Time for another chapter...in which our heroes go up against Tutankoopa. And yes, someone suggested the name of this chapter. I didn't use all the suggestions but I figured this would be a good title as any. They're going up against a Koopa pharaoh so why not? And yes, as you can imagine they will be leaving the pyramid...to go on an airship!
Chapter 20: Koopa Exodus
"It looks like if we manage to beat this guy, we'll be able to get the second Star Spirit..." noted Lincoln.
Mario nodded. However, he got the feeling that Tutankoopa was stronger than the Koopa Bros...otherwise it probably wouldn't taken them as long as it did in order to find the pyramid in the first place.
Tutankoopa started off rather simple. He began to kick Koopa shells towards the party. Perhaps he was just getting warmed up.
"It looks like he took a page from your book, Mario." said Goombario.
"Maybe he took a page from mine?" suggested Kooper.
Mario nodded. Fortunately, since he had been doing so for years, he knew how to avoid being hit by them. Perhaps Tutankoopa's ancestors invented koopa shell kicking.
Parakarry struck Tutankoopa. Unfortunately, it seemed that kicking Koopa shells wasn't so effective against someone that could fly.
"Ow!" exclaimed Tutankoopa.
In retaliation, Tutankoopa summoned a tornado that vacuumed up Parakarry.
"Whoa!" shouted the mailkoopa.
He fell on the floor.
"You alright?" asked Mario. Parakarry apparently had a tendency to suffer from some misfortunes. Perhaps he should ask Merlee to cast a spell on him in order to give him some luck. He had delivered letters to her in the past so she would probably be willing to do so.
Parakarry nodded.
However, it seemed that the tornado was moving towards them...gradually. They should keep an eye on it if they didn't want to get caught up inside.
Parakarry attempted to slam into Tutankoopa with his shell again, but this time Tutankoopa blocked it with a coffin.
They were going to need to try to use a different tactic.
Still, Parakarry did seem to be an effective opponent against Tutankoopa.
Lily hurled a bottle of milk at the Koopa pharaoh.
"Ugh! Now I'm all wet!" exclaimed Tutankoopa.
In retaliation, he summoned a few more coffins.
These ones opened up to reveal Poison Pokeys.
"We've got trouble..." noted Lincoln.
Immediately, the Poison Pokeys launched body segments at the team.
Kooper instinctively rolled himself into his shell.
This gave Mario the idea to kick the shell towards the Pokeys.
They were knocked over like a pair full of bowling pins.
They burst into Star Points.
"Dang it! I guess I'm going to have to try using a different summon..." noted Tutankoopa.
He began to do just that.
This time, some Buzzy Beetles showed up.
They rolled into their shells and launched themselves at their opponents.
Mario quickly hammered the shells away, but one of them knocked him down.
"Ow!" exclaimed Mario.
Unfortunately for Bombette, it seems that their shells protected them from her explosions.
They were going to have to try something else.
Fortunately, Lola was able to knock them all away using her car.
Still making the use of summons, Tutankoopa decided to summon a Chain Chomp.
"COME!" exclaimed Tutankoopa.
At that very moment, the Chain Chomp showed up.
However, it seemed that he was rather hungry. They could hear his stomach grumbling.
"Have you been feeding him?" asked Lana. If so, it didn't seem like he was doing a good job.
Judging from how long the pyramid had been submerged underneath the sands, the Chain Chomp probably hadn't been fed in a long time.
"No, I haven't. Why do you ask?" inquired Tutankoopa.
The Chain Chomp proceeded to bite Lisa.
"Ow!" exclaimed Lisa.
This was then followed by Kooper.
"Ouch!" shouted Kooper.
"He sure is hungry..." noted Lana.
Fortunately, this gave her an idea.
Immediately, she pulled out some barbecue sauce.
"What is she up to?" questioned Tutankoopa.
Lana then squirted Tutankoopa with it.
"Ugh! You got this all over my fine robes!" exclaimed Tutankoopa.
"You remind me of my sister..." noted Lana. She didn't mind being squirted with barbecue sauce at all. It was rather fun. Besides, her sister Lily liked to play with her food as well, though since she was a baby she didn't really know better.
Suddenly, the Chain Chomp turned towards Tutankoopa. He recalled that his master wasn't treating him too well.
Not only that, but the barbecue sauce probably tasted good.
Immediately, the Chain Chomp turned on Tutankoopa.
"This worked surprisingly well..." noted Lana.
"Get it off me!" exclaimed Tutankoopa.
In the process, Tutankoopa fell off his perch and injured himself.
"Ow!" shouted the pharaoh.
"Good job!" supported Lincoln.
Lana gave the thumbs up.
This time it was Lucy's turn to attack.
She fired a burst of magic energy at Tutankoopa.
"Ouch!" exclaimed Tutankoopa.
