CHAPTER 16-4
-Fate in Two Hands-
"I can't believe it… Kirby, Sonic, Blade, AND my bro are all gone…" Luigi trailed as he looked around in the dark hallway of Tipral's Palace. "Well, I don't know why, but I feel like I'm risking my life to go through these hallways alone! And without a flashlight, too!"
"Luigi, you can't always have a flashlight with you when you're exploring dark places," Chopper explained, giving him somewhat of an irritated look. "Sometimes you just need to go on and try to get through it. Heck, I remember going into Dark Subspace World! Not only was it creepy, but it was also dark too!"
"Really? How dark?"
"Really, really dark?"
"Oh… Well I guess that's something too…" Luigi slowly nodded. The hallway he was in was a lot similar to the other hallways the others have been in before, but there were two ? Blocks that were a little higher than others beforehand. Fortunately, since Luigi has an amazing jump, he would be able to hit those blocks with ease. The windows showed the stars outside, which kind of reminded him of when he was traveling through space once.
"Man… I don't know how the others are doing right now, but I sure hope they're still alive." the green plumber sighed. "And… If the same thing happens to me, then does that mean we…"
"Luigi, please don't say it…" Chopper trailed, interrupting Luigi. "There's nothing in the room I'm in right now, so obviously the door you took will most likely lead you to Tipral's room."
"Well… If that's what you think, then I might as well get going." Luigi noticed a couple of Phantom Embers, Dark Skells, and Dark Bandits lurking around in the room, causing him to scream.
"No! I can't do this! There are too many enemies!"
"Luigi, those enemies are not like ghosts," Chopper assured. "You're able to attack them with just a simple jump or with one of your Pixls! It's as simple as that! Don't you realize that your jump is better than ours too?"
"I know that and all, but I'm still a little scared…"
"Are you kidding me? Didn't I say before that you were able to go through a mansion that never existed all on your own?! You know, that mansion you said you won in a contest you never entered? Heck, you managed to capture more than twenty ghost portraits in there and turn them back into paintings! Not to mention I also heard you were able to save your brother from possibly dying when he ate a strange mushroom. So, long story short… If you're able to go through dark places or deserts alone, then that means you can go through this place too!"
Luigi was silent for a moment, but soon his face turned from a scared to a determined look.
"You know, you're right! I have done many things on my own that involved rescuing Mario from certain danger!" Luigi realized. "You know, I think you kind of brought my self-esteem up a bit, Chopper! Thanks!"
"Uhhhh… You're…welcome?" Chopper gawked. "Strange… I thought you would've known this stuff by now…"
"All right, I guess I better get myself ready then," Luigi said, not hearing what Chopper just said earlier. "This is my part to stop Tipral now… And hopefully I can succeed as well!"
With his fists clenched, Luigi ran on ahead and struck one of the ? Blocks in the room. A Slow Flower came out and landed in his hands. This caused the whole hallway to go at a slower pace.
"Whoooooooa… Why diiiiiiid I maaaaaaake everythiiiiiing sooooo slooooooow?" Luigi asked as he stomped on a Dark Skell that attempted to jab at him with its spear. He used a flutter jump afterwards to deal a little bit more damage.
He threw Crystaline at the Dark Skell to finish it off, which gave him more experience than usual due to the fact that the whole room was moving slower than usual. The Dark Spiky Bomber Skell up ahead tried to fight back by throwing its head down at him, but failing to hit him.
Luigi simply folded himself up and rocketed up to the Dark Spiky Bomber Skell above him. However, when he hit the ceiling, he slowly began to float down, getting hit by the undead's spiky head in the process.
"OW! Thaaaaat huuuuuurts!" Luigi screeched as he froze the Dark Spiky Bomber Skell with Crystaline, making it fall to the ground. When he threw Bonjourang at it, it was defeated.
What made things better was when the flow of speed went back to normal. "Whew… What a relief! I was kind of getting tired of moving slowly!"
He punched the ? Block right above him to make a Skull Shroom pop out. Luigi shrieked, but he saw that it was moving away from him instead, so he sighed in relief and followed it. Of course, he knew that it would be coming back for him too.
"All right, this hallway seems rather long… But that doesn't mean I'm just going to sit here and do nothing!" Luigi announced as he threw Bonjourang at a Dark Bandit that was walking around. It soon turned to him and charged at him, taking an Ultra Shroom Shake from him and attempting to flee. "Hey! That's mine!"
Luigi threw Crystaline at the Dark Bandit and managed to freeze it. He waited for it to unfreeze before he could attack it with his Cyclone attack, finishing it off and dropping the Ultra Shroom Shake at the process.
"Ho ho! No one's a match for the great Luigi!" he smirked as he put the shake away and noticed the Skull Shroom coming back his way. He gasped, but he readied himself and prepared for a Cyclone.
With his Cyclone, he was able to stop the Skull Shroom and also freeze it with Crystaline. He instantly finished it off by throwing Bonjourang at it, making him feel safe.
But, that wasn't enough. There were still two Dark Spiky Skells in the room coming toward him. They seemed to be fully aware of him and started to charge at him with their spears.
"Oh, crud!" Luigi threw Bonjourang at them, making their heads fall over. The amusingly seemed to crash into each other, trying to find their head. This gave Luigi the opportunity to finish them off with his Cyclone attack.
"Wow, I can't believe I'm actually fighting these guys all on my own!" Luigi gaped as he struck a ? Block to find a Super Shroom. "To think I wouldn't be able to take down all of these enemies here… I think I put myself down too much before."
He grabbed the Super Shroom and ate it to recover 20 HP. He then moved forward to the ? Block up ahead and hit it to find a Speed Flower. When he grabbed it, everything began to move at a faster rate.
"Uhohit'sfastnow!" Luigi shrieked as he ran straight toward a Shadow Boo in his way. The Shadow Boo immediately charged for him, but he attacked it with a flutter jump and a stomp and defeated it. He also managed to pull off a stylish move before encountering a Dark Longator that somehow managed to hit him with its head.
"Whoa! I'veseentheseguysbefore!" he jumped in the air and did a flip before stomping on the Dark Longator's head. While it cringed it pain, he was able to deliver three more stomps to finish it off.
When he reached a Dark Cursya that was blocking his way, he threw Bonjourang at it and defeated it with ease. The speed went back to normal as the green plumber walked over to the door.
"Wait… This door's locked!" Luigi gaped.
He looked above the door and noticed the ceiling looked a little different. There appeared to be some sort of platform above the door! That might be it!
Luigi decided to check it out by using his Super Jump to reach the platform and find a chest. Thankfully, there happened to be a Palace Key inside, so he took it and put it away for now.
