Super Paper Chopper

by Mechanical Oven

After being lured into a trap by a party invitation, Chopper must save all worlds from a new group of foes from different dimensions and an old enemy. Can he and his friends save all worlds? Or will they be destined to be destroyed in a matter of time...

105. Rainbows and Clouds

CHAPTER 15-4

-Rainbows and Clouds-

"So, it's just you, me, everyone else, and these clouds that we're standing on…" Blade trailed as he sat down on one of the big, fluffy clouds. He, for one, was not looking forward to this part of the adventure. Ever since Overthere Stair, he had grown to dislike climbing the clouds because of how annoying it can be to sometimes fall, especially when he could fall from over a thousand feet in the air. This was definitely not his day… "You know, I don't know WHY we have to climb all of these clouds! Why can't the people of The Peaceness actually bring something that can HELP us get there! I don't want to climb more clouds! It's just like the other time when we had to climb Overthere Stair! That place was MURDER!"

"Yeah, I'll admit, climbing those clouds was very, very annoying…" Sonic agreed while sitting down and stretching. "I actually wish we could find another way to reach the top of this world."

"Oh, man… Overthere Stair was kind of murder for me too…" Chopper groaned. "If you ever fell off one of those clouds, you were in big trouble. Also, we had to wake Kirby up with those taboo fruit. Remember when we were searching for the right fruit? Ugh… I hated that part the most…"

"Well, seeing the side effects of the taboo fruit on Kirby was funny, I'll admit," Blade grinned, remembering that moment.

"Poyo? (What are you guys talking about? What side effects?)" Kirby asked, looking the most confused of the group.

"Uhhh… Never mind…" Chopper frowned. Even though everyone was complaining about climbing the clouds, Luvbi sighed sweetly and looked up at the sky and the beautiful sun.

"Ahh me… This doth remind me of being back home!" Luvbi smiled as she looked at the rainbow. "I will admit, these skies doth seem more beautiful than the skies of The Overthere. We dost not have a rainbow thither!"

"Yeah, I suppose the rainbow is nice in this world," Luigi agreed as he looked up at the rainbow. "I think I can see it a lot bigger than it was before! Was this the rainbow we saw at the very beginning?"

"Hmmmmm… Well, I guess this might be the same rainbow as we saw before." Meta Knight said as he wrapped his cape around him while the wind was blowing. "Now, I wonder what it would look like if we actually got close to it…"

"I'm not sure if it's possible to even touch a rainbow…" Timpani trailed.

"But you were once a rainbow Pixl, my dear Timpani," Blumiere reminded. "You're always a rainbow to me."

"That's very sweet of you, Blumiere," she giggled until she felt like she remembered something from the sky. "Wait… I'm starting to remember a little something… I remember…seeing someone here in the clouds…"

"Someone here in the clouds? What are you talking about?" Chopper asked. "Have you met someone a long time ago or something?"

"Ummmmm… I'm honestly unsure of all the details, Chopper. But this person… Why does he remind me of Tipral? I feel…as if there's some strange connection between the two of us…"

"I kind of remember something like that too, but I don't remember all the details," Blumiere agreed.

"Pray, why art we talking about that horrible dark monster? Dost thou know what he is trying to dost? He wants to destroy the universe!" Luvbi interrupted, making everyone bring their attention back to her.

"Uhhhh… I don't really know much of the details, but I still believe we still need to stop Tipral." Chopper said. "So… How do we get to The Peaceness? Do we need to go up or something?"

"Yea, verily," Luvbi looked around and noticed an angelic enemy with a bow flying on the clouds. "Pray, Chopper! That doth be the enemy that givest thee the Angel ability, yea?"

"Wait, I can get the Angel ability?" Chopper ran up to the angel and inhaled it to gain the Angel ability. "All right! Now I can go up these clouds with no problem! Although… The Hi-Jump ability would've worked better."

"Dang clouds…" Blade groaned as he jumped on a small cloud platform and reached the larger cloud platform, where Chopper, Kirby, and Meta Knight flew up to. Luigi only had to use his Super Jump to reach the cloud. Sonic, Blade, and Mario, on the other hand…

Mario: Yeah, this is The Overthere experience…

They happened to notice a Sky Lakitu roaming around on this cloud – an enemy they haven't seen in a long time. Meta Knight simply jabbed it from above when it tried throwing a Spiny to leave it stunned. Chopper finished it off by firing a charged arrow at the enemy.

"Man, these are fun to use," Chopper smiled as he flew up to a smaller cloud above them. Luigi simply used his Super Jump to launch himself to the small cloud. They only saw an Ice Cherbil floating around here.

"Why are there weak enemies here?" Luigi asked.

"Who cares? It's better than tough enemies!" Chopper stomped on the Ice Cherbil and defeated it with one jump. "But still… I HATE those enemies! They look like they're farting gas!"

"I think I can agree with that," Sonic nodded as he managed to get onto the same cloud. Since it was too small, they had to jump up to another small cloud with a lift moving up to a cloud that was way too high for them to reach. Luvbi didn't seem to have a problem going up, but she didn't bother to help.

Meta Knight jumped on the lift and waited for it to take him up to a cloud high above them. Chopper and Kirby simply flew up, while the rest had to take the lift up to the cloud. All there was was a ? Block and a Skell.

"Ah HA! I found ya!" the Skell grinned as it threw its head at Kirby, knocking him over on the cloud. Meta Knight simply flew over the head and sliced at the main body to destroy it. The head itself also disintegrated as well.

"Hmph… So the head also gets destroyed when the body is destroyed," Meta Knight pondered. "Very interesting…"

"But just what are they doing hither?" Luvbi asked. "They verily must want to findeth us so bad if there art Skellobits around hither. Something seemest verily suspicious…"

"Poyo, (Well, maybe we'll find out soon enough if we continue our way up,)" Kirby hoped as he hit the ? Block. A Mushroom came out, to their disappointment, but they took it anyway to recover 10 HP.

"Man, I wish we had something else other than dumb Mushrooms," Blade groaned as he finished his piece.

"Well, best that we looked around. We can't go up from this point because there isn't a cloud." Chopper took a couple of steps to the left, but he noticed a couple of flowers growing from the clouds.

"Poyo? (Are flowers actually growing from these clouds?)" Kirby asked.

"Looks like it..." Chopper trailed. "Then again, on my planet, there are gardens on the clouds.

"That sounds very interesting," Timpani remarked, while Chopper pulled an arrow out and fired it at a Sky Lakitu up ahead right by another cloud above them to their left.

"Well, it's not finished yet, that's for sure," Meta Knight said as he finished the Sky Lakitu off with a Galaxia Drill. It barely had time to pull out a Spiny and throw it at him. It was no contest.

"So, is there anything else above us?" Sonic asked as he ran over to Meta Knight in a split second. Meta Knight looked up and saw a cloud above them, so he simply flew up there, while Luigi used a Super Jump to reach up there.

"See, this is why I hate these kinds of areas," Blade pouted. "I can't even make the stupid jump to the next cloud! This place looks nice, but climbing clouds is annoying!"

Mario: Complaining about it isn't going to help either.

Chopper frowned as he flew back down and grabbed a hold of Blade's arms. Using as much of his strength as possible, he tried carrying him up to the cloud. Mario and Sonic grabbed a hold of Blade's feet and got carried up.

"Can't you go any faster than this?" Blade asked.

"I can't when I'm carrying other people up as well…" Chopper sweat dropped as he got up to the cloud and dropped everyone on it. Everyone sighed in relief, but they noticed a cloud across from them with a green bubble with a face. Two Sky Lakitus were flying around as well.

"I'll take care of the Lakitus," Luigi announced as he jumped over to a Sky Lakitu and used an uppercut to attack it from underneath with a Super Jump. He ended up landing on top of the other Sky Lakitu, but he got hurt when it pulled a Spiny out.

Mario gasped and jumped in to help, taking care of the Spiny that the Lakitu threw. With three jumps, he defeated the Lakitu, but he ended up getting stuck inside the green bubble.

"Oh, no! Big Bro!" Luigi yelped as he looked up at Mario, who tried to punch his way out of the bubble.

Mario: I can't get out!

"Hold on, I'll pop it!" Chopper announced as he aimed an arrow at the green bubble. However, Luigi got in the way and stopped him.

"Wait! Don't do that, Chopper! I think you're only going to cause some damage to him!" Luigi cried. "If you fire that arrow, it'll simply hit him too and leave him injured. I think that's a BAD idea!"

"…Yeah, you've got a point. But how do we get Mario out?"

"It doesn't look like this bubble can be popped," Meta Knight informed, poking the bubble with Galaxia. "It must be one of those kind of bubbles where they can't be popped."

Mario kept pounding at the bubbles, but its face simply looked up and fired Mario out. Everyone gaped as he was sent flying to the cloud high above them. It's as if this allows them to go to high places.

"That was interesting…" Blumiere pondered. "So, if you jumped inside that green bubble, it can launch you to great heights. Heights that are even greater than Luigi's Super Jump."

"I heard that!"

"Well, then I suppose I dost not needeth to take these when I can fly," Luvbi decided, flying upward in the direction Mario was sent flying.

"I'm next!" Chopper declared, jumping into the bubble and being shot in the same direction.

"That looks pretty fun," Sonic admitted.

