CHAPTER 16-5
-Tipral and the Heart-
Chopper clenched his fists as stepped forward in the hallways of Tipral's Palace. This was just another typical hallway in Tipral's Palace, just like the one Kirby, Blade, Sonic, Mario, and Luigi went through before. However, this felt like it was a little…darker than before. Through the windows, a large, dark star could be seen, and even a comet could be seen as well. It looked as if it was covered in dark energy.
"Gee, space sure looks beautiful from out there…" Chopper trailed as he looked out the window. "What's funny is that my species were considered to be born from the stars – hence why we're considered to be from the stars. Our background is kind of interesting…if I remember it, that is."
"Huh… I wish you knew about your species' background. I think it would've been nice to learn about your kinds' past." Timpani said as her wand began to float in midair while glowing a rainbow color.
"Yeah, I wish I knew about that too. But, sometimes, you never get to learn about it…"
"So, Timpani… Do you know more about Tipral?" Blumiere asked. "I know you might know more about him… I feel as if you're simply hiding your answers for some reason."
"Would I ever lie to you, Blumiere?" Timpani asked.
"Of course not! I just don't remember everything about him, that's all… In fact, I don't even remember what happened. That happened a long time ago, Blumiere. You really can't expect me to remember everything!"
"Uhhhhh… Are you two going to keep arguing?" Chopper asked as he grabbed the wand. "Look, if you're going to argue, PLEASE don't argue here. I don't like to hear a married couple arguing. It's kind of like with my parents at times. So, long story short… Don't argue. It's annoying."
"…To be fair, I guess that's something we shouldn't do," Blumiere agreed. "Sometimes, when we argued in the past, it almost caused us to break up. You remember that, my dear Timpani?"
"Yes, Blumiere. I remember after our argument that I would almost break into tears… But, the next day, things would be all better. We would usually spend the rest of the day close to each other. It was so romantic."
"I loved every second of it."
"OK, now you're making it worse!" Chopper gagged. Since he couldn't take much of it anymore, he put Timpani's wand away so they could speak to each other without him having to hear.
"All right… Now that I've got that settled… I think it's time to find Tipral and stop his plans." Chopper gave a determined look as he looked at the hallway up ahead.
There were a couple of dangerous enemies around, such as Dark Elite Soldiers, and even a new type of trooper wearing silver armor, had black eyes under its helmet, a blaster rifle, and a jetpack. For some reason, these guys looked somewhat like Maquano's strongest minions, the Darksprine Troopers.
"What the… Is that a new enemy I see dead ahead? Now what could that be?" Chopper decided to investigate it with Timpani's wand and it turned out that it was called a Maginan Trooper. They were much more dangerous than the Dark Elite Soldiers.
"So these are Tipral's personal troopers? So, he finally realized what kind of army Maquano had and tried to copy the Darksprine? How original…"
He ran straight toward the Dark Elite Creature dead ahead and managed to spin his hammer around to strike it. However, that still made the Dark Elite Soldier fire a laser from its rifle. Chopper simply inhaled the blast and spat it back at the alien. With an upward thrust of his hammer, it was finished.
"Since I'm getting deep within Tipral's Palace, the enemies must be stronger…" Chopper trailed, readying his hammer at any moment for the Maginan up ahead. When it noticed him, it readied his blaster.
"Heads up, troops! Chopper's here!" the Maginan warned.
"Whoa… So they already know about me. Not that I'm surprised about that."
The Maginan began to fire dark blasts from his blaster straight at Chopper, who inhaled one of them and spat it back at the Maginan. With that armor, its defenses were rather high, having a Defense of 6. But, when Chopper hurled a charged rainbow ball at it, it was covered in rainbow steam and even some rainbow colors.
"Argh! My armor! How could you ruin my armor, brat?!" the Maginan growled as he shot Chopper, sending him flying back. He was able to get back up and charge at the trooper with a Speed Dash, but he was forced to jump on top of the enemy and use a rainbow slamming kick instead.
"Man, you guys don't go down so easily," Chopper sighed, holding Starbow up. Shootings stars came down on the Maginan Trooper and defeated it in an instant it got hurt by the stars.
"I'm glad I was some assistance!" Starbow squealed, spinning around. "Perhaps you might need me for many things here!"
"Probably," Chopper nodded as he ran ahead to find a Dark Vironoid blocking the way. Even though Luigi fought this thing before, Chopper used Timpani's wand to find out what it was and what its stats were.
"Wow… This is a lot stronger than the Red Vironoid, according to its stats."
The Dark Vironoid fired a dark beam from its mouth from underneath and tried to hit Chopper. However, he used his flipping and got behind it through 3-D. As soon as he was behind, he used an upward thrust attack with his hammer to send it flying to the ceiling. It came back down and tried to swipe at him with its claws.
"OK you spider…crab thing! Time to end this!" he finished off the Dark Vironoid with a simple rainbow smash. With that out of the way, he used a Speed Dash to move on ahead through the hallway.
"This is a rather dark hallway, I must admit," Blumiere commented. "Much darker than my castle…"
"I can agree," Chopper nodded as he rushed straight at the Dark Elite Soldier with his feet moving in a figure-8 pattern. He went to a suddenly halt when the soldier tried to fire purple lasers at him. He had the help of Slim to avoid the attack with ease.
"What the… Where did he go?!" the soldier gawked, looking around for Chopper. He simply stopped using Slim's ability and stomped on the Dark Creature's head. He raised his hammer up next and brought it down on the enemy.
The Dark Elite Soldier growled and tried to grab the hero. However, he was able to jump out of the way first and deliver an ice kick that left the enemy frozen. With a charged fireball, it thawed and got defeated.
"Hmmmmm… Well, I suppose that takes care of some of the enemies here for now. I guess…" Chopper paused when he saw two Maginans using their jetpacks and firing down at Chopper.
"Oh, come on!"
"I wonder if the others ran into these guys…" Timpani wondered as Chopper kept dodging the blasts being fired down on him. He tried to destroy their jetpacks with fire, but they seemed to be too fast.
"I know that if I used fire on their jetpacks, they would probably burn and fly around like crazy," Chopper deduced. "It worked on Darksprine Troopers before, so I don't see why this wouldn't."
He was able to stomp on one of the Maginans and toss a fireball at its jetpack. This caused it to burn and make the trooper fly around like crazy. It even crashed into the other Maginan, making them crash to the floor and explode.
"That was interesting…" Timpani trailed.
"Uh-huh!" Chopper nodded as he landed on the dark ground. "I guess it worked out just fine! That worked on the Darksprine, so I don't see why it wouldn't work on them!"
He noticed the door just up ahead, but when he stopped by it, he noticed that not only was the door locked, but a Darkling was guarding it. He simply tossed a couple of rainbow balls to defeat it.
"HA! …Wait, the door's locked." Chopper face palmed.
"Why don't you check around the hallway to see if you can find anything," suggested Blumiere.
"All right, might as well do that," Chopper flipped into 3-D and noticed a little crack by the wall. It almost looked as if he could slide through. With Slim's ability, he turned sideways and slipped through the crack into a room where a Darkling with whites eyes and a white bulb appeared to be guarding a chest.
"Wah! It's you!" the Darkling hurled a white energy ball at Chopper, who inhaled it and gained the Ice ability in the process. He walked over to the Darkling and inhaled it. When he spat it out, it was like a frozen popsicle.
"What kind of move is that you just pulled off?" Timpani asked.
"I think that's called Ice Suction," Chopper explained. "With it, I can inhale an enemy and freeze it in my mouth. Once I spit 'em out, they're nothing but a frozen popsicle! It's something I like about the Ice ability."
Anyway, he decided to open the chest to get a hold of a Palace Key. After slipping through the crack in 3-D, he flipped back into 2-D and unlocked the door in front of him to enter a small room with spikes on the floor and a railing on the ceiling.
Another thing he noticed was the Dark Chilly right in front of him surrounding itself in an icy aura.
"I'll just freeze it and it should be done!" Chopper used his Ice Breath to freeze the Dark Chilly, but it didn't necessarily freeze it just yet. Being an enemy that uses ice powers, there was no way it was going to freeze easily.
He decided to try again, but it still didn't freeze. However, the third time he used an ice attack, the Dark Chilly froze, allowing Chopper to kick it over to the spikes, shattering the frozen Chilly.
"All right, now I just need to get over these spikes…" Chopper grabbed a hold of the railing and began to make his way over the spikes. He was worried if he was going to fall off or not.
"Ugh… I don't like being near spikes, honestly…"
He made his way across the railing and let go, landing on the floor right next to the end of the room. However, he didn't happen to see a door anywhere. Confused, he used Timpani's wand to look around.
"There's a door here," Timpani noted. "Here. Let me make it visible for you."
With that, the door was now visible, allowing Chopper to walk into another room. This one seemed to have the floor moving up an angle, which actually didn't make it good for Chopper, considering that going up a slope means he'll be slow.
However, there was a yellow spring sticking out of the wall over to his left. With it, he managed to make his way up the slope and over to a platform moving upward like the floor to his left. However, he couldn't get onto it by running. He had to jump over to it.
"Geez… This might be annoying for me…" Chopper trailed as he used a Speed Dash to go up the slope. Unfortunately, the spring on the wall made him go back down to the slope on the floor.
"Oh, dear… Those springs actually get in your way more than help you…" Timpani gasped.
"Yeah, I know. They're annoying." Chopper used his Speed Dash to go up the slope and reach the upward path to his left. This time, he tried to be careful and jumped for the upward path on his right. He was already close to the door anyway, so just one more platform to go…
When he made his way up to the door, he noticed that an armored enemy holding a spiked ball called a Meta Knight was guarding the door. It tried to throw the spiked ball at him, but Chopper used his Ice Storm to freeze it and kick it to the wall, shattering it.
"Yeah! That took care of that!"
"I guess it would be best to go through the door before any more enemies return," Blumiere suggested.
"And that is what I plan to do," Chopper smiled as he entered the door into the next room. For some reason, these rooms seemed to be going up, but maybe it's because it's leading up to an upper floor.
