Chapter X: Delfino Secrets Part II
Sora, Luigi, and Yoshi made their way towards the entrance of Pinna Park. On the way they encountered more heartless but disposed of them pretty quickly. After destroying the heartless, our heros headed inside. As they arrived inside they noticed almost no citizens in the park.
"Where is everybody?" Sora wondered. "It looks like a ghost town."
"Ghosts?" Yoshi whimpered. "Where?"
"No, Yoshi, a ghost town is like where there is nobody around in one big area." Sora chuckled.
"Oh! Yoshi knew that." Yoshi giggled.
Sora rolled his eyes with a smile and then looked around. "Guess, we're the only ones here."
"But don't worry, we have some uninvited guests!" Luigi gulped nervously.
The group noticed two shadows approaching them. Sora and his friends got ready to fight when all of a sudden they got destroyed.
"Wh-what happened! What killed them!"
Sora looked up and his eyes widened and his mouth dropped. He could see a white haired figure in the shadows. He walked out of the shadows and the figure was non other then Riku.
"There you are!" Riku said. "You're alive! I was about to give up hope I wouldn't find you!"
Sora ran over to Riku teary-eyed and grabbed his cheeks and moved them around.
"Riku! Is that really you?" Sora cried.
"Hey, cut it out you idiot, of course it's me!" Riku said pushing Sora back.
"Am I going crazy?" Sora said. "I'm not dreaming this time, right?"
"Hope not!" Riku chuckled brushing his hair. "Man, it took me forever to find you."
"Riku!" Sora cried. Sora gave Riku a friendly hug. "I finally found you!"
Riku turned Sora around and put his arm around Sora's neck. "Noogie!" He rubbed Sora's head and the friends started laughing. Luigi and Yoshi both smiled
"See kid, you never gave up and you found your friend." Luigi smiled.
Sora pulled away from Riku and turned to Luigi. "And I couldn't have done it without you guys, thanks."
"Aw, it nothin'." Yoshi blushed.
"Wow, this place looks down in the dumps." Riku said looking around the park. "I was expecting a bigger crowd here. So, Sora you alright? You look like a lot has happened!"
"Well Riku, a lot's been happening while we were apart like..." Sora then gasped upon realizing something. "Wait! Where's Kairi? Is she with you?"
"I thought she was with you!" Riku responded.
Sora looked down and made a sad look and sighed.
"Where could she be?" Sora asked himself sadly.
Riku put his hands on Sora's shoulders. "Hey, don't worry man, I'm sure she's fine. If the two of us made it off, then I'm sure she did. Maybe she's looking for us, who knows." Riku walked away from the group. "We're finally free. We can do what we want. Just think of it Sora, our prayers have been answered. We can travel to all worlds!"
"But we said all three of us would go!" Sora pointed out in anger.
"Calm down! We'd find her!" Riku snapped. "Sorry, didn't mean to overreact. Don't worry, just leave everything to me..." Unknown to Riku a shadow was behind him ready to pounce him. "We'll be together soon, you see I know this-"
The shadow jumped into the air but then Sora dashes at fast speed and slashed it away destroying it. Everyone looked at Sora with surprised faces.
"Amazing! He's so fast!" Luigi thought with amazement.
Sora turned to Riku with a smirk and put the keyblade up.
"So tell me, leave it to who?" Sora smirked.
"Sora, how did you-?" Riku asked confused.
"You see Riku, I've gotten a lot stronger and I have had these two to help me find you." Sora said referring to Luigi and Yoshi. "Trust me these guys made my adventure fun."
Riku looked at Sora's allies with a funny look. "Who are they?"
Luigi then stepped forward clearing his throat. "Allow me to introduce myself, my name is..."
"We've traveled to so many worlds trying to find you!" Sora interrupted. "I've got a lot stronger too, so I think can handle this!"
"Is that so?" Riku asked raising his eyebrow.
Yoshi jumped onto Sora's back and put his arms around his neck.
"Ooh and guess what, Sora the keyblade master!" Yoshi said.
"Who would've thought it." Luigi said.
Sora grabbed Luigi by the shirt collar and held him. "You better take that back or ELSE!"
"Hey! I was only kidding!" Luigi panicked.
"So this thing is called a keyblade?" Called Riku.
Everyone turned to see Riku holding Sora's keyblade.
"How did you..why did you...give it back!" Sora demanded.
Sora tried to grab the keyblade from Riku but he walked back causing Sora to fall down. Riku examined the keyblade.
"Remarkable craftsmanship." Riku said observing the keyblade. "A sword and a key, pretty odd combination. Still pretty ingenious. I have no interest in taking this thing, I have my own weapon. Here! Catch!"
Riku threw the keyblade to Sora and he caught it.
"Thanks, I guess." Sora said confused. "Alright, so you're coming with us then right? And we fly first class to other worlds in this awesome plane! Come on, we'll have a blast! With you on our team, the heartless won't stand one chance!"
"Hold on kid!" Luigi said. "He can't come with us!"
Sora turned to Luigi with an angry look. "W-why not?"
"Because!"
"Because is no answer, because why!"
"I have my reasons!" Luigi snapped.
"You have to!" Sora objected. "He's my friend! He's like a brother! He's..he's..."
"He's gone!" Yoshi exclaimed.
Everyone turned to see that Riku was nowhere in sight. Sora ran around the park looking for him.
"Riku! Riku! Riku, where are you?" Sora cried. Sora and the others ran up a hill towards where a little white beach house was. They got about half way there and they then stopped to catch their breath. "He disappeared. Nice going Luigi!"