"This must be the key to that locked door," Luigi muttered as he jumped down to the door below and used the key to enter the next room.
He saw two doors in this small room. One was up on a platform and the other was on the floor dead ahead. Both looked pretty much the same, with the black trim around the door, the purple and the black star in the center. Nothing seemed to be too different about both of them.
"I guess I'll try the one up ahead," Luigi opened the door on the floor and walked through, but when he came out, he ended up falling through the ceiling in the previous hallway.
"Unnnnghh… What just happened…?" he slowly got up and noticed that he was in the previous room. "Wait… What?! But I was just in this room! How did I get back here?!"
"Luigi, is something wrong?" Chopper asked through the communicator. Luigi took his out and began to talk while his arms trembled.
"Y-Yeah! There's something up with the doors!" Luigi stammered. "Apparently, I walked through one of the doors, but it just sent me back to the room I was just going through before!"
"Really? Why would something like that happen?" the pale green hero began to ponder for a moment. "Oh! Maybe it's like some kind of puzzle! You know, when you get something right, you move on and when you get something wrong you start over?"
"Something like that?"
"Yeah, I would say so. Maybe you should look at the differences between both doors. Sometimes when you look at what the original door looks like, you know that it's the real one. Maybe you should see if one of them looks a lot different than the other? I'm guessing you might find something from that."
"I suppose I should check then," Luigi went back into the small room he was in and looked at the bottom door. The black trim looked like it was a lighter color than its usual appearance.
"Oh! I see it now! This door's trim looks a lot different than normal! It's a lighter color!" he realized. He used his Super Jump to reach the door above to find it a lot similar to what the other doors in the palace were like. He simply opened it and entered another similar room.
"OK, I think I'm starting to get it now… I gotta make sure that I enter the correct door." Luigi nodded as he noticed the bottom door, once again, looked much different. He used his Super Jump to go to the door above to enter another similar room. This time, however, there was a Dark Koopatrol lurking around.
"Uh oh… I can't jump on an enemy that has a spike on its head!"
The Dark Koopatrol noticed Luigi and tried to skewer him with its spike. He jumped out of the way and threw Bonjourang at it to leave it dazed, then proceeded to attack it with his Cyclone attack.
Before he knew it, he finished the enemy off by freezing it with Crystaline.
"Whew… Well, that takes care of that enemy." Luigi sighed as he noticed the door on the bottom looked a lot like the original door. So, he took that and, before he knew it, he was in another room similar.
"How many of these rooms are there?"
A Dark Longator was inching around the room, stretching its head in order to get Luigi. He recoiled and jumped on its head afterwards, leaving it to cringe. He froze it with Crystaline so it wouldn't bother him.
"All right, let's see which door is the correct one…" Luigi pondered as he looked at both doors. The bottom door was a lot different, so he ignored that and began to charge up a Super Jump.
Unfortunately, the Dark Longator unfroze and hit Luigi by stretching its head.
"Ow! Ugh… I should've taken care of you first…" Luigi groaned, stomping on its head one last time and defeating it. With it out of the way, he used his Super Jump to reach the door above and enter another similar room.
"Geez! These rooms are really bothering me!" he sweat dropped as he jumped over a Dark Skell that tried to skewer him. "Why can't I ever get a break for once around here? I bet the others had it easy…"
He used his Cyclone to defeat the Dark Skell and walked over to the bottom door. Since it was the right one, he entered it into another similar room, hopefully it was the last one for sure.
And, if Luigi checked the doors correctly, the bottom door seemed to be the correct one. When he entered it, he ended up in a different room, to his relief. But, he noticed that there was a mysterious figure over by the door up ahead.
"Wait, who are you?" Luigi asked, trying to run after the figure. All he could see were two white eyes. "Tipral? Is that you? If that's the case… I'm here to put an end to your plans once and for all!"
The mysterious figure simply chuckled and left the room through the door. Luigi jumped over the Dark Spiky Skell that tried to hurt him and raced to the door, but a lock appeared before he could touch it.
"Aw, no… Mama mia! He got away…"
"Who got away?" Chopper asked.
"I saw a mysterious figure over by the door I was just trying to get through," Luigi explained. "Those white eyes made me believe that that was Tipral who was in this room, so I tried to go after him. Unfortunately, he got away and locked the door behind. I suppose I have to go find a key…"
"Well, of course you do! We always have to find keys around this place! You thought we weren't going to be finding any here?"
"Well, maybe that's what you believe. Anyway… I'm going to try to see if I can find the key." Luigi soon cringed when he got skewered by the Dark Skell's spear. "Ack! I completely forgot about that guy!"
He whirled around and threw Bonjourang at the Dark Skell's head, leaving it dazed for a couple of seconds and allowing the green plumber to stomp on its head with a flutter jump and a normal jump, finishing it off. It also happened to drop an Ultimate Shroom Shake.
"I guess this should come in handy!"
He used his Super Jump to rocket himself up to the platform above, which happened to have a door coincidently. He entered it into a room with a couple of high platforms leading over to a door.
"Oh, this doesn't look too bad…"
Luigi didn't need to use his Super Jump to get onto the platforms. They seemed low enough for him to jump onto. However, he had to be aware of the Dark Bomber Skells flying around in the room.
"Well, surely I can just use my Super Jump to send them flying out of here!" Luigi assured as he struck one of the Dark Bomber Skells with his Super Jump. It knocked it down into the bottomless pit below. The other Dark Bomber Skell was able to hit Luigi by throwing its head at him.
Even still, Luigi was able to knock it onto one of the platforms by throwing Bonjourang at it. He then stomped on it a couple of times and finished it off once and for all, allowing him to continue onward.
"OK, Luigi… Just stay calm and you'll be able to get through this…" Luigi mumbled as he jumped onto one of the platforms and ducked when he saw a Dark Sword Knight attempt to slash at him. He used his Cyclone to knock it off the platform and send it down the bottomless pit.
"Weren't those enemies Kirby faced back in his home world?"
Nevertheless, he reached the end of the room and found a door leading him into a small room, where he saw something lying on the ground by the corner. There was only one, so it didn't look too bad.
"Wait… What's that supposed to be?" Luigi stepped closer to the robotic…thing, but when its red eyes appeared and let out an ear-piercing scream, Luigi instantly froze in fear. This robot was more of a black color with sharp teeth, like a zombie.
"Wh-What is that thing?!"
When it stopped moving, he threw Crystaline at it to keep it frozen, then took his communicator out to speak with Chopper. "Chopper! There's something…weird and creepy in the same room as me!"
