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XX

"Oh geez, here we go again." Mario groaned.

"What'd you do? Why'd you smash my minions?" Gemba yelled.

"They started attacking us! What could we d-" Luigi said, but was cut off.

"I don't need to hear your excuses!" Gemba yelled. Gemba stepped closer to the bros, menacingly. "Y'know what? You smash my minions, burn my cage, stomp on all of my friends?! It's time the Mario Bros got their turn!" The pearl gem on Gembas head glew, a spear appeared on Gembas forehead. The light faded and left a spear fused to Gembas forehead.

"Goomba, take it easy..." The bros eased backwards.

"Grrr, Goomba is gone! I AM GEMBA!" He roared. Gemba stomped his feet and got into a fighting stance.

Mario readied his gloves to shoot more fireballs, and Luigi slung his hammer over his shoulder.

"Lets-a go!" Mario cried.

"Okey-dokey!" Luigi said.

Boss fight #3: Gemba

Gemba charged at the Bros, leaning his head down so the spear would impale them.

The bros jumped over Gemba with ease. Gemba tripped over his own feet and fell on his face. The spear poofed away and disappeared.

Gemba got up and shook his head and made the spear reappear on his forehead.

"Hmph, try this on for size!" Gemba yelled. He started spinning really fast like a top and charged toward the bros.

"Watch out!" Mario yelled. He and Luigi jumped out of the way of the spinning enemy. Gemba kept going and made a u-turn around a nearby tree and charged at the bros again.

"Uh oh, run, bro!" Luigi said. Luigi and Mario got up and ran from the spinning enemy. The bros ran faster as they saw Gemba slowly spinning faster and faster, gaining on them.

"Mario, what do we do? He's right on our tail!" Luigi yelled. Mario looked around for a solution, he looked straight ahead and saw they were headed for a tree.

"Luigi! Keep running and move at the last second so he'll run into it!"

"Got it!"

"Ugh, getting...kinda...dizzy..." Gemba mentally groaned. Mario and Luigi kept headed for the tree, and just as planned, moved before they ran into the tree. "STOOOOOP!" Gemba tried to stop but ran into the tree really hard. The spear on his forehead poofed again. Gemba fell on his back.

"Mario, now's our chance!" Luigi grinned. The bros jumped in the air in attempt to jump on Gembas face. While the Bros were in mid-air, the ruby and sapphire gems in Gembas eyes glew, suddenly, a giant fist that resembles Garnet's gauntlet shot out of the two gems.

"Mama mia!" Luigi yelled. The gauntlet hit the Bros and it knocked them back to earth. Mario lost his fire power.

Gemba got up and laughed. "Hahahaha! I got you! These rebel gems come in handy!" Mario and Luigi winced as they stood up.

"You guys just don't know when to quit do you?" Gemba snarled.

"I guess not." Mario smirked.

"Well, you're going to hope you did...after this!" The amythyst gem on Gembas torso glew up. A whip shot out of it and wrapped around Mario. Gemba turned harshly and it pulled Mario to him.

When Mario got close enough, Gemba delivered a fierce kick to his stomach, knocking him into a tree.

"Mario!" Luigi yelled. He ran to his brother's side. "Bro! Are you okay?" Mario coughed a little.

"Y-yeah, just a little winded." Mario said. "Don't worry, bro. You got this."

"Oh Mario, I don't think that-" Luigi was cut off.

"Hey, green 'stache!" Gemba yelled. Luigi turned. "Think fast!" Gemba shot another gauntlet from his eyes.

Luigi narrowed his eyes at the on coming fist. He pulled out his hammer and hit the fist back.

"Uh oh..." Gemba watched the oncoming gauntlet. The gauntlet hit Gemba in the face. "Ouch..." He said.

"You done yet?" Luigi smirked.

"Never!" Gemba yelled. He shot another whip out of the amythyst gem. Luigi jumped over the whip, the whip went under him and wrapped around a tree. "What?!" Luigi landed on the whip, it was like a tight rope.

Luigi pulled out his hammer and hit the whip. The whip split in two and shot back at Gemba. The whip struck Gemba in the face.

"Ouch! Grrr, you pest! I've had enough! Time to go bye bye, LUIGI!" The ruby and sapphire gems glew once more and shot another gauntlet.

Luigi struck the gauntlet with his hammer and hit it back to Gemba.

"Oh my g-" The gauntlet hit Gemba in the face and broke. Gemba stumbled around for a second and fell on his back.

A white light enveloped Gemba, when it cleared a regular little goomba and 4 gems were lying next to each other on the ground.

"Luigi! You did it!" Mario cheered.

"Yeah!" Luigi yelled. The bros had very long hug. They looked down at the defeated Goomba. Goomba turned gray and disintegrated, his ashes flew into the air.

"Well, looks like Stevens friends are safe and sound." Mario said picking up the four gems and tucking them into his overalls.

"Now that this is over with, lets get back to Steven." Luigi began. The bros turned around and saw the immense jungle before them.

"This...might take awhile." Mario chuckled.

XX

Bowser, Moonstone, and Kamek were all watching the bros through one of Kamek's crystal balls in the throne room.

"Grrr, why do they always foil my plans!" Bowser groaned.

"Calm down, Bowser," Moonstone began, "I know a certain gem that can help with that problem."

"Ah, I see." Bowser pressepressed a red button on the arm of his thrown. "Ludwig!"

"Yes, King Bowser?"

"Bring in the Lazuli girl!"

"Right away, sir."

As if on cue, the door opened and walked in Lapis.

"Alright, Lazuli! I got something for you to do!" Bowser yelled.

"What is it, Lord Bowser?" Lapis said monotonously. Bowser grabbed Kameks crystal ball.

"Y'see these red and green posers?" Lapis nodded. "Well, go and find them, they're on an island that is, or was, populated by watermelon people." Lapis nodded.

"Oh, before you go, what'd you do with the Peridot?" Moonstone asked.

"Put her in the cell with the pink girl."

"Ah, very good. Now, go!" Moonstone yelled.

Lapis walked out of the throne room and out of the castle. Once on the hot sand of the kindergarten, she sprouted her wings and flew off to find the bros.

XX

"Steven, are you sure you're okay?" Connie asked. Connie brought the boy home and he woke up. Connie had explained what happened to Peridot.

"Connie, for the last time, I'm fine." Steven got up and stretched. "C'mon, let's go get Mario and Luigi, they can help us find out where Lapis took Peridot.

"Okay." Connie said. The two walked on the warp pad and disappeared in the white light.

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Hope y'all enjoyed the chapter and the long awaited 3rd boss battle! Anyways, see you next time. I'm n00bsl3yR, signing off.