CHAPTER 13-4
-Heading to the Castle-
"Huh… So this is what Night Land looks like now that we've crossed the border…" Chopper trailed, looking up at the nighttime sky.
"Uhhhh… Haven't we already walked on the border before? And didn't we already look at the sky?" Blade asked.
"Yeah, we did, but I still wanna look at this place," Everyone gave confused looks, but they decided to look at this area too. The sky was a dark blue color, just like the nighttime sky would be and the grass looked to be a dark green color, just like when they got near the end of the border. The enemies looked somewhat familiar to the ones in Sun Land, but they were recolored as a darker color, like a dark blue, for something like the Moonflowers on the grass. Despite being dark out, it definitely felt pretty peaceful. It's like the real nighttime experience they'll ever witness.
"Even though I don't find it safe being around in the night… This place really isn't too bad at night." Luigi commented as he saw a Moonflower try to grab him. He jumped out of the way and tossed Bonjourang at it, leaving it stunned and allowed Kirby to defeat it with his Ice Storm attack.
"Poyo! (This place also looks very pretty!)" Kirby said as he looked up at the stars and even the full moon. "Poyo? (How come the previous world wasn't like this? It would've been so much better!)"
"Well, hopefully we'll be able to see some more things great in this world," Chopper hoped as he twirled his hammer around. "And since you guys are here, we can enjoy exploring this new world!"
"Yes, and we'll be able to get to my OTHER house so I can get to my SunMoonFlower Detection Monitor!" Arcaine announced, making everyone look at him confusingly. "With that, we can finally track and destroy SunMoonFlower! This is our chance, partners! We can't lose now!"
"Wait… SunMoonFlower Detection Monitor?" Sonic gawked, tilting his head. "And where did you get something like that? In fact, how do you even have something to detect it?"
"Maybe SunMoonFlower could be over by Sun Land," Blade predicted.
"What?! It's over at Sun Land?! Curse you, cat! Why didn't you tell me this before?!" Arcaine walked up to Blade and gave him a dirty look. "We could've suniously had SunMoonFlower right where we wanted it!"
"Dude! Relax! I was just joking! I'm not entirely sure if this…thing even exists there…or even exists at all." he assured, stepping away from the half Sunny, half Mooner. "And really, you don't seem to like me for some reason. Is it because I'm a cat? 'Cause I can't do anything about it."
"Let's not get into this kind of discussion, guys…" Chopper groaned, pulling Blade away from Arcaine. "We'll just go to this guy's house and then head over to King Moonnight's Castle. That's all we have to do."
"Sounds good to me! Let's go!" Luigi said as he jumped.
Mario: It's about time!
The other Moonflower that they didn't bother to attack managed to grab a hold of Chopper and threw him toward Mario. Luckily, the red plumber managed to catch the pale green gumball before crashing into his face. He put him down and used Kickbrin to knock over the Moonflower.
"Heh heh heh! This should be fun!" Sonic chuckled as he struck the Moonflower with a Homing Attack, followed by a Bounce Attack. Luigi managed to finish it off by using his Cyclone attack, finishing it easily.
What was also nice was that there was a hill going down to a ramp moving up. A spring was right on the top of that ground, which was actually nice for some people like Chopper and Sonic.
"YES! More running!" Chopper fist pumped as he used a Speed Dash to go down the hill and up the slope to reach a red spring. It launched him up pretty high, but all he could see were two Paratroopas with dark blue shells, darker skin – a grayish one and sunglasses. Why they were wearing sunglasses, he didn't know. However, he managed to make the Moon Paratroopa's wings detach with a simple stomp. When he landed on the next grassy hill, he saw that there were some bottomless pits. One Moon Paratroopa was stupid enough to fall in.
Everyone else made their way up to Chopper and moved down the hill. Luigi simply decided to slide down to knock the Moon Koopa Troopa coming up the hill off and even knocked away a dark blue Goomba called a Moon Goomba as well.
"Hold on, aren't those things Gloombas?" Chopper gawked.
"Poyo, (They remind me of those Goombas we encountered back in that underground area in The Bitlands,)" Kirby recalled, sliding down the hill and freezing a Moon Goomba before it could headbonk him. While it was frozen, he kicked it straight at the other Moon Goomba, defeating both of them.
"It's strange that when they have some high HP, they don't take as long to defeat," Luigi realized.
Mario: It's kind of strange, I have to admit.
"Well, it's not a big deal. I like it this way anyway. We should just head through the door." Chopper ran over to the door that wasn't too far away and entered through. They all reached another area, but this one seemed to have a couple of trees around with fruit shaped like the moon hanging from the tree. There were even some Cursyas around here and a couple of bee-like enemies called Bzzaps! around as well.
According to Timpani, these bee enemies didn't have a lot of HP, but their stings can do a lot of damage and possibly shrink or poison you (since bees can sometimes poison you). Everyone decided to be careful with this new enemy and try their best to attack it from a far range.
Mario: Oh, great… Those annoying enemies.
"I don't think I've seen them here, but I guess we'll need to find a way to attack them without touching them," Sonic pondered as he looked down at a rock. Arcaine, on the other hand, simply beat the Bzzap! with his stick.
"…What?"
Everyone blinked as they turned to Arcaine, who twirled his stick and put it away. They all had confused looks, but it didn't seem to bother Arcaine that much as he whistled as if nothing really happened.
"Ummmmm… OK! Well that was kind of strange! Let's see what's in these trees!" Chopper whipped his hammer out and bashed one of the trees. A Moon Fruit happened to come down and land on Choppers mouth. After swallowing, he ended up recovering about 30 HP.
