Meta Knight looked up at the sky as he sat on the roof of the Gods' Town. He was watching the town carefully, noticing a girl flying over the sky on her broomstick. A red, devilish imp was holding onto the broomstick's end, begging her to fly down.
"Hey, Sir Meta Knight! You seem so bored. Want me to show you some entertainment?" Sword Knight asked, holding two sticks in the palm of his hands with a plate on top of them. There was even a stick on his head as well. Though, from the looks of it, he wasn't doing a very good job.
"Sword! What the heck do you think you're doin'?!" Blade Knight exclaimed, causing Sword Knight to pause and make the plates shatter on the floor. "You idiot! Look what you've done to the silverware! You know how much we spent on that?"
"Ummmmmmm..."
"A whole lot! If you're goin' to act like a clown, then I'll have to set you up with a training program!"
Sword and Blade stopped when they heard Meta Knight chuckling. They stared at him in confusion until the Star Warrior stopped laughing and turned around.
"I'm sorry, that was just a little funny," Meta Knight said, stiffing a few chuckles.
"Wait... Since when did Sir Meta Knight laugh?" Sword gawked.
"I can have a sense of humor too, you know."
Sword and Blade looked confused, but they looked up to watch the girl on the broomstick fly over the,.
"You know, I wonder who that girl is. She kinda looks like a witch." Sword remarked, only to get punched in the arm. "Hey! Watch it!"
"We're not here to insult people!" Blade yelled.
"Both of you stop now!" Meta Knight snapped. "I was thinking of going to Heus at this moment, but seeing as that you two won't stop fighting, I feel like I have to keep babysitting you."
"We apologize, Sir Meta Knight," Blade said, he and Sword kneeling down in loyalty. "I was just trying to get Sword here to mature a little, but I see it's disappointing you, so I'm sorry."
"I apologize for my idiotic activity," Sword added. "Oh, I wish I could actually go with you to see Heus."
Meta Knight thought for a moment and nodded. With that, they all went down to see Heus, who was looking at a map.
"Ah, Meta Knight! I see you decided to come here." Heus greeted. "We're just keeping track of Chopper and his friends on the Mirror Shards. Don't worry, they're almost done with their quest. They'll have that King's Star in no time!"
Meta Knight looked down at the map. He noticed that they were heading to the south to a casino by the beach. "He already collected four of them so far? This is not good… If he gets those last three, it's all over…"
"What do you mean?" Sword asked.
"Chopper and his friends are obviously running into a trap... And it's all thanks to a certain someone who is working with them..."
"Wait... You mean that shadow girl?" Blade gawked.
"Yes... Yet Chopper chooses to defend her... If only I had been there to warn him from the beginning..."
"Well, do you know anything about that casino?"
"Yes. The person who runs that casino is named Waldo." Meta Knight explained. "He makes a lot of money thanks to his casino, and he's quite pleased. However, his name does give that feeling of mysteriousness, as many people try to look for him."
"Hmmm... That's kinda interesting." Blade commented. "But, how come you don't want Chopper to get those Crystal Stars. He needs to save the universe, doesn't he?"
"Yes, he does need to save the world. But those Crystal Stars aren't going to help him. In fact, it's going to make things worse. Let's just say I've witnessed the sight of these stars in the past..." Meta Knight trailed, soon walking off afterward.
"Wait up, Sir Meta Knight!" Sword and Blade Knight cried, following him out of the building before he could disappear. Heus only stood there dumbfounded. Even as a God, he had no idea what Meta Knight was talking about.
Viti's Casino-
"Go! Go! Go go Mike!" the audience cheered as a blue robot with two microphones on his head began to sing some karaoke on the stage in the casino.
"My name is Mike c'mon let's robo karaoke! ROCK THE MIC! ROCK THE MIC!" Mike sang through one of his two microphones. "Get up on the stage and sing a little ditty for me! ROCK THE MIC! ROCK THE MIC! Golly! You're not me, I'm a karaoke machine! ROCK THE MIC!"
"YEAH! GO MIKE!" the audience cheered.
"I got two mics on my head and you sing into me! ROCK THE MIC! ROCK THE MIC! Don't you wanna, don't you wanna, don't you wanna karaoke? ROCK THE MIC! ROCK THE MIC! Golly! You're not me! I'm a karaoke machine!"
"You're so awesome, Mike!"
"We love you!"
"Be my robot, PLEASE!"
