CHAPTER 9-1
-A Sweet Surprise-
As this world was beginning to get drawn, the first thing that could be seen were a couple of sweets in the background. Heck, the floor was actually made of delicious cake with pink icing on the top! When it all got colored, the sky itself was a nice, light pink color with a couple of chocolate in the background.
As the group walked out of the pink door, they were surprised with what they were seeing. They were in a world filled with sugary sweets! This almost felt like heaven for some people.
"Poyo? (Why couldn't THIS world be The Overthere?)" Kirby cried as he inhaled a piece of chocolate right near him and swallowed it.
"My god… It's almost like we've run into paradise here…" Blade looked down at the large cake ground they were standing on. "Holy crap! We're right on some cake! How delicious!"
He was about to take a bite of it, but Chopper immediately slapped his arm. "Hey! What was that for?!"
"But you're standing on it! Plus, I want to be able to eat such…delicious…sweet…sugary…chocolatey…" Chopper began to drool as he looked at a lollipop up ahead. "It looks so good..."
"Chopper… Are you talking to yourself?" Sonic asked.
"No, I was just trying to…resist…sweet…lollipop!" Chopper tried to pull himself away from the lollipop, but he couldn't resist. He grabbed the lollipop and began to lick the delicious thing.
"Poyo! (He's just enjoying the candy here!)" Kirby squealed as he ate one last piece of chocolate.
"It doesn't seem safe for him to eat that," Sonic looked down at some of the sprinkles. "Man, I don't know how long I can resist this stuff…" he grabbed a large sprinkle and ate the whole thing.
"Hey! I can't eat any of these things?!" Blade growled.
"Oh, shut up, Blade. I think we should get going." Sonic pulled Kirby away from the chocolate and Blade managed to get a hold of Chopper, who continued to taste the delicious lollipop.
"NO! Let me FINISH!" Chopper cried.
"Dude! Get some sense into you!" Blade slapped him across the face, trying to get his conscience back. "Whoa… I hope I didn't hit you too hard."
"Intruders!" a chocolate donut with sprinkles holding a club made of chocolate was charging at the heroes. "You do not deserve to be here, you eaters! Leave this place or die!"
"What the… Are these guys bad or something?" Blade drew his katana, but he soon realized that the club was made of chocolate. "Oh, wait… This guy's weapon is made of chocolate. It's not going to hurt."
The enemy known as a Choconut, tried to swing at Blade, but the ninja himself simply took a bite from the chocolate club. "Mmmmmmm! Tastes just like my great aunt's chocolate!"
"Argh! Take this!" the Choconut kicked Blade in the shin, causing him to stop and hold it in pain.
"Poyo, (I got this,)" Kirby inhaled the Choconut and swallowed it. The only downside to that was that he didn't get any abilities from it at all. However, he DID recover only about 1 HP from it.
"Whoa, did Kirby just recover 1 HP from that? Weird…" Sonic trailed as he noticed a slope going down ahead. He simply ran down, getting an increased speed as he curled up in a ball and knocked away a couple of Choconuts that were willing to attack the group.
"Well, we better follow him," Chopper quickly got out of his trance and ran down the slope, making sure Kirby would follow him. "No more sugar for me… It's just…bad for me."
"Poyo… (Awwww… No fair!)" Kirby pouted as he followed Chopper over to Sonic. Apparently he already got to some large jelly-filled donut…with sprinkles!
"Wow… That is one delicious donut there." Blade drooled. "Mind if I take a bite of this thing?"
"Don't! We need to run on this thing if we're going to go up that steep hill over there!" Sonic objected, pointing to a steep hill up ahead. "And there's no way I can actually climb up that thing…"
"Yeah, we need to use this donut to get up there," Chopper jumped on it and began to run on it. To his surprise, the donut began to spin around and move its way up to the red door on the steep slope.
"I never knew donuts could fly," Blade gawked as he tried running on it.
"Donuts don't fly. This one's just on some kind of…whatever they call them. I think it's attached to something."
"Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean by that… You don't NEED to explain to me about that anyway." Blade jumped off the donut as soon as the donut reached the top of the upper part of the cake ground.
"Poyo! (I can't wait to find some more sweets!)" Kirby drooled, looking down at the ground. "Poyo! (I could just inhale this thing!)"
"Kirby! Don't!" Chopper said, pulling him away and over to the door. "We're not eating this entire place! As delicious as it is… We don't wanna cause any huge problems with this world."
"All we can do is simply move on through this door," Sonic stated, pointing to the door. "I'm sure we'll find something interesting through there."
