Flyer was standing in the center of a circle in this strange, dark world, being surrounded by the Shadow Sirens and Brothers. He looked around him and then below, noticing a glowing outlined circle colored in pink.
"Now, Flyer… This little ritual will allow us to give some of our powers to you." Beldam explained. "We shadow beings have the ability to share powers to others, including non-shadow beings like yourself."
"You're going to give me all of your power?" Flyer gawked.
"No, not all of it. Besides, you won't need all of our powers to defeat Chopper and his poor excuses of friends."
"So you're going to do the easy way? That is not going to be helpful." Tipral said with folded arms. "It's be much easier to make him learn these things on his own."
"Oh, pipe down, shadow-freak!" Mysterious snapped. "You have no part in helping him, and therefore, you cannot tell us what to do!"
"Guuuh!" Marilyn grunted.
Tipral ignored him and walked away. Meanwhile, Purple had taken the book off the shelf and opened it to the right page. He looked through it for a brief moment before showing the writing to Mysterious.
"Thank you, Purple…" Mysterious said, eyeing the writing and pulling out a gray and white-striped hat. "To get started, we all must place our hands on this hat. We will then transfer some of our power into it, when he puts this on, he will gain those powers."
"Guhhhhhh…?" Marilyn grunted in confusion.
"Let us do this, Marilyn!" Beldam suggested.
Beldam, Marilyn, Mysterious, and Purple all placed their hand on the hat. Doopliss had done the same thing, but Beldam slapped his hand away.
"Hey! What's the big deal?" Doopliss asked.
"You don't have the same ability to transfer power like us, freak-sheet," Beldam informed. "Plus, no one would want your transformation powers anyway!"
"Fine..." the Duplighost mumbled, stepping away.
"Now… It should be any second!" Beldam assured. Cold energy began to flow into the hat, along with earth, electric, and water energy. "Hmph… If only we had Vivian here, we would get a hold of some fire magic. Unfortunately, that is not the case..."
"Yeah..." Flyer trailed, looking down at the hat.
"Bah! Who really needs fire on our side?" Mysterious scoffed. "This should be more than enough to help him!"
"Very well!" Beldam removed her hand from the hat. She then placed it on Flyer's head. When he looked at his gloves, he saw sparks on his left hand and ice on his right. "So, it looks like we succeeded! How do you feel, Flyer?"
"This power... It feels incredible!" Flyer gaped, his expression turning to an evil grin. "This should be more than enough to help me defeat those fools..."
"Now we just need to teach you how to use your magic," Mysterious said. "And that is something we shall get to right away!"
Near the poisonous forest-
The travel to the poison forest had remained silent, especially when they looked behind them and stared at the darkness creeping their way. The darkness had now reached Steelfoot's hideout, which seemed to disappear within the darkness's shadows.
"My gosh... I can't believe Steelfoot is caught in that darkness just like Stoneard..." Chopper trailed. "Even if they weren't the friendliest out there, they don't deserve that kind of fate..."
Many others were horrified by the darkness's consumption as the wind started to blow to their sides.
"You know... Thinking about it, if Flyer's still on this planet..." Shadower started. "Is it possible that he had ended up...?"
"If he did... Oh, no..." Chopper frowned.
"There may be hope. Maybe he's not trapped in that darkness." Berry noted, though when she noticed the darkness get closer, she gulped. "Uhhh... How far are we to our next destination?"
"Not too far..." Blade trailed.
"Make it go faster, Blade!" Bang complained.
"You told me that last chapter!"
"Well... Uhhh... Make it go faster!"
Blade found a stick near his foot and threw it at Bang, knocking him to the floor. The dog slowly got up and mumbled a few things about Blade before looking at the water. He noticed it was starting to change from blue to a light purple.
"I don't know about you guys, but I'm thirsty..." Bang sighed. "I'm gonna have a drink."
"Wait! Don't drink from there!" Chopper cried, pulling him away.
"Yes, I know it's salt water! I'm drinking it anyway!"
