CHAPTER 3
-The Great Boggly Tree-
Chopper, Vivian, and Scrub came out of the gray pipe and landed on some light blue leaves on the ground. The sky appeared to be a light brown color, and the tall, gray grass had a strange white color to it that made it feel like snow. Punio came out as well and jumped off the pipe.
"This is it? This is the Boggly Woods?" Scrub asked in disappointment. "Crud… I was hoping it would look more bright and colorful than this. Darn it."
"Don't worry, Scrub. It's not so bad, to be honest. It's very peaceful." Chopper commented. "I like it a lot more than Music Kingdom, I'll admit. It actually looks very mysterious. What'll we run into next anyway?"
"Yeah, I do find this place very pretty," Vivian smiled as she cupped her hands together. "I really haven't been here that long, but I guess I'll get a better look at this place now!"
Punio stepped in front of the group and checked the pathway ahead. "Um, OK, just a bit further and we should be able to see the Great Tree. The elder and her friends are waiting for us there... Oh yeah, and I think my little sister's waiting there too! Come on! We gotta go before it's too late!"
"All right!" Chopper hit the Save Block to save his game, and then they headed over to the next area. However, they stopped when they saw the Shadow Brothers were there, which left Vivian surprised.
"Huh? Who are they? They look similar to me…but they're much different." Vivian noticed as they began to listen to them.
"OK, boys! It's time we got to work!" Mysterious declared. "You! Shadower! Could you explain to me what we need to do? I need to remember a little."
Shadower ended up face palming. "Again? You forget so much! Sigh… All right, we were ordered by Grodus to find some boy named Chopper and take his Magical Map. So… Should we get rid of him and whoever's with him too?"
"Well Grodus didn't care what he wanted us to do. I think if we destroyed him, it would make things better! But, yeah, I think that's what Grodus wanted us to do. Good job remembering that." Mysterious noticed that Shadower had something he was holding on, which made him raise an eyebrow. "Hmm? Shadower! What's that you got with you? Did you steal something from the pizza guy again?"
"What? No!" Shadower answered as he took out a small yellow star. "I don't know where this came from, but I found it on the ground. It looks pretty interesting, I must admit. I wonder where it came from."
"…So you found it on the ground. Well I could care less if you keep it or not. What DOES matter is that we get the sketch out. So… Shadower, would you do me a favor and get that stupid thing out already so we can find out who Chopper is?"
"Uh… What?" the youngest Shadow Brother gawked. "What are you talking about? I don't have the thing! You said that it was way too important for me to hold onto, so you should be the one who has it!"
Mysterious smacked Shadower in the face. "WHAT?! How could you say that I had it? Grrrr! You idiot! You always think that you can blame everything on me! You think it's right to blame things on someone when you probably screwed it up?"
"Well… Um…" Shadower didn't know what to say. However, Purple noticed Chopper and his friends, so tapped Mysterious on the shoulder, but he was moving his arm off him to get him to stop.
"Stop it now, Purple. …What? A pale green antennae fellow, a purple shadow girl with pink hair and a small white Yoshi? This isn't time for your stupid little games! We have something more important here!"
"What do you mean?" Shadower asked before Mysterious gave him a glare.
"YOU! How could you lose that sketch?!" Mysterious exclaimed. "I would kick your butt if I wanted to! …But I know it's best not to do that to my own worthless brother."
"But… Listen, Mysterious, I never had the thing with me." Shadower objected, looking a bit sad. "Why are you blaming this on me when I didn't have it? Are you just doing this so it's not your fault?"
"SILENCE!" Mysterious was about to punch Shadower, but he stopped. "Forget it. It's not even worth using violence to get the sketch from you. Sigh… Fine, then I guess there's only one thing that I suppose I can do."
Mysterious used his magic to make the yellow star come over to him. He grabbed it and put it away before Shadower could grab it. "Since you won't admit that you forgot the sketch, I'm taking this from you. Oh, so sorry… Well too bad! It's your punishment that you forgot it!"
"B-But, Mysterious…"
"No buts! You know, we wouldn't be in this situation if you didn't lose that map!"
"Bro... Oh, what's the point?" Shadower sighed.
