"I can't believe those meanie-heads injured you, Tippy!" Mimi scowled as she was putting a few bandages on his body, who had been sitting on a chair. "If there's anyone that deserves to get injured, it would be that meanie Chopper!"
Her room looked so girly. It was probably the girliest room that he had ever pink bed was filled with many dolls. There were Squiglets, demons and even a doll of Tipral. On the closet door he could see some drawings colored in crayon. One was a picture of a Rubee, another was one of Mimi stabbing Dimentio for stealing her diary and the last one was one of her and Tipral kissing.
To Tipral, it was pretty cringeworthy.
"Mimi… I don't need these bandages." Tipral stated bluntly. "I'll easily heal off these injuries later."
"Well, Tippy… Your powers probably won't be enough for that. My bandages do more than just heal, after all!" Mimi giggled.
Tipral gave an annoyed grunt in response and let her proceed with the bandages. She had spent a while on them, and when some minutes had passed, he had finally stood up.
"I think I had enough for right now…" Tipral declared. "I'm going back to my room."
"Wait, Tippy!" Mimi gaped as Tipral walked out of her girly room. "I wasn't finished with the bandages!"
She followed Tipral into the hallway and over to his room. She noticed that his room was the exact opposite of hers. It was dark and it had a dark purple star in the center of the floor. The Dark Prognosticus was on the table and so was a picture of Tipral and someone else.
"Tippy! Don't go yet!"
Tipral stopped and turned to Mimi.
"What do you want?"
"I'm not finished with you hand, silly!" Mimi walked over to Tipral's arm, finishing up the bandage with a little knot.
"OK… That was nice of you to do that. Now, could you please let me get back to work?" Tipral groaned.
While Mimi giggled, she noticed the picture that Tipral had on the table. "Hey… What's this picture? It looks pretty old…"
She picked up the picture and looked at it. He could see Tipral smiling on that picture, but the other person couldn't be seen due to the dust.
"That's a very old picture," Tipral explained. "I used to cherish that thing everywhere I went, but now it's no longer good. Once it was dropped in mud, I couldn't get a chance to clean the whole thing off."
"You mean that this is dry mud? Gross!" Mimi cried, letting go of Tipral's picture. "Say, Tippy… You look so cute in that picture! Why don't you ever smile now?"
"None of that is your concern."
"You sound like you don't want to talk about it."
"No, I don't wish to speak about this. I wish to rest a little before meeting up with the others."
"OK, I suppose I'll let you rest," Mimi decided, leaving the room.
"Now that she's gone, I might as well get to my plans," Tipral walked over to his table, where the Dark Prognosticus lay. He opened it and began to read through it to where the heroes would go to next. "A water world? Interesting… I heard that Sonic hates water. As for Chopper and Kirby… There's no way that water is going to stop them from traveling. However, I have an idea."
As Tipral closed the Dark Prognosticus, he looked over at the picture near him. He picked it up and gazed at it a couple of seconds with a straight face until he frowned at it in anger.
"Useless picture! I don't need you anymore!" Tipral threw the picture across the wall, leaving a big crack on it. "This thing doesn't seem to get destroyed so easily…"
He picked it up and glared at it again. "Fine. I'll keep this stupid picture. It's not like it's worth anything anymore." He placed it back on his table. The crack on it was right between him and the dirt on the right side. Not that he really cared or anything.
"As for the heroes… I cannot let them make it to this castle so soon! If all six are united, then I'm done for!" Tipral walked out of his room, but his antennae sprung up. "Hold on a moment…"
Tipral noticed a mysterious figure sneaking through the hallways. "Don't try hiding, fool. I know you're here."
The figure stopped, but it didn't bother to speak. That's when Tipral pulled his Dark Star Scepter out and twirled it before aiming it at the person.
"Intruders aren't allowed in this place, you know… Seeing who you are, I know the perfect place to put you!" He fired dark energy at the mysterious figure, making the person disappear from his sight.
"Good. I'm a bit surprised that he didn't even try to get away…"
Main room-
"Wow, Tipral… Yeh sure got injured… What happened teh yer hand?" O'Chunks questioned, looking at Tipral's bandaged hand. "…An' why is Mimi's bandages on that thing?"
"It's a long story, O'Chunks," Tipral didn't want them to think he lost to Chopper, so he came up with an idea. "My hand got caught in a machine. End of story." (If you read that book, you'd get the reference)
Mimi decided to play along, despite knowing what REALLY happened. "A machine? Oh, you poor, cute guy… I can't believe that that happened to you!"
"A machine, you say? Oh, yes, poor little Tipral… Accidents tend to happen a lot." Obviously to Tipral, Dimentio knew that wasn't true.
