CHAPTER 9-5
-Battle of Fury and Chortles-
"Well, would you look at that over there?" Sonic pointed up to the castle that they were facing far up ahead through the gardens. The pink, delicious-looking castle made of delicious cake had a lot of chocolate splats on the outside and some of the windows were even cracked. The garden itself had a couple of chocolate splats on the ground, which formed some chocolate gooey creatures with Fawful grins named Chocolawfuls. The flag that used to be a cake was now a dark star that Tipral always seems to have for his own symbol.
"Oh, no! We're too late!" Chopper frowned at the sight of the flag. "I guess Fawful managed to beat us to the punch. How are we supposed to stop him now when he's taken the castle over?!"
"Whoa, settle down there, Chopper," Blade said, trying to get his lime-green friend to calm down. "The fight's not over yet. Just because Fawful's taken over a castle doesn't mean he hasn't gotten his hands on the Pure Heart. …By the way, what do you think he might do with it?"
"Poyo? (Destroy it, maybe?)" Kirby predicted. The others weren't sure what the pink puffball said, but Chopper was able to translate what he said, making Sonic, Blade and Mario nod to him in understanding.
"Well, that does sound like something Tipral would want Fawful to do…" Chopper pondered. "After all, Tipral IS trying to stop us from getting all of the Pure Hearts right now. It's safe to say that he's trying to get Fawful to stop us by destroying the Pure Heart…"
Blade looked up and saw a Fawful statue right in front of them. "I guess Fawful sure knows how to get statues up quickly. I wonder how he managed to take over this place so fast, though…"
"Probably with some of Tipral's power, I suppose," Sonic predicted.
"That's a possible answer, although this statue really is getting in the way…" Chopper tried to kick it, but it wouldn't fall over. He couldn't even jump over it! "Mario, think you can kick it down?"
Mario: Oh, yes.
Mario nodded and walked over to the statue. Using Kickbrin, he was able to knock the statue of Fawful over easily, allowing them to jump on top of it and move on ahead in the garden. There were a couple of grasshopper enemies with Fawful faces called a Fawflopper. There's also a helicopter-like thing hovering around the garden called a Fawfulcopter.
"Poyo… (Seriously… These things are just so…wacky.)" Kirby said with a blank look on his face.
"Yeah, I can definitely agree with you on that, Kirby," Chopper nodded and pulled his hammer out. He managed to bash the Fawflopper easily, but he had a hard time catching the Fawfulcopter.
"I think we need some sort of ranged attack to take it out," Blade pondered as he looked at Hommissile. "My shurikens may not do as much damage to it, but maybe Hommissile will be able to wail out some heavy damage!"
Blade tossed Hommissile directly at the Fawfulcopter, destroying it within seconds and leaving it with nothing else left. This allowed the heroes to move on to a fountain with fruit punch.
"Ooh! It's like the fountain from The Underwhere!" Chopper jumped in it and recovered all of his HP. "Yeah, I think this is one of those refreshing fountains you find around places."
"Poyo! (And it's made of candy too!)" Kirby smiled as he jumped straight into the fountain to recover all of his HP.
"Well it's about time we got something that could help recover our HP!" Sonic sighed in relief as he jumped into the fountain, recovering all of his HP. "Now I feel MUCH better from those fights."
Mario: Did we even take damage?
"I'm not so sure…" Chopper shrugged. "But, I'm not going to let that distract us. We should just get moving." he jumped out of the fountain and continued his way through the garden. Two Mechawfuls were patrolling the garden and they happened to notice the five coming.
"Intruder alert! Intruder alert!" one of the Mechawfuls had a alarm ringing on top of its head. "Intruders detected in the garden! All intruders must be eliminated by order from Lord Fawful! No intruders shall pass!"
"The five heroes must be eliminated!" one Mechawful flew up into the air and came down toward the group. One sent Chopper flying toward the fountain, while the other tried to strike Mario, but had its attack blocked by Mario's hammer.
Mario: You're not going to take us down!
Using his hammer again, he managed to bash the Mechawful a couple of times with his hammer. With one last stomp, the body of the Mechawful was destroyed, leaving only its small, hovering head.
Mario: What's that?
"It looks like it's just the Mechawful's head…" Blade drew his katana and gripped it. "I guess it's not finished just yet!" he jumped toward the head and slashed at it a couple of times, making it explode.
"That just leaves the other Mechawful," Sonic jumped into a ball and performed a Homing Attack on the other Mechawful a couple of times, leaving only its head after it exploded.
"Poyo! (I can finish this off!)" with Kirby's inhaling, he spat it out at the wall, causing it to explode.
"Whew… That was a bit intense…" Chopper moaned as he slowly got himself up. He noticed that there weren't any more Mechawfuls around. "Hey… Where are those Mechawful guys?"
"Well, apparently we took them out," Blade explained.
"What?! You mean I missed all of that?! Aw, hamburgers!" Chopper kicked the ground in disappointment.
"'Aw, hamburgers'?" Sonic gawked. "That's a new one…"
"Well… Uh… I just suddenly came up with that one, I guess." although he thinks he came up with it, he's absolutely wrong with that (if you know what I mean). "…And I didn't know what else to say."