"Sing sing SIIIIING!"
"You're the master of karaoke!"
"Omigosh! You're such an awesome singer!"
"EEEEEEEEEE!"
"BE MINE!"
"Oh, SHUT UP!" a Waddle Dee yelled from another room. "Can't you see I'm trying to look at my money here?! I can't do that when it's noisy as heck out there!" Waldo, a Waddle Dee with a red and white-striped hat with a red pom-pom on it was counting his money. One thing for certain was that he was filthy, stinkin' rich.
Oh, and he was quite difficult to find around the casino due to the many people around.
"Sigh… Business is looking good, but that robot needs to shut up out there." Waldo said, looking through his coins. On the wall beside him was what appeared to be a Mirror Shard. "I can't hear any noise if I'm going to be counting money."
Outside-
"So, the next Mirror Shard is in a casino?" Chopper wondered, looking off at the casino by the beach. "Well that sounds simple..."
"Except for the fact that some of us are not old enough to enter..." Flyer added.
"We could always get in there by going into the shadows," Vivian suggested.
"Why not just dig under there?" Tamber also suggested. "My hands are good diggin' tools!"
"No, Tamber. If we did that, I think it would look pretty obvious that we snuck through the casino." Flyer replied, shaking his head. "It's a bad idea on your part anyway."
"I'm going to see if we can find a way by getting in the front," Chopper decided, walking over to the entrance of Viti Casino. What got his attention was a familiar witch girl over by the entrance. This fifteen-year-old girl also had a red imp with her as well. "Hey... She looks just like that one weird girl I saw at the Nightclub Casino two years ago... What's she doing here?"
He decided not to get her attention and carefully reached a good distance from the entrance. A pig bouncer wearing a suit was guarding the entrance, and he happened to spot Ashley and Red.
"Err? Who're you?" the bouncer asked. "Listen, girl, this isn't a place fer young girls to be goin' around. I suggest you scram. An' take yer little demon thingy with ya!"
"Tsh… I don't need to listen to you." Ashley pulled out her wand and turned the bouncer into a frog. "All right, we can get in. Red, don't try to mess up the potion again. The correct ingredients should be in here."
"Don't worry, Ashley. I won't mess this up," Red assured, following his friend into the casino.
"Well... That makes things easy for us. We can go now!" Chopper smiled, entering the casino with his friends. After all, the bouncer could not do much as a frog!
When they got inside, they saw the carpet was a red color, and the walls were brown. They could also see a couple of slot machines and a stage where Mike the karaoke robot was performing.
"Go, go Mike!" the audience cheered as Mike was continuing his song. Nobody appeared to be tired of it, unless you count one person still sitting in his office covering his "ears".
"So… Now where could that Mirror Shard be? Got any suggestions, people?" Sonic asked. Vivian took a look at her map, and it seemed to be glowing when pointed to Waldo's office.
"It's in the office," Vivian floated over to the door and tried to open it. Unfortunately, it was locked. "Oh... I can't get this thing open."
"It's locked, isn't it? Well, I have a suggestion we could try…" Mario started. "Why not get the person's attention by destroying a machine?"
"Hmmmm... If that means I can blow something up, then sure thing." Bombette agreed.
"Hey! I'm smashing some of these, too!" Tamber exclaimed.
Eventually everyone was forced to let Tamber smash some machines too, so both he and Bombette started to cause destruction amongst the slot machines. Many had been destroyed, and Mike and the audience had turned their attention to their destruction.
"Alert! Karaoke activity is being interrupted!" Mike stopped singing and extended his legs so he could get over the crowd. He found Chopper and his friends smashing the slot machines. "Problem discovered. Stop distraction immediately."
"Hey, wait! We're not trying to ruin your music!" Chopper cried, trying to pull him away from Bombette and Tamber. "We need to get a Mirror Shard through that one locked door!"
"Have you tried this?" Mike extended his arm over to the door and knocked on it. Waldo opened it with a sour look on his face and approached Mike with said look.
"WHAT? WHAT do you WANT? Can't you see I'm counting my coins?!" Waldo yelled, only to notice Chopper and his friends smashing the slot machines. Steam began to broil over his head. "My… My machines! Why did you destroy them? You know how much those cost?"
"Ummmmm... Not a lot?"
"Oh, it cost a lot! I bet this was your idea!" Waldo went up to Chopper and brought his fists up. "All right, get ready for a fight, you little scrub!"
