Since there is no flipping in this adaption, there is no Bestovius either. Either way, the adventure will be epic.
I do not own Super Paper Mario or any of its characters, nor am I making any money from them. They are property of Nintendo and Intelligent Systems.
Mario was called upon once again to save the world… no small task. Could he prevent Count Bleck from pulling off his sinister plot? Would Mario reunite with Princess Peach? A truly interdimensional adventure was about to begin…
…
The mystical red portal opened up to a nice-looking grassland. There was obviously plenty of green, with the grass, bushes and trees in its lush color. However, there were also a few flowers, some of which as tall as Mario. The flowers were sparse enough so that the plumber didn't become crowded. There were also hints of pink, yellow, and blue on some of the trees' leaves. It did not seem like autumn as no leaves fell, so Mario wondered why the leaves had such different colors. Then he remembered, he wasn't in his dimension anymore.
"I feel the Pure Heart," Tippi stated. "It's still far from here though."
"Don't you worry Tippi," Mario responded confidently. "I've gone on so many adventures by this point I'm used to going far." Mario remembered the 57 times (so far) that he had saved Peach from Bowser's clutches. Most times it was a stretch through the grasslands first, then a desert, then miscellaneous areas, then the lava-filled Koopa Kingdom. There were also other threats like Cackletta and Grodus that Mario had defeated. None of them took Mario through dimensions however. He predicted he'd get to a desert next.
"Be that as it may, I will still assist you with my power," the butterfly stated. "If you want to know about anything, focus on it and I will use my power to scan it. If I sense its hostile then I'll tell it's power and how to defeat it, as well as it's general history and personality. If it isn't then I'll forgo telling about its power unless it is relevant. Time stops when this happens, and you will be the only one able to hear me. However, you will not be able to communicate with me during this."
"Got it," Mario replied excitedly, ready for an epic adventure. Then, Mario noticed a familiar being that he was surprised to find in another dimension. Guess this'll be who I'll use it on first. Mario focused hard on the creature, and within under a second, she replied.
"It's a goomba, one of Bowser's minions. Strength signature or SS is 20. Durability signature is 20. Speed signature or SPS is low. Energy signature or ES is 0 because it does not have any energy attacks. Magical signature or MS is 0 due to no magic. Intelligence signature or IS is low-mid. Threat level: 1. It really puts the 'under' back in 'underlings'. It has no memorable traits. They are pretty much the lowest of the low."
Time then unfroze again, but Mario did not stumble nor was he disoriented. Tippi was good at making it gentle for him.
"Alrighty then," Mario said as the goomba ran at him as fast as his little legs could go, which was a leisurely walking pace for the plumber. Not only did goombas barely come up to his waist, but they had stubby little legs. They were kinda cute in a way, but not cute enough for Mario not to unleash a jump attack, completely flattening the thing.
"Woah, you jump high," Tippi marveled as Mario stepped off of the flattened mushroom.
"They don't call me 'Jumpman' for nothing," Mario replied.
The duo proceeded up a few lush grassy hills, Mario stomping quite a few goombas along the way.
"So Tippi…" Mario asked. "Why are there these goombas here if it's another dimension?"
"I don't know. They are not native to here," she responded as Mario landed on another goomba. "Which means they must have been put here?"
"By whom?" Mario was a bit perturbed.
"I don't know," Tippi said to the plumber. "If I was able to scan the one that put them here I would know, but I don't think we can figure it out by scanning just them."
The plumber was getting uneasy. The goombas were no threat at all and the plumber could plow through tens of thousands of them if he wanted to, but if someone had access to goombas, they had access to other Koopa Kingdom species: clubbas, fuzzies, buzzy beetles, lakitus and more. Because of this, and Bleck marrying Bowser and fair Peach, Mario concluded Bowser must have sided with Bleck, making an even bigger problem.
"Bowser must have joined forces with Count Bleck," Mario said half to himself and half to his Pixl companion as he punched a goomba, making it pop like a balloon. Tippi said nothing, but that silence was more unnerving to the hero than anything she could have said.
After climbing up a hill and carving through a few dozen goombas, he came upon a strange double door. It was red with star patterns on it and a massive rainbow star in the middle of the two doors, as well as rainbows on the edges of both.
"Mario, there's a Purity Door," Tippi said to the plumber.
"A… what?" Mario responded, not knowing what that was.
"These doors are created by the Pure Hearts to lead the chosen hero to them," Tippi responded calmly. "They won't take you all the way there, but they are huge shortcuts, and they give off an aura."
Mario noticed this aura when he was climbing up the hill that led to the door. In fact, he could feel it since entering the dimension
"Wish I had that all the other times," Mario said as he pushed open the door, revealing a similar, but clearly different area past. There were more bushes and less hills, as well as more pipes. Some goombas were past it, as well as something that seemingly confirmed Mario's fears, a koopa troopa. If there were koopas and goombas scattered about, then Bowser must have sent them. Now Mario had Bleck AND Bowser to worry about!
However, the koopa troopa brandished something Mario found strange. On his beaked head were sunglasses. They looked severe, going sharply up at the top like eyebrows. Mario knew Bowser well enough to know that he would not approve of that style, or sunglasses in general as he heard when he snuck up on the Koopa King during the 53rd kidnapping.
During the kidnapping…
"Sunglasses are for chumps!" Bowser roared out to his goomba minion, who was wearing them and showing them off to the Koopa King.