"Errr… All right, I guess that's interesting." Blade looked up ahead and saw that they made a bush out of Fawful up ahead. It was apparently blocking the door. "Hmmmm… Maybe I can get rid of that for you guys."
Mario: Go right ahead, Blade.
"All right, here we go!" Blade began to slice the large Fawful licorice bush, leaving it with nothing else left. It pretty much led to a door up ahead, which was pretty nice for the whole group. They probably weren't too far from their destination at this point.
"In the door we go!" Chopper declared as he walked through the door and into an area with a large maze. The grass was up high at this point, preventing the group from jumping or even escaping this place. Heck, there was barely anything around in this maze in 3-D!
"Poyo… (Oh, man… Don't tell me we're required to flip here…)" Kirby groaned. "Poyo… (I kind of wish I was able to flip on my own…)"
"This seriously reminds me of that big maze back in Castle Tipral…" Chopper trailed as he flipped into 3-D with everyone else close to him. "Well, it's not LIKE it, but it certainly has that strange feeling that it's a lot similar."
There were two ways to go in this maze. He decided that it would be best to move to the left, so everyone else followed him through. There weren't any enemies to keep them company, which was a shame, but it was good, considering that it didn't distract Chopper from moving up in the maze.
"Uh oh… I think we hit a dead end." Sonic said as he noticed the dead end. He also heard a beeping noise as well. "Wait… What's that beeping sound?"
"Crud… My Flip Gauge is running low." Chopper frowned as he flipped back into 2-D. "I kind of hate it when my flipping isn't limited. That Bestovius just HAD to rip me off with limiting it!"
Mario jumped up in surprise as he pointed up at a ? Block right next to Chopper. He punched the block after Chopper's Flip Gauge filled up. A Speed Flower popped out of the block and landed right in Mario's hands, increasing the pace around them…and also their voices sounded squeakier.
"Whoa! It'sanotherSpeedFlower!" Sonic shouted.
"Calmdown,Sonic! Don'ttrytospeakwhenwe'refast!" Blade shouted as they went back into 3-D and took the way to the right instead of the left (after they got back to the start). It led them to two more ways to go: up or down. Chopper shrugged and went down. The speed immediately went back to normal afterward.
"Poyo, (Well that's a relief,)" Kirby said, sighing in relief. "Poyo. (I personally don't like it when our voices are all squeaky and fast.)"
"Well, thank goodness that we're not having squeaky voices at this very moment," Chopper walked to the right after moving down and then moved up to the outer part of the maze. They knew that they were getting pretty close to finishing this maze, that's for sure.
"Let's go that way," Blade pointed to the left and they went that way. Chopper had to take some damage because of his Flip Gauge, but it didn't stop him from reaching the exit of this annoying maze. A Fawflopper and a Mechawful were standing guard at the door, to their surprise.
"Well, I guess I'll try to do something against these guys," Chopper whirled up a fireball and threw it directly at the Fawflopper, scorching it while he finished it off by bashing it with his hammer.
"Be careful with the Mechawful," Sonic warned. "Those guys are capable of doing some tough damage to you if you're not careful…"
"I'll take care of the body," Blade jumped toward the Mechawful and blew up the body with a couple of slices from his katana, leaving only the Mechawful's head. Chopper took his time to slam it to the ground with a slamming kick, causing it to explode right in front of their own eyes.
"Well… I guess that takes care of that guy." Chopper opened the door into the next area. It led them right to the front entrance of the Sweet Castle! From what they saw, the roofs had whipped cream with a cherry on top, which made both Chopper and Kirby drool over the castle.
"Remember, guys… We can't eat the castle." Sonic reminded. "Although it might be an easy way to get the Pure Heart, it IS somewhere inside of that place, so what if we end up eating the Pure Heart?"
"Then it makes it all better for us!" a Darkling cackled, patrolling around the green licorice grass. "We've been waiting for you heroes for a while! Looks like we finally have our chance of destroying you!"
"Bring it on!" Chopper jumped on the first Darkling while making a stylish move and finished it off by bashing it with his hammer. From what he could see, the Darklings have about 30 HP and an Attack of 8. That's a bit dangerous, from his eyes.
"Wow… These Darklings are actually pretty…tough." Chopper said with a blank look on his face. "They have higher HP and Attack than those Mechawfuls!"
"Oh… Well that stinks." Blade tossed Hommissile straight at one of the Darklings, defeating it easily with two explosions. Mario used Thoreau to grab the third and throw it at the last one to leave it stunned.
"Urgh… I don't feel so good…" one Darkling moaned.
Mario: Finish the job, Chopper!
"Oh, all right!" Chopper inhaled one of the Darklings and spat it out at the other Darkling, defeating both of them easily and allowing them to go to the front entrance of the castle.
"All right, guys… Let's head on through!" Sonic smirked as he opened the door to the inside of the castle. They saw that the inside was made up of delicious cake, with some icing up on the walls. There were even pictures of some cupcake people that looked like the size of Toads. Heck, there were even chocolate people around that size. But the Choconuts and Chocawfuls were roaming around in the small room. There was a candy door up ahead past those guys for them to go through.
