Super Paper Chopper

by Mechanical Oven

After being lured into a trap by a party invitation, Chopper must save all worlds from a new group of foes from different dimensions and an old enemy. Can he and his friends save all worlds? Or will they be destined to be destroyed in a matter of time...

50. A Dark Magical Tale

CHAPTER 7-5

-A Dark Magical Tale-

At long last! Chopper and his friends had finally reached The Overthere! After such a long and annoying trip through Overthere Stair, they finally reached The Overthere. Blade kissed the ground...or rather, the cloud, relieved to be out of Overthere Stair. But… The others weren't exactly happy still, especially Chopper. They still had one person that they had to worry about, and that person was Luvbi.

"Wow… I have to admit, this is another one of those beautiful areas," Chopper remarked.

Luvbi fluttered to the front of the group and turned to them. "Soon we shall meet with my father, Grambi. Be thou on thy best behavior."

"Oh, we'll tell your father how much of a brat you've been to us…" Blade thought while grinding his teeth. "We'll tell him EVERYTHING about you throwing insults at us and being stuck-up..."

"So, this Grambi person is your father, right?" Chopper asked.

"Thou art correct. Grambi is my father and Jaydes is my mother."

"That's interesting..." Sonic remarked.

"Pray, listen… I fell ill once, and my father never left my bedside…" Luvbi trailed as she held her two wings together and closed her eyes. "They hath an overprotective side, verily, and I grow annoyed of it at times. But mayhap it is my own fault for being so cute. They cannot help it!"

"Uhh… Yeah, cool story…"

"Uh, yes, surely…" Tippi trailed. "In any case, perhaps we better go meet your father Grambi…"

Luvbi opened her eyes and looked at Chopper sweetly. "Pray, my sweet prince! Thou hast not answered this question! Dost thou verily think I am cute? I know thou art cute, but dost thou think I am?"

Chopper's eyes widened in fear as his cheeks turned red. "Well… I… Uhh… The answer to, uh…that is… I guess?"

"Hee hee!" Luvbi giggled. "Thou art making me blush, Chopper! I knewest that thou hast had a crush on me!"

"Wh-What?! I never said that!" Chopper gagged, backing away until he noticed a sign. "Hmmmm? What does this sign say?"

Welcome to The Overthere

"Poyo… (Well, it looks like they're welcoming any visitors to The Overthere…)" Kirby trailed.

"I tried, Kirby, but she just won't get off," Chopper frowned. He could feel his cheek being rubbed by Luvbi's, which started to make him nervous. "Could you please get off of me? You can do this all you want when we find your father."

"Hmmmm..." Tipral trailed, looking around the area.

"What are you looking for?" Tippi questioned.

"I remember that that brat said something about no Nimbis being around here. If there's nobody around this place, then that means there must be some sort of problem going on here…"

"Yeah, I think we better get going," Chopper suggested. "I mean, if no one's around, something isn't right!"

"Yea, thou art correct," Luvbi agreed. "I definitely dost not want yon Nimbis to be in danger!"

With that, Chopper took the time to look at the area. The sky was a lot different from before (well, I wouldn't say a lot, but it IS different). Instead of all of the blueness that they saw back in Overthere Stair, they could see the upper part of the sky being a light blue and the bottom part being a light yellow color. Why the sky is different from before, I don't know, but it doesn't make a difference. Also, there are some small little stars in the sky and small pillars with orbs on the cloud platforms.

"Well, this place looks pretty interesting! I suppose we could take a little stroll around here, don't you guys think so?" Chopper asked.

"Poyo! (I would love to go on a little stroll here!)" Kirby said cheerfully. "Poyo! (I'm actually looking forward to meeting this Grambi person too! We get to meet the actual God!)"

"Oh, yeah… We're going to be seeing God! The one that watches all games!" Chopper jumped across a couple of small cloudy platforms to a small little Overthere building where a Skellobit was settling.

"These monsters are here too?! Huh… Well I suppose they're going to have to suffer the same fate as its brothers." Tipral snapped his finger and the Skellobit was destroyed by his Star Magic.

"Sheesh! Why are these monsters roaming around this place?" Sonic questioned.

"Is this the reason why there aren't any of…uh, Nimbis around here?" Blade asked, scratching the back of his head before getting hit in the head by a Skellobomber's head. "What the…"

"Ya can't catch me!" the Skellobomber taunted, who was flying over a cliff. "Try to stomp on me an' yer gonna fall! I dare ya to try, wimps!"

"Oh yeah?" Blade threw a couple of shurikens at the Skellobomber. Not only did he drain its HP to 0, but he also managed to cut off its wings, sending it straight to his doom…into The Underwhere.

"Well that was interesting… Hopefully we don't have to deal with more of those guys over a cliff." Chopper sighed in relief and jumped onto the cloud that flew down to them.

However, as soon as they reached the cloud above them, they were surprised by a Skellobit and Spiky Skellobit. Chopper threw a couple of fireballs at the first one and defeated the Spiky Skellobit with his hammer.

"It's a good thing that I have fireballs and this hammer! Thank you very much, Cudge! You're great!"

"Thanks, kid!" Cudge smiled.

They walked over to another cloud that came floating toward the left for them and waited for it to take them over to another Overthere building. The red door they saw was locked, but they also saw a sign near the door.

Overthere Sector 1

"So, instead of the sign saying 'Here Endeth Stair 1' or 'Stair 1', it just says something like, 'Overthere Sector 1'?" Sonic questioned. "Kind of weird, if you ask me."

Luvbi fluttered over to the door, but stopped when she saw that it was locked. "Nay! I cannot accept the fact that this door is locked! Whoever is responsible for locking this door, I will findeth them and endeth them!"

"Calm down Luvbi!" Chopper pulled her away from the door. "There's no use in trying. All we need to do is find the key and maybe we'll be able to get through the door and find your father."

"Yea, that doth be true… Mayhap it is that monster who is attacking this place again… I heardeth that he was a weakling."

"Really? If that's the case, then we could bring him down easily!" Chopper smirked, waggling his finger. "I mean, he doesn't even stand a CHANCE against us if it's something we can easily beat!"

"Hold on, guys… I can see a ? Block below this cloud." Tipral stated, looking down at the edge of the cloud. "There's a door below this place, and it's not locked."

"Oh, well that's nice!" Chopper smiled as he jumped down onto the cloud. There were some small, thick Overthere pillars that were on this cloud as they landed. They jumped over one of them to get to the door.

"Well, let's head on in!" Chopper kicked the door open to walk into a smaller area. There was a sign right next to them, so he took a look at what it had to say.

Overthere Sector 2

"HEEEEEELP!" the first thing that they heard from coming into this area was a cry of an angel person. They saw two Skellobits torturing the person, but they couldn't see what the person looked like.

"Hwahwahwahwahwahwahwahwa!" the first Skellobit cackled. "Awww, what's da matter? Ya can't put up a fight?!"

"C'mon! Fight back, ya big wimp, ya!" the second Skellobit poked the angel with its spear. "We don't want to be torturin' people that can't even put up a fight! It makes it all too easy!"

"Hey! Leave that person be!" Chopper growled, getting in a fighting stance. The two Skellobits turned and noticed the five glaring at them (though, Tipral was ready to snap his finger).

"What in the world?! Who are YOU guys?! And what's your beef with us?!" the first Skellobit asked.

"What's our beef? You're attacking an innocent person! Lay your hands…er, spear off of him!" Sonic growled.

"Oh, I get it! Yer all a friend of the Nimbis, are ya?! Then ya must be an enemy to US!" the second Skellobit growled. "If yer here to fight us, then we're gonna give you one heck of a fight!"

"Thou will NEVER destroy The Overthere!" Luvbi shouted.

"Did somebody say something about 'destroying The Overthere'?"

"Pray, who was that? That doth sound like a voice I hath never heardeth of…" the Nimbi girl trailed.

The two Skellobits jumped up in fear as they noticed a being wearing black armor. His helmet had two horns on the upper side that pointed straight up to the sky and red glowing eyes that many Skellobits tend to fear. Even the Spiky Skellobits feared the red eyes! He also had black wings that would usually appear when he wanted to fly, and also carried a black and white sword that could help him defend himself and use his powerful undead magic.

"N-N-Necromancer?!" the two Skellobits shivered in fear at the sight of the Necromancer. "Wh-What on earth are you doin' here?!"

"I was just checking how the Nimbi was doing, that's all," the Necromancer continued to hover over the two Skellobits and the tortured Nimbi. Everyone instantly gaped at the sight of this armored being.

"Wait… I didst not see someone such as thee attack The Overthere! Where is Bonechill?!" Luvbi questioned.

"Bonechill? You mean that monster we saw in that prison I was trapped in? Oh, we brought him somewhere else. We're here for our revenge, that's all! …And for the Pure Heart!"

"Thou will NEVER findeth the Pure Heart! Thou WON'T!"

"Tsh! Like a little girl such as yourself is going to stop us… Do you realize who you're dealing with?! I'm the Necromancer! I can raise the dead!" the Necromancer raised his arms up two lightning bolts struck the cloud. Two more Skellobits rose from the cloud.

"Whoa..." Blade gaped.

"Surely these guys will distract you while I go find the Pure Hear myself! So long, fools!"

As the Necromancer flew away, the four Skellobits aimed their spears at the five. "All right, guys! We better listen to what the Necromancer had to say! Let's get 'em!"

The four Skellobits charged at the group with their spears. Chopper started off the fight by stomping on the Skellobit in front of him and then slamming his foot on it with a slamming kick. With his hammer, he put an end to the monster.

"Thou art such a brave knight, my sweet prince!" Luvbi swooned as she held her two wings together. Hearts flew over her head while her eyes were closed.

"Bah ha ha ha ha! Just look at that girl! She likes the kid! This is so hilarious!" the three remaining Skellobits began to burst in laughter. While they were distracted, Kirby inhaled one Skellobit and spat it at another.

"Poyo! (They're easily distracted!)" noted Kirby.

"I don't know what you just said, but I'll just say I agree with ya," Sonic grinned as he struck the Skellobit in front of him with a Homing Attack. Since Kirby weakened it, it made it easier to destroy.

"Hi-ya!" Blade struck down the next Skellobit with his katana. Because he could do more damage than the other four, he was able to destroy the Skellobit with only one hit.