"Sorry kid." Luigi said sadly. "I didn't know how serious you were, he would've probably got in our way."
Yoshi took Sora's hand and licked it.
"Don't worry Yoshi." Sora smiled petting Yoshi's head. "I'm fine. At least Riku's alright, alive and well."
"Well kid, that's one down and one to go." Luigi said.
"You're right!" Sora said with confidence. "And who knows, maybe we'll run into Kairi soon."
"I think we better run, look!" Luigi cried.
Everyone turned to see tons of heartless coming towards them.
"That's an awful lot!" Sora cried. "We've never faced that many!"
"Have an idea?" Yoshi asked Luigi.
"I'm thinking! I'm thinking!" Luigi panicked.
Sora remembered the summon gem and took it out of his pocket.
"Mr. Mumbo said we can call on the summon when we need help." Sora said. "Maybe, now would be a good time to put it to good use!"
"Alright, get to it then!" Luigi said impatiently.
"Hurry!" Yoshi said referring to the heartless closing in.
Sora threw the summon gem in the air and Sora's keyblade began glowing. It fired a white light at the gem and the gem pulled Yoshi and Luigi into it screaming.
"Guys!" Sora cried.
The gem flashed and a young boy came out in their place. He was a short boy who wore a blue and yellow striped t-shirt, blue jean shorts, and red shoes. He also wore a brown backpack and a red baseball cap on sideways. The boy looked around in confusion.
"Wh-where am I?" The boy wondered looking around. "Last thing I remember was fighting those black creatures, and then poof I ended up here. And now I see more of them in front of me!"
"Hey!" Sora called to the boy. The boy turned to Sora. "Who are you?"
"My name is Ness!" The boy responded. "Do you know what's going on here?"
"I could explain, but first I need to take those guys down!"
Ness turned to notice the heartless and smirked. "Ha! Just leave these guys to me!" The heartless charged at Ness and Ness put his hands out. "PK fire!"
Ness fired a little electric bolt which bursts into flames destroying a portion of the heartless. Sora stood there with a shocked look. More came and Ness held out his hands and knocked them back. He jumped into the air and put his hands out.
"PK Flash!" He cried.
Ness fired a giant energy wave at the heartless destroying the rest of them. Sora just looked on in amazement as Ness rids the area of the heartless.
"Wow! That was so cool!" Sora said amazed. "How did you do that?"
"I was taught the art of PSI." Ness explained. "I can use psychic powers to do almost anything. But now that I got rid of the black creatures, could you explain what's going on here?"
"Oh, right! My name is Sora and your world was destroyed by a group of creatures known as the heartless." Sora explained.
Ness gasped in horror upon hearing that. "Y-you mean it?" Sora nodded. "My friends and my family are gone, I don't understand how this could have happened."
"It's kind of a long story, but basically your heart was strong enough to survive and was imprisoned in this gem." Sora continued holding up the gem. "A witch doctor named Mumbo Jumbo released you to help us fight the heartless. But you'll only be around for a limited time and what I figure is that in order to summon you my friends Luigi and Yoshi have to be locked in the stone for a short time. We need you to help us save the worlds from darkness."
"So am I here to help you fight these things to save these worlds?" Ness asked. Sora nodded again. "Well, you have my full cooperation. I'll help you fight those creatures that took my friends and family away."
"And if we can stop the heartless once and for all, we could revive your world." Sora concluded.
"Then there's hope!" Ness cried. "I'll fight then Sora. My psychic powers can assist you, just call me when you need me!" Just then the gem glowed and Ness began to disappear. "Well, looks like my time is up. I'm so glad to make a new friend."
"Me too." Sora smiled.
"I'm always here if you need me." Ness said as his spirt disappeared back into the gem. When the light completely vanished the stone popped Luigi and Yoshi back out.
"Mama-mia!" Luigi cried.
"Ahhhh!" Yoshi cried.
Both of them landed on the ground and Sora ran up to them.
"Are you two alright?" Sora asked concerned.
"What happened?" Luigi asked in a daze.
"I'll explain on the way up to the house."
Sora told Luigi and Yoshi about their new friend Ness as they made their way to the house. As they finally reached it, Sora knocked on the door and Yuffie answers it.
"Hey!" Yuffie said greeting the trio.
"Hi Yuffie!" Sora said greeting back. "Where's Cid?"
"He's over here with the others." Yuffie responded. "Follow me!"
Sora's group and Yuffie arrived at a room with a bed and a small table where Cid, Leon, and Arieth were sitting.
"Wow, small room." Luigi said looking around the room.
"I'm back!" Yuffie announced.
Everyone turned to see Yuffie with Sora, Luigi, and Yoshi.
"And you brought company I see." Leon said. "What brings you three by?"
"We were looking for Cid." Sora said.
"Well you found me. I'm taking it you took the book to Wiseman." Cid said. The trio nodded. "By the way, have you three heard of a dude named Bowser?"
Luigi and Yoshi gasped upon hearing the name while Sora looked on in confusion.
"Who's Bowser?" Sora asked.
"He comes from our world." Luigi explained. "He is our enemy. He always kidnaps the princess and does dastardly things. He was the reason that me and my brother almost didn't come to be. Luckily, one of Yoshi's ancestors saved us."
"Aw, it nothing." Yoshi blushed. "Why did Cid bring Bowser up?"
"Because I heard he's in town!" Cid responded.
"Great, I bet he's after the princess." Luigi groaned. "Well, here we go again."