"Hey! This stuff's good! You guys should try it!"
He bashed the tree again to make more Moon Fruits come down. Kirby was the next one to eat one of the Moon Fruits. He was actually incredibly delighted by the taste of it. The others followed up and took a taste of the Moon Fruits.
"Wow… This is pretty good!" Luigi commented.
Mario: Oh, yes!
"Hey, can I have one too?" Arcaine asked. Chopper groaned and bashed another tree. Instead, a Bzzap! ended up falling from the tree. Due to it being angry, it tried to sting the pale green gumball, but it couldn't pierce through his hammer.
"Hold on, I got this!" Sonic struck the Bzzap! with a simple Spin Jump, instantly disintegrating it into smoke. Arcaine picked up the Moon Fruit and gobbled it down. He rubbed his belly in delight after swallowing it.
"That was sooooo good!"
"Yeah, it was. I guess this should help us with our HP." Chopper ate one last Moon Fruit before moving on. He noticed that there was a Dayzee enemy with dark blue petals skipping around on the grass. When it noticed the group, it sang a little song and fled from the group.
"That was a Nazee Dayzee you just encountered," Timpani informed. "They're kind of like Crazee Dayzees, but they can actually blend in with the surroundings and put you to sleep for much, much longer."
"Maybe we just need to deflect that note," Blade smirked, spinning his katana around and deflecting the musical note back to the Nazee Dayzee. It ended up hitting it upon impact and made it fall asleep. Blade finished it off with a couple of slashes.
"See? That's how you defeat a flower!"
"Man… I don't get why we're destroying those innocent flowers…" Chopper trailed, dodging another Nazee Dayzee's song and stomping on its head. "Sometimes it's hard for me to compare an Amazy Dayzee to Kayzee for some reason… They both look quite familiar."
"Poyo, (Well, I guess that's how life goes,)" Kirby said as he decided to float above the enemies. The only thing wrong with that was that a Moon Paratroopa was flying around and ended up hitting him and knocked his ability away.
"Poyo! (No! Not my ability! Come on!)"
"Ugh… Well, looks like we're both abilitiless." Chopper announced as he noticed a moon-like enemy spitting shards of ice at them. He decided to use Timpani's wand to investigate these strange enemies.
"That strange enemy is called a Moonin. They are the exact opposite as a Sunoid. Max HP is 48. Attack is 11. What's surprising is that these enemies will simply roll at you. They're not so hard to avoid and can even give you the Cutter ability if you want. However, just because they're easy to avoid doesn't mean you can easily hit them. You'll get hurt if you try stomping on them while they roll." Timpani informed.
"Poyo! (Cutter ability? Well count me in!)" Kirby inhaled the Moonin and got a hold of the Cutter ability. The next Moonin he saw up ahead, he tossed his cutter blade at and let it damage it for a bit before grabbing it, followed by running up to it and finishing it off with one last strike from his blade.
"Heh… Well this should be fun." Sonic smirked as he ran up the small hill and went up to the door just ahead. A Moon Koopa was walking around there, minding its own business. But it was soon defeated when Sonic attacked it with a Spin Dash. With that, they entered the door and into the next area.
"Weird… I didn't know that we'd be seeing another bridge here." Chopper blinked as he stepped on the bridge. He checked to see if there was anything in 3-D. Surprisingly, there happened to be a secret off the bridge. However, he decided not to check down there just yet.
"Did you find something interesting down there?" Arcaine asked.
"I did, but I don't see much of a point in checking there," he answered. "I think we should just go this way. You know, see what else we can find around here? That's a smart thing."
Mario: I guess we might as well.
They crossed the bridge (which had a couple of Choppers jumping up from the bridge, which were taken care of by Sonic, thankfully) and that there was a climbable cliff up ahead. It was a bit too high to reach, but there was a blue ! Switch that they couldn't reach…unless they did a little something.
"Poyo? (Are we supposed to flip here?)" Kirby asked.
"Well, I know I have to flip, but I don't think you can," Chopper flipped into 2-D and he simply kicked the blue ! Switch. This triggered a couple of other climbable cliffs that were a bit smaller. From the looks of it, it looked like this switch was completely optional…
"Well what was the point of that?" Luigi asked.
"I think it helps us get up," Blade answered as he did a couple of ninja jumps on the cliffs and reached the edge of the last cliff where a door was. After everyone made their way up, they followed him through an area with a small hill going up, but there were a couple of Spiny Tromps coming their way down.
"Whoa… What are those things?" Sonic asked, pointing to the Spiny Tromps coming down.
"Oh, great… Not those things…" Chopper groaned as he face palmed.
"Those things look like pansies! I know how to deal with them!" Arcaine smirked as he walked up the hill, only to get trampled by the Spiny Tromps. "Ouch… Mommy…"
"And you call them pansies… Yeah, very funny." Blade smirked.
"Hey, I don't need a cat to speak to me! I swear that I'm going to use you as bait when we find that SunMoonFlower! I'll make sure you regret acting like that to me you little…well, blue cat!"
"Dude, you can't get past those guys so easily," Chopper groaned as he moved Arcaine out of the way while he was flat on the ground. "They're too big for you to jump over!"
"Oh yeah? Then how do YOU get through those guys?"
"Well, I know how I can get through!" Luigi began to use his Super Jump in order to get past all of the Spiny Tromps. Chopper shrugged and followed him through 3-D until they both got to the top of the hill. Unfortunately for them, they ran into a locked door.
