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Chapter 23: The giant's finale and Dark Bowser
Bowser followed the Dark Star all the way to the outside of Melissa's Castle, and even descended the Star Road, taking him to Star Hill. There, he heard Fawful's voice:
"Dark Star! Dark Star! Fawful is wanting you!"
Bowser looked up ahead and saw Fawful looking quite…different than he was before: he was wearing dark clothes sharing the colors of the Dark Star and his spiral glasses were red just like the Dark Star's eyes. Because of that, he was now known as Dark Fawful. He was hovering in the air with his headgear.
"Seriously?! You again?!" Bowser said annoyed, causing Dark Fawful to turn around. "You're such a huge pain!"
"It is you who are the pain to me! I am needing more power!" Dark Fawful replied.
"Like that's my problem! I'm done with you, pal! Where's that fake me?!"
"Your meddling has made Fawful have a fury large as the world! Bowser! It is time for meeting and greeting with your doom! For now it is the end of the final act of the finale's closing last encore! I am having the castle of Melissa! And now I am thinking… Since the castle of Peach is the only one intact, I shall Fawfulize it! Time for the remodeling!" he takes out a remote control. "SUPER PEACH'S CASTLE OF FURY!" he presses a button.
Back at Peach's Castle Garden, the whole place began to shake as soon as Dark Fawful pressed the button. Eventually, the main tower retracts, followed by the third floor's roof. Some strange pink pipe-things rose from the other towers as their roofs retracts as well. The walls on the side crack out, creating arms with sharp spikes for the 'hands'. Finally, the castle's walls turn dark purple as the front wall turns into a 'mouth' and glowing red spiral eyes showed up at the hole on the second floor right under the stained glass depicting Peach.
In an instant, Peach's Castle turned into a large robot controlled by Dark Fawful, being known as Super Peach's Castle. Super Peach's Castle flies all the way up to Star Hill and hovers RIGHT above Bowser, who was panicking from what he's witnessing, and the Castle instantly crushes him.
Inside Bowser…
"Did Bowser get crushed again?" Luigi guessed.
"Seems like it." Mario nodded. "Well, we know what to do."
They all went to the Rump Command and revived Bowser once again with adrenaline, allowing him to grow giant again. With that, Giant Bowser lifts the Castle and tosses it at the lower part of the Hill, with Giant Bowser standing on the higher part, ready to take down Super Peach's Castle.
Super Peach's Castle made a cannon pop out of its main tower, charging up some sort of dark energy.
"What's your deal?" Giant Bowser questioned.
The cannon shoots a dark orb that took off into the starry sky.
"Huh? Fireworks? Real festive…" Giant Bowser looked up. "Huh? Nothing! Worst fireworks ever!"
However, the dark orb came back down right behind Giant Bowser, creating a black hole.
"Weird fireworks, pal… Real weird. Well… Moving on…" Giant Bowser spoke, not caring about the black hole before turning around. "Time to deal with your ugly mug!"
In order to escape from the black hole, Giant Bowser proceeds to punch Super Peach's Castle, sending it sliding down the hill a bit. Unfortunately, even walking away from the black hole, it started to suck up Giant Bowser.
"NOOO! That thing's sucking me in!" Giant Bowser panicked before trying to beat the black hole's vacuuming force: "Don't even try it!"
After beating the vacuuming of the black hole, Giant Bowser saw Super Peach's Castle charging for him, but he countered with his punch before punching it again, sending it sliding down the hill a bit more. Super Peach's Castle next summons a bunch of Mechawful Bodies to protect itself from the punches. Giant Bowser had to take care of the Mechawful Bodies by breathing fire at them and also damaged Super Peach's Castle in the process.
"HEAT! HEAT! FIRE! FIRE!" Super Peach's Castle went haywire. "FLAMMABLE BALLAST EJECT! EJECT ALL HEATED CARGO!" it then sends out a mushroom and Giant Bowser picks it up. "ENEMY STILL ACTIVE. LAUNCH UNAVOIDABLE ATTACK AT ONCE! RESISTANCE USELESS! CONSUME THIS!"