"I'm afraid your enemy has a past you've never heard of." Leon said. "You see it's because of him that this town is full of heartless." Sora's group made shocked looks. "Don't take him lightly!"
"And believe it or not he's been using them for years." Arieth added.
"And because of that reptile we lost our world to the heartless as well." Leon said. "One day, we got ambushed by them and they destroyed our world. That was nine years ago."
"Being the kind gent I am, I grabbed these kids by the diapers and took off." Cid said with a chuckle. "Funny, I feel like I'm still babysitting them today."
"That terrible!" Yoshi said.
"We arrived and the kind citizens allowed us to build a home here." Arieth said.
"I was and still am like a father to them." Cid said. "I had to watch over them and get a job to pay for everything."
"Our ruler was a wise man named Ansem." Leon said. "He devoted his life to studying the heartless and the reports you were told about earlier could be the key to putting an end to them."
"Where are they then?"
"They were scattered to other worlds." Yuffie said. "Don't know where they are?"
"We have suspicions that Bowser may have most of them." Arieth said.
Meanwhile, outside of the house Riku was looking through the window and next to him was Bowser.
"I told ya." Bowser said to Riku. "While you were trying to find your little pal over here for days, he replaced you with new and better pals."
"I..I can't believe it." Riku said with a silent tone. "But he said that he wanted..."
Bowser started laughing. "He's lying! Just look at him, he treasures them far more then he treasures you. Especially, that little dino brat!"
Riku looked back in the window and saw Sora picking Yoshi up and spinning him around going wee. Riku made a sad look and turned back.
"He doesn't even care that I'm alright." Riku growled. "No, I can't..."
"Listen, that's how this world can be." Bowser explained. "One minute you have friends and the next they turn on you. That's how it works some times. Trust me, you're better off without that little punk. I can help you though."
"You can?" Riku asked. "Explain!"
"I believe there's a certain person you're looking for and I can help you." Bowser said with an evil grin.
"Show me how!"
"As you wish. Let's step into my office then shall we." Bowser snickered.
Bowser and Riku both left. Back inside the house, Sora finished telling everyone what's been going on when Cid stood up.
"So, while you've been delivering the book, I took care of the Toad Express." Cid said. "Now you can visit other worlds and I've also threw in a warp piece so you can easily warp back to other worlds faster."
"Good, so incase we need to make a pit stop we can use the warp feature to return to another world in a hurry." Sora said with a nod.
"Well, I'm heading back to my real job." Cid announced. "What is my real job you ask? You'll see!"
Cid walked out the door and said good-bye.
"Then we should get going too." Sora said. "Come on guys!" Sora looked around the room only noticing Luigi. "Um, where's Yoshi?"
Luigi just chuckled and pointed to his right. "Check it out kid, he's over there."
Sora turns to noticed Yoshi was sitting in front of a T.V. watching Mister Rogers's Neighborhood. Sora just chuckled.
"I haven't seen that show since I was like 4." Sora chuckled.
"Come on, kid! Grab Yoshi and let's go find Toadsworth!" Luigi said.
Sora walked over to Yoshi and bent down to him.
"Come on, Yoshi." Sora said. "We have to go."
"Aw, but Yoshi want to see the part where Mister Roger's throws shoe into the air." Yoshi whined. Just then one of the islanders appeared at a desk on screen.
"We interrupt your regular schedule programing to bring you this special bulletin." The islander said. "We go live to John on the scene. John can you hear us?"
The scene changed to another islander in front of an angry mob. Some of the mob had signs on it saying "Get Mario" Sora noticed these signs.
"Luigi! You might want to see this?" Sora called to Luigi.
Luigi walked over to the screen and looked at it with a gasp.
"Holy, ravioli!" Luigi cried. "It's gotten worse!"
"At this point they may try to tear your brother to shreds." Leon said.
"We've got to stop this madness!" Luigi said angrily. "I won't stand around watching my brother being framed anymore!"
"We need to bring the fake to justice." Sora said. "But how do we even proof your brother's innocents?"
"I have an idea." Leon said standing up.
"Leon do?" Yoshi asked.
"Yes, first we need to take care of the sludge. Luigi, your brother left you an item at Nook's shop." Leon told Luigi.
"An item? What kind of item?" Luigi asked suspiciously.
"An item that should help clear away some of the sludge." Arieth explained. "He payed for it already so you should go there and get it." Arieth handed Luigi a card. "This is the card we were told to give to you."
"Next, Nook has rental cameras there that people can borrow." Leon continued.
"Good ol' Nook." Sora chuckled. "Who would have thought that racoon would have something useful to help us!"
"Then it's settled!" Luigi said. "Let's head to the item shop!"
Just then a knock could be heard at the door. Yuffie answered the door and Peach and Toadsworth were there.
"O-oh, your majesty." Yuffie said nervously. "I-I didn't know you were here."
"Princess!" Yoshi cried.
Yoshi ran into Peach's arms and licked her.
"Hey! Cut it out, Yoshi!" Peach giggled. "That tickles!" Sora and Luigi approached the group. "Sora! Luigi! Glad to see you two again!"
"Same here Peach." Luigi said taking Peach's hand. "We're glad you're okay."
"Well, of course." Peach scoffed. "I told you I can take care of myself!"
"How did you guys find us?" Sora asked.
"Just because I'm off the Toad Express Master Sora, that doesn't mean I'm still watching you." Toadsworth Chortled. "I had the camera on you the whole time and plus a man named Cid told us where you were."
"Well, we're about to go get a camera because we figured out away to clear my brothers good name once and for all." Luigi said.