"But that water's poisonous!"
"It is? Whoa... Thanks for the heads-up, kid!" Bang sighed, sitting on the ship. Suddenly, he felt another feeling in his stomach. One all too familiar. "Oh, man... I'm not feeling good."
"What is it this time, Bang?" Blade asked.
"I gotta go again! Where's the poop deck?"
"Bang, poop decks are not for... Well, you know."
"Then what are they for? Huh?"
"They're for..." Blade paused, pondering for a moment. "Actually, I don't know what they're for either. I just know the name."
"Why don't you use a bathroom for a change?" Bombette suggested in an annoyed tone.
"OK! OK! Fine!" Bang rushed into the bathroom and took care of business. Blade continued his driving and had went into the forest. Unfortunately, that was when he, along with the others, felt the ship come to a halt.
"Bad news, guys... We can't keep moving." Blade noted, seeing the river's width was not wide enough. "We're going on foot from here."
"And I don't see how we can get off this ship either!" Scrub added, noticing that there was no bridge for them to use. "Got any ideas, Contadre?"
"Well... Hmmmm…" Chopper noticed that there was, coincidentally, a paper airplane panel on the ship. It appeared to lead onto the grass in this dark green forest. "Hey, look! A paper airplane panel! We haven't seen these in a while!"
"Paper airplane panel?" Night gawked, getting off the navigator's area. "The heck are you talking about?"
"This can help us get onto land!"
"Oh... Well, that sounds nice."
"All right... Let's see if I remember to use this..." Chopper jumped, causing him to transform into a paper airplane. His partners joined him, and with that, he began to glide off the ship, over the poison water, and onto land. Once he landed, he transformed back to normal. "That was actually fun!"
"Hey! What about us?!" Bang yelled. "We need to get off of here too!"
"Or we can just leave them..." Tamber muttered.
"After breaking into my house? No way!" Chopper objected before he searched around the area. He noticed a tree right beside him, so he whacked at it with his hammer to make a blue ! Switch fall out. "Maybe this will do something?"
Chopper gave the switch a good kick, which triggered the ground to shake. Right by the ship, a couple of cardboard turtles rose up from the water.
"Nice! I bet that'll help 'em get across!" Scrub smirked.
Blade, Bang, and Night began to hop onto each turtle, making sure they didn't touch the water. Thankfully, none of them had touched the toxic waters and made it to the others. Unfortunately, during that moment, Chopper didn't notice an indigo, carnivorous plant with poisonous fangs appear behind him and lunge.
"Heads up, Chopper!" Blade drew his katana and slashed at the plant with one swing. The Poison Plant fell to the ground and disintegrated into smoke. Chopper took notice of it, and was relieved.
"Whoa… That was too close… Thanks, Blade." Chopper thanked until he noticed a sign nearby. Curious, he decided to read it.
WARNING! The waters here are very toxic! Go in it, and you'll lose five HP!
"Oh... Right. Not only is the water dangerous to drink, but to touch as well."
"Well, then we just won't go in it!" Sonic grinned. "C'mon, guys! Let's go!"
"Yeah yeah... This place is probably going to stink." Bang mumbled.
"Yeah... I don't like it either." Chopper agreed. "Poisna's also kind of a jerk too..."
"Poisna? Is she a chick?"
"Sounds like it," Blade answered.
"What else do you know about her?!" Bang exclaimed, picking Chopper up and shaking him.
"Eep! I think she's a princess!"
Bang immediately dropped Chopper and grinned. "Heh heh! Now we're talkin'! Time to go meet a princess!"
The Chihuahua started snickering as he went on ahead.
"He sure seems excited..." Chopper commented.
"Yeah... Let's go follow him." Night snickered as everyone carried on ahead.
The dirt trail they took was nothing special. Many bushes, however, had surrounded them as they continued to move. They did notice some Master X-Nauts patrolling the forest.
"Oh, great... More X-Nauts!" Scrub groaned, his voice being loud enough to catch the two Master X-Nauts' attention.
