I don't think I said this yet, but if you wanna know about the Phis, they're actually from an overlooked game called Sonic Battle. Yeah, this story is less "Mario" and has some other stuff in it, kind of like Paper Mario 2. This chapter actually shows how different it is. Just take a look yourself!
While Chopper was falling, he noticed the tracks, which were pink, while the sky was hot pink. For some reason, it reminded him of Koopa Bros. Park two years ago. He could see a rainbow colored ground getting closer and in the background were some flying music notes and some guitars. There were also some treble clefs on the northern part of the ground and stars in the sky.
When Chopper finally fell to the ground, he moaned as he slowly tried to get up. Sadly, he wasn't having an easy time with it. Not only that, but a blue blur ran past Chopper and noticed him, so he ran back to him. It looked like a blue hedgehog with pointy ears, quills on the back of his head, a peach muzzle, arm, and belly, white gloves, and red shoes. What was also interesting to note was that he held onto two chili dogs.
"Hmmm? Who's that over there? Did he just fall from a train up there?" the blue hedgehog wondered as some Buzz Bombers began to fly over to Chopper and prepared to fire at him. A Motobug also looked at Chopper and prepared to charge at him. The blue hedgehog gasped as he ate one of his chili dogs whole before getting the chili off his fingers.
"Oh no ya don't!" he threw his other chili dog up and jumped up and used his Homing Attack on the Buzz Bombers and the Motobugs, destroying them and freeing the animals that were trapped inside. He caught his chili dog and then walked over to Chopper.
"Hey, need a hand?" When Chopper's eyes slowly opened, he rubbed his head and noticed the blue hedgehog reaching for his hand.
"Yeah, I'm OK…" Chopper moaned as he was pulled up. After rubbing his eyes, he nearly gaped at who saved him. "Hey... You're Sonic, aren't you?"
"Yep, that's me!" Sonic smirked, only to pause for a moment. "Wait, you know my name? Nobody here seems to know me. Come to think of it, you don't look like anybody from around here. What's your name anyway?"
"My name? It's Chopper. I'm in the middle of something right now though. I'm trying to find the Crystal Star around here, and I'm not doing a real god job at finding it." Chopper sighed as he looked around. "Hold on a minute… Where's Vivian? Vivian? VIVIAN?! Uh oh… I think I lost her…"
"Who's Vivian? Is she a friend of yours?"
"Yeah. She's helping me find something called a Crystal Star. You have any idea where it is?"
"You mean a gray sparkling star?" Sonic gawked as he rubbed the top of his head. "Well… I suppose I saw something like that. I think it went past this place. You DO know where you are, right?"
"Uhhhh... No. Not at all." Chopper replied while shaking his head.
"Well… Someone told me that this placed is called Music Kingdom! I guess that explains all the music and instruments here... Though, from what I saw, that stat might've headed to Toy Kingdom, and that's right next to here. You'll have to go to the right to find it, but it's not easy."
"OK, well it shouldn't be hard for me," Chopper shrugged. "I've gone through things like this before. Maybe you can help me?"
"I wish I could, but I got other things to do right now, like finding that Egghead. It's the whole reason why I came to this world in the first place." Sonic was about to run off with his chili dog, but he stopped and turned back to Chopper. "You know what, why don't you have my chili dog? Traveling to another world has sure made me lose my appetite. I'm sure you'll like it!"
"Uh… Thank you?" Chopper blinked as he took the chili dog tossed to him.
"I better be off now. Good luck finding that Crystal Star and your friend!"
"OK, thanks!" Chopper smiled, waving goodbye to Sonic as he took off. "All right... Now I need to find where Vivian is... But where could I find her?"
Chopper went to the right, but he saw some small musical notes that noticed Chopper and caused him to step back while talking in a musical language that Chopper couldn't understand.
"Uh… I don't even know what you're saying." Chopper sweat dropped, confused at the speaking musical notes. They stepped closer toward Chopper, which made him run away, screaming. The musical notes looked at each other with confused looks. The little boy ended up running over to the left area where he saw a couple of houses up a slope and more musical notes. He noticed a white Bob-omb with a mustache and hat, but he didn't pay too much attention to him, considering that he was busy running from the musical notes.
As the musical notes got closer, Chopper gulped when he didn't find much room to run. He would've jumped, but then a celebrity Toad with blonde hair, sunglasses, and a pink shirt and white pants walked out of his Toad house and saw Chopper.
"Whoa! Hey, kid! Come over here!" the Toad shouted. Chopper uncovered his eyes, turned around and saw the Toad and quickly rushed into his house. It was pink inside, like his shirt, and there were a lot of instruments around. Chopper couldn't help but feel that this place was cool.
