"Doo doo doo doo…" the Paratroopa postman wearing a light blue shell, who was donning a brown pilot's helmet and carried a brown postbag was singing as he flew around in the jungle looking for Chopper's house. "Man, I can't believe I'm actually going to be delivering a letter to Chopper! It's been like, two years since I've seen the little guy! I wonder how he's doing right now. Same goes for that friend of his."
He ended up spotting a giant mushroom house nearby, and he flew over to the house. "Hmmmmm... Could this be Chopper's house? It is the only one around here, after all..."
When he flew to the mailbox, he saw the name "Chopper" labeled on it. Smiling, he opened the mailbox and put in the letter.
"Mail call!"
He was hoping to see if a certain antennaed friend of his would come out, but to his surprise, he didn't. He decided to shout the same phrase again, but once again, nobody came out. Though this was not something a postman such as Parakarry would do, he decided to fly over to the window. Nobody appeared to be inside.
"Well… Looks like he isn't home." Parakarry frowned. "That's a shame... I really wanted to see him after all these years."
Unfortunately, he didn't notice three shadows rise from the ground. Two of them were obviously Beldam and Mysterious, but the third figure didn't appear to be Marilyn or Purple. In fact, this figure had wings on his head, along with a hat...
"This ability is very useful," Flyer remarked, surprised by this new power.
"So, Flyer... We shall begin by testing your magic out on something." Mysterious explained, eyeing Parakarry with a grin. "And thankfully, we've found someone we could test it on!"
"I think I recognize that guy..." Flyer trailed with a smirk. "But I don't care. Testing my magic on him will be interesting."
"Be my guest, Flyer. I'm sure you can pull it off after your training." Beldam grinned as Flyer began to use his magic. He was ready to fire a lightning spell at the postman.
"Well, I guess I might as well leave," Parakarry declared, walking away from the house. However, he took notice of Flyer and gasped. "Fl-Flyer? Is that really you?"
"Yes, it's me," Flyer answered bluntly.
"Boy, am I glad to see you," the Paratroopa sighed, flying over to him. "Say... Haven't you seen Chopper lately?"
"No, nor do I really care. I'm sure he's been caught in that darkness lingering over this planet."
For some reason, Parakarry looked at him suspiciously, noticing two figures behind him. "Say, Flyer... Who are those two figures over there?"
"Do me a favor and hold still," Flyer suggested, his hand becoming surrounded in sparks. "I need a target to test my magic."
"Target? What do you... Uh oh..." Parakarry gulped. "Don't tell me you..."
A bolt of lightning was fired, but it had barely hit Parakarry. He flinched and backed away from him.
"Why? Why are you doing this?"
"Because I don't get much respect from my so-called 'friends'!" Flyer barked. "At least these people here are giving me respect. They're helping me."
Parakarry looked back at Beldam and Mysterious, and then he looked back at him. "Flyer! I don't think they're actually trying to respect you! Aren't you a lot better than this?"
"You don't know them, so who are you to judge? Besides, they revealed a little something that did not make me happy... Now just hold still so I can zap you!"
"Yes, you better do what he says," Beldam agreed.
"Oh, man... I don't know what to do here..." Parakarry gulped. Eventually he decided to get in his shell and charge at Flyer, but that did no good when he made a shield that bounced him back.
"You're not going to hit me if you continue this," Flyer informed.
"Ugh... Well, I guess I don't have much of a choice..." Parakarry slowly backed away and flew off. "I gotta go find Chopper and warn him about Flyer!"
As he flew away, Flyer looked up at him, not doing a thing to stop him. This did not go well for the other two, though.
"Flyer! Why did you let him get away?!" Mysterious exclaimed. "You had him right there!"
"Oh, don't worry... I'll get him when I get Chopper and his friends." Flyer assured, turning to the two. "It will be much more satisfying that way!"
"Hmmmm... Fair enough." Beldam decided. "I suppose we'll have to go find something else to use as a target."
"That sounds good enough to me," Mysterious said. "Come, Flyer. Let us go back. We can find something else to help you train."
Beldam and Mysterious went back into their shadows. Flyer was about to do the same thing, but he looked back at Chopper's house. Approaching it, he couldn't help but feel something else in his mind, and it was starting to bother him.
"What are you doing? This isn't you!" a sudden thought spoke in his head. "They're not your friends! Get back to your senses!"
However, those thoughts quickly faded away as Flyer regained his sinister look.
"No. I'm going to make them pay for making me a tool. I'm going to make them suffer."
Flyer immediately went into the shadows afterward.
Snow area-
Thankfully, the continent just up ahead was not that long of a walk. Not only that, but getting there did not require the use of flying or being launched in the air. There was a bridge for them to cross, but everyone was hardly thrilled to see a frozen wasteland ahead. Just entering the area made it start to snow and everyone to shiver.
"I can't believe we have to walk through this cold place!" Bang complained. "My feet are starting to kill me!"
"Can it, Bang," Blade snapped. "You're only making it worse."
