your cloud magic."
"O.. kay.." The three fighters plus Linguini ran off towards the Troopa Kids, who were just lounging around, waiting, like the idiots they were. Linguini, Emerald, Biza, and Koopi stopped and stared. Biza cleared her throat.
"Oh! Right! We're supposed to fight now!" The four fell over anime-style. The Kids hopped up and got into position. "M'kay, we're ready!" Linguini rolled her eyes.
"TO BATTLE!!"
Linguini started off with a jump attack for 8 damage to the Pink Kid. Biza did her Combustion attack for 10 to all of them, at the cost of a chunk of FP. Emerald did Cloud Breath for 4 to the White Kid alone. Koopi did Hurricane Spin for 10 damage to Orange.
"She's only doing 4 damage! Why is she out there?" hissed Bolt to Skarre.
"Shut up and watch," she replied calmly. Bolt did as he was told. He rather liked Skarre, and trusted her.
The four Kids spun into one tower and did 15 damage to Linguini.
"Bolt! C'mere!" shouted Linguini.
"Good luck!" said Skarre softly as Bolt went off to fight.
The next round started out with a Paralyze Shock from Bolt for 6 damage, which caused the Purple Troopa Kid was paralyzed for a turn. Goombar used his Ball Barrage, where hundreds of baseball-looking things came out of nowhere and attacked all the Troopa Kids for 7 damage each. Linguini used a Ground-Pound for 7 damage to them all. The last attacker, Emerald, used her Cloud Cover on the Orange Kid for another 4 damage. Bolt rolled his eyes again, but said nothing. The Troopas retaliated with another 15 damage spin attack.
"Fire! Parky!" commanded Linguini. "You're up! Emerald, stay here." The Yoshi and the Parakoopa came into the fight. The princess started off with a Jump-Kick attack for 9 damage to the White Kid. Fire's Inferno caused 8 damage to all the Kids, and Parky's Wing Blade did 11 to the Pink Kid. Emerald just used Cloud Cover on the Purple Kid for 4 damage still. The Troopas didn't let up their spinning attack, which, because of it's constant use, was now doing 16 damage to the poor princess.
"I still don't get it!" exclaimed Bolt, frustrated. "What could Skarre be thinking?!"
"Bob! Cerulean! You're up!" Linguini Jumped again for 10 damage to the White Kid, while Bob used Combustion X on all of them. Cerulean used Tidal Cover for a whopping 12 damage to them all. Emerald used Cloud Cover on the Pink Kid for the normal 4 damage. Bolt was losing his patience with her, and fast, as the Troopas came back with a 17 damage spin.
The next turn it was Biza, Koopi, and Emerald fighting alongside Linguini. Biza used Combustion again for 10, Koopi used Hurricane Spin for 10 to Pink, and Linguini Ground-Pounded for 7 to all. Emerald got into Cloud Cover position, when she felt strange. She suddenly cried out:
"HEAVEN MANIPULATE!!!"
All the Troopa Kids suddenly started spinning around, almost like they weren't controlling themselves. And, indeed they weren't. Emerald was glowing and floating in the air, moving her hands this way and that. Wherever her hands moved the Kids moved. She suddenly thrust them up into the air, back down again, and in all the compass directions.
"Woah.." breathed Bolt.
Emerald continued to manipulate the Troopa Kids, moving them all around. When she tired of that, she thrust her hands dead center in front of her.
"BLINDING SKYLIGHT!" she yelled, and a white-hot light filled the room. The Troopa Kids dropped to the ground, Emerald doing 38 damage to them each. All of them were wiped out except for the White Kid. He was left with a thread of life left.
Everyone simply gaped.
"Did.. did Em just do that?!" asked Fire in disbelief. Cerulean simply nodded to his fellow Yoshi. Bolt slowly walked over to where the image of Skarre was smirking.
"Repeat after me," said the Boo princess smugly. "'Trust in Skarre.. she is right... ' C'mon, do it!"
