Paper Mario one and a half
Chapter 21: Mario's New Form
"Hey Mario, check this out!" exclaimed Watt as they looked in the Toad's backpack again. "It is a newspaper!" The two picked up and read the newspaper. Nothing special… until they found an article on page A4.
"Mario, look at this! This is really unbelievable!"
BLUE-SHELLED KOOPA SCORED BIG ON LOTTERY
Yesterday afternoon a local resident from Koopa Village won the lottery, a whomping 345 million coins! "It was such a glorious moment!" said Kooper, the blue-shelled Koopa who got the awesome reward.
Kooper was already making huge plans for a luxurious life, as he later bought a house twice as big at Waveline Avenue, a street in Beachville, the town at the coast of Mushroom Kingdom. So far Kooper filled his place with expensive furniture and a very strong security system, yet he still has 342 million coins!
Kooper says, "I can't wait to tell Mario about this!" Mario, local hero of the Mushroom Kingdom, is currently not at his house. His location is completely unknown. "I hope he is okay!" states Kooper.
Turn to Page A10 to the Blue Koopa Rich Page
"Wow, I guess he must feel really happy right about now." said Mario. "Which reminds me! How are we supposed to return back to the Mushroom Kingdom?" "Mario, I really don't know. I have an idea though. If we sail in the opposite direction of the portal, we could enter the ocean again. You see, if we entered the portal we used to get here, we would end up on the side of the ocean containing Lavalava Island!"
After their talk, they return to the hut, the current time was 8:30, 1 hour and 10 minutes after the time they reached the cave containing Watt. Back at the hut, Mario and Watt explained everything they saw and read, and after they showed the three the article on Kooper.
It was a relaxing time… until they heard an explosion right outside! The five ran outside quickly to see a Shyguy spewing Bullet Bills. The Shyguy looked like a ghost! Another Bullet Bill soared right at Bow, who grabbed on to prevent harm. Right before the Bullet Bill would hit a tree, she let go, sending the BB right into the tree, making a roaring explosion.
This gave Mario a very clever idea. "Grab on!" said Mario, who turned into Fire Mario to handle the weight of four creatures. After everyone was on, the Shyguy shot another Bullet Bill, which Mario hopped on and rode like a horse! He was sitting on the Bill with his feet dangling from below!
They were very quickly heading to a tree, so Mario leaned the Bullet Bill right until they were past it. This pattern repeated for another 2 hours until finally, they were out of trees and at a very short grassy cliff. The BB shot forward off of the cliff, where the sound of waves hitting the shoreline shook about 400 feet below!
"Whoa! Look how high we are!" exclaimed Bow. Finally, after 5 minutes of soaring above an ocean, they entered the portal, which took them back to reality!
Now, this ride, which started to get a little boring after a few hours, lasted for another 7 hours until the view of the Mushroom Kingdom Coast appeared over the horizon. It was 6:30 AM, and the group was very tired. They ate some donuts from Kolorado's bag during the trip, but still, they were super tired.
Finally, the missile was aimed for the beach, so Mario jumped off onto the sand right as the Bullet Bill exploded in the sand. The group was so tired that they just fell down and fell asleep in the sand.
When Mario woke up, he couldn't see anything and could feel dirt all around them. He tried to lean up, but he ended up hitting his head on a stone when he sat up. After checking his watch (a glow-in-the-dark), it showed 4:00 PM, which means they slept for 10 hours! Mario, now getting desperate to get out, digged and punched out of a 4-feet layer of sand until he was finally out of the hole!
This area showed grass around Mario with palm trees under him. Right in front of him was the sand and ocean. After turning around, Mario screamed! The stone said:
R.I.P. Mario
Hero and Brother
Died in a Bullet Bill explosion
1980-2004
Age 24
Mario, bewildered, turned around to find a line of four other tombstones, which all read R.I.P Bow, Watt, Kolorado, or Goombario. 10 minutes later, four holes appeared as the four climbed out of the fake graves.
"Hey guys, check out the tombstones behind you!" exclaimed Mario. Everyone checked behind them, and all were surprised that they had their names carved in them!
"Maybe we fell asleep when we fell from the Bullet Bill, so they thought we died." stated Bow.