Especially this room. Apparently, there were some small platforms leading up to a railing connecting to both walls. Chopper shrugged and jumped up them to grab a hold of the railing. What was bad, however, was that he saw some spikes below him on another ledge. There were even some cannons he had to worry about too!
"Oh… Well this is nice…" One of the cannons happened to fire a cannonball at Chopper, removing his Ice ability, which ended up hitting the spikes. He frowned as the yellow star popped, leaving him with no ability.
He noticed that there was another railing up above him over by the upper right, so he tried jumping for it. Another thing that also seemed to be coming his way were purple spells. Chopper noticed that they looked familiar.
"Great… This is just what I needed."
He managed to grab a hold of the next rail and then got on the platform above it. A spring happened to be sitting there, so he decided to use it to launch himself up to the door above him, where another door was.
"Be careful, Chopper… I sense great power through that door…" Blumiere warned.
"Great power? You mean we're getting close to Tipral?" Chopper gaped.
"No… It doesn't feel like Tipral. It feels more like something…magical."
When Chopper walked into the next room, he noticed that there were a couple of platforms up ahead over by the right. Jumping down would result in him falling down in a bottomless pit. Not only that, but a couple of Phantom Embers were roaming around between the moving platforms.
He noticed that on the walls, there were some mirrors. They reminded Chopper of the mirrors back in Castle Tipral.
"Uh oh… Don't tell me he's here…" Chopper groaned as he jumped onto the first platform. The row of platforms moving down seemed to be going fast, to his surprise. Luckily, he was able to jump to the next set of platforms moving up while hurling an ice ball at a Phantom Ember in his way.
"Annoying Phantom Embers… Stay back in the Palace of Shadow please!"
He noticed that the mirrors suddenly had Dimentio in front of them. He noticed the Dimentios raise a finger and fire a spell down at him. He shrieked and jumped over to the platform nearby, avoiding the full power of the spell.
"You know, pard, you can always use me to avoid those spells," Slim informed. "You know, yer just gonna be slim when ya use me!"
"Oh, ha ha… Very funny. You're lucky that you're not involved in the fighting."
Chopper looked around to see if he needed to go somewhere. There was a large gap between the platform he's on and the ledge where the door was sitting.
"Hold on… Where are the platforms?"
"Remember, Chopper… 'When in doubt, try flipping'. We've seen that a couple of times when we were traveling through Lineland Road." Timpani reminded. "You're sure to find something."
"Yeah, that's true," Chopper nodded as he flipped into 3-D. To his surprise, he saw a couple of moving platforms going up and down. However, that didn't stop the Dimentios in the mirror to fire their spells at him in 3-D.
Chopper was able to avoid a couple while inhaling one of them to spit it over to the wall. After crossing the 3-D platforms, he went back into 2-D near the platform that was in 2-D and decided to wait for his Flip Gauge to fill up.
"Thankfully, my Flip Gauge has doubled, so I bet it might come useful around here," he pondered.
Once it was full, he opened the door into a hallway with a slope going down and also a loop. A Maginan Trooper was close by, reading to attack, so running through the loop wouldn't be as simple as Chopper thought.
"I guess it would be best to defeat the Maginan first…" suggested Timpani.
"Of course," Chopper nodded.
The Maginan began to fire at Chopper as soon as it spotted him, who proceeded to jump over the blasts and stomp on its head. It didn't do too much damage because of its defense, but he was able to bring his hammer down on it afterward with rainbow energy. Unfortunately, the trooper was able to whack Chopper with its blaster rifle, leaving a red mark on his face.
"Now I've got you!" the Maginan smirked as it fired a dark laser straight for Chopper. He tried to dodge it, but he was unfortunate to get hit by the laser and sent flying back. Chopper threw a simple fireball that did a little bit of damage to the Maginan, but it didn't burn it.
"Try all you want, but you can't burn or freeze me! My armor protects me from those effects!"
"Great… Then I have to resort to something else…" Chopper groaned as he gripped his hammer and bashed the Maginan. Even if fire and ice wouldn't have a huge effect on the trooper, it would still hurt it, right?
"Chances are that it could, but it's not going to do much," Blumiere noted as Chopper used a flaming sweeping kick to make the Maginan fall over, allowing Chopper to attack it with a rainbow stomp.
"Oh! I remember one attack I've been able to use once! I think I can technically use it!" When the Maginan got up, Chopper spun his fists that were full of rainbow energy and finished off the Maginan with a Rainbow Spin. "See? Got 'em!"
With that, he charged up a Speed Dash and went down the slope nearby. Because he was moving down, his speed increased as he went through the loop. He went through another loop and began to run on a flat surface after making his way down to the end of the slope. What caught him off guard was when he saw a slope going up and then down, as if it were some kind of lump on the ground.
"What the heck? Why is that there?"
"Well, I suppose you can still run on it," Timpani said. "It might bring you somewhere important anyway."
"All right, I'll just run over it," Chopper made his way up the little lump and ran down it. At this point, stopping wouldn't be easy, but he did happen to notice another slope reaching up to a ledge ahead.
"I wonder if there are any Speed Shoes around here… Sonic uses those, and I think it would be nice having some!"
When he ran up the ledge, he landed right in front of the door that was being guarded by a Dark Spiky Skell. He tried to fight it by using a rainbow smash, but he got hit by its spear at least once.
"Annoying Skellobit…" Chopper grumbled as he bashed its head with a rainbow smash, this time succeeding. The Dark Spiky Skell was blown back by the attack, and was finished off when Chopper tossed a charged rainbow ball at it.
"Heh heh… That'll teach it to mess with me!"
After hitting the Save Block, he entered the next room, which happened to be small with a block right in front of him. He noticed a little square-shaped hole nearby. Knowing what he had to do, Chopper pushed the box into the hole.
Only to have it reappear.
"What's this? Why did the block come back here?" Blumiere gawked.
"Oh, I see it now… This is just like that one puzzle in the Confusing Palace." Chopper recalled. "You two weren't there to see it, but in a palace, we had to figure out a little puzzle that involved pushing a block in a certain direction. I'm going to check and see right now."
Using his ability, Chopper flipped into 3-D to discover a glowing path to the hole. He used this to his advantage when he pushed the box on the glowing path and let it fall into the whole afterward. A door appeared in front of him as soon as he went back into 2-D.
"Well, time to head on through!"
Next room-
When Chopper walked into the next room, he noticed that the room was kind of small, but big enough to have a battle occur. He noticed that there were a couple of yellow balls bouncing around in the room too.
"What the… What are with these balls?" Chopper asked as one of them hit him in the face.
"Ow! What the…" Chopper noticed a certain Koopaling making a couple of yellow balls with his wand. "Is it me, or am I seeing a Koopaling here? Dang it, without Mario here, I don't know who this is!"
"Hey! Someone's here!" the Koopaling said stupidly as he jumped off his ball and landed in front of Chopper. "Hi there! My name's Lemmy Koopa! Put it there!"
"Uhhhh…" Chopper was about to shake his hand until he received a shock from Lemmy's hand. "Ack! What the heck?! Did you have a hand buzzer on your hand?!"
"Heh heh! So, I was told that some lunatic was coming here, thanks to some guy that looks like you. He told me if I could beat you, then King Bowser'll come back to us!"
"Yeah… I highly doubt he's telling you the truth. He's probably just telling you that so it would MAKE you want to go after us."
"Well I don't really care," Lemmy said stupidly as a flower squirt water in Chopper's face. "You are technically Mario's friend, who's my enemy! Fighting you is going to be a blast!"
"NO! I don't want to fight anyone right now!" Chopper cried. "I NEED to move on before I'm too late!"
"Well, looks like that's not going to happen! Let's battle!" Lemmy jumped on one of his balls and began firing smaller yellow balls at Chopper, who proceeded to jump over one of them. However, when he got close to Lemmy, he fired a ball that instantly pushed him back.
"These balls are such a pain! I wish I had something to get rid of 'em!" Chopper grumbled as he tried whacking one away. All it did was bounce all over the room. To his surprise, it ended up hitting Lemmy and knocked him off his ball.
"Hey… I think I see an idea here!" he used a Speed Dash to run up to him and gave him a good stomp, but Lemmy was faster and pulled a pie out. Throwing it at his face, he was knocked back and kicked in the face by the Koopaling.
"I can wash that off for you!" Lemmy spat a fireball straight at Chopper, who wiped the pie off his face and inhaled the fireball, gaining the Fire ability. The Koopaling gulped as Chopper transformed into a fireball and rammed into him.
"Yuck! That pie tasted horrible! And I'm not one to find things horrible!"
Chopper decided to find out what his stats were by using Timpani's wand.
"This is Lemmy Koopa. He's the second oldest of the Koopalings and another one of Bowser's minions. He's a bit of a jokester and a bit crazy. Max HP is 300. Attack is 15. Defense is 5. Lemmy, unlike the other Koopalings, tends to attack you with his own pranks. Sure, he can occasionally spit out a fireball, but he usually tries to knock you back with balls he created or just with things like pie or a whoopee cushion. Other than that, I really can't get much of a reading on him…" Timpani informed.
"Geez… This is the only Koopaling I have to fight on my own." Chopper sweat dropped. He spat a fireball himself at Lemmy, who ended up extinguishing it with his squirting flower. "Wait, that got rid of the fire?"
"Wanna put it there again?" Lemmy asked with his tongue out. He grabbed Chopper's hand and electrocuted him this time instead of giving him a shock. Despite this, Chopper didn't lose his Fire ability, but he managed to use a flaming sweeping kick, that's for sure.
"How am I going to beat this guy when he's got all these pranks?"
"If I may have a suggestion…" Blumiere began. "Since he's mostly using all of his pranks against you, why don't you try to fight him with pranks? It's like fighting fire with fire."
"I could try that, but I don't have anything to use…" Chopper trailed as he burned one of Lemmy's yellow balls. Lemmy used his squirt flower to hit Chopper again, but he tossed an ice ball to freeze the water and shatter it.