Sadly, to Chopper, not much had changed around the area. It was just a usual, snowy area. There were a couple of candy canes sticking from the snow, but it was all old to him unlike six years ago. Still, he did like getting a glimpse of the sweets.
"Poyo! (Wow! I didn't know this place had fruit!)" Kirby gaped, noticing some giant apples rolling around in a circle.
"Too bad they don't respond to me," Chopper shrugged, making his way through the snow. Thankfully, there were no signs of enemies, so walking was a breeze. But, they did see some X-Naut Ships flying around the continent.
"Hmmmmmm… Chopper, don't you think that this is where the X-Nauts are staying?" Vivian asked. "Considering how many ships we've been seeing here..."
"I don't know..." Chopper trailed, looking at the ships. They appeared to be dropping Master X-Nauts from the distance. "Yeah, they may be staying here. But why here? Couldn't they have just gone to the lava area instead? That would've been simpler! That's where most baddies stay in!"
"I guess they like the cold environment," Sonic shrugged. "That, or they have some technology that works a lot better in a cold environment."
"Speaking of cold..." Chopper changed to his Ice ability happily. "That should help me!"
He skated around the snowy ground and stuck his tongue out to let the snowflakes land on his tongue. Berry stuck her tongue out too and let snowflakes land on her tongue.
"Eating snowflakes? That's stupid..." Tamber trailed.
"It's basically water," Berry noted. "So I don't see the problem."
Tamber stuck his tongue out to catch a snowflake. "Meh... It's still dumb."
"You think everything's dumb," Shadower remarked.
"Except for me and my Star Diamond."
Ignoring him, the group moved on and found some destroyed igloos up ahead. Many of them were left in surprise by the remains of this place, especially Chopper.
"Whoa... What happened here?!" Chopper gaped, walking up to one of the igloos. "This is not what I thought would be here!"
"It's like a bomb hit this place, Contadre!" Scrub added.
"A bomb hit the place? Wow… That's hardcore…" Bang gaped.
"Well, at least we weren't caught in this," Vivian commented.
Chopper pointed at the direction ahead past the igloos. "That's the direction we should go. ...I think."
"You better not be wrong..." Bombette trailed.
"That depends on what your definition of wrong is! Mwa ha ha ha ha!"
"The heck was that?" Night asked, looking up at the sky. Everyone looked up and saw a Koopa hover down in white armor, a white cape, and a large blaster that required both hands.
Mario: Who is he?
"So, once again we meet! It's been two years, hasn't it, Chopper?" the Koopa asked. Chopper looked at him for a little bit, but he only shook his head at him. "What?! How could you NOT remember me?! Remember? At Star Haven? Those accursed Dayzeeflower Girls? The City of Flowersville?"
"No... Not really." Chopper shrugged.
"What about that mayor that loved pickles?"
"...Oh, I remember him!"
"You gotta be kidding me! You should know who I am! For knowing who I am means that you know that I'm an enemy of yours!" the crazy Koopa began stomping the ground angrily. "I'm KOJO PETE! The one who shall conquer the world! But you don't remember me at all! And it is required that you do remember who I am! For it is easy for you to identify me! And identifying me gives you the idea of who I am! But you don't! Curses…"
"Ummm... Do you always go on like that?" Chopper asked. "And I bet you're here to fight me, right?"
"Yes! For fighting is what is required for me to destroy you! You are in the way along with those accursed Dayzeeflower Girls!" Kojo raised his blaster and aimed at Chopper. "Now I shall obliterate you into nothing! Chopper, prepare to meet your maker!"
"I don't have a maker!" Chopper retorted.
"What about your parents?" Shadower mentioned.
"Oh... Ummmm... They're my maker?"
"Now is not the time for talking! For talking will interrupt this battle, and this battle will be the one where I end you! Therefore, you shall finally be rid of fore-"
"Oh, can it, turtle-face!" Tamber interjected. "No one cares!"
Tattle: That's Kojo Pete. He's some kind of weird Koopa in white armor. That's a little strange… Max HP is 310, Attack is 15, and Defense is 1. He can simply attack with that blaster in his hands. ...That's all it says here. There…really isn't anything else to say. It's…just a blaster. Nothing else. Though I will admit that the way he speaks really gets on my nerves. I don't know whether it's worse than that Fawful guy or not!
"I had been planning on trying to rid of you back in that jungle with my bomb, but it just so happened to backfire on me..." Kojo trailed. "And it ended up sending me here... But, now that your here, I can finally finish my job! Mwa ha ha ha!"
"You were going to destroy us?" Chopper gaped. "You're a bad Koopa, Kojo Pete…"
"I know!" Kojo Pete said with a grin.
"Uhhhh... Of course he's bad." Blade said. "Just fight him, OK?"
Chopper shrugged and used his Ice Breath on Kojo Pete, leaving him shivering. Kirby followed up with his Cartwheel attack, taking 9 out of him.
"Argh! Now look what you did! I'm going to have to make you pay for that, you know… For paying means you must get what you deserve, you little pipsqueak! Take this!" Kojo fired a blue laser from his weapon at Chopper, dealing 15 damage. "Curses! My freezing did not work!"