"Man, I share his pain," Vivian noticed. "It feels like when my sister would blame everything on me. I don't know who's worse... Beldam? Or that blue and red shadow person?"
"Well it's best if we just moved on," Chopper whispered. "I'm a little worried they might find out where I am at this second and they'll go after me. Yes, we NEED to get moving. But I do agree that I feel sorry for him."
They began to walk on, with Scrub looking at the trees. "Hey guys, don't those trees look like upside down cones? I mean, look at them…"
The others decided to take a look as well, and they ended up agreeing with him.
"Yeah, you're right, Scrub. They look like cones. Why didn't I notice them before?" Vivian wondered, while Chopper wonder as well. But since he was distracted, a Pale Piranha bit him, which made him take 2 damage.
"Ack! A Pale Piranha landed a First Strike on me!" Chopper cried. He quickly whacked at the Pale Piranha to take it out, while Vivian used her Shade Fist on the pale-looking Cleft that was by the Pale Piranha.
"These guys aren't too tough. I thought the fighters in Glitzville were tougher!" Chopper scoffed after whacking at another Pale Piranha. Since there were a lot of them, he decided to get on Scrub to go faster.
"Contadre, aren't you fast yourself?" Scrub asked.
"Yeah, but I guess the author had to limit my speed at times because it makes you feel useless..."
"Author?" Vivian gawked.
"Ehhhh... I have no idea, honestly."
After clearing all of the enemies around the area, they moved over to a smaller area with less white grass than the other area. They could see in the background a pipe, a bottomless pit, and a tree. There was a gray pipe right near them.
"Hey, what's that over there, Punio? Is that the Great Tree you've been telling us about? It doesn't look so big to me…" Chopper trailed, looking a bit disappointed at its size.
"Oh, don't worry about that, Chopper. When we get closer to it, it'll be bigger than you thought it was! That's where we Punies live. That's home. Uh, of course, it's just not us in the tree. Lots of Jabbies and Piders, too. Well, anyway, Chopper... Follow me!" Punio went into the small hole in the pipe and made his way toward the tree in the background.
"OK, let's follow him, I suppose," Chopper shrugged as he jumped into the pipe and followed Punio in the background. Scrub and Vivian followed too and when they made it to the tree, they saw how big it was.
"Whoa… I guess you weren't kidding about this place being huge, Punio! …Punio?" Chopper saw Punio was at the front of a pink door with a red light above it. From what they could see, he was certainly not happy.
"I think something's wrong… We better go ask Punio what's wrong." Vivian suggested.
The other two nodded in agreement and made their way over to Punio, who was looking confused.
"Yo! Punio! What's the problem?" Scrub asked.
"Uh oh… This isn't good. This door's light was green when I came out of this tree. Not only that, but the entrance where we Punies go through has been sealed!" Punio frowned. "It's nowhere to be seen! I think somebody locked this door from the inside. But I can't open this door. I thought I could save everyone… I guess I'm nothing but a fool."
"No problem! I'll open this!" Chopper walked over to the door and tried to pull it open. "Wait, there's no handle on this."
"Try kicking it," Scrub suggested.
"No, kick AND punch it!" Chopper began to kick and punch at the door, but sadly, it didn't seem to work.
"OK, we're screwed."
"What? No way, Contadre! We're not giving up right now!" Scrub snapped. "We need to get that door open, and that's final! Hey! Punio! You got any ideas on what we should do?"
"...Uh... …Um... …Hmmmm... …Ermmm... ...Mmmmmmmm... ...Hrrrmmmmmmmmmmmm... OH, YEAH!" Punio crawled over to one of the trunks of the tree, where they were a little above the pink door. Chopper, Vivian, and Scrub followed him up to the trunk and listened to him.
"I remember there being a secret entrance somewhere around here. We can get in through there! I'm completely sure of it! Uh, problem is... I doubt finding it is going to be easy. I don't remember where exactly it is. We had patched it up some time ago after those X-Nauts invaded the tree last time. You're not going to see 'Secret Entrance' labeled on it."
"I don't mean to be really worried and all, but how are we going to find somebody's secret entrance?" Vivian asked.
