CHAPTER 14-2
-Three Virtual Worlds-
"Wow… That's one big base…" Chopper gaped as he looked at the large, red base up ahead.
"That's what she said…" Blade whispered to himself so no one could hear him.
Our heroes were just finished with exploring most of this digital world. Ever since they met the Computernoids, they've run into some trouble with a couple of Vironoids. Heck, even along the way here, they've ran into a couple of them as well! The whole background hasn't changed that much. The only thing that would be different is that the whole background was a bit red with a couple of bright blue, orange and yellow lights in the background. It's almost if they're at some sort of party with many lights. The only other thing was that there were still a couple of light purple pillars with those purple cubes. Of course, they weren't interfering with 2-D.
"Well, I guess we're finally at the base," Sonic announced, despite everyone already knowing that. "I can't believe we've traveled that whole way to make it over here! Let's hope that the stuff in the base is interesting! …Actually, I hope that the Computernoids are very friendly. That Luna girl was friendly, that's for sure."
"And I'll admit, she was actually kind of pretty as well," Luigi added.
Mario: What about Daisy?
"Well what about Peach?" Both brothers sweat dropped, realizing that they both had each other beat. "Errr… Let's forget about that, all right? I think we should just move on from here and forget what we just spoke about…"
"Poyo? (Should we just head in now?)" Unfortunately for Kirby, everyone already seemed to run on ahead. The puffball followed his friends with his stubby orange feet. "Poyo… (I always have to get left behind sometimes…)"
When they all reached the front entrance, they saw that there was a large C on the front door. It was glowing a yellow color, but it didn't really matter to them that much. A simple knock was all they needed before being scanned.
"Hold still. Who are you people?" a computerized voice asked. It sounded sort of…strange. "You don't look like any kind of Computernoid. Is my system malfunctioning? Or have I been having too much sand cake?"
"What's this computer talking about?" Chopper whispered.
"Never mind. I have news that six people would arrive. So, please… Enter at your own will, INSERT NAME HERE." With that, the door slowly opened and everyone walked inside. While it was red on the outside, the inside was more of a lighter red color. There happened to be some sort of yellow camera-like robot that was watching them enter the building.
"Why do I get a sudden vibe that that machine is something that's so…weird?" Blade asked.
Mario: I have no idea…
"I don't get what you just said…" Chopper trailed as they simply walked through the small hallway to the red door ahead. "That computer is weird? It kind of sounds like it was kind of…deadly."
"Well let's just stop questioning a computer and find Luna," Sonic suggested. "She wanted us to go see her."
They walked through the door ahead and entered a room with some small steps going down. There were also a couple of terminals where some Computernoids were working at. They didn't seem to notice them walk in, but they probably didn't care because of how busy they were.
"Hmmmmm… Well, I guess this place is kind of interesting." Luigi pondered as they took a couple of steps. However, the computer camera came down from the ceiling and got right in front of Luigi, making him yelp.
"May I interest you in my cake recipe?" it asked, despite having a female voice.
"WAH! Y-You surprised me!"
"OK, computer thing… I think you've already seen us already…" Chopper said as he pushed the computer camera out of the way. He saw that this thing's name was actually NaDis. Kind of a weird name, considering the capital D in its name.
"What kind of name is NaDis?" Blade questioned.
"NaDis? That is my name." NaDis introduced. "I am a super computer that is capable of knowing many things. My purpose is to find information from the Vironoids and give the information to the Computernoids. May I take you to the bridge, INSERT NAME HERE?"
"Th-Thanks for the offer, but I think we're g-good…" Luigi stammered as he and the rest of the group walked away from NaDis. Its eye began to glow a red color as they headed through the door.
"That's OK. Not all people need my help. Maybe next time someone comes here, I will offer for some help. Results of help NaDis has done: zero. This isn't good." NaDis's monologue went on as it retreated back into the ceiling.
Next room-
"Wow… Now this is interesting!" Sonic gaped as he saw a staircase up ahead that acted like a light-speed circuit. "Man! These Computernoids know how to get from place to place with those!"
"Let's take a look, then!" Chopper smiled as he stepped on the pad and was transported all the way to the top of the stairs. Unfortunately… The door happened to be locked, which wasn't good.
"Oh, come on! …Well this stinks." he took the circuit back down the stairs and explained to his friends about the locked door.
"Then we should just have to take the other way," Sonic smirked as he pointed at the other pad. Chopper simply went into 3-D so they could all reach it and were soon transported through the light-speed circuit.
"Poyo? (How long will this be?)" Kirby asked.
No one could really answer his question because of how distracted they were. There weren't any other paths on the circuit, but it didn't matter much. When they went through the small tunnel in the circuit, they were launched up to a small little room where the door was.
"I guess we can go through here…" Blade trailed as he poked the door. "All right, I think it's safe for us to head through."
"WHY were you even poking the door in the first place?" Chopper asked.
"To make sure it's safe!"