"Uh oh… The door's locked." Chopper frowned.
"So, do we go back?"
"I think we have no choice. I think that bridge we saw earlier could help us find the key somehow. Let's hope we're right, though… What also stinks is that we're two areas away from that door…"
The area before-
"Why did you bring us all the way back here? What about SunMoonFlower?!" Arcaine exclaimed as Chopper flipped everyone into 3-D. It turns out that they were all standing in midair in 3-D and ended up falling.
Mario: Mama mia!
"Poyo! (This isn't good!)"
They all ended up landing on some nice, dark green grass right next to a shallow pond right next to them. When Mario jumped into the water, he saw that it only went up to his feet, so it was no problem for them.
And, luckily, there happened to be a door next to them. They entered through into an area with a hill going down and two loops that ended up leading up a ramp on the edge of a cliff. Chopper was definitely happy to see that he had a chance to run. But, there were two Moonins in the way too.
"These guys just LOVE to be in the way!" Sonic curled up in a ball and used his Spin Dash to ram through the two Moonins and went through the two loops that led up to the ramp going up to the edge of a cliff.
"Now if you'll excuse me… I should follow him." Chopper used his Speed Dash and managed to go through both loops and grab a hold of the edge of the cliff. How everyone else got through… Well, they found their way.
"Poyo? (Why is it that we have these loops here?)" Kirby asked.
"How come I can't understand a word this kid's saying?" Arcaine asked as he noticed a gap between the next cliff they were near and the edge of another climbable cliff. Below was some strange kind of water. It looked a bit pinkish, but it certainly didn't look like something you'd wanna step in.
"Really? Do you HAVE to mock my friend?" Chopper frowned. "That wasn't really necessary for you…"
"Well, I think it was, my boy! Now if you'll excuse me, I shall jump this gap!" the idiotic Sunny and Mooner hybrid attempted to make a jump, but, since he wasn't a good jumper, he ended up between the two cliffs. He looked down for a moment and then up at the heroes and shook his arms like crazy.
"GAAAAAAAAAAH! Don't just stand there! Do something!"
"Man… This guy suddenly reminds me a bit of Kolorado… Except he wasn't obsessed with defeating some imaginative creature. I guess they both end up getting hurt for some strange reason. Hey! They did get rolled over by Spiny Tromps too!" Chopper recalled.
"Wait… Who the heck is Kolorado?" Blade asked.
Mario: A Koopa archaeologist.
"Oh… I guess this was back before I met you, right?"
"Yeah, pretty much," Chopper nodded.
"Aren't you guys going to help me?! I'm going to fall!" Arcaine cried, leading Luigi to grab a hold of his hand before he could fall to his doom. He tried pulling him up, but he wasn't quite strong enough.
"I can't pull him up! He's too heavy!" Luigi cried.
"If you're calling me fat, then I disagree with your statement!"
"I'll help!" Chopper grabbed a hold of Luigi's overalls and tried pulling back. Of course, this didn't work either because he wasn't strong enough. "Oh, dang it! I realized that this was completely useless! We need support here pronto!"
"I'll use my muscles to get the job done," Blade grabbed a hold of Chopper and tried pulling him back. In the end, they ended up pulling Arcaine back up, but they all agreed that he should stay. Heck, even Arcaine himself agreed that he wanted to stay, which was a bit strange.
"OK, I'll see what happens here," Sonic declared as he jumped over to the edge of the cliff. Surprisingly, the edge broke off and went into the water and dissolved, making the cliff's edge smaller.
"Poyo… (Oh, great… Now we're in for some trouble…)" Kirby face palmed.
"I think I can get across," Luigi said as he used his Cyclone to float in midair and got to Sonic. The good news was that while the cliff was smaller, they could still jump. They continued down one last small hill and found two Moonflowers by a red door.
"Man, more of these guys!" Blade groaned as he gripped his katana and slashed at them. He even cut their stems off to make sure they wouldn't make an extra attack. With that, they walked into the next area, which was a bit close to the, well, death water. There were about two large gaps that had this water.
The first thing they ended up running into, however, was a Nazee Dayzee that put Chopper and Kirby to sleep with its song.
"Uh oh… They're asleep…" Sonic said with a blank look.
"So how do we get them out of their sleep?" Luigi asked.
"I'll try something," Blade used Piccolo's singing to make the Nazee Dayzee fall asleep. This way, it allowed the two to wake up. While the Nazee Dayzee was asleep, Luigi stomped on it a couple of times and made it disintegrate into smoke.
"Man… I just had one of the coolest dreams…" Chopper said as he rubbed his eyes. "I was dreaming about this world… And it had so much pizza for me to devour. It just felt so…good…"
"Poyo, (I guess I'm not the only one who dreams about food,)" Kirby said, looking a bit drowsy from falling asleep. Nevertheless, they were able to jump over the gap that led into the deadly water and ran up a small little hill where a Moonin was rolling down. Kirby got his cutter blade ready and threw it at the Moonin to stop it from moving. Chopper finished it off by bashing it with his hammer.
"Hey, look! Two ? Blocks!" Chopper hit the first one to find the Wheel ability, which he happily took so he could have it, while Mario struck the other ? Block to make a Super Shroom pop out.
"Hold on, I gotta cut this into six pieces," Blade, using his ninja skills, cut the Super Shroom into six pieces. They all took their piece and recovered 20 HP from it. Now that they were all recovered for a bit, they jumped over the next gap and found another door where a Nazee Dayzee was. This time, however, Chopper chucked a couple of fireballs at it to defeat it.
