Super Paper Chopper

by Mechanical Oven

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

125. Mushrooms Meet their End

CHAPTER 18-3

-Mushrooms Meet their End-

Chopper, Kirby, Mario and Luigi looked over at Sonic and Blade, who seemed to be walking ahead of them while following Ortorain. While they didn't feel the same as those two, they felt sympathy for them after seeing their home world get destroyed. Not only that, but their friends were gone too! Talk about intense!

"Ortorain, where could we find the next world?" Sonic asked with some seriousness in his voice. "We need to find the next world immediately before something bad happens like our world."

"And if we find Tipral, we're going to get back at him," Blade declared as he clenched his fists.

"Guys… Don't you think it's better if we try to be a little more…relaxed?" Chopper asked.

"I wish we could, bud... But this was our WORLD that got destroyed." Sonic replied. "And I don't want to think about what will happen to the others, especially you and the others."

The four heroes' eyes widened in fear, remembering their worlds as well. What was happening to their world? Were their already destroyed by The Void? Was it even close to being destroyed? This left them a little puzzled as they noticed an enemy up ahead. It looked like a purple ghost with glowing pink hands that resembled portals and no legs. Its eyes were a bright pink as well.

"Wh-What's that?!" Luigi gaped, his thoughts being interrupted.

"That is called a Dimensional Ghost," Ortorain explained. "Unfortunately, because they're ghosts that tend to fade away often, your attacks aren't going to do much. While they can deal some serious damage, colorful attacks should actually hurt it."

Mario: Colorful attacks?

"Poyo? (Maybe something like Chopper's rainbow balls?)" Kirby pondered as Chopper tossed a rainbow ball at the Dimensional Ghost, forcing itself to be fully vulnerable to all attacks.

Kirby took his Final Cutter out and struck the Dimensional Ghost. Once Blade finished it off with his katana, they carried on ahead to a couple of platforms that rose up from the ground and made stairs.

Everyone nodded as they made their way up the platforms and over to a painting by the door. It showed an umbrella, but they were all confused as to why an umbrella was painted there.

"Why would there be an umbrella here?" Sonic pondered. "Is this supposed to be some sort of puzzle?"

"Go through the door, and you'll find out yourself," Ortorain assured as everyone shrugged and headed through the door. There, they found a couple of blocks in the background and five red ! Switchs floating before them.

"What do we do here?" Chopper asked.

"That is something you'll have to find out yourself, young one."

Chopper shrugged and punched the nearest block underneath and noticed a block in the background changed. Some of them were apparently blocks on an umbrella, but right now, the block he hit seemed to show a piece of a star instead.

Mario: I think this puzzle has something to do with the painting!

The only red ! Switchs that seemed to have the umbrella picture were the second and fourth. Everyone took the time to hit the blocks and form an umbrella in the background, creating a door up ahead.

"Well, I guess that worked," Luigi smiled.

"Ah, so you managed to complete the puzzle," Ortorain smiled as he floated over to the heroes as he applauded. "Excellent work! Sometimes it takes some time to do that. But, what do I know? You're the only people to do it so far!"

"Poyo, (I guess that's nice that we're the first,)" Kirby shrugged as they headed into the area ahead. They saw a couple of platforms that appeared to be too high for some of them to reach leading up to a door.

Mario: I think you can take care of this, Luigi!

"Well, I guess my jump will be useful here," Luigi declared as he launched himself to the first platform with a Super Jump. Kirby helped everyone else up by inhaling them. It was all clear for them to jump on a couple of more platforms afterward.

"We've only run into one enemy so far…" Chopper trailed. "You think we might run into more?"

"It really depends," Sonic shrugged. "What's more important is to find the next portal and find a card there before Tipral ends up destroying that world."

After ninja jumped over to the door, he held it open for everyone else. They followed through the door and eventually found themselves in a large area. They were standing on a platform, with an abyss below them.

"Where in the world are we right now?" Chopper gawked. "This looks a little high…"

"Of course we're high up," Ortorain chuckled. "We're getting closer to the top of Dimensional X. What you're seeing around you are many portals that can take you to different worlds. There might be some you recognize as well!"

"Let's see…" Luigi trailed as he took a look at a couple of portals. "Well, I can see one world with a castle off at the distance in the highlands…"

"That must be Lineland Road!" Chopper gasped as he took notice of the portal. "Man, who ever knew I'd see that world again…"

"What is Lineland Road again?" Sonic asked.

"That's where the adventure began. It was before I found you guys."

"Poyo, (I see Gloam Valley and Merlee's Mansion in the next portal,)" Kirby noticed. "Poyo… (I wonder how the prisoners are doing… They were in Tipral's Palace, but I wonder if some are still there…)"

"I personally didn't like the part where we had to make a million Rubees," Chopper groaned. "That was awful…"

"I think I see the Bitlands coming up next," Sonic noted, looking at the pixilated world through the portal. "It reminds me of the time when we had to save Tippi from Francis… That sure was an experience, wasn't it?"

"Ugh… Don't get me started with that part with Francis…"

Mario: Is that Outer Space?

Everyone noticed Mario pointing to the next dimension, Outer Space. They could see the Whoa Zone, and they even recalled meeting Squirps there.

"Squirps… You know, we haven't seen him in a while…" Chopper trailed.

"I wonder how he's doing…" Sonic wondered.

"Poyo, (Hopefully he's fine after last time,)" Kirby hoped as he noticed another portal. It was a portal leading into Pristine Palisade.

"There's the portal to Pristine Palisade, apparently," Blade noticed as he noticed the water. "Yeah… That world was so annoying. It probably had the most water of any world."

"Don't even bring that place up, Blade," Sonic groaned.

"Say… Where's Desert Oasis anyway?" Chopper asked, noticing the portal wasn't there.

"Oh… Desert Oasis?" Ortorain pondered. "Oh… That place got destroyed a while ago. Yes, it's sad to see a world like that go. I actually kind of liked that world, despite it being a desert."

"Wh-What?!" Everyone gaped.

"Yes, I'm sorry to tell you that. It was probably the closest to The Void when it was resurrected. Even I feel terrible."

"Oh… That's bad." Chopper frowned before noticing an underworld-like place and a heavenly area. "I think The Underwhere and Overthere are over there."

"Were you purposely saying 'over there'?" Sonic asked.

"No, but I know we've seen a lot there."

"Luvbi was there, that's for sure," Blade recalled. "She sure had a crush on you, didn't she?"

"Ugh… Please don't bring that up."

They saw many other worlds after that. The next one they found was Castle Tipral, which appeared to look vacant ever since they fought against a fused Dimentio and Tipral called Dimentral. The only people who were confused about that were Mario and Luigi.

Mario: That sounds weird… But, I think I see the sweet world ahead! That's where I met you guys!

"Yeah, that place was sweet, I guess," Sonic sweat dropped, saying something that felt like a pun. "I think I just made a horrible pun…"

"Is that that winter world where you guys left me behind?" Luigi asked as he noticed the winter world.

Mario: Sorry for leaving you like that…

"Well, I guess I got over that, so I think you can rest assured, Bro!"

The next world they encountered was the metallic forest, where they remembered fighting against Grim and Metal Chopper with the help of Ninbot. Chopper seemed rather annoyed with that world, considering he had to rescue Luvbi.

Another one of their least favorite worlds was next. It was the world where they found some zombies, ghosts, and the mansion where they fought against the mysterious Knightmare, who they knew who it was now.

The thirteenth world they actually liked. It was the day and night world, where they met King Sunday and King Moonnight. There was also that guy called Arcaine, who was once obsessed with trying to catch the SunMoonFlower.

"Should we tell him that the SunMoonFlower actually exists?" Chopper asked.

"Poyo, (It's probably better that we don't,)" Kirby replied. "Poyo… (It might get him back to his…habit…)"

Everyone agreed as they took notice of the cyberspace world, the world where they helped the Computernoids take out the Vironoids…and where the soldiers met their doom while Chopper and Co. fought against Dark Doom and Knightmare. They all felt sorrow from that event.

The next world they saw was The Peaceness. Meta Knight was found there, and they even managed to defeat Shade Doom a second time. However, despite that, a Nimbi who wanted to destroy them actually befriended them before dying in Chopper's arms.

"I see Tipral's Palace next," Chopper noticed as he only saw Nastasia writing on her clipboard, sighing. "I wonder what's going on with her? Is she the only one in the palace or something?"

"I have no idea…" Sonic trailed. "But she looks so lonely."

They encountered the last world where they found the eighteenth Pure Heart, the tiny and huge world. However, instead of feeling joy at the city, they seemed to be displeased with some of the Cradians.

"I can't believe they worshipped Master Mind this whole time!" Luigi gaped as he noticed some of the Cradians having a funeral over Master Mind. "It made us look horrible…"

"Well, I guess they liked him, so we couldn't do anything about it," Blade shrugged.

"So, where do we go from here anyway?" Sonic asked, turning to Ortorain. "You didn't speak for a bit…"

"Well, I thought it would be nice to see you look at previous worlds," Ortorain smiled. "But for now, if you wish to get to the next world, you'll have to jump off the platform."

Everyone gaped. "Wait… Jump off the platform?! But don't you see how high up we are, sir?!"

"Rest assured, Luigi. I created this world. I'd know everything about it."

Everyone sighed as they leaped off the platform. However, instead of plummeting to their doom, they were launched high in the air onto a platform high above them. They all seemed confused as they jumped off and found a loop ahead.

"Geez… That was… I don't know what to say!" Sonic stammered.

They made their way through the loop and found two Dimensional Ghosts up ahead. Chopper hurled two rainbow balls at them to leave them vulnerable, while Mario finished off the first one by jumping on it. Luigi also jumped on the last one, defeating it.

Up ahead on the path, they found a lever hanging from above. Kirby decided to grab it, which revealed a door on the wall to open. They hurried through before it could close to lead them to a door.

When they walked out of the door, they found a ? Block that contained an Ultra Shroom inside. After splitting it into six pieces, they all recovered HP and found a ladder taking them to a platform above them. They found it strange that these purple platforms fit the purple and pink background, which was being covered up a bit by The Void.