"What is it?" Chopper asked. Luigi put his communicator in front of the robot to show him. "Wait a minute… That's a Dark Robbie, isn't it? Man… I HATE Robbies! They're annoying!"
"How do I beat it, though?"
"Just attack it, simply put. I think you can get behind it too. Chances are it won't be able to see you."
"All right, I guess I'll attack from behind," Luigi jumped over the Dark Robbie and used his Cyclone to unfreeze it and also deal some damage. However, that didn't finish it off just yet. Luigi had to take it down with one flutter jump, which was pretty simple from someone like him.
Once the Dark Robbie was defeated, a chest appeared at the end of the room to the right. Luigi popped it open with a simple kick and found a Palace Key inside.
"There we go! Now to go back to that other room! Hopefully I can finally catch Tipral and stop him!"
Room with locked door-
"All right, Tipral… I'm coming for you!" Luigi pulled the Palace Key out and inserted it into the lock. It broke off, allowing him to walk into the next room. However, he was disappointed when he found another hallway.
"Where's Tipral? He should be around here!"
All he could see were two Dark Patrolbots flying around, ready to fire any missiles at anyone who got close. But, once one noticed Luigi, it unleashed its missiles upon him, making the plumber run.
However, when Luigi ran over to the wall, he jumped off and let the missiles explode from the wall. He ran under the Dark Patrolbot and delivered a Super Jump, followed by a flutter jump, destroying the dark robot.
"Whew… I can't believe I managed to take that thing out!" Luigi gawked.
However, it wasn't over yet. There was another Dark Patrolbot that needed to be taken care of up ahead. When it noticed Luigi, it tried to zap him with some kind of electric blast, but ended up missing.
Luigi jumped on top of the Dark Patrolbot and stomped on it as hard as he could to send it crashing to the ground. With a flutter jump, the robot exploded, clearing all of the Dark Patrolbots in the room.
"Well that's a relief," Luigi sighed as he ran past a Dark Securibot. Because he got caught in its searchlight, a Dark Intruderbot was summoned to go after him. And, surprisingly, it appeared right in front of him.
He shrieked as he got sent flying back from the missiles it fired. Howeve,r Luigi managed to get back up and freeze the large robot with Crystaline. With a Cyclone, he was able to leave it severely damaged.
"I think one more hit should do it," Luigi assured as he stomped on the Dark Intruderbot and destroyed it. This cleared the way of all the enemies in the room, allowing him to enter the door ahead.
But what shocked him was that there were giant cogs that looked like platforms that were spinning on some kind of pole when he came out of the door. Luigi walked over to the cog closest to the ground and waited for it to come down.
"This is a very strange room," he commented as he jumped on the cog. He waited until he was at a good range to jump to the next cog over by his left. He didn't even need to use a Super Jump!
A Dark Paratroopa was also flying around in the room, which made things a little more dangerous for Luigi when he jumped to the third cog. It tried to ram into him, but he managed to get its wings off with a stomp.
When the Dark Paratroopa tried to attack him, Luigi was able to flip it over with a stomp and deal some damage to it on its belly. This caused it to scream in horror as it disintegrated into smoke.
"Gee… I'm not really sure if this is such a good thing to do now…" Luigi wondered.
Even still, he used his Super Jump to launch himself up to the next cog, and as soon as he reached the platform above him with a Super Jump, he entered the door into a room with a staircase.
"Hey, I remember a staircase like this in Castle Bleck before!" he recalled. "…Well, there were a lot more than just one, actually."
With that in mind, he decided to climb up the stairs while having to deal with a Dark Vironoid that was lurking around on one of the steps. He shrieked in fear and ducked from the beam it fired. It looked like it was some sort of dark beam, actually.
"What the heck?! I thought these guys were only in cyberspace?!" Luigi gaped. "Wait… On the other hand, these guys don't really exist? …Or are they just on Tipral's side like they usually were…"
He began to wonder as he used a Super Jump to get on top of the Dark Vironoid and stomp on it a couple of times until it was defeated. Compared to a Red Vironoid, this was four times as difficult to beat.
"Man, that thing was a lot tougher than I thought! Especially when I'm fighting that thing on my own!"
He continued to climb the stairs until he got to the midpoint. He saw that there was a Dark Waddle Doo ready to fire a blast from its eye at him. Luigi defeated it by stomping on it three times.
"Wahoo! That was too easy!"
Luigi continued to move up the stairs, while avoiding a dark beam from a Dark Vironoid in the process. Luckily for him, he was able to uppercut the enemy with his Super Jump and attack with a flutter jump afterward. With Bonjourang, it was defeated.
He finally made it to the top of the staircase, but he had to face off against a Dark Spiky Skell that looked ready to skewer him with its spear. Luigi threw Bonjourang and attacked it with his Cyclone to send it flying to the wall. After freezing it with Crystaline, it was gone.
"Honestly, why am I did always put myself down before? That's not something I should've been doing!" Luigi frowned as he opened the door into a small room with a red ! Switch near him. He noticed the same figure standing right in front of one of the three doors in the room.
"Heh heh heh…"
"Hey! Don't get away from me this time, Tipral!" Luigi growled, clenching his teeth and fists. "You better stop running from me or else I'll… I'll… I'll stomp you!"
The figure shrugged and headed through the third door. Luigi bolted toward him, but when he entered the door, he came out of the first door instead. "Wait, what? What just happened?"
He decided to walk through the first door, but it ended up bringing him over to the third door. "This is strange… But I think I'm starting to understand what's going on here. I gotta go into the right door, which would be the middle. …But how did Tipral manage to disappear through that door anyway?"
While wondering this, he walked through the middle door, leading him into another similar room with three doors. There was a Dark Vironoid crawling around, and it even tried to attack Luigi when it spotted him.
However, he recoiled and jump off the wall behind him, bringing his two feet down on the Dark Vironoid's head to deal some damage. He also managed to kick it in the fact while it was stunned and froze it with Crystaline. After a Cyclone, he wiped the floor clean with the monster.
"Well, that settles that with that monster," Luigi sighed as he walked over to the doors. He tried to see if one of them looked like the door all the way to the left. To his surprise, the middle door looked somewhat similar.
"I wonder if this is going to be like those other rooms where I have to go through them a couple of times…"
He walked through the middle door and found himself in another similar room, but with the third door looking like the original door. When he walked through that, he ended up in a room with a black arrow block near the wall. He decided to hit it, making him land on the ceiling.
"Wh-What…?"
He just realized by now that he was upside down. Not only that, but there were some strange, small enemies in armored plating, but they looked rather small. That said, he could see that through the plating were two white eyes. This was an Armored Sheller, something that he's never seen.
