When Chopper reached the top room of the Dark Steeple, he found the room wasn't as dark as the others. There was a shower and bathtub with a green curtain, a TV, a lamp, a strange bell and a red rug. Not to mention there was a green rocking chair that looked comfy.

"Hmmmmm... This room doesn't look too bad!" Chopper smiled.

"Hmm? Who are you four?"

They stopped as they saw on the green rocking chair, a black spherical-shaped creature like Chopper made of darkness with two black, thin antennae curving back, glowing white eyes, white gloves with dark gray cuffs, golden rings on his wrists, and black feet notice them come into the room.

"What are people like you doing here and how did you get in? This is supposed to be my alone time. Get out. Now." the shadowy monster clenched his fists, which had a purple glow around them. His angry look was not something to laugh at.

Chopper, on the other hand, was starting to twitch.

"Wait… So, this monster…is actually a shadow of…ME?!" Chopper gaped. "No! This can't be! How can I have a counterpart? Metal Chopper is already evil enough! Why is there another!"

"What? This guy's the monster? I thought it was something bigger and evil-looking!" Scrub scoffed. "…Wait, this must be why those villagers were mistaking Chopper for him! But seriously? He looks like Chopper but darker? That's not original…"

"I don't know how you got in this steeple and up here, but I'm more than welcome to throw you out of here," the shadowy Chopper noted as he looked at the window, which made Kirby back away.

"Poyo… (Ummm… If you'll excuse me… I think I should get out of here!)" Kirby was about jump down the hole, but the shadow Chopper snapped his fingers and the hole was blocked by some purple Star energy.

"No. I don't think so." he got off his chair and walked over to Chopper, who was still twitching. He smacked him in the face with star energy, knocking him back to the wall.

"Chopper!" Vivian gasped as she rushed over to him and looked at the injured Chopper. She looked down at him and noticed a mark on his face from the shadowy Chopper's attack. She looked up at the monster and threw a fireball at him.

"Star Spear!" Shadow Chopper (We'll just call him that for now) swung his arm and a purple spear-like energy came toward the fireball that Vivian shot at him, destroying the fireball.

"Poyo! (Whoa! This guy's good!)" Kirby gaped as Chopper slowly got up and got in his fighting stance.

"OK, what's your deal? YOU were the one that turned everybody into pigs, huh, faker?" Chopper asked, clenching his fists that had a fire glow around them.

"Faker? You fool. It's obvious that you're the faker." Shadow Chopper scoffed. "I mean, YOU? Comparing yourself to ME? Look at yourself! I don't think you look good enough to be my counterpart! Not to mention I've been around here much longer than you. I'm about one thousand years old, while you…look like you're ten. Of course, people will believe you're not a faker because EVERYONE believes the good guy."

"And you turned everyone into pigs?" Vivian asked.

"Why yes, that was me. They deserve it for what they've done to me."

"You stink, fake Chopper! Why'd you wanna turn those villagers into pigs anyway?" Scrub growled.

"So you're all curious, aren't you? Fine. I'll tell you my exact reason. Revenge."

"I wanted to get revenge on them for so long…but I guess I might as well explain to you WHY, since you probably have no idea why I would want to get revenge."

Shadow Chopper's POV, flashback-

I used to live in Twilight Town before those villagers showed up. Even then, I still wasn't a happy person because of certain events. After those events, I found Twilight Town and lived there with three, purple ghosts that I was told were my "sisters". They looked nothing like me, so I hardly believed the person who told me that.

Anyway, I relaxed there most of the time there…until those villagers came and chased me off. I had no home, and I wanted to make them suffer for how long I had to suffer.

I was lucky enough to find a steeple, which is this one. I found it a month ago, and I went in there to find some guy in a white sheet…He wasn't satisfied when he saw me arrive, but I threw him out of the steeple and I took it over. It went somewhat like this:

"So, you're the one who owns this place, right?" Shadow Chopper asked.

"Yeah? What're you doing here, Slick?"

"Beat it."

"Wait, what?! This is MY place!"

"It was your place. Now I'm taking it over."

The white sheeted person flew up and tried to attack me, but he was too weak. A Star Kick was all it took to send him flying out the window, and it looked like he ran away, so I decided to live in this place.