"Well, at least we get to explore this world a bit," Chopper smiled as he climbed the ladder to find a Dimensional Ghost on the platform. After hurling a rainbow ball, Sonic finished it off with a Bounce Attack.

They jumped on a platform to their upper right and headed through the door to an area where they found another globe on the top of a tower. Ortorain chuckled as he flew over the large gap.

"Uhhhh… Is there any safety precautions here?" Chopper sweat dropped.

Mario: There aren't any platforms to help us!

"Trust in your instincts, young ones," Ortorain assured.

"Our instincts? We barely have any…" Blade trailed.

"I wasn't finished yet… While you may think you're stuck, there is a way over here. It could be easy to solve, or it could be very difficult."

"The latter, maybe?" Luigi pondered before receiving a glare from Mario. "Sorry, Bro… I'm not sure what to say."

"Poyo, (I think he means to find something,)" Kirby deduced as he moved toward the tower. When he put his foot off the platform, he felt an invisible path. "Poyo! (Chopper! Use Starbow! I think there might be something here!)"

"OK!" Chopper nodded as he held Starbow up and allowed her to summon shooting stars. When they fell on the gap, they seemed to bounce off and reveal a glowing bridge leading to the top of the tower.

They all gasped as they crossed the platform. Ortorain, while chuckling, fired a beam of energy from his scepter at the globe. A portal was revealed after completion, and it revealed green grass, and even a castle.

Mario: Is that…the Mushroom Kingdom?!

"Bro! We're actually going back home!" Luigi gasped. "Can you actually believe it?!"

"The Mushroom Kingdom? I haven't been there in a while!" Chopper gaped.

"You know, I don't think we ever saw this place," Sonic recalled.

"Why, yes. It is indeed the Mushroom Kingdom!" Ortorain smiled. "You must find the next card through here. It is very important that you do if you want to reach the Pure Heart. After collecting that card, you only need one more."

"Well, we better get going," Chopper suggested as he hurled a rainbow ball at the portal, opening the way in. "Come on, guys! Maybe some of my friends might be there too!"

Everyone exchanged nods as they all jumped through the portal. Ortorain let out a sigh as he sat down on the ground.

"I just hope they're not too late…" he trailed as the ground shook violently as The Void grew bigger in the sky.

---

Mushroom Kingdom-

Once everything was drawn and colored, everyone fell out of the portal and landed on the grassy ground. When they looked around them, they noticed a dirt path leading to a gate, and there was a large, brown house nearby as well. There was another brown house to the left that resembled a tree stump. It had a billboard of a Toad's head hanging from a branch.

Mario: Hold on… Isn't this Goomba Village?

"Goomba Village? What's that?" Sonic asked.

"Mario told me that this is where he landed when he fell from the sky in Peach's Castle," Luigi explained. "He even met a couple of friends of his own on the way too! It would've been cool if I were there…"

"Hold on a second… Is that you, Mario?!" the red plumber turned around and saw a Goomba wearing a blue cap gaping at the plumber. "No way… You came back here after those months!"

Mario: Hi, Goombario!

When Chopper heard that name, something hit him. He remembered two years ago, he didn't like him for some reason. He even pranked him after he saved the Mushroom Kingdom from certain doom!

"A lot of people were worried about you when you went missing," Goombario explained. "Ever since then, this purple swirling vortex appeared in the sky! It's gotten quite big, too!"

"Wait, what?" Luigi looked up at the sky and gaped. "M-Mario…! Th-The Void's nearly the size of what it w-was in M-Mobius!"

Mario: Oh, no…

"You know what that is?" Goombario asked while Mario began to explain everything. The Goomba's eyes widened in fear as he stepped back. "D-Destroy all worlds?! That's what this thing's going to do?!"

"And it looks like there isn't much time left…" Sonic sighed.

"I knew Tipral would probably do this to this world too," Blade said as he clenched a fist. "We should try to find him soon."

"Well, from what I've seen outside of the village, a couple of Goombas on Bowser's side somehow got possessed by some evil power. I'm not even kidding! That's why Goompapa sealed the gate shut."

"We need to go through there!" Chopper gaped. "…Unless a card is somewhere around here."

"Nope. We didn't find a card here. …Say, aren't you that kid that came here looking for a hammer?"

"Uh huh. And I remember you calling me weird..."

"Oh... Well, you do look kind of weird compared to others." Goombario remarked, making Chopper frown.

"Hey, you think we can go through the gate?" Sonic asked. "We need to be able to progress onward."

"I'd have to ask Goompapa that," he said as he turned away from the heroes. "DAD!"

"Don't be so loud, Goombario! That hurt my ears!" a pink Goomba with an orange bow growled. "Daddy said we can't leave Goomba Village because of how dangerous it is outside!"

"I know, Goombaria, but Mario's back!"

"M-Mario?! Really?!" the excited Goomba girl hurried to his brother and gasped at Mario. "Is that really you, Mario?! We haven't seen you in a long time!"

Mario: I'm fine!

"Well, then we should go ask Daddy about the door! You and your other weird friends can get through and stop those Goombas, right?"

"Who are you calling weird?" Blade grumbled as he glared at the Goomba girl. "Honestly, I find you a little weird myself."

"Let it go, Blade," Sonic suggested. "We don't want to get in a fight with another girl…"

"What is it, Goombario?" Everyone stopped for a moment when a Goomba with a black mustache and black eyebrows named Goompapa walked out of the house and made his way to the group. "Sorry if I was a little late with your call. I was a little busy with Goompa."

"These six want to go through the gate," Goombario explained.

"Hmmmmm… Well, I did lock it up tight. It might take a little bit to get the locks off, but if you need to leave, then I'll go ahead and do it."

While he walked over to get the locks off, Goombario looked back at Mario. "So… Can you tell me how your adventure went? I wanna know what you've done!"

Mario: Well… I don't know the full story. Chopper probably has the answers.

"Why is that?" Goombaria asked.

"Because it started off with me at first," Chopper declared, pointing at himself.

"To be fair… I don't see you as the hero type."

"…Are you serious?"

"Mario looks more like a hero, in my eyes," Goombario agreed. "You're too small and too…weird."

"Son of a…"

"I've finished getting the locks off the gate!" Goompapa called out. "You might want to go before anything comes through here!"

"Okey dokey!" Luigi nodded. "Well, I guess we better go then!"

"Good luck out there, Mario!" the Goombas called out as the heroes left the village and onto Goomba Road. That's when Luigi pouted.

"I can't believe they only recognized Mario and didn't notice me!" Luigi thought. "I guess I'm simply his shadow after all…"

"Ah… This road. This is where it all began for me in the Mushroom Kingdom." Chopper sighed as he noticed Professor Toadsmeth's lab up ahead. "Hey, I wonder if the professor is even here!"

He ran over to the door and knocked on it. "Hey, Professor! It's me, Chopper! You know, the one from two years ago?"

Unfortunately, he didn't hear anything from inside. It was dead silent.

Mario: Is he there?

"I don't know… Maybe… Oh, wait a second." Chopper noticed a posted note on the door and took a look at it. "It says he's not here…but on vacation. I guess we're not going to be seeing him anytime soon…"

However, they were stopped when they noticed two Goombas corrupted with dark power, just like the Badniks from Mobius. Mario and Luigi gulped as they saw the Corrupted Goombas charging at them.

"Now these guys are corrupted?!" Luigi sweat dropped as he dodged one of its headbonk attacks. "This is nuts!"

Mario sighed and stomped on both Corrupted Goombas to defeat them. With that, they carried on ahead through the path, passing by the sign with a Goomba picture they saw at the beginning of the area. They also noticed a sign with a Mushroom up ahead.

"You can easily peel this off," Chopper said as he peeled off the Mushroom. Blade split it into six pieces, and they all recovered 10 HP.

"What a strange world this is…" Sonic trailed.

"Well, it would make sense for us to say that," added Blade.

They noticed a Corrupted Paragoomba up ahead trying to swoop down at them. It only took one Homing Attack to detach its wings and a simple katana slash to defeat it, along with a Corrupted Spiky Goomba.

When they reached the door ahead, they headed through into an area with a yellow spring near a ledge. Two large Goombas appeared to be sleeping there. One was red, while the other was blue.

Mario: If we could sneak past them, I think we should be fine!

They used the spring to get onto the ledge and snuck past the two Goombas, who appeared to have snot bubbles coming out of their noses. They must be heavy sleepers, from the looks of it.

They shrugged and headed into the red door ahead to an area with three Corrupted Goombas walking along the path. Sonic simply curled in a ball and attacked them with a Spin Dash.

"Poyo, (These Goombas really aren't that hard,)" Kirby noticed as he read a sign with a Mushroom. That is, until a Goomba peeled off the sign instead and attacked him. He simply inhaled it and swallowed it to get rid of it.

They headed through another door ahead and found a bridge past a small fortress. Mario recalled fighting the Goomba King here and managing to get that bridge to help him and Goombario reach Toad Town.

Mario: We're not far from Toad Town!

"Really? That's great news!" Chopper sighed. "…Yeah, this is where I had to fight against that shadow thief Popple."

"Popple? Who's he?" Luigi asked (this Paper Mario, not Mario & Luigi, just so you know).

"Some guy that stole stuff. I think that stuff was returned back to their owners, that's for sure."

They all decided to hurry on ahead across the bridge and to the door ahead, bringing them into an area with small ledges going down to a pathway ahead, which had a pink floor instead of green grass.

Mario: I think we're here!

"Toad Town's up ahead? Whew… Well, I wonder how everyone will react when they see us here." Chopper wondered as they hurried on ahead.

---

Toad Town-

As they walked into Toad Town, they noticed that not much has changed from a few years back. However, the only difference was that there weren't many Toads walking outside. For some reason, some of them were cowering in their houses, noticing the size of The Void.

"This place feels so deserted…" Luigi trailed. "It's like this place is full of fear…"

"This isn't a good welcome for us…" Sonic trailed.

Mario: We should probably go to our house.

Everyone shrugged and followed the two brothers into the pipe nearby. When they came out, they were now in a small area with a house over to their left. The name "Mario" appeared to be on the house as well.

"So… This is your house?" Sonic asked.

