CHAPTER 7-4
-Fury in an Apple-
The four managed to make their way up to the large cloud without the use of being able to jump high, which was rather difficult. They noticed all of the clouds above them. The sky itself was a bright blue color, compared to the dark blue color in Overthere Walkway. There was also a sign right by Tipral's side that had something interesting.
"It says, 'Stair 1,'" Tipral stated from the sign. "What do they mean by 'stair'?"
"We art in Overthere Stair. It shall taketh us up to The Overthere. But I will sayest that it may not be easy for thee, for thou dost not have wings!"
"I do have my teleportation powers. Even without the Dark Star Scepter and Dark Prognosticus, I can still teleport from a little distance. I don't NEED wings to get through here!"
"I had that Hi-Jump ability from before. I don't think I would need wings to get through here." Chopper agreed, moving his jester hat a bit back, since the wind was blowing from behind.
"I knowest that thou dost not needeth wings, my sweet prince!" Luvbi giggled. "Thou art already able to maketh thy way up the clouds! Thou art so amazing, so there is nothing that can stopeth thee!"
"Ugh… So when are you going to stop praising me over everyone else when I don't technically do it?"
"Let's save it for later, Chopper," suggested Sonic, who was stretching his legs. "There's nothing we can do to change her opinion. All we can do is try to make our way to The Overthere, though."
"And that's what I WANT to do right now!" Tipral grumbled.
BLuvbi turned to Chopper with her cute smile. "Well, I might as well maketh my way up Overthere Stair, so keepest up if thou canst! If thou climbest too slowly, the sun will set, so shaketh a leg, my sweet prince!"
Luvbi fluttered up to the end of the first stair, leaving the heroes to go up themselves.
"Yeesh... How can this girl be such a jerk to us but be all sweet to you?" Sonic questioned.
"I guess she just doesn't like you guys..." Chopper shrugged.
"So, are we just going to sit here and do nothing?" Blade asked. "I mean, we have a Pure Heart to find!"
"Oh, yeah. We better do that!" Chopper jumped up the first two clouds, only to find a Parabuzzy appear right in front of him. With a simple charged up beam attack, he destroyed the Parabuzzy.
The other three followed him up two more small clouds and then up onto one bigger cloud with an Ice Cherbil and three ? Blocks. Sonic took out the Ice Cherbil with a Homing Attack.
"We should check these ? blocks first," suggested Tipral, who hit all three. Coins came out of the first and third block, but the middle block had a Super Shroom. He took it and split it into four for all four of them to have, recovering 20 HP.
"I'm surprised that you're sharing that…" Tippi trailed surprisingly.
"Don't ask me why. If they die, then there's no hope for me getting to the castle." Tipral grumbled. "That bratty girl wouldn't want me taking her to her home anyway."
Chopper noticed a yellow platform moving down to the cloud that they were on and jumped on it. Sonic, Blade and Tipral also got themselves onto the cloud and waited for it to bring them up to a small cloud with a larger cloud above them.
"Oh, great. I can't reach that cloud!" Chopper frowned.
"Then maybe I should teleport us up there," Tipral grabbed everyone's' arm and teleported them to the cloud above them. They noticed between the gap of the two clouds, there was a Spiky Parabuzzie.
"I got this one!" Chopper pulled his hammer out and smashed the Spiky Parabuzzie with one hit. He then jumped onto the Ice Cherbil across the gap while performing a stylish move.
"Hey, there's a spring!" Sonic grinned as he jumped on the spring that sent him up to the next cloud above him. To the right was a cloud with eyes and to the left there were two Parabuzzies.
After the other three reached the cloud he was on, Blade turned to the Parabuzzies. "I'm better off taking these guys out with Hommissile… So…"
Blade sent Hommissile after the two Parabuzzies, exploding upon impact. "Oh yeah! Now THIS is pretty entertaining!" he fist pumped before hearing the sound of three bounces on the cloud.
"Oh, crap!" He jumped onto the cloud as well, sending him up to greater heights. He even skipped a couple of clouds as well!
"Huh… I expected there to be something here. Oh well." Chopper smashed the two Parabuzzies in their way with his hammer, then he jumped onto the other cloud with the face, which sent him up to a small cloud with a red door and sign.
"Another one of these signs? I might as well read it." After Tipral landed on the cloud, he walked over to the sign and read it.
Here Endeth Stair 1
"Well at least they're telling us that this stair is over," Sonic let out a deep sigh. "I don't know about this place… The water area was pretty bad, but if we fall, it's game over for us!"
"Oh, thou art going to be fine, Knave! Thy whining won't changeth anything!" Luvbi huffed.
"Stop with the 'Knave' stuff already!" Sonic grumbled as he walked into the next door with the others. Tipral immediately read the next sign that was in front of them before doing anything else.
Stair 2
"Yea, verily. We art at the second stair." Luvbi stated, fluttering up ahead, but not before turning to the others. "Anyway, I will be waiting for thee as always, my sweet prince! Stay clear from the enemies!"
When she was gone, Chopper turned to the right. He noticed a green angel-like enemy that was firing an arrow shaped like a heart at him.
"Hey! It looks like I can get a new power-up!"
Chopper threw his Beam ability away and inhaled the green angel-like creature. He was now donning white, angelic wings on the back part of his head (or back), a bow and arrow with the arrows being heart-shaped, and a yellow, glowing halo on top of his head. Some may call him Cupid Chopper, but in this, we call him Angel Chopper.
Up ahead, they saw three ? Blocks together, along with a pink Boomboxer called a Beepboxer walking on top of the blocks. Chopper decided to test out his new ability by charging up an arrow attack and firing it at the Beepboxer.
"You look like you're some sort of angel," Blade commented.
"Well that's because I DO look like one!" Chopper frowned, hitting the three blocks. Two of the three had Zombie Shrooms, while the other one had a Speed Flower pop out, to their surprise.
"And what's that supposed to be?" Tipral asked.
"It's a Speed Flower. It'll make time go faster…" Tippi informed as Chopper grabbed the Speed Flower. Everything started to feel incredibly fast.
"Whatintheworld?! Uhohit'sincrediblyfast!" Sonic shouted.
"Shutup! Don'tspeak! It'snotgood!" Chopper shouted as he hit the next row of ? Blocks. He ended up knocking the Beepboxer off, but three Zombie Shrooms popped out of them.
"I'lltakecareofthese!" Tipral snapped his finger, striking each of the Zombie Shrooms that were moving around. Because of the Speed Flower, they got triple points for taking them out.
But, the Speed Flower's effect soon went away and the three heroes and Tipral were now going at a normal pace. Blade even took the time to take out the Parabuzzy near him with his katana.
"All right, now that that's taken care of… Let's move on." Chopper jumped, but was surprised when he found himself flying with his wings. "Oh! I almost forgot about those!"
He immediately flew up to the cloud above him, but saw nothing there, so he flew up to the cloud above. All there was was a Save Block, but nevertheless, he hit it anyway.
"Dang! I wish I was able to jump high!" Sonic grumbled, getting help from Tipral's teleportation to reach the cloud.
"Allow me to finish off that Spiky Parabuzzy first," Tipral jumped onto the smaller cloud with the Spiky Parabuzzy and destroyed it with a Star Punch. He punched it to the side so the spike didn't harm him.
With that enemy out of the way, they jumped over a couple of small clouds until they got to another Springy Cloud – a name that Blade came up with.
"Another one of these things? Man! They sure are throwing a couple of these at us, aren't they?" Sonic asked as he jumped onto the Springy Cloud. Chopper shrugged and followed him up as well, passing through many other stairs of clouds.
As soon as they stopped skyrocketing, they fell onto a cloud platform with another Springy Cloud. They took that one up to another cloud platform with another Springy Cloud.
"It's like we can use these to go up without even going through this whole place!" Blade grinned as he skyrocketed up to a higher cloud platform. This time, they found a Beepboxer and two Ruff Puff clouds.
