In this chapter, Mario and Lincoln are going to fight Larry for Eldstar. However, his airship is filled with defenses, including Boom Boom, a fearsome Koopa indeed. Will they win?
Chapter 12: Respect Your Elders
"So, this is Larry's airship?" questioned Goombario. If each of the Koopalings had their own airships, they likely didn't need their own pair of wings like the Parakoopas.
"It looks that way." nodded Lincoln. He even has had his face on the airship. Apparently he wanted everyone to know that the airship belonged to him, just like the rest of his siblings.
At that very moment, Larry Koopa showed up. He was driving his clown copter.
"So, you defeated the Koopa Bros, did you? That's rather impressive. But now you have to get past my airship! And then you'll have to fight me!" exclaimed Larry.
"Are you excited?" asked Kooper.
"Yes, I am! I'll be waiting for you in my room! Don't disappoint me!" exclaimed Larry.
Larry flew away to a warp pipe that wasn't too far from them. He then went down inside it.
"You think we can reach him?" inquired Bombette.
"Either way, we're going to have to get past his defenses..." said Lisa.
Curiously, there seemed to be a Goomba up again...but he wasn't an ordinary Goomba. He was huge!
"Look at the size of me!" exclaimed the Goomba in a deep voice.
"You remind me of King Goomba..." said Goombario. It felt a bit like they were fighting him all over again, though without the colorful Goombas.
"I'd like to be a king..." remarked the Giant Goomba.
However, though the Goomba was huge, he was likely still vulnerable to be jumped upon.
Suddenly, the giant Goomba noticed Lily and gasped.
"You're the one who defeated the Goomba King!" exclaimed the giant.
"Hee hee hee!" exclaimed Lily.
"I must avenge him!" bellowed the oversized Goomba. That was what their king would want him to do...like a loyal Goomba.
Immediately, he charged towards Lily.
However, Lily pulled out a rattle and hit him with it.
"Ow!" exclaimed the Giant Goomba.
Lily then squirted him with milk.
"Aaugh!" shouted the very large Bowser Baddie. That attack packed a surprising amount of power behind it. Lily was able to spray it very quickly.
"Hee hee hee hee!" giggled Lily.
The big Goomba attempted to headbonk Lily, but Lincoln pushed her out of the way.
He then lifted the giant Goomba and threw him backwards, who fell on his back.
"Ow!" exclaimed the huge Goomba. Lincoln just might be stronger than Mario. Of course, Mario was the video game character, not him.
"The bigger they are, the harder they fall, right?" asked Lincoln.
"Yes, Lincoln. That's how gravity works." nodded Lisa.
Lily continued the assault by tossing baby blocks at the Goomba King.
One of them was a POW Block.
The giant Goomba went down, and he left behind some Star Points. It looked like Lily was not going to be disappointed today.
"I wonder where enemies go after we defeat them..." questioned Kooper.
Meanwhile at the Bowser Baddie Resort...
"This sure is relaxing..." remarked one of the Goombas that had been defeated by Mario.
"I know, right?" asked a nearby Koopa Troopa.
This was the life...even if they did get beaten up by Mario.
Back on the airship...
"Dang, you really are the girl that defeated the Goomba King! Personally I thought that she would be...older." answered the big Goomba. Of course, not everyone would admit that they had lost to a baby...even if it was someone like Baby Mario.
"She has beaten me in video games before..." noted Lincoln. Though Lincoln realized that he couldn't mold his sister after she wouldn't give up her blanket, she did genuinely enjoy playing video games with her brother and hanging out with her family.
Lily pulled out a video game controller and raised it above her head. Maybe she could receive a trophy for winning at video games as well as for thumb sucking. She certainly did like thumb sucking though. Why was her thumb so suckable?
Goombario looked at Lily nervously.
"You're not going to beat me up, are you?" asked Goombario. After seeing her take down that giant Goomba (as well as the Goomba King) he was actually starting to feel a bit nervous.
Of course, Mario had stomped many Goombas using his familiar jumping abilities (it didn't matter which video game he was in, Mario always had the ability to jump), but that was before he had visited Goomba Village.
Lily looked at Goombario.
She then handed Goombario a lollipop.