However, he got back up.
"Hmm...I need to change tactics. These summons are actually starting to backfire on me..." noted Tutankoopa.
Since one of his opponents was using magic, why not use a magic spell of his own? He had summoned a tornado but it seemed to have disappeared.
He decided to whip up a sandstorm.
All of a sudden, our protagonists began to lose track of their surroundings.
"What's going on?" asked Lincoln.
"I can't see a thing..." remarked Goombario.
Unfortunately, this gave Tutankoopa opportunities to attack.
He started firing sun beams at the party.
"Ouch!" exclaimed Kooper.
"Ow!" shouted Lisa.
"Oof!" bellowed Lincoln.
Where were those beams coming from?
"I'm so glad that I thought of this...maybe I should have thought of it earlier." remarked Tutankoopa.
Suddenly, he found himself being struck by Parakarry.
"Ow!" exclaimed the pharaoh.
Fortunately for Parakarry, it seemed that his goggles protected his eyes from the sand. Some of his clients happened to live in the Dry Dry Desert so it would make sense that he would be prepared for a sandstorm.
Parakarry continued attacking Tutankoopa, and the sandstorm disappeared.
Now Tutankoopa was vulnerable again.
"Time to use a little dark magic..." noted Tutankoopa.
As soon as he cast a few words, a few Dull Bones appeared.
"I'd like to see you try to beat me now!" exclaimed the pharaoh.
"Why are you so full of yourself?" asked Lincoln.
"I'm the ruler of these lands! Of course I'm full of myself!" shouted Tutankoopa.
"You sure that's not a title you came up with?" inquired Lisa. She was wondering who exactly Tutankoopa's ancestors were.
"No, it wasn't!" answered the pharaoh.
Fortunately for Lucy, she was able to look into her spell book to find some summons of her own. Maybe she could use it to counter his own summons.
She decided to summon a Boo.
The Boo immediately went up to Tutankoopa and scared him.
"Aah!" exclaimed Tutankoopa.
This made him lose his concentration for a second, causing the Dull Bones to falter.
This gave Lana the opportunity to splash the Dull Bones with more barbecue sauce.
Once again, this got the Chain Chomp's attention.
The Dull Bones panicked and ran out of the pyramid.
"No!" shouted Tutankoopa.
"Maybe you need to stop being so egotistical..." suggested Lisa.
"I'll still beat you! I've got more magic spells where that came from!" exclaimed the pharaoh.
Tutankoopa cast another spell, and started launching fireballs at the party.
"Look out!" warned Lincoln.
"Hahahahaha!" laughed Tutankoopa.
However, Lily used milk to put out the flames.
Tutankoopa groaned. It seemed that the Loud Sisters had a counter for everything...and so did Mario's Team.
Mario whacked Tutankoopa on the head with a hammer.
Tutankoopa was starting to feel tired.
"I will admit that I'm impressed with your powers...but I'm the pharaoh of these sands! I can't fall!" exclaimed Tutankoopa.
"Don't be so sure." answered Lincoln.
This time, Tutankoopa directed a spell towards the ceiling.
Shortly afterwards, rubble began to fall down on them.
"You sure you should be damaging your own pyramid?" questioned Goombario.
"I can always repair it later...besides, this place is thousands of years old anyway..." noted Tutankoopa. Perhaps it was time to build a new pyramid.
One of the pieces of rubble hit Lisa on the head.
"Ow!" exclaimed Lisa. Now she had a headache.
Another hit Mario and made him dizzy.
"Mamamia..." murmured Mario.
"Guess you should watch your heads!" taunted Tutankoopa.
However, Bombette exploded in his face in retaliation.
"OWW!" exclaimed the pharaoh.
This time, he decided to use some illusionary magic to mess with their heads.
An enormous Chain Chomp appeared.
"Wah!" cried Lily. That was simply horrifying.
Goombario began to panic as well.
"Oh dear..." murmured Lincoln. It seemed that the illusionary Chain Chomp was wearing upon the minds of the younger members of their party.
However, Lucy didn't seem scared at all. He was grateful that Lucy was obsessed with fear even if it meant that she creeped out her siblings.
Then again, he got along with Lucy rather well regardless of how spooky she was.
Immediately, she cast a spell and dispelled the illusion.
"What?!" shouted Tutankoopa.
"I guess now we know whose the better spell caster..." noted Lucy.
Tutankoopa sighed.
"I suppose I'm no Kamek or Kammy Koopa...but I still know enough spells to beat you! Time for my strongest one..." said Tutankoopa.
"Strongest one? That doesn't sound good..." noted Lincoln.
Tutankoopa casted a spell, and suddenly the room was enveloped with quicksand.
"Whoa!" exclaimed the boy.
Immediately, the quicksand began to swallow the party.
"Run!" exclaimed Kooper.
