Chapter 6: Power #1 and Experimentation
The warpstar eventually landed in a place called Vegetable Valley. Popopo got off the warpstar and it immediately flew away.
"So, Popopo," said Gooey on the phone. "I need to get you all set to save Dreamland."
"Me?!" shrieked Popopo. "I nearly soiled myself when Dedede came at me. I'm no hero."
"I can fix that. The pieces of the star rod will give you powers."
"But I'm too scared to try to get one."
"I can fix that," Gooey repeated. "A warpstar should be arriving with something that will hopefully help. It was given to me by someone named Sah-koor-eye, or something like that. He said to give it to the one survivor when there is an emergency."
The warpstar returned and disappeared. The thing it was carrying fell to the ground. It was small, flat and transparent.
"He gave me instructions to give the survivor the following instructions," Gooey continued. "'In case of emergency, eat glass.' I guess you should eat the glass in font of you. It must be special."
Popopo eyed the small sheet of what looked like glass hesitantly. Then he picked it up and shoved it into his mouth. He swallowed and waited for something to happen.
"Is anything happening?" asked Gooey.
"No," replied Popopo.
"You sure? Your voice seems a bit tense..."
"Uh..." said Popopo.
"Well, I'm tense too!" Gooey exploded. "I don't want to fail both my jobs and have the universe taken over by Dark Matter all in one day! Come on! Something must be happening!"
Popopo now felt that a whole lot of responsibility was being put on him to have something happen. He began to take deep breaths to try to calm himself. That, however, did not work. For as he inhaled, he felt the sensation that all the trees were bending in his direction.
"What is that awful racket?!!!" exclaimed Gooey. "A fat lot of help the ability to make loud whistling noises is going to give us!"
"Gooey, I think I may be going insane," said Popopo weakly.
"What?!!!" replied Gooey sounding quite insane himself.
"Every time I breathe in, the trees bend toward me."
"Huh? Wait. What was that last thing you said?"
"Every time I breathe in, the trees bend toward me," Popopo repeated.
"Popopo, I've got an idea." Gooey sounded anxious. "Are there any rocks nearby?"
"There's a large rock to my left."
"Well, what're you waiting for? Inhale it!"
"Inhale it?"
"Suck it up!"
"Okay..."
Popopo stood facing the rock and drew a deep breath. The rock shrank and entered his mouth! Popopo now had a large rock inside of him! Popopo was so surprised that he spat it out. It shot away, felling a large tree. Popopo then told Gooey what had just happened.
"Bravo!" replied Gooey. "This is how you'll dispatch your enemies. Popopo, you can now make an effort to reassemble the star rod!"