"Well, I have the Ice ability on me. That's probably why."
"Or maybe because you're a gumball," Tamber added. Chopper gave him a glare after hitting Kojo with his hammer. Tamber didn't seem to care and delivered a punch to Kojo, bringing him to 272 HP.
"Foolish…whatever the heck you guys are!" Kojo yelled. "I'm just getting warmed up! For getting warmed up is…"
"Yeah, yeah… We heard you already." Chopper sighed.
Rather than continuing to speak, Kojo fired another shot at Chopper,covering him in soot. Chopper shook himself to get it off and ice skated toward him before he created an icy aura shaped like a hexagon around Kojo. From the result of this, he became frozen.
"Hey... It actually worked!" Chopper gaped.
"Woo-hoo! Now we can give him a taste of his own medicine!" Sonic got in a ball and hit Kojo Pete with a Spin Dash. This, however, had created a small crack on the ice. Chopper walked over to Kojo's frozen body and kicked him towards one of the trees. This resulted in the ice encasing Kojo to shatter, freeing him.
"Urgh… What just happened?" Kojo moaned, only to come to realization when he was hit by Vivian's Shade Fist and scorched in the process. "The fire! It buuuuurns! For burning me means that I will be on fire!"
"Just shut up already," Tamber said as he charged straight at him. However, this was Kojo's turn to attack, so he managed to fire a shot at Tamber, knocking him back to Chopper. He stepped aside and let Tamber hit the snowy ground.
"Mwa ha ha ha!" Kojo Pete cackled. "Did you really think freezing me would even-"
Chopper immediately interrupted him by hitting his head with his hammer. Berry decided to do the same thing as well, irritating Kojo even more upon seeing her.
"Argh! More little girls are trying to stop me? Curses… I cannot let this happen!" Kojo aimed at Berry and changed to a shot that could drain someone's powers before blasting her. Though it did manage to hurt her, he noticed she appeared the same. "What? My blaster should've drained you of that chemical stuff!"
"Chemical stuff? I have no idea what you're talking about." Berry gawked.
Chopper spewed more ice from his mouth at Kojo, hoping to at least freeze him. Sadly, that didn't seem to be the case.
"Aw! I wanted to freeze him again!" Chopper whined. "Well, I guess you can get him, Shadower."
"All right. I'll go right ahead." Shadower brought his fist back, and when he aimed it at Kojo, a shadowy fist struck the Koopa, knocking him back over to the tree and lowering his defense to 0, along with bringing his HP to 195.
"Urgh… That punch is threatening. And if it's threatening, then that means I must obliterate you!" Kojo declared, firing a at Shadower. He managed to duck and avoid the attack easily.
"Whew… That was close. All right, Chopper. Go ahead and attack him with a Gravity Jump. That'll do enough damage for sure." Shadower stepped out of the way and let Chopper soar up to great heights and land on Kojo with his attack.
"OOOF! Why you little…" Kojo growled, balling his hands into fists, but was quickly punched in the face by Tamber. To retaliate, Kojo swung his blaster at Tamber. "Mwa ha ha ha! It was a success!"
"Let's go, Scrub!" Chopper rushed toward Kojo and he began to circle around him with his speed. Kojo began to feel a little dizzy, but then he was struck by Chopper's Ice Sprinkle as he circled around him. After he did that, he left Kojo frozen. Scrub inhaled him with his Gulp and spat him out, making him slide over by the tree.
"Well, that leaves just one thing!" Chopper slightly kicked the frozen Kojo Pete toward the tree. The ice around him broke, and he was no longer frozen. But, he was sneezing. Bombette decided a Bomb attack would do nicely, so that was what she did.
"Urgh… I never knew this much pain would be so bad for me… Ugh… Now, what happened last time I was fighting that accursed boy?" Kojo Pete wondered. "Oh, yeah... You used that stupid star thing against me and sent me flying!"
"Oh, yeah..." Chopper remembered.
"Oh… That was the worst I've been through in my life." Kojo grumbled, putting his blaster away. "Very well. I guess I'll try something else. So, Chopper… Do you remember…my laser sword?!"
Kojo pulled out a red laser sword and began laughing like crazy. Chopper only yawned at his sword. "I've seen plenty of those.
"Argh! Well we'll see what happens when I use it against you! For using it will benefit me, and benefiting me means that I will have the upper hand and-"
"Just fight!"
Annoyed, Kojo swung at Chopper, though he had gotten hit by Chopper's Power Smash. Mario brought his hammer down on Kojo as well, reducing him to 96 HP.
"Curses… My HP is already down to… Oh, whatever." Kojo swung his laser sword at Chopper again, knocking him back toward Blade. Thankfully, he managed to catch him on time.
"It's OK, Chopper. I got ya!" Blade assured. "Now go kick that guy's butt for me, all right? I can't stand that speech."
"I'm on it," Chopper nodded, only for Blade to throw him at Kojo. He unleashed his icy breath on him to deal 9 damage. With Vivian's Shade Fist, he was burned once again.
