Our final stop before the double digits! Thank you for reading this far. This chapter might seem odd, but I am starting to run out of ideas. So I came up with one solution…
Chapter 9: Pixel Panic
BGM: Forbidden Dream's Depths (Mario & Luigi: Dream Team)
Petey still couldn't comprehend of why he was a computer malware. A bunch of jumbled code. Strings of ones, twos, A-Z's. The color of his body only giving him life.
He started swimming through the depths of darkness. Trying to figure out what was happening. Once he even tried to form himself together via MicrosoftWord. Only to get shut down, as the user thought it was a virus.
Unable to think, speak or talk. He continued swimming. He only encountered a few apps that allowed him to regain control. First was an app called Pretty Cure Connection Puzzlun. Although he was smaller than he originally was. The phone user detected him as a boss. After a few swipes of colored cubes. He was defeated by a smaller Cure Chocolat.
After being thrown out. He then morphed into another game on the Nintendo Switch device. For something he saw called PriPara: All Idol Perfect Stage!
Petey simultaneously looked around. Finding anything for directions. When one of the other idols asked about Petey's in-game sprite.
"Hey! What is that?" She asked.
Petey looked down, only his teeth and part of his head formed. The rest were still coding his body. So Petey broke out before he could finish.
Next he tried an arcade game called: Data Carddass: Aikatsu! Petey seemed to appear backstage, only part of his body and head were formed.
Outside stage, then user's idol: Ichigo Hoshimiya, was getting ready for her performance, alongside other idols. When Petey's malware formed outside.
"Woah! What the heck is that?!" Ichigo shouted.
Petey nervously looked at himself. Then he recognized a few other faces, Yume Nijino and Aine Yuuki.
"Is that what they call a virus?" App data Aine asked.
"I don't know, but I haven't seen him before."" App data Yume responded.
Petey was confused at first, but then he realized these were App Datas, not the real girls.
Petey grunted a few times, then he flew out of the software.
After floating for awhile, Petey gave up and just moved wherever the code took him. Until he bounced back from a giant purple jumble of code, that represented a cube.
Confused, Petey spat a codeball at it. Causing it to absorb it and strike Petey Piranha with cryptic electricity.
Roaring loudly and unable to stop himself from being propelled backwards. He slammed into a hardware that represented a Nintendo Switch. The game card started pulsing and sucking in all the game's software. The game card read: Super Mario Maker 2.
Suddenly every player playing the game received a message and got booted out of the game:
"The Software is currently undergoing a lethal server error. This error has caused the Nintendo Switch hardware to be corrupt. Please restart your Nintendo Switch or contact Nintendo services if you encounter this error again."
Upon the players restarting the switch. It luckily worked just fine, only the Nintendo Switch logo changed to a cryptic rune. The sound of pulsing got louder and louder, faster and faster, until it stopped and the terrified players were greeted to the same Nintendo Switch startup. Only Super Mario Maker 2 couldn't be played.
Petey himself just got sucked into the malware. Instead of causing him to get sucked into the game. He just fell again. Seeing different styles of games. Super Mario Bros. Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, New Super Mario Bros. U, and Super Mario 3D World. After finally ending the corrupted falling. He landed in a bright, colorful and busy town. Which he was used to by now. Only he gasped when he looked up. The sky, instead of a giant Rift. Was a glitchy, cryptic, corrupted sounding. Black hole. The hole was currently corrupting the sky, changing it to a blue sky, with poorly 8-bit clouds. It looked odd combined with the real sky.
Petey continued to the town. Trying to at LEAST warn people. Only Petey just decided to place down flyers on store windows and doors. That had a poorly painted hand he drew with his brown goop. That said the words look up.
Only one bakery had the knowledge to actually look up, as the other civilians thought it was a prank.
BGM Ends.
It was currently Wednesday. And it was a slow business day for the Minaduki family. Even though Azuki and Coconut love to fight, they agreed on one thing: they wished it was Friday.
"Ugh, why does it have to be the middle of the week? Can't we just go to the aquarium today?" Azuki pleaded her master Shigure.
"Not today, Azuki." Shigure responded. "We have work to do today and tomorrow. Plus you really need to help Nii-San shipshape his house."
"But isn't that that what those two astronauts are for?" Azuki remarked.
"They are our guests! We shouldn't have them do work for us!" Shigure replied. "No more arguing, you hear Azuki?"
"Yes…" Azuki rested her head on the counter.
About four days ago, two astronauts by the name of Dark Voyager and Dark Vanguard had unexpected arrived in their hometown. Knowing that they didn't know where they were. Headmaster: Kashou invited them to his bakery/apartment. The La Soleil.
One of the cat girls named Cinnamon REALLY liked Dark Voyager, and he was well aware of that, speaking of which. They were having a conversation now.
"I guess the young kitten really liked how I do it." Cinnamon spoke.
"Uh. Huh." Dark Voyager replied.
"But I don't really like doing shameful things like that in public. So I refused, but I did not know that would make her cry." Cinnamon lowered her ears.
"That sucks Cinnamon." Dark Voyager replied.
"So to make her happy, I really did say 'Cinnamon is going to drool!'" Cinnamon stated.
Dark Voyager slammed his head on the table. "That's great Cinnamon." He replied.
"Man, just today is going slow." Coconut sighed. "We still have tomorrow too."
"I do hope we have more customers tomorrow." Maple replied.
None of the cats realized that there was a flyer hanging on their window. Chocola was the first to notice it.
"Huh? What? Did any of you see this poster here?" Chocola asked walking up to it. As she read the sign of in which it said. Look up.
"Hmm? Chocola doesn't get it." She responded.
"Don't worry." Vanilla murmured. "I don't either."
"Master!" Chocola shouted. "Can you tell Chocola and Vanilla what it means?"
Kashou studied the poster. "Hmm, Maybe it means. Look up?" He replied.
"Well, duh." Azuki rolled her eyes.
So all six cats, Shigure and Kashou looked up.
"Okay! Chocola's looking- NYAA!" she cut off to see the glitchy black hole corrupting the sky into a lightish blue color, consisting of pixelated white clouds. It almost looked like… a green screen.
"Look!" Coconut shouted. "Over there!"
It was another glitchy hole. Corrupting another fragment in the sky. Featuring larger pixelated clouds, along with smaller ones. All the clouds seemed to have… eyes.
"I don't like clouds staring at me." Azuki shivered.
Three more corruptions were spotted. A 16-bit, fancier looking clouds. Then two more that almost looked real. Except those two did not have eyes.
"W-What's goin' on?" Azuki yelled.
"Nya? Look!" Maple pointed to the sky.
The first corruption started forming downwards. Turning the landscape into pixelated green hills, and the road that was in the shape of bricks. It seemed to have formed other things inside. The other glitches were doing the same.
"How do we stop it?" Dark Vanguard asked.
"We have to go into the corruptions!" Dark Voyager shouted.
"WHAT?!" Coconut screamed.
Maple facepalmed, "Are you kidding me Dark Voyager?! We don't have the time for—"
"I agree with Voyage here!" Azuki exclaimed. "It beats doin' nothing."
Dark Vanguard, Chocola, Vanilla, Kashou, Shigure and Cinnamon (in which she nervously) raised their hands.
"Ugh, fine." Maple hissed. "If we get killed. I'll remember this in heaven!"
"I'm sure Dark Voyager and Vanguard will protect us, May-Chan!" Cinnamon said softly.
Dark Vanguard pulled out her Eva Pickaxe, and equipped her Dark Void case. Dark Voyager swung out both of his Cosmic Cleavers and put on his Dark Matter transmitter. And the cat girls opened their claws.
"Good thing Shigure-San didn't get us declawed." Coconut muttered.
They slowly approached the zone. Holding their weapons out.
"Hurry up, slowpokes!" Azuki yelled and shoved everyone in.
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" All five cats screeched as they fell into what seemed oblivion.
Then each fell one by one on the hard brick ground. Only Coconut was unfortunate to land on a patch of Spike traps.
She faced the audience with her mouth open and fell downwards into nothing. The sound that played sounded like a hurt sound effect. Her life counter dropped from nine to eight.
"Coco-Chan!" Chocola yelled. "Are you ok?"
Coconut appeared in the same death sprite. Only she had a annoyed face.
"Azuki you nyumbskull!" Coconut called.
"Hey! Who are ya callin' a numbskull?!" Azuki yelled back.
"Nevermind! Just pop my bubble!" Coconut yelled.
Dark Voyager tossed his Cleaver like a boomerang. And popped her bubble.
"You ok?" Dark Vanguard asked with concern.
"Ugh, I'm fine. Only that idiot Munchkin had to- NYAAA!" Coconut suddenly screamed.
"What's the problem now, 'Nuts?— NYAAAAHH!" Azuki screamed and looked at her sisters. They screamed and looked at each other as well.
"Why do we look like crappy old-school retro game sprites?!" Maple cried.
All the characters were designed in old sprites. Consisting of three color palettes only. In which they were tinier than before. Except for Azuki, she's a munchkin cat.
"Hey! Who are ya calling tiny?!" Azuki yelled at the narrator.
"Azuki! Shh! It's dangerous to break the fourth wall!" Coconut shushed Azuki. "Who knows what 'HE' might do to us!"
"Right, right. My bad." Azuki replied.
"The reason we're so small and made of 8-bit is most likely…" Dark Voyager explained. "WE'RE IN THE Super Mario Bros. THEME!"
"That old guy who stomps on those 'Goomba' things?" Azuki asked.
"Ah yes." Vanilla responded. "Super Mario Maker's levels can be quite challenging."
Coconut blushed and shook her hands nervously. "I-I don't mean to make hard levels!" She cried.