"Thank goodness there's a Toad here. I thought I was going to be attacked by those musical notes!" Chopper sighed in relief before looking up at the Toad. "But, who are you anyway?"
"Me? I'm Zip Toad!" Zip Toad introduce while making a pose. "I'm a famous movie star, and this is where I live, with these musical notes. I'm sure you probably heard of me, kid. But I only sign autographs for cute chicks. Sorry about that, kid."
"OK... I didn't want an autograph anyway. Plus, I don't have a 'cute chick' with me."
"Ehhhh... That's fine. But if ya find a cute chick, you can come to me and I'll give her an autograph!"
"Well, anyway... Thanks for saving me from those musical notes. I thought I'd be done for!"
"Oh, them? They're completely harmless! You just can't understand what they're saying. If you wanna be able to understand them, you need a musical instrument, kid. I got plenty of you to have…but it'll cost you 1,000 coins."
"What? I don't have that kind of money!"
"Aw, man! Fine, I guess I'll give it to you for free, I suppose. But don't break it! Just choose an instrument. A violin, a flute, a kazoo, or a guitar. Please not the guitar…"
"Hmmm… I'd pick a kazoo, but I don't fit that category. I call electric guitar!"
"Dang it! Aw..."
You got a guitar!
"I spent one jillion coins on that thing!" Zip Toad cried as Chopper strummed some notes.
"But I like it..." Chopper trailed.
"Bah... Fine. Take it."
Chopper walked outside with the guitar and began to play it, which made the musical notes listen to it.
"So… Do you have anything to say?"
"Uh… Yes? What are you doing here anyway?" a Musical Note asked.
"Oh! You can speak! Well good! I need to go over to Toy Kingdom because I'm looking for a Crystal Star there."
"You're looking for a Crystal Star? Well we never heard of it, but I suppose we can let you go over to Toy Kingdom. Although you'll need to get past the gate between Music Kingdom and Toy Kingdom. It's not easy, but you're free to go if you want."
"OK, thanks!" Chopper smiled as he left Music Town and went back to the other area where the Musical Notes were blocking his way. He explained to them that he was going to Toy Kingdom.
"Then why didn't ya say that before? Let him through, boys!" the Musical Notes stepped aside for Chopper and looked around in the area as he walked past them, hitting a red ? Block containing a Close Call Badge. He also happened to notice a yellow spring that he remembered seeing two years ago.
"Hmm…" Chopper jumped on it, which sent him upward, making a D note. He could see a pathway up ahead, and to the left was a floating platform with a chest. He checked there first to find a Black Key.
"Another Black Key? Huh… I can't believe I already found another one of these already." Chopper jumped off the platform to go back on the spring so he could be taken up to the pathway ahead. He found some Bob-ombs and Paratroopas lurking around. They were both a little dangerous…but they could be destroyed with flames. There was also a rainbow grind rail that circled around a pillar and led up to a pathway going north.
"I should try grinding on that," Chopper declared as he jumped on the rail and began to grind around in a circle to head to the next area, which was rather small. However, what the biggest thing to note was the Black Chest.
"What the heck?" the chest wiggled around as it noticed Chopper. "Hey! You! You can hear me, right?"
"Of course I can."
"Oh, good! It's been a long time since someone came here! A REAL long time! If you can hear my voice…then you must be some legendary hero or something… Or not! To be honest, I'm sure anyone with ears can hear me. But it sure is fun zinging people with that whole 'legendary hero' bit!"
"What?! Are you serious?!"
"Hey, but seriously, little boy. I was wondering if you could let me out of this chest… I've been locked up in here for quite a while, so I've been getting kind of cramped up in here. All you have to do is find the key and let me out. Easy!"
"Well why would I do that? All you're going to do is curse me when I open you."
"Huh? What the heck are you talking about? You think you'll be cursed if you open the box? That's ridiculous! Who would do that, really? Wait in a box and curse folks! A real slimeball, that's who! But I'm not a real slimeball, and I would do no such thing! But that should be obvious."
"But still…"
"Look, if you help me out, maybe I'll help you out. You know, a little I-scratch-your-back-you-scratch-mine! Except in reverse order. Of course, you don't have to if you really don't want to. Like finding a Black Key is hard…"
"Actually, I have the key right here. I might as well unlock it for you…I suppose…" Chopper sighed as he pulled out the Black Key and unlocked it. Of course, he was expecting something from this.
"WHEEE HEE HEE HEE! FOOOOOOOL!"
The Black Chest opened up, which sucked in Chopper like before. However, he wasn't as freaked out as before and yawned.
