CHAPTER 8-4
-Countdown to Destruction-
The hallway of Castle Tipral Interior felt rather…dark and quiet for Chopper's tastes. Since they were somewhat deeper into the castle, this meant that they were going to go through some more intense obstacles…at least, that's what Chopper believed at this point. But, he still began to think about his three friends that he lost back in the other parts of Castle Tipral, such as the Entry, Foyer and Bridge. The only person he had on his side was Tippi and Tipral, who really wasn't considered to be a friend considering their goals for the Chaos Heart.
"I can't believe we've made it this far…" Chopper trailed, looking at the entire hallway. "I didn't expect to make it this far… I thought for sure that I would've been one of those people to sacrifice themselves…"
"Well, you're should be happy that you didn't…" Tippi trailed. "I'm still here for you, just remember that…"
"It would've been better for me if Sonic was the one that was here instead of you," Tipral grumbled. "Despite the fact that I hate both of you, I hate him a little less than you, to be perfectly honest."
"Why do you even hate him? In fact, how did you meet?"
"It was five months ago, back in Twilight Town," Tipral began. "That's when I managed to use my shape-shifting powers to my advantage AND also managed to steal his name and body…but that all failed. But how we MET was something."
"No, Tipral, we're not going to go into another flashback…" Chopper trailed. "I think I'm getting tired of it. Long story short, Tipral was turning people into pigs, so I tried to stop him, but I lost my name and body to him, but eventually defeated him after guessing his name correctly. That's basically what happened."
"Interesting… I never knew you had such a strange encounter with each other… I suppose Chopper won the battle, right?" Tippi asked.
"Yeah, I won the fight," Chopper nodded. "I got help from a certain shadow friend who was kind enough to give me the help to find Tipral's name and take him down…although I had to fight my friends too, who I didn't want to hurt…"
"I see…" Tippi fluttered ahead of Chopper, now feeling something very intense. "The power of The Void is getting stronger and bigger. I can feel it. The Chaos Heart is close, now… The end is almost here… We must hurry!"
"That's exactly what we need to do," Tipral said with a nod. "We can't stay here forever when The Void is going to swallow all existence. Well, it'll swallow all existence without MY power."
"Oh, stop it already, Tipral," Chopper walked on ahead through the hallway. The first thing he noticed were a couple of Skellobits walking in the hallway. "Hold on a second… There's Skellobits here? I thought these guys work for Shade?!"
"I guess some of them decided to stay in this castle…" Tippi trailed. "If I could remember, there were Skellobits in this place as well…"
"Yeah, and I think they have the ability to flip too," Chopper inhaled the head that the Skellobomber dropped and spat it out at it in order to take it out. Tipral snapped his finger and took out the other Skellobomber.
"I'm quite surprised that these guys are roaming this place…" Tipral trailed.
"Well, probably because you didn't see them around here," Chopper punched a ? Block that was high up in the hallway. He ended up grabbing a Fast Flower, but, since it reminded him of what happened to his friends, he didn't bare to talk.
Heck, not even Tipral spoke, because he didn't want to hear how stupid his voice would be. But, nonetheless, he hurled two shadow balls at one Skellobit, while Chopper hurled a couple of fireballs at the other one.
After Chopper defeated a Cursya with a fireball, the speed went back to normal. "Come on! What's with all of these stupid Cursyas around here?! They're seriously bugging me to death…"
"I'm not even going to answer that question," Tipral bluntly stated as he destroyed two Skellobombers that were holding Spiky Skellobait. Thank goodness they didn't throw them down, that's for sure.
"Wait… Shouldn't they be weak to fire if they use ice? I'm sure that should happen…" Chopper trailed as he inhaled a Skellobait and defeated the last Skellobomber in their path before hitting a ? Block.
"There's only a Mushroom in there…" Tippi trailed as Chopper split it into two for both him and Tipral.
Up ahead, there was another Skellobit, but it was immediately destroyed by a couple of stomps from Tipral.
"This place is filled with Skellobits," Chopper frowned. "I mean, these guys are not even that hard to beat anyway!"
Well, he soon noticed a couple of Dark Skellobits roaming around a ? Block. One even had a spike on its head, but they already took care of it when Chopper bashed it with his hammer.
"Man, I wish I could bash things with my hammer with my friends around…" Chopper frowned as he spun his hammer around at another Dark Skellobit. Even his hammer hit the ? Block, which made a Slow Flower pop out.
"Another Slow Flower? I… I guess I might as well take it." Chopper scooped up the Slow Flower with his hand and the flower ended up absorbing into him, causing the whole hallway to slow down.
Even then, Chopper didn't bother to speak as he hammered a Dark Skellobit to the ground with a Fire Smash from his hammer. Tipral finished it off with a Star Spear.
Chopper was about to hurry on until a Dark Skellobomber dropped its head on top of Chopper, making him jump on top of the empty block and slam it to the ground with a flaming slamming kick.
Tipral finally finished the enemy by slamming his fists down on it, defeating it. That's when the speed finally went back to normal.
"Well, there's still another Dark Skellobomber up there," Chopper used Thoreau to grab it and toss it at the Dark Spiky Skellobit nearby, knocking them both to the ground for Tipral to finish.
"Hmph… So if we work as a team, we get things done easily." Tipral pondered as he snapped his finger to strike two other Dark Skellobits nearby. The last enemy to be encountered was another Dark Spiky Skellobit.
"This is just pathetic," Tipral scoffed as he Star Kicked the Spiky Skellobit in the face and finished it off with a Star Punch. "Is THIS what they send to attack us?! They're pathetic!"
"Well, thankfully we're done with this room…" Tippi fluttered over to the door ahead. "We should be going into some other room through this door…"
Through the door, they found themselves in a small room with white Pigarithm – an enemy Chopper once remember from the Whoa Zone. Even Tipral remembers encountering this thing!
"Oh, boy… Another one of these guys." Chopper gasped. "These guys give out a lot of coins if you beat 'em! …But they look a lot different from before. Weren't they a bit…yellow?"
"Let's check…" suggested Tippi as Chopper used her powers to investigate the pig monster.
"This bizarre beast is called a Hogarithm. They are strange on so many levels... Max HP is ?. Attack is 5. It takes three stomps to finish off this piggy... But each stomp makes it smaller and faster... It's very hard to stomp the last one... Hogarithms often drop many coins, so you may want to hunt them if you're broke." Tippi informed.
"A Hogarithm, huh? Well, might as well stomp on this piggy." Chopper stomped on top of the Hogarithm, causing it to shrink to a smaller size. Its white color suddenly changed into a gray.
"It changes color as you attack it," Tipral stated as he stomped on it. Now the Hogarithm turned to a black color, which was finally finished off by one last stomp made by Chopper.
"There's still two more here," Chopper reminded, hurling a fireball at the next Hogarithm. He immediately finished it off by stomping on it two more times, grabbing all of the coins that dropped.
"I suppose they're considered to be piggy banks…" Tippi stated as Tipral stomped on the next Hogarithm.