"Coco-Chan! You just read from the idea book and place random objects around!" Chocola responded.
"Yeah but… I make my levels look nice, but placing ON/OFF switches and random Skwers is so much fun!" Coconut replied.
"Speaking of which." Dark Voyager interrupted. "Isn't that a Goomba?"
A pixelated 8-bit Goomba approached them. All the cats hid behind Dark Voyager. "Ahh! Make it go away!" They screamed.
"It's just a tiny Goomba! You're never afraid of them in the game!" Dark Voyager yelled.
"But it's one in real life! We don't know what to do!" They shouted.
"It's easy!" Dark Voyager responded. And his 8-bit sprite jumped and stomped to Goomba for one-thousand points. "See? Nothing to be afraid of!"
"You made it seem easier than it looked." Chocola pouted with her cheeks puffed out.
World: 1-1
BGM: Ground (Super Mario Bros.)
Just past the Goomba. They started their first level. Of course it was the memorable 1-1.
Another Goomba approached. The cats started freaking out.
"There. You figure it out." Dark Voyager replied.
"Okay ya cats. On three! One, two!" Azuki prepared.
Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, and finally, dead.
Dark Vanguard chucked the Goomba with her Eva Pickaxe.
"Well, That was embarrassing." Dark Voyager said.
"Six killed by one pesky little Goomba." Dark Vanguard whispered.
"Should we even pop them?" Dark Voyager asked.
"Well, cats have nine lives." Dark Vanguard commented.
"Fine…" Dark Voyager replied.
"Hey! Can you get us out of here!?" Maple called.
Dark Voyager threw one of his Cosmic Cleavers at the cats like a boomerang. Popping all of them in a straight row.
"Can't you cat girls be anymore useless? You just jump over the Goomba!" Dark Voyager yelled. "Haven't you ever played Super Mario Bros.?"
"Chocola doesn't know how to jump, Meow!" Chocola replied.
Dark Voyager just facepalmed. "Just avoid any enemies, Okay?"
"I wonder what this has inside." Coconut asked while looking at a Question Block.
Then she just jumped with her head first into the block.
"Ow…" She groaned and rubbed her head. Just as a Mushroom plopped down and landed in her hands.
"Can she even eat that?" Dark Vanguard asked.
"Coco-Chan has a enormous appetite, because she's a Maine Coon." Chocola responded.
Coconut however, was looking at the Mushroom and drooling pixelated saliva.
"Looks so… yummy." She drooled. Then just like magic, ate it all in one bite.
"Hey, what did Nuts' just eat?" Azuki asked.
Suddenly Coconut's sprite grew larger. She was almost roughly the same size as she originally was.
"Look Onii-Chan! I'm my original size again!" Coconut exclaimed.
"Man, sometimes I wish I were as big as ya Nuts'." Azuki replied.
"Cool, Coconut can be our group leader." Dark Voyager announced.
"What?!" Coconut yelled.
"You're bigger than us, plus if you get hit by a enemy, you just loose your power up." Dark Vanguard explained.
Now reaching the Pipe pit. Luckily no Piranha Plants were popping in and out. Except for a couple of Goombas and Goombrats walking around in the pits.
"I think there is a sub-area in one of these pipes." Vanilla commented.
"Is it the one full of coins?" Asked Maple.
"Indeed it is." Vanilla responded.
Crossing the pit one by one pipe at a time. Only Chocola fell in a couple of times. And almost getting hit by a Goomba, Dark Voyager decided to carry her on his back.
Meanwhile, Maple, Vanilla and Coconut were in the bonus room, collecting coins. And then went up the yellow pipe. Only to be spewed out somewhere else.
"Aw man. Where are we?" Coconut whimpered.
Waiting near the 1-up block. Dark Voyager was getting fed up where Maple and the others were.
"Hey Voyager. I'm pretty sure the exit pipe sends them near the end." Dark Vanguard commented.
"Hopefully they don't go too far." Dark Voyager answered.
"Let's go save them!" Chocola yelled.
"Yeah!" Cinnamon agreed.
"Fine, only because I'm the only one left out." Azuki grumbled.
"And I'm always the one cooped up with Cinnamon…" Dark Voyager whispered.
Cinnamon was the one who picked up the Super Mushroom next. Although Azuki desperately tried to steal it from her, she ended up eating it anyways. And just like Coconut grew roughly the same size as her.
"Wow! I grew so big! That must mean my busts grew even larger! Cinnamon thinks she's going… going to—"
She turned to see Dark Voyager pointing the sharp end of his Cosmic Cleavers at her. "Don't. You. Dare finish that sentence." He said darkly.
Cinnamon nervously backed up. "You're right! Let's keep going!"
Then Dark Voyager lowered his weapon. "That's what I thought."
"Oh Voyager. Don't be so rough on her!" Dark Vanguard told him.
To the pyramid of Question Blocks. Dark Vanguard bopped a block and two Mushrooms split out. In which both Dark Vanguard and Voyager collected one.
Azuki lowered her head depressed. "Why am I the only one who isn't big?"
"Hey Red Bean Paste. You can have the Super Star." Dark Voyager told her.
"I'm only named after the patisserie! But the Japanese name is Azuki. AND THATS MY NAME DAMMIT!" Azuki yelled back. "And By the way where's the 'Super Star'?"
"Second brick to the left." Dark Vanguard replied.
Just as she hit it. Sure enough, a small pixel star popped and hopped out.
"Like hell I'm letting you get away!" Azuki yelled at it. "C'mere!"
Then she jumped up, and ate it as she leapt. She turned a rainbow color and had super speed.
"Oh yeah! It's Azuki time! Gotta go fast!" And she zoomed past everyone, defeating any enemies that were passing by. Not knowing her sisters were nearby.
"Onii-Chan! Where are you?" Coconut yelled. Then she whimpered and curled up into a ball. "What are we going to do?"
"Don't be sad Coco-Chan. Chocola doesn't know what to do either." Chocola comforted Coconut.
"Hey. Isn't that Azuki?" Maple said looking forward.
"COMIN' THROUGH!" Azuki yelled.
As she was running fast. Azuki didn't have time to stop and slammed right into Coconut. And as she hit her, she lost her power.
"Gah! Nuts'! Where did you come from?!" Azuki yelled.
"Ahh! Onii-Chan! You don't know how happy I am to see you!" Coconut exclaimed and grabbed Azuki with all her strength. Hugging but crushing her.
"Gluck! Coco-nut! You're Big power is c-crushing me!" Azuki gasped between shakes.
"Well, we finally found you guys." Dark Vanguard nodded.
"Sure, and a flagpole is over there. We didn't know what to do, so we stayed right here." Maple explained.
"There's the goal!" Dark Voyager shouted. "C'mon! Let's go!"
And they climbed the Hard Block podium to the top. And all landed on the flag, except Coconut, in which she fell off instead.
They all entered the castle and raised the flag.
"Hey! Wait for me!" Coconut shouted and ran after them.
"Hmm, there's nothing past that pipe over there. So I suggest we go through?" Maple asked.
"Sure, let's go." Dark Vanguard answered and they entered the next warp pipe.
Coconut had just entered the castle. "Hmm, where'd they go? Oh well. I guess I'll go down the pipe." And she entered by running.
World 1-2
BGM: Underground (Super Mario Bros.)
One by one they exited the pipe through the ceiling. Except for the cats in which they fell on their body instead of their feet. (Don't cats always land on their feet?)
Then Coconut came pummeling towards the ground. Landing straight on Azuki.
"Heavy…" Azuki managed to cough.
"Oh! I'm sorry!" Coconut shouted.
"Great. Now we're underground." Maple's voice echoed throughout the 8-bit cave.
"Let's just rush through this and get it over with." Dark Voyager grumbled.
They stopped at the first Question Block. Only when Coconut bumped it. It was a flower instead of a Mushroom.
Coconut's big sprite stayed the same. Only her color palette changed from blonde, peach and pink to red, white and peach.
"Bleh! That flower tasted spicy!" Coconut whined.
"That's a fire flower." Dark Vanguard explained. "You can shoot fireballs."
"Really?" Coconut asked and her pixelated hand threw a small blonde fireball in which defeated a Goomba from the staircase of blue Hard Blocks.
"Woah, Nuts' is way more stronger now." Azuki commented.
"Mm." Vanilla stared.
They followed along smoothly. Only until they reached a 1 Block gap in the cavern.
"How in the world do you expect US to get down there?" Maple angrily complained.
Dark Voyager ran and made a crouch sprite and slid underneath the chasm. "See? Like that!" He called.
"Chocola, Azuki, Maple, and Vanilla. You Four are still tiny. So you can just walk underneath it." Dark Vanguard said after sliding underneath it.
Finally the cat girls eventually made it underneath. Only Coconut got stuck midway.
After passing they reached three pipes. And a pit of one Goomba below.
Azuki was the first to volunteer to jump. "I'll go first." Was her words.
Azuki bent over and hunched her back up. "Alrighty. I'll so you dumb cats how it's done. Ready? Annnnd JUMP!"
Azuki made an incredible performance. Leaping in her Mario jump sprite. It was almost graceful to watch from the others perspective.
"Wow! Look at Azu-Chan go!" Chocola exclaimed.
"Ya See? I'm good at this— AHHHhhh." Azuki screamed as a Piranha Plant popped out of a pipe and hit her legs. Dragging her down into the pipe with him.
The others couldn't show shock, as their faces were only two pairs of eyes. After a series of screaming and heavy chomping. Azuki's life meter went from eight to seven.
"Soooo, I'm guessing she died?" Maple asked.
Azuki's bubble returned after a few moments. Everyone agreed to play a prank and not pop her.