"Hold on a minute," Chopper flipped into 3-D to see what the ground looked like. Fawful's face was apparently on it, to their dismay. "Yep. He's taken it over all right."
"Poyo, (I suggest taking out those enemies first,)" Kirby inhaled the Choconut and easily swallowed it, recovering some HP. Chopper painfully inhaled the other and swallowed it to recover HP.
"…That makes me want to have more."
"Heads up, guys, he might try to eat more sugar," Blade warned, grabbing a hold of one of Chopper's arms to hold him back. "If we keep you like this, then we won't have to worry about you going crazy."
Chopper was trying hard to resist the sugar rush. "Blade… This isn't necessary, you know… I can take care of myself."
"I think you're lying," Sonic stated, stuffing a banana in Chopper's mouth. "This banana should probably keep you under control. What? It worked before, so I think this will work too!"
After Chopper swallowed the banana, he felt somewhat better. "OK… I guess that whole sugar thing isn't as intense now. I feel a bit better, now that I think about it now…"
"So, maybe we can get going, huh?" Blade walked over to the door ahead and opened it up. Everyone else followed him through the door into a longer hallway with cupcake people and even lollipop people as well.
"Poyo… (What the…)" Kirby gawked over his loss of words.
"WELLCOOOOME!" the cupcake man greeted, walking over to the five and shaking their hands. "We are glad to see guests arrive in this castle!"
"What the… What's going on here?" Chopper asked.
"Welcome, dear guests!" the two both greeted in unison. "You're almost just in time for the Fawful Theater just up ahead! You don't want to miss a great show from someone great like Fawful!"
"Excuse me… Did you just say Fawful Theater?" Sonic gawked.
"Oh, yes! To see Fawful in the theater, you must have a ticket so we can put you at your seat! If you have any tickets with you, you can wait over by the door like the others! If not… Then you're not authorized to go in."
"We don't care about going into some theater!" Blade hissed. "We just want to know where the Pure Heart is! That's what we're even here for anyway! So spit it out, you guys, or else I'll rub you on the wall!"
"Uhhh… Not exactly the nicest thing to do, Blade…" Chopper trailed. "We're heroes, not bullies."
"Oh, right…" Blade paused for a minute and looked back at the two sugary people. "Look… We don't have any tickets, but does this Fawful have any information on how to get to the Pure Heart?"
"Pure Heart? Why, Lord Fawful knows where it is for sure! …But we don't allow non-ticketed people to enter the Fawful Theater, so you cannot enter without a ticket! Those are the rules."
"Aw, man… I was hoping he'd actually let us go in." Chopper groaned and turned to the group. "Well, we might as well try to find a ticket…or another way into the theater. We can probably get to Fawful easily then."
Everyone agreed and they walked past the cupcake and lollipop person and walked over to a door with a Fawful face on it. There were some Choconuts and even some Ice Creawfuls standing in front of the door, waiting to go into the theater. They had some interesting things to say too.
"I've been camped out at the front of the line for ten days now—for Fawful's show!" a Choconut said. "I'm totally starving! Seriously. I mean, look at me! I feel like all of my jelly is going to drain out of my system!"
"Eeeeeugh… I don't wanna know about that." Sonic gagged, looking over at the Ice Creawful standing by the door.
"Oh boy, I wonder what performance Lord Fawful will give tonight," the Ice Creawful wondered. "Yaaah! Yaaaaaaaah! I wanna see it now! Right now! Right now!"
"Hmmmmmm… If we're going to go into that theater, we're definitely going to have to get a ticket." Chopper confirmed. "The only problem is… Where are we going to get it? I don't wanna rob someone of one?"
"Poyo, (Yeah, I don't want to steal a ticket from someone,)" Kirby agreed, nodding at Chopper. "Poyo? (But… Where ARE we going to find one? Does someone sell them around here?)"
"Well, we'll have to find out," Chopper walked up to a door ahead. Everyone followed him into another hallway, but with Firebars on the ground and even a ladder leading up to a locked door.
"Hey! There's a way up there!" Blade gasped while pointing up at the door that the chocolate ladder led up to. Unfortunately, Mario ended up confirming something to the group.
Mario: It's locked.
"Drats… Looks like we have to move past these Firebars." Chopper flipped into 3-D and avoided a couple of Firebars. A Bristle was also in 3-D, so there was no way that he could damage that thing, so he ignored it and went back into 2-D.
"There's a Bristle in 3-D! And there's no way I'm going to go fight that thing with nothing that can defeat that thing!"
"Then we might as well ignore that thing," Blade suggested as he took a couple of steps ahead. "I think there's a door off in the distance. Maybe THAT'LL take us straight to the throne room or something! …The Pure Heart's in the throne room, right?"
"Well, that's what I believe," Sonic began to avoid a couple of Firebars that were spinning around. He even made a couple of stylish moves in the air while avoiding them for some strange reason – because it can only be done when striking an enemy.
"I don't understand how Sonic's avoiding those Firebars like that, but oh well," Chopper jumped at the right moment and stomped on a Darkling in his way. He slammed his hammer on it afterward to defeat it for good.