"Yeah, but it seems pretty fast..." Luigi gulped.

They both jumped in the bubble and let themselves get fired up. Blade was the last to jump in the bubble and make his way up to the cloud. Upon landing, he noticed that Luigi's head was stuck in the ground. Mario had grabbed a hold of his foot and pulled him out, resulting in him falling back and Luigi falling on top of him.

"Whew! That was close!" Luigi sighed, only to notice someone missing. "Bro? Where are you?"

Mario: You're on top of me.

"Oh! Sorry about that!" the plumber apologized, helping his brother up. Mario gave him an assuring look, letting his brother know it was all right.

"Hey, look! A door!" Blade said as he pointed at the door. "Maybe that's where we need to go! I mean, there isn't really anything else around here, so it's GOT to be where we need to go!"

"You said 'where we need to go' twice," Luigi informed. "Do you really need to say that twice?"

"Guess not."

"We might as well check," Meta Knight suggested as he opened the red door. Everyone followed them into a small area with two clouds. The cloud to their right happened to have a nice, white tree with a new, rainbow enemy called a Rainbow Puff.

"It's a Rainbow Puff. They're like most Tuff Puffs, but they can shoot rainbow energy, which can have many different effects on you. It's best to avoid these attacks as fast as possible…" Timpani informed.

"Rainbow enemies? Well that's a first." Sonic jumped in a ball and attacked the Rainbow Puff with a Homing Attack. Even then, it wasn't completely finished. Chopper even fired a charged arrow, and it STILL wasn't defeated!

"Yeesh! These guys have a lot of HP!" Chopper commented.

"Poyo! (But not for long!)" Kirby smirked as he attacked the Rainbow Puff with a Rising Break, finishing it off once and for all. With that, they looked up at the tall tree that stood before them.

"This is a rather tall tree for a place with clouds…" Meta Knight trailed.

Mario: Looks like one of those trees from The Overthere. It even has a rainbow on it!

Meta Knight looked up at the banana hanging from the tree. He cut it down with a flash and caught it in his hand. Instead of devouring it, he decided to examine it for a couple of seconds.

"This fruit… I don't know what it is…" he trailed.

"Hold on, let me look at that," Chopper swiped the rainbow banana from Meta Knight and looked closely at it. "You know, when I look at this… I feel as if this fruit was from that one tree on my home planet up in the sky and the skies over the Mushroom Kingdom…"

"Wait, you mean that fruit we saw before we ran into Flyer when he joined the dark side?" Sonic questioned. "But, what would a fruit like this be doing in this world?"

"I doth remember that these fruit were originally grown hither," Luvbi recalled. "However, many people soon discovered these fruits and foundeth seeds to grow them elsewhere. So that may be why thou dost see fruits such as these."

"Well, bottoms up!" Chopper devoured the banana in one bite and swallowed it whole. Everyone nearly screamed when they saw Chopper turned to a rainbow color.

"Why hast thou changed to a rainbowish color?!" Luvbi gaped.

"Poyo! (I think it looks cool!)" Kirby commented.

"Wait, what?" Chopper looked at his arms and feet and noticed the rainbow colors on him. "Cool! I'm Hyper Chopper!"

Unfortunately, this was only temporary. After a couple of seconds, he went back to his pale green color.

"Well, there's not much we can do here at the moment. I say we leave." Meta Knight suggested.

"Hold on, those actually healed me. I think it's a wise choice to eat one of these to recover some of our HP. You know, just so we don't run into any huge danger around the neighborhood?"

Kirby instantly agreed and ate a rainbow banana. He turned to a rainbow color for a couple of seconds, but went back to normal. Everyone else did the same thing and ate a rainbow banana, recovering their HP.

"Well, that sure did hit the spot! …Sorta." Sonic said as he rubbed his belly. "So, are we going to find more of these fruit?"

"At least we finally know about their origin," Chopper said as he sighed in relief, even though mostly everyone saw this before once. "I wonder… Would these happen to be related to the taboo fruit?"

"Yea, there doth be a resemblance between the fruit," Luvbi confirmed. "I dost not know everything about them, but they doth share a huge resemblance. Mayhap they art taboo fruit as well."

"It would make sense, considering that it has some sort of effect on you," Timpani pointed out. "I think we should take some more of these fruit just in case."

Meta Knight nodded and cut a couple of more bananas down. Chopper caught most of them, considering that he loves bananas, but then Timpani told him to be even and give it to other people, which annoyed him.

With that, they left the area and returned to the previous. They noticed that they had to make another large jump up to the next cloud. Luigi, while tipping his hat, performed a Super Jump and launched himself up.

Mario: This is why I wish I had a jump like that.

"Well, we can't get everything we want, can we?" Sonic shrugged as he tried to jump up to the cloud, but his jump wasn't high enough. That is, until Meta Knight grabbed his arms and flew him up to the next cloud.

"Might as well fly up there too," Chopper said as his angelic wings helped him fly up to the next cloud. Of course, he had to help Mario and Blade up, which wasn't as bad since he didn't have Sonic holding on.

"Man, I would enjoy this more if I had wings," Blade sighed as he landed on the cloud.

"Thy complaining isn't going to help thee, thou knowest…" Luvbi informed while giving him an irritated look.

"Well I don't see you complaining."

"Poyo, (Because she can fly,)" Kirby responded before jumping into a green bubble that was above him. It fired up at a right, upward angle, getting caught in another green bubble.

"Another one of these bubbles? It appears that there are a couple of more here as well." Meta Knight said as he jumped into the green bubbles and followed Kirby up to the next one. Chopper hurried in the bubble and fired himself up to the next one, appearing to have fun while at it. Luvbi followed her next, leaving Sonic, Blade, Mario, and Luigi.

"Well, who wants to go up next?" Sonic asked, turning to the group. "Luigi? Do you want to go?"

"Wh-What?! No way! Not after what happened last time!" Luigi cried, cowering right behind his brother, Mario.

Mario sighed as he stepped forward so his brother could be seen. Even when he didn't want to go, Blade threw him up himself and watched as they heard him scream while being sent flying up.

"Uhhhh… Are you guys mad at me for that?" Blade questioned.

Mario: No, not really.

"I think that was the only way to get him up," Sonic responded as Luigi reached the small cloud just up above them. They took turns firing themselves up to the cloud with the bubbles and met with everyone else.

"What's that sign say?" Luigi asked. Chopper decided to read for himself to see what it had to say.

Here Ends Cloud 1

"That's it? That's what it says?" Chopper gawked. "It seriously sounds like those signs from The Overthere! Are they trying to rip off them by putting signs like these in this place?"

"Mayhap it is just a way to helpeth people like us to knoweth where we art," Luvbi informed as she grabbed a hold of Chopper's hand. "Come on, my sweet prince! Let us movest on…together!"

"Oh crud!" Chopper gulped as she dragged him over to the door and entered the door. Everyone shrugged and followed them to an area where they didn't see any clouds close above them, but they did see ones that were too high to reach from where they were standing.

"Well, looks like we're not going up from here," Luigi said as he looked up. "I can't make that jump!"

"Well, then we'll need to find another way up those clouds," Meta Knight said. He noticed that there was a sign right next to him. He decided to read what it had to say.

Cloud 2

"Cloud 2, huh? Well… How many clouds are there going to be? I remember Overthere Stair had about seven stairs." Chopper recalled. "Hopefully there aren't more than seven clouds."

"Please stop bringing up how many areas there are," Blade begged as he put his hand on his face. "I'm getting so tired of hearing about how long we'll have to climb. It just makes it worse!"

Mario: I don't think we can climb right now…

"I mean, it's so… Wait, did you say we don't need to climb up too far? Hallelujah! We actually get to STOP climbing for once and…"

Blade was unfortunate enough to become frozen when a Rainbow Puff fired its rainbow energy from its mouth at him. Chopper used his fire hand magic to melt him out of his icy prison.

"All right, I guess I'll take care of the Rainbow Puff," Chopper fired three arrows at once and hit the Rainbow Puff. He then froze it with a charged ice ball and finished it off with a charged fireball.

"Well that takes care of that. Let's move on." Meta Knight moved on ahead to the right on the large cloud, but he ended up running into a Dark Skellobit and a Spiky Skell. Nevertheless, he stabbed at them with his sword and finished them with ease

"Dang. I wish I can do that." Blade gaped.

"Well, you have ninja abilities... He doesn't." Chopper pointed out.

"Yeah, true…" Blade jumped over Meta Knight and landed right in front of another Spiky Skell. He landed a few combos on the enemy with his katana. Since he can do more damage than any of the others, he was able to defeat it easily. "Yeah! Now that's what I'm talkin' about!"

He was cheering until he got hit by a Dark Skellobit's spear. Kirby decided to take this time to attack it with a Vulcan Jab and finish it off with a charged energy ball. The Bomber Skell on another cloud was waiting for them, but it seemed to be carrying some kind of pale green thing called a Bait Skell.

"Wait… What? A Bait Skell? That's the dumbest name ever…" Chopper face palmed. "And it's not even that original! Isn't anyone aware of how unoriginal some of the enemy names are?!"

"Well, who careth what names they art, what verily matters is taking care of them," Luvbi stated as the Bait Skell instantly froze Chopper after the Bomber Skell dropped it near him.