"Ummmmm… OK. That's weird, but all right." Sonic opened the door into another room. This time, they saw a control room of some sort here. Luna happened to be having a little discussion with Colonel Disk. They didn't know what she was saying, but it was best not to get in their business.
"And make sure this time no troops are left behind," Luna warned.
"Yes, ma'am!" Colonel Disk saluted before bumping into the heroes when he tried leaving. "Whoops! Sorry 'bout that, hero people! Didn't see you there for a second! Sorry if I did anything to bother ya!"
"Poyo… (Ummmmm… Actually, you didn't…)" Kirby trailed, getting Luna's attention for a minute.
"Hold on a second… Are you guys here already?" Luna brought his head up and looked at the heroes. "Oh! It's nice to see that you're finally here! I was just waiting for you guys for a second!"
"Yeah, and we ended up speaking about that Pure Heart thingamajig," Colonel Disk added. "So you guys are collecting that item to save the universe? That's… Really interesting, but risky at the same time!"
"Yeah, we know it's risky, but we've got no choice," Chopper responded. "Say… Why is there some kind of computer machine thing by the entrance?"
"You mean NaDis? Oh, she's our computer. Sometimes she appeared right in your face for a second." Luna continued. "One time she scared someone so much that they had lost their voice."
"Huh?"
"For three months."
"That doesn't sound good..." Luigi gulped. "I wouldn't want THAT to happen to me!"
Mario: Just don't think about it.
"Yeah, I thought some of you would react like that," Luna replied, trying not to laugh. "I'll admit, it was a funny scene. If you were there, you probably would've laughed or even cried."
"Poyo, (I wouldn't know how to respond,)" Kirby said with a blank look.
"Errrr… ANYWAY…" Chopper looked back at Luna, trying to change the topic. "About that Pure Heart… So how are we supposed to get to it? Did you make some sort of secret pathway that leads to Vironoid territory?"
"Actually, we DO have a secret passageway. However, if you're going to reach it, you'll need to travel through three virtual worlds. We can test to see if you're actually good enough to go against the Vironoid leader or not. If you want, NaDis can guide you through the virtual world if you want."
"I just don't want to get surprised by her again… If it's actually a her…" Luigi shivered. "I don't want to lose my voice!"
"It sounds pretty bad..." Chopper trailed.
"…Anyway, I think you guys should take this," Luna pulled a red key out and handed it to Chopper. "This is a Cyberspace Key. With it, you'll be able to access that locked door up those stairs."
"Ah! So that's what's behind that door!" Sonic said as his ears perked. "I suggested we get going then!"
A moment later-
"Yup, this is the door all right," Chopper confirmed as he pulled the key out. "With this, I think we'll be able to see what's through here! Hopefully we don't get any surprises or get surgery from internally!"
"OK! Enough with that already!" Blade snapped. "We've already heard you say something about that enough times! Just put the key in its door! All right?!"
"Sheesh… Someone's grumpy…" the antennae hero pulled out the Cyberspace Key and unlocked the door with it. They walked into a room with a light green floor and a white wall. It looked very strange to some of them, honestly…
"Say… I don't think I've seen a place like this!" Luigi gaped as he took one step…until NaDis came down from the ceiling and scared him. "WAH! Don't scare me like that! It's not good!"
"My apologies. I was just taking a nap here until I heard some footsteps." NaDis apologized. "I was ordered by Luna to guide you through the three virtual worlds. I will not tell you what they are, but you should know that these worlds aren't real."
"Yeah, we know that. No need to repeat those kinds of things over again…" Chopper sighed while folding his arms. "What's next? You're gonna teach us how to make cake?"
"Maybe we can discuss cake after the tests. But now is not the time to be speaking about cake, INSERT NAME HERE. Please step into the glowing green floor. You'll be taken into a virtual world."
A green glowing pad appeared in the center room. Everyone simply shrugged and stepped on it. Somehow, they were instantly teleported out of the room in a strange manner. Luigi was certainly the most scared of them all.
Virtual world green-
"Holy… What the heck is this?!" Chopper gaped as he looked down at the light green floor and the green background. "Why is this whole place so…weird? In fact, this floor looks kind of thin!"
"Poyo?! (What's that?!)" Kirby pointed at a square-shaped Chopper with square-shaped feet up ahead, along with a square-shaped Kirby. "Poyo! (It's…us! But… Without our abilities!)"
"What's going on here?!" Luigi cried.
Mario: Weird…
Chopper pulled Timpani's wand out and began to investigate the two enemies that resembled both Chopper and Kirby. The results were rather…interesting to say the least.
"That's a Chopper Virus. This is…a Vironoid version of Chopper? How strange… Max HP is 75. Attack is 11. For some reason, this Chopper Virus seems to have your kind of attacks… So be ready if you don't know how to fight your own self, Chopper. But even still… Why is there a Vironoid version of Chopper?"