"Wow… I thought that was a bit…harsh." Sonic commented.
"Well that's what happens when I'm put to sleep. Although… I did like the fact that I was dreaming about pizza…" Chopper trailed, only to make Timpani's wand float out of his bag (or whatever he carries his stuff in).
"Now's not the time to be speaking about food, Chopper! We need to find the key that leads to that door!" Timpani suggested.
Chopper turned to the wand and blinked. "You know… I really do feel the whole 'mother' thing coming from you. You're always trying to get me to move on, kind of like a mother would nag someone. …Hey! I'm not saying that it's a bad thing!"
Mario: Didn't you always think of her as a mother figure?
"Errr… Yeah, I did. Well, I said that she kind of reminded me of my mother. …But let's not get into any details with that! I wanna get moving." Chopper walked up the small hill and jumped over the gap that led up to a door ahead. Everyone followed him through the door into an area that was more flat, to some people's relief. However, there were a couple of Moonflowers and Nazee Dayzees skipping on the grass.
"I've never seen Dayzees skipping around," Blumiere commented.
"I haven't either," Blade said as he rushed over to the Nazee Dayzee. However, Chopper was able to get to it first by transforming into a wheel and running over nearly everything. He made a sharp turn back so he could attack the Nazee Dayzee and Moonflower again. Mario finished off the Moonflower with his hammer and Luigi finished off the Nazee Dayzee with a stomp.
"I'll see what's up ahead!" Chopper shouted as he ran over nearly all the enemies until he crashed into a wall. There happened to be a sign right by him, so he decided to transform back into himself and read what it had to say.
Beware of the third block.
"And what's that supposed to mean?"
"I suppose it has to do something with some kind of puzzle…" Timpani trailed. Chopper checked in 3-D to see if there was anything. There happened to be three red ! Switchs floating above him. He decided to hit the middle one and the upper one, since it was the closest to him.
…Unfortunately, this made a Moonflower drop from the sky and grab Chopper. It threw him against the wall and made him drop his Wheel ability – to his dismay.
"Poyo! (I'll save you!)" Kirby came running toward the Moonflower with his cutter blade ready. With one toss, he sliced the stem off of the Moonflower and destroyed it instantly.
"Where'd that Moonflower come from?" Blade asked.
"I don't know… It almost seemed as if it came from the sky…" Chopper moaned as he rubbed his head in pain. "I mean, really! Do we seriously need to have enemies like them coming up from the sky?!"
While Chopper complained, Sonic walked up to the sign and red it. "What the heck does 'Beware of the third block' mean?"
He stopped complaining and turned to Sonic. "Oh… In all honesty, I have no idea what it really means."
"From what I see, it looks like it might be something for the puzzle," Blumiere informed. "I think that last block you hit triggered the Moonflower to come down. I suggest you hit the other one instead."
"OK, I'll do it," Chopper went back into 3-D and hit the other block instead of the third one and then the second one. This transformed the third one into a Door Key and made the others disappear.
"I got the key!" Luigi announced as it landed right in front of his feet. "I guess we can finally go back to that other door!"
Area with the Spiny Tromps-
"So you're telling me you didn't see he ferocious SunMoonFlower around here?!" Arcaine gaped as they walked out of the door leading into the area with the Spiny Tromps rolling down.
"Dude, come on! You don't need to be wasting your time with this!" Sonic snapped. "We highly doubt that this SunMoonFlower is actually real!"
"Oh, yeah? Who are you to tell me this? You have any proof?"
"I'll get my proof right now," Sonic pulled his communicator out and contacted C-2 Choppor with it. "Hey, er, Choppor…if that's what your name is. You can search for things, right?"
"Affirmative. Do you have anything that I can help you search for?" C-2 Choppor asked.
"Can you search for…SunMoonFlower?"
"Oh, please! Of course you're going to find results for that!" Arcaine retorted, crossing his arms. "I'm super sunious!"
"Oh, boy…" Chopper trailed.
"Searching…" C-2 Choppor began to wait for a couple of seconds until they all heard a "ding" sound come from him. "Loading complete. Search results for 'SunMoonFlower': No results found. I'm afraid there is no SunMoonFlower."
"What? That's not true! There IS a SunMoonFlower! I saw it with my own eyes!" Arcaine denied.
"I doubt it..." Blade groaned.
"Just forget it. We're wasting our time here. I wanna get going." Chopper sighed, flipping into 3-D and began to run past the Spiny Tromps coming down the hill. Luigi did the same procedure as before and used his Super Jump to get past the Spiny Tromps.
"Poyo? (Wait, how do we get past them?)" Kirby asked until he realized that he could float, so he simply floated over all the Spiny Tromps and made it over to the locked door. Chopper used his inhaling ability to get the other people to him but made sure not to swallow them.
"So this is what it's like to do something like that with my inhaling…" Chopper trailed as Luigi unlocked the door.
"Let's go!" Luigi suggested as they headed into an area with a couple of waterfalls and logs coming down. They looked down at the small pool of water and thought that it wasn't TOO bad.
"We better not fall into that water…" Sonic grumbled.
"Those logs look like they can help us get across the waterfalls, though," Blade mentioned as he ninja jumped onto one of the logs moving down. He had to jump onto a couple more to jump on a rocky platform in between two waterfalls.
"Let's see if I can make a jump up there!" Sonic made a jump onto the logs and reached the rock Blade was on. He noticed a couple of other skinny rocks off on the distance on the waterfall, but Blade was able to use his ninja jump to reach them.
"Man, I wish I could do that…" Luigi trailed as he followed them across the waterfall and reached the top rock that a door was standing on.