"Really? How?" Peach asked with hope.
"We'll explain on the way to the item shop." Sora said. "We've got to hurry, an angry mob might be heading our way."
"The quickest way back to Delfino Plaza is through the red warp pipe outside to the left." Leon said. "You'd better hurry!"
"Right! Thanks for the help!" Sora nodded.
The gang left the house and jumped down the red warp pipe. As they arrived back at the Plaza they encounter heartless. Toadsworth and Peach stood back as Sora, Luigi, and Yoshi fought the heartless. During the fight Sora used a new move called "Slide Dash" which made him do a hand stand on his keyblade and then charged at the heartless. Yoshi once again ate them up and spat them at others. Sora also called Ness into battle who used his PSI attacks to blow the heartless away. He even knocked some away with his yo-yo. Sora then delivered the final blow on the last heartless.
"See you, later." Ness waved as he return to his gem.
Luigi and Yoshi returned and the gang quickly headed over to the item shop. As they arrived their mouths dropped wide open as they noticed the shop has gotten a lot bigger.
"Whoa! Cid wasn't kidding when he said Nook's store got bigger!" Luigi gasped looking at the store.
The group walked into the store. The store now looked like a drug store selling all kinds of things. Sora noticed it had many different isles full of supplies. To his left Sora noticed the new counter was bigger and had more things underneath the desk. But the F.L.U.D.D Sora saw last time was still on the shelves. Nook's sons Tommy and Timmy noticed Sora.
"Dad! Dad!" The boys cried. "It's Sora!"
Nook turned to see Sora and ran up to him. "Sora, long time no see. How are things?"
"Good." Sora responded. He then looks around. "Wow! You've been going through some changes here, huh?"
"Oh, yes." Nook chuckled with a blush. "This store has become so famous that we had to make some slight changes, hm?"
"Slight?" Luigi said raising his eyebrow.
"Listen we need your help. We heard that you have a camera here." Peach said
"Oh, why yes I do." Nook said. "Need to borrow it?" Everyone nods. "Well, I'll go check my storage. Be right back! Don't go nowhere now, hm?"
Luigi then took the card out of his pocket. "Mr. Nook, there was an item here for me and I'm here to pick it up."
Luigi then handed Nook the card and Nook looked at it.
"Yes, that's right! I remember now!" Nook laughed. "A man that looked like you except he was shorter came in here and gave me this weird device." Nook walked up to his inventory and grabbed the F.L.U.D.D and brought it over to the counter. "He paid for it and said to give it to his brother Luigi. Aren't you Luigi?" Luigi nodded. "Well, then here you go." Nook placed the F.L.U.D.D on the floor and the five looked at it.
"What it is?" Sora asked Luigi.
Luigi just shrugged his shoulders when all of a sudden the F.L.U.D.D moved it's two handles out on it's own and Luigi screamed and jumps into Yoshi's arms. The F.L.U.D.D the moved it's nozzle around and it looked up at the group.
"Power-up complete." It said in a monotone yet high pitched voice.
"What?" Luigi cried. "It talks!"
"Yes, I can speak in almost any language." The F.L.U.D.D said.
"Um, we're find with English." Sora said with a little chuckled.
"Thank you for purchasing this item from Gadd Science, incorporated." The F.L.U.D.D continued.
"Gadd? Isn't that where you got the Poltergust 3000 from?" Peach asked Luigi with a shocked look.
"Yeah, it is." Luigi nodded. "Old Gadd is still up to his old tricks. I don't know what he'll think of next."
Yoshi sniffed F.L.U.D.D and it moved it's tank around and Yoshi ran hiding behind Peach.
"It's okay Yoshi." Peach said warmly to Yoshi. "It won't hurt you."
"Preparing to register customer information." The F.L.U.D.D said. It began scanning Luigi while the others looked on. Luigi raised his eyebrow as the F.L.U.D.D continued. "Scanning and classifying subject data...subject identified as Luigi, resident of the Mushroom Kingdom. Data storage complete. I am FLUDD nice to meet you all."
"Ooh, what does FLUDD stand for?" Peach asked the FLUDD.
"It stands for Flash, Liquidizer, Ultra, Dousing, Device." FLUDD responded. "Your brother Mario requested my help to put out the dirt in this town."
"That's great!" Luigi cheered. "But how can I wear you? I'm already wearing the Poltergust 3000, so how can you help?
"Simple." The FLUDD revealed a small button. "All Gadd products are compatible with each other. Push button on back of Poltergust 3000."
"Kid, could you hit it for me?" Luigi asked turning to Sora.
"Okay."
Sora walked up to the P3000 and hits the red button in the back. It then flashed causing him to jump back. When the light dimmed, FLUDD was on Luigi's back.
"Whoa!" Luigi exclaimed. "What happened!"
"I was transferred directly to your back, so now I can help you." FLUDD explained. "The Poltergust 3000 has been stored away so if you need it again, push the button to get it back."
"Cool!" Yoshi said.
"Now, we must step outside for instructions." FLUDD said.
"You kids go on." Toadsworth said. "I'll pay for the camera and meet up with you in a few minutes."
Sora, Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi exited the item shop and arrived back outside.
"Proceed to the beach please." FLUDD instructed Sora's group. They headed over to a beach area with water. Some of the islanders were resting and one of them was on fire screaming.
"Help! Help!" The islander screamed.
"That guy's in trouble!" Sora shouted. "I'll use a Blizzard spell and..."
"Wait, I'll deal with this." Luigi said running up with FLUDD.