"It's pretty obvious," Tipral said as he snapped his finger to strike the Hogarithm with Star Magic. With one last stomp, it was defeated and it dropped a lot of coins like the other one.
"That was too easy!" Chopper smirked as he raced over to the door. "See? The door's right here!"
Both Chopper and Tipral walked through the door, but what seemed surprising was when they simply came out of the door that led them into this room.
"What the… We're back here?!" Chopper gaped. "But… What… What the heck's going on here?!"
"It's obvious that there's some sort of trick to this," Tipral looked up and saw a large platform. "There's the problem. I believe we need to go up there instead of taking this way. At least, that's what I remember."
Tipral teleported Chopper up to the ledge, where he saw a white version of a Barribad. "Hey… These guys remind me of those Barribads! …And they also remind me of those Yuxes that I've faced in the past."
"Then we might as well try to identify this creature," suggested Tipral. Chopper nodded and used Tippi's powers to investigate the creature.
"That's a Sobarribad. It shields itself with a strong barrier... Max HP is 8 and Attack is 5. It also shoots rings of energy from its mouth... You can't break its barrier, but you can flip to get places it might not want you to…" Tippi informed.
They noticed that the Sobarribad was firing a yellow ring of energy from its mouth and at the two. Tipral immediately put up Barry to deflect the projectile back at the Sobarribad, causing it to cringe in pain.
"You CAN deflect those things, you know," Tipral stated as he finished it off with a simple Star Magic attack. "Luckily, my Star Magic ability will simply go through the barrier instead of out of it."
"Well, I guess it should come in handy against the other guy…or better yet, I think I have a better idea!" Chopper flipped into 3-D and walked over to the next Sobarribad. When he flipped back, he was inside the monster's barrier. "Now you're screwed!"
With one smash from his hammer, he destroyed the Sobarribad and grabbed a Super Shroom Shake that it dropped. He then jumped down from the platform and landed over by the door.
"Wait… Wasn't there supposed to be a door up here?"
"No, we had to take that way in order to move on. Just watch what happens when we go through this door." Tipral walked through the door first. Chopper followed him through into another room.
"Hey, you're right! This is…weird. Just look at all of these mirrors." from what Chopper said, there were definitely a lot of mirrors in the room. They came in many different shapes. They could be skinny, long rectangular shapes, wide, rectangular shapes, or even square-shaped.
"Yes… There are a lot of mirrors in this room…" Tippi trailed.
While Chopper was gazing in the room, some Dimentios appeared on the mirrors and began to fire magical projectiles at the two.
"What the…!" Tipral fired a Star Spear at one of the projectiles to blow it up. "So… I see Dimentio's trying to fool us here. NOW I finally know where this stupid little jester can be!"
"You know… I've never investigated him before…" Chopper pondered. "I'm actually a bit curious on what he's got on him."
When a Dimentio appeared on a mirror close to him, he immediately used Tippi's powers to investigate him…or it (since it's most likely a clone).
"That's Dimentio... A magician who works for Tipral... As far as I know, though. He's like an evil clown... He'll use many magic tricks, including making doubles of himself... It's hard to get a read on this suspicious character..." Tippi informed.
"And look what we've got across the bottomless pit," Tipral pointed to the red Longator. "Apparently it's one of those Longator things I've seen in space, but this one's a red color instead of white."
"Well, I'm gonna see what it is anyway," Chopper stated as he used Tippi's powers on the red Longator next.
"That thing is a Longadile. It can stretch beyond the limits of imagination... Max HP is 20 and Attack is 4. It likes to stretch its neck at enemies... They aren't fast, but they can attack a wide area. Be careful near narrow ledges..." Tippi informed.
"Yeah… This might be a bit dangerous, but maybe I can hit that thing without any problems." Chopper jumped and shot a fireball down at the Longadile. Afterward, he stomped on it two times before destroying it.
"Hmmmmmm… When I get a look at these mirrors, I feel like I'm… Wait, this mirror right here isn't shining. Maybe there's something with that thing… I'm going to go see for myself."
Chopper threw his arms up and flipped into 3-D. When he put his hand on the mirror, he realized that his hand simply went through. Interesting! So there WAS something behind this room!
Well, there wasn't much time to waste. Chopper walked to the other side of the room and went back into 2-D to find a chest to his right and left. In the right one, he found an Ice Storm.
"Am I going to need this thing?"
"I'm not so certain…" Tippi trailed.
"Oh, well in that case, I'll check the other chest," Chopper raced his way over to the chest with a Speed Dash and opened it to find a Castle Tipral Key. "Now THIS is what I was trying to look for!"
Once he returned to the other side of the room, he saw that Tipral took care of the other two Longadiles that were trying to attack him by stretching their heads. He was also trying to avoid the magic projectiles being fired by the Dimentios.
"How long have they been doing that?" Chopper asked.
"How long, exactly? Well, they were doing this all the time while you were on the other side." Tipral growled, giving Chopper a cold glare. "What did you find behind that room anyway? I noticed there was a locked door in here…"
"Well, maybe we can use this key I found to unlock that door!" Chopper jumped over the bottomless pit and avoided another magic particle being fired from Dimentio. He pulled the key out and unlocked the door.
Once they entered the next room, they saw another staircase leading up to a door. But Tipral was the only one who could see that the door up there was locked.
"I don't think we should go up those stairs," Tipral stated.
"Why do you say that?" Chopper asked.
"The door's locked. I think there's some other secret we need to find if we're going to go through that door." Tipral snapped his finger to defeat the Boomerang Bro., then he walked over to the staircase.
"I'm pretty sure there's something hidden here. Chopper, if you would, use your flipping ability and see if there's some sort of secret passage!"
"All right, let's see what there is," Chopper flipped him and Tipral into 3-D to find a secret pathway that was in the stairs. Well, it was actually between them, but you know what I'm saying…right?
Well, after going through the passageway, they saw some Soopa Strikers kick some shells toward them. Chopper jumped on the shell and kicked it back at the Soopa Striker, but it didn't do much damage.
"I know what's best," Tipral jumped on top of the Soopa Striker, making it retreat in its own shell. He then struck it with a Star Kick to send it straight at the other three Soopa Strikers, doing some massive damage.
"Whoa… Well, I guess I'll finish them!" Chopper hurled a couple of fireballs straight at the Soopa Strikers, defeating instantly as soon as they were scorched, allowed them to go to the small door in the room.
"I don't know why, but some of this stuff feels like some sort of puzzle…"
"Then don't complain about it and let us go through," Tipral followed Chopper through the door into a small room with three glowing ! Switches in the room.
"What in the world is this?" Chopper asked.
"It's a light ! Switch," Tippi informed. "Only something made of darkness can get that thing to activate… If it were a dark ! Switch, then you would need light power to activate it…"
Before they could do anything else, two Blue Magiblots appeared and tried to attack the two. Chopper took care of the one to the left with a couple of fireballs and a whack of his hammer, while Tipral took care of the other with a Star Spear.
"Whew… Glad we took care of those guys!" Chopper sighed in relief. "Well, what do you suppose we do with those blocks...or switches?"
