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...

134. Battleship Invaders

CHAPTER 19-3

-Battleship Invaders-

"MAN! I'm so relieved to be out of that darkness!" Luigi sighed as they found themselves in an area with a gray ground, a purpleish background, a black sky and a bit of outer space they could see. They could see a bit of The Void, but it didn't appear to be as big as it was in previous worlds. In fact, it was the smallest they've seen of it as of now.

"Geez… The Void's not even that huge here." Chopper noticed. "Thankfully, that should give us enough time to find the Pure Heart… Being homeless now makes me wonder how I'm going to go on with my life while that's up in the sky…"

"Or maybe we might be too late and be doomed," Tipral added.

"No, we won't be doomed. There's no way I'm going to let some darkness in the sky get rid of everything in existence! And Tipral… When all of this is over, you better do something to pay us back!"

"Yeah, I can agree with that!" Luigi nodded. "You DID destroy our worlds and many others!"

"I don't even have anything to give you in return," Tipral replied. "And I'm not going to give you anything. …Or maybe we should discuss a stupid topic like this ANOTHER time?"

"Ugh… Thou art such an insensitive monster…" Luvibi sighed as Tipral ignored her. She decided to flutter back over to Chopper with a smile. "So, art thou happy to be back in an area where we canst see?"

"Yeah, I certainly am," Chopper nodded. "Hopefully we can find the rest of my friends. I'm hoping that they're safe."

"Chopper, what about that large battleship?" Luigi mentioned, pointing to the battleship off at the distance. "You think there's something there?"

"Maybe we should go there. I'm thinking we might find something interesting there! Hopefully one of our friends is there, too!"

"I'll be happy if it's my bro!"

"I could care less who it is," Tipral declared. "All I want to do is find Shade and put an end to him once and for all. Maybe while we're in that battleship, we can destroy it as well."

"I still think you should stop being so blunt," Chopper suggested. "Why do you lack emotion except for anger? For a villain, that's not so interesting."

"Maybe you should stop giving such stupid remarks," Tipral suggested as he raised his fist by Chopper's face. "Because, you know, you might end up getting a large Star Punch to the face!"

"I'm not trying to mock you. I'm just giving you a suggestion… Do you always take things too seriously?"

"I swear I'm going to end your game… But, I don't think it's worth it now."

Before they could continue, they noticed a black and purple alien-like bat creature fly over them. Luigi quickly ducked and pulled his cap down in fear, while Chopper ducked like a pancake.

"It's all right, it's not after us," Chopper assured as he stood back up and watched the Dark Bat fly off. "That's a big Dark Bat, honestly… Usually we see small ones. I wonder if we could use one to fly…"

"Mayhap there is one we canst use!" Luvbi deduced. "That is, if we can findest one…"

"All we can do is move on, I guess…" Luigi trailed as he noticed the pathway ahead was flat with a couple of Brick Blocks ahead. There were even bottomless pits around as well. It was almost like a standard Mario platform area to him.

When Chopper punched one of the Brick Blocks, he noticed the Jet ability pop out. When he touched it, he ended up with the Jet ability. He didn't exactly want it, but he decided to keep it with him anyway.

Up ahead were two Dark Assassins firing at them. When Tipral tried to strike one with a Star Spear, it teleported to avoid and appeared in front of Luigi, who yelped and threw Bonjourang at it, knocking it back.

"What the heck was that?!" Luigi gasped.

"Dark Assassins," Tipral informed. "They'll teleport around the area and appear in front of you if you're not careful."

"Oh, geez… That's not good…"

"Well, if you can hit them, then it shouldn't be too bad," Chopper assured as he bashed the Dark Assassin with his hammer by using a rainbow smash. He finished it off by using his jet helmet and ramming into it.

"So, how many ability canst thou copy?" Luvbi asked.

"In all honesty, I don't know… There may be more that I haven't discovered yet."

"Well, I guess the world holds many things that we won't know for a long time," Luigi shrugged. "In fact, we might not know what will happen in the future too. Hopefully it'll be a good future…"

"I wouldst love a good future," Luvbi agreed as she fluttered over the bottomless pit ahead. Another row of Brick Blocks was ahead, with a Dark Skello on top. Tipral jumped over the pit and punched the blocks from underneath, dealing damage to the Dark Skello and knocking it to the ground for him to finish off with a shadow ball. Chopper jumped over the pit and found a row of Brick Blocks high above them. Apparently they could be reached if they jumped on the blocks Tipral broke.

When Luigi looked at the battleship, he noticed it wasn't moving that fast. "I think we might have a chance to catch up to it if we're quick enough."

"Yeah, it's moving pretty slowly," Chopper noticed. "I think we might have a chance."

Up ahead was a platform moving up and down to a ledge, so Chopper simply jumped on it, while Tipral teleported up to the ledge, while Luigi used his Super Jump. After smacking his forehead, he followed them down a small slope to find a Dark Wizard firing magic at them.

Chopper jumped in the air and performed a flip as he stomped on the Dark Wizard, while Tipral snapped his finger and struck the Dark Wizard with Star Magic. Once Luigi defeated it with his Cyclone, it was gone.

"Let's just hurry up," Luigi suggested.

"Of course," Chopper agreed as he jumped over some spikes before him and found a large gap up ahead. When he went into 3-D, however, there happened to be a narrow bridge with a Dark Wizard in 3-D as well.

"What's wrong, Chopper?" Luvbi asked.

"There's another Dark Wizard, but in 3-D…"

"It's not going to cause a problem for us, so it's better to leave it be," Tipral suggested as he used his teleportation to cross the gap, while Chopper crossed the narrow bridge. Luigi, of course, was left in a pickle.

"Great… Something I can't do." Luigi sighed.

"Well, I might be able to do something, actually," Chopper realized as he used his Jet ability to hover over the bottomless pit and grab Luigi's arm to carry him across. "Geez… You're not heavy like Mario, but I have a hard time holding onto you!"

"Well, thanks…"

Once he put Luigi down, they found some purple skinny pillar-like platforms leading up to a ledge where a door was. Chopper simply flew up with his jet helmet, while Luigi was forced to do some more platforming.

"Man, when will I be able to do something on my own?"

"Thou dost not have to whine about it…" Luvbi sighed, giving him an irritated look. "We dost not needeth any of that."

"Luvbi, let's not start mocking people…" Chopper trailed. "I don't really like it when you start to do that…"

"Well, I am just giving him advice. However, I dost not want to maketh my sweet prince unhappy, so I'll listen to thee!"

Chopper sweat dropped as walked over to the door when Luigi reached the ledge. "I guess you're getting tired of her calling you that, right?"

"Ever since she first started calling me that…" Chopper sighed.

They headed through the door and found themselves on a platform. Below them was a pathway with a spring sticking out to the side. Chopper decided to jump down and let the spring make him move faster through the area as he went through a loop.

"See? What'd I tell you?" Luigi sighed.

"I might start calling thee 'Hairy Downer' if thou keepest up with that," Luvbi informed.

"Well that's great…"

Luigi used his Super Jump to go over the loop while Tipral skated through to go down a small slope, where Chopper stopped by spikes that were in the way. Up ahead he noticed a platform moving left and right over a pit where there were spikes.

"Yeesh… A lot of spikes today." Chopper sweat dropped. "Will we find something that doesn't have these purple alien spike things?"

"Maybe you should stop complaining and get over there with the platform," Tipral suggested.

"Or maybe you could tell me that nicely…"

Chopper received a glare from Tipral, who received a glare from Luvbi. Chopper shrugged and jumped on the platform while noticing some small Dark Bats up ahead spitting purple acid from their mouths at him. He used Barry to defend himself, while he used Kickbrin to send them flying back.

"Well that wasn't so bad," Barry said.

Chopper jumped onto the ground and found another Dark Bat flying toward him. He got ready to attack, but Tipral teleported and used his Star Spear to take it out while Luigi got on the platform and reached the two.

While Chopper was disappointed he didn't defeat the Dark Bat, he didn't let it bother him and moved on ahead, using his Speed Dash to move faster while some Dark Bats flying above were dropping some acid bombs from their mouths.

"Ack!" Luigi yelped as he avoided the bombs. He followed the three over to a platform that led to another platform with a fan. "Oh… Well, I can do this!"

He used his Super Jump to launch himself up to the platform, only to find a Dark Skelloknight waiting for him. Chopper used his jet helmet to fly up there and charge straight at the Dark Skelloknight's head, which didn't do much against it.

"Ha! My helmet is designed to protect me from attacks like that!" the Dark Skelloknight cackled. "Just try that again! You'll see how much that won't do a thing against me!"

"Great… So basically, I'm not going to do much against you." Chopper sighed as his Jet ability was knocked away by the Dark Skelloknight's large sword. "Though, I guess I have no problem losing that ability…"

"I'll handle this," Tipral declared as he snapped his finger, making the Dark Skelloknight's armor break off because of the Star Magic attack.

"Wait, how come that worked?" Luigi asked.

"Apparently my ability allows me to break off this armor, especially a Dark Skelloknight's."

"But we still have the helmet to worry about," Chopper mentioned.

"Then I'll get it off," Tipral swung his arm and fired a Star Spear at the Dark Skelloknight's helmet, breaking it off and revealing its face. It growled as it rushed forward and tried to knock Tiprak off the platform.

It only ended up knocking Chopper and Luigi off instead.

"Chopper! Art thou all right?" Luvbi cried as she fluttered down to Chopper's aid. He slowly got himself up and rubbed his head in pain before standing up and stretching.

"Well, I'm not too injured, that's for sure…" Chopper trailed. "Although, I wish I could actually get up there, since I don't have my Jet ability…"

"Leavest that to me!" the Nimbi girl winked at him as she grabbed him and carried him up to the platform with ease. Luigi simply used a Super Jump to reach it. The Dark Skelloknight was using its shield to protect itself from Tipral's punches and kicks, which didn't seem to have a huge effect on it.

"Thankfully, my shield is much stronger than my armor, so this helps me," the Dark Skelloknight grinned.

"Well, you got any idea what it's weak to?" Chopper asked.

"Well, it's certainly weak to… Wait a second, I shouldn't tell you!"

While the Dark Skelloknight was distracted, Tipral teleported in front of the beefy Skellobit and used his Star Burst to deal massive damage. He was about to finish it off after two Star Kicks, but Luigi's flutter jump ended up defeating it instead.

"I had that, you know…" Tipral growled.

"I guess that was unintentional," Luigi sweat dropped.

"Whatever. Let's just use that fan ahead and go up. I'm sure we'll be able to find something to get to that battleship."

