(I finished Chapter 4 up sooner than I thought... It seemed short, but on Microsoft Word it said that Chapter 4 alone was 7 pages long (the whole story is 32!) so I figured that was long enough. Don't want the chapters TOO long.
Anyway, in here, the Crystal Palace is overtaken, Deceptar uses his shape-changing ability, and in the end, Wario and Waluigi set off... and I did not keep the same chapter name. :P Oh, well...
So... how am I doing with the "new adventure" type thing? It's a whole lot harder than I thought!! I just want to write and write and write some more... I have one Mario story on my computer that's over 200 pages long; I hope this one doesn't get that long. Hee hee... *innocent look*)
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The Ultimate Betrayar
Chapter 4: Unpleasant Icy Surprises...
"Ugh, this presents a problem"
Potatocide had led his group to a very cold place. Very cold. Nothing but snow and ice for miles to see. There were a few towns, but they had decided not to stop there; they were going for bigger treasure!
Like the Crystal Palace
However, they ran into one little obstacle: a HUGE pile of rocks sitting on the road to the palace. There were high cliffs all around, giving them three choices: to climb over the rocks; move the rocks; or, the most likely one, to turn back.
Potatocide wouldn't go for plan 3, wasn't sure about plan 2, and didn't even think of plan 1. "Veggies can't move rocks," he mused, "Unless they are super-powered ultra veggies but who am I kidding. They're not."
Potatocide thought it over some more. "Hmm, this one is truly a toughie"
"We can try to climb it," a pumpkin suggested.
"Climb it?" Potatocide thought about that. "OH! DUH! OK, I'm glad I thought of that. Come on, my army, let's go!"
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Cloner was the first one to notice something suspicious. What? What's this? Turnips? Pumpkins? A potato? He stared at the intruders. This is like something out of a weird horror movie Better go warn the boss! Cloner raced to Pararera's "throne", practically throwing himself at the icy king.
"PARARERA!!! I THINK WE'RE UNDER ATTACK! BY A TEAM OF EVIL VEGGIES!!" he exclaimed. "I saw them coming, and they didn't look like nice veggies, the kind you find in the grocery store. These looked like killer plants!"
Pararera just stared. He's insane. QUITE insane.
Cloner did so, turning into the potato. "See Boss? I'm an evil potato, come to take over the Crystal Palace! Grrrowwwlll!"
"Potatoes don't growl," Pararera reminded him. "Not half bad, Cloner; you just need to work on your sound effects."
"But, but," Cloner protested, "Argh!" turning back into his normal self, "They might attack!"
"Sure, Cloner Why don't you keep watch? And tell me if you see any evil evergreen trees as well." He snickered the last bit.
"But, but OK! I will then! I'll lead the Duplighosts in an army and get rid of those intruders!"
"Sure, why don't you"
Pararera watched Cloner leave, deep in thought. He's dead serious this time. Maybe we do have evil intruders? But, veggies? I think someone has a screw loose there, and it certainly isn't me!
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Cloner paced the front room. "Fellow Duplighosts! We have a job to do. Pararera the Crystal King has put me, Cloner, in charge of keeping evil veggies out of the Crystal Palace. So, that's what we will do!"
"How?" a Duplighost asked.
"Um, well" Cloner stuttered, "Well, um, I don't know yet, but I'll think of something"
"Why not try duplicating them and scaring the heck out of them?" another Duplighost suggested. "That would be FUN!!!"
"I was thinking along those lines too," Cloner agreed. "It works with others, so let's do it!"
Cheers rose from the group of Duplighosts. "We'll have more fun than when Mario came!" some exclaimed, while others yelled, "DOWN WITH VEGGIES!!! LET'S TEACH THEM A LESSON!!"
Cloner led the group outside, on the side opposite of the main entrance. All clear, he thought, then, Darn!! They're not here yet!
"
"Total surprise?"
"You know, the creep-up-on-someone-and-scare-the-daylights-out-of-them kind of surprise."
"Oh, that. Yeah, let's go!"
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In Star Haven, Deceptar and Betrayar knew very well what was going on. "Wart's not the smartest of the bunch, is he?" Betrayar muttered. "I think we will have to take some drastic steps here."
"Drastic?" Deceptar asked. "What'cha mean, drastic'?"
"I mean DRASTIC! Extreme, extravagant, radical, exorbitant, and and, well, you get the idea."
"More r less, yeah Jest what were ya plannin' to do?"
"Deceptar you still have the ability to shape change, right?"
"Better n' a Duplighost, yeah! You gave it to me, 'member?"
Betrayar grinned devilishly, formulating a plan. "Than a Duplighost? I have an idea, indeed I do a plan so fiendish and evil, even King Bowser could not have thought of it. So evil, I would have to be the most evil creature in the galaxy to think it up. So evil"
"I get the durn point, jest TELL ME WHAT IT IS!!!"
"Oh, of course. My plan is" he whispered something to Deceptar. "Think you can do it? Kick them all out?"
"All o' em?"
"Yes! Can you do it?"
"O' course! Happy to, teach em heroes' a lesson or two, heh heh hyuck"
"Then get going!"
"Right away!"
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At the Crystal Palace, Potatocide had finally wormed his way in.
"This place is more empty than Wart's brain," he muttered. "Come on, guys, nothing here."
"Nothing? Ooh, I don't know about that"
Potatocide turned around to see HIM!!!! "YAAAAAAAAARGGHHHHHHH!!!!! WHAT THE?!?!?!?!?!"