"Well, I guess this all sounds familiar… Here we go again."
"Why, only the most idiotic-pudding-brained dolt would fall for a scheme like that! This place is meant to confuse you and harm your ears with loud music! No matter how much you hear and go, you're fated to waste away to a slow, painful end! But wait! There's more to this great deal! I'll throw in a free CURSE! No charge! Oogly-googly-BOO!"
As there was a flash, Chopper felt like he was struck with something that felt similar to the previous chest.
"Wheee hee hee hee hee! Now you're cursed, doofus! And it serves you right! This curse is more cursedly curse-worthy than any curse that's ever cursed you! For…this curse makes you like a piece of paper when you press and hold R! Wheeee hee hee hee hee! What a curse! Who curses like me? NO ONE! It is more painful than you think it is! Just try it!"
Chopper shrugged and turned sideways. "This isn't bad… In fact, I think it's going to be helpful."
"WHAAAAT?! How could you say it's helpful?! Look at yourself! It's so embarrassing!"
"Embarrassing enough to help me, that is!
"Now farewell, you dumbbell! Wheee hee hee hee hee!"
Chopper was back in Music Kingdom as the background he was once in was crumpled up and thrown away. Chopper shrugged and left the area and jumped down to the ground. He could see a pathway up ahead, but it was being blocked by bars. Luckily, there were some bars to the north that he could get past.
"Time to put my curse to the test!" Chopper turned sideways and went through the bars. At this point, he believed that with this ability, he could get out of jail easily. With that, he headed to the right and down and then to the pathway going to the next area. He could see in the middle of this area a xylophone, which would make him bounce off if he jumped on them.
"I wonder if I hit all the keys," Chopper wondered as he jumped over to them and began to bounce on them. A red ? Block appeared by the giant xylophone and when he jumped under the block, a blue foot Badge came out. It was the Power Bounce Badge!
"I'm definitely putting this on!" Chopper declared, equipping it. He saw a Waddle Doo in the area, and he knew that he could get an ability from it, so he inhaled it and swallowed it.
Chopper's skin changed to a yellow tint, with a hat that seemed to be like two hats. One part of the hat was red and the other was yellow orange with white polka dots. His gloves and feet turned orange, and he was now holding a wand that had a brown colored stick and the crystal-like ball being light blue.
"Great! I'm Beam Chopper now!" Chopper smiled until he heard a familiar voice up in the next area and he knew exactly who it was, so he walked over to the pathway that was seemingly blocked by small orange blocks. Luckily his Beam ability could destroy them, so he destroyed them and removed his ability to see what was ahead.
When he reached the next area, he gasped when he saw Vivian up ahead. However, there was also another person with her. It appeared to be a Boo, just like the ones Chopper had seen back in the mansion in Forever Forest.
"Hey... Well, at least it's good to know that there's someone friendly to help find Vivian!" Chopper thought with a smile. As he got closer to the two, he realized the Boo was not as friendly as he thought.
"You gotta be kidding me! How did that not scare you?!" the Boo growled. "You should be turning white in fear, just like me!"
"Well... I'm not exactly afraid of Boos..." Vivian trailed. "I mean, I have lived around ghosts throughout most of my life..."
"Grrrrrr! There's no way I'm going to let someone not be fazed by my scariness! I have no choice but to scare you with violence!"
Before Vivian could respond, she noticed Chopper approaching her and the Boo, making her smile. "Chopper!"
"Huh?" the Boo turned around and spotted Chopper. Vivian, meanwhile, had gone into the shadows and appeared beside Chopper. "So you know this kid? Well, if I can't scare you, then maybe scaring him will be easy!"
"Wait... You want to scare me after I helped save those Boos from Bubba Blubba?" Chopper gawked. "I thought you were good?"
"You mean those Boos from Forever Forest? Those are different kind!" the Boo scoffed. "I, on the other hand, have no problem in scaring anybody! So be prepared to be shaking in fear!"
"We're not going to let you beat us..." Vivian trailed, her hands now surrounded in fire. "Chopper and I will take care of you."
"All right, then! I'll take you both on!"
Chopper started off the fight by becoming Beam Chopper and firing a beam whip at the Boo. Once Vivian struck the ghost with her Shade Fist, it was already down to 3 HP. Still, she was surprised by Chopper's new appearance.
"Chopper... What's with the new look?" Vivian wondered.
"Oh... Well, I can copy an ability if I end up inhaling something!" Chopper explained. "And once I get that ability, I can use it, just like what I did!"
"I never knew about that..."