"Hey! Lemme out!" She cried as she just flew around the side of the screen.
"Let's just keep this up until the next level." Dark Voyager agreed.
Next was a series of lifts. Constantly going up and down. And visible in the distance was the exit pipe.
"Over there!" Cinnamon exclaimed.
It wasn't very complicated to get over. Only Chocola fell into the bottomless pit.
"Alright! Let's see what's in here." Dark Vanguard sighed.
"Mm. Mm. I smell water." Vanilla sniffed.
"Noooo! Chocola hates bath time!" Chocola squealed.
Dark Voyager and Dark Vanguard helped push all the squirming cats into the pipe. With a 'glug glug glug' all eight of them entered the pipe.
World 1-3
BGM: Underwater (Super Mario Bros.)
All the cats took a deep breath and plugged their nose as they exited the water slide into the sea.
Suddenly they realized they couldn't drown but still couldn't breathe in the salt water. (But they could talk)
"Ahhh! The water's cold! Chocola hates water!" Chocola groaned.
"I know we're holding out breath but isn't it weird we can still talk?" Maple questioned.
"Let's just get bath time over with!" Azuki yelled.
They swam for awhile, trying to avoid coral and green rocks. Dark Voyager and Dark Vanguard had to carry Chocola and Vanilla, as they were still young and didn't know how to swim.
"Is that a fish?" Coconut asked.
A Red Cheep Cheep was swimming in circles. Back and forth. It was mesmerizing for the cat girls.
Dark Voyager and Dark Vanguard had a sweat drop on their heads "Wait, don't tell me what their about to—"
"FISH!" All six of them shouted and immediately swam off. Coconut dragged Chocola and Vanilla like they were rag dolls.
They swam around eating Cheep Cheeps and Baby Bloopers.
Licking her lips. Chocola patted her stomach. "Chocola enjoyed her meal. Fishies are so tasty—"
Then with a gulp, her life meter went from eight to seven.
"D-Did That pufferfish seriously eat Chocola?!" Coconut shouted.
"No wait. It's a Porcupuffer!" Dark Vanguard shouted.
The Porcupuffer, after eating Chocola started swimming towards the cats.
"Swim!" Azuki called out. Dark Voyager and Dark Vanguard stuffed Chocola and Vanilla in their transmitters and swam for their lives.
After stopping behind a coral block to catch their breaths. They turned back to look at where the Porcupuffer was.
Instead the Porcupuffer was follows by two Cheep Chomps.
"More girl-eating fish?!" Cinnamon shouted.
"If you say it's arousing. I'm going to feed you to them!" Dark Voyager shouted at Cinnamon.
The Cheep Chomp leapt forward and nearly bit onto Coconut's bushy tail.
"Ahhh! NOO!" Coconut screamed and hurled fireballs at the Porcupuffer. Causing it to grow and turn red. It grew bigger and redder. Until POP! The Porcupuffer exploded, killing the Cheep Chomps as well.
"Well done, Coconut!" Dark Vanguard applauded.
"Hey Chocolate. Be careful when eating fish ya Nyumbskull." Azuki teased.
"Chocola didn't know there was a giant fish behind her!" Chocola countered.
"Nevermind. Let's just move before anymore killer fish comes and kills us." Dark Voyager announced.
"Sure. But Chocola wants to taste this fish!" Chocola exclaimed.
"Wait, Chocola. Don't—" Dark Vanguard started.
Chocola took a huge bite and sallowed. "Mmm! What kind of fish is—" POP! And Chocola entered her death sprite, causing her life meter to go from eight to seven.
As Dark Vanguard popped her bubble. She stated, "Chocola. That was a Urchin. Their spiky."
"Sorry, Chocola just thought it tasted good." Chocola giggled.
They swam to the right. Going the direction of the pipe. Then they turned back to see a enormous empire of Bloopers following them. Every time they turned around. The Bloopers seemed to get closer.
"Do they want something?" Coconut asked.
Azuki burped. Releasing a Baby Blooper, it swam back to the Blooper Nanny. They hissed and swam away.
"What was their problem?" Azuki asked.
After swimming some more, they came across a pile of bones swimming around.
"What is that? Dead tuna?" Coconut asked.
"Not everything is tuna, Nuts'." Azuki confronted.
The 8-bit Fishbone kept swimming around, just as Coconut eyed it, the Fishbone's eyes turned red with a alarm sound as it chomped repeatedly.
"What's the deal with that?" Coconut asked, just as she looked again it bit her, causing her to lose her Fire Power. It kept going up until it hit the surface and broke into several pieces of bone.
"Luckily the exit is right there or we'd be surrounded by a army of hungry Fishbone." Dark Vanguard commented.
"Yay! Bath time is over!" Chocola exclaimed as they exited through the pipe.
World 1-4
BGM: Desert (Super Mario Bros.)
But to their constant. They preferred being underwater from when they came from the surface.
"Aargh! Now it's humid and I'm all hot." Maple panted through the desert sun.
"So we've landed in a desert?" Dark Voyager asked.
By now all the cats cheeks were bright cherry red, and sweating miserably.
"Hey, how aren't you two sweatn' like us?" Azuki asked.
"Our suits have automated cooling systems built inside." Dark Vanguard replied.
"Lucky…" Maple groaned.
"Chocola is hot." Chocola panted.
"So am I, But we have to keep going Chocola." Vanilla groaned.
"Are you going to be okay?" Dark Vanguard asked, but just as she turned around. All six of them flopped to the ground.
"Umm, Voyager I think their dehydrated." Dark Vanguard told Dark Voyager.
"Okay, I have Chug Splashes." And he started throwing them down on them.
Slowly they started getting back up. Their cheeks still flushed, but they weren't as sweating as before.
"Mmm! What was that drink you gave Chocola?" Chocola asked.
"Uh it's— um, NEVERMIND!" Dark Voyager shouted. "It's just important we cross this Desert"
Trudging through the sandy hills. They came across a few more Question Blocks on top of a castle ruin, the result was Maple got a Super Mushroom and Coconut got her Fire Power back.
"Hey! It isn't so hot anymore!" Coconut exclaimed.
"Lucky for you…" Azuki complained.
"Hey, What are those?" Cinnamon asked, pointing to white Koopa Troopas.
"They're, They're. DRY BONES!" Dark Vanguard yelled.
"NYAA!" Coconut shouted and jumped on top of one. And the result was the Dry Bone crunched into several pieces.
"We'd better get out of here." Dark Voyager commanded.
Up ahead was a sandy path. Almost nothing but old dinosaur bones and small cactus'.
"What's the meaning of this?" Dark Vanguard asked.
Suddenly the sun appeared in the top right hand corner of their screen. Just sitting there.
"What is the sun doing so close to us?" Maple asked.
Then it turned around to be a sun with an angry face.
"Woah! It's the Angry Sun!" Dark Voyager pointed at it.
"Meowhat? Aren't suns supposed to be happy all the time?" Chocola asked.
"Not this one." Dark Voyager responded.
The Angry Sun just sat there menacingly, with its same angry face looking down at them.
Everytime they moved, it followed them. But it remained doing nothing.
"Hmph. More like a bother." Maple sighed. "Oh well."
They started walking, when suddenly the Angry Sun started dancing in what seemed to be a circle, then shot downwards.
"JUMP!" Dark Voyager and Dark Vanguard shouted.
"Meow?" All of them replied, then turned into their death sprites as the sun hit them one by one.
It continued to do so. All of them ran to the right, trying to avoid it.
"Why is the sun attacking us?!" Cinnamon screamed.
Then they slid under to a ruin hideout. The Angry Sun was now searching for them.
"Why, is, the, sun, so, mean?" Coconut panted.
"Because the Sun is Angry." Dark Vanguard explained. "That's just the way he is."
"I have a plan!" Dark Voyager whispered. "I need Coconut, Maple and Cinnamon to get on my back, and Azuki, Chocola, and Vanilla. I need you three to get on Dark Vanguard's back."
"Rodger that chief." Azuki breathed heavily.
As they did so, the Angry Sun noticed them and bolted after them.
"Go, Go, go!" Dark Voyager yelled.
The Angry Sun continued to follow them, trying to burn them, but both Voyagers jumped over him like nothing. Eventually their sprites glitched and went back to normal 8-bit.
"Hey, there was a corruption loop right there!" Dark Vanguard pointed out.
The Angry Sun was now trying to get to them, but the corruption loop was holding him back. The Corrupted loop was a fragment of the corruption where the real world also meets with a 8-bit segment, which makes a small crack.
"Phew! Glad we don't have to deal with him anymore!" Azuki smiled.
"Let's just continue forward." Dark Voyager announced.
Soon, they approached a gap. Ahead was a pit and a couple of spike traps. Azuki thought if they jumped high enough, they could make it all the way.
"Okay! Watch this!" Azuki called out.
Dark Vanguard looked up, then she gasped as she saw three corrupted fragments were split. Only they were attacked to the same sky, they must've gotten split somewhere during the virus phase.
"Wait! Azuki!" Dark Vanguard called out.
She already leapt, but as soon as she did, her sprite returned to her normal human cat self.
"Huh?" Azuki asked puzzled. Then she fell and turned back into her 8-bit sprite and died on the spike traps. Her life meter went from seven to six.
After popping Azuki. All eight of them were very confused.
"What happened?" Azuki asked.
"I don't know. But just step forward." Dark Voyager asked.
As they did, they returned to their human selves. Although the desert sand remained.
"We need to find another Corrupted Fragment." Dark Vanguard suggested.
"But where?" Cinnamon asked.
"I don't care where! Just not hot, maybe somewhere cold? I don't know! I'm hot and my body is full of sweat." Maple complained.