"Let me see…" Tipral eyed the blocks carefully, deciding which one to hit. "I'm going to hit the third one. I'm pretty sure there's something that might be revealed if I hit it. Unfortunately, I've never been in this part of the castle."
"Well that stinks," Chopper frowned as Tipral hurled a shadow ball straight at the block, causing a door to appear before them. It was a small one, just like the other door that they came out of.
"We might as well go through…" Tippi suggested as she followed Chopper and Tipral into the next room, which was a lot similar to the other room.
"I suppose we ought to… WHOA! Red Magiblot alert!" Chopper was struck in the face by a Red Magiblot's spell. "Seriously… These guys just do A LOT of damage when they hit me!"
"Then we might as well get rid of them," Tipral grabbed one of the Red Magiblots and slammed it to the ground. Using his Star energy, he managed to beat the ghostly enemy with a couple of punches.
"Geez! No need to be THAT violent…"
Chopper finished off the other Red Magiblot using a Fire Smash from his hammer. "Man, I can't believe I'm using this attack! It feels GREAT to just beat my enemies down with this attack!"
"Well, I guess I'll strike another block," Tipral hurled a shadow ball straight at the middle light ! Switch, making another door appear.
"That was easy…" Tippi trailed as she followed Chopper and Tipral into another similar room. But what surprised him was when he saw a door already there, although Magiblots with yellow eyes and hands appeared.
"OK, I know it's probably a Yellow Magiblot, but I'm going to Tattle it anyway," Chopper used Tippi's powers to investigate the ghostly creature.
"That's a Yellow Magiblot. They are mad mages that live between dimensions... Max HP is 20 and Attack is 6. They only appear long enough to hurl spells at you... They use magic, so I assume they are quite intelligent, but nobody knows for sure... Yellow Magiblots are known for their average HP and Attack…" Tippi informed.
"Huh… So these guys aren't easy either…" Chopper hurled a fireball at one of the Yellow Magiblots and then stomped on it with fire energy on his foot, defeating it within seconds.
"There! That's finished!"
"There's still one more to take care of," all Tipral had to do was snap his finger and the Yellow Magiblot would be finished. Afterward, he looked up at the blocks.
"So, what do you think we need to do here?" Tippi asked. "There's a door already there, so should we enter through it…?"
"I think I have an idea on what to do," Tipral threw a shadow ball straight at the light ! Switch above the door, which triggered the door to move below the second light ! Switch. Another door appeared before them.
"Oh, I see now! …But I wanna see what's through here first." Chopper opened the door that was moved to the left and headed through with Tipral. The bad news? Well, it was a trap.
"This was a trap…" Tippi trailed as the door behind them was enclosed by metal bars. A red Chain Chomp was stuck to a stump, barking and trying to charge at the two. Well, actually, there were THREE of these Chain Chomps!
"What the heck are these guys?" Chopper gawked as he used Tippi's powers to investigate them. "For some reason, I feel as if these guys are stronger than normal Chain Chomps – although it was the complete opposite in the Palace of Shadow."
"That's a Red Chomp. This angry Chomp is filled with uncontrollable rage... Max HP is 8, Attack is 6, Defense is 8. Even flames won't hurt this beast... Some say this Chomp's red color comes from its urge to devour pizza sauce... Maybe someone let it loose in a sauce warehouse..." Tippi informed.
"Well, then that means I can't jump on these guys… But I think I can do this!" Chopper whacked at the Red Chomp with his hammer, taking it out instantly. Heck, Tipral's Star Magic took the other out in one hit!
"We can just waste our time in this room. We NEED to find that key!" Tipral fired a Star Spear at the last Red Chomp, disintegrating it into white smoke (just like all of the other enemies around here).
The door that was sealed in bars was now open for them to go through, now that they defeated the enemies and hit the blue ! Switch, but they didn't get anything from it, unfortunately.
"Well, what a bummer," Chopper frowned as he left the room. He tried the other door to his right and, what do you know? They're in another room with light ? blocks floating above the ground.
"You know… I get a strange feeling that I need to flip here." Chopper immediately flipped into 3-D without any question and he noticed something on the blocks. The middle block had a one on it, the far right one had a two and the one closest to them had a three.
"It seems strange…but I think we need to hit those blocks in this order: middle, right, left. Yeah, it's strange, but I think you should do that."
"But first we need to take care of these Magiblots first," Tipral threw a Red Magiblot over to a Yellow Magiblot, disintegrating both with a Star Spear. Chopper inhaled a Blue Magiblots spell and spat it back at it, disintegrating it.
"All right… Now let me do this." Tipral hurled three shadow balls. The first one went to the middle, the second to the right and the third to the middle. It triggered a chest to appear in the middle of the room.
As soon as Chopper kicked the chest open and grabbed a Castle Tipral Key, Magiblots of all kind appeared and tried to attack the hero. But, luckily, he managed to jump out of the way and shoot fireballs down at them to defeat them.
"Now then… Let's go back to those stairs."
Over by the staircase-
Well, anyway, the two defeated the Boomerang Bros. that were in the way and made their way up the stairs to a ? Block and a Koopatrol that was immediately charging its way at them.
"I got this!" Chopper lifted his hammer up and slammed it on the Koopatrol with flaming energy on his hammer, burning it and even getting rid of them. He punched the ? Block afterward, resulting in a Happy Flower to pop out.
"Ehhhhhh… I don't think we'll need that. I have enough coins, thank you very much." Chopper ignored the Happy Flower and bashed the other Koopatrol before making his way up the stairs.
"These things can flip into 3-D, so it's best to take them out right now," Tipral hurled a shadow ball straight at the Boomerang Bro., followed by a snap of his fingers, resulting in the Boomerang Bro. being dead.
"I'll handle the other one, then," Chopper was about to attack the next Boomerang Bro., but Tipral immediately knocked him down the stairs and took out the Boomerang Bro. himself.
"Hey! Why'd you do that?!"
"That's none of your business, you fool," Tipral said calmly as he made his way to the top of the stairs. Upon hitting a ? Block, a Ghoul Shroom popped out and began to go down the stairs.
"That pathetic little faker can handle him," he said.
While Chopper made his way up the stairs, he saw the Ghoul Shroom coming his way. "Oh, you gotta be kidding me! Ugh… I guess I have to get rid of this obnoxious thing… Ungrateful little…"
As soon as Chopper made it to the top of the stairs, he pulled the key out while panting. "Tipral… Was that REALLY necessary?! You didn't HAVE to do that to me, you know!"
"I know, but I honestly don't care. Just put the key in its place."
"Fine," Chopper put the key in the lock and broke it off. They proceeded into another strange room with a couple of platforms and a couple of Dark Skellobits roaming around in the room.
"Oh, great… Now we have THESE guys!" Chopper sighed.
"I might as well rid of these foul creatures," Tipral skated to the center of the room and clenched his fists, now being surrounded by a purple glow. "Star…BLAST!"
With one intense attack, he destroyed all of the Skellobits around him, resulting in the room being clear. "OK, let's go."