"Argh... You're going to pay for that!" the Boo growled, appearing in front of Chopper with its hands over its face. When it finally revealed its face, the Boo turned bigger for a brief moment and stuck out its tongue to hurt Chopper, which ended up knocking away his Beam ability. Annoyed by this, Chopper jumped on its head, defeating it with ease. This awarded him with 6 Star Points, along with a level up. With that, he upgraded his FP to 10, making his stats 15 HP, 10 FP, and 6 BP.
"That...was pretty easy," Chopper remarked.
"Argh... You guys are no fun!" the Boo complained. "I just wanted to scare someone, and you guys just have to come here and beat me up! Lame!"
"Didn't you start it, though?" Vivian asked.
"Guh... Whatever... I'm outta here!" the Boo stuck its tongue out and let out one last cackle before disappearing.
"I'm so glad I found you, Chopper," Vivian smiled as she clasped her hands together. "When I had gotten out of that train, I was trying to look for you. But then that Boo came out of nowhere and tried to scare me."
"I was trying to look for you too," Chopper nodded. "Did that Boo...hurt you?"
Vivian shook her head. "No. It didn't even manage to scare me. I guess that's what happens when you live around a dark place for a long time... If it were my sisters that found me instead, I don't know if I would've managed to do much... Especially to Beldam..."
"I think you could've done something," the boy noted, noticing her hang her head low at the last sentence. "I mean... Haven't you ever...stood up to her?"
"I could...but I'm just too nervous to do that."
"Ummmmm... I was nervous when I first tried standing up to myself. Well, I was pretty nervous with all the stuff I had to face on my first adventure, but I think I managed to make myself a better person. I think..." Chopper pondered. "Maybe you can stand up to her!"
"You really think so?" Vivian asked, turning to Chopper.
"Yeah! I think you might be able to do it!" Chopper smiled. "You don't deserve to be treated badly to people. You're nice!"
"Th-Thanks..." Vivian replied, her face turning red. "I'm glad to be traveling with someone who's so nice...and sweet to me..."
Chopper seemed oblivious at the look on Vivian's face, along with the last thing she had said to him.
"I guess we should get going now..."
"Yeah, let's do that!" Chopper agreed cheerfully. "We gotta go find that Crystal Star before yours sisters!"
With that, they headed over to the next area, which had a conveyor belt with a violin in the way. There were also a few Motobugs and Paratroopas around as well.
"That's odd… I don't remember there being robot ladybugs around here." Vivian remarked. "I guess we can just have this conveyor belt carry us over to the other side, though that violin is in our way. I think I have an idea."
"Hmmm… Oh, yeah!" Chopper pulled out his hammer and jumped onto the conveyor belt, but Vivian pulled him away and shook her head.
"Wait, I don't think you can break it, Chopper!" Vivian explained. "I think I might have an idea that'll work better!"
"Oh... OK... What's your idea?"
"Well... Ummmmm... Maybe I can just show you it instead when you get back on the conveyor belt?"
"...OK! That sounds good!"
When Chopper jumped back onto the conveyor belt, Vivian joined him. Once the violin got closer, Vivian grabbed Chopper and pulled him in the shadows, while he was surprised by this sudden move. Soon enough, they emerged, with Chopper looking very shocked.
"Wh-What was that you just did?!" Chopper gawked.
"I went into the shadows, but this time I took you with me," Vivian explained. "We Shadow Sirens usually do this to hide..."
"Oh..."
Chopper jumped off the conveyor belt, they noticed some bars nearby. They looked like they were easy to slip through, so Chopper used his ability to turn sideways and went through the bars to fight some Motobugs and Waddle Doos. They found in the next area a paper airplane panel and down below were a bunch of springs that were only close to the platform they were on.
"Time to do that paper airplane thing!" Chopper declared.
"What paper airplane thing?" Vivian wondered.
"Just watch," Chopper jumped in the air and transformed into a paper airplane, with Vivian going into it. The paper airplane began to fly over to the other side that had a lower ledge, where there was a tunnel like a trumpet bell. When Chopper transformed back into himself, Vivian gaped.
"Oh... So that was the paper airplane you were talking about? I remember something like that..." Vivian trailed as they looked at the trumpet bell before them.
"All right, it's just a little trumpet thing. There's nothing that's going to get in our way from this." Chopper assured as he went into the trumpet bell and he sped through it. He came out of another bell and landed on a grinding rail, which led him to the ground.
Once he reached the ground, Vivian rose up from the shadows because she preferred to do it the easy way. They both noticed a Heart Block in the end of the area. What he noticed was that the Heart Block made him pay a certain amount of coins to use it.
