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...

137. The Truth Behind Shade

As they got higher up, they noticed that they were starting to leave the castle. Along with that, everything started to get darker as well. Eventually the floor had come to stop, but all they could see was the ground around them, along with some black rocks around the huge rock platform. Perhaps this was here to prevent them from falling.

"This place is so dark…" Luigi trailed. "I don't like it…"

"Wherever we are, we better be ready," Chopper suggested, his hands having a yellow glow around them.

"So, you all finally made it here!"

They noticed two purple eyes above them before the place lit up. There, they saw Shade sitting on his throne without his cloak on, his sun on his crescent blade glowing brightly. The arms of the throne happened to be two open hands that Shade's arms were resting on as he grinned at them. The area also seemed to have some kind of magic mist around them that they've never seen before.

"Shade! There you are!" Tipral roared, clenching his fists in anger. "You should've known better than to mess with me!"

"Oh, really? I never knew that the Synthetic Space Station was so special to you." Shade said with no emotion. "But, I needed that space station in order to make some stronger minions. You know those Shadow Wizards you saw in my castle? Yeah, those were powered up there."

"Wait… That lab area was where Tipral was created?!" Chopper gaped.

"Yes, it was," Tipral nodded.

"Why didn't you tell us?"

"Because it was none of your concern," the dark antennae being stated, making Chopper frown.

"Where are we?" Luigi asked.

"Good question!" Shade smirked. "You are actually at the highest point of the Comet of Darkness! No longer are you inside my castle! I decided to make this special because being at the highest point meant I was the highest of all my minions!"

Luvbi looked around and noticed her parents behind some of the black rocks. "Mother! Father! Thou art hither!"

"Luvbi, is that you?!" Queen Jaydes gasped, noticing her daughter.

"Luvbi?! Oh, thank goodness… Thou art OK…" Grambi sighed. "I suppose Chopper helped thee get hither?"

"Yes… Now you guys are finally reunited!" Shade snickered. "And now I can finally get what I wanted!"

"Yeah… And we can take you down." Blade added. "Looks like there's no turning back now."

"All right, Shade, you might as well give up," Chopper suggested. "We took down your army, and now you're nothing! So, just release Luvbi's parents and give us the Pure Heart. We know you have it! And maybe then, we won't have to hurt you!"

"Oh, we're not letting him go," Tipral growled. "We ARE going to destroy him!"

"Hold on… So you came all this way thinking I had the Pure Heart?" Shade gawked.

"Well, that's where the last door at Flopside Tower led us…" Chopper trailed. "And that sun on your head is glowing, just like it was when Luvbi first met you!"

"Really? In all honesty, if that's what you came here for, then you've come here for nothing!"

Everyone: What?!

"I never had a Pure Heart with me," Shade hissed. "I wish I did, but that doesn't appear to be the case. As for this sun... The only time it seemed to be glowing was when I had approached you heroes. Obviously this thing is just messing with me now..."

"What? That's surprising..." Chopper mumbled.

"Not to mention we wasted our time coming here…" Sonic sighed.

"Well, not verily," Luvbi cut in. "We didst come hither to saveth my mother and father, nay?"

"Yes, she is right," Queen Jaydes agreed. "You didn't come here for nothing."

"All right, enough with the chit-chat!" Shade cut in. "I've been waiting for this moment for a while! Ever since I was humiliated those last two times, I've been getting VERY angry about losing to you people! Let us end this, shall we?"

"Oh, not yet, Shade! I think there's something I need to show you!" Chopper smirked as he pulled his diary out. "We happened to find your diary! You know, where you happened to put all your secrets? Like the fact that you don't even own that body?"

Shade ended up gaping, but a sinister look soon came into his eyes as they slightly turned purple for a second. "So… You know everything about me now…"

"Pray, what's with thy look?" Luvbi asked, noticing his grin.

"Yes, it's true. Everything in there is true! I'm nothing but a mere parasite that just wishes death upon everyone!" Shade stuck his green forked tongue out, making some of the heroes cringe in fear. "And perhaps when I end your games, I'll leave this body and take over yours! Oh, how much fun will that be! It makes me want to tear away one of your arms and strangle you with them!"

"This guy's one crazy wacko…" Sonic gulped.

