CHAPTER 7-3

-Crashing Through the Clouds-

The stairs were long, but as the four began their way up them, they began to see a bright light at the top. The eerie, dark blue sky began to change to a beautiful, light blue sky filled with clouds. Even when Chopper landed on a cloud, it felt very, VERY fluffy. He thought that he could rest on it all day. However, the one that seemed to be the most happy to be here was Luvbi, who was smiling cutely up at the sky.

"So… Apparently we've come up to heaven now…" Blade trailed as he frowned at all of the fluffy clouds around him. "I think it sorta stinks that we're dead now, don't you agree with me?"

"We're not dead," Tipral sighed. "The queen told us that our games aren't over. Dimentio SOMEHOW brought us down here without actually ending our games."

While they spoke, Chopper could hear Luvbi speak as well. "Ah me, blue skies again! This is just the beginning of The Overthere. It is called Overthere Walkway. I must warnest thee… The trip to Father is long… Let us away!"

After Luvbi spoke, Tippi spoke up too. "Yes… That sounds well and good, but we have yet to find Kirby and Sonic… I'm so worried…"

"Well, wherever they are, I bet they're fine," Chopper smiled. "Even on their own, they can handle a lot."

Luvbi turned to Chopper with her sweet smile. "Pray, I would understand this, my sweet prince! Is yon Kirby and Sonic one of thine servants?"

Chopper jumped up in shock and shook his head. "No no! Those are my friends!"

Blade was also shaking his head, but a bit more violently before casting the Nimbi a glare. "Hey, shut yon trap, Fluffy! Those two are heroes, not servants! And they art awesome."

"Art thou trying to copy my sharpened tongue?" Luvbi asked, her face turning to a sarcastic look. "Thou mind doth seem a bit…dumb, just like thou art."

"Well, your mind seems to be… Uh…" Blade sweat dropped. "Wow… I'm seemingly lost for words. I can't make a comeback?"

"Bah! I'd rather not listen to you guys speak on and on!" Tipral scoffed. "I might as well move on ahead!"

Before they knew it, Tipral teleported up onto the cloud above them. Though, they questioned why he was like this.

Tipral noticed a Buzzy Beetle with a spike on its shell and wings. "This shouldn't be much of a fight!" With one swing of an arm, he struck the Spiky Parabuzzy with a Star Spear, eliminating it within a second.

"Well, someone sure is a bit cranky…" Chopper trailed.

"Yea, verily… That hideous thing doth seem to have a temper…" Luvbi agreed.

"Perhaps maybe you should keep your words to yourself, you brat," Tipral hissed.

"Thou art nothing more than a big grump. Surely thou hast had a terrible past, hast thou not?"

"Bring that up again, and you'll be a vaporized stain on these clouds," Tipral growled, jumping down onto the cloud where the two heroes were on.

"What happened, though?" Tippi asked.

Tipral glanced at Tippi. "You wouldn't care in the slightest, you little bug."

"You don't believe that I'll…"

"Let's save it for later, Tippi," Chopper suggested, interrupting the rainbow Pixl. "I think it's best that we don't get Tipral angry…or angrier."

"Well, if we art to not get into any fights, then I suggest that we movest on," Luvbi smiled sweetly at Chopper. "So, how dost thou like The Overthere so far? Doth it feel like a romantic place?"

"Bleh! No way! That only makes me want to go back to The Underwhere!"

"Oh, thou art so funny!" Luvbi fluttered up ahead and turned to the three. "For now. I shall movest up ahead. I'll be waiting for thee at the door at the highest point of the area! And don't sloweth down! I doth wish to get to Father soon!"

As she fluttered off, Tippi groaned. "I wish we didn't have to escort this girl all the way to The Overthere… Ever since she came with us, all she seems to do is get us angry… She really flustered me big time."

"You think you have it bad? Well what about me?" Chopper frowned, but he stopped when he noticed a caped enemy rushing toward him. "Actually… Hang on a moment…"

Chopper jumped over the caped enemy and with one inhale, he swallowed the enemy and gained a red cape and a golden-winged circlet on his head. Although the cape was a bit long for him, it did make him look like a superhero.

"Hey! I'm…Super Chopper!" Chopper announced, raising one fist up. "…Nah! I'm only kidding! I'm only Hi-Jump Chopper. I think this ability should come in handy."