"Uh oh… We're in some trouble." Chopper gulped, pulling an arrow out. "But I think I can handle these guys!"
He fired a single arrow at all three enemies, but he noticed that it didn't take them down yet.
"I'll finish this!" Blade drew his katana out and performed a couple of slices on the Beepboxer and the two Ruff Puffs. "Now THAT'S how you do it!"
"Well… OK. Fine by me." Chopper flew up with his wings and began to flutter over the cloud, taking care of another Ruff Puff cloud that wasn't destroyed by Blade with some arrows and fireballs.
"You know, that Ice Cherbil's attack up ahead can be countered with fire…" Tippi informed.
"Really? Well thanks for telling that, Tippi!" Chopper tossed a fireball at the Ice Cherbil across another cloud platform below the one he was previously on, melting the ice gas and also hitting the Ice Cherbil, taking it out in one hit.
"Do they seriously think that these guys are much of a challenge? They're EASY!"
"Well, what about those Ruff Puffs? I'm sure that those things could do some heavy damage to you with their electric attacks." Sonic informed.
"That's true, but they're not hard to dodge," Chopper flew up a couple of small clouds until he found another Springy Cloud.
"Another one of those? They make Overthere Stair seem easier for people who can't fly!" Tipral frowned as he jumped on the Springy Cloud. No one knew why he was frowning, but they followed him up to a cloudy platform with a Beepboxer.
"Heh! This should be another easy one!" Chopper smirked aiming a charged arrow at the Beepboxer. But, he stopped when he saw Tipral defeat it with a stomp and a Star Spear. "Hey! I was going to take care of it!"
"Well you're too late on that," Tipral noticed that there was a large gap over by the cloudy platform they were on and the other small cloudy platform that Luvbi was fluttering over at.
"There's a lift that's coming this way. We can take it to get over to that brat."
"Well I'm going to use my Angel ability to get across," Chopper used his wings to fly across the gap and make his way over to the red door. But he first looked at the sign next to the door.
Here Endeth Stair 2
"Oh… Well I guess this stair is finished. How many of these stairs are they?" Chopper questioned while scratching his head.
"Chopper!" Luvbi chirped, almost making Chopper get startled. "I canst believest that thou art looking so adorable with those wings and that halo!"
"Huh?" Chopper turned to the lovesick Luvbi, who blushed at the sight of Angel Chopper. "…Don't tell me you love me more when I have this ability on me, don't you?"
Luvbi giggled. "Thou art so silly! Dost thou verily think that I wouldst hate thee in that cute costume? It makest me love thee even more!"
She let out a sweet and cute sigh as she fell into Chopper's arms. He, of course, was looking very nervous, with his whole body shivering and his cheeks turning bright red.
"H-Hey! Wh-What are you trying to pull off?!" Chopper stammered.
"My sweet prince! This doth feel romantic with thee and I!" Luvbi smiled while her eyes closed, her cheeks turning a soft pink as well. "Thou dost remind me of my kind…except thou art cuter!"
"Could you please not do this? You're making me feel uncomfortable! I mean, my friends are probably going to…"
"Oh, I didn't mean to interrupt your 'moment'," Blade snickered as he jumped onto the cloudy platform, along with Sonic and Tipral.
"Why dost thou have to ruin the moment?!" Luvbi growled, standing back up. "I wanted to share a kiss between my prince and I!"
"Well too bad," Tipral scoffed. "No one cares about your love."
"And what doth be wrong with that?"
"It's because it ruins people's lives. I've seen it before..."
Luvbi ignored him and entered the door ahead, with the others following into the next area. They were all standing on a large cloud at this very moment, but there were still some clouds up ahead.
Stair 3
"So this is Stair 3..." Blade trailed.
"Ah, so I've finally found you!" the sound of that voice caught Blade off guard when he saw his brother, Knife, standing across from him and his group of friends. "I see you've made some interesting friends, Blade!"
"Wait… Who's this guy?" Chopper asked.
"My name's Knife. I'm Blade's older brother." Knife explained. "I was given a promise that if I found and destroyed the people who were searching for the Pure Heart, I would come back to life! It's pretty simple, if you ask me."
"Oh, yeah... Blade told us about you!"
"And last time I saw you, you couldn't even hurt me!" Blade scoffed. "What makes you think that you're going to win this fight?"
"Oh, I DO have things taken care of!" Knife grinned, pulling out a remote. "You see, I was given a garbage can robot to take care of you guys. All I have to do is get it out and presto! It's finished!"
After pressing the button on the remote, a navy blue trash can robot with red eyes and purple suction cups for hands came down in front of the group.
"As much as I'd WANT to destroy you guys myself… My powers are useless. So, I suppose this will do better! I guess today is…GARBAGE DAY!" Knife cackled until the robot, Trashy, stopped moving.
"Uhhhh… What just happened?" Blade asked.
"Oh, it's just a little malfunction, I suppose. That's not too bad. …But seriously, get moving, robot!"
Trashy turned back on, but instead of attacking the heroes, it began to dance.
"Thou callest this a battle robot? Pah! It rather remindest me of a ballerina!" Luvbi scoffed.
"What the… I never pressed 'dance' on this thing!" Knife growled. "You useless piece of scrap metal! MOVE! …Or it might be this remote! That cheapskate…"
Knife smashed the remote, but it only triggered Trashy to stop moving and actually get in a fighting stance. "Oh… Well I guess that did something. Enjoy the fight, 'cause I bet this thing'll beat ya!"
And at that moment, Knife disappeared out of thin air thanks to a smoke bomb.
"Ugh… I can't believe that this thing is holding us off…" Tippi groaned.
"Well, at least we can get some information on this thing so we can find a way to beat it!" Chopper assured, using Tippi's powers to gather information on the blue trash can robot.
"That's Trashy. It's a mechanical trash can that has suction cups on its arms… Max HP is 75, Attack is 5, Defense is 2. This thing will normally attack you by sucking you into its suction cups, or it just might throw its lid at you if necessary… It will also throw some garbage at you too... Ugh… I find that to be disgusting! Watch out when it summons small Trashers. Those could rush into you and distract you for a while… But they could be useful if you inhale them…" Tippi informed.
"All right, I got that!" Chopper smirked as he flew up with his angelic wings. As he fired an arrow at Trashy, Luvbi swooned over him as usual.
"Thou ART like an angel!" she sighed sweetly.
"Yes… We know that." Tipral groaned as he swung his arm, firing a Star Spear straight at Trashy. It didn't knock the trash can down, but it certainly made it cringe in pain to let Sonic knock it down with a Spin Dash.
Trashy pulled some garbage out of itself and it rolled it straight at Blade. He jumped straight onto it and threw a couple of shurikens at the garbage can.
"This fight is so easy!" Blade scoffed. "I mean, its attacks are INCREDIBLY easy to dodge!"
"Don't get your hopes up, Blade… It can summon a couple of Trashers if it wanted to…" Tippi warned.
Trashy made a signal and three pink trash cans came hopping over to it. It also pulled a bin out and threw it on top of Blade so it could throw a large Thwomp down on him that can deal heavy damage.
"Blade! Watch out!" Chopper shouted, trying to fire arrows at the Thwomp. Of course, it didn't work out. "You're going to have to dodge the Thwomps coming down on you! Tippi will tell you when to move and when NOT to move!"
"All right! I got ya! …I just can't see through this stupid thing!" Blade shouted as he began to move around with his arms wailing around. Tippi informed him to move to his right, so he did just that to avoid a Thwomp coming down.
"Let's just take care of these trash…" Tipral was soon interrupted when Trashy sucked him into its suction cup and then threw him into one of the Trashers.
"No worries, I'll get him out," Sonic struck Trashy with a Spin Jump first and then attacked the Trasher that got a hold of Tipral with a Homing Attack, blowing it up and setting Tipral free.