"Grrrrrrrr! I'm not done yet! For not being done is the key to staying up! That is to say that I will never give up!" Kojo exclaimed, hitting Vivian with his laser sword. Kojo was about to laugh, but Chopper interrupted him by using a Spin Jump. With Kirby's Cartwheel, Kojo Pete was down to 56 HP.
"Poyo! (He's almost down!)" Kirby cheered, soon getting hit by his blaster. A yellow star was left behind, so Kirby inhaled it and spat it at the Koopa, while Chopper hit him with another Spin Jump. This time, Kojo swung his laser sword at Chopper.
"You know, thinking about it more... You remind me of this one guy..." Chopper pondered. "Except he was black instead of white..."
"This one guy? I do not look like anyone! I, Kojo Pete, am incredibly unique!"
Mario: Sure...
After Chopper hit Kojo with his Ice Storm, Mario bashed him in the head with his hammer again. Kojo targeted Mario this time and attacked him with his laser sword.
"Hmmmmm... Maybe I should use my Master Hammer technique?" Chopper suggested. "I mean, it can do a lot of damage!"
"Go for it," Sonic nodded. "He's only at 14 HP!"
"14 HP?!" Kojo Pete gaped, noticing his HP bar. "How could this have happened?! I was not this weak before! If I were to be weak, I would barely be mov-"
Having enough, Chopper walked up to Kojo and swung his hammer upward when it was glowing yellow. Soon enough, Kojo had been sent flying in the air once again.
"NOOOOOOOOO! CURSE YOU, CHOPPER AND YOUR ACCURSED FRIENDS! I SHALL RETUUUUUUUUUURN!"
As Chopper collected his Star Points and upgraded his HP to 145, everyone noticed a star shining in the sky.
"There goes that freak," Bombette said. "Good riddance."
"He went out in the same manner as before," Chopper realized, only to notice a piece of paper float onto the snowy ground. "Huh? What's that?"
Chopper picked up the piece of paper and began to read it. What surprised him was that it belonged to Kojo Pete.
Dear Chopper,
I have created this letter just in case if I would ever be beaten. But I have to say this. For saying this will make you alarmed! Therefore, I must alarm you with my words! Mwa ha ha ha ha! Why am I laughing? Well, for me to laugh, I must have a plan! Thus, I'm saying that I'm not finished yet! I have more tricks up my sleeves? What are they? I am not telling you! For telling you them will make this explanation pointless! Thus, it will ruin my entire plan! This message is from and was written by,
Kojo Pete
"Ummmm... So, he's not finished yet? But... We sent him flying into space." Chopper frowned, dropping the paper. "Well, this was kinda pointless..."
"You're going to leave it on the ground?" Blade asked.
Chopper raised a finger to answer, but two X-Ships noticed them and started to fire at them. Fortunately for the heroes, the shots missed, and the ships ended up flying into the darkness behind them.
"Oh, crud… This isn't good! Abandon ship" the two X-Pilots attempted to abandon their ships, but they were already too late. Once in the darkness, their ships lost control and exploded.
"Oh my gosh... They blew up!" Vivian gasped.
"Now we know that this darkness is much more dangerous than we thought," Sonic said. "And that's why we gotta get moving!"
"I sure wouldn't wanna be those guys…" Blade sighed, turning around to the others. However, they had already gone ahead. "Hey! Wait up, guys!"
Blade had managed to catch up to the others in no time, but at this point, there was not much they had found. They did find a frozen lake that Chopper decided to skate around, but it wasn't for very long, due to the darkness. It only got worse when it started to get foggy around their surroundings.
"Dang fog!" Night yelled.
"Hey! I take offense to that!" Bang frowned.
"I said fog, not dog!" the undead mouse groaned. "I wish I could see through this."
"Yeah, it's hard to look around because of the fog," Sonic agreed. "I can barely see a thing here!"
"Allow me to help," Shadower declared as he used his vision to look around the area. He didn't see much around...with the exception of what appeared to be a base. "Whoa... I think I found something interesting."
Mario: What is it?
"It's... Well, I think you should see for yourself up ahead."
"OK. Let's go take a look!" Chopper ran off ahead, leaving a thin trail of ice as he traveled. This allowed everyone to slide on it, as well as give an idea of where he was going. But, of course, there are consequences...
"Geez... This is cold." Tamber shivered.
Bang tried to slide on the ice, but he ended up slipping and falling on his stomach. He soon found himself sliding on his stomach.
"Ack! Why does everything bad happen to me?!" Bang cried.
The base-
"So, I heard you were going to get promoted tomorrow," an X-Naut Guard told his other guard buddy.
"Yeah, I am!" the other X-Naut Guard nodded. "I helped Lord Crump fix the TV one day and BAM! I'm getting promoted! It's funny, considering that Lord Crump does not like me..."
The two X-Nauts were guarding the front entrance of the large, silver base. Unlike the X-Naut and New X-Naut Fortress, it didn't appear to be too big, especially from the outside.
The first X-Naut guard quickly turned his head when he heard a little something.
"What's up?" his buddy asked.