"I'm surprised that that area was small…" Chopper said with a blink.
"…Oh! Now I remember! Through this door is the area to my other house! Come on! We need to go!" Arcaine pushed everyone out of the way and headed through the door with the heroes following. They noticed past a dark blue house that there was another door, but Arcaine simply walked over to his house. He knew something could be heard from in there.
"What's that?" Luigi asked.
"My gosh! My device is going off!" Arcaine headed straight into his house with everyone following him in. They didn't even bother looking at the whole room when Arcaine jumped into his chair and got to his computer and keyboard. "SunMoonFlower Screen active!"
"What the..."
On the computer monitor, they could see a red dot pointing directly at King Moonnight's Castle. "Ah-HA! See? I told you that SunMoonFlower's real!"
"Hold on a second! What is this?" Chopper asked.
"This is my SunMoonFlower Detection Monitor. This is what I was telling you guys about. With this, we can finally capture SunMoonFlower!" Arcaine zoomed in onto the location and frowned. "Wait a second…"
"What's wrong?" Sonic asked.
"It says here that SunMoonFlower is in the castle sewers! …Oh, man. This isn't good! But it's not too late! Partners, get your weapons ready!"
"But most of us don't even carry weapons," Luigi responded.
"Well… Take these then!" Arcaine handed Luigi a rusty nail, Mario and stapler, Kirby a stick and Chopper a rubber band. "I think these weapons will be good enough to take care of SunMoonFlower!"
"Dude… A rubber band? Really?" Chopper used it like a slingshot, but accidentally hit Arcaine in the eye. "Whoops! I didn't mean to do that!"
"Hey! That's not meant to be used against me!"
"I think we'll be fine, since most of us are technically supernatural beings," Sonic stated, crossing his arms.
"Then let's head out into Moon Town!" Arcaine left the house and headed over to the door up ahead. Everyone else simply shrugged and followed the…whatever the heck he is through the door.
Moon Town-
"Well, this sure is a treat," Chopper commented as they looked at all of the houses around the town. They were mostly a dark blue or yellow color, due to that being the color of night and the moon. In fact, the full moon was shining down from here the most, making this place seem rather beautiful. All of the Mooners had some heads that were full moons and some crescents.
Mario: These people are rather strange…
"Ehhhh… I don't think the word 'strange' would classify these people." Sonic disagreed as he looked at the Moonins. "I think they would find us rather strange, if you think about it."
"I don't care what anyone else says. These guys a WEIRDOS!" Blade shouted, getting the attention of a couple of Moonins. However, they simply ignored him and went back to what they were doing.
"Excuse me, madam," Arcaine began as he walked up to a Moonin lady. "Could you tell us where we can go to get to King Moonnight's Castle?"
"Is this because of the whole SunMoonFlower thing? You really need to stop speaking about it…" the lady commented before she walked away from him.
"See? You can't get things done this way…" Chopper groaned before a scent began to surround him. It smelled like…pie! "Ooh! Something smells nice! I've gotta get a look at it!"
"Poyo! (Wait! Don't go!)" Kirby begged as Chopper hopped away and jumped over to a windowsill. It appeared to be the house of the mayor's. His wife was leaving her delicious apple pie on the windowsill for some reason.
"Oh man… That looks so good! …Surely that person wouldn't mind an innocent child taking their pie!" Chopper grabbed the pie and before he was about to eat it, someone pushed it into his face, covering him with the pie.
"What the… What happened?!"
"Oh, you silly little boy… You're quite one to go after the delicious treats!" Chopper opened his eyes and saw Dimentio laughing at him.
"You…"
"What's the matter, hero? Your appetite is like a bear getting ready for hibernation!" Dimentio cackled as Chopper rubbed his eyes of the pie.
"What are you doing here? Come here to fight us this time?" Chopper's fists began to glow fire and ice energy as he clenched them. "Or are you going to be cowardly and flee like before?"
"My my, so you do wish to do battle with me! However, a fight here is rather…unnecessary. We cannot fight somewhere where there are townspeople! No… It's best for us to have our duel outside of town! I'll meet you there, Chopper… Ciao!"
With a snap of his finger, he disappeared. Unfortunately, the mayor's wife happened to returned and noticed Chopper covered with the pie.
"You… You ate my pie!" she cried, grabbing some apples and throwing them at him. "Shoo! Go away you little child!"
"Ow! Stop it!" one of the apples knocked him over and sent him tumbling down to the ground. Of course, he got a chance to eat them, so this didn't all seem so bad. The other heroes walked up to him as he got up.
"Poyo? (Was that Dimentio I think I saw?)" Kirby asked.
"Yeah… Dimentio's here, apparently. I guess he wants to fight us or something, which is what we should do outside."
"Dimentio?! Wh-What's he doing here?!" Luigi shrieked.
Mario: You're still not over that, are you…?
"It's not my fault that he possessed me and turned me into something…" Luigi cowered on the ground and began to shiver. It took everyone to bring him over to the door ahead. Well, except for Arcaine, who was talking to some of the Moonins.
"Hey retard! You coming with us or not?!" Blade barked.
"…Oh! I was just trying to gather some information about SunMoonFlower, that's all!" Arcaine walked back to the group over by the door. "…What's wrong with the guy in green?"
"It's kind of a long story…" Chopper groaned.
Some time later-
After taking their time buying some goods at the shop, they reached the next area. They didn't see Dimentio anywhere, but they saw a pathway with two loops and two Nazee Dayzees skipping along. Chopper reached for his hammer and was about to bash the Nazee Dayzees until they saw he was still covered in pie.