A bell was in the same exact room, and when I looked at it and punched it, I saw at the village, somebody turned into a pig. I knew that I could get back at them with it. Not to mention I found a red star-shaped gem that allowed me to curse them all and prevent them from escaping - for the exception of one person...

Normal POV, end of flashback-

Shadow Chopper showed his golden rings. "You know what happened to me? How I was born? I was a creation gone wrong. I was meant to help bring an end to all good that existed…but my power was too much. These rings keep me from using that ultimate power. If I were to take them off…I could possibly die. But who cares about that? Those villagers are pigs, and that's how they'll stay."

"What? Isn't there a BETTER way to solve your problems instead of turn everyone into pigs?" Chopper asked. "The villagers are so poor, and you're making them all miserable! That's so selfish of you to do something like that! Not only will we get that Crystal Star from you, but we're gonna make sure you get what you deserve!"

"Crystal Star? …I heard about those." Shadow Chopper pondered. "They can give you a lot of power if you have all twenty of them. If you have more, then I suppose I should take them from you. Perhaps that's why you've come here, Chopper. That is your name, is it not?"

"His story… He said something about three sisters… Could he…" Vivian gasped. "No. There's no possibility he's actually my brother. He looks NOTHING like my sisters and I. I don't like seeing him… But he's responsible for the Twilighters becoming pigs, so we need to beat him and get the Crystal Star."

"Yeah, exactly," Chopper agreed.

"Enough now! Stop talking to your girlfriend and let us fight! Our fight will prove who's the tougher one."

"Augh! Why does everyone call her my girlfriend? That's it! You're going down!" Chopper declared as Shadow Chopper crossed his arms.

"You are foolish to face me, you know. I won't go easy on you like most people. You've been warned."

Tattle: …Huh? Wow, this is SO weird and scary! This…fake Chopper, which I'll call him, isn't even in here. Well, I see something that looks just like him in here… But he's got no name! But he's more fake than real to me. Max HP is 50, Attack is 5, Defense is 0. He can use some kind of star power. I don't know if many people have such an ability! Fake Chopper will also use some kind of other powers too, and they can do A LOT! I think he can also heal his HP too, so watch out. I can't believe he did all of this to make the villagers suffer! I mean, look at his angry face! What a jerk!

"All right… If he's got his star power with him, I'll use my power then!" Chopper swung his arm and threw a fireball toward Shadow Chopper, which left a nice burn on him. Vivian punched him with her fists too to make the burn last longer. Shadow Chopper swung his arm and fired a Star Spear toward Chopper, which knocked him back to the wall. Like before, his Star powers hurt him big time, especially when he took 5 damage.

"Now, you were saying I was the faker? I'm actually dealing as much more damage than you are…" Shadow Chopper scoffed as he felt the burn hurt him. This gave Chopper his chance to make an attack.

"Hi-YAAA!" Chopper's fists were surrounded by flames as he spun around, hitting Shadow Chopper with them, which knocked him to the ground. This allowed Scrub to make an attack.

"All right! Now's my chance to strike! I hope your fire attack doesn't do anything to me, Contadre…" Scrub trailed. Chopper told him not to worry and he walked over to Shadow Chopper and used his Ground Pound on him. Scrub began to chuckle…until Shadow Chopper used his Star Punch to knock him away. Chopper looked shocked when he saw the baby Yoshi hit the wall with a bruised nose.

"SCRUB!" Chopper turned around to Shadow Chopper and boy, did he look angry. He clenched his flaming fists and glared angrily at him.

"Your little friend can't put up much to defend himself. How pathetic." Shadow Chopper scoffed as he gave Chopper a signal to come and attack.

"Oh, you're going down..."

Chopper charged and was about to punch him, but then Shadow Chopper blocked his punch with his fists. But luckily, he shot a fireball at him to leave him open, so now it was Kirby's chance to make a move.

"Poyo! (I think I should test out my Stone attack! That should do a lot of damage!)" Kirby began to float up by taking in some air and came down on Shadow Chopper as a stone. He did about 6 damage, which was much more than Shadow Chopper's attacks.

"Fine. If you're going to play hard, then I might as well play hard myself! I'll show you how you REALLY use a Crystal Star!" Shadow Chopper held up the Crystal Star, which began to glow, making Chopper, Vivian, Scrub, and Kirby frozen in time.