"Poyo, (It's a little small,)" Kirby noticed.

"I think there might be something we'll need in here," Luigi said as he walked up the small staircase into the house. Mario followed him as well, but they froze when they saw a big mess in their house. Nearly everything was knocked over.

"We've been robbed!"

Mario: This is terrible!

"Wait… Robbed?!" Chopper gaped.

"Poyo?! (Who would rob you guys?!)" Kirby gasped.

"Well, whoever it was, we better find him or her," Blade suggested as he walked into the house. The red and green mug were broken, and some of the pictures with Mario's partners were cracked.

Mario: This is terrible! And at a time like this!

"I just hope they didn't take my diary," Luigi said worriedly before everyone gawked at him. "Uhhhh… Nothing! I was just worried that someone took my book of an adventure I once went on!"

"Uhhhhh… OK, we gotcha." Sonic slowly nodded. "Anyway, don't suppose we should just leave here? I don't think we're going to find anything here…"

"Yeah, we should get going," Chopper agreed. "We might find some important information back in Toad Town…if we can find anything."

Everyone agreed and headed back, with the exception of Luigi, who went into his bedroom and checked the floor. A secret little area appeared to be under there, so he climbed down and looked to see if anything was touched.

Everything looked the same as it was before.

"Oh, good… What a relief! Nobody touched my diary!" Luigi sighed. "It's good to see there was something here that was left unchanged."

After checking his diary, he closed it and went back outside, following his friends down the pipe.

---

When they got out of the pipe, they noticed over by a staircase, a blue Duplighost with small, blonde hair and a Buzzy Beetle with a green shell and a black braid were beside a Toad with a white beard in a red cap and red robe.

"Ah, I welcome you back, Mario and Chopper…" The Master greeted as he began to cough. "Please excuse my coughing… You see, I've gotten a little older, and my health has, well… Gotten a little worse for me."

"Poyo? (Who are they?)" Kirby asked.

"That's The Master, Chan, and Lee," Chopper explained. "I challenged them to a little battle and won. I think Mario did the same thing, considering he knows Mario as well…"

Mario: Yup!

"It appears the sky is being blocked by that darkness in the sky," The Master informed. "I'm sure you've noticed it when you came here, but it's gotten bigger than before… I worry about what this could do."

"Someone told us it could destroy a world," Lee informed. "Some yellow kid with gray wings told me that."

"Flyer? Is he still here?" Chopper gasped.

"Yeah, he is," Chan nodded. "He actually brought a couple of people here as well to discuss about this. However, I don't know where, that's the question."

"Well, maybe we should simply search," Sonic suggested. "We can't just wait for them to come here."

Everyone agreed and went to the next area, where Merlon's house and the post office were. They noticed a couple of people in the center of the area. Chopper was actually surprised to see them.

He first noticed a Koopa with blonde hair, a blue hoodie, light blue shorts, blue boots and a pink shell crossing her arms as she listened to Chopper's friend, Flyer, speak.

The next one was a dark blue Bob-omb wearing a gray hat, Parakarry, Bow, C-2 Choppor, a green Yoshi with a black toupee, black jacket and sunglasses and a golden yellow Dayzee with light yellow petals, blushes on her cheeks, and light blue arms and feet in the first row.

The second row had a light yellow cloud boy wearing light blue and white-striped clothing and hot pink boots, a light blue ghost with deep pink eyes and two thin black antennae curving back, and a brown doll wearing a blue cloak and a blue hat listening in.

"So, this thing in the sky's called The Void?" the Koopa girl named Koopla asked. "Where the heck did you get this information from?"

"Well, I'm glad you asked," Flyer smiled. "Five other friends and I went to a strange dimension where we met our friends, such as Chopper and Mario. A wizard named Merlon explained to us that someone is trying to bring back something called The Void, which he succeeded in, sadly…"

"That's bad news," the Bob-omb named Bruce frowned. "I like this world!"

"Can't blame you," Parakarry agreed.

"The Boos back at my mansion must be awfully worried, too," Bow said.

"Scanners tell me we don't have long until the world ends," C-2 Choppor informed.

"Cripes… If this is true, then we're gonna be dealin' with somethin' like death!" the Yoshi named Yosho gaped.

"This is awful!" the Dayzee known as Kayzee cried. "How else are we going to enjoy ourselves when our games will all end?!"

"Let's not get to that…" the cloud person named Mallow gulped. "I'm too scared to have my game end so soon…"

"Well I'm already dead…" the ghost named Ghoster trailed.

"Then we're going to have to think of a plan," the doll named Geno suggested. "We're not going to let ourselves cower away like everyone else, are we?"

"Yes, I agree," Vivian spoke up. She was with five other people as well.

"C'mon! What would Contradre do at a time like this?" a white Yoshi with hot pink boots, a yellow curl of hair on top of his head named Scrub asked. "Maybe we need to depend on ourselves more?"

"Well, I think we have," a black shadow being with yellow eyes, a black and white striped-hat and white glove named Shadower stated. "We've gotten a lot stronger ever since then."

"But we don't even know how to stop this thing!" a pink Bob-omb with a red bandanna with white polka-dots, small wings, a blonde braid and orange feet named Bombette exclaimed. "No one knows what to do!"

"Well, I'm sure Choppy and his friends know a solution," Berry stated. "They ARE on a quest to stop that thing, right?"

"They're trying to get Pure Hearts," Flyer informed.

"Pure Hearts? What are they meant to be anyway?" a brown furry person shaped like a tulip with pointy fur on the top of his head, white gloves resembling boxing gloves and rectangular white cuffs on the wrists, blue shoes with a red stripe, and forest green rectangular cuffs above the shoes named Tamber asked. "They sound weird…"

"Geez… Those are a lot of people!" Luigi gaped.

Mario: There are…seventeen here!

"All of my friends from previous adventures are here…" Chopper trailed. "I never would've believed this…"

"Poyo? (Should we go greet them?)" Kirby asked.

"Now, then… We should…" Flyer stopped when he turned his head and noticed Chopper, Kirby, Sonic, Blade, Mario, and Luigi watching them. "No way… You guys are here?!"

"Wait, who?" Koopla turned her head and saw the six. "Oh, cool! I didn't expect to see you guys! Don't worry, we were already told about you guys beforehand, so no need to introduce yourselves."

"You guys even know me?" Luigi gasped.

"Of course!" Bombette said cheerfully. "Who doesn't know Mario's brother! You went on an adventure yourself, right?"

"Well… Yeah, I did, actually!"

Berry smiled as hearts formed over head as she gazed at Chopper, who she seem to only pay attention to so far instead of the important conversation. But then she remembered something she got in Toad Town.

"Man, it's been a while since I saw ya, Chopper!" Yosho grinned as he gave Chopper a noogie. "So, how's it been out there? Find any cute chicks on yer little adventure? Did ya mention me to them?"

"Same old Yosho…" Chopper trailed. "You haven't changed a bit…"

"Well actually, remember back when I said that Yoshina wouldn't let me back in the house? …Well, she finally fergived me! Yup! Now everything's all better! Meetin' her up in Star Haven might've been the best thing in my life."

"Wow… I can't believe that!" Luigi gaped.

"Oh, and we managed to become great friends," Bruce informed, looking over at Bombette. "I actually met her again and we had a great conversation!"

"Surprisingly, he was not so obsessive over me," Bombette mentioned. "While I wasn't interested in going out with him again, I was glad that he was actually nice and normal for a change. I thought I would have to explode for a change!"

"I also apologized to her for what I did to make her leave Koopa Village too," Koopla informed. "I felt that I was a little too…harsh on her then, especially when she was always blowing her fuse on some of the Bob-ombs."

"Don't worry, Koopla. I think I shouldn't have overreacted that much."

"I actually missed seeing you, Chopper!" Kayzee smiled as she flew over to him. "And you even have new friends with you as well! It's so good to meet you!"

"What the… Is she…flying?" Blade gawked as he noticed Kayzee hovering over the ground. "That's not something I'd expect."

"I'm a Dayzeeflower Girl!"

"Dayzeeflower Girl? I remember Night was watching that show when we ended up in Chopper's house."

"They made a show of me and my sisters? Oh boy!"

"Hey, guys!" Mallow stepped up next as he waved to the group while holding his Diamond Hammer. "This hammer's turned out to be very useful! Thanks for giving this to me, Chopper!"

"Yeah, he's told me he's done a lot of good things with that," Parakarry recalled. "He can even smash Rainbow Blocks with that thing!"

"Poyo? (But didn't he already have a Diamond Hammer?)" Kirby pondered.

"I had one before, but I have it to Mallow," Chopper informed.

"And how has it been for you back here, Bow?" Sonic asked, turning to the green Boo, who seemed delighted to see her friend back.

"Well, our friends managed to pitch in and help me fix up a new mansion back in Forever Forest," Bow explained. "Merlon also used his magic to make sure it wouldn't fall apart. The mansion definitely looks pretty."

"Yup, we managed to fix it, even if it took a while," Ghoster smiled. "So, Chopper… I haven't seen you in two years! How goes the life?"

"Honestly… Right now, things aren't looking so good…" Chopper trailed. "Sonic's home world got destroyed by that…thing in the sky, and now this world's going to be destroyed soon!"

"This thing destroyed many worlds? Oh, dear… Then we can't just sit around." Geno stated. "I think it's best that we try to do something for once."

"The only thing we can do is get the Pure Heart," Blade explained. "But to do that, we need to find a card here. Any of you have a Mushroom Kingdom Card?"

"I don't think we found a card…" Vivian trailed as she floated over to Chopper. "But, it's good to see you and everyone else here."

Mario: How have things been for you?

"The usual. Beldam is still giving me proper treatment ever since Maquano's death, which makes me happy. We even went to Keehaul Key together with my other sister, Marilyn. I think she finally accepted me as her sister!"

Mario: That's great to hear!

"Of course, I didn't forget about you and Chopper," Vivian smiled as she looked over at Chopper, who was talking to Scrub.

"Contadre! I can't believe you're back after five months!" Scrub smiled as he gave Chopper a high five. "You know, I do have my own name in the Glitz Pit! Did Flyer tell ya I'm the Great Contadre Jr.?"