Mario announced that he would take care of this as he unfroze Chopper by simply smashing the ice with his hammer. It was all shattered, with Chopper being just fine except for being cold.

"Brrrrrr! That was cold!" Chopper shivered, using his fire hand powers to warm himself up. "Come to think of it… Why didn't I use this when I had that nasty cold?"

"Poyo? (Maybe because the cold affected you internally?)" Kirby pondered. "Poyo? (Or it could be because you probably forgot?)"

"Meh, whatever," Chopper flew over the gap between the cloud platforms and aimed an arrow down on a Rainbow Puff that was near a small cloud above it. Meta Knight finished it off with a couple of slashes.

"You think we'll run into that weird cloud with the eye covered in spikes?" Blade asked.

"You mean Kracko? Nah. I don't think we'll run into him ever again. We haven't seen him in a long time. Although it's kind of weird that he went from Dark Kracko in Dream Land, to just plain Kracko…"

"Well, anyway, I think we should get going," Luigi suggested as he jumped onto the cloud above them. Everyone followed him up to a small cloud that reminded them of the 'Springy Cloud' that they say in The Overthere. Only this time, it didn't make them bounce straight up. It simply moved up like an elevator.

"Since this cloud's too small, you guys should take turns using that," Blumiere suggested.

"Well, I think Sonic, Blade, Mario, and Luigi can use it, but I don't think the rest of us need to," Meta Knight said as he began to float off the clouds with his wings. "We can simply fly if we need to."

"Poyo! (Thank goodness I can float!)" Kirby smiled as he took in some air and began to fly up. Chopper fluttered up with the help of his wings, while being followed by the lovesick Nimbi girl.

"Hmmmmm… Think you can do this?" Chopper began to spin around as he flew up while following the cloud Sonic, Blade, Mario, and Luigi were on.

"Art thou giving me a challenge?"

"Uhhh… Sure."

"I dost accept!" Luvbi smirked as she began to spin around like crazy, even going past Chopper, forcing him to spin around like crazy. Luckily, Meta Knight managed to grab a hold of him before he could even vomit.

"Whew! Thanks for that, Meta Knight!" Chopper thanked while sighing in relief.

"Be careful with what you do, Chopper," Meta Knight informed. "Doing stuff like that can cause you to become dizzy, and it can make you an easy target for your enemies, such as Tipral."

"I didn't know you gave a lot of advice."

Meta Knight did not respond to him at this time and simply got on the cloud. What was surprising was that the others managed to beat the ones who could fly to the cloud above them.

"Heh! What a surprise! We managed to beat you to this cloud!" Sonic grinned. "How do you like that?"

"Poyo, (Don't get too cocky, Sonic,)" Kirby informed, giving him a glare. "Poyo… (It's going to hurt you later on…)"

"Uhhhhh… Translation, anyone?"

"He said not to get too cocky," Blumiere translated, causing everyone to gape for a second.

"Hold on a minute… YOU can understand what Kirby's saying?!" Chopper asked out of amazement.

"The Dark Prognosticus can do many things to you besides making you unable to age with it in your hands. Even though I was able to become myself, I still held it just to make sure no one would get their hands on it. It was tough trying not to even take a peek through it."

"Wait, so does this mean you're immortal?" Meta Knight asked.

"Well, technically no. After we banished the Pure Heart, the Dark Prognosticus's power to immortalize a being was drained away. However, it doesn't mean all of its powers are drained out as well. It still has the ability to corrupt one's mind…"

"Wow. This is really confusing…" Blade trailed.

"Long story short, the power to immortalize someone is gone from the Dark Prognosticus, meaning Count Bleck has went back to normal, I suppose," Chopper concluded, rubbing his head in confusion. He couldn't help but flick at his halo.

That was, until he saw a Starman wearing a cape.

"Ooh! Ooh! I want that ability!" Chopper tossed his Angel ability away and inhaled the Starman with a cape to gain the Hi-Jump ability. "Yeah! Now my jump has gotten a lot better!"

"You do realize that you can't fly, right?" Meta Knight informed, causing Chopper to fall over. "I thought so."

"Poyo, (Although that was a good chuckle to laugh at,)" Kirby giggled as he helped Chopper up. The pale green gumball made a face as he saw a small cloud right over to the left. He decided to jump on it, but instead of acting like an elevator, it made him bounce up a little.

"It's a bouncy cloud!" Chopper announced. "It's safe to jump on this!"

He used this cloud to bounce up to another bounceable cloud which brought him to a cloud that was above them. Everyone followed and landed right next to him, only to meet two Dark Skellobits.

Mario: I've got this!

Mario simply brought his foot toward the two Dark Skellobits to make Kickbrin attack the one at the front. Both Dark Skellobits were knocked over and left dazed. He finished them off by bashing them with his hammer.

"Well, you sure showed them, Mario," Luigi smiled, giving him a thumbs up. Mario tipped his hat as he put his hammer away.

"Yea, verily… I doth suppose it was good…for one that hast hair upon thy cheeks." Luvbi said, as if she were unimpressed.

Mario: Thanks...

"Wait… Is that cloud moving?" Chopper asked while pointing up to a cloud above them. He was indeed right. It was moving from left to right! "OK… Let's see if I can get up there."

He made a huge leap up there with his Hi-Jump and then used his cape as a parachute to lightly float down onto the cloud. Luigi jumped up to the cloud with his Super Jump and jumped to the cloud to their right so he wasn't hogging up the cloud.

"I think I can see the door just above us," Luigi informed.

"Good! That's what I want to see!" Chopper smiled.

After the others reached up to the cloud, they looked up to find another cloud with a sign and a red door. The ones who could reach up to there helped everyone else get up to the cloud. Afterward, they decided to stretch for a couple of minute.

"Well, I suppose I should read this sign for the heck of it," Sonic suggested as he walked over to the sign.

Here Ends Cloud 2

"Yeah… That's the end of this cloud." Chopper said as he opened the door into an area where they were standing on a long, thick cloud. There happened to be a couple of Shockboxers walking on the clouds and firing their sound waves at the heroes.

"Oh no ya don't!" Sonic brought Reflecto in front of him and reflected the waves back at the two Shockboxers, leaving them stunned. Kirby ran up to them and attacked them with a charged Vulcan Jab.

"Poyo! (Teamwork always works!)" Kirby cheered.

"Uhhhhhh… No comment on that one." Chopper said with shrunken eyes. "I don't see what we can do, honestly…"

However, he stopped when he noticed a top enemy spinning around in a tornado. He immediately removed his Hi-Jump ability and inhaled the enemy to gain a crown with a red emerald in the center and a large tornado on top of his head.

"So, it appears you've gained the Tornado ability…" Meta Knight informed.

"Yeah, looks like it," Chopper confirmed.

While he decided to spin around in a tornado, Meta Knight read the sign that was right beside them.

Cloud 3

"Well, we hast madeth our way through two clouds so far… I dost not know how many more there art…" Luvbi trailed as she followed the rest of the group over to a row of ? Blocks. The first one Mario hit contained a Speed Flower. He accidentally grabbed it, causing everything to move fast.

"Whatjusthappened?" Meta Knight asked as he hit another ? Block. A Skull Shroom happened to pop out.

"AAAH! It'saSkullShroom!" Luigi yelped, throwing Bonjourang at the Skull Shroom to slow it down. Chopper spun around in a tornado and finished off the Skull Shroom easily.

"WhyarethereSkullShroomshere?!" Chopper exclaimed as he stopped spinning around and landed on the ground and hit another ? Block to find another Skull Shroom pop out.

"Poyo! (Butwegetmorepointsfromthis!)" Kirby exclaimed as he took down the Skull Shroom with two Rising Breaks.

"IthinkIcanmoveprettyfast!" Sonic said as he got himself ready for a Spin Dash. Unfortunately, the speed went back to normal, and he simply moved at the speed his Spin Dash normally would. But, he still managed to take down a couple of Dark Skellobits in his way.

"Aww, man! The speed's back to normal!" Sonic said while kicking the cloud in disappointment.

"I think it's better that the speed's at a normal pace," Timpani said. "I don't like having it too fast or too slow. It can be pretty dangerous, especially when we're trying to reach the top."

Chopper walked over to the edge of the cloud. He noticed that there was a tornado right over the ground. There also happened to be a couple of others above.

"Hey, it's those cyclones! …But I don't think I can move up with them…" Luigi trailed.

Mario: Have you ever tried?

"Uhhhhh… No."

Mario: Then try!

"But what if I end up flying horizontally? That would make me fall to my death!" the green plumber gulped.

Mario: We'll be here for you!

"OK… Fine, I'll try." Luigi began to perform his Cyclone move and go off the edge. He was caught in the cyclone and, surprisingly, he was sent flying up to the next one. It's almost like moving up while spinning underwater.

"Hey! It worked!"

"Now try getting up those cyclones and to the closest cloud that you can find!" Chopper suggested.

"You didn't need to tell the obvious," Sonic pointed out.

"Yeah, that's true…"

Chopper spun around in a tornado and got sucked in to the other tornado. This allowed him to move higher up while having a stronger tornado surrounding him. But, to test things out, he went over to everyone else and sucked them in so he can bring them up to the cloud above the tornadoes.

"Wait… What the heck just happened?" Blade asked as he slowly got up after Chopper stopped spinning.