Super Peach's Castle fires a laser at Giant Bowser, sending him all the way into the black hole. Luckily, Giant Bowser manages to pull himself out of the black hole and ram into Super Peach's Castle by rolling into it.
"LAST ATTACK SUCCESSFUL! BLACK HOLE PLUS BODY BLOW COMBO…" Super Peach's Castle said before sending out the same cannon again.
"Aw, that again?! Come ON!" Giant Bowser complained. The cannon shoots another dark orb upwards. "Please! I'll blast that thing down with a fireball!" Giant Bowser scoffed before shooting a fireball from his mouth, causing the dark orb to fall behind Super Peach's Castle this time and create another black hole. "GAHAHA! See that? All Bowser, baby!"
"SAFETY PROTOCOL SYSTEM ONLINE!" Super Peach's Castle announced and a shield appeared around it. "FRONTAL DEFENSE SYSTEMS FULLY OPERATIONAL!"
Giant Bowser thought about sending Super Peach's Castle into the black hole, so he did another punch at it, but of course, with the protective shield, the castle took no damage. Despite that, it still slid down the hill more.
Just then, the black hole behind Super Peach's Castle begins its sucking ability. Now Super Peach's Castle was even more close to the black hole. Because of that, it begins to charge after Giant Bowser with its spikes on its hands. Giant Bowser immediately curls into a spike ball and pushes Super Peach's Castle back down, and he was finally able to send it into the black hole.
"SAFETY PROTOCOL ERROR! FULL DEFENSE SHUTDOWN!" Super Peach's Castle started to malfunction. It then pulls itself out and flies after Giant Bowser, but he counters with his punch, damaging the castle a bit.
Super Peach's Castle sends out three more Mechawful Bodies, with Giant Bowser taking them down by breathing fireballs at them. Then, the towers of the castle shoots two huge missiles, but Giant Bowser sent them right back at the castle and he punches it again, and the black hole did the rest to get the castle into it again. Super Peach's Castle once again pulls itself out and Giant Bowser punches it when it tried to ram into him. Right now, the castle is badly damaged.
"ENEMY STILL ACTIVE. QUERY: CAN IT SURVIVE THIS?" Super Peach's Castle spoke. Then, one of its eyes sparkled, and suddenly, both black holes moved closer to its victims a bit. "ANY DAMAGE WILL END THIS… ACTIVATE BLACK HOLE ENDGAME!"
Super Peach's Castle charges for Giant Bowser and begins to push him backwards, but he also was pushing it back. The two struggled for a bit until Giant Bowser won this pushing competition and pushes Super Peach's Castle right into the black hole.
"BOO SYSTEM ONLINE! INVISIBILITY FIELD NOW OPERATIONAL! ENEMY EVASIVE MANEUVERS NULL!" Super Peach's Castle announced.
Once it pulled itself out of the black hole, Super Peach's Castle flies after Giant Bowser again, but it turned invisible as it was approaching him, so he had to time his punch in order to hit it. Thankfully, he was successful and damaged the castle even more.
"ENEMY STRENGTH IS ADMIRABLE! BUT YOU ARE FINISHED!" Super Peach's Castle spoke.
Then, the two black holes sucked up both Giant Bowser and Super Peach's Castle. The black holes flew into the sky face to face with each other. It was now time to decide which black hole will triumph over the other.
Super Peach's Castle made large spikes come out from both hands, but before it could do anything, Giant Bowser hit it by rolling into it. The giant Koopa King continued this phase until Super Peach's Castle fell all the way back into where it used to be. It also returns back into the original Peach's Castle, however, due to this whole fight, it was now badly damaged, with the walls and towers looked like that they were blown up, with smoke coming out.