"I think the Darklings are just here to keep us company, if you know what I mean," Blade stated as he blew a Darkling up with Hommissile's ability. When they reached the door up ahead, they took a little break for a bit before entering.
"He-Hey! There's a couple of pictures in this room!" Chopper noticed that there was some writing just below the picture. It looked like a king with a cookie head, chocolate hands and a robe made up of waffle cones. What was surprising was that the golden scepter he was holding wasn't made of candy. But, when they looked closely at the pink flowing thing in the scepter, they all gasped.
"Poyo! (That king's the one with the Pure Heart!)" Kirby gaped.
"I don't believe it! So we just need to find this king and we can simply get out of here, right?" Blade asked.
"Hold on, what about this poor castle?" Chopper frowned. "I wanna get the Pure Heart too, but do we need to just leave after that? I think it would be nice to at least help some of these hypnotized people."
Mario: They're hypnotized?
"Well, I'm not exactly sure. From the looks of it, they look like they are. I think we should help them out, considering that they might fear us if we don't do anything about it. They might even like us then!"
"Yeah, that's true," Sonic agreed, nodding his head. "I don't wanna look like I'm some feared person! We're GOOD guys! Fawful is meant to be the BAD guy. We do good things, while he does bad things, right?"
"…All right, we'll help them," Blade frowned. "I DO like to help people out, but it would be a lot better if we just got the Pure Heart and left. They might like us, but I don't know by how much…"
"Good, now let's see what's on this plaque," Chopper turned to the plaque and began to read what it said.
This is our beloved King Candanian. He is our great ruler of the Sweet Kingdom. As a young boy, he went to meet the evils of the Beanbean Kingdom in order to make a truce between the two kingdoms. Unfortunately, thanks to an evil witch, it didn't plan out too well, making both sides mortal enemies to this very day. Our king has tried to keep peace by keeping us away from the Beanbean Kingdom, but it's not going too well for us, considering that some beans like to come here and ruin everything for all of us. This beanish child can't hold us here forever!
"Huh… It looks like those last two sentences were just recently added…"
Mario: Is the witch Cackletta?
"Cackletta? Who's Cackletta?" Sonic asked.
"Oh. Her…" Chopper said with an irritated look on his face. "That witch was 'helping' me by getting rid of Maquano so SHE could take the Star Rod for herself. She was someone called Fairisp, but she turned into a ghost of herself and tried to stop me…but apparently her plan ended up failing!"
"What happened to her in the end?" Blade asked.
"She ended up hitting Staris instead and got destroyed. Although, Staris was still technically filled with a lot of anger. We don't have to worry about her anymore… But Fawful, on the other hand… I think he's trying to destroy me because he believes I was responsible for her death."
"Huh… Well maybe we ought to have a little talk with him in the theater!"
"RIGHT after we find some tickets," Chopper noticed up ahead there was more melted chocolate on the ground. There wasn't even a platform that was there to help them get across either!
"Aw, weak! How are we supposed to get through that now without a platform to help us over?!"
"Poyo! (I know what to do!)" Kirby jumped on top of Carrie and traveled over the melted chocolate. "Poyo! (With Carrie, we might be able to cross this melted chocolate with ease! …But we're not all getting on her at once!)"
"Of course we're not going to do that. That was a very awkward moment back in Fort Francis…"
After Kirby crossed the melted chocolate, he told Carrie to take the others over. Each of them went over it one at a time, with Blade going over the melted chocolate last for some strange reason.
"All right… Do we have everyone here?" Chopper asked, checking to make sure everyone was here. "All right, good. Now let's…"
Before he could act, he was struck by a Darkling's energy ball.
"Hey!"
He got his hammer out and slammed it straight on top of the Darkling, followed by a simple fireball that destroyed it in one hit.
"OK… So I think we should get moving." Sonic suggested, walking over to the door ahead and entering it. They were in a room with a couple of blocks blocking their way. They had white stars in the inside of the yellow blocks, which was a bit odd, considering that they've only seen ? Blocks.
Mario simply destroyed them by using Kickbrin's ability, but they simply appeared after three seconds, so he did it once again and rushed through with everyone else before they could be blocked.
"Poyo, (I can see a switch nearby,)" Kirby pointed out, jumping over a small gap. Below was a small red switch that could open a door up ahead for a little bit. They all made a plan by standing by the door while Chopper tossed a fireball at the switch. Then they immediately ran through the door and stopped over by a ladder leading up to the next door.
"Wow, that was pretty cool," Sonic smirked. "I've never seen switches like those before in my life."
"Poyo… (Trust me… I've seen them before, and they're not very enjoyable…)" Kirby groaned as they entered through the next room. They saw a spiral staircase leading up to an upper floor with a Save Block and a ? Block.
Mario: A spiral staircase?
"I think we can go up this thing," Chopper began to make his way up the stairs easily with his speed. Sonic followed him up as well, followed by Kirby, Mario and then Blade.
At the top, Chopper punched the ? Block to get a Super Shroom. They all split it into five so they could all recover 20 HP and then Chopper punched the Save Block to save his game, just in case something bad happens.