"Uh oh…"
Chopper charged straight for Lemmy and sent him flying back as a fireball. Knowing that he probably didn't have to use any pranks against him, he rolled up in a fireball instead and left Lemmy with a burn.
"Ha! Looks like I have the upper hand!" Chopper was about to attack Lemmy with a flaming fist, but he managed to bash him with his head and rid his Fire ability with his squirt flower.
"You've gotta be kidding me…"
"Come on! You want to enjoy some fun! This is as much fun as you get!" Lemmy stuck a tongue out as he began to throw pies like a maniac. Chopper got pelted by most of them, but managed to catch at least one.
"Eeuugh… These pies taste awful…" Chopper wiped some of the cream off his face and aimed the pie at Lemmy. While he was readying his wand, Chopper threw the pie at Lemmy's face.
But it didn't seem to do much.
"Heh heh heh heh! Nice joke ya played on me there!" Lemmy laughed. "C'mon! Why don'tcha throw another pie at me! Right in the face again!"
Chopper grabbed one of the pies left on his face and threw it at Lemmy. However, this time, Lemmy transformed the pie into an explosive pie that tried to attack Chopper. Big mistake he made there. He simply inhaled the pie (as bad as it was) and spat it at Lemmy, knocking him back.
"Bleh! Next time, why don't you make better pies?" Chopper scoffed, sticking his tongue out in disgust.
"Awww… Fine. I've got something else special!" Lemmy opened his mouth and a bunch of scarves came out. After getting them all out, he used them like a lasso and managed to catch Chopper. He hurled him to the wall, leaving him with almost a concussion.
"Ow… I don't get this…"
"You don't have to! I'm playin' a little prank on ya!"
"This feels more like pain than a prank," Chopper moaned as he burnt the scarves with fire energy. He proceeded to jump over to Lemmy and use a sweeping kick to hit his stomach. Afterward, he hurled a rainbow ball at him to cover him in rainbow steam.
Lemmy, despite hurt, didn't seem to cringe in pain. He just laughed hysterically as he spat a couple of fireballs in Chopper's way. He brought his hammer up and tried to block some of them, but the fireballs just blew Chopper's hammer out of his hands.
"YOUCH!" Chopper cried as he began to shake his hands from the fire left on him. However, using his Elemental Hand abilities, he was able to surround his hands in an icy aura to cool down the flames.
"Apparently you can't just let him get to you like that," Blumiere noted.
"I know, I know," Chopper stopped shaking his hands and hurled an ice ball at Lemmy, freezing him. This allowed him to run up to him and bash him with a fire smash, unfreezing Lemmy.
"Heh heh! So you do have nails to beat me!" Lemmy said stupidly as he stepped on a whoopee cushion he dropped and grabbed Chopper's hand to leave him with a nasty shock. He then got back on his yellow ball and rolled over Chopper, flattening him like a pancake.
"I'm getting creamed by a Koopaling… Seriously?"
Lemmy fired a light blue-colored spell straight at Chopper while he was preoccupied. When he inhaled it, he ended up gaining the Ice ability. From what he could tell, Lemmy apparently uses ice magic.
"He must use ice magic because he's usually been in a snow world," Timpani noted. "Many villains that live in the snowy wastelands usually have ice magic."
"Well, let's see how I fare against him. Now that I have ice to help me, this should get interesting." Chopper ice skated his way over to Lemmy, who was busy doing a stupid trick, and he jumped up to the Koopaling and used his Ice Sprinkle to make him shiver and turn a little blue.
"H-Hey! I was trying to do a little trick!" Lemmy spat, spitting a fireball straight at him. Chopper spat a chunk of ice out to counter it, but, because it was just ice, fire was able to melt it easily.
"Dang it… I gotta think up another way to get to him."
He noticed Lemmy summon another yellow ball that began to hurl down at him. He froze it with his Ice Breath and kicked it over to Lemmy's ball. Because of the ice shards left from the shattering ball, the ball popped and Lemmy fell face flat on the floor.
"YEAH! Take that!"
Chopper was about to charge at him, but he accidentally stepped on a whoopee cushion and fell over. The whoopee cushion seemed to emit some kind of sleeping powder that put Chopper to sleep.
"Well that actually worked," Lemmy smirked as he got up. "Who ever knew that the sound of a fart could emit gas that puts someone to sleep? Heh heh heh! Well, turns out I did!"
Lemmy fired another ice projectile from his wand to make it strike Chopper. However, because he had the Ice ability on, it didn't seem to remove his ability, making the Koopaling look confused.
"Hey! That should've done something!"
Not only that, but it woke Chopper up. Now that he was up and ready to fight, he ice skated over to Lemmy and used his Ice Storm to leave Lemmy frozen solid – but not for long. The Koopaling was able to break out and throw a ball in Chopper's face, leaving him dazed for a couple of seconds.
"Ugh… This is so annoying…" moaned Chopper.
Needless to say, he was getting his butt kicked once again. He tried to surround himself in another icy shield, which prevented Lemmy from using his claws on his when he got close to him.
"Hold on… I know what I CAN do!" Chopper whipped out an Ultimate Shroom Shake and drank the whole thing, recovering 100 HP. "Yeah! Now I feel much better! Thankfully, I have the upper hand this time!"
Lemmy grabbed another whoopee cushion and sat on it, making fire spit out. He began to fly straight for Chopper, who brought up another icy shield with his Ice Storm. But, instead, he was able to get Lemmy inside his mouth. You know, to try something different.
Once he spat the Koopaling out, he was just a mere frozen popsicle. But, once he crashed into the wall, the ice shattered and Lemmy was free. He created another yellow ball and jumped on it. With his magic ready, he fired a chunk of ice down at Chopper. It didn't freeze him, but it knocked his Ice ability away.
"Meh. It's all right. I can fight without ice." Chopper shrugged as he charged a rainbow ball and hurled it at him, knocking him off his ball. While he was dazed, Chopper ran up to him and stomped on his head.
"Look, I know you believe that defeating me will get your dad back, but I highly doubt Tipral would even help you."
"Well, then why'd he tell me that earlier?" Lemmy asked, kicking Chopper away before taking out a paint bucket. "He said that if I stayed here and guarded this place and beat you, I'd get my dad back."
He drank the paint in the bucket after opening it with his claw and began to squirt blue paint of Chopper. He jumped out of the way and held Starbow up, making shooting stars rain down on Lemmy and knock him over.
"Yeah! That's what I'm talking about!"
Lemmy merely gave him a stupid look before squirting him with water with his squirt flower. Chopper rubbed his eyes as the water got caught in there, allowing Lemmy to get in his shell and send him flying back.
"What a cheap move…" Chopper grumbled.
"Heh heh heh! How'd you like that?" Lemmy snickered.
"Well, how would you like THIS?!" Chopper whipped his hammer out and brought it down on Lemmy's head. After thrusting his hammer upward, Lemmy got sent flying up to the ceiling and then began to plummet down.
"Chopper, Lemmy's HP is rather low at this point," Timpani informed. "If you deal a couple of more hits, you should be able to defeat him."
"Hey, I like that!" Chopper smiled. "All right! Time to end this, Lemmy!"
Before he could attack, Lemmy used another whoopee cushion to put him to sleep. At this point, the Koopaling was able to make a move while he was asleep, so he created a yellow ball and hurled it at Chopper, knocking him to the wall.
"Ow…"
Lemmy conjured another ice spell and prepared to hurl it at him. Chopper, on the other hand, inhaled the spell and spat it back at Lemmy, leaving him stunned and allowing Chopper to hurl a charged rainbow ball at him.
"Oh, man… I don't know what to do now…" Lemmy moaned. "I'm not feeling good at the moment."
"Then could you let me through?" Chopper asked. "I'd rather just get a move on instead of knocking you out."
"No way! I'm not giving up just yet!"
"Ugh… If you say so…" As Lemmy prepared another spell, Chopper simply stomped on him, and Lemmy fell over on the ground, unconscious.
Chopper brushed off any dirt left on him from the fight and gave a smirk as he looked away from him. Even though he didn't want to knock out the Koopaling, he really had no other choice.
"That was…an interesting Koopaling," Blumiere commented.
"Yeah, I can't disagree on that," Chopper agreed as he walked over to the door. "Wait until I tell everyone else abo-"
He paused for a moment, his smirk changing to a sad look. He pulled his communicator out and tried to get a hold of them.
Sadly, he had no luck.
"Man… Being alone isn't fun at all. I've had to be alone for a long time ever since my own kind was wiped out. And some of the closest friends I've ever had… Gone."
"But Chopper… Didn't you say yourself that you believed that they're still alive?" Timpani recalled.
"Yeah… I did say that. Now that I think about it, I'm not so sure. I mean, if they were sucked into space, I don't see how they'll die easily. Maybe they could be still alive! If Tipral has to do something related to this, I swear I'll make him pay."
He opened the door in front of him and entered a room with a spring over to his left that seemed to go up to the ceiling. He noticed a little curve connecting from the wall to the ceiling, as if he could run up it.
"Hmmmmm… Well, since there's nothing over to my right, I might as well use this spring…" Chopper trailed.
He jumped on the spring and launched himself up to the ceiling. He tried to get his feet moving, so when he got on the curve, he was starting to run on the ceiling instead. Luckily, there were no enemies in his way, so he was able to go up the curve on another wall connected to the ceiling and jump off the wall thanks to a yellow spring pointed upward to the right, sending him onto the higher ledge of the room.
"Geez… That was interesting."
He was right beside the door, which was apparently being guarded by a robotic enemy with a tinted lens for an eye and exhaust pipes rising from its back. Chopper also noticed the enemy wearing a blue cap with a yellow brim and had red, metal feet. It had one retractable arm with a white glove on the end, which also seemed to be holding a red yo-yo. After investigating it, Chopper found out that it was called a Gim.
"Hmmmm… I better see what this thing has." Chopper opened his mouth and sucked the Gim in like a vacuum. Upon swallowing the robotic enemy, he gained a backwards light blue cap (that reminded him of the hat from his Wheel ability) and was carrying a red and white yo-yo.
"Huh… So, looks like I have a yo-yo!"