"Man, these guys are seriously too easy!" Blade scoffed.

"Did that Necromancer honestly think we would lose to these guys?!" Tipral asked as he jumped in the air and finished the last Skellobit with a Star Spear. "There. All of the Skellobits are gone."

With that out of the way, they walked over to the Nimbi. What was strange was that its head kind of resembled a Pac-Man head, except the lower part of the head and upper part can be separated and flap about when talking.

"Th-Thou hast my gratitude… I know not who thou art, but thou didst save me…" the Nimbi wheezed.

"Gosh... Why does this guy look so different to Luvbi?" Chopper asked. "I thought Nimbis didn't have faces like that?"

"That flapping head is weird..." Blade trailed, slowly growing a grin. "Yet... It's kind of funny."

While the two discussed about how the Nimbi looked, Luvbi spoke up. "Pray, speak! What hast happened hither?"

"A pox, verily… Yon fell beasts and Necromancer hath come to invade The Overthere. They seek the Pure Heart… They need it, for they hath some plan most foul!"

Everyone stood in shock, for the exception of Tipral. "Yon beasts and Necromancer seek the Pure Heart! Foulness! Only Father knoweth the Pure Heart's resting place… Father is in danger, my sweet prince!"

Chopper frowned as the Nimbi spoke. "I yearn to hide, verily…but if thou seekest Grambi, thou shalt need to goest to…gulp…the Nimbis of bad talking…"

"The Nimbis of bad talking? What the heck are you talking about?" Sonic gawked.

"They hath moveth hither after being kicked out of their home," the Nimbi explained. "They liveth over by that door ahead. Their speaking is…verily horrible. Thou must trust me!"

"Well, if we need to go to those weirdos, then we pretty much have no choice," Chopper stated.

"Thou art so brave, my sweet prince!" Luvbi swooned. "I didst not know that you were this brave…my cute little knight in shining armor!"

"Ugh..."

"Well, if thou thinkest that thou canst get the key from those weirdo Nimbis, then maketh thy way over to that door ahead," the Nimbi suggested, returning to the main topic. "Hopefully thou comest back alive."

"Come back alive? That's ridiculous!" Tipral spat. "How could such pathetic creatures such as yourself possibly destroy us?! Aren't you 'Nimbi' beings harmless? You ARE angels, right?"

"How darest thou mocketh our kind!" Luvbi scoffed. "We art people of peace and art verily intelligent! …And I tendeth to look cute! Why wouldst thou scoff at our own kind?!"

"Oh, shut up. You're not any better than these people anyway."

"Hmph! That's just what thou sayest!" she huffed, sticking her nose up in the air. "Mayhap thou art any better either, monstrous being! All thou dost is copy the looks of my sweet prince and acteth all angry!"

Tipral wanted to snap his finger, but he lowered his arm and simply clenched his fist. "Bah! I don't need to waste my time with you! I'll just go to that door myself!"

He jumped over the Nimbi and made his way over to the red door ahead with his air shoes. Everyone else gawked as he entered the door.

"I doth wish I canst helpeth thee, but I cannot help more, but prithee, protect Grambi! Um… Farewell." the Nimbi fluttered out of Overthere Sector 2 while the heroes looked confused.

"Well, what art thou waiting for? We must findeth the key through the door!" Luvbi chirped, grabbing Chopper's hand. "Let us away, my sweet prince! I don't want to loseth thee!"

"Ack! Someone help me!" Chopper cried as he was dragged through the door.

"Poyo? (Are we going to help him?)" Kirby asked, only to receive a shrug from both Sonic and Blade, who had no idea what Kirby even said. Nevertheless, they followed the two through the door.

Upon entering through the door, they found a large area with a large cloud. There were a couple of Overthere buildings around, especially one, big building that almost looked like a city hall. There were even a couple of Nimbis fluttering around the clouds, speaking and minding their own business.

"Wait, why did that Nimbi say that this place is horrible?" Blade questioned, scratching his head in confusion.

"Honestly, I have no idea…" trailed Tippi. "They seem to be the same as the other Nimbis… I just don't get it…"

"Yeah! This is just weird!" Chopper gawked, while his hand was still in Luvbi's grasp. "Was is this, some sort of trick? Or was that Nimbi stupid? …Er, I don't think that's exactly a good word to say."

"Personally, that word works perfectly," Tipral stated with his arms folded.

"Well, thou must trust me. These Nimbis art strange. Try talking to one of them and thou will knowest." Luvbi still refused to let go of Chopper's hand, even when he told her to let go.

"Fine. I guess I'll have to move around myself, even with you holding my hand." Chopper frowned. He noticed two Nimbis speaking. One had a red body with a P on it, and the other had a light blue body with a T on it.

"Say, Tillip, don't you think that group of people is a bit…strange?" Pherrance, the one with the red body asked.

"Hold on, Pherrance! I've got a good joke!" Tillip fluttered over to Luvbi and Chopper. "Say, fwiend! Pull my finger!"

"But thou dost not have fingers," Luvbi pointed out. Tillip's eyes widened as he turned to his buddy, Pherrance.

"SHE'S ONTO US, TILLIP!"

"WHAT?!"

"I SAID SHE'S ONTO US!"

"DID YOU SAY YOU HAD TO FART, BUDDEH?!"

"NO I…" Tillip felt gas coming from his rear. He and Pherrance began to laugh hysterically as the others looked at them in bewilderment.

"What was that?" Chopper asked. "It sounded like what O'Chunks did..."

Tipral rudely walked up to the two Nimbis. "Listen here, you fools. We haven't come here to have you entertain us! We're looking for a key that can take us to Grambi's shrine!"

"King Grambi? Oh… That's not gonna be easy." Pherrance shook his head. "Getting there can be difficult, buddeh."

"Don't ever call me 'buddy'," Tipral clenched his fist in anger. "I'm not the kind of person you want to refer to that as…"

"Yeah, maybe you shouldn't speak to him. He's too sour." Chopper stated. "Like a lemon..."

"Don't compare me to a fruit..."

"You mean he's a hick?" Tillip asked.

"What's this?! Outsiders?!"

"And speaking of the hick! Strott's coming here!" Pherrance warned. The group gawked as a Nimbi with a lemon-shaped head walked over to them with an angry look. He also took a look at the two Nimbis.

"Who do you think you people are, invading our little home like this?!" exclaimed Strott as he pointed at Chopper and Luvbi. "You think you can get away with this?! Well I don't think so! I'm going to report you guys to the leader of the WNA!"

"Leader of the WNA?" Tippi gawked.

"Yea, verily. They hath never gotten along with us…" Luvbi groaned.

"Well, all we want is the key so we can get to Grambi's shrine," Chopper explained.

"Grambi? You mean that pathetic little king? I remember seeing his servants! One time one of them tried to stop me from going to see him 'cause I wanted to complain to him about why I'm being called a hick!"

"It's because you ARE a hick!" Pherrance stated.

"Urrgh!" Strott growled at the two and turned to the six. "You haven't seen the last of me, you stupid outsiders! I'll be back, and I'll make sure that you all suffer for what you've done!"

After Strott left, Chopper looked confused. "Who the heck was THAT guy?"

"That guy? That's Strott! He's the biggest hick that you'll ever meet." Tillip explained.

"Huh?"

"Yeah! Everyone and their grandmother knows that he's the biggest hick in The Overthere!" Pherrance said. "That's why no one likes being around him!"

"He doesn't sound like a very good guy..." Blade trailed.

"Yeah, I hear ya," Sonic agreed. "Maybe we should help these Nimbis out."

"I couldn't care less about helping those Nimbis," Tipral stated with his angry look. "All I really care about is trying to get to my castle and put and end to that pathetic excuse of a clown! I will make sure his death is gruesome…"

"We're not there yet, Tipral… It would be best to find the Pure Heart at this point… Worry about him later…" suggested Tippi.

"Just take the pathway up ahead and you'll be over at the city hall. …And be careful with our leader, too. He can be…a bit of a hick too. But the one you probably want to worreh the most aboot is Strott. He's even a bigger hick!" Pherrance explained.

"Well, we'll remember that," Luvbi said as she dragged Chopper over to the city hall. "This place may not be the greatest… But once we art where we shouldst be, romance shalt be in the air!"

Chopper's eyes widened in fear. "I don't like the sound of that..."

"Poyo, (I hope there's plenty of food," Kirby remarked, licking his lips. "Poyo! (I could sure use some food!)"

The heroes made their way toward the city hall, while Tipral crossed his arms and teleported there himself.

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City hall, front steps-

"Wait… How'd you get here, Tipral?" Chopper gawked as he reached the front door.

"Don't you realize that I have the ability to teleport?" Tipral asked. Chopper pondered and nodded. "Good. So now we can finally go to that leader and swipe the key from his wings, right?"

"I don't think it's going to be that easy. I mean, if you're going to be acting all grumpy toward him, I highly doubt that we're gonna get anywhere." Chopper paused when he saw Tipral's fist clenching at him. "Hey! I'm just speaking the truth! And when are you EVER going to smile!"

"Don't ask. It's none of your business."

Sonic managed to make his way up the stairs with the other two. "Well, you managed to get here quicker than us. I didn't know you were THAT fast..."

"I teleported here, blue hedgehog. That's much faster." Tipral proclaimed. "Probably nothing you're into."

"I think I might've before... But Shadow tends to do that for the most part..."

"Well, since we're already here, we might as well head on in," Blade stepped up to the door and opened it. All six of them hurried into the building and noticed that they were in a large room with a couple of Nimbis wearing suits listening to a Nimbi up on the stand. The Nimbi had brown hair and was wearing a black suit, if you wanted to know.

"My fellow Nimbis," the Nimbi began. "It is time that we went on strike! We've always been the butt of all of those…hicky Nimbis that live over by the other side of The Overthere! I think now's the time we brought that to an end!"

"So, what do you plan on doing? Are you going to find some Nimbis and warn them aboot this strike?" a Nimbi asked.

"Why of course I am!" stated the Nimbi on the stand. "One of you guys are going to have to go find some Nimbis and bring them over here! I don't care who they are! Just find them and bring 'em here!"

"We'll get onto that!" a couple of Nimbis stood up and fluttered out of the room.

"Pray, speakest to me now!" Luvbi barked, glaring at the Nimbi at the podium. "What doth be the meaning of this?"