"I guess not..." answered the Goomba. Fortunately, as good as Lily was at taking down Goombas and as young as she was, she knew how to restrain herself.
Unfortunately, this was not Larry's only defense. The airship was more sturdy than that.
Shortly after the giant Goomba was defeated, the heroes discovered that there were several Bullet Bill cannons up ahead.
"I figured that I would use these to keep you busy..." said Larry from a distance.
"Good call." nodded Lincoln.
The Bullet Bills were fired directly at them.
"More Bullet Bill cannons!" warned Goombario.
"I guess I'll have to use my explosion power again..." noted Bombette. If there was anything a Bob-Omb that was good for, it was an explosion. However, not all Bob-Ombs were so happy to explode, such as the Pink Bob-Ombs at the Bob-Omb Battlefield. Wasn't there a painting that she could use to get there?
Bombette walked towards the Bullet Bill cannons, careful to avoid being hit by the Bullet Bills. Fortunately, she was not.
Meanwhile, Mario, Lincoln, and the others tried to avoid the Bullet Bills. Fortunately, they were more alert of them now that they had encountered them previously before.
In addition, they were able to jump on top of the bills, which made avoiding being hit easier.
"It seems that the Koopa Bros aren't the only ones that use Bullet Bills." noted Lincoln.
Mario jumped on the Bullet Bills, causing them to fall off the airship and for him to receive some Star Points...though he would likely receive more if he took out the Bullet Bill Blasters.
Lisa nodded. There was probably going to be more dangerous types of Bullet Bills in the future. Some Bullet Bills were made out of gold which made them much more effective.
Eventually, Bombette exploded, causing the Bullet Bill Cannons to explode.
"There! No more Bullet Bills!" exclaimed Bombette.
"Good job, Bombette!" shouted Lincoln.
"Looks like there's a room up ahead..." said Goombario.
Curiously, the room appeared to be some type of greenhouse. Why was Larry growing plants?
"I've been doing a bit of garden work..." said Larry.
They were about to find out.
Not long after they entered, a Piranha Plant attempted to bite Mario. As their names would imply, Piranha Plants had very sharp teeth...though they were more of a plant than a piranha, that was for certain. They weren't Cheep Cheeps.
Mario waved his hands frantically.
Another Piranha Plant spat a fireball at Lincoln.
Fortunately, he ducked in time.
"How are we going to get past them?" inquired Lincoln. There were a lot of sharp teeth that they were going to have to get past.
"These plants remind me of a science experiment gone wrong." answered Lisa. She had read a book about that.
Suddenly, Lana let out a fart.
"Whoops!" exclaimed Lana.
Immediately, all the Piranha Plants wilted and burst into Star Points. Lana made for a surprisingly good weed killer.
"Huh. I didn't know that I could use that to wilt plants." remarked the girl.
"That was disgusting! Yet surprisingly effective." said Lola.
Lana got to level up afterwards, meaning that now she would be even smellier. You couldn't use Lana and bath in the same sentence...unless you mud in front of bath.
Now that the Piranha Plants were gone, there was nothing stopping them from progressing further.
Up ahead was another room. They could hear growling inside.
"Be careful, I don't like the looks of this room..." said Lisa.
Lincoln heeded Lisa's advice as they entered the room.
Inside the room was a very large koopa who went by the name of Boom Boom.
As soon as he saw them, he began to clench his fists.
"Boom Boom smash puny Mario and Lincoln!" exclaimed Boom Boom. Oddly, despite him being called "Boom Boom", he was not a Bob-Omb, rather a Koopa Troopa. Some Koopas had names that made sense, some that didn't.
"Say hello to a little friend of mine! Or should I say big friend?" shouted Larry.
"Hello?" asked Lily.
"Oh man!" exclaimed Lincoln. It looked like Boom Boom was guarding the Koopalings once again. He was fought a lot of times in Super Mario Bros. 3...though perhaps they wouldn't be fighting him as much as that game.
Immediately, he swung his fists towards Lincoln.
"Hiya!" shouted Boom Boom.
Lincoln got hit in the face.
"Ow!" exclaimed Lincoln.
"This is one strong Koopa." remarked Goombario.