"Trust in Skarre.. .. she is hot.. WAIT! I mean, she is right... " said Bolt, blushing profusely. Skarre blushed too.
"Did you say something?" she asked.
"N-no! 'Course not!" said Bolt quickly. "You know what? I'm gonna go watch the rest of the battle closer. Seeya!" The Sparky ran off quickly. Skarre just chuckled.
"Let's finish this!" yelled Linguini to the White Kid, the leader.
"You won't kill me as easy as my brothers and sister!" he yelled back, getting into the one-Koopa spin position. He only did 5 damage to Linguini, but he did 3 to all the other party members, knocking them out for 3 turns.
"You can hurt me all you want," said Linguini through gritted teeth, "BUT DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH MY FRIENDS!!!!!" She too started glowing white, and a transparent, barely-there hammer appeared in her hands. She slammed it down on the ground, doing 30 damage to White. Despite his big words, the Troopa perished.
Some more little green things floated into Linguini, and once they had all gone in she felt a huge surge of power. When she jumped it felt stronger, like she had upgraded it to a higher level. She was about to cheer, when the toll of the battle caught up to her again. She collapsed onto the floor into the comforting darkness...
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"Linguini!"
"Ling!"
"Please, wake up!" Linguini groggily sat up and rubbed her eyes.
"Huh? Wha?"
"You beat 'em Ling! The Troopa Kids are gone!" cried Goomia happily.
"Oh, cool.." the princess said, lying back down. She sat back up again. "What about our parents?!"
"We still have yet to find them," said Biza.
"Now if I were an evil Troopa brat, where would I hide our parents?" mused Koopi.
"If they're immature brats, then I know just who can figure this out!" said Goomia. "Goombar, where are our parents?"
"By the toilet," he replied. Everyone face faulted.
"Are you sure?" asked Parky.
"That's the only logical place to put them," Goombar said. Linguini just stared, then shrugged.
"If that's where he says they are, then let's go!" She stood up and wobbled a bit.
"Are you sure you can?" asked Goomia worriedly.
"Definitely," the headstrong girl replied. Goomia just shook her head.
"Guess there's no stopping you!" The group headed back into the icky castle. Goombar led them to the potty, where sure enough Bombette and Bruce, Biza and Bob's parents, were floating free. Biza ran to them.
"Mom! Dad!" she shrieked. Bob joined her in the celebration.
"Hello, sweeties," said Bombette, embracing them. The others watched on, smiling.
"Thank you guys so much! You really are the new saviors of the Mushroom Kingdom," said Bruce. "Thanks to you, we're free to be now!"
"However, being captured by Bowser greatly depleted our strength, so we're going to rest in Star Haven with T w i n k and the others," said Bombette. Biza and Bob turned glum at this thought.
"Do you have to?" whined Bob.
"I'm sorry, but yes," replied Bombette. "I wish we didn't have to leave you two! It breaks my heart to see you go."
"But you must go on to save the rest of this world!" said Bruce. "Good luck, kids! We've got to go now!"
"No! Mom! Dad! Wait!!!" screamed Biza as her parents faded away. "No.." Linguini walked up and patted her lifelong friend on the back.
"We'll get them back. Now we know they're safe. It's time now to head off and rescue the rest of our parents!" Biza smiled a sad smile.
"You're right. At least I got to see my mom and dad. You weren't so lucky." The Bob-omb wiped her eyes and stood up tall. "Come on guys, we've got the rest of the world to free!"
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A/N: WHEW! I finally got this G'dang thing out!!! ::wipes brow:: I hope this was better than the rest, because I worked REALLY h a r d o n it. I had a few more things to say, but that was such a great place to end it I decided to leave that to chapter nine. Please review guys, I'd really appreciate it!
