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Chapter 16: Revenge of the giant
Upon exiting the Tower of Yikk, Bowser spotted Private Goomp up ahead.
"Is that… HEY! Hey! Private Goomp! Hold up!" Bowser called out.
"Kuh-King Bowser! You're OK!" Private Goomp exclaimed as Bowser walks to him.
"Of course! Where are the others? What happened to Sergeant Guy and Corporal Paraplonk? Aren't they your unit?"
"Yeah… When you got all giant back in Dimble Wood, we kinda panicked and ran to avoid being crushed. So while we were, uh, retreating, we must've gotten separated in the forest somehow… Now it's just me."
"Oh really…"
"Sir, what brings you to this area?"
"Uh… Well… I'm on my way to my castle so that I can get a Star Cure."
"Oh! You mean that Star Cure that Kuzzle on Plack Beach gave it to you for doing a puzzle? I thought that was probably garbage and that you'd just stolen it since you're awesome. But either way, it's definitely in the underground treasure chamber of your castle."
"FYI! FYI! FYI!" a little voice came in.
Bowser and Private Goomp turned around and saw a white bird. That was Birdley, a bird owned by Dr. Toadley.
"Message for Mr. Mario, Mr. Luigi, Mr. Yoshi, Mr. Wario, Mr. DK, Princess Peach, and Mr. Violent Face-Puncher!" Birdley chirped. "Now connecting to Dr. Toadley in Toad Town! Please give your attention!"
The collar on Birdley's neck glows, and an image of Dr. Toadley showed up and he spoke:
"Ah… Check one! Hello? Aha! Are we connected? Ahem. Have I just discovered the identity of the second sage? I certainly have. The second sage is a sea Koopa named Kuzzle who lives on Plack Beach."
"GAHAHA!" Bowser laughed. "Brilliant! So it really sounds like that guy's Star Cure is already in my castle!"
"And did I see that Mario, Luigi and their friends got the first Star Cure already? Indeed I did. Congratulations!" after finishing talking, Toadley disconnects and Birdley flies off.
"Well, I'm making for my castle! The cure is in the underground treasure chamber, right?" Bowser asked.
"Yes, sir!" Private Goomp nodded.
"Great! I'm gone! To my castle!" Bowser walks forward, but notices that Private Goomp isn't following. "And what're gonna do?"
"I… Uh… Once I find Sergeant Guy and Corporal Paraplonk, we'll head straight for your castle."
"Fine! Whatever!"
Private Goomp then leaves.
A few hours later…
Once Bowser finally went inside his stolen castle, he goes to the left side of the theater and uses Body Slam on a switch to open the door leading to his underground chamber. But when he reached the entrance, it was shut!
"Whoa whoa WHOA! What's the deal here? The passage to the underground is blocked! Stupid…Fawful…" he muttered at the last sentence.
He had no choice but to find another way to get in. He fought some Jailgoons along the way, until he reached a room where a Fawful statue was placed.
"Oh man, nice statue! Talk about tacky! SMASH TIME!" Bowser smirked and was about to punch it until he realized something: "Hmm… Wait…" he noticed a dead end right up ahead. "Right below here… The underground's that way… THAT'S IT!" he cracks his knuckles and begins to push the statue.
Then, a pair of Goombas came out of a door and saw Bowser pushing the statue.
"OH NO!" one of them cried.
"Oh, not good! Fawful's statue!" the other piped up.
"Midbus, Viverna and Fawful aren't here, man! We're the only ones who can stop this!"
"Dude… What?! He's too strong!"
"Get the gang in the castle! HURRY!"
The other Goomba nodded and went inside.
"Here goes!" the Goomba who's left walks towards the statue and pushes it.
Soon, a group of Goombas, Parakoopas, Dry Bones, Boos and Shy Guys came in and worked together to push the statue back.
"Open your eyes, minions!" Bowser yelled as he was pushed back. "Guys! Some help here!"
"What is it now?" Mario asked.
"My brainwashed minions are pushing me back! I need you to stimulate my legs! Quick!"
"All right, leave it to us."
Mario and his gang rushes to the Leg Outpost and start the same muscle jumping minigame again.
"YOU'RE GOING DOWN!" a Goomba yelled.
"THINK YOU CAN TAKE ME?!" Bowser yelled back as he was gaining strength on his legs because of Mario and Luigi stimulating his leg muscles.
Once Mario and Luigi stomped each muscle at the same time, Bowser pushed the statue even further than before, reaching past the halfway of the room.
"HOLD FAST!" the same Goomba from early struggled.
Once Bowser managed to push the statue all the way to the dead end, he calls out:
"Everyone push at once! We can do this!"