"Oh, yes… That should do it. Thankfully, I can use this Crystal Star's powers to make my ability to stop time much stronger! And now you're going to see how powerful my attacks are…" Shadow Chopper began to make a quick attack on all four, and they all took 7 damage once he snapped his finger.

He made time flow back to normal, and Chopper and his friends saw how much damage they took.

"Oh, boy… We're not looking so good right now. We need to recover!" Chopper decided to use his Power Bounce on Shadow Chopper and was able to stomp on him six times. Vivian decided to take out a Super Mushroom and give it to Chopper to eat, making him recover 10 HP. Apparently, Shadow Chopper wasn't the only one to plan this. He used Star Heal to recover 10 HP as well.

"He can recover his HP as well? That's not good…" Vivian trailed. "Well Goombella's Tattle said he could heal, but I wasn't suspecting him to do it now."

Scrub began to rub his nose and pounded on the fake Chopper with a Ground Pound to get back at him.

"That's for punching me in the nose, faker!" Scrub yelled after knocking him back with one last kick. "OK, Contadre! Take him down, and fast!"

Chopper nodded to Scrub and tossed a fireball at Shadow Chopper, leaving him with 15 HP.

"Hmph! Not bad… Not bad at all…" Shadow Chopper trailed. "You seem to be putting up a good fight. I didn't expect you to not stand up to my attacks so easily. …But I still have one trick up my sleeves! Thanks to that Crystal Star, I can do this!"

Shadow Chopper's eyes became red and he looked at Chopper. Suddenly, purple smoke appeared around him and then another Chopper was standing there. Chopper not only looked shocked, but he was confused as well.

"What the… Now he came look like me too?" Chopper gaped before he gripped his hammer. "C'mon! You're basically a recolored version of me! …But you're darker and eviler."

"Yes. I have shape-shifting powers. Now you'll be fighting yourself from now on. And let's see how you manage to stand up to your OWN attacks!"

Fake Chopper (since he turned into Chopper) walked over to Chopper and stomped on him. He was able to guard the attack and take 4 damage instead of 5…and THEN he hurled a fireball at his fake. Vivian decided to leave a longer burn on Fake Chopper, so she punched him with her fiery fists, leaving him with 6 HP.

This time Fake Chopper hurled a fireball of his own at Kirby, leaving a burn on him and also making him take 5 damage. Well, Fake Chopper got hurt too by it, so he only had 5 HP left.

"All right, this is it!" Chopper's feet were surrounded by flames and then he ran over to Fake Chopper and stomped on him with them.

"Whoa… When did I learn that? …Wait! It must be the Super Gloves I got! They gave me this fire power!"

Fake Chopper was turned back into himself as he coughed. "…What? You…beat me already? But…how?"

"Because you were a little overconfident," Chopper smirked as Shadow Chopper was left dazed while Chopper got 24 Star Points.

But, once Shadow Chopper fell over on the ground, his grunts didn't sound as dark as before. They sounded more...childish. Not only that, but Chopper's happy look changed to an angry look. Something's not right here...

When Shadow Chopper dropped the Crystal Star, Chopper walked over to it and let it circle around him. Everyone was left silent as he held the Crystal Star up.

You got a Crystal Star!

END OF CHAPTER

Chopper defeated his "shadow" self in the Dark Steeple, and found the fourth Crystal Star. The people in Twilight Town got cured from the curse. This Crystal Star did not seem to be a problem though... Leaving the Dark Steeple, Chopper sets out to find the other Crystal Stars.

However, Scrub looked a little disappointed right now. "That's IT? That's all you got? Man, this guy was a piece of cake!"

"Poyo? (I thought he was a prototype?)" Kirby gawked.

"Enough now," Chopper spoke up. "We already have the Crystal Star. We should get out of here."

"Hmm? Chopper…" Vivian began, noticing the look on his face. "Are you all right?"

"Yeah... That angry look isn't something I've seen before." Scrub added.

"I'm fine. But right now, we need to get out of here." Chopper suggested as he jumped down the hole, making everyone else look confused. But they jumped down anyway, leaving Shadow Chopper on the ground for now.

"G-Guys... Where are you going...?" Shadow Chopper moaned as he slightly opened his eyes to see Chopper, Vivian, Scrub, and Kirby leaving.