A/n: Ohmigosh! A GIANT Gomen nasai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I totally forgot about the damn fic!!! VERYVERYVERYVERY SORRI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know, I know, it's dragging on waaaaayyyyy too much, and it's not very exciting, but I'm going to try to give this an uplift by incorporating some of Lemmy's ideas. Oh, and the whole Koopa Village being destroyed thing? My dark side talking. Not the normal me writing that.
{ } is me talking
Disclaimer: I only own half of my Paper Mario game, let alone the copyrights and everything. It belongs to Nintendo. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Okay guys, we're here! Let's do this thing!" said Linguini, trying to look brave. She stepped up to the doors and slowly opened them.
"You'd think the Koopa Fort would have better secur-" started Koopi, but stopped because of what she saw.
"Holy heck what is that thing?" asked Cerulean, staring at the creature in front of them. It was a strange sight indeed. It looked like a mutant ParaTroopa. It had big, black wings, a bright green turtle shell, and stood about 6 feet tall.
"Who dares enter the great Koopa Fort?" it rumbled.
"Woah, someone seriously needs a Tic Tac," said Fire. Goomia quickly hushed her.
"I wouldn't make that thing mad if I were you," she warned.
"W-we do," said Linguini, stepping forward.
"Well, you'll have to get through me first!" the creature roared.
"Why did the Troopa Kids put the powerful beast first? Usually, in all the dungeons Mario has faced, the big monster thing doesn't come until later," said Bob thoughtfully.
"Beats me," said Biza. "But right now, I'd be more worried about this beast thing!" Bolt quickly called Skarre and the others.
"TO BATTLE!"
The monster, now known as Mutroopa, was the only opponent. Before anyone made a move Bolt called the Toad Town crew and let them in on what was going on. The battle started off with a jump attack from Linguini for 6 damage, followed by a Bomb Blow from Biza for 7.
"Ha-ha, smelly fool! Take that!" taunted the Bob-omb. Goombar used a Tackle attack for 4 damage. Bolt powered up for a Lightning Cannon attack. Suddenly the battlefield started to shake. Mutroopa roared.
"What's happening?" shouted Goombar. A green mist set in. The mutant Koopa laughed.
"Foolish children! I have impaired your fighting abilities!"
"What?"
"Well, you see, I have made it so now only 3 of your party members can attack, Princess!"
"S h i t!" exclaimed Linguini, while holding a hand in front of Goomia. "Don't start with me."
"Best of all, this will affect you until you find the Spring of Many! Mwa- ha-ha-ha-ha!!!" The monster paused. "I probably shouldn't of told you that."
"This isn't fair! The big, strong, powerful, power-limiting guy shouldn't be in the beginning of our quest! Has Bowser no mercy?" asked Emerald angrily.
"Apparently not," replied Biza dryly. "Who's gonna fight this turn?"
"Bolt, Fire, and Cerulean," said Linguini without hesitation. Koopi opened her mouth to protest, but was cut off by Linguini. "Bolt's got his Lightning Cannon powered up. Fire can use Fire Sphere. Cerulean can use his Tidal Cover."
"Oh."
"What will the rest of us do?" asked Bob.
"Keep talking to Skarre, and wait over there on the side."
"Roger that." Bob ran off with the others as Linguini, Bolt, Fire, and Cerulean turned their attention to Mutroopa. Linguini used a Jump-kick attack, doing 5 damage to the beast. Bolt let out a howl as he unleashed Lightning Cannon for 10 damage. Fire spun in a circle, waved her hands, then let loose Fire Sphere for 7 damage. While Mutroopa was still wondering what hit him Cerulean fired his awesome Tidal Cover attack for 14 damage. {If you haven't noticed, people have more HP and attacks do more.} The giant was left with just 30 HP.
"Take that, monster!" yelled Linguini. "We may only have 4 fighters but we're still strong!" Mutroopa only grunted as he prepared for his next attack.
"Uh oh, looks big guys," warned Latik from Toad Town. "I would do something defensive."
"Emerald! Koopi! Parky! You're up!" called Linguini. The three ran to join her.