"Okey-Dokey!" Mario exclaimed while stomping on the muscle on the left. "Get ready! In three…two…one… NOW!"
He and Luigi stomped at each muscle once again for one last push.
"OH YEAH!" Bowser yelled for power as he pushes the statue with mighty force, and was even able to make it break through the dead end's barrier, causing the statue and all of the minions to fall down.
The statue then falls through the underground's entrance, breaking it and falling through many floor layers until it reached the underground. Bowser then slammed down and destroyed the statue.
"We did it!" Bowser fist pumps.
"I guess Bowser is finally learning to work together, it seems." Melissa thought with a smile.
Bowser then moved on. After dealing with Sniffle Thwomps, Thwomps who apparently got the flu somehow, Bowser came upon some Bob-ombs trapped in a cage. He hears their cheers:
"HE'S HEEEERE!"
"BOWSER'S HEEEERE!"
"FINALLY!"
After that, Bowser punches the cage, freeing the Bob-ombs.
"FREEEE!"
"YESSSS!"
"AT LAST!"
"HE DID IT!"
"WOO!"
All of the Bob-ombs begin to wander around him, cheering the same thing until Bowser calls out:
"Hey! Guys! Minions! Calm down!" but they wouldn't stop. "CHILL!" he growls annoyed and breathes fire at them. But he shouldn't have done that…as he lit some of the Bob-ombs' fuses. "AAAAACK!" these Bob-ombs exploded on his face.
They then joined Bowser, making him able to use Bob-omb Blitz in battle.
More walking later…
Bowser finally reached the door leading to his treasure chamber.
"Ah, the room where I keep my sweetest stolen treasures… This is one place that stupid Fawful NEVER could break into!" Bowser grinned as he enters through the door. But then, once he emerged out… "NOOOOOOOO! WHAAAAAAAAT?!" He found out that there was a train track in the room and part of the treasure was gone, so that means Fawful did manage to break through this room. "HOW?! WHO?! WHY?!"
"Your Surliness!" Private Goomp's voice came from the entrance. "I found Sergeant Guy and Corporal Paraplonk!" then the other two members of the Elite Trio walk in.
"King Bowser! Awesome seeing you again, sir!" Corporal Paraplonk exclaimed.
"Our sweep of the castle indicates it is intact, sir!" Sergeant Guy informed.
"Intact?!" Bowser raised an eyebrow as the Elite Trio approaches him. "Look at this train track!"
"Whoa!" Private Goomp inspected the train track. "Who put a train track down here?"
"Next stop…Bowser Castle…" a voice came out of nowhere.
In an instant, a train shaped like Fawful's head came in and came to a full stop in front of Bowser.
"Now arriving at the always-run-down-falling-apart-dirty-nasty-thanks-to-Bowser-Castle!" the same voice spoke before some Monty Moles came down from the train.
"Hey! It's you idiots! Explain all this NOW!" Bowser demanded.
"Yeah… Well, bro…" one of the Monty Moles chuckled.
"As you can see, the secret tunnel project you ordered is finally finished, broski!" another Monty Mole added.
"Yeah, remember, brotown? You helped us drill this tunnel!" another one remarked.
"Bah! I mean, I DID, but… I don't remember telling you to build a railway directly into my SECRET TREASURE CHAMBER!" Bowser growled.
"Bro! This secret tunnel got bought out by the Fawful Foundation! It was a buyout, brodington! Get me? A BUYOUT!" the remaining Monty Mole exclaimed.
"Thanks to the sweet cash infusion, we outsourced the hole drilling to some other bros." the Monty Mole from the beginning threw in.
"So now we're elite employees of Lord Fawful! The salary's great, brodie! Insane benefits!"
"Trust me, this Fawful Express that Lord Fawful built is SUPER awesome. Wanna ride, brotron? Although… Come to think of it, bro, it's a pretty pricey ticket. Maybe too posh for you."
"Even if you sold this cruddy old castle…you still can't afford it!"
"WAHAHAHA!" all of the Monty Moles laughed, causing Bowser to grow furious. In fact, he was so furious that he blew them away by breathing fire.
"TREASON!" he roared.
"King Bowser! Sir!" Private Goomp called. "You'd better not make enemies of those guys!"
"Yeah, for real!" Corporal Paraplonk warned. "Besides, uh, didn't you come here looking for a Star Cure?"
"Oh yeah! The Star Cure! It must be in this room!" Bowser said.
"The Star Cure must be… It must be secured in that safe, sir!" Sergeant Guy pointed to a safe at the upper-left corner of the room.
"Oh… You mean that one?" Bowser asked as he stands over the train track.
"All aboard Fawful Express!" a Monty Mole announced, and the train began to move towards Bowser.