"Scrub? Scrub's over there…" Chopper pointed to Scrub, who waved at Waldo. Unfortunately, that didn't seem to make him any happier.
"WHO CARES?! YOU'RE GOIN' DOWN!" Waldo. Chopper sighed and got in his fighting stance. They had taken it up on the stage where Mike was performing to make things more interesting.
Tattle: That's Waldo. He's the Waddle Dee who runs Viti Casino. Max HP is 1, Attack is 1, and Defense is 0? Wow… This guy… I don't think he even knows how to fight. One hit and he's down. I wouldn't even consider this much of a battle!
"That's his stats? Wow… Well, I guess I'll go a little soft on him." Chopper made a jump and with a single stomp, he dealt 4 damage to Waldo, defeating him and also being rewarded with 1 Star Point.
"Bluuuuuuuuuuurgh…" Waldo moaned, becoming unconscious. Chopper gave a thumbs up in victory, making the audience cheer.
"Yeah! He's beaten!"
"That guy was a jerk!"
Their cheering was eventually put to a halt when they heard a toilet flush, and a giant bug with two large pincers based off of a stag beetle came out of the bathroom. He suddenly noticed that Waldo was lying on the ground in defeat.
"W-Waldo?" Bugzzy stammered, walking up on the stage to see his friend on the ground. "N-No… He's…he's gone! I can't believe it… We were… We were best friends!"
"Ummmmm... I think he's just knocked out." Chopper peeped.
The large critter turned to Chopper with a death glare. "YOU! You're the one who did this to my friend, right? You know what happens when you mess with my friend? Now you're gonna get it!"
Before Bugzzy could make a move, something leaked from an air vent and got all over him. It was a green color, and it was even glowing.
"Uh oh… That can't be good." Shadower gulped. The audience gulped as well and immediately ran from the stage as Bugzzy grew bigger in size and a dark green color. His eyes had even become red in color.
"Red… You ruined it again."
"I'm so sorry, Ashley! It was an accident, I swear! Don't use me as an ingredient, PLEASE!"
The air vent had eventually broke off, and out came Ashley and Red. The former looked down at Bugzzy. "Oh, so that's where the potion went…"
"Well, look at this! I've become mutated! This should do nicely..." Bugzzy grinned, pulling out two large daggers. "Now you're gonna get it! YOU HEAR ME?! This is for Waldo!"
Tattle: That's Bugzzy, who's presumed to be Waldo's best friend. That potion really made him change. I'm actually somewhat afraid of him… Max HP is 230, Attack is 13, and Defense is 0. He's try to attack you with those daggers or he'll even throw them at you! Also, watch out when he tries to grab you with those pincers. They don't look like they can do much, but he can THROW you at one of your partners. It still does the same damage, but it's best if you watch out for that attack.
"So, you're going to fight with a sword—er dagger?" Chopper asked, changing to his Sword ability. "Well, I might as well fight you with my sword as well! En garde!"
Chopper lunged at Bugzzy and attacked him with a jab from his sword, with the latter crying, "Ooh! That was painful!"
"Time to deliver more pain!" Tamber declared as he hit Bugzzy with his Combo Punch attack. It knocked the beetle back, but when he got back on the stage, he knocked Tamber back with one of his daggers.
"Whoa, I never knew his daggers could people back… Yikes…" Sonic remarked, quickly taking action by getting in his ball form and striking Bugzzy with a Spin Dash. Chopper ran Bugzzy and jabbed at him at least six time, dealing 12 damage to the large bug and bringing him to 190 HP.
Bugzzy threw one of his daggers at Chopper, which knocked him back near the edge of the stage. Despite this, he quickly got back up and struck Bugzzy again with a sword swing. The damage left from the attack angered him and made him charge directly at Chopper. However, Mario had come in an jumped on the mutant bug for 8 damage.
Bugzzy quickly shook his head and hit Mario with his two daggers, the latter guarding the attack. Tamber grinned and struck Bugzzy with another Combo Punch.
"Man, punching this guy feels so good!" Tamber proclaimed. "I don't know if it's just me, but I like crushing big bugs!"
"Wow... For a mutated bug, you sure aren't that tough." Chopper remarked as he struck Bugzzy with another sword slash.