"All right… Let's see what's through this door…" Chopper slowly began to open the door, leading him into a room with a Mechawful. But what was strange was that the Mechawful's sirens weren't going off. It just stood there, like it was waiting for the group to come.
"Are you in the needing of tickets?" the Mechawful asked.
"Oh, great… Even Fawful's robots speak like Fawful." Chopper smacked his forehead. "This just isn't our day…"
They walked up to the Mechawful, with Mario nodding to the robot. "Well you have luck! I have the giving away of five tickets right now! …But you must be having the exchange of something…"
"And what do you want us to trade?" Chopper asked.
The Mechawful grinned. "Well… I will have the giving of these tickets…for 5,000 coins!" all five jumped up in shock.
"5,000 coins?!" Blade almost felt like he was going to have a heart attack. "You can't be serious! We don't have that kind of money! Why would you charge us for THAT amount of money?!"
"Because you lack the tickets to go into the Fawful Theater! It's either you're giving the coins or you're having the staying of the castle forever! Do you have the agreeing to this deal?"
Chopper shook his head. "I'm not going to pay THAT much for some stupid ticket," he retorted. "For a couple of reasons. One, we don't have that kind of money, and two, I don't trust you with payment."
"If you have refusing, then you must be destroyed!" the Mechawful knocked Chopper back to the wall with a powerful punch. "Those who refuse to pay will face the consequences!"
"Oh, there are consequences for attacking us," Chopper quickly got up and tossed a charged fireball at the Mechawful. "Now, Blade!"
"Got it!" Blade drew his katana and sliced the Mechawful in half, blowing it up. The only thing remaining was the Mechawful's head, which began to fly all over the room until Mario stomped on it.
Mario: It dropped the tickets!
Mario grabbed the tickets and gave each of them a ticket. With them in their hands, they knew for a fact that they had to backtrack all the way back into the lobby, which sounded a bit painful for them all (considering that they have that door with the switch to worry about, too).
"Wait… How are we supposed to get back now?" Blade asked.
"Well… I think I see something over here." Chopper flipped into 3-D and noticed a blue ! Switch on the ground. With a kick, a pink pipe appeared in the middle of the room. Everyone merely shrugged and jumped into the pipe.
Sweet Castle, lobby-
The pipe that they were going through ended up coming from the ceiling and bringing the five heroes right in front of the door to the Fawful Theater. They all seemed a bit relieved to be back and not have to backtrack all the way back from the other room.
"So… When do you think it's going to start?" Chopper asked.
As if right on cue, the doors to the Fawful Theater opened up. "Tonight's Fawful Show begins SOOOOOOOOON!"
"YES! FINALLY!" the Ice Creawful rushed into the theater.
"That seat up front is mine!" the Choconut rushed into the theater as well, putting his ticket into the booth like the other people that began to rush in, only leaving the five heroes at the door.
"Well… At least we made it here." Sonic assured, putting his ticket in the booth like everyone else.
When they entered the theater, they noticed that it was huge. Up at the front was a large stage made of cake and the seats themselves were made of gummies. Nearly every single seat was taken.
"We better find a seat," Chopper walked down the aisle, scanning the room for any seats. Unfortunately, they didn't have luck with that.
"Poyo?! (There are NO seats left?!)" Kirby gawked.
"Not a single seat here! This blows…" Blade groaned.
"Ugh… I guess we're gonna have to talk to someone about this…" Chopper looked around the theater. He happened to notice two cupcake people over by the exit, so they walked over to them.
"The show starts soooooon! Please take your seats!" the first cupcake said.
"Seats!" the other cupcake said as it jumped.
"Both of you listen up!" Blade shouted, making the two cupcakes jump in surprise.
"Yesssss? What is it?"
"It!"
"Something tells me there's something wrong with these guys," Chopper whispered before looking back at the cupcakes. "All the seats are filled up."
Unfortunately, the cupcakes didn't seem to understand him. "Yes, take an open seat, pleeeease."
"Pleeease!"
"Uhhh… We just told you that there are NO open seats." Sonic groaned, smacking his forehead. "You guys think you can do something about this? Y'know, find some chairs for us to sit in?"
"Oh, dear guest, I feel for you, but there's naught I can dooo."
"Ooooo!"
"Could you please stop talking like that, you guys?!" Blade exclaimed, getting a bit annoyed with these guys. "It's REALLY starting to get on my nerves, and it's not a great thing for any of us. It just… It just makes no sense!"
"Hmmmmm? Do I sense a problem?" a Darkling came flying over to the two cupcakes. Both of them seemed a bit relieved.
"Oh, Boss, phew! This guy…"
The second cupcake suddenly began to prattle on and on. "So these five weirdos here, right? They're all like, we have no seeeats! No seeeats! And they just won't shut up about it! We're all, we just can't do it, buddy, OK? So we have no idea what to do. And they're getting surlier. They're not going away. And they have no seats! Nothing! Not a chance! So we do some solid thinking and totally fail. No seats! This is kind of bugging me, 'cause I'm on my feet all day! I mean, I'd LOVE to sit in ANY seat! I work hard, Boss! Really hard! And these people sit through life?! So spoiled! It makes me ill! All the suffering in the world, and these people's seating problem is urgent? Nooooooo!"