"But what would you need a yo-yo for, anyway?" Blumiere asked.
"Oh, maybe I'll need it for something…"
He opened the door into the next room, which seemed to go up. However, there was a high ledge just above him, but because of his jump, Chopper was unable to reach the high ledge.
However, there happened to be a switch hanging from the short ceiling above him. Something like a yo-yo could probably get it down…
"Hey! This gives me an idea!" Chopper threw his yo-yo at the red ! Switch on the ceiling and made a platform appear right by the ledge. However, just because the platform appeared didn't mean that he was good to go. It actually had a time limit.
"You might want to move fast, Chopper," Timpani warned. "That platform won't be there for long…"
"Oh… Then I better act quickly!" he declared as he leapt up to the platform and jumped onto the ledge afterward. The platform disappeared, but he had a Darkling to worry about at the moment.
The Darkling hurled a yellow spell directly at him, causing him to jump over the spell and use his yo-yo to knock it to the wall. He pulled it over to him with his yo-yo and slammed it to the ground, finishing it off.
"I never knew someone could do something like that with a yo-yo…" gaped Timpani.
"I never knew either…until I used it the first time," Chopper said as he threw his yo-yo up at the next red ! Switch above him. He used the platform to reach the next ledge, that happened to have an Elite Dark Swordsman ready to attack.
"Great…"
He used his yo-yo to grab the Dark Elite Soldier and throw it to the wall. Afterward, he simply smacked it with his yo-yo to deal a little bit of damage. Because of its defense, it was kind of tough to hurt it. Luckily, he was able to dodge the purple jagged sword's swings and throw the Dark Creature off the ledge.
"Phew! That was too close!"
He hit the next red ! Switch and reached the final ledge, where a door happened to be. A Maginan Trooper, unfortunately, was blocking the way, and even when Chopper threw it off the ledge, it was able to use its jetpack to fly back up.
"Don't think that's going to work, kid," spat the Maginan. "You're not going to be getting anywhere with me here!"
"Crud…" Nevertheless, Chopper flung a fireball at the Maginan's jetpack, sending it crashing to the floor. With his tongue sticking out, he kicked the door into a room with a ledge just before him, but he noticed that there wasn't much of a floor here. In fact, there was not much of a floor. There were even a couple of mirrors as well!
"Uhhhhh… Wait, this isn't good."
Before Chopper could react, he ducked when a spell was hurled down at him. Dimentio, who happened to be in the mirror, was flinging his spells down at him.
"Dimentio… I'm surprised that Tipral even let him live…" Blumiere said as he glared at Dimentio through the wand.
Chopper jumped on one of the bobbing platforms that reminded him of Castle Tipral. On a platform past a tall one, there happened to be a Dark Sir Kibble standing around, doing nothing special.
When Chopper flipped into 3-D, he noticed that there was a platform over to his right, so he jumped onto it to get around the taller platform. After going back into 2-D, he whacked the Dark Sir Kibbles with his yo-yo and sent it falling down the bottomless pit.
"I'll admit, making a lot of bottomless pits in a palace isn't exactly 'safe'," Chopper noted as he jumped to the next platform. "In fact, bottomless pits themselves are starting to become a little clichéd."
Nevertheless, he jumped over the gap and landed on another bobbing platform. The platform next to him happened to have a Dark Koopatrol roaming around, so he got his yo-yo ready for action.
Chopper simply whipped his yo-yo at the Dark Koopatrol to send it flying back. To his surprise, it landed on the bobbing platform across the gap. Needless to say, he was a bit shocked.
"Sheesh… Who ever knew that would happen?"
The Dark Koopatrol got back up and attempted to charge at Chopper, but once he brought Starbow up, shooting stars began to rain down on the Dark Koopatrol and defeat it after four stars hit it.
"Yeah! That did it! Now let's get a move on!" Chopper crossed the rest of the bobbing platforms until he reached the door. Upon entering, he was in another similar hallway, but with large, purple and black tanks in the room. Three, to be exact.
"Whoa… What're those?"
"They look like heavily armored tanks…" Timpani trailed. "A Dark Tank, to be exact. Be careful, Chopper… This thing has 300 HP, an Attack of 16 and a Defense of 8. They can be pretty dangerous…"
"Wh-What?! Are you serious?! That's ridiculous!" Chopper gaped.
One of the Dark Tanks noticed Chopper's arrival and prepared to fire at him. He gasped and jumped over the large, purple laser that was fired in his direction and hurled his yo-yo at the tank.
It barely did anything.
"Try all ya want, kid!" scoffed the Dark Creature in the tank. "But a mere yo-yo like that's not going to harm this bad boy!"
"Yeah… I thought so…" Chopper removed his Yo-yo ability as soon as a missile fired straight for him. He inhaled it and gained the Bomb ability. While using Starbow to damage it a tad, he threw a couple of bombs at it, which seemed to actually deal some damage to it.
"It looks like explosives seem to work against it," Timpani informed as Chopper threw a couple of more bombs at it.
"I feel that this could take a while…"
Some time later-
"MAN… I can't believe it nearly took me THAT long to finish off those tanks!" Chopper sighed as he fell over by the door, exhausted. He noticed that he could see the comet still through the window.
"You know, I wonder why a comet is out there… In fact, where did it come from?"
"Hmmmm… Perhaps we'll be able to see this in the future?" Blumiere predicted.
"Well, let's not worry about a comet for the moment. We need to find Tipral immediately, before we're too late."
Chopper opened the door into a room where he saw a cracked wall near him. Since he didn't have Hommissile around, he was forced to pull out a bomb and drop it by the crack. Upon exploding, a hole in the wall appeared, allowing Chopper to go through in 3-D. He nearly fainted when he saw a long hallway with pillars around the room.
"Oh, man… I've gotta do some sort of puzzle, don't I?"
Not only that, but he had a Skelloknight to worry about. It charged straight for him, but he managed to drop a bomb right in front of it to blow its armor off. With that, he chucked a couple of bombs at it and took care of it. Upon going into 3-D again, he noticed a Dark Tank.
"I suppose it's best to stay out of 3-D," suggested Timpani.
"Yeah, I better do that…" Chopper looked around the hallway, searching for anything that he could find. There happened to be a Maginan in the room, to his dismay, but a couple of bombs were able to do it in.
"OK… So I guess I have to see where to go…" Unfortunately, Chopper had no luck in finding anything around to help him.
"Dang it… I don't see anything around here. No cracks, no nothing." However, it didn't stop him from using Timpani's wand to search around the room. Groaning, he went into 3-D and chucked some bombs at the Dark Tank.
After it was destroyed, he noticed by one of the pillars, there was apparently a hidden crack. Out of curiosity, Chopper placed a bomb in front of the pillar and let it explode. The pillar fell over on the left and made a hole for him to go through.
"Now I'm starting to get that maze feeling from Castle Tipral…" Chopper groaned. "This sure is 'not-so-a-mazing'…"
"I can't tell whether that was a pun or not…" Blumiere trailed.
"I'm not too sure," Chopper said as he walked through the hole and found another hole to the upper right, so he simply made his way through there. In the next hallway, he noticed that there were actually two more holes. One just up ahead, and another to the upper right. He decided to take the one closest to him, leading him into a hallway with two Dark Goombas and two Dark Koopa Troopas.
He readied a bomb and began to chuck them at the four enemies. One of the Dark Goombas managed to headbonk him, while a Dark Koopa was able to send him flying back by ramming him with it shell.
"Ugh… Annoying Koopas…" Chopper grumbled as he stomped on the Koopa and kicked it at the rest of the enemies. He finished off the Dark Koopa by chucking one last bomb at it.
With that, he went back into 3-D to see if there was anything around. He saw another hole to the upper right and went through to find a door just up ahead. He went back into 2-D, defeated the Dark Boomboxer with some stomps, and entered the door into a room with a caged fence shaped like a rectangle floating in the air. There weren't any enemies, but there were surely some sparks on it.
"Careful, Chopper…" Timpani warned. "If you're on that fence for too long, you're bound to get electrocuted."
"All right, I'll try…" Chopper grabbed a hold of the fence and started to climb his way across. However, he didn't notice a spark appearing all the way to the left and making its way for Chopper.
"Watch out for the spark," Blumiere warned.
"Oh, geez!" Chopper was about to jump off, but he ended up getting electrocuted by the spark, losing his Bomb ability in the process. Despite this, he was able to land right by the door and head into another hallway with two patrolling Maginans. He decided to go into 3-D, where he saw a doorway over to the upper left. However, the Maginans had the ability to go into 3-D.
"Dang it!"
Despite this, he chucked a couple of rainbow balls at the Maginans to destroy them, allowing him to proceed on to the doorway to the upper left. At this point, all of the enemies had the ability to go into 3-D.
The Biospark that was charging for Chopper pulled out a kunai knife and tried to stab Chopper with it. Instead, it got inhaled, allowing Chopper to get the Ninja ability.
"Well, since ninja attacks pierce through defense, this should be just fine," he smiled as he pulled a small katana out. "Plus, I get this cool katana!"
He rushed at one of the Dark Pokeys in the hallway and used his Dash Attack to swing his katana at the enemy while dashing. He disappeared for a second after going past the Dark Pokey. When he reappeared, he was right behind the Dark Pokey, but it was already defeated.
With a smirk, he put his katana away and ran over to the upper left doorway in 3-D. At this point, he noticed two doorways down to the lower left and right. Upon going down the left one, he noticed a small, simple hallway with a Darkling and a Dark Buzz Bomber.
"Ugh… This'll be swell." Chopper threw a couple of kunais at the Darkling and Dark Buzz Bomber. After a couple, they were gone, allowing Chopper to open the chest to reveal at Star Shroom Shake.
"OK, I guess there's nothing else here. Might as well take the other way." Chopper went back into 3-D and took the other doorway into a hallway with a door up a slope. Two Dark Spiky Bomber Skells happened to be around here.
He tried to attack them, but due to them flying above him, he couldn't attack them with his ninja abilities. Instead, he used Starbow to take them out with a couple of shooting stars, allowing him to proceed to the door ahead, leading him to a room with two walls close together.