"To shoot water through my tank, squeeze the two pumps on your sides." FLUDD instructed.
Luigi squeezed the two pumps causing FLUDD to shoot water out of it's tank and it hit the citizen putting out the fire. The citizen stopped running and sighed. He then turns to Luigi.
"Hey, thanks! I was almost a goner." The citizen said relieved to Luigi.
"No problem." Luigi smiled back.
The citizen walked off and Sora and Yoshi joined Luigi.
"Cool! So FLUDD shoot water." Yoshi remarked.
"I can also act as a Hover Nozzle mode." FLUDD added. "Flip switch to left." Luigi noticed the switch and clicked it causing the one single nozzle to switch into two smaller ones that went down. "Now jump and squeeze again."
Luigi jumped into the air and squeezed causing water to go down which kept him floating. Luigi then jumpep back down.
"Amazing, I can float now too." Luigi said impressed.
"Hold on, I don't know if you realize this but you don't have infinite water power." Sora pointed out.
"Not to worry." FLUDD said. "Just go into a body of water and refill me."
Luigi walked into the water and the tank under FLUDD filled up on water.
"It's not that hard." Luigi chuckled. "Easy as 1,2,3!"
On three, Luigi slipped on some of the water he sprayed and his face landed in the sand. Sora and the others begin chuckling..
"Luigi?" Peach asked giggling. "Are you okay?"
Luigi pulled his head out of the sand and shakes his head. "Sandy, spaghetti!" Luigi stood up and began to brush himself off of the sand. "Guess what? I changed my name to Sandy."
"Boy, he never stops with the corny jokes." Sora groaned with a thought.
"Instructions complete." FLUDD announced. "I'm sure we'll make a great team. I'm here to help you in anyway."
"Thanks." Yoshi said.
"Oh, there you kids are." Toadsworth called. Everyone turned to see Toadsworth holding a little handheld camera. "I got the camera but I have no clue how to use this contraption! Back in my day we had to use cameras that had simple buttons. We..."
"Toadsworth, this isn't the time for one of your past experiences with an old device." Peach interrupted.
"Here, I use to make home movies with Riku when we were younger, so I could figure it out." Sora offered. Toadsworth handed the camera to Sora and he began observing it. Sora then took the lens cap off the camera and showed it to Toadsworth. "Just press this red button to start recording, but only if you see anything suspicious."
"How about that Master Sora?" Toadsworth said pointing at a giant yellow mud puddle.
"Yeah, that's pretty strange." Peach added.
Everyone ran over to the center of town and noticed the brown goop covering the streets and that the sky was dark.. Sora took out his keyblade ready to fight.
"What ever that is, let's take it out!" Sora cried.
"Negative, do not attack!" FLUDD called out to Sora.
"How come?" Sora asked FLUDD. "I'll just slash it and.."
"First off kid your keyblade can't destroy liquid and secondly it looks hot to me." Luigi interrupted. "Better let me cool it down."
Luigi squeezed the pumps causing FLUDD to shoot water at the goop spot. Little monsters came out of the goop and tried to attack Luigi but Sora slashed away at them. The goop began to get shorter and shorter from Luigi's blasts. Even some of the citizens were trapped under there. Yoshi and the others helped the citizens while Luigi and Sora continued their strategy.
"It working." Yoshi exclaimed happily.
Just then a giant piranha plant rose out from the goop which was still covered in it and knocked Luigi into Sora. They both hit the ground.
"Whoa! What is that?" Sora exclaimed standing up.
"It is the creature that is causing this goop to spread." FLUDD explained. "If we can spray water in it's mouth enough times that should destroy it and all of this goop should be gone."
"Where do you get your information from?" Peach giggled at the FLUDD.
"Eat water ugly!" Luigi shouted at the plant. Luigi tried to shoot water but nothing came out. Luigi looked up at the plant and gulped nervously. "Um, I think I'm out of water."
"We must refill!" FLUDD cried. "Danger! Danger!"
"Me and Yoshi will distract old weed boy while you refill on water!" Sora instructed.
"Thanks kid!" Luigi said running towards the water.
"Yoshi hungry." Yoshi said rubbing his stomach. Yoshi tried to grab the plant with his tongue but the graffiti was so hot that Yoshi yelped and ran into the water.
"Yoshi!" Peach cried to Yoshi.
"Come and get me!" Sora called to the plant.
The plant tried to hit Sora with the smudge but he rolled out of the way dodging the attack. He shot a Blizzard spell at the plant freezing it up. Luigi hurried back and shot the water quickly into the plant's mouth causing it to groan. Then, it got so big that it exploded and everyone ducked for cover. The smudge then disappeared letting off steam. All of a sudden a giant statue of one of the citizens's wearing a cape appeared.
"Well, that's that." Luigi said slapping his hands together. "We're going to make a great team FLUDD!"
"Yes, I can see it too, Luigi." FLUDD said happily. "Your brother would be proud."
Sora looked up at the statue and noticed a mysterious figure up there. Sora's made a strange look at it.
"What's wrong Sora?" Peach asked concerned.
"Toadsworth, start recording and zoom in on the head of that statue!" Sora called to Toadsworth quickly.
"Oh, yes! Right away, Master Sora." Toadsworth said pointing the camera to the head of the statue. Toadsworth then shouted. "You're not going to believe this! Everyone look up quick!"
Everyone looked up again and this time the Mario characters go into a state of shock.
"WHAT?" Luigi exclaimed.
"CAN IT BE?" Yoshi added
Everyone saw a liquified looking person. He wore a hat with red evil eyes, and he held a giant paintbrush. Peach was shocked the most.