"That's a Kirby Virus. This is…a Vironoid version of Kirby? This is rather strange… Max HP is 70. Attack is 10. Like Kirby himself, his attack is mainly by inhaling you and taking your ability… Be careful, though. If you're holding on to an ability and the Kirby Virus inhales you, you might just lose it… But even still… Why is there a Vironoid version of Kirby?"
"Poyo… (I am incredibly disturbed by this…)" Kirby trailed as he fired a couple of needles from his helmet at the Kirby Virus. They all managed to hit it, but it didn't necessarily take it down.
The Kirby Virus prepared to inhale, but Chopper paralyzed it with a small Plasma Needle attack. The Chopper Virus, on the other hand, managed to bash him with his hammer somehow and then toss a fireball at him.
"Whoa!" Chopper defended himself with his hammer and then put up a spark shield to shock the Chopper Virus. It got shocked and was also knocked back. Kirby threw Crystaline at the Kirby Virus afterward to freeze it and then finished it off by shooting more needles from his helmet at it.
"Poyo… (Well it's finally gone…)" Kirby said while sighing in relief.
"And this should finish this one," Chopper fired a Plasma Wave at the Chopper Virus, eliminating it with ease. With that, they all made their way down the slope and over to the green spring. They could see that there were also some Vironoid versions of Sonic, Blade, Mario and Luigi.
Mario: Sigh… There are Vironoids of us here?
"This IS a virtual world, so they're not real," Timpani reminded as Sonic got hit by the Sonic Virus's Homing Attack.
"Ow! Well, they don't seem so virtual to me…" Sonic grumbled as he got up and struck the Virus Sonic with a Spin Dash. "If this wasn't real, then its attack wouldn't have hurt me that much."
"Yeah, I kind of agree," Luigi said as he used his Cyclone attack to knock the Luigi Virus back. When it jumped up, he immediately knocked it out of the area with a Super Jump. Now all that was left was the Mario and Blade Virus.
Mario: This shouldn't be too hard!
The Mario Virus hit Mario in the head with a stomp attack and tried to hit him with his hammer. However, Mario jumped away and used Kickbrin to knock the Vironoid to the ground and bash it with his hammer. He quickly finished it off by using a Ground Pound.
"Well that's good! Now to finish this guy off!" Blade kicked the Blade Virus back and sliced at it a couple of times. It tried using shurikens to fight back but Blade spun his katana to deflect them and finish it off with a fire slash.
"Yup! That's how you do it!"
"Thank goodness that's over with…" Chopper sighed in relief as he walked up to the green door ahead and entered it, along with everyone else.
The next area they came across had two floating platforms that didn't seem to have a point except for having two ? Blocks. Kirby hit the one closest to him and a Super Shroom popped out. Blade sliced it into six pieces and they all ate their piece to recover 20 HP.
"Yummy! Man, do I love to eat these things!" Chopper smiled.
"Well, let's hope they're worth it," Luigi hoped as he finished his. He saw that there was a tunnel leading down in a curvy kind of way. It was almost as if Chopper or Sonic could simply run through it without falling off the ceiling or wall of the tunnel.
"Say, that looks kind of interesting," Sonic commented as he ran over to the tunnel. "Maybe we'll find something through here!"
Mario: Then… Let's go!
Chopper started off by running into the tunnel. It was rather big, so he didn't have to duck or anything. However, he found it a bit strange that he was running upside down in the tunnel at times.
Kirby decided to go next, but he ended up tumbling down the tunnel, so some of the others had to go help him. When they got out of the tunnel, they found some small steps leading to another door. Of course, there had to be a Chopper and Luigi Virus.
"Huh… Two green Vironoids…" Chopper commented, clenching his fist. He immediately shot a fireball toward the Chopper Virus, but it countered it with a simple ice ball.
"Dang… It sure knows how to fight."
Luigi simply threw Bonjourang at the Luigi Virus to leave it stunned and then hit it with his Cyclone. While it was up in the air, he finished it off with a Super Jump. Chopper, meanwhile, charged up some plasma and fired a Plasma Wave. He quickly finished it off by stomping on its head afterward.
Mario: This is really weird…
"Well, what are you gonna do about it?" Sonic shrugged as they went up the small steps to the door. Upon entering, they were in an area with a small platform and a green button that was on the ground.
"Poyo? (What's this green button?)" Kirby questioned.
"Only one way to find out," Chopper stomped on the button, causing the whole virtual world to shake a bit. With that, they simply disappeared from the virtual world in a strange fashion…
Green room-
"HOLY MOLY PIZZAS ON A STICK!" was what everyone heard from Chopper's mouth as they were teleported back into the green room. "…What? We're fine? Nothing bad happened to us?"
"Well apparently not… But that surprised me a bit…" Luigi trailed.
"How was the virtual world? Did you like it?" NaDis asked as her camera came down from the ceiling. "I created that world in order to test those who wish to go against the Vironoid leader. Congratulations. You've cleared the green room."