"I tried something out, and it involved sucking you guys into the tornado and bringing you all here," Chopper explained.

"Poyo, (I guess that was an interesting experience,)" Kirby said, while Chopper spotted more tornadoes.

"Oh, look at that! There's more of them!" Chopper repeated the process and sucked everyone into a tornado and began to head up to the tornado above that was moving. It led them up to a small cloud, but they simply jumped over to another large cloud to find a straight path of clouds.

"I can see a door just up ahead," Luigi announced. "Does that mean that this is the end?"

Mario: We'll see about that.

Mario was the first to walk on the cloudy pathway. He happened to run into a couple of Spiky Skells, but his hammer and Kickbrin were all he needed to take them down. Some Shockboxers also happened to be in his way, but a simply jump and Ground Pound took care of them.

"OK, I think that works," Meta Knight said as he flew above Mario. He decided to dive down and attack the last Spiky Skell right beside the door. Not even Mario was expecting him to do that.

Mario: What was that for?

"Sometimes a hero needs help. That's why I came in and helped you."

Mario: …OK, I guess that's fine.

They opened the door into another familiar area. This time, there happened to be about two small, bouncy clouds leading over to a tree with a sleeping Nimbi. Everyone bounced on the clouds and walked over to the Nimbi.

"He's sleeping… But why is there a Nimbi here?" Timpani questioned.

"Mayhap he decided to come hither to findeth some fruit," Luvbi was suddenly hit in the head by a rainbow coconut. It left her dazed for a couple of seconds, but she managed to get out of her trance. "Why art these coconuts so loose on yon trees?!"

"You know, I started to realize something…" Chopper pondered. "We don't have any female heroes in the group. I don't know why we don't have a female in our group that actually helps us fight."

"Yeah, I noticed that too," Sonic agreed.

"Well, I guess it would've been nice to have a female partner in our group," Luigi said.

"Yeah, that would be cool," Blade agreed.

"Well, I actually heard that Samus would've been in this adventure if you weren't in this, Blade," Chopper recalled. "But, I think replacing you would've caused too much throughout this adventure, so she didn't appear."

"Thou dost have me, still," Luvbi mentioned.

"Well, considering that we've got two people from Kirby's world, my world, and Mario's world, it would make sense to have someone from your world as well," Sonic said. "Maybe Berry could've been one of the heroes?"

"Poyo... (That might not be good for Chopper...)" Kirby trailed.

Meanwhile, Luvbi had fluttered over to the sleeping Nimbi. "Art thou sleeping, or art thou faking?"

"Wh-Wha…?" the Nimbi slowly got himself up and yawned. "Hello, friend! How're ya doin'?"

"Dost thou realize that there art monsters around hither? Dost The Peaceness know about the monsters?"

"Monsters? Monsters are coming?!" the Nimbi gaped. "Why didn't anyone tell me this?! Wait… Was I sleeping this whole time? For a second, I totally forgot what I was doing here in the first place."

A rainbow coconut fell over on his head, causing him to become dazed. "Wait… I can hardly remember what just happened…"

"Crud… All right, I know what to do." Chopper brought his hammer out and bashed it on the Nimbi's head.

"Was that really necessary?" Timpani asked.

"Yeah, it was. How else could I get him to remember something?"

Mario: It's worked before with me.

"Well… I don't know what to say…"

"Hold on… I think I'm starting to remember something!" the Nimbi realized, a light bulb appearing over his head. "Yes! I was down here because I was collecting fruit! But I got knocked out by one of the coconuts!"

"Oh, well that's nothing special…" Blade trailed.

"Poyo? (Could we have any coconuts?)" Kirby asked, licking his lips.

"Uhhhh… Say, guy, what did you just say?" Chopper was forced to translate what Kirby just said to the Nimbi. "…Oh! Sure, you can have some coconuts, but it might have some strange effect on ya."

The Nimbi tossed it over to Kirby, who ate it whole, but he suddenly fell asleep, making everyone gasp.

"Oh, no! Kirby's in another deep sleep!" Chopper cried. "Quickly! Back to The Overthere so we can get that Black Apple!"

"But that would force us to make our way ALL the way back here!" Sonic retorted. "No way we're doing that!"

"This is very disturbing…" Timpani trailed.

"Oh, relax, friends! That's only temporary!" the Nimbi assured. "He should wake up pretty soon. It only lasts for ten seconds!"

"Really?" Meta Knight heard a loud yawn coming from Kirby as he slowly got up and rubbed his eyes.

"Poyo! (Hi, guys!)" Kirby greeted with a cheerful look. "Poyo! (I just had a great nap! I was dreaming about delicious food!)"

"Yeah, that's Kirby all right," Chopper confirmed.

"Now, I think I need to get going," the Nimbi suggested as he fluttered over to the door. "I believe there are monsters here, so… BYE, FRIENDS!"

The Nimbi instantly bolted out of the area. Everyone shrugged and grabbed a hold of some rainbow coconuts. Perhaps they would come in handy later on. With that, they left the small area and returned to Cloud 3. The only problem here was that there was nothing to help them go up.

"Chopper, maybe you should see if there's anything in 3-D," Timpani suggested.

"Good call, Tippi!" Chopper smiled as he flipped him and everyone else into 3-D. They were surprised to see a yellow platform moving up and down like a lift nearby. They decided to jump on it and let it take them up to the cloud with a red door. At this point, Mario read the sign near him.

Here Ends Cloud 3

"Well, I guess this is the end of the third cloud," Meta Knight said. "Now, let's make our way to the next cloud."

"Wait… That Nimbi didn't tell us how many clouds there are!" Chopper frowned. "Now THAT'S not fair…"

"The only way to findeth out is on our own," Luvbi said as she followed the group into another area. They noticed that the sky was starting to get a little darker, indicating that they're moving higher up the clouds.

"Hey, look! There's a door just up ahead!" Luigi announced as he jumped on a Dark Skellobit in his way and reached the door. Mario read the sign just for the heck of it.

Cloud 4

Everyone shrugged and followed Luigi to the door ahead into an area with some small clouds right in front of them, but they seemed to be leading up to a large cloud above them. The only problem? Some Dark Spiky Skellobombers were flying around here.

"They're just Dark Skellobits. They're not too threatening." Blade assured before getting hit in the head by the Dark Spiky Skellobomber's head.

"This calls for something special!" Chopper spun around in a tornado and sucked the Skellobit in. It was disintegrated as soon as he finished, but he had to focus on landing on the cloud…which he wasn't on.

"Oh, no! Why is it so hard to control a tornado?!"

"I'll saveth thee!" Luvbi called out as she caught Chopper before he could plummet.

"Whoa... That was close. Thanks!" Chopper smiled, jumping down by another tree above the door. There happened to be rainbow lemons hanging from the tree this time.

"More fruit? Can't say I'm surprised…" Meta Knight trailed as he cut a lemon down and ate it to see how it was. This time, his eyes turned a rainbow color, as if Tippi was using her power on him.

"What the… I feel as if my eyes are different."

"That's because your eyes are rainbow colored," Sonic informed.

"Guh… It's a little bright for me too." Luckily, this happened to wear off, allowing Meta Knight's sight to go back to normal. "Ugh… Remind me to never eat that fruit again. It's sour, yet it makes things too bright…"

"Hmmmmm… Well, we should take these just in case." Blade suggested as he cut a rainbow lemon off the tree and caught it. He kept it safe in his inventory and followed the group back down to the door.

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Cloud 4, main area-

"All right, so we've got a fruit… So we need to keep going up, right?" Chopper asked as he looked up at the bouncy cloud right near them.

"Well, there is no other answer…" Meta Knight trailed. "I suppose I'll just use my wings to fly up instead. There's no point in using those clouds to help me make my way up. I'll still be able to attack anything in sight."

"Huh… Well, I guess it's time for some more jumping!" Luigi jumped onto the first cloud and bounced up to one to the right. He could've bounced on the one to the left, but he didn't feel like it. Chopper, on the other hand, jumped over to the left to find a tornado above him. He used that to reach up to a small cloud with a chest. There happened to be a Star Shroom Shake.

"Yeah! These are so much fun to get!" Chopper smiled as he put it away.

"Pray, doth that be a new drink?" Luvbi asked.

"Yeah, it's a Star Shroom Shake. It lets me recover 150 HP."

"May I have a sip of that?"

"Whoa! You're not injured or anything! This is something we need to hold on just in case something bad happens to us."

"Oh... I see..."

"So... I don't see much around here..." Blade trailed. "You think we should jump back down."

"But there doth be another way we can goest! Look!" Luvbi pointed above them, where they saw a green bubble. "Let us away!"

Chopper quickly jumped into the bubble, letting himself get launched upward while cheering.

"Looks like someone's having a fun time…" Blade trailed as he slashed at a Skell in their way. Kirby decided to follow the two up to where they were heading up, while Meta Knight followed him. Sonic, Blade, Mario, and Luigi took the long way and jumped up to the cloud above them to a lift right next to them.

"OK, I'm going to make this a little easier for me," Luigi folded himself up first, then he launched himself straight up to the large cloud above them. He was lucky enough to hurt a Spiky Bomber Skell along the way as well.