"Hey! There he is! Stop him!" the two Master X-Nauts began firing at Chopper. He managed to dodge a few, but the Master X-Nauts managed to at least get one shot and hit Chopper. Shadowe went in next, hitting both of the Master X-Nauts with his Shadow Smite, making them get knocked back over by a bridge made of cardboard up ahead.
"Looks like we found a bridge up ahead," Sonic commented. "We should find out where it leads to…"
Agreeing, everyone hurried on across the bridge. Unfortunately, they did not notice the Master X-Nauts that spotted them over there. This time, one of them shot lightning out of his gun toward Chopper. He inhaled the attack and spat it at the Master X-Naut, knocking it off the bridge into the water. The other X-Naut helped his comrade out and noticed he was coughing.
"Dude… What just happened to you? You're…all purple!" gaped the Master X-Naut.
"Wh-What?!" the second Master X-Naut looked at himself and noticed the purple. Then, suddenly, his eyes widened in pain. "Oh, geez! I'm no feeling too good!"
"Don't worry, buddy! I'll help you!" Unfortunately, it was too late. The Master X-Naut collapsed on the ground. "Buddy? Buddy? Oh… Oh no! I don't believe it… He's gone."
"Uhh... I'm not dead." the Master X-Naut said, getting back up.
"Buddy! You're OK!"
"Of course I am! The water doesn't affect our suits!"
"Oh..."
Having enough, Night took out his axe hammer and proceeded to beat the two Master X-Nauts. They were knocked away from the bridge, and they started to flee for their lives.
"Aw, man... They ran." Night frowned.
"I'm just worried about touching that water..." Shadower trailed. "It does look dangerous..."
"Yeah, let's be careful while crossing this bridge," Chopper said as he carefully crossed the bridge. "I probably don't want to turn sideways... I'd fall into this water..."
"Poyo... (That's true...)" Kirby agreed. When Chopper had crossed the bridge, he was hit by a First Strike from a Master X-Naut.
"Gotcha!" the Master X-Naut took 15 out of him, but he met his demise when he got pummeled down by Chopper and Berry's hammers. He dropped 4 Star Points, a couple of Hearts and Flowers, and a Banana Shroom. The pale green gumball was more than happy to take the item.
"If only they made a Pizza Shroom..." Chopper sighed.
"Poyo, (I'd be fine with any food,)" Kirby said.
After going over the bridge, they found a small little river with a couple of cardboard turtles floating on it. Chopper jumped on the turtle and waited patiently for another pathway. It was when he saw a sign with a red exclamation mark that he jumped onto another floating turtle taking another pathway through the river.
It was long before everyone got off of the turtles and entered an area with floating platforms moving left and right on the poison water. To Mario, this reminded him of those areas in Mt. Lavalva that required platforming. Except here, it was poison water instead of lava.
Mario took a deep breath and made a big leap over the poison water and onto the platform that was floating away. To his relief, he successfully landed. There were also a couple of floating barrels on the water too when he reached the second platform.
Mario: It's all right! You guys can go!
Chopper shrugged and leaped onto the platforms and then onto one of the barrels. He looked over at the area's background, which had a waterfall and some poisonous clouds. For a moment, Chopper thought he saw something in there. He shuddered and jumped across the barrels and onto land near a pathway between two bushes.
To his surprise, Bang was already there.
Mario: How'd you get here?
"I found a shortcut," Bang answered proudly. Unfortunately, Blade ended up hearing, and he was less than pleased when he approached him.
"And... Why didn't you tell us this?" Blade asked.
"It's not my fault that you guys went on ahead already!" the dog yelled, quickly turning away from them. "Anyway, I found a large gap up ahead, and I couldn't get across."
Curious, Chopper decided to run on ahead and ended up stopping near the edge of a cliff. Looking down, he saw a wide, poisonous river, and a waterfall to his right. To the left, he saw the river leading out to the ocean. From this view, the water looked gorgeous.