"There's more?" Timpani gawked.
"I did say that there are three worlds. You still have two more to venture through. Then we can finally allow you to go after the Vironoid leader and the Pure Heart."
"…Wait a second, how do you know about the Pure Heart?" Blade asked, giving NaDis a suspicious look. "…I bet Luna already told you about it, huh? Well… There's not much we can do about it."
"Please proceed," NaDis made a green door appear right in front of them. They headed through into a room with a blue floor and a blue glowing pad on the ground. Sonic seemed a bit more interested now.
"Blue now! Well! This should be interesting!" he grinned.
"Then let's step on it!" Blade was the first to jumped onto the glowing floor, causing him to be teleported elsewhere in the place. Everyone else followed him through and were taken out into the next virtual world.
Virtual world blue-
When everyone was transported into this new world, they noticed that the background was a blue color and the platforms they were standing on were just like the ones from the other virtual world. Only this time, they were more of a light blue color instead of a light green color.
"Poyo? (This is a blue world?)" Kirby gawked as he looked around. "Poyo… (Well that explains the water…)"
"Oh, yeah… I didn't know there would be water here…" Chopper trailed as a Sonic Virus ran up the stairs and tried to attack Sonic with a Homing Attack. Sonic fought back by kicking his Vironoid self and then hitting it with a Homing Attack to knock it off the platforms.
"Apparently you can only fight your own Vironoid self…" Timpani informed after Chopper investigated the Sonic Virus. "So if you ever see a Vironoid version of yourself, be prepared to fight it."
"All right, that's fine with me," Blade said as he drew his katana and readied himself as he went down the steps. They noticed a small body of water up ahead. However, despite being shallow, there was no way they could jump across.
"Great… Just what I need… Water…" Sonic groaned as he tried to get across with a Homing Attack. Of course, since he couldn't get across, he sank into the water, but was easily able to get himself out of it.
"Poyo, (I have a better idea,)" Kirby smirked as he got on top of Carrie and began to float across the water with her. Sonic gave Kirby an irritated look as he jumped off of Carrie. Chopper, on the other hand, was able to run across the water with his Speed Dash.
"I don't know why I don't have that ability…"
"Well, you have the Spin Dash…" Chopper trailed as he managed to zap a Chopper Virus with his Spark Shield. While it was knocked back, he ran toward it and began to spin his hammer around horizontally.
Mario: Uh oh…
A Mario Virus jumped out of the water ahead and stomped on Mario's head. When he got up, he managed to hit the Mario Virus with his hammer and then give it a Ground Pound to defeat it with no problem.
"Wait… Did that thing just come out of the water?!" Sonic gaped as he saw more water up ahead.
"Yeah… More water. Nice." Blade frowned as he walked up ahead and looked down at it. "I can't believe we're in a virtual world where there's WATER. How does that even work here?!"
"Just stop complaining so we can go," Chopper groaned as he jumped into the water up ahead and landed in front of a Kirby Virus. It didn't seem to attack him for some odd reason. But it did go over to Kirby.
"Poyo? (Why is it going after me?)" Kirby asked.
"Maybe because it's your Vironoid?" Chopper watched as Kirby began to squirt water at the Kirby Virus. It was a long battle, but Kirby managed to remain victorious and swim out of the water when they saw a moving platform leading up.
Sonic was the first to take the platform and get out of the water, since he hates water the most. He hit a Sonic Virus with a Homing Attack on his way and also saw a loop just up ahead.
"Hey, I thought we'd never see a loop here!" he grinned.
"Then… How are we supposed to get through that when we don't have the kind of speed to pass those kinds of things?" Luigi asked before tumbling down the slope and hitting his head on the loop.
"Ow! What was that for?!"
Mario: *Face palm* Well this isn't good…
"Don't worry, I'll get him," Chopper assured as he ran down the loop, scooped up Luigi and went through the loop to a slope going up to a door. Everyone followed him and headed through the door ahead.
Now this area had a slope going down, but there was a pool ball that was a lot bigger than them right beside them. A couple of Chopper, Kirby, Sonic, Blade, Mario and Luigi Viruses were also coming up to them.
"This isn't good… You might want to use that ball…" suggested Timpani.
"Poyo! (I got this!)" Kirby grabbed a hold of the ball and pushed it down the slope, destroying all the Vironoids in the process. When it fell down into a round hole, they progressed on ahead to a little tunnel with a couple of virtual Thwomps coming down on the ground.
"They're a bit slow, so maybe we can get past them," Blade suggested.
"OR… We can do this!" Chopper flipped him and everyone else in 3-D and walked past the Thwomps. They jumped up onto the platform at the wall and took another tunnel above that previous tunnel and to the left. When they finally got out of the tunnel, they saw a floating platform that was too high to reach with a door.
"I got this!" Luigi crouched and then launched himself up into the air to reach the platform. Meanwhile, everyone else was forced to use the blue spring near them and enter through the next area.