"B-b-b-but…
"No buts!" Bowser yelled out even more angrily, tearing the glasses off the minion and crushing them in his huge hand. "They're just a cheap attempt to look cool. Now get out of my si—aaaaggh!" Mario had just put Bowser in a chokehold, with both him and the goomba too distracted by their emotions to notice him until it was too late.
In present day…
There was no way Bowser would tolerate those. Bleck alone must have been in charge of them, but why would the minions abandon their king? Mario puzzled these things as he went through the Purity Door.
As he did, Mario had Tippi scan the glasses-wearing koopa troopa.
"This is a koopa troopa. Its shells provide decent defense against attacks. SS is 40. DS is 50, 250 for the shell. SPS is low-mid. ES is 0. MS is 0. IS is medium. Threat level: 1. If you're about to leap on it, it'll instinctively crouch inside its shell and the shell will be easy to kick toward other foes. From what I hear, goombas have a long-held fear of koopa troopas."
Time went back to normal and Mario quickly jumped close to the koopa, resulting in it crouching in its shell. Mario then landed and readied his foot, finally kicking the shell into hordes of goombas, who were all arranged in a straight line for some reason. No enemies were left, aside from another koopa behind him. The koopa rushed toward Mario at a rather slow speed thanks to his green shell, but the plumber backhanded him in the face without even looking. The koopa's face was mashed in by the blow and he fell to the ground, surely dead.
"You're stronger than you look," Tippi complimented. "Although then again, you are the hero of prophecy."
Mario leaped onto the pipes, checking each one to see if it took him anywhere, although finding nothing each time. After leaping off them, he found a floating '?' block. Mario went under it and then jumped, pumping his fist in the air and hitting it against it. A coin proceeded to come out of the top of the block, landing next to Mario. The block kept the '?' symbol, indicating there were still more coins to come from it.
"Sweet! I didn't know these existed in other dimensions!" Mario exclaimed.
"They exist in every known dimension," Tippi stated as Mario bounced up and down repeatedly, making precious coins rain down from it. Eventually, the block turned brown and lost its symbol, showing all coins were gone. "Many things can come out of these blocks, usually depending on the dimension."
After collecting the coins as well as more goomba-stomping and block-hunting, Mario and Tippi made it to another Purity Door. They entered it and found a new being. It was basically a spring with eyes. It was red at the bottom but green at the top and went through all the colors of the rainbow until then, and it was hopping around constantly. Quickly Mario scanned the thing, seeing if it was hostile.
"It's a sproing-oing. For some reason, this creature lives to hop endlessly. SS is 54 with its jumps. DS is 70. SPS is mid-high. ES is 0. MS is 10. IS is low. Threat level: 2. If you hurt it, it will split into many mini-sproings, but if you do enough damage in one hit, it'll be destroyed before it can split. I wonder if breaking up is hard to do, even for these creatures." Time then resumed.
"Well they seem dumb as rocks so I doubt they could get someone to break up with." Mario remarked. Then, as if offended by what Mario said but more likely just having heard noises, the spring-oing bounced toward Mario rapidly. "Alright then." Mario said as he rolled out of the way of a jump. The spring was quick though, and jumped again, this time landing on the plumber.
"Hey, stop it!" Mario yelled as the spring landed on his capped head repeatedly. It didn't really hurt, but it was annoying. After about ten jumps, Mario had had enough and grabbed it from the air, throwing it into a tree. The spring-oing broke into thin wires upon impact and went through the tree. Afterwards, the tree began to fall over in Mario's direction. The hero was prepared though and caught the medium-sized (similar circumference to Mario himself and about seven times as tall) tree with his gloved hands. Mario wondered what to do with it, until he saw some goombas and other sproing-oings. Mario gave a mighty heave and threw the tree a few feet in the air. It landed on several enemies, ending them instantly.
Mario was then hit with a rock from behind. "Really?" Mario said turning around. How stupid would these creatures have to be to try to fight someone who could catch and throw an entire tree? He took a look and saw a few strange many-legged purple creatures with what looked to be suction cups for mouths. Mario quickly scanned it as he had done to all the other species.
"It's a squig, a fairly common creature across all dimensions. SS is 47. DS is 60. SPS is low. ES and MS are 0. IS is low. Threat level: 2. These creatures have a nasty habit of spitting rocks, but the rocks aren't exactly hard." Time resumed.
A squig spat another rock at Mario, but Mario adeptly caught it and threw it back at a much greater speed, killing the creature and causing the rest to scatter. The dead squig poofed out of existence and a 'Shroom Shake replaced it.
"Wow, I can't believe they have these out here," Mario said as he put it in his seemingly bottomless overalls. He then looked down at the ground where the squig used to be. "I guess it's one of those types of creatures that fades away after they die," Mario said, stating the obvious. "How does that happen anyway?" Mario asked the non-obvious.
"I don't know." Tippi plainly stated.
Mario climbed yet another hill and began to notice the grass getting lower and more sparse. A spring-oing pounced from the top of the hill, but the plumber grabbed it just like the last one, this time snapping it in two with his hands. A few goombas raced from the top of the hill, but they tripped and rolled all the way down, Mario easily dodging them.
"It's so easy it's getting kind of boring," Mario said as he walked up the hill. "I know it'll get way harder though." Mario had gone on many adventures and quests, and he knew how they worked. They started off easy, but eventually became challenging. Considering Mario was going up against the end of all worlds, it was safe to say it would become very challenging.
Mario finally got to the top of the hill, where the grass completely disappeared, and was replaced by hot, cracked ground. This confirmed Mario's prediction. Just like almost every other time, Mario gets to a desert second.
END OF CHAPTER!