"Oh, no… Not the bratty princess! Everyone hide!" All of the Nimbis got under their seats as they screamed.

"Sheesh! What's wrong with these guys?" Chopper asked. "They're suddenly afraid of this girl… I mean, I have it worse with her!"

The six walked over to the Nimbi on the stand. "Who do you think you people are, barging into the city hall like this?! Are you spies of those hicky Nimbis? Explain to me NOW!"

"We never knew you guys were here anyway…" trailed Tippi, while the others shook their heads in response to Dabootman's question. "All we were wondering is if we could get the key that you have to allow us to help the Nimbis in danger of the monsters."

"Oh. Those people? Well, how about…no! Why do they deserve to get help when we're the ones in desperate help?! We've tried to fit in, but we've been ignored every single time by those people!"

"Thou art ridiculous! Why wouldst we ignoreth thee? Yon people art only fearing our native tongue!" Luvbi frowned.

"And who are you anyway? I mean, why would you be this stubborn when people are in trouble?" Chopper clenched his fists as he glared at the Nimbi.

"I'm Gridge Dabootman! I'm the leader of the WNA!"

"And who made you leader?" Blade asked.

"Why, the people did! It was…uh… The vote was unanimous! They all voted for me and I became their leader! You think that it's funneh, but I think it's awesome! But we're still not giving you the key."

"Well this guy sure is stubborn..."

"Mr. Dabootman! Mr. Dabootman! We found a couple of Nimbis!" a couple of Nimbis in suits came back into the city hall with a couple of Old English Nimbis in handcuffs to prevent them from escaping.

"Pray, what art thou going to do with us?!" one Nimbi cried.

"Hey! What are you doing to those poor Nimbis?!" Chopper exclaimed, aiming a fireball straight at Dabootman. "Let them go, or else I'm going to have to burn this city hall down with fire!"

"Oh, yeah… I almost forgot." Dabootman remembered. "Apparently you guys are on their side if you're going to help them and not us… Guards! Get those handcuffs on them!"

The Nimbi guards quickly put handcuffs on them. However, the only ones who didn't appear to have handcuffs were Chopper and Tipral.

"Mr. Dabootman, we are one short," informed one guard.

"Well... Then they'll have to share!"

"What?!" Tipral exclaimed, seeing the Nimbi guard approach him. To prevent him from putting it on, he punched his face and knocked him to the floor unconscious. "I don't think so... I'd never share something with someone I hate."

Realizing it wasn't a good idea to get on Tipral's bad side, the other guard put the handcuffs on Chopper instead.

"Take these guys over to our meeting room," suggested Dabootman. "I say we take some time to interrogate them…er, I mean tell them what we want! Yeah… That's what we're really trying to do."

The remaining guards escorted the heroes and the Nimbis into the meeting room. Tipral decided to follow, knowing that it was the only thing he could do at the moment.

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Meeting room-

"So, when thou sayests thou art on strike, what dost thou mean?" a female Nimbi asked as they were around the long rectangular table. Across from them was Dabootman and two Nimbis in suits. One was in a blue suit and the other was in a brown one. He even has a small, French, brown mustache!

"What do you think it means?! We're striking, buddeh! No more! That's it! Until we get what we want!" Dabootman declared.

"But… Who art thou to authorize this…strike?" a male Nimbi asked.

"The name's Gridge Dabootman! Leader of the WNA!"

"The WNA?"

"Yes!" Dabootman crossed his wings. "I am the leader of the World Nimbi Association!"

"What's that supposed to mean?" Chopper asked.

"Hey! Did I ever authorize you to speak?! NO! I didn't tell you you could interrupt me!"

"Sorry... I was just pointing something out..."

"Well, what exactly dost thou want?" a female Nimbi asked.

Dabootman placed his wings on the table and looked straight at the Nimbis.

"We want… More moneh!"

"Yeah, more moneh!" one of Dabootman's Nimbis cheered.

"More money? Is this some sort of joke?!" Tipral growled, his hands glowing in a purple aura. "You guys go on strike and all you ask for is MONEY?!"

"More money from where?" a female Nimbi asked, ignoring what Tipral was saying, making him angrily frown.

"Just more moneh! You know, we don't get enough moneh!" Dabootman stated. "You guys and many other kinds of angels have some hard-earned moneh! We want… We want some of that moneh!"

"Oh, brother…" Luvbi groaned.

That's when it hit Dabootman. "How… How about…the Internet! Yes! The internet always makes a lot of moneh! So, how about you give us THAT kind of moneh?"

"Yeah! Give us internet moneh!"

"These guys are stupider than I thought," Tipral murmured angrily.

"Well, there's not much we can do about it," Chopper murmured.

"If this Nimbi is an idiot, then, well, he's an idiot," Sonic whispered. "Hopefully he understands what's going on and ends all of this."

"Uh… Mr. Dabootman… Thou dost not seemeth to understand how things worketh around hither." Another male Nimbi said. "Mayhap thou shouldst listen to us about this… I thi-"

"Don't give me that mouth-flapping!" Dabootman snapped, giving them all a glare. "So are ya going to give us more moneh or not?!"

"Thou dost not understand, foul Nimbi," Luvbi said while glaring at the Nimbi WNA leader. "We dost not have ANY money, for we art only angels! Plus, asking for money is verily a stupid thing…"

"Well then… You leave us with no choice…" Dabootman gestured his other Nimbis to take the Old English Nimbis and Chopper, Luvbi, Kirby, Sonic, Blade and Tipral out of the city hall, where they took the handcuffs off them. "The strike shall continue!"

With that, the door slammed shut from behind.

"Poyo? (So there's no way we're going to be getting that key?)" Kirby asked, crossing his arms. "Poyo! (This isn't right at all! Why would this…selfish Nimbi refuse to give us the stupid key?!)"

"Pray, art thou trying to helpest them?" a female Nimbi asked.

"We'd LIKE to give them a hand with their problem, but we also need to save your kind from those monsters," Chopper explained. "Do you know what's going on over there? That could give us an idea."

"Nay, we hast not seen what was going on thither," a male Nimbi shook his head. "We only escaped from those wretched monsters. Thou needest the key to saveth the rest of them."

"We doth intend to savest them. Well, my sweet prince and his servants will savest them!" Luvbi assured.

"I can't wait to go to Grambi's shrine so we can finally get rid of you..." Chopper sighed as he made his way down the stairs, only to meet up with Pherrance and Tillip.

"Hey, buddehs!" Pherrance greeted them. "So, have ya gotten the key from Dabootman?"

"No. That stupid Nimbi was a bit too stubborn to give us the key." Blade shook his head. "That guy is a real jerk!"

"Well, then… Maybe you'll be pleased with this!" Tillip pulled a Door Key out. "We managed to sneak into the city hall and grab this for you guys, since we knew that Dabootman wouldn't give you it."

He gave the key to Chopper. "Whoa… I didn't know that you guys had it in you to steal that key from him. Aren't you going to get in trouble for that, though?" Sonic asked.

"Oh, don't worry about that! We're good at making excuses!" Pherrance farted all of the sudden and they began to laugh hysterically. "But seriously. Get out of here before Dabootman comes back out."

"Good idea," Chopper nodded and zipped toward the red door, along with his friends. The Old English Nimbis left before Dabootman could come out with a couple of other Nimbis on his side with signs.

"All right, guys! I think now's the time we got started with our strike!" Dabootman looked over at Pherrance and Tillip. "You two! Come and help us with this strike by holding these signs up!"

Dabootman held up a sign that read, "It's Aboot Respect!", grabbed a megaphone and began to chant, "One! Two! Three! Four! We Nimbis deserve more moneh!"

"Look, buddeh, we don't care about this," Pherrance shook his head. "We'd rather go home and watch TV! …Or maybe even play a little fart song with our behinds!"

"Go home? Ya can't leave now, you two! Ya gotta help!"

"But there's no real point for this strike! I mean, all you want is moneh? What for? Those Nimbis don't have any moneh! Plus, they're under attack by evil monsters that came from The Underwhere!"

"Forget those guys!" Dabootman shouted. "Look guy, you have to stay strong! If you don't stand with your fellow Nimbis, then you are a RAT!"

Pherrance glared at Dabootman. "Don't call me a rat, buddeh!"

"I'm not your buddeh, fwiend!" Dabootman shouted.

"He's not your fwiend, guy!" Tillip stepped in.

"I'm not your guy, buddeh!"

"He's not your buddeh, fwiend!" Pherrance defended.

"I'm not your fwiend, guy!" all three of them stopped. "Don't you two understand anything? You think this strike is a joke? You think it's something to ridicule?"

"Yeah, you think this is funneh?!" one Nimbi asked.

"Don't you see we have to stand together or else we have nothing? ...But, anyway… I need my key. For some reason, it's gone missing. Do you guys know where it could be, by any chance?"

"Well…" After Tillip farted and laughed hysterically with Pherrance, he gave him a happy look. "Oh, we gave it to those people we saw earlier! They're going to go help the Nimbis in need of help!"

"WHAT?!"

---

Overthere Sector 2-

"Whew… We finally got out of that mess, that's for sure." Chopper said, sighing in relief as he put the key away. "Now we can rescue all of those Nimbis in danger! Hopefully we're not too late…"

"We will stay hither," a female Nimbi stated. "We believest that the monster won't come hither."

"Fine, go ahead and hide, cowards," Tipral grumbled as the Nimbis left the area. All that was left were the six.

"So, my prince… Shall we get started?" Luvbi asked sweetly.

Chopper looked over to the left. He noticed there was still some other more clouds to explore ahead. "I see a couple of those Skellobits ahead there… Maybe we ought to see what's going on over there?"

They jumped over the gap and landed on a thick, short Overthere pillar. A Skellobomber was dropping a Spiky Skellobait to the cloudy ground, but it didn't affect them due to being on the pillar.

"Oh, this is easy!" Chopper tossed a fireball straight at the Skellobit, burning it and then knocking it to the ground, finishing it with one stomp. He also tossed a fireball at the Spiky Skellobait.

They jumped over to the next cloud afterward, where Tipral destroyed the other Skellobomber using his Star Magic attack. Blade finished off a Skellobit on the ground with his katana and blew up a green Cursya with Hommissile.