"Well, it's hidden by this invisible...thingy."
"A thingy?"
"Yeah, it's a thingy. We need to find and remove the thingy. Boy, but removing a normal thingy sounds tough enough, let alone an invisible one! Uh... Oh! Got it! I know someone to help! Surely, he can help us!"
"Who is 'he'?" Chopper asked.
"We found him in the Boggly Woods one day, and he was lost. He didn't seem to be evil or anything. In fact, he seemed very positive and fun! For some reason, he has some strange ability to inhale stuff. We were a little scared he would eat us, but he didn't even bother with it. He was allowed to stay in Madame Flurrie's house at the deepest corner of the woods, so… Let's head back in the direction we came from."
"Hmm… Inhale stuff… That sounds VERY familiar to me… We should head on over there right now, I suppose." Chopper said. So they left the Great Tree and headed back into the Boggly Woods.
Another location in the Boggly Woods-
"(Man, it feels good that I'm at a safe place,)" the voice began from inside a house. (It really stinks that I lost him, unfortunately. But these woods are really cool! It's dull, but it's a nice place to be in, to be honest! But those Crystal Stars… How on earth am I going to get them now that I'm separated? Man, I think this is going to be tough for me. But at least the Punies were nice to me! I think I should go pay them a little visit! Now where's my star…?)"
After searching, he realized that it couldn't be found anywhere. "(OH NOOOOO! I can't believe it's gone! Where did it go? Did it get stolen? Did I drop it somewhere? What am I going to do?)"
Near the pipe to the Great Tree-
After leaving the great tree and getting out of the background, they were back in the woods. Scrub wanted to rest for a moment because they were walking for quite a while. Since they were going to be waiting for him, Chopper, Vivian, and Punio were playing a game of charades and were doing pretty badly at it.
"Chopper, what are you even doing?" Vivian asked.
"You gotta guess!" Chopper whined.
"Well... I can't even tell what it is..." Punio trailed.
"OK, that's it. I think I'm done." the pale green kid sighed as the three decided to relax for a bit.
"Ummm… So since we're no longer playing charades, what are we supposed to do?" Vivian questioned. "Scrub is resting for a minute, so there's no way we can get going now, right?"
Scrub opened one eye and gave a light snicker. "Heh heh heh… They actually think I'm resting right now. But you know, some Yoshis just wanna relax. …Like me! I'd rather just sit here on this pipe instead of go traveling. They'll go find that person or whoever while I wait for them here."
"Hey, Mr. White Dinosaur. We need to get going now." Punio said as he got on his belly. "I know you're pretending to be sleeping. I'm sorry, but we can't stay here all day. Some Pale Piranhas or Dark Puffs could come here any minute."
"Aw, man! How did you see through me?" Scrub gawked as Punio jumped off him. "…Is it that green bulb on your antenna? That must be it! …Or maybe that's just to give you light. Well who cares. I'm going."
The white Yoshi made his way toward the next area, but he ended up getting knocked back by a Dark Puff. Everyone couldn't help but chuckle at him, who sulked.
"Man, you kind of remind me of a Yoshi friends of mine two years ago," Chopper recalled. "His name was Yosho, and he thought of himself as a ladies man, apparently. Oh yeah, I remember the first time meeting him. Heh heh heh… It was hilarious!"
"What happened?" Punio wondered.
"Well, basically, one of my friends checked a bush, and some voice was flirting with her, so she went over to me and told me to do it. Although... She tried to seduce me... I hated that so much..."
"So he tried to hit on a ghost partner that seduced you?" Vivian asked, who frowned upon hearing about Bow.
"Well… Yeah, but I never liked liked her! Don't think that! In all honesty, I never wanted her to join me, because I had a feeling something would go terribly wrong! …But she didn't turn out to be as bad as I thought. Don't think we had any relationship. Because we didn't."
Vivian's frown turned back to a smile. "All right, I'm fine with… Wait! Don't bother with what I said!"
"With what?" Scrub asked.
"Ummmmm... It's nothing, really."
"OK… Let's just go." Chopper got Scrub up and they all headed to the next area, where they could see a gray pipe going up to a paper airplane panel. But it seemed to be too low for them to cross over to the ledge on the other side.