Soon, Bowser returned to normal size, landing on his feet this time right next to the Star Road.
"OK, so that was NOT a fight I ever expected…" Bowser remarked.
"Where… Dark power… Being who drains… Where… Where…" he then heard the Dark Star's voice coming from behind him.
"You!" Bowser glared at the Dark Star, but it flies away atop the Star Road, heading back into Melissa's Castle. "Wait! I mean it! Get back here at this instant! You'll pay for you've done to Melissa!"
"Hey! What's going on up there, huh?!" Wario questioned.
"Is Melissa in trouble?!" Yoshi wanted to know.
"Guys! Listen! This crazy dark smoke dude that looks just like me came out of my mouth!"
"Wait! What?!" Luigi flinched.
"Yeah, and this fake me kidnapped Melissa by sucking her up!"
"So your power and that of the Dark Star have combined…" Starlow pondered. "Dark Bowser… That's almost too terrifying to bear… Talk about a strong enemy…"
"It's unfortunate, but there's only one thing we can do about it." Mario said. "We all must team up together for an epic battle with Dark Bowser!"
"You're right, Mario. After all, we're the Star Children!" Bowser exclaimed. "OK, it's time to teach that fake me a painful lesson! It's time he learned what REAL power is!"
With that, Bowser walks up the Star Road and reenters Melissa's Castle.
Inside, he didn't find Dark Bowser; instead, he found Dark Fawful instead, who was still tracking down the Dark Star. Bowser decides to follow him. He found Dark Fawful standing in what used to be Melissa's Room.
"Fawfully-doo! Where are you?! Dark Star, needing you! Dark power, yoo-hoo! WHERE TO FIND YOU…" Dark Fawful sung.
"HEY!" Bowser yelled, catching Dark Fawful's attention.
"I have shock at you! You are surviving? Fawful hates you!"
"Pfft! What, you thought your little castle-bot would crush me? Who do you think I am, buddy? I'm Bowser, the Koopa king!"
"But I am Lord Fawful! I am ruling the world!"
"Please! Try again in about a hundred years, you weird little babbling nerd!"
"I have chortles… You are underestimating Fawful, who has the suction machine for draining the dark power! Fawful only got half the power, but I am thinking it is enough to KO you, the king of stupid! You have gotten in Fawful's way at each of the turns… Just like the red and green mustaches who I hate… Fawful hates your faces…"
"Don't lump me with Mario and Green 'Stache!"
"But… Now… Fawful says farewell to all your fink-rat faces forever! Bowser! Meet… FURY OF FAWFUL!"
Dark Fawful makes his headgear hang to a lamp and he swings from it towards Bowser, but he kept countering with his punch and ducked when Dark Fawful began to spin in 360 degrees. Once Dark Fawful gets back on the floor, Bowser proceeds to punch him, but his headgear moved him out of the punch's way.
"WHAT?!" Bowser didn't believe that.
"I laugh at your stupidity!" Dark Fawful teased.
He next pulls out a laser gun and fires two circling star trails, sending them at Bowser, but he ducked and punched the star that was glowing pink to make all of the others explode. Dark Fawful then flies to the air while creating four holes: two at his side, and two on either in front or above Bowser. Dark Fawful tosses an energy orb at the right hole, teleporting it to the hole in front of Bowser. Bowser quickly reacts by punching the orb. Dark Fawful tosses another one at the left hole, and Bowser ducks to destroy the orb with his spikes.
Finally, the headgear flies out of Dark Fawful's head, giving Bowser the chance to inhale the headgear inside him. While the heroes inside him fight against the headgear, Bowser breathes fire at Dark Fawful, and since he didn't have his headgear, the fire hit him this time.
Dark Fawful summons four orbs surrounding him. Then, a Goomba came out and reported to Bowser:
"Your Rashness! This battle is fraught with danger, sir! Allow us to protect you, sir! The Goomba corps has trained for situations like this! Turn us loose and this mangy dog will feel like a savage bonking unlike anything he's dreamt! This cur doesn't merit your attention, sir! Unleash us and we'll take care of everything!"