He jumped off the large donut and walked into the door. Chopper and Kirby immediately followed, with Blade heading through last.
…But not before taking a bite from the jelly-filled donut!
"Mmmmm! There's jelly in this thing!" Blade said with a smile. "…I'd try to take bite of some of the other stuff here, but I feel that it would be sort of jerkish just to get fat here and let the others go through on their own."
He followed the trio through the door into another large area with two pathways to take. They WILL lead them to the same area, that's for sure. The way up is led up by some cake platforms that could fall, and the other leads down to a wall and down to a spring with a couple of Buzz Bombers around.
"Buzz Bombers? I didn't expect to see those guys here! …I guess I'll handle them." Sonic curled up in a ball and performed a Spin Dash down the curve leading down to the wall, where he hit the spring and took out the Buzz Bomber with a Spin Jump.
"Man, that was pretty cool," Chopper smirked as he looked down the curve. "However, I think I'm going to take the upper path. Why? I wanna see what's going on up there. Who's with me?"
"Poyo! (I'll go with you!)" Kirby shouted, taking Chopper's side.
"I guess I'll go find Sonic then," Blade slid down the curve and began to tumble around on the ground as soon as he hit the spring.
"Oh, man… That didn't go too well…" Blade got himself up and followed Sonic after drawing his katana. He came at some of the Koopatrols that were trying to block Sonic from moving on.
"Man, I didn't expect there to be these guys here!" Sonic panted, sending one Koopatrol flying with a Whirlwind. Blade jumped toward it and finished it off by bringing his katana down at it.
"Well, at least we're kicking butt though!" the ninja smirked.
"True, but we don't know what these guy's stats are," while he spoke, Sonic managed to curl in a ball again and strike down another Koopatrol in his path. "…Maybe you should fight some of these guys. You DO have higher attack power."
"Yeah, so I'll do more fighting!" Blade smirked as he slashed at a Choconut a couple of times near a small hill leading down to a little tunnel that looked like it required you to go into a ball.
"Oh, crap! I can't even curl up into a ball!"
"Oh… I just realized that. How do we get you through then?" Sonic looked carefully around the area, only to find a lollipop blocking a tunnel in the wall. He simply destroyed it with a Homing Attack to reveal it.
"Well, there ya go, Blade. Now you can get through."
"Damn! You just destroyed a lollipop!" Blade frowned as he used the stick part to get up to the tunnel (by standing on it with his ninja skills, of course). In no time, he was already there.
Blade walked through the small tunnel and came out of the wall, where he landed on the cake ground. Sonic ended up busting through the ground and coming up from the ground with a jump.
"Well that was pretty enjoyable! We gotta do more of that often!" Sonic grinned.
"I wonder where Chopper and Kirby are right now," Blade wondered.
Upper pathway, with Chopper and Kirby-
Chopper and Kirby made their jumps on the cake platforms and up onto the thicker cake platform, which could fall off. There was even a loop up ahead and a couple of Shy Guys.
"Oh, boy… There's Shy Guys around here…" Chopper noticed that they were carrying lollipops and pieces of small cake. Oh, and a green Shy Guy was holding a green jellybean up.
"Poyo! (This is just awesome!)" Kirby kicked the red Shy Guy first, making it drop its lollipop. He then got on Carrie and jumped on it a couple of times to defeat it. Then he ate the lollipop to recover some HP.
"Poyo? (This only recovers about 1 HP?)" Kirby gawked.
"Well, if they gave you a lot of HP, I think this world would've been a bit too easy…" Chopper brought his hammer down on the yellow Shy Guy and inhaled the small cake, getting a sugary feeling inside of his mouth.
"…I REALLY need to stop eating this stuff. My mom told me to NEVER eat sugar anyway…"
"Poyo? (Why did she say that?)"
"Because sugar's not really good for you," Chopper explained. "Well, I hear that it's not good for your teeth, but I don't have teeth. HOWEVER, I get some big sugar rushes when I eat sugar, so it makes me go crazy!"
Kirby looked confused, but he decided to forget about it and follow Chopper, who ran through the loop and jumped on a spring leading higher up in this world, over by another cake platform.
"Poyo, (I'll just simply float up there,)" Kirby took in some air and began to float up to the platform Chopper was waiting by. There were a couple of other platforms, but in between them were these candy cane mints that looked like they were bounceable.
Oh, and there were a couple of Fly Guys around here as well.
"Why are there so many Fly Guys here? I thought we'd be done with Bowser's minions? …Unless he's here?" Chopper's antennae sprung up.