"Who else would Larry Koopa choose to guard himself?" asked Lisa.
"Beats me." answered Kooper.
Boom Boom then followed by rolling around in his shell and spinning around, much like a Koopa. However, since Boom Boom's shell was larger, it was a more powerful technique.
Boom Boom hit Mario and sent him flying backwards.
"Mamamia!" exclaimed Mario.
Boom Boom entered a triumphant pose.
However, Lisa scalded him with one of her vials while he was celebrating.
"Grrr!" exclaimed Boom Boom.
In retaliation, he grew a pair of wings.
He then began to fly around the arena.
"How are we going to get him down?" asked Goombario.
Boom Boom dive bob-ombed Goombario.
"I guess that's how..." remarked the dizzy Goombario.
"Come on, focus already!" exclaimed Lola. If they didn't defeat him, they weren't going to defeat Larry, and they weren't going to get the first Star Spirit back to Star Haven where he belonged.
At that very moment, Boom Boom hit Lola in the face.
"Ouch!" exclaimed Lola.
"Heh heh." laughed Boom Boom.
Lincoln looked at Boom Boom.
"That's not a good idea." warned Lincoln.
"Huh?" asked Boom Boom.
Lola immediately glared at Boom Boom.
"What?" inquired the huge Koopa.
Shortly afterward, she began whacking the enormous Koopa with a frying pan as hard as she could.
"Nobody touches my face!" exclaimed Lola.
Though Boom Boom was by no means a weak Koopa, he could not withstand the trouncing and he eventually fell on the ground, giving Lola star points.
"Huh. It looks like I'm leveling up." remarked Lola.
As a reward, Lola got an increase to her attacking potential. Basically, she could swing the frying pan even harder. This worried the rest of her teammates considerably.
Up ahead was the warp pipe that Larry had gone down earlier.
"I guess we're going inside." remarked Lincoln.
Immediately, Lincoln, Mario, and their friends and family went down the pipe.
Sure enough, Larry was waiting for them.
"You managed to get past Boom Boom? I'm quite impressed." remarked Larry.
"You can thank my sister Lola for that..." stated Lincoln.
"Keep your hands off my face!" exclaimed Lola.
"Well then, this should be fun. Maybe after this I'll play a game of tennis." noted the Koopa.
Immediately, Larry Koopa pulled out his wand.
"Heads up!" exclaimed Larry Koopa.
Larry Koopa launched a teal fireball at Mario.
Fortunately, since it was rather slow Mario was able to jump over it.
However, Larry then followed by spinning around in his shell, much like the Koopa Bros. that they had faced shortly before.
The party had to split up in order to avoid it.
Afterwards, Mario leapt on Larry's head.
"Ow! Still jumping on people as always, Mario? Allow me to teach you a lesson." said Larry.
Using his magic, he summoned a Bob-Omb.
He then used his tennis racket to launch it at Mario.
It exploded directly on him.
"Oh no!" exclaimed Mario, who was now black with soot.
Fortunately, he shook the soot off.
"Here I go!" shouted Larry, launching more Bob-Ombs at the party.
"I've had enough of these explosions! I was in a cell full of Bob-Ombs! Well, peaceful Bob-ombs." noted Lola.
Immediately, Lola entered her toy car so that she could take on Larry herself.
"This is so much fun! I could do this all day!" exclaimed Larry.
"You don't have all day!" shouted Lola.
Quickly, Lola charged towards Larry.
"What the-" said the Koopa.
Using his tennis racket, he launched more Bob-Ombs at Lola.
However, Lola used her toy car to avoid them. It was too fast.
"Uh-oh..." thought Larry.
Lola then hit Larry with her toy car, sending him slamming into the nearby wall.
"Ow! Dang, I wish I had a car like that." remarked the Koopa. That would be handy for when he played Mario Kart along with his dad.
Larry decided to put the tennis racket away and pulled out a baseball bat.
"It seems that Lynn isn't the only one who's interested in sports." noted Lincoln.
He used it to whack Kooper.
"Ow!" exclaimed Kooper, withdrawing into his shell.
He then used it to whack Mario.
"Oof!" shouted Mario.
He then used it to whack Lana...
...but Lana whacked him with a wrench before he could do so.
