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Chapter 5: The Dental Plack Beach
The Plack Beach is a beach located at southwestern corner of the Mushroom Kingdom. At first, it seemed like a natural beach, but further on we can see tooth-like structures with gray chips in them bordering the area, and these chips give a plaque-like impression, hence its area's name; 'plack' comes from plaque, a sticky clear film composed almost entirely of bacteria, that can cause tooth decay.
"Man, I didn't know this kingdom HAD this kind of beach. I really need to check out the kingdom more…" Bowser muttered as he walks across the sand.
Everything in this beach REALLY was dental-related because there were enemies that are based of this category, like Chuboombas, Toothies and Drillbit Crabs, the latter possibly referencing a dentist drill.
Bowser had to navigate the beach by going on rafts and punching the walls to move it across the water. Once he reached the other side of the shore, he heard a voice calling for him:
"Allô!"
Bowser wondered who called to him and he moved forward where he spotted a rope on the sand. The voice called for him again:
"Ah! Allô over zere! Monsieur Turtle Bits!"
Bowser turned to the right and saw a block guy standing on a faraway island connected to the rope.
"Ah, sweet monsieur! 'Elp me! I need 'elp! Helpez-moi, s'il vous plaît!" the block guy called more.
"Huh? What language is that? And what are you doing there?" Bowser asked.
"Ah! Bonjour! Why are you… Non! I am too rude! I am Broque Monsieur! I ask zat you look upon zis! I was cleaning zee collection, but… Disaster, it struck moi! Zee bridge to zee beach, it fell into zee water!" Broque Monsieur explained and showed the pieces of wood floating in the water. "Monsieur! You 'ave zee odor of a gentleman! Ah, oui! It wafts! And a gentleman 'elps zee needy! Surely you 'ave zis credo, oui?"
"BAH HA HA! Whatever you're smelling isn't me, pal! I don't do charity! I'm too busy for this!" Bowser scolded and was about to leave until Broque Monsieur stopped him:
"STOP, I AM BEGGING YOU! Good Monsieur Turtle Bits! You who I am not smelling!"
"Enough with the yelling! Why would I help you?"
"But 'ow can you say zis thing? You 'ave very much to gain! I will give you zee gratitudes!"
"What? Gratitudes?"
"Ah! You interest, it piques? Zis is wonderful! Marvelous! Oui, a hot block spirit dwells in you, Monsieur Turtle Bits! A blazing, fiery block spirit… Oui. You 'ave zee power…" Broque Monsieur takes out a green block with a tornado printed on it. "Look upon zis! How is zis for gratitudes, honh? I give you zis glorious thing! Zee hot block spirit cries out from your belly, and it cries for zis block! It is born for you!"
"What is wrong with you… It's just a stupid block!"
"Ah! Your tongue, bite upon it! Zis block is magnifique! Do not utter one ill word to zis block! Zee block collectors, zey pay one million coins for zis, honh? It is so very rare, oui! You will know zis if you use it! Oui, you will be in for zee big surprises, Monsieur Turtle Bits!"
"Hmmm… Surprises, huh… Fine… What do I do?"
"Ah! Thank you! Merci! You are a gentleman, après all! Look upon zis! Zis petit island, it is floating in zee ocean. A surprise to you, non? You see zis rope on zee beach? If you are to pull on zis, you will movez zee entire island!"
"Pbbth! Just pull on the rope? Gimme a challenge, pal!" Bowser then walks to the rope and begins to pull it. "Have a taste of Bowser power!"
Meanwhile, inside Bowser…
"Hey, do you feel something?" Donkey Kong asked.
"Something's happening to Bowser's arm!" Starlow exclaimed. "We should head there!"
Everyone nodded and went to the new location called the Arm Center, located in Bowser's arm muscle. The ground is composed of skeletal muscle, and we could even see the cells' nucleolus, there were some arm bones on the entrance's ceiling, and the background is probably showing more muscle cells.
The group walked forward until they spotted a large red muscle attached to its tendons doing some contractions.
"This is Bowser's arm muscle… It's reacting somehow!" Starlow said. "He must be carrying something or trying to pull something…"
"What's this cannon, anyway?" Luigi directed to a cannon positioned a few feet away from the muscle.
"There is a switch on it, though." Mario pointed out.
"I'll try hitting it and see what happens."
Luigi took out his hammer and pounded the switch. Eventually, the cannon shot out a blue sparky orb that turned red once it hit the muscle and was heading towards Mario.
