CHAPTER 11-3
-The Green Thunder-
The five heroes were quite surprised to see that this area of the Metallic Forest looked more forest-like with more trees in the background and even…mushrooms. These were made of gold, which, although is a metal, it rather soft. So, it looks as if they can be bounced on, from what they could see. The whole ground was a bit more greenish than silver and even the trees looked a metallic brown with green metallic leaves. Now the heroes knew that this place was definitely a lot better than they thought it would be like.
"You know, this reminds me of Illusion Forest for some reason… I mean, everything looks more forest-like, although it also kind of reminds me when Robo Chopper managed to transform the whole forest into machinery. Ugh… That was creepy…and so is this."
"Poyo, (Yeah, this place seems a bit unsettling,)" Kirby agreed as he looked at the atmosphere. "Poyo? (Is there anything besides us that isn't machinery? Minus Midbus and Fawful as well.)"
"No… I think it's just us here… Which stinks."
"I don't find this place creepy. In fact, it kind of reminds me of Mushroom Hill for some reason." Sonic said as he stretched his legs. "C'mon! What do you guys say? How about we go through this part and go find Robo Chopper?"
"Yeah, we're gonna do that," Blade nodded.
They saw a small hill up ahead with a robot mushrooms bouncing around. From what they could tell, these mushroom enemies had orange tops with the robot part being more of a purple color. Chopper used the wand's power to identify this enemy.
"That's a Mushmeanie. This is supposedly one of Eggman's Badniks. Max HP is ?. Attack is 8. Mushmeanies tend to simply bounce around in the direction it's moving… It only take two hits to defeat this. One hit to destroy the cap and one to destroy the robot itself. It's not really a huge threat, since it's just hopping around. But it's not safe to be going at top speed…" Timpani informed.
"Two hits? That's not tough…" Chopper simply used his Feather Gun to strike the Mushmeanie with two feathers, destroying it instantly and allowing him to go up the hill. They could see that there was a tiny ramp that moved up, but it led toward a hill going down to a loop.
"Oh, yeah! Now THIS is what I'm talking about!" Sonic smirked.
"Yep. We get loops now! …Although I never got a chance to run through one of them." Chopper frowned, but his expression immediately changed when he charged up a Speed Dash and ran down the hill at top speed.
"Whoa! He's going a bit too fast there!" Blade gawked.
"And I'll follow him, I suppose," Sonic was about to curl up in a ball, but he stopped for a moment. "Hold on a sec… How are you guys going to get through this loop? We can't move on if there's no way of getting you guys through!"
Lucky for them, Ninbot happened to land on the ground. "I have a solution for you guys… But, it's not exactly the safest thing…"
Mario: What is it?
Ninbot pointed to a moving platform that moving up and down. It was going to go above the loop and follow Chopper down the hill he was moving. But they happened to notice him get knocked back by a mushroom another robot threw.
"Ack! Where did THAT come from?!"
"Poyo, (We better help him,)" Kirby took in some air and floated over the loop and began to roll down the hill after letting out the air. Mario and Blade used the platforms and landed over by Kirby. They got out of the way as Sonic used a Spin Dash to roll through the loop and down the hill. But, he too got struck by the mushroom that the robot threw at him. Although, it didn't hurt him.
"Say… I remember these robots!" Sonic recalled.
"They're kind of annoying…" Chopper whirled up the wand and aimed it at the robot that showed its face from the grassy metallic ground and investigated it.
"That's a Madmole. These things love to stay underground and wait for their enemies to show up. Max HP is 38. Attack is 9. Defense is 1. They will constantly throw orange mushrooms at you to knock you back. They won't do any harm to you, but the ones with spikes WILL hurt you. After they throw a mushroom, they'll leave themselves open for a bit to allow you to attack. Make sure you're quick…" Timpani informed.
When Kirby got to the group, he immediately used Crystaline's ability to freeze the Madmole in order to prevent it from retreating back into its hole. Blade smirked as he finished it off with a fire slash.
"Is it just me or are these enemies a piece of cake?" Blade asked as he sprinted up ahead to clear the way of a Patrolbot that was blocking the way. "They're not really tough, honestly…"
"Well, except for the Intruderbot," Chopper added.
"Yes… Those guys are quite dangerous."
They jumped down a small step to find a yellow spring to the left and a ramp leading up on the wall to the right. It wasn't big, but one thing for sure was that there weren't any other pathways to take here.
"Well this is…I don't know what to say about this." Sonic frowned, looking up at the upper pathway up the wall. There also happened to be a mushroom that looked bounceable. "What about that mushroom?"
Mario: Maybe we can use it!
As Chopper went up the wall, he grabbed a hold of a pole that helped him boost his speed in order to reach up. Sonic did the same thing and they were right next to a door, to their surprise. The other three used the mushroom to bounce up to the door instead of taking the other way.
"That was kind of lazy of you to do that…" Chopper trailed.
"Poyo? (Well what do you expect us to do?)" Kirby questioned. "Poyo! (All we can really do is jump and use those! We don't have the ability to run up walls like you and Sonic do!)"
"Yeah, you're right… I wasn't trying to make you feel bad. I was only joking. But, whatever. We should move on." Chopper opened the door and they immediately entered through the door.
Robot Fortress-
"Oh yeah! Now we're jammin'!" Robo Chopper began to bob his head as he began to play a song called "Crank the Heat Up", which is a song from Sonic Adventure (you know, in Final Egg?). Things were going quite well. They were pretty much playing the whole song flawlessly.
…Until Metal Mario suddenly lost beat of the song.
"What the… Stop! Stop! STOP!" Robo Chopper shouted. The whole group suddenly stopped playing and the whole song went to a complete halt. "Metal Mario! Why did you lose the beat?"
"Whaa? It was-a big accident!" Metal Mario protested.