"Yeah, he told me that. …Wow! You sure have grown! You're nearly taller than me, that's for sure!"

"Really? Well, then it looks like I've surpassed the Great Contadre himself! Oh yeah!"

"Ya know, ya really do act like me fer some reason…" Yosho smirked as he looked down at the baby Yoshi.

"Really? Is it my hair? …Oh, you said act."

"Yeah, you do kind of act similar," Shadower remarked.

"OK… Anyway, how about you? What's going on with you?"

"What's been going on with me? Well, I live in the Creepy Steeple…or Dark Steeple with my two brothers. I know they were wondering if Tipral wanted to come too, but we never found any sight of him."

"We know where he is," Chopper frowned.

"Really? You know?"

"You know The Void in the sky? Well… He's the reason why it's here."

"Are you serious? So that means he hasn't given up evil like everyone else…" Shadower trailed. "But, where did he go to anyway? Last time we saw him, it was when we were fighting Maquano."

"I'm surprised he had returned," Geno said. "I mean, wasn't he beaten back in Star Haven?"

"Apparently he had other plans while sealed in that orb," Vivian explained. "I don't remember all the details, but he said that he was still able to unleash his power, hence why he summoned darkness to destroy all."

"Anyway… Back on topic, we need to get going now…" Sonic trailed. "Finding that card isn't going to be easy, it looks like it."

"Well, then how about we start looking?" Chopper suggested. "We can go to different places to find it! There's Shiver Mountain, Koopa Bros. Park, Forever Forest, Ghost Town, Star Haven, many places!"

"So you're saying we get to go on another adventure together?" Mallow gaped. "Oh, boy! I can't wait to go back to Nimbus Land!"

"Well, we just have to go where the card is," Luigi explained. "Should we split up?"

"If we're going to split up, I want to go with Choppy," Berry smiled, stepping close to Chopper.

"I don't like this..." Chopper gulped.

"OK, so I guess I'm going to go take this way," Tamber declared. "You guys are only talking to each other and not making progress. I, on the other hand, am going to…"

However, he soon stopped when he saw a giant airship coming toward them. "Hey… What the heck's that?"

"What is it?" Chopper asked.

"You should look up," Berry suggested as Chopper looked up. "Not THAT high. Just look at an upper angle and you'll see!"

"Surrender now, Mushroom Kingdom! Your nothing without your precious heroes!" a childish voice cried out from a megaphone. "My dad may not be here, but the Koopalings and I can take you down!"

"Koopalings? Wait a second…" Blade groaned. "Don't tell me it's them again!"

Mario: I know that voice…

"I second that, Bro!" Luigi agreed.

"That airship has Bowser's face sticking out," Sonic noticed. "I…don't know what to say about it."

"And he wants us to surrender?" Koopla scoffed. "Please… He should tell that when there are twenty-three people here! He wouldn't stand a chance against us!"

When the airship began to fly down, a younger version of Bowser was standing at the front of the ship. Bowser Jr. even had some of the Koopaling by his side as well. All seven of them.

"Well, look what we've got here!" Larry noticed. "It's those guys that trounced us from before!"

"Perfect for a clobberin'!" Morton grinned.

"They're going to pay for ruining my bow!" Wendy snorted.

"I had to get new glasses!" Iggy growled.

"You guys humiliated me last time!" Roy snarled.

"I got pranked!" Lemmy shouted.

"You made me look like a big fool back there," Ludwig grumbled. "Now we vill strike back!"

"So, what's it going to be? You going to surrender? Or do we have to deal with this the hard way?" Bowser Jr. smirked as he ordered a cannon to fire a cannonball near the ground.

"Well this is what I think of your airship!" Tamber growled, firing a giant, green fist made up of energy called a Star Diamond Fist at the ship. It left a giant hole inside, making a couple of Magikoopas and Hammer Bros. fall out and land on the ground.

"Hmmmm… You know, we can save this for later." Berry said as she readied her hammer. "I think we'll need to take care of these guys first. Besides, I haven't used my hammer in a while!"

"Well, I guess we should pay them a little visit!" Chopper suggested. "…Again."

When the Magikoopas fired their magic, Kayzee melted their wants with her Heat Vision, leaving them defenseless. This gave Mallow the opportunity to summon a cloud to fall on them.

"Errrr… Take this!" a Hammer Bro. shouted as it began to throw hammers. Scrub managed to grab one with his long tongue and spit it at the enemy, while Berry summoned a pink tornado to send the rest of the minions flying.

"They REALLY think they're going to take us on?" Ghoster scoffed as his eyes began to glow while making the rest of the minions levitate off the ground. He sent them flying toward the airship, sending them back in.

"See? I told you the minions wouldn't work." Ludwig grumbled, glaring at Bowser Jr.. "This is why I should be the leader."

"Well… Then how about you prove it then?" Bowser Jr. scoffed, crossing his arms. "If you think you're so much better than me, then go out and take them on yourselves!"

"You know, I think I'll do that," the oldest Koopaling jumped off the airship and began to fire blue magic. Berry was knocked back by the magic, while Kayzee tried to melt his wand with her Heat Vision. Sadly, it didn't seem to work.

"What? My heat vision's not working!" Kayzee gasped.

"That's why my wand is heat-proof!"

"Well, then we'll need to try something else," Yosho clenched his fists and laid an egg, while Scrub created a giant one. They both smirked as they threw them straight at Ludwig, leaving him dazed.

"You know, we should probably go down and help," suggested Iggy, who jumped off the airship like the rest of the Koopalings. Bowser Jr. was the only one who stayed on the airship.

"All right! Fine! All of you can get off!" he whined.

"Geez… Well, this is going to be exciting." Chopper groaned. "Right when we're going to go out to find the card, we have this."

"Should we get on the airship?" Sonic asked.

Mario: I think we should!

"You guys can go on the airship," Flyer suggested. "We'll take care of these guys and the minions!"

"Gotcha!" Chopper nodded as he and his friends jumped onto the airship and faced Bowser Jr., who yelped when he saw the six.

"Whoa! Aren't you guys supposed to be fighting down there?!" he gaped.

"Well, how about you get out of the way first?" Blade suggested. "We're on a tight schedule, and we can't have you and your minions getting in our way."

"Oh, so that's what you want, huh? Well, then maybe I should make this interesting!" Bowser Jr. smirked as he made the airship fly above Toad Town and up in the sky, where their friends couldn't help.

"You… You brought us up THIS high?!" Luigi gasped.

"Well, if we're going to battle, then your friends can't interfere! That's how it works here, you know."

"Poyo, (I'm sure you're going to be a cakewalk,)" Kirby declared.

"It's six against one, and you're definitely smaller than most of us here," Chopper pointed out. "You're not likely going to win…"

"Heh heh heh! Oh, really? Well, then how about I fight differently than the others?" Bowser Jr. walked over to his small Koopa Clown Car called the Junior Clown Car and jumped into it. Everyone watched as he flew above them.

"So, have you seen anything like this with the others?"

"Well… Not really…" Sonic shrugged.

"All right, then get ready! I'm going to make dad proud by getting rid of you! Especially you, Mario Bros.!"

Mario: Let's see you try!

Bowser Jr. cackled as he began to fly above the heroes and spat a couple of fireballs down at them. Unfortunately, they couldn't tell how much HP he even had, but they knew his Attack was 16. That's all they could get from that.

"How do we hit him anyway?" Luigi asked. "I know my Super Jump could probably reach him, but there's nothing else…"

"Then hit him with a Super Jump," Blade suggested.

Luigi nodded and used a Super Jump to launch himself up to Bowser Jr.. However, he had plans himself. He took out a steel cap and used it to cover himself when Luigi landed on him.

"You'll have to try better than that, 'cause trying to hit me yourself isn't going to help you here!" Bowser Jr. cackled as he threw a robotic Bowser-like enemy called a Mechakoopa down at them.

When Chopper jumped on it, it didn't appear to be defeated. It simply collapsed, just like what the Dry Bones would do if someone jumped on it. However, this gave Mario a little idea.

Mario: I think I have an idea!

"Really? What is it?" Sonic asked, curious about the plan. Mario began to whisper to everyone about the plan, while Bowser Jr. crossed his arms and let out a groan.

"Are you idiots done yet?" he scoffed.

"Yeah… Just give us about… Say, twenty seconds, OK?" Chopper demanded.

"Why should I? I'm trying to make Dad proud here!"

"Well, you'd want us to give you a challenge if you want to win, right? If it's too easy, it doesn't feel as rewarding!"

"Hmmmmm… Well, yeah, I guess that's true. I should… OW!" Bowser Jr. let out a yelp as he got hit by a Mechakoopa. Apparently Mario was able to grab one and throw it at him while he was preoccupied.

Mario: Good distraction!

Bowser Jr. growled as he spat a fireball down at Mario, who yelped, now left with a burn status on him. Chopper tried to use Starbow to hit him, but it didn't seem to work when Bowser Jr. put the metal cap over him again.

"Argh… This is getting annoying…" Chopper groaned.

"Ha ha! You can't hit me!" Bowser Jr. taunted as he stuck his tongue out. His Junior Clown Car dove down at them and attempted to attack. Thankfully, Sonic managed to hit him with a Homing Attack from behind.

"I guess when he doesn't see you coming, you gotta attack," Sonic said as he landed on the ground, while Bowser Jr. was left dazed.

"Ow! Stupid blue thing! I'm going to burn you!" Bowser Jr. howled as he spat a fireball down at him. Sonic managed to jump out of the way, but that didn't stop Bowser Jr. from throwing a Mechakoopa down at him.

"Oof! That hurts…" Sonic moaned.

"Ha ha! Take that!"

Kirby, knowing what he had to do, tried to inhale the Junior Clown Car. Sadly, it didn't seem to work out too well for him, but this gave Luigi the opportunity to grab the Mechakoopa with Thoreau and throw it at Bowser Jr., leaving him dazed.

"Hey! I got him!" Luigi gaped.

"Ow! That hurt!" Bowser Jr. cried as he retreated. "I can't win at this rate!"

"So… Does that mean we win?" Blade gawked. "I didn't even get to attack him at all…"

"Well, I guess we can't get a chance to attack all the time…" Sonic trailed.