And he finished with an "Ooooo!"
Everyone who listened to the cupcake were at a loss for words. They had no idea what to say right now…
"Uh… Right. Gotcha." the Darkling said, pretending to understand him. "Whoa."
The Darkling looked back at the five. "So… The issue here is these guests lack seats?"
"Yeah, we do lack seats. My name's Chopper, he's Kirby, that's Sonic, the ninja is Blade and the one with the mustache is Mario.
"Chopper? Kirby? Sonic? Blade? Mario? Aha! You five! Of course! How stupid of me! I was just handed your name! Lord Fawful has arranged a VIP section for you five. It is the finest treatment! So, allow me to guide you five to your seats!"
"VIP treatment? Really?" Sonic gawked.
Mario: It might be a trap!
"Prepare VIP SEEEEEEAT!" the Darkling shouted. From down below, five seats rose from the ground. There was a lime-green seat with yellow stars, a pink seat, blue, dark blue with ninja stars, and a red seat with an M on it for all five of them.
"Funny that these seats are based off our colors and symbols," Chopper chuckled as he plopped down on his seat, like the others.
"Poyo? (Do you think that Fawful set this up for us to fall in some sort of trap?)" Kirby asked.
"I don't know, but if it turns out to be a trap, then we'll be ready to fight off the bean," Chopper confirmed.
"And now, without further ado, THE FAWFUL SHOOOOOOOW!"
"Ooooo!"
"Will you cut that out already?!" Blade hissed.
The whole theater began to get dark as they looked up at the stage, which was also dark as well.
"I HAVE FAWFUL!" spotlights began to flash as Fawful did a couple of poses, such as spinning around and waggling his finger at the group with his psychotic grin on his face. Chopper, Kirby, Sonic, Blade and Mario all looked confused.
"What in the world is he doing?" Sonic asked.
"It looks weird…" Blade commented.
When the lights on the stage were on, they could all see a purple Fawful face up on the wall, some stereos and a couple of microphones as the beanish person himself, Fawful, landed on the stage with a cheerful look.
"Excited crowd! You feel it?" he bellowed as the whole audience began to whistle and cheer for Fawful.
"Fawful is also feeling it! I am now needing to feel it even more, though!" everyone began to whistle and cheer louder than before. The five heroes were forced to cover their ears (or whatever else they hear from) because of the loud noise.
"MORE!" the cheering got even more intense as Fawful put his hand over to the other side of his head. "MOOORE!"
"This is so loud!" Chopper shouted because of the loud cheering. "I can barely hear myself right now!"
"Oh, I am feeling the power! It high-fives Fawful's face!" Fawful began spinning around on the stage happily. "And now I will use that power to call upon our most special guests, who you will be cheering!"
"Poyo? (Special guests?)" Kirby gawked.
"Today's special guest… The famous… Green Antennae, Pink Puffball, Blue Spiky, Ninja-Face and Red Mustache! Give it up for… CHOPPER, KIRBY, SONIC, BLADE, AND MARIO!"
"What the…!" Chopper noticed that their seats were beginning to push them straight into the stage, sending them straight into the wall. "What did he just do?!"
"Poyo! (My face hurts!)" Kirby cried as he fell over on his back on the stage.
Mario: Mama mia…
"I HAVE CHORTLES!" Fawful grinned. It is an entrance of amazement! Like only a special guest does! Now a Midbus battle will unfold like an angry dip of many layers on the chips of wildest hopes!"
"All right, Fawful! Tell us everything right now!" Chopper growled, getting into a fighting stance.
"We want to know where the Pure Heart is!" demanded Sonic.
"Wait… Did he just say Midbus?" Blade paused.
"I HAVE CHORTLES! COME! MIDBUS!"
Midbus came stomping onto the stage, glaring at the heroes. "You all have come. As I expected. Now it is time. Now we will fight! Then you will all lose! And you will cry!"
"Oh, man! Someone get this guy back to school PLEASE!" Blade groaned.
"I believe it's you who's going to cry," Chopper retorted.
A cage fell down on the whole group, trapping them with the big brute, Midbus, who began to beat his chest as he snorted.
"It is time! The Cage War of All Destruction!" Fawful announced. "Midbus, crush these heroes, and we will have more chortles!"
"Uhhhh… How much HP does this guy have anyway?" Sonic asked, sweat dropping.
"From what I see, Midbus has about 100 HP. …Oh, and an Attack of 8 and a Defense of 2, I guess… I guess that hide on his back gives him a bit more of a defense… But, come on! We have to fight HIM?!"
"Now we fight. You will fall. Then you will cry out in pain afterward." Midbus said as he brought his fist back and attempted to punch the five, only to get struck by an explosion from Hommissile.
"Ha! Taste the explosion, mother…" Blade was interrupted when he saw Chopper whacking Midbus in the stomach with his hammer, followed by kicking him in the stomach with flaming energy on his feet.
Midbus held his stomach in pain, but was able to knock Chopper back with a simple punch. He ended up leaving a big bruise on his face because of how big his fist is.