"Poyo? (Bowser? You mean that Koopa guy we've encountered a couple of times five months ago?)" Kirby remarked.
"Yeah, it's him. Apparently I found him in a castle somewhere on Lineland Road. I believe it was in Lineland Highlands, if I could recall… What he was doing there, I don't know, but I DO know he's probably somewhere else now at least… Maybe Tipral did something with him again."
"Poyo, (Well, we'll never know,)" Kirby floated over to the next platform, while Chopper ended up jumping. He ended up hitting the little candy cane mint, but he ended up bouncing up a little onto the next platform.
"Whoa… That was weird! Did that thing just make me bounce onto here? Let me try it with this one!" Chopper jumped on the next small candy cane mint called a Bobbin, which bounced him to the next platform Kirby was on.
"Yeah, this is definitely weird…" Chopper jumped on another cake platform that was close to him, but a bit higher up than before. He saw a couple of cake platforms close together, as well as another Fly Guy that was around.
"Kirby, I want you to take care of the Fly Guy. I have a feeling those platforms are going to fall…"
"Poyo! (Got it!)" Kirby got some air into him and floated over to the Fly Guy, letting out a puff of air at it a couple of times to defeat it. Chopper, on the other hand, used a Speed Dash to run through the platforms.
"Whoa! They're falling!" Chopper gaped as he looked back. Unfortunately, he didn't noticed a spring pointing at an upper right angle – which ended up launching him a bit over to the ground.
"Poyo! (Hold on, Chopper! I can come help!)" Kirby began to float down where Chopper fell. Apparently, he fell right on top of the blue ninja Blade, who didn't even see him coming.
"Whoa! You sure came from above!" Sonic said in surprise.
"GET OFF OF ME!" Blade barked, his face flat on the cake ground. But, while Chopper got off of him, he took a bite of the piece of the ground.
As soon as Kirby floated down, Blade got up and they certainly noticed the bite mark on the ground.
"Blade… What did we tell you about eating the floor?" Chopper asked with an irritated look on his face.
"Yeah yeah, I remember…" Blade groaned as he walked up to a ladder made of chocolate. "…You might NOT want to use your flames here. I think this thing could melt if you do so…"
"Well, I don't think he'll allow us to go to the top," Sonic pointed to a dark being with a round head separated from its oval body, with separate hands containing four fingers as well. It had red, glowing eyes, and an antenna with a red bulb on the top.
"Oh, no… Don't tell me there are still some Darklings around here." Chopper smacked his forehead. "Great. Just great."
He decided to go up first, climbing up the ladder and pulling his hammer out to bash the Darkling. He was lucky to be successful. Chopper climbed the top and stood on a chocolate platform with a red door standing on it.
"Let's hurry through here before those whole chocolate ends up melting from any intense heat," Chopper suggested as he waited for his friends to show up and walk into the next area with him.
"Well, we certainly hit something nice!" Blade's jaw dropped as he saw a small town up ahead. The houses were made of gingerbread houses with a couple of lollipops. Heck, there was a chocolate bunny right next to him.
"Excuse me for a moment," he grabbed the chocolate bunny and took a bite from it. But it was soon inhaled and swallowed by Chopper.
"Blade, don't try eating any more of those things," Chopper scolded. "We're not going to eat the whole place up. Yeah, I know this is coming from someone who LOVES to eat, but eating an entire world? That's just not right…"
"Poyo, (Well, maybe we'll be able to find something interesting around this town,)" Kirby took a couple of steps and walked over to the sign right by him. He began to read what it said.
Welcome to Sweet Town! This is the home to many delicious sweets! …Although we don't allow outsiders to eat us.
"Wait, so we're in a place called Sweet Town?" Chopper asked. "Well, that sounds a bit…"
They all fell over when they heard an explosion coming from the town. "What the heck was that?!" Blade gawked.
"We better check and see," Chopper rushed straight into town, where a couple of people that tasted just like candy were hiding in their houses. Heck, some were even gingerbread men and women!
They noticed a couple of large green robots with tough cannonballs for fists and a face that resembled Fawful. The only thing that they knew from looking at it was that it was one of Fawful's robots. A Mechawful, that is.
"Uh oh… Don't tell me FAWFUL'S here!" Chopper groaned.
"Fawful? You mean that guy that we've encountered in The Overthere?" Blade asked.
"Yeah, he's the one," Sonic confirmed. "I don't know how he found us, but apparently he's now attacking this place. …But for what reason?"