"These guys are starting to become a cakewalk!" Sonic chuckled, striking the Skellobomber by the cloud above them with a Spin Jump and then a Homing Attack.

"Crud… How do we get up there?" Blade asked.

"I can taketh my prince up!" Luvbi giggled, grabbing Chopper and carrying him up to the cloud above them. "Thou doth seemeth to feel so light!"

"Well, I pretty much am…" Chopper squeaked, getting out of Luvbi's grasps and coming across an enemy with a cape. "Oh! There we go! There's another one of these enemies that give me my Hi-Jump ability!"

Chopper inhaled the enemy and gained his Hi-Jump ability again. As soon as Tipral teleported Sonic and Blade up the cloud (Kirby floated up to it), Chipper used his Hi-Jump ability to jump up to the next cloud.

However, he hit two ? Blocks on his way up to the next cloud. One of them had a Super Shroom, but the other one, to their surprise, had a Ghoul Shroom pop out.

"What is THAT hideous thing?" Luvbi asked.

"It's a Ghoul Shroom…" Tippi trailed. "It's even more dangerous than a Zombie Shroom…"

"And I want it GONE!" Chopper slammed his hammer on the Ghoul Shroom to destroy it with one hit. He then grabbed the Super Shroom afterward and split it into five pieces, giving it to the others as they made it up to the same cloud.

"Poyo… (This place is so weird… Why are there Ghoul Shrooms roaming around here?)" Kirby asked.

"I honestly don't have a clue," Chopper was interrupted by a Skellobit head that struck him in the head. He looked up and saw a Skellobomber dropping another head.

"So THAT'S how you wanna play, huh? Well I can play differently!" Chopper launched himself up with his Hi-Jump ability and sent the Skellobomber to his doom after landing on the cloud above.

"Wherever this leads us, it must be some sort of secret area," Tipral stated as he teleported up. They came across a cloud platform to their left with a Spiky Skellobit that Tipral took care of, and then jumped up two more clouds to find an Overthere building.

"What the… I see someone here!" Chopper gaped, pointing to someone who was being corrupted in darkness. It looked like this being had purple, glowing eyes and a freaky-looking purple mouth.

Luvbi gasped. "This… This doth not seem to be something Bonechil wouldst do… This must be someone else's work!"

"Huh… So there's someone who's been transformed into some sort of dark demon?" Tipral looked at the monster, noticing that it wasn't causing any harm. "Little do you guys know that I can reverse this curse."

"You can do that?" Tippi gawked.

"How's that even possible?" Blade asked.

"Just watch," Tipral's eyes flashed as he snapped his finger. Star lightning struck the strange, cursed being, lifting the curse off of the person. No longer was this person a dark demon, but a Nimbi with a yellow head, a black mustache and a blue robe.

"Oh, thank thee! It is as though thou hast brought me back to life!" the Nimbi thanked before looking at himself and his surroundings.

"Hold a moment… What am I doing hither?! WHO AM I?! WHERE AM I?! Do I have…AMNESIA? Ah, what to do!"

"Poyo? (You don't know who you are?)" Kirby gawked.

"WHERE AM I?! WHEN IS IT?! Oh, it is futile… I have no idea who I am. None at all! What shall I do?!" the Nimbi cried.

"Forget it. It's best that we come back to him another time." Tipral stated. "For now, we should go back to that locked door. I don't like being in this sector, now that I've seen those Nimbis…"

---

Overthere Sector 1, locked door-

"Well, here we go!" Chopper pulled the key out and unlocked the door with it, allowing them to enter through the next area. They found another small pillar in front of them, but found a sign next to a locked door past it.

Overthere Sector 3

"Poyo! (I hope we're not too late!)" Kirby chirped as he floated over the small gap and over to another Overthere building. They followed him over to a small cloudy platform where a Skellobit was roaming around.

Kirby got on Carrie and finished the Skellobit by jumping on it. After crossing a large gap, they came across a female Nimbi named Fallbi who was looking sad by a cursed Nimbi named Novbi.

"Huh…? Another Nimbi girl?" Chopper gawked.

"Art thou falling for another girl?!" Luvbi frowned.

"What?! I just said there's a Nimbi girl here! It's not a big deal!" Chopper removed his Hi-Jump ability, no longer needing it and spoke to Fallbi.

"Sniff… Oh, woe is meeee… My darling man hath been cursed by evil monsters!" Fallbi sniffled. "I need him so… I am Fallbi, a helpless kitten compared to them! Oh, what shall I do?"

"Maybe you should stop crying," Tipral growled.

"Thou! Art thou a kitten too, or art thou a grand lion? Prithee, lion, help mine man!"

"I'm actually a cat..." Blade trailed.

"She wasn't talking to you, Blade," Sonic noted.

"I think she meant all of us..."

"Poyo! (Guys!)"

"Me? Help someone you love? I consider that to be a waste of my own time! Do you realize that staying with that cursed angel will only get you cursed?" Tipral snapped his finger, lifting the curse off of Novbi. "There. I lifted the curse off of him. You happy now?"

"Unnghh…" Novbi moaned as he slowly got himself up. Fallbi gaped at his return.

"Darling dear!"

"Fair Fallbi!"

"...Huh?" Chopper gawked.

"They doth be in love," Luvbi remarked, giving Chopper a smile. "Just like we art."

"...But I'm not in love with you."

"Sniff… Thank heavens… Yon people helped thee." Fallbi said, pointing a wing at the five.

"Thou hast my thanks, yea," Novbi thanked. "Pray, allow me to do something in return."

Fallbi's eyes lit up. "Yea, verily, darling dear! Perhaps if thou wouldst move the thou-knowest-what?"

"Yea! The thou-knowest-what!" agreed Novbi. "Fair Fallbi, thou art so clever as thou art adorable!"

Fallbi blushed shyly. "Oh, darling dear… 'Tis true, but how thou goest on! Let us away!"

Novbi watched his girlfriend flutter on ahead back to the Overthere building. "Ah! Pray, wait, my lovely Fallbi fair!"

"The thou-knowest-what? Doth it be what I thinkest?" Luvbi wondered. All Blade could do was grumble to himself before following his friends back to the Overthere building.

They saw that Novbi was waiting for them at the Overthere building. "Sorry to makest thee wait. Behold the Overvator! It transporteth Nimbis upward. I owe thee for thine help. I operate yon lift. Prithee, let me giveth thee a ride. Goest thou up?

"Ummmmmmmmm… Yea?" Chopper sweat dropped, attempting to imitate their kind of accent.

"Goooooooing UP!" All six gawked as they noticed some small little computers. Suddenly, the Overvator was surrounded by some sort of rainbow light as it began to move up.

"That sound… It reminds me of the sound I hear when I strike a Star Block!" Chopper gaped.

"Poyo! (Yeah! It really does remind me of those!)" Kirby agreed.

"And yea, hither we are!" Novbi announced as they reached the upper cloud. Thank thee for using the Overvator!"

"Well I guess that helped," Tipral stated as he jumped off the Overvator. He lifted some curses off a couple of Nimbis that were cursed before entering the door up ahead.

They all came across a large, Overthere building, but they seem to notice a lot of Nimbis cursed by some evil, dark magic. "Holy crap! Whoever caused all of this must REALLY want the Pure Heart badly!" Blade gaped.

"Don't all villains want something and will do anything to get it?" Sonic questioned.

"Maybe… But, now's not the time. Tipral, lift the curses off of these people. It'll make them like you a bit." Chopper suggested.

"Tsh! Fine… I'll do it!" Tipral lifted the curses off of all of the Nimbis around. They all thanked him in their Nimbian accent, making him a bit more annoyed. However, the last Nimbi he lifted the curse off was a bit different.

"That's a weird Nimbi…" Blade trailed. They all saw that this Nimbi had a yellow, oval-shaped head, a small, white beard, glasses, a white robe, and a couple of heart-shaped wings like that other Nimbi they found.

"Whoa! Thank thee all for thine help!" the Nimbi thanked, sighing in relief. "My given name is Whibbi! I owe thee five for that one! Thou art all super!"

"You're welcome, sir," Chopper smiled. "You can simply thank Tipral for that…although he's a bit of a grump."

He was able to react just in time to block Tipral's punch. "Urgh… Very clever…" he growled.

"Whibbi! Speakest of my father!" Luvbi demanded. "How doth he fare?!"

Whibbi sighed and looked down at the ground in shame. "I am sorry, Luvbi… I could not stop yon beasts from entering Grambi's shrine. But, thou still hast a chance! Thou all needest to cross the rainbow bridge to get to Grambi's shrine!"

"That's it? That's pretty easy!" Chopper smiled. "Well, let's get going then!"

"I don't think so!" the Necromancer from before flew over the rainbow bridge up ahead. All five took notice of him and got in their fighting stances. They all even shouted "YOU!" at him!

"What hast thou done to my father?!" Luvbi exclaimed, giving the Necromancer a death glare.

"Oh, calm down already. We didn't do anything to him! …Yet." the Necromancer grinned under his black helmet. "I didn't expect you guys to lose to those guys, but whatever. You made it here, so congratulations."

"Then you'll let us go on through, right?" Sonic asked.

"Pfffffffft! Of course not! The reason why I came out here was to see if you made it here or not! Well, apparently you did, so I'm probably going to need to change things up a bit…starting with this bridge!"

The Necromancer fired white lightning down at the rainbow bridge, destroying it. "Hope you enjoy being stranded around here, losers! This is the last time you're ever going to see your father!"

As he cackled, he flew over to the red door and headed through. All Luvbi could do was gasp in horror.

"No… The bridge is gone!" Luvbi sniffled. "Now how art we going to get to Father? This is horrible…"

Chopper walked over to the Nimbi girl. "There there, Luvbi. Don't cry like that. I know crying is not a bad thing, but I don't think now's the best time to do it."

Luvbi blushed at her prince as he patted her bun of hair. "Oh, thank thee, my sweet prince. Thou art so kind."

"Oh, dear… Without the bridge, help cannot reach Grambi…" Whibbi sighed sadly as he looked down at the ground again. "Oh, I wish there was some way that we could savest him…"

"And you don't have an idea?" Blade asked.