However, they stopped when they saw some fireballs drop from the sky. They all gulped as they avoided the falling fireballs. Another row appeared after the previous disappeared, with two getting Kirby and Blade.

Afterward, Bowser Jr. returned, but with stronger propellers on the Junior Clown Car. He grinned as he flew down toward the group while spinning his vehicle around like a tornado, sending a couple of them flying.

"I just had to get a little something," Bowser Jr. explained as he spat another fireball at the group. "This should help me fight!"

Mario: A propeller?

"More than that! A propeller that makes this baby spin ridiculously fast!"

Kirby inhaled the fireball to become Fire Kirby, while Chopper tossed a couple of rainbow balls at the Junior Clown Car. They seemed to do some damage, but it didn't do any harm to Bowser Jr.

"I think we should actually attack Bowser Jr. and NOT the weird clown thing he's in," Blade suggested.

Bowser Jr. chuckled as he tried to ram into Kirby, who tried to scorch him with his Fire Breath. Blade, on the other hand, managed to jump on top of the Koopa Clown Car and slash Bowser Jr..

"Hey! Get out of my car!" Bowser Jr. growled, clawing at Blade and knocking him off with a fireball. "Dad gave this thing for me and only me! So back off!"

"Ugh… I hate spoiled brats…"

However, when Chopper threw an ice ball at the propeller, it froze and caused the Junior Clown Car to stop moving and crash onto the ship. This gave Kirby the opportunity to scorch him with a fireball.

"Poyo! (You're not the only one who can use fire!)" Kirby smiled as he cheered.

"Work you stupid car!" Bowser Jr. whined as he looked down at the frozen propeller. He tried smashing it with his fists, but it didn't seem to work. He finally spat a fireball at it to make it function, but it only led to him getting hit by a rainbow ball.

"Ow! …I'll be right back!" the young Koopa prince flew off in his Junior Clown Car, making fireballs rain down from the sky afterward. Everyone dodged them and noticed Bowser Jr. came back, but with a cannon sticking out of the mouth of the Junior Clown Car.

"Sorry for the wait… But now this new cannon's installed! Now you're going to get it now!"

"Oh… It's just a cannon…" Luigi trailed.

Mario: That's nothing new!

"Well… Well… It shoots fireballs! I'll show you!" Bowser Jr. fired a flaming cannonball to the ground, filling a part of the ship with fire. "Oh, and don't worry. These ships are fire-proof."

"Poyo, (Well that's convenient,)" Kirby sighed as he tried to attack Bowser Jr. with his Final Cutter. Unfortunately, when he brought the metal cap up, it didn't do a thing.

"Have some of this!" Bowser Jr. cackled as he threw two Mechakoopas down. Chopper managed to quickly grab one with Thoreau and throw it at him, leaving him dazed for a couple of seconds.

"Maybe you shouldn't throw things at us," Chopper suggested as he threw an ice ball at the cannon, freezing it.

"Hey! I need that!"

Mario grabbed the last Mechakoopa and gave it a good throw at Bowser Jr. while he was preoccupied with the Junior Clown Car. Once it hit him, his machine crashed to the ground.

"Well, looks like you lost," Sonic stated.

"Ugh… Stupid machine! You're useless!" Bowser Jr. growled, kicking his Junior Clown Car, resulting in him holding his foot in pain as he jumped around. "OW! Why do you have to be made out of hard material?!"

"I think you should bring us back down," Luigi suggested. "We need to go help our friends!"

"Ha ha ha! You think so? Well, I've always got something else up my sleeve!" Bowser Jr. stepped on a switch and the Koopa Clown rolled out of a door. Its grin looked more disturbing than the innocent look of Bowser Jr.'s Junior Clown Car. "I'm going to use my dad's Koopa Clown Car against you! I know for a fact his is a lot stronger!"

Mario: Oh, brother… Bowser's Koopa Clown Car…

"What's wrong with that?" Blade asked.

Mario: I don't like its look.

"Well, I don't care if you think my dad's Koopa Clown Car is creepy! It's going to knock your socks out!" Bowser Jr. scoffed as he spat a fireball down at the group. "And this time, no more Mechakoopas!"

"Oh, goody…" Chopper groaned.

While everyone dodged the fireball, the Koopa Clown Car dove down toward them, with Kirby managed to hit Bowser Jr. with a fireball before he could get the metal cap to protect himself.

Bowser Jr. grinned as the Koopa Clown Car fired a large cannonball out of its mouth. It even had a timer on it, making everyone gulp. There was no way to send it flying back up to him!

"How are we going to get this up to him?!" Luigi gaped.

An idea struck Mario, and he used his Super Ground Pound. Because of the big attack, it sent the cannonball flying up to the Koopa Clown Car, leaving Bowser Jr. stunned. This also helped when Luigi used a Super Jump to stomp on him.

"Hey! No fair! You can't use my own attack against me!" Bowser Jr. whined.

"Well, they already did," Blade stated as he threw Hommissile and made him hit Bowser Jr. as he whined. This caused him to retreat for a bit and summon large fireballs to rain down from the sky.

"What's with the fire anyway?" Chopper gawked as he avoided the fireballs. When Bowser Jr. returned, they noticed the cannon had a new upgrade. It actually began to fire rapid cannonballs to the ground, surrounding the group in a wall of fire.

"Poyo… (This isn't good…)" Kirby gulped.

"Heh heh heh! Now you're trapped!" Bowser Jr. cackled as Chopper began tossing ice balls. Sadly, that didn't seem to work.

"Ugh… Nothing's working!" Chopper groaned.

"Bowser Jr.! Bowser Jr.!"

"What the…" Bowser Jr. noticed a Magikoopa flew over to him. "Oh, what now? Can't you see I'm busy here?!"

"I have urgent news! You know the battle down in Toad Town?"

"Yeah? What about it?"

"Well… We lost."

"WHAT?! That's not right! They must've cheated!"

While they were preoccupied, Chopper managed to inhale the Magikoopa's wand and gain a green, pointy hat. He smirked as he raised his arm and summoned lightning to strike Bowser Jr..

"What the heck?! How'd you do that?!"

"I've got my Magic ability on!" Chopper smiled. "…Er, Sorcerer? I don't know…"

He summoned a magic attack to extinguish the flames, allowing Sonic to strike Bowser Jr. with his Sonic Wind. Once Kirby hit Bowser Jr. with a Cartwheel, the son of Bowser retreated again.

"Since it took nine hits to beat him in his first phase, I'm sure it'll take nine again," Sonic concluded. "That means… Three more hits."

"Argh… This is all I have left…" Bowser Jr. grumbled as the Koopa Clown Car began to crash down on the ship, damaging it slightly. The car itself looked pretty angry too. "I'm going to CRUSH you with this thing!"

Blade managed to stun the Koopa Clown Car with Hommissile, while Sonic delivered a Homing Attack to Bowser Jr. Luigi even threw Bonjourang to leave Bowser Jr. stunned, leaving only one last hit to win the fight.

"Oh no ya don't!" Bowser Jr. clawed at Luigi and knocked him back, bringing his metal cap up. However, Chopper summoned lightning to strike the cap, leaving a shock on Bowser Jr. to force him to let go.

"HEY! That's not fair!"

Mario: Here we go!

With one jump from Mario, Bowser Jr. fell out of the Koopa Clown Car and lay unconscious.

"Yes! We finally did it!" Luigi cheered.

"Unnghh… How did I lose like that?" Bowser Jr. groaned, slowly lifting his head. "I did everything Dad told me! …Well, I guess maybe it's because he always loses to you Stupid Mario Bros…"

Mario: How are we stupid if we win?

"You guys want a fun ride? Well, how about I give you one myself!" the son of Bowser grinned as he pulled a lever near him, revealing a trapdoor underneath. Everyone gasped as they began to plummet to their doom.

"And don't come back here!"

"Ack! This is horrible!" Luigi cried as everyone began to fall toward Toad Town. "There's no way we could survive a fall like this!"

"I knew we shouldn't have stood still like that!" Chopper cried.

Their cries eventually stopped when they noticed they were all surrounded by a light.

"P-Poyo…? (We're…not falling…?)" Kirby blinked.

They noticed a yellow, stardust creature with the back of his head being shaped like a star and cyan eyes slowly floating down with them. Chopper rubbed his eyes before taking a look at him.

"I can't believe it! It's Staris!" Chopper gasped. "How did he know we were in trouble?!"

"Doesn't he say anything?" Blade asked.

"No. He's one of those silent gods. But, he actually saved us!"

"Isn't he that guy you said you fought against?" Luigi recalled. "Then how come he's not hurting us?"

"It's because I got rid of the dark power that was corrupting him when the Star Rod was stolen. I think all of that was a myth to begin with, but then Maquano came in and made the myth come true by making the dark power spread into him if the Star Rod was ever stolen."

"Oh… Well that's interesting!" Blade said. "So… Could you bring us down to Toad Town?"

Staris nodded and began to descend down to Toad Town.

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Toad Town-

"Man! We sure showed them!" Tamber grinned as he finished off Roy with a punch. All the Koopalings were unconscious, as well as the rest of the minions. "Did they really think they could beat us?"

"Well, to be fair, there were definitely more of us in that fight…" Vivian trailed. "I feel somewhat sorry for them, though…"

"I don't think they're truly evil," Berry said while rubbing her head. "Sometimes I feel they're doing this because their father is threatening them or something?"

"I don't think they're being threatened," Flyer pondered. "Sometimes it could be because they fear someone who's bigger in size."

"Well, needless to say, we managed to come victorious," Geno stated. "I know those heroes said they would get on the airship. …But I don't see them."

"Scanners are picking up something," C-2 Choppor warned, raising his arm gun.

Everyone looked up and saw the six heroes slowly descending while being surrounded by light, thanks to the Star God, Staris. Everyone gasped and stepped back from the glowing Staris.

"Well, looks like they're back!" Parakarry smiled. "About time!"

When they landed on the ground, everyone walked over to them to greet them once again.

"So, what happened on that airship?" Shadower asked. "In fact… Where did it even go?"