Bowser then punches the Goomba at Dark Fawful, timing it just right to hit him. He did the same thing with more Goombas until Dark Fawful stops. At the same time, the heroes inside Bowser's body managed to destroy the headgear.
"You're going down right now." Bowser smirked as he pulls out his army of Bob-ombs. "Bob-omb Blitz!"
Bowser tosses the Bob-ombs and commands them to alight themselves with Dark Fawful. Once all of them were alighted, the Bob-ombs' fuse began to shrink as they charged for Dark Fawful, and eventually, they all blew up on his face. Dark Fawful then kneels on the floor in exhaustion.
"NOOAAAARGH!" Dark Fawful yelled in defeat as he was morphing into something. Suddenly, Dark Fawful was now a small black orb thing with small legs, arms, and his characteristic face and grim were still there. "I have fury?" he spoke in a somewhat high-pitched voice as he begins to leave Melissa's Room. "Fury?" he flees.
"Pitiful…" Bowser said.
"So, you defeated Fawful, huh?" Starlow guessed.
"What a joke! That guy was too weak to even call an enemy!"
"I wonder if Fawful will behave himself now…" Yoshi wondered.
"Wait… Speaking of… Fawful sucked up some of the dark power, right?" Peach asked.
"Yeah, looked like it. Why? What of it?"
"Ooh… I've got a bad feeling about this…"
"Bad why?"
"Hmm… I think I'm puzzling the pieces together…" Mario pondered. "So both Fawful and Dark Bowser have some dark power within them… So… If… If… If Dark Bowser inhales what remains of Fawful… The dark power will finally be whole!"
"Oh, that's right! And if it adds that dark power to the abilities it copied from you…" Luigi added.
"Oh. Yeah. That'd be bad." Bowser finished. "He's still too weak to be called my enemy, though! BWAHAHA!"
"If only that were true…" Mario rolled his eyes.
Bowser leaves the room. Outside, he saw Dark Fawful stopping on his tracks when the Dark Star's voice came:
"There…"
The Dark Star uses its suction ability to suck up Dark Fawful, and it let out a loud roar as his Bowser transformation completes. His skin and shell were colored dark blue, his snout, stomach, horns and spikes were in a paler peach color, the rings around his spikes and horns were black, he still kept his red eyes and he has a black mohawk hair style-like. With that, the Dark Star was now known as: Dark Bowser.
"FWAHAHAHA! Awake at last!" Dark Bowser laughed in glory. "The dark power is complete! Now all I need are the Magical Stars!" he punches through the door leading to the main tower of the castle before going in.
"WAIT!" Bowser called out. "CRUD!"
"What's wrong?" Mario asked. "Wait… You're kidding me! Dark Bowser got Fawful?!"
"Yup. Sure did. Fake me ate Fawful. That whole bad feeling of Peach came true."
"That means…that the dark power is now complete!" Peach cried in horror. "All of your abilities, along with the fully awakened dark power… Dark Bowser… And now only the power of the Star Children remains…"
"…This is the absolute worst-case scenario! And we have no choice but to fight! Fight Dark Bowser!" Starlow finished.
"Hmph. What do I care about some stupid wannabe me? I'm the main villain of this world! Whatever! I'll just chase after him!"
Bowser rushes into the interior of the main tower, where he found Dark Bowser standing in the middle.
"Hey! No more running! Let's just end this once and for all!" Bowser growled.
"I just need the extraordinary amount of power you and the ones inside of you possess." Dark Bowser said. "If you want to take me on so badly, then try to catch me!"
Bowser then begins to chase after Dark Bowser all the way to the top of the tower.
To be continued…
The final battle that will decide the fate of the Mushroom World is near... I will hopefully post the final chapter by tomorrow at afternoon. Until then! Please review.