"Mario! Look out!" Starlow warned.
Acting fast, Mario swings his hammer at the sparky orb and it flew towards the muscle, causing it to enlarge.
"What the?!" Mario flinched.
"Whoa! Feels like I just got a power boost!"they heard Bowser's voice.
"Did the muscle just enlarge?" Luigi asked.
Then, the cannon fired two sparky orbs, but once they hit the muscle, they turned green instead before heading to Luigi.
"Uh oh!" Luigi quickly hammered the two orbs at the muscle, causing it to enlarge more.
"HAAAAARGH!"they heard Bowser yelling for power.
"I think that stimulated Bowser's muscles! They're getting huge!" Starlow confirmed. "Hey! Try hitting some more of those light balls!"
The brothers continued this minigame, with Mario hammering the red orbs and Luigi hammering the green orbs, until the muscle got so large that it was even touching its tendons.
In an instant, Bowser had so much strength that not only he managed to pull the entire island, but also sent Broque Monsieur flying off as well.
"I get it now… If we stimulate Bowser's body like just now… He appears to manifest some sort of extreme strength…" Starlow concluded.
"Haah… Haah…" Bowser panted. "OH YEAH! FEEL IT!"
"You should thank the Mario Bros for stimulating your muscles!" Donkey Kong exclaimed from inside Bowser.
"Huh?!"
"DK!" Mario and Luigi shouted angrily at Donkey Kong.
"Are you telling me that Mario and Green 'Stache were the ones who helped me to pull this island?!"
"Yeah, because of DK spitting out to you, we'll have to admit that we did that, actually." Mario sassed.
"Hmph… You know, I hate to admit it, but… You both did a pretty well job in there…" Bowser muttered.
"Wait, what?! Do you mean-…"
"Hmmmm, strange… Zee world, it appears to be upside down…" Mario was interrupted by Broque Monsieur, who was lying upside down on the sand. "But zat is no matter. You 'elped me, and for zis I salute you!"
"Enough blabbing, buddy! Make with the surprise block!" Bowser said impatiently.
"Ah, but of course! Zee block! From moi! Such a fine block! We sing the song of block! Pour vous!" Broque Monsieur hands Bowser the block. However, Bowser wasn't satisfied with that:
"This is just a normal block! No surprise! What gives?!"
"Your tongue, bite upon it! Non! Zat LOOKS like a normal block! Zat is what is so devious about my little block. So devious! Zis is actually a Vacuum Block. You use zis block, and you inhale whatever lies before you! Say you use zis in battle, honh? Ah! What is zis?! You inhale zee enemy with bravado! Très bien!"
"Whoa, whoa, INHALE an enemy?! I can do that in a battle?"
"Ah, but of course, it is simple! Come, let us try zis out!"
Broque Monsieur flips his head and Bowser uses the Vacuum Block to inhale Broque Monsieur inside of him, where Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong and Starlow were. After leaving Bowser's body, Broque Monsieur battles against Bowser.
Once Broque Monsieur was defeated, he flips his head back and says:
"Ah, how was zis? Nice, honh? Zee magnificent Vacuum Block! Zee color! Zee gloss! Zee feel! We are not worthy of zis block! Who dares say zis is not so? And you, Monsieur Turtle Bits, you become a block collector after seeing zis block, oui? Alors, let us meet again, honh? Until zen, good-byes to you!" he then leaves.
"What a weirdo…" Bowser muttered.
"Oh, come on, Bowser! After all, you did get something quite useful, right?" Starlow said.
"Well, inhaling enemies is kinda of awesome, but I'd rather take them down by myself instead of you guys helping out."
"I KNEW you would say that…" Mario facepalmed. "Just get a move on!"
"Fine!"
Bowser continued forward, heading north since that was the way to his castle.
Later…
Bowser came upon a fountain-like statue with a Blooper on a wide area.
"Hey! What's this thing? It's some weird statue!" Bowser said.
"A weird statue on the beach… Might be the Sea Pipe Statue…" Starlow guessed.
"The Sea Pipe Statue? Sounds dumb. What is it?"
"A statue honoring a hero of the sea."
"Ah, a hero, huh? So that means… I'm the model!" Bowser exclaimed. He then turns to the statue and yells: "HEY! IT'S UGLY!" he continuously punches the statue.
"Wait! Wait! No violence!" Starlow called out.