"I can see some kind of passageway over there," Vivian noticed as she floated over to the hidden pathway that went up between the trees. Chopper went through there to go up to a blue ! Switch to the left.
"Oh, cool! A switch!" he brought his hammer down on it and Scrub noticed the pipe became longer.
"Cool! The pipe extended! Contadre! Go back over to the pipe and become a paper airplane! I think it might help!" Scrub called out, leaving Punio confused.
"Contadre? What do you mean, Mr. White Dinosaur?" Punio gawked. "Isn't his name Chopper? That's what I heard…"
"Well his name is Chopper," Vivian explained. "I guess Scrub still calls him Contadre because they both met at the Glitz Pit."
"What? His name's Chopper? Well, I think he's Contadre, but I'll remember his real name, OK? I just like to call him by his cooler name." Scrub smirked and gave a thumbs up.
"All right, let's keep going now. Since the pipe's back up, I can get us across!" Chopper headed over to the pipe to get to the top. He became Fighter Chopper to fire an energy sphere at the Shine Block, and then he removed the ability and made it to the other side with his friends as a paper airplane.
Chopper saw a red ? Block, so when he jumped under it, a Beam Charge badge was revealed to be inside, which would allow him to charge up an attack with his Beam ability to deal more damage. Afterward, they found a yellow house in the background with a pink roof.
"Look! There in the distance! That's what I was telling you about." Punio cheered. "This is Flurrie's house, but right now we allowed somebody else to stay there after she left the woods. Hopefully he'll be able to help us get into the Great Tree."
"You never really answered my question before," Chopper recalled. "Who is this 'he' person you're talking about? Is his name Him? Or He?"
"We don't know what his name is. In fact, we can't understand a thing he says either. He talks in some kind of other language. It's mostly "Poyo" or something along those lines. I don't know, exactly."
"Hmmm… Poyo, huh? Why does that sound familiar? Well, anyway, let's go to the house." Chopper turned sideways to go through the small bushes and to the gray pipe to reach the house in the background. His friends followed him into the house.
The inside of the house had a dark blue ground with hot pink walls. They saw some short stairs going over to a door. Punio walked up to the front of the whole group.
"…Uh… Excuse me!" Punio didn't hear anything, unfortunately. "Ummm… Maybe he isn't here. I wonder if he decided to go out and walk around in the woods."
They made their way over to the door ahead, but since Punio couldn't knock, Chopper did it for him.
"Hello? Are you there?" Punio asked.
No response.
"Well, I guess he isn't here... We might as well look inside." Chopper suggested as he was about to reach for the doorknob.
"(NO! Don't open the door! I'm not coming out of here yet!)"
Chopper's eyes widened as he brought his arm back, but for some reason, he understood the voice "Hey! I can understand what he's saying! He doesn't want us to open the door…"
"He doesn't want us coming in?" Punio gawked. "Uh… Excuse me, person that I don't know much about! …What are you doing in there still? Weren't you going to be coming out of here to give us a hand?"
"(…Hmm? That voice sounds familiar.)" the voice realized. "(Sounds like one of those Punies. Is that you Punio? I would help right now, but unfortunately I lost something. I'm not going to leave this place until I find it, and I don't know where it is! It's either lost, somebody stole it, or either it's somewhere around here. I don't know exactly. I'm trying as hard as I can to look for the star. But it's nowhere to be seen!)"
"He said that he lost some kind of star. Wait… A star… Sounds like something I know about!" Chopper began to think for a moment back when he encountered the Shadow Brothers. "Wait! I think I know where your star is! We'll get it back for you, OK?"
"(That's fine! I'd really like it back!)"
"So we need to get that star from those three shadow people. It doesn't sound like a big problem at all." remarked Vivian.
"We should go confront them about it," Scrub suggested. Chopper nodded and began to head back to the beginning area of the Boggly Woods with his friends.
Back with the Shadow Brothers-
"See, Mysterious? I TOLD you! You had to blame me for the sketch…AND I DIDN'T HAVE IT!" Shadower whined.