"I have no idea, but we can't let him cause harm to this place, that's for sure!" Chopper got in a fighting stance and tossed a fireball at the Mechawful that was firing lasers at some of the houses. It immediately turned around and flew up toward the group and came down over by them.
"Whoa, this thing's pretty big, but I doubt it's tough!" Blade sliced it up in one go with a flaming slash. "You see? That was easy! Good thing my katana is capable of cutting through tough material."
"Nyeah heh heh heh! Fawful wants to have the laughing at you candy people!" a familiar voice could be heard throughout the town. The green bean himself, Fawful was standing on a hovering platform that hovered down to the four.
"Fawful? How did you… How in the world did you get out of The Overthere?!" Chopper gaped.
"Fink-rats?! HERE?!" Fawful glared at the heroes (despite grinning). "Why must Fawful have to run into you fink-rats?! Does the sugars that run into your brain make you want to catch Fawful?"
"No, really. Why are you here?"
Fawful gave them a big grin. "Now that Fawful recalls… Fawful had the rescuing! The rescuing of a dark being! He even had the discussion of Fawful joining his team to destroy the fink-rats!"
"Wait… You joined Tipral's side?!" Sonic got in a fighting stance. "I guess he's here to stop us from getting the Pure Heart!"
"You have the correcting! Also, I have chortles when I see these candy people having the suffering!"
"Poyo? (You LIKE to see these tasty people suffer?)" Kirby gawked.
"I have no understanding."
"You know, nothing you say really makes sense. Let's just take you down right now and claim that Pure Heart!" Blade was about to strike Fawful with his katana, but a large, pink boar-like person with a yellow armadillo shell and black spikes knocked Blade back with his own belly.
"Huh? Who're you?"
"Fawful introduces you to…Midbus!" Fawful announced, opening his arms and looking down at Midbus. "Introduce yourself, Midbus!"
"So you are the famous heroes. You're too late. Lord Fawful's plan is successful." Midbus bluntly stated. Chopper, Kirby, Sonic and Blade gave him a blank look.
"Uhhh… How come you speak in such small sentences?" Chopper asked.
"I have no sentences."
"Wait... Huh? But that doesn't even make sense!"
"Sense is for the weak. Now you leave." Midbus took out a remote and pressed a red button, making two Mechawfuls hover down to the ground in front of them. "Enjoy the beating!"
Fawful and Midbus took off, leaving only the four heroes to face the two Mechawfuls alone. Chopper started off by tossing a couple of fireballs at the first Mechawful, setting it on fire. Kirby got in Carrie and finished it off by jumping on top of it.
"We'll handle the other one," Sonic curled up in a ball and performed a Whirlwind around the last Mechawful, then performing a Homing Attack on it to weaken it. Blade simply used a flaming slash to slice the enemy in half.
"Whew! Well that took care of that!" Blade said, sighing in relief.
"Well, what about all of these townspeople? Should we at least talk to them?" Chopper asked.
"Why… H-Hello there… Are you going to eat us?" one person made of peppermint asked.
"Eat you? Well… I don't think eating people is right, so no." Chopper replied while shaking his head.
"Well, if you'd like us to let you leave this town, I think I'll do that for you," the man named Peppermint said as he opened the chocolate gate. "Usually when outsiders are around, we'd like them to leave immediately."
"All we're here for is the Pure Heart. I suppose you haven't heard of it, though…" Sonic trailed.
"Well, in actuality, I believe the king of the Sweet Kingdom had some sort of token that's shaped like a heart. He says he plans on giving it to the next heir of the throne. …Although it might not be easy to get to his castle with all of these beanish people here."
"Why do you fear him, though? He's just a harmless little bean." Blade snickered.
"The thing is… Us sweet people don't like those veggies. They're not that tasty, and they… They always try to attack us in some way! If you're here to stop them, then please go on ahead."
"Poyo? (What? We don't get to see the mayor? No talking to people here?)" Kirby said with a surprised look. "Poyo! (This is just…strangely unusual!)"
"Trust me, Kirby… Not every town is friendly. These guys just fear us, so they're simply letting us through. How simple is that?" Chopper walked past the gate and made his way over to the red door ahead. "Come on, guys! I don't think we have much further to go anyway!"
Kirby, Sonic and Blade followed him into the next area, which was apparently flat, but filled with those candy cane Bobbins. They were in some small pits that you can roll around in if you wanted to.
"Hey, those remind me of those pits where I can curl up in a ball!" Sonic grinned while jumping into the pit. "I'm gonna see how it's like in here!"