"Mario?"
Luigi looked closely at the creature and gets angry. "This isn't Mario! It was an imposter! You fiend, you're going to pay for framing my brother!"
"So you meddlers did your homework, huh?" The Imposter said with an evil laugh. "I'd love to stay and play but you have something I desire!"
"And what's that suppose to mean?" Sora shouted getting his keyblade ready.
The creature jumped off the statue jumping over the trio and ran right at Peach. Toadsworth tried to stop him but the imposter knocked him aside and grabbed Peach and ran off.
"So long suckers!" The imposter laughed manically.
"Help!" Peach cried. "Sora! Yoshi! Luigi!"
"Princess!" Yoshi exclaimed.
Everyone ran over to where Toadsworth was.
"Toadsworth, are you okay?" Luigi asked concerned.
"Yes, I'm fine Master Luigi but that importer of Master Mario took off with the princess." Toadsworth groaned. He then stood up and made a very sad look and began to cry. "It's all my fault! I failed to protect the princess! I'm a failure! I'm so sorry princess!" He then began crying and Yoshi licked his face.
"Oh, no cry Toadsworth." Yoshi said trying to cheer up his friend.
"Don't worry Toadsworth, we'll save her." Sora assured. "There's four of us and one of him, the tips in our favor. We'll attack him head on!"
"But kid, he could use the princess as a shield if we try to gang up on him" Luigi disagreed. "It doesn't depend on how many of us there are, it depends on wits in this battle, so we need a new strategy."
"May I make a suggestion?" FLUDD interrupted.
"We'll take anything, just please help us." Toadsworth said.
"We divide into two groups and surprise him." FLUDD said.
"Okay, me and Luigi will go after him, you two go the other way so we can take him by surprise." Sora instructed.
"Right!" Everyone else nodded.
"And keep that camera rolling Toadsworth." Luigi added. "We need all the footage we can get!"
"Oh, yes." Toadsworth grabbed the camera and jumped onto Yoshi's back. "I just hope we're not too late!"
"Don't worry, it going to be okay." Yoshi said warmly.
Sora and Luigi headed off in one direction, while Yoshi heads off with Toadsworth in another.
Meanwhile, the impostor continued running with Peach.
"Put me down!" Peach demanded. "Or you'll be sorry!"
"I'm afraid there is nothing you can do." The impostor laughed. "No one can help you!" Just then he turns to hear Luigi call out.
"Release Peach! Faker!" Luigi called.
"Great, they're on my tail!" The impostor groaned. "Heartless! Attack them!"
A group of heartless charged at Sora and Luigi. Luigi fired water at them causing them to slip and Sora killed them pretty easily.
"That all ya got?" Sora laughed.
"Shoot!" The impostor cried in anger. "Time to run!"
The chase continued as the impostor jumped from wall to wall but our heros managed to keep up. He pointed his paint brush tip in the ground and created more graffiti to block their path but Luigi sprayed their way through it. The impostor got frustrated and jumped from building to building trying to outsmart Luigi and Sora but Yoshi fired an egg knocking the impostor over. Peach went flying and landed inside a giant green shell in the water which was near the cannon to Pinna Park. The impostor quickly made his way over with Sora and company hot on his tail. The impostor jumped onto the green part of the shell and turned to face the gang.
"Sora, Luigi, Toadsworth, Yoshi!" Peach cheered. "Thank goodness!"
"Let her go!" Luigi demanded. "You have no where else to run!"
"Bully!" Yoshi growled.
"Your game has come to an end!" Toadsworth shouted pointing at the impostor.
The impostor then stuck it's long tongue out at our heros and then laughed. "I'm afraid my game has only begun!" It then jumped into the shell and closed the top and started the engine. The shell zoomed off for Pinna Park. FLUDD scanned it's route and then made a beeping noise.
"Target is heading for Pinna Park!" FLUDD confirmed. "Destination will be reached in two minutes!"
"Then let's get over there!" Luigi cried. "There's no time to lose!"
Everyone quickly headed for the cannon and blast off to Pinna park. Upon arrival the saw the impostor by the entrance.
"Whoa! How did he get here so fast?" Sora asked in shock.
"Don't worry about that now kid!" Luigi said while running. "We've got to stop that impostor!"
Everyone headed into the park as they continued to chase the impostor. Sora noticed that there were actually people this time around but paying no attention continued running. As the impostor got away everyone was just about to catch up with him when something fell from the sky. Luigi, Sora, and Yoshi gasped upon seeing what it was.
"It-it can't be!" Luigi gulped.
"But w-we killed him!" Sora exclaimed.
"What is it?" Toadsworth asked.
Standing before our heros was Guard Armor ready for a rematch.
"Now what?" Luigi groaned. "We've got to rescue Peach!"
Sora and Yoshi both got ready to fight.
"Me and Yoshi will take care of our old friend while you deal with the Mario Impostor!" Sora told Luigi.
"Just be careful you two!" Luigi responded.
"Yoshi beat monster once and will do it again." Yoshi snickered.
"Then let's do what we did last time." Sora smirked to Yoshi.
Both nodded and charged at Guard Armor. Toadsworth and Luigi ran over to a giant pool where the impostor was waiting for them floating on the water clapping his hands.
"Bravo! Bravo!" The impostor laughed. "I'm impressed to see you've come this far only to die!"
"I'm not afraid of you!" Luigi said. "I'm fighting for Peach and my brother!"
"Then it's time to release the heavy equipment."