Shade jumped off his throne, and what people could see from him, he almost looked hyper. "You trashed my comet, destroyed my minions and even discovered everything about me. Now that you know my secret, I'm going to have to put an end to yoooooooou…"

"I don't like this one bit…" Luigi shuddered.

Shade took out his wand a licked it slowly, making most of their eyes widen before he surrounded himself with a blue shield. "And then when you're all dead, I'll play with your corpses!"

"If you're trying to scare me, think again," Tipral scoffed. "Your insanity isn't going to help you win this fight. It just shows that you've got nothing left!"

"That may be… But I much rather enjoy showing off my true self in a battle than hiding it all behind me! Now come on, heroes… Let us play a game…where I destroy you all!"

Shade began to cackle maniacally as he fired a couple of dark magic projectiles from his wand toward them. From what they knew, they had to use Pixls to fight him, so Tipral was forced to use Carrie to jump on Shade's head to deal some damage to his blue shield.

"Keep attacking me, because I always enjoy feeling some pain myself!" Shade giggled as he jumped in the air and began to fire dark magic down at the group. Sonic used Reflecto to deflect them back at Shade s shield, which seemed to do damage.

"Luvbi, stay by your parents," Chopper suggested. "We'll take it all from here."

"Yea, I doth agree," Luvbi nodded as she flew over to her parents, who were shocked at how crazy Shade was all this time.

From what they could see from his stats, he had 470 HP, an Attack of 20 and a Defense of 9. Obviously that was what he had on his shield, and for some reason, he was moving much faster than before.

"Remember guys, this is just the same Shade we've been fighting before," Blade mentioned. "This is like the third time he's used this shield trick, and it s getting old…"

"Old? Then how about I make it new!" Shade charged straight at Blade and spun himself, with his shield being surrounded by spikes. Blade cringed in pain as he was knocked back, while Chopper used Starbow to make shooting stars hit his shield.

Shade turned to Chopper and began to fire magic his way. He inhaled it and spat it back at Shade's shield, which ended up healing his shield instead of hurting it.

"Now now, Chopper… If you're trying to fight me, you wouldn't be feeding my shield, wouldn't you?"

"Wait, what?!"

Shade grinned with his tongue out, giving him a creepy hiss before Luigi threw Bonjourang at his shield. This made the crazy alien child turn to him and use his wings to fly toward him.

"Oh, yesss… Then there's you, Luigi…" Shade pointed his wand at the green plumber, which made him step back in fear. "You are quite the coward, aren't you? Here! Let me make it all better for you!"

Shade let out a cackle as he began to fire dark magic toward Luigi, who yelped before Mario could pull him out of the way. Even then Shade was able to fire magic at the Mario Bros., which knocked them over on the ground.

"This blue shield is starting to get annoying…" Tipral growled as he continued to ride on Carrie, who was able to help him jump on Shade's shield with her landing on him first. Kirby tossed Crystaline at Shade's shield.

The alien kid turned to Kirby and began to fire some dark magic projectiles his way. Kirby inhaled them and swallowed them, but he didn't gain any ability, which disappointed him. Shade grinned as he raised his wand.

"Oh, what's that? You want something else! OK, then!" Shade giggled creepily as his shield changed red, which made Blade instantly attack his shield with his katana. He was able to jump away when Shade fired a wave of dark magic toward him.

"Yeesh… He was a bit crazy before, but not like THIS!"

"Let's not worry about that, Blade," Sonic suggested. "He wants to 'play', so we'll 'play' with him!"

"Don't you mean 'fight'?"

"Yeah, sure…"

Shade quickly came their way and fired a wave of dark magic that sent them flying over to the rocks. Luvbi couldn't help but look worried as Chopper tossed a couple of light balls at Shade's red shield.

"Please don't get hurt, Chopper…" Luvbi thought. "I doth worry about thy safety with someone like him…"

Shade let out a giggle as he fired a wave of dark magic at Chopper. He tossed a light ball, which was able to go through the magic and hit Shade's shield, which didn't make him get angry. He grinned sadistically and created a dark magic whip that resembled the Beam ability's beam whip and managed to hit Chopper with it and knock him back.

Luvbi shuddered in fear before Shade turned his head over to Luvbi, forcing her to cover her face in fear.

"Hee hee hee! What's the matter, little girl?" Shade cackled. "You haven't seen an insane boy who has a taste of murder?"

"Please… Just… goest away…"

"Keepeth away from my daughter, monster!" Grambi shouted.