"All right, now you're going to suffer some true pain!" Tipral growled as he teleported in front of Trashy, striking it with a couple of Star Punches and Star Kicks…but he was then knocked back by a piece of trash it fired at him.
"My sweet prince! Please dost something!" Luvbi begged, looking at him with her soft eyes.
"Just stop calling me your prince…" Chopper trailed as he charged up an arrow and fired it at Trashy, catching its attention.
Trashy grabbed one of the Trashers and dumped any trash that was inside. All that it could dump out were some small papers and a pair of underpants. It decided to throw it away afterward.
"Yeah… I'm not too fond of these kind of robots…" Blade said as he got the bin off his head. He delivered a flaming slash on Trashy with his katana, setting the robot on fire. But, even with that it didn't take it out.
"Hold on… It's going to come straight at you!" Tippi warned, seeing Trashy charge at Sonic.
"Huh? Whoa!" Sonic jumped out of the way to avoid Trashy's rage. Once it turned around, Sonic struck it with a Spin Jump and then used Screwdy's corkscrew to bring its cover down.
"All right, so Trashy can't see us right now, so I might as well attack," Chopper smirked as he charged up an arrow and fired it at Trashy. It stuck to its butt, but it didn't yelp or anything else. Disappointed, he dropped down on Trashy and stomped on him with flames on his feet, performing a stylish move as well before he landed on the ground.
Chopper fired rapidly at Trashy with his arrows, although not all of them hit the trash can. Some of them got sucked into Trashy's suction cups and were fired back at him. He ducked, but when the trash can came charging he was knocked away.
"What a wimp," Tipral stated as he snapped his finger, making Trashy get struck by Star Magic. He immediately rushed at it afterward, striking it with a couple of Star Kicks before teleporting away.
"Do I seriously need to say that this fight is easy?" Sonic asked after striking Trashy with a Spin Dash. "This thing is just too slow for us! Plus, it's just trash!"
Trashy, after hearing Sonic, steamed with anger as it pulled out a large boulder of trash and tossed it at him, knocking him back over to the group like bowling pins.
"So it's putting up more of a fight… So be it." Tipral hurled a shadow ball at the battered-up trash can, then he struck it with a Star Spear. A hole was made in Trashy, leaving it severely wounded.
"Well, it's almost finished, I guess," Chopper stated, looking at the injured trash can.
"I'll finish it," Tipral cracked his knuckles before teleporting in front on Trashy. He brought his fist back to charge up a Star Punch and then after a couple of seconds, he unleashed his powerful Star Punch on the poor trash can, knocking it to the ground.
"Hmph. Still not finished yet?" Tipral jumped on top of the battered Trashy and looked down at it. The Trashers tried to help, but he destroyed them with a couple of Star Spears. There were even some flames around them.
"Whoa, hold on a minute, Tipral! We're not here to burn this whole place up!" Chopper warned.
"That will not be allowed hither!" Luvbi snapped. "If thou planest on burning this world, thou art going to payest!"
"Shut up. I'm not going to burn this world." Tipral retorted, kicking Trashy with an intense Star Kick. Apparently, this caused Trashy to malfunction. It got itself up and ran straight toward the cliff, falling straight into The Underwhere.
"Well, I guess that thing won't be bothering us anytime soon..." Tippi remarked.
"Usually those robots explode instead of jumping off the clouds," Sonic stated, turning back to everyone else. "Oh well… How's about we keep on going, huh? I can see a couple of Beepboxers up ahead that are sending their shockwaves at us."
"Wait, what?" Chopper's antennae perked up before getting struck by a Beepboxer's shockwave. Blade was also struck by it.
"Whoa! Looks like these guys are asking for a fight!" Blade tossed Hommissile at the first Beepboxer, blowing it off of the cloud. Chopper flew up with his angelic wings and fired a charged arrow down at the other Beepboxer, destroying it.
"So… Luvbi, is there like a post-aftergame or something?" Chopper questioned. "Someone in The Underwhere said there's something like that."
"Only my mother knowest that," Luvbi answered before flying on ahead to wait for the heroes to make their way up.
"Hey, look! Another one of these Springy Clouds!" Blade jumped on the Springy Cloud, which launched him through many other clouds. He landed right in front of a red door. However, Luvbi wasn't there. "HA! That brat's too slow to get to us now!"
"I can hear thee, thou knowest!" Luvbi yelled.
As soon as the other three landed on the cloud, they also took notice of the red door. "We should see what's through this door," suggested Sonic as he opened the door to a small area with a white tree.
"What the… What the heck is that?"
"Wow… What a beautiful tree." Chopper walked up to the white tree and noticed the rainbow on it. "How come I've never seen trees like that? And what are those apples anyway?"
"Only one way to find out," Blade drew his katana and rushed toward the tree.
"Wait! No! Don't cut the tree down, Blade!" Chopper shouted, making Blade pause. "This isn't how you get fruit down from a tree! Plus, you're going to hurt this wonderful thing!"
"Then how else am I going to get the fruit down?"
"Like this!" Chopper pulled his hammer out and slammed it on the tree. One of the light blue fruits on the tree fell off and landed right in front of him. He picked up the Blue Apple and put it in his inventory. "Say… This fruit reminds me of those fruit I saw back on my home planet up in the sky… Are they the same thing as these?"
"I wouldn't be too sure on that. If they have some sort of effect on you, then don't be too sure on that." Tipral walked over to the red door. "Let's get out of here. I don't want to waste my time in this world."
The group sighed as they followed Tipral back into the previous area they were in. To their left, they could see two Ruff Puff clouds charging up an electric attack as soon as they caught sight of them.
"This shouldn't be too hard," if Tipral were to smirk, he would be. He snapped his finger and struck both Ruff Puffs. After that, he stomped on the two while performing a stylish move.
"I got the Beepboxer!" Chopper fluttered up with his wings and fired three arrows straight at the Beepboxer, doing triple the damage a normal arrow would do against an enemy.
"Nice!" he smirked as he flew up to the cloud above. The others used the brown blocked platforms that acted like stairs up to the small cloud. They then jumped onto a larger cloud above them that had an Ice Cherbil.
"Oh great… Another butt." Blade sighed as he tossed a shuriken at it. The Beepboxer up on the brown platform fired its shockwaves, but two shurikens did it in.
They jumped up a couple of clouds until they reached two ? Blocks. One contained a coin, while the other contained only a Mushroom. Nevertheless, they all shared it and recovered 10 HP.
When they reached up to two more clouds, they saw that the next cloud above them was too high to reach. Chopper was able to fly up there easily, but the others couldn't get themselves up there.
"Oh, fine… I'll help you guys get up there. I guess it's for the best anyway." Chopper flew down to the group, with Sonic first grabbing his feet, then Blade grabbed Sonic's feet and Tipral grabbed Blade's.
"Are you sure this is going to work out?" Tippi gawked.
"Well, we managed to cross over a pit of spikes in Fort Francis with all three of us on Carrie at once. I bet we could do something like this." Chopper assured. "Right, Sonic?"
"Hmmmmm… Yeah, I remember doing that…" Sonic trailed. "That was...kinda awkward."
"Wait a minute… I just realized something."
"What?"
"There's no cloud above here."
Everyone except for Chopper smacked their foreheads.
"OK, so you're telling me that we did all of this for nothing?!" Tipral exclaimed.
"Eeeeeeeeeeeyup."
"Wow… You're probably the biggest idiot I've ever met."
Upon hearing this, Chopper dropped Tipral on the cloud.
"Hold on a second, I'm going to try something," Chopper threw his arms up in the air and flipped into 3-D. He saw a row of ? Blocks across. But, since he could fly, he simply flew over them while Sonic and Blade held onto his feet.
Once Chopper flipped back to 2-D, they were all on a cloud across from the other one. Tipral noticed that they were over there, but he wasn't going to make any comments, so he simply teleported over to them.