"'Big accident'? Yeah right! You had it just fine! How could you suddenly lose the beat of the whole song?! After all we've been playing, THIS is how you play when we're rehearsing at this moment?!"
"Why dost thy music soundeth so bad?" Luvbi asked, who was covering her…"ears" despite not having any. The Metal trio stopped and looked straight at her with a shocking, yet angry look. "Yea! I bet Chopper couldst do better than thee!"
"I assure you that he couldn't," Robo Chopper scoffed. "His singing is horrendous!"
"Well, I still think thou art terrible at making music," Luvbi bluntly stated with an annoyed look.
"Hey, don't think we're those people who love rap!" Robo Chopper growled, giving her a glare. "We don't do rap, see? We're metal heads!"
"Well, if I giveth thee compliments, will thou letest me go?"
"Let you go? Yeah right! Didn't I say that I was going to test you with an invention that still needs to be complete? Uhhh… Yeah! I did say that! Listen, while you're in that cell, I'll give you someone that you can talk to! Someone like…"
Robo Chopper flew straight over to AI-5538 and began to search for some people for Luvbi to be tortured by. "What do you think you're doing? Why can't you just let the innocent girl go?"
"Shut up, you stupid computer. Why isn't there ever a mute button? And besides, I need her because that annoying robot Grim wanted me to test out the weapon on someone who wasn't a robot. And, since she's the only non-robot here, I'm going to use it on her! Now let's see…"
He began to search through, but he found one specific location: the Bitlands. He happened to notice a large castle in that world as well, and it just so happens that there was a certain geek drooling over a couple of posters while playing some video games in his room.
"Nerrrrrrrr! These anime babes are just so hoooooot! And these video games are so hi-technical too!" Francis said in his usual, geeky voice.
Robo Chopper was a bit scarred by this, but he also seemed a bit pleased. "Heh heh heh! I think he'll be the perfect playmate for that stupid girl! I don't think she'll be able to handle his geekiness!"
With one push of the button, he was able to teleport Francis out of his castle and into the same room that he, Metal Mario, Metal Sonic and Luvbi were in. No one else could see Francis but Robo Chopper.
"Neeerrrr? Where am I? This isn't my room!" Francis gawked as he looked around the room. "And what kind of place is this?"
Francis happened to notice the three robots in the room. "Are those actual robots?! Schweeeeeeeeeet! I've never seen so hi-technicaaaaaaaaal robots like you guys! I HAVE to take a picture of you!"
"Errrrr… I thought he was-a supposed to-a torture the girl?" Metal Mario sweat dropped.
Francis smiled a nerdy smiled as he pulled out his camera. "I've just GOT to get some pictures of you guys! The people at digibutter. nerr will be SO jealous when they find out I not only have pictures of that butterfly, but of robots! Nerrrrrr! I'm going to be so popular on those forums!"
"Forums? Oh, don't tell me he's one of those freaks that spends all day on forums…" Metal Sonic face palmed while Francis began to laugh in his nerdy voice while getting his camera ready.
"Screw this. I'll show you something." Robo Chopper smacked Francis, making him spin around over by the trapped Nimbi princess. That's when Francis realized something when he saw Luvbi.
"Nerrrrrr… I can't believe it! You even got me a new Francine as well!" Francis drooled as he walked up to the scared Luvbi.
"Eeeeek! Don't come any closer, peasant!" Luvbi screeched. "And mine given name is Luvbi! Not Francine!"
"Oh, screw it. This guy's a big problem." Robo Chopper grabbed a hold of Francis and tossed him out the window, out to somewhere else that no one really cares about…or do they care about it?
"So where did-a you throw him to?" Metal Mario asked.
"Most likely somewhere where Chopper is," Robo Chopper answered while looking away from him. "I'm sure that this nerd will probably be a good distraction for those group of heroes."
Metallic Forest-
The heroes walked out of the door and noticed that they were in an area that was a bit flat compared to the other room. But they also happened to notice that there were two ways to go. They could also see a pathway out in the background, which they all believed is the right way to go.
"Hoo boy… This isn't good…" Chopper gulped as he looked both ways. There were some pipes over by the left with a couple of mushrooms right next to them. To the right, there was a small hill leading up to a Securibot and even a pole that looked as if it could give you a boost while running. Right next to the door they walked out of were two little openings. One was shaped like a triangle and the other was shaped like a square.
"From what I can see, we need to find something that can fit into there," Blumiere predicted as he looked at the two empty spaces through the wand.
"We'll find it, don't worry," Sonic assured as he turned to the left. "I think we should start by going this way. It might be a bit more annoying, y'know? I think the harder things should be taken care of first."
"Then to the left we shall go," Blade declared as he walked to the left, but he immediately stopped when the saw some spikes rise up in front of him. "Uh oh… This isn't good…"
"Poyo? (Why did spikes pop up out of nowhere?)" Kirby gawked.
"Beats me," Chopper shrugged.
Mario: Well, we can't-a do much, so let's-a go!
Mario jumped over the spikes and used the mushroom to launch him up to the metallic green pipe. A Securibot happened to be flying around the large gap between the pipe Mario was standing on and the pipe up ahead that they would need to use another mushroom to get to it.
"Errmmmm… I think I should get over these in some other way." Chopper, using his Wing ability, simply flew over the pipes. He even rammed into the Securibot in order to knock it down to the ground, where there were two spike traps that could be seen. Mairo simply jumped in between them and jumped on top of the Securibot to land on the next mushroom in order to send him up to the next one.
"Poyo! (I can just float over this easily!)" Kirby said before taking in some air and floating over the large gap. Sonic and Blade didn't have any problems getting across either.
Although, they were met with a Mushmeanie and an Electric Cherbil. But Mario managed to take care of both with his jumping and Kickbrin's kicking ability on the Electric Cherbil.