"Well, apparently it went up in the sky," Sonic explained. "Bowser Jr. grabbed a lever and made us fall to our doom. That is, until Staris showed up and rescued us at the right moment."

"Is he evil?" Mallow asked.

"Don't you remember what happened when we went into Star Haven?" Geno asked. "Chopper was able to drive the dark power corrupting Staris out with his super form, turning him back to normal."

Staris gave a nod as he used his power to heal the wounds off of everyone, making them all relieved. Afterward, Mario took notice of the unconscious Koopalings on the ground.

Mario: I suppose they're taken care of?

"Yeah, we took care of 'em," Koopla smirked. "They weren't that hard, to be fair. But that might be because there were more of us."

"It's weird, because usually it's always the villains outnumbering us," Bombette mentioned.

"Although, I will admit that this fight wasn't as cool as the battle on your home planet," Bruce remarked.

"But we decided that we would try to start searching for that card," Scrub declared.

"A card, huh? So, what is this 'card' that you're hoping to get?"

"Well, we were… Hold on, did any of you just say that?" Chopper gawked before receiving head shakes.

"I'm right over here, Chopper," he turned to the way to Pleasant Path, where he found a bouncing black head with blue glass on his cranium. "You remember me, do you not? The almighty Sir Grodus?"

"Grodus? What are you doing here?" Vivian asked.

"I decided that I would go out for once and see this world Mario lives in. Don't think that I'm evil like before. I'm practically powerless as a head. If it weren't for that demon, I'm sure I'd be destroying you all!"

"But you're not. You're just a head!" Yosho laughed.

"I assure you that just because I'm a head doesn't mean my intellect has gone down. In fact, I can safely say that I might know of a certain card being somewhere…"

"Whoa! Are you serious?!" Bombette gaped. "You KNOW where it is?!"

"Yeah, we know all right!" a slightly chubby alien with a black suit and black boots with a white X, a red cape, a red, spiky collar, purple mask and pants, and goggles walked beside Grodus. "And trust us, we're not trying to blackmail ya."

"Really, we kinda gave up on evil. There are barely any of us left anyway…" Another person came beside Grodus. However, instead he was in a red suit with a black X on the suit, white mask, goggles, and white boots and gloves.

"Lord Crump!" Chopper gawked. "Oh, yeah… Flyer told me you were still alive after those events."

"Yeah! Nothing can stop me! Buh huh huh!" Lord Crump cackled stupidly.

"You're still the same idiot as before," Scrub scoffed.

"Oh, burned!" Tamber laughed.

"Well, then why can't we know where the card is?" Berry asked. "If you're guys aren't evil, then you'd tell us."

"Then I think we'll listen," Bow added.

"All right, but you must promise us to bring us with you," Grodus suggested.

"OK… If you insist…" Blade trailed.

"Good. Johnson! Tell them!"

"Of course," Johnson nodded. "You see, as aliens, we have some ships remaining. While we were flying over that…Star Haven place, we encountered some kind of card. It was glowing, that's for sure. I believe it was at some kind of shrine."

Staris's eyes widened as he had a vision of where the card was. It was right where he lived…

"Hold on… Did you say shrine?" Chopper gaped. "Staris's Shrine! Of all the places…"

"How're we going to get up there?" Koopla gawked.

"That'll take a lot of people!" Kayzee frowned. "And with all the obstacles we had to go through to get there too!"

However, before anyone could say another word, the ground began to tremor violently, causing The Void to grow bigger.

"Uh oh… That thing's growing huge!" Mallow gaped.

"We've gotta go now!" Geno shouted.

"And you believe you'll have that kind of time? I think not!"

"Oh, no…" Luigi gulped as Tipral floated above the whole group. "Why do you have to be here?!"

The ones who probably gave the most serious looks were Sonic and Blade, who clenched their fists and glared at Tipral without a word.

"I'm surprised you managed to escape The Void twice," Tipral commented as he looked down at the group. "And I can see there are a bunch of familiar faces here…"

"Tipral?! …I guess you haven't changed a bit…" Shadower trailed.

"Oh, yes… I think I'll be satisfied when I see this place go all right, especially that brother of yours, Shadower."

"You mean Mysterious?"

"Of course! You know how much horrible treatment I got from that shadow being? And no, it wasn't the name-calling either. While I hated the term 'shadow-freak', he gave me beatings when I didn't see it coming when I failed to beat Chopper."

"Whoa… Are you serious? That's like the punishments I got from him!"

"He also kept me in a tanning bed for eight hours while I was being bit by Chain Chomps too. I was so enraged by him that I wanted to strangle him to death. Unfortunately, I couldn't because Maquano told me he was needed and that I had to stick with him. That almost makes me hate him as well!"

"Some people made fun of my name back in Sand Town," Berry recalled. "But after a while, I got over it. However, WHY did you let yourself get tortured by that shadow being?"

"You should've stayed away from him for the most," Flyer suggested. "And what did it lead you to do? Destroy all worlds?"

"That's not all why I'm doing this… Ever since that happened, I've been nothing but lonely and filled with hatred. You probably wouldn't understand, so I suppose I'll leave you all to die. If I can't get the heroes this time, then I'll make sure I'll get you next time."

Staris noticed the Dark Star Scepter in Tipral's hand, so he tried to grab it. Unfortunately, Tipral saw this coming and teleported out of the way. When he reappeared, Staris jumped in the air and tried to use his light power to fire a beam from his mouth.

"You think you can take this scepter from me?" Tipral scoffed, firing a dark beam from the scepter to counter it. "You may be a Star God, but this weapon is the most powerful thing in the universe! A god such as yourself can't defeat me!"

Staris landed on the ground and brought his hand into the ground. His hand appeared in front of Tipral and attempted to swat at him. Unfortunately, this led the Star God to be blasted by a dark beam.

"Poyo… (For some reason, Staris seemed to react in a strange way to that scepter…)" Kirby trailed.

"I think this Star God knows a secret that he shouldn't know about this thing!" Tipral growled. "Never mind that for now. I don't have time to be here. I'll let The Void take care of you all for now. Rest assured, Chopper. You and your friends are eventually going to die! It'll be nice to see people who attacked me swallowed up by The Void!"

"I shouldn't be the reason why…" Unfortunately, Tipral disappeared, leaving the heroes to gulp. "Someone should really talk some sense into him."

"I really don't like the way he acts…" Kayzee trailed. "And he even looks like you, Chopper!"

"All right, I think we need to get going now," Chopper suggested.

"I cannot tell how much time is left," C-2 Choppor informed. "Don't waste any time, Chopper. We're going now."

"Uhh… What the robot said!" Ghoster agreed.

"Yeah! So take us up there, Staris!" Luigi suggested as Staris slowly got up. He used his power to surround only the heroes, Grodus, Lord Crump, and Johnson. He tried to get the others, but for some reason, he couldn't.

"What's going on? It doesn't look like Staris can get all of us to his shrine." Bow noticed.

"I believe because of that dark power Tipral had with him, it left him weakened," Geno deduced. "It appears he can only take nine up."

"Yeah, and we said that they'd have to take us to the card if they wanna know where to find it," Lord Crump grinned. "Stinks for you guys!"

"Hey! That's not fair!" Berry growled.

"Well… To be honest… It is fair…" Flyer trailed. "We agreed that they'd come, and since Staris can't take anyone else up, it's fair that they go…"

"All right… Then I guess this means goodbye…" Vivian frowned. "It's sad, because we didn't have much time to speak…"

"Yeah, I feel bad too," Chopper frowned. "Maybe next time, I'll get to see you guys…"

"Yeah, don't forget us either," Bruce added. "Of course, you couldn't have gone through your adventures without us!"

"Of course!" Bombette agreed.

"And don't let anyone get in your way either," Tamber suggested. "I know you guys are tougher than me. I won't deny it. That's… That's really all I can say."

As the ground trembled again, everyone frowned. "I guess we should get going…"

With that, Staris began to ascend into the sky with the heroes, Grodus, Lord Crump, and Johnson.

"I wish I could've given Choppy my little gift before he left…" Berry slowly pulled out a slice of cake with red icing shaped like a heart. "Peach actually helped me with this, and I wanted to know what he thought of it."

"Is Chopper all you think about?" Bow groaned.

"Well you sometimes think about him a lot! Don't be so hypocritical!"

"Says the girl who gives him the name 'Choppy' and is as obsessed with him as me…"

"Girls, this arguing REALLY has to stop," Flyer groaned, stepping in between the two. "Chopper's told me how both of you act toward each other. Just realize that you have different views. You may both like him, but fighting over someone is wrong. It gets you nowhere."

"But I personally don't like the way she treats Chopper," Berry stated. "She believes she could just sit back and relax while he does everything for her. That's almost like slavery!"

"I never treated him like a slave," Bow growled. "You usually can't think of anything besides Chopper for the most!"

"Well, you two have different perspectives of things," Flyer said. "I'm sure both of you are not really like that. You're just judging each other. I think it's safe to say that it won't help you two at all."

"Especially at a time like this," Geno added. "I think it's time you two put all of that aside and make up."

"…I guess you're right," Bow sighed. "I'm sorry if I ever hurt you in any way, Berry. I did feel before that this got us nowhere."

"Yeah, that's something I felt too… I apologize for my attitude toward you. It was wrong of me." Berry held her hand out. "Truce?"

"…Truce."

As they both shook hands, everyone felt relieved.

"And I can't believe we finally got that over with!" Scrub smiled. "It's about time!"

"So… What should we do now?" Bow asked.

"All we can do right now is hope that they get the card and stop The Void," Berry stated.

"Well, at least the most important thing is that we'll die together…" Parakarry trailed as he shed a tear. "Let's all wish them luck."

"Please… Don't fail us now, heroes…" Geno trailed.

---

Staris's Shrine-

"Man… I can't believe it's been this long since I've been here…" Chopper sighed as he landed on the light blue ground. He looked over at the staircase in the background and saw the Star Rod sticking out of the pedestal. "Nothing much has changed, but I like it this way."

"Poyo! (It looks really beautiful!)" Kirby smiled as he noticed the Star Kids playing in the fountain around the shrine.