"Maybe when your game is over, I'll use your beard for something…special…" Shade grinned before he got hit by Tipral's Star Spear. He turned around and fired a dark wave of magic at him, but he teleported above him and brought his feet down on him.

"Oh, I'm sorry if I forgot about you! Allow me to help you!" the alien child managed to jump in the air and fire a dark wave of magic at Tipral to knock him to the ground. He then charged toward him and spun around to create a spiky barrier around his shield, which Tipral was barely able to escape from.

Mario and Luigi slowly got up after escaping Shade and noticed his shield was red. He was chasing Kirby around, who took in some air and began to float above the psychotic kid. The two Mario Bros. exchanged nods and attacked, with Luigi using his Cyclone to hit Shade and Mario using his Super Ground Pound. This caused Shade to bring his attention to them.

"Oh, I always loved to tear away sibling's limbs and reattach them!" Shade cackled. "With their legs being where their arms were and their arms being where their legs were!"

Mario: Yeah… He's insane.

"Y-You really think he means that, B-Bro?!" Luigi shuddered as Shade's green tongue was out. He licked his wand and fired a dark wave of magic their way. Luigi's Super Jump was all he needed to avoid his attack, while Mario was unfortunate to get hurt.

Once Sonic hit Shade with a Spin Dash, he was back to using his blue shield again. This time, he created two clones that helped him fire projectiles from his wand at the group. Kirby's Defend helped him take minimum damage, and Relfecto was able to harm the real Shade's shield.

"Remember guys… Don't back down!" Sonic reminded, jumping in the air and using Screwdy to hit Shade's shield, making the two clones disappear. However, he didn't care. He fired magic rapidly toward Sonic, making him jump shot over shot before jumping back and letting Kirby hit Shade with Crystaline.

"I don't know what's more dangerous… His projectiles, or his wave." Blade pondered before he got hit by a dark magic projectile Shade fired at him. He quickly got up and threw a couple of shurikens, but that only healed his shield.

"Keep throwing those, cat!" Shade grinned. "They'll surely make my shield stronger!"

"Not today, psychotic motherfu-" he was cut off when Chopper ran past him and spun his hammer around, striking Shade's shield with a spinning ice hammer that knocked Shade by the rocks by Luvbi and her parents.

When Shade noticed Blade charging at him again, he ended up getting hit by Hommissile, which did more damage to his shield. He noticed Blade was going for round two, which made him grin and change his shield to a light blue color.

"Let's see you hit me now!"

"Here it comes!" Blade shouted as he fired Hommissile his way, but Tipral quickly grabbed the missile Pixl and threw him to the wall instead. While Shade was a bit disappointed, he didn't care. Not in the slightest.

"Oh! How exciting! You made things more interesting, Tipral!" Shade cackled.

"Maybe you might wanna get out of that shield so I can break your arms!" Tipral threatened, using his fist to deliver a Star Punch to Shade's shield. He didn't even use his wave of dark magic on him. He simply fired more projectiles his way, which all hit Tipral.

However, that didn't stop Tipral from throwing a shadow ball at Shade and then a couple of Star Spears. What surprised him was that Shade didn't seem angry at all. He just continued to act like a psycho.

"OK, there's something not right about him," Tipral thought as he kicked Shade away from him, allowing Chopper to kick him with a light kick.

"So, Chopper… You know everything about me!" Shade giggled.

"Yeah, I do… Now stop with that! You're creeping me out!" Chopper cried as he ducked under Shade's magic.

"Did you read the part about me taking the life out of one of your kind and taking over his body completely?!"

"Yes… That was…very horrifying."

"Oh, yesss! It was most definitely…horrifying! Just imagine that happening to you! I can turn into a parasite right now and simply go into your head, where I will drain everything in you until you're nothing! Not only that, but it makes me stronger!"

"I hate that you had to do it to one of my kind, especially a kid! It's terrible!"

"Yesss…" Shade grinned, getting hit by a rainbow ball Chopper managed to hurl at him. "Keep throwing that at me! When I've destroyed you, I'm going to make you a balloon once you and your friends have nothing left. The pink puffball might make a great balloon too!"

Upon hearing this, Kirby fumed and used his Final Cutter to hit Shade's shield, which also knocked him back, especially when Kirby used his Cartwheel on him too. Shade let out a cackle and hit Kirby with his magic as he got up. He also transformed his shield into a light red color.

