(Whew... this was so incredibly hard to write... I had no idea as to where to start, but I managed to pull it off! ^.^ Anyway, same disclaimers as the other chapters, and yada yada...
Bleh, just read it, please! :P
BTW, in this chapter, three new characters of my own creation appear: Dupliana, Supply Guy, and Musty. They are not owned by Nintendo in any way.)
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The Ultimate Betrayar
Chapter 5: Terror in the Toy Box
In the Crystal Palace, Deceptar was helping Potatocide set things up so that the Crystal King and Duplighosts couldn't get back in it. Pararera well knew what they were doing, but had no idea about what he should do.
A female Duplighost, Dupliana (assuming that Duplighosts have genders, anyway) made the first suggestion that actually made sense, as she was a very smart and comprehensive ghost. "Boss," she told Pararera, "Perhaps you should try contacting some of your friends about this"
"Yes," Pararera agreed, "I guess so. But who? Can you think of anyone who has never lost to Mario?"
A full 10-minute silence by the Duplighosts.
"So no one can think of anyone, can you?"
Still silence. Finally one piped up: "Uh, the guys who have joined Mario's team"
"NO! Not them, you moron," the Crystal King growled. "Is there really no one on this planet who has been able to truly defeat that overweight plumber?!"
More silence.
"Guess not Let's just go in the general direction of Toad Town, then. We're sure to find something Probably trouble" He sighed. "What we need is the Star Rod!"
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Deceptar and Potatocide along with their evil veggie army had sealed off every entrance but one in the Crystal Palace, so that they could go in and out without anyone else noticing
Deceptar was currently trying to make sure that Potatocide knew where the exit was. "Now," he said, "say that er maybe Mario an' his friends r' comin' to boot'cha out o' here. Whatcha gonna do? How're you gonna get outta ere to teach em a lesson r two?"
It took a moment for that to sink in. "Well," Potatocide calmly answered, "We would run around and scream like crazy, attacking at random, since I forgot where the entrance is! Is that good enough?"
Deceptar shook his head. "For the millionth time, you dumb ol' potato, NO!
Look, the entrance is right here,
Potatocide thought a moment. "Um line please?"
"ARGH! Maybe I jest outta let you fare for yerself; I ain't gettin' nowhere with this!" Deceptar, who had been disguised as Pararera this whole time, turned into his normal self again. "I still got places to go an' take over, fore Mario does!"
"Like what?"
"Secret places, but I'm fraid I cain't tell you or anyone else, heh"
"Ooh What kind of secret places??"
"They're secret cause I cain't tell you what they are," Deceptar grumbled. "Otherwise we'd all have veggie soup to eat fer dinner!"
"Veggie soup?! I love veggie soup!"
" OK, I'll make myself a little more clear ere, we'd have potato soup."
"That's good, too!"
"Potato soup made from you."
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"Finally; yer as thick-headed as them taters come," the evil star muttered. "Well, get goin', Potatocide; we still got work to do!"
"I have work?"
"SEARCHIN' FOR STAR SPIRITS, YOU BIG DIMWIT!!"
"Oh, yeah"
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Deceptar left to his next location, and after about a full hour, Potatocide managed to find the exit. He drew a detailed map. "There," he said, "I'll never get lost in that confusing palace again!"
"What if someone finds the map?" a pumpkin asked.
"Don't worry, I won't let that happen!" Potatocide stowed it away. "So any reports of a Star Spirit being near here?"
"No one knows where they are," a turnip answered, "So, no!"
"Shoot! So we gotta look on this cold, cold mountain? Well, get searching, we have a long way to go!"
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Meanwhile in Shy Guy's Toy Box
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT OUR ENTIRE MONTH'S RATIONS WERE CONSUMED?!?!?!" General Guy roared at Supply Guy. "Who did this?! Is this some sort of joke, troop?"
"No, sir," Supply Guy trembled, "Gourmet Guy was hungry and asked for a snack. We told him to help himself, and he took that too seriously"
General Guy frowned. "He ate the whole month's rations? Goodness sakes Well, that means you must go out and buy more and DON'T LET GOURMET GUY NEAR THEM, understood?!"