"Ow!" exclaimed Larry, dropping the bat.
Lana then followed by jumping on top of him.
Deciding to keep his distance, Larry used his shell to get away from Lana.
"Now what I should do? Hmm..." thought Larry, pulling out his wand again.
This time, he used his magic to summon Koopa Troopas.
"There we go! Why don't you go out there and deal with our guests, will you?" asked Larry. He had a tennis match tomorrow.
The Koopas nodded, and they began to attack Mario and his friends.
However, Mario jumped on them so that they would withdraw into their shells.
He then sent the shells towards Larry, who was forced to try to avoid them.
He managed to dodge them all...except one.
"Aaugh!" exclaimed Larry, falling over.
The Koopas disappeared shortly afterward. Apparently they left to go get some ice cream.
At this point, he was starting to feel worn out.
He decided to cast another spell.
This time, two Bullet Bill cannons appeared.
Larry laughed as the Bullet Bill cannons opened fire on the Mario and Lincoln party.
They hit Lisa and Bombette.
"How many Bullet Bills does Larry have?" asked Bombette.
"He certainly likes having those cannons." remarked Lisa.
"Hahahahaha! I cannot be stopped!" exclaimed Larry. He was having so much fun summoning things to attack Mario and Lincoln with.
"Oh yeah?" asked Lana.
Immediately, she used her wrench on the Bullet Bill cannons.
Now, instead of being aimed at the heroes, they were aimed right at Larry.
"What?!" exclaimed the youngest of the Koopalings.
Larry was hit by two Bullet Bills at once.
"Ow ow ow..." murmured Larry.
The two Bullet Bill cannons disappeared shortly afterwards. It seemed Larry's summon magic only worked temporarily.
Since he was taking a beating, Larry decided to summon his clown copter.
He then began to move around in it, hoping to crash into Mario and his friends.
He succeeded with Goombario and Lily.
"Whoa!" exclaimed Lily as she was sent flying.
"Ow!" shouted Goombario. His cap nearly fell off his head. He would not look nearly the same without it.
However, Lola and Lana would not allow this chaos to continue.
While Larry was attacking the rest of the party with his clown copter (and using his wand to launch fireballs at them), Lola and Lana managed to jump on, holding onto the top.
"Get off!" demanded Larry.
Unfortunately, Lola and Lana managed to climb into the clown copter...and send it crashing into a nearby wall.
"AAAH!" screamed Larry.
Luckily, Lola and Lana managed to leap out in time.
Larry crashed into the wall, and the Clown Copter broke.
Shortly afterwards, he fell out of the airship.
"We did it, sis!" exclaimed Lana.
Lana and Lola gave each other a high five.
"Did we defeat him?" asked Lincoln.
At that very moment, the card containing Eldstar containing from the sky.
"I'll take that as a yes." answered the boy.
"It seems that when we defeat a Koopaling, the card containing the Star Spirit appears." noted Lisa.
"Good to know." said Lincoln.
Both Mario and Lincoln grabbed the card.
Shortly afterwards, Eldstar was freed from his prison.
"We did it!" exclaimed Mario.
"Thank you, Mario and Lincoln. I know that I could count on you and your friends and family. Now, are you going to retrieve the rest of the Star Spirits?" asked Eldstar.
"Yeah!" shouted Lincoln.
Meanwhile...
"Ugh...that fight was a disappointment..." noted Larry. It looked like Mario had gotten the best of him once again. Well, he was just going to have to try again later. At least now his siblings would have a chance to join in the action. Mario and Lincoln hadn't beaten them yet.
However, he then realized that he was in Koopa Village.
"Huh. This is where I sent those Fuzzies to steal Koopa shells...wait a minute..." said Larry.
"It's the Koopa who stole our shells! Get him!" exclaimed the mayor.
Larry panicked and ran as he was chased by several angry Koopas.
It looked like he was about to suffer the consequences for what he did.
"I'm sorry! I won't take your shells again, I swear! I already have own shell, anyway!" apologized the youngest of the Koopalings.
It looks like Larry has been defeated. Mario and Lincoln have successfully rescued Eldstar! However, it's not nearly enough to defeat Bowser...and there are still six Star Spirits to go.