Mario: I guess it just leaves the three of us…

"Not really. We just need to wait to get off this lift, then we can simply get to Luigi and all that jazz." Sonic assured. "Although… I wonder how the others are trying to get up here…"

"Well, Chopper's using that green bubble to get sent flying, while Kirby and Meta Knight are flying up," Blade said as he threw a shuriken at a Spiky Skell on the same cloud. It didn't do much, but Luigi's Cyclone was able to get the job done.

"Hey, look! A green bubble!" Sonic announced, pointing to the bubble above them.

Mario: Let's use it!

"Wait! I noticed something!" Luigi ran over to the elevator right over to the left and jumped on it to be carried up to a small cloud with a Spiky Skell. He simply knocked it off the cloud with a Cyclone and opened the chest it was guarding. Luigi earned a Star Shroom Shake for his victory.

"Yeah! Luigi's number one!" he cheered as he jumped back to the others. Unfortunately, they simply moved on without him. "Aw, mama mia! Why do I always have to be left behind in these adventures?"

He let out a sigh as he jumped into the bubble and fired himself up. What was worse was that he ended up hitting Mario's butt, who got sent flying straight up when Luigi got stuck in the cloud.

Mario: Mama mia!

"What happened?" Blade asked.

"I think Luigi was under Mario, and when he fired himself up, he hit Mario and sent him flying straight up," Sonic explained as best as he could. "And right now… Mario's coming back down."

"Aw, come on! Why do I have to be stuck in this cloud?!" Luigi exclaimed as he tried pulling himself out. Blade shrugged and pulled the green plumber out before Mario could land face flat on the cloud. When he got up, steam appeared over his head as he glared at Luigi.

Mario: Luigi! Watch where you fire yourself!

Before they could get into an argument, Blade felt something sharp poke him from behind. He yelped as he turned around to find a Spiky Skell cackling and aiming its spear at the four.

"Oh, tough guy now, are we? Well, then have some of THIS!" Blade attacked the Spiky Skell with a hurricane slash, sending it flying across the cloud. However, it didn't stop it from getting back up and throwing its head at the group.

"Uh oh… It's got some friends as well!" Luigi gulped, pointing at two Spiky Bomber Skells flying from above. They also happened to be dropping a couple of Bait Skells as well.

"Oh, great..." Blade groaned as he got his katana ready. "Why do WE have to deal with these many guys? This is so annoying, don't you guys agree?"

Before they could attack, they noticed a charged Vuclan Jab hit one of the Spiky Skells, a Sword Beam attack the Spiky Bomber Skell, and a tornado strike any remaining Skells around the cloud.

"What the… What was that?" Sonic asked.

"Poyo! (Have no fear! Kirby's here!)" Kirby cheered as he landed on the same cloud as them.

"Uhhhhh… Translation, anyone?" Blade looked around, as if he was searching for someone that could understand him.

"He didn't say much that you need to know," Chopper informed as he landed on the cloud, while Luvbi was swooning over him (as usual…). Meta Knight flew down and gave one last finishing blow to the Spiky Skell that was trying to flee.

"Well, you guys sure made an entrance…" Luigi trailed.

"I believe we're not too far from the next door," Timpani informed, floating in Chopper's hands at the moment. "Ugh… I still keep feeling the memories of something like this…"

"Maybe you aren't feeling good," Blumiere predicted, trying to make her feel good. "Is there anything I could do to help you?"

"Could we do anything to help too?" Chopper asked.

Timpani was silent for a moment as everyone walked closed to her wand. "Not really… Let's… Let's just move on, all right? I'd rather not talk about anything that happened a long time ago right now. It's just I thought I heard a familiar voice in my head…"

"OK, I guess we shouldn't bother her then," Sonic suggested before looking up at the cloud above. Luigi was able to Super Jump his way up, while Chopper jumped and got into a tornado to try to get up there with those who couldn't fly. Kirby and Meta Knight simply flew up with their ability to fly.

"OK, just a couple of more clouds and we should be up there," Chopper announced as he jumped onto a bouncy cloud to bounce up to the cloud above. Everyone followed up to the next cloud, but they had to go to a small cloud to their left that had a Dark Skellobit patrolling.

"Poyo! (I got this!)" Kirby was about to attack, but the Dark Skellobit got him first with its spear, knocking Kirby's ability off the cloud and down to the bottom of Cloud 4. He was, of course, devastated.

"Well, there goes the Fighter ability…" Meta Knight trailed as he flew over Kirby and took care of the Dark Skellobit for him. All Kirby could do at the moment was sulk and jump up to the large cloud above him.

"He doth seem rather sad for losing an ability…" Luvbi trailed.

"That happens all the time," Sonic assured. "He and Chopper have always lost their abilities – even if they were good or bad."

"Well, let's just go. I'm getting a little tired waiting around here!" Luigi said as he Super Jumped up to the cloud with the red door. Everyone took the long way by jumping on the cloud that Kirby jumped on and jumped to the one above to find Luigi reading the sign by the door.

Here Ends Cloud 4

"Whew… Four clouds down… I don't know how many are left…" Chopper trailed.

"There's only one way to find out," Meta Knight said as he opened the door. Everyone shrugged and followed him to the next area. They couldn't see any clouds above them, but they saw a Save Block right next to them. Meta Knight hit it to save their game, then they explored this area.

Mario: I see no clouds…

"I agree on that one, Bro!" Luigi agreed.

Of course, someone went over to read what the sign had on there.

Cloud 5

Yeah… Just the fifth cloud.

"Hold on…" Meta Knight stopped and gestured the group to stop. "I feel that there's another presence around here…"

"Another presence? You think one of Tipral's minions came here to attack?" Chopper asked.

"If Tipral was hither, I would maketh him pay for what he didst to Crysta," Luvbi growled, remembering that horrible moment. "Why dost he have to do horrible things like that?"

"Hmmmmm… Hold on a second." Meta Knight drew his sword and swung his back. "We're definitely not alone… I can feel some kind of voice around here…"

A large, muscular blue Skellobit landed right in front of the group. Compared to other Skellobits, it was a lot bigger, and it also wore dark blue armor, with the helmet having horns on the sides. The Skellobit also was carrying a large sword that didn't look like anyone could even carry.

"Yer not goin' anywhere, heroes!" the Skellobit said. "As a Skelloknight, it is my duty to stop any heroes from reaching The Peacness!"

"Oh, no… They made it already?" Luvbi frowned.

"We didn't exactly 'make it' to The Peaceness… Ya see, we're makin' our way here, but I was ordered by my leader to watch for the heroes! Now that yer here, I can accomplish my duties!"

"This is a rather strange Skellobit… However, it might be a lot stronger than any other Skellobit we've faced before…" Timpani warned.

"Relax, Tippi. We've faced guys bigger than this!" Chopper assured before looking back at the Skelloknight "…And more hideous as well."

"Now, then…" the Skelloknight cracked its knuckles and grinned under its helmet. "When I'm done with you, my master shall be pleased with me! En guarde!"

The Skelloknight charged at the group, but Meta Knight managed to counter its gigantic sword with his own sword, Galaxia. It was sort of shocking to see him counter the monster's attack, but he had some impressive skills as a Star Warrior. He managed to slice at the Skelloknight, but there was one problem.

It didn't do a thing.

"Wh-What…?" Meta Knight was knocked away by the Skelloknight's massive uppercut punch attack, sending him flying toward the heroes. Chopper managed to catch him by surprise and bring him gently on the ground.

"Hold on, I'm going to try something," Chopper, with his Tornado ability, clasped his hands together and fired a tornado at the Skelloknight. It seemed to keep it off guard, but that wasn't enough. "Ugh… I gotta find out its weakness…"

He pulled Timpani's wand out and began investigating the enemy.

"That's a Skelloknight. It's definitely one of the stronger enemies we've seen so far through this place… Max HP is 240. Attack is 13. Defense on armor is ?. The Skelloknight may be slow, but that sword packs a punch! Get too close to this monster, and you're sure to be knocked back by its powerful sword attack. Another thing you should know is that the Skelloknight is invulnerable to any attacks with that armor on. However, if you have enough wind on your hands, you could possibly take that armor off and hurt it. But it's pretty dangerous…" Timpani informed.

"So we need some kind of strong wind to get is armor off?" Chopper pondered.

"Poyo! (I know what to do!)" Kirby walked up to the Skelloknight and tried to inhale its armor. Unfortunately, not even that was helpful. Kirby ended up getting sent flying when the Skelloknight spun its sword around.

"Try everythin' ya want against me! You'll know that you can't beat me!" the Skelloknight cackled as it began to slowly make its way toward the heroes. Chopper, however, tried using his Tornado's wind powers to blow a gust of air at the Skelloknight.

Mario: That reminds me of Flurrie's Gale Force.

"Who's Flurrie?" Chopper asked.

Mario: An old friend of mine.

Nevertheless, Chopper used his wind powers to try to blow the Skelloknight back. But alas, it didn't do a thing.

"All right, I'm fighting this guy," Blade announced as he rushed at the Skelloknight. He tried using many ninja moves to attack, but even still, it didn't do a thing! The Skelloknight just stood there, as if it didn't suffer from anything!

"Oh, come on! This is so stupid!"

"Hwahwahwahwa!" the Skelloknight grabbed a hold of Blade, who couldn't even breathe at this point, and it threw him over to the heroes. Sonic jumped out of the way and used a Whirlwind to keep the monster off guard. It did, but it didn't take its armor off.