"Yes, sir!" Supply Guy hustled off, leaving the general alone. Good riddance, he thought, Gourmet Guy already eats an entire week's ration for one soldier per meal. How does he manage without having a heart attack or stroke?? He doesn't even have high cholesterol!
Just as Supply Guy left, another Shy Guy, a Spy Guy, ran in. "General Guy," he panted, "Bad news"
"Now what? Gourmet Guy didn't raid all the food places in town, did he?"
"Worse, sir! We have some kind of unknown intruder in the Toy Box!"
"UNKNOWN INTRUDER?! Where's the Shy Squad?!"
"No idea, sir. Everyone's been running around screaming."
"Figures well, call the Shy Squad and tell them to report here ASAP! We need to kick this intruder out!"
"Yes, sir!" The Spy Guy saluted and rushed out, coming 15 minutes later with about 8 of the members of the Shy Squad. They were trembling in fear.
"SPY GUY!" General Guy roared, "Where's the others?!"
"I couldn't find them, General Guy. It seems they have escaped out of the Toy Box in hopes of finding refuge"
The general cursed under his breath. "Well, that happens Remaining troops, get out your weapons! We have a fight to win!"
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At first Deceptar thought he wouldn't have to do much work here; it was already seemingly empty. I see why they're called "Shy Guys", he thought to himself. Where in dis little weird happy-land is their leader??
That was quickly answered. Deceptar soon caught sight of a Spy Guy and shape-changed into it. Following the Spy Guy, he stumbled upon General Guy's headquarters, where the general was currently preparing his troops for the imminent battle.
"I will only need one assistant in the tank," General Guy was saying, "and you know the routine. Spy Guys, stick by me. Pyro Guys, you go first, since few want to mess with a flaming Shy Guy anyway. Medi Guys, you will be stationed all around to watch out for any who may be injured. Understood, troops?!"
An affirmative by many, screams of terror by the rest.
Deceptar thought this was a great time to attack. "General, sah," he said. "The intruder, he's here already!"
General Guy looked confused. "Are you sure, troop?? We're the only ones in here right now"
"'Zat so? Heh heh, are ya sure?" Deceptar shape-changed again, this time into General Guy. "I'M the intruder, ya nincompoop!"
Most of the Shy Guys screamed, and General Guy quickly dove into his tank, shouting: "PYRO GUYS!! ATTAAAAACK!" as he did so.
With a wave of his hands, Deceptar froze them all into solid blocks of ice. "My pardner has the Star Rod," he boasted. "So give it up now, ya cowards! I c'n pull off any kind o' move!!"
Inside the tank, General Guy prepared for his best attack. "We've upgraded the lightbulb," he told his assistant, "So let's try it out! I'll bet not even Watt could stand up against it this time!"
"Yes, sir." The other Shy Guy turned on the lightbulb's power. "Ready when you are, sir. It says it takes 3 minutes to charge."
"3 minutes?!" General Guy frowned. "I'm not certain if my troops can last that long Hurry! We've got to help them as much as we can!"
Deceptar was actually finding the other Shy Guys a little harder to overpower than he thought. This was simply because after the quick defeat of the Pyro Guys, the others had freaked out and were running every which way, making aiming nearly impossible. Deceptar decided that freezing them was probably the best thing to do. So by throwing ice beams at random, he only managed to get about half of the Shy Guys assembled there before General Guy was ready.
"Perfect troops," he muttered, "You're a disgrace to the army but at least your unplanned tactic is working Now! FIRE!"
The lightbulb drew in a large amount of power, plunging the room into pitch-black darkness for a moment. It then shot a beam of power at Deceptar, who deflected it. It came right back at General Guy's tank, causing a HUGE explosion
General Guy just sat there in the charred rubble, stunned, while his assistant joined the mass of screaming Shys. Deceptar laughed at the scene.
"You look so stupid, yet you call yerself a general?" he mocked. "Get outta here! We aine got no evil veggies or anythin' to mark this place as belonging ta us evil stars, but guess what?! It don't matter. Get outta ere, an' I promise not ta let any more of yer "Shy Squad" get such an icy fate!"
General Guy crawled from the remains of the tank, injured, but not severely. "We won't give up," he said. "This Toy Box belongs to us! We'll fight to the bitter end to keep it!"