"I don't understand how a machine could leave your hand like that," Dark eyed Tipral's bandaged hand. "Are you REALLY going to keep those girly bandages on you? They don't look…that good on you."
"I'll be fine, Dark," Tipral assured, bringing his head up to his minions. "Now… I happened to come across an intruder earlier today. I can assure you that he's gone now. BUT, there could still be more intruders after that…event. So, I must warn you guys to be on the lookout, including the hallway where your rooms are. It may not be safe anywhere in this castle…"
"But who was the intruder?" Dark raised an eyebrow.
"I didn't get a clear view of him, but it looked like he wanted to be taken out of here. Strange… But, enough about that. O'Chunks, get yourself ready. I'm sending you to the next Pure Heart!"
O'Chunks's eyes widened. "Aw, yeah! Now we're goin' somewhere." He rose his fists up. It'll be me honor, Tipral! I, O'Chunks, swear to you… This hero's got a hot date with me feet! Chunks away!"
O'Chunks jumped off the platform, while Dimentio grinned. "Well, I suppose I'll be on my way as well. Ciao!"
He disappeared with a simple snap. Dark simple teleported out of the room with his cape to go back into his room without saying anything.
"So poor little Mimi doesn't get to be in the fun? This stinks." Mimi whined.
"Relax, Mimi. Things will be just fine." Tipral assured.
Forgetting that Tipral was still around, she stopped getting fussy and smiled sweetly at her "boyfriend". "Oh, sorry about that, Tippy! I forgot that you were here! …Actually, I like it when it's just you and me."
"Mimi, don't even try flirting with me again," he warned, despite her not listening to him and teleporting onto his platform.
"I don't have time right now," Tipral realized that he had to go at this moment. "I have to get going now. I have a little appointment…"
Tipral teleported out of the room, leaving Mimi to gape. "What?! Now HE was to leave?! What about cute little me?! This stinks!"
Fort Francis-
"This place reeks of geekiness…" Meta Knight began to waft the air at the front entrance of the castle. "I've searched all over these lands to find nothing else but a castle."
Meta Knight looked over at the plaque on the door. "What's this here? Something is written here… It reads: 'No entry unless you are a supergenius like me or a totally hot babe. For those of you who don't fit the category… STAY OUT!' This is strangely weird…"
Nevertheless, the masked warrior opened the door to find a MeowMaid patrolling the area. "What in the…"
"Meow! Welcome home, Master! I've missed you so much!" the MeowMaid slowly made its way over to Meta Knight to hug him, but it was only pushed away by him. "Hug me, Master!"
"I don't have time to hug anyone," Meta Knight retorted as he walked over to the door ahead to walk into a room with the big MeowDoor. Some geeky glasses were right beside the door.
Picking up the glasses, he examined them. They didn't appear to be hurt or anything. They were just fine…
When he walked over to the MeowDoor, the door disappeared and the MeowDoor glared at Meta Knight.
"Mrrrrrow! You're not master! Only master and totally hot babes can enter this room!" the MeowDoor was about to disintegrate Meta Knight with its lasers, but then he put the glasses on.
"Ugh… This is definitely something I don't want to do ever again…" Meta Knight thought as the MeowDoor stopped with the lasers and opened the door for him. Did it seriously believe that he was Francis?
But, who really cares? He certainly didn't. He walked into Francis's room to find Francis sitting by his computer without his glasses. He seemed to be grinning as he watched what was on there.
"Nerrrrrrrr! This stuff is so hi-technicaaaaal!" Francis drooled over the picture of Tippi.
"…I'm just going to go," Meta Knight dropped Francis's glasses over by the door and immediately got out of the geeky fortress.
"Tipral is looking very good. Make sure the rings are on him IMMEDIATELY when he comes out. If not, then it might just be the end of us…"
"OK... I'm opening the capsule."
"Good... Now we just need to... AAAAGGGHHHHH!"
"His power is already unleashed!"
"No... It can't be! We're doomed!"
That time… A bunch of scientists died by my hands… It was probably one of the worst things I've ever seen…but it gets worse as the years go by…but that only happened after some…events.
Flipside Tower-
As the three heroes walked out of the green door, they noticed that a green crystal heart appeared above them. Looks like this world was finished for right now…
"Now we've gotten five Pure Hearts…" Tippi trailed. "This is turning into quite a collection…"
"Well, that's simply easy on why we've gotten five so far!" Sonic stretched and made a pose. "You got the blue blur on your side! Yeah, you've got Sonic the Hedgehog here!"
"Yeah, that's true. We all have some different abilities that can certainly help us take down Tipral…just like in the Whoa Zone!" Chopper smiled.