"That takes care of them," Chopper smiled. "Those things are annoying."
"How are they annoying?" Blade asked.
"Uhhh… Well... I don't know... They shoot...stuff..."
"I don't know what you're talking about," stated Sonic as he walked up to the door. Chopper groaned and followed him through, along with the rest of the group into an area that had a wall up ahead, but there was a pole sticking from the wall that seemed to be able to help them reach the top of the upper part of the area.
"Man, I actually think this might be a bit cool," Chopper smiled, racing up to the wall. He decided not to fly and grabbed a hold of the pole, which he used to swing himself up until he was above the upper part of the area and over by a mushroom sticking on the edge of the cliff.
"Uh… Guys? I don't think that mushroom looks safe…" he shouted.
"Poyo! (Don't worry! I'll just float up there!)" Kirby took in some air and began to float up to the upper part of this area. Blade grabbed a hold of the pole and swung himself up to the mushroom. The only problem, however… The mushroom fell, resulting in him slipping and grabbing a hold of the edge.
"Ack! I'm screwed!" Blade gaped.
Kirby managed to grab a hold of Blade's hand and pulled him up with the help of Chopper. The only problem was that the mushroom that was hanging off the edge was no longer there…
"Oh, boy… It's not going to be easy getting up there." Sonic frowned as the mushroom landed on the ground and disappeared. Nevertheless, he used the pole and swung himself up to Chopper, Kirby and Blade. He was lucky to land right on the upper part of the area without the mushroom.
"Hey! I did it!"
Mario: But I still need to get up!
"Oh, yeah… Let's see if I can help him." Chopper flew down to Mario and grabbed a hold of his hand. The only problem, however, was that the plumber was a bit too heavy for him. That and he couldn't really pull him up either. "Sheesh, Mario! You need to lose some weight!"
Mario: -_-;
"Hey! It's true! I'm having a hard time carrying up! Actually, I highly doubt I can even carry you." Chopper released Mario, who wasn't really far from the ground. "I wish there was another way… I feel exhausted. Maybe this is how Flyer feels when he carries me around while flying."
Mario: Can't I just use the pole?
"Ummmmmmmm… Well, you can try that out. I'm not sure if you're able to do something like that though…"
Mario shrugged and decided to give it a try. He grabbed a hold of the pole and managed to swing himself up surprisingly. Chopper was surprised as he flew back up to Kirby, Sonic and Blade. Mario managed to make it up to them easily, which seemed to please everyone in the group.
"Yeah! Now we've got everyone up here!" Sonic said as he did a little break-dance before noticing the ground up ahead being some kind of treadmill with it moving toward them. "Whoa… Look at the ground."
"Eh?" Blade turned around and saw the treadmill-like ground as well. "Oh, wow. Look at that. I guess that can help boost our speed if we get close to it, right?"
"Uhhhh… Blade, there's no way we can get a boost of speed from that… That ground is moving toward us, so if we were to move on it, it's going to push us back instead of giving us a good boost. So… Yeah. Although, I don't think it's a huge problem if you can simply jump on it."
"Poyo, (I'll go first,)" Kirby began to run on the treadmill ground, but he was having a bit of a problem with getting through. But, in the end, he decided to simply float over the ground and make his way up a small hill and over by a mechanical rock that was at the end of the treadmill ground.
"Well, I guess jumping works, but I suppose I'll just do this," Chopper charged up a Speed Dash and took off, running through the treadmill ground easily and jumping over the rock and landing right next to Kirby.
"See? That was pretty easy!"
Sonic went up next, curling up into a ball and performing a Spin Dash in order to help him get through. When he landed right next to the other two, he turned around and noticed something else.
"Hey, is that an alternate pathway?" Sonic questioned, looking up above the ground. He could see a small little tunnel with both sides having the treadmill wall. They seemed to be moving up.
"Maybe you should check it out?" Chopper suggested. "I think you might be the only one who can get up there."
"Yeah, I'll give it a shot," Sonic jumped up to the tunnel while curled up in a ball and it took him up to another part of the area. There really wasn't anything around, except for two Patrolbots that were roaming around and also a little red ! Switch right next to him.
"I guess I should handle these guys," Sonic performed a Homing Attack on both Patrolbots to make a chest appear. There happened to be an Ultra Shroom Shake inside, which was a bit surprising.
Afterward, he hit the switch to change the way the treadmill was moving, allowing him to go back to his friends, who were already off the treadmill ground. But they still had a large gap up ahead with spikes down below and a treadmill ground across.
"Oh, boy… That's going to be tough to cross." Blade frowned.
"Yeah, for you it is, but for me… Well, probably not." Chopper simply flew across with his Wing ability. Kirby floated over there as well, but they were able to hit a switch to make a Securibot appear.
"A Securibot? Why do we need that here?" Sonic asked.
"Wait a second… I think I have an idea!" Blade snapped his finger as he jumped on top of the Securibot and stayed on top of it. "See, guys? I think I could just ride on top of this thing to get across!"
Blade jumped off the Securibot and landed on the treadmill ground, which was now in the direction they were moving. It seemed to end over by another rock, just so that it wouldn't throw them off the cliff.
Mario decided to jump on top of the Securibot and landed right on the treadmill ground as well. They could see up ahead there were three stumps that were sticking right up, which was not too surprising.
"…Another one of these? Man, how many of these are we going to find?" Chopper face palmed as he walked up to the stumps. "Well, OK… I suppose we should just do what we did before."
Mario: I'll take care of it.
Mario struck all three stumps with his Ground Pound ability and it made something rise up from the ground. It looked like a large metallic Yoshi with two orbs. One looked a little red and the other looked a bit white.
"Hey, why do these orbs resemble something I've seen before?" Chopper pondered to himself as he looked at both orbs. "Meh, I think I know what to do here."