"Em, use Cloud Cover. Parky, Wing Chain. Koopi, Turtle D," ordered the Princess as Mutroopa finished his preparations. Emerald called upon a string of clouds to protect the group. Parky grew giant wings to shield the fighters. Koopi, on top of everything, made a giant Koopa shell to cover them all. Linguini just defended.
"YAAAHHH!!!!" screamed the mutant Koopa as he unleashed his attack. It easily blasted through Koopi's shell, and was making good headway on Parky's wings. The small ParaTroopa struggled under the pressure. After an intense bit Mutroopa finally broke through, but that's where his beam stopped and ran out of power.
"Phew!" said Linguini, wiping her forehead. "That sure was a powerful attack!"
"You can go offensive now, Ling," said Violet through the Insta-talk.
"Gotcha. Goomia, Bob, Biza, you're up!" The three partners ran up, eager to help.
"Okay. I'm gonna use a Jump Quake, so Goomia, use GooHeart. Bob, Biza, Double Bomb should do nicely to finish Mutroopa off." The party members nodded as they got in position. Linguini, true to her word, used Jump Quake for 7 damage. Goomia used her very mushy GooHeart attack that made all the immature, 12-year-old guys in the party cringe. Fortunately it did 8 damage. Bob and Biza jumped up simultaneously and spun around, then blew up at the same time, causing a GIANT explosion for 15 damage. The evil monster Mutroopa was defeated! Little green things floated in the air and Linguini absorbed them. They filled her with power for some reason.
"Yeah!" came the cry from the onlookers, hugging and celebrating. Linguini sat down to catch her breath.
"Hey guys, I wouldn't use those big powerful attacks so much," said Calimari. "Look at the toll it's taking on Ling!"
"I'm fine," argued the panting princess. She couldn't fool the Cheep Cheep though.
"You are not! Those party attacks have taken a lot of FP out of you! You've only got 20 left!" Linguini gasped. She hadn't realized it was that much. At full power she had 60! Goomia came to her rescue.
"Here, I swiped a bunch of these from our cabinet at home. You know me and my healing dream, and what's a better way to start than carrying around healing items?" said Goomia merrily as she handed Linguini a Jammin' Jelly. Linguini ate it all within a few seconds.
"Thanks 'Mia, you're a lifesaver."
"I know!" Goomia smiled cheerfully.
"Hey. we won! We won!! YEAH!!!!" screamed Linguini, their win finally dawning on her. She jumped up and started dancing with Biza. "We're number one! We're number one! YEAH!" As the girls danced and everyone celebrated, a door opened. Everything stopped.
"H-how did you beat MuTroopa?! No one's ever inflicted more than 10 damage to him!" stuttered a Koopa. Linguini smirked.
"We're the best, and we're gonna save our parents!" Koopi just stared.
"Hey, Koopi, y'okay?" asked Fire. She jumped in front of Koopi and started waving her hands around. Koopi just continued glaring daggers at the Troopa Kid and his brothers who appeared behind him her fiery with eyes.
"You monsters," she said quietly. "YOU STUPID F U C K ING MONSTERS!!!!!" With rage in her eyes she started to charge at the Toopa Kids. Linguini quickly stepped in to hold her back.
"I know you're angry, Koopi, but you've gotta hold back a bit and think about your battle tactics. Calm down for a second," she said quietly. Koopi relaxed a bit. "Good. Now, Bolt, work up your machine thingy and get Skarre and the others. Now." Bolt ran off to do so.
"Another battle?" came Skarre's surprised voice.
"With the one and only Troopa Kids," replied Bolt.
"Oy. Well, start off with Koopi, Biza, and Emerald," she directed.
"Em?" questioned Bolt. "But she's not much of a fighter, she'z more of a healer and defense..."
"Trust me Bolt. You greatly underestimate the power of Cloud."
"If you say so.." He muttered. "Em! Koopi! Biza! You're up!"