"This must be new…" Luigi stomped on it, making it hide in its own shell. When he kicked it, it went over to a Dark Koopatrol coming up ahead, but it ended up getting hit and was defeated. Luigi finished off the Armored Sheller with a Cyclone.
"Geez… Walking upside down can be pretty annoying…"
He reached the end of the path on the ceiling and found another black arrow block. This time, when he hit it, he ended up falling to the ground, where he met a Dark Shy Guy that looked ready to attack.
"The door's just up ahead, but this Shy Guy's in the way!" Luigi clenched his fists as he jumped on the Dark Shy Guy. He stomped it with a flutter jump afterward to defeat it with ease.
With that, he opened the door into a room where he saw a door on the ceiling and a door right up ahead. He noticed that there was another enemy he remembered. One was a Dark Tileoid that was climbing the walls, ceiling, and even crawling on the ground. Another thing he noticed was a Hogarithm. Yes, it was just like the one in Castle Tipral. Nothing else different.
"Oh… Well this could be a little difficult." Luigi stomped on the Hogarithm to make it change to a gray, smaller version, and when he stomped on it again, it was a small, black Hogarithm that began to move fast. But, with Bonjourang, Luigi was able to destroy it with ease.
With that enemy taken care of, he walked into the door up ahead and found himself on the ceiling. Although not too worried, he noticed a Dark Tileoid on the ceiling coming his way.
"Uh oh… I don't like this…" Luigi gulped, grabbing Bonjourang and readying him. When the Dark Tileoid got closer, he threw him at it and left it dazed. After two stomps, it was disintegrated into smoke.
Luigi immediately headed through the door ahead into a room where he was standing on the wall! What shocked him was that he had to move down the wall instead of up. A Dark Tileoid also seemed to hit him while he was distracted.
"Ow! What the heck?" Luigi jumped on top of the Dark Tileoid a couple of times to defeat it. After that, he walked over to the door down the wall and came into a room where he was upside down.
"This is really giving me a headache…" he groaned as he hit a black arrow block to bring him to the ground. The pipe in the center of the room brought him down to a tunnel where a couple of Koopa Strikers wearing black gear called Doopa Strikers with Doopa Striker shells ready.
"Uh oh…"
"That's right, scrawny! Who's up for a game of soccer?" the first Doopa Striker smirked as he pulled a shell out and kicked toward him. Luigi kicked it back at the Doopa Striker, but it was able to kick it back.
"I don't know what'll work…" Luigi trailed, kicking the shell back at the Doopa Striker. "Wait, I think I can still try something! Something…like one of my Pixls!"
He threw Crystaline at the Doopa Striker, freezing it at point. When the shell crashed into it, the Koopa got knocked into the others, keeping them off guard. This allowed Luigi to take them all down by throwing Bonjourang.
Sighing in relief, he made his way over to the end of the narrow hallway to find a chest. He opened it to find a Palace Key inside, making him smile with delight.
Previous room-
"All right, I guess I have to go to that other door on the ceiling," Luigi deduced as he hit the black arrow block and landed on the ceiling. He entered the door he didn't go in before and found himself in a room where he was standing on the right wall.
"How can this get more confusing?"
He noticed that he had to go up this time, but he noticed that there was a high ledge on the wall he would have to get up to. Not only that, but a Dark Tileoid was crawling on the walls too, making this a little frustrating for him.
"Ugh… I'm not going to enjoy this part…" Luigi groaned as he took care of the Dark Tileoid. When he walked over to the high ledge, he used his Super Jump to reach the door up on the ledge. Afterward, he entered the door into a room with no gravity switches or gravity whatsoever.
"Well what a relief!" he sighed in relief as he noticed that he was in a small room with a platform above him and a door dead ahead. Another Hogarithm was in the room, but three stomps defeated it.
"All right, now to get out of this room!" Luigi made his way over to the door, but when he walked through, it ended up bringing him back into the door that led him into this room. "Wah! What the heck just happened?! I'm in the same room?!"
"What's wrong, Luigi?" Chopper asked.
"Well, I was simply walking through a door and all…" Luigi began. "But, when I come out of it, I'm still in the same room! Do you think you know anything about this? …Or, unless I have to use the platform to go through the door instead…"
"If you wanna do that, go for it."
Luigi shrugged and used his Super Jump to launch himself up to the platform. When he jumped off the platform afterward, he landed right in front of the door and entered it. This time, he was in a hallway with saw blades hanging from the ceiling with some Dark Skells patrolling the room.
"Saw blades?! Why here?!"
When a saw blade swooped down near Luigi, he instantly ducked before he could get his head sliced in half. One of the Dark Skells even got hit by one of the saw blades and cringed in pain. When the saw blade moved back up, Luigi finished it off by using his Cyclone attack.
"Those saw blades get dangerously close…" he shivered as he ducked from another saw blade coming down. No other Dark Skell got caught in one of them, but it didn't really matter at this point when a saw blade was near his cap.
"Unnngh… This is definitely not a safe room…"
He decided to move through the room by ducking, but when a Dark Skell got close, he instantly jumped up and stomped on its head, finishing it off with his flutter jump. With that, he was safe from the saw blades for now.
"Well that's good. No more saw blades for me!" Luigi smiled as he saw a Dark Diam floating above the groan ahead. When its eye was revealed, a green spark fired straight for the green plumber.
He got electrocuted, but he was able to hold his own and use a Super Jump to leave it dangerously low on HP and finish it with a jump attack, destroying it. He seemed relieved, but a Dark Patrolbot was nearby too, ready to shoot at Luigi as soon as it caught him.
"Intruder alert! Intruder alert!" its sirens went off, calling in a couple of other Dark Patrolbots to join in the fight. Luigi gulped and readied himself before getting blasted by one Dark Patrolbot.
"Four against one?! This is insane!" Luigi gaped as he dodged one of the Dark Patrolbot's lasers. He tried to fight back by using a Super Jump to get under one of them and deal serious damage. He destroyed it once and for all with Bonjourang.
However, he still had three others to worry about at the moment. But this time, he thought of something else to get rid of all three. He threw Bonjourang at them, of course, and then froze one with Crystaline. His jump shattered one of them, and after stomping on the others with his flutter jump, they were done for.
"Whew! I can't believe I took them all on!"
Sighing in relief, Luigi ran over to the door that was just up ahead and entered into a room where he saw a platform up above him that looked too high to reach. However, he did see a ladder sticking out.
