Paper Mario Corrupted
By: Elgato Gordo
Chapter 8: The Egg Escape
"Psst. Hey. Are you there Bobbery?" Luigi whispered.
"That I be, lad. What is it you be harking about?"
"We need to get out of here." Lugi tried moving, but he could not move at all. "This egg is so small. Koops, are you here too?"
"Yeah."
"Good. Now, let's all think long and hard. These eggs have to be crackable somehow."
"Way to invent a word," said a nearby guard. "It's no use you guys. I ain't seen no one get out of those eggs of Sharky's, and no one never will."
"These rapscallions really light my fuse," said a disgruntled Bobbery, in the roundest of the three eggs.
From the guard's standpoint, he can see the eggs clearly. They sat simply on a wooden shelf in a dark cellar made from finely cut brimstone, lending to a very rank odor.
"That's it!"
"I believe or green friend has a plan," Bobbery commented on Luigi's outburst.
"I don't a have a plan," Koops said, confused.
"Not you, Koopa, but Luigi over here. Let's what ye got, Luigi."
"Why not try exploding within the egg, Bobbery?"
"Why, that sounds like a larf. Let's give her a shot."
The guard began to watch intently. "It's never gonna work. Your just wasting precious energy."
The little round egg began to rumble and shake as Bobbery concentrated his energy, trying to create the most powerful explosion ever attempted by bob-omb kind.
"HERE WE GO!"
Only seconds later, there was a loud popping, and the guard watched, surprised, at the egg expand with the explosion, but not break.
"Told ya it'd never work," the guard said smugly.
The guard had spoken too soon. Slowly, the egg began cracking. A small lightning fork formed from the top of the egg right down to the bottom, and the shell split in two, revealing a rather fatigued Bobbery.
"Oh my! I do believe I've got a splitting headache!" Bobbery was still dazed.
"Are you free?" Luigi asked with a certain excitement in his voice.
"I be free. Now, let me try that on you two."
And so he did. Since Bobbery was outside of the shells as opposed to inside, Luigi and Koops had to bash around inside their shells – as best they could anyway – to get them to crack. When they were all off the shelf, they stood before an amazed guard.
"No one's been able to do that!"
"That'd be saying something about our strength, then shouldn't it, me bucko."
"You have two choices: stand in our way and we force our way out, or stand down and we'll be on our way and you will have your life," Luigi challenged. "Choose now."
The guard gathered his courage. "I am a servant of the Shadow King and will do as he commanded. I will defend his honour."
"So be it," said Luigi.
"Did his IQ just jump?" asked a confused Koops.
The guard stood battle ready at the left end of the room with a battle axe in hand, while Luigi, Bobbery, and Koops stood at the right end, unarmed. The lights dimmed to an eerie glow.
"Guard gets preemptive strike!"
Right on cue, the guard began to shuffle his way across the stage and smack Luigi with his axe.
"Guard hits Luigi for 3 damage!"
"Dumb move," Luigi replied.
Luigi switched places with Bobbery, and Bobbery took his turn. To weigh the strengths of the Guard, Bobbery used his basic move, and blew up in the Guard's face.
"Bobbery hits Guard for 2 damage! Bobbery learns proximity mine!"
Luigi steps up to the plate. He holds out his right hand and closes his eyes. A small bead of light appears in his hand, and it begins to grow. The little white orb soon catches fire and Luigi launches it at the Guard.
"Guard blocks."
Koops replaces a disgruntled Luigi as he ducks into his shell and launches himself at the target.
"Guard deflects and deals 2 damage to Koops!"
The Guard holds his axe up in the air and begins an incantation. Soon enough, black shadow swarms the stage and gathers in the axe, granting it the power of shadow.
"Attack up!"
"Let's take him out now, Bobbery," Luigi whispered. "Let's give your proximity mine a chance."
"Righto."
Bobbery walked half way across the stage and through a small black cylinder and it landed just beneath the Guard's legs.
"What you gonna do, now!" Luigi taunted. "You move, and the mine detonates."
"I'll think of something by my turn," said the Guard.
"I won't give you that chance!"
Luigi swaps places with Koops.
"Throw your shell at the mine, Koops. But have enough speed so you'll clear the blast."
Koops curled into his shell, and it began to spin faster and spin, then zipped across the stage. The shell hit the mine beginning the 5 second countdown. The Guard fell, from the shell bashing into him, onto the mine. The mine beeped.
BLAM!
"Battle over! Luigi's Team wins!"
"Let's go shall we?" Luigi dusted himself off and continued out of the room. Bobbery and Koops looked at each other.
"Methinks something has happened to our dear friend, Koops."
"Whaddya mean?"
"He's not usually that vicious in battle. It is most unsettling."
Bobbery chases after Luigi. Koops stands in the room confusedly, then realizes he's alone again. He jumps into his shell and zips out of the room after them.
"OW! Koops, be more careful!"
"sorry…"