"Yes, yes…" Tippi started, sounding much more cheerful than usual. "That said, we owe Squirps for helping us find this one… We should be grateful…"
"Poyo… (To be fair, I kinda miss that little guy…)" Kirby pondered. "Poyo… (That alien really wasn't a bad person, and I feel bad for not trusting him… To be honest, he would make a GREAT friend!)"
"You seem a lot different too, Tippi," Sonic noticed from her voice. "What happened? It's almost like someone hit you in the head and made you all cheerful…"
"I do? Well, ever since you three saved me from Fort Francis, I've been in a good mood…" Tippi smiled. "I guess I've gotten more comfortable around you guys."
"Really? Neat!" Chopper smiled.
"Ah, so you've all returned once again!" Merlon walked over to the three heroes. "How was it this time, then? Did you find another Pure Heart in outer space?"
"Yes, we found the fifth Pure Heart. And this one—" a sudden, painful flash emitted from her. "URK!"
"What the… What's going on?!" Chopper nearly gaped when Tippi slowly began to float to the ground like paper.
"Poyo?! (Huh?! Wh-What?!)" Kirby gaped.
"Oh, no… Tippi!" Merlon bent over and looked down at the poor girl. "What has happened? All of you, come to my house at once! Hurry, now!"
Chopper, Kirby and Sonic followed Merlon, who picked Tippi up and headed down to his house.
Merlon's house-
"Very well, let's all take a breath and gather ourselves here…" Merlon had Tippi placed on a light blue stand. "I'm concerned… Tippi may be unable to maintain her Pixl form for much longer."
"Pixl form? So you're saying that she originally was NOT like this?" Chopper questioned.
"Yes, you are correct, Chopper. You see, Tippi was not always a Pixl… I found her in her true form, exhausted and injured and it felt like she was going to die… She was hanging by a thread, barely alive…so I took a desperate measure… Using my ancestors' magic, I transformed her soul into a Pixl…and this Tippi was born."
"Poyo… (Wow… I can hardly believe it…)" Kirby gawked. "Poyo? (But, where is Tippi from originally?)"
Merlon's head hung low. "Unfortunately, I don't know where she originally came from. She never told me. All she said that an evil being with two antennae attacked her and teleported her here. But I can't help thinking she did not come here by chance. Fate connects us…"
"Well, I'm pretty sure that Tipral was the one responsible for that. Speaking of him, we ran into him in the Whoa Zone. To our surprise, we ended up defeating him…" Chopper explained.
"You found Tipral? …But if you defeated him, then what about The Void that still remains in the sky?"
Before anyone could respond, they felt some immense shaking in the room. "Whoa… I don't think that was good…"
"The Void was grown larger. And these tremors have become common, I'm afraid. Our situation grows more dire by the moment. Will the events written in the Light Prognosticus really forestall the foretold doom?"
Merlon looked back at Tippi. "Obviously Tipral is not finished with the fight just yet. I will watch Tippi. Young heroes, take the Pure Heart… Find the next Heart Pillar!"
With a nod, Chopper, Kirby and Sonic made their way out of Merlon's house.
Flipside, first floor-
"Poyo… (Say, Chopper… Didn't we come across that crack before?)" Kirby questioned.
"To be honest… I don't think we were at this floor. I only came down here just to find some soup for you and Meta Knight. But I suppose we'll get rid of that crack with Hommissile."
Chopper ran over to the crack over by the right of the town and blew it up with Hommissile. He then flipped into 3-D to go through the hole to find a new area.
"Hey, Chopper… What's that?" Sonic pointed to the white light in between two houses when they flipped back into 2-D.
"Yeah… I see it!" Chopper brought Flippay out and he used his ability on it to make a blue ! Block appear, which made a new pathway leading to a shrine. It seemed to be pretty far from Flipside, that's for sure…
Upon entering the shrine (via 3-D), they noticed on the stained glass windows that there were wizards of Merlon's ancestors on the wall. There were also these blocks, starting with the right one, black, and all the way to a red block.
"Let's hit all eight of those at least once," Sonic suggested, hitting the black block. A bright light began to emit from that one and the one after that.
"Hey, this doesn't seem like a bad idea!" Chopper hit the other ones until he got to the red block. Once he struck it, the mirror between the stain-glassed windows broke, creating a doorway.
"I wonder where this leads…" Grabbing his friends, Chopper flipped into 3-D and walked through the doorway. They noticed that the wizards on the stained glass windows looked darker than before.
"What the heck is going on here? This place…is a bit strange." When Chopper kicked the door open, he noticed that the floor was a darker color than the floor in Flipside. In fact, the colors here were darker!
When they took the long road over to the town, they saw that the people were more of a purple color now with pointy noses instead of flat ones.
"Poyo… (This is very strange…)" Kirby gawked.