"I don't know... I thought I heard something..." the X-Naut Guard squinted and noticed a couple of silhouettes in the fog coming their way. "Heads up, dude! We've got some people coming our-"
Unfortunately, the X-Naut Guard did not get enough time to finish as two feet hit his head, knocking him out. A pair of brown boots hit the other X-Naut Guard, knocking him out.
Chopper and Mario landed in front of the door with proud looks on their faces. In front of them was a door, along with a scanner next to it. Chopper decided to poke it, and a blue light suddenly emitted from it.
"Now scanning!"
Chopper jumped a little in shock, having a feeling that he would need one of the X-Nauts. He picked up one of the KO'd X-Nauts and held him in front f the scanner. When the scanning was finished. a green circle appeared on a small screen.
"Scanning complete. You may now enter."
The front entrance opened, and Chopper felt proud.
"Yay! Now we can go in!" Chopper cheered, he and his friends taking a step inside. However, they were left in disappointment when they noticed that the room was not too technical. It was mostly silver with some poorly-made walls and sparks flowing from below the floor.
"This place looks pretty ugly," Berry scoffed.
"Yeah. I thought X-Nauts could design better than this? That base on the purple moon was so much better!"
"I'm sure I could smash this place up," Tamber looked at the sealed door up ahead. He managed to smash the door with only one punch. However, by doing that, it triggered an alarm.
A bunch of Yuxes came flying into the room. However, they were much different from the other Yuxes. They were black in color and had some purple on them too.
"Hey... Are those the A-Yuxes that those X-Nauts were talking about?" Chopper asked.
"You mean back at that New X-Naut Fortress?" Sonic wondered. "Come to think of it, I remember them saying something like that..."
"Gee, I'm surprised you remembered that," Tamber scoffed.
"I remember stuff, though!" Chopper cried. "What? Did you remember?"
"Well... Uhhh... Yeah! I did!"
"Anyway, they don't look too threatening!" Chopper stated, freezing a couple of them with his ice breath and kicking them into others, clearing the way. "It's all clear! Let's move!"
Chopper and his friends rushed out the door, ignoring the rest of the A-Yuxes. Unfortunately, one of them managed to hit Chopper with a black, ring-like projectile, and it had gotten rid of Chopper's Ice ability.
"Dang it..." Chopper sighed.
"Don't worry about it, Chopper. You can easily get it back, remember?" Sonic reminded.
"Oh... Right."
When they reached the end of this hallway, they found two Master X-Nauts guarding the door.
"Whoa… Chopper made it here already? Wow." the first Master X-Naut gaped.
"Well, what're we doing standing around?!" the other exclaimed. "Crump wants him, so let's get him!"
They opened fire on the group, but Mario and Sonic easily took care of the first X-Naut, and Kirby hit the other with a Cartwheel. Chopper approached that X-Naut and tossed a fireball at his feet to keep him still.
"Hey! What're you doing?!" the second Master X-Naut asked. "Let me go right now!"
"I need to ask you some questions," Chopper explained. "Why are you guys even here? Do you know something about the Crystal Star?"
"Errr... No, not at all! We don't know about the Crystal Star, nor are we going to destroy this planet! I'm not going to tell you that Grodus has some sort of secret weapon to destroy you guys!"
"Wait... What?" Chopper gasped. "Destroy my planet?"
"Err... Yes, we are!" the X-Naut answered, deciding to tell the truth. "Your planet will soon be history! And it's all thanks to Grodus's secret weapon that's so deadly that it could destroy planets like these! What're you going to do about it?"
Everyone could tell that Chopper was looking pretty angry. They noticed the dark steam coming from Chopper's hands, and that was trouble.
"Chopper! Don't!" Shadower warned, getting in his way. "Don't you remember what would happen?"
Realizing this, Chopper quickly calmed down, and the steam faded away. "Oh... I'm sorry about that..."
"Look, I don't blame you for getting angry, but you remember what happens when your anger goes too far, right?"
"Yeah..." Chopper nodded nervously, as if he had done something wrong. "Well, I guess we should move on. Maybe we'll find Grodus here."
"Not a chance," the Master X-Naut spoke. "He's not around here. Lord Crump, on the other hand, is! ...Wait, was I supposed to say that?"
"Then let's go after Lord Crump then. He's someone we need to crump anyway!"
They entered the door into a long, narrow hallway. Sadly, there were no enemies in sight for them to fight. There were a couple of windows for them to see the snow outside, but that was it.
"I can't see the end of this hallway," Blade said. "I guess we have some long ways to go."
"Well, then we'll have to be quick," Sonic declared, everyone running through the narrow hallway.
Next room-
Meanwhile, while the heroes were on a move-on, Lord Crump was preparing his entire army in one, square-shaped room. Compared to the other rooms, this one appeared more advanced, having a couple of teleporter panels to the side.
"All right, guys. You're here to help me take down Chopper." Lord Crump declared, turning to his army. "Surely with every one of you here, Chopper can't stop us! Buh! Buh! Buh huh huh!"
"Lord Crump, are you sure that having our entire army here?" Johnson asked. "Does Grodus even know about this?"