"Light red means…we need to use Pixls," Luigi deduced, grabbing Bonjourang and throwing him at Shade's shield. Shade, meanwhile, used his magic to fire dark blocks of magic their way.

"Those thing look like they can be thrown," Thoreau mentioned. "Heroes! Use me and throw them back!"

Mario nodded and used Thoreau's power to grab one of the blocks and throw them straight at Shade's shield. Chopper decided to destroy the others by hurling a light ball at them so they didn't get in their way.

Shade jumped over the group and landed behind Kirby and used his wave of magic to send Kirby flying back. He let out a snicker and came over toward the others with his magic ready.

"Come on, heroes! You don't mind a little magic from me, don't you?!" Shade giggled maniacally as he fired another wave near Chopper and Tipral. Chopper got hit, but Tipral was able to teleport away.

When Chopper slowly got up, he saw Shade was ready to perform another magic attack, so he used Starbow and made shooting stars fall on Shade s shield. Getting bored of the light red shield, Shade decided to change things up a bit and surrounded himself in a purple shield.

"A purple shield? What does that do?" Blade wondered as he threw a couple of shurikens at it. It seemed to deal some damage, to his surprise. "Hey! It looks like we can rush at him now!"

Mario: Ooh! That's good!

Mario ran toward Shade and jumped on his shield, but it only made the shield recover the damage Mario dealt to it, leaving him a bit surprised.

"Wait… Mario's jump didn't do anything!" Luigi gaped.

"From what I can see, physical attacks don't work," Queen Jaydes pondered. "You people must use ranged attacks!"

"I was just about to sayest that, Mother…" Luvbi trailed.

"So, we can't use physical attacks…" Tipral pondered as he looked up at the grinning Shade and threw a Star Spear at his shield. He then threw a shadow ball afterward to deal some extra damage.

"So… I suppose we can use Pixls too?" Chopper wondered as he held Starbow up and let shooting stars come down on Shade. It seemed to do some harm, which made Chopper smile. "Hey! It did work!"

Knowing that he had to use ranged attacks, Kirby threw Crystaline straight at Shade's shield. This made him turn his attention to the pink puffball and fire some dark magic his way. This looked more like a lightning bolt, which shocked Kirby a bit when it hit him.

"Hee hee hee! How did that feel, puffball?!" Shade cackled. "That sure was shocking, wasn't it?!

"Hey! Only I make the bad puns here!" Chopper fumed, tossing fire, ice, rainbow and light balls at Shade's shield. He turned his head to him with a sadistic grin and struck him with the same magic he used on Kirby.

Once Sonic realized what he could do, he clenched his fists and attacked Shade with a Sonic Wind, which knocked him back, but it didn't do any harm to him, of course. He got back up and tried to harm Sonic with his magic, but he was able to jump over it with ease.

"Sorry, but I guess you're just a little slow," Sonic scoffed.

"Oh, you're making me sick with anger now…" Shade snickered as he jumped in the air and fired his magic down like it was a lightning bolt. Mario was able to get out of the way and use Kickbrin on Shade once he landed on the ground.

"Bro! Watch out!" Luigi cried.

Mario looked confused as he turned to Luigi, but Shade managed to get the red plumber with his magic. Luigi gaped until he was struck with the same attack. Shade stuck his tongue out at them as he was able to leap over to Tipral, who swatted him away with a Star Spear.

"How someone like you can be acting like this, I don t know," Tipral said as he tossed a shadow ball toward Shade. However, he was soon struck with his dark magic, which caused him to get a bit angrier.

"So, how did you like your home now?!" Shade asked as he cackled. "Seeing everything alienified! It's so…perfect! Just the thing I wanted!"

"I'm going to make you suffer for that!" Tipral was about to punch Shade, but he waggled his finger at him.

"Ah ah ah! Punch me, and my shield will simply recover!" Shade couldn't help but lick his wand again, but he stopped when Chopper was able to toss a light ball at his shield, which angered him.

"Oh, Chopper… Even though you thought I had the Pure Heart, I'm sure you wanted to destroy me dearly, right?"

"Honestly… I don't know what to do with you…" Chopper trailed.

"Then let's have some fun for now!" Shade changed his shield to a black color, which made Tipral punch his shield. This time, it seemed to do damage, so he kicked at it to knock Shade over because of the force of his attack.