He tossed a fireball into the red one and an ice ball into the white one, triggering a green key shaped like a triangle to appear on the top. Chopper grabbed a hold of it and put it away.
"I think we need this for that little triangle opening we saw right on that pedestal. I suggest we go back there and put it there."
Previous area-
After making their way through all of that, they made their way back to the two pedestals right next to the door they came out of when we went back to them. Chopper pulled the green triangular key out and placed it in its pedestal, making it glow and also making it sink into the ground.
"Did anyone else find that to be a bit weird?" he asked.
"Nah, not really," Blade replied with a shake of his head.
"Poyo… (It's not really that weird, honestly…)" Kirby trailed as he walked toward the right. "Poyo. (Now we just need to find the next key. Hopefully that'll take us to our destination."
"Yeah, so let's get a move on, shall we?" Chopper turned to the right and shot a feather at the Securibot in the way so he could progress through easily. He used his Speed Dash in order to swing himself toward the right on the pipe and race up a wall on an upper part of the ground where the next door was.
"Hey! Wait for me!" Sonic curled up in a ball and performed a Spin Dash to get past the Securibot and swing himself toward Chopper on the pole. Mario managed to swing himself as well, but he couldn't get up to the upper ground due to not being able to run as fast.
"Wait, what about the mushroom?" Blade questioned, pointing to the mushroom.
Mario: Oh, yeah!
Mario jumped on the mushroom, which launched him up to both Chopper and Sonic. Blade used the mushroom as well, but Kirby simply floated up to them like a balloon before entering through the door.
This area looked a bit peaceful, if not an autumn-like feeling. The metallic leaves falling from the ground were in colors of yellow, orange and red and the metallic grass itself was more of a light green color. For some reason, Chopper seemed a bit satisfied with how this place is than the other.
"Man, I can't believe we've found a nice little area where we can relax! I think I like this area!" Chopper smiled, hitting two ? Blocks. One contained a Mushroom, but the other contained the Cutter ability.
"Ummmmm… So what do we do here?" Chopper asked Kirby.
"Poyo? (Do we decide via rock paper scissors?)" Kirby asked.
"OK! That sounds good to me!" Chopper and Kirby got started, with Chopper having scissors and Kirby… Well, since he doesn't have fingers, all he really had with him was…rock.
"Ummmmmm… So what do we go with? Is Kirby showing a rock?" Blade asked.
"I think Kirby won this. I mean, he's got rock, and Chopper's got scissors." Sonic pointed out.
"Drats. Well this stinks." Chopper sulked as Kirby removed his Beam ability to take the Cutter ability. "Hmmmmm… Well, it wouldn't really matter anyway. My Wing ability CAN technically cut through some grass or ropes."
"Poyo, (That's true,)" Kirby nodded as he saw some grass up ahead. Grabbing the cutter blade on his yellow cap, he tossed it straight at the grass like a boomerang, revealing a robotic Darkling enemy.
"What the heck is that?" Sonic gawked.
"I'll check for myself," Chopper pulled the wand out and used it to investigate this mysterious-looking Darkling.
"That's a Robo Darkling. These are robotic versions of the dark beings Maquano created called Darklings. Max HP is 44. Attack is 10. Defense is 2. Their energy balls that they hurl don't really have any effect on you, but they certainly do more damage than other attacks some Darklings strike you with. They're not very tough to defeat, since you can just step on them or bash them easily." Timpani informed.
Chopper decided to fire a feather at the Robo Darkling, but because it's made of metal, it didn't really do much. BUT, since it's made of metal, he decided to smash it with his fire smash ability from his hammer in order to defeat it. Up ahead, however, there was another enemy they've encountered before: a Bristle.
"Uh oh… Not those guys." Blade groaned. "How many times do we have to deal with Bristles anyway?"
Blade tossed a couple of shurikens at the Bristle, but they didn't do a lot of damage because of its defenses. Kirby managed to finish it with a simply throw of his cutter blade, destroying it.
"So where do you think the key is?" Sonic asked.
"Why don't we go up from here?" Chopper suggested, noticing a platform sticking out of the large tree. "Oh, man… I hope this isn't like the Dotwood Tree. You don't wanna know how much I HATE that area."
"Dotwood Tree?" Blade questioned, cocking his head.
"It's a large tree that we had to climb," Sonic explained. "We encountered Dimentio there, but we managed to defeat him without any problems. Although, afterward we had to deal with something worse."
"Poyo, (Which we're NOT going to speak about,)" Kirby said as he began to float up to the top of the tree. On one of the platforms they jumped onto, they happened to notice a dark green metallic Tileoid moving around on the platform. Chopper decided to use his wand to investigate it.
"That's a Tileoid FG. It is a mysterious creature that's made of many small parts... Max HP is 30 and Attack is 6. It can also crawl along walls and ceilings... Tileoids vary in color and ability. This forest green Tileoid is known for its paralysis..." Timpani informed.
"FG? What does that mean?" Blade asked.
"It stands for forest green," Blumiere answered. "You should be able to reach the top of this tree with no problem, so don't try to worry about falling."
The tree wasn't as tall as they thought it would be. There WAS a platform they had to get moving by hitting a blue ! Switch, but they managed to make it to the top, where they saw a Squibot patrolling the area, but it was easily defeated when Mario smashed it with his hammer, making a chest appear in the center.
"Man, that was a piece of cake," Sonic smirked as he opened the chest and grabbed the orange square key from inside. "C'mon, guys! Let's bring this back to that pedestal from earlier!"
Back at the pedestal-
"Man… How long do we have to go from here?" Blade panted as they made their way back to the main area.
"Well, all we have to do is place that key into its pedestal and we should be able to get going, I believe." Chopper confirmed as Sonic placed the key into its pedestal. This only caused the ground to shake violently.