"Sonic, I'm going to try something out," Chopper announced as Sonic jumped out of the way. He began to spin in a tornado and spin right into the Skelloknight. Because of how strong the tornado was, it was able to remove the Skelloknight's body armor and its helmet.

"What the…! My armor! Why you little…!" the Skelloknight knocked Chopper away with its sword, removing his Tornado ability. "That should take care of him… But now I'm vulnerable! Great."

"Now, there's something else I didn't tell you about…" Timpani noted. "When its armor's off, it's able to move a lot faster, so watch out for it when it tries to charge at you."

"Well that's nice…" Luigi trailed. "Moving faster always helps."

"Watch this!" the Skelloknight ran up to Luigi and made him trip with a sweeping kick. This allowed the monster to strike him with a powerful slash attack afterward, sending the green plumber flying across the cloud. Luckily, Mario managed to catch him and keep him from falling.

"Since thou art able to hit this Skelloknight, I suggest thou movest fast," Luvbi suggested, stepping away from the fight (even though she doesn't have feet).

"Yeah yeah, we know that already," Chopper chucked a couple of fireballs at the Skelloknight, but it managed to avoid them by jumping back. "Geez! This guy has good agility without its armor!"

"Well let's see how it handles this," Meta Knight disappeared with his cape and attacked the Skelloknight from behind with a powerful slash attack. It cringed in pain, allowing Meta Knight to attack while spinning around in a tornado. The monster even had some scars on its body too!

"At least Meta Knight managed to hurt it," Blade said as he tossed a couple of shurikens at the Skelloknight. Even though they pierced through its body, it still managed to hold its own and rush straight for Blade.

"Well let's not let him do that," Chopper suggested as he pointed down at an angle and shot some fire energy at the Skelloknight's feet, causing it to yelp in pain. This allowed him to attack the monster with a fire smash. Blade joined in as well and used a fire slash to make the burn on the Skelloknight bigger.

"Poyo! (I want to fight too!)" Kirby cried as he inhaled a fireball Chopper tossed to him and spat it straight at the Skelloknight's head, leaving it stunned.

"Ugh… Why am I lettin' a bunch of heroes attack me like this?!" the Skelloknight gripped its sword and swung it around like crazy. Everyone but Meta Knight managed to avoid its powerful sword attack.

"At least I'm not involved in this fight…" Timpani gaped.

"Yeah, you're pretty lucky…" Luigi trailed as he slowly got up and shook himself from the damage he took. He decided to attack the Skelloknight with his jump attack, followed by performing some stylish moves. The Skelloknight tried attacking him, but its efforts were futile when Luigi kicked it in the face.

"OOF! My face!" the Skelloknight grunted.

"Well, that was interesting," Sonic said as he quickly got up. He tried attacking the Skelloknight with a Homing Attack. However, it managed to catch a hold of Sonic, but it didn't stop him from attacking him while curled in a ball.

"Take this!" the blue hedgehog attacked the Skelloknight with his Whirlwind to keep it off guard, then he proceeded to bash it with a couple of Homing Attacks while, of course, performing stylish moves. He finished off his attack by using Screwdy's corkscrew attack.

Unfortunately, this caused Sonic to get knocked back by the Skelloknight's sword. How someone could move quick with a large sword, I have no idea, but it seemed to be doing it just fine.

"If only we had the muscle to fight back…" Chopper grumbled, chucking an ice ball at the Skelloknight. Unfortunately, it didn't seem to freeze it, but it did do some damage to it. "Fire and ice doesn't seem to do much to this guy…"

Mario: Then it looks like we need to work together, Luigi!

"Wait, what? Are you being serious?" Luigi sighed as Mario jumped toward him, making him swing his older brother around. When he let go of him, Mario was sent flying straight for the Skelloknight. He brought his fists in front of him as he delivered a powerful attack to its face.

"Hmph! Yer pretty tough, I'll admit." the Skelloknight commented. But how about you try handlin' THIS!"

The Skelloknight grabbed a hold of Mario and threw him like a bowling ball. Afterward, the monster was able to regain its armor with some kind of strange magic it held within it. Now this was where things were getting dangerous…

"Great… This is just what we needed…" Blade grunted.

"Then I guess it's time for my Mach Tornado," Meta Knight said as he raised his sword up. "Stand out of the way, everyone! This could get a little dangerous…"

"Hwahwahwa! What're ya gonna do? Stab the cloud with that yellow knife?" the Skelloknight sneered.

"Not quite, but you're right on one thing," Meta Knight brought his sword on the ground with power stored in it and unleashed his Mach Tornado upon the Skelloknight. It nearly wet its pants as it got sucked into the powerful attack. When it fell on the cloud, its armor was shattered.

"Man, that was awesome!" Chopper smiled.

"Crud… My armor's gone!" the Skelloknight gulped. "But I'm not done fighting' ya! Prepare to die!"

The Skelloknight gripped its sword and charged at the group. Meta Knight managed to parry its sword with his own sword and slash at its arm. Blade joined in and slashed at its leg. Afterward, Chopper threw Kirby straight at the Skelloknight. His kick was able to knock the monster over and allow Chopper to stomp on its head while performing a stylish move.

"Grrrrr! What's wrong with me?" the Skelloknight asked as it got up, only to get hit by Chopper's ice slamming kick. It didn't freeze the monster, but it was enough for Kirby to stun it by getting on Carrie and jumping on its head.

Mario ran up to it next and stomped on its head, giving it a Ground Pound afterward. But it didn't stop the Skelloknight from hurting Mario with his sword. Luigi gasped and ran up to the Skelloknight next, attacking it with his Super Jump when it tried jumping in the air.

"His HP doth look a little low…" Luvbi noticed.

"Well, it's just all in a day's work for us," Chopper said as he held Starbow up and summoned stars down on the Skelloknight. He then ran up to it and kicked it in the belly with a flaming kick.

When the Skelloknight knocked Chopper back with a sword attack, Kirby tried to inhale its sword. Despite being big, he managed to take it from the Skelloknight and spit it back at the monster, leaving a large scar on its body.

"You'll PAY for that!" roared the Skelloknight.

"Not for any longer," Meta Knight said, raising his sword up. Upon swinging it, a green beam of sword energy headed straight toward the Skelloknight and even pierced right through its entire body.

"Unnghh… No… I… I lost…" the Skelloknight gasped as it was sliced in half and soon disintegrated into smoke. Everyone looked somewhat surprised. They didn't see any guts for blood flying!

"What a strange death…" Blade trailed. "That was kind of unexpected…"

With the Skelloknight gone, a green bubble appeared right above them. Apparently it seemed to lead up to a cloud high above the group. They decided to jump in and let it fire them up to the cloud.

"Pray, dost thou see the sky? It is getting darker." Luvbi noted as everyone looked at the sky in the background after landing on the cloud.

"Too bad I don't have anything to help me jump up on these clouds," Chopper frowned as he looked over to the bouncy cloud to his left and another green bubble to their right. "It would've been really helpful."

"Well it looks like these both lead up to the next door," Luigi confirmed after taking the bubble up and coming back down, as much as he didn't want to. "So… Should we take the bubble?"

"The bubble wouldeth be a lot faster," Luvbi noted.

"Then we'll take the bubble," Chopper announced as he jumped into the bubble and fired himself upward. Everyone followed him as well and reached the cloud above them. It was surprisingly not that long of a way up…

But, they did have a sign to look forward to!

Here Ends Cloud 5

"I suppose we can make our way to Cloud 6 then," Meta Knight said as they entered the door into the next area. They saw a cloud just above, but they also saw a Shockboxer walking around on the cloud. Of course, someone read the sign.

Cloud 6

"I call fighting this thing!" Chopper announced, chucking a couple of fireballs at the Shockboxer. "OK, I'll be perfectly honest… I think my fireballs work a lot better than my ice balls."

He ended up finishing the Shockboxer off with one simple stomp attack. It ended up dropping an Ultimate Shroom Shake, but Kirby managed to get it first and hold onto it for safe keepings.

"Hey! You stole that from me!"

"Poyo, (Well, I got it first, so you snooze you lose,)" Kirby responded, sticking his tongue out at him.

"Dang you…" Chopper grumbled before getting held back by Meta Knight.

"I will meet thee all at the end of this cloud," Luvbi said as she flew up and looked back down at the seven. "But maketh sure thou dost not goeth too slow! We dost have limited time, thou knowest!"

"Well, there she goes…" Sonic trailed as she flew upward. "I guess that just leaves us to do all of the work."

"Yup," Chopper nodded as he jumped up to a cloud above him. He noticed that there wasn't anything to the right, so he ran over to the left, but soon stopped when he saw black Skellobits in their way.

"Are those Dark Skellobits?" Luigi gulped.

"No, they're Dark Skells," Timpani informed. "I suppose they're the strongest kind of normal Skellobits besides the Skelloknights… Their Max HP is 84. Attack is 14. Defense is 4."

"Ouch… That's a lot." Blade gawked. Nevertheless, he got his katana ready and threw a couple of shurikens at the Dark Skell. He then rushed straight toward the monster and finished it off with a fire slash.

They continued their way to the right of the cloud until they saw a small cloud with a ladder leading up to a cloud that's next to a platform moving from left to right. It didn't take them too long to climb up the ladder, but waiting on the platform took them a bit longer.