Knowing what this mean, Mario gripped his hammer and rushed over to Shade and bashed his shield with it. The alien kid rose his head and gave a grin before firing multiple projectiles at once.

"He's firing two in a row… That's not good." Luigi gulped.

"Well, I suppose this means physical attacks work, so I'm going in!" Blade rushed over to Shade and attacked him with his katana (which apparently counts as a physical attack). Kirby, meanwhile, attacked with his Final Cutter.

"Yea… Keepeth at it, heroes!" Grambi called out as Luvbi watched Luigi stomp on Shade's shield.

"Hee hee! Watch this!" Shade raised his wand and created a dark pulse that sent everyone flying back. Tipral was able to teleport back to Shade and punch his shield with a Star Punch, followed by a Star Kick.

"Your attacks don't impress me," Tipral scoffed. "When I had the Dark Star Scepter, I could do more impressive attacks with it than your magic."

"Then show me!"

"But I don't have my scepter with me, so I m forced to do this," Tipral disappeared, and once he appeared again, he was clenching his fists and harming Shade with his Star Burst attack.

He noticed a crack in Shade's shield, which made the alien kid gasp.

"My shield! I've spent so long coming up with it, and now you harm it!" Shade swung his wand and fired two projectiles toward Tipral. He got on Carrie and jumped over them before landing on Shade's head.

"Allow me to help you free yourself!" Tipral declared, bringing his foot down on the shield. Once his foot met with his shield, there was a bigger crack in Shade's shield, causing it to shatter.

"Yes! He's out of the shield!" Chopper cheered.

"Oh, but I'm just getting started!" Shade cackled, spinning his wand around before stopping and licking it. "This would feel much more satisfying when I see a bunch of dead heroes on the floor..."

Tipral clenched his fists and punched Shade in the face, sending him flying toward the rocks again. Because he had no shield, he could get hurt, but he simply got up and started cackling.

"Do that again, Tipral! I love to have a scuffle!" Shade hissed.

Tipral gave him a glare as Shade flew up in the air and began firing his magic down. Blade gasped and spun his katana to deflect some of the projectiles back at Shade. The alien kid simply opened his mouth and took in the projectiles.

"Poyo? (What did he just do?)" Kirby gawked.

Shade spat the projectiles back out at Blade and knocked him to the ground. Everyone was a bit surprised, but they took no time, with Mario gripping his hammer and bashing Shade's head.

When Luigi was able to jump on the alien kid's head, he felt a little satisfaction to it as he landed on the ground. But he soon gulped when he saw Shade summon a purple crystal resembling the crystals they saw before when fighting him. It began to spin around and land right by his feet.

"Waah! That was TOO close!" Luigi cried.

They noticed his stats were the same as his shield. He still had 470 HP, an Attack of 20 and a Defense of 9.

"Wow… So nothing new to this fight?" Chopper gawked.

"New? Oh, I've got something new!" Shade created a dark ball of magic in his hand and threw it over to Chopper. He inhaled it and spat it back at Shade, which caused him to cringe in pain and try to summon ice magic to freeze him.

Of course, since he had fire, he decided to toss a fireball in order to melt it. Sadly, since there was more ice, it ended up cooling the fireball down. The ice magic ended up freezing Chopper, to his dismay.

"My sweet prince!" Luvbi cried.

"Thou dost not hath to worry, Luvbi," Grambi assured. "They hath done much to get out of something."

Blade ran over to the frozen Chopper and used his fire slash to help thaw him out. Once he was free, he tossed a fireball to Kirby, who inhaled it and managed to get a hold of the Fire ability.

And since Shade was trying to attack Tipral with magic projectiles, Kirby came charging at him in a fireball and left him with a nasty burn. Shade grinned and used his magic to summon a wave to come down on Kirby.

"Poyo! (Ack! I never knew water could be so painful!)" Kirby cried.

"So remember, kids… The best way to take out someone who's on fire is to cover them in water!" Shade cackled, flying toward Kirby in an attempt to grab him. Sonic kicked him out of the way and charged up a Spin Dash before crashing into him once again.

As soon as Sonic got back up, he found Shade flying above him and charging a magic attack. Before he could even get hurt, Luigi was able to attack him with his Super Jump and knock him down.

"Don't even try that!" Luigi warned.

Shade brushed himself and fired a dark wave of magic at Luigi, which was able to send him flying to one of the rocks.