"Maybe I can use that ladder to get up to that platform… I think it'll work…" Luigi thought as he used a Super Jump to grab a hold of the ladder and make his way up to the platform.
Even if a Dark Robbie was on it.
"Uh oh…" he gulped as the Dark Robbie let out a scream that nearly froze him. It even managed to grab a hold of him. He expected it to bite him, but it tried to strangle him instead. Luigi tried breaking free, but his arms weren't strong enough to push through.
"I can hardly breathe!" Luigi thought as his face started to turn blue. But, even when he was in some trouble, he was able to grab Bonjourang and throw it straight at the Dark Robbie's face, making it release him. "GAH! Finally! I can breathe again!"
However, the Dark Robbie was even defeated yet. It tried to grab him again, but he jumped over it and used Crystaline to freeze it. Surprisingly, it didn't seem to work against it. All he could do was use his Cyclone until it was defeated.
"All right! It's defeated!" Luigi smiled as he looked up and saw a platform that looked like he could reach it with his Super Jump. He launched himself up and found a yellow spring leading up to a platform above with a door. A Dark Cherbil was apparently guarding it.
"Wait… What the heck is this thing supposed to be? You have any clue, Chopper?" Luigi asked as he showed the Dark Cherbil to Chopper.
"I...guess it's a Dark Cherbil?"
"Oh…"
The Dark Cherbil spat out some poison gas at Luigi, poisoning him instantly. His face turned to a slight green color, making him feel sick. But, even then, he fought the Dark Cherbil and got a Dried Shroom from it.
"A Dried…cough…Shroom?" Luigi glanced at it for a minute before eating it. Despite tasting bad, it was able to cure him from the poison. "Ugh… It was nasty, but I guess it healed me…for only 1 HP.
"They're pretty nasty, even for me," Chopper agreed.
"I don't blame you," agreed Luigi.
Now that he was cured from the poison, he opened the door into a room with electric on the ground and a couple of moving, metallic platforms going left and right. At the end of the hallway, there was one metallic platform going up.
When Luigi jumped on one of the platforms, he noticed the mysterious figure over by the metallic platform moving up. "Hey, you! Don't get away from me this time, Tipral! I know you're trying to hide from me!"
The figure simply smirked at him and jumped on the platform. Luigi grumbled and waited to jump to the next platform until he got to the one moving up and down. But, when he saw it come back down, two Dark Bob-ombs with their fuses lit up began to chase him.
"Wah! Bob-ombs?!"
He immediately fled, but the explosion happened too fast and sent him flying onto the electric floor, electrocuting him. When he got back onto one of the platforms, there was some static appearing on his cap.
"That's the last time anyone fools Luigi," he grumbled as he clenched his fist and jumped back over to the platform moving up and down. He used a Super Jump to reach the platform and look up at the platform above him that had a door. A Dark Spiky Skell was standing in front of the door.
When he used his Super Jump to reach up to the platform, he threw Crystaline at the enemy, freezing it. He then used his Cyclone attack to unfreeze the Dark Skell and leave it with dangerously low HP.
But it was simple when he defeated it with Bonjourang.
"All right, I bet Tipral has to be through this door!" Luigi deduced as he opened the door into a larger room with platforms up above him. He could go multiple ways, with multiple enemies in the room.
"This room's huge!"
When he turned around, he noticed a Dark Longator stretching its head toward him. He jumped out of the way and stomped on its head to stun it. He stomped on it three more times to defeat it.
"All right, now I have to choose which way to go…" Luigi pondered, looking at the multiple ways to go up. "Tough choice here…"
He noticed a Shadow Boo slowly making its way down to Luigi in order to attack. When he decided which way to go, he used a Super Jump to jump to the platform to the left, which also knocked the Shadow Boo away.
"Did I just hit something?" he pondered before stopping to see a Dark Sword Knight ready to attack him. He yelped and stomped on its head. After freezing it, it was defeated for good.
There was another platform near him, so he jumped over to that platform. In the center was a small platform with a chest. Luigi attempted to jump over to it, but he was too far and ended up landing on the ground.
"Awww… Why did I have to fall?" Luigi frowned as he got up.
He looked around to see if there were any more enemies around him. On the ground, there didn't appear to be any that looked to pick a fight. This time, he decided to use a Super Jump to launch himself to the left platform, but he gaped when he saw a Dark Tileoid crawling around on it.
"I thought I was done with these guys?!"
He jumped when the Dark Tileoid was close to hurting him and stomped on its head to stun it for a couple of seconds. With three more stomps, it was finally defeated, dropping a Spicy Curry too.
"Spicy Curry? Doesn't this make you let out a large amount of fire?" Luigi pondered. "Well, I think I'll save this…"
He put the Spicy Curry away (how can one put away food?) and used a Super Jump to uppercut a Dark Bomber Skell near another platform. It was fully defeated, but when Luigi landed on the platform, he decided to take a risk and stomp on the Dark Bomber Skell until it was defeated. Afterward, he landed on the previous platform and jumped back up to the one near the Dark Bomber Skell.
"I guess it was worth it," he concluded as he jumped over to a platform beside him which had the chest he was trying to reach previously. Inside was a Star Shroom Shake, to his delight.
"I'll take it!" Luigi smiled as he put it away and used another Super Jump to reach the platform above. A Dark Cherbil on the platform spat some horrendous gas that he avoided. He decided to freeze it and jump up to the next platform, saying that fighting it was a waste of time.
When Luigi looked up, he groaned when he saw that he still wasn't up to the door yet. What got worse was that a couple of Biosparks were clinging to the walls, throwing kunais straight at Luigi.
"Wah!" Luigi ducked just in time before he could get hit by one of the kunais. "Geez! They REALLY want to get rid of me!"
He Super Jumped up to the next platform in order to get away from the Biosparks. To his surprise, they seemed to disappear all on their own, making the plumber sigh in relief. However, there happened to be one that appeared on the platform.
"Halt, plumber! You're not welcome in these parts!" the Biospark spoke, pulling a katana out and attempting to strike him. Luigi, however, managed to freeze it by simply throwing Crystaline at it.
"Relax, hero! With me by your side, not even ninjas will be able to harm you!" Crystaline assured.
"Yes, I do agree with the miss," agreed Bonjourang. "Now, izzit time for them monsieur to get going?"
"Yeah, I need to do that," Luigi nodded, finding a door up above the platform. With a smile, he used a Super Jump to get to the top platform. There, he discovered a ? Block with an Ultimate Shroom inside.
"Oh, lucky me! An Ultimate Shroom!"
He grabbed a hold of it before it could go off the edge and chomped it down to recover 100 HP. "Oh, man… I never had a whole Ultimate Shroom before! This is probably the first time in my life!"