And, believe it or not, they were actually in the last area of this place. All they saw was a large body of water up ahead, to Sonic's dismay.
"We actually have to go through that?!" he gaped.
"Oh, stop whining already, Sonic…" Blade groaned. "You KNOW that we have to go through water if we're going to save the universe. So… Please stop complaining and get this over with."
"Fine…" Sonic took a deep breath and jumped into the water. When he reached the bottom, he noticed that the floor was starting to fall, making him jump as much as he could. Not only that, but there were two Sonic Viruses he had to worry about.
"Heads up, Sonic! You might want to be careful here!" Chopper warned as he swam down and chucked some ice balls at two Chopper Viruses. He happened to see a blue button just up ahead too.
After Sonic cleared the two Vironoids, he made a dash for the button and jumped on top of it, making everyone teleport out of this virtual world for good.
Blue room-
"So how was the trip? Did you find it enjoyable?" NaDis asked as everyone was teleported back into the blue room. Sonic began breathing heavily due to being unable to breathe in the water in the blue virtual world.
"At last! AIR!"
"I suppose you want me to open the door to the last test. Very well. But be warned, for this last test will probably be the toughest one yet." a blue door was revealed and everyone walked into a room with a red floor instead of a blue. A glowing red pad was in the center of the room too.
"Ha HA! There we go! And it's even a red color!" Chopper commented.
Mario: Never knew there would be red.
"Well what are we gonna do about it, Bro? This might actually be a bit easier than the other virtual worlds we've gone through!" Luigi assured…until he remembered what NaDis said. "Oh… I don't know about that now…"
"Well that's just her opinion. I think we'll be just fine." Sonic assured as he jumped into the next virtual world. Everyone shrugged and followed him through as well into the next virtual world.
Virtual world red-
"Wait a second… What's this?" Chopper noticed that they were all standing on a wide platform that was simply going up. "Is this it? This whole world is just us waiting on this platform here?"
When they all got a chance to look at the world, they saw that the background was a red color and the platforms were a lighter red color. Unfortunately, some Mario Viruses happened to land on the ground. Three of them, to be exact.
"Ohh… Well, good luck with this, Mario." Chopper gulped until he got bashed in the head by a Chopper Virus. "And what do you know? I have to deal with one of my own here! That's just great…"
"Poyo! (These clones are everywhere!)" Kirby cried as he protected himself with his needles. Two Kirby Viruses landed on top of him and took some intense damage, allowing Kirby to freeze them both with Crystaline. With one last needle attack, they were gone.
"Yeesh! This is annoying!" Luigi cried as he Super Jumped two Luigi Viruses that were about to stomp on him. He managed to knock them back toward the three Mario Viruses and allow Mario to bash the Vironoids with his hammer with ease. After four hits, they were gone.
"While you guys kick some virus butt, I'll just sit here minding my own business," Blade began to relax as Chopper managed to create a spark shield that damaged two Chopper Viruses around him. With two punches, he was able to knock them to the ground due to the electric energy in his fists.
"Too bad I can't use electric balls to fight these guys…" Chopper trailed as he finished them off by spinning his hammer around. That left only three Blade Viruses that kicked Blade while he was sitting.
"HEY! Watch it!" Blade got up and somehow managed to slice the three Blade Viruses in half, causing them to explode. "Jerks."
"Errrr… Yeah. Great way to finish some enemies off there…" Chopper trailed.
"Well, it was better than nothing."
"Anyway… We're getting close to the top, so we should be ready for anything."
When they reached the top, they found some rolling pool balls coming down the slope they had to move up. Chopper got hit by one of them and got his ability knocked away, much to his dismay.
"No! Not my Plasma ability!"
"Poyo… (Well, there's not much you can do about it now…)" Kirby sighed as he floated over the pool balls coming down. When Chopper got up, he flipped everyone into 3-D so that they could avoid the balls.
Now that they were out of that mess, they headed through the door into a room with some platforms that were moving up and down. The first row seemed to be going down, while the next row was going up.
"Oh! I remember seeing something like this back in Castle Tipral!" Chopper recalled. "All you have to do is just jump on these platforms and you'll be fine! …Just don't fall. That's a bad thing."
Mario: So this involves tricky platforming…
"Yeah, pretty much," the pale green gumball made the first jump onto the platform and then began to jump to the next one that was moving up. Mario went up next, jumping on the first platform going down and then the one going up.
"Make sure you don't go too high," Timpani warned. "You're most likely going to get hurt if you're too high up."
"Well keep that in mind," Sonic assured as he followed the rest of the group across the platforms. When they reached the platform with the red door, they headed through into an area with platforms that weren't moving.
"Oh, this is simple! Nothing too bad!" Chopper smiled.
"Hold on… Those don't look like ordinary platforms…" Blumiere realized as Chopper flashed Timpani's wand on the platforms. "If you jump on those, they're most likely going to fall…"
"Then I guess it's over for us, then," Blade said.