"And now to get back to this crystal," Shade decided as he flew up and used his magic to make the purple crystal fly back up. It began to spin around, but it was soon shatter when Blade fired his Dragon Beam at it.

"Ha! No more crystal for you!" Blade scoffed.

"Well that's OK! There's more to crystals, you know!"

"Huh?" Blade ended up getting struck by dark lightning that was summoned from the sky. He let out a scream in pain as he fell over on the ground for a second.

"Yesss! YESSS! Scream! Scream some more, cat!" Shade cackled as he began to fire more lightning down toward Blade. The blue cat gaped and began to dodge the lightning bolts.

"He's gone mad!"

Mario jumped in the air and landed on Shade, which interrupted his attacks and made him turn to him. He was able to use his magic to turn himself invisible, which allowed Shade to run up to Mario and tackle him.

Mario: What's he doing?!

Luigi tried to help Mario by trying to punch at Shade when he appeared for a second, but he ended up punching Mario s nose instead. While Mario wasn't happy about it, he decided not to get angry at Luigi and shook Shade off him.

Shade began visible and managed to grab a hold of Luigi. He aimed his wand at his head as he grinned at Mario.

"H-Hey! Get off me!" Luigi cried.

"Try to attack me, and your brother might have something coming…" Shade snickered, while Mario began to sweat with his hammer in his hands.

Mario: I'm not so sure what to do…

But, since there were five others fighting Shade, Kirby was able to attack Shade from behind by spitting a fireball at him. This caused the alien kid to let go of Luigi and forced him to turn to Kirby. Meanwhile, Mario comforted Luigi, who was relieved to be safe from him.

Kirby spat a couple of fireballs from his mouth at Shade again, which he was able to counter by creating a small wave of water to destroy them. The puffball gasped, but he wasn't going to give up so soon. He jumped in the air and charged straight at Shade as a fireball.

"Poyo! (Take this!)" Kirby cried as he hit Shade and left a burn on him.

Shade sneered and managed to grab a hold of Kirby and throw him toward Chopper, knocking the two to the ground, but the alien kid wasn't able to avoid Tipral, who landed on top of him.

"Did you honestly believe you were going to have it easy on you, Shade?!" Tipral growled, grabbing Shade s arm and swinging him around. When he let go, Shade was sent flying to one of the rocks, but he was able to spread his wings out and jump off the rocks and fire magic at Tipral.

Tipral, noticing this, teleported to avoid the attacks while Sonic was able to trap Shade in a Sonic Wind. While he was trapped, Sonic got in a ball and managed to hit Shade with a Spin Dash. When his Sonic Wind was gone, Shade tried to grab a hold of him from behind, but with Sonic's quills, they ended up harming him instead.

"Oh, the quills! They hurt!" Shade cried, almost acting childish. "Oh, how furious you're making me… I was hoping playtime wouldn't have to be this painful."

"There was never any playtime," Sonic noted. "What's wrong with you?!"

Shade aimed his wand at Sonic and unleashed a flamethrower. The blue hedgehog ducked under it, with the tip of his quills on fire. This caused him to run all over the platform as Shade let out a snicker until Chopper managed to bash him with his hammer.

"Don't leave yourself open, Shade," Chopper suggested. "Chances are, you'll simply get your butt kicked!"

Shade shot some dark magic Chopper's way, but he was able to jump over the projectiles and throw a light ball down at him. That hit him, but the ice ball he threw was melted by his fire magic.

"Don't you see? Fire melts ice! Yet… Ice can sometimes stop fire!" Shade cackled. "It's like they're both evenly matched!"

Chopper grimaced as he tried to inhale him. Despite being the same size as him, it didn't seem to have any effect. It was almost like there was some kind of ability he had that prevented him from getting inhaled.

"Hee hee hee! Are you trying to eat me? Oh, no! That's not how it's done here!" Shade smirked as he fired a dark lightning bolt at Chopper, electrocuting him. While Shade grinned sadistically, Blade used his hurricane slash and hit Shade with it. But because Chopper was close, he was blown back as well.

After Blade managed to slash at Shade again, the child simply stuck his tongue out and licked his wand. Blade couldn't help but wince at this. Chopper quickly acted and used Starbow to make shooting stars hit Shade. He was able to catch one of them and look at its brightness.