Unfortunately, it seemed difficult to escape the spell.
"We're getting closer to the pit!" bellowed Lana.
Fortunately for Lincoln, he could simply fly over it.
Unfortunately for Tutankoopa, he decided to seize the opportunity to shoot spells at him.
"Get down there!" exclaimed Tutankoopa.
"Whoa!" shouted Lincoln. He was having a hard time avoiding those spells since he was a single target.
"It's over! Bow before the Koopa pharaoh!" demanded the pharaoh.
Suddenly, Parakarry hit him from behind. Apparently, he could fly over the quicksand pit as well.
Tutankoopa ended up falling directly into the pit.
"Nooooo! Nooooo!" exclaimed Tutankoopa.
"We did it!" cheered Lincoln.
He was spat out a few minutes later, bruised and battered.
"Fine...you win...perhaps I'm not as strong as I thought..." said the pharaoh.
Mario gave the thumbs up.
"Perhaps Bowser is more of a ruler than I am..." noted Tutankoopa. After all, he had the Star Rod. Not even his ancestors had ever gotten hold of such a mystical artifact.
Tutankoopa pulled out a magic carpet and left the pyramid. To be honest, he wanted to see the sunlight for a change after being in that pyramid for so long.
Besides, it was scary inside the pyramid sometimes. Why didn't he ever buy a flashlight?
At that very moment, Kolorado showed up.
"Kolorado? Is that you?" asked Kooper.
"Thanks to your efforts, I was able to find a treasure chest full of coins! I have to admit, this was a successful expedition..." noted Kolorado.
"You'll give us credit, right?" inquired the Koopa.
"Of course I will! You can have this badge!" exclaimed the archaeologist.
Immediately, he gave Kooper a badge with Kolorado's face on.
"Yes! Hooray!" cheered Kooper, jumping up and down.
"Although, it seems that the Koopa pharaoh left behind some treasure when you defeated him, didn't he?" inquired Kolorado.
"Ah yes, he did give us a lot of coins when we defeated him..." noted Lincoln. It seemed that as a Koopa pharaoh he had a lot of treasure. Perhaps that was why he hid the pyramid underneath the sands...so that he didn't have to worry about tomb robbers.
Well, that and he wanted to protect the second Star Spirit from intruders.
Suddenly, the Chain Chomp from earlier showed up. It seemed that he was still hungry.
Cutting the Chain Chomp some slack, Lana decided to throw the Chain Chomp a bone.
The Chain Chomp happily munched on the bone.
"There you go!" exclaimed Lana.
The Chain Chomp barked in excitement.
It then began to lick Lana in the face.
"You think that it wants to be your pal?" inquired Lincoln.
"I think I'll call him Chompy..." nodded Lana.
Now that Lincoln thought of it...Lana did happen to have a lot of pets. Perhaps her connection with animals also applied in the Mario universe. Chain Chomps were basically the equivalent of dogs in her universe...though there was a character named Poochy who actually WASN'T a Chain Chomp. He was in the Yoshi's Island series.
The Chain Chomp nodded. It seemed as good of a name as any.
Still, he wondered where his old owner went. He wanted to lick the barbecue sauce off of him.
Oh well. At least Lana seemed decent enough as an owner.
"By the way, I noticed that there seemed to be a star in the room up ahead...maybe you should grab it and-"
"Hahahahaha!" laughed a familiar voice.
"Roy Koopa!" exclaimed Lincoln.
"So, you defeated the Koopa pharaoh? He was always full of himself...but no matter. Since he's decided to leave his pyramid, he probably doesn't have any use for his old treasures anymore...so I decided to take one for myself!" exclaimed Roy Koopa.
That treasure just so happened to be Mamar, the second Star Spirit.
"Give it back!" demanded Lincoln.
"No way! Bowser wants this out of your hands...so I'll keep them in mine." answered the Koopa who wore sunglasses...at night.
Roy Koopa immediately flew away on his Clown Copter and headed straight towards the airship.
"I guess you should chase after him..." noted Kolorado.
Mario nodded. Hopefully he wouldn't get too far.
Immediately, the team grabbed onto the anchor and began to climb up the airship.
Would they be able to defeat Roy?
Tutankoopa has been defeated...but now they must defeat Roy in order to save the second Star Spirit...as a side note I decided to take advantage of Lana's connection to animals...I might feature Poochy in Chapter 5 since it's full of Yoshis but he probably won't appear just yet...just saying.
Since people love this story so much I decided to feature a fight with Tutankoopa. I had him use a lot of magic spells since it seemed that was his speciality. I also referenced his untimely exit when I had Lana pelt Tutankoopa with barbecue sauce. I wanted to be creative.
In the next chapter, we're going to see what defenses Roy has set up on his airship...and of course Roy himself. He's more muscular than Larry, I can tell you that.