"Now that you brought us here, we can safely tell you where the card is," Grodus stated. "And believe us, we don't want this world to get swallowed up either, so it's safe to say we're on the same side."

"And I believe I can show you the way," Johnson concluded as he hurried on ahead.

That is, until someone stomped on him. It was none other than Mr. L.

"Oh, no… Not you again!" Luigi groaned.

"Mushroom Kingdom Card? You mean this?" Mr. L chuckled as he turned around and held up the glowing card. "I believe you'll be needing this to continue on, is that correct?"

Mario: Give that to us!

"That card is needed for them to stop that thing in the sky!" Lord Crump growled. "Give it to them or I'm gonna give you the old Crump-a-bomb!"

"Ho ho! Am I sensing a fat man who wants to challenge me?" Mr. L scoffed.

"Buh huh? I'm not fat! I'll show you!" Lord Crump charged at Mr. L with full force, but he ended up getting electrocuted by a single zap of green electricity from Mr. L's hand.

"He has electricity now?!" Chopper gaped.

"Of course I do! Tipral thought that I could've used it!" Mr. L smirked. "But anyway… I guess we might as well get started."

"Started with what?" Blade asked.

"What do you think? A fight! That's why I came here!"

"Oh, really? I thought you came here for a cheeseburger?"

"Sure, I'd come here for a cheeseburger, but I'll save that for later when I beat you guys!" Mr. L raised his arms. "BROBOT LAUNCH!"

Staris was about to bring his arm back, but Chopper gestured him to stay back as the ground began to tremble. A new Brobot ended up ripping through the background and flew in front of the heroes. The only difference here was that Brobot's hands were black with spiky knuckles, and it had a black mask.

"You see this magnificent design? This is the newer version of Brobot! I call him… BROBOT L II!"

"Not Brobot Mk. II?" Chopper gawked.

Mr. L jumped into his new Brobot and grabbed a hold of the controls. "Now, then… Let's see what you jumpers can do to me, especially you, Mr. Greencappedloser! Have at you!"

"Oh, now you're crossing the line…" Luigi growled, clenching his fists. "Calling me a loser? That's the LAST straw!"

"All right, let's see if you can beat this new Brobot! It's so much stronger than my other Brobot, that's for sure! Wanna know why? It has MACHINE GUNS! Just look!" Mr. L pressed a button and Brobot L II began to fire its machine guns from its knuckles. Everyone gasped and avoided them, while Chopper hurled a fireball at Brobot L II. Sadly, it didn't seem to work.

"Fire doesn't appear to work at all…" Chopper trailed.

They discovered Brobot L II had a Max HP of 440, an Attack of 17 and a Defense of 8. It was immune to fire, according to the fire. Needless to say, there was no messing around with this thing, that's for sure.

However, it was when Luigi managed to strike Brobot L II's nose with a Super Jump was when the robot actually got hit by something. It retaliated by punching Luigi and Mario, but it didn't take them too long to get up.

Chopper frowned and raised his arm to summon lightning down and hit Brobot L II, leaving it paralyzed for a couple of seconds. Kirby removed his Fire ability, knowing it was useless and attacked the robot with his Final Cutter.

"Blasphemy! …Wait, did I just say 'blasphemy'?" Mr. L gawked. "Well it doesn't matter! How's about I give you some missiles?"

The Green Thunder slammed on a button and Brobot L II's nose opened up and fired a black missile at the group. Kirby inhaled it and became Bomb Kirby before tossing a bomb at the robot.

"You know, explosives were very effective against the previous one," Blade recalled. "So I bet they'll do just fine against this as well!"

Blade threw Hommissile at Brobot L II, but to his surprise, the attack only did normal damage, unlike the previous times where Hommissile pierced through Brobot's defenses. Not the case here.

"I took some lessons from our previous encounters," Mr. L smirked. "I toldja this was my best yet!"

Mario: He really has learned from the past…

"Yup!" Brobot L II opened its mouth and began to suck in everyone like a vacuum. Everyone tried to escape, but they weren't able to get away and ended up inside of the robot. After chewing them up a bit, Brobot L II spat them out and left them with a couple of bruises.

"Geez… That was painful…" Sonic moaned.

"See? My machine is quite lovely!"

"Then maybe you should shut up with your boasting and actually fight us instead," Chopper grumbled, firing some ice chucks to be thrown at Brobot L II. Its hand tried to block it, but it ended up being frozen.

Mario grinned as he jumped on the frozen hand and delivered a Super Ground Pound to Brobot L II's head, leaving it to cringe in pain. Mr. L gasped as Mario jumped off stylishly and landed on the ground.

"Hey, Red! See how you like THIS!" Brobot L II raised its fists and brought them down on him. Unfortunately, Mr. L missed the attack, despite the fact that the ice on one of Brobot L II's hands shattered.

Mario: You're a little too slow!

"Is Mario suddenly becoming me?" Sonic gawked as he dodged one of Brobot L II's fists and struck the robot in the face with a powerful Homing Attack. Brobot L II was sent flying back and ended up skidding along the floor.

"Ugh… My head…" Johnson moaned as he slowly got up. He noticed the giant robot of Mr. L in front of him, forcing him to let out a cry as he ran over to Grodus and Lord Crump.

"Man, this thing is totally a rip-off of my awesome robot creation," Lord Crump scoffed.

"Your robots never defeated Chopper and his friends before," Grodus remarked. "So they're not any better than this."

"Well, this isn't any better."

"I guess it's safe to say both aren't any better," Johnson declared as he watched Luigi throw Bonjourang at Brobot L II. It tried to slam him to the ground, but the plumber dodged it and attacked Brobot L II with a Cyclone.

"Hey! Quit moving!" Mr. L growled. "I'm trying to smash you, and your dodging isn't helping me!"

"Well, I don't want to get smashed by that thing's fists!" Luigi retorted as he hit Brobot L II in the nose with a Super Jump. Mr. L growled and pressed a button that allowed Brobot L II to fire a large, dark green laser from its eyes.

"I know how to avoid this," Chopper declared as he flipped into 3-D and got behind Brobot L II. Once he was in 2-D again, he bashed the robot with a rainbow smash, followed by summoning lightning to strike down on Brobot L II.

Mr. L growled as he made Brobot L II fly in the air and land on top of Chopper, flattening him. When Blade charged toward the robot, it opened its mouth in order to inhale him.

"If you couldn't escape it before, then surely you won't this time!" Mr. L grinned as Brobot L II began to suck Blade in.

"Well, I still have something," Blade smirked as he threw Hommissile into Brobot L II's mouth, causing an explosion from inside. Mr. L gaped as he noticed a little malfunction, but was able to fix it up quickly.

"That was barely anything! This thing is highly sturdy!"

Kirby frowned and chucked a couple of bombs at Brobot L II, causing some steam to come out of the robot. Mr. L gasped, but it didn't stop him from making Brobot L II grab Kirby and throw him at Chopper.

"Poyo… (Well, he certainly has learned a lot, I'll say that…)" Kirby groaned.

Brobot L II lifted one of its feet up and slammed on the ground, causing a shockwave that left the heroes stunned. This gave Mr. L the opportunity to strike them with a flamethrower from its nose.

"What a bunch of l-osers you are!" Mr. L scoffed as the heroes got hit by Brobot L II's, mustache, which it threw at them like a boomerang and caught afterward. Mario was able to quickly get back up and slam his hammer on Brobot L II's nose.

"Hey! Watch the nose on this baby! I don't want a dent left on it!"

Mario: You're fighting us with it…

"You're probably going to expect to see dents on it anyway," Sonic added as he clenched his fist and attacked Brobot L II with his Sonic Wind. It didn't seem to send the robot flying, but it ended up harming it, which allowed Blade to slice at it with his katana.

"…OK, I'll admit that my katana probably won't do much to defeat this thing," Blade declared as he threw Hommissile at Brobot L II. "Now that's a little more effective, in my eyes."

"This is going to be more effective!" Mr. L spat as he made Brobot L II fire a missile at Blade, covering him in soot. Even when Chopper got up, he got blasted by another missile the robot fired.

"Oh, come on! Will I ever make an attack?!" Chopper groaned.

Mr. L grinned evilly as Brobot L II brought his foot down on Chopper, flattening him like a pancake again. Sonic retaliated by charging up a Light Speed Attack and attacking Brobot L II multiple times, forcing it back.

"Are you OK?" Sonic asked, pulling Chopper back up. "Oh, yeah… We gotten unflatten you."

"Poyo! (I'm on it!)" Kirby declared as he got a bicycle pump and began to pump air into Chopper, getting him back up and also unflattening him (even though they're technically PAPER).

"Geez… This robot is a major pain in the butt!" Chopper grumbled, hurling a rainbow ball at Brobot L II, followed by freezing one of its hands with an ice spell. This gave Mario the opportunity to dent Brobot L II's nose with Kickbrin.

"Oh, so you wanna play it that way, huh? Well then! Time to bring out the machine guns!" Mr. L pressed a button, and the knuckles of Brobot L II began to fire its machine guns at the group.

"Heads up!" Blade shouted as they avoided the bullets coming their way. He managed to fire a Dragon Beam at Brobot L II, which left it off guard and even kept it stunned, allowing Kirby to hurl a bomb into its mouth.

"Poyo, (I don't know how much time we have until this world's done for,)" Kirby said worriedly.

"Let's try not to worry about that, Kirby," Chopper suggested. "That's something that should be discussed for later."

Mario: And it's really bad to bring up too…

Mario looked up at the sky worriedly as he saw The Void grow bigger. Mr. L simply chuckled as he made Brobot L II ram its non-frozen fist straight at Mario, who jumped out of the way and bashed Brobot L II's face with his hammer.

"Oh, boy… You might have much time, l-osers!" Mr. L scoffed.

"He's making horrible puns now…" Luigi groaned as he grabbed Hommissile from Blade and threw it at Brobot L II. With that, Mr. L made the robot fly in the air and shoot bombs to the ground.

"You like bombs? Then you'll love these!"

Mario grabbed one of the bombs with Thoreau, but unfortunately, it ended up blowing up while he held it, leading him to take damage instead. The red plumber coughed from the smoke while Brobot L II flew to the ground and fired a missile.