He noticed that the Biospark frozen was now gone. Despite being confused, he decided that it would be best just to leave the room and head into the next. Luigi noticed through this hallway, there were a couple of lanterns in the hallway with dark flames, which felt like it would lead to Tipral's lair.
"OK, I think I'm close…" Luigi noticed the same figure from before walking over to an elevator and waving while grinning. "H-Hey! Stop right there, Tipral! I'm not letting you get away!"
"If you want to fight, follow me," the figure said as he disappeared out of Luigi's sight up the elevator.
"What's going on, Luigi?" Chopper asked.
"Tipral… He wants me to meet him in his lair, I suppose." Luigi explained. "This could be my chance for redemption… If I stop him, the whole universe could be saved!"
"Yeah, that's a good thing. Just make sure you try your best against him. That's the most important part."
However, Luigi couldn't get to the elevator soon. There were two Dark Vironoids blocking the way, firing a dark beam at his direction. The plumber ducked and stomped on the first one's face to stop it for a bit. With his Cyclone, he sent it flying into the second Dark Vironoid.
"Even if you may be creations of Tipral, you're not any different than the rest of the Vironoids!" Luigi said boldly as he finished both Dark Vironoids off with a flutter jump, clearing the way of the enemies.
"All right… Now that leaves the elevator here."
He pushed a button right near the elevator to bring it down. Once he got on, Luigi waited patiently as the elevator brought him up to a small room with a Save Block and a door. He decided to hit the Save Block first before doing anything.
"Strange… I was expecting the door Tipral would be through to be a little…bigger than this."
"I don't think it really matters," Chopper assured. "As long as you can stop Tipral, I'm fine with that."
"Chopper… Didn't Merlon say that there were twenty Pure Hearts? If we fail… Where would we find the seventeenth Pure Heart?"
Chopper's face suddenly changed. "Now that I think about that… I really don't know. We would need to get another Pure Heart to lead us to another door, but we don't have any other Pure Heart!"
"That's what I was thinking! …Well, let's worry about that later. I have someone to take care of." Luigi, taking a deep breath, slowly opened the door into the next room.
Next room-
As Luigi entered the next room, he noticed that there was something strange with this room compared to the others. The windows were rather big compared to most others. It wasn't even that big, something Luigi was expecting the room to be like.
"Well this is kind of disappointing…" Luigi trailed. "I thought Tipral's room would be bigger than this?"
"That's because it's not his room," the mysterious figure standing in the shadow of the room grinned. "Congratulations, Luigi! You fell right into my trap!"
"Trap?" Luigi turned around and saw the doors were barred shut. "W-Wait… If you're not Tipral… Then who are you?"
"I'm glad you asked," the figure walked out of the shadow, revealing his true self. "I'm your doppelgänger, Mr. L! …Or rather, you're MY doppelgänger!"
"Mr. L…? Why do I feel as if I heard that name before?"
"You used to be me before, back in that snowy world. However, since you disobeyed him, he took me out of you and re-created me. This time, he made sure I would listen to me!"
Luigi noticed that there was a bit of darkness from a half of him when he took a glance at him, but it soon disappeared. "Wait… So are you even…human?"
"Human? Of course not! Sure, I may look like you, but I'm made of nothing but darkness! I was created through the remains of your brainwashed side when Tipral took it away from you."
"This…is really confusing. So, you're created from the dark energy that I was brainwashed by?"
"Yeah, that's right. Sounds cool, right?"
"Well, I don't think so! Who goes around trying to copy ME? Sure, my bro has fans who like to copy him, but never have I seen people copy me!"
"Man, you're really boring me," Mr. L yawned as if he didn't care. "Anyway, if you thought you were going to find Tipral, then you ought to think again. You're not even CLOSE to him!"
"So… None of those doors lead to Tipral's lair?"
"Actually, Tipral's lair is very well hidden. There's this one door where we kept the door completely hidden. NO ONE can even find it, including me! Only Tipral knows where that door is."
"And which of the five doors has that door?"
"You really think I'm going to tell you that? …Oh, wait. I don't really care!"
"Luigi, what's going on?" Chopper asked.
"Bad news, Chopper… Apparently I didn't take the right door…" Luigi trailed. "The door that leads to Tipral's lair is actually very well hidden. Nobody even knows where it is!"
"Wait… So… That means NONE of the doors lead to his lair?! That means we did all of this for nothing?!"
"All for nothing? Nah, you didn't, puffball." Mr. L spat. "In fact, I bet some of the minions are laughing at you right now for trying to find that door!"
"I've actually never found it… I'm trapped in this one room. I haven't done anything ever since."
"Pbbbbbbbbbth! HA! Serves you right for messin' with the man! Anyway… How's about we leave Mr. Gumball to cry in his corner and let us fight! I'm gettin' a little tired of talkin'."
"Fine! I'll show you that I can win a fight on my own!"
"Please! You couldn't do a thing! Have at you!" Mr. L stepped back and clasped his hands together. Luigi noticed that he had green electricity flowing through his hands.
"Time to show you why I'm called the Green Thunder!" Mr. L fired a green bolt of electricity at Luigi, zapping him instantly. "Thankfully, Tipral gave me this kind of power to help me fight a little better!"
"He can use lightning now? That doesn't seem like a fair fight…"
"Life isn't fair, Luigi. Sometimes, you just lose some, like you're going to right now! Heh heh heh…"
Luigi yelped as Mr. L tried to strike him with another thunder attack. He jumped out of the way and stomped on his doppelgänger's head, making him cringe in pain. Mr. L tried grabbing him, but Luigi was faster and sent him flying back with a kick.
He noticed that there was a box marked "DANGER" on it.
"What's that box?" Luigi asked.
"It's none of you're business, that's what," Mr. L spat as he attempted to jump on Luigi. "You know, we both have similar jumps and abilities. I can even use your famous Super Jump and Cyclone!"
"Really?"
"Yeah! Just watch!" Mr. L began to spin around like a cyclone. When he got into contact with Luigi, he was left with a couple of bruises on his face. Mr. L chuckled and zapped him with lightning. The plumber cringed as steam appeared all over him.
But that wasn't stopping him from fighting back. He threw Crystaline at Mr. L, freezing him in place. Luigi smirked and used his Cyclone to unfreeze him to send him flying up. With this, he struck him with a Super Jump to send him flying back down.
"Man… I can't believe I'm doing all I can to take this guy down…" Luigi panted as Mr. L got up and charged at him. The green plumber jumped out of the way and stomped on his head. Mr. L, getting a bit angry, tried to lash at Luigi by punching him with an electric fist.