"I believe you can wall jump up those with your Ninja ability," Timpani noted. "In case if you ever lost your ability, the Biospark here could help."
"Not likely," Chopper said as he finished off the Biospark with his katana. "It's already defeated!"
With that, he began to go up the room with his wall jump. It didn't take him too long, but once he reached the top, he got on the ledge to the right and walked over to a green ! Switch right near him. Upon hitting it with his katana, a path revealed itself in 3-D, but the switch also took away his Ninja ability.
"What?! How come I can't use that?!"
"From what I can tell, that switch has the ability to take away any Copy Abilities that you have if you touch it," Timpani informed.
"Great… Well, might as well continue on." Chopper flipped into 3-D and went through the path in 3-D. After going through the wall, he noticed a bigger door right in front of him with two, large, dark lanterns. He could also see a large pillar as well.
"This must be the door to lead us to Tipral's lair…" Blumiere informed.
"Yes, I can feel a dark power coming from this door…" Timpani agreed.
"Yeah, but the only problem is that it's locked," Chopper frowned. "How am I supposed to get through now?"
He decided to throw his arms up and go into 3-D. What he didn't notice was a secret door behind the pillar. When he opened it, it led him outside, on a…cloud?
"Huh…? What's a cloud doing here?" Chopper noticed another cloud just up ahead. "Weird… I'm outside in space, yet there are clouds here too?"
While pondering, he noticed something fly around. It looked like some sort of white, baby UFO with eyes. He wanted to eat it and take its ability, but it already flew past him, making him frown.
"Well, since that door was locked, I should go and see if I can find a key here," Chopper jumped over to the cloud ahead and noticed a couple of smaller clouds forming as stairs leading up to a chest.
After making his way up them, he opened the chest and found a Palace Key inside. With that, he went back inside.
Inside-
"All right, this is it…" Chopper trailed, pulling the Palace Key out and holding it in his hands. "Well, let's go."
Putting the key in the lock, it broke off, allowing Chopper to go in. However, it wasn't what he expected it to be. In fact, there was no one in this room at all. It actually looked kind of like the rooms the others fought someone in…but with a door ahead.
"Oh, so this isn't it yet…"
"Ah ha ha ha. I see you've finally made your way here." Over in the middle of the room, Dimentio was standing there, as if he was waiting for him.
"Dimentio…" Blumiere said coldly.
"What's this? Are you holding some sort of wand that allows you to communicate with someone?" Dimentio asked while smirking. "Very interesting…"
"All right, where's Tipral?" Chopper asked, getting in a fighting stance. "I think it would be a wise decision to tell me where he is before I stomp on you."
"I dare you to try," the magician challenged. Chopper shrugged and hurled a rainbow ball at the jester. He simply put his hand in the way and let the attack bounce of with a small, magic barrier.
"What the… But how?"
"I am a magician, you know… I can do many things. In fact, I could simply use my magic to end your game right now."
"We're not going to let that happen," Timpani growled. "You've lost in the past, even when Chopper and his friends beat you when you took the Chaos Heart."
"Me? Taking the Chaos Heart? I don't have the slightest memory of that…"
"Remember, Tippi… Tipral apparently wiped his memory of all that…" Chopper reminded. "Anyway… Are you just here to fight or what?"
"Oh, no no no. I didn't come here to fight at all. In fact, I waited here for you to congratulate you! There's no harm in complimenting someone!"
"Yeah, I know that…"
"Sometimes I don't get this guy…" Timpani groaned.
"The only reason how I even got here was because somehow the wall blocking me magically disappeared and revealed a door," Chopper explained. "I'd be gone if that happened."
"Magically disappeared, you say?"
"Yeah… I know. It… Wait a second… Was that YOU who did that?"
"You might as well say that," Dimentio slowly nodded as he turned away from him. "I noticed how much you were suffering from being trapped in that room. In fact, it was I who even trapped you in the room in the first place!"
"You big jerk…"
"Oh, no need for insults, little Chopper!" Dimentio assured as he turned to him. "I did save your life in the first place too."
"Or maybe you just wanted me to wait until I was alone, is that it?"
"Oh, yes! I just realized that you haven't even got in touch with your friends!"
"Look, I don't want to talk about it. Just get out of my way." Chopper suggested, giving him a glare.
"Very well… If I must. If you wish to stop Tipral, then I'm not stopping you." With a simple snap of his finger, he disappeared.
"That was strange…" Timpani trailed. "Why would he just let out through like that? It's not like him to do that…"
"Well, he did that for us, so we might as well go on," Chopper rushed over to the door and opened it to a hallway with a couple of doors. He noticed that there were about eight doors in the hallway and one door at the end.
"I believe these doors lead to one of Tipral's minions' rooms," Blumiere confirmed. "I can tell that brown door is O'Chunks's."
"Well, let's take a look, shall we?" Chopper opened the door, but he stopped when he noticed that there was a punching bag by the corner, and even a piece of meat hanging from the ceiling.
"I take it he enjoys meat…"
"Yes, O'Chunks has taken a liking to meat," Blumiere nodded. "Perhaps it's because he wants to be stronger than before?"
"Most likely… Well, nothing too special in this room." Chopper poked at the chunk of meat before exiting the room. He went up to the pink door up next and opened it to find a pink room filled with a couple of dolls and a red heart on the rug.
"…I don't really like this room that much."
"From what I can tell, this must be Mimi's room…"
"Yeah… I can tell by the Rubees, the Tipral plushie, the picture of her and Tipral kissing and… Wait, what's that?" Chopper noticed a diary sitting on the table. "Is this her diary?"
"…Are you really going to read her diary?" Timpani gawked.
"Uhhhh… I'm not sure whether or not if I should."
"Sometimes, I get a little curious of what's in another girl's diary. Hee hee! Sometimes finding a secret can be interesting!"
"Hmmmmmm… Well, since Mimi isn't around and all… Maybe I might consider it."
"Are you suuuuure you want to do that, though? Sometimes I even feel I'm invading someone's privacy."
"Sigh… All right, I guess I'll take a look." Chopper slowly grabbed the book and opened it. With a sigh, he began to read the following.
Dear Diary,
Man, I can't believe those heroes! They managed to beat me and get a hold of a Pure Heart even when the world was destroyed! …Too bad that the Pure Heart is nothing but a stone! Tee hee! I highly doubt that they'll be able to get that thing back anyway! However, I'm still a little ticked off about getting beaten up by those heroes! Ugh! Do boys ever treat girls with respect anymore? They can be soooo dumb! I really hate Chopper and that pink friend of his! They're probably the most annoying of them all! Hopefully they get what they deserve later on!
Mimikins~
P.S.: If you're reading this, Dimentio, then I know you're in my diary!
"Bleh… I don't like this girly writing." Chopper gagged.
"Do you want to read more?" Blumiere asked.
"Oh, fine… I'll read another page and that's it." he turned to the next page and began to read again.
Dear Diary,
Is it just me or do I easily have a crush on boys so easily? I mean, when I first met Count Bleck, I ended up having a bit of a crush on him! And then Tippy comes along and I end up liking him too! You know, I wonder when his birthday is, too! I think it would be a good idea to get him a little gift. It'll show how much I care about him!
Mimikins~
"That's it. I'm done." Chopper dropped the book and ran out of the room. "OK… Let's check this room."
When he opened the next door, he noticed that there were pictures of grins, one picture of Fawful and Cackletta, and also a sculpture of Fawful wearing the Headgear on his head. From what he could tell, this was Fawful's room.
"Hmmmmm… Nothing too special here. Just a couple of grins, a picture of Cackletta, and some kind of… Wait, what's that dark blue spherical-shaped thing? That looks like some sort of dark star inside of it…"
"Well, I can't really tell what that is… Maybe we'll find out some other time." Timpani said as Chopper left the room and went over to the next one. The room seemed to be a purple color, with a crossword puzzle on the table, and also a clipboard of a schedule. It was also very tidy, with no paper or pencils left on the floor. Timpani seemed to like this room the most so far.
"Hmmmmmm… This is a strange room… Whose room is this?" Chopper asked.
"From what I can tell, it's Nastasia's room," Blumiere confirmed as Chopper walked over to a picture of her and Count Bleck. "Oh, yes… I remember that picture. It's when I first saved her life."
"You saved her life?"
"Yes. It was back many years ago. A bat was trapped one day, which I happened to notice. I freed it, and when night came, a woman appeared in my room when I was sleeping. She pledged her loyalty to me and thanked me for rescuing her. I found out that she was, indeed, the bat that was trapped. However, the only question I wanted to know…was who trapped Nastasia."
"Wow… That's a really interesting story. So, I suppose this Nastasia person is working for Tipral?"
"I believe so… But, she'll probably come to my side if she ever heard me. She did swear her loyalty to me before… But, I always felt that she didn't have to do that… I'd rather let her stay free."
"Huh… Yeah, I know how you feel." Chopper left Nastasia's room and checked Mr. L's room. Unfortunately, there didn't appear to be anything special, except for some blueprints on his table. He noticed that they were for a new Brobot. He planned on naming it "Brobot Mk. II".
"A new Brobot? Yeah, not likely."
He turned away with a smirk as he left the room and walked over to the third-to-last door. When he opened it, he realized that it felt a little dark. However, what he noticed was a picture of much larger alien with three eyes.
"Who's the big alien freak?" Chopper wondered. "Is he this Black Doom Dark was talking about before?"
He decided that it would be best to leave the room and go to the next door. He opened it to find a room filled with a couple of magic books, a purple bed, and even a couple of ponchos in the closet. For some reason, this room felt…
Magical.
"I suppose this must be Dimentio's room," Chopper confirmed as he looked around in the purple and yellow room. "Yeesh… Whoever knew Dimentio's room would be something like this? But it still smells fishy."
"Why fishy?" Blumiere gawked.
"I guess this explains it," the moment Chopper picked up a can of fish nearby, Timpani and Blumiere found themselves face palming from where they were. He looked at the can for a bit before putting it down. "There's not much else I can say about this room… I guess we might as well leave."