"Wait… That's not possible!" Starbow gasped.

"Now I'm wondering what this tastes like!" Shade opened his mouth and let his tongue touch it. He ended up feeling the hottest thing he had ever touched. "Oh! My poor, poor tongue! Hmmmm… Maybe this looks better on you, Chopper!"

Shade threw the star toward Chopper, who used his hammer to throw it back at him and knock him back. He felt a little dazed, which helped Kirby charge at him in a fireball and hit him. Shade retaliated by firing a dark wave of magic at him, which knocked him back and knocked away his ability.

"Poyo! (No! Not my ability!)" Kirby cried.

"You don't need an ability to fight," Tipral scoffed. "Use one of your own attacks or Pixls."

Kirby realized this and nodded, using Crystaline to freeze Shade. Unfortunately, the effect didn't turn out to be too long, because Shade was able to free himself from his prison with ease.

Chopper jumped on Shade a performed a stylish move, but Tipral punched Chopper out of the way and landed on Shade fist-first. Luvbi fumed as she saw Tipral hit Chopper, but her parents stopped her from trying to lunge at him.

"No, Luvbi…" Queen Jaydes scolded. "It's not worth it."

Luvbi frowned as Tipral managed to grab a hold of Shade's arm and throw him to the ground. He was about to put his foot down on him, but Shade was able to leave him paralyzed with an electric spell.

"Oh, how shocking that was!" Shade gushed. "Maybe you'll look better getting shocked when you're wet!"

"What do you mean…?" Tipral noticed a rain cloud Shade summoned above him. He was able to escape getting electrocuted and threw a Star Spear at the alien child. When he fell to the ground, he let out a cackle and fired dark magic projectiles, which Kirby managed to inhale all at once.

"Oh, look at you, pink puffball! You've gotten so fat!" Shade noticed. "Maybe you might need to work out a little more!"

Kirby gave him a glare as he spat the projectiles at Shade. He cringed, but he was able to use some poison magic to poison Kirby. His face started to get pale as he coughed up some small, purple clouds of poison.

"Just three minutes and you'll be dying…of insanity!"

Kirby quickly got Piccolo to help him cure himself of the poison, and then Chopper tossed a fireball at Shade, followed by a rainbow ball. He flew up in the air and began to summon small dark particles to the ground.

"What on earth is he doing?" Luigi wondered.

Mario: I don't know, but try to knock him down with a Super Jump!

Luigi gave him a nod and managed to hit Shade with a Super Jump, which knocked him to the ground and allowed Mario to use his Super Ground Pound. Shade struggled to get himself off Mario as he sat on him.

"My! Looks like someone's getting fatter!" Shade snickered.

Mario: Fat?!

Shade noticed his arm was right near his face, so he grabbed a hold of it and bit it, causing Mario to yelp and get off him. Shade got himself up and hissed at the Mario Bros. was his tongue was out.

"I still can't handle that green, forked tongue…" Luigi cringed as Mario held his arm in pain. "Bro! Are you all right?!"

Mario: It's just a bite. Nothing special.

Blade fired a Dragon Beam at Shade before he could grab Luigi and then tried to punch at him. Shade brought his wand up and managed to bash him with his own head. Because of his wings, he was able to fly around quickly with ease.

Luckily, Chopper was able to freeze his wings with an ice ball, causing him to fall to the ground. When he got up, he cheered evilly and made a leap over to him. He was going to bite his arm, but Chopper was able to punch him with light energy on his fists, causing him to fall over.

"I'm not going to let you bite me! Geez!" Chopper grimaced as his eye twitched. "So, what now? You're a vampire?"

"Didn't I tell you? I'm a mere parasite that takes over bodies!" Shade giggled as he fired a dark magic pulse that Chopper was able to jump over. He threw some rainbow balls down, but Shade created a dark barrier and blocked them.

But since he wasn't protected from behind, Tipral snapped his finger and managed to send Shade flying up. This gave Chopper the opportunity to jump up and use a slamming kick to knock him to the ground.

"This platform is pretty strong if that kid keeps hitting it," Sonic noticed.

"Well, that's just fine!" Blade assured as he threw Hommissile at Shade while he was on the ground. The explosion sent him flying upward, so Sonic used his Bounce Attack to reach him and use a Homing Attack to send him flying back down.