He did a Spin Dash that sent him up, but he let himself roll through the pit and up onto the Bobbin, where he bounced on it and hit a ? Block. A Super Shroom popped out and made its way away from the pit.
"We better go get that," Chopper jumped over the pit and caught the Super Shroom. He split it into four and gave each of them a piece. "Gee, it sure feels a bit weird without Tipral with us…"
"Poyo, (Maybe it's because we were used to having five people with us for a bit,)" Kirby said as he finished his Super Shroom. "Poyo. (Usually we get so used to having someone around that it feels so different.)"
"Yeah, that's true," Chopper turned around and brought his hammer down on a Shy Guy coming straight at him, then he attacked a Darkling afterward, making it drop a Super Shroom Shake.
"Gee, we're sure hitting a jackpot of these Darklings, right?" Blade asked as he took another Darkling out. Up ahead they noticed a stair of platforms with a flipper at the end of each platform.
"Man, now things are starting to remind me of Mobius…" Sonic trailed as he jumped up the platforms and performed a Homing Attack on a green Waddle Doo that attempted to attack.
"Hey! I wanted to get its ability!" Chopper frowned as he made his way up the platforms and over to a large gap that looked as if only Kirby could get past.
"Poyo! (Don't worry, I got this!)" Kirby took in a bunch of air as he floated over the large gap and over to a blue ! Switch. With one kick, he made a chocolate bridge appear for the three heroes to cross.
"Oh, man… Seeing all of this food just makes me want to… No, Chopper!" Chopper slapped himself in the face. "Don't. Eat. ANYTHING here!"
Unfortunately, he couldn't resist it. Up ahead over by the red door was a Choconut that was firing hot fudge from its chocolate gun. Chopper couldn't help but inhale it to recover 1 HP.
"…And you said that I couldn't eat any of this," Blade said with a blank look.
"Uhhh… I just couldn't help myself." Chopper smiled nervously as he followed the rest of the group through the door. Unfortunately, this area was a bit small, only having a door nearby, a sign in between and a couple of stumps up ahead.
"Hey, those stumps look like they could be hit!" Sonic looked at Screwdy. "All right, let's go show those stumps who's boss!"
He jumped onto the stumps and performed a corkscrew on them, but nothing happened, to no avail.
"What the… How come it didn't work?" Sonic tried a couple of times to bring the stump down, but it seemed a bit too tough for even a corkscrew to take down. "This doesn't make sense… Why can't I bring it down?!"
"Hey, Sonic! You might wanna check out this sign!" Blade grinned, pointing to the sign.
"Poyo! (It's got some interesting stuff here! Stuff you might like!)" Kirby smiled.
"All right, let me go take a look at it," Sonic walked over to the sign and took a look at it. He raised his eyebrows at what he saw, though.
Tips for the hero holding the Pixl that's shaped like a screw:
You know, these delicious grounds are made of cake, right? Well… There's a secret! If you use a corkscrew on this cake ground, you'll be able to discover some nice secrets! Just use the corkscrew and you'll be drilling through the ground in no time! This is something you MUST remember!
"Heh-Hey! This is interesting!" Sonic grinned. "So I can actually drill through the ground with Screwdy? That's something I REALLY like! C'mon, Screwdy! Let's see what you can do here!"
"Well this is going to be truly something!" Screwdy said cheerfully as Sonic drilled through the ground. There wasn't much down below except for a chest that contained an Ultra Shroom Shake.
How he got out of there? Well, there was a spring that only a corkscrew can be used on, which let him drill up. When he landed on the ground, he showed the Ultra Shroom Shake he discovered.
"Nice!" Chopper gave him a thumbs up before walking over to the door. "Well the only thing we can really do at this moment is walk through this door. Hopefully we'll find something through here…"
Everyone agreed and they headed through. The area was simply flat, just like the other, and it was somewhat small. But, they could also hear someone's voice. Another voice that felt somewhat familiar.
"Gra ha ha ha ha! I can't believe it! I've finally done something I've always wanted to achieve! I, King Bowser, have finally captured Mario!"
"Hold on… Did I just hear Bowser's name?!" Chopper's antennae sprung up in shock. Up ahead was Bowser with a couple of his minions, such as Koopatrols, Hammer Bros., Boomerang Bros., and even the old Magikoopa herself, Kammy Koopa.
"Your Graciousness," Kammy began like he usually would. "Now that you've got a hold of Mario, what do you plan on doing now? Kidnap the princess again?"
"Oh, of course, Haggy! That's what I've been trying to do this whole time! I can probably get her to marry me easily when I tell her I have Mario captive! It's just pure genius!"