"OK, I know for a fact that there IS a cloud above us. However, I can't carry you all, since I'm not really good with carrying people heavier than me." Chopper stated as he flew up to the cloud above him.
"He always seems to act like a wimp, refusing to do things for others because he's not strong," Tipral stated.
"Well, he's only ten years old. You honestly expect him to be able to carry one of us? I don't think so." Sonic replied.
"Whatever…" Tipral groaned as he teleported both Sonic and Blade up to the cloud above them. Right next to them was a cloud with a red door. Luvbi was waiting over there, being impatient as she usually was.
Sonic struck the two Beepboxers with a Homing Attack before going to the sign that Luvbi was floating above.
Here Endeth Stair 3
"What tooketh thee all so long?! Why didst thou have to makest poor, cute me wait hither for a long time?" Luvbi asked.
"Luvbi… You can FLY!" Sonic shouted. "We, on the other hand, don't have the ability to do so. So, stop with it, OK?"
"Fine, Knave," Luvbi huffed, fluttering over to Chopper. "So, my sweet prince… How dost thou like Overthere Stair?"
"Well, it's better than the darker area..." Chopper trailed before he walked through the door. Everyone else followed him into another area of Overthere Stair, where they found a sign right next to them.
Stair 4
"God! How many of these stairs do we need to go anyway?! I'm getting tired of going through Overthere Stair!" Blade groaned. "It's like this whole chapter's taking forever!"
"We'll get there eventually," Chopper assured as he flew up two clouds and found a lift to his right. He ignored it and flew up to a cloud above him that led to another door. "Hey! I found another door!"
"Wait… We're finally at the end of the stair?" Blade gaped.
"Don't get your hopes up, Blade. I saw a lift that goes even higher. Don't get your hopes up." Tipral stated, making Blade groan as they walked through the door.
"It's another one of these rooms…" Tippi trailed.
"Yeah, on kidding and… Huh?" Chopper noticed over by the tree to his left, Kirby was sleeping on it with a piece of a golden apple bit off. "Guys! Come over here! I think I found Kirby!"
"What?!"
"You found Kirby?!"
"Ugh… You found ANOTHER one of your friends?"
All three raced over to Chopper, where they found Kirby sleeping on the tree with a golden apple.
"You're right, Chopper… It's Kirby!" Sonic gaped.
"Zzzzzzzzzzzz…" Kirby snored.
"It appears that Kirby's sleeping…" Tippi trailed, fluttering over to the pink puffball.
"Of COURSE he gets to go to this place while I'm stuck in The Underwhere," Blade pouted, folding his arms. "And what did I ever do to go to that place anyway? I did good things…"
"Blade, I should be asking myself the same thing…" Chopper said with an irritated look. He turned back to the sleeping Kirby. "OK, Kirby… So how about you get yourself up and we can get going, huh? Kirby? KIRBY?!"
"Zzzzzzzzzzzz…"
"I don't think that's going to work…" Sonic trailed.
"I bet Kirby's in some sort of deep sleep. I highly doubt that he's going to wake up." Tipral growled.
"That's because you're not doing it right, Chopper," Blade walked up to the front. "Now THIS is how you do it! WAAAAAAAKE UUUUUUUUP!"
"Ow! Not so loud..." Chopper mumbled.
"What? I had to try something..."
"Zzzzzzzzzzzz…"
"Yeah… It's not working." Chopper said with an annoyed look, until he saw the apple beside Kirby. "Hey! At least I've got an apple to eat!"
But before he could eat the apple, he heard a familiar voice.
"Ah me… Prithee, tell me… Kirby, I presume?" Luvbi fluttered into the scene. She noticed the golden apple in Chopper's hands. "He hath eaten of the golden fruit. He lacketh the common sense, I fear."
"Golden fruit? You mean...this?" Chopper took a look at the golden fruit before Luvbi grabbed it and threw it off the cloud. "Hey! What was that for? I was going to eat that thing!"
"I was just trying to savest thee, my sweet prince," Luvbi said in a sweet voice. "I can tellest thee what it is. The Overthere teemeth with magical trees whose fruit maketh many an odd effect. The fruit of golden hue maketh people so satisfied, they falleth into deep sleep. And I mean DEEP sleep… The kind thou dost not wake up from for a hundred years…"
Everyone jumped up in shock, except for Tipral.
"Wh-What?! A hundred years?!" Chopper gasped.
"But… But… That's not enough time to save the universe!" Sonic gaped.
"We can't go on without him!" Blade frowned.
"And I suppose there's something that CAN wake up this pink puffball, is there?" Tipral asked with an irritated look.
"Pray, wherefore would I know of such…" Luvbi paused for a moment and her expression changed. "Ah, but hold a moment… I do remember my father's words of long ago. Yea, he said one trees in The Overthere bore a taboo fruit that could waketh anyone…"
"Taboo fruit? So THAT'S what those apples are called…" Chopper trailed.
"So… What kind of tree would hold something like that anyway?" Blade asked.
"Pray… Wherefore should I know, huh?!"
"Well, obviously you live here…" Sonic trailed. "So, you should know where it is…"
"Givest me a break, Knave! I dost not wander around hither looking for fruits!" Luvbi retorted.
"And why do you always have to start with 'pray'?" Blade questioned. "Now THAT'S getting a bit irritating…"
"Ugh… So, first we have to go to The Overthere, and now we have to look for some sort of fruit? That's nice…" Chopper groaned.
"I'd rather just see him sleep for a hundred year," Tipral said. "I'm pretty sure he'll be dead before then anyway."
"Tipral! Why do you have to be so insensitive?!" Tippi snapped, who Tipral had ignored.
"So, yon Kirby… Thou all doth want to wakest up someone of such…gumballness…" Luvbi fluttered back over to the door and huffed as she turned to the group. "Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmph! Do what thou wantest! I am NOT helping! I am SULKING!"
"Yeah, go fly away and be useless," Blade grumbled.
"Well, looks like we gotta go find a fruit..." Sonic sighed. "This is going to be fun."
"Wait! What about the Blue apple I have?" Chopper pulled out the Blue Apple, shoving it in Kirby's mouth. "Maybe this is it!"
"I hope so…" Tippi trailed.
To their surprise, Kirby turned into the size of an ant, leaving everyone but Tipral to gape.
"I-I guess it's not THAT one…" Tippi trailed as Kirby went back to normal size.
"I suppose the right one is somewhere that's not AROUND here…" Tipral stated with his arms folded.
"Then how about we get over there, huh?" Chopper suggested.
When they left the area, they noticed that Luvbi was fluttering beside the door.
"Hey, Luvbi, why don't you wait by the door and make sure Kirby doesn't move," Sonic suggested.
"I can assure thee that the gumball won't be moving for a hundred years," Luvbi replied. "But fine... I will dost that... But I hope to see thee return, my sweet prince!"
With that out of the way, they all jumped on the platform going up to two clouds. One on the left was smaller, but contained a chest that had a Shroom Shake after opening it. To their right, there was a Lakitu.
"I got this!" Chopper pulled an arrow out and destroyed the Lakitu with one hit. "Wow… Our attacks sure take out these enemies easily…"
At the end of the cloud platform, there was a Springy Cloud. They jumped on it and it launched them up to another cloud platform. There were two cloud platforms that were rather thick. But, they decided to take the one to the left.
"I see a sign here, but I don't see a door," Tipral stated. "Let's see what this sign has to say."
Yellow Fruit Hither
"Yellow fruit? I guess that's one of the apples. However, I'm not going to help you find it. You find it yourself, Chopper!"
"What? You SHOULD actually help us find the fruit!" Chopper retorted. "If we don't get Kirby back, then that means we can't go to your castle."
Tipral clenched his fist. "You little...! Fine. I guess I have no other choice! But that 'thing' better not even try to inhale me, or else he'll be thrown down a couple of hundred thousand feet into The Underwhere!"
"He can float, you know," Sonic smirked.
"I can still knock him out before I do that. But, for now… Try to find that stupid fruit."