They raced over to the door, but when they walked through, they ended up in the beginning of the room – the door they previously walked through, actually.
"What the… We were just in this room!" Chopper gawked.
"I believe there's some sort of trick to here…" Tippi trailed. "I don't see anything around here, but surely you might be able to get through here if you can simply use your flipping skills, Chopper…"
"Yeah, you have a point, Tippi," Chopper flipped into 3-D and noticed a white arrow leading up to the platform above him. "Huh… Well, might as well try and get up this platform…"
He managed to grab a hold of the edge and pull himself up while in 2-D, with Tipral following him.
"What kind of stupid act are you doing this time, Chopper?" Tipral asked.
"Tipral, drop the 'stupid act' stuff and just listen to me!" Chopper snapped, turning to Tipral. "If you just listen to me, then HOPEFULLY we'll be able to get somewhere. I noticed some arrows pointing to where we NEED to go! You got that!"
"Ugh… Fine. You can proceed if you want."
Chopper jumped down from the platform and flipped into 3-D again. He saw that the arrow was leading up to a platform above the upper platform. So, using his jumping skills, he attempted to jump up there, while Tipral simply teleported.
"I honestly find this to be stupid…" Tipral trailed. "All we're doing is jumping on platforms and that's it!"
"Well don't be a grouch about it, or you're probably going to pay the price!" Chopper flipped back into 3-D and noticed the arrow was pointing all the way down to the door. "Well that's a relief! Now we can finally get out of this room!"
They proceeded down to the door and entered through. Surprisingly, to Tipral, Chopper was actually right about this maze. But, Chopper's hopes went down low when they were in another room filled with mirrors.
"Wait… Is this some sort of illusion?!" Chopper gawked. "I thought we were already in this room?!"
"Hmmmm… I'm not so sure…" Tipral trailed as he took down a Longadile on one of the platforms with Star Magic. Once again, Chopper began to study the mirrors, trying to look for which one WASN'T shining.
"Which reminds me… I don't see any Dimentio illusions around here…" Chopper flipped into 3-D to jump through one of the mirrors. "WHOA! …So these were where they were?!"
"What did you find behind there?!"
"I… I found a bunch of Dimentios!" Chopper gaped, but was soon smirking when he pulled his hammer out. "Oh… I think things will get better from here! Heh heh heh! I'll just wipe 'em all out!"
He began to spin his hammer to the left, sending all of the Dimentios in his path flying. He managed to grab a hold of a Thunder Rage in a chest and a Super Shroom from another ? Block. Besides, Tipral didn't need that. He was already at full HP, unlike Chopper…
"I guess the key's over there…" Chopper spun his hammer around again, clearing the path of the Dimentios until he got to a chest, where he found a Castle Tipral Key and another ? Block.
"Works for me!" he punched the block and received another Super Shroom.
"I'm not sure why… But I… I feel as if we're getting close to someone…" Tippi trailed. "Although, I'm not sure who…"
"Well, we'll find out," Chopper jumped out of the mirror and back to the other side. However, this was when the Dimentios began to fire magic particles at the duo as they jumped over the gaps and got to a locked door.
After Chopper struck the Save Block, he inserted the key into the lock. "All right… Let's head on through."
Next room-
As soon as they entered the next room, they felt like it was silent, just like the other times they've entered a room, like the room where Blade fought O'Chunks, where Kirby fought Mimi and where Sonic fought Dark. Although… The ceiling in this room was definitely closer to the ground.
"I feel something dark and evil in here…" Tippi trailed.
"Aha ha ha ha ha ha ha. So… You've made it here at last. I'm not so surprised." Dimentio greeted the counterparts politely as he waited for them to walk into the room.
"Dimentio… I have a bone to pick with you!" Tipral growled.
Ignoring Tipral, Dimentio noticed that it was only Chopper and Tipral in the room. "Oh, but…what's this? You two seem to be missing that pink puffball that reminds me of a gumball, that cocky hedgehog and that grouchy ninja."
"Dimentio… We don't have time to trade barbs with you…" Tippi warned. "Move out of the way!"
"Oh, no… I came here to end this clown!" Tipral growled. "That's one of my purposes, besides claiming that Chaos Heart! So, are you ready to fight once and for all?"
Both Chopper and Tipral got in their fighting stances. "We're not afraid to take you down, Dimentio… After all you've done, I think we should put an end to you! …But honestly, I'd like it if you got OUT of the way first."
"Ahhh, I see. You two are in a hurry. Allow me to get out of your way, then…" Dimentio snapped his finger and he disappeared from the room.
"Wait, so he's just letting us move on?" Chopper gawked. "Weird…"
"…Just as soon as you defeat me!" the jester added as his voice echoed through the room. "Aha ha ha ha ha. You have been proved to be a worthy foe in the past, Chopper…and also a very tough and violent ally, Tipral… So I'm not going to make this easy for you two. You'll have to come get me first. It'll be like a game of tag…with magic!"
"Oh, geez… Not THIS again…" the pale green gumball groaned as a sparkling white light emitted from above.
"Wait… That light… Chopper! It's a Dimensional Rift! Use Flippay on it!" Tippi suggested.
"Oh, so I finally get to use Flippay again? Nice!" Chopper used Flippay's power to reveal a blue ! Block. With one punch, he, Tippi, the Pixls and Tipral were immediately teleported out of Castle Tipral.
CHAPTER 1-1
"Where are we?" Tippi asked as she looked around.
"Whoa… We're back in Lineland Road?" Chopper gaped, looking at his surroundings. They were apparently in the second area of Chapter 1-1, in the very beginning of the area. This is the area after Chopper gained the Flip ability from Bestovius.
"This is where you started, huh?" Tipral looked up at the sky and saw The Void. It was much bigger than it was before. "This place is too light for my tastes. I'd rather not be in this dump."
"Oh, stop it already, Tipral!" Chopper frowned. "I haven't been here in a long time! I'm actually a bit happy!"
"Look! There!" Tippi spotted Dimentio hovering through the area, over all of the Goombas and Koopa Troopas.
"Well, we can't just stay here and look at the view. We better go after him!" Chopper started off by jumping on the Koopa Troopa that was right by him. Since the enemies still had the same HP as before in Lineland Road, he knew this was going to be a piece of cake to go through.
"So, I'm guessing some of these enemies are fairly simple if this was the first world you went through…" Tipral took a look at the door behind him. Unfortunately, for him, it wouldn't open.
"Well, then I guess we're just going to have to move on," Chopper kicked the Koopa shell into a couple of Goombas and Koopa Troopas, knocking them out of the area. The shell came back toward Chopper, but he stopped it with his hammer.
One of the Goombas ended up dropping a Turtley Leaf, which was capable of reducing any damage dealt to him by half. Nevertheless, he had it anyway and now had his defense boosted.
"All right, so basically, we need to go around this tall pipe," Chopper flipped into 3-D with Tipral and simply walked past the tall pipe. Tipral stomped on a Goomba while Chopper jumped on a shorter pipe with a ? Block. He grabbed the Mushroom out of it and recovered 10 HP.