"Yup," Chopper nodded, jumping on the platform with the fan and let it carry him upward to a ledge ahead. There appeared to be a speed bumper over by a loop ahead, making him smile. "Hey, a speed booster! That should help us!"

"I suppose it should," Tipral said before he used the speed booster to skate to the loop ahead at a faster pace. Chopper let out a sigh and grabbed Luigi to help him while speeding through the loop and blasting through a couple of Dark Skellos in their way.

"It's nice to see you're able to blast through them," Luigi commented.

"Well, being fast does have its advantages…" Chopper trailed.

When he was launched upward by a spring, he landed on a ledge with a door up ahead. They headed through into an area where they saw an alien pole leading up to a ledge above them. There were even some small platforms to the side as well.

"Yeah, seeing something like this isn't surprising…"

"What do you mean?" Luigi asked.

"We climb poles a lot, so I'm not too surprised to see one here."

"Then let's just climb it," Tipral suggested as he grabbed onto the pole and began to climb upward. Unfortunately, he didn't notice an Alien Spark appear below him and make its way up to Tipral.

"Whoa, Tipral! Get on one of the platforms before you…" Chopper was cut off when Tipral got zapped by the Alien Spark, which cackled as it disappeared. Steam appeared around Tipral as he got on one of the platforms, looking furious.

"And why didn't you tell me about this?!"

"I was about to warn you, but I was too late…"

"Be glad that I'm not going to hurt you for that. However, next time, expect to get hurt!"

"If that's how thou art going to act, then thou dost deserve it, yon hideous, dark creature!" Luvbi spat, defending her 'prince'.

"Ummmmm… Yeah. Moving on." Chopper declared as he climbed up the pole. He noticed another Alien Spark following him, so he got on one of the platforms to avoid getting hurt.

"Oh, I think I remember those from cyberspace," Luigi recalled. "Though… They look a lot different…"

"Yeah, they're like recolors… But they look creepier…"

Luigi began to climb his way up with the others until they reached the top. They found a red ! Switch on the ground while a sealed door was up ahead. From what they could see, they probably had to rush toward the door as fast as possible.

"This shouldn't be hard," Luigi declared as he kicked the switch and noticed the door open. Sadly, it seemed to close in only one second. "Oh… Well, this isn't going to be easy for us."

"Maybe I can use a Speed Dash to get through here!" Chopper declared as he kicked the switch and charged up a Speed Dash. When he took off, he ended up crashing into the door, leaving him dazed.

"OK… That's not going to work…"

"Then what couldst we do…" Luvbi pondered. "Surely someone hither has something that canst help us…"

"Maybe I can use my ability to stop time," Tipral mentioned, making everyone look over at him. "It's probably going to be a temporary one, but I think it'll be just enough for us to get through the door."

"How's that even possible when everything freezes but you?" Chopper asked.

"I can control who or what becomes frozen. I don't think that's something I've told you before."

"That could've helped us beat Bowser before…"

"I said it isn't temporary! Since I don't have the Dark Star Scepter with me, my powers are, unfortunately, not as powerful as they once were."

"Well, it doth not matter right now," Luvbi interrupted. "Just use that ability so we canst movest on! I'm starting to get a little impatient hither!"

"Bah! Fine…" Tipral kicked the red ! Switch again and stopped time when the door opened. Everything but Chopper, Luvbi, Luigi and Tipral were frozen, so they went through the door before time went back to normal.

"Whew… Well that helped." Luigi sighed. "I'm glad we could get through that door…"

"No time to talk now! Dark Assassins dead ahead!" Chopper alarmed, hurling a couple of light balls at the Dark Assassins ahead. He hit one of them, but that wasn't enough for it to teleport behind Luigi.

"It's behind thee, hairy man!" Luvbi alarmed.

"What?! WAH!" Luigi yelped, quickly throwing Bonjourang at the Dark Assassin to stun it. He paused for a moment and used his Cyclone to defeat it. "Phew… That was a close one! But at least it's defeated…"

Tipral snapped his finger as the other Dark Assassin appeared and defeated it easily with Star Magic. He carried on ahead to find two red ! Switches by a door. Knowing what Chopper had to do, he flipped into 3-D and saw a number on them, so he went back into 2-D and hit the left and right one to make the door open.

"Wow… Left and right? Not a well-made puzzle, if you ask me…" Chopper trailed.

"Yea, verily," Luvbi agreed as they went through the door and found a tall pipe standing in their way. When Chopper went into 3-D, he noticed there was a bottomless pit, with the pipe standing on a small platform.

"Well, no going into 3-D here."

"Then I guess we have to jump over it then," Luigi decided as he used his Super Jump to launch himself over the pipe. Tipral teleported past it, which only left Chopper and Luvbi behind the pipe.

"Dang… Well this is nice…"

"Then I will helpest thee, my prince!" Luvbi smiled as she grabbed Chopper and flew him up to the pipe. When they landed beside Luigi and Tipral, they found a large pit up ahead with spikes below. There was another path past the pit, while a red ! Switch was right by them.

"I'll check and see what this does," Tipral said as he kicked the switch. This triggered two platforms to appear over the pit, so he used them to cross. A timer appeared, indicating that there wasn't an unlimited amount of time on it.

"Uh oh… We better move quickly!" Chopper gulped as he jumped on the platforms and crossed over to find a pathway moving up to a ledge where a door was. When Luigi crossed over, the platforms disappeared.

"Another door already?" Luigi gawked.

"Looks like it. Let's not waste any more time, OK?"

They made their way up to the door and entered it, only to find a small pathway leading to a cliff. Chopper was forced to stop abruptly when he was running fast. He looked down and saw nothing but black below. Must've been another bottomless pit.

"Well, it looks like we won't be moving on through here…" Chopper sighed.

"What dost thou mean?" Luvbi asked.

"The road ends here."

"Wait, really?" Luigi gaped. "Then what do we do now?!"

"We're going to have to find another way," Tipral declared as he crossed his arms. "Maybe there's something in 3-D we can find."

"All right then," Chopper nodded as he went into 3-D. Unfortunately, he saw nothing around except for a sign. "Wait… There is a sign here! I bet this must be for something important…"

The road ends here! Sorry, but you'll have to travel airborne from now on!

"Oh… Well, we need to fly to move on." Chopper informed as he went back into 2-D. "Though, I don't know HOW we can do that."

"Can I helpeth thee?" Luvbi asked.

"You'll probably get too tired flying me across anyway. We need something else…"

Luigi noticed a large Dark Bat in purple armor flying over them. "What about that Dark Bat? It looks big enough to get on and fly on…"

"Dark Bat? Hmmmm…" Tipral looked up at the Dark Bat and noticed it flying down toward them. "I think I have an idea."

He teleported up to the Dark Bat and threw it down to the ground. When he teleported back down, he struck it with a Star Spear in order to subdue it. That's when he got on top of it and woke it up.

"Ummmm… Are you really sure it's going to…" Chopper was cut off when the Dark Bat began to obey Tipral and hovered off the ground.

"You just need to subdue it and get on its back," Tipral noted. "That's how it's going to listen to you."

"Well… I don't see any other Dark Bats around here…"

Two Dark Bat coincidentally appeared and attempted to attack Chopper and Luigi. The green plumber ended up jumping on one of them, while Chopper did the same thing in order to subdue it. They both jumped on a Dark Bat, which was now under their control.

"Hey, this thing's listening to me!" Luigi smiled.

"I guess we need one for Luvbi as well," Chopper said.

"Pray, why wouldst I need a bat?" Luvbi asked. "I wouldst not ride on something so ugly! I am more decent than that! I will flyest on my own."

"Fine. That saves us the trouble from getting one for the brat." Tipral said.

"So, where do we go from here?" Luigi wondered.

"I guess all we can do is fly…" Chopper trailed.

The Dark Bats began to take off, while the heroes began to steer which way it went. Tipral noticed it could fire a pink blast from its mouth, which surprised him a bit, especially with the bombs in the sky.

"The Dark Bats are able to shoot out energy blasts, so use that to destroy any bombs in your way," Tipral informed.

"It doesn't sound like a bad idea," Luigi said as he made his Dark Bat fire at the bombs in his way. Chopper did the same thing while they flew forward. At this point, they were getting closer to the battleship.

That was, until missiles started firing their way.

"Oh, no… They're firing straight at us!" Luigi cried.

"Well, then we should be fighting back," Chopper declared, making his Dark Bat fire blasts of energy at the missiles and destroy them. The Dark Bats also dodged a couple of missiles coming their way. Everyone stayed focus, making sure that the bats were doing their job with the dodging and destroying the missiles.

"Uh oh… There's a homing missile coming our way!" Luigi gulped.

Tipral managed to blast it with his Dark Bat and destroy it. "There. You don't have to worry about that anymore."

When they got closer to the battleship, they noticed a hangar they could go into, which was something they wanted top find in the first place. Tipral made his Dark Bat move forward to the hangar, while Luigi and Chopper's followed him.

"Hold on tight, guys!" Chopper cried, while all three Dark Bats spun around when more missiles were being fired.

"We better be prepared, guys," Tipral suggested as they flew in closer to the battleship. "I'm sure there are plenty of enemies to crush in there. If you plan on fighting, then you better be ready."

"E-Enemies?" Luigi stammered. "D-Did you say th-there are a lot of them?!"

"I don't know if there are a lot. I'm guessing there are judging by how big this battleship is."

"And let's hope one of our friends is in there too," Chopper added. "You know what they say… The more the merrier."

"Yeah, I doth agree," Luvbi nodded.

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Inside the battleship-

Two Dark Brutes were patrolling the hangar, where there were a couple of Dark Bats resting. Little did they notice the three fly into the hangar and jump off their Dark Bats, which landed on the ground and began to rest.

"You think we'll be able to ride those again?" Chopper wondered.

"I highly doubt it, unless we subdue it again," Tipral informed, noticing the two Dark Brutes patrolling the purple hangar with the black floor. "It doesn't look like they notice us. This looks like a perfect opportunity to take them out!"

"Uhh… Tipral, there are two Dark Brutes in here. If we get both of their attention, fighting them won't be a good idea. When it comes to something like this, we need to chip them down one at a time."

"And what makes you think that will work?"

"Because if one notices the other getting attacked, it will simply go out and alarm more people, which means we'll be surrounded by a huge army. I'm fine with taking on multiple Dark Creatures or Dark Wizards, but they might call in more brutes, which could be bad."

"What makes you think multiple brutes is a bad thing?" Luigi asked.