"I have an idea!" Chopper threw his arms up in the air and he flipped into 3-D. To his surprise, he saw a cloudy pathway to his right that led to a red door sitting on a small, cloudy platform.
"Oh… Well here it is!" Chopper headed through the door by himself to find another white tree with a yellow tint to it to his left. Compared to the other tree, this one was taller.
"Those are Yellow Apples? Those look more…orange to me. Meh. It doesn't make a difference." Chopper pulled his hammer out and he whacked the tree with it, making the Yellow Apple come down.
"I suggest that you look for more apples besides that…" suggested Tippi.
"Yeah, I'm planning on doing that," Chopper made his way back to the group and showed them the Yellow Apple. They decided to head to the thick cloud to their right to find another sign.
Here Endeth Stair 4
"This is seriously dragging on…and on…AND ON!" Blade growled as he kicked the door open.
"Dude… Calm down! Do you have anger problems or something?" Chopper asked while raising an eyebrow.
They walked into the next area to find a sign next to them, a cloud platform above them and a red door to their right. But, as usual, they took a look at the sign first.
Stair 5
"Yeah… Now let's look at what the door to our left has." Sonic suggested as he walked over to the door ahead. They all followed him through the door to find another small area, but with nothing around.
"Hmmm? There's nothing here!" Tipral growled.
"What a rip-off! We went into this area all for nothing!" Blade pouted.
"Oh, would you quit your whining? I'm pretty sure that there's something around here. We just need to find it." Chopper flipped into 3-D to find a tree with Pink Apples. "Ah! There we go!"
He whacked at the tree with his hammer and grabbed the Pink Apple. He showed it to the other three after flipping back into 2-D.
"Where'd you find that thing?" Blade asked.
"Apparently, the tree was in 3-D…"
"Wow. So you had to defy logic to find that key? That's…pretty cool!" Nevertheless, they returned to the other area and went up to the cloud above them via flying with Chopper's Angel ability and Tipral's teleportation.
Over by a cloud platform to their right, there was another red door. They decided to check it out, but once they were in the area, the door behind them was locked by a cage.
"Huh?! What's going on?!" Chopper jumped up in shock.
"Apparently it's more of those guys," Tipral pointed to the three skeletal enemies. One of them was a darkish violet color with a spike on its head and a spear standing on a small cloud platform, one was dark blue with a spear and one had angelic wings. Chopper decided to gather information on them by using Tippi's ability.
"That's a Skellobit. It's a foul monster that's made of bones... Max HP is 14, Attack is 5, Defense is 2. They poke at people with sharp spears... Don't land on the spear when it's pointed up... They were evil in life, so now they must dwell in the dark depths of the Underwhere..."
"That's a Skellobomber. It's much like a Skellobit, but it has wings... Max HP is 14, Attack is 5, Defense is might throw its head at you... It also carries Skellobait... Some say Skellobombers were bad Nimbis sent to the Underwhere..."
"That's a Spiky Skellobit. It's made entirely of bones. They are Skellobit leaders... Max HP is 14, Attack is 6, Defense is 2. It has spikes, so don't jump on it... It's said that only the foulest Skellobits are promoted to Spiky Skellobit..."
"So… I suggest we take out the Spiky Skellobit first. It's probably the most threatening of the three." Chopper suggested.
"I can take it out. My attacks ARE stronger, after all." Blade smirked as he jumped on the cloud and struck the Spiky Skellobit with his katana. One more slash was able to do it in.
Chopper fought the normal Skellobit. Although he wanted to shoot an arrow at it, he decided to hurl a fireball at it instead. With it burnt up, he charged up an arrow and fired it at it, destroying it.
"It's a good thing we can deal 14 damage at the very most when our attack is charged up! …Though it would only do about 12 on these guys…"
"It's not a big deal. There's only one more left anyway." Tipral snapped his finger and the Skellobomber was struck by Star Magic. He teleported over to it and destroyed it with a Star Kick.
With that out of the way, the cage blocking the door was gone. "Wait… Are you telling me that we went into this room for nothing?!" Sonic gawked.
"That was a waste of time…" Tipral trailed as he walked through the door. The rest exited through the door with him as well.
They noticed two blocks over by their right after leaving the area. Chopper struck the ? Block, which made a Mushroom pop out. They all split it to recover 10 HP and then Tipral hit the Brick Block. All there was were a couple of coins.
"All right, I guess that should be enough for us," Sonic stated as a platform came down for them. They took it up to a thicker cloud, although that cloud couldn't be reached with their normal jump.
"I call flying up there!" Chopper announced as he flew up to the cloud with his angelic wings. Tipral was forced to teleport him and the other two on the cloud. There was a sign right in front of them.
"I wonder what this reads," wondered Blade as he read the sign.
Black Fruit Hither
Chopper took out the Squog on the cloud before flipping into 3-D. He found a small pathway that brought him over to a red door. It led into an area with a tree to his right with a Black Apple.
"Those don't look so tasty…" Tippi trailed.
"Not to me," Chopper smiled, whacking the tree with his hammer and grabbing the Black Apple. "Though, I shouldn't eat it. It'd be too risky."
Chopper returned to the group and showed them the nasty-looking apple. Blade decided that they should go back to Kirby, which everyone agreed to do.
Back with Kirby in Stair 4-
"All right… So it looks like Kirby's all right." Chopper said, approaching the tree Kirby was sleeping at.
"So… What fruit should we start with first?" Sonic asked.
"How about…" Chopper pulled the Yellow Apple out. "…This one?"
He tossed the Yellow Apple into Kirby's mouth, hoping that it was the right one.
To their surprise, Kirby's eyes opened.
"Poyo? (Huh…? Where the heck am I?)" Kirby asked.
"Kirby! Oh, thank goodness you woke up…" Tippi paused once two antennae appeared on Kirby's head.
"Poyo?! (What the?! Why are there antennae on my head?!)" Kirby cringed in fear. "Poyo! (Someone get me some scissors!)"
After more screaming, the antennae disappeared and Kirby was asleep once again.
"…He fell asleep again. I guess that was the wrong one…" Tippi trailed.
"…Then we'll try the Pink Apple!" Chopper tossed the Pink Apple into Kirby's mouth. "Hopefully this one will wake him up…or else I might as well turn into a peach!"
Coincidentally, Kirby had turned into a peach. Chopper had took one look at it and was pleasantly surprised.
"Hey, look! There's a peach!" Chopper smiled, picking it up.
"Chopper…! Don't…!" Tippi cried. Thankfully, the peach turned back into Kirby.
"WHOA! That was Kirby?!" Chopper exclaimed as he dropped Kirby. "Wow… So that apple wasn't the right one…"
"We've got one more, though," Tipral mentioned.
Chopper tossed the Black Apple into Kirby's mouth next.
"Well, what about this one? Please, let this be the taboo fruit…" Tippi prayed.
"Unnnnngghhh…" Kirby moaned.
"Huh? Is he seriously waking up?" Tipral gawked.
"Unnnnggh… P-Poy- (Bl-B-)" Everyone paused and looked down at Kirby, praying to see if he would be fine. "POYO! (BLAAAAAUUGGH!)"
Everyone went flying back by the loud scream Kirby made as he jumped up from the cloud and spat out the apple.
"Hey! That nasty-looking fruit worked!" Chopper gasped.
"Are you…all right?" Tippi asked.
"Poyo?! (Does it look like I'm all right?! I just tasted something HORRIBLE!)" Kirby cried until he noticed the group. "Poyo? (Guys? You're all here?)"
"Yup! We're here for you, Kirby!" Chopper nodded. Everyone else waved at Kirby except for Tipral.
"Poyo? (Wait, why is Tipral here? I thought he was trying to destroy us all!)"
"I'd rather not explain it all. It's best…that we discuss it later." Tipral suggested.
Kirby frowned. "Poyo. (Fine, I guess I'll have to deal with you. But I'm watching you! Remember that!)"