"Well, I'm most certain that it should help us get through the clouds…" Tippi trailed. "I suppose that Tipral's part was in The Underwhere, so I believe now it's your turn…"

"Hey! What about me?" Blade asked.

"Oh... Uhhh... Maybe you'll get your chance." Chopper shrugged.

"Doubt it," Tipral replied harshly.

"Hey... That wasn't nice." Chopper frowned, jumping high up onto the cloud above him. He ended up hitting a Squog while at it, which surprised him for a little, but not by a lot. There was also a Waddle Dee sleeping on a cloud right next to him.

When Blade managed to get himself onto the cloud, he breathed heavily. "Wow… How come it's incredibly difficult for me to get up these clouds? The water wasn't hard for me to get through… How come this is?"

"It's because you lack the ability to jump high," Tipral stated.

"Too bad we don't have Luigi here…" Chopper trailed. "I heard that he's an EXCELLENT jumper! …But, at least I have the ability to jump high with this ability."

Chopper made a big jump up to the next cloud above him, while Tipral took out the Waddle Dee with his Star Magic. He then teleported him and Blade up to the next cloud above them.

"Are we going to be going up some clouds?" Blade questioned. "That sounds a bit boring, if you ask me…"

Luckily, the cloud above them wasn't so high. But Chopper ended up jumping a BIT too high. Luckily, his cape allowed him to float slowly down to the ground, using it as a parachute. To his surprise, he landed on an Ice Cherbil.

"Uh oh... Not this thing." Chopper frowned.

"And what's wrong with that thing?" Tipral asked.

"Well, if you look at it, it kind of looks like a..."

"You don't have to tell me..."

Shrugging, Chopper landed on a cloud above Blade and Tipral and noticed a couple of ? Blocks.

"I'll hit the block," Tipral jumped onto the cloud and punched the ? Block, making a Super Shroom pop out. They all grabbed the Super Shroom and split it into so each of them could recover 20 HP.

"I don't think we're too far from the door…" Tippi trailed.

"Yeah, it doesn't look like it," Chopper pointed up at the cloud above them. "I'll go up to that cloud. I think there might be some other stuff around this level of the clouds. Try to look for something."

Once Chopper jumped up to the cloud above him, Tipral looked over at Blade. "Well, we might as well search for something around here. I'd say we should start by taking the left and right way."

"Sounds good to me. Just don't abandon us, OK?" Blade took the way to the right, only to find a couple of Spiky Parabuzzies.

"This isn't much of a problem! Hommissile, you can do this!" Blade smirked at Hommissile and tossed him at the Spiky Parabuzzies. But, to his surprise, it didn't work against them.

"Huh? Nothing happened?!"

"Well, these enemies ARE immune to explosives… BOOM!" Hommissile informed. "You might as well strike them with your katana. KA-BLAMMY!"

"Well, I suppose you're right," Blade drew his sword and rushed straight at the Spiky Parabuzzies. "You may have wings and spikes, but apparently I can't jump on you, so therefore, I can strike you with this! HI-YA!"

With a couple of slashes, Blade took down the Spiky Parabuzzies in one hit. "…What? Only one hit? That's…weak."

Nevertheless, Blade searched around the cloud for anything important. Unfortunately, that was not mean to be because there was nothing around except for a Long Last Shake. He simply grabbed it and put it in his inventory.

"Nothing's around here? Man, what a big rip-off!" Blade frowned. "I was expecting something a little, well, you know… Interesting!"

"You want me to make things interesting? Oh, I can do that…"

"Wait, who said that?" Blade gripped his katana, scanning the area for the voice. To his surprise, he saw a red, taller ninja cat land right in front of him. He looked a lot like Blade, but he had a scar on the right side of his face.

"Wait a second… I remember you! You're… Knife! You're my older brother, aren't you?"

Knife grinned at Blade, drawing his black katana out. "That's correct, my brother! You remember the time that you destroyed me?! I was sent down here! …And man, and I'm TICKED about that!"

"Wait, you mean you're angry because you were sent here?! Why would you be in THIS world?" Blade questioned, raising an eyebrow.

"Oh, the answer is simple… Somebody made a deal with me that if I found something called a Pure Heart, he would promise me that I would come back to life to get revenge on you! …But it appears that that isn't needed now!"