"Those Tartara Royal Guards, Luigi… Now those things are MASSIVE! Taking on multiple Dark Brutes kind of feels like taking on multiple Tartara Royal Guards, which is, let me tell you, NOT a good thing."

"Fine, we'll go with your pathetic little idea," Tipral sighed.

"What? I think it works fine! You need to have a strategy when it comes to fighting. You can't go out with no plan in mind!"

"All right, whatever! Let's just fight them already!"

When both Dark Brutes were facing away from each other, Chopper hurled a light ball at one of them, which got its attention and made it charge at Chopper and his friends. Luigi, seeing the size of the Dark Brute, gaped.

"I almost feel like I just wet my pants…" Luigi gulped.

"Well don't! Keep your pants dry, please!" Chopper frowned.

The Dark Brute readied its sword and attempted to bring it down on them. What surprised Tipral was when he threw a Star Spear at the monster. It brought its hand in front of itself and managed to block the attack.

"What in the world?!" Tipral gawked. "Dark never told me that these brutes could do something like that!"

"Have you even seen them?" Chopper asked. "I know for sure I didn't!"

"Chopper! Not too loud!" Luvbi shushed. "Thou dost not want to get the other brute's attention, dost thou?"

"Well… No. I think I was a bit too loud there."

The Dark Brute brought its sword down, which everyone managed to avoid. Tipral simply delivered a Star Punch to its stomach before kicking its face. Chopper clenched his hammer and bashed the Dark Brute with a light smash, while Luigi finished it off with ease with a Cyclone.

"Phew! It's finally finished!" Luigi sighed.

"We still have the other to take care of," Tipral mentioned.

Tipral looked at the other Dark Brute, who didn't seem to notice the other Dark Brute's defeat. Since it didn't see him, Tipral threw a Star Spear to get its attention and make it stomp its way over to them.

"Wow, that thing is a bit fast…" Chopper trailed.

"But that's not stopping me from fighting it," Tipral mentioned as he teleported in front of the Dark Brute and began to throw as many attacks at it as possible, such as Star Spears, shadow balls and Star Punches.

Before they knew it, it was defeated. He also managed to grab a Master Shroom Shake while at it.

"Oh… I guess he took care of that…" Luigi trailed.

"Well, those guys are taken care of, so we should try to get out of the hangar," Chopper suggested as they rushed to the door ahead. They were led into a hallway with a pathway to go to the right and one to the left. They noticed a couple of Dark Skellos were to the left and some Dark Wizards were to the right. Thankfully, they didn't seem to notice them either.

"I say we go to the left first," Chopper suggested as he turned left and ran ahead. One Dark Skello attempted to throw its spear at Chopper, but he jumped and kicked its head, making it fall off.

"Gah! My body's moving all over the place!" the Dark Skello cried.

Luigi ran over to the Dark Skello's head and gave it a kick, sending it flying away into a couple of other Dark Skellos, knocking them over. Tipral teleported over to them and fired Star Spears to defeat them with ease.

"Watch out!" Chopper cried, using Starbow to finish off the remaining Dark Skellos that were about to attack them. "Phew… That was close!"

"Thou… Thou wiped them away!" Luvbi gaped.

"I guess they're not as strong as us," Tipral declared. "And Shade thought he would be able to stop us… We just proved him wrong."

Chopper decided to go into the door closest to him, which led them into a room where two Dark Soldiers were sitting on a couch and watching TV. When they noticed them, they got their weapons ready and open fired.

"You guys came here at a terrible time!" one Dark Soldier yelled.

"We were watching something cool!" the other Dark Soldier added as they both fired a charged shot at them. Chopper simply used Reflecto to deflect the attack back at them, while Luigi threw Bonjourang at them to leave them dazed. Tipral quickly finished them off with a Star Burst.

"Well that takes care of them," Chopper sighed as he looked around the room. There was, of course, the couch in the middle of the room, as well as a shelf with a couple of magazines and books. There was even a table over by the corner with mugs. A picture appeared to be on the table, and Shade's face was taped on Dark's head.

"Wow, and this is something I'd never expect to see in a battleship!" Luigi gaped.

"They left the TV on too," Tipral mentioned.

"Mayhap they were already watching it before we came hither," Luvbi said.

"Something's on, too!" Luigi noticed. "Wanna take a look?"

"OK!" Chopper smiled, plopping down on the couch. Just as they were about to watch some TV, a purple shot destroyed it and left smoke rising up.

"How about we get out of here instead?" Tipral suggested, walking over to the door.

"Awww..." the antennaed boy frowned before hitting the Save Block nearby. Afterward, they left the room and noticed another door to their left. A Dark Wizard happened to be guarding it.

Chopper ran toward the Dark Wizard and bashed its heads with his hammer and kicking it back with a light kick. The Dark Wizard quickly got itself up and began firing dark projectiles. Unfortunately, one ended up hitting Chopper, but when Tipral fired a Star Spear at the Dark Wizard, it was all over for it, especially when Tipral punched it to the wall.

"There, that's solved," Tipral declared as he walked over to the door. He paused when he heard a voice coming from inside. "Wait a second… I feel like I know that voice from somewhere…"

"How dost thou know it?" Luvbi wondered.

"I heard it. That's all."

"Quit yapping and let me focus here! I've nearly missed every shot and I don't want to miss this one!"

"Poyo! Poyo!"

"Hey, I hear it too!" Chopper gasped, recognizing that voice. "Kirby's in trouble!"

"Kirby? You know he's in there?" Luigi gaped.

Chopper kicked the door open to find a Dark Brute and Dark Skelloknight playing a game of darts. However, there was a major difference. Kirby was chained to the dartboard, and he was the bull's-eye.

"Well, I better hope that this dart doesn't miss the pink creampuff," hoped the Dark Brute as it readied the dart. "I've nearly tried EVERYTHING to hit a bull's-eye, but I haven't gotten one yet!"

"Do you have bad eyesight?" the Dark Skelloknight asked.

"Well… I kind of do…"

"Look, I'll show you how you can get a bull's-eye. Just watch and learn."

"Poyo! (Hey! You can't do that!)" Kirby cried.

"Gimme the dart and I'll show you what to do," the Dark Skelloknight suggested. The Dark Brute groaned and handed the dart to the knight, who proceeded to aim and throw it toward the shaking Kirby.

However, it didn't hit him because the dart was pulled away by Chopper's inhaling.

"Don't even try it," Chopper warned, catching the dart before it went into his mouth.

"Eh? How'd you get here?! Aren't you a friend of that creampuff?!"

"Maybe you should let my friend go, perhaps?"

"Poyo? (Chopper? Is that you?)" Kirby gasped.

"It's two against one!" the Dark Brute cackled. "There's no way you're going to beat us!"

Luigi and Tipral walked into the room as well, making the two enemies widen their eyes in surprise. Tipral, on the other hand, did something a little different. He raised his arms and created two boxes around the two enemies.

"Wait… What're you doing?" Chopper gawked.

"I'm not too sure…" Tipral trailed, realizing what he did. "I didn't know I was capable of doing this…"

"The only person I know who did that was…Dimentio," Luigi gaped.

"Pray, who doth this Dimentio be anyway?" Luvbi asked.

"He's someone that's been trying to stop us a while ago," Chopper explained. "He took the Chaos Heart and tried to use its power in order to defeat us, but it ultimately failed. …Unfortunately, it seems like his own shadowy spirit is still around."

"Wait, really?!" Luigi gaped.

"But I wouldn't worry about it. He can't do a thing in that form anyway! …Except some of his magic…"

"Anyway, how I got this or not, this should end these two quickly," Tipral assured as he snapped his finger. Before they knew it, the Dark Skelloknight and Dark Brute were screaming as the boxes they were in exploded.

After the explosions cleared up, they were gone.

"Hmmmmm… Oh, yes. Ever since I was fused with Dimentio with the Chaos Heart back in my castle, I found these strange powers I got. They must've been Dimentio's… I suppose he has some of my abilities as well."

"Well, let's not discuss that right now," Chopper suggested as he ran over to Kirby and tried to get the chains off him. "I need some help here! Luigi, do you think you can give me a hand?"

"I'm on it!" Luigi nodded as he rushed to his aid and helped him get the chains off Kirby. When he landed on the ground, he spun around and made a pose.

"Poyo! (It's so good to be with you guys!)" Kirby cheered as he hugged Chopper and Luigi. "Poyo! (I really missed you all too!)"

"Don't worry, Kirby. You're safe now." Chopper assured. "Though, I wouldn't say we're in a safe place…"

"Yea, verily," Luvbi agreed, fluttering over to them.

"Poyo? (What's Luvbi doing here?)" Kirby asked.

"I see thou still talkest in the 'poyo' language… I'm not so surprised."

"Now now, Luvbi… No insults, please." Chopper suggested before turning to Kirby. "Her parents were kidnapped by Shade, who most likely holds the last Pure Heart."

"Poyo? (Didn't we know that?)" Kirby recalled.

"Yeah... Every time we see him, that sun thing is glowing, just like it was when he found out Luvbi was the Pure Heart. But at least we're in the place Shade is at."

"Poyo?! (Shade's here?!)" Kirby gaped.

"Well… This IS his home base."

"And I'm hoping to destroy him and his base as well," Tipral mentioned, turning away from the group with crossed arms. Kirby gave him a glare, despite him not seeing it.

"Poyo?! (And why is Tipral with you guys?!)" Kirby fumed. "Poyo! (He destroyed our own home worlds!)"

"You know, your friends probably wouldn't have rescued you if I wasn't there to help them. And don't think I still hold the Chaos Heart. It's probably lost in The Void somewhere, where it might go out of control and possibly destroy all."

"Poyo… (So that means…)"

"Yes, Chopper and I agreed to work together to at least stop this. It would take at least someone of evil and someone of good to go after the True Chaos Heart."

"Poyo? (Does this mean this is some kind of permanent truce?)"

"Truce? I wouldn't say a truce. I still hate you all, and I refuse to get involved in any of your activities. What will happen in the end? We'll never know."

"So let's not attack him for destroying our worlds," Chopper suggested. "I mean, I'm pretty mad about it too, Kirby, but without his help, I don't think we'll be able to find our friends."

"Poyo… (All right… I guess I have no choice…)" Kirby trailed. "Poyo! (But you better not try to harm us in any way, Tipral!)"

"He's already done some of that to me to fight back…"

Kirby rejoined the party!

"Poyo? (Wait, so where's Sonic, Blade, and Mario anyway? Did you find them yet?)"