"What's going on?" Timpani asked as Chopper and Kirby both lost balance and fell over. A dark green pipe appeared right next to them after the shaking stopped. They all looked at it in confusion, but they knew where they needed to go with this.
"OK, we should get going," Sonic suggested as he jumped into the pipe. Surprisingly, he was out in the background where more trees were.
"Poyo! (Hey! That looks cool!)" Kirby smiled as he jumped into the pipe as well. The rest of the group followed and walked through the background until they saw another pipe that seemed to bring them to another part of the area. Ninbot was waiting for them right by the door.
"Sheesh! How'd you get here so… Hey, wait!" Chopper groaned as Ninbot entered through the door. The rest of the group shrugged and followed him into a flat area with a door up ahead…although it didn't seem like it was going to open so easily.
"Hold on a minute, Ninbot! Can't you slow down for once?" Sonic asked as they made it up to the robot ninja.
Ninbot turned to the heroes, but he didn't exactly answer their question. "We're not too far from the palace. We just need to find the entrance to the underground area and we should be able to get to the Pure Heart with no problem."
"Wait a second, how do you know about the Pure Heart?" Chopper asked.
"Are you working for Tipral?" Timpani asked.
"I said this before… I'm not an enemy. But I cannot answer any questions. All will be revealed when we get to our destination." Ninbot explained.
"All will be revealed? Well, thanks for all of that, Ninbot! That'll make things easier for me!"
"Wait… Who just said that?" Chopper asked.
Before anyone else could answer, a mysterious shadow jumped on Ninbot and made him dizzy, knocking him to the ground.
"What the…!"
"Heh heh heh…" the shadow turned out to be a mysterious man wearing a black mask, a green hat with a green L backwards, a black overall-like suit, a green bandanna around his neck, gray gloves and black boots. Oh, and he also has a mustache that almost looks a bit similar to Mario's.
"Hey! Who do you think you are, doing that?" Blade growled, drawing his katana.
"Who? Me?" the masked man whirled around and smirked at the heroes. "I did that 'cause I could, cat! Why else would I try something like that? …And you, lime-green kid… You sort of remind me of someone that I work with. …I think his name's Tipral! Yeah, Tipral… He's a cool kid."
"Another one of Tipral's minions, are you?" Chopper immediately got in his fighting stance. "All right, who the heck are you?"
"Yeah, that's right. I'm a minion of Tipral. I'm one of his more promising minions, The Green Thunder…" the masked man spun around and made his arms into the shape of an L. "Mr. L!"
Mario: You're name's Mr. L?
"That name sounds familiar…" both Timpani and Blumiere said in unison as Mr. L knocked Ninbot out of the way as he walked toward the heroes.
"I don't need you to tell me it's a cool name," Mr. L said. "I know it. Don't bother memorizing it."
"Oh, really?" Chopper said with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah, really. Heh. You kind of remind me of myself for some reason. Being green and all… But I'll tell ya this, though: I have the better green." Mr. L glanced over at Mario. "And you… Just because you're in red doesn't mean you're the superior one!"
"Then let's have a little fight, shall we?" Blade suggested, readying his katana.
"All right, then a battle we'll have! Have at you!" Mr. L jumped back and rammed straight into Chopper, knocking him back. Both Sonic and Blade tried to strike him, but the green-capped man folded himself and then rocketed up into the air to make the two crash into each other.
"Whoa… That was one heck of a move!" Sonic gaped.
"Tell me about it… I can't jump that high!" Blade sulked.
Kirby threw his cutter blade toward Mr. L as he landed on the ground. It struck him, but then he managed to grab it and bang it right on top of Kirby's head, leaving him dazed in order to him to knock him back with a kick.
"Yeah, I know! I'm cool! You don't have to applaud!" Mr. L grinned as he "pretended" to hear people cheering. Mario tried to attack, but when he brought his hammer out, Mr. L grabbed a hold of it and punched him in the stomach so he could bash him with his own hammer instead.
Mario: Mama mia… That hurt…
"So, I guess we can finally tell who's the better one!" Mr. L smirked. Mario wheezed as he got up and used Kickbrin's ability to knock Mr. L back. Then, using his jumping skills, he performed a Triple Jump attack on Mr. L's head, leaving him stunned for a couple of seconds.
"Man, this guy's kind of tough!" Chopper panted as he got up. He used Timpani's wand in order to investigate this mysterious man.
"That's Mr. L. This new hire of Tipral's a real mystery man...and does seem to have a lot of charisma for some strange reason… Max HP is 150. Attack is 10. He uses his high jump as a weapon... And that powered-up super jump is quite...super... He does seem to be someone who knows how to defend himself, that's for sure. But for some reason, why does he remind me so much of Mario...?" Timpani informed.
"Yeah, I was just thinking the same thing…" Chopper nodded as he tossed a couple of fireballs at Mr. L while running toward him. Mr. L yelped as the fireballs struck his butt and began to run all over the place.
"YOUCH! Why are my biscuits burning?!"
Mr. L turned to Chopper, who began to throw even more fireballs at him. He dodged the fireballs and came toward Chopper. However, the pale green gumball simply flew up into the air with his Wing ability.
"Oh, I'll show you something!" Mr. L folded himself once again and sprung up, striking Chopper in the air with his fist and knocking him to the ground. The attack did MASSIVE damage to Chopper. Double the damage than what his normal attack power is.
"Whoa! That…REALLY hurt!" Chopper wheezed as he got up. He saw Mr. L was trying to ram into him with his elbow, but he jumped out of the way and struck him with an ice slamming kick to freeze him for a couple of seconds.
Now that Mr. L was frozen, Blade was able to strike him with a fire slash, melting the ice off him and also leaving him a bit dazed from being frozen. This allowed Sonic to hit him with a Spin Jump and then use Screwdy's corkscrew attack to strike him again as well, which was nice.