"C'mon, platform… You can go faster than this." Sonic groaned as he tapped his foot out of impatience.

"Yeah, I kind of want to get through this place already," Blade grumbled while crossing his arms. "I'm getting tired of climbing these clouds."

"Your complaining isn't going to help you, you know…" Meta Knight said as they landed on the cloud that was closest to them as they jumped off the platform. They were greeted by a red door, but Luvbi was definitely not there.

"It must be another one of these fruit trees," Timpani predicted.

"It's best to check what's there anyway," suggested Blumiere.

"Then in we shall go!" Chopper smiled as he kicked the door open. What was surprising was that the tree was right next to them when they walked in. They noticed that there were rainbow cherries up on the tree this time. Meta Knight cut one down, but Chopper ate it first.

"Hmmmmm… Nothing happened."

"That's odd. I'm sure something would've happened to you by now…" Meta Knight trailed.

"Well, so much for that," Chopper turned around, but he felt a little floaty. When he jumped, he felt as light as a feather. In fact, it was almost if he was levitating, making everyone gawk.

"He's…I don't know who…" Blade pondered.

After a bit, Chopper landed on the ground, looking just as confused as ever. "What in the world…? That was the weirdest fruit I've ever tasted…"

Meta Knight grabbed another one, but he held onto it for safe keepings. They left the area afterward and went back to the main area in Cloud 6. They decided to take a bouncy cloud up to a large cloud with two Rainbow Puffs and two Dark Skells. Meta Knight finished them off easily with his Mach Tornado.

"You don't use that often, do you?" Luigi asked.

"No, not really," Meta Knight replied as he flew up to a cloud above them. Everyone was able to jump up there, so they did that to find a green bubble. They each took turns to get sent flying up to another green bubble. What made things worse was that there were two others at a right and left upper angle.

However, half decided to take the left, and the other half took the right. The left side simply had some bouncy clouds to lead up to the top cloud, while the right side had a Star Shroom Shake and some cloud platforms to reach the top.

"Pray, what hast taken thee so long?" Luvbi asked, getting a little impatient. "I hath been waiting hither for a while!"

"The majority of us can't fly, you know…" Chopper trailed.

"Well, thou dost have a point. It is verily hard to get mad at someone cute as thee!"

"Ugh… I don't understand WHY you fell in love with me in the first place…"

"Poyo? (How did you even meet her?)" Kirby asked.

"Well… If you REALLY want to know, it's a long story. …OK, it's not actually long, but it's something that scared me for life."

"'Scared' you... Yeah." Blade blinked. "I don't understand how that could be considered scarring..."

He gave his whole explanation about first meeting Luvbi in The Underwhere by first saying what he saw at first and when he heard her sing. Luvbi sighed sweetly, remembering the song and hearing the voice that she considered 'love' to her ears (if she has any). Chopper finished off where she discovered she had to go back to her mother.

"...And that's how it happened," Chopper concluded.

"Oh... Well, I suppose that was an interesting scene." Meta Knight remarked. "But did you tell her to take me instead?"

"Oh... Yeah... Hope you didn't mind!" he sweat dropped as Meta Knight was unsure of how to react.

"I guess that must've been a tough scene for you," Luigi said.

"And it was verily a cute scene as well!" Luvbi giggled as she closed her eyes and held her wings together. "Ah... Romance doth be something special around hither, dost thou agree, my sweet prince?"

"Bleh! No way!" Chopper gagged as he walked over to the sign and began to read it.

Here Ends Cloud 6

"I don't know how long I can take this place," Blade growled.

"Well, we should be done pretty soon, I hope…" Sonic trailed.

"Well, the sky doth be getting a little darker," Luvbi informed. "Mayhap The Peacness is up in the stars?"

Mario: Could we even survive?

"Poyo… (I hope…)" Kirby trailed.

With these questions, they all walked into the next area. They noticed that the sky this time was starting to become a little blackish. But even then, Meta Knight read the sign. Why? To make sure that they were at the right cloud.

Cloud 7

"I don't understand why I'm even reading these…" Meta Knight trailed.

"Beats me," Chopper shrugged. "Now, let's see what we've got here…"

They only noticed the wind rising up from the ground and a Waddle Doo holding a parasol. Two of them to be exact. Chopper and Kirby inhaled both to gain the parasol ability.

"Maybe you can use that parasol to float up with the updraft just below us," Timpani said as Chopper and Kirby began to float upward from the draft. As for the rest of the group… They slowly began to float up with a jump, but not as much as the two.

Mario: Too bad we can't be as floaty as them.

"Well, at least the updraft is helping us move up a bit," Sonic said as he reached the cloud above them. Two Rainbow Puffs were floating around on the cloud, but his Spin Jump was able to finish them off.

"Yeesh, this updraft really is getting in the way…" Luigi trailed as he tried to get onto the cloud after jumping. He did a horrendous job at it, and it even got a couple of people to chuckle at him before he landed.

The updraft wasn't around over by the right, but there happened to be one to the left. There was one moving up, and another moving down.

"Let's check over there," Blade suggested as he let the updraft take him up. Chopper and Kirby held their parasols up and went even higher than him. They ended up near a Dark Spiky Skell that Chopper got hurt by when he landed on top of it.

"OW! That spike's pointy!" Chopper cried.

"Poyo, (I'll handle this,)" Kirby attacked the Dark Skell with his parasol to defeat it. What surprised them was that it dropped an Ultra Shroom Shake. Nevertheless, they took it anyway and left the draft going down take them back.

Unfortunately for Blade, he went up there for nothing.

"Dang it! All that for nothing!" Blade grumbled as he came back down. He noticed everyone jump over to the cloud with no updraft, so he followed them up onto the cloud to find a Dark Bomber Skell dropping Dark Bait Skells.

"I suppose these are stronger versions of the Bait Skells…" Sonic trailed as he got himself ready to attack. The Dark Bait Skell, however, let its ice breath out and froze Sonic solid.

"Hoo boy…" Chopper used his fire powers to melt Sonic out of his icy prison, then tossed a fireball at the Dark Bait Skell. Meanwhile, Luigi sent the Dark Bomber Skell flying out with his Super Jump.

"Woo! Man, I managed to take that enemy down easily!" Luigi cheered, punching the air while smiling.

"Yea, we sure art proud…" Luvbi said sarcastically. "What doth be most important is reaching The Peaceness!"

"We've already said that a million times…" Timpani trailed.

"True, very true," Chopper nodded as he jumped up to a platform above them. They all joined him and waited for it to bring them up to a cloud with a couple of Sky Lakitus flying around.

Mario, tipping his hat, got into battle. He stomped on the first Sky Lakitu and used a Ground Pound to finish it off. Sonic ran in and used a couple of Homing Attacks on the second Sky Lakitu to destroy it, and then Meta Knight finished off the final Sky Lakitu that pulled a Sky Spiny out.

"That should take care of the Lakitus around here…" Meta Knight trailed as his cape blew through the wind.

"Well, which way to go? Let me guess… Up?" Blade joked until he noticed that there were yellow white pillars floating nearby. "What the… Do you guys notice those pillars floating?"

"Yeah, I can see 'em…" Sonic trailed. "Just like Overthere Stair…"

"So we art much closer!" Luvbi squealed as she hugged Chopper. "I can't believest that we art almost thither!"

"Yeah... That's good..." Chopper smiled while he jumped on the pillars and jumped onto the cloud that was just beside the pillars. What he did see was an updraft leading up to a cloud with an Overthere-like building. "Yup. They're ripping off The Overthere now."

"Poyo, (Not exactly,)" Kirby noted as he floated up to the cloud. "Poyo. (There's a rainbow on top of the roof, so that makes it look a little interesting, in my opinion…)"

They simply went past the building and took a cloud up to a red door where a sign was. Chopper wanted to make sure that they were at the end of this cloud.

Here Ends Cloud 7

"Yeah, this is it all right," Chopper confirmed as he pushed the door open into the next area. Unfortunately, for Chopper and Kirby, they got hit by two rainbow blasts from two Rainbow Puffs that were right in front of them, making them lose their Parasol ability.

"Poyo… (Dang it… That always happens…)" Kirby groaned.

"It's not the end of the world if you don't have an ability on you," Meta Knight informed, swinging his sword and firing a Sword Beam at the two Rainbow Puffs. "You can go on without your Copy Abilities."

"Quite true," Blade agreed.

"Hmmmmm… So how far do you think until we reach the top of this cloud?" Luigi asked.

"What cloud is this?" Blumiere asked.

Cloud 8

"There. I read the sign for you." Sonic said as he looked away from the sign and hit a ? Block. An Ultra Shroom popped out for Meta Knight to slice into seven pieces. They each took a piece and recovered 50 HP.

"I wonder what this is for…" Chopper pondered. "Another mini-boss?"

"Well, I dost not see anything blocking our way…" Luvbi trailed. "Mayhap we shouldst just continue on."

Everyone agreed and waited for a cloud to come down for them. They jumped on it and waited for it to bring them up to a cloud above them. A smaller pillar seemed to be in their way when they reached the cloud. Neverthless they jumped over it and reached another building with a red ! Switch under it.

"This doth remind me of the Overvator, if I recallest," Luvbi noted.

"Overvator Rovervator," Blade said while crossing his arms. "Let's just see how this thing is."