"Oh, be quiet. Don't be such a crybaby about it. We don't have time to be arguing about some stupid sketch. We need to study it! Now then…" Mysterious took out the sketch and began to look at it. "Hmmm… Interesting… Wait, THIS is who we need to go after? You gotta be kidding me! A short, round pale green boy with two antennae and short arms? Seriously!"
Purple and Shadower took a look at the picture, with Shadower noticing something about him. "Hey, isn't that kid who passed by here earlier with some other friends?"
"What? …Come to think of it, it does look like him. Wait a minute… That WAS him! You gotta be kidding me! Shadower! This is all of your fault!"
"What? I didn't do anything wrong!"
"Oh yes you did! Why didn't you warn me earlier?!" Mysterious roared. "I'll definitely be dealing out some terrible punishments later for you! I can promise you that!"
"But you're the one who had the…"
Mysterious smacked Shadower once again. "Did I give you permission to speak? NO! Either you shut up, or I'll have your tail cut off and have it hung up on the wall of our house! …Or better yet, I'll leave you in a garbage can for a week! How would you like that?"
"But I… Oh, come on! This isn't fair…"
"Oh, and about that stupid star you picked up earlier… I was THINKING about giving it back to you, but not anymore! Plus, now YOU'RE going to have to figure out how to find this Chopper kid!"
Purple mumbled to himself as he was forced to listen to the fight between the two.
Later-
When the group returned, they noticed the Shadow Brothers happened to be asleep. It could've been because they got exhausted after the argument. Purple probably fell asleep because he felt like it.
"They're asleep? Ummm… OK." Chopper poked Mysterious with a stick, which made him open his evil black eyes, making an evil grin appear on his face, which made Chopper back away. The leader bonked Shadower's head and nudged Purple to get up. They seemed a little tired but they noticed Chopper too.
"Well well well! If it isn't Chopper!" Mysterious grinned. "I don't know why somebody such as yourself is an enemy of Grodus's, but you must not be too bright if you came here looking for us. You know why? 'Cause we were waiting for YOU! Yeah! You didn't expect that, huh?"
"Yeah! I remember now! THESE freaks were the ones with the… Wait a minute… Hold up for a second!" Scrub gawked. "What in the heck do you mean that you've been waiting for Contadre?"
"Bah ha ha ha! Listen here, I don't have much time to be talking to a Yoshi such as yourself! And first of all, that's Chopper! Second, there's no way I'm going to be allowing you to be hunting for those Crystal Stars. So… Gimme the map. Right now. Wait, I'll take it when I'm done kicking your butts!"
"I don't understand how you know about the map and the Crystal Stars. Wait, you said you were working for Grodus? Who are you people anyway?" Vivian asked, readying some fire on her finger.
"Most people who want our names are often disappointed. But, if you want to know our names, we'll tell you, shadow girl." Mysterious declared as he cleared his throat.
"We are…"
"The Three…" Purple continued.
Mysterious glared at Shadower, who finished off with, "Oh! Right! Shadow Boys!"
"So they're the Three Shadow Boys? Uh… Hmmmm… That name… I don't really know." Chopper got back in his fighting stance anyway and clenched his fists. Punio, on the other hand, was left confused.
"Shadower! You idiot! That's Shadow BROTHERS! Not Shadow Boys!" Mysterious roared. "Where did you even get 'boys' from anyway? We're MEN! Big, strong, manly men! …Except for you that is! All you are is just some kind of CRYBABY!"
"What? How am I a crybaby? I don't really cry anyway!" Shadower cried.
"Well you're definitely doing it right now, crybaby."
"I don't understand why you think of me as a crybaby. Why are you always punishing me for things I don't do? Face it, bro! You're forgetful!"
"Oh, you're definitely going to be getting a big punishment for that, Shadower! Talking back to your older brother like that… Not cool at all! At least your brother, Purple, is more obedient than you!"
"Punishment? That's not fair!" Shadower sighed and face palmed. "And Purple only listens to you because he says nothing! YOU silenced him in the first place!"