"Me?" asked Emerald. "Why me?"
"The almighty Skarre says so," the Sparky replied, shrugging. "Just go out there and use your cloud magic."
"O.. kay.." The three fighters plus Linguini ran off towards the Troopa Kids, who were just lounging around, waiting, like the idiots they were. Linguini, Emerald, Biza, and Koopi stopped and stared. Biza cleared her throat.
"Oh! Right! We're supposed to fight now!" The four fell over anime-style. The Kids hopped up and got into position. "M'kay, we're ready!" Linguini rolled her eyes.
"TO BATTLE!!"
Linguini started off with a jump attack for 8 damage to the Pink Kid. Biza did her Combustion attack for 10 to all of them, at the cost of a chunk of FP. Emerald did Cloud Breath for 4 to the White Kid alone. Koopi did Hurricane Spin for 10 damage to Orange.
"She's only doing 4 damage! Why is she out there?" hissed Bolt to Skarre.
"Shut up and watch," she replied calmly. Bolt did as he was told. He rather liked Skarre, and trusted her.
The four Kids spun into one tower and did 15 damage to Linguini.
"Bolt! C'mere!" shouted Linguini.
"Good luck!" said Skarre softly as Bolt went off to fight.
The next round started out with a Paralyze Shock from Bolt for 6 damage, which caused the Purple Troopa Kid was paralyzed for a turn. Goombar used his Ball Barrage, where hundreds of baseball-looking things came out of nowhere and attacked all the Troopa Kids for 7 damage each. Linguini used a Ground-Pound for 7 damage to them all. The last attacker, Emerald, used her Cloud Cover on the Orange Kid for another 4 damage. Bolt rolled his eyes again, but said nothing. The Troopas retaliated with another 15 damage spin attack.
"Fire! Parky!" commanded Linguini. "You're up! Emerald, stay here." The Yoshi and the Parakoopa came into the fight. The princess started off with a Jump-Kick attack for 9 damage to the White Kid. Fire's Inferno caused 8 damage to all the Kids, and Parky's Wing Blade did 11 to the Pink Kid. Emerald just used Cloud Cover on the Purple Kid for 4 damage still. The Troopas didn't let up their spinning attack, which, because of it's constant use, was now doing 16 damage to the poor princess.
"I still don't get it!" exclaimed Bolt, frustrated. "What could Skarre be thinking?!"
"Bob! Cerulean! You're up!" Linguini Jumped again for 10 damage to the White Kid, while Bob used Combustion X on all of them. Cerulean used Tidal Cover for a whopping 12 damage to them all. Emerald used Cloud Cover on the Pink Kid for the normal 4 damage. Bolt was losing his patience with her, and fast, as the Troopas came back with a 17 damage spin.
The next turn it was Biza, Koopi, and Emerald fighting alongside Linguini. Biza used Combustion again for 10, Koopi used Hurricane Spin for 10 to Pink, and Linguini Ground-Pounded for 7 to all. Emerald got into Cloud Cover position, when she felt strange. She suddenly cried out:
"HEAVEN MANIPULATE!!!"
All the Troopa Kids suddenly started spinning around, almost like they weren't controlling themselves. And, indeed they weren't. Emerald was glowing and floating in the air, moving her hands this way and that. Wherever her hands moved the Kids moved. She suddenly thrust them up into the air, back down again, and in all the compass directions.
"Woah.." breathed Bolt.
Emerald continued to manipulate the Troopa Kids, moving them all around. When she tired of that, she thrust her hands dead center in front of her.
"BLINDING SKYLIGHT!" she yelled, and a white-hot light filled the room. The Troopa Kids dropped to the ground, Emerald doing 38 damage to them each. All of them were wiped out except for the White Kid. He was left with a thread of life left.
Everyone simply gaped.
"Did.. did Em just do that?!" asked Fire in disbelief. Cerulean simply nodded to his fellow Yoshi. Bolt slowly walked over to where the image of Skarre was smirking.