"Oh, really? How about I drop the blades for now and show you something else?" Bugzzy decided, charging at Chopper. His pincers grabbed the small hero, and using his strength, he hurled him at Vivian, dealing 13 damage to them both. "Now THAT felt good!"
"Are you OK, Contadre?" Scrub asked while helping Chopper up. Chopper gave him an assuring nod and pointed his sword at Bugzzy.
"What? Oh no you don't…" Bugzzy brought his daggers up and blocked his attack. Chopper tried a couple of other times, but he failed to attack Bugzzy with his sword. "Ha ha! See? You can't do a thing!"
"Oh, yeah? What about this?" Chopper jumped over Bugzzy and slashed him in the back, making him yelp in pain. Since he was off guard, Berry smashed Bugzzy's head with her Ruby Hammer.
"Bluuuurg… How are a bunch of pansies getting me down quicker than someone who's bigger than me?" Bugzzy groaned, rubbing his head in pain. He noticed Mike and turned his attention to him. "Hey! You! Robot guy! Get some music playin'! I wanna listen to something while fighting these freaks!"
"Freaks? YOU'RE a freak, to be honest…" Berry objected, just when Mike was starting to sing Bugzzy grumbled and knocked Berry back with a kick, almost making her fall off the stage. Luckily, Chopper grabbed her before it was too late.
"Phew… That was a close one…" Chopper huffed, running back to Bugzzy before she could say anything. He swung his sword from a further range, and his Sword Beam struck the stag beetle.
"Wow, that was pretty cool! I never really saw much of the Sword Beam." Bombette said in surprise. She used her Bomb on Bugzzy next, covering him in soot. The stag beetle shook the soot off himself and kicked Bombette away when she landed in front of him from said explosion.
"Har har har har!" Bugzzy laughed, only to get hit by Chopper's sword and Flyer's Flying Attack, bringing him down to 104 HP.
Bugzzy threw a dagger at Flyer, dealing 13 damage to him. Afterward, he went over to Chopper to attack, but he was too slow and got struck by Chopper's sword.
"AGGHH! You… Oh, you're gonna pay for that…" Bugzzy grumbled, only to get hit by Scrub's Ground Pound.
Bugzzy whacked Scrub away with his arm, and then he brought his attention to back Chopper, only to get hit by Chopper's Sword Beam, followed by Vivian's Shade Fist, leaving a nasty burn on him. Being a bug, this did not go well for him. He walked over to Vivian and knocked her back with a kick. Before she could fall off the stage, Chopper forced himself to go back and help her.
"Thanks, Chopper…" Vivian sighed in relief.
"No problem," Chopper replied, turning back to Bugzzy, who took damage from being burned. He swung at him with his sword, and then Kirby attacked next with his Cartwheel.
"Grrrgh… Must…not…succumb…to burn…" Bugzzy closed his eyes tight as he ran toward Chopper. With one attack from his daggers, he knocked his Sword ability away from the antennae hero.
"Uh oh… My Sword ability!" Chopper cried.
"Ha! How does it feel to be weaponless?!" Bugzzy laughed, which was interrupted by Chopper's hammer. Tamber followed up with a Power Punch that left Bugzzy with only 33 HP left.
"Hoof… Hack… I never thought you'd get me down like this. But this isn't over yet!" Bugzzy grabbed Chopper with his pincers and threw him at Flyer.
"Oof! Well, I guess there's proof that he's not giving up." Flyer huffed, shaking himself and attacking Bugzzy with a Flying Attack. As soon as Chopper stomped on him, he wasn't far from being defeated. He now only had 16 HP left.
Bugzzy attempted to attack once last time by grabbing Chopper again and throwing him at Berry, doing 13 damage to them both. Chopper managed to get himself back up and hurl a fireball at him, and then Berry finished him off with a hammer to the face.
"Ooooooooog…" Bugzzy moaned. He dropped 38 Star Points, and not to mention Chopper leveled up from the fight. He went with HP, so his HP went up to 90, along with having 85 FP and 51 BP.
Mike stopped singing, and he saw Chopper making a victory pose. Everyone had returned to the stage and cheered for him. Ashley applauded somewhat, but it wasn't very exciting, though Red's clapping was. For Bugzzy the effects on the potion had worn off, turning him back to his normal blue color.
"A phenomenal job has been done," Mike identified, seeing the group defeat Bugzzy. He scanned Chopper and found an interesting identification. "Character identified as the Great Contadre! Fame is off the charts on Viti..."