"No, not really," Chopper replied. "We just need to find some sort of strategy for us to use."
"Then why don't we get carried through these platforms? It's not like you can inhale all of us…" Sonic trailed.
"Oh… Well you do make a point, Sonic… Since I'm the only one with no ability on me, I might as well do it." Chopper opened his mouth and began to inhale everyone like a vacuum. When his mouth was full, that's when he knew everyone was in his mouth.
"I don't like it in here!" Luigi cried.
"Poyo… (So THIS is what Chopper's inner part of his body looks like…)" Kirby trailed.
Chopper didn't have much time to speak. He jumped on the platforms and moved along. He looked behind and saw that the platforms he jumped on fell. Unfortunately, there was no way for Chopper to move any faster with a full mouth.
After all of those crazy jumps, he spat everyone out right by the door. He began to stick his tongue out in disgust afterward.
"Yuck! You guys taste horrible!" he cried.
"Poyo, (Now you know how it feels,)" Kirby snickered.
"At least you made it to the door," Timpani said, trying to prevent an argument. "I'm sure NaDis will help us with no problem when we're done here. Although… I don't get why she scares you guys."
"Maybe we'll find an answer to that some other time…" Blumiere hoped.
"All right, I might as well just open the door before any more romance occurs…" Chopper shuddered as he kicked the door open into an area with one small platform. There was a red button right next to them.
Mario: Oh, yeah!
With one stomp, Mario managed to teleport everyone out of this world.
Red room-
"Congratulations. You've passed the test." NaDis said as everyone was teleported back into the red room. "Now you may return to Luna and stop the Vironoids once and for all. As for me, I'll be enjoying a little song."
"Ummmm… OK then. I guess we'll head back to that other room…" Luigi trailed as everyone exited the testing rooms.
Main room-
"Good works, guys. We saw you exploring the virtual worlds through our terminal. I think you six might be just the kind of people to stop those Vironoids and their leader…" Luna smirked as they entered the room.
"Well, you know us. We're heroes! It's our job." Sonic grinned.
"So… Where exactly do we go to get to Vironoid territory?" Blade asked.
"Well… You see… Our base is kind of…near Vironoid territory. We kept it here so we could easily spy on the Vironoids." Luna explained nervously. "So… You MIGHT want to be cautious when you walk out of the base. But, since you want to go out, we'll help you."
She pressed a button and a door appeared at the end of the room. "Take this secret door and you should be out of the base. The Vironoids don't know about this, so don't worry about them being there."
"OK, that sounds good to us!" Blade grinned. "…But first, there's something I want to do first."
"What do you…?" Blade walked up to the terminal and tried to gain access to his computer. "What are you doing?"
"Trying to see if anyone was accessing my computer while I was gone," he was able to gain access to his computer, but he noticed there were a couple of new folders labeled "Nothing Special".
"There's a 'Nothing Special' folder," Luigi pointed out.
"Yeah, I know that already, genius. I think I have an idea of what that is."
"What is it?" Chopper asked.
"I think the correct name for the folder should be 'Hot Chicks', considering that's what it's just on," Blade shrugged.
"What? Why would he find pictures of chicks burning? That's terrible!"
"Errr... Yeah! That is definitely terrible. So terrible that we should get out of here."
"We'll have Colonel Disk lead his troops out to assist you," Luna assured.
Chopper simply shrugged and followed everyone to the door. They were only led into a small room with a long tunnel. Luckily, there happened to be an elevator that they could use that moved sideways.
So, when everyone got on, Kirby pressed the button and the elevator took off.
Mario: That was an interesting experience.
"I'll say," Sonic agreed. "Well, now we're getting out of here."
Outside-
Upon walking out of the door, it disappeared from their sights, surprisingly. They could see the wonderful red background from before and also a Star Block just up ahead. Things were looking good for them.
"We're finally done with his chapter? Cool!" Chopper smiled.
"Huh? Someone's here?" Everyone paused when they saw a Koopaling with green, plant-like hair and glasses. "Wait a second… I recognize some of you! Two of you, to be exact."
"Wait… Is this another Koopaling?" Sonic asked, readying himself.
"Poyo! (I knew it!)" Kirby gaped.
Mario: What do you want, Iggy?
"What do I want? Well, all I want is to get King Bowser back! That dark guy told me if I defeated you guys, then I would be able to get him back! What was his name again? I think it was Tipral."
"I wonder why Tipral brought these guys here..." Chopper trailed.
"I'm not so sure..." Luigi pondered. "It doesn't make much sense!"
"Are you guys finished talking? Because I REALLY want to get back to my computer and speak to some of my friends there and think of some wacky ideas!" Iggy groaned. "Some real insane ones!"
"I guess he's one of those geeks…" Timpani trailed.
"A crazy geek to be sure," Blade added.