"Maaaaaaaaybe," Lord Crump sweat dropped, leading Johnson to face palm. "Hey! It's not my fault that Chopper's been such a pain! I never even managed to beat him ONCE! …Hopefully that'll change when my new project is done."
"New project?"
"Yeah, my new project! It's top secret, so I'm not telling you." Lord Crump heard the door suddenly burst open. Turning around, he noticed the door flying his way. He ducked, letting the door crash into a couple of X-Nauts. When he stood back up, Lord Crump noticed Tamber standing in the front, with Chopper jumping over to face him.
"All right, it's over, Crump!" Chopper declared. "Give us the Crystal Star, and we won't have to beat you down!"
"Crystal Star? I don't even have that thing!" Lord Crump objected, making the heroes sigh. "But, we WILL have it soon, and then we'll have eight with you out of the way!"
"Pbbbbbth! Like you can even stop us!" Tamber scoffed. "You're just the same old Lord Crump from before!"
"And why is your entire army here?" Vivian asked. "That doesn't sound like a great idea..."
"I told you…" Johnson mumbled.
"Hey! It's an incredible idea! Plus, I even came prepared! Just watch!" Lord Crump pulled out a remote and pressed a red button. A capsule fell on him and broke. Everyone soon saw him wearing purple and black armor with a large red cape and carrying a black blaster.
"What the heck?" Chopper gawked.
"Buh! Buh! Buh huh huh! You like what you see?"
"Not one bit," Berry answered.
"One of my biggest problems fighting against you was that I was easily vulnerable, and I never resorted to using other types of attacks like my Crump-a-bomb," Lord Crump explained, ignoring Berry. "So... I decided to give myself an awesome upgrade that'll make you cry for mercy!"
"Well, since you don't have the Crystal Star, maybe you can just let us get out of here?" Chopper suggested. "There's some darkness coming by, and we don't want it to get to us!"
"Not a chance! I've been preparing for this very moment! We're fighting. Right. NOW!" Lord Crump whistled, and all of his X-Nauts got in a fighting pose. Chopper let out a sigh, and he and his friends got in a fighting stance as well.
Tattle: There's Lord Crump again. Looks like he means business this time! Max HP is 340, Attack is 16, and Defense is 2. Those X-Nauts have 50 HP and an Attack of 15, so you might wanna be careful with those guys too. Lord Crump will attack by using body slams or that blaster. If you defeat those X-Nauts, he'll just summon more. It says here he might even throw in some grenades. Wait… Grenades? Are those even legal?!
"I think we have a good way of settling this, Crump!" Chopper changed to his Laser ability and shot a laser from his visor at Lord Crump. Bombette followed up with her Bomb, covering Lord Crump in soot. He shook himself to get the soot off and glared at his opponents.
"Not bad… Not bad at all. Now it's my turn to bring on the pain! X-Nauts! Attack!" Lord Crump gave the X-Nauts a signal to gang up on Chopper. A couple of them started by jumping on Chopper. Thankfully, he didn't take too much damage due to his guarding. "And now for my turn!" the X-Naut commander aimed at Chopper and fired a red laser at him, laughing in the process.
"If you think that's going to seriously hurt me, you're wrong," Chopper said, charging a green laser and taking 10 out of Lord Crump when it hit his body. "We've gotten hit by worse!"
"Oi!" Lord Crump winced, holding his stomach in pain. "OK, so you can deal a lot more damage. No big deal! I can do that too!"
"Well... I kinda noticed..."
"I guess I'll go next! Wish me luck, Contadre!" Scrub walked over to Lord Crump and used his Gulp to spit him at the army of X-Nauts.
"Lord Crump, I still don't think this is going to work out for us," Johnson pointed out. "We may outnumber them, but they still have a chance of defeating us..."
"Like I even care… We're still gonna win this! Go, X-Nauts!" Lord Crump ordered the X-Nauts to attack, and they ended up ganging on Chopper. Lord Crump, meanwhile, walked over to Scrub and body slammed him. "Huh huh! With this armor on, my body slam is even stronger!"
"And it also makes you look fatter," Scrub scoffed.
"What? Why you little...!" Before he could attack the Yoshi, Chopper fired a laser at him, and then Vivian punched him with a fiery fist, leaving him with a burn. "Oooog… All right, I had enough with the burns! Watch this!"
He aimed his blaster at Vivian and fired an ice shot. However, she ended up Superguarding it, making it hit the wall instead. The X-Nauts were about to attack Chopper, but they suddenly heard the sound of shouting.
"Hey, freaks! Over here!" Bang called out. They turned to him with confused looks. "If you want a real fighter, then come over her-"
The X-Nauts started to gang up on him, leaving him trapped underneath the pile. Lord Crump was annoyed by this, but his anger was suddenly cooled down when Chopper hit him with an Ice Stomp, leaving him shivering.
"That should cool him down a bit," Chopper stated.
"If you think your cold jump will stop me, then think again!" Lord Crump shouted, not seeing a blue hedgehog hit him in the face with a Spin Dash, bringing him down to 268 HP. This made the X-Nauts stop beating up Bang and grab their commander's attention.