"I agree with Maple." Coconut agreed.
"Hmm, Maybe Over there?" Dark Vanguard pointed to a grayer segment.
"Just as it's not hot…" Coconut moaned through flushed red cheeks.
World 1-4
BGM: Snow (Super Mario Bros.)
The brick tiles now had pixelated snow on them. Also it was snowing lightly.
"Wow! It's snow!" Cinnamon exclaimed.
"What? You guys never saw snow before?" Dark Voyager asked.
"Not really, in our region in Japan, snow is very uncommon!" Maple explained.
"What about you two?" Azuki asked.
"Well, we used to have these locations named Polar Peak, Happy Hamlet and Frosty Flights. Until our land disappeared, plus the snow took up a huge portion of our island." Dark Vanguard answered.
The level was designed in a classic way, like basic enemies and a few overhangs.
"Let's just rush through this!" Azuki said with confidence.
"It May be slippery." Maple warned.
"Oh your such a scaredy-cat." Azuki responded. "Wahoo!"
She was running ahead, only to slip on a few ice blocks, as she was trying to maintain her balance, the overhang shed a sharp icicle on her head.
"That looked painful." Dark Vanguard commented.
After popping Azuki's bubble she shivered and clenched her hands around her shoulders.
"Brr! It's way to cold! I hated that damn desert, but I hate this stupid ice land just as much!" Azuki complained. "Plus why does Nuts' design the worst ways to kill people?"
"I I-I didn't create this." Coconut shivered.
"My face has frost nip." Cinnamon commented.
"Ugh! I wished for something cold! Now I want Something continental!" Maple whined.
By now the snow picked up and the cats had heavy frost nip on their faces, causing their cheeks to flush a deep pink.
"Why didn't you bring winter coats?" Dark Vanguard asked.
"Like we could bring some on us!" Azuki retorted.
"But you could've asked us to carry it for you." Dark Vanguard replied.
"Aren't you cold Dark Voyager?" Cinnamon asked.
"No, we Voyagers have automated heating systems." He answered.
"So you have everything to survive in the wilderness with the one space suit?" Azuki grunted.
"Everything for different planets." Dark Voyager shrugged.
"That sounds fun…" Vanilla daydreamed.
"If you don't want to freeze. Then light a fire in your cat butts." Dark Voyager commanded.
"Okay, Okay." Azuki rolled her eyes. "We're comin'"
They eventually got past the icicle path. And reached a slippery path of mushroom platforms.
"How in the heck are we supposed to get past here?" Coconut shouted.
"Chocola doesn't get it." Chocola's eyes widened.
"There's the pipe." Dark Vanguard pointed at the top of the peak. "If you don't fall, we can probably make it."
"Okay, But we're gonna use this." Vanilla's head popped out of a big winged Goombrat Stiletto.
"Where'd?—" Dark Vanguard stuttered.
"Oh we just found this little one hopping around. So we stole his shoe." Coconut's head also popped out.
"It even could fit us all!" Chocola popped up.
"Ok Boomer. You do you." Dark Voyager responded.
Dark Voyager and Dark Vanguard hopped to the pipe. While the cat girls flew their big shoe to the entrance.
"Ohh! You look so adorable fitting together in that Stiletto! It's like kittens fitting in a shoebox!" Dark Vanguard exclaimed.
"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Let's just move on." Dark Voyager replied and entered the pipe.
World 1-5
BGM: Forest (Super Mario Bros.)
No chirping of birds, or mosquitoes buzzing around. Just pixelated water flowing through a 2D river and Shy Guys wandering around.
"Wow, Master said The Forest was beautiful." Vanilla mumbled.
"Well, Kashou-San is mostly full of lies." Azuki smiled and shrugged.
"What are those weird guys with masks on?" Cinnamon asked, pointing at some 8-bit Spear Guys
"Don't go near them." Dark Vanguard warned.
"Oh really?" Cinnamon asked. "They look cute to me."
The Spear Guy studied Cinnamon. Then he started throwing spears at her.
"MEEEOW!" Cinnamon screamed. "WHY IS IT THROWING SPEARS AT ME!"
All eight of them got out quick before more Shy Guys could come.
Panting heavily and deeper in the forest, the checked their surroundings for more Shy Guys.
"Nothing as far as I can see." Dark Voyager announced.
"Just avoid over there." Dark Vanguard pointed to a corrupted point end, revealing a real-world waterfall.
They jumped to a bridge, where Green and Red Cheep Cheeps were bouncing and swimming around. Only when they noticed them, they started hopping towards them.
"More of those fish things?" Azuki asked. "Well, I'm starving anyway!"
Only her mouth wasn't fast enough and got killed by a Cheep Cheep stampede.
"So fish can kill us now?" Vanilla asked.
"What a horrible way to go down…" Azuki moaned.
Just then a few normal Shy Guys were strolling down the bridge. Seemingly minding their own business.
"Hey! Your going to pay for hurting Cinna-Nyan!" Coconut leapt on a Shy Guy. He kept walking around, his head was almost like a platform.
Coconut continued to struggle. "Listen when I'm talking to you!" She yelled, then she crouched and picked up the Shy Guy. Causing him to struggle. Then she threw him at the other Shy Guys, causing each to give her one-thousand points.
"That's our Coco-Chan!" Chocola cheered.
"I thought squids only swam in water." Maple pointed at a few Bloopers floating in the water, swimming towards them, until they started flying out of the water towards them.
"NYAA! I THOUGHT SQUIDS COULDN'T FLY!" Coconut yelled.
They ran away from the Blooper as fast as they could, only as a result, they fell in the river.
"Ugh, this is the worst forest I've ever been to." Maple groaned.
They eventually swam up to the brown block shore, which was simply a steep slope. Up on the slope was a green block with angry looking eyes.
"A Snake Block?" Dark Vanguard questioned.
Upon all eight hopping in it, it started to move to the right.
"Woah! Vanilla! It's like one of those amusement park rides!" Chocola exclaimed.
Only it wasn't just a fun amusement park ride, as platforms above had enemies walking around.
"Also, why is the water purple and rising?" Azuki asked.
A Goomba fell off a block, and sunk into the purple water. It didn't pop back up though. In which everyone knew what was the ordeal.
"There's Poison In forests? Meow?!" Coconut shouted.
"I hate these forests!" Vanilla shouted.
After the snake block started moving, the limit capacity changed to 'five on board'. Each time an enemy fell on, the number went down, and so on. When a Koopa Troopa, Goomba, Piranha Plant, Shy Guy and Bomb-om fell on, the snake block flashed red and stopped moving.
"We need to get these things off the boat!" Dark Voyager shouted trying to throw the Bomb-om off the boat.
"Wait! I have my Fire Power!" Coconut reminded. She hurled a couple of fireballs, which killed the enemies, and made the Bomb-om start flashing red.
"Why is it flashing red—"
KABOOM!
Everyone except Coconut, lost their life or lost their power up. Maple, Cinnamon, Dark Voyager and Dark Vanguard lost their Big. And Chocola, Vanilla and Azuki's life meter went from seven to six.
"Sorry!" Coconut pleaded.
"Woah! There are bomb enemies?!" Azuki said in her bubble.
"Great, now Coconut is our real leader." Dark Voyager mumbled.
After several more moments of dodging and throwing enemies into the poison. A bridge with a blue block flashing POW was seen.
"What is this thing?" Coconut asked picking it up. "It's so heavy— woah!"
It's weight dropped from Coconut, causing it to fall. On impact the whole block exploded with a massive shockwave and a big POW was heard. Causing all the coins to fall, and enemies to die. And a big 50-Coin dropped from the sky.
"Wahoo! Thanks Nuts' for the money!" Azuki said collecting the coin.
"Hey! No fair! I was the one who made it fall!" Coconut yelled.
Finally the Snake Block hit the side of the end of the river. It shook and fell into the poison.
"Phew! Good thing we stepped out of there!" Dark Vanguard wiped the sweat from her head.
"Good because theirs a real life anchor sitting over there." Dark Voyager pointed to an anchor sitting in a quiet meadow.
"Let's go check it out!" Chocola said, stepping out of the corruption, causing her to turn back into human.
Once they gathered around the anchor, they all drooped in disappointment.
"Aw man, I thought it was going to do something." Chocola whined, leaning on the anchor.
Suddenly the anchor started shaking and moving upwards to the sky.
"Everyone! Grab on!" Dark Vanguard shouted, and they did. Descending high above the ground.
"I-I-I-I a-am af-afraid of h-heights!" Coconut wailed.
Then the anchor latched and shot them upwards, causing them to turn 8-bit once more.
World 1-6
BGM: Sky (Super Mario Bros.)
They landed in fluffy white clouds, as the pixelated clouds moved peacefully slowly.
"W-W-We're s-so high up!" Coconut shivered.
"Then don't look down." Maple corrected her.
"Nevermind that. Just move to the right." Dark Voyager instructed.
Just to the right, was a few blocks with screws in them, as well as a small gray castle Semi-Solid with a Question Block on the top.
This allowed Dark Voyager and Dark Vanguard to collect their Super Mushrooms again.
A small ball was blowing wind upwards to a higher castle and a few airborne coins.
"What kind of enemy is that?" Chocola asked.
"That's a Twister, It propels you upwards. Try getting to that castle up their." Dark Vanguard informed.
"Chocola thinks that's fun!" Chocola exclaimed and jumped off onto the Twister, it continued to blow her upwards until she reached the platform of the castle.
"Weee!" She cheered.
"I want to try to." Vanilla volunteered.
Vanilla instead jumped too far, throwing her to another bridge and a pipe below, dispensing Goomba Shoes.
There was a way underneath with a few spike traps and another path above.