"Hee hee hee! Looks like someone got pranked!" they giggled.
"…Is 'pranked' even a word?" Chopper gawked before finishing them off with his hammer. Afterward, he immediately raced through the loops and reached the door ahead. Everyone was surprised by his speed, but they followed him over to the door after some procedures.
"Poyo, (You seem like you really want to fight Dimentio,)" Kirby said as Chopper still had his fists clenched.
"I guess you still don't remember what he did…" Chopper trailed.
"Poyo? (What EXACTLY did he do?)"
"Well, it turns out he betrayed Tipral and tried to take the Chaos Heart for himself…then he said that we were simply being used by him like tools. Plus, after trying to 'murder' us, I can finally say that I have no respect for the clown."
"I REALLY don't want to keep remembering that horrible incident in Castle Bleck…" Luigi shivered.
"What happened, exactly?" Sonic asked.
"I don't wanna talk about it… I just wanna get going now."
"All right, I suppose we should," Chopper kicked the door open to a flat area with two pedestals and a castle in the background. However, there was no pipe that could help them reach the castle.
Mario: Don't we need stones for this?
"I don't think so…" Arcaine trailed. "The Moon Stone was lost by the mayor a long time ago…"
"So you come at last, like a boy who's eager to buy a new video game!"
"Ugh… I still hate those similes…" Sonic groaned.
"All right, Dimentio. We're here, so what do you want?" Chopper grumbled.
"Oh, I don't want anything, really! All I've come for is to watch your defeat! And by watching your defeat, I mean taking care of you."
"Haven't you come to your senses of what you did before?" Blumiere asked.
"Hmmmmm… I don't recall anything like that happening…" Dimentio pondered. "But, it doesn't really matter now! I must do what Tipral tells me and end the games of the heroes! Let's get started, shall we?"
"Gladly!" Chopper smirked, chucking a fireball at him. The jester simply floated out of the way and twirled his finger around to bring everyone – except for Arcaine – to his own dimension: Dimension D.
"Ugh… Haven't you learned already?" Chopper sighed. "Using Dimension D isn't going to help you defeat us."
"That may be true, but I still have more of an upper advantage, since this is my own world," the jester smirked. "But enough chit-chat. Now we must battle, like two great warriors fighting for a tasty burger!"
"Meh, might as well used Timpani's wand to investigate him," Chopper aimed her wand straight at Dimentio, but no ray of rainbow light came out. "Huh…? Why won't this thing work?"
"Poyo… (I think her power can't reach this dimension…)" Kirby trailed. "Poyo. (And that stinks, considering that we've never investigated Dimentio before.)"
"Well, I guess we're going to have to go without her help…" Sonic trailed as he tried to make a jump for Dimentio. The jester cackled as he quickly avoided the attack and fired a magic projectile down at him, knocking him against the wall.
"Whoa… He can dodge for sure."
"Well that's not stopping me!" Chopper jumped off the wall to the left and managed to punch Dimentio with fire energy, causing him to teleport elsewhere in the dimension.
"You know, since he's floating around, I think attacking him with my Super Jump wouldn't be too bad," Luigi got under Dimentio when he was casting another spell and managed to strike him from underneath with a Super Jump.
"Ouch! Well now… You people are quite the fighters… But this isn't over yet!" Dimentio snapped his finger and teleported. When he reappeared, there were four other Dimentios floating in the room.
"Take this!" all five Dimentios fired three magical particles each, which struck all six of them. The one that floated down to the bottom the closest turned out to be the real one when Kirby attacked him with his Final Cutter.
"Poyo, (You haven't really changed, Dimentio,)" Kirby smirked as he struck him with his last attack, knocking Dimentio to the ground. "Poyo! (You use the same attacks all the time! It's unoriginal!)"
"You want something new? Ah ha ha ha! All right, I'll offer something new!" Dimentio snapped his finger and Kirby was struck with some Star Magic. "I believe this is something new I've gotten!"
"Wait a minute… That looks like…Tipral's Star Magic!" Chopper gasped. "How does he have that kind of ability?! …Unless something caused him to have some of Tipral's abilities…"
Dimentio snapped his finger again, but Chopper managed to jump out of the way before getting struck by Star Magic. It was really tough to see where his attacks were, considering that Star Magic suddenly appears when struck. While he was distracted with the jester, Blade grabbed a hold of the wall and began throwing shurikens like crazy at Dimentio, making him teleport to him.
"Man! I've always wanted to fight this guy as himself!" Blade smirked as he jumped off the wall and spun his katana vertically when Dimentio appeared. However, when he landed on the ground, Dimentio used his magic to trap him in a box and caused it to explode from inside.
"Ouch… I hate those kinds of attacks…"
"Don't worry, I'll try to attack," Chopper chucked a couple of ice balls at Dimentio, but he countered them by hurling his magic attacks at them, destroying them upon impact. Unfortunately, before the jester could hit Chopper again, Mario jumped off the wall and jumped on top of his head.
"You little…!"
Dimentio appeared behind Mario and blasted him with his magic. Luigi even tried to hit him with Bonjourang, but he used some kind of mirror ability that protected him from getting hurt.
"Wait… So he can guard our attacks now? Come on!" Chopper tried to freeze him once again, but he put up another barrier and protected himself…until Blade managed to jump up to him and distract him by swinging his katana at him.