"Wow… I love how the water looks." Vivian remarked.
"I've seen better," Tamber shrugged, while Chopper noticed a pathway across the gap.
"Er… I think there used to be a bridge here..." Chopper trailed. "But, it's gone now."
"What do you think happened to it?" Scrub asked, looking down at the large jump below. His eyes widened in fear. "Oh, boy… That's a LONG way down!"
"How are we supposed to get across?" Bombette asked.
"I don't know about you guys, but I know how I'm going to get across," Tamber said, gliding across the gap and landing safely, giving the others a smirk.
"Is there anything over there?" Shadower asked.
"Nope. Nor do I really care."
"What a jerk," Bang remarked, receiving a look from Blade and Night. "What?"
"Well, I don't think my hammer can make you cross this gap, Choppy..." Berry trailed, looking at the range of the gap. "Gee, I sure feel useless."
"I don't get why that chick keeps calling him by that name," Bang whispered from the side.
"Nobody cares, Bang," Blade mumbled.
"I think I might have an idea," Chopper said after a moment of pondering. "It might be a little dangerous, though… Or… We can go to the other plan!"
"Poyo? (And what would that be?)" Kirby asked.
"You can use your Inhale to find anything hidden around here."
Kirby shrugged and walked up to the front of the group to use his Inhale ability. Unfortunately, there wasn't anything around, so Kirby eventually stopped.
"Poyo... (Aw, man...)" Kirby pouted.
"Well, I guess it's Plan B," Chopper changed to his Wing ability and jumped off the cliff. Some were shocked at first, but they soon found Chopper flying. He reached the other side and found a blue ! Switch behind a bush. "Hey! There was something here! You lied, Tamber!"
"Technically, I didn't search," Tamber answered, not appearing to care one bit. Chopper jumped on the switch, and a bridge was created. It opened out in the manner of opening a cardboard box.
"Well that takes care of the bridge!" Sonic grinned, running across the bridge with the others. Berry turned around and saw that the darkness was getting close to the forest.
"Oh, man… That darkness is catching up fast" Berry gaped. "Though, at least it hasn't reached the forest yet..."
They quickly moved onward, getting a glimpse of what appeared to be a forked road. There were two pathways, with literally a fork being in between them. Bang commented on the fork, but nobody seemed to care. Chopper led them to the left pathway, which would eventually lead them to their destination.
Castle entrance-
After five minutes of walking, they managed to make their way all the way to the entrance of the castle. The drawbridge was already down, which many. A poison scent could be smelt from the inside of the castle as well.
"What's that horrible smell?" Bombette asked.
"Poison..." Chopper trailed. "And it's pretty bad. I liked the casino place better anyway..."
"Casino?" Sonic gawked.
"Long story..." Chopper charged into the castle, reaching the first room. It had a long, red rug leading to the door ahead. It was mostly vacant, but the thing that caught their eyes the most were the jewels.
"Wow! We hit the jackpot!" Tamber grinned. "Let's take 'em!"
"But... They're not real..."
"Then what are they?"
Sighing, Chopper decided to spill the beans on what the jewels were. Many of them were left in shock.
"Whoa... I'd never think that was possible..." Scrub gaped. "You sure about this?"
"Yeah. She even admitted it to me."
"Hey, who's this picture of this girl here?" Night asked, seeing a girl with purple hair in two ponytails surrounded by a poison mist. She also had purple eyes, a purple robe with a green diamond in the center and purple, diamond-shaped earrings. Her face appeared more human-like compared to people like Trinado or Steelfoot.
"That's...Poisna."
"Is that the princess you were talking about, what's-your-face?" Bang asked, drooling at the picture. "Man, what a hottie!"
"Dude... Are you serious?" Blade asked, looking appalled.
"What? You got a problem with me being interested in her?"
"Bang... Do you see how much different you and her... Actually, I'm just going to stop there."
"Why?"
"Because you're impossible to reason with," Blade answered honestly, turning away from him.