"Whoa!" Luigi tried to dodge the attack, but he was hit straight in the stomach, making him moan in pain. Mr. L then gave Luigi a quick kick to the stomach, knocking him to the ground. He attempted to elbow him in the stomach, but Luigi managed to kick him in the stomach and get back up.
"Hmm… You're not as easy to take down as I predicted." Mr. L frowned. "Shame… Here I thought I would have an easy time here."
"Don't judge me based on how I act."
"Well, it should be," the doppelgänger tried to strike Luigi with a Super Jump as soon as he tried to stomp on him, but Luigi was faster and struck his head before he could even get his hands on him.
"Quit it, plumber! Let me hit you for once!"
"Why should I do that?
"Because I'm going to win this fight!" Mr. L mocked, attempting to use another thunder fist on him. Luigi grabbed his arm and hit him in the head using his own head. Even thought he hurt himself a bit, it did more damage to Mr. L than him.
Mr. L decided to try a different strategy and trip Luigi while he was charging at him. He also pulled out a Bob-omb and threw it straight at him when he had the chance. The explosion sent Luigi flying back to the barred door.
Mr. L smirked as he ran over to the plumber, but he got up and threw Bonjourang, hitting him straight in the nose. He growled as he rubbed his nose and fired another green lightning bolt at him. Luigi gaped and tried to jump, but the lightning bolt was faster and zapped him. This gave Mr. L the opportunity to run up to him and stomp on him.
Luigi recoiled and when Mr. L landed on the ground, he was able to punch him in the face. But that stop Mr. L from grabbing Luigi and throwing him across the room over to the right.
"Wait… How can you even do that?!" Luigi gaped.
"Trust me… I have my ways." Mr. L smirked as he used his Cyclone to get Luigi closer. He tried to fight it, but he ended up getting hurt by Mr. L instead and got sent flying up. When Mr. L used his Super Jump, Luigi took serious damage.
"OW! Man, I didn't know that my Super Jump was THAT powerful…"
"Well, so now you know how it feels to get hit by your own attack! This should be easy…"
He tried to grab Luigi again, but he ended up getting hit in the nose by Luigi's elbow. He even tried to zap him with a lightning bolt, but that didn't work when Luigi used a flutter jump to attack him.
"Well, maybe you'd be interested that I actually got new abilities from a rainbow!" Luigi smirked.
"Is that so? Well, rainbows aren't really that cool, so frankly, I don't care." Mr. L attempted another Super Jump, but was stopped by Luigi when he froze him with Crystaline.
"Phew… Well, that takes care of him for now."
However, Mr. L was able to break out and dive straight for Luigi, tackling him to the ground. He was prepared to zap him straight in the face with his lightning, but, luckily, Luigi managed to control his legs just fine and kicked him away.
"Argh! You annoying…!" Mr. L charged up a lightning ball and threw it straight at Luigi, who ducked and threw Bonjourang at him. Mr. L, however, grabbed the Pixl and threw it at him instead, leaving a bruise on his nose.
"What's the matter, Luigi? Can't take the pain from your own companion?"
Luigi growled as he rubbed his nose. He grabbed Bonjourang this time and threw him over Mr. L.
"You missed!" Mr. L smirked.
"I wasn't trying to aim for you there," Luigi said as he crossed his arms. Mr. L looked confused, but he soon felt himself getting pulled over to the plumber. Once he was close, Luigi gave him a punch to the face.
"Huh… Not bad, I suppose… I'm a little impressed. Only a little."
"What? You think you can do better than that?"
"Of course I can. I'm the Green Thunder." Mr. L jumped up to the ceiling and began to hold onto it. When he got above Luigi, he let go and began to plummet down. Luigi looked up and jumped out of the way. A huge shockwave sent him flying back as Mr. L crashed to the ground.
Luigi quickly got up and attacked Mr. L when he had the chance. With one stomp, Mr. L surrounded himself in electric energy, protecting himself from taking damage. This gave him an advantage when Luigi tried punching him.
"Wah! I can't hurt you?!"
"Guess not, wuss," Mr. L smirked, grabbing Luigi and throwing him to the ground. At this point, the electricity surrounding him was gone for a moment, allowing Luigi to get back up and punch him.
"What the… What happened to all that cool electricity I had?!"
"I guess you don't have it anymore," Luigi said as he froze him with Crystaline and attacked him with a Cyclone to unfreeze him. At this point, Mr. L was dazed, but he had another idea.
"Hmmmm… Maybe that will work!" Mr. L thought, zapping the ground with electricity. Part of the ground was now electrified, preventing Luigi from even going over there. Mr. L jumped away so he wouldn't get shocked and grabbed Luigi's arms.
"You know you want to be thrown into the electricity," Mr. L grinned.
"I would never do that!" spat Luigi, pushing him away and kicking him in the stomach. Mr. L cringed and held his stomach in pain while Luigi knocked him back to the electric floor, electrocuting the doppelgänger.
"Urgh… Very clever, doppelgänger."
"You're technically MY doppelgänger if you came from me," Luigi informed.
"Doesn't matter. I consider the weaker one to be the doppelgänger. It's like with that kid and Tipral. The kid's just a doppelgänger of Tipral!"
"That doesn't seem very logical to me…"
Mr. L stayed silent for a moment before lunging at Luigi. He managed to grab him and strike him with an electric ball of energy, shocking the plumber and leaving him paralyzed, unable to attack.
"Heh heh heh… You can't do a thing to hurt me now! Your jump is useless too!" Mr. L smirked.
"Ugh… He's right." Luigi frowned, trying to jump. Because of the paralysis, his jump was abysmal at most. All he could do was move, but at a slower pace. But it didn't stop him from drinking an Ultimate Shroom Shake.
"Ahhh! That takes care of that!" With Luigi healed from paralysis, he threw the crushed can at his evil counterpart, leaving him dazed. Luigi then ran over to him and used a flutter jump to leave him more than halfway down on HP.
"I didn't expect you to have healing items…" Mr. L grunted. "However, maybe I should do that too!"
He pulled an Ultra Shroom Shake out and began to drink it. This left him open for an attack, so Luigi decided to throw Bonjourang at him to not only hurt him, but to grab the Ultra Shroom Shake.
"HEY! I wasn't done with that, you know!"
"Heh! That was nice!" Luigi drank the Ultra Shroom Shake to recover to max HP. "OK, he had 290 HP to begin with, and has an Attack of 15… Well, he's no longer at 290 HP, that's for sure."