Blade hit the red ! Switch, causing the building to be surrounded by a strange, glittering rainbow light that allowed it to slowly ascend through a couple of clouds, as if they were ascending into heaven.

"Heavenly!" Luigi commented.

Mario: Yeah, it sure is!

When the building reached the cloud it stopped at, everyone got off and found a couple of Dark Skells charging at the heroes. Meta Knight, using his skills, summoned a Mach Tornado to finish them off.

"I'll be honest… That Mach Tornado is overpowered." Chopper commented.

"But it does help us through this world, doesn't it?" Meta Knight questioned.

"True…" Sonic agreed.

They found another pillar floating near a small cloud they jumped on. But the only huge problem was a Dark Spiky Bomber Skell flying above it. Nevertheless, Luigi managed to hit it with a Super Jump and knock it out of the air. He also landed on a cloud just above them.

Everyone followed up to Luigi to a green bubble. Each of them took turns going up it, but they happened to notice a little something from the rainbow, actually.

It was getting bigger.

"Geez… Who would've thought we would see a large rainbow like that?" Sonic gaped as he landed on the cloud. Everyone looked up above at the large cloud above them. They didn't see anything else, meaning that this could be the top.

"So we've finally reached the end of these clouds…" Meta Knight trailed.

"Not yet," Luvbi noted, looking up at a couple of moving clouds leading up. "Thou still hast to jump on these clouds."

"Thanks for reminding…" Sonic groaned as he jumped from cloud to cloud. Everyone followed him until they reached the top. They saw a sign, but they didn't see a door around.

"No door? Then what does this sign read?" Chopper asked as he walked over to the sign and read it aloud.

Here Ends Cloud 8

"I don't see a door here… But I see four sprouts here…" Luigi informed, pointing to the sprouts on the ground.

"Mayhap the fruits art something that we needed?" Luvbi pondered.

"The fruits? Hmmmmm…" Meta Knight pulled out the fruits he had, while Chopper pulled out some that he had. Both of them placed them down on the sprouts and, to their amazement, four trees were instantly grown.

"Holy…! Did you just see that?!" Blade gaped. "They created trees in a blink of an eye!"

"That's pretty cool," Chopper smiled before a door appeared right next to the sign. "Well… I guess we better get a move on then!"

They entered through the door to find a large gap between the cloud they were standing on and the cloud just up ahead. Apparently there happened to be a conveniently placed spring there.

Mario: That's a big jump…

"Poyo? (How do we get across this?)" Kirby asked.

"From what I'm seeing there might be something hidden here…" Blumiere predicted. "Chopper, flash my wife's wand onto that gap and see if there's anything of any importance hidden."

"Sure thing!" Chopper flashed Timpani's wand on the gap. What they saw was the rainbow itself…but hidden?

"This rainbow… It's almost as if it's making a bridge…" Timpani trailed, making it visible.

"Well, it sure does look cool close up," Chopper smiled as he walked over to it.

"Don't goest too close! The light might hurt thy eyes!" Luvbi cried.

"Relax! It's not going to take too long!" Chopper placed his hand on the rainbow in order to climb onto it. However, what happened instead was that he was surrounded by a rainbow aura.

"Poyo? (What the heck?)" Kirby gaped.

Not only did he recover all of his HP, but he also felt a strange new power within him. He noticed that his Flip Gauge has even doubled to what it usually was before. While the rainbow aura around his body was gone, this aura now appeared around his hands as he stepped back from the rainbow.

"What in the world…? Why are my hands surrounded by a rainbow aura?" he gaped as he saw a rainbow ball of energy fire from his hands at the rainbow. "Wait a second… Is this a new elemental hand power? But… I was expecting electric or something!"

"Oh, yeah… That electric ball power-up." Sonic recalled.

"But… What does this even do? What's the point of rainbow energy in the first place? I see no purpose to it…" Chopper frowned while looking at his glowing hands.

"Poyo! (Ooh! I wanna touch that!)" Kirby cheered as he knocked Chopper over and touched the rainbow. Just like Chopper, he recovered all of his HP, but he also gained a few new moves from it.

He reached out for something that looked like a sword. To his surprise, he found his Final Cutter weapon that he mostly used from the Smash Bros. games with him. When he jumped, he was able to spin in a cartwheel, almost like his one move in the Smash Bros. game as well.

"Poyo! (Yes! I finally have more useful attacks now!)" he fist pumped as he landed on the cloud. "Poyo! (Two great abilities in my hand! Wonderful!)"

"I'll go next," Sonic announced, touching the rainbow. After recovering his HP, he had the need to clench his fist. "Sonic Wind!"

A blue gust of wind appeared around Blade and sent him flying up. He screamed as he fell face flat on the cloud.

"Whoops! Sorry, Blade… Didn't mean to do that." Sonic chuckled sheepishly. "I guess I got the Sonic Wind in my hands…"

"All right, then let's find out what I have!" Blade grinned as he knocked Sonic out of the way and touched the rainbow. He regained all of his strength, but he also gained the ability to unleash a powerful Dragon Beam, which summons a Chinese dragon and rams right into anything in its path.

"WHOA! That's… That's sweet! I can use the Dragon Beam now?! That's something only a true ninja could learn! No… No way!"

Mario: Let's see what I'll get from this…

The red plumber stepped up to touch the rainbow. What he got? Well… He received the Super Ground Pound, which is a stronger version of his normal Ground Pound. It's capable of flipping any enemy over, such as a Koopa or a Cleft.

Mario: Well, I'll take it!

"Now it's just me and Meta Knight!" Luigi jumped over Mario and touched the rainbow. After recovering his HP, he gained the ability to flutter in the air while jumping, which can make his jump stronger against any enemy. His Cyclone was also able to fling tornadoes from his left and right side as well.

"So thou hast gained upgrades?" Luvbi asked while raising an eyebrow.

"It looks like it… Now let's see what I can get." Meta Knight touched the rainbow, but nothing seemed to affect him in any way except for healing his own HP. "Hmmmm? I felt…nothing."

"Perhaps it is only the heroes that get upgrades from this rainbow?" Timpani pondered.

"If that's the case, then it could be…"

"I'm sorry, Meta Knight," Chopper apologized.

"You don't need to apologize, young warrior. I've already got an arsenal of abilities on me. What really matters is that we get across this rainbow and reach the end of this cloudy climb.

"And hopefully we can get away from these monsters soon!" Blade hoped as he heard a couple of monstrous voices coming from behind the door. "They've caught up pretty quick!"

"Then let's move!" Chopper crossed the rainbow and walked over to the spring. Unfortunately, it didn't appear to be functioning at the moment. "Crud! This spring isn't working!"

"I doth believest that rainbow energy hast the ability to activate things or color things…" Luvbi recalled.

"Really? Well let's see what happens here!" Chopper tossed a rainbow ball at the spring. They all witnessed a rainbow aura surround it and activate it. "I wonder where this even leads…"

"It's possible that it could even lead you to the stars themselves…" Timpani trailed.

"Wait… We have to go high up to the STARS?!" Luigi gaped. "That's…TOO FAR!"

Mario sighed, grabbed Luigi, and jumped on the spring to send them flying straight up. Everyone else nodded and followed them up to possibly The Peacness. Just in time to escape from the monsters.

"Wh-What?! Where did they go?!" a Shayde asked as it got across the rainbow. "Did… Did they escape from us?!"

"Oh, this is not good fer us…" a Dark Skellobit shook its head. "And we almost HAD 'EM!"

"Oh, thou dost not have to lose hope just yet…" a dark voice hissed. The same dark wizard from the bush flew over to the monsters. "They may hath madeth thine way to The Peacness, but we can still get a hold of them!"

"And how do we plan on doing that?" a Shayde asked.

"Oh, thou wilt see…"

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Near The Peaceness-

As the heroes landed on the highest point on the clouds, they noticed that the sky was already a black color. They could even see the stars from up here as well, indicating that they were close to space itself.

Mario: At least there's still air here…

"If we were straight in outer space, I don't know what would happen…" Luigi shivered. "Not only that, but it's cold here!"

"Deal with it, hairy green one," Luvbi said as she fluttered over to the Star Block. "The Peaceness is just up ahead!"

"Good!" Chopper ran straight to the Star Block and gave it a good punch. "It's great to be out of THAT mess…"

END OF CHAPTER

With their final climb, our heroes were relieved to be at the top of the world. Not only that, but they earned some nice abilities as well. "Well, now that we've got a hold of these new abilities, I think we should be able to conquer anything in our way!" said Chopper heroically as everyone face palmed at him. Everything around this place looked exciting. Meta Knight was even fascinated by this place too. "I will admit, I do think this is a beautiful world… But where has everyone gone?" Everyone began to wonder this as they began to explore the clouds of The Peacness.

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Holy guacamole... That was one big chapter to write, but it was weird that this didn't take as long as Chapter 15-3 to write, which was shorter than this. On the bright side, everyone (except Meta Knight) got some new moves! So, it should prove to be pretty useful through these later chapters of Super Paper Chopper.

Now, I did say that Chapter 15-5 would be long... And yes, it probably will be. So, if you can't take long chapters... Well, I can't help you there. But enough about that. I think this should be a little Christmas present to you all, since I probably won't have the next chapter finished by Christmas.

So Merry Early Christmas, people!