"Repeat after me," said the Boo princess smugly. "'Trust in Skarre.. she is right... ' C'mon, do it!"
"Trust in Skarre.. .. she is hot.. WAIT! I mean, she is right... " said Bolt, blushing profusely. Skarre blushed too.
"Did you say something?" she asked.
"N-no! 'Course not!" said Bolt quickly. "You know what? I'm gonna go watch the rest of the battle closer. Seeya!" The Sparky ran off quickly. Skarre just chuckled.
"Let's finish this!" yelled Linguini to the White Kid, the leader.
"You won't kill me as easy as my brothers and sister!" he yelled back, getting into the one-Koopa spin position. He only did 5 damage to Linguini, but he did 3 to all the other party members, knocking them out for 3 turns.
"You can hurt me all you want," said Linguini through gritted teeth, "BUT DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH MY FRIENDS!!!!!" She too started glowing white, and a transparent, barely-there hammer appeared in her hands. She slammed it down on the ground, doing 30 damage to White. Despite his big words, the Troopa perished.
Some more little green things floated into Linguini, and once they had all gone in she felt a huge surge of power. When she jumped it felt stronger, like she had upgraded it to a higher level. She was about to cheer, when the toll of the battle caught up to her again. She collapsed onto the floor into the comforting darkness...
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"Linguini!"
"Ling!"
"Please, wake up!" Linguini groggily sat up and rubbed her eyes.
"Huh? Wha?"
"You beat 'em Ling! The Troopa Kids are gone!" cried Goomia happily.
"Oh, cool.." the princess said, lying back down. She sat back up again. "What about our parents?!"
"We still have yet to find them," said Biza.
"Now if I were an evil Troopa brat, where would I hide our parents?" mused Koopi.
"If they're immature brats, then I know just who can figure this out!" said Goomia. "Goombar, where are our parents?"
"By the toilet," he replied. Everyone face faulted.
"Are you sure?" asked Parky.
"That's the only logical place to put them," Goombar said. Linguini just stared, then shrugged.
"If that's where he says they are, then let's go!" She stood up and wobbled a bit.
"Are you sure you can?" asked Goomia worriedly.
"Definitely," the headstrong girl replied. Goomia just shook her head.
"Guess there's no stopping you!" The group headed back into the icky castle. Goombar led them to the potty, where sure enough Bombette and Bruce, Biza and Bob's parents, were floating free. Biza ran to them.
"Mom! Dad!" she shrieked. Bob joined her in the celebration.
"Hello, sweeties," said Bombette, embracing them. The others watched on, smiling.
"Thank you guys so much! You really are the new saviors of the Mushroom Kingdom," said Bruce. "Thanks to you, we're free to be now!"
"However, being captured by Bowser greatly depleted our strength, so we're going to rest in Star Haven with T w i n k and the others," said Bombette. Biza and Bob turned glum at this thought.
"Do you have to?" whined Bob.
"I'm sorry, but yes," replied Bombette. "I wish we didn't have to leave you two! It breaks my heart to see you go."
"But you must go on to save the rest of this world!" said Bruce. "Good luck, kids! We've got to go now!"
"No! Mom! Dad! Wait!!!" screamed Biza as her parents faded away. "No.." Linguini walked up and patted her lifelong friend on the back.
"We'll get them back. Now we know they're safe. It's time now to head off and rescue the rest of our parents!" Biza smiled a sad smile.
"You're right. At least I got to see my mom and dad. You weren't so lucky." The Bob-omb wiped her eyes and stood up tall. "Come on guys, we've got the rest of the world to free!"
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A/N: WHEW! I finally got this G'dang thing out!!! ::wipes brow:: I hope this was better than the rest, because I worked REALLY h a r d o n it. I had a few more things to say, but that was such a great place to end it I decided to leave that to chapter nine. Please review guys, I'd really appreciate it!