"Whoa… You attack me while I was dazed. Well you're still not going to beat me anyway." Mr. L smirked as he managed to jump on top of Kirby's head. Although, with the cutter blade on his head, Mr. L ended up hurting himself, so he decided to strike Mario with a jump instead.
Mario: He's got one heck of a jump!
"True, but he's outnumbered! Five against one!" Sonic smirked, curling up in a ball and striking Mr. L with a Spin Dash. "You had a great start, but you really don't seem to be fighting too well now!"
"Oh, we'll see about that!" Mr. L knocked Kirby down with a simply kick and then used his incredible jump to avoid Kirby'c cutter blade. He landed right on top of Mario's head and bounced off to land on Blade's head while performing a stylish move in the air.
"Hey! That's not fair! You can't pull a stylish move!" Chopper frowned.
"I did it, so quit cryin'," Mr. L landed on Chopper's head and then kicked him to the ground. "You're so small! You're almost like a soccer ball!"
"Well don't underestimate my size," he warned as he rammed into Mr. L headfirst as he flew up. Mario managed to whack the mysterious man with his hammer afterward to leave him dazed once again.
Mario: You won't be winning this fight!
"Think again, red man!" Mr. L did a back flip and landed right on top of Blade's head, knocking him to the ground. Kirby threw his cutter blade at him while from behind and managed to knock him…but right into Mario.
Mario: Hey! Get off of me!
When Mr. L got off Mario, he looked at him for a couple of seconds. "I swear… For some reason, you look kind of like me… I don't like that! Just like what Tipral said, there can only be one of us!"
"Oh, great… HE said that?" Chopper groaned while face palming. "That's so dumb."
"Well, that's what you might think, but he and I ARE the better ones than you guys!" Mr. L avoided another one of Chopper's feathers and pulled out a Super Shroom Shake. Of course, Mario managed to grab it with Thoreau and take it for himself to recover 20 HP. He smirked as he threw the empty can at Mr. L's head.
"Hey! Who do you think you are, doing that?!" with him distracted, it allowed Blade to strike him with his katana. Mr. L managed to elbow him in the stomach after getting struck, but it wasn't long until Chopper stomped on his head with fire energy on his feet.
"You can't really take us all on when you're busy with someone else," Chopper smirked.
"Like this!" Sonic jumped and struck Mr. L with a Homing Attack while he was trying to punch Chopper, knocking him over. However, he did manage to get back up and launch himself in the air with his incredible jump, hitting both Sonic and Blade for some immense damage.
"ACK! What was THAT?!" Sonic screeched as he fell over on the ground from the attack.
"That was PAINFUL!" Blade hissed.
"That's my almighty Super Jump!" Mr. L smirked as he landed on the ground. "And yes, it is quite painful, as it does deal a lot of damage to people! Not to mention it leaves them unconscious for a couple of seconds!"
"Poyo! (Well you're not going to stop us!)" Kirby rushed straight at Mr. L with his cutter blade in his hand. He did manage to strike him with his Final Cutter attack, but Mr. L managed to kick him and throw the cutter blade at Chopper, knocking his Wing ability out.
"Hey! That's my Wing ability!" Chopper managed to inhale it, but instead of swallowing it, he decided to spit it out at Mr. L instead to leave him stunned. Luckily, it happened to work, so he sprinted toward him and bashed him with his own hammer to leave him a little weaker.
"He's not too far from being defeated…" Timpani informed. "Just a little more and you should be victorious!"
"He is a rather formidable opponent, I will say that," Blumiere stated.
"Yeah, but we can still take him!" Chopper rushed toward Mr. L again and did a sweeping kick this time in order to make him trip. But it didn't seem to make him trip, but instead made Chopper get kicked in the face by Mr. L's boot.
"Try that again and you're toast!" Mr. L warned before getting bashed in the head by Mario's hammer. He tried to grab a hold of it, but Kirby managed to freeze him using Crystaline's ability.
Mario: Thanks, Kirby!
"Poyo! (You're welcome!)"
Sonic and Blade managed to recover some HP by drinking a Super Shroom Shake, allowing them to fight back again. Sonic made sure he would strike Mr. L without any problems by using his Light Speed Attack to strike the frozen mysterious man, while Blade tossed Hommissile straight at him to cause an explosion.
"Move outta the way!" Blade cried out as he charged at Mr. L with his katana. Everyone moved out of the way as Blade struck Mr. L with a fire slash, leaving a harsh burn on him. But, he ended up getting punched in the stomach afterward.
"Oi! Why do his punches hurt so much?!"
"It's 'cause I'm so cool," Mr. L smirked as he jumped and came down on Kirby, kicking him in the face and knocking him back. He also managed to elbow Mario in the stomach and then uppercut him as he performed his Super Jump attack.
"HA! There's no way you can best me with a jump like this!"
As he came down, Chopper jumped toward Mr. L and used an ice slamming kick to knock him to the ground. It also left him frozen, allowing him to bash him with his hammer to break him out of his icy prison. Afterward, he burned him by tossing a charged fireball at him.
"Come on! Is that the best you've got, kid?! Tipral can do better than that!" Mr. L spat as he tried to punch him. Luckily, Chopper managed to duck like a pancake to avoid the attack and punch him in the stomach with ice energy – not to an extent of freezing him. He just made him feel cold.
"Another attack should finish him off," Blumiere confirmed as he saw that Mr. L's HP was incredible low at this point.
"Aw, crud. My HP's already this low?" Mr. L questioned, biting his lip. "Man… I never knew this was going to be over so soon… Hold on a minute… It shouldn't be over just yet!"
Mario: I think it'll end right now!
Mario sprung into action, jumping on top of Mr. L's head and making him fall over on the around in defeat.
Although, despite being defeated, Mr. L got up as the heroes walked over to him.