Mario: She's not here, though!
Apparently, Mario was tied up to a pole, where he couldn't do any harm. Bowser looked back at Mario and gave him an angry growl.
"Oh, yeah? Well, I'll… I'll go to another world to find her! I'll go find a portal and it'll take me the Mushroom Kingdom! Plain and simple!" this was when Mario knew Bowser was at a loss of words.
"Too bad there's no way to get back to the Mushroom Kingdom so far," Chopper interrupted, walking over to Bowser. "All right, Bowser… Tell me what you're doing here."
Mario noticed Chopper's arrival. He tried his best to wave, but since his arm was tied up to the pole, there was no way of doing that. However, Chopper was able to wave to him.
"Ack! Your Nastiness! It's that annoying little boy from before!" Kammy squawked.
"Hey, there's still us too!" Blade added, walking over with Chopper, as well as Kirby and Sonic.
"I don't care WHO you guys are! And I don't care how you got here! What REALLY does matter is that I get my revenge upon Chopper for what he's done! You! Me! FIGHT!"
"Wait, what do you…" Chopper was interrupted when Bowser stomped on the ground and created a barrier between him and Bowser, just like before. However, he still had some Pixls in his possession.
"Ugh, Bowser… You did this before. And guess what? I ended up beating you! Just let go of Mario, all right? We've been looking for him for QUITE a while…"
"Well, too bad for you! I've already got Mario tied up! And there's certainly nothing you can do about it! Wanna know why? 'Cause this is the last fight you'll ever have! Yup! I'll be the final boss this time!"
"Oh, come on… YOU as the final boss? Please! I highly doubt that this is the final chapter anyway! Why? Well, last adventure had about twenty places for me to explore, and there are twenty Pure Hearts for me to find. I honestly believe that this is certainly NOT the end."
While Chopper was talking, he ended up getting fried by Bowser's fire breath. "OK, next time, I can't talk when a battle starts."
"Woo-hoo!" "Go Bowser!" "Rah! Rah! Rah" "Show him who's boss!" "Burn that boy down!" "Your Fieriness! He will not succeed!" apparently Chopper could hear the minions cheering for Bowser behind the barrier.
"Yeah, yeah! Keep it coming, you guys!" Bowser said as he turned to his minions. "I know for a fact that Chopper's going to be…"
Chopper managed to bash Bowser's tail with his hammer, forcing him to whirl around toward him. However, he ended up getting whacked in the belly by Chopper's hammer as well.
"Oof! Why you little!" Bowser used his own claws to strike Chopper with his Poison Claw attack, poisoning Chopper horribly.
"Ack! He…cough…poisoned me!" Chopper began to let out a bunch of terrible coughs. His face started to look a bit pale, and not to mention he was starting to take some damage from the poison as well.
"Gwa ha ha ha! I knew this would be easy!" with one flaming punch, Bowser knocked Chopper back by the barrier, then he began to spit fireballs toward him, which struck him at each time.
Mario: Don't give up!
"Must…heal…" Chopper wheezed as he pulled out a Shroom Shake. With one gulp, he recovered 10 HP and also cured himself of the poison. "Wow… I can cure poison by healing myself? Strange…"
"WHAT?! That didn't work?!" Bowser grit his teeth angrily as he got into his shell and began to roll toward Chopper. However, by flipping into 3-D, he was able to easily avoid this and toss a fireball at Bowser's tail as soon as he flipped back.
"YOUCH!" Bowser began to run all over the area, trampling Chopper (unintentionally) and crashing into the wall. Chopper managed to get back up and kick Bowser with a spinning kick as soon as he turned around.
"I don't want to jump on him like I did before when I first fought him. I'd only be hurting myself then." Chopper thought as he tossed another fireball at Bowser, dealing some more damage to him.
"Fireballs aren't going to save you in this fight, Chopper!" Bowser growled as he tried to use his flaming breath to attack Chopper. But, since Chopper was faster, he managed to jump out of the way.
"Grah! Why can't you just burn or something?!" Bowser came charging at Chopper as soon as he landed on the ground, knocking him back. He then got in his shell and tried to roll over him.
"I'm not going to let you do THAT to me," Chopper jumped off the barrier and used a flaming slamming kick on Bowser's nose as soon as his head appeared out of his shell, making him suffer a burn. He managed to give Chopper a punch, however.
"C'mon, kid! Just get up and give 'em some good whacking!" Blade shouted, trying to strike the barrier with his katana. Unfortunately, for him, things weren't working out too well for him.