"Take this!" the blue hedgehog used another Bounce Attack, but this time, he was able to hit Shade while he was on the ground. He got out of his ball form and did a small break-dance before getting hit in the head by Shade.

"Hee hee! Don't let yourself get distracted, because you never know what Shady might do to you!" Shade cackled, knocking Sonic back with some dark magic.

"'Shady'? What the heck?" Chopper gawked.

"Poyo… (Let's just focus on fighting him…)" Kirby suggested.

Tipral managed to grab a hold of Shade by the black crescent blade on his head and threw him down so the other side of the blade was stuck in the ground. Shade got himself up with ease and summoned a Dragon Beam of his own his way. Tipral crossed his arms and teleported out of the way, making Chopper get hit instead.

"Yeesh! He's pretty good with that!" Blade gaped. "And how come he can use that attack too?!"

"That may be, but he's almost finished," Tipral noticed as he punched Shade in the face, leaving a bruise on his cheek.

"Oh! You left a bruise on my face!" Shade cried.

"What's wrong? Are you going to cry about it?!" the dark being kicked Shade in the face and was prepared to bring his foot down on him again. "Here! Let me give you a hand with that!"

"Let's not get too violent, Tipral…" Chopper warned.

"This guy turned my birthplace into an alien-infested lab! I think I have every right to act this way…"

"And will revenge do anything to help? It'll just make you angrier!"

"It's too late for that, Chopper," Tipral declared. "This guy's almost finished. I might as well finish him off right now. …Or better yet, I'll throw him off this platform! He'll surely die then."

Shade grinned and managed to bash Tipral with his head to leave him a little dazed. Shade let out a cackle and hit him with more dark magic.

"Oh, I'm not going anywhere, Tippy!" Shade cackled. "And Choppy here can join you too!"

Chopper was twitching from that name, while Tipral was clenching his fists in anger. He may have not shown much anger when he kept hearing that from Mimi, but he was surely annoyed with getting called that.

"Don't! EVER! Call! Me! TIPPY!"

With his two arms, he swung them and fired two Star Spears directly at Shade, who continued to cackle until he was sent flying off the platform and screaming to his death as he plunged down.

And Tipral just stood there with his fists still clenched. Everyone else was relieved to be rid of Shade once and for all.

"So… It's finally over…" Sonic sighed.

"Poyo… (Good riddance…)" Kirby smiled.

"So, canst we goest back home, mine parents?" Luvbi asked, turning to her parents.

"Well, we might as well return," Queen Jaydes nodded.

"With yon alien child gone, our powers returneth," Grambi nodded, raising his wings to use his power. "…Pray, why dost my power not work?"

Chopper blinked for a moment and then realized something. "Maybe it's because Shade's not finished yet…"

They noticed a black glove grab a hold of one of the pointy rocks when they turned around. Shade managed to pull himself back up and land back in front of the heroes while grinning sadistically.

"So… You all think you're so clever…" Shade snickered. "I suppose you guys are getting so sick of playtime, aren't you?"

"Yeesh! This guy NEVER gives up!" Sonic grumbled, getting in a fighting stance.

"Face it, Shade. It's over for you." Chopper declared.

"Hee hee hee! That's where you're wrong! We haven't had enough fun, Chopper! Maybe we can fight for real this time?"

"Fight for real? What on Clara do you mean?!"

"The guy's insane, of course he won't make sense," Blade mentioned.

Shade grinned as he touched the glowing sun on his crescent blade. It began to brighten for a moment and then get covered in dark mist. In fact, Shade's entire body began to cover in darkness as the whole area darkened.

"What's going on?!" Queen Jaydes gasped.

When the darkness formed up, they noticed Shade transformed into something unimaginative in ANYONE'S eyes! They noticed his round head had his mouth right above his two, purple eyes that were below his mouth. His crescent blade now had three spikes pointing up and three green eyes. His oval-shaped body had a green eye in the center of his chest with a crab-like claw for his upper right arm, a tentacle of his upper left, a lower right arm with pointy fingers and a lower left arm with pointy fingers, but the pointer finger being much longer. There was even a green eye on it as well! His feet only had three toes.

"What…doth be THAT?!" Luvbi cried.

"See? Now this is where all the fun begins!" Shade cackled childishly. "Please, when you finish playing with me, allow me to tear out your limbs and let me put them on my monstrous body!"

Chopper had no idea how to react. Was this thing hideous? Was it scary