"Oof! Impressive!" he said while panting.
"Impressive? Uhhh… You were all worried a second ago and now you're saying that was impressive?" Blade gawked.
"Well I honestly doubted your skills, heroes," Mr. L explained. "But I'm not done yet! I've still got a little surprise up my sleeve!" he threw his hands up into the air as he shouted, "COME TO ME, METAL BRO!"
The ground began to shake as a large robotic head that resembled Mr. L ripped through the background and landed right behind the mysterious man. Everyone else seemed a bit surprised…not in a scared way, though.
"…That's your surprise?" Chopper gawked.
"It's just a robotic head that looks like you…" Sonic said, trying to hold his laughter.
"Ha HA! Do you like him? That is my DEAR metal brother. He and I share a spiritual bond, you know. Yes, yes, and his name is… BROBOT!" Mr. L jumped into the hat of Brobot, where there was glass for him to see through and grabbed a hold of the controls.
Mario: So much for being a surprise…
"Enough playing, already… NOW FOR PAIN!"
Brobot flew up and immediately went through the ripped background. Everyone simply shrugged and followed him into another area of the metallic forest. Of course, they were all chasing after it.
"This place should be good for me to stop you heroes! I'll tire you out and destroy you with my metal bro!" Mr. L grinned! "Hey, Mr…er… I really can't think of a name. But who cares? I'm gonna take you down!"
"You might need this to fight back," Ninbot tossed two Spicy Curries that landed in Chopper and Kirby's hands. "You'll be able to spit fireballs at him and deal some damage."
"Uhhhh… You sure?" Chopper questioned.
Unfortunately, that was the last they heard of Ninbot. But, Chopper and Kirby simply ate both Spicy Curries, which began to make things REAL hot inside of their mouths. They began to spit fireballs out at Brobot too!
But first, Chopper wanted to see what the stats on Brobot were by using Timpani's wand to investigate.
"That's Brobot. This super robot is one of Mr. L's creations... Max HP is 345. Attack is 12. Defense is 6. Defense against fire is 8. It is loaded with different weapons that allow it to attack from any angle... Just try to avoid its attacks and use that Spicy Curry on it when you get a chance... And try to grab a few snacks around here that come by..." Timpani informed.
"I guess all we can do is just sit by and watch both Chopper and Kirby go at Brobot with their fireballs," Blade said as he threw a shuriken at it. It did SOME damage, but he didn't think it would really help that much.
"Man, this stuff is so hot!" Chopper cried as he spat more fireballs at Brobot. "And how come these fireballs have an effect on him?!"
"I'm not quite sure… I suppose you have to ask the person who made that Spicy Curry…" Timpani suggested.
"Heh heh heh! Well, let's see how you like this!" Mr. L pressed a button and the nose of Brobot opened up and fired a missile straight at the group. Chopper simply jumped to avoid it, just like everyone else and continued to spit fireballs at Brobot, just like Kirby. They could even see some food up ahead, like a Max Tomato which seemed to boost up their attack and even a banana, which could most likely help Chopper with fighting. Even some cookies around the forest could make them go faster as well.
"Poyo! (You're gonna be toast!)" Kirby smirked as he floated and spat fireballs at Brobot's head. Mr. L pressed another button and made a green laser fire out of its eyes and at both Chopper and Kirby, hitting both of them and knocking them back a little…but not by a lot.
"Oof! Well, that sure is something I suppose…" Chopper panted as he got back to running and spitting more fireballs. "Sheesh! This thing can sure take a lot!"
They both ate a Max Tomato to power up their attacks and fired more fireballs. Brobot simply fired some small green lasers at them, forcing them to dodge the attacks with ease. Ninbot dropped a star (not a Mega Star) and it made them invincible for a couple of seconds.
"Aw, man… This isn't good. They're invincible!" Mr. L growled. "Well, I'll have the last laugh soon when they get sucked into this thing! Brobot! Let's suck them up!"
He pushed a button, making Brobot open its mouth and began to suck things up like a vacuum. Blade decided to throw Hommissile in there just for kicks and cause an explosion that did immense damage to Brobot.
"What the heck?! How did you do that?!" he gaped.
"I just threw in my trusty missile! That's what!" Blade smirked.
"You've got missiles? Well I've got 'em too! Take this!" Mr. L pressed an orange button and made Brobot fire missiles at the group rapidly. Sonic was knocked back by a missile, but he managed to gain some speed and strike Brobot's nose with a Homing Attack, leaving a dent.
"I think that should've done something!" he smirked as he returned to the group.
Mario: Hopefully…
Chopper jumped and devoured a cookie to make him increase his speed, allowing him to shoot fireballs faster at Brobot. Mr. L simply growled and tried to hit him with more lasers like before, but it didn't seem to work.
"Come on you worthless machine! DO something!" he growled.
"Poyo, (The music kind of sounds catchy too,)" Kirby stated as he began to bob his head to the music being heard.
"Yeah, I like it too!" Chopper smirked as he spat more fireballs. "I swear… This stuff is INCREDIBLY hot! Ninbot, don't you have anything that allows me to NOT have my mouth burning?"
Ninbot tossed some Icy Curry that Chopper devoured, allowing him to spit chunks of ice from his mouth at Brobot. This seemed to be more effective against Brobot because of all the dents it was leaving.
"Hold on a minute, I wanna throw in a cool attack," Blade smirked as he saw a missile being fired toward them. He used his ninja skills to jump on top of it and slash at Brobot's nose a couple of times with his katana until the missile got a little far. Luckily, Mario managed to grab the missile with Thoreau while riding on Carrie and threw it back at Brobot.
"Wait, is it even legal to use two Pixls?" Chopper gawked.
Mario: Beats me!
Kirby managed to overheat Brobot after a couple of more fireballs and it caused Mr. L to yelp due to the extreme heat, but he managed to press a button to cool it down with some kind of water.