"Well, I'm certain that I don't think you're tough enough to take me down…"

"We'll see about that!" Knife charged at Blade and attempted to stab his chest. Unfortunately, his katana only bent and it ended up ruining it. Blade grinned as he looked up at him.

"See? I told you that it wouldn't work!"

"What?! My attacks don't do a thing?!" the red ninja cat gaped as he looked down at his katana. "Urrggh! Curse the queen for stripping my powers! I swear, if I had them back, I would ANNIHILATE you!"

"Pbbbbbth! I'd like to see you try!" Blade smirked and struck Knife with his katana. He left a small rip on Knife's shirt. "So, here's some advice for you, bro: don't try to mess with me. I beat you before, I could probably do it again."

"…I'm done here," Knife threw a smoke bomb to the ground and disappeared before his very eyes.

Meanwhile with Tipral-

"Hmmmmmm… I don't seem to see a lot of things around here…" Tipral trailed as he looked around on the cloud. The only thing he seemed to notice were yellow clouds called Ruff Puffs floating around. They had the ability to shoot balls of electricity at anyone.

Once one took notice of Tipral, it shot an electric ball at him. "An electric ball? This isn't even a real challenge!"

He tossed a shadow ball straight at the Ruff Puff and then finished it off with a stomp attack, performing a stylish move and firing a Star Spear down at the other Ruff Puff near him.

"I hear that these things are quite deadly to some people… But they seem like a complete joke!" Tipral scoffed as he landed no the ground, only to find an Ice Cherbil shooting its icy gas toward him.

He snapped his finger and destroyed the Ice Cherbil in two seconds, then he jumped on a small cloud that acted like a stair near him, which revealed to have two Lakitus riding on Ruff Puffs.

"Interesting… I expected to see some Lakitus here, though." Tipral pointed at the Volt Spiny that the Lakitu threw and destroyed it with his Star powers instantly. He then threw a Star Spear at the Lakitu to destroy it.

Looking up at the sky, he noticed another Ruff Puff coming down toward him, but he soon destroyed it in a blink of an eye by snapping his finger, striking it with Star Magic.

"You honestly call THIS a challenge?! I want something that can actually FIGHT me! One that's not small for my size! Still, I might be able to beat it, but I desire a challenge!"

"A challenge, you say? I can do that just for you…"

"And who just spoke?" Tipral asked, folding his arms. As he looked up, he saw a large storm cloud called a Storm N. Puff.

"Hmmmmm… YOU'RE the one that wants to have a challenge?!" the Storm N. Puff gaped. "You're not even my size!"

"So what? You don't look like a challenge either."

"Then how about I prove it? Go get him!"

The storm cloud made all the Ruff Puffs fly toward Tipral, but he remained calm.

"This won't last long," Tipral's eyes began to glow a red color as the storm froze in time, along with its minions. "See? That'll make this fight MUCH easier for me!"

Tipral did a couple of diving kicks on the Storm N. Puff and then finished him off by snapping his finger. He also threw one of the Tuff Puffs using Thoreau, since he didn't use that Pixl in a while.

After he unfroze time, the storm felt like he was going to explode. "Wh-What?! Why… Why would you do this to me? I've never done anything to you!"

"I don't care if you did anything to me or not. What matters is that I am the one that defeats Chopper, not you." With one more snap of his finger, the storm exploded. "That thing wasn't even a challenge! I'm expecting to find myself fighting something MUCH more challenging…"

With that, Tipral walked away from the explosion.

Over by Chopper-

With one big jump, Chopper went through the cloud where the door was and then began to parachute down to the cloud by using his cape. He seemed to be cheerful while parachuting his way down to the cloud. It reminded him of… Well, it seemed pretty fun when you're doing it, as long as he's not high up, though.

"Man! Now that was enjoyable!" Chopper smiled as he landed on the cloud. His cape ended up letting him float onto the cloud as well as he landed.

"The door appears to be over to the left…" Tippi trailed, noticing the red door and Luvbi, who was starting to become impatient.

"There thou art! I was becoming so impatient!" Luvbi exclaimed. "I was wondering if thou all were taking thy time, but since it is just thee hither, and since it is only thou and I I can speakest the words of love to thee!"

"I don't know what you mean, but I don't like it," Chopper replied. "Can't you leave me alone with that stuff."