"…! Wait! I doth remember something!" Whibbi said as a red ! flashed over his head. "To rebuild the bridge, thou must find Rebbi, Blubi, and Yebbi,and get their three orbs. Once thou hast them all, we can rebuild the bridge. Taketh this, and findeth the others… I beg of thee… Thou must help…"

Whibbi handed Chopper a Door Key, who put it away.

"All right, then!" Sonic smirked, snapping his finger. "You're telling us we need to find three Nimbis and get their orbs? That sounds like a piece of cake! Come on, guys! I think we ought to go find it!"

Sonic ran on back to Overthere Sector 3, with Chopper and the rest of his friends following him as well.

---

Overthere Sector X-

It seemed a bit strange, but the Nimbis that were going on strike all looked as if they were all exhausted after about thirty minutes of the strike. They all felt cold and they were sitting around a fire.

"You know, I don't know how this is possible, but we somehow managed to turn to this after thirty minutes of striking?" a Nimbi asked.

"Oh, come on! We can't give up now!" Dabootman shouted. "We just need to wait for that antennae kid, his girlfwiend, and the rest of his fwiends to come back here with a couple of Nimbis that are willing to give us some moneh!"

"Look, Gridge, Pherrance and I were talking, and… Well it's… It's starting to look like maybe were not gonna win this thing, ya know?" Tillip stated. "Plus, why can't we all just entertain ourselves with a little farts?"

"We'll win! We just have to stay resilient!" Dabootman retorted.

"Well, yeah… But everyone is hungry, and it's getting a little cold. We were standing here for hours!"

"Uh, actually, we've been out here for thirty minutes…" Ugly Joe trailed.

"Nobody asked you, Ugly Joe!"

"But, yeah, why don't we just give this up, guy?" suggested Pherrance.

"Don't call me your guy!" Dabootman snapped. "I'm not your guy, fwiend!"

"I'm not your fwiend, buddeh!"

"I'm not your buddeh, guy!"

"Wait… There's gotta be a better way to settle this instead of some sort of strike…" Ugly Joe pondered. "Why don't we just go see Grambi ourselves?"

"Hmmmmm… You make an excellent point! We'll march straight over to King Grambi and tell him that we want our moneh!" Dabootman declared. "Everyone grab your torches and pitchforks!"

"Wait… What?!" Pherrance gasped. "But why would you do something like that?"

"Hey! If we're going to have an angry mob, we need pitchforks and torches! According to all angry mobs, you need to have those things with ya! So… Go get ready! I'm not waiting all day for you two!"

"But… But…" Tillip stammered as he let out a long fart. He and Pherrance began to laugh hysterically. "Oh, excuse me! Now that sure was a big one!"

Pherrance and Tillip fluttered back over to their house, hoping to find a way to end all of this…but they also looked up a couple of stuff about how much money they have on this strike.

"It's a good idea to see how we're doing because of this," Pherrance stated.

"It sure is!" Tillip agreed before farting once again.

---

Overthere Sector 2, over by the Nimbi with amnesia-

"WHERE AM I?! WHEN IS IT?!" the Nimbi known as Blubi exclaimed once again until he remembered something.

"Hmmmmm? Is he starting to remember?" Chopper asked.

"Pray, I doth hope he is…" Luvbi trailed.

"Hold a moment… I remember… I am… I am Blubi!" Blubi announced as everyone else gave him a blank look.

"Finally, thou snappest out of it, eh, Dumbi?" Luvbi asked. "We hasten to yonder shrine to help Grambi, so givest thy blue orb."

"What?! Oh, indeed, I see… Fell beasts and Necromancer hath been freed from The Underwhere by someone and hath attacked hither…"

"…Why do so many of these guys speak in such weird accents?" Blade whispered.

"Just don't worry about it…" Sonic whispered back.

"So… Could you give us the orb already?" Chopper asked. "I don't feel very comfortable being around this area. You know, with those other Nimbis around here and stuff…"

"Mayhap… Perhaps I shall. But Grambi is in danger? If thou art speaking the truth, then takest it, hero."

Smiling, Chopper had taken the Blue Orb from the Nimbi and put it away.

"I cannot linger hither!" Blubi declared. "I must go see what is happening. Farewell, Luvbi and yon heroes!"

With that, Blubi had flown away from the group.

"All right! One down, two more to go!" Sonic grinned. "This may not be too bad if it's like this!"

---

Overthere Sector 3, by the locked door-

"All right! Since we have the key we need to go through here, we might as well unlock it." Chopper pulled the Door Key out and unlocked it, allowing them to go to the next sector.

"Hey! There's another Overvator! …Except this one has a red ! Block instead!" Blade gawked.

"I suppose it works differently than the other."

As soon as they all got on the Overvator, Tipral struck the block with his fist. Once again, another rainbow-colored light surrounded the Overvator as it moved to the right.

"Poyo… (Such a nice sound…)" Kirby sighed.

After crossing over to the next cloud, they saw another large Overthere building with a red door, but there were also a couple of Skellobits roaming around. Chopper noticed a door behind as well.

"Don't suppose we should check what's through that door?" he asked.

"I don't think it's a bad idea…" Tippi trailed.

"Then we're flipping!" Chopper threw his arms up and flipped into 3-D with the rest of the group. The scary thing was that there were more Skellobits in 3-D than in 2-D. But, nevertheless, they walked through the red door behind the building.

After jumping over a small pillar, they came across a sign and also a large gap that led over to another cloud with an Ovethere building. Apparently, there was a fight going on there.

Overthere Sector 7

"Whoa! We gotta go help that guy over there!" Chopper shouted, attempting to jump, but was grabbed by Luvbi instead.

"Thou art only going to fall, my sweet prince!" Luvbi said sweetly. "I will taketh thee over to the other side!"

She flew him over to the other side, while the others were forced to make it over to the cloud themselves. But, when they got over to the cloud…

"TAKETH THAT!"

Everyone had been nearly startled when a Skellobit was knocked away and destroyed before their very eyes. Over by a building was a Nimbi with a yellow, oval-shaped head, lightning bolt-shaped brown hair, a brown mustache and a red robe that fluttered over to the group. He appeared to be a bit exhausted from his battle so far.

"They come without pause… Hm… Against such an assault, I cannot hope to last…" the Nimbi wheezed, but took notice of the four heroes and Tipral. "Huh? Reinforcements? At last! My strength hath reached its end… Please… Thou must finish them!"

"What are you talking about?" Sonic asked.

"Yon beasts… They art attacking…" the Nimbi wheezed. "Over there… They're coming…"

"Oh, that sounds easy!" Sonic curled up in a ball and performed a Spin Dash against the charging Skellobits. Tipral finished them off with a Star Burst as soon as they got close to him.

"That was too easy!" Tipral scoffed.

"The foul beasts are no more…" the Nimbi smiled. "I am Rebbi! Thou hast saved me! I owe thee thanks."

However, before they could celebrate, Luvbi fluttered over to Rebbi. "Rebbi! Grambi is in trouble! Hast thou the red orb?"

"Luvbi… The three orbs are not things to be given away lightly! And yet…these are dire times, are they not?" Rebbi turned to the group of heroes. "And I owe thee a big debt. Here, I give it to thee!"

Rebbi gave the Red Orb to Chopper. "I will got thither and check on the others. If thou survivest, let us meet again!"

As Rebbi fluttered away, Chopper sweat dropped. "'If thou survivest'? What? He thinks we're actually going to die or something?"

"I don't think he means it like that…" Tippi trailed.

"It doth not matter! We must away as well!" Luvbi stated.

"Well, then I suppose we should… Wait, I see something below this cloud." Blade pointed to a large chest below them. "Maybe… Maybe it could be another Pixl! …Or an upgrade!"

"A large chest? I don't think there'll be anything useful in there!" Tipral spat.

"Well, it's probably best that we check," Chopper suggested, jumping down onto the cloud. Everyone else followed him down, including Luvbi and helped him open the large chest.

"Poyo! (I can't wait for another ability!)" Kirby said cheerfully.

"I hope it's a cool one!" Sonic grinned.

"TA-DAAAAAAAH!"

"Awesome! It's a… Wait, what the heck?" Chopper gawked upon hearing the voice. A Nimbi fluttered out of the chest, to their confusion.

"Another miraculous escape, mine esteemed Nimbis!" declared the Nimbi. "This treasure chest contains a treasure most valuable…me!"

"Treasure? There's TREASURE in the thing?!" Blade gaped.

"Pray… What art thou doing in there?" Luvbi asked. "Dost thou not know that The Overthere hath been overrun by a Necromancer and beasts most foul?"

"I was practicing my escape act and I got stuck… Wait… AN EVIL NECROMANCER AND BEASTS MOST FOUL?" the Nimbi almost suffered a heart attack.

"Oh, geez… Not this kind of stuff…" Chopper groaned, smacking his forehead. "How on Clara did you manage to survive in that thing without breathing?!"

"Well… All I dost was holdest my breath! But, if thou speaketh the truth about yon monsters, then I must hasten to hiding! Here! Taketh it!"

The Nimbi tossed Chopper an Ultra Shroom Shake. "Aw, man! No cool power-ups or Pixls? That's lame!"

"Maketh sure to remember my generosity when they torture you to find out where I am! Fare thee well!" the Nimbi said as he fluttered back into his chest.

"Let's see what happens when I hit it!" Tipral kicked the chest with a Star Kick, but it didn't really move…that much.

"Naught but an empty chest! Moveth along! Linger not!"

"What a chicken…" Blade mumbled.

---

Overthere Sector 8-

"So… This is what this area's like." Chopper stated as they walked into the door that they previously didn't go through before. He punched a ? Block that triggered a Slow Flower to pop out. Once he grabbed it, everything slowed down.

"Pooooooooyoooooo! (Ohhhhhh nooooooo! Whyyyyy doooooes thiiiiis haaaaaaave tooooo haaaaaappen?!)" Kirby exclaimed in his slow-motion voice.

"I haaaaaaave nooooooo ideeeaa!" Chopper noticed a Boomerang Bro. standing on an Overthere platform. He inhaled the boomerang and spat it out at the Boomerang Bro., knocking it off.

They took out another Boomerang Bro. on another Ovethere platform and then landed on a nice, fluffy cloud. They could see a Nimbi lying on the ground, so they went up to him and nudged him.

"Get up!" Blade shouted, the pace of the area going back to normal after landing on the cloud.