"You don't need to mention something from the past. I should give you an extra punishment for that too!" Mysterious exclaimed. "But that's for much, MUCH later. So now, let's get to work, my brothers! Purple! Shadower! Let's get this doofus and stick him in a pipe! Yes… I think that's a nice idea."
"Hey, that's not very nice! ...Well, it doesn't matter at this point, because you're going down!" Chopper declared while Scrub let out a growl at them.
"Pffffft! You think that growl scares us? HA! This is certainly going to be a terrible day for you, Chopper!" Mysterious scoffed. "Purple! Shadower! How about we show these three fools precisely what we can do!"
All Purple could do to respond was nod.
"Yeah, Bro! I know." Shadower nodded.
"And don't let me see you guys slack off! If we fail, you're gonna get it!"
Tattle: That's Mysterious. He's the oldest of the Shadow Brothers, and he sure looks kind of mysterious! Max HP is 12, Attack is 2, and Defense is 0. Now, he may have the least amount of HP, but he's a big threat with his magic. He can use his magic to make his brothers get bigger, or make you smaller! Plus, his Tidal Wave attack can be pretty strong, doing at least 3 damage to you. I'd go for him second. I think he's cruel, I mean, look how he treated his brother!
Tattle: That's Purple. He's Mysterious's younger brother and the strongest one. Max is 15, Attack is 3, and Defense is 0. He's got the most attack power and he can even cause an earthquake with his earth magic! He'll even boost his attack up by 3 too, and he'll do A LOT of damage! I would highly, HIGHLY recommend taking him out first! I'm telling you! It's best if you did! You'll get creamed with him out there!
Tattle: That's Shadower. He's the youngest of the three Shadow Brothers. Max HP is 13, Attack is 1, and Defense is 0. To be honest, he's no threat to you whatsoever. He CAN attack both you and your partners later in the fight, but he's just…pretty weak. Sometimes I feel a little bad for him. How does he handle Mysterious punishing him and beating him up? No wonder he seems kind of angry at times. I would say save him for last.
"OK, let's take Purple out first. He seems to be the big threat. I'm gonna have to jump on him, sadly." Chopper said as he quickly jumped on Purple's head, knocking him back over to Mysterious.
"Gah! Get off of me, you big oaf!" Mysterious pushed Purple off, but then he got hit by Vivian's Shade Fist, leaving a burn on him.
"Go!" Mysterious pointed at Chopper, and Shadower sunk into the shadows to appear in front of Chopper, only to have him guard the attack, which did no damage to him. Purple appeared right in front of Scrub and he brought both of his fists down on him. He was about to crush him but then Chopper managed to knock him out of the way.
"Stay. Away. From him!" Chopper growled as he became Beam Chopper and he swung a beam attack at him.
Mysterious used his water magic to make a small wave hit Chopper and Vivian, which dealt 3 damage to the two of them. Scrub quickly shook his head and noticed how much HP Purple has.
"Oh, cool! He's down to 4 HP! Lemme do the honors, Contadre!" Scrub hollered as he fluttered over to Purple and used his Ground Pound on his head, making him moan and fall to the ground.
"One down, two to go!" Chopper smirked.
"Whaaaaaaaaat?! How could this be possible?! You took down Purple?!" Mysterious gaped. "Grrrrr! You're tougher than I thought, antennae boy!"
Shadower was able to punch Chopper this time with his fist, knocking away his ability, and then Mysterious fired a little bit of fire magic at Vivian, who managed to guard the attack.
"Hey! He's got fire magic too! How is that possible?" Vivian gaped as her fists were surrounded in a flaming glow.
"Well how about we take him out next?" Chopper suggested as he walked over to Mysterious and performed a flip jump and stomped on his head, making three Stylish moves to help get more Star Power.
"That was GREAT!" Chopper spun around and made a pose. Vivian smiled and then left a burn on Mysterious with her Shade Fist.
Mysterious didn't looked pleased with how Shadower was doing after his past attacks. "Shadower! What do you think you're doing, making a wimpy punch? ! You have shadow magic! So USE IT!"
"OK! Sheesh!" Shadower twirled his hand and then brought it down, making shadow lightning hit Chopper, Vivian, and Scrub. The sad thing was that it only did 1 damage to them.