"I'm surprised that all of the enemies are here…" Tippi trailed, looking surprised.
"Well, they don't seem to go away, so there's no real point in just leaving them. Besides, they give points!"
Chopper flipped back into 2-D after going past the pipes and saw two Brick Blocks and a ? Block in the middle. He smashed the two Goombas by punching the blocks. One of them contained a Mushroom.
"That one's mine," Tipral knocked Chopper to the ground and grabbed the Mushroom. "I felt the need to grab a hold of one of those…"
Tipral crossed the bottomless pit and kicked two Squiglets in his way with his Star Kick. He hit the three ? blocks to grab some coins and then struck the other one to find a Happy Flower.
"I think that's just going to waste my time," Tipral stated as he knocked a Koopa Troopa down a bottomless pit. He noticed a hill that could be walked on if you flipped into 3-D, but Chopper already took care of that.
"Thanks for knocking me down…" Chopper groaned as he walked over the hills in 2-D. He proceeded up the small blocks that were making stairs and jumped over the bottomless pit and down the stairs to find a Squiglet and a Squig.
"These guys…" Tippi groaned, glancing at the Squig. "These things were annoying when you first explored this world…"
"Well, it won't be hard now!" Chopper only had to toss two fireballs to get rid of the Squig and Squiglet. It didn't take any more than that.
"All right, so we made it to the end of this area, so now what?" Tipral asked as he made his way back to Chopper.
"Well, let's see…" Chopper looked around him, only to find a Dimensional Rift near him. "Oh! There it is! THAT'S what I was looking for!"
Using Flippay's power, Chopper revealed another blue ! Block. Without saying anything, he struck it with his fist, teleporting the two Dimentio style out of this world.
CHAPTER 2-4
Chopper and Tipral were teleported into another area. This time, it was an area that Chopper remembered dreading a lot.
"Is this Merlee's Mansion?" Tippi asked.
"No duh. The narrator just explained that." Chopper noticed that Dimentio was flying up into the mansion. "Ugh… Is this some sort of game of tag? I mean, why in THIS world anyway?!"
"We don't have time. Let's chase that stupid clown so I can destroy him!" Tipral jumped his way up the wooden platforms, starting with the ? Block and then up onto the platform with the doors. Chopper followed him too and noticed the doors.
"Say… Where is everyone anyway?" Chopper asked. "Shouldn't they be here somewhere?"
"Maybe they're in one of the rooms…" Tippi trailed, following Chopper through the hallway. Chopper tried to open the door where the VIP room was, but apparently it wouldn't open.
"The door's not opening… That's weird." Chopper walked over to the wall. "Well, there's not much to do except for going through here."
He flipped into 3-D and walked through the wall with no problem with Tipral. Upon flipping, they climbed the white ladder that was drawn to lead up to the upper floor with the electric fences – and also where the safe is.
"Ah, the safe… I remember when Kirby and I managed to find the combination to that thing and rob Mimi of 1,000,000 Rubees! That was such a classic moment to such a horrible mansion like this."
"What? You took her Rubees?" Tipral gawked. "Meh. I would've expected that from someone like you anyway."
"Yup!" Chopper used Slim's power to make him and Tipral go through the electrical fences and over to the safe, where they saw a Dimensional Rift floating right on the safe.
"There it is! Quickly! Take us out of here!" Tippi cried.
"I know! I don't wanna be back here!" Chopper used Flippay's power to reveal a blue ! Block, in which he punched in order to be taken out of this dreadful world.
CHAPTER 3-3
Chopper was surprised to see where they appeared next. "Hey! This is the Bitlands! It's the world where I saw Dark and he tried to attack me! …Thank goodness we're not in that Dotwood Tree. Ugh…"
"This place does not feel so familiar… It's all light." Tipral looked up at The Void in the sky. "I'll make sure that I finish the job!"
They noticed that Dimentio was flying over a couple of Fire Bros. that were spitting fireballs at their direction.
"Well well! I remember these guys!" Chopper smirked and tossed a couple of fireballs straight at them. "Now that I've got fireballs, I can give these guys a piece of their own mind!"
The fireballs hit the Fire Bros., disintegrating them in smoke. "Well that was pretty easy. I didn't expect them to go down like that, though…"
Chopper raced his way through the area until he saw another Dimensional Rift. "That's it? I expected this place to be a bit, well, longer."
As soon as he used Flippay's powers, he punched the block and was teleported out of the Bitlands with Tipral.
CHAPTER 4-2
As the two were teleported out of the Bitlands, they founded themselves in the fourth world. It was Planet Blobule! Well, that's what Chopper knew from looking at this world.
"Planet Blobule? I never thought we'd come back here!" Chopper looked around. "Squirps?! You there, buddy?"
"Ah ha ha ha!" Tipral noticed Dimentio flying off through the planet.
"We don't have time to sit here and look at the stars!" Tipral grabbed Chopper and threw him over by the beautiful-looking tree a bit above him before teleporting over to him.
"Hey! That wasn't necessary, Tipral!" Chopper growled.
"Then stop whining about it, you idiot," Tipral said coldly. "Either you just keep moving or you simply shut up! I don't want to have to put up with you any longer. I can't wait to get back to destroying you!"
"I wish I wasn't with you either!" Chopper frowned as he flipped into 3-D. "If you wanna get through here, then try to do it yourself!"
He made his way across the little bridge and through the little tunnel to land right by a red door. Tipral didn't really need to do any of that, because he simply teleported over to Chopper instead.
"Ugh… I wish I had the ability to teleport." Chopper groaned as he took care of the two Choppas in the room before finding a Dimensional Rift, which he opened by using Flippay's powers.
"Let's get out of this world," suggested Tipral as he struck the block with a Star Spear, teleporting them out of this world.
CHAPTER 5-4
Chopper and Tipral were teleported to another world. This time, they were inside of King Neptunian's Palace. The sad thing, though, was that the water wasn't back to normal, but it wasn't polluted outside.
"Whoa… We're back in this world?" Chopper noticed that he was right by the water. It was still the dark pink color that it was before. "Aw, man! You've gotta be kidding me! The water's STILL not back to normal?!"
"Well, it's not a big deal," Tipral grumbled.
They noticed that Dimentio was flying down into the polluted waters. "He's over there! He's heading straight into the water!" Tippi cried out.
"Well then we need to catch that guy!" Chopper jumped into the water and began to sink to the bottom. A couple of Chompers attempted to chomp at him, but his fireballs did them in easily.
"So, where do you think that Dimensional Rift is?" Chopper asked while swimming through the waters. He noticed that the small little crack from before was still there.
"Bah! I'm not going to bother with that!" Tipral retorted.
"Too bad. This is probably the only way." Chopper used Slim to turn sideways and to slip down the crack. Tipral sighed as he slipped down as well. To their surprise, the Dimensional Rift was around here.
"Well, I guess we'll be out of these waters…" Tippi trailed.