"Oh, man… That was painful…" Chopper moaned as he rubbed his face. "I can't really see much."
"Nyeah heh heh heh! Do you have pain, Green Antennae?" Fawful scoffed while chomping down on a donut. "Fawful loves to see you feel pain for having the destroying of Cackletta!"
"I told you before, and I don't have to tell you again! That wasn't me!"
"You are lying. And liars will be stomped!" Midbus said as he beat his chest before getting hit in the stomach by Sonic's Spin Dash attack, then got struck in the nose by his Homing Attack while performing a stylish move.
Mario: This guy's weird…
Midbus managed to grab a hold of Sonic while in a ball and toss his straight at Mario like a bowling ball, knocking the plumber down. Luckily, Mario managed to get himself up and land a Triple Jump on the boar.
"I have something to show you!" Midbus pulled out a ball on a chain and began to spin around like a drill. The ball on the chain began to spin around as well, trying to knock the five away.
"Poyo! (Whoa! That looks gnarly!)" Kirby frowned, floating up to the top of the cage to avoid Midbus's attack.
Mario: I have an idea!
As soon as Midbus moved to the right of the cage while spinning, he released the ball and allowed it to strike Blade and Mario. But, once Mario used Kickbrin on the ball, he kicked it back at Midbus's stomach.
"Oof! My stomach! It hurts!" Midbus cried, shedding a small tear as Kirby got on Carrie and jumped on top of Midbus a couple of times.
"Midbus! Give them the throwing!" Fawful pulled a statue of Fawful head and gave it to Midbus to throw.
"Hey! You can't just give him something! That's not fair when it comes to a fight!" Blade frowned.
"I have chortles! Do you not understand, Ninja Face? I did not have the giving of rules! Midbus has more fury than you all think!" Fawful turned to the crowd. "I am needing to hear the excitement, people! Slap it into Fawful's face!"
The audience began to cheer as they threw a donut into the cage for Midbus to eat. However, Chopper inhaled it instead to recover some HP…and feel a tiny bit hyper as well.
"Take this!" Midbus threw the Fawful head directly at the heroes, but Kirby managed to inhale it first and spit it out at Midbus's stomach once again, making him hold it in pain just like before.
"I don't think your stomach's going to look too good when this fight's over," Chopper pointed out.
"And why do you care?"
"Because I personally don't like hurting people. You're the one who's trying to hurt us, so I can't leave my guard down."
"Well, then I will squash you! You'll soon be a pancake!" Midbus did a belly flop on the stage and did another once after curling into a ball, which launched him up to the top of the cage to come down on Chopper.
"Oh, I think I might know what to do here," Chopper pulled his hammer out and struck Midbus in the air with a fire smash, scorching his tail.
"Ouch! It burns!" the boar cried as Mario pummeled him again with his hammer.
"Midbus has the overheat!" Fawful cried as he jumped up and down.
"Oh, be quiet already, Fawful!" Blade shouted as he rushed toward Midbus while he was running around, holding his burnt tail in pain. Using his katana, he managed to slash him a couple of times with it to deal some heavy damage.
"I'm surprised that some of these bad guys aren't as tough as Dimentral…" Chopper trailed as he stomped on Midbus and performed a stylish move. "He had about 200 HP, while Midbus only has 100!"
"Poyo, (Well Gemerl had about 100 when we fought him in Sunset Hill,)" Kirby pointed out.
"That is true."
Midbus curled up in a ball once again and rolled over both Chopper and Kirby, flattening them like pancakes. Both Midbus and Fawful began to cackle at the two small ones, continuously mocking them.
"Muh muh muh muh. Now you are flat. Defeating you will be easy." Midbus raised his two fists up to finish the two, but Blade managed to grab a hold of Midbus's back in order to make him go out of control.
"Get off me!" he growled, trying to shake Blade off. The cat, however, got his claws out and used them to stick to Midbus easily (it didn't really hurt Midbus with that back of his).
"Heh heh heh! There's no way I'm getting off of ya!" Blade snickered, only to crash into one of the bars. Midbus also hit the bars, making him a bit dazed.
"Poyo! (This makes it easier for us!)" Kirby got on Carrie again and struck Midbus while he was stunned. Blade also managed to strike the boar by slashing him with his katana a couple of times.
"You annoy me. I will pummel you. With my fists." Midbus said weirdly as he grabbed Blade from his back and slammed him to the ground. He then used a belly flop on Blade to deal some heavier damage.
"Muh muh muh muh. Now I will sit on you!" Midbus was about to sit on Blade, but Mario came in and stomped Midbus's head, making him cringe in pain as Mario also hit his stomach with his hammer.
"Urgh…" Midbus quickly shook himself and stomped his way over to the rest of the group, stretching a part of himself to make his stomach more vulnerable. He was also turning red as well.
"What the heck is he doing?" Chopper gawked.
"Poyo, (I think he's preparing for a new attack,)" Kirby readied himself for Midbus's attack.
Mario: I got it!
Mario began to bash Midbus's stomach with his hammer, even using his Ultra Hammer against him to hit him rapidly. Because he kept doing it so much, Midbus was forced to stop charging his attack and hold his stomach in pain, allowing Mario to perform a Ground Pound on his head after stomping him.