"How are you supposed to get across?" Maple asked.
"I think those shoes allow you to walk without taking damage of the spikes." Cinnamon examined.
The Nekos decided to cross the safe path to the Pipe Plaza. Which was a series of Piranha Plants, and a single red pipe which a Red Piranha Plant kept coming in and out without a pause.
"I didn't know this was going to be hard…" Azuki moaned.
Finally more Twisters were propelling Goombas to the sky, others continued to fall with the help of red parachutes. Ahead was the flagpole.
"There it is!" Coconut pointed to the flagpole.
"C'mon!" Maple shouted.
"Wait hold on—" Dark Vanguard was too late to finish her sentence, as the cats were already running forwards. And forgot about the falling Parachute-Goombas.
Only Coconut and Maple were able to get across, while the others died getting stuck within the Twister's pull.
"All's well that ends well?" Coconut shrugged.
"Let's just grab that flag." Dark Voyager said.
After popping their bubbles, Azuki was already complaining.
"Sure, that level was short, but wasn't it too easy?" She scowled.
"I think it's a template level." Dark Vanguard replied.
Why is there a black flying boat coming this way?" Vanilla asked as the anchor dropped.
"Quickly! Hop on it! Before it starts moving again!" Dark Voyager shouted.
World 1-7
BGM: Airship (Super Mario Bros.)
Climbing aboard the Airship. The aura changed to a much more darker and evil.
"I don't like the feeling of this ship, and the music." Azuki shivered.
The clouds were moving faster and the black metal airship bobbed up and down. So the cats and the astronauts had to move fast to avoid falling off the screen by the incoming autoscroll.
Ahead, cannons were filled with Cannonballs and Bomb-Oms, Bullet and Banzai Bills. It looked like Shy Guys were operating the cannons, and ahead was a enormous flying metal ship designed to keep intruders out. As it was filled to the brim with hazardous weapons including burners.
Chocola immediately jumped backwards. "Chocola doesn't want her tail burning or exploding off!" She screamed.
Dark Voyager seemed annoyed by Chocola's answer. "Well, the only way is forward, OR WE GET CRUSHED INTO A WALL BY THE AUTOSCROLL!"
Advancing forward, the cats carefully avoided the cannons firing cannonballs. Luckily for them, they were slow and a simple jump would defeat them. Bullet Bills weren't to hard either, Shy Guys would point at them to fire. Only one Bullet Bill fired at a time.
"Aren't Rockets supposed to be fast?" Maple asked. Just as a Bullet Bill slammed into her face. Causing an explosion and the loss of her big.
"May-Chan, You should be more careful." Cinnamon urged Maple.
Dark Vanguard figured out that if you stomp on a Shy Guy while they're reloading, the Bill Blaster could no longer fire Bullet Bills.
Just up ahead was a rotating cannon. Firing cannonballs in every which direction. As Banzai Bills were being shot from Shy Guys a distance away.
"Duck and run!" Dark Voyager shouted as he and his sister sled through an opening.
"How are we supposed to do that?" Coconut shouted just as a Bomb-Om with a parachute was shot from a cannon on the roof.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" Coconut screamed as she chucked endless amounts of fireballs at it.
BOMB!
The Bomb-Om exploded, causing the cannons to break along with it. Just as that happened. More Bomb-Oms were falling from the cannons above.
"I hate how this Airship is designed!" Azuki shouted, nearly dodging a Banzai Bill.
Dark Vanguard hurled a Lit Bomb-Om at the Shy Guy operating the Banzai Blaster causing him and the blaster to explode.
Fortunately for them, they passed a black smaller goal pole, which Dark Voyager exclaimed as a 'Checkpoint Flag'. But both the Astronauts and cat girls weren't ready for the incoming smaller airships.
"Whaaaat?!" Chocola shouted. "How do they expect Chocola to jump over those to small jets?"
As Chocola was complaining about the current situation and the risk of falling below to their doom, even though Coconut pleaded they would be fine as cats always landed on their feet. A pothole engraved in the jet ahead lifted up. A Rocky Wrench peeked out, then stuck his hand out and chucked a wrench at Chocola.
"Chocola! Watch out!" Cinnamon cried, but it was too late. The wrench hit Chocola. In which her life meter went from six to five.
"Rocky Wrenches?" Dark Vanguard shouted as more of them popped from their 8-bit manholes and tossed wrenches at them.
"Who are they?" Vanilla asked.
"Those beaver like enemies hurl wrenches at the player! Their one of the best Airship guards, which means we might be closer to the end than we think!" Dark Vanguard replied.
Only this part wasn't any easier than it looked. The autoscroll picked up and burners were blasting from the ends of the jets.
The cats soon figured out how the Rocky Wrenches worked. They would pop out, then just as they were about to throw, stomp on their heads. Unfortunately for Vanilla she now had five lives left as she was too slow at stomping a Rocky Wrench.
Finally ahead was a small tank firing A.I.M Bills and Banzais operated by Shy Guys. In the distance was the interior pipe to the Airship.
"There it is!" Dark Voyager shouted. "Just past this part!"
"Don't worry! I got it!" Azuki smirked as she leapt to the tank, only an 8-bit Spike hurled a spikeball on her head. Causing her to have five lives as well.
"Who's that new enemy?" Maple asked, pointing to three Spikes tossing flying spikeballs at them.
"Spikes." Dark Vanguard responded. "They are a new enemy added to the new update."
"Are there more NEW enemies we should know about?!" Azuki shouted after her bubble got popped.
"I don't know. We'll just have to wait and see." Dark Vanguard shrugged.
"How do we get across then?!" Cinnamon squealed as a spikeball damaged her.
"Coconut! Jump on our heads!" Dark Voyager commanded as he and Dark Vanguard repeatedly bounced on each other's heads.
"Umm, Okay?" Coconut jumped atop the tower of bouncing humans and her height was high enough to get in the other side and defeat the Spikes as well as the Cannon Guys. And the positive case was the A.I.M Blasters quit operating.
"Good job Nuts'!" Azuki cheered.
"Now let's see who's behind all of this." Cinnamon sounded serious and rolled down her long gloves
As they entered the pipe…was a blank room, just a window of the clouds and pixelated 8-bit clouds outside.
"Sure looks pretty and odd when the clouds are mixed with real-life clouds." Azuki commented, as the corruption was growing larger by the hour.
"WHO THINKS THEY ARE SMART ENOUGH TO GET PAST MY AIRSHIP?!" A loud voice screamed.
"US!" Azuki yelled back.
Suddenly an orange sprite jumped from above, it was the Madlad, Boom Boom.
"Okay then, I HOPE YOU LIKE FISTS!" Boom Boom snarled and started swinging his fists and legs constantly following the cats.
"How Mad is this Lad?!" Azuki screamed as Boom Boom nearly hit her tail.
Coconut jumped and landed on his head, causing him to retreat into his shell.
"Ohh! Do we have Mario followers? OUT COMES MY NEXT ATTACK!" Boom Boom yelled as he ran faster as well as jumping high and ground pounding to the ground.
"Stop that!" Maple shouted. "Can't you do anything more than just swing your fists and jump around?!"
Vanilla and Chocola climbed up a wall and pounced on Boom Boom, causing him to retreat a second time.
"YOU CAN'T KEEP THIS UP FOREVER!" Boom Boom screamed.
Suddenly Boom Boom's arms turned into wings, and he started flying all around the Airship interior.
"You just HAD to say that Maple!" Azuki scoffed at Maple.
"How would I know? I never knew he would just 'SPROUT' wings and start flying like a bird!" Maple countered.
"Are ya pickin' a fight? Huh? Maple?" Azuki hissed. "Ya want to fight?"
"Just like we do every Sunday after church!" Maple growled.
"NOWS NOW THE TIME TO BE CAT-FIGHTING!" Dark Voyager shouted. "We've got other work to amend!"
Boom Boom pummeled downwards, homing in on Azuki. Luckily, Maple jumped and dodged Boom Boom's attack.
"He's right, we shouldn't fight right now." Maple agreed.
"It's not a easy as it looks? Huh? Hahahaha—" Boom Boom chuckled with glee, until Cinnamon, (who was climbing the wall) jumped down and hit Boom Boom one last time, causing for a key to drop from him as he fell off screen to the ground.
"He doesn't really pay attention, does he?" Cinnamon sighed.
"There's the key door." Maple pointed out. "Who has the key?"
"I do." Cinnamon raised her hand.
"Hand it over." Azuki said.
"I think I need it." Coconut
"Chocola needs it." Chocola puffed out her cheeks.
"Y'all silly if you think you're getting it." Dark Voyager shouted.
BGM: Bonus (Super Mario Bros.)
Azuki leapt at Cinnamon, she dodged and dived for the key door.
"I don't think so, Cinnamon!" Coconut shouted and jumped on Cinnamon's head, accessing Coconut the key.
Chocola pounced on Coconut granting her the key.
"Give me that!" Maple shouted, hitting Chocola's head with the side of her hand.
Now it was a full-blown fight for the key. Everyone was everyone's enemy.
First it was a Tug'o'War then a full cat fight.
"Give me that key!" Azuki yelled as she clawed at Coconut's face.
"Never!" Maple hissed as she pounced on Azuki.
"Chocola gets it!" Chocola shouted and was getting ready to jump as Vanilla pushed her and started wrestling Chocola.
"Sorry, Chocola. But I'm getting the key." Vanilla said apologetically.
"Wait, which one of us has it?" Cinnamon asked as she was covering her face from Azuki's cat punches.
"Wait, didn't Coconut have it last?" Dark Voyager said letting go of Chocola and Vanilla's hair.
"Where's the damn key?!" Azuki hollered.