The water from the pool split up and the impostor landed on an orange block. As it rose it looked like a giant robot version of Bowser. Toadsworth and Luigi's mouths dropped wide open
"What happened?" FLUDD asked Luigi. "Did the perpetrator get away?"
"No, but he's 50 feet above us." Luigi gulped.
The robot Bowser shot fire out of his mouth and the citizens ran out of the park as fast as they could also avoiding the fight between Guard Armor and Sora and Yoshi. An old creature that wore glasses saw the giant Bowser and Luigi and got excited and walked over to him.
"Young man?" The man called to Luigi.
Luigi then turned to the man. "Sir, get out of here it's.."
"Brilliant!" The man exclaimed with excitement. "What a spectacle!"
"Huh?" Luigi asked in confusion.
"A new show of ours, right?" The man said. Before Luigi could answer the man continued. "You guys are great! I say your bosses need a raise for hiring such good actors. I love how you and your two friends play fearless heros and battle against giant metal monsters." Luigi looked at the Bowser robot and then Guard Armor still fighting with Sora and Yoshi. "And how you have to save a beautiful princess from an evil bad guy."
"Well actually..." Toadsworth began.
"As director of this park I want to ensure your success." The man interrupted. "So how about I provide you with a hero's vehicle to take that robot down? And some bullets for your little prop can help you."
"It's worth a shot!" Luigi said. "Okay!"
Luigi followed the director to the roller coaster. Yoshi tried to use the same tactics he used last time on Guard Armor but the hands quickly knocked Yoshi aside. Sora got ticked off seeing that.
"You'll pay for that!" Sora yelled at the heartless. Sora horizontally slashed at Guard Armor knocking it and all of it's pieces down in one slash. Sora ran over to Yoshi and bent down to him. "Are you alright pal?"
"Sora no worry." Yoshi said. He then gave Sora a thumbs up. "Yoshi have little scrape on knee but Yoshi a-okay."
Just then the Armor began shaking and got back up. Sora and Yoshi stood up ready to fight again.
"You can't beat us!" Sora called to the armor. "We beat you once and we'll do it again!"
"Yeah!" Yoshi added. Yoshi gave the Armor a raspberry and the Armor got mad.
It put it's hands down, flat on the ground and did a handstand. The feet bent down making claws on each hand and the helmet's flap moves down showing the eyes. The new Opposite Armor floated in the air and roared at Sora and Yoshi who both made nervous looks.
"I'm going to file this in the category of not good!" Sora gulped.
Opposite Armor knocked Sora and Yoshi into a wall and they fell down. They tried to attack again but the Armor dodged their attacks. At one point it placed all of it's body parts on the chest and fired a beam at the duo. Sora rolled out of the way and kicked the Armor aside knocking it's pieces down. Yoshi ate one of the hands and turned it into an egg. Sora quickly stepped on it destroying the right hand. Furious, the armor spun it's feet knocking Sora and Yoshi back again. They both jumped back and kicked at the chest but the other hand grabbed both of them at once and threw them aside.
Luigi had just boarded the roller coaster and thanked the director. As it went up the ramp Luigi loaded a missile into FLUUD's nozzle.
"Twenty missiles should do for this." Luigi said.
"Be careful!" FLUDD warned Luigi. "The Bowser robot can shoot Bullet Bills at us. It's weakness is it's head."
"Okay! Hang on!" Luigi said.
The roller coaster went down and began going over loops. During one of the loops Luigi shor a missile at a Bullet Bill.
"Luigi!" FlUDD cried. "One comes from behind!"
Luigi turned around and fired a missile at the one behind him.
"Ha! Ha!" Luigi laughed proudly. "Eat my dust!"
"Luigi, I suggest opening fire!" FLUDD said.
Luigi fired a missile at the Bowser head hitting it directly. It spun out of control and Luigi cheered. The coaster then came close to the Browser head and it shot fire.
"Luigi, careful of the fire!" FLUUD cried.
Luigi fired another one just in time but a little bit of the flames got on his hat. Luigi just sniffed for the burning.
"Say, someone's cooking something." Luigi said with a sniff. "And it smells good."
"That would be you Luigi." FLUDD said.
Luigi looked up at his hat. "Leapen Lasagna!" FLUUD squirted water on top of Luigi's head. Luigi took his hat off and looked at it. "My beautiful hat!" He shouted at the robot in Italian and fired sixteen of his missiles out like crazy. Ten of them hit random places in the park while 3 of them hit the head and three destroy the missiles that were about hit Luigi. The Bowser head moved down and sparked electricity out of it. Luigi gasped for breath.
"Luigi, breath slowly." FLUDD instructed. "The battle is won."
"But my hat..."
"Nook's store has new hats." FLUDD said.
"Oh, goodie." Luigi said clapping his hands. "That's that! Now let's finish the ride and save Peach."
"Luigi! Sora and Yoshi could require some assistance." FLUDD said.
Luigi looks down to see Opposite Armor closing in on a weak Sora and Yoshi.
"The last missile should take care of that metal head." Luigi said loading a missile.
Luigi pumped FLUDD firing the missile at the armor. Sora and Yoshi both panted and were backed into a corner.
"Yoshi, if we're going down, we'll go down together, right?" Sora said out of breath.
"Where are Sora and Yoshi going down to?" Yoshi asked.
Sora rolled his eyes and looked back ready to battle. The Opposite Armor was ready to strike when the missile hit it making the parts fall down. Sora looked up to see Luigi giving a thumbs up to them.