"Huh? Who are you?" Chopper asked.
"I am Mike, and I'm a karaoke king," Mike answered, shaking Chopper's hand. Scrub stepped up to shake his hand as well.
"And I'm his sidekick, Scrub!" Scrub declared.
"Wait, what? I thought I was..." Flyer paused, the feeling of being ignored in his mind. "Are these people only aware of Chopper?"
"Have you come here to challenge me in a karaoke contest?" Mike asked, handing one of his microphones on his head to Chopper.
"Ummm… I don't think I have time to sing, and it's not good either..." Chopper trailed. "Last time I tried that, people kinda...died or ran."
"That would be interesting to hear," Ashley deadpanned.
"Like you know anything about singing, you witch!" Tamber scoffed. Ashley's eyes turned red, and her hair had become white. Though, Tamber didn't seemed all that fazed, so she did the simplest thing and turned him into a frog.
"He was asking for it!" Red grinned.
"You should turn him back..." Chopper suggested.
"Whatever," Ashley rolled her eyes, turning Tamber back to normal, while her hair reverted back to its black color.
"Awwww... I wanted to keep him as a pet!" Red whined.
"Well... I guess now that that's over with, I should go get that Mirror Shard." Chopper was about to go to the office, but he saw a blue headband that Bugzzy dropped. He grabbed it and ate it. Suddenly, his skin became a little darker, and not to mention a blue headband was now on his head. "Hey! It's the Suplex ability! Neat!"
Chopper went into Waldo's office and grabbed the Mirror Shard there. After that, he went back to Vivian to give it to her. With that, she took out the map to find the next Mirror Shard.
"The next Mirror Shard is located somewhere…to the north on the mountains," Vivian informed. "We should go over there at this moment. We should be careful, because it's snowy up there."
"Well my fur can resist such cold temperatures!" Tamber assured with a confident look. "Maybe you're all going to need my help here!"
There were cricket noises.
"Oh, come on!"
Everyone left Viti Casino and headed to the north of Viti. The word of snow made nearly everyone look forward to this trip.
Fifteen minutes later-
"Ugh! Why do we always keep returning to cold places?! We should've gotten jackets!" Scrub complained, shivering in the process as snowflakes fell on his nose.
"Shut up, Scrub," Tamber said harshly. "If you wanna be manly such as myself, then you're going to have to suck it up!"
"If by 'manly', you mean going out and flaunting your so-called 'masculinity'..." Berry deadpanned.
"...Nah, you don't understand my manliness. You're a chick."
"Well, I guess that's better than being egotistical."
"This isn't helping me get warmer..." Scrub interrupted.
"I think I'm gonna make things a little easier for me," Chopper decided, changing into his Ice ability so he wasn't cold. Unfortunately, his icy aura kinda made it colder around the others.
"Poyo… (I wish this story let me copy abilities...)" Kirby sighed.
After about a couple of minutes of going up the snowy mountains (along with complaints from a few people), they saw a large castle and a large pedestal where a chest sat.
"Hey, we're here already? Finally…" Sonic sighed in relief. "That was much easier than I thought!"
"Welcome, travelers!" a Toad wearing an icy crown, a blue robe including some jewelry greeted upon approaching them. "It's been such a long time since we've seen your kind of people here… My name is King Iclip!"
"You're King Iclip? That's a strange name…" Mario commented.
"Oh ho ho ho ho! Yes, it is indeed a strange name!" Iclip laughed. "Now… I heard that travelers would be coming here to get the Mirror Shard, is that true?"
"Ummmmmm... Yeah, we did." Chopper nodded. "How did you know?"
"Well, we've been hearing about a group of people that would show up and get our Mirror Shard. Obviously it must be you guys."
"Yeah... That's us." Vivian nodded. "Do you know where it is?"
"Well… The Mirror Shard…is right in that chest you see up on the pedestal!" Iclip answered, pointing to said chest. "Just open it and you'll have your shard! Hooray!"
"Well, er, OK?" Chopper jumped up onto the pedestal and walked over to the chest. The others had joined them up on the stage to help him open it. They all smiled in delight to see what was in the chest...
…Except that the chest had disappeared, and in its place was a bomb. The fuse was already lit up and ready to explode! ...Well, until the fuse stopped midway.
"What the…" Berry gawked.
"Hey, wait a second... That should've gone off!" Iclip whined, his voice sounding a bit more high-pitched than usual. "You gotta be kidding me! I was ripped off with this bomb!"