Luvbi soon remembered something. "Oh! I almost forgotest something! My sweet prince… Tell me more about thyself please."

"Tell me more about myself? Uhh… What do you mean by that? I don't know if I should tell you..."

"Oh, come on!" Luvbi complained. "Surely thou art able to explainest to me… I'll givest thee a kiss if thou dost…"

"Well then I won't be doing that!"

"Hmph! And I thought that thou liked me!" Luvbi huffed, turning away from him.

"She is impossible to listen..." Tippi sighed.

"OK, OK... Fine..." Chopper sighed. "I'll tell you... But it's not nice."

"Thy background is not nice?" Luvbi gawked, turning to him. "Well, what hast happened then? Thou art making me a bit curious."

"Well, when I was four, things seemed to be fine. My mom went to the Mushroom Kingdom to see Princess Peach before I was born and…"

"Thou meanest the Princess of Silly Peaches?" Luvbi interrupted.

"Ummmm... I guess." Chopper shrugged, continuing. "Anyway, my dad helped fight against Nightmare, but when they returned, an evil knight named Maquano came to our planet to destroy it. And… He was successful. I was taken off the planet because they believed I was the one who could defeat him. I was successful with that, but it made me wonder, 'What's next?' It was certainly not a great time… But, it has gotten better as the years went by. Sort of…"

Luvbi gasped. "Oh, Chopper… I doth feel sorry for thee… I'm sure thou hast a hard time getting over it. But that's why thou needest to have me hither!"

"Huh? But I've gotten over that! I've learned that there are some things you just need to move on from."

With that, Blade and Tipral made their way onto the cloud. Blade looked exhausted, while Tipral appeared to be just fine.

"Oh! You guys are back already? So… What did you find so far?" Chopper asked.

"There wasn't much around, unfortunately," Blade wheezed, falling on the cloud. "Well, there WAS something, but it just HAD to be my evil, older brother Knife!"

"Knife? Why's his name knife?" Chopper questioned. "…Oh! Now I get it! There's a Blade and a Knife! They both have to do with something sharp like a sword and knife!"

"Who is Knife?" Tipral questioned.

"Well, he's a red cat, unlike me," Blade explained. "He ended up turning against my sensai after Dark offered him something. Not only that, but my sensai died thanks to him! I was trying to avenge my sensai by defeating him and taking Dark Doom down, since he too was involved in this."

"Interesting… I never knew that." Chopper gaped.

"Art thou all going to babblest on like that?" Luvbi frowned, waiting impatiently over by the red door. "My wings art getting tired! Don't makest a cute, angelic princess waitest like this!"

"Shuttest thy trap, you brat," Blade retorted.

"Art thou trying to copy my sharpened tongue?!"

"No, I was trying to copy your sharpened pencil!" Blade replied, causing Tipral to groan. "Hey! I was just making a point!"

For once, Chopper was actually laughing.

"See? At least Chopper gets me!"

Blade kicked the door open into another area that didn't appear to have clouds above them. There were only some cloud platforms to their right.

"Well, it looks like this is why they call it Overthere Pathway," Tipral said as he moved to the end of the cloud using his dark feet.

"Hmmmmmm? I think I can see something up ahead…" Chopper trailed.

Over by the next cloud, he saw two dark blue monster-like enemies with rectangle-shaped heads, rectangles for their bodies and circular hands. These weirdos were also carrying sharp spears that could pierce through anything.

"And then I told that guy to buzz off! Man, was it hilarious!" cackled the first monster.

"But that ended up gettin' you beaten down a pulp, didn't it?" the second monster questioned.

"Oh, yeah. It was pretty painful. I thought I was going to lose my butt. Trust me: you don't wanna mess with him. He warned me that if I did that to him next time, he was going to cut off my own head!"

The second monster gasped, but he paused for a minute. "Wait a minute… How could you lose your head when it easily grows back? We Skellobits always seem to throw our heads at those Nimbis."

Once Tipral walked over to the two Skellobits, they stopped and turned to him. "What the… Who the heck are you? Are you friends to that blue furry dude that we saw runnin' past here?"

"I have no friends," Tipral grumbled, clenching his fists. "Get out of my way! I don't care what you're planning; I just want to get through so I can get to The Overthere!"