Mario ordered, "Let's look around."
So the group walked together inland… when they spotted a familiar character!
"Guess who's back!" yelled Sakon.
"Ohhhhh no, Sakon's back. The loser from that Robot Wars thing." said Mario sarcastically.
Sakon looked the same, except he was green and had some slight cuts. He was a zombie!
"Wait, how are you alive again!" asked Mario suddenly.
"I was formed back to life."
"Creature or Life Shroom?"
"Creature."
"Who."
"Magii."
"That son of a"
"So Watt, who's your dad?" asked Kolorado to Watt.
"Trust me, you don't want to know!" replied Watt.
"Yes I do!"
"Alright, he is…"
"OMG!"
"THAT WAS THAT LITTLE BASTARD WHO PICKED ON ME IN HIGH SCHOOL!" yelled Mario.
"Enough talk! Now we fight!" yelled Sakon.
The fight begun! He started out by dashing to Mario. Mario side-stepped him and punched his back. He then grabbed him, held him in the air, and sent Sakon crashing down onto his knee, which caused major pain. Sakon escaped from his grasp and punched Mario's gut, and when Mario bent his head, Sakon kicked it, sending Mario flying into a palm tree. Mario dashes over to Sakon. "You are holding back." stated Sakon. "You are right!" replied Mario. And so, Mario transformed into Fire Mario (FM). FM then flew up into the air and sent a wave of 20 fireballs. 10 missed Sakon, 4 attacked Sakon, 5 Sakon deflected, and 1 Sakon deflected back to Fire Mario, who got hit by the fire. He fell back down to Earth, where Sakon went to grab him, but FM smacked his hand away and proceeded to vigorously punching Sakon's body. He ended 30 punches with a powerful kick, which sent Sakon flying into the sand. He got up from the sand and said, "You are very powerful, but I also have a little transformation to show you." Sakon then started charging, sending a whirl of sand at FM and his partners, who hid behind a rock. Suddenly, Sakon had a huge bubble of energy around him! Some local Toads same to see what was going on, but they ran when they saw the energy bubble. The bubble then shrunk into Sakon, then he glowed a few seconds before becoming… Ascended Sakon!
Ascended Sakon is basically a muscular human that has a ring around each shoulder. His hair is purple and extremely spiky, and it reaches down to the middle of his back. Tan skin, a black band around each leg, red shoes, dark red pants, and a buff body. Finally, he is surrounded in red energy with some lightning surrounding it. "This is my true form." said Ascended Sakon (AS) in a slightly demonic and "metallic" voice. He then charged to FM, grabbed his head, kicked it five times, and shot a purple energy ball at his stomach, sending FM onto the sand. FM then weakly got up, but he was met by an elbow strike back down. Finally, Ascended Sakon charged his Energy Fusion and fired it. Energy Fusion is an energy attack where the attacked shoots energy balls from his hands while shooting an energy ray from their mouth at the same time. After this, Fire Mario was fried.
If I don't do anything, I will die! Thought Fire Mario, so he transformed to Ultra Fire Mario (the buff Fire Mario), where his strength greatly rose but his speed lowered. UFM then charged to AS, but he got out of the way since UFM was too slow. He then punched UFM hard, then did a frenzy of kicks, followed by a Power Punch, which sent him into the sand. I got to go even higher! Thought Mario, and he charged a long time. Finally, after 30 seconds, he became Maximum Fire Mario, which was an E-X-T-R-E-M-L-Y buff Fire Mario. He is so buff his chest almost touches his nose! His muscles were over 12 inches tall! However, he was so slow it was almost impossible for MFM (Maximum Fire Mario) to hit. AS dashed to MFM and started punching his chest (BTW, Mario's shirt still hasn't ripped), but they did hardly any damage, so Mario ended the battle with one Power Punch, which literally sent Ascended Sakon soaring over the water at an increasing speed! MFM then changed back to regular Mario.
"Wow, that was AMAZING!" exclaimed Bow, Watt, Goombario, and Kolorado after they witnessed this rare transformation. "You were so BUFF!" screamed Bow. Mario smiled, and fell down onto the sand and fell asleep.