"Did his voice suddenly change?" Flyer asked.
Iclip jumped over to them with an annoyed look on his face. "Ugh… That bomb REALLY should've done something, but I guess not… Well, no use in hiding now!"
"Oh, crud… Don't tell me who I think it is…" Chopper gulped. King Iclip was surrounded in purple smoke and – you guessed it. Decoya appeared in his place.
"Who the heck is this weirdo?" Tamber asked.
"I bet you weren't expecting ME to be here, did you? What, you can't find your precious Mirror Shard? I have it right here!" Decoya pulled out the sixth Mirror Shard piece, surprising most of the group.
"Is that so? Well, I suppose you wouldn't mind handing it over." Berry suggested.
"Not a chance! Especially after the trouble you've been causing for me!"
"Trouble? What did we do?" Chopper asked, causing Decoya's mouth to drop.
"You mean... You don't REMEMBER?!" Decoya exclaimed, now starting to fume.
"Uhhhhhh... No?"
"You had gotten in my way back on that floating island! You don't remember that Mushroom Colossus I sent at you?!"
"Oh, yeah... I remember THAT." Chopper realized. "Anyway, we need that Mirror Shard, so could you please give it to us?"
"You're an idiot! Didn't you hear me before? The answer is NO! Not until I get my revenge on you!"
"So... You're saying that after you get your revenge on us, you'll let us have it?"
"Well, that depends on if you're still alive or not!" Decoya cackled, lifting herself off the ground with a floating mushroom and surrounding herself with a circle of mushrooms too. She fired one down on the stage by Chopper to prevent him from approaching her. "Now let's see you try to stop me!"
Tattle: That's Decoya. She may look like an cute Toad, but to tell you the truth, she's pretty evil! I mean, she tried to take you guys down before! Max HP is 230, Attack is 13, and Defense is 0. She has herself surrounded in a bunch of mushrooms, so stomping on her will be no good. Not to mention she has some mushrooms she'll shoot on the ground to stop you from approaching her. I would suggest trying to throw them at her. Do you have anything that has to do with throwing?
"Throwing, huh? Hmmmmm… Wait, I think my Suplex ability can let me throw things! I should give that a try!" Chopper became Suplex Chopper, and he grabbed the mushroom on the ground and threw it at her.
"Ow! How did you do that?" Decoya cried.
"He has his ways…" Berry spun her hammer and herself and managed to summon a pink cyclone that struck Decoya and her mushrooms. Said mushrooms circling around her had disappeared as well. Angered by this attack, Decoya fired a mushroom directly at Berry, taking 13 out of her.
"Let's try something else…" Chopper jumped up to Decoya, now that she didn't have those mushrooms around her, and he performed a kick attack that knocked her to the ground, which allowed Berry to hit her with her hammer again.
Decoya growled as she threw a Fire Shroom at Chopper. He was lucky enough to grab the hot mushroom and throw it back at her to deal 8 damage to her instead. This was a lucky move on his part, especially since the Suplex ability had a countering ability for a Superguard.
"Whoa… I was able to counter that attack… That was TOO close." Chopper sighed, hitting Decoya with another kick attack. Vivian left a burn on her thanks to her Shade Fist.
"Ack! Stupid fire attack!" Decoya whined before she created a mushroom shield and then fired an Ice Shroom at Vivian. She had lost 13 HP in the process, but she had not succumbed to being frozen. Chopper grabbed the Ice Shroom that fell on the ground and threw it at Decoya and her shield, leaving her wide open for an attack.
"Well, that took care of her shield," Mario said, jumping on Decoya with his Jump attack and knocking her to the ground. Decoya pulled out a Fire Shroom this time and threw it at Mario, leaving a burn on him. She had taken damage fro, Vivian's burn, but that's when it wore off.
"Finally! I'm no longer scorched! Now you're gonna get it!" Decoya pulled out another Fire Shroom, but Chopper shrugged and tossed a fireball at her that left her with another burn.
"Well that takes care of that issue," Chopper shrugged.
"And now it's my turn to go up," Tamber smirked as he rushed over to Decoya and struck her with his Combo Punch.
"Ouchie! How dare you hurt a cute little girl?!" Decoya scowled as she threw an Electric mushroom at Tamber, only getting him angrier.
"OW! You annoying brat!"