The two Skellobits immediately aimed their spears at him. "Oh, so you think yer goin' to The Overthere, are ya?! Well, sorry, kid! We're most likely goin' to beat ya to the punch! That place is ours! And it will be before that darkness in the sky consumes this world!"

"Yeah, which was made by me," Tipral said before snapping his finger, making the two Skellobits fall off the cloud with his Star Magic. "Useless enemies! I haven't found a single person that can match me!"

"Tipral, who were those guys?" Chopper questioned, jumping onto the cloud before him. Blade and Luvbi followed up as well.

"They're nobody special," Tipral said before walking over to the edge of the next cloud, only to find a pole that would lead up to a cloud a little bit above him. He used it to climb up to the cloud, where he noticed that there were some Lakitus roaming around this part of the cloud.

"Slow down, Tipral!" Chopper shouted as he made a big leap over to the cloud without climbing the pole. Blade grumbled as he climbed up the pole to Chopper and Tipral.

"Oh… Lakitus, huh? Well this'll be a treat!" Blade grinned as he drew his katana, only to gape when Chopper soon defeated it with a couple of stomps. "Hey! That was going to be mine!"

"Sorry, Blade, but I got here first," Chopper smirked as he used his Hi-Jump ability to reach the small cloud above him. Apparently Luvbi was able to get to the door first before he could. "Hey, no fair! I was faster than you!"

"But I knowest the way hither," Luvbi pointed out.

"Oh..."

Once Blade caught up to them, everyone made their way through the door. All they could find was a large cloud with a door all the way to the right, but what they didn't see was someone fleeing from a cloud covered in spikes firing lightning at him.

"Will you quit with the lightning?! Sheesh! I didn't do anything to you!" the person cried, running past Chopper and the group.

"Whoa! I think that was Sonic!" Chopper gaped, looking over at Sonic, but the others were paying attention to the cloud that flew above them.

Sonic stopped after noticing the group. "Hey! Chopper! Blade! What're you doing here?"

"We should be asking the same thing to you," Blade said, while Sonic noticed Tipral in the group and was left surprised.

"…Wait a minute, why do you even have TIPRAL in you're group?!" Sonic got in a fighting stance while glaring at Tipral. "You don't even seem to give up the fight, do you?"

"Calm down, hedgehog," Tipral snapped. "I'm not here to destroy you right now. I have a little problem of my own, along with your stupid little friend. You can simply thank Dimentio for taking my stuff!"

"Dimentio? Why did he take your stuff?"

"Apparently he had a plan of his own," Tipral clenched his fists in anger. "When I find him, I'm going to strangle him as long as I can! That stupid clown deserves to die after what he's done!"

"So, you're here to get revenge on him, huh? But why would you side with us? We've fought you in the past, right?"

"Yeah, we did, but after realizing that Chopper was trying to get to my castle too, I had pretty much no other choice but to work with him. I don't have the powers to teleport to my castle, unfortunately."

"Well, you better not be planning something! 'Cause if you are, then you're going to be in some big trouble!"

Sonic has rejoined the group!

"So, this is one of thy friends, right, my sweet prince?" Luvbi asked, giving Sonic an irritated look.

"…Who the heck are you?"

"Mine given name is Luvbi. I am the daughter of King Grambi and Queen Jaydes, and the hideous dark one, filthy beast, and my sweet, adorable, lovable prince art taking me to my home."

"Wait, who's your 'sweet prince'?" Sonic raised an eyebrow, but when Luvbi turned to Chopper, her irritated look changed into a cute smile.

"My sweet prince is over hither!" Luvbi giggled, looking over at Chopper, who was covering himself with his cape to not be seen by her. Sonic couldn't help by laugh.

"Pbbbbbbth! Oh, come on, Chopper! You're afraid of HER?!" Sonic snickered. "She probably wouldn't harm a fly!"

"I wouldst suggest that thou shuttest thy trap, Knave!" Luvbi snapped.

"Knave?! I'm Sonic the Hedgehog! Get it right!"

"So, then I shall call thee Knave the Hedgehog."

"Grrrgghh… Wow… For an angelic girl, she sure is a pain…" Sonic groaned.

"Tell me about it," agreed Blade.

While they spoke, the cloud rolled its one eye and zapped Sonic with his lightning attack. It glared down at the heroes, ready to fight them all. Chopper immediately looked up and recognized the cloud.