Chopper left Dimentio's room, but he noticed one last door before the door at the end of the hallway. Out of curiosity, he pushed the door opened and found this room to be a bit dark. From what he could tell, this was Tipral's room.
"This must be Tipral's room…" Timpani trailed.
"No wonder it feels so dark in here…" Blumiere trailed.
"Yeah, it does have the dark feeling…" Chopper walked over to Tipral's table, but he didn't see anything around. He did have a drawer that he opened, only to find a couple of pictures of old plans.
"These don't look like Tipral's handwriting. They look more like Nastasia's. I guess she writes up the plans, while he holds onto them. But, I guess he puts it here with all of his other garb—Wait, what's that?"
"What is it, Chopper?"
"Look at this…" he noticed a picture in the drawer, which he grabbed and put on the table. But, it looked a little too dark to see, so he flashed Timpani's wand on the picture, only to reveal something surprising to him.
"Is this actually Tipral?" Chopper gawked. "This is odd… Is he actually…smiling?"
"Never have I seen that boy smile…" Blumiere trailed.
"Yeah, tell me about it. He never smiled once… Wait, look at who's next to him!"
Chopper noticed that there was a human girl with light brown hair wearing a white dress right next to Tipral. "Hey… There's a human girl with him too! But it looks so old… That rainbow bow thing on her head, though… It kind of reminds me of your butterfly form, Tippi."
"What? Hold on…" Timpani got a closer look at the picture as Chopper held it closer to the wand. "Oh my gosh… I think that IS me!"
"Timpani… So you knew about Tipral for a long time?" Blumiere asked.
"You know… I think it's all starting to come back to me. Yes… Back when I first met him in a space station…"
"Space station?"
"Yes, my kind were able to go to a space station for a little tour, but I ended up getting lost and was left all alone after everyone left. I tried to find someone to help me, but that's when I met Tipral…"
"What did he do?" Blumiere asked.
"He…saved me."
"Saved you? That's a little odd, considering how evil Tipral is right now. Do you know what caused him to be evil?"
"No… Not at all."
"The only thing that comes in the top of my head is that he was thrown out of Twilight Town, which got him angered and forced him to take his revenge upon the villagers. Kind of sad, I'll admit. Plus, he did all of this just to get his revenge on me and everyone else, too…"
"So far, that's all I really remember at the moment. But, now things should come along just fine with remembering."
"Let's just put this picture away for now. I don't want to spend all this time looking at things like this. We need to find Tipral immediately before he brings The Void back…"
With that, Chopper left Tipral's room and hurried to the door ahead. It ended up leading him into a room with a staircase going up to a door where a Save Block and ? Block appeared.
He made his way up the stairs and hit the ? Block. After eating the Ultimate Shroom Shake, Chopper punched the Save Block to save his game.
"OK… I have a feeling that Tipral is just beyond this door…" Chopper trailed. "We still have time…"
"Yes, we do… Let us go, Chopper." Blumiere nodded.
Taking a deep breath, Chopper slowly opened the door.
Sanctum-
"Chopper… I can feel the dark power coming from within this room." Timpani informed. "I believe we're here…"
"This room's huge!" Chopper gaped as he looked at it. He noticed that there were a couple of platforms that reminded him a bit of Castle Tipral when he battled against Count Bleck.
"So, you finally made it here. I expected your arrival."
Chopper looked up and saw Tipral looking down at him while crossing his arms. Nastasia was on a platform next to his, while Dark was still holding his forehead in pain. That's when Chopper clenched his fists and got in a fighting stance.
"All right, Tipral, it ends here!" Chopper declared. "I think it's best for you to surrender before things get a little too intense!"
"You honestly think I'm going to surrender to YOU? Not likely." Tipral spat. "In fact, I believe you're too late to stop me anyway."
He held up the Chaos Heart in his hand, making Chopper gasp.
"He's already got the Chaos Heart?!" Blumiere gaped. "But how?!"
"First off, I'll explain how I even got to bringing back the Chaos Heart," Tipral began. "The previous time, I had to use the dreams of a pink puffball, a blue hedgehog, a blue cat, and two plumbers in order to resurrect the Chaos Heart. But, while looking through the Dark Prognosticus, I noticed something that would work a lot better. But, it wasn't easy to get."
"And that is…" Chopper trailed.
"You see, there was the other hero. The pale green one, to be exact. The Dark Prognosticus stated that if the pale green hero ever kissed someone, then the love from the two could give you the last thing needed to create the Chaos Heart. Luckily, I was able to find the best moment for me to take the love into the heart to form it."
"Wait a second… That white flash was YOU?!"
"Yes, that was me, Chopper! I managed to find Luvbi kissing you for a moment and took action by taking the love energy with the Dark Star Scepter and using it to help create the Chaos Heart. I also got some dark matter from a mansion to make The Void grow faster. So, do you know what that means?"
"What?"
"Thanks to you, The Void will finally be back! I actually thought that this plan would never work, but it turns out that it did!"
"No… That…can't be right…" Chopper trailed as he looked down in sadness.
"Tipral… Listen to me." Timpani began. "You can't be doing this!"
"Listen, Tipral. We know about the whole thing with you and Tippi… I mean Timpani. She can talk to you about this. You don't have to summon The Void!"
"Please…"
"The girl named Timpani died a long time ago," Tipral retorted. "I don't care about her or the events involving her anymore. Life has been horrible on me ever since I was born, and now I'm going to end life itself! It's too late to stop me now!"
"You sure about this, Tipral?" Nastasia asked.
"Yes, I intend to continue the plan," Tipral held the Chaos Heart up and allowed it to fly up. "Now go, Chaos Heart! Fill the entire universe with your dark vortex and destroy everything that gets near! Let them all stay in ruin forever!"
The Chaos Heart disappeared, and everything began to shake violently.
"No! We're too late!" Chopper gasped.
"Whoa… I never knew this would be how The Void would get summoned…" Dark trailed.
After thirty seconds, the shaking stopped, leaving the room silent for a couple of seconds.
"Face it, Chopper. You lost now." Tipral stated. "Surely enough, The Void will appear and get bigger. Perhaps it will probably consume everything in three weeks…or less."
"WHAT?! You're serious?!" Chopper gaped.
"Tipral…" Timpani trailed. "I can no longer think of you as a friend. You're more of a monster now."
"Do you care about other people's lives?" Blumiere asked.
"Lives are worth less than the Chaos Heart's power. So no, I don't care about other people's lives. However, I'm not going to break my promise to my minions. I will give them what they want."
"Well… There's only one option now…" Chopper trailed. "I guess I have no other choice but to stop you."
"I was just about to get to that," Tipral said. "I'm getting tired of this conversation. I think it's best to dispose of you right away. Nastasia, I want you to go if you don't want to get hurt."
"…Are you sure?" Nastasia asked.
"Yes. This fight is between me and Chopper. Go."
"Very well…"
"Nastasia! Wait!" Unfortunately, it was too late. Nastasia already teleported away. "No… Nastasia…"
"As for you, Dark… I want you to stay back from this fight. I don't want you getting involved." Tipral said as he turned to Dark.
"Fine. But if you EVER want to call me, I'll give you a hand." Dark nodded.
"Good… Now…" Tipral raised his scepter and looked down at Chopper. "It's time for us to end this once and for all! You will witness the true power of Tipral!"
"Fine. Let's settle this once and for all." Chopper declared as Tipral appeared on the floor, ready for battle. Chopper started off by running up to him and attempting to bash at him with his hammer. Unfortunately, a barrier was preventing him from harming him.
"What?! What the heck?!"
"With the Chaos Heart's power soon being put to full use, I'm invulnerable to all of your attacks," Tipral stated. "No matter what you do, you can't hurt me. Face it, Chopper. It's all over for you!"
"I don't think so!" Chopper hurled a couple of rainbow balls at Tipral, but not even those seemed to harm him.
"Now it's my turn," Tipral waved his scepter and fired a dark star at Chopper's direction. He inhaled it and spat it at Tipral, but it still did nothing. This gave Tipral another chance to strike Chopper, and this time he succeeded.
"All right, I'm investigating him…" Chopper got Timpani's wand out and began to investigate him.
"That's Tipral. He's the dark being who carries the evil Dark Star Scepter… He also wishes to destroy the universe with the Chaos Heart for revenge. Max HP is 350. Attack is 16. Defense is 7. With the Dark Star Scepter, he can use many different dark attacks on you, such as his dark star attack or dark beam. Those attacks can be dangerous if you don't dodge quickly. Not only is he armed with the Dark Star Scepter, but he also armed with his Star magic as well. Those can be fast if you're not careful. If he ever freezes time, you're not escaping from that. However, if he unleashed a Star Blast on you, try to get as far away from him as possible. Please, Chopper… You must stop him before it's too late. There's still a chance…" Timpani informed.
"Wow… He really does have a huge arsenal of attacks." Chopper gawked before getting sent flying back by a Star Spear. Tipral began to skate his way toward Chopper, but he quickly got up and jumped over him.
"Doesn't matter. I can still get to you." Tipral declared as he teleported in front of Chopper and fired a dark beam from his scepter at Chopper, dealing a ton of damage while he was stuck in the beam.
When he stopped, Chopper was left battered up on the ground. He tried using Starbow to hit Tipral with a couple of shooting stars, but it didn't seem to work too well.
"How pathetic! The hero of the prophecy can't do a thing to me! You might as well burn with the rest of the people who care about you! You and those accursed friends of yours…" Tipral growled while hurling a shadow ball at him. Chopper was able to counter it with a rainbow ball, but it didn't seem to be the one winning.
"Great… Not even a rainbow ball can beat a shadow ball!"
He slowly got himself up, but he got pelted by a dark star, knocking him over. Tipral finished off by delivering a Star Punch to Chopper's face, sending him flying to the wall. Timpani's wand also happened to drop from his inventory too.
"What's this? A wand?" Tipral picked it up and looked at the glowing rainbow aura coming from it. "I suppose with this, you can contact other people that can't even get close to you, is that it?"