"Poyo, (Oh, yeah, I still have my Cutter ability too,)" Kirby threw his cutter blade straight at Brobot while still spitting fireballs and caused some immense damage to the robot.
"Have a little taste of THESE missiles!" Mr. L smirked as he fired smaller missiles straight at them. They exploded upon contact and knocked the heroes away, but it didn't stop Chopper from grabbing blue bananas, giving him a barrier that protects him from attacks.
"NOW it's personal!" Chopper sped up toward Brobot, his feet now in a figure-8 pattern. He chucked a couple of ice balls at Brobot and continued to spit more chunks of ice at it as well. With Kirby's fireballs, it made it a bit tough for Mr. L to even control this thing.
"Sheesh! This isn't how I wanted things to be!" Mr. L grumbled as he made Brobot open its mouth and suck them in. This time, he managed to. After it chewed on them and spat them out, they were all a bit bruised.
"What's wrong? You had enough from my metal bro?"
"We're not giving up just yet, you know…" Sonic warned as he struck the top part of Brobot with a Homing Attack, leaving the cockpit cracked a bit and making Mr. L looked a bit puzzled.
"Sheesh! …No! I'm not going to let a bunch of junior heroes beat me! I'M better than those other minions too!" Mr. L grumbled as he fired multiple lasers at the heroes. Blade spun his katana and deflected a couple of lasers back at Brobot, while Mario used Kickbrin to strike Brobot's nose. Sparks and smoke appeared all over the robot, showing that its HP is rather low.
"There's not much left of him now," Blumiere informed. "Finish him off now!"
"That doesn't sound like a bad idea," Chopper nodded as he fired a couple of more chunks of ice from his mouth directly at Brobot.
And, for the heck of it, Chopper and Kirby spat a fireball and ice chunk directly at each other to make it combine as it struck Brobot, causing it to explode violently and even make Mr. L tremble in fear.
"Hey… This makes no sense!" he cried as he saw explosions appear all over the place. There were even a couple inside of Brobot, making him yelp and get out.
They all returned to the area where they previously fought Mr. L by himself. Mr. L himself ended up falling face flat on the ground while moaning, "Ow..."
"I don't believe it! You managed to best my greatest invention?!" Mr. L brushed off the dirt left on him and got up and glared at the heroes. "Ugh… I'll let you all off the hook for the rest of the day, I suppose… But remember this… When Fortune smiles next, she'll smile right HERE! On Mr. L!"
As Mr. L jumped away, everyone seemed to ponder a bit, especially Mario.
"You know, I can't shake the feeling that I saw someone like him…" Chopper pondered. "Don't you guys agree?"
Mario: Yeah, he does remind me of someone.
"Errr… I don't really remember. But, maybe he is someone we've seen before." Sonic thought to himself.
Ninbot landed right next to them and gestured them to follow him. Everyone was confused, but they followed him straight through the door up ahead and into an area where they saw that large robot guy, Trucker.
"Hey… It's that guy from before!" Blade realized.
"All right, I gotcha, Grim," Trucker nodded, who was speaking through the communicator. "I'll make sure to bring some more of those slaves. Maybe that pizza guy from earlier could make a good slave! …Er, I don't think I'd find him, though…"
"Forget about the pizza guy or whoever the heck he is! Just come back to base so we can discuss plans about the slaves." the voice they heard through the communicator was most likely Grim.
"Sure thing, Grim! I'mma comin' back to ya!" Trucker walked over to a part of the ground and stomped on it, making an elevator appear to allow him to go down underground.
"Holy… That's pretty…weird." Sonic gawked.
"Nerrrrrrr! This is so hi-technicaaaaaaal!" Francis appeared right by the elevator with his camera. "I've gotta go after that robot! That thing was so immense…and schweet! I've GOT to get its autograph!"
Francis disappeared and followed Trucker down the elevator, leaving everyone else to gawk.
"Was that…Francis?!" Chopper gawked in fear. "Wh-What's he doing here?!"
"Dude, relax… He's just a weird nerd that just goes after girls and robots. He could help distract people too." Sonic reminded.
"Well, yeah… That could be a good thing. Of course, I don't fear him as much as Luvbi…"
Ninbot walked over to the panel after the elevator closed and stomped on it to make the elevator appear. "Let's go, guys. We can take the underground passage to get to the Robot Fortress."
"All right…" they all followed Ninbot and stepped on the elevator floor so they would go down.
Underground-
As the elevator brought them to the bottom of the room, they could see that it wasn't so metallic down here. The ground was made of red rock and it even seemed to be a bit hot down here as well. At the end of the room, they saw a Star Block floating there.
"Sheesh! This is one strange place…" Sonic commented. "Just look at it. There's no metallic-ness anywhere!"
"Yeah, that's weird," Blade commented.
"But, we need to end this chapter first," Chopper pointed out as he punched the Star Block. "This is a strange place too… So, I wonder what we're going to find around this place…"
END OF CHAPTER
Chopper and Co. nearly gaped at the whole underground area. They thought that it would be all metallic underground. They were wrong. Ninbot gestured them to follow him through the tunnel up ahead, and they simply listened and followed. "I did overhear that large truck talking about slaves…" spoke Timpani through the wand as they were reaching their destination. "I just hope this place isn't as terrible as I feel that it's going to be…" From hearing that, our heroes knew that this was most likely going to be a dangerous area.
Sheesh! This was a pretty long chapter to write... But, whatever. It's a lot better than what it was before, so I'm fine with that. And it's also nice because we get to introduce another one of Tipral's minions. You know, Mr. L? I'm pretty sure a lot of you people like him for whatever reason.
So what's next for our heroes? Well... Perhaps it might be the new area they're going to explore. And hopefully we'll get more details on this Grim character as well.