They decided to put that topic aside and move onward. Unfortunately, even after traveling through a few hallways and up a few staircases, they still found no sign of any enemies. Only jewelry and pictures and statues of Poisna found, which Bang continued to drool over. It wasn't long until they reached the top floor leading up to the roof of the castle.
"Well... That was much easier than I thought." Chopper remarked, hitting the Save Block and Heart Block. He then approached the ladder and climbed to the ceiling where a latch was. "All right... I'm sure there's something up here."
After opening the latch, he and the others started to make their way up to the roof.
Roof-
"Ugh… I can't believe that the darkness is coming closer…" Poisna grumbled, watching the darkness reach the forest. "Plus, there's the fact that nothing interesting has happened for two years!"
She rested her hand on his cheek while putting her elbow on the roof's railing. Poisna looked down at the burnt down trees around an empty battlefield. "I wonder how those other annoying freaks are holding up. I hadn't seen them in a while. Then again, I think it's for the better."
Unfortunately, her peace and quiet was interrupted when she heard many figures walk onto the roof. Poisna whirled around, and her eyes widened in surprise at the one figure she easily noticed.
"Chopper?! What are YOU doing here?!" exclaimed Poisna.
"Wait... So is this the chick who was all over those walls?" Tamber asked.
"Yes..." Chopper whispered.
"Well, hello there, lady!" Bang zipped over to Poisna with a smug look. "So, you're the princess of this place, are you not? Well, your prince has arrived! The name's Prince Bang IV. I come from the Boomtastic family!"
"This is gonna be good," Night snickered, getting a bag of popcorn out.
"Why do I need a prince? I'm perfectly fine on my own." Poisna said, giving Bang an annoyed look. "Plus, look at yourself! You and I don't mix!"
"What? C'mon! We certainly do!" Bang complained.
"No. Jewels and I mix perfectly fine."
"Typical Poisna…" Chopper trailed.
"You think that's funny? Well then…" Poisna began, a smirk appearing on her face. "How would you like it if I sent you toward that dark sky?"
"Uhhh... I don't want that..." the antennae hero noticed the catapult and ran to it. "Come on, guys! We can take this out of this forest!"
"Oh no you don't! I'll be the one that's getting out with this!" Poisna jumped in, trying to get on the catapult, but Chopper managed to throw her off. In the end, they ended up fighting over it. That was, until Chopper ended up turning the catapult to soot with a fireball unintentionally.
"Look what you did, Chopper… YOU BURNT MY CATAPULT!" Poisna grabbed Chopper and began to shake him violently.
"Hey! Get off of my Choppy!" Berry yelled, drawing her hammer and swinging it at Poisna. This managed to send him flying off the castle. Unfortunately, since she still held Chopper, he got sent flying off too.
"Ha ha ha!" Tamber laughed. "I wish I could replay that!"
Vivian quickly sank into the shadows to follow him, which left everyone else on the roof to look down. However, they ended up leaping off the roof to follow Chopper and Poisna.
Thankfully, the two were not too hurt from the fall, nor Berry's hammer. Poisna was the first to get up, and she continued to shake Chopper angrily.
"Ugh… You stupid little kid! You destroyed my catapult!" Poisna yelled, gritting her teeth.
"Hey! I didn't plan on doing that!" Chopper yelled back, dropping to the ground. "I just wanted to leave this place!"
"Oh, really? Well, I'm not letting you out so easily!" Poisna declared, summoning her silver staff. It appeared to have a purple jewel on the tip of the staff. "Getting rid of you will be the best thing in my life!"
Tattle: That's Princess Poisna. She's supposedly the princess of this forest. Max HP is 330, Attack is 16, and Defense is 1. She'll normally try to hurt you with many poison abilities, but her Poison Bud attack might be a bit threatening. If she has them out, she can heal herself 40 HP each turn. That can be pretty annoying if you don't take care of those. If you have the Feeling Fine badge, then you don't need to worry about getting poisoned. That's the key to beating her. You hear me? The Feeling Fine badge!