"What were you guys fighting about? The exit is right here, you know." Dark Vanguard pointed out as she opened the key door.
"What?! But when did you—?" Azuki sputtered.
"While you girls were horsing around, the key was where I was standing next to the door." Dark Vanguard replied and entered.
"Why you! You just think we were messing around?! Oh forget it." Azuki hissed and followed.
"I have to admit. Vanguard has some good strategy." Vanilla admitted.
BGM Ends.
When the Airship descended back to the ground, the cats and astronauts were glad to see the goal pole again. Only a much, much larger castle was waiting for them.
"There it is." Dark Voyager murmured. "The last level."
"Well what're waiting for? Go in!" Azuki yelled and pushed everyone along.
World 1-8
BGM: Castle (Super Mario Bros.)
Inside was grey castle tiles and lava everywhere. No sign of remorse anywhere.
"So it goes water, poison now LAVA?!" Coconut shrieked.
"Don't worry, it's the final level. It might be hard, but it'll hopefully be over by now." Dark Voyager replied.
"But what about the Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, New Super Mario Bros. U and Super Mario 3D World corruptions?" Coconut asked. "Do we have to explore those too?"
"Hopefully not, just enough to stop whatever is creating the world to corrupt. And we need to hurry before all the game styles corrupt the world entirely!" Dark Vanguard explained.
"Let's Go!" Chocola announced.
The lava started rising, forcing the cats to jump onto a Semi-Solid.
"Hold on, rising lava, Bangers and Skwers as well as ON/OFF switches?" Maple examined. "Coconut?"
Coconut lowered her head in embarrassment. "It's the level I made, the one you guys but me can't beat." She groaned.
"Why choose Coconut's CATastrophic Castle for the final level?" Dark Vanguard asked puzzled.
"Wait, if Nuts' is the only one who can beat it…" Azuki thought.
"Than Coco-Chan is the only one who can beat it!" Chocola exclaimed.
"Huh?" Coconut asked unaware of what everyone just said.
"Coconut! I'd never thought I'd say this but, YOU can be our leader." Azuki instructed.
"Really?" Coconut smiled.
"If you know the hazards and traps, you can guide us through it." Dark Voyager responded.
"Okay then!" Coconut exclaimed, as she was the most powered-up cat with the Fire flower. "Let's-a-Go!"
Ahead was a speed run type hazard, whoever didn't hit the ON/OFF switch fast enough would fall into the lava.
"Bubble up." Coconut sounded serious. "I've got this."
Everyone retreated into their bubble, while Coconut ran the show.
"Coconut!" Dark Voyager shouted. "If you fall into the lava. We all die and have to restart at the first level!"
Coconut swiftly dashed across jumping at the exact right time to bump the switches. Causing the red and blue blocks to swap into platforms for her.
Then Coconut leapt and latched on to the side of the wall with her claws while the others floated their bubbles to her.
"Wow Coco-Chan! Chocola could never get past that part!" Chocola exclaimed.
Ahead was an alley of Thwomps. Their eyes opened slowly when they approached.
"The goal here is to be quick, or be crushed." Coconut explained. "When I say go, we all dash to the other side, got it?"
Everyone agreed and waited until Coconut shouted. "GO!"
The Thwomps slammed downwards but were too slow for the cats. Eventually they made it across to the Hammer Bro station. In which they were defeated by a few quick fireballs of Coconut's.
Then there was a drop down to a sleeping Side-Thwomp.
"That little turd slides to the left. I am going to need a volunteer to help me."
"Ooh! Ooh! Coco-chan! Pick Chocola! She'll do it!" Chocola exclaimed right away.
"Okay Chocola, I'm trusting you with this part." Coconut smiled. "Just drop down and run. Hop in the Swinging Claw and hit the P-Switch to unlock the next passage."
"On it!" Chocola shouted excitedly as she dropped down. "Hey Banger! Catch me if you can!" And Chocola started running as the Side-Thwomp followed Chocola.
Eventually the Thwomp hit the side and Chocola pressed the P-Switch.
"Woo-Hoo Chocola! I knew you could do it!" Coconut exclaimed.
Ahead was a different part of Coconut's level that no one, not even Coconut knew about.
"Are they also new enemies from the new update?" Azuki asked. Pointing to green Pokeys moving side to side.
"Yes, Pokeys can be stacked, and they are hard to get over." Dark Vanguard replied. "Some Spikes and Spike Tops are over there as well."
A hazard that Coconut didn't make was a trap of Semi-Solids of Pokeys guarding a Question Block, and three platforms of Spikes hurling spikeballs at them, with Spike Tops protecting them.
"I'll go, those Pokeys don't seem like they know what their doing." Azuki announced and dashed over.
"Be careful!" Coconut called out.
Azuki dodged the Pokeys moving from side to side, like it was a maze. Eventually she climbed atop the tower and hit the Question Block, a Super Star popped out.
"Oh yeah! My favorite power! Time to kill all of these bad boys! Azuki shouted and zoomed across the level.
She killed the Pokey Stacks like nothing. And got every cat back up to nine lives by killing all the enemies in the junction.
"Yay! Azu-Chan!" Chocola cheered. "You did it!"
The pipe thrusted open, all the cat girls and astronauts nervously approached the pipe.
"Well, this is it. It's all or nothing." Dark Voyager told everyone. "Time to see what's behind this."
And everyone slowly entered the pipe.
BGM Ends.
Ahead was silence. An empty hall way. Only a few Question Blocks that the other eight thought was a trap set by Coconut.
"It's not." Coconut admitted. "I made that so players could have a power before the final boss. It's a One-Way-Wall. So you only get one chance. And the power ups may vary."
Suddenly, pixel fireballs were being shot from afar. And the culprit wasn't visible in the distance.
"I know Bowser shoots fire from a distance when your close enough, but I don't think that's Bowser." Maple questioned.
"Hurry! The Question Blocks!" Coconut instructed.
"I want to have powers! Let's get boppin'!" Azuki shouted.
Each cat bumped a Question Block, the astronauts declined as they had their own space weapons.
Chocola's Block was the Propeller Mushroom.
Vanilla's was the Super Leaf.
Coconut had Fire Flower. (already)
Cinnamon had the Boo Mushroom.
Maple had the Super Crown.
And Azuki had the Ice Flower.
The powers rolled on a Conveyor Belt. And were taken to a contraption.
The astronauts and cats followed the power-ups, when they realized the castle bridge where the Axe was, was out of the 8-bit corruption. Ahead was a real axe and real castle bridges.
"Man, I'd never thought I'd do this in real life." Azuki commented. "This is awesome!"
The Power-Ups rolled off the Conveyor Belt as each cat claimed their powers. And the Corruption was too high up to go back.
Each power gave the cats a different look. And each was unique. It was what Dark Voyager called a 'cringy anime transformation sequence'.
Chocola's appearance changed drastically. A helmet formed on her head, with a cute cat symbol on the sides, her helmet formed holes to support her long pigtails and cat ears. And a propeller on the top of her helmet. Her dress changed to a red and brown jumpsuit. And a hole on the back for her tail to come out of. Finally as an addition, she had a red visor to protect her eyes when flying. She called herself Propeller Chocola.
Vanilla was next, her white cat ears changed to blonde longer ears. Her dress became shorter and more athletic. Her mary-jane shoes changed to normal sneakers for running support. Finally her short white tail became blonde and bushier. She dubbed herself as Fox Vanilla.
Coconut's 8-bit Fire sprite was no more. Her hair become pale white. Her crop-top changed from pink to red, and her purple ribbon became white. The straps on her crop-top became solid fire and burned brightly. Her denim hot pants became white with a red fire pattern on them. Then her tail became solid white with burning lava at the tip. The purple healed shoes she was wearing changed to crimson red. As well as her cheeks came a deep crimson to show it was fiery and hot. Finally her blue and amber heterochromic eyes changed to fiery red and burning yellow. Her hands burned and turned to a molten burning fire, to support fireballs. Her name was already Fire Coconut.
Cinnamon's hair became white, her ribbon holding her hair in the back changed to a ghostly blonde and the back of her hair changed to ghost plasma. The pink ribbon on her chest now dark purple with supporting glowing rune glyphs. The blue in her magical girl outfit became an immense gray. The white folds on the end her dress now a glowing white plasma, as well as the ribbon on her tail. The shoes which were high heels became a ghostly tail, allowing her to phase and fly like a Boo. And the final touch was her eyes became a pale yellow. She struck a pose and shouted Boo Cinnamon.
Then Maple. Her cat ears now had gold earrings, and the Super Crown on her head. The brown headband in her hair now solid gold with a carving in it. Her brown waistcoat now a pinkish color with fabulous golden lining. Her dress now a plaid pink, and much longer. Her hair became longer, more beautiful and curlier. Her red ribbon with her gold bell was now made out of real ruby, giving her golden bell more contrast. She now wore long gloves on her hands that rolled up to her arms. Finally her socks became a royal white, as well as she was now wearing golden glass high heals. With her Super Crown she was now Maplette. Or Princess Maple at that.
Azuki was last. Her short brown hair became snowy blue. As well, her cat ears became a icy white. In addition, her cat style hair clips, now a solid ice. Her sailor suit consisting of snowy patterns. A blue to purple gradient sleeveless buttoned shirt. With white snowflakes as a pattern on her shirt. With her short dress of blue and a wavy white, forming the illusion of piled up snow. Her Mary-Janes now made fully out of ice, which made ice skating a breeze and she could even turn water into ice platforms. Her short and striped tail formed into a pattern of ice blue and Snow White. Finally the choker holding her bell became a patterned glowing ice in her throat. Her eyes flowed and glowed a bright icy blue. And her cheeks now a frostbite pink. And just like Coconut, her hands now cold and icy to support iceballs. As she roared out her name as Ice Azuki.