"But, just to explain why we're here…" Chopper started. "Dimentio's attack sent you here. We're in a place called The Overthere. It's…not a bad place, but it's probably worse for me than for you."
"Poyo? (What do you mean?)"
"So, thou wakest?"
Kirby turned around and saw Luvbi, who looked a bit irritated.
"I am Luvbi. I am bound for The Overthere, and I take yon travelers with me."
Kirby looked back at Chopper. "Poyo? (Why are you taking her with us?)"
"It's kind of a long story..." Chopper trailed.
"Pray, why dost thou speakest in this 'poyo' language?!" Luvbi questioned. "I dost not understand what thou art saying!"
"Yeah… You see, Kirby's not exactly one to speak like us. I can understand what he says, but you guys can't."
"Well, I suppose thou art right, my sweet prince!" Luvbi smiled cutely at him, but her looked changed as she turned back to Kirby. "I shall head onward, so dawdleth not! Hereth me, gumball?!"
As Luvbi fluttered away, she winked at Chopper before leaving the area.
"Poyo… (Wait, so you're telling me that you fear her because she likes you…?)" Kirby gave Chopper a blank look. "Poyo? (I mean, did you see how she talked to me? What'd I ever do to her?)"
"Just don't worry about it." Tippi groaned.
"Poyo? (Well, anyway, I guess we ought to get going, don't you think?)" Kirby received a couple of nods from the three heroes, but Tipral didn't make a single gesture.
Kirby has rejoined the group!
"Well, here we go… Up to The Overthere!" announced Tippi.
Over by a door in Stair 4 that they didn't go to before-
"Poyo? (So why did we go over here anyway?)" questioned Kirby.
"We didn't go through this door yet, so we're gonna check out what's through here," Chopper announced as he walked through the door. This small area they reached had a couple of small clouds.
"Why are we wasting our time here? We have Kirby with us, so we should go find The Overthere!" Tipral growled.
"Be patient, Tipral!" Blade snapped. "There might be a reason for coming here!"
They jumped onto a couple of the small cloudy platforms to find another tree with taboo fruit. This time, there were Red Apples.
"Poyo! (Hey, those apples remind me of that Golden Apple that I had before I fell asleep!)" Kirby gaped.
"We don't need another apple! We've already woke up Kirby!" Tipral shouted.
"Well, we might NEED it for something!" Chopper whacked the tree with his hammer and grabbed the Red Apple. "Although, I don't know what this apple's going to do… That will remain a mystery until someone eats it."
"We might as well return to Stair 5," suggested Blade. "I'm seriously hoping that there aren't ten stairs to this place…"
"If we were only running, then I would like it a lot more," Sonic stated.
Stair 5-
"OK, so we went to the right on the cloudy platform above us, so we should see where the one to the left takes us…" trailed Chopper.
"Poyo! (Oh, that should be simple!)" Kirby began to float up onto the cloud, while Chopper followed him with his angelic wings. They came across a Springy Cloud that launched them up to another cloudy platform.
"Poyo! (That was fun! What is that thing?)"
"Well, Blade called them Springy Clouds. We decided to go with it too." Chopper explained.
"Yeah, and they're still cool!" Blade smirked.
"It appears that we need to go straight from here," Tipral stated, looking at the blue arrow on the cloud. "I can see another cloudy platform up ahead. I'll simply use my teleportation to get over there."
Tipral only helped Sonic and Blade over to the cloud. Chopper and Kirby were forced to fly over there with their abilities. They found another Springy Cloud on the platform that launched them higher up onto a couple of more Springy Platforms. They took them up to a cloudy platform with a couple of Ruff Puffs.
"Poyo! (Enemies! I've been waiting to fight some of these guys!)" Kirby inhaled one of the Ruff Puffs and spat it out at another one.
"Huh… So his inhaling ability DOES come to some good use…" Tipral trailed as he finished off the last Ruff Puff with a Star Spear.
Over by their left, they saw Luvbi waiting over by the door. Kirby, however, decided to read the sign first.
Here Endeth Stair 5
"Poyo? (What do they mean by 'stair'?)" questioned Kirby.
"We're in Overthere Stair, if you wanted to know. And it sure is nice…" Chopper sighed as he flew over to the door.
"Is this all of thy servants, my sweet prince?" Luvbi asked.
"Servants?! We're NOT servants!" Blade growled.
"Well, thou art like his servants, and I am like his princess!" Luvbi smiled, readied to give him a kiss, but Chopper had instantly zipped over to the door.
"Poyo… (Someone sure is afraid to be kissed…)" trailed Kirby.
Chopper opened the door into the next area, with the others following. There weren't a lot of clouds around them, but there were small pillars with flowers. As usual, there was a sign.
Stair 6
When Chopper stepped away from the sign, he saw a Skellobit up ahead.
"Hey, it's another one of those monsters," Sonic gawked.
"Great..." Chopper sighed.
"Well, we better take them out," Blade suggested.
"I guess so," Chopper slammed his hammer on the Skellobit in front on him twice before striking Reversya Cursya with an arrow. It only had 1 HP, so it went down easily.
"I'll handle the other ones," Tipral snapped his finger and he defeated the other two Skellobits over by the platform that already went up. "Are THESE the monsters that were released from The Underwhere? If so, they're pretty pathetic."
"Yeah, we can take them out without them coming close to us!" Blade frowned as he hit a Brick Block. A Super Shroom popped out and moved toward them.
"Poyo? (Are we actually going to compete for that?)" Kirby asked.
"No, we're going to split it," Blade sliced the Super Shroom into five and gave a piece to each of them. They all recovered 20 HP and were just in time for the platform to come down for them.
They jumped on the next platform, which took them up to some light yellow (or white) Overthere platforms. They actually looked very nice, from everyone's eyes. Tipral even thought they were nice.
"Hmph! Not bad…for a place filled with light." Tipral stated as he jumped onto the first platform. "This place is starting to feel a bit more angelic with these platforms."
"I am surprised that thou art impressed…" Luvbi gawked as she watched the heroes jump on the platforms. "I thought that my sweet prince would verily be the one to like these platforms."
"They're cool… That's all I have to say." Chopper stated as he flew over the platforms. "They do feel pretty angelic. Does this mean we're closer to The Overthere?"
"I hope so…" Blade groaned.
"Well, we art getting close."
Blade: :D
As Blade jumped on a cloudy platform with a Skellobit (which he destroyed with Hommissile), he felt like he wanted to dance, but he didn't have time for that. He jumped on the Cloudy Platform with the others and were launched up to a cloudy platform with two Brick Blocks and a platform to the left.
They took the platform up to a couple of skinny pillar-like platforms. I don't know WHY there are floating pillars, but it's logic. You know… Nintendo Logic? But, let's not get off track here.
Chopper flew over the pillar platforms and onto the small cloudy platform above them, where he went up another cloudy platform. The others followed him via teleportation and floating.
"Poyo! (This place feels nice! I get to so a lot of floating!)" Kirby smiled.
They jumped up a couple of clouds to reach Cloud 70, where a sign was sitting over by, as well as a door. Chopper first took a look at the sign.
Here Endeth Stair 6
"Wow… We're getting close!" Chopper smiled as he walked through the door, followed by a swooning Luvbi and his friends.
"Yup… More monsters. Chopper, why did you say there would be less to worry about after that other one?" Blade questioned.
"It's just a statement," Chopper groaned as he looked over at the sign next to the red door.
Stair 7
"OK… Let's get a move on." Chopper slammed his hammer on the first Skellobit in front of him, then he fired a charged arrow at the Skellobomber up ahead. Tipral struck a Skellobomber that dropped a small, green skeletal monster with a spike on its head.
"What the… What's that?" Chopper questioned as he used Tippi's powers to investigate it.