"No… Unfortunately, we've found no sight of them yet."

"I'm a little worried about my bro…" Luigi trailed.

"Well, if we can findeth the rest of thy friends, then it should be easier to defeat Shade," Luvbi deduced. "So we shouldn't just stay hither. We have to get moving!"

"Of course," Chopper nodded before he remembered something. "…Oh! Kirby! There's one thing I wanted to talk to you about."

"Poyo? (What is it?)" Kirby asked.

"It's about that shadow thing you've been telling me about before… You see, I was told by a spirit that there is a being that manipulates others to do something that would actually harm them instead. I know I was told it would take the form of a hero."

"Poyo! (So you finally believe me!)"

"Well, I suppose it's the truth… By the way, what ever happened to it?"

"Poyo. (It's probably gone now. I'm fine with that anyway.)"

"Let's just leave this room," Tipral suggested. "I don't want to waste any more time here, because chances are something will…"

He heard the door open, so he jumped when they noticed a tall Skellobit that didn't look as muscular as a Skelloknight, but it was carrying a club around. It seemed to be dragging the club around, though.

"This doth be bad…" Luvbi trailed.

"I've been hearin' some noises in this room, so I decided to check it out," the monster known as a Skelloford explained. "And look what I find? I see a pale green gumball with a pair of antennae, a pink puffball, an angelic girl, a guy in green, and a dark gumball with white eyes!"

"Gumball? I'd suggest you rephrase that." Tipral warned as his fists clenched. A purple glow also surrounded them. "Do you want me to crush you?"

"Poyo… (I saw that Skelloford before…)" Kirby trailed.

"Wait… I come back from a lunch break to find the pink puffball out of his chains?!" the Skelloford gaped. "Well, this won't look good for Master Shade Doom if he discovers a prisoner escaping… Well, if you people are plannin' on escapin', then I'm afraid I can't let ya'll do that! Yer all gonna get one heck of a clobberin'!"

"Very well. I'll have no problem crushing your skull!" Tipral declared.

The Skelloford attempted to charge forward, swinging its club around like crazy. From what they could see, it had 430 HP, an Attack of 18 and a Defense of 6. It was definitely not as strong as some of the other people they've fought before. Giga Bowser was a lot tougher than this!

"Poyo, (Well, at least I can get back to fighting,)" Kirby said as he whipped out his Final Cutter and brought it down on the Skelloford after it spun its club around. It even tried to throw a bone at him, but he inhaled it and spat it back at it.

"So it can throw bones? That's a little scary…" Luigi shuddered.

"Most Dry Bones threw bones, so this shouldn't be a big deal," Chopper assured as he stomped on the Skelloford and attacked with a flaming slamming kick afterward, leaving it with a burn.

"Hold on… Since it's something from The Underwhere, does that mean that it won't burn from fire?"

"Fire usually doth defeat Dry Bones easily," Luvbi informed.

"Of course I know that."

The Skelloford grumbled as it tried to charge toward Kirby, who jumped over and used a Cartwheel to hit it. Tipral rushed in and teleported to attack with his Star Burst, sending the Skelloford flying upward.

"This looks like my chance!" Luigi declared, getting under the Skelloford and attacking it with a Super Jump. The Skelloford was left slack jawed when it landed on the ground. It quickly shook its head and gave them all a glare.

"So you all have a lot to throw at me, don'tcha?" the Skelloford growled.

"Well, we're heroes, so we're probably going to have a lot to throw at you," Chopper noted as he jumped up and tossed a couple of ice balls down at the Skelloford. One ended up freezing it, while Kirby inhaled one of them to gain the Ice ability.

"Kirby! I was going to throw it at the enemy!"

"Poyo, (But I want to use an ability to help us,)" Kirby replied as he kicked the Skelloford to the wall, breaking it out of its icy prison and making it get up. This time, it charged at Kirby and knocked him back with its club.

"Poyo… (That club kind of hurts…)"

"This shouldn't be too much of a problem," Tipral muttered as he snapped his finger, making the Skelloford get struck with Star Magic. But what surprised them was when Luigi hurled Hommissile at the Skelloford. It ended up exploding, with its head bouncing around the room.

"What just happened?!" Luigi gaped.

"That explosion must hath blown up its body," Luvbi noticed as Kirby began to chase after the head. "Though, I dost not knoweth if thou art able to catch up with it…"

Chopper tried to chase after it too, but he ended up tripping, as well as Kirby. Tipral face palmed and teleported over to the head and picked it up. The Skelloford's head struggled to free itself, but Tipral was holding onto it tightly.

"It looks like you lost already," Tipral stated. "So, what's it going to be?"

"Heh heh heh… You guys are pretty stupid, I'll admit!" the Skelloford chuckled.

"What are you talking about?" Chopper gawked. "You got blown up! You basically lost the fight!"

"Well, there's something you don't know about us Skellofords!"

"There's more of you?" Luigi gaped. "That's not good…"

"Well, Master Shade Doom has many of our kind! He considers us better than those Skellobits or Skellos or…whatever else there are! You clearly don't know what other abilities we have!"

"Poyo? (The ability to yap in front of us?)" Kirby wondered.

"Heh heh… Good one, Kirby!" Chopper chuckled.

Tipral let out a groan as a whirlwind surrounded the Skelloford, forcing Tipral to move away. All of the Skelloford's body parts formed back together and helped reform the Skelloford.

"See? I have the ability to reform if you blow all of my pieces off!" the Skelloford grinned before Luigi ended up hitting it with a Cyclone. It growled and threw Luigi back with its club.

"We might want to stay far from it if we want to get some good hits on it," Chopper informed. "And I'm glad that that club didn't hit me."

"Please don't jinx it, my prince…" Luvbi trailed.

"Poyo… (She still calls Chopper 'her prince'… Great…)" Kirby sighed as he jumped and performed his Ice Sprinkle attack on the Skelloford without getting hit by its heavy club. It didn't freeze the monster, but it left it shivering.

"St-Stop with the ice!" the Skelloford shivered.

Chopper smiled and hurled a charged rainbow ball at the Skelloford while it was left off guard, bringing its attention back to him. It also was unable to avoid a light ball Chopper hurled at it. The light power he had made Kirby gape.

"Poyo? (Wait, you've got that light power back?)" Kirby gasped. "Poyo! (I haven't seen that light power since five months ago after you beat Rawk Hawk a second time!)"

"Yeah, I know," Chopper nodded. "I was able to get this back, thankfully. I believe it'll be of some great help too!"

"We don't have time for you to be talking about how great your light power is," Tipral scoffed. "We're supposed to be taking this guy down. He's in our way anyway."

Kirby turned around and noticed Carrie and Crystaline. While he was delighted to see the Pixls again, a reunion wasn't a good idea at this point. Kirby jumped on Carrie, who took him over to the Skelloford. While it was trying to swing at Chopper, he jumped up and landed on top of the Skelloford with Carrie.

The Skelloford let out a howl and tried to headbash Kirby, but it was distracted by Chopper's light kick, as well as Tipral's Star Kick. This gave Kirby the opportunity to ice skate toward the Skelloford and use his Ice Storm to leave it frozen.

"Geez, how many times are we going to freeze this guy?" Luigi wondered.

"I don't know, but now might be the perfect time to attack him, Luigi," Chopper mentioned.

"What do you mean?"

"Use a Super Jump!"

"Ah! I gotcha!" Luigi crouched and launched himself upward in front of the Skelloford, which broke it out of its icy prison and left it taking some major damage. Chopper followed up by bashing its head with his hammer.

"Grrrrr! Taste my club!" the Skelloford howled as it spun itself around and knocked both Chopper and Tipral back with its club. They slowly got up, with Tipral throwing a shadow ball at the Skelloford and hitting its head.

"If we can blow it up again, maybe we can keep hitting the head," Tipral pondered. "I'm going to need that missile Pixl, though…"

"I can certainly help, BA-BOOM!" Hommissile assured as Tipral grabbed the Pixl and threw it straight at the Skelloford, making it explode while its head began to bounce around the room.

"You honestly think blowing up my body will help you?" the Skelloford scoffed. "The same thing is going to happen again!"

"Unless we continue to attack," Chopper smirked as he jumped on the Skelloford's head and then used his hammer as a golf club to whack it over to Kirby, who kicked it over to Luigi.

"Hey, this looks fun!" Luigi smiled as he kicked the Skelloford's head over to Tipral, who simply kicked it upward with a Star Kick.

"GAH! I didn't know this would end up happening…" the Skelloford moaned as it landed on the ground.

"Who's up for round two?" Chopper asked.

"Poyo! (You can count me in!)" Kirby cheered.

"Sign me up!" Luigi nodded.

"I guess I can do it," Tipral replied.

"Oh no you don't!" the Skelloford roared as a whirlwind surrounded it and reformed its body back to normal. "Not this time!"

"Awwwwww… Well, fine. We'll fight the normal way." Chopper frowned in disappointment.

The Skelloford tried to lift its club, but Tipral quickly dashed toward the monster and struck it twice in a fast pace. It struggled to lift up its weapon, but it was able to move it enough to hit Tipral.

"Urgh… That weapon is getting in the way…" Tipral grumbled as he quickly got up. "I'd rather get rid of that thing first."

"Tipral, you should use ranged attacks," Chopper informed. "If that thing's far from us, then it's not going to be able to hit us!"

"And you really think that's going to work?"

"Well, I'm sure it will. Ranged combat is usually better than close range, especially when you're far from your opponent."

"Then let's see if it works," Tipral swung his arm and fired a Star Spear at the Skelloford's chest. It impaled it, leaving it to scream in pain as Kirby used Kickbrin to send the monster flying back.

"Poyo! (That worked out well!)" Kirby cheered.

"Well, it looks like this club's not working too well for me," the Skelloford realized as it tried to lift its club up again. "I think it's time I changed things up a bit!"

"And what do you plan on changing?" Chopper wondered.

"This!" the Skelloford threw its club toward Chopper, which sent him flying back while it pulled out a new club. Only this time, it was easier for the monster to carry and much deadlier, from what the others could see.

"It's just another club?" Luigi gawked. "Wait… What can it do?"

"It can poison you if it hits you!"

"That doth sound dangerous…" Luvbi trailed as she fluttered up to the ceiling. "I'll stay hither while thou all fightest! I dost not want to get poisoned!"

"Well, you're not fighting, so it's best to be somewhere safe…" Chopper trailed as he got up and used Starbow to make a couple of shooting stars fall on the Skelloford, leaving it off guard.