"Hey, it's Kracko! I didn't expect you to be around here!" Chopper gasped, getting in a fighting stance. "Sorry to keep you waiting, but we had to have a little conversation! You ready for a fight?"

Kracko charged up some electricity as it tried to attack, but Chopper managed to use Tippi to gather information on it.

"That's Kracko. This large cloud is covered in golden spikes… I don't know where this thing came from… Max HP is 70. Attack is 5. This cloud will attack you by swooping down, or it might even zap you with its electric attacks… When it fired that beam attack, make sure you're far away from it as possible… The big thing about this cloud is that it's covered in spikes, so if you touch it, you're going to take damage. However, I believe that the Hi-Jump ability will allow you to hit him… I don't understand how, but it seems that you can do so…"

"Yeah, Tippi's right. There's NO way you can hit that cloud! Those golden spikes really show that you're not going to be able to hit it." Sonic warned.

"Uhh… HELLO?! I have the Hi-Jump ability on me!" Chopper stepped back as Kracko fired a lightning bolt down on the cloud, almost hitting Luvbi.

"Whoa!" Chopper immediately pulled Luvbi away from Kracko and holding her bridal style. "Look, I know you wanna be around me and all, but… I don't want you getting hurt."

"Dude, do you care about her?" Blade questioned.

"Shut up, Blade! I'm just trying to make sure someone doesn't get hurt, OK? I do this with a lot of people!" he barked.

"Well…" Sonic decided to lie down and rest. "There's nothing I can do to attack that thing. All of my attacks involve me going into a ball. So, I guess it's all up to you guys to take him down."

"Got it!" Chopper rushed toward Kracko after it used its beam attack and struck the cloud with a Hi-Jump attack. Kracko cringed, but it wasn't ready to let itself get hit by him.

"I suppose I'm going to have to use my far-ranged attacks," Tipral swung his arm, making a Star Spear strike Kracko in the eye. It shut its eye closed in pain as it swooped down, knocking Tipral back by the door.

"Urghh… So I finally fight something a bit more challenging! Not bad!" Tipral quickly shook his head and was about to snap his finger until he saw Blade toss a couple of shurikens at it. He Kracko's swoop attack with a jump. This allowed Tipral to strike the large cloud with Star Magic, making it blind for a couple of seconds.

"All right! I'll take care of this!" Chopper smirked as he struck Kracko with his Hi-Jump attack. But, once he parachuted down, the large cloud zapped him with its lightning attack.

"My sweet prince!" Luvbi gasped.

"Calm down, Luvbi. He's taken on things worse." Sonic groaned.

After he quickly shook himself, Chopper struck Kracko with another Hi-Jump. He even added a fireball to deal a bit more damage, but he got hit by Kracko's spikes when parachuting down.

"Ouch! I seriously need to avoid those spikes!" Chopper cried, holding his foot in pain.

"Then don't use that stupid attack then!" Tipral shouted, hurling a shadow ball straight at Kracko's eye. He was about to teleport and punch it, but he realized that he would only be hurting himself from the spikes.

"What's the matter, hideous creature? Art thou going to attack it?!" Luvbi asked with an irritated look.

"Oh, shut up, you brat! I'm trying to focus on my attacks!" Tipral clenched his fists at Luvbi, not knowing that Kracko flew over him and zapped him with its lightning attack.

"Ugh… Stupid little cloud!" Tipral's eyes turned red as he looked at Kracko. The large, spiked cloud suddenly froze in time, allowing Tipral to get in a couple of hits by striking it with Star Spears and Star Magic.

Afterward, he made Kracko go back to normal. However, it ended up dropping a Waddle Doo to attack them.

"Wait a minute… It drops those things…?" Sonic gawked. "Hey, Tipral… Mind if I borrow Thoreau for a bit?"

"Go right ahead. It's not like I'm going to use him." Tipral replied.

"Oh, I never knew you weren't going to use me that much…" Thoreau frowned, going over to Sonic. The blue hedgehog grabbed the Waddle Doo with Thoreau and tossed it straight at Kracko's eye.

"Yes! NOW I'm finally beating things down the way I want to!" Sonic smirked.

Kracko glared at the heroes as it began to fire some heavy raindrops at them. Sonic was the only one to get hit, but he certainly didn't like being rained with a bunch of water.