"That's a Spiky Skellobait. These little creatures depend on Skellobombers... Max HP is 5, Attack is 4, Defense is 1. It has very chilly breath... They also have spikes. If you get hit by their chilly breath, you'll be frozen solid... They use the ancient magic of the Underwhere and the Overthere for evil..." Tippi informed.
"This should be an easy thing to defeat," Tipral snapped his finger and he instantly destroyed the Spiky Skellobait.
They took the Springy Cloud up to a small cloudy platform, where they found another Springy Cloud that they took up. They were now over by some more pillar platforms that looked like they were making stairs.
"It's another one of these… Well, better get to platforming." Chopper decided to jump up these platforms instead of flying over them. These platforms helped them reach Cloud 74, where a Skellobit awaited.
"Poyo! (I got this!)" Kirby inhaled the Skellobit and spat it out somewhere else, defeating it instantly.
They took the platform over to another cloudy platform, where they soon found a chest over by a larger cloudy platform. When Chopper opened it, he found a Life Shroom, to his surprise.
"These? I haven't seen THESE in a while…" Chopper trailed as he put the item away. "I haven't really used them before…"
"Well, I think it's best to hold onto it…" Tippi suggested.
"We art getting closer!" Luvbi squealed as she hugged Chopper before fluttering up to the thick cloudy platform. This platform had some sort of Overthere building, and up ahead was a small cloud.
"Odd… I doth remember there were Skellobits hither…" Luvbi recalled.
"What do you mean?" Chopper questioned, jumping onto the cloud, along with the others.
"The Overthere tendest to be attacked by these monsters… They art usually hither…"
"Nyeah heh heh heh!"
"Huh? What the heck was THAT?" Blade drew his katana out, ready to fight whatever that cackling voice was.
"Why art thou so scared?" Luvbi asked. She turned around to find a small, beanish person wearing a gray cloak. "Ummmmm… Can I helpest thee?"
"Wait… Do I see a smile under that hood?" Chopper gawked.
"I have vengeance!" the beanish person pulled a blaster out and fired at Luvbi, sealing her in some sort of yellow bubble.
"Wh-What art thou doing?!"
"Nyeah heh heh heh! Have you the guessing of who I am?" the beanish person looked up at Chopper with his spiral glasses and his creepy grin.
"What a weird way of speaking…" Tipral trailed.
"Ummmmmm… Let's see… You're Maquano?"
"The knight of the demons? I say to you NO! You have not the knowing of someone with such fury?"
"Wait a second… Fury?" Chopper pondered. "There's only one person I know who likes to say the word 'fury' more than anyone else…"
The beanish person continued to cackle as he removed his gray cloak. It was Fawful in disguise! His cloak looked a lot different from before, however. Instead of the red cloak and hood, he was wearing a lighter red color with a yellow stripe on the edges of his cloak.
"Tellest me who thou art right now!" demanded Luvbi.
"Fawful has had the waiting for five months to unleash his fury!" Fawful grinned, aiming his blaster at Chopper. "You think I had the giving up back in the world full of darkness and subspace?!"
"You mean Dark Subspace World? I was actually wondering what happened to you then…" Chopper pondered.
"Why, I had the escaping! And soon, I will have fury…and chortles!"
"Are you honestly trying to fight us? We don't have the time for such nonsense!" Tipral said while getting into a fighting stance.
"An evil version of the Green Antennae? Fawful mocks you! …But I also have the admiring!"
"OK, look… If you want to fight, then fine. We'll fight you. Just make sure that Luvbi is safe and that you don't cause harm here. …But how DID you even get here?" Chopper raised an eyebrow.
"I have teleportation!" Fawful announced before firing straight at Chopper. "Now I have fighting! Face Fawful's fury!"
Before the fight could start, Chopper decided to use Tippi's ability to gather information on him. He was thinking that he would have the same abilities from before, but hey, he had to do something just in case.
"That's Fawful. He's a crazy little beanish person that seems to speak in a weird way…a way that I'm not so fond of… Max HP is 80, Attack is 6, Defense is 2. Fawful will tend to attack you with his blaster, or he might transform it into a laser sword – an incredibly dangerous laser sword, to be sure… If he shoots an orb of laser energy at you, you could inhale it and spit it back at him, or you could do the same thing with his ground pound… Overall, I don't think he's much of a tough person to fight with… He may not be a pushover, but definitely not as easy as Trashy… And I remember you saying you've met him before… You should tell me more about this…"
Chopper immediately jumped out of the way of Fawful's laser attack and flew up. He pulled an arrow out and fired it down at Fawful. While it didn't stick to him, it certainly did deal some damage.
"Hmmmmmm… Hold on a minute… Blade! Use your fire slash!"
"What for?"
"You'll see…" Chopper smirked as Blade jumped over to Fawful and struck him with a fire slash.
"OUCH! HOTNESS!" Fawful screamed. "It is the overheat!"
"Pbbbbbbbbbbth!"
"What's so funny about that?" Blade gawked.
"I like how he just says that 'it is the overheat'," Chopper snickered.
"That's a weird thing to say, but whatever!" Sonic curled up in a ball and attempted to strike Fawful. However, the beanish person was able to blast him with his blaster first before getting hit.
"I have the hurting…" Fawful adjusted his glasses and jumped in the air to come down on Blade with a ground pound. Two stars appeared as he landed on the ground, giving Kirby a chance to attack.
"Poyo! (I know what I have to do!)" Kirby inhaled the star and spat it out at Fawful, sending him flying toward Tipral.
"Hmmmm… Now that I think about it, this person could make a good minion." Tipral thought as he jumped on top of Fawful. "I wanna test him to see if he truly is capable of joining me."
Fawful pushed Tipral off him and changed his blaster to his laser sword. Tipral tried blocking his attacks with his Star fists, but ultimately, he was struck by Fawful's deadly laser sword.
"Nyeah heh heh heh! Fawful has victory!" Fawful cackled until Tipral pulled him to the ground.
"Let's see how you like THIS!" Tipral send Fawful flying over to Chopper with a simple Star Kick. "He seems to be holding his own in this fight… I suppose it wouldn't be a bad idea of letting him join me."
As soon as Fawful got himself up, he saw Chopper rushing straight toward him. But, he managed to strike him first with his laser sword. Afterward, the beanish person jumped and landed a ground pound on his head.
"Ouch! That's not fair!" Chopper pouted, knocking him back with a flaming kick. He pulled an arrow out and fired a charged shot at Fawful, who screamed weirdly afterward.
"What kind of scream is that…?" Tippi gawked.
Fawful simply ignored Tippi and sent Chopper flying with his laser sword strike. He almost fell off the cloud, but he managed to get himself up and strike the beanish person with another arrow.
"Don't TRY to throw me off!" Chopper growled.
"Thou can dost it, my sweet prince!" Luvbi cheered as she swooned over her prince.
"Stop it already!" Chopper frowned as he threw a fireball at Fawful, who screamed about that the fire 'is the overheat' and whatnot. While Fawful was running around in flames, Fawful struck him with his katana.
Tipral came up next, sliding toward Fawful with Star power in his feet and sending Fawful flying up to the ceiling of the small building. He dropped to the ground, only to be kicked in the head.
"Ouch… I have pain…" moaned Fawful.
"Pathetic," Tipral mumbled as he was ready to kick Fawful again. However, Fawful raised his blaster up and blasted Tipral, sending him flying toward Chopper.
"Oof! Hey, watch it!" Chopper cried before he was whacked in the face by Tipral – who wasn't even facing him.
…But Tipral had a better idea. "You haven't been doing much. I might as well put you to good use."
"What do you…HEY!" Chopper was thrown all the way toward Fawful. They both went tumbling over by the exit of the small building.
"What was THAT all about?!" Blade exclaimed.
"Why should you care? Do you want ME to do that to you?"
"Well… No."
"Then don't bother me about it," Tipral rushed toward the two and struck both of them with a Star Kick.