"Oh! Here's my chance to attack!" Luigi threw Bonjourang at the Skelloford's head, which left it dazed and allowed him to attack with his Cyclone, which sent it flying up. He crouched and launched himself upward at the Skelloford to do massive damage.

"Poyo, (And there's a nice little combo for Luigi,)" Kirby commented as the Skelloford got up. It rushed at Kirby and tried to swing its club at him, but the pink Star Warrior kept dodging each swing and tried to freeze the club.

"Kirby! That's not a good idea!" Chopper cried before Kirby got whacked by the Skelloford's club, causing him to become poisoned and pale.

Piccolo rushed to him as he coughed in pain. With her soothing song, the poison on him went away and allowed him to kick the Skelloford's chest, knocking it back and allowing Tipral to hit it with a Star Spear.

"Even with a poisonous club, I don't see this thing being much of a threat," Tipral commented as he grabbed the Skelloford from behind and threw it on the ground before using a Star Kick.

"What the… OK, can someone tell me how he can do that when our arms look the same physically?!" Chopper questioned in a bewildered manner.

"I told you, I can do many things as an actual creation. You're just some kid with abilities I don't know how you got."

Chopper made no comment as he conjured up a light ball and threw it at the Skelloford while it was occupied with Tipral. He ended up rolling out of the way when the Skelloford turned its attention to him and tried to hit him.

Of course, Kirby attempted to save him.

"Poyo! (Hey! Over here!)" Kirby called out, making the Skelloford turn to Kirby.

"You should be poisoned! What happened?!" the Skelloford gawked.

"Poyo! (I happened to cure it, of course!)"

The Skelloford growled before Tipral could grab a hold of it and throw it onto the ground, leaving it open for Luigi to attack with his flutter jump. When the Skelloford got itself up, Kirby ice skated to it and used his Ice Storm to freeze it.

"OK, it's frozen…" Chopper trailed as he ran over to it. He decided it would be best to smash it with a fire smash, which not only thawed out the Skelloford, but it left it with a burn as well.

"That burn should help us take it down quickly," Tipral assured as it punched the Skelloford in the stomach while Chopper tossed a light ball at it. However, it didn't stop the Skelloford from hitting all four with its club, poisoning everyone.

"Ack! I'm poisoned!" Luigi coughed, his face turning pale.

They let Piccolo play another song to help them cure the poison, while the Skelloford rush toward them. Kirby brought out his blade and used his Final Cutter to knock it away with ease.

"Guys, we should blow him up," Chopper mentioned. "You know, we want to make this fight easier for us, right?"

"Yeah, we didn't do that for a while," Tipral realized.

"Poyo! (Then let's use Hommissile on it!)" Kirby declared, grabbing the missile Pixl and throwing it at the Skelloford. It's eyes widened as it blew up, with its head bouncing around the room.

"Arrrrgh! You gotta be kiddin' me!" the Skelloford growled. "Now I'm nothin' but a head at the moment!"

"Yup!" Chopper nodded as he gripped his hammer and bashed the Skelloford's head with it, while Luigi was able to jump on it. While they thought this would be a breeze for them, it clearly wasn't when the Skelloford's head managed to hit Chopper's head, leaving him stunned.

"That head canst still attack…" Luvbi trailed as she looked down at the fight. "How come I didn't knowest that?"

"Hwa hwa hwa! Excellent! This should surely work out fer me!" the Skelloford cackled until Tipral grabbed the head and began to punch it. He punched it upward, which sent it flying up to the ceiling, allowing Luigi to strike it with a Super Jump.

"OK, I don't think it's too far from having all of its HP depleted," Chopper noticed. "So let's try to hit it as hard as we can."

"Poyo! (I'm on it!)" Kirby declared, preparing to freeze the head, but the Skelloford quickly jumped up and reformed. It was also able to strike Kirby with its club, leaving him poisoned. The Skelloford also hit Chopper's cheek with the club, poisoning him and leaving a red mark on his cheek.

"Piccolo! I need…Piccolo!" Chopper coughed.

"Poyo! (Me too!)"

Piccolo began to play another song and heal their poisonous status. With that, Chopper ran toward the Skelloford and used a light spinning kick on its head to strike it a couple of times. Luigi, meanwhile, followed up with his Cyclone, which was able to send it flying.

"I've got this!" Luigi assured as he crouched. Unfortunately, Tipral beat him to it and teleported up to the Skelloford, kicking it down with full force. Chopper followed up by jumping on it too.

The Skelloford got itself up, but it was quickly blown up when Kirby threw Hommissile at it. Its head began to bounce around, and just like before, Kirby kicked it over to Luigi, who gasped and kicked it away from him.

"Wait, are we doing what we did before?" Luigi gawked.

"Yeah, I believe so," Chopper nodded as he used his hammer to hurl it over to Tipral, who grabbed the head and glared at it.

"So, how does it feel to meet defeat?" Tipral asked.

"Wh-What do you mean?" the Skelloford asked, a bit slack jawed.

"I guess this might show you," he threw it upward, but before he could finish it with a Star Spear, Kirby got hit Final Cutter ready and struck the head with it. The whole thing disintegrated into smoke, defeating it.

"Poyo! (It's finally defeated!)" Kirby cheered as he did a small dance and made a pose.

However, Tipral was not pleased. "You fool! I was going to finish that monster off! What makes you think you could go out and finish it off?!"

"Hey! Don't talk to Kirby like that!" Chopper defended. "You already finished off the Soul Collector and a bit of Bowser, so you have no right to be angry!"

"…Fine. Let's just get out of here before we have to deal with more of those things."

"Yeah, we should," the pale green boy looked up at Luvbi. "OK, Luvbi! You can come down now!"

"All right," Luvbi answered, flying down to the group. She happened to notice Chopper's injuries. "That must hath been one tough battle."

"It definitely was..."

"Well, I think we should go now," Luigi suggested. Everyone agreed, and they decided to leave the room and return to the hallway. They noticed there weren't any more doors to the left, so they had to go to the right, where they found some Dark Wizards up ahead.

"Poyo… (Dark Wizards… I don't like them…)" Kirby cringed.

"Did you see their faces?" Chopper asked.

"Poyo… (Yes… It was certainly not pretty…)"

"What are you guys talking about?" Luigi asked out of curiosity.

"It's…best if you didn't know…" Chopper sighed. "Anyway, let's try to find a way out of here."

"Shouldst we check for other people hither?" Luvbi asked.

"I think we're bound to find others here, you know," Tipral mentioned.

They hurried on toward the Dark Wizards, with Kirby ice skating ahead and using his Ice Storm in an attempt to freeze them. Unfortunately, this didn't seem to work out when they simply thawed themselves out.

"Poyo?! (They can thaw themselves out?!)" Kirby gaped.

"How the heck is even that possible?!" Chopper gawked as he tried to freeze one with a charged ice ball. Of course, it froze a Dark Wizard, but it quickly thawed out. "I guess ice won't beat them…"

"We were created to be immune to such ice magic," one Dark Wizard snickered. "It looks like that's not going to help you here!"

"Well… Maybe this might." Chopper gripped his hammer and brought it down on one of the Dark Wizards, leaving it dazed and allowing Tipral to teleport to the Dark Wizards and finish them off with a Star Burst.

Once they were gone, they found two doors up ahead. The door to the far right happened to be lock, while the other near them wasn't, so they went in there to find a room with a couple of Copy Abilities.

"Pray, what kind of room is this?" Luvbi wondered.

"It looks like a room where we can choose an ability," Chopper noticed as he saw abilities such as Paint, Laser, Fighter, etc. "Yeesh! I don't know what to choose!"

"Just choose an ability so we can get out of here," Tipral grumbled. "We can't stay on this ship forever."

"Hold on, I wanna choose something."

"Great… So you're going to hold us up, right?"

"Let him choose!" Luvbi snapped, glaring at Chopper's counterpart. "Thou dost not hath to acteth like a jerk to him!"

"After what he's done to me? I shouldn't have to change my ways toward him."

Chopper finished looking for an ability and eventually chose the Fighter ability before leaving the room. The rest of the group left the room and followed him over to the door ahead, which was, of course, locked.

"Well this is great… It's locked." Luigi sighed. "And we don't have a key!"

"Poyo, (Actually, I think I might have one,)" Kirby noted as he pulled out a Door Key. "Poyo. (That Skelloford happened to be holding this, so I decided to take it before leaving the room.)"

"Oh! Cool! Unlock the door so we can get going." Chopper demanded.

The pink puffball gave him a nod as he unlocked the door, which led them into a room with a spring up ahead leading to a ledge high above them. Of course, they used it to get up there, where they found a Dark Wizard flying over them.

"I'll take care of that," Luigi assured as he crouched down and launched himself upward at the Dark Wizard, knocking it to the ground and allowing Chopper to grab it and send it flying away with a punch.

"See, Kirby? There's windows here!" Chopper mentioned, pointing to the large, glass windows that were in the background. "Of course, I won't jump out."

"Of course thou wouldn't, my sweet prince," Luvbi replied sweetly.

Tipral decided to skate ahead and noticed a slope going down, so his speed started to increase. Chopper followed him and let his speed increase as they went through a loop going down to a lower area in the room. There, they found some platforms being carried upward by steam.

"Oh, so we've got this too," Luigi noticed as he and Kirby got through the loop. "I think we should jump on the platforms when the steam stops."

"That's what I was thinking," Tipral mentioned.

"Oh…"

When the steam stopped, they all jumped on the platforms, which allowed them to be taken up to the ledge above them when the steam fired up. There, they were met with two Dark Soldiers that began to fire at them.

"Poyo! (I have an idea!)" Kirby put Reflecto in front of him and allowed the blasts to be fired back at the Dark Soldiers, making them get hit by their own attacks. Tipral finished them off by throwing Star Spears at them.

"Poyo? (Aren't they your minions, though?)"

"Not really," Tipral answered. "They only listened to Dark most of the time, and they didn't really talk to me. I don't have a problem taking them down anyway."

"Sure thou dost…" Luvbi trailed as they carried on ahead to a ladder they climbed up. They were met with a door, so they entered it into another hallway.

"Another hallway? Maybe one of our friends could be around here!" Chopper pondered. "If that's true, then we need to search thoroughly!"

"There are only two doors," Tipral noted. "One to the left and one to the right."

"Oh… So, what else is there, then?"

"Poyo, (Let's just check the right first,)" Kirby suggested as he ice skated his way to the right door. When Tipral looked at the left door, he noticed it was locked.

"We can only go to the right, I presume," Tipral stated as he skated to the right with the rest of the group.