Chopper stretched a little before he struck Poisna using his Feather Gun on her, which was able to take 9 out of her. Poisna was about to make her move, but suddenly a shadow appeared by Chopper. Vivian emerged from the shadows beside him.
"Are you all right, Chopper?" Vivian asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Chopper assured. "Right now, we're fighting her. So... Yeah, you know what to do, right?"
Vivian understood and sank into the shadows and ended up emerging in front of Poisna to punch her with a fiery fist, burning her. Poisna nearly flinched, but it didn't stop her from shooting a purple beam at Chopper.
"I wonder... What's with you and purple?" Chopper wondered.
"That's none of your business. Bec—AAACK!" the burn status on Poisna took action and made her take 1 damage. Chopper shrugged before he charged straight at her with his Wing ability, knocking her onto the ashy ground.
"All right, Vivian! Go for it!" Chopper stepped out of the way so Vivian can attack her with another Shade Fist.
"You were lucky that time, Chopper!" Poisna grumbled as she got up. She fired another purple beam straight at him, knocking him back. However, he felt someone grab a hold of him before he could fall.
"It's all right! I got ya!" Blade assured.
"Whew! Thanks, Blade…" Chopper got up, only to notice his Wing ability was gone. "Crud... There goes my Wing ability. I guess it's hammer time, then."
Poisna gawked at him for a moment. "...What?"
The last thing she saw before getting in a daze was a hammer to her head. She angrily shook her head and attempted to blast him with her staff, but she felt another hammer hit her head. This time, it was Berry's.
"Well at least I managed to only get her this time," Berry sighed, lowering her hammer.
Poisna hissed at Berry and fired a bolt of purple lightning at her, but it didn't do any good. She managed to Superguard the attack, while Poisna got hurt by the burn status, which ended up wearing off.
"Say, Chopper… How about we use one of the Crystal Stars?" Sonic suggested. "We haven't used 'em in a while!"
"Yeah… You got a point there! I think we ought to use the Super Power Lift!" Chopper brought the Forest Star out and began to hit the red and blue arrows that appeared. He was able to raise their Attack by 6 and their Defense by 5. "There we go! Now we're ready to take Poisna down!"
"And with this power boost, this should go end quickly," Shadower smirked, attacking Poisna with his Shadow Punch, taking 15 out of her and lowering her defense to 0. Though he was pleased, he didn't see a purple beam coming his way.
"This is just great…" Poisna thought angrily. "They raised their attack and defense… Now how am I supposed to take them down?"
Chopper went with a simple jump, which was able to take 20 HP out of her. Tamber's Combo Punch managed to deal 18 damage, though he was annoyed that Chopper did more damage. But he was pleased to know that Poisna zapped Chopper instead. Of course, it had only done 10 damage due to the defense boost.
The ten-year-old landed another stomp on her due to its power. Scrub added in his Egg Throw as well, also taking 18 out of her as well.
"Yeah, you're right, Shadower! This IS too easy!" Scrub smirked. He brought his guard up and managed to endure Poisna's staff throw, only losing 9 HP. "You'll have to do better than that!"
"Grrr! I'm going to make you all pay!" Poisna hissed, now starting to fume.
"I was hoping this battle would be tough, but I guess our attacks are pretty tough for her to handle," Chopper said with disappointment as he hit Poisna with another jump. Mario also stomped on her as well, bringing her down to 131 HP.
"I guess I better do what I should've done before. Come on out, buds!" Poisna pulled out a couple of buds that immediately stuck to the ground. "Try all you want! These things can NEVER come off the ground! Attack me once and I'll heal!"
"Man... Why can't we just fight without healing abilities?" Chopper asked. What made things worse was that their Super Power Lift had worn off.
"Oh, look at that! You lost that power of yours too! I guess this should make things easier for me! Ha ha ha!"
"Oh, no... This isn't good..." Vivian trailed. "How will we get rid of those buds?"