Luigi reacted by grabbing the missile with Thoreau and throwing it back at Brobot L II. This left Mr. L off guard, but then he noticed Staris had an idea flowing through his head, considering he noticed him creating a Mega Star.

"Oh, so he thinks he can help those pitiful heroes by trying to trample me, huh? Well, two can play at one game!"

"Hey, guys… I think Staris is helping us!" Luigi gasped as Staris threw a Mega Star toward them.

"I don't think so!" Mr. L smirked as he got Brobot L II to grab a hold of the Mega Star. Everyone gaped as Brobot L II transformed into a giant 8-bit version of itself. Mr. L was even 8-bit as well!

"I've seen a Koopa Troopa get a Mega Star… But I've never seen one of Tipral's minions get one!" Chopper gulped. "I'm actually scared…"

"Wow… I think they're totally going to get crumped…" Lord Crump gaped.

"Lord Crump… Have I ever told you your puns were bad?" Grodus asked.

"Well, it doesn't matter, considering you'll never be a head of me! Buh huh huh!"

"If I had my body, my scepter would be slamming right on your head... In fact, why don't you do the honors, Johnson?"

"Of course, Sir Grodus," Johnson nodded as he slammed his fist on Lord Crump's head. "And if you believe you can hurt me, think again. That was Sir Grodus's orders, which I'm meant to follow."

Staris managed to create another Mega Star, but at a faster pace than before. He tossed it over to the heroes, with Mario grabbing the Mega Star and transforming into a giant 8-bit version of himself.

Unfortunately, he wasn't as big as Brobot L II.

"Well, looks like you got one yourself!" Mr. L frowned. "No matter! We'll make this a big giant battle, Mr. Jumpsallthetime!"

Mario: All right, then!

When Brobot L II tried to punch Mario, he was able to grab Brobot L II's fist and push it back at the robot, knocking it back. A couple of Star Kids screamed as they flew away from the water where the two giants fought and flew over to Staris, who huddled them all together.

"This is like one of those giant monster fights," Lord Crump said as he held a bag of popcorn in his hands.

Mario clenched his hammer and brought it down on Brobot L II. Considering that they were both large, they could easily hurt each other. In fact, Brobot L II's mustache flew off and hit Mario, nearly sawing his mustache off.

Mario: Yikes!

"All right, then! Let's see how you like this!" Before Mr. L could activate his machine guns again, a puff of smoke surrounded them and turned them back to normal. "Aw, what? We're back to normal now?! Weak!"

"Well, I guess this helps us!" Luigi smiled as he finished drinking a Star Shroom Shake that he passed over to everyone else. After doing a flip, he managed to hit Brobot L II's nose with his Cyclone.

"Great… Those idiots just healed themselves up." Mr. L growled as he made Brobot L II fire its machine guns at the six. They were able to avoid the bullets, but they couldn't escape from the robot's lasers.

"And now taste some of Brobot's missiles!" he cackled as he fired a missile straight at Kirby, who used his Defend to take minimum damage. Afterward, he pulled a bomb out and chucked it at Brobot L II.

"Poyo! (I can see some smoke coming out of that thing!)" Kirby noticed.

"Really? Well that's neat!" Chopper smiled as he summoned a tidal wave to fall on Brobot L II thanks to his Magic ability. Sparks were flying everywhere due to the water, and it even left the robot a little rusted.

"So, you have the nerve to leave my robot a little rusted? Ho ho! Well, then you're going to love this!"

Mr. L pushed a button and Brobot L II's mouth opened up. Instead of inhaling everyone, it began to charge up a powerful laser. This almost reminded Sonic of when Eggman used that giant robot back in the Death Egg that could shoot a large laser.

"Great… Just what we need…" Sonic sighed.

"We can still attack him while it's charging," Blade informed. Sonic gave a nod and simply threw himself at the robot in a ball. Blade threw Hommissile in Brobot L II's mouth, hoping for some success.

But, unfortunately, that didn't stop Brobot L II from firing the large laser at them. It did double the damage its normal attacks did and left them panting. It didn't stop Mario from hitting it with Kickbrin, however.

Mario: You're almost beat!

"Well, as long as I get one of the heroes, I'm fine. I'm thinking of taking out the one that looks like me! I don't like that 'stache of his or those overalls!" Mr. L growled, pressing a button to make Brobot L II raise its fist over Luigi.

"Wah! This isn't good!" Luigi gaped as he jumped out of the fist's way. He decided to jump on it and land on Brobot L II's head, even if it didn't do too much damage. But surely enough, it didn't have much to fight them.

"Well… How about another large laser? This baby still has some juice for that!" Mr. L shouted as Brobot L II opened its mouth and prepared to charge another laser attack.

"Hey, Luigi, why don't you use Hommissile to take him out?" Blade suggested. "I think it's right that you do the honors."

"Thanks, Blade," Luigi thanked as he grabbed Hommissile and threw him directly into Brobot L II's mouth. Before it could fire a laser, the robot began to detonate, making Mr. L gasped.

"Awwwww what?! No way! My Brobot L II has machine guns. MACHINE GUNS!"

"Well, I guess that's not much for you," Luigi smirked as he caught the Mushroom Kingdom Card that dropped out of Brobot L II once it exploded. Mr. L fell to the ground in exhaustion.

"Ugh… Well that turned out to be great…" he grumbled. "My newest robot. Gone! …But, it doesn't matter from here. I believe The Void's just about to destroy this place for sure!"

Mario: WHAT?!

"That's right! I guess I should get going now! L-ater!" Mr. L cackled as he jumped in the air and suddenly teleported out of their sights.

"Wait… Is he being serious?!" Lord Crump gawked.

Everyone stopped when they felt a violent tremor. When they looked at the sky, they didn't see the sky anymore. The Void had BECOME the sky now!

---

Toad Town-

"Oh, geez! The tremors are getting worse!" Ghoster cried. "I hope those guys know what they're doing!"

"They know what they're doing!" Bow cried. "They're heroes! They're supposed to know what they're doing!"

Everyone began to shake as the whole place began to flash white a couple of times. Some of the tremors were so violent, that it even sent Flyer, Berry, C-2 Choppor, Ghoster, and Tamber rolling back into the teleporter building.

"Ack! Where are you guys going?!" Scrub gasped.

"It's not us! The Void's shaking is too much for us!" Flyer cried.

"Help us!" Berry cried.

Bow immediately came to Berry's aid and grabbed her hand. Unfortunately, The Void's trembling was too strong for her to hold her, and she ended up crashing into the teleporter building, along with the rest of the people being thrown back by The Void's immense power.

Flyer was the last to fall into the room, and he accidentally pressed the teleporter button. Since the five were already sitting on the teleporter beam, they were instantly teleported out of this world.

"Guys! No!" Koopla cried.

"Did The Void throw them into that room and send them out of here?!" Bombette gaped.

"Oh, no…" Kayzee gulped.

However, the one who seemed to feel the saddest was Vivian, who looked up at the sky and imagined Tipral's look of hatred.

"Please… Don't let this world end now…" Vivian cried, tears rolling down her face. "Tipral… Why? Why would you do this? There's so much more to life than you think…"

---

Staris's Shrine-

"This can't be… The end of the world is upon us!" Grodus gaped.

"Bro… Our home world…" Luigi sniffled as they saw a couple of white flashes.

"And our friends too…" Chopper gasped.

They all knew there was nothing they could do and closed their eyes as everything slowly began to fade away.

The Mushroom Kingdom was no more.

---

Dimensional X-

Ortorain discovered the heroes lying on the ground five minutes later. After giving them a nudge, they slowly got up, but most of them looked depressed, especially from the fact that their friends were gone.

Mario: Peach… Toad… They're all gone…

"Even Princess Daisy," Luigi frowned as a tear came down his face. "All of our friends are gone…"

"I couldn't have gone through those previous quests without them either," Chopper sniffled. "Is this what Tipral wants us to feel?"

"Poyo, (It really is harmful, especially to us,)" Kirby sighed.

"Tipral should actually stop being a coward and fight us for real," Blade growled, feeling more hatred. "I mean, destroying three…no, FOUR worlds we know about? We all know he's crossed the line."

"Ortorain, don't you have the power to stop Tipral?" Chopper asked. "Can't you recreate those worlds?"

"I wish I could… But with The Void in the way, it'll simply get destroyed again." Ortorain sighed. "The only option we have is to get the final two Pure Hearts. That's the only thing that can stop The Void and save all the destroyed worlds."

"Oh… I guess that makes sense…" Sonic trailed. "Look, if we stay here and grieve about our worlds, it's going to hold us back."

"That's true," Luigi nodded, wiping a tear off his face. "Although… What are we going to do now? We practically lost everyone we know and love so far!"

Mario: That's exactly how Tipral wants us to feel! While I feel terrible about our world's destruction, thinking about it too much might make us weaker against our enemies. We need to stay strong!

"Yes, I will have to agree with Mario," Ortorain nodded. "Try to overcome your weaknesses and focus on your strengths. If possible, that might help you find the final card needed to reach the Pure Heart."

"But, I swear, Tipral will pay for this," Blade stated as they walked over to the Star Block ahead. With that, Chopper struck the block with his fist and ended the chapter.

END OF CHAPTER

With Sammer's Kingdom, Mobius, and now the Mushroom Kingdom destroyed, our heroes were starting to take this quest a little more seriously. Tipral already destroyed four worlds, and now the heroes mean business. "Just a fair warning… The final card might not be easy to get a hold of." warned Ortorain. "It's very difficult to search, needless to say." Even with those words, Chopper and Co. were not going to stand down. They had to overcome this weakness and prove that the destruction of their home worlds won't bring them down. But the question is… Will that work?

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Four worlds (including Desert Oasis) are destroyed so far. That's not a good thing for the heroes, especially since their HOME WORLDS are being destroyed!

While I liked writing this chapter, I will admit that it wasn't easy when it came to putting all of those characters in there. There were A LOT, that's for sure. However, I'm glad I won't be writing about the Koopalings anymore (I'm kind of getting sick of them now :P).

But with the loss of their friends, how will they fare in the later part of Chapter 18? Well, you'll see. ;)