Deceptar scowled. "What?! Then why are yer troops runnin' outta here as fast as they can, eh?!"
"Well, I'm certain that not all of them" realizing he's alone, "OH! Shy Squad! GET BACK HERE!" General Guy ran out, chasing his troops, not meeting up with them until they were out of the Toy Box. On trying to go back in, they realized that Deceptar had locked them out. "This is a fine turn of affairs," he muttered. "Even I don't know what to do"
"Running around in terror wouldn't help, would it, sir?" a Shy Guy tentatively asked.
General Guy rolled his eyes. "Well, duh"
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Now, let's take a look at the ones whose scenario has ended chapters 4 & 5!
Deep in the Forever Forest, Wario and Waluigi had made the extremely bad mistake of looking for a Star Spirit without as much as a map to guide them. Naturally, they were swiftly lost in this haunted forest.
"We've been travelling for hours," Wario whined, "And we haven't seen anything yet! No Star Spirit, no Boo Mansion"
"We're lost, you idiot," Waluigi growled.
Wario then accidentally tripped over a tree root, falling into a flowered bush. Not so bad, until the flowers began laughing hysterically
"AAAAAAAAAH!!! THAT PLANT IS HAUNTED!!!" Wario yelped as he jumped out of the bush and into a tree. The tree's branches wrapped around him, letting out a sinister laugh. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! THE TREE TOO!!!"
Kaphooey and Waluigi helped him out of the tree. "Way to go, fatso," Kaphooey muttered, "Only you can find trees that grab you!"
"I knew this forest was haunted," Waluigi muttered, "but I had no idea that the ghosts in here are almost as mean as that lady ghost!"
"She's worse," Wario muttered. "These ghosts don't hit you with folding fans."
"Touché"
They soon came upon a shack built next to a HUGE tree. Assuming the shack wasn't haunted (a dumb thing to do in the Forever Forest), Wario and Waluigi, along with Hen and Kaphooey, swiftly went in, hoping they could find some sort of map.
There was a map inside, but also A BOO!
This Boo, however, was not a normal Boo: he wasn't beige or white like the others, nor was he green or gray, like Lady Bow and Bootler. He was some kind of off-blue, a grayish-blue Boo. He didn't look that old, either, and was just as surprised to see them!
"What do you want?!" he demanded, then softened at seeing how scared they were. "Let me guess. You guys got lost in the forest and stumbled upon my humble shack, right?"
"Yeah" Waluigi was almost too out of his wits to answer. "Who who are you?"
"The name's Musty. I used to live at the Boo Mansion like everyone else, but I couldn't stand Lady Bow's total rejection of another noble Boo of her age, so I moved here."
"Noble Boo?" Wario asked. "What, are you a Boo prince or something?"
"Me? No, just a rich Boo Heh, Bow and I used to be the best of friends, and we both lived in haunted castles in Dinosaur Land. I was in Vanilla Dome, and she was at the Forest of Illusion. But Bow moved out here later on, and I went too. But she always ignored me, so I got fed up and moved out here. She's never sent anyone out looking for me, as far as I know, but just as well. I really like it here, without another soul around"
"Do you know how to get to Gusty Gulch?" Waluigi asked. "We live there, but we're kinda, uh, lost"
Musty was surprised. "Gusty Gulch?? Do you live in the town?"
"Nope, the castle."
"The castle?! But I thought Tubba Blubba lived"
"Who?"
"Tubba Blubba. This huge coward who lived there. I guess he finally got some sense into him and moved out, eh?" Musty looked thoughtful. "I've always wanted to go there again His castle was awesome!"
Wario and Waluigi looked at each other, getting an idea. "Want to go with us?" Wario asked. "We need someone to guide us, anyway, since we're so stupid, we'd probably forget the directions home even if you told us!"
"Sure," Musty answered. "Glad to help out!"
So Wario and Waluigi, along with their birds and the ghost they just Boo-friended (sorry!) continue on to Gusty Gulch, finding no Star Spirits or other Boos in the process.
What other adventures are in store for them? What other adventures are in store for everyone? When will the good guys finally a Star Spirit? Those questions to be answered in Chapter 6! (Probably)