Unfortunately, the Nimbi didn't get up. "Well that was a waste of time. We don't need to be in this area, then." Tipral stated as he walked away.

"Great… Maybe this Nimbi's just trying to sleep so that those monsters think his game is over…" Chopper trailed. "Well it's his problem now."

---

Overthere Sector 5-

After taking that Overvator over to the other side, they noticed a cloudy platform to the left of the platform that the red door was on. The first thing that they noticed was that there was a Skellobomber that dropped a Skellobait.

"They really think they're going to beat us by doing the same thing over and over?!" Tipral swung his arm and fired a Star Spear at it. He also destroyed the Skellobomber with a Star Spear was well.

Chopper frowned as he looked up. "Well that's nice… I don't have my Hi-Jump ability with me, and there's no way I'm going to be able to go up THOSE clouds…"

"Then I will taketh thee up myself!" Luvbi giggled, grabbing Chopper and flying him past a couple of clouds above him and up to a cloudy platform with a red door.

"Wait, what about the others?"

"Oh, who careth about yon peasants? They art only hindering us."

"We can hear you, you know!" Blade yelled.

"Just help them..." Chopper sighed.

Pouting, Luvbi was forced to help the others get up. Kirby and Tipral didn't need their help, as they were able to get onto the cloud with ease. With the others, however, they had heard her constantly complain about how heavy both Sonic and Blade were.

"Finally... Thanks for that, Luvbi." Chopper said. "Now we gotta find Yebbi."

"Yeah," Sonic nodded. "Hopefully he's through this door. Then we can kick some Necromancer tail!"

They all walked through the door to find a sign and a small, cloudy pathway with some small Overthere pillars and two ? Blocks that were a bit high from the ground. But they decided to see what the sign had to say at first.

Overthere Sector 6

"I don't see any exit around here…" Tippi trailed. "Maybe you could use your flipping ability to find something?"

"I wanna see if there's something that can heal me," Chopper stated, jumping over to the pillar that had two ? Blocks floating above it. "Tipral's kick did do some bad damage to me…"

He managed to toss a fireball at the ? Block and make a Mushroom come out. He immediately inhaled it to recover 10 HP – not that anyone else needed it, since they already had full HP.

"Poyo? (So are you going to flip now?)" Kirby asked.

"Yeah, I guess I might as well do it now," Chopper let his friends get close to him so he could flip. They happened to notice a couple of cloudy platforms leading up to another cloudy pathway.

Upon flipping into 2-D again, they noticed a lonely ? Block that was near them and a couple of Brick Blocks up ahead. They knew for a fact that there were TOO MANY enemies to fight.

"I'll admit, there are a lot of enemies here…" Tipral trailed. "But I'm not going to let that stop me from destroying them all!"

"Hold on, what about that lonely block?" Chopper pointed to the ? Block. "Why don't we hit that first?"

"Hmmmmm… Fine." Tipral struck the block with his fist. To everyone's surprise, a Mega Star popped out and landed right in Tipral's hands.

"Watch out, guys! He's going to turn into a giant 8-bit version of himself!" Chopper screamed as he tried to get in a safe place.

"What in the…" Tipral noticed that he was now transformed into a large 8-bit version of himself. "I don't know what happened, but I believe now I can crush all of these enemies in my sight!"

Tipral stomped his way through the whole area, crushing nearly everything in his sight by simply walking on it. Every single Skellobit, Spiky Skellobit and Skellobomber were destroyed. Nothing was left behind…

"Wow… That's pretty intense." Chopper gawked as he followed his counterpart to the end of the pathway, where Tipral turned back to normal.

"It's a dead end. There's nowhere we can go." Tipral stated.

"Well there's flipping…" the antennae hero trailed as he flipped into 3-D to find a couple of cloudy platforms. They also happened to notice an Overthere building with a door that looked like a bathroom door.

"Poyo? (There's seriously a bathroom in heaven?)" Kirby gaped upon looking at the bathroom door.

Tipral walked over to it and noticed that it had a red label. "It's occupied, meaning that someone must be hiding in here."

He simply punched the door a couple of times, triggering a loud screech to be heard from the bathroom…but it stopped as soon as Tipral stopped punching it.

"Tipral! Was that really necessary?" Chopper asked, only to be ignored.

"Are the fell beasts gone? So it is safe for me to come out thither?" a voice called out from the bathroom. "By the way, who art thou?"

"A monster…" Blade trailed sarcastically.

"A monster? Thou LIEST! No monster wouldst admit to being a monster! Huh? Hold on a moment… That meaneth… Thou art NOT a monster?!"

"Oh, come on… Monsters don't tell people that they are monsters when they're waiting to hurt someone! They just DON'T!"

The bathroom door opened, and a Nimbi with a yellow, spherical head, a brown mustache, a couple of heart-shaped wings and a yellow robe fluttered out of the bathroom. Luckily, it didn't happen to smell.

"Hello to thee! I am Yebbi!" Yebbi greeted. "Thou came to rescue me?"

"Uhhhh… Duh! That's why we're even here!" Blade face palmed.

Luvbi immediately responded. "We must rebuild yon bridge to reach Grambi! Thou must givest us the yellow orb! If thou dost not, we shall tell all how long thou spent hiding in thither!"

"Yeah… We'd probably do that…" Sonic trailed.

"L-Luvbi? Oh prithee, thou must not tell! I shall do all thou askest!" Yebbi handed the Yellow Orb to Chopper.

"I should not hath hidden like a base coward. I goeth to help the others now… Be thou careful!"

"Yeah, we should be," Chopper replied as Yebbi fluttered away. "Well, we better get going then."

---

Overthere Sector 4-

"We did it!" Chopper said cheerfully as he held up the three orbs. "We finally got the three orbs that are needed to rebuild the bridge!"

However, they seemed to notice that Pherrance and Tillip were talking to Whibbi. "Huh? Pherrance and Tillip? What are those morons doing here?" Blade asked.

Upon hearing them, the two Nimbis turned around. "Oh, hi, buddehs! We've been looking all over for ya!" Pherrance said.

"Pray, what art thou doing hither?" Luvbi asked.

"We were just warning Whibbi that those Nimbis were coming here with torches…and pitchforks!" Tillip explained.

"Torches and pitchforks? Crud... We're in serious trouble." Blade sighed. "When an angry mob has torches and pitchforks, you know that things are about to get serious!"

"Poyo! (That's not good!)" Kirby gulped.

"An angry mob? Well, that doesn't sound like a huge problem for us heroes." Sonic assured, giving a grin.

"Now's not the time for thinking about that stuff!" Tillip cried. "They plan on marching down to Grambi and beating him senseless if they don't get what they want!"

"They planeth to beat yon Whibbi senseless?" Luvbi gasped.

"Yeah, exactly!" All six turned around to find Dabootman and an angry Nimbi mob behind them. "What are you two idiots doing with them?! Get over here and help us right now!"

"Whoa! Everyone's here! Even Ugly Joe!" Pherrance gaped.

"Wait, Ugly Joe? Let me see… Oh! Ah! I see him right there!" Tillip smiled, waving to Ugly Joe.

"But I'm not that ugly…" Ugly Joe trailed.

"Ugly Joe, your face looks like somebody tried to put out a forest fire with a screwdriver!" Both he and Pherrance began to laugh hysterically while Joe frowned.

"Both of you ENOUGH!" Dabootman snapped. "If you two are going to try to block us from getting what we want, then we might as well destroy you guys too!"

"But what dost thou want?" Whibbi asked.

"We want more moneh! That's what us Nimbis deserve! We're on strike 'cause we don't get enough attention! When you guys give us some moneh, we'll end it? All right?! If we don't get it, we're going to beat that old Nimbi and Grambi senseless!"

"I scoff at thy barbaric ways!" Luvbi huffed. "If thou verily dost believe thou can lay a single wing on my father, thou art going to regret it..."

"Barbaric? This is the best solution we've come up with!" Dabootman proclaimed. "You Elizabethan English weirdos just haven't learned to evolve like us, hardworking Nimbis!"

"Hold on a second, why would you need money? Nimbis don't really money!" Chopper realized. "And even then, they probably don't need it. It's not like people pay money to get something here. You guys are in the aftergame! It's much different here than from what it's like out there!"

"Yeah, Chopper's got a point…" Sonic trailed. "Why get money when you're not alive?"

"So maybe you could just end this and-"

"NOOOOOOOO!" Dabootman yelled, making all of the Nimbis back away. "I'm not gonna look like an idiot! If I screwed up and let everyone know about it, the last thing I'd have to do is admit it!"

"You know everyone can hear you..." Blade trailed.

"Well that's not the point! I don't want to have to..." Before he could yell once again, his phone began to go off. "Yes? This is the head of the WNA, the World Nimbi Association…"

"Mr. Dabootman? Oh, yes! We wanted to hear about the strike!"

"Y… You do…? You wanna negotiate?"

"No, actually we were just wondering if when you're all die we could make a fast-food restaurant called McDoodles for anyone who wants to visit The Overthere."

"I… I don't believe it…" Dabootman gaped, dropping the cell phone and bursting in tears. "They said they were going to build a fast-food restaurant when we're all dead! This… This isn't right!"

"My sweet prince… Mayhap thou canst negotiate…" Luvbi suggested.

"Ummm... OK..." Chopper picked up the cell phone. "Can you, ummm... Give him something? I mean, he just doesn't wanna look like an idiot, so he needs everyone to think this strike was for something. Anything, please?"

"Poyo! (Yeah!)" Kirby agreed, grabbing the phone from Chopper. "Poyo! (Anything!)"

"Hey! Don't take the phone from me!" Chopper took the phone back from Kirby, who could only reply with a frown.

"Well… Maybe we can give him some sort of…constellation prize…"

"If they give you something small, will you end the strike?" Chopper asked, turning his head to Dabootman.

"Will they…act like they're giving us a lot so everyone thinks I did a good job?" Dabootman sniffled.

"Could you act like you're giving him a lot?" Chopper asked. He listened once again and nodded. "Got it. Twinkle Mart coupons and free bubblegum? Ummmmm... OK!"

"Hey, we were there before!" Sonic recalled.

Chopper explained to Dabootman what they would give him. "Hmmmmmm… Well at least we'll be winners!"

"You know, this whole thing is pretty stupid," Blade admitted. "How did those other people know about the strike?"