The cats all struck magical girl poses consisting of their own powers. And dubbed themselves as the 'Powered-Up Cat Squadron'.
Dark Vanguard cheered and clapped, while Dark Voyager stared and cringed. "That was the most cringy transformation sequence I ever saw." He stated.
"I mean, since we were little, we always wanted to try something like that." Fire Coconut scratched her head with her fiery hand.
"Hey, if ya got problems you can go grab one for yerselves." Ice Azuki commented.
"Naw, I'm good. I am a trained sergeant and astronaut. I can handle myself." Dark Voyager declined the offer.
"Okay! Let's see what is causing the corruption!" Princess Maple shouted.
"Hey! Come out and fight us coward!" Ice Azuki yelled.
No one responded, but they did hear a roar that they knew it wasn't Bowser.
As everyone well knows, Petey Piranha was the main character and boss of every chapter. And the person gets the boot if they dare call him weak, stupid, powerless, dumb, or in Ice Azuki's case. A COWARD. And Petey did NOT like that.
"Did you hear something?" Fox Vanilla asked.
Suddenly, the ground shook and blew everyone back. It was Petey Piranha, he angrily stared at the powered up cats and the dark astronauts.
"What the hell is that?!" Ice Azuki shouted as she looked up.
"It's, IT'S PETEY PIRANHA?!" Propeller Chocola exclaimed.
"What was that?" Boo Cinnamon asked.
"Y'know! Petey Piranha! King and Ruler of Piranha Plants? Fought on the windmill? Bowser's strongest and best officer?" Propeller Chocola persuaded.
"Oh yeah, that guy. The plant who trapped Zelda and Peach in those cages." Ice Azuki agreed.
"But his specialty is using cages as a weapon." Princess Maple commented. "And It looks like he's holding two right— now?"
Everyone gulped and looked around, in which they didn't know until now. Tears started forming in Propeller Chocola and Fox Vanilla. "W-Where—Where's M-Master?" Propeller Chocola whimpered.
"Wait, weren't Shigure-Chan and Kashou Onii-Chan just with us?" Fire Coconut asked and looked all around.
Ice Azuki had a scared and worried look in her eyes. "They-they weren't with us this whole time, when I pushed us off the ledge."
"Which can only mean…" Boo Cinnamon looked worriedly at Petey Piranha.
Petey slowly lifted up both his cages, which revealed two human figures in the cages.
"Coconut! Cinnamon! Maple and Azuki! There you are! I've been worried! I'm glad you're doing all right, and having fun in your…power suits. But I guess this meetup is a little awkward." Shigure giggled nervously and still smiled even in the situation she was in.
"Chocola! Vanilla! I've been worried sick! But, uh, I'm sorry, me and Shigure can't really show our affection right now, we're, uh, trapped." Kashou nervously said.
The two astronauts and the six cats stared in disbelief at Shigure and Kashou in Petey's cages. Trapped. And used as his weapons.
"M-M-Master?" All six cats whimpered as Petey stared angrily again.
"YOU LET THEM GO, RIGHT, MEEOOOWWW!" Ice Azuki screamed as the other cats prepared their weapons.
In response, Petey slammed both cages together and roared extremely loudly. Revealing his realistic and monstrous mouth, as saliva dripped at the roof of his mouth and wetted his gums, and his throat and uvula extra large for eating large things such as humans.
BGM: In The Final (Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr's Journey)
The rain started pouring as the thunder and lighting roared in the background. Petey took the first shot. He swung Shigure's cage with brute force.
"WWOOO-AAAHH!" Shigure screamed as she was dragged along the ground.
Fox Vanilla and Princess Maple luckily jumped out of the way, before the cage could hit them.
"Shigure! Are you alright?" Kashou asked after she was flung like a rag doll.
"Ugh, I've been better." Shigure answered.
"Don't worry, Shigure-sama! Chocola'll save—" Unfortunately for Propeller Chocola and Fox Vanilla, they weren't paying attention. And got slammed by Kashou's cage. Causing them to be blown away and knock into Fire Coconut and Boo Cinnamon along the way.
Propeller Chocola, Fox Vanilla, and Boo Cinnamon clung onto Coconut. Who was struggling to keep her balance on the tower.
Propeller Chocola and Fox Vanilla looked down and screamed.
"WHAAAAT?! HOW DID WE GET ON TOP OF A SKYSCRAPER?!" Propeller Chocola screamed after looking down.
Thunder crashed as the cats could see the cars driving below like ants, and the corrupted areas with a black sky and grey clouds, flashing along with the lightning, all the while moving fast.
"Wait! I just got an idea!" Boo Cinnamon said as a lightbulb popped over her head. "Vanilla, give me your hand."
Fox Vanilla did just that, and Boo Cinnamon floated and phased through the wall, coming through the top of the skyscraper.
"Now, Chocola. Use your Propeller suit to fly up here with Coconut." Boo Cinnamon said calmly.
"But, I, don't, know, how, to, FLLLLLYYYYY!" Propeller Chocola screamed as she and Fire Coconut fell to the bottom.
Luckily Fire Coconut acted quickly and grabbed Chocola's legs, then spun with all her Force, and they slowly descended upwards.
"I think you just spin to fly." Fire Coconut told her little sister.
"At least we're all safe." Boo Cinnamon said, just as Petey swung Shigure's cage at them.
"Not on my watch!" Ice Azuki shouted and shot out a icy substance out the palms of her hands. Freezing the cage.
Petey grumbled as he tried to get his leaf detached to the frozen cage, then he ended up slamming the cage hard onto the ground, shattering the ice, and blowing Ice Azuki and Fire Coconut backwards.
Suddenly Propeller Chocola propelled upwards and dive-bombed onto Petey's cage. Causing it to shutter.
Petey turned towards Propeller Chocola and swung a mini tornado at the cat, causing her to be thrusted in the air. Then Petey jumped and slammed a cage on her, smashing her onto the floor with Meteor Force.
"Ouchy." Propeller Chocola groaned as she tried to get up.
Fox Vanilla jumped and swung her tail with such a Force at Petey's leg, causing him to loose his balance.
Then Ice Azuki froze Petey's arms to the ground. Making him unable to move.
"Yes! I think we got him!" Dark Vanguard shouted.
Petey, instead hurled up fire, and both flames quickly melted the ice, before Propeller Chocola could dive-bomb on his stomach.
"Oh no!" Propeller Chocola quickly shouted as Petey got back up.
Then just as Dark Voyager and Dark Vanguard figured out Petey was targeting them, as they were vulnerable. And launched them off the skyscraper with a brute force swing of his cage.
"DARK VOYAGER!" Boo Cinnamon screamed as a small explosion was seen from the other building in the distance.
Then what actually surprised everyone was, Boo Cinnamon just hissed at Petey Piranha. And Petey roared in response.
Boo Cinnamon started circling Petey Piranha like she was a fly. And Petey was trying to swat her. Petey swung in every which direction, not hitting Boo Cinnamon whatsoever. Eventually when Petey got dizzy from circling a lot, she came up behind him and started pulling his petals, causing him to groan in frustration and pain.
"Children." Petey grumbled in his mind, in which he came up with an idea. He lifted Shigure's cage and dangled it in front of Boo Cinnamon.
"Master Shigure! I'll be alright! Just hang in there!" Boo Cinnamon cried out as she was pulling four of Petey's petals.
Just as she said that, Petey slammed the cage against his head, and knocked Boo Cinnamon off. Causing her to fall on the ledge of the skyscraper.
"Cinnamon!" Ice Azuki shouted as she dove and tossed an unconscious Boo Cinnamon towards the center of the Castle Bridge.
"Hey, Nuts'! Can you do anything useful with your fire power?" Ice Azuki yelled at Fire Coconut. "Working on it!" Fire Coconut responded.
"Hey you! Get your leaf hands off our masters!" Fire Coconut charged a fireball in her fiery hands, spamming over a dozen fireballs into one giant fireball. Then when it came back down to Fire Coconut, she kicked the fire with all her strength.
Petey saw what was about to happen. So he quickly slammed both Kashou and Shigure's cages into the fire, causing both of them to be set on fire.
"Ooh! Ooh! Hot! Yowha! Coconut what power did you have?" Kashou yelled as the cages were set in fire.
As the flames started absorbing the whole cage. Petey quickly slammed them on the ground to prevent the burning metal to touch his leaves. The flames quickly spread all around the skyscraper. Causing the building to catch on fire quickly.
"Oh crap! He caught the building on fire!" Princess Maple shouted.
"There's too much for me to put out!" Ice Azuki shouted as the flames started growing.
"It kind of reminds me of a cool battle." Fire Coconut daydreamed. "Like there's a heck of a thunderstorm going on around us, and we're fighting in fire."
"Coconut, Now's not a good time to be enjoying the situation." Fox Vanilla stated. "The whole building will catch on fire soon!"
Petey Piranha roared, as if he wanted the battle to continue. Not knowing that Princess Maple and Propeller Chocola were planning to tag team him with a Dropchopper.
"Okay Chocola, when I say now, you do your dive-bomb and I drill him with my heels, got it?" Princess Maple instructed the young kitten.
"Chocola's on it May-Chan!" Propeller Chocola exclaimed.
"Wait…aannnd." Princess Maple watched closely as Petey was fighting Fox Vanilla. She was constantly whipping her strong tail at him, making him loose his balance. Every time Petey would shoot Fox Vanilla upwards, she'd hover slightly and then ground pound on his head.