"H-Hey! Give that back, Tipral!" demanded Chopper.
"You have no right to use this wand!" Timpani snapped. "Tipral! Please! I don't want to have Chopper hurt you. I know more about you than anyone else!"
"It would be better if you did that," Blumiere agreed.
"Hmph… I never knew wands like these existed. Too bad it's probably going to be the last that there'll ever be."
"Wait… Do you… Tipral… Don't you DARE…"
Chopper was too late. Tipral already used all the Star power he needed to crush it. All of the pieces of the wand began to drop to the ground, leaving Chopper in complete utter shock.
"You… You took away the last thing for me to speak to those two!" Chopper gasped.
"You don't need that wand anymore," Tipral spat. "It's better that we keep this fight between you and me! Besides… Those two only got in the way. What? You're going to cry about it?"
From what Tipral could see, Chopper was looking down at the ground in sadness. "Yeah, like we need to see you cry or anything. Very well. I'll just end this now."
"I can't believe you just did that…" Chopper trailed as his arms started to change to a dark aura. "I'm… I'm going to GET YOU FOR THIS!"
His voice changed from a normal, childish voice to a darker tone as he was enveloped in dark power. The only thing that could be seen from his dark body was two glowing white eyes, which were bigger than Tipral's.
"What's going on here?" Tipral gawked.
"Oh… I remember seeing something like this before…" Dark recalled. "I think this transformation was called Dark Star Chopper. Basically, he doesn't have much control of himself and simply attacks those who get in his way."
"So he simply transformed. Nothing special. However, his chances of even hurting me are very slim."
Tipral simply fired a dark star from his scepter straight at Dark Star Chopper, who simply whacked the attack to the wall, causing an explosion. Even when Tipral used his Star Magic with a snap of his finger, Dark Star Chopper teleported out of the way.
"Urgh… Annoying pest!" Tipral growled.
Dark Star Chopper teleported behind Tipral and punched him from behind. Even with the barrier surrounding Tipral, it was able to knock him back.
After Tipral got back up, he saw Dark Star Chopper fire dark projectiles his way. He allowed the barrier to defend the attacks, but it made it worse when he fired a dark beam of energy straight at him barrier.
"Don't just stand there, Dark! Do something!" Tipral grunted.
Dark rushed straight for Dark Star Chopper, but ended up getting knocked back by a dark blast, leaving him unconscious. After finishing off his dark beam, Dark Star Chopper slowly began to walk over to his enemy with a dark beam charged in his hand.
"Chopper… Please…"
The sound of that voice stopped him for a second. He remembered hearing that voice from before.
"Don't do this, Chopper… This is no way for you to fight."
It was his mother's voice speaking to him through his mind.
The dark energy flowing through him started to disappear, transforming him back to his own self. Despite this, he didn't feel happy.
"What have I done…?"
"Hmph… So it's over…" Tipral trailed as he stood up. "Fine. I suppose I should finish the fight now! Do you have any last words, Chopper?"
"No…" Chopper trailed with a shake of his head. He looked up and noticed the barrier on Tipral began to crack. "Well, I don't think I need to give up now!"
"What do you mean?"
Before Chopper could answer, Tipral's barrier instantly shattered. "What?! My barrier is gone?! But… How could this be?!"
"I guess when I transformed, I ended up destroying your barrier," Chopper said. "But… Even then, that transformation hurt me a little bit too."
"So, then that makes us even…" Tipral trailed as he crossed his arms. "Fine. Now the fight's even between us. But, even then, I still have the Chaos Heart's power! Prepare to die!"
With a simple teleportation ability, he appeared right in front of Chopper. Before he could even punch him, Chopper jumped up and slammed his foot down on Tipral, dealing some damage this time, now that his barrier was shattered.
"Urgh… So you have gotten a couple of new abilities since our last battle."
"That's right!" Chopper smirked as he hurled a charged ice ball at him. Tipral simply deflected the ice ball with his scepter and absorbed them into the Dark Star Scepter after transforming them into dark energy.
"What in the world? What was that?"
"The scepter just absorbed all of the energy from that ice ball," stated Tipral as he waved his scepter and fired a dark star at Chopper. He tried to defend himself, but he ended up getting knocked back.
"Gah… I'm still going to make you pay for shattering that wand, though! That was the last option to getting in contact with Tippi and Count Bleck…I mean Lady Timpani and Lord Blumiere!"
"Well, then too bad for you, Chopper. Searching for those Pure Hearts won't be easy for you anymore! That is… If you manage to find the last four!"
Chopper ignored his words and used Starbow to make shooting stars fall upon him. He was able to hit him successfully, but Tipral teleported out of the shooting stars and got behind Chopper.
Luckily, he noticed him from behind and jumped out of the way of Tipral's Star Spear. He merely grumbled as he teleported in front of Chopper gave him a good kick to send him flying back.
When he crashed into the wall, Tipral teleported to the ground and began to skate his way to Chopper, readying a Star Punch. Chopper, on the other hand, was able to grab his arm and bash him with a rainbow smash.
"Like I'm going to let you do that!" Chopper spat.
Tipral grumbled as he teleported and floated in the air. Chopper followed him up to the platforms, but ended up getting knocked down when Tipral rammed into him by dicing down at him.
"From here on, I'm going to use my full potential to destroy you!" Tipral shouted. "And trust in this: even if you are alone, you don't stand a chance against me!"
"Don't think to highly of yourself, Tipral. It's only going to hurt you." Chopper said as he got up and readied his hammer. When Tipral dove down again, he blocked his attack and froze him with an ice smash.
He expected either Timpani or Blumiere to speak, but he just remembered that Tipral shattered her wand, making him frown. But, he could hear as if they're telling him to continue fighting.
When Tipral broke out of his icy prison, he tried to grab Chopper, but ended up missing when Chopper jumped out of the way and stomped on him, leaving him dazed for Chopper to chuck a fireball at him, leaving a burn on him.
"All right! Looks like things are turning to my favor now!" Chopper smiled.
"This is only the beginning, Chopper," growled Tipral as he flew to the center of the room and fired a dark beam into the air. It began to move around the room counterclockwise, forcing Chopper to use some of the platforms to avoid them. Unfortunately, he got caught in the beam and took serious damage.
Chopper grumbled as he got up, but was able to dodge Tipral's Star Spear that was coming his way. Frustrated, Tipral teleported above Chopper and charged up a Star Spear and flung it down. Upon impact, the Star Spear exploded, causing Chopper to jump back.
"I've gotta stop standing around and actually get close to him for once!" Chopper thought as he ran straight for Tipral as he jumped up to the platforms. He managed to knock him to the ground with a spinning kick, followed by stomping on him as he landed on the ground.
"And you said that you could actually beat me in a fight," scoffed Chopper.
"Fine, I'll make this a little more interesting," Tipral teleported over to Chopper and attempted to whack him with his scepter. Chopper brought his fists up and defended against the attack and kicked him in the face.
Even still, Tipral was able to grab Chopper's foot and swing him around. This got Chopper thinking about the times he fought against O'Chunks in the past. When he was released, he went crashing to the wall.
"This should do it," With his scepter ready, Tipral fired dark stars at Chopper like a machine gun. After getting up, Chopper inhaled the stars and spat them at Tipral, pushing him back as he tried to defend himself.
"I'd say we're more of an even match," Chopper said. "We're both getting some attacks in, that's for sure."
"True… But you haven't seen my stronger attacks!"
Chopper gulped as he noticed Tipral swing his scepter down at Chopper to make dark shooting stars come down toward him. He quickly jumped up and pelted Tipral with a couple of fireballs.
When Tipral managed to shake the fire off him, he hurled a shadow ball at hit Chopper in the head, but didn't send him flying. Tipral decided to throw more shadow balls, while Chopper threw a couple of rainbow balls.
"Try all you want, but my shadow balls are much stronger than yours," Tipral stated as the shadow balls destroyed the rainbow balls coming his way. Chopper sweat dropped and flipped into 3-D. Once he was behind Tipral, he managed to attack him with a rainbow sweeping kick in 2-D.
"Hey, you know I can teleport into 3-D, if you didn't realize!" Chopper smirked.
"Ungh… All right, I think it's time to make this battle a little interesting." Tipral declared. "Fighting around here in this room doesn't feel like it's enough."
"What are you talking about? This place is huge!"
Tipral blew a hole through the wand with a dark beam and teleported over to the hole, revealing a long road outside in space. Chopper noticed all of the stars and how beautiful they were.
"Follow me if you want to stop me!" he declared as he began to skate outside. Chopper charged up a Speed Dash and followed his counterpart outside. He noticed that they were nearly running out in an asteroid belt at the moment.
"All right, Tipral! Let's see what you've got!" Chopper smirked as he tried to knock him off the road by elbowing him. Tipral, on the other hand, managed to block his attack and whack Chopper in the face with Star energy.
Chopper decided to try something a little different. He grabbed Starbow and held her up to let all of the shootings stars fall down on Tipral. But instead of making them come down from above, he made them hit him from the front, stopping Tipral and forcing him to bring his arms up.
He instantly braked before he could get too far and made a big leap to him. With a powerful stomp attack, Tipral was knocked to the ground. He even managed to block his Star Punch with his hand surrounded in rainbow energy.
"Wow… I managed to block his punch… But I don't know how long I can hold this…" Chopper frowned.
Tipral gripped his Dark Star Scepter and sent Chopper flying back by firing a dark beam at him. Using his teleportation powers, he teleported to Chopper and knocked him to the ground, almost making him go through the road.
"I'm not doing so well against him…" Chopper thought as he slowly got up and wheezed. "He's not even halfway done and he's kicking my butt already!"
"Take this!" Tipral spat as he swung his arm and fired a Star Spear at Chopper. He gripped his hammer and tried to swing it, but the blast was too powerful for him to even knock back at Tipral.
"Pathetic! I thought you were stronger than this, Chopper? The last few times you fought, you were able to win! Oh, actually… You had some people helping you there! There's no way you can beat me on your own! Just surrender now and I'll make your death as painless as possible."