"Poyo, (It's not going to work, Blade,)" Kirby informed, letting out a sigh. "Poyo. (Chopper's just going to have to take care of it himself.)"
"Yeah, thanks, Kirby," Chopper said as he whacked at Bowser again with his hammer. Bowser tried spitting a fireball at him, but he simply inhaled it and spat it back at the large Koopa.
"Grah! STOP IT!" Bowser got into his shell and slammed the ground as hard as possibly to send Chopper flying up in the air. As he fell to the ground, Bowser stomped over to him and jumped right on top of him.
"Don't think I'll be incredibly easy like three months ago! I'm going at you at full force!"
"Well, I wish you would just leave us alone," Chopper wheezed as he got up. "I mean, come on! TIPRAL is the real bad guy here! You're seriously going to let HIM get away with everything he's done?!"
"When I kidnap the princess, I'll soon be able to conquer this whole universe easily!" Bowser folded his arms. "And maybe I'll go back to taking that Star Rod! Maybe that weapon will take that villain down so I can take his place!"
"I highly doubt that," Chopper used Flippay to make Bowser dizzy for him to bash him with his hammer. Bowser, on the other hand, managed to grab a hold of Chopper and throw him to the wall.
"Quit it already, Bowser! That's just getting annoying!"
"Your FACE is annoying!" Bowser growled as he spat a couple of fireballs toward Chopper.
"Oh, man… That joke's so overused…" Chopper smacked his forehead and then inhaled the fireball to spit at Bowser, causing some more damage to him, but not defeating him just yet. "Oh, wait… I remember something!"
Chopper inhaled another fireball Bowser spat and swallowed it to become Fire Chopper. Bowser ended up bursting in laughter at the sight of him.
"Fire?! Are you kidding me?!" Bowser laughed. "You honestly think that FIRE is going to take me down?! Man… You never learn anything, kid."
"Then explain how fire hit you before," Chopper said as he rammed into Bowser as a fireball, knocking him back by the barrier.
"Well, this is certainly working," Chopper breathed some fire out at Bowser, but he countered it with his own fire, making both collide. But in the end, Chopper was knocked away by the fire.
"Gwa ha ha ha! Now let's see you try this!" Bowser spat a couple of fireballs at Chopper, but he managed to jump over them and get into a fireball to strike Bowser. He then spat more fire at him afterward.
"Man, you even said that fire wouldn't do anything! Well, it certainly IS doing something right now!" the pale green gumball smirked before getting knocked away by a powerful punch from Bowser, sending him flying to the wall and stripping him of his Fire ability.
"Aw, what's the matter, kid?" Bowser grinned while folding his arms. "Ya can't take my punches? Don't you understand that I've fallen into LAVA before?! Well, it can't really do much to me now!"
Mario: You turned into bones before!
"So what? Your biscuits were burning before!" Bowser growled at Mario. "Why don't you just be quiet, or just stick your head in the cake mix?"
"We can do that for you, Your Furiousness," Kammy said.
"Hey! Don't bother me, Haggy!" Bowser was suddenly struck in the tail once again by Chopper's hammer, forcing him to whirl around – but soon got struck by Chopper's fire smash.
"Maybe you shouldn't get too distracted, Bowser!" Chopper suggested as he did an uppercut kick on Bowser's belly afterward.
"Why you little…!" Bowser tried to attack Chopper with his Poison Claw, but he brought his hammer up to defend himself from the attack. By spinning his hammer, he managed to hit Bowser a couple of more times.
"This might finish it!" with one powerful smash attack from his hammer, Bowser was knocked to the ground. The barrier surrounding them was also destroyed.
"Grrrrgh! How did this happen again?!" Bowser whined. "Even from before, I still didn't defeat you! What is WRONG with me?!"
"Maybe because you rely too much on brute force, maybe?" Chopper pondered.
"Hey! That's something I've told O'Chunks!" Blade frowned, giving Chopper a glare. "Quit stealin' my lines!"
"Well I was just saying that he always relies on brute force…"
When Bowser got up, he seemed to be exhausted. "Ugh… I can't believe that this backfired on me… Chopper, I'm pretty sure you're here for something, so what do you want?"
"Well… Maybe you could free Mario?" Chopper smiled.
Bowser turned away and folded his arms. "No. I don't wanna. I'd probably consider doing that if you were Peach, but there's no way I'm going to just let him go like that! You're getting nothing from me from that beating!"
"You even said that you would do at least something for me! So, you better do it right now!"
"No. I don't wanna."