"NOW!" Princess Maple shouted when Petey backed up enough in the target range. They drilled his head in, which caused him to become dizzy and flop on the ground.
"Good job, Syrup!" Ice Azuki complemented Princess Maple, in which in response she flipped her hair in a sassy way.
"Chocola helped too!" Propeller Chocola.
Petey Piranha slowly but angrily got up. And slammed both cages on the ground furiously.
"Oh crap! He got up quick!" Ice Azuki commented.
"Hey! Up here!" Fire Coconut shouted on top of the Castle Bridge.
"We've got an idea." Fox Vanilla called.
Princess Maple did a double jump, which her Super Crown allowed her to do so.
Ice Azuki clung to Propeller Chocola and they descended to the bridge.
"Here's the plan." Fox Vanilla instructed. "We get that plant guy to faint on the bridge, then we slam that axe on that chain over there, and he will hopefully fall to his death."
"Vanilla, your always coming up with smart gimmicks." Ice Azuki smiled.
Petey got angry why they retreated to the bridge. So he charged a jump and leapt a incredible height onto the bridge. Then he slammed both cages as he landed, making a Big Bang.
"This guy knows how to fight with cages." Princess Maple whispered.
"Okay, So it comes down to this!" Fire Coconut shouted as if she was the leader of the cats. "Everyone use your powers to your full potential, and KILL HIM!"
"Got it!" Everyone shouted.
The thunder continued to roar in the sky as the inferno on the skyscraper engulfed the platform they were once standing on.
The six cats screamed, as they attacked Petey himself. With little intelligence, Petey was smart enough to dodge all their cat fists at once, when it evolved into a full blown battle. Fire and Ice. Flying and Fox Gliding, Ghosts and Princesses.
Before the climax fight started, a small stray kitten cat girl, about one week old. Was rummaging through a trash can for something to eat. When she saw the building go on fire. The blaze was pretty to her, so she started running towards it.
The little kitten, who arrived in a short amount of time, mewed softly as she started climbing the tower, wanting to get a better look on the action.
"Stand still!" Fire Coconut screamed as she tried to punch Petey with a fiery fist. Petey blocked it with Kashou's cage. All the while, Fox Vanilla was doing a fox pounce on him, when he shot a couple of ice balls at her.
Princess Maple and Propeller Chocola were waiting for a opportunity to chop the Chain, but had to help their sisters get Petey knocked down.
"Why do you have to be so difficult to. Get. Down?!" Ice Azuki panted as she continued to try and make Petey slip on her ice. But the cages were heavy and holding his weight down.
All cats were about to tag team him again. And Petey got sidetracked on Ice Azuki's icy platforms that he could do nothing about it.
Only their victory was gone…
All they heard when they stopped was the chopping of the chain and the slam of the axe. Stunned, they looked up. To their surprise. The baby kitten was playing with the axe, teething on the metal. She looked up and waved at her older companions.
Dumbfounded and still confused, Propeller Chocola waved back. Only to realize again, she accidentally chopped the bridge, it collapsed and broke on the side of the skyscraper.
Petey tried flapping his wings to catch himself, but ended up falling with the rest of the cats.
Screaming as they were falling, one by one Shigure, Kashou, Propeller Chocola, Fox Vanilla, Fire Coconut, Boo Cinnamon, Princess Maple, Ice Azuki and Petey Piranha.
The cages fell first, luckily, Shigure and Kashou were alright from the fall.
"Hey! We're still ali—" Shigure started as Petey Piranha slammed onto the ground, creating a massive Divot in the road. The other cats landed on his stomach as a landing pad. Each time they'd land on his belly, he coughed up either coins or other accessories such as, Tae and Junko's leg and arm, Ichigo and Raki Kiseki's idol cards, and Yuni's Star Color Pendant.
"What are these?" Fire Coconut asked as she picked up Raki's shirt card.
Petey sat up and roared loudly. He obviously knew that it would be bad to fight in public. But the corruption was spreading to land by now. Which made the cats worried.
Petey grabbed Kashou and Shigure's cages again and headed to a construction site of an unfinished office skyscraper. Thunder and rain continued to fall, and Petey decided to climb to tower to finish them off.
BGM: The Great Tower Showdown 2 (Super Mario 3D World)
Petey growled at the cats and started flying to the point of the skyscraper.
"What now? He can fly?" Ice Azuki angrily commented as he descended to the top of the tower.
"We've got to save Shigure-Sama and Kashou-San!" Fire Coconut shouted. "C'mon! We've got to CATch up to him!
"Okay, Genius. How do we get up there? Those low and unstable garters?" Ice Azuki asked.
"We're cats remember? We can climb! Come on!" Fire Coconut yelled as she and her sisters started climbing to the top of the skyscraper.
Petey, obviously annoyed by now, started hurling goopy Piranha Balls at them. To when they reached the first garter, it exploded with brown goop and Putrefied Piranha Plants.
Ice Azuki and Fire Coconut started tossing fireballs and iceballs at them, freezing and burning them to a crisp or a block of ice. Ice Azuki picked up a frozen Putrefied Piranha Plant and chucked it at the other goopy Plants that were growing in Petey's goopball explosions.
"This reminds me of climbing Petey's Windmill in his first fight. But only more intense and scary." Boo Cinnamon commented.
The thunderstorm raged on as they continued climbing up the skyscraper. The midpoint was more dangerous that the first, Munchers and Fire Piranha Plants were growing up on the side of the garter, ready to attack.
"I'll get them off!" Fox Vanilla shouted she she slapped her tail to kill the Piranha Plants.
Finally to the final mid way, a stable garter staircase leading to the tippy top of the skyscraper.
Track reaches 1:26
Petey Piranha roared loudly when he saw them running up to the top. Shigure and Kashou were shouting for help in their cages.
"Why is he standing on top of a giant POW block?" Princess Maple asked as he hurled a fireball like a meteorite coming out of a volcano. It exploded on the edge of the garter, setting it on fire, the path was impossible to pass.
"What do we do now?" Ice Azuki grumbled.
Then Fox Vanilla got an idea, she started running down the garter at max speed.
"Vani? What are ya doing!?" Ice Azuki shouted, when Fox Vanilla's P-Meter reached to its max, and she took off into the air to the top.
"Let's do the same!" Fire Coconut shouted, and Boo Cinnamon carried Fire Coconut, as Propeller Chocola flew Princess Maple and Ice Azuki to the top.
Petey wasn't very happy to see them. He roared loudly and started shooting a blitz of fireballs at them.
Coconut and Maple knew what to do. They walked underneath the POW block.
"Maple!" Fire Coconut shouted.
"I'm already on it!" Princess Maple yelled as they both bumped the large POW block, Petey shook and confusedly looked down to see what was going on.
"All together than!" Fire Coconut screamed as all six cats hopped underneath the POW block and started hitting it with their head.
The POW block shrunk and Petey's cages cracked and rattled, as his balance became unstable.
With one last breath the cats had, they jumped one last time.
POW!
Petey and the cages got skyrocketed to the air.
Now in slow motion. Petey desperately tried grabbing the cages, both attempts to snag the cages, he missed, and when the slow motion ended. He got blew backwards into the sky. And landed straight into the corruption black hole. Causing it to shake, shrivel up, and explode.
BGM Ends.
The cats watched in awe as the black holes exploded into a firework show. It was really a pretty sight.
"Sooo, pretty!" Propeller Chocola sighed.
After the black holes finished exploding with fireworks, a big firework exploded with a massive bang. It was Petey Piranha's face. And it didn't look too happy.
Suddenly, the cats' powers flashed from their powers back to their original forms.
"Aw man!" Coconut sighed. "I kinda wanted to keep it."
"They turned around as the corrupted areas of the Super Mario series disappeared and the sky and land returned to normal.
"Phew! At least all of this jazz is over!" Azuki chuckled.
"Wait, what about Shigure and Kashou?" Cinnamon asked.
Maple had already picked the lock, and Shigure and Kashou spilled out like a can of beans.
"Master! Are you alright?!" Chocola asked.
"W-wha? What happened?" Kashou groaned.
"Well, Chocola's been through the original Super Mario Bros. With Dark Voyager and Vanguard! We've played a lot! As well, we also played with Coco-Chan! We finally defeated her unbeatable level! Then we killed this giant flower!" Chocola summed up.
Dark Voyager and Dark Vanguard slowly and groggy, limped back to the La Soleil, where they had met up.
Their suits badly damaged, Dark Vanguard and Dark Voyager looked at each other slowly.
"Hey! You're back!" Azuki exclaimed. "We're glad you're okay!"
Coconut was still happy, but still pondered. "What now?" She asked.
Dark Voyager came up with an idea, but he let Kashou say it.
"Let-Let's just go to the aquarium today." He said.
"Wahoo!" Chocola exclaimed. "Yay!"
The cats quickly packed up for the day, because they spent a day defeating Petey Piranha. Plus their power-ups made them exhausted, so they fell asleep on the way to Hyakkeijima Sea Paradise.
Meanwhile… Petey Piranha was blasted off again. Not to a strange land, not to Japan, not to the BeanBean Kingdom, But a mix of Japan and a Safari Park.
Petey fell like a meteor as the atmosphere caught him again. And landed somewhere else in the world. He finally landed on a beach, and groggily looked at the sign he smashed near the shore:
Welcome to Japari Park!
TO BE CONTINUED…
We are now in the second half of the series! Just ten more chapters and Petey might go home, or will there be another ten chapters? Who knows? I just really liked this chapter. And as for the Nekopara series, it was WACK. I only watched the OVA, I didn't know there was a Visual Novel. But my favorite power was Fire Coconut. What was yours? But as for the side story of things... Bowser Jr and his Koopaling brothers are planning for something else...