"And I thought you fought with honor," Dimentio scoffed as he turned around and blasted Blade with one of his magic projectiles. This left him off guard, allowing Chopper to freeze him by chucking a charged ice ball at him. When the frozen jester hit the ground, Chopper bashed him with his hammer and forced him to teleport elsewhere in the room.
"Hmmmm… Perhaps I could change this up a bit…"
Dimentio created boxes around the heroes, but people like Sonic, Chopper and Luigi managed to avoid them. Chopper got a chance to stomp on his head while Luigi used his Super Jump to uppercut him and make him teleport elsewhere. It also got rid of the boxes as well.
"Ha! I think I can enjoy this!" Chopper smirked.
"Poyo, (I agree,)" Kirby said as he threw his cutter blade like a boomerang at Dimentio, making him teleport behind Kirby. The jester hurled another one of his spells down at Kirby and hit him directly.
"If you honestly believe that you're going to win this fight, think again," Dimentio snapped his finger and disappeared. When he reappeared, four more Dimentios appeared and hurled their spells at the heroes.
"Heads up, guys!" Sonic warned as he tried to strike one of the Dimentios with a Homing Attack. Unfortunately, he got the wrong one and got hit by one of Dimentios spells. Luigi managed to strike the real one with a Super Jump, making all of the other Dimentios disappear.
"So, are you ready to give up yet?" Chopper asked. "You're free to do that if you want."
"Ah ha ha ha. Now why would I do that right now?" Dimentio cackled as he hurled a spell down at Chopper. Unfortunately for the jester, Chopper managed to inhale the blast and spit it back at him to send him flying toward the wall, allowing Kirby to attack him with his Final Cutter.
"Oof! Now you're becoming annoying…"
Dimentio created a box that surrounded Chopper and triggered an explosion from inside with a snap of his finger. Chopper was left dazed from the attack, but it didn't stop him from hurling some fireballs at him, which hit him dead on.
Mario: Hold on, let me make a move!
"Let's see how you handle this!" Dimentio snapped his finger again and tried striking Mario with Star Magic. But he ended up using this attack right when Mario jumped, making him dodge the attack and letting him Triple Jump on his head, making him teleport over to Luigi.
"Uh oh… Don't tell me you're going to trap me in a box!" Luigi gulped.
"Hmmmmmm… Now that I think about it… It sounds like a perfect idea!" Dimentio was about to trap Luigi in a box until he gripped Bonjourang and threw him at the jester, leaving him dazed for a couple of seconds.
"I think I can make another move on him!"
Luigi used his Cyclone attack to strike Dimentio with his fists and send him flying up and allowing him to use his Super Jump to strike him afterward. Dimentio cried out as he teleported elsewhere in the room in an attempt to destroy them all.
"Oh, not this time," Blade said as he jumped toward the jester and spun his katana around vertically, making him teleport near the ground. This turned out to be good for Blade because he was able to strike him with his katana.
"Oof! Well, this sure is an unfair battle…but this is my very own dimension, so I shall be victorious!" Dimentio cackled as he teleported away from Blade. When he appeared again, he immediately flipped into 3-D and began to fire his magic spells at the group while he was hidden away.
"Yeesh! How's he able to hurt us when he's in 3-D?!" Sonic gaped as he rubbed his head from the attack.
"I don't know, honestly… He's always using some kind of trick against us. I'm going to go into 3-D!" Chopper threw his arms up and went into 3-D to find the jester. He was already throwing his magic attacks down at the other heroes, but Chopper managed to jump toward him and kick him with ice energy, sending him back to 2-D.
"There we go!" Chopper went back into 2-D and stomped on Dimentio to force him to teleport somewhere else in the room. He just so happened to teleport right by Luigi and trap him in another box.
"Oh, no! Not this!" Luigi shivered.
"Ciao, Luigi!" Dimentio snapped his finger and Luigi was caught in a small explosion. …Except that it didn't end his game. "Psyche! You're not dead, my green friend!"
"Hey, get away from him, freak!" Chopper jumped toward Dimentio again and spun his hammer vertically at him, knocking him to the ground. Luigi, still conscious from the attack, jumped on Dimentio's head.
"This isn't going too well…" the jester trailed as he teleported right in front of Kirby. The pink puffball threw his cutter blade at him, but he guarded the attack with a barrier. That is, until Blade stunned him by striking him with his fire slash.
"Go for it, Kirby!"
"Poyo! (OK!)" Kirby used his Final Cutter attack on Dimentio and made him teleport after the final blow.
"Hmph… You have gotten a bit stronger ever since the last time we've fought." Dimentio commented as he teleported to the center of the dimension. "Although… That was when I only fought Chopper, Kirby and Sonic…"
"What's wrong? Can't take any more?" Chopper mocked, charging up another fireball.
"Oh, your scoffing is like that of a cocky, muscle-bounded idiot! I've had enough of you!" Dimentio raised his finger again and struck Chopper with another magic attack. Luckily, for Chopper, he managed to hurl the fireball at Dimentio before he could raise a barrier.
"Hold on a second… Did he say something about us being stronger?" Sonic asked, raising an eyebrow.
"As a matter of fact, I did."
"Wait a second… Then if you forgot the whole thing in Castle Tipral… Did Tipral just wipe away the memories of when he planned on betraying him? I'm sorry, but this is just plain weird…"
"Poyo! (Now's not the time to be asking those kind of questions!)" Kirby suggested. "Poyo! (We need to take this guy down!)"
"Yeah, you're right," Chopper watched as Sonic knocked Dimentio to the ground with a Homing Attack and Bounce Attack. This allowed the pale green boy to run up to Dimentio and use a sweeping kick attack on him before he could teleport away from him.