"Yeah, REALLY strange…" Chopper ignored the locked house that was next to him to the left and found a hole for them to get through in order to be in the town for real.
"It's like everything's the complete opposite…" Sonic scratched his head as he saw the elevator leading to the second floor was now to the right instead of the left.
Unknown town, second floor-
"I welcome you!" the first noticeable person the three heroes came across was a wizard who looked just like Merlon. But, unlike him, his robe was a dark gray color and his white mustache had a bit of red to it.
"Whoa… There's another Merlon?!" Chopper gaped as he and his friends walked over to the wizard.
"I knew you would come by eventually!" he chuckled.
Chopper, Kirby, and Sonic: ?
"Ho oh! I can see that you would like to ask me where in the world we are! Ho oh oh ho! This place may seem like Flipside, but do not be mistaken! You WERE in Flipside, but then you flip-flopped sides… Friends, you are in Flopside!"
"Flopside?" all three of them gawked in unison.
"Which means I'm not the Merlon you know. I am the Flopside version, a different Merlon entirely… You may call me…Nolrem!"
"That...sounds like Merlon backwards," Chopper realized.
"Yes, I do agree with you on the unoriginality," Nolrem agreed. "But don't you see? Ours has always been a story of two towns… But the only ones who do know about this flip-floppery are Merlon and I!"
"So no one knows anything about Flipside? Wow…" Sonic scratched his head in confusion.
"You all seem a bit surprised. Ho oh oh ho… There is a front and a back to all things, young ones." Nolrem chuckled. "Now, the Heart Pillar is one floor up! Go and place the Pure Heart within it! See you!"
Before going up to the third floor, they noticed a guy with a brown beard in 3-D to their left. He told them that he could make a pipe that could bring them to Flipside and Flopside for only 300 coins. Chopper agreed and he gave up 300 of his coins just to make a pipe that'll bring them back to Flipside…even though they have the Return Pipe to help them go back…
"Well, it looks like we finally have a shortcut," Sonic grinned. "How about we go to the upper floor?"
Flopside, third floor-
"Wow… This reminds me of when I was bringing the first Pure Heart to its Heart Pillar." Chopper looked to see where the Heart Pillar would be. He saw that it was to his right this time.
"Bingo!" Chopper walked over to the Heart Pillar and he brought the blue Pure Heart out. They all watched the same procedure from before as a green clock appeared in their very eyes.
Back on Flipside Tower, a blue door was being drawn right next to the green door.
"OK! We did it!" Chopper smiled.
"You appear to be performing your duties efficiently!" Nolrem walked over to the heroes. "I just got a message from Merlon. Tippi's been revived! They are waiting for you three at the top of Flipside Tower. Hurry! You all must go there!"
"Got it!" Chopper pulled the Return Pipe out and all three of them made their way back to Flipside Towers in seven seconds.
Flipside Tower-
"You're all back," Tippi noticed Chopper, Kirby, and Sonic return to Flipside Towers and walk over to the fifth door. "I'm feeling better now… Let's get going."
"Are you sure you feel well enough, my dear?" Merlon asked.
"I'll be fine," Tippi assured. "This is no time to stay in bed anyway... You guys need my help anyway..."
"Yeah... That's true." Chopper nodded. "I don't know how we could've gone this far without you."
"Then I will not hold you back," Merlon stepped aside. "These good people will surely need your knowledge… Heroes. Please take good care of Tippi"
"Ugh… Galaxia was never seen in that world…" Meta Knight slowly dragged himself out of the yellow door. But, he didn't have much time to speak with Chopper and his friends.
"Wait, Meta Knight! That door leads into…" Before Chopper could finish, Meta Knight opened the door and made his way into Outer Space. "I hope he can survive in Outer Space…"
"Poyo, (Don't worry, he'll be fine,)" Kirby assured.
"Are you sure…? If so, then we might as well get going…" Chopper opened the blue door and he and his friends, including Tippi, entered the next world.
Still worried about Tippi's conditions, Chopper, Kirby, and Sonic opened the fifth door. They only had fifteen more Pure Hearts to find, but they knew that things weren't gonna get any easier for them. It almost felt to Chopper that they were almost getting closer to the end with The Void growing bigger each time they return to Flipside. What could possibly be awaiting our heroes in this next dangerous world they'll be coming across? As they made their way through, Sonic prayed to see loops in this next world.
OK, so if you read my other two Paper Chopper stories, then you might know that for Chapters 1 to 8, Chapters 1, 5 and 6 are usually different than the ones in the game. So, since we're going to Chapter 5, we're gonna have something different than the Cragnon place. Take a guess on what world it is. I will say that it won't be enjoyable for one particular person.