Chopper was able to stomp on Mysterious again, and then Vivian finished him off with another Shade Fist attack. "Aggghhhhh! Now it's all up to you, Shadower! Finish…the job! …Cough…wheeze…"
With those words, he collapsed.
"Uh… OK?" Shadower looked at Chopper and his friends and saw they weren't glaring at him.
"Look, we don't REALLY want to hurt you," Chopper informed. "I don't think you belong with your brothers. We can help you."
"Says you! I don't trust you guys!" Shadower got back in his fighting stance and fired shadow lightning down at Chopper and his friends to deal 1 damage.
"Well, OK…" Chopper brought his hammer down on Shadower, and then following that, Scrub used his Ground Pound to leave him with 5 HP.
"Oh, man… I don't feel so good..." Shadower moaned as he attacked with shadow lightning again, and then Vivian punched him with her Shade Fist. Afterward, Chopper walked up to the young Shadow Brother.
"Sorry that I have to do this," Chopper apologized as he jumped on Shadower's head, which made him collapse.
"Ooog… Why did I fail you, Bro? Now I'm going to get punished…" Shadower moaned as Chopper received 26 Star Points from the battle. At that moment, Mysterious slowly got back up, as well as his brothers.
"WHAT?! How is this possible?! We lost already?! Oooog..." Mysterious growled. "I suppose we got a little too overconfident… Wait a minute, you two didn't pull your weight! If you did, we would've had the whole fight! Prepare for some world-class punishment when we get home! Yeah! That's right! But for now… Retreeeeeeat!"
They began to run away from them, with Shadower mumbling "Ow! Yeah, Bro…" as he fled. The star they had dropped, which Shadower turned back to get, but when he looked at Chopper and his friends, he simply fled and left the item behind.
"All right! We got it!" Chopper smiled as he grabbed the star. "OK, let's get going now!"
The house-
The first thing Chopper did when he entered the house was knock on the room the person was in. "Hey! We got your star!"
"(Really? Great! That's just GREAT! All right, I'm coming on out right now. Have the star out with you.)"
The door slowly opened, and Chopper jumped up when he saw Kirby come out of the room.
"Kirby? Is that really you?" Chopper gaped.
"Poyo? (Chopper? Man, I can't believe it! I didn't expect you to show up here! I didn't know that you came back here with my star!)" Kirby cheered, while Vivian and Scrub were confused.
"What? You know him?" Vivian asked.
"Yeah, he was actually supposed to help me find the Crystal Stars, but some kind of turret at a base on the moon blasted our Warp Stars and sent us down toward Earth," Chopper explained. "Yeah, it's a true story. I gotta say, I never expected to see you here, Kirby! Amazing!"
"Poyo! (Yeah! I can't believe I survived that!)" Kirby smiled.
"So you two know each other? Wow! That's great news!" Punio cheered.
"Wow! That's gotta be interesting!" Scrub smirked. "So if you two weren't separated, he would've been traveling with us before. That would've been pretty cool!"
"Poyo? (So you're saying that there's a problem in the Great Tree, huh, Punio?)" the pink puffball asked. Poyo! (I think I know just what to do! …But why are you here, Chopper?)"
"The Crystal Star led us here," answered Chopper.
"Poyo? (Hmmm? There's a Crystal Star here! Yay! I guess I didn't fall here all for nothing! Let's go over to the Great Tree then!)"
Kirby has joined your party! Press and hold X to have him inhale anything around him such as rocks blocking the way or some secret paper areas that may be in the way! In battle, Kirby can use his Cartwheel attack to attack enemies on the ground or up in the air… Or he can use his Inhale ability to spit out enemies into each other!
"Poyo! (Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get going!)"
With that, Chopper and his new (or old) companion Kirby, along with the rest of the group, made their way back to the Great Tree.
"It's time to save my kind and my sister!" Punio declared. "I hope we're not too late..."
Yeah, I'm sure you guys knew it was Kirby in there. No Flurrie this time. I don't know, I didn't think Flurrie would actually fit in this story as one of Chopper's partners. And besides, I like Kirby a lot more.
Next up is where Chopper and Co. go into the Great Tree and see what has happened!