"NOOOOF!" Bowser gasped as he tries to hold back the train by pushing it, but he was being pushed back, destroying some rocks in the way.
He was being pushed back more and more, until…
"Doh." He accidentally tripped on a small rock and let go of the train.
With that, the train rams him right into a large boulder, crushing him.
Inside Bowser…
"Bowser? Hello…?" Starlow called out.
"I think he got crushed again." Luigi guessed.
"Well, you know what that means…" Mario said. "To the Rump Command again."
They went back to the Rump Command, where they revive Bowser again with adrenaline and make him grow big.
Back outside…
"Bro, was Bowser a pushover or what?" a Monty Mole raised an eyebrow.
"Totally. Lord Fawful is gonna be loving us." The other Monty Mole answered.
"I mean, you compare Bowser to the Fawful Express, and it's like, 'Broski. Dude is PUNY.'"
"BAHAHAHAHAHA!" they both laughed.
All of a sudden, the train's lens broke apart, and a huge flamethrower showed up.
"Uh-oh… What in the…" one of the Monty Moles' eyes widened.
Suddenly, once the fire dyed out, two huge eyes were glaring at them, making them jump and scurry off.
"BRO NO!" the Monty Mole yelled as he looked up from the train's top, seeing Bowser as a giant looking down at him.
"Heh heh! SHOWTIME!" Giant Bowser smirked.
"Danger, bros! What do we do?" the Monty Mole asked as the train turns around.
"It's all good, bro! Check it out!" the Monty Mole driving the train spotted something at the distance.
There was a weak bridge at a bottomless pit all the way up ahead just past a train station. The same Monty Mole informed:
"Brodingtons! Look! Over there! A rickety bridge! That thing will collapse under this guy's bulk! And then he'll fall allllllllll the way into the valley! This big dude is going DOWN!"
"Nice, big bro! Total genius!" the other Monty Mole complemented.
"Let's cruise straight for the bridge station! If we can pass that station, we win, bro! Distance to the bridge station is 100 kilomoles!"
"Oh, don't you dare!" Giant Bowser growled before beginning to move after them.
"He's coming! MOVE!" the Monty Mole demanded.
The train driver quickly sprints forwards with Giant Bowser following behind. Once the train reached the first station at 87 kilometers, it stopped.
"We stopped! Everything OK?" the Monty Mole asked.
"Worry not, broskits! That guy's punch is no prob!" the train driver assured. "Unless he spits fire, we'll take ZERO damage!"
"Niiiiice, big bro! I can already hear the dude crying!"
"That's what you'll see!" Giant Bowser yelled as he breathes fire at the train.
The train then sends out a group of four Choombas at Giant Bowser, but he stomped them. After breathing fire at the train again, Giant Bowser saw it moving once again and wasted no time in chasing after it.
The train once again stopped on another station at 73 kilometers. Giant Bowser breathes fire at it, making the train appear badly damaged and with burn marks. It then sends out more groups of Choombas, only for them to get stomped again. After suffering another fire breath, the train moves again.
At 55 kilometers, the train passed under a spiked arch that reached almost Bowser's size, stopping the big guy on his tracks. It then sends out a Fawful Missile at Giant Bowser, and he quickly reacts by punching the arch as much as he could to break it and evade the missile.
Next, at 46 kilometers, the train went inside a giant grassy hill where it became a fighting robot called the Fawful Mountain in order to fight against Giant Bowser.
"Better make repairs while he's occupied!" the Monty Mole said as he begins to fix the train.
"Not on my watch!" Giant Bowser shouted before breathing fire at the Fawful Mountain, burning it down instantly.
"…Crud!" the Monty Mole interrupted the repairs and told the train driver to move.
There was another spiked arch at 24 kilometers and Giant Bowser punched through it again to avoid the missile, resuming the chase. The train stopped at another station on 15 kilometers, giving Giant Bowser the chance to breathe fire again at it. Then, the train sent out Monty Moles with jetpacks carrying bombs this time. One of them flew next to Giant Bowser to try to hurl the bomb at him, but he punched the Monty Mole, sending him at the other ones, knocking them down at the train, damaging it more.
Soon, the train finally reaches the bridge station, but it was nearly falling apart.
"End of the line!" Giant Bowser smirked as he does one last fire breath at the Fawful Express, blowing it up along with the Monty Moles.
With that, Bowser returns to normal size and lands on the train track.
"GAHAHAHA!" he laughed. "That all you got, train?! Bowser wins again!" he looks around. "So… What was I doing?" he then remembers: "That's right! The Star Cure! Better go check that safe back at the castle…"
He makes his way back in his treasure chamber.
To be continued…
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