"Hey! I'm no geek!" Iggy waved his wand and fired green energy straight at the heroes. Chopper instantly inhaled the attack and spat it back at him, knocking him back.
"All right, I guess you're asking for a fight," Chopper declared.
"All right! Then let's have some fun!" Iggy grinned as he tried to attack the heroes. Luigi jumped back and threw Bonjourang at him while he tried using his own claws. Of course, he got hit in the face, leaving him dazed for a couple of seconds.
"Despite being big, he's not really that physically strong…" Luigi informed.
"Really?" Chopper flashed Timpani's wand on Iggy to see what his stats were and what his abilities were.
"That's Iggy Koopa. He's what you would call the 'brains' of Bowser's Koopalings, along with being one of the crazier ones. Max HP is 200. Attack is 11. Defense is 2. For the most, he'll try hitting you with his green magic. It's not that hard to dodge, but it's a lot faster than the other magic projectiles the other Koopalings fired. Occasionally, he'll also try throwing a Chain Chomp at you, so be careful when that happens. Other than that, he's not that physically strong…" Timpani informed.
"All right, let's see how you handle this!" Iggy waved his wand again and hit both Chopper and Kirby, knocking them both back. Blade, on the other hand, threw Hommissile straight at Iggy and sent him flying back.
"Let's show this nerd what we can do!" Blade grinned as he jumped toward Iggy and slashed at him with his katana. He finished him off by using a hurricane slash, which sent him flying toward Mario.
"W-Wait! Can't we settle this in a different way?!" Iggy cried.
"Dude! You asked for it in the first place!" Sonic reminded. "NOW you're trying to make us stop?!"
Mario sighed as he lowered his hammer and let Iggy fall to the ground. Just when they were about to move on, Iggy fired a blast from his wand at Mario's butt, making him rocket up into the air while screaming.
"…And people call ME a coward," Luigi gaped while looking back at Iggy.
"Heh heh heh!" Iggy grinned as he got back up. "No way am I going to let you guys beat me down!"
"Oh… Now you're gonna get it." Sonic curled up in a ball and shot himself toward Iggy with a Spin Dash. When he uncurled, he kicked him in the stomach and caused him to hold his stomach in pain.
While he was at this state, Kirby fired his needles from his helmet at Iggy, leaving a couple of cuts on his arms. But that didn't stop him from trying to attack the group with a Chain Chomp he had with him.
"ARF! ARF!" When Iggy threw the Chain Chomp, it began to chase after the heroes. One of them tried to take a bite out of Chopper, but he inhaled it instead and spat it back at Iggy.
"Wait… How can he eat the Chain Chomp on his own?!" Iggy gaped.
"It just takes some practice," Chopper smirked before he tossed a couple of ice balls. Iggy countered them with his own magic, but ultimately, he became frozen when he got hit by a charged ice ball.
Mario: Not bad!
The red plumber made a dash over to the frozen Iggy and used a Ground Pound to break him out and also deal some damage to him. While stunned, Luigi sent him flying with his Cyclone attack and knocked him out of the sky with a Super Jump.
"He doesn't seem to put up much of a fight," Blumiere commented.
"HEY! Don't mock my fighting style!" Iggy roared as he got in his shell and knocked Mario and Luigi to the ground. Blade, however, jumped over him and tried tossing a couple of shurikens at him. Unfortunately, that didn't seem to work.
"Crud. My shurikens don't work." Blade frowned.
"Heh heh heh! Works better for me!" Iggy got himself up and threw a Chain Chomp at him. It didn't exactly try to bite him, but it certainly did ram into him. Its dog-like barks got Blade a little freaked out for a bit.
"Stupid dog sounds!"
"Wait, isn't Bang a dog?" Chopper gawked.
"Yeah, but he's dumb. Threatening dogs are what I don't like!"
"Be quiet and die already!" Iggy snorted as he jumped in the air and tried to stomp on Blade. However, the cat jumped out of the way and managed to slash at his leg, leaving a small cut on him.
"Ack! You stupid little…!"
"Hey, you were the one being a coward!"
While Blade and Iggy argued, Luigi stomped on the Koopaling's head, leaving him stunned. Mario followed up by bashing him with his hammer. Ultimately, this led to a good distraction (by Blade, that is!).
Mario: Nice distraction, Blade!
"Why thank you!" Blade bowed before getting clawed by Iggy. Sonic took notice of this and immediately attacked Iggy with a Homing Attack. Chopper tried to attack Iggy, but he got knocked back by a Chain Chomp. When he got up, he rushed at Iggy and slammed his foot on his head with flaming energy, causing his hair to set on fire. While he screamed, Chopper froze it by chucking an ice ball at it.
"Hey! You froze my hair!"
"Well that works," Luigi commented while hitting Iggy with Bonjourang. While he was stunned, he stomped on his head a couple of times while performing a couple of stylish moves.
"Ouch! Quit it!" Iggy noticed that his hair completely shattered from Luigi's stomping. "N-No! Not my great plant hair! It took me weeks to get that fixed before when I got gum on it!"