"Well, at least she's not a spider..." Chopper trailed, remembering that form and shivering. Nevertheless, he jumped in the air and landed a Jump on Decoya. Sonic shot himself at Decoya afterward and knocked her off the stage with his Spin Dash.
"Nice one!" Mario applauded.
"Well, I'm one to do quite a lot," Sonic smirked, not being aware of Decoya regaining her focus and floating back up. A mushroom was fired down at Sonic, knocking him onto the ground. "Ugh... Sometimes, I feel like I don't pay too much attention to the enemy..."
"Relax, Sonic… You're not finished just yet" Shadower assured, twirling his finger before casting a bolt of shadowy lightning down on Decoya and her mushroom shield with his Shadow Smite. Chopper then knocked her to the ground with his Jump, leaving her with 102 HP.
"You meanie-heads!" Decoya cried. "This was supposed to be my time to shine, and now look at how far you've brought me down!"
"Well... The bad guys don't usually win..." Chopper trailed.
She floated up and swooped down at Chopper with her mushroom shield. This attack was deadlier than her mushrooms, since it was able to take 15 HP out of him instead of 13, and that was certainly bad from what Chopper endured.
"Ouch! That was painful!" Chopper winced. "We really need to get rid of that shield!"
"Poyo! (I'll do it!)" Kirby declared, inhaling one of the mushrooms and spat it out at Decoya and her other mushrooms.
"Ah! That's a good idea!" Chopper went ahead and performed a Wall Jump to deal some extra damage to the weird, green girl. Decoya grumbled to herself before firing an Ice Shroom at Kirby. He found himself shivering and slightly whimpering.
"P-Poyo… (S-So… C-Cold…)" Kirby stammered.
Chopper looked back at Decoya, who began to giggle to herself. He decided to throw an ice ball at her, while Scrub landed a Ground Pound on the girl's head. Decoya angrily rubbed her head and went back in in the air to summon a shield of Ice Shrooms.
"Since it's cold here, I think it'd be fitting for you dummies to freeze!" Decoya smirked, firing two Ice Shrooms at Chopper and Scrub. Thankfully, it had not frozen them, which left them slightly relieved.
"Good thing we didn't freeze…" Scrub shivered.
"True… Now let's go bash this girl and get outta here with the Mirror Shard." Chopper grabbed an Ice Shroom on the ground and threw it at her, which got rid of the mushroom shield once again. Following up was Flyer, who struck her with his Flying Attack. Thankfully, he saw a mushroom coming her way and guarded it.
"Whew… That was too close." Flyer panted.
"You can say that," Chopper agreed. He brought Decoya to the ground with another jump, and then Bombette made the next attack with her Bomb, bringing her down to 26 HP.
"Urk…" Decoya huffed, looking up at Chopper with an angry look. She fired a mushroom at him, but he quickly guarded the attack.
"Well, since you're probably not going to just give up now, I might as well end this quickly," Chopper decided, hitting her with another Wall Jump to reduce her to 8 HP.
"And now for the finishing touch!" Berry declared, raising her hammer over her head. She charged at Decoya, and with a jump, she swung her hammer downward to pummel the green girl down. As a result, Chopper had gotten 38 Star Points, and he also leveled up. With that, he upgraded his FP to 90.
"Yeah! She's down!" Scrub cheered.
"You…" Decoya grumbled, trying to get herself up. "You guys hit even harder than before! ...And I don't like it!"
"Well, you were asking for a fight," Flyer pointed out.
"You want your Mirror Shard? Go ahead! TAKE IT!" Decoya shouted, taking out the shard and throwing it directly at Chopper's face. Thankfully, he managed to catch it before it even made contact with his face. "I'm out of here!"
Decoya escaped the mountains with another smoke bomb, allowing the heroes to relax for a brief moment, with Mario saying, "She has problems!"
"Yeah, tell me about it," Sonic agreed.
"Well... With this Mirror Shard, only one more remains!" Chopper smiled, tossing it to Vivian. "So, where's the last shard, Vivian?"
After taking the shard, Vivian took out the map and noticed the last Mirror Shard's location. She let out a small gasp.
"It's... I don't believe it..."
Dark Creature Base-
"SHADE! Come here at once!" Dark demanded, waiting impatiently for Shade. Eventually he came, but he looked far from happy.
"What do you want?" Shade asked with a glare.