"Would you do it if I gave you this?" Chopper pulled out a blonde wig. "This is a Peach wig, you know. It even has a picture of Peach inside, if that makes you even more happy."
"A Peach wig?" Bowser whirled around and snatched it from Chopper's hands. "Just what I've been looking for! Now I can use this for…"
"Wait a minute, why DO you want it so badly?" Sonic asked.
"Well, er… That's none of your business!" Bowser looked at his minions. "All right, guys. Untie Mario."
"B-But… We have him right where we want him!" a Hammer Bro. stammered.
"I SAID DO IT!"
The minions listened to Bowser and untied Mario, who landed on the ground and adjusted his hat so it wouldn't fall off. Bowser, meanwhile, summoned his Koopa Clown Car and jumped on it.
"So, Your Graciousness, where to now?" Kammy asked.
"Well, there's not much else to do in this dump. Might as well get out of here. C'mon, minions…and Haggy! We've got some other place to be in!" and at that moment, Bowser took off, along with Kammy Koopa.
"…But we can't fly," a Koopa Troopa whimpered as the rest of them tried their best to go after Bowser.
Once that was over with, the four walked over to Mario, who was trying to stretch. "Man, we haven't seen you in a while, Mario! I thought that we'd never see you again! What happened?"
Mario explained to Chopper that he ended up falling into this world, but he really couldn't do much because there was nothing around for him to do. He then said something about Bowser finding him and capturing him.
"You didn't fight back against Bowser?" Chopper raised an eyebrow.
Mario: I was too weak.
"Oh… That's not good." Sonic frowned. "Well, have you found Luigi yet? We haven't seen him anywhere."
Mario shook his head. He told them that the last time he saw them was when they were both fighting against Bowser.
"Weird… I've never been to that place you guys were in…" Chopper trailed. "Well, anyway, we're trying to look for a Pure Heart in this world. You have any idea what they are?"
Mario: Oh, yes!
"So, you think you can help us find it? Apparently Fawful is attacking this world and is trying to stop us from getting the Pure Heart… Not to mention we have some stumps in the other area we can't hit."
Mario: Leave it to me!
"You have something that can help us? If so, you better join along!" Blade suggested. Mario nodded and did a little jump.
Mario has joined your party! With him, he can perform a Triple Jump that can allow him to perform a higher jump than others! Also, his Ground Pound is capable of bringing down stumps that are too hard for him to handle! Whenever he's in a fight, his hammer is definitely something to be reckoned with!
"Well that's a relief! Now we're back to five people again!" Chopper smiled. "Let's go back to that other area. Surely we'll be able to get rid of those stumps."
Other area-
"See? Those are the stumps we were talking about." Blade pointed to the two stumps. "Think you can do something about those, Mario?"
Mario gave a nod and walked over to the first stump. With a Ground Pound, he managed to bring the stump all the way down. He did the same thing for the other one, which triggered a door to appear.
"Poyo! (There we go! Now we can move on!)" Kirby said cheerfully as he waked over to the door and opened it.
They were, once again, in a small area with two Choconuts. Mario simply stomped on the first one a couple of times and defeated the other Choconut using his Ultra Hammer – something he's held onto for a while.
"Man, I wish I had my Master Hammer with me…" Chopper trailed. "But, at least I still have a hammer. Hopefully Scrub is doing just fine with that thing."
"That baby Yoshi of yours? …Was it a good idea to give him that hammer?" Blade gawked.
"That weapon IS pretty dangerous. Hopefully he doesn't get himself hurt with it…" Sonic trailed.
"Hopefully he's doing fine. I remember getting a letter from him about facing against the champ. He also said something about meeting someone named the Great Gonzales Jr."
Mario: I know him!
"Yeah, I thought you would," Chopper smiled. "But, hopefully they've gotten along, since I haven't heard anything else from him."
He walked over to the Star Block right by. "All right, time to move on." with one punch, he destroyed the block.
END OF CHAPTER
With Mario on their side, the four heroes have now become five. While they still haven't found Luigi yet, Mario still felt a bit worried about his younger brother. "Say… The ground's starting to change from cakey to…sticky?" Chopper had a strange feeling in his gut. It felt like it was telling him to eat all of the food around him. But, he tried his best not to let it bother him as they moved on ahead. One thing for sure was that this was the strangest world he's ever encountered thus far…
Not much to say here except that some of you probably saw this coming. What? We needed Mario to come here eventually!
That's really all I'm going to say. I don't know if the next chapter's going to be longer or shorter though... We'll see when we get there.