"Quit teleporting and fight us for real, coward!" Blade shouted as he tossed shurikens at Dimentio when he appeared. The jester simply put up a barrier and allowed the shuirkens to hit the ground.
"Yawn… I grow tired of your yapping." Dimentio snapped his finger and Blade was knocked into the air by Star Magic. However, Dimentio was frozen solid when Chopper hurled a charged ice ball straight at him.
"Thanks, Chopper," Blade melted the jester from his icy prison with a fire slash. It even did some damage to him with the burn left on him as well. But when the jester teleported, Luigi was right underneath him. This allowed him to propel himself up to Dimentio with a Super Jump and send him flying to the ceiling.
"Whew! I got him!" Luigi said as he sighed in relief.
Mario: Let me have a chance at getting him!
"Oh, I don't think so!" Dimentio trapped both Mario and Luigi in a box, but was soon struck by a Homing Attack from Sonic before he could set off the explosion. It freed both Mario and Luigi and allowed the red plumber to strike Dimentio with a jump and then a Ground Pound.
"You can give up right now if ya want, Dimentio," Sonic suggested as he stretched his limbs. "We'll let you off easy if you do!"
"I don't think he's going to listen to us, Sonic," Chopper retorted, readying his hammer. "I think the only thing we can do at this moment is defeat him."
"Poyo! (That shouldn't be too hard!)" Kirby tossed his cutter blade at the jester while he was occupied and made him teleport to the ground. Blade immediately attacked him with his katana to leave him in a weak state. Of course, Luigi was able to bring him even lower down in HP with a simple jump.
"From the looks of it, Dimentio's getting weak," Luigi informed.
"Yeah, and it should be an easy finish!" Chopper smirked.
"Oh, I'm not going to let you finish me off so easily," Dimentio snapped his finger and sent Chopper flying with Star Magic. Mario was about to make a move until everyone got dazed by him trapping them in a box and setting off an explosion.
"And… Since you people are looking weak, I might as well be the victorious one!"
"Think again, Dimentio!" Chopper shook himself and ran straight toward him and gave him a punch of icy energy. Now that he was left stunned, he used one last stomp and knocked him to the ground, finishing him off once and for all.
"ACK! WHY NOW?!" Everyone walked over to the defeated Dimentio after recovering from the explosion and got in their fighting stances as they looked down at him.
"You people… Those attacks were like an army of gingerbread men who wanted to exact their revenge upon the people…" Dimentio wheezed.
"Quit with the similes already, Dimentio. Take us back to Night Land." Chopper warned, getting ready to charge another fireball just in case. The jester mumbled to himself before floating back up.
"Oh, why of course I will! Just hang on for one moment…" Dimentio used his magic once again and sent everyone back to Night Land. "Now does that make you heroes happy?"
"I'll be happy when you're dead," Blade hissed.
"Ah ha ha ha! Oh, typical Blade… You're so hissy, yet you're supposed to be an honorable ninja!"
"Shut up before I pry that mask off your face."
"All right, let's just end this, all right?" Chopper was ready to shoot another fireball, but Dimentio snapped his finger and got rid of the fireball easily. "What the heck?! You can't do that!"
"I'm afraid I must be going now… Ciao for now, my foes!" Dimentio bowed one last time before teleporting out of their sights.
"That no-good clown…"
"Ah! There you guys are!" Arcaine walked up to the heroes after seeing them disappear. "You boys haven't been here for quite a while! I thought I lost you!"
"Well, I think it would've been better if we didn't have you here…" Blade mumbled.
"Blade, knock it off," Sonic scolded.
"…uys? Guys?" Chopper knew that voice was coming from Timpani, so he pulled her wand out. "Oh! I can finally see you guys! I suddenly lost connection with you. I don't know what happened…"
"Well, basically we ran into Dimentio and he fought us. But we ended up beating him." Luigi smirked.
"Well, now's not the time to be talking! Look up ahead! The pipe to the castle!" Arcaine pointed to the pipe up ahead, which got everyone's looks to be , his eyes ended up catching sight of something else. "Wait... What's that tower?"
"Tower? What do you mean?" Sonic asked.
"Errr... There's a tower suddenly here... Well, it's probably no big deal! Come on, partners! Let's go!"
Everyone followed Arcaine through the pipe and into the background, where they reached the entrance to King Moonnight's Castle. Just like King Sunday's Castle, there was a Star Block at the entrance.
"I don't know why it's a lot similar to Day Land…" Sonic trailed.
"I don't know why either, but maybe the castle's a bit different," Chopper thought as he smashed the Star Block with one punch, ending this chapter off.
END OF CHAPTER
After Dimentio's ambush, our heroes were relieved that they no longer had to see him for a while. Now that they've reached King Moonnight's Castle, they were bound to find the Pure Heart somewhere. "Yes, this is where we need to be," informed Timpani as the wand glowed. "I can feel the Pure Heart's presence in this very castle! But… It's hard to tell where…" Knowing what our heroes had to do, they set foot inside the castle and saw a room that looked very familiar. However, the sight of the tower and Arcaine's comment was more than enough to make them a little suspicious...
I kind of hated that this took me a while to finish... But, sometimes I get a little lazy, so chapters sometimes don't get finished until the fifth day of when I start it. I think the longest it took me to finish a chapter was a week (I believe it was Chapter 7-5). But, enough about that! This was an interesting chapter, wouldn't you agree?
What's embarrassing was that when I originally made this, I accidentally named it "Chapter 12-4", which was a bad typo on my part. :P