"Never…" Chopper moaned as he drank a Star Shroom Shake to recover 150 HP. He readied his hammer and used an upward thrust to send Tipral flying up into space with rainbow energy.
Tipral was able to stop himself from flying any further and teleported back onto the road. Unfortunately, he didn't see Chopper running up to him and making him fall over. He also managed to kick one of the asteroids into Tipral, leaving him stunned.
"What…? How is this possible?!"
"Many things are possible, Tipral," Chopper said as he jumped down in front of him and attempted to punch him with rainbow energy. However, Tipral grabbed his arm and threw him over on the ground. Afterward, he used his ability to stop time, allowing him to land a combo on Chopper with punches and kicks.
"And this will soften you up," Tipral announced as he snapped his finger to make time flow back and hit Chopper with Star Magic, sending him flying in the air. This gave Tipral the chance to use his scepter.
He fired multiple dark stars straight at Chopper while he was in the air, forcing the antennae hero to open his mouth and inhale them instead. He spat them at Tipral, but he simply spun his scepter around to block the yellow star.
Getting tired of being on the road, Tipral teleported him and Chopper on the room of the sanctum. The road seemed to get a little tiring for him, so he decided that going back to the sanctum was a better idea.
"All right, what do you have planned this time?" Chopper asked.
"Nothing really, except watching you die," Tipral said as he swung his scepter and flew straight at Chopper. He tried to counter him, but Tipral was faster and sent Chopper flying back.
Tipral made it even worse for him when he twirled his scepter and summoned a dark void to appear and suck Chopper in. Using all the strength he had in him, he ran away from the large portal.
It was a success.
"Hmph! No matter… You're still losing the fight!" scoffed Tipral.
Chopper decided to drink an Ultra Shroom Shake to regain some of his strength. Now that Tipral was ready to make another move, Chopper jumped in and kicked him to the ground with a slamming kick. Afterward, he froze him by throwing a charged ice ball.
"Yeah! He's frozen!"
With his hammer ready, Chopper struck Tipral with a fire smash, unfreezing him and leaving him burnt. Tipral growled as he tried to strike Chopper with a Star Spear, but he got knocked over when Chopper rammed him with his head.
"Well, it looks like I'm actually having a bit of an advantage here!" Chopper smirked as he clenched his fists, which were now surrounded in a rainbow aura.
Tipral muttered to himself as he teleported in front of Chopper and attempted to kick him. He, on the other hand, jumped out of the way and used Starbow's power to summon shooting stars down on him.
"That's it! It's time to put my power to real use!" Tipral declared as he was surrounded by a purple glow. Chopper gaped and tried to stand back, but he felt as if it was too late.
"STAR BLAST!"
Chopper covered his face as Tipral unleashed his Star Blast. He was able to stand against this attack before, but at this point, there would be no surviving this.
But when he opened his eyes, he noticed he was unharmed.
"Wait… What just happened?" Chopper gawked as he brought his fists down and noticed Tipral glaring at him in anger.
"How did that not work?!" Tipral growled before calming down. "No matter… Using that attack would've made this fight too easy."
He skated over to Chopper and tackled him, making them crash through the ceiling and back inside the sanctum. Chopper noticed that Dark was still unconscious after what he did to him when he transformed.
Tipral tried to punch Chopper while he was still lying on the floor, but he grabbed his fist and kicked Tipral off him. Afterward, he tossed a charged ice ball at him, freezing him for only about three seconds until he broke out on his own.
"Please… Freezing me isn't going to save you, you know!" Tipral mocked.
"Well, it did give me at least three seconds," noted Chopper, who ducked and attacked Tipral with a flaming sweeping kick as soon as he was close. Tipral retaliated by hitting him with a Star Kick instead.
Tipral teleported above Chopper this time and swung his arm to fire a Star Spear at him. Chopper recoiled and hurled a charged rainbow ball at Tipral, knocking him out of the air and sending him to the wall.
"Is that the best you've got?!" Chopper shouted.
"I can show you THIS!" Tipral spat as he stored some dark power in his scepter and fired a dark vertical beam that slowly began to make its way to Chopper. He gulped and flipped into 3-D to avoid it.
"Ha! I don't think you realized that I can avoid attacks in 3-D!"
"You can't avoid this," Tipral snapped his finger, striking Chopper with Star Magic and sending him flying up while in 3-D. He went back into 2-D and fell to the ground in pain, while Tipral fired a couple of dark stars to leave a couple of bruises on him.
Chopper tried to attack him with Starbow, but he teleported out of the way and appeared above Chopper. He tried attacking Tipral with his hammer, but he instantly teleported to the center of the room.
"Stop teleporting already!"
Tipral ignored Chopper and raised his scepter. Another dark beam fired out and began to circle around in the large room. Chopper brought his guard up, but was still harmed by the dark energy.
"Man… I'm starting to feel that I DON'T stand a chance against him!" he realized in his thoughts. "…No, Chopper! You can't give up now! Like Merlon said… The only way to dispatch the Pure Heart is to dispatch the one who holds it!"
Chopper whacked one of the dark stars out of his way and let it strike Tipral in the face. This allowed him to jump up the platforms and land a stomp on him, causing him to teleport away from him.
"Let's see how you like THIS!" Tipral snapped his finger and disappeared in a way Dimentio would, making Chopper confused.
"What in the world…?"
When Tipral reappeared, he raised his scepter again and summoned another dark void to suck Chopper in. This time, however, he managed to get him sucked in and struck him down with powerful energy to deal double the damage he normally does!
"ACK!"
"Pathetic weakling…"
"No way," Chopper retorted as he used an Ultimate Shroom Shake to heal himself of 100 HP. "I'm not going down so easily!"
"Very well. I won't hesitate to use something myself." Tipral raised his scepter again and was enveloped in a dark spell that healed him of 70 HP. "There we go. That's much better."
"Ugh… This is getting too tough…"
"I'll admit, you are putting up a bit of a fight for a weak little ten year old…" Tipral muttered as he flew toward Chopper with Star energy in his fists. When he tried to punch him, Chopper ducked like a pancake and made Tipral trip with a simple sweeping kick.
While he was down, Chopper jumped in the air and used a rainbow slamming kick to hit Tipral's head. But, as soon as he tried to make another attack, Tipral teleported above him and began firing Star Spears down at him like crazy.
He ended up using Slim's ability to avoid the attacks and strike Tipral with his hammer as soon as he landed on the ground. Tipral teleported in front of him afterward and whacked him across the face with his scepter, leaving a red mark on his face.
Tipral swung his scepter at Chopper from a distance to fire a dark star his way. Chopper simply inhaled it, but Tipral was able to teleport out of the way as soon as he spat it out. But that didn't stop him from letting himself get hit. He jumped out of the way as soon as he heard Tipral teleport behind him.
"Really, Tipral? Attacking me from behind? That's a little cowardly…" Chopper trailed, hurling a fireball at him.
"Oh, really?" Tipral swung his arm and fired a Star Spear, destroying the fireball and sending Chopper flying back. He teleported over to him and kicked him straight into the wall. "Was that cowardly for you?"
"Uhhh… No?"
Tipral simply gave him a nod as he teleported in front of him. Chopper ducked from Tipral's punch and managed to slam his hammer on Tipral's foot, making him cringe as Chopper punched him with rainbow energy.
"Time to put this to an end!" Tipral declared as he swung his arm and fired a Star Spear at Chopper, making him cringe in pain as he fell over. This allowed Tipral to grab his foot and throw him across the room.
"How does he have this kind of strength?!" Chopper thought as he crashed into the wall. He quickly pushed himself off and did a flip as Tipral tried to attack. He ended up landing on his head and using a slamming kick on him.
"I can tell Tipral's becoming weak!" Starbow informed. "You're getting close, hero!"
"Good…"
Chopper clenched his fist and tossed three rainbow balls at Tipral. He managed to deflect two of them away, but ended up getting hit by the third, leaving him stunned for a bit. When Chopper spun his hammer and hit Tipral, he was starting to feel exhausted.
"Well… You're not as easy to beat as I predicted." Tipral wheezed. "Consider that a compliment."
"Very well. I will." Chopper nodded as he attempted to bash Tipral with his hammer. He simply jumped out of the way and fired a dark star at Chopper, who proceeded to knock it back with his hammer.
Tipral teleported out of its way and began to surround himself in a purple glow, indicating that he was going to use another Star Blast.
"Uh oh… This isn't good."
"Star Blast!" Tipral's ultimate attack managed to send Chopper flying to the corner of the wall near the ceiling and sent him plummeting to the ground. As Tipral landed on the ground, he skated his way toward him.
"Meet your end, Chopper!"
"I don't think so!"
Chopper held Starbow up and sent shooting stars down on Tipral, keeping his off guard. While he tried to get the shooting stars away, Chopper surrounded himself in a rainbow glow.
"Take this!" he shouted as he charged at Chopper and rammed straight into him with his fist in front. Not only did that deal intense damage, but the Chaos Heart flashed from Tipral's grasps and flew above him.
"Guh… Wha… What just happened?" Tipral moaned as he fell on the ground. "You… You managed to best me?"
"Yup. I guess you lost. And you said you could defeat me…" Chopper noticed that Tipral's eyes were more of a dull white instead of a glowing white, indicating that he was weak. "And seeing the state your in right now, I don't think you could fight back. You lost."
"Ungh… Perhaps I underestimated you… No matter. Just because you were able to get the Chaos Heart out of my grasps doesn't mean that it's over. The Void is already back, and you can't stop it."
"There's only one option, though…" Chopper trailed as he looked down at Tipral. "They say that the holder of the Chaos Heart must be destroyed to stop The Void. It pains me to even do this, but I feel I have no other choice."
Before Chopper could do anything else, a spell was hurled down in between them.
"What the… What was that?" Tipral asked.
"The more important thing is where he is…" Chopper said suspiciously, knowing that spell from somewhere.
"Oh, I'm so sorry to interrupt your little battle. But, sometimes things just need to be done!"
"Dimentio…"
The jester appeared over the Chaos Heart, giving the two a malicious grin. Neither of them were pleased to see his appearance.