"Thank goodness!" Chopper used Flippay's power to reveal another blue ! Block. With one punch, they were teleported out of the world.
CHAPTER 6-1
The two were teleported into a world that looked incredibly blank. There was nothing by white and some ruined sand castles on the ground. Heck, they could even see a shovel sticking out of the ground.
"I don't believe it… We're in the World of Nothing!" Chopper gaped.
"This is where we fought and where Dimentio sent me to The Underwhere," Tipral remarked in anger. "I can't believe I LOST against you! I swear, if I really used my power, you would've lost!"
"Oh, get over it already, Tipral! We beat you. Deal with it." Chopper paused when he heard cackling from up ahead. Apparently Dimentio was flying through this world as well.
"I don't understand…" Tippi trailed. "Why did Dimentio bring us here? There's nothing really here…"
"Maybe he has a reason… But let's not get to any of that. We need to find that Dimensional Rift!" Chopper began to use his Speed Dash as he raced his way through the World of Nothing.
"I should start following him," Tipral mumbled as he skated toward Chopper. He was actually catching up to him quite easily.
"What the… How did you already catch up to me?!"
"These air shoes can do many things, you know," Tipral said as he hit Chopper in the face with his elbow. "And I did that because I hate you."
"Well, I certainly don't like you," Chopper frowned, braking as soon as he heard the sound of a Dimensional Rift. "All right! I can hear where it is!"
He used Flippay's power to reveal a blue ! Block. With one punch, they were teleported out of this dull dimension. I mean, what was the point of being here anyway? It's just…white and dull.
CHAPTER 7-4
Now that they've made it through six of the worlds they've been through so far, Dimentio teleported them to the last one before going back to Castle Tipral. And this time, he was going to throw in the hardest challenge for them yet: by sending both Chopper and Tipral to Overthere Stair, of course!
"Oh, no…" Tipral groaned as he looked at his surroundings. "Don't tell me… We're in this horrid world! The Overthere…"
"The Overthere…" Chopper frowned as he looked up at the clouds. "Oh, man… This reminds me of when we were taking Luvbi back to The Overthere… It just brings back those sad memories…"
Chopper began to sniffle before Tipral whacked him across the face. "What a crybaby! Are you still crying over that bratty girlfriend of yours?!"
"She's NOT my girlfriend, Tipral!" Chopper growled, glaring coldly at Tipral. "Why SHOULD I listen to you in the first place?! What? Just to make me feel even worse?! I bet my friends are here too!"
Tipral didn't seem to care what he had to say. "Like I have to listen to you either… You're probably the least manly kid I've ever met in my life."
Chopper frowned at Tipral. "…You're the least manly person I've ever met."
"…What did you just say?!" Tipral growled, turning to Chopper with his fists clenched. Star energy began to surround them.
"You heard me. You're the least manly person I've ever met." Chopper stated. "Is being manly all about beating the snot out of things? Of course not! I'll admit, I don't think I'm manly either, but at least I'm more manlier than you. I learn to accept things, while you… You just don't."
"Now's not the time to get into this…" Tippi interrupted. "We need to follow Dimentio and get back to Castle Tipral!"
"Yes, listen to the butterfly, Chopper," Tipral stated. "There's no time to be telling me something. I'd rather go stop that clown than listen to you."
"Fine, you heartless being," Chopper noticed that they were at the beginning of Stair 2, which was…a bit strange. Nevertheless, he stomped on a Beepboxer twice before taking it out.
He then punched the three ? Blocks that the Beepboxer was walking on. One had a Speed Flower, while the other two had Zombie Shrooms. Chopper grabbed the Speed Flower and stomped on the two Zombie Shrooms.
Though, he didn't feel like speaking because of being around the heartless Tipral. He simply ignored the other three set of ? Blocks and stomped on the Beepboxer to jump up onto a cloud above him.
He jumped up a couple of clouds to reach a Save Block, but he didn't bother to hit it. After crossing some smaller cloudy platforms, the speed went back to normal. They were standing right by a Springy Cloud.
"Well, I guess this will bring back some moments from climbing Overthere Stair…" Chopper trailed as he jumped onto the Springy Cloud, along with Tipral. They were both launched up to great heights, jumping on a couple of more until they landed on a cloud with a couple of Ruff Puffs and Beepboxers.
"This should be easy," Tipral snapped his finger at the enemies and destroyed them instantly. They proceeded up some smaller clouds until they saw another Springy Cloud to jump on.
"Where do you think the Dimensional Rift is?" Chopper asked.
"I'm not quite sure… Hopefully we can find it…" Tippi trailed.
They took the Springy Cloud up to another cloud with a Beepboxer, but it was trounced by Chopper's feet. The moving platform over to the left definitely showed that they were close.
"I can hear something… I think it's a Dimensional Rift!"
"That's good, Tippi!" Chopper smiled as he jumped on the platform and landed over by the red door. A Dimensional Rift was there, waiting for them.
"Well, this might be it!" Chopper used Flippay's power one last time to summon another blue ! Block. With one punch, the two were sent out of Overthere Stair.
Castle Tipral-
"Whew! We finally made it!" Chopper said, sighing in relief.
"Enjoying my game of tag?" chuckled Dimentio, who was waiting for the two in the room. Both Chopper and Tipral glared coldly at the jester as they walked over to him.
"Enough messing around," Tipral growled. "I've had it with you and your little tricks! You're starting to tick me off already, which you NEVER fail to do!"
"Messing with you? Oh, no. Magic is no laughing matter. I am always deadly serious."
"The expression on your face doesn't seem to show it," Chopper frowned.
"I have been watching you, Chopper. I knew you were the only one who would be able to defeat Tipral. I'm also sure you will able to defeat Count Bleck. So…I have a favor to ask you two. Will you help me…destroy the count?"
"Wait a second… Were you planning on doing this to me?!" Tipral clenched his fists. "ANSWER ME NOW!"
"Wait, you planned on betraying him AND this count guy?" Chopper gawked.
"Betray him? Ah ha ha ha. Oh, no. It is Count Bleck who has betrayed ME!" Dimentio explained. "You see, when he first appeared, he said that he would destroy all worlds and create a new, perfect world in his face. But he was lying!"
"Then… What does he want to do?"
"Now now, Chopper, I don't think I really need to reveal it," Dimentio shushed. "You see, I have always known about his nefarious goal. But I could never hope to stop him on my own. I feigned loyalty to you, Tipral, as I searched for someone who could defeat you with me! But, now that Count Bleck's here, I can have your help as well, Tipral!"
"You're kidding me…" Tipral grumbled.
Dimentio turned away from the two. "Yes, you see… That is why… I rescued a certain pink friend from brainwashing and a blue hedgehog. It's also why I let you through the Sand Castle, AND sent you to The Underwhere to fix the broken Pure Heart. And why I sent Tipral to get him and Chopper to work together in order to stop The Void… Now do you see?"
"I don't plan on stopping The Void. I want to USE it!"
"So you've…been helping us all this time?" Tippi gawked. "But…why?"