"I can do that," Berry assured, getting her hammer ready. She used her Ruby Cyclone to spin around and create a pink cyclone on Poisna and the buds. The cyclone managed to pry them off the ground and hit Poisna.
"Wh-What?! H-How did you manage to stop them?!" Poisna gaped.
"Tornados are strong enough to pry off something like buds off the ground," Berry smirked. "OK, Choppy! Go get her!"
Chopper nodded and landed a Gravity Jump on Poisna, leaving her with 94 HP. She decided to strike Chopper with a toxic attack, firing poison energy directly at him. Unfortunately, her plan backfired, as he was not poisoned.
"Wait... Why didn't it work?" Poisna gawked.
"Feeling Fine Badge," Chopper answered quickly, hitting her with his hammer, being followed up by Bombette's Bomb.
"You should give up when you can," Bombette suggested. "The others refused, and they got their butts handed by us!"
"Yeah, give up so we can go out," Bang suggested.
"First off, not a chance. Second, in your dreams. And third..." Poisna grabbed Chopper and threw him at Bombette, knocking them onto the ground and leaving them dazed briefly.
"What about your dreams?"
Bang suddenly found himself in pain when Poisna fired an attack at his knee, making him fall down and clench his knee.
"Geez... Sometimes I feel bad for you." Blade remarked, helping his friend up. "Which in this case, I think I do."
"Who cares at the moment? We still need to take this freak down!" Tamber mentioned as he rushed over to her and punched her with his Combo Punch. Chopper landed a Power Smash on her afterward, bringing her down to 54 HP.
Poisna didn't dare to say anything. Though, she smirked when she noticed the amount of HP Chopper had left after she fired another purple beam at him.
"Perfect… Even from taking all that damage, you're still going to be done for! Heh heh heh!" Poisna cackled.
"Oh yeah? Well, watch this!" Chopper pulled out a Star Shroom, and after eating it, he recovered 150 HP. "Mmmmmmmm… Much better!"
"Chopper, try not to pay attention to the mushroom…" Sonic suggested. Unfortunately, that didn't seem to do much, so Sonic hit Poisna with a Spin Dash.
"Ugh… I can't go down just yet…" Poisna summoned a bush made of thorns to attack Sonic, taking 16 out of him. It didn't stop Chopper from hitting her with a hammer Vivian from using her Shade Fist, though. Poisna attacked Chopper with a bush this time. Luckily, his Superguard came into use, and he avoided the attack with ease.
"Ha HA! Now let's get to business!" Chopper pulled his hammer out again and smacked her with it. When Vivian attacked her with another Shade Fist, she was down to 8 HP.
"Urk! Fools…" Poisna blew a purple mist from her mouth toward Chopper and his friends. Though it managed to deal 6 damage, they were not poisoned. "Oh, come on!"
"Well... I guess one of you guys can deliver the final blow." Chopper decided. "Want to do the honors, Vivian?"
"Ummm… OK." Vivian sank into the shadows and rose up in front of Poisna. With one simple fiery punch, she was able to make the princess collapse.
"Ooooooooooog…" Poisna groaned, dropping enough Star Points for Chopper to level up. He decided to raise his BP all the way to 84. At that moment, Poisna now started to see star. "Hnnnuurgh… I guess I'm done…"
"Will she be all right?" Vivian asked, feeling a little guilty.
"I think she'll be fine, Vivian," Chopper assured. "But right now, we can't worry about her. We gotta get moving."
"Well… I guess your right." the Shadow Siren said, giving him a shy smile.
"Well, time to get our butts outta here," Bang suggested.
"Yeah, you're right, Bang. Let's not waste any time." Chopper agreed. "Luckily, I know a place where we can go! It's up north...but it's cold."
Nearly everyone let out a groan.
"That sounds like no problem for me!" Tamber assured smugly. "Luckily, my fur will keep me warm from the cold!"
When he opened his eyes, he saw that the others had already started to get moving. "HEY! Don't leave me here!"
Like an enraged echidna, Tamber started to chase after his "friends".