"Oh… I remember when I got gum on my quills. Ugh… Not pretty." Sonic put Reflecto in front of him as soon as Iggy fired green magic straight him. Reflecto was able to reflect it back at him and leave him stunned, allowing Sonic to rush up to him and attack with a Spin Jump and a Bounce Attack.
"You know, I almost forget that I still have some of my moves WITHOUT any copied abilities…" Chopper trailed as he rushed toward Iggy and used a sweeping kick attack to make him trip.
"Poyo! (Thanks for that, Chopper!)" Kirby thanked as he fired needles from his helmet at Iggy and left a couple of more cuts on him. Iggy tired to fight back, but Kirby got on Carrie and jumped on him to leave him dizzy.
"All right, you want something else? Then I'll give you this!" Iggy fired green magic at Kirby again, but this time, he decided to remove his Needle ability and inhale the magic projectile to gain the Beam ability.
"I guess the Beam ability is a lot more helpful here," Sonic shrugged as Kirby charged a blast in his wand and fired it straight at Iggy, leaving him dizzy.
"Heh heh heh! Beating this guy up is pretty enjoyable!" Blade chuckled, throwing Hommissile at him as he got up. But this didn't stop Iggy from hitting him with another Chain Chomp.
"Wha… Quit it with those Chain Chomps!" Blade yelled.
"No."
"ARRRGGHHH! ...Nah, there's no point in getting angry. I'll just beat the snot out of you instead!" Blade gripped his katana and slashed at Iggy. He ended up hitting his arms, but that was just it.
"Wow… I can't believe he's still up." Chopper said with a blank look. "I'm surprised that after all of that, he's still able to move. Do you think we should deal a little bit more to him?"
Mario: That's good with me.
"I'll go first, I suppose…" Luigi trailed as he jumped into the air and stomped on top of Iggy's head. The Koopaling tried to claw at him, but Luigi was quicker and managed to stomp on his head again.
"Oh, I know what'll work…" Iggy jumped into the air, but this left him open for Luigi to attack him with a Super Jump, resulting in him falling to the ground. However, this didn't stop him from getting in his shell and knocking Luigi over.
"WAH! He's in his shell now!"
"Yep, we see that," Chopper nodded as he gripped his hammer. When Iggy popped his head out, he jumped toward the Koopaling and gave him a bash to the head, followed by a couple of raining stars with the help of Starbow.
"Hey! What was that?!"
"Those were raining stars that fell on you."
"Hmmmmm… He's somewhat low on HP now…" Timpani trailed. "Just two more hits should do it…"
"Poyo! (I'll deliver a blow!)" Kirby fired another beam attack at Iggy, but he simply used his wand's magic to counter it and create a small explosion.
"What an interesting explosion… So if magic collides, it creates that…" While Iggy was astounded by this, Kirby fired a blast from his wand at him and left him severely weak.
"Well… I guess I'll finish this off!" Luigi announced as he stomped on Iggy's head. Stars circled around the Koopaling's head as the plumber jumped off him.
"Stars… I'm seeing stars…" Iggy wheezed. "Maybe there's something that makes stars appear around me…"
With those last words, Iggy fell over on the ground, unconscious. Kirby poked him to make sure if he was alive or not.
"Poyo, (He's not dead,)" Kirby announced.
"Well that's a relief," Chopper sighed. "I didn't WANT him to be dead anyway. I don't think it's necessarily right to let someone die like that."
"How about we get to that Star Block?" Blade suggested.
Mario: Let's hope we can find Mushrooms.
"Or better yet…" Chopper whipped up an Ultra Shroom Shake and took a sip from it. They all passed it around, with Sonic finishing it off. He crushed the can and threw it elsewhere.
But what was strange was that the can disappeared on its own, as if it left the dimension.
"What the…" Sonic gawked before following his friends to the Star Block. "Weird…"
With one punch, Chopper was able to break the Star Block.
END OF CHAPTER
"Wow, so we're finally stepping into Vironoid territory… This is going to be interesting…" Sonic commented as they strolled through the rest of Computernoid territory. They happened to notice a strange border up ahead with a large, computerized sign that read "YOU ARE ENTERING VIRONOID TERRITORY. LEAVE NOW IF YOU DARE." However, the sign wasn't going to stop Chopper and Co. from turning back. Because one thing for sure was that they had a Pure Heart to find there.
Well that marks the end of Computernoid territory right there, I suppose. Although it would've been nice if there was more exploring from the outside, but I still like this chapter. Chapter 14 IS one of my favorite worlds, after all.
And yes, you're probably going to expect us to be going into Vironoid territory next chapter. Yup. We're DEFINITELY doing that! And another thing... Yeah, NaDis is kind of like GLaDOS from Portal (although I've never played portal).
Other than that, that's really it. We'll actually be outside more in the next chapter, if any of you are happy about that. :P