Dimentio faced the group with his happy look. "Ahhh, you've got me pegged. Now, how about you two return the favor? I'll give you the power you need to crush Count Bleck… Just fight by my side!"
"Look, Dimentio, I'm not buying it," Chopper shook his head. "This sounds like some sort of evil scheme. If that's what it is, then count me OUT!"
"So you refuse? But with the Chaos Heart in our hands, we can rule every world! After all I've done for you… Won't you repay me?"
"Forget it!"
"So you spit upon my offer? You have wasted my time. For that, your game ends." Dimentio's brought his attention toward Tipral. "I think I'll start with my good friend Tipral. Even after I sent him to The Underwhere… He still doesn't seem to give up. I have no need for him now."
"All right, then," Tipral cracked his knuckles as he gave Dimentio a cold look. "This is what I've been waiting to do! Chopper, you might as well leave and let me take care of this."
"Wait, but I need you to help me get to the Inner Sanctum!" Chopper frowned.
"Well, then go find it yourself. We're not on the same side, remember? And besides… I believe that you simply need to go through that door if you plan on going to the Inner Sanctum."
"But… I can't just leave you here! Sure, you're heartless, but it doesn't make me feel so good…"
"Look, I KNOW the others sacrificed themselves to save you. I guess I can do the same thing as well, if you're planning on trying to stop the Chaos Heart. Consider this…something nice from me. Everyone leave! That includes Tippi and the Pixls!"
Chopper didn't know what to say.
"I said GO!"
"…OK."
"Good. Don't waste your time helping me fight him. I want to settle this on my own!"
Chopper frowned as he slowly began to walk out of the room. Instead of leaving the room by going into the door to the left, he simply moved on ahead.
"Ah ha ha ha. How tender. I just squeezed out a tear." Dimentio said emotionlessly. "Yes… The little boy Chopper can run along. And if he somehow manages to defeat Count Bleck on his own…all the better! And so I strike, like an unseen dodge ball in an echoing gymnasium!"
"Finally! Now I can have my chance of getting revenge!" Tipral jumped toward Dimentio and attempted to punch him with a Star Punch, but the jester simply flipped into the third dimension.
"What the…"
"Ah ha ha ha! Oh, silly little Tipral! Even for someone as powerful as yourself, you don't have the ability to flip into the third dimension!" Dimentio cackled as he fired a spell down at Tipral.
"You little…! Come out here and show yourself!" Tipral growled, dodging the rest of Dimentio's spells. When the jester showed himself in 2-D, he immediately struck him with a Star Spear.
"If that's not enough, then this should be!" Tipral jumped toward Dimentio and kicked him across the face with a Star Kick. However, Dimentio managed to throw Tipral off of him and into the wall before getting attacked again.
"Now now, there's no need to use brute force on me!" Dimentio cackled, firing another magical spell down at Tipral. "Most people don't win when you use such a nasty tactic like that."
"I'm not using brute force. I'm just trying to destroy you." Tipral snapped his finger and Dimentio was struck by Star Magic, forcing the jester to teleport behind Tipral.
"Hmmmmmm… Perhaps I need to try something else!" before Tipral could strike him, he snapped his finger and disappeared. When he reappeared again, there were three Dimentios in the room.
"Are these more illusions?!" Tipral exclaimed.
"Why of course they are! I guess I'm forced to bring some of my clones here… But they'll DEFINITELY help!" the Dimentios fired three magic spells down at Tipral, but he simply teleported across the room to avoid them.
"Sure, I may not have my Dark Star Scepter with me, but I still have the ability to teleport! …Just not at long distances!" Tipral hurled a shadow ball straight at the real Dimentio, causing him to teleport across the room.
"Ugh… So you're stronger than I thought you were… But that's not going to stop me with my diabolical plan!"
"Well, I'll be the one to stop your stupid little plan! …But NOT as a hero!" Tipral grabbed Dimentio's foot and threw him across the room.
"Ah, so this is how you want to play," the jester teleported before he could collide with the wall. He simply struck Tipral with another one of his magic attacks, knocking him back a little bit.
"You do realize that you're not invincible without the Chaos Heart, so this should be easy pickings!"
"Think again, clown," Tipral snapped his finger and struck Dimentio with his Star Magic attack. "NO ONE gets away from THAT attack!"
"Ah ha ha ha. Oh, you are indeed correct!" Dimentio raised his hands up and summoned a box. Luckily, for Tipral, he managed to avoid it.
"Oh, you're not going to use that on me this time!" Tipral teleported above Dimentio and stomped on him, followed by a Star slamming kick attack that sent Dimentio flying to the ground.
"So, are you ready to give up just yet?" Tipral asked while landing on the ground. Although Dimentio moaned, he simply kicked his face to send him crashing into the wall.
"I thought so… Still refusing to give up as always!"
"Urk… Well… Let's see how you like this!" Dimentio was able to trap Tipral in another one of his boxes. "Ah ha ha ha! Now this is where the fun begins!"
With a snap of his finger, an explosion occurred inside of the box. Although, the explosion wasn't intense like before. It just…hurt Tipral instead of ending his game like it did before.
"What the… That…didn't end my game?" Tipral gawked while holding his arm in pain. He managed to get some flames off his shoulders before striking Dimentio with a shadow ball while he cackled.
"Hey, clown! Maybe next time you shouldn't cackle when I'm attacking you!"
"Ugh… I'm starting to get a little sick of you!" Dimentio growled as he raised a finger and fired another magic spell at Tipral. "Remember… I can't destroy him, or else my plan will be ruined!"
Tipral swung his arm and destroyed the magic spell with a Star Spear. It also went straight at Dimentio as well, forcing him to teleport somewhere else in the room.
He attempted to attack Dimentio again, but he flipped straight into 3-D. Now that he couldn't be seen, he used this to his advantage by throwing a spell at Tipral from behind, causing him to cringe in pain.
"Urgh… Where is that psychotic clown?!" he growled.
"Ah ah ah! No need to get in a little fuss, my dark friend!" Dimentio scolded. "Things will be just fine here… All you need to do is hold still and be a good little dark being that you should be!"
At this moment, Tipral knew Dimentio was getting angry, but he was angry himself. He snapped his finger again and struck Dimentio with another Star Magic attack that teleported him in front of him.
"Now I've got the upper hand!" Tipral began to punch Dimentio multiple times with Star Punches, leaving a lot of bruises on his face…although, he was only just leaving Dimentio's masked bruised.
"Such violence you have in you! It's like the violence of an angry child who had his candy taken by a fat kid!"
"I had enough of your similes, thank you very much," Tipral grabbed Dimentio's foot and threw him up toward the ceiling while throwing a couple of shadow balls at him to deal some massive damage.
"Ugh… I don't understand why you're wasting your time on me while you want to get the Chaos Heart." Dimentio wheezed wiping some dirt off of his poncho.
"You're the only one that's in the way of me getting the Chaos Heart," the dark being dodged Dimentio's spell and struck him with a Star Spear. "If I don't get rid of you, there' a big chance YOU'LL take the Chaos Heart yourself!"