"I don't care, honestly," Tipral said. "It's better for us to just get the Pure Heart rather than have to go through something this stupid."

Dabootman turned to the Nimbi mob with a satisfied look on his face. "WE HAVE WON!"

"How much did we get?" one Nimbi asked.

"Well… Um… We didn't get everything that we wanted… But we negotiated hard, and we managed to get some coupons! They're for a shop called Twinkle Mart in Outer Space! And… Free bubblegum for all of us!"

One of Dabootman's men clapped for him. "These coupons entitle us to free items at Twinkle Mart! …With a purchase of an item of greater value of course…"

"We did it!" the same Nimbi who clapped shouted. The Nimbis all cheered, but in a confusingly way.

"Hmmmmmmmmm…" Pherrance and Tillip both looked at each other and started to take out a calculator. Judging by how many Nimbis there were with them and how many coupons they'll get, they knew that something was wrong. Especially when they researched this before when they went to their house.

"Now hold on just a minute, guys!" the two broke in. "We were just doing some calculating. By NOT working during the strike, we LOST 20 coins!"

"Really? That doesn't seem that bad..." Blade trailed.

"Yeah! 20 coins is not much!" Chopper agreed.

"And judging by how many Nimbis there are… Our Twinkle Mart's coupons and bubblegum are probably worth roughly…5 coins!"

"Ooh... That's not enough."

Everyone gave Dabootman a glare. "Don't listen to them! C'mon, fwiends, let's dance!"

He began to do a weird dance while everyone else still didn't listen to him.

"Shuttest thy trap!" Luvbi growled.

"Whoa, calm down, little girl! Why can't we all just be fwiends?"

"You had no idea what you were doing and you're trying to make it look like you won so we wouldn't send you adrift!" Tillip growled.

"Dang it, fwiends! Don't you see? We won for future Nimbis like us, guy! So the little guy doesn't get pushed around anymore! This was a victory…for Nimbi's respect!"

"But we hath always respected thee…" Whibbi trailed.

"Yeah, we thought that too… And I think I just have the perfect idea for you!" Blade grinned.

---

Five minutes later-

"Hey! What do ya think you're doing?!" Dabootman exclaimed as Blade cut a piece of a cloud off to send Dabootman and two of his men out.

"We're sending you adrift, idiot," answered Pherrance.

"Maybe you can go live with the Lakitus!" Tillip snickered.

"You'll regret this day, fwiend!" Dabootman shouted.

"I'm not your fwiend, buddeh!"

"I'm not your buddeh, guy!"

"He's not your guy, friend!" Pherrance stepped in.

"I'M NOT YOUR fwiend, BUDDEH!"

"WE'RE NOT YOUR BUDDEH, GUY!" Pherrance and Tillip shouted in unison.

"I'M NOT YOUR GUY, fwiend!"

Before they knew it, they could no longer see Dabootman and his two men.

"Well… He is now gone…" Whibbi trailed. "We dost not have to worry about that problem now…"

"I'll say!" Pherrance farted. "Come on, guys! I think we should take a little break and fix up any problems we've made."

As soon as the Nimbis left, Chopper realized something. "Wait… Did they say they lost money? I thought Nimbis don't have money!"

"Poyo, (Well, blame the author for that,)" Kirby stated.

"So… Now that that hast ended…" Whibbi turned to the heroes. "Didst thou bring all of the orbs?"

"We sure have!" Chopper pulled the three orbs out.

"Then let us hasten and rebuild the bridge! Climbest onto the pedestal hither and placest the three orbs! Dost it now!"

"Got it!" Chopper jumped onto the pedestal right next to the broken bridge and he pulled out all three orbs. Three rays of light began to emit from the pedestal as they were placed on it.

"Wow… That is… Whoa!" a white light began to emit from the pedestal and caused the ground to shake. The bridge itself began to rebuild itself like someone playing Tetris…which is a bit odd.

"Whoa. That's weird…" Sonic trailed.

As soon as it was finished, Whibbi spoke up. "Grambi is in danger grave… But we are all so weak…We must ask you… Savest him for us!"

"No worries, Whibbi! We'll make sure he's just fine!" Chopper nodded. "All right, guys… Let's go!"

As they began to cross the rainbow bridge, Kirby began to sing the "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" song…if it even exists. But the song really did fit the scenario, well, at least that's what Chopper thought.

After crossing the rainbow, they came across a red door sitting on an Overthere building. They headed through to come across an area with a couple of pillars with blue flags. Luvbi felt somewhat excited.

"We must forge onward, my sweet prince! Father's shrine is up ahead!" she squealed, fluttering behind Chopper as they took the cloudy path to the beautiful shrine that was up ahead.

"Wow… That looks nice." Sonic stated.

"I agree," agreed Blade.

"Meh. It doesn't look too interesting…" Tipral grumbled.

"HOLD IT!" a loud voice put all of them to a halt. A Spiky Skellobit walked over to the heroes with a dark look. "How'd you guys get here?! I thought we destroyed the bridge!"

"Uhhhh… Ever heard of REBUILDING IT?!" Chopper asked, getting into his fighting stance.

"Oh, crud… I completely forgot about the orbs…" the Spiky Skellobit groaned as it turned around. "SIR! C'MERE FER A SECOND!"

The Necromancer who was about to enter Grambi's shrine groaned and turned around. "What is it, fool?" he asked as he flew over to the Skellobit.

"We've got a problem," it pointed at the heroes with its spear. "Apparently these nitwits managed to rebuild the bridge and get here…"

"What?! How could you rebuild the bridge?!" the Necromancer barked. "We scared off those Nimbis for sure! How in the world did you find them?!"

Luvbi fluttered over to the Necromancer and gave him an angry look. "Shuttest thy trap, foul one! Speakest! Doth my father fare well?! If thou hast hurt a whisker on his face, I shall END all that is you!"

The Necromancer started to snicker. "Oh, boo hoo! Look it here! A poor little Nimbi girl thinks that she can end my game! …Yeah, like you could do anything, you little brat!"

"What do you plan on doing, sir?" the Spiky Skellobit asked, only to receive a punch from his leader.

"Shut up, you! I'm GETTING to that!" the Necromancer turned and gave a signal. "All troops report to me NOW!"

A huge mob of Skellobombers and Skellobits fell from the sky and came over to the Necromancer. Nearly everyone was gaping at this. Well, the only one who wasn't afraid was Tipral, of course.

"So, you wanna see how scary we can be, little girly?! Well take a look here!" the Necromancer cackled.

"Oh dear, there seems to be a lot of them… I didn't know there were so many left…" Tippi trailed.

"CALM THY MIND!" the six turned around to meet a familiar face. One that is named Rebbi. "I shall handle them!"

"You…"

"Ummmmmm… I'm not exactly sure if you can handle that Necromancer…" Chopper trailed. "I mean, that sword of his…and what powers he has. He's probably a dangerous foe."

"Nay, thou dost not have to worry. My strength hath returned to me… And now, these fiends shall reap the grim harvest of my Nimbi fury!" Rebbi turned around. "The hour is nigh, Nimbi brigade! Art thou ready?"

"YEEEEEA!" a large army of Nimbis came fluttering into battle.

"What the…" the Necromancer gawked.

"Hast thou fear of these fiends from The Underwhere?!"

"NAAAAAY!"

Blade made a horse sound for no reason at all.

"What the heck was that…?" Tipral gawked.

"What? It reminds me of a horse!"

"Ugh… You Nimbis never seem to give up!" the Necromancer growled. "Very well. I might as well start a battle with you! You're going to wish you've never came to The Overthere, heroes!"

The Necromancer's wings began to spread as he flew up into the air. "Luckily I can summon more Skellobits if necessary… This fight will be a cakewalk!"

"THOU ART TOAST!" Rebbi shouted.

"Well you're more like soiled toast when I'm through with you!" the Necromancer snapped his finger and a barrier over by Grambi's shrine appeared. "You're not going to be going anywhere, heroes! Not when I'M here!"

"This should be an interesting battle…" Tippi trailed.

"Antennae one! I must givest thee this!" Rebbi pulled a sword out. "This was a present given by the Nimbis to thee!"

"Oh! A sword!" Chopper inhaled the sword and swallowed it. He was now donning a green, conic hat with a yellow cotton ball on the tip and a yellow cuff on the bottom. He was also holding a sword with a blue handle. "Now I feel ready for battle!"

"And now, Nimbi brigade… Ahem… CHAAARGE!"

"LEAVE NONE ALIVE!" roared the Necromancer as both sides began to collide. The Necromancer, on the hand, decided to watch the battle himself instead of taking part in it.

"All right, Necromancer! It ends here!" Chopper declared, pointing his sword at the Necromancer. "Come on down here and fight!"

"Well well! I see you wish to fight against me!" the Necromancer grinned under his helmet as he folded his arms. "All right, then! But before we get started… Let's see how you deal against THESE?!"

Before taking action, he pulled out a boom box and played a song. "Can't have an awesome fight without an awesome song."

With that, he struck the ground with white lightning. Three Skellobits rose and charged at the heroes.

"Whoa! He's summoned more monsters!" Blade drew his katana and sliced one of the Skellobits in one hit. "Luckily, my attack is capable of taking them out in one hit!"

A Skellobit charged straight at Chopper, but he managed to block the spear with his word. He slashed at it once and then began to hack at it multiple times. With full HP, he can fire a Sword Beam automatically, but when he isn't, he has to charge it up.

"I don't think this fight is even a contest," stated Tipral as he snapped his finger. The last Skellobit was destroyed in two hits when he struck it with a sweeping Star Kick.

"Hmmmmmm… Not bad. Not bad at all!" the Necromancer summoned different kind of Skellobits. These kind were a darker color and had spikes on their heads. Well, some of them did… These guys are the Dark Skellobits.

"What the… What are those?" Chopper used Tippi's ability to investigate them.

"That's a Dark Skellobit. This monster is more dark and evil than other Skellobits… Max HP is 20, Attack is 6, Defense is 2. Like a normal Skellobit, don't jump on its head when its spear is pointed up… They're just like normal Skellobits, except these have more HP and can move faster…" Tippi informed.

"Well this shouldn't be too bad," Chopper slashed at the Dark Skellobit in front of him. It only took him two slashes to defeat it. He even used a Spinning Sword attack on the other one, striking it like he's a drill.