Mr. L grit his teeth as he fired a green lightning bolt at Luigi. With the ground no longer electrified, the plumber was able to dodge and land on that part of the ground in style. Mr. L growled and fired more lightning bolts, but Luigi dodged them again and stomped on Mr. L's head.
"So, you had enough yet, Mr. L?" Luigi smirked.
"I'm not gonna give up until the end!" Mr. L snarled, ramming Luigi with his head. This sent him flying back, leaving him open for another attack. At this point, Mr. L charged up an electric ball of energy.
Once fully charged, he hurled it at Luigi, leaving an explosion that left Luigi battered up. Sure, he wasn't dangerously low on HP, but this attack did enough to leave his clothes dirty. A couple of sparks appeared around him too.
"That was quite the shocking experience, wasn't it?"
"Hey! He stole my pun!" Chopper growled. "Luigi, kick his butt for me now!"
"Yeah! You shouldn't be stealing jokes!" Luigi shouted while sweat dropping. "I think I'm going to end this fight now! Prepare yourself, Mr. L, because you're pretty low on HP!"
"That may be, but that won't guarantee victory," Mr. L smirked, hurling an electric ball in his direction. Luigi smirked and froze the attack with Crystaline, making it nothing but a chunk of ice that dropped to the floor and broke.
"Hmph… Impressive!"
"Yeah, well I've got more than that you know," Luigi smirked, readying another attack. Mr. L grabbed him by the neck and tried to strangle him. But, it ended up failing when Luigi kicked him in the stomach and froze him with Crystaline.
Using his Cyclone, he unfroze Mr. L and left him off in a daze. He was able to gain consciousness when Luigi got closer, but he got hit by another Cyclone that sent him flying in the air.
"Argh! This wasn't how the fight was supposed to go!" Mr. L raged.
Luigi attempted to Super Jump his doppelgänger, but Mr. L was able to aim his hand down at Luigi and fire a bolt of green lightning down at him, shocking him instantly. Mr. L grinned and landed a powerful stomp on his head.
"Looks like the tides have turned!"
"Ugh… Well, I'm not going to let that stay that way!" Luigi retorted, attempting to punch Mr. L. However, he was able to grab his fist and tighten his grip on it, making Luigi cringe in pain.
"Heh heh heh…"
He managed to get Luigi in a choke hold and fill his entire body with electricity, shocking Luigi.
"So, ready to give up?" Mr. L grinned.
"I will not let you do that!"
"What?" Mr. L was hit in the back of the head by Bonjourang, who was apparently thrown out of secret by Luigi. This released his grip on Luigi and allowed him to deliver the final blow.
"Here it comes!" Luigi used his Cyclone to send Mr. L flying in the air and quickly struck him with a Super Jump. His doppelgänger crashed into the ground, exhausted from battle.
"Ungh… What went wrong?" Mr. L moaned.
"Well, I suppose you have to let me out of here," Luigi smirked, looking down at Mr. L. "Oh, and you said that the weaker one was considered the doppelgänger. Guess who just lost the fight?"
"Oh, I'm not finished with you just yet!" Mr. L got up and attempted to strike Luigi with an electric ball. However, the attack missed and bounced off the wall. Both Luigi and Mr. L ducked and avoided the attack. They sighed in relief…
…Until they noticed that the electric ball hit the box in the corner.
"Oh, no… No no no no NO!"
"What is it?" Luigi asked.
"That electric attack just hit the box full of Bob-ombs!" Mr. L shrieked. "With so many of them inside, that could literally…"
The Bob-ombs instantly sprung out of the box with lit fuses. Both Luigi and Mr. L gaped in horror as the fuse slowly began to shorten.
"WAH!"
With a large explosion, they instantly blacked out.
Chopper-
"What the heck is going on?!" Chopper yelped as he heard a large explosion through the communicator. "Luigi?! Are you still there?! Luigi?! LUIGI!"
The explosions stopped and all went silent. Chopper noticed that his connection with not just Luigi, but with everyone was lost.
"No… This isn't right… I can't be the only one left!"
"Oh, dear… This isn't good…" Timpani gasped.
"I never knew that this would be their fates from going through those doors…" Blumiere gaped. "And all that's left is just you, Chopper…"
"Not only that, but there's no way I can find the door to Tipral's lair!" Chopper whimpered. "I guess that means that we've failed. I'm going to be stuck in here forever and Tipral's going to destroy everything. We lost."
"Chopper, I'm sorry for putting your friends through all of this," Timpani apologized.
"No, Timpani, I should be the one who's sorry," Blumiere cut in. "I was the one who thought of the idea to split up. Unfortunately, that ended up bringing us just down to only Chopper…"
"I don't think they've died," Chopper denied. "They were able to survive through Castle Tipral. If something similar happened to them, then there's a chance that they're still alive."
"Chopper…" Timpani trailed. "Well, maybe you might be right."
"…But the bad news is that I'm trapped here. I can't do a thing now!"
He heard the sound of magic, making him jump up in surprise. He noticed that the wall in front of him pushed back, revealing a door that was apparently hidden.
"Could it be…?"
"Chopper! I think this might be the door to Tipral's lair!" Blumiere gasped. "We must move quickly!"
"What I don't understand is how this wall suddenly moved forward…" Chopper pondered. "I heard some magic that caused that… But, why at this moment and not before?"
"Let's not try to get into too much of a discussion about this," Timpani suggested. "Like you said before, your friends would probably want you to go stop Tipral."
"Yeah… Well, I better get going then!" Chopper opened the door into a room with a Star Block. All he did was give it a good punch and that was it.
"Hopefully we're not too late…"
END OF CHAPTER
The darkness began to grow bigger through the hallways of Tipral's Palace. With Kirby, Sonic, Blade, Mario, and Luigi gone, all that remained was Chopper. After being trapped in a single room, he was finally revealed the door to lead him to Tipral's lair. Thinking about his friends, Chopper raced through the hallways, giving a determined look of confidence. "I can do this… I can't fail my friends and the universe!" He hoped that he wouldn't be too late.
Oh, poor Luigi... Why did he have to be stuck in an explosion with his counterpart? Poor others as well. Personally, I don't think they deserved that (but, that's how the story has to go...). :(
I know some of you are wondering why most of the enemies are just the same as some that were already faced, such as the Dark Koopatrol. Since this is Tipral's Palace, he would surely have some of these guys in his palace (although the Skells are another question). And no, they're not like the enemies from Flopside Pit of 100 Trials.
Fun Fact: The name "Doopa" in Doopa Striker is derived from the word "duper".
...And I think that's just about everything. Expect something interesting to happen next chapter. :P