"Yes… That is true…" Dimentio smirked as he summoned another box to enclose Tipral in. However, he was too fast. Tipral used the boxes the jester made as platforms and jumped on top of him.
"My my, you are quite aggressive…" Dimentio trailed as he pushed Tipral to the ground with a simple tap. "I do feel that I'm going to need to heal myself quite soon."
"And how do you plan on doing that?" Tipral asked, folding his arms.
"Oh, it's simple!" Dimentio raised a finger, which began to sparkle and soon healed Dimentio of 20 HP.
"What the… Since when could you do that?!"
"Well, I am the master of dimensions… A master magician such as myself definitely has the ability to heal themselves! …And they can also do this!"
Dimentio summoned a top hat and suddenly pulled Tipral out of it. "Ah ha ha ha!" he looked at him coldly while holding him by his feet. "Look at you. You honestly believe that you'll be getting a hold of the Chaos Heart! Your chance of getting it is slim, like a piece of cheese getting cut into small bits by a rhinoceros."
"…What the HECK did you just say?!" Tipral punched the jester in the face with a Star Punch, but at the cost of falling to the ground on his head. Nevertheless, he got up and drank a Super Shroom Shake to recover 20 HP.
"What's wrong, my leader…or should I say, Tipral? You can't handle me without healing yourself?" Dimentio taunted. "Perhaps you're being a bit…chicken."
Tipral's rage got even bigger as Dimentio began to make chicken sounds. He tackled the jester to the ground and began to violently punch him across the face a couple of times, finishing it off by shooting a Star Spear at him.
"Don't you EVER call me a chicken!" he yelled.
"Oh, such fury! Never in my life have I met someone who was as angry as you!" Dimentio smirked as he snapped his finger, disappearing and reappearing with two other Dimentios.
"Oh, great… Not THIS move again.
"Ah ha ha ha! Guess who's the real one?" the Dimentios cackled as they each fired three magic projectiles toward Tipral. He managed to teleport to avoid them, but he managed to catch the real one after stomping on the one to his right.
"Enough of this already, Dimentio. I KNOW that you're going to be using the same attacks. Come up with something different!" Tipral jumped toward Dimentio, but was struck by one of his spells.
"Ah, so you want me to mix it up a bit! That, I can do!" Dimentio summoned a box that surrounded Tipral and snapped his finger to set off a violent explosion that almost knocked him out.
"Once I'm done with you, I'll be able to go follow that little boy through the Inner Sanctum so I can watch him defeat Count Bleck! The Chaos Heart will soon be mine when he's done that!"
"I'm not going to let you do that," Tipral growled, kicking Dimentio and sending him flying toward the wall.
"Well, you seem to be getting more violent," the jester brushed all of the dirt off of his poncho. It was starting to look a little ripped. However, Tipral was also a bit battered up from the battle as well.
"Go ahead, clown. Make your move."
"Then I shall!" Dimentio raised his finger, which began to sparkle, but was soon struck after Tipral snapped his finger. "Hmmmm… So I see you are very weary of what I'm going to do… However, I can just heal myself and let you waste all of your healing potions! Then I will be victorious!"
"That's where you're wrong."
"And what do you plan on doing?"
"Oh, I'll show you what I can do!" Tipral's eyes began to glow a red color. With one flash, everything was frozen in time. No one but Tipral could freely move around in the room.
"Good, now this is where I put an end to this battle!" Tipral began to bash Dimentio a couple of times with kicks and punches, then he snapped his finger to strike him with Star Magic before having his eyes flash again to make time go back to normal.
"Urk… What did you just do?!" Dimentio wheezed.
"Something you can't do!" Tipral clenched is fists as he was surrounded by purple energy. "Star Blast!"
With one intense pulse attack, the whole room was struck by an intense Star Blast attack that nearly damaged the room. It also left the jester to beg for mercy.
"NOOOOO!" With one cry, the jester teleported to the center of the room, stumbling around and crying. "I… I cry uncle! Mercy! UNCLE, I SAY!"
"So, you finally beg for mercy?" Tipral questioned after walking over to the jester. "I don't think you had quite enough. If you don't want to die, I would suggest that you leave the universe. Forever."
"I-I see that now…" Dimentio quickly shook his head and was now paying attention. "Very well. I guess I might as well leave this place. Oh, poor me…"
He smirked for a minute. "However, your power is formidable…which is exactly why I can't let you fall into Count Bleck's velvet-lined gloves…"
Dimentio floated to the ground and summoned another box. But this time, it enclosed both him AND Tipral inside.
"What the… What are you doing?!" Tipral gawked as he tried to punch and kick his way out of the box.
"Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha. I finally have you now! Tipral! We will both taste the agony of game-overing…by magic!"
"WHAAAAT?! YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!"
"Ciao!" Dimentio snapped his finger and the box began to explode. Tipral's screams could be heard inside the box, while Dimentio's cackling could also be heard from inside.
Next room-
"Uwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Chopper began to stumble around on the ground as the violet tremors could be felt from the other room.
"What's going on in there?!" Tippi gawked.
"I… I don't know!" as soon as the shaking stopped, Chopper began to breath heavily. Wondering what was going on through that door, he walked over and attempted to open it.
No luck.
"Oh, no… The door's not opening!" Chopper turned around and looked down at the ground with a sad look. "I don't believe it… It's just me now…"
"Chopper… Are you all right?" Tippi asked, fluttering over to the small hero.
"No, Tippi… I'm not all right. I've just lost all of my friends so far. Kirby… Sonic… Blade… Heck, even Tipral's gone now…"
"Did you…care about him?"
Chopper looked up at her. "He's an insensitive, evil person, but I have pity for him. I don't know what caused him to be such a heartless being, but I wish there was a way to stop that."
"I wish there was a way, too…" Tippi trailed.
Chopper wiped a tear off his face and clenched his fist. "However, I can't just sit here and grieve. I don't want to be like all of those other brooding people. We need to keep going."
"But… Chopper…" Tippi sighed. "I guess you're right… We have to keep going…"
"Even if it hurts to leave my friends behind, they'd probably want me to stop this Count Bleck person. That's the only thing I can really do now."
Up ahead, he noticed a Star Block. However, he didn't feel the need to run straight over to it. He walked and performed a soft jump under the Star Block.
"I just hope things turn out for the better in the end…"
END OF CHAPTER
A frigid wind blew through the dim and drafty corridors of Castle Tipral. Blade, Kirby, Sonic…and even Tipral were gone. Chopper was the only hero left. It was up to Chopper to stop the dark prophecy. Every world hung in the balance. What thrilling evil awaited our hero? Chopper ran quickly to the inner sanctum, where Tipral had meetings, his antennae fluttering through the breeze…
Hoo boy... This was an intense chapter...although going through those other seven worlds was a BIT annoying. I'm pretty sure some of you guys are asking me why I put different places. Well... I felt like it. It was to make things a bit interesting.
Next up: Chopper explores the Inner Sanctum of Castle Tipral with Tippi...and hopefully they find Count Bleck and stop him before it's too late.