"We gotta go help Lord Crump!" an X-Naut suggested, all of them leaving Bang beaten up before they ganged up on Sonic and proceeded to beat him. While that happened, Lord Crump hit the hedgehog with a body slam.
"Man… They sure don't like it when I attack their leader…" Sonic groaned, getting up and being left a little bruised up.
"Well at least your beating wasn't brutal!" Bang shouted, looking much worse than Sonic.
"Well, we can't really do much against these X-Nauts except for…" Chopper paused for a moment, an idea striking him. "Maybe I can try out my Master Hammer!"
Taking out his hammer, Chopper walked over to Lord Crump with his hammer glowing yellow. He swung it upward, suddenly knocking him into his minions, dealing 14 damage to them both, and causing a ruckus among Lord Crump and his minions. It got even worse when Mario hit Lord Crump with a Super Jump.
"Get that plumber!" Lord Crump ordered. The X-Nauts all mobbed Mario, stomping on him endlessly while Lord Crump knocked him back to the group with a kick. "See? With this strategy, you guys are going to lose! Buh! Buh! Buh huh hu-"
He would've continued his laughter, but Lord Crump was hit by another laser Chopper fired, and then hit in the head by Berry's hammer.
"That should get you to shut up," Berry smirked.
"Well, uh…er… ATTACK!" Lord Crump stepped back so the X-Nauts could mob Chopper and his friends. Unfortunately, none of their attacks appeared to hit them. "What is WRONG with you guys?! My grandma could do better than that!"
When they stepped away, Lord Crump body slammed Chopper, removing his Laser ability.
"Aw, man! I was hoping to hold onto that!" Chopper grumbled. "Oh, fine… I'll try something else."
Chopper decided to go with his Diamond Glove ability, in which he charged up an electric ball and fired at Lord Crump. Kirby threw in his Cartwheel, bringing him down to 209 HP.
"Man, you guys are HUGE pain in the neck!" Lord Crump remarked. "You should be turned into puddles of confetti by now! Bummer..."
Lord Crump pointed at Kirby, signaling the X-Nauts to gang up on him. After they gave him a beating, Lord Crump flattened him with his own behind. Thankfully, he managed to pull himself together and unflatten himself.
"Poyo? (Why do they always have to gang up on us?)" Kirby asked.
"I don't know what in the world you're saying, but I sure don't like it," Lord Crump said. "I don't like you either, Chopper."
"Well, I don't like you either," Chopper answered, bringing his hammer down on Lord Crump's head, while Shadower used his Shadow Smite to hit Lord Crump and his X-Nauts, lowering their defense as well.
"Why you no-good traitor…" Lord Crump aimed his blaster at Shadower and fired at him. The X-Nauts charged at him, but they tripped, falling on each other and leaving a pile of X-Nauts in front of him.
"Hey! What're you guys doing? GET UP!" demanded Lord Crump.
"I'm afraid we're getting a little exhausted, Lord Crump," panted one of the Master X-Nauts.
"Ugh… Fine. Get in the tower position, then." Lord Crump whistled, and the X-Nauts all formed into a tower. He decided to body slam Chopper, but his attack was easily guarded.
"With no defense on you, I think it's time for a Gravity Jump!" Chopper smiled as he launched to great heights and landed on Lord Crump's head to dish out 30 damage. Tamber punched him in the stomach afterward, bringing him to 151 HP.
Lord Crump, now starting to feel exhaustion, gave the X-Nauts a signal to pull out their blasters and fire at Chopper. They succeeded, while he aimed at Shadower and fired a shot at him. He also noticed his defense was fully restored.
"Hey… My defense is back up!" Lord Crump noticed. "Now you're goners! Buh! Buh! Buh huh huh!"
"Well, considering how well we've been doing, that's not likely," Chopper changed to his Thief ability and whacked Lord Crump with his cane. Bombette decided to test her Master-Rank move and use her Explosion, which knocked all the X-Nauts to the ground and also did 12 damage to Lord Crump as well.
"Man... That explosion was incredible!" Bombette gaped. "And it felt satisfying..."
"Ugh... You annoying Bob-omb!" Lord Crump fired at Bombette, since the X-Nauts were too dizzy to make a move. Chopper quickly swung his hammer at him, and then Vivian burned Lord Crump with her Shade Fist.
"Gah! I hate it when that girl leaves a burn on me!" Lord Crump looked at his blaster and then he aimed it at Vivian. "All right, traitor! Since you like to burn people, let's see how you deal with it!"
Lord Crump pulled the trigger, and a fiery laser shot out and hurt Vivian, leaving her with a burn. Lord Crump seemed satisfied when she took damage from the burn. Ironically, he had gotten hurt from the same thing.
"So we have a hot shadow chick now," Bang snickered, only to get bonked in the head by Blade.
"Dude, not now..." Blade mumbled as Chopper hit Lord Crump with his hammer, with Kirby hitting him with a Cartwheel.