"Ugh… It reminds me of Pristine Palisade!" he groaned, shaking the water off of him while Chopper punched Kracko's eye with a flaming punch while striking it with a Hi-Jump attack.

"You know, I think he's close to giving up now," Blade smirked tossing Hommissile straight at Kracko's eye.

While Kracko literally shed a tear, it swooped down at Blade in anger, knocking him to the door, but was soon struck by Tipral's Star Magic. Kracko turned to him and fired a couple of raindrops down on him.

"Watch out, Tipral! If he uses an electric attack, you might be in some deep yogurt!" Chopper warned.

"Then why don't YOU distract him while I try to dry off?!" suggested Tipral.

"Then I'll do just that!" Chopper smirked, hitting Kracko with another Hi-Jump attack. By now, it appeared that this cloud was soon finished, but then it zapped Chopper and stripped him of his Hi-Jump ability with its beam attack.

"No way! He got rid of my ability?!" he gaped as he fell onto the cloud. Kracko dropped a Waddle Doo on him, but it was soon inhaled and swallowed by the gumball figure, making him gain the Beam ability.

"I guess I'll hold onto this for right now," Chopper swung his wand, making a beam fire out and hit Kracko's eye.

"Just give me MORE time to dry off. I'll be ready to finish this thing off soon enough." Tipral said, still waiting to dry off.

"Man, you seriously don't wanna get zapped, do you…" Blade said as he weakened Kracko a little bit by tossing a couple of shurikens at its eye. By now, it looked like its HP was almost depleted.

"Thou can dost it, my sweet prince!" Luvbi cheered while ignoring the others.

Chopper groaned as he charged up a beam attack and fired it straight at Kracko once it swooped down to attack him. This left it stunned for a couple of seconds.

"Hmmmmm? I think it's almost defeated…" Tippi informed.

"Good. Then I can finish it off!" Tipral immediately made a dash toward Kracko, tossing a Star Spear straight at its eye. It suddenly made the cloud creature's eye exploded after the clouds disappeared on it.

"Well, that was a bit strange… But I cannot believest thou hast defeated that cloud, my love!" Luvbi smiled, hugging Chopper once again, making him shiver in fear.

"Wow… She's clingy, isn't she?" Sonic asked.

"Yes… Very." Chopper frowned.

"So… Care to explain to me what The Overthere is, Luvbi? I'm pretty sure you're the one that knows about this place…"

Luvbi let go of Chopper and turned to Sonic. "The Overthere is where I livest. It is full of Nimbis such as mineself. So don't thinkest that thou can slow us down, Knave!"

"Slow you down? I can run faster than the speed of sound! I couldn't slow anyone down! …And will you stop calling me Knave?! My name's Sonic!"

"Hmph! Well I dost not careth what thy name is. I will only callest thee Knave!" Luvbi huffed, fluttering over to the door. "Don't dawdle around hither forever! My wings will get tired!"

"Wow… I can't believe she's acting like that toward us… How long was she with you guys?"

"Well, I can say that the queen of The Underwhere told us to escort her to The Overthere…" explained Chopper. "It's…very painful."

"What do you mean by 'painful'?"

"Well... She kissed me before..."

"Really? That doesn't sound so bad…" Sonic frowned, following Chopper and the group over by the door. They ended up coming across a cloudy loop in the next area, as well as some Lakitus floating above the clouds.

"Hoo boy! Now this is what I'm talking about!" Sonic smirked as he curled up in a ball and made his way toward the loop. After going through it, he ended up running into the Star Block.

"That's it? We already made it to the end of the level?" Sonic asked, raising an eyebrow.

As soon as Chopper made his way through the loop, he gawked as he looked up at the block. "It looks like it… I didn't know it would be over so soon."

Nevertheless, he punched the Star Block.

END OF CHAPTER

After venturing through Overthere Walkway, our heroes began to see the clouds go higher up this time. "Makest sure that thou art not slowing down! I dost not want to maketh our way to The Overthere when thou all art moving so slow!" "I doth hope Father allowests me to marry my sweet prince!" Luvbi continued to babble on as they walked their way through the clouds. "Yeesh! This girl can't stop talling!" mumbled Sonic. Soon enough, they found a large cloud up ahead. Where could that possibly lead them?