When they entered the room, they found three Dark Skellos and a Dark Skelloknight that happened to be guarding something important. When they took notice of them, they got into action and charged.

"Poyo, (I think I can freeze them,)" Kirby declared, using his Ice Breath to freeze one Dark Skello. Chopper attacked the other Dark Skello with his Vulcan Jab, while Luigi finished off the third Dark Skello with his flutter jump and Super Jump.

"Phew! That takes care of that!" Luigi sighed. "No more of those guys!"

"Do you realize we still have that Dark Skelloknight to worry about?" Tipral mentioned, making Luigi's eyes widen.

"Oh… I forgot about that."

The Dark Skelloknight prepared to attack, but Tipral was able to break its armor off, leaving it completely vulnerable to attacks. Chopper, of course, attacked it with all he could especially with his Rising Break.

"Using the Fighter ability brings me back to Glitzville… Geez, that place was pretty intense." Chopper recalled.

"Glitzville? Oh! I think my bro told me about Glitzville before!"

"Yeah, it sure was something."

"Chopper, pay attention!" Luvbi called out, making Chopper look back at the Dark Skelloknight, who knocked him back with a kick. Tipral was able to jump on its head and punch the back of its head a couple of times with Star Punches.

"Get off of me!" the Dark Skelloknight cried, trying to shake Tipral off, but he continued to punch until he finished it off with a Star Spear. It also happened to drop a key.

"Hey, a key!" Chopper gaped.

"Poyo, (I guess we'll need it for that locked door,)" Kirby said as he picked it up.

"Yeah, we better take it there quickly."

They left the room and returned to the hallway. Kirby ice skated over to the locked door and unlocked it to move on to the next room. Unfortunately, they were forced to discover a couple of platforms attached to movable pillars that were slamming onto the ground.

"Oh… This… This doesn't look good…" Luigi shuddered as he stepped back. "They're m-moving rather f-fast…"

"Luigi's got a point…" Chopper agreed. "How are the ones who can't move as fast get through this? As a matter of fact, I don't know if I'll be able to get through this…"

"Mayhap I couldst help!" Luvbi suggested.

"And what do you have that could help us?" Tipral asked.

"Just some suggestions for thee…"

"That's not really help."

"Let Luvbi continue," Chopper suggested, shushing Tipral.

"I may not hath abilities such as thou all, but mayhap the dark, hideous one couldst use his ability to stoppeth time like before and maketh the platforms sloweth down. It didst work before, if I recallest."

"That could actually work…" Tipral trailed.

"Poyo? (Stop time?)" Kirby gawked.

"Yes, I can do that, if you didn't remember when you fought against me."

"Well, you should use it then," Luigi suggested.

"All right, this shouldn't take long…" Tipral clenched his fists and swung them, making everything but them frozen in time. Since the way was open now, they headed through and were lead to a small ledge leading to some platforms over a bottomless pit.

"Oh… Just some platforms." Chopper blinked.

They jumped on the platforms and began to cross the bottomless pit over to a skinny platform with a spring. Apparently it would lead up to a ledge above them, so they used it and got onto the ledge.

"Poyo? (How many paths are there that I can't go up?)" Kirby wondered as they saw the path curve up onto the wall. From what they could tell, it would lead up to a higher level in the battleship.

"Let's just hope we can find a way to destroy this place," Tipral hoped as he smashed the ground with his fist. "That'll weaken the army a bit!"

Chopper shrugged and went up the pathway onto the upper level, while Kirby simply took in some air and floated up. Luigi was lucky it wasn't too high for him to jump up to, so his Super Jump was all he needed.

"So, art thou going to follow them, yon hideous, dark creature?" Luvbi asked as she Tipral still didn't stand up.

"Yes, I'm going to follow once you get out of the way, you little brat!" Tipral answered as he stood up and glared at the Nimbi princess.

"Hmph! Fine! I'll leavest then!" Luvbi flew off with a huff, following Chopper to the upper level. When Tipral teleported up, they saw a spinning drum to their left.

"A gravity cylinder? I haven't seen something like that here…" Tipral trailed as he noticed a Dark Soldier up ahead, so he destroyed it with a couple of Star Spears.

"Last time I saw something like that, it was in that cyberspace place in Star Haven two years ago," Chopper recalled as he got on the gravity cylinder. When he stood on it, he didn't seem to fall when it moved upside down.

Heck, even when Kirby and Luigi stood on it, they didn't fall off either, which was nice for them.

"Wow! I'm not falling off this thing!" Luigi gaped.

"Poyo, (Yeah, this is interesting,)" Kirby commented.

"Let's try to get through this cylinder thing and move on," Chopper suggested as he ran across the cylinder and found a pathway moving at an upper left angle. Thankfully, there was a speed booster for him to use to increase his speed when moving up.

Tipral pushed Kirby and Luigi out of the way so he could make his way up there. The two heroes were not pleased.

"He doth be a bit rude," Luvbi commented as she flew up the slope, while Kirby and Luigi were forced to take it slow.

"Why did Tipral have to do that?" Luigi wondered.

"Poyo, (Well, I suppose he's always been like that,)" Kirby answered as they slowly made their way up.

"Oh… If only I could understand what you were saying…" the pale green plumber let out a sigh. "You know, I wonder what made Tipral into such a grump. You never really see him smile."

"Poyo… (I'm not too sure…)"

When they reached the top, they found a spring that led them to an upper level in the room. They ended up running into two Dark Wizards that were guarding the door. Chopper threw a punch wave at them with his Smash Punch. They were able to fire magic, but Chopper jumped out of the way and hurled an energy blast he charged up at them to defeat them.

With that out of that way, Tipral went through the door. Chopper followed through as well, followed by Luvbi, Kirby and then Luigi. They were brought into another hallway, but this time, there was only one door for them to take. Over to the left was a switch.

"What do you think that switch over there is?" Luigi wondered.

"Poyo, (It might be something important,)" Kirby noted.

"I'll go look myself," Tipral declared, teleporting to the switch. He noticed it was the main power switch, which was sealed off by glass. "So this can shut down the power of this battleship? What kind of idiot even puts something like this here?! Only an idiot would do that!"

"Well, I guess it's better for us?" Chopper shrugged. "It'll weaken the battleship, that's for sure…"

"Yes, that's true. Now I can finally do what I've been wanting to do to this place!" Tipral smashed through the glass and grabbed a hold of the switch. When he pressed it down, all the power in the ship began to shut down, making the place dark.

"Wah! It's dark in here!" Luigi cried.

"Yeah! I can't see anything!" Chopper agreed.

"Poyo? (How will we know where to go?)" Kirby gaped.

"Just go right so we can go through the door," Tipral ordered as he jumped over them and carried on ahead. Everyone listened and followed him to a door, where they found themselves outside and on the top of the battleship.

"Well, at least we're not in a dark room anymore," Luigi sighed.

However, since the battleship was moving, the wind current got stronger. What was even worse was that it wasn't blowing against them.

"Poyo! (Oh no! The wind's too strong!)" Kirby cried as he tried to hold onto the ground. Unfortunately, due to his light weight, he was sent flying away by the wind current.

"Oh, no… I'm getting carried off as well!" Chopper cried as he ended up getting blown away by the wind.

"Chopper!" Luvbi cried, flying toward him, allowing the wind to catch up to him.

Luigi let out a cry as he was being drifted away. Tipral, on the other hand, had other plans.

"Now that they're not on this battleship, I can finally make my plans of destroying the place!" Tipral pierced through the ship with his Star Punch and threw a Star Spear into it. He was hoping it would reach the core reactor of the place.

It turns out it actually did.

The battleship slowly began to tear apart and descend slowly as Tipral noticed a couple of explosions outside. With that, he released his grip on the battleship and was being blown away, along with the others.

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When the heroes were no longer being blown by the wind, they noticed they were being taken over to a gray observatory that happened to be in the Comet of Darkness. And because the place had its own gravitational pole, it started to drag them toward it.

"What's going on?! Why are we being pulled in by that observatory?!" Luigi gaped.

"I don't know, but let it do that," Tipral suggested. "It's better we land somewhere."

Everyone braced themselves as they landed on the observatory. For some reason, it reminded Chopper of the observatory he saw where Merlo was, but this was certainly not an observatory in safe territory. However, the biggest thing they noticed was a telescope and an upper level above them.

"Gee… This observatory feels empty…" Luigi trailed. "I don't see any of Shade's baddies here, so we should be safe."

"Poyo, (Yeah, we can relax here,)" Kirby agreed.

"Is there anywhere else to go, though?" Chopper wondered.

"Hey, are those voices who I think?"

"…Who said that?" Tipral asked.

"That voice doth sound familiar…" Luvbi trailed.

They noticed someone jumping off from one of the upper platforms and landing nearby. "Oh, man! I can't believe you guys are here!"

"Blade?!" Chopper gaped.

"Man, am I glad to see you guys!" Blade grinned as he grabbed Chopper and gave him a noogie. "You wanna know how long I've been here?"

"How long?" Luigi wondered.

"Five hours and seventeen minutes!"

"Poyo… (Oh... That's not good...)" Kirby trailed.

"Yeah, I can agree!" Chopper frowned, still being noogied. "And will you stop that, Blade?! That hurts!"

"Oh, sorry…" Blade let go and stepped back. "It's just nice to see you all back here. …Wait, I don't see Sonic or Mario here."

"That's because we didn't find them," Tipral answered, crossing his arms. When Blade turned his head to him, he gaped at first, but then he drew his katana and glared at him.

"YOU! You're still at it?!"

"Blade, don't. He's with us." Luigi informed.

"But this guy destroyed our own worlds! Not only that, but our close were friends were taken away by The Void as well! Did you even SEE what our friends have become now?!"

"Yes, and I don't care," Tipral answered.

"You insensitive jerk!" Blade rushed toward Tipral, but he ended up grabbing the ninja's arm and gripping it tightly, forcing him to release his katana, which Tipral kicked away.

"Listen, I don't have the Dark Star Scepter, the Dark Prognosticus AND the Chaos Heart with me! That disgrace of a minion Dimentio ended up leaving me with only my Star powers! So I suggest you back down before I end up hurting you, because even without that, I still CAN!"

Tipral let go of Blade's arm, while the ninja stepped back from him and gave him a glare before picking up his katana.

"Fine. He can stay here with us. But I still don't trust him."

"I don't trust him either," Chopper noted. "But, Tipral and I agreed to work together to find the Pure Heart and defeat Shade."

"Wait… Shade's here?!"