"Explain why one of the Dark Creatures found THIS in the trash?" Dark pulled out a crumpled up piece of blue paper. It had the blueprints to the cannon that Shade was supposed to make.
"That? Oh, I didn't need that." Shade said bluntly.
"And why not?"
"Well, it's because I thought of something BETTER than that piece of garbage."
"Shade, you realize that we need that for our plan. We are planning on our attack, after all. A soldier had told me that three other enemies of mine have come here as well and are at the place where I intend on capturing first."
"Who are you talking about? That blue cat, yellow Chihuahua and red undead mouse...whatever he is?"
"Yes. Them. That blue cat in particular. Apparently he is a bit of a fan of the famed Sonic the Hedgehog..." Dark clenched a fist upon saying that name. "I've been waiting a long time to finally meet this hedgehog... He thinks he's the fastest thing alive. Well, speed isn't what's going to save him, especially if our cannon destroys Mobius!"
"I don't care so much about Mobius," Shade spat. "There's one person in particular I've been hearing more about. There's this pale green person with two antennae going around collecting the Crystal Stars. I heard his name is Chopper..."
"I don't care about this Chopper, nor do I care about something called the Crystal Stars. It doesn't matter just as long as I find Sonic and eliminate him. That way, it'll be much easier to conquer Mobius." Dark stated, pondering afterward. "Now... If only I knew where he was... He was nowhere to be seen on Mobius..."
"So, you want to know where he is, then?"
"Who speaks?!" Dark demanded, scanning the room.
In front of him, Tipral had made his appearance with his arms crossed.
"What the… How'd YOU get in here?! GUARDS! SEIZE HIM!"
A couple of Dark Creatures tried to attack Tipral, but he disappeared and let them bump into each other, knocking them out instantly.
"How'd he do that?" Shade questioned.
"It's called teleportation. Something I'm skilled at." Tipral stated, his eyes meeting Shade. He noticed his appearance looked somewhat similar to Chopper, especially that round shape. "So there are more people out there resembling that fool?"
"Ugh... You know, I have more Dark Creatures to eliminate you." Dark informed. "So leave now or face their wrath."
"Then the same thing will happen to those aliens."
"...Fine. Why are you here?"
"If you wanna know where this Sonic you're looking for is going, you should go to that battlefield," Tipral suggested. "There's a Mirror Shard located there, which is something he and Chopper are looking for."
"You mean that battlefield? Good. I was planning on going there with my troops anyhow. Shade, you're going to stay here and get to work on that cannon."
"Yeah, about that..." Shade trailed, pulling out a blaster and pointing it at him. "I have no reason to be here anymore. I'm leaving."
"What do you mean?" Dark asked, only for his hand to get shot by the weapon. "AAACK! Why you little...!"
"You know, Dark... I never liked helping you out. All you do is keep me here and work on weapons. Well, perhaps I'm not that fond of that... So, I thought to myself, 'Why not just leave this guy and make my own army?' That idea sounded very interesting!"
"Grrrrrrr! You're not leaving this place at all!" Dark hissed, pulling out his gun. "You were made for a specific job, Shade! You know what happens when you disobey your leader!"
He was about to fire, but Shade was faster and shot his blaster out of his hand. He was going to shoot Tipral too, but he had teleported out of the room in time.
"Really… Did you think that I WANTED to help you this whole time? If that's true, then obviously you don't know that much about me..."
"What do you mean?"
"Do you remember those issues of a few Dark Creatures suddenly going missing? Because I sure do!" Shade grinned, his green, forked tongue sticking out from his mouth.
"Yeah... I remember there were some that had gone missing. I received reports that a lot of them appeared to be missing from your..." Dark paused, now suddenly realizing it. "You... Don't tell me that was you!"
"Hee hee... Congratulations! Now, if you'll excuse me... I have an army of my own to set up!" Shade declared, black wings appearing from his back and allowing him to fly out of the base. Dark picked up his gun to shoot at him, but it was too late. Instead, he placed his Dark Emerald on his wounded hand to heal it.
"Argh... That little brat... I swear I'm going to get him..." Dark hissed. "Well, there's no point in going after him now. My army can easily fight without his help. But for now, I should get started on preparing myself to conquer Viti..."
Dark had grabbed his blaster and Dark Emerald and headed to his room where all of his necessities were. If Tipral's words were true, then Sonic was obviously going to be heading to that battlefield, and he sure did not want to miss his opportunity in defeating him!