"Poyo! (I got the last one!)" Kirby got on Carrie and jumped on top of the Dark Skellobit a couple of times to defeat it.

"Grrrrrr! Unbelievable!" the Necromancer summoned two Dark Spiky Skellobits and two Dark Skellobombers. But, even those weren't a match for them! Tipral's Star Blast was capable of wiping them out.

"What?! How did you do that?!"

"It's simple. I used my Star Blast to wipe them away." Tipral stated, clenching his fist. "You're next, Necromancer!"

The Necromancer stared at the heroes angrily. "Fine. I'll fight you myself, if that's the way you want it to be."

He flew down to the cloud and gripped his sword. "I must warn you… I'm not someone to mess with! I DO have the ability to raise the dead, so you better be careful now, heroes…"

"We'll see about that!" Chopper smirked as he jumped toward the Necromancer. He managed to strike him with a simple Sword Beam, sending him over by the stairs.

"Oof! Urgh… Not bad… But a simply Sword Beam isn't going to guarantee victory!" the Necromancer got up and fired a flaming skeleton at Chopper, knocking him to the ground (or the cloud).

"Whoa… What in the world was that?" Chopper gawked, getting himself up.

"Didn't I say that I could use skeletons against you? You haven't been listening to me…" the Necromancer trailed as he tried to strike Chopper with his sword, but failed to strike him when he blocked the attack.

"Hold on, Chopper! I got your back!" Blade charged at the Necromancer and struck him in the back. Unfortunately, it only got the Necromancer angry by kicking him straight to the staircase and striking Chopper with his sword.

"Whoa… So he's putting up a fight, I see." Sonic curled up in a ball and struck the Necromancer in the stomach with a Spin Dash. Once he got out, he felt his feet being grabbed by a couple of dead hands.

"What the heck?! What's going on?!"

"Oh, god… That reminds me of horrible memories from the Shadow King and Queen…" Chopper shivered.

"Now I have you where I want you!" the Necromancer's eyes flashed as Sonic was struck by white lightning. The difference between this one was that it deals damage instead of raising the dead.

"Hold on… I want to gather some information on this guy." Chopper used Tippi's powers to investigate the evil armored being.

"That's the Necromancer. He's an evil…necromancer that has the power to raise the dead… Max HP is 80, Attack is 6, Defense is 3. The Necromancer tends to attack you with his sword, or his magic abilities. He might fire a burning skeleton at you, or he could possibly summon dead hands to pull you into the ground… This allows him to strike you easily, so you'll want to jump as many times as you can… His sword is quite deadly, but can be blocked if you have a sword yourself… We're almost there, Chopper… Once he's defeated, we can finally get the Pure Heart…" Tippi informed.

"Interesting…" Chopper jumped back over to the Necromancer and struck him with a fire slash, thanks to his flaming hand ability. The Necromancer responded by summoning dead hands to grab a hold of his feet.

"Poyo! (Don't worry, I'll save you!)" Kirby jumped on Carrie and jumped on top of the Necromancer, distracting him for a bit.

"Why you little…!" the Necromancer fired a flaming skeleton toward Kirby, but he easily inhaled it and spat it out at him, knocking him back to the whole battle. The dead hands were also destroyed as well.

"Whew… Thanks, Kirby." Chopper was ready to strike the Necromancer with a Sword Beam, but Tipral knocked him to the ground and teleported over to the Necromancer instead.

"Hey! Would it kill him to let me KNOW he was going to attack first?!"

As the Necromancer got up, he was soon punched in the face by Tipral's Star Punch. He then kicked him in the shin with a Star Kick, and to finish things off, he fired a Star Spear at the Necromancer.

"Unggh!" the Necromancer brought his sword up in an effort to defend himself. "Who are you supposed to be? You don't look much like a hero…"

"That's because I'm not a hero, nor will I ever be," Tipral snapped his finger, but the Necromancer jumped as soon as the Star Magic appeared.

"I see…" he fired a flaming skeleton straight at Tipral without him noticing, knocking him back a little bit. He fought back by hurling a shadow ball back at the Necromancer. It didn't do much, but it definitely caused some damage.

"Your dark attacks aren't going to do much to me! I am filled with dark energy!" the Necromanced swung his sword at Tipral and even struck him with a Necro Sword Beam – his kind of Sword Beam.

"Whoa… He can use the Sword Beam too?!" Chopper gaped. "That's…deadly."

Nevertheless, he charged at the Necromancer and struck him with his sword a couple of times. He even performed a Final Cutter move on him, kind of like what he would do with his Cutter ability.

"Have some of this!" Blade tossed a couple of shurikens toward the Necromancer. Although they struck him, it didn't appear to do as much with that armor. But still, he got hurt.

"This feels like it's going to be a long fight…" the Necromancer trailed, firing a Necro Sword Beam at the five, sending them flying back to the barrier, which also dealt some damage to them as well.

"My sweet prince!" Luvbi cried.

"Don't worry, I'm still not done yet," Chopper got up and tossed a fireball at the Necromancer. Unfortunately, the attack was merely blocked by him. "Oh… That did nothing."

"I saw that coming, you idiot… But you won't see THIS coming!" the Necromancer summoned more dead hands to grab all five of their feet. "Heh heh heh! Now you can't move!"

Chopper tried firing another fireball at him, but he simply blocked it again. Blade even threw shurikens at him, but he simply blocked them.

"You stupid heroes! Now you're going to witness some REAL power!" the Necromancer's hands were surrounded by a purple aura. "This attack will nearly DESTROY you!"

"I don't think so!" Tipral snapped his finger and struck the Necromancer with Star Magic. "You honestly believe that you're going to take me down easily when I can use my powers with dead hands grabbing onto my feet?!"

Tipral managed to break away from the dead hands and tackle the Necromancer, delivering a couple of Star Punches to his face. Unfortunately, he was pushed off by his armored boots and then struck by his sword.

"Hmph… So you do put up a fight! I'm not quite surprised, though the dark being REALLY wants to destroy me."

"Hey, Necro, look over there!" Blade pointed over to the Nimbis and Skellobits who were still fighting.

"Why in the world would you need me to…" the Necromancer's eyes widened as he got struck by Chopper's sword. Blade also delivered a katana attack while he was cringing in pain.

"What a cheap move you just pulled off!" the Necromancer jumped in the air and flew over the heroes, firing flaming skeletons down at them. Kirby was able to take the least amount of damage with his guarding ability.

"Poyo! (You're not taking me down so easily!)" Kirby inhaled one of the skeletons he fired at him and spat it out at the Necromancer as soon as he landed on the ground, sending him flying to the barrier.

"ACK!" the Necromancer bounced off the barrier and fell flat on the cloudy ground. "I forgot that the barrier can also do damage to me too… Why do I have to be THIS stupid with stuff?!"

"Because you can't take five people on," Chopper smirked, stomping on the Necromancer while he was on the ground and performing a stylish move.

"Grrrrr!" the Necromancer got up and attempted to swing at Chopper. He managed to strike him once, but his next attack was parried by Chopper's sword. Actually, they were trying to push each other back with their swords while they glared at each other.

"You're wasting my time," the armored necromancer stepped on Chopper's foot and struck him with his sword, knocking him toward Kirby and also stripping him of his sword ability.

"Hey! My Sword ability!" Chopper attempted to get it back, but it went into the big battle instead. "You… How could you do this?!"

"Oh, boo hoo! I got rid of your stupid sword." the Necromancer cackled. "Well it's certainly going to make things easier for me, that's for sure!"

"Oh no it's not!" Chopper clenched his fists in anger as a flaming aura surrounded them. He made a dash toward the Necromancer and punched him in the helmet with a flaming punch.

"Whoa, I thought your punches weren't that strong…" Sonic trailed.

"Well, when you're moving incredibly fast and have flames on your fists, then it's probably going to hurt. You know, kinetic energy and all?"

"Oh, yeah… You've got a point." Sonic curled up in a ball and struck the Necromancer twice with his Spin Dash. "How much until this guy's done for?"

"He's almost finished… You just need to deliver a couple of hits and he'll be finished. Tippi stated.

"Oh, I don't think so!" the Necromancer fired another flaming skeleton toward Chopper, but instead of hitting him, it was inhaled and spat back at him, knocking him to the ground.

"Ha HA!" Blade tossed Hommissile straight at the Necromancer, knocking him back toward Kirby, who stomped on him using Carrie. Afterward, Tipral struck him with a Star Spear.

"Ugh… What's going on?!" the Necromancer wheezed. "Am I…losing this fight?!"

"That you are!" Chopper smirked as he threw a fireball straight at the Necromancer, setting him on fire. "It's time to end this fight!"

With flames on his feet, he jumped on top of the Necromancer and delivered a powerful stomp, one that was able to put an end to this fight once and for all.

"GRAAAAGGHH! This… This can't be!" the Necromancer screamed as his eyes widened in pain. He was also surrounded by dark smoke. "For… Forgive me, my master! I… I just couldn't succeed in beating him!"

The Necromancer flew up into the air, but not on purpose. The only thing that was strange was that there was no explosion. The five looked a bit confused. Was he destroyed?

"I don't get it… Is he dead?" Chopper asked.

"I'm not quite sure… But that's not the point. We need to get a move on." Tipral went up the stairs and over to the shrine door. Thankfully, with the Necromancer gone, the barrier in their way was finally gone.

"Let's hit this block first," Chopper struck the block with his fist and, to his surprise, an Ultra Shroom popped out. "Oh, boy! There's an Ultra Shroom in this thing!"

Chopper grabbed it and split it into five pieces. All five of them ate their piece and recovered 50 HP from it. Afterward, Chopper struck the Save Block and saved their game.

"Now we must go!" Luvbi declared. "Father is waiting for us in thither!"

"Yeah, we're gonna have to get going," Sonic nodded.

"Then… We shall go in!" Chopper declared, kicking the door open and heading into the shrine.

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Funny thing... When I was writing this, I never knew the word "hick" was an actual word used for some type of people...

Also, yeah. Pherrance and Tillip. I think you guys might get the idea of what I'm parodying. And you'd get who the Necromancer is if you played Castle Crashers.

Now be prepared for a pretty intense boss fight coming up ahead. It's...interesting to say the least. And pretty long.