"Hmph! My eyes are much more manly than that!"
All of a sudden, the statue began to wiggle, catching Bowser by surprise:
"Whoa! This thing is moving!"
"What?! It's moving? That's not possible!" Starlow said in unbelief.
Just then, the statue stops moving. Then, it gained colors and its pipes stretched out of its main body and began to flail them around.
"Hey! What's the story with this crazy statue? It's going nuts!" Bowser questioned.
"I HAVE CHORTLES!" Fawful's yell was heard.
A small UFO with Fawful's head came down and spoke:
"It is I who added the nuts to that statue!"
"That voice!" Bowser suspected.
"Of course it had to be him!" Mario growled.
"I HAVE CHORTLES!" Fawful laughed. "Your plan that I laugh at now makes for more laughing! You are wanting your castle? You are not getting there!"
"Oh, YES I AM!" Bowser yelled angrily. "Look, pal, I can tell you wanna fight, but I'm in no mood. Take me to my castle right now!"
"You have the impatience… You must stop and sample the sprinklies in life's salad bar. I say no to your rushing! Time instead for some playing with a Fawfulized statue!" the UFO leaves.
"Looks like we have no choice. Let's deal with that statue!" Donkey Kong demanded.
"GWAHAHAHA!" Bowser laughed. "Aw, I was all fired up to let Fawful have it! I'll take you instead!"
The Stone Blooper went inside one of the pipes and was launched towards Bowser, but he countered it with his punch. Bowser then walked towards the statue and delivers a punch, but that didn't do any damage!
"What?! How come it did nothing?!" Bowser didn't believe that.
"Hey! Try using that Vacuum Block thing and see what happens!" Starlow called out.
"Oh, right! Let's see how it'll turn out!"
Bowser uses the Vacuum Block and inhales the statue. Only the Stone Blooper was sucked in, landing next to the heroes.
"All right! Let's take it out!" Mario told everyone.
The Mario Bros whacked the Stone Blooper with their hammers, followed up by Donkey Kong's Giant Punch. After that, the Stone Blooper dung into the ground and starts drilling it, causing Bowser to feel pain:
"HUH?! GRAAAAAARGH!"
"This Stone Blooper is damaging Bowser!" Starlow cried out.
"Oh no, you don't!" Donkey Kong grabbed the Stone Blooper with his hands and threw it at the ground with great strength. They noticed that the Stone Blooper turned red.
"I have an idea! Let's deal more damage to it with this!" Mario pulls out a Green Shell.
"Yeah! A Green Shell!" Luigi exclaimed.
Mario kicks the shell at the Stone Blooper and it bounced off of it while heading to Luigi. Luigi kicks it back, doing more damage to the Stone Blooper. The Bros continued the rally until the now cracked Stone Blooper flew out of Bowser's body, causing Bowser to spit it out. The Stone Blooper flew face-first into the statue.
"Heh, you're in big trouble now." Bowser smirked as he walks to the Stone Blooper and does one final punch at it.
The Stone Blooper shattered into debris as the statue turns back to normal.
"BWAHAHA!" Bowser laughed. "He seriously thought he could stop Bowser with this toy?"
"Show off…" Mario thought while rolling his eyes.
Suddenly, some dry trees popped up from nowhere in front of Bowser.
"Bah!" Bowser muttered. Then, the Sea Pipe Statue began to wiggle again. "Again?!"
This time, water came out from the two pipes like two small waterfalls.
"What's with this water?" Bowser questioned. "…Actually, I am kinda thirsty." He walked to the left side of the statue and drank some water.
Inside Bowser, at Toad Square…
"I can hear a waterfall coming from somewhere, or is it just me?" Luigi asked.
"Nope, we can hear it too." Mario said.
"That means something is happening in his body again! Let's go and check it out!" Starlow told them.
"Hey!" Toadiko called them. "One of the Toads told me that he saw some people inside the area just north of here!"
"Really? Sweet! Another reason for us to check that other area out!" Donkey Kong exclaimed.
"I wish you luck!"
The heroes hurried up and went into the newly opened area of Bowser's body. But what they'll find is a bit more…fishy than before.
To be continued…
At first, I was disgusted with Plack Beach's look, but then I found the concept pretty good, since it applies to most of the area names from this game (all of the areas except for the castles and Toad Town are named after human body-related topics).
Will our heroes find one of their friends in the next area of Bowser's body? Find out later! Please review.