"This is apparently his home base," Luigi shrugged.

"Then we can't just sit around! I always hated that guy, so maybe when we get to him, we'll be able to get back at him for all the terrible stuff he did!"

"Yeah, like Wenbi…" Chopper trailed.

Blade has rejoined your party!

"So how are we going to get off this observatory anyway?" Luigi wondered. "I don't know if there's any way off here."

"Oh, don't worry! There's actually a way we can get off here!" Blade assured. "There's actually a path I found that can take us to a strange area in the comet. It feels a lot different than this place, that's for sure."

"What does it look like?" Chopper asked.

"Well, I didn't get too much of a glimpse of the place…so I'm not too sure what it's like. Sorry about that."

"Great… That couldeth givest us a clue on where we would be going next…" Luvbi sighed, while Blade look over at the Nimbi girl.

"What's Luvbi doing here also? Why'd you invite her to such a dangerous place like this?"

"Her parents were kidnapped by Shade, so that's why she's here with us," Chopper explained. "I actually found her at Rainbowside Tower."

"Wait… The king and queen of death were kidnapped by some alien kid? Are you serious?! I mean, couldn't they simply get out themselves when they're the most powerful beings in the universe?!"

"That's what I thought, but I doth think Shade foundeth a way around that…" Luvbi trailed, her head hung low. "I doth miss my parents verily, though…"

"Those two people aren't even your parents," Tipral scoffed. "I don't get why you keep calling them that."

"Tipral, this isn't a good time to be saying that…" Chopper trailed, giving Tipral a glare, who glared back at him.

"Anyway, we should go check that road that I was talking about before," Blade suggested. "We might be able to find some way to reach Shade…wherever he may be and hopefully find both Mario and Sonic."

"Yeah, we still need to find them!" Luigi agreed. "I'm starting to get a little worried about my bro!"

When they looked over at the pathway they found ahead, Blade explained that that was the way they could take to get out.

"Poyo? (Well what are we waiting for? Let's move!)" Kirby declared.

"Leaving so soon? What a shame…"

"Yeah, we need to go before… Wait a minute." Chopper blinked as he looked at his friends. "Who said that?"

"I dost not think that voice belongeth to any of us…" Luvbi trailed.

"I'm over here," Everyone looked above them and saw Eggman in his Egg Mobile, who happened to be looking down at them.

"Eggman? What're you doing here?!" Blade gaped.

"Hmmm... That pesky hedgehog doesn't appear to be here. That's a shame. Well, since you guys are here, I might as well go along with my plan anyway!"

"And what plan is that?" Luigi asked.

"Crushing you all!"

"Wait a second… How the HECK did you even get here in the first place?!" Blade asked.

"Oh, yes… I almost forgot about that." Eggman realized. "You see, I got a hold of a creation that I ended up finding in that world we fought before. I found out it had the power to go through dimensions! I remember it being called the Dimensionator. Using my crafty skills, I was able to transform it into a robotic being that could travel to other dimensions! However, I soon discovered that the Dimensionator was actually part of this comet, so I decided to come here and see if I could make this thing stronger!"

"And you plan on using it to crush us?" Chopper gawked.

"Of course! Maybe when I'm done with you guys, I'll use it against Sonic and put an end to him! And then I'll probably take over Mobius!"

"I don't think that's possible," Tipral stated.

"And why not?"

"Because I already destroyed that place."

"Wh-What?! B-But… Oh… I always hate it when other people have to get in my way. Very well. If I can't take over Mobius, I might as well take over another world. But first…"

Eggman's mech flew higher up as a purple robot surrounded in a dark mist was summoned. It was covered in purple plating, as if it was being roboticized. It had bright light purple eyes and had disembodied arms that could transform into weapons. What was strange was the fact that it had no feet or legs.

"Say hello to the Egg Dimensionator!"

"So it's just the Dimensionator with 'Egg' in it?" Chopper gawked. "Ummmm… Not too original, but OK."

"But you could never do something like this, right?" Eggman smirked as he went to the Egg Dimensionator's chest, where an empty cockpit was. When his machine joined with it, he was now controlling it. The cockpit was even covered by the armor plating to keep Eggman from getting hurt.

"With this by my side, there's nobody that will be able to defeat me! Oh ho ho ho ho!"

The five blinked as the Egg Dimensionator's arms changed to machine guns, which began to fire rapid shots at them. They quickly avoided them by running or jumping. From what they could see this thing had a Max HP of 460, an Attack of 19 and a Defense of 9.

"Wow… That thing has the same HP as Giga Bowser, but it defense is stronger…" Chopper trailed.

"Well, let's not worry about that," Blade assured, readying his katana. "When we've got people like us here, then we don't have to worry about things like that! We took on Dimentio Doom!"

"Well, yeah… But how do we hurt this thing?"

"We just attack it. Simple as that." Tipral answered.

"Now I just need a certain Pixl that I haven't seen…" Blade trailed as he noticed Hommissile. "Hommissile!"

"Hero! Don't worry, KA-BOOM! I'll help you win this fight! SHIZOW!" Hommissile cried as he fluttered over to Blade, who grabbed him and threw him straight at the Egg Dimensionator's head. It cringed and turned to Blade.

"Hey, well that did something…"

"Watch this thing's head, blue cat!" Eggman shouted as the Egg Dimensionator brought its fist down on Blade, flattening him like a pancake. Kirby ran over to him and helped unflatten him with a bicycle pump.

"Have you always carried that with you?"

"Poyo, (I guess I always have,)" Kirby shrugged as Blade got up.

"Uhhhh… What the heck did you even say?"

"Just don't worry about it, Blade," Chopper suggested as he tried to hit the Egg Dimensionator with a couple of rainbow balls. However, what he didn't see coming from the robot was its ability to teleport.

"Thou shouldst be careful…" Luvbi trailed. "That thing couldst be anywhere…"

The Egg Dimensionator appeared above Chopper, where it dropped a couple of bombs that sent him flying upward. This gave Eggman the opportunity to press a button and make the Egg Dimensionator's fist slam down on him to make him hit the ground.

"Ow… That hurts…"

"Nyah ha ha ha ha!" Eggman cackled. "I'm loving this machine already! And some people actually thought I would be betrayed by it! Well, looks like I'm already in control of it!"

"You're rambling… Just…stop…" Blade sweat dropped as he jumped up to the Egg Dimensionator and slashed it with his katana. Surprisingly, it actually seemed to work well on it.

"Wow. That actually hurt the robot?"

Since the Egg Dimensionator was above the group, Luigi thought this would be a great time to use his Super Jump, so he launched himself upward at the robot and left its eyes to widen in pain.

"Hey! I did a lot to it!" Luigi gaped.

"Urrgh! Take this!" Eggman pressed another button, triggering the Egg Dimensionator's arms to transform into missile launchers. They fired missiles that homed in on the five.

"Poyo… (Hold on…)" Kirby tossed Thoreau at one of the missiles, which he was able to grab and give to Kirby. With it, he tossed it at the Egg Dimensionator, which sent it flying back because of how powerful the missile was.

"Hey! Not bad!" Chopper smiled as he used a Smash Punch to destroy one of the missiles. The other missile coming toward Kirby was frozen by his Ice Breath.

"You know, that gives me an idea…" Tipral trailed when the Egg Dimensionator fired more missiles at them. Tipral teleported on one of the missiles and began to jump from missile to missile until he got up to the robot.

"Ehhh?! What're you doing?!" Eggman gaped as Tipral delivered a Star Punch to the Egg Dimensionator's face, causing it to cringe in pain. Tipral landed on the ground as the Egg Dimensionator flew down closer to the group, which they could attack with ease now.

"Finally! Time to test out my fighting moves on this thing!" Chopper smirked as he jumped over a couple of blasts the Egg Dimensionator fired. He delivered a Rising Break to deal some damage, while Blade tossed a couple of shurikens at the robot. It did some damage, but not as much.

"Dang… I guess shurikens aren't going to work here." Blade mumbled.

"Then why did you use them in the first place?" Tipral asked.

"'Cause I was wondering if long range would work. …Actually, I almost forgot about something!" Blade readied his katana when it was clear and unleashed his Dragon Beam on the Egg Dimensionator, sending it flying back.

"What the…?! What kind of move was that?!" Eggman gaped.

"That's called the Dragon Beam," Blade smirked. "It's probably my strongest attack so far! I know for sure it can take you down too!"

"Well, we'll see about that… A mere move like that isn't going to finish me off so easily!"

Eggman pressed another button, which made the Egg Dimensionator fire some ice blasts. One of them hit Kirby, but because of the Ice ability had on him, it didn't freeze him, to Eggman's disappointment.

"Poyo! (Good thing I have this on!)" Kirby cheered.

However, it did end up freezing both Chopper and Blade, who quickly shook themselves to break out of their icy prison. Once they were free, Chopper tried to hit the Egg Dimensionator with an energy blast, but it summoned a portal and went in it instead.

"Great… This is just what we need." Blade groaned.

"Let's just try to me on the lookout…" Chopper suggested, looking around the area for another portal. Little did they know a portal appeared from behind with a claw smacking them to the ground.

"Oh, me! It only needest to bring out its hand?" Luvbi gasped.

"Heh heh! I'm loving this thing even more!" Eggman grinned as the Egg Dimensionator came out of the portal. When the group got up, Chopper couldn't help but poke fun at that comment.

"If you love it so much, why don't you marry it?" Chopper asked.

"How can I marry a machine? That's theoretically impossible, you know."

Everyone had no comment, but the silence was interrupted when Tipral snapped his finger and hit the Egg Dimensionator with Star Magic. This caused the robot to fly toward Tipral and swat at him, sending him flying back.

"You know, now that I think about it, you were the whole reason why I was taken out of Mobius in the first place!" Eggman realized. "Maybe I'll make you pay the price for ruining my plans of taking over Mobius!"

The Egg Dimensionator attempted to smash Tipral, but he teleported out of harm's way and managed to kick the robot's face with a Star Kick, which followed up by Blade's katana slash and Hommissile, which he threw at the robot. It led out a roar as it opened its mouth and prepared to fire a large beam of energy.

"What the heck?!" Chopper gawked.

"Well, you might wanna get out of the way…" Luigi suggested. "That laser's probably going to deal a lot."

"Why not go into 3-D? That might work."

Chopper flipped into 3-D with everyone and managed to avoid the large beam that was fired. Eggman cackled, but he stopped when he noticed they weren't there. Little did he notice Luigi attacking with a Super Jump.

"Gah! What just happened?!" Eggman gaped. "That should've destroyed you all by now!"