"Odd… These Heart Blocks now cost coins to use? Lame!" Chopper frowned as he hit it to recover from all the damage he took. They headed into the next area to see a bass with angry eyes, a French mustache and a small, pointy beard.
"Oi? What is zis? Who are you all?" the Angry Bass asked. "You're not welcome in zis place? I am zee Angry Bass, and I've been left in zis place for my entire life! Do you know how much zat is like for moi?"
"Whoa, you look rather freaky for a bass… I got a guitar, if you want to jam!" Chopper smiled as he pulled out a guitar, which the Angry Bass was not amused with.
"I don't like this bass one bit, Chopper… I think it might be dangerous…" Vivian trailed.
"I am so angry now!" the Angry Bass roared. "I'm going to turn zis anger into violence and take my stress out on you two! You're going to be bawlin' your eyes out!"
"Oh... That bass is angry."
"Chopper... Please..."
"OK, sorry..."
Tattle: That's the Angry Bass. I guess he's just a bass that's angry. Max HP is 15, Attack is 3, Defense is 0. He'll attack you with music, or even just ram into you. He's got a pretty strong attack, so you MIGHT want to be careful. Seriously, why's he so angry? It's not like something happened that made him angry. He looks really…weird for a bass.
Chopper walked over to the Angry Bass and stomped on him, which only did 2 damage. But with Vivian on his side, this fight may not be too bad when she could use her ability to burn enemies with her fire magic.
"I'll leave a burn on him," Vivian sunk into the shadows and rose up right in front of the Angry Base, using her Shade Fist to burn the bass.
"Ack! Zee fire! It buuuuurns!" the Angry Base screamed as he rammed into Chopper, but he was able to perform a Superguard against the Angry Base, making the bass take damage and also 1 damage from the burn.
"Hey, this isn't turning out so bad!" Chopper smiled as he walked over to the Angry Bass and slammed his hammer down on him. Vivian attacked with her Shade Fist once again to leave a long burn.
This time, the Angry Base threw three drums at Chopper and Vivian. Two were thrown at Vivian, while one hit Chopper. Vivian guarded one of them, but took damage from the other. Chopper took damage too, and then the Angry Bass took damage from the burn.
"I think I'm gonna need to use my Beam ability," Chopper decided as he became Beam Chopper and swung his wand at the Angry Bass, which left Vivian a bit surprised.
"Chopper, how did you suddenly turn a yellow color?" Vivian gasped. "I never knew you could do something like that."
"Oh, it's a Copy Ability. I'm able to use them. I don't actually know HOW I can, but after leaving my birth planet and going to my new home planet, I suddenly learned how to do that."
"Interesting… Let's finish off the bass now." Vivian suggested as she sank into the shadows and appeared by the Angry Bass to punch him, which made the Angry Bass fall to the ground in defeat.
"N-No… I lost to zese fools? Preposterous!" the Angry Bass cried as Chopper was awarded with 18 Star Points.
The Angry Bass got back up and fled from Chopper and Vivian, who simply shrugged. Chopper went back to heal himself and moved on with Vivian. In the next area there was a part of the ground that had a piano, and if they jumped on them, they could bounce on them and hear the piano notes. But up ahead was a hot pink building. The other side of the building, however, was light blue.
"What a weird building…" Chopper trailed. "Maybe that's the gateway we need to go that's between Music Kingdom and Toy Kingdom, right? I mean, I'm pretty sure that the Crystal Star went to Toy Kingdom anyway."
"The Crystal Star is in a place called Toy Kingdom?" Vivian pondered. "Huh… That's pretty interesting. We should go have a look at that gateway. Don't you think so, Chopper?"
Chopper nodded and headed on over to the gateway. They walked up a slope that led there and defeated the drums and guitars, clarinets, Koopas, Motobugs, and Buzz Bombers that were in their way. Once they were right in front of the doorway to the gate, Chopper read the sign.
Through here is the gateway between Music and Toy Kingdom! Those who are worthy of completing the task in here can pass on through the gate to Music or Toy Kingdom!
The Gods
"Whoa, did it just say the gods wrote this?" Chopper gawked. "Holy… That's interesting. Why would they write something like this here?"
"Well we can't ask questions now! We need to complete whatever task is through there. So let's go!" Vivian grabbed Chopper's hand and dragged him right into the building to the gateway.
Told you this would be a little different than the first Paper Chopper. Personally, I like it a little more because it fits Chopper a little more with other characters. Plus, it makes the story a little exciting as well. And Vivian grew to be fine around Chopper as well for helping her! :P
Yeah, that was the first little mini-boss in the story as well. But, with that aside, the next chapter should be a little interesting if you people liked that one little game that was found in Chapter 1 in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door as well! ;D