The fake Potatocide began ordering the other veggies out. "Move out, on the double! No paying attention to this nisemono!" (NOTE: "Nisemono" is the Japanese word for "fake". I just like it better. :P)
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The fake one gasped. "Oh my goodness! You just growled!!! And Pararera told me potatoes don't growl Well, he was wrong!!! They do growl!"
"Only when we are really, really, really, and I mean, SERIOUSLY, hacked off," the real Potatocide answered. "Show your real self, coward!"
"Real self, I'm Oh, shoot, I did give myself away, didn't I?" Cloner grumbled as he turned into his normal self. "This means DUPLIGHOSTS!!!! ATTAAAAACK!"
From seemingly nowhere, about thirty or forty other Duplighosts suddenly appeared, turning into Potatocide, turnips, pumpkins, or whatever else they pleased.
Potatocide was utterly confused. "Wha what?! What's going on here?!"
"Have no fear, ya big lug! Ya see, I'm here ta help!" A black star had just entered the palace, unseen by anyone else, as everyone was much too busy messing with the Duplighosts.
Cloner wasn't impressed. "Yeah, you look like you have the intelligence of a potato, hee hee"
"Silence!" Deceptar hissed. "You got no idea who yer messin' with, do ya, Cloner?"
Cloner stared, shocked. "Wha WHAT?! How did you know my NAME?!?!?!?!?"
Deceptar grinned. "I know a lot o' things," he answered. "Like that you oughtta call yer boss and tell im to come ere or he's gonna have a big price to pay."
Cloner turned white as a sheet if there's anything under that sheet, there is. "Um, OK PARARERA!!!! HEEEEEELLLLLLLP!" He ran off, bumping into the (real) Crystal King on the way.
"I heard all the noise," he grumbled. "Did you Duplighosts manage to make a fool out of yourselves once again?"
"Ah, you mus' be the Crystal King," Deceptar said. "Yer the one I need ta talk to."
"What about?" Pararera asked, suspicious of Deceptar's intentions.
"GET OUTTA HERE!!! THIS PLACE BELONGS TA THE VEGGIES!!!"
"Make us," Pararera growled.
"Gladly." Deceptar turned into Pararera. "See this? I c'n act jest like you, yep! AND I'M A LOT STRONGER!"
The real Pararera held his ground. "Oh, really? You don't sound anything like me at all!"
Deceptar thought about that a moment. "OH, DARN!!! Yer right. I don't. I'm stuck with this funny accent, but Don't matter. I'll rule someday, you'll see!!"
Pararera snickered. "Yeah, right."
"See! My power!" Deceptar, who still looked like Pararera, suddenly flailed his arms, and out came a beam of energy that flung the real Pararera into the nearest wall, so hard he cracked his crown! "See? I'm a star, and my pardner's got the Star Rod. I can do ANYTHIN'!!!!"
Pararera managed to get back up, summoning his Crystal Bits in the process. Without a word, he flung all three of them at Deceptar. Deceptar simply caught and crushed all three.
"See, you cain't beat me," he boasted. "No one can! I'm INVINCIBLE!!!"
Pararera scowled (if he had a mouth, that is.) He's not kidding, he thought, this guy's tough. I can't beat him. But, I must do something! I'm the Crystal King! I must protect the palace!
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Pararera shook his head. "No. You cannot take the palace!" He summoned more Crystal Bits this time, but didn't fire them. Instead, he had them pick him up and above Deceptar's head to try to attack him that way.
Deceptar let out another energy beam, and Pararera came crashing down. "Give it up," he hissed, "I aine Mario or somethin'."
"Pararera lost to Mario," Cloner pointed out.
"I know, but I could beat Mario wit' my hands tied hind my back!" Deceptar pinned the real Pararera to the ground. "Now GET OUT!!!! Fore I do somethin' really bad!"
"What worse could you have done?" Pararera gasped, unable to fight. "Taking my palace is a top offense!"
"Yer palace?" Deceptar laughed. "Yeah, sure, this palace belongs ta us stars. And I'm takin' it back! You aine gonna get it, ya hear? OUT!!!"
Deceptar literally threw Pararera out, and the Duplighosts followed, since Pararera was their boss. "Pararera!" Cloner knelt down by him, "Are you OK?!"
Pararera was gasping for air. "What does it look like, idiot?!"
"We have to get the Crystal Palace back!" a Duplighost mourned. "Boss! What can we do?!"
"Not sure," Pararera answered, "But don't worry; I'll think of something Sooner or later"
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Meanwhile, in Gusty Gulch Wario and Waluigi found out they couldn't execute plan A, so they had to move on to plan B if they had one, that is.
"How was I supposed to know that they don't sell costumes of Tubba Blubba?" Wario muttered.
"He's so scary I guess they didn't want to bother," Waluigi answered. "Oh, well. What is plan B, by the way?"
"I dunno. I thought you had it."
"No"
"Darn. So we have to think of something!" Wario picked up Hen and shook her gently. "Come on, Hen!! We have to think of a plan!! Do you have a plan?!"
Hen just stared. "Bock bock"
"You have to speak a little clearer than that! Hen!"
"Bock!"
"How about you, Kaphooey?" Waluigi asked the Breegull.
"I'm smarter than both of you put together," Kaphooey answered. "So why not just look around here and find a Star Spirit before those ghosts do?"
Wario and Waluigi exchanged glances. "Think we could do it?"
"It's worth a try!"