"Hey, that works!" Sonic grinned, giving a thumbs up. "So, how far is he from being defeated anyway?"
"Hmmmmm… Not too sure." Chopper jumped toward Midbus and tossed a fireball at him once again, followed by a flaming uppercut kick that managed to scorch him for a couple of seconds.
"Who wants some roasted pig?"
"NOBODY!"
"…Sorry. I wasn't being serious…"
Mario sweat dropped before striking Midbus with one last Triple Jump before leaving him a bit stunned. The boar himself was able to punch both Chopper and Sonic, but it still wasn't enough when Blade got his katana ready.
"You're goin' down, piggy!" Blade smirked as he jumped toward Midbus and struck him with one last slash. Midbus couldn't take any more hits. With all of the bruises and scars on him, he fell over on the ground.
"And the winning is for… The heroes!" Fawful announced as the audience began to cheer for the heroes.
"Wow… Looks like we did it." Chopper smiled as the cage began to lift off the ground. He slowly gave a thumbs up as he held his arm in pain.
"Such a fight of fury!" As the group heard Fawful, they immediately turned to him, getting in their fighting stances once again.
"You're next, bean-face!" Blade growled, aiming his katana at Fawful. "We wanna know where the Pure Heart is. Now."
"Oh, Fawful is leaving! But first! You had the victory! Now to celebrate!" Fawful pulled out a remote and pressed the red button to get on his hovering platform.
"Where do you think you're going?" Sonic asked.
"Why, Fawful will be going to the throne room, of course! Follow Fawful if you have fury!" Fawful pulled a chocolate key from his cloak and dropped it on the stage before taking off.
"Oh, man… Looks like Fawful wants to take us on face-to-face!" Chopper smirked as he picked up the key. "I suppose this should take us to that locked door we previously saw. Let's head over there!"
Room with the locked door-
"Man… I can't believe we managed to take down Midbus!" Chopper said, still feeling a bit surprised. "I mean, we took down something that was bigger than us! …Oh, wait, Dracktail was bigger than that."
They climbed up the ladder and unlocked the door into a room with a staircase leading up to a door ahead. There were a couple of Mechawfuls guarding the door, but they didn't know why, exactly.
"Hmmmmm… Well, we might as well take care of those guys." Sonic raced his way up the stairs, destroying both Mechawful's with his Homing Attack. Chopper and Mario finished off the heads with some stomps.
"Aw, come on! I didn't get to do a thing!" Blade pouted.
"Blade, we're not here to whine. We need to find Fawful and get a hold of him!" Chopper kicked the door open and walked into a room with a small staircase and a large block with a yellow up arrow. There was a small little block in the staircase.
"Oh, goody… I think this is one of those puzzles where it requires you to toss something down at the switch while in 3-D. I guess I MIGHT have to borrow Hommissile for a couple of seconds, Blade."
"All right, go ahead and use him for a couple of seconds."
When they got on the big block, Chopper flipped into 3-D and threw Hommissile directly at the smaller block, triggering the large block to move up to another staircase leading to a door.
"Man, I don't see any enemies here…" Sonic trailed as they walked through the door and into a longer hallway. There were only a couple of Darklings roaming around here, but that's about it.
"I'll handle them," Chopper tossed a couple of fireballs at the Darklings and destroyed them easily. Upon walking out of the door, they noticed they were outside on some sort of bridge. They could see a spiral stairway across the bridge inside the castle leading up to another bridge up ahead.
"Whoa… Now this is impressive." Sonic gaped.
Mario: It reminds me of Hooktail Castle.
"I can barely feel my legs…" a voice moaned over by the end of the bridge. A cupcake guard with part of his cupcake head eaten was lying on the ground. It almost looked like he was dying.
"Huh? Are you brainwashed like the others?" Blade asked.
"Brainwashed? Ha ha… No… I'm not brainwashed… But the question is… Who are you people?"
"We're trying to look for the Pure Heart," Chopper explained. "But we know that Fawful came by here and is probably waiting over by the throne room… You think we could pass by and find the king?"
"If it means to save our kingdom… Then go right ahead." the cupcake guard crawled out of the way and let the heroes through the building with the spiral staircase. "Please… Save our king."
Chopper nodded and walked up the spiral staircase, along with the others. When they reached the top, they saw another bridge, but this one only led up to the large door instead of another staircase.
Mario: This is high!
"Tell me about it. We're definitely in a high point." Chopper raced across the bridge and went over to the Save Block and ? Block. With a punch, an Ultra Shroom popped out for the heroes.
"Poyo! (An Ultra Shroom!)" Kirby said cheerfully as he grabbed it. Blade, as usual, sliced it up into five pieces for them to recover 50 HP. The nice taste made Chopper feel much better.
"Wow… I feel as if the damage done by Midbus went away." Chopper smiled and stretched. "All right, guys. Let's go get Fawful."
Nodding, they quickly ventured into the room ahead.
This is probably the first time we ever had Fawful as a major boss of a story. I think that's quite an accomplishment! And that means you should expect a lot of fury in the boss chapter. :P