"Hey! You're hitting the wrong person, Tipral!" Chopper shouted as he got himself up. "I'm on YOUR side, remember?"
"From what I remember, we're NOT on the same side. Didn't I tell you that while we ARE working together, we will NEVER be on the same side! Ever!"
"I have the surprising that there are a pairing of antennae in my face! Your rivalry is like scoffing down on sweet liquidy honey!" Fawful cackled as he struck both of them with his laser sword.
"Oof!" Chopper growled as he charged up an arrow and fired it at Fawful. The beanish person also got struck by another Spin Dash laid off by Sonic.
"What? I gotta at least help the fight!" Sonic stated, striking Fawful again with a Spin Dash.
"Urk… Fawful does not have the giving up yet!" Fawful jumped up and landed a ground pound on the duo, knocking them back from him.
"Poyo! (Let me help!)" Kirby inhaled the yellow star that appeared and spat it out at Fawful, stunning him for a couple of seconds. Blade immediately fired Hommissile at Fawful to do a bit more damage.
"It appears that Fawful's HP is a bit low now…" Tippi informed. "You might have a chance of winning!"
"Yeah, we better win this," Chopper delivered a stomp attack on Fawful and performed a stylish as he landed on the ground.
"Nyeah heh heh heh!" Fawful slashed at Chopper with his laser sword and knocked his Angel ability away.
"H-Hey! Why'd you do that?!" Chopper attempted to grab it, but the yellow star ended up disappearing. "Oh, great… Now I just lost an awesome ability that helped me get through here!"
"And now you are left powerless like a hopeless kid walking through the forest with nothing but a box of tomatoes!" Fawful cackled, kicking Chopper in the face with his own boot.
"Oh, so THAT'S how you wanna play, huh? Well, I can be a bit tough myself!" Chopper struck Fawful with a flaming uppercut kick that made him crash into the ceiling. Chopper jumped up to Fawful and brought him down with a flaming slamming kick, causing him to crash to the floor.
"Get out of the way!" Tipral knocked Chopper to the ground and then snapped his finger while in the air, striking Fawful with Star Magic.
"Urk!" Fawful got himself up and stomped on Tipral's head. Although, Tipral managed to grab his foot and slam him to the ground instead. "Why is Fawful losing more fury as he has the combating?"
"Because you're outnumbered," Tipral bluntly stated, attempting to snap his finger until he got struck by a blast from Fawful's blaster.
Fawful cackled until Chopper tossed a fireball at him. "OUCH! MORE HOTNESS! The overheat strikes again!"
"Ugh… Fine. I'll finish it." as soon as Fawful came over to him, Chopper ended the fight by pushing him to the ground. "There. You happy now?"
"Nrrrgghhh…" Fawful moaned as the flames on him went out. Everyone looked down at the beanish person in disdain. "What has gotten into Fawful… Fawful did the fighting…but had the failing…"
"Well, the fight was basically five against one, so it would make sense that you would lose…" Tippi trailed.
"Fawful…urk…will have the…returning…soon!"
While Fawful didn't move, he just stayed there. He was certainly not knocked out, that's for sure.
But, while they looked down at him, Chopper suddenly felt himself getting glomped and kissed by Luvbi, who was now free from the bubble.
"Oh, Chopper, my sweet prince! I cannot believest that thou hast savest me!" Luvbi squealed.
"Ack! Get off me, Luvbi!" Chopper cried. The little Nimbi girl giggled as she got off Chopper, who quickly went back to his friends and shivered.
"Anyway, we ought to check what's up ahead," Sonic suggested. "I see a cloud over there."
The six walked over to the small cloud, who looked a bit different from other clouds. The eyebrows was what caught their attention for the most part.
"Hi there, I'm Crunchy! I'm a newborn cloud! Pleased to meetcha! I've got big dreams! Big ones! I wanna be the biggest cloud I can be! I heard about this one guy that got big by eating a Mushroom. That would be SO COOL!"
"Sounds like Mario to me…" Chopper trailed.
"If you find a big-making thing like that, give it to me!"
"Well, I think we DO have something we could give you. Show it to him, Chopper." Blade demanded.
"All right, here it is," Chopper pulled a Red Apple out. "I guess you could try this out for size."
"Will eating this make me big? COOOOOOOL! Then I'll try it!" Chopper tossed the Red Apple into Crunchy's mouth. "Chomp… Snark…"
After Crunchy finished the Red Apple, he grew bigger than any cloud they saw. It was like…a Super Springy Cloud!
"The narrator stole me line!" Blade pouted.
"I did it!" announced Crunchy. "Now I'm a big cloud… From now on, just call me 'Super Crunchy'! No more little bitty cloud for me! And I'm real bouncy, so hop on top!"
"All right! I bet this should take us high up!" Chopper smirked. "Now we can all… Wait, where's Tipral?"
Chopper turned around and, to his surprise, he saw him talking to Fawful. "Tipral! What are you doing?!"
Tipral heard Chopper's call and teleported over to him. "I just had to take care of a few things with that beam,"
"Suuure…" Chopper gave him a glare. "Anyway, we've gotta get going. I mean, what else can we do?"
"Poyo? (Go up?)"
"Exactly. We must go up."
They all jumped on top of Crunchy and were launched up to great heights. And by great heights, I mean off the planet.
"What…the heck?" Blade gawked as they were flying in outer space. "Did we just get launched into space?!"
"I bet we could see Squirps around here!" Chopper smiled, looking for Squirps. "No… I don't see him."
"Poyo! (Well there's no point when we're already going down!)" Kirby gawked as all five of them began to head straight down to the planet.
"Wait… The Overthere isn't a planet!" Chopper said before he fell face flat on a cloud. It was a soft landing.
When he got himself up, he was greeted by the sweet voice of Luvbi, who was fluttering right beside him.
"We art finally hither, my sweet prince! Just beyondeth that door is The Ovethere!" Luvbi smiled.
"Finally..." Chopper sighed, bringing his attention to the sign in front of him.
Here Endeth Stair 7
"What a relief," Sonic smiled as he walked over to the red door over by one of the Overthere buildings. "OK, guys! Let's get a move on!"
Everyone followed him through the door into a small area, but they all gaped as they saw the Star Block across the large gap.
"YES! We're FINALLY done!" Blade said happily. "No more climbing these stupid clouds!"
"You realize that if we fall, we'd have to make our whole way up here…" Tipral trailed.
"...Crud. You're right.
Chopper decided to take a look at the sign before him.
Here Endeth Overthere Stair
The Overthere Is Over There
"Ha ha ha... Very funny..." Blade groaned.
"I think those are some pretty good words," Chopper smiled, but his expression soon changed. "…But there's the problem with crossing over this gap."
"I'll handle this," Tipral used his teleportation powers to teleport him, Chopper, Kirby, Sonic and Blade over to the other side. Luvbi simply fluttered over to the group, since she doesn't need to teleport.
"Striketh the block and we'll be on our wayeth, my sweet prince!" demanded Luvbi. "Oh, I can't waiteth to showest thee to Father!"
"I'll be glad to find him..." Chopper trailed as he struck the Star Block ahead.
END OF CHAPTER
White clouds as far as the eye could see… Chopper and Co. had climbed through clouds and finally reached The Overthere. "Odd. No party springeth forth to welcome us," wondered Luvbi aloud. "Maybe they're at your father's place to surprise us," Chopper pondered. "It mattereth not. Father's shrine is just ahead, so we can walk there with ease." But they would not arrive at the shrine as easily as Luvbi predicted. Why not? Because something unexpected and dramatic was about to happen…
Once again, another chapter that I loved because of the humor. If you thought that Chapter 7-2 was funny, then you should've seen THIS! ...Though, I'm pretty sure there are some people out there that found that chapter funnier than this.
So... With all four reunited, we're finally going to The Overthere! And lemme tell you: It's going to be one heck of a chapter. Unlike in Super Paper Mario... There'll be some major changes that you probably may not have thought of.