"Wait... I'm at 98 HP already?! Crud! This isn't good!" Lord Crump turned back to his X-Nauts. "Hey! Form back up and attack Chopper!"
The X-Nauts got up and charged at Chopper. Their beating had left Chopper bruised and exhausted, but he still had enough energy to Superguard Lord Crump's laser.
"OK... I'll admit, you're pretty tough this time, Lord Crump... But I'm not giving up so soon." Chopper mumbled, smacking Lord Crump with his cane. Berry brought her hammer down on Lord Crump, and that hit had managed to ironically give him a new idea.
"X-Nauts! Line up side by side!" Lord Crump ordered, giving them the signal. They obeyed, and they also pulled their blasters out and charged up a shot. Lord Crump cackled as he charged his gun up too. "Buh! Buh! Buh huh huh! This is the end, my friends!"
"Geez... This isn't good..." Chopper groaned. "We're pretty low on HP, and that attack could be powerful..."
"Well what about those Crystal Stars?!" Tamber shouted. "Like that King's Star or something!"
"No! Not that one! It's a bit dangerous..."
"What about the Dream Star?" Vivian suggested.
Chopper shrugged and pulled the Dream Star out. With this, he started his Sweet Dreams special move and began to throw some stars at the items falling down. In the end, Chopper and his partners managed to recover 112 HP and 98 FP. Vivian immediately pulled them all into the shadows before the X-Nauts and Lord Crump could fire.
"On my command… FIIIIRE!"
They fired, but they missed, much to Lord Crump's dismay. Once Chopper and his friends rose from the shadows, Lord Crump and the X-Nauts made their move on them. However, being healed made it easier for Chopper to give Lord Crump a beating with his hammer, followed by Shadower's Shadow Punch.
"Gah! Why do my ideas fail so much? Oh well… You know the drill, X-Nauts!" Lord Crump stepped back as the X-Nauts mobbed the group. Lord Crump came running toward Chopper afterward with a body slam.
...But, that failed when he Superguarded it.
"WHAT?! How did you Superguard that?!"
"Well, it's pretty easy to Superguard... Anyway..." Chopper leaped up to great heights as he used his Gravity Jump to dish away 30 HP from him. Tamber punched Lord Crump in the stomach to leave him with 21 HP.
"Argh! Why you little!" Lord Crump pointed at Chopper, and the X-Nauts ganged up on Chopper as usual like a stampede, knocking his ability away in the process. Lord Crump also gave him a body slam.
"You only have 21 HP, so I'm not too bothered with losing my ability," Chopper said while he brought his hammer down on Lord Crump. Once Mario struck him with his hammer, he was already down to 5 HP.
"Urk… Why is this happening to me…?" Lord Crump gasped. He fired at Chopper, and then he commanded his X-Nauts to attack. However, they were stopped when a missile had struck them, sending them flying.
"Whoa!"
"Mommy!"
"I'm flying!"
"Aw, crud…" Lord Crump sweat dropped, noticing his army lying on the ground unconscious. "Don't tell me you guys just wiped my entire X-Naut army away with an explosion…"
"Yup!" Bang smirked, holding a rocket launcher in his arms. "You should've been paying attention to us!"
"Hey! You weren't supposed to interfere with our fight! This is between me and these chumps!"
"Well, it doesn't matter anymore. You're finished!" Chopper smiled, taking his hammer out and throwing him back toward his army with his Ultra Hammer. This had awarded Chopper enough Star Points to level up and upgrade his FP to 145. "Woo-hoo! We won the fight!"
"Urgh... I'm not done yet..." Lord Crump grumbled, getting out of the X-Naut pile and approaching them. Johnson had also got out of the pile and approached them. Lord Crump proceeded to weakly aim his weapon at the group. "The fight's not over yet, chumps! In fact, I'm just getting started!"
At that moment, the base began to shake, knocking people off their feet.
"Wh-What's going on?!"
Johnson ran over to a window and noticed a dark sky approaching. "There's some sort of darkness up in the sky... It's causing this whole place to shake!"
"Wh-What?! Oh, no… That means my awesome base is going to get destroyed! No fair! And I was just going to beat Chopper! Buh huh huh..." Lord Crump cried.
"Well, we do have those teleporters..."
"Then what're we waiting for?!"
"Lord Crump! I must speak with you!" the X-Naut commander paused before he turned around. Appearing before him was a hologram of Grodus, noticing the X-Naut army on the floor. "Why is my army lying on the ground? Care to explain, Lord Crump?
"Well… Er…" Lord Crump sweat dropped, slowly pulling a coffee cup out and covering the hologram of Grodus. "Forget you guys for now! I'm getting out of here!"
He quickly ran into the teleporter, with Johnson running in as well. Fortunately for them, they were able to make their escape.
"Oh, no… We can't stay in here any longer!" Chopper cried, running to the teleporter. Surprisingly, it was still active. "Quick! We can still use this!"
Quickly, everyone went into the teleporter and put in some random coordinates to make their escape. To their relief, they were transported off of the snow continent.
Unfortunately, the remaining X-Nauts were not so lucky...