"Thanks Luigi!" Sora called to his friend. "I owe you one! Quick, let's strike it now!"
Sora and Yoshi struck the monster with full force. Sora slashed at it slashing the metal out of it and Yoshi stomped on it with full force. The metal broke off the chest and the creature growled and floated up. It shots a beam again but Sora jumped out of the way. Sora took out his summon gem getting ready to summon Ness but remembered he would need both Luigi and Yoshi.
"Master Sora!" Toadsworth called out. "I'll help you summon Ness!"
"Thanks Toadsworth!"
Toadsworth and Yoshi both entered the gem and Ness came out.
"Alright, ugly! Time to feel the power of my PK flash!" Ness cried. Ness shot the little green ball into the hole of Opposite Armor.
The Armor tried to attack but exploded into piece again. Ness returned to his gem and Sora and Yoshi finished off the all of it's piece and the Armor disappeared for good. Yoshi jumped into Sora's arms and hugged him.
"Sora and Yoshi won!" Yoshi cheered. Yoshi pulled away from Sora. "Yoshi and Sora make best team!"
"We do." Sora nodded. "But Luigi needs our help, let's go!"
Sora, Yoshi, and Toadsworth met up with Luigi and they all ran over to the Bowser robot. The top of the head opened up revealing the impostor and Peach inside.
"Peach!" Luigi cried to her.
"Luigi!" She called back. The impostor jumped up and put the brush in front of Peach. "Oh!" He jumped out and did cannonball down to the ground. While he was doing that he changed into what appeared to be a smaller version of Bowser.
"Bowser?" Yoshi asked in confusion.
The small creature removed his black bandana from his mouth revealing a smaller yet cuter version of Bowser.
"Leave my mama alone, you bad man!" The small Bowser said to Luigi. "I won't let you or your gang take Mama Peach away from me!"
"Wh-what!" Luigi exclaimed.
"Mama?" Sora asked in confusion.
"Mama Peach?" Peach also asked in confusion. "I'm your...mama?"
"Papa told me all about you." The little Bowser explained. "I'm JR your son and a bad man name Mario kidnaped you."
"That makes you Bowser's son then." Toadsworth exclaimed.
"Kid, Peach can't be your mama!" Luigi said. "How do I put this?" Luigi then pointed his fingers towards each other. "You see, when a mommy koopa and daddy koopa love each other very much they decide to..."
"Um, it just can't be done." Sora interrupted quickly.
"I don't believe you!" JR said. "You're just a liar! I've come here to rescue her!"
"So you're the one who caused the graffiti." Peach said with a gasp.
"Uh-huh." JR nodded. He pulled out the magic paint brush. "This is my magic brush. When I draw with this, all of my wishes come true! A strange old man in a white coat gave it to me."
"A strange old man..in a white coat?" FLUDD asked surprised.
"Then why did you pretend to be Mario?"
"Papa told me everything. He said 'Mario's a bully, he never fights fair and JR you've got to try and outsmart him.' So I tried to get him locked up in jail but he never showed up to the island. Plus Papa told me to find something called a keyblade here."
Sora quickly hid his keyblade behind his back
"So I tried to get his little brother Luigi locked up instead and Mario would then come and I would get him." JR growled.
"Not only is he a lowlife but he even lies to his own son!" Luigi said in anger.
"And now you've come back to steal Mama Peach again!" JR growled. "You...you pests! Stop following us!"
JR jumped back into the cockpit and began to close the top.
"Luigi, Sora, Yoshi, Toadsworth! Help!" Peach cried.
The head flew up into the air and formed a rocket ship and blasted off into space. Toadsworth got on his hands and knees groaning.
"Princess!" He cried.
"We're sorry Toadsworth." Sora said softly.
"Great, now what?" Luigi groaned. "Not only do we have to stop the heartless but we also have to rescue Peach!"
"What that?" Yoshi cried pointing.
Sora turned to notice something flashing over at the island. The keyblade moved up and pointed at Delfino Plaza's harbor.
"Guys! I think I see a keyhole!" Sora said pointing.
"Kid, you go take care of the keyhole while we go to the police." Luigi instructed.
The gang headed back over into the warp pipe. Toadsworth was still too upset so he rode on Yoshi's back. Upon arrival Sora headed over to Delfino Harbor where he looked up at the giant Shine Sprite. He saw a keyhole in the middle of it.
"This should stop the heartless dead in their tracks!" Sora said to himself. Sora fired a little laser out of his keyblade and it hit the keyhole locking it for good. As he looked around he could see the darkness around the town has lifted and the citizens of town cheering. Sora smiled and proudly walked out of the town. Sora arrived back to the center of town where the others are with the mayor of Delfino. "What's up?"
"Sora, Luigi, and Yoshi being honored for saving the town." Yoshi said excitedly.
"I here by honor Sora, Luigi, and Yoshi the badge of honors for saving Isle Delfino." the mayor said sticking a badge on Sora and Luigi. Yoshi took his. "We apologize for framing your brother of the crimes that were committed. How can we ever repay you?"
"How about a free lunch with your famous seafood?" Luigi chuckled gleefully.
"Consider it done!" The mayor said. "Boys, taking them down to our restaurant!"
Two police officers assist Sora's group down to the restaurant. On the way everyone looked happy but they noticed Toadsworth wasn't remembering what happened with Peach. Everyone didn't say too much for the time they were eating, as they were sad because they've lost someone who was close to them. Meanwhile outside, a mysterious hooded figure was watching them and walked away. As he walked we could hear him mumbling "He will pay!" He then vanished.