"Well, I think you might've forgotten about flipping into 3-D," Chopper mentioned as the Egg Dimensionator flew down in an attempt to crush him. He jumped out of the way and hurled an energy blast at the robot, while Blade fired another Dragon Beam.

"Ohh… Well, we'll see how you like this!" Eggman pressed a button, which made the Egg Dimensionator's arms turn into laser cannons. A dark laser beam fired out of one of its cannons and hit Chopper, removing his Fighter ability. It also shot Kirby with one as well to remove his Ice ability.

"Poyo! (Oh, come on! My Ice ability's gone!)" Kirby cried.

"Heh heh! Now this'll be easy pickings!"

"Even though I still have that Dragon Beam that can deal some serious damage to this thing," Blade added.

"Yes… I mean, you wish!"

"I had enough with this blathering," Tipral scoffed, firing two Star Spears directly at the Egg Dimensionator. The robot let out a roar as it transformed its hands back to its claws. One went into a portal and appeared behind Tipral to grab him.

"So this is your plan? To attack me from behind? What a cowardly move…"

"Well, if I tried to grab you when you saw the arm, it would be a lot harder to catch you! Anyway… Say your prayers!"

Tipral grumbled as he teleported out of the Egg Dimensionator's grasps and gave it a punch to the face with a Star Punch. Its mouth was agape as Chopper charged up a light ball and threw it at the robot.

"Wait… What was that?" Blade gawked. "A new move?"

"Well, it's light power," Chopper explained. "I was able to get it on my own before I came to this comet. Pretty interesting, I suppose."

"Oh… Well that should help us, I suppose."

"Take this!" Eggman cried as the Egg Dimensionator summoned a couple of lasers that began to fire down at them. Luigi and Tipral ended up getting hit, but Chopper managed to flip into 3-D to avoid it, while Blade used Reflecto to reflect one laser back at the robot to deal damage.

"Poyo! (That worked out great!)" Kirby smiled.

Kirby's eyes widened as he saw the Egg Dimensionator's mouth open to let out some fireballs that scorched him. Chopper inhaled one of the fireballs and spat it back at the Egg Dimensionator. Luigi also threw Bonjourang, but it didn't deal as much damage than his Super Jump.

"Oh… Well, I guess I'm not going to be using Bonjourang to fight…" Luigi trailed.

His eyes widened when the Egg Dimensionator went through another portal. However, this time, instead of reaching an arm out, it flew out of another portal and charged straight at the group.

"Actually, I have a better idea to resolve this," Tipral declared, using his ability to freeze time. Everyone but him was frozen in time, allowing him to make his move. He jumped up to the Egg Dimensionator and began to bash it with a couple of kicks and punches. After hurling a charged shadow ball, he brought time back to normal as the Egg Dimensionator had smoke coming from it.

"Hmmmmm? I'm smelling something…burning…" Eggman trailed, sniffing the air around him until he realized what it was. "Oh, great… The Egg Dimensionator's starting to smoke up now!"

"Smoke up?" Chopper gawked. "Is that even a word?"

"Beats me," Blade shrugged as he threw Hommissile at the Egg Dimensionator while Eggman was distracted. After the explosion, Eggman got back to business and made the Egg Dimensionator fly down to the ground and try to crush them with its fists.

"Maybe I'll be able to squish you all!" Eggman grinned.

"That is, if you can get us," Chopper noted as he rolled out of harm's way, while Luvbi watched Chopper and make sure he doesn't get hurt that much. He was still a little bruised from the Skelloford, after all.

"Is it possible to climb this thing?" Blade wondered.

"If you wanna do it, then be my guest," Tipral answered before he got smashed by the Egg Dimensionator's fist. When he did manage to get himself up, he jumped back, but he couldn't help but look at the observatory.

"I can't shake the feeling that this place looks a bit familiar to me…"

No one heard him say that, so no one questioned his words as Chopper hurled a light ball at the Egg Dimensionator, Kirby used his Final Cutter to slash it, Blade used his katana to slash it, and Luigi used his Super Jump to strike the robot.

Things were going well…until Eggman had a new idea in his mind.

"This calls for something special," Eggman pondered. "Activate recovery!"

When he pressed a button, the Egg Dimensionator recovered 90 HP, leaving everyone to gape at the scientist.

"He…restoreth its HP?" Luvbi gasped.

"Hoo ha ha ha! I knew I'd like that! Now this'll be the perfect opportunity to crush you all with ease!"

"Oh, really?" Chopper said as he tilted his head.

"Yes. Really."

Eggman pressed another button, making the Egg Dimensionator open its mouth and fire a large beam at the group. This time, he successfully got them and left them low on HP, to his delight.

"Oh, boy… Look at our HP!" Blade wheezed. "We seriously gotta heal up!"

"Yeah, we should," Luigi agreed as he took out a Master Shroom Shake. He took a sip of it to recover 200 HP, then he passed it over to the others. When Tipral finished the last of it, he disintegrated it and snapped his finger to hit the Egg Dimensionator with Star Magic.

"I can't exactly remember all the details, but I do recognize this observatory…" Tipral trailed.

The Egg Dimensionator let out a roar as it tried to freeze Tipral with its ice breath, but Kirby's Final Cutter was able to interrupt it when he slashed at its face, causing it to shriek in pain.

"Ugh… I see that this thing has a bit of its senses…" Eggman groaned. "However, a mere shriek isn't going to stop me from winning this battle!"

The Egg Dimensionator's arms transformed into machine guns as they began to fire blasts of energy at the five. Tipral teleported to avoid the shots, but the rest of the group was unfortunate to get hurt by the shots.

"Geez! Those blasts are painful!" Chopper cried.

"We mostly always have to deal with this kind of pain, Chopper…" Blade informed.

Eggman felt satisfied with this, but when the Egg Dimensionator stopped, Blade threw his katana at the robot, which got stuck in its body. It was actually stuck in the cockpit, which Eggman didn't like.

"What the… Why is this sword in here?!" Eggman gaped.

"It's called a katana," Blade corrected as he jumped on the robot, which tried to shake him off. Eggman pressed a button and made a drill appear from its hand in an attempt to drill at Blade.

"You know, that's a stupid idea to pull off," Chopper informed.

"Why is that?" Tipral asked as he reappeared after dodging the shots.

"He's going to get Blade off by drilling at him. If you ask me, that's pretty stupid."

"Yeah, he'll just jump off and make the drill drill at the Egg Dimensionator!" Luigi realized.

"Poyo! (Yeah! That's dumb!)" Kirby agreed.

When Blade noticed the drill coming toward him, he grabbed his katana quickly before jumping off. Fortunately, he wasn't harmed by the drill, and he couldn't help but snicker when the drill hit the plating covering the cockpit.

"Gah! N-No! Not this!" Eggman cried, realizing the plating was completely weak and vulnerable.

"Yeah! This should be in the bag for us!" Chopper cheered as he tossed a charged light ball at the armor plating, breaking it off and revealing the cockpit, where they noticed Eggman's mouth was agape.

"I honestly wonder why my plans don't usually work…"

Despite that, Eggman pushed a button and made the Egg Dimensionator fire a beam from its mouth that sent the group flying back.

"Nyeah ha ha ha! So, how does that feel?!"

"Don't think that it's over for us," Blade moaned as he slowly got up.

"Oh, really? Why do you say that?"

"'Cause that machine of yours is pretty low on HP too. It's enough for us to finish the fight!"

Eggman gasped as Blade began to charge up his katana. "Oh, no… This isn't good. Egg Dimensionator! Ready another beam!

But it was too late. Blade finished the fight by using his Dragon Beam to impale the cockpit and leaving explosions all over the Egg Dimensionator. All of the armored plating began to fall off, making the Dimensionator regain control of itself.

Unfortunately, it didn't have long to do much when it exploded from a bright light that enveloped it. It might have been because of how much damage it had to deal with.

All that was left was Eggman and his Egg Mobile, which had smoke coming out of it. Everyone else got up and noticed Eggman having a little fit.

"ARRRRRGGGGHHHH! I can't believe I failed to win! And that was probably one of my most powerful machines I've ever gotten a hold of too! Grrrrrr! You'll regret this! I'll be back!"

Eggman's Egg Mobile began to take off slowly, but when Tipral snapped his finger, the mech was shot down by his Star Magic and slowly descending down the pit below.

"N-No! My mech's not working!" Eggman cried until his voice could be heard no more.

"Tipral! Did you end his game?!" Chopper gaped.

"He's probably not going to die," Tipral answered. "However, let him take care of himself. He'll find a way out of here."

"All right, then… We don't have time to help him anyway."

"We need to go to that pathway I was telling you guys about," Blade mentioned. "It should be just up ahead."

"Well then we should movest on then," Luvbi suggested.

Everyone agreed and took off, with the exception of Tipral, who turned back and looked back at the observatory.

"From what I can remember of a place like this… I know there was once an observatory where I was created…" Tipral trailed. "It didn't have much except for seeing some of the stars."

He noticed the large telescope was actually broken and covered in a bit of alien fungi. "This place is old, and I don't think I should be staying here anymore."

He turned back and began to skate over to the rest of the group, who were on the pathway at the moment.

"Where were you?" Chopper asked, noticing Tipral catch up.

"I was looking back at the observatory," Tipral answered. "Do you have a problem with that?"

"Well… No…"

"Good. Now just keep moving."

When they continued on, they noticed a Star Block up ahead. "My prince! Thou shouldst hit the block quickly! We must movest on!"

"Of course," Chopper nodded as he rushed to the block and gave it a good strike.

"I wonder where this will even take us," Luigi wondered.

"We'll find out soon," Blade assured.

END OF CHAPTER

With Kirby and Blade reunited with the group, the three now became five. However, Luvbi was not pleased because she felt they would get in her way of being with Chopper, especially when he could use his friends to hide from her. "This road doth be strange," said Luvbi as they got further down the road. "Yet, it doth look a bit creepy." Our heroes and Tipral agreed as they noticed stuff around them that looked more like being in a lab. With only Sonic and Mario missing, Chopper and Co. began to hope if they would find them around here.

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As you can see, each part of the chapter is having about two mini-bosses, so if you like seeing more fights, then this is obviously a chapter you'll like (just wait until Chapter 20. There's A LOT there). And before you ask, I do know there was something else called a Dimensionator from another game. The Egg Dimensionator is supposed to be somewhat like the Time Eater (it goes through time, this can go through dimensions).

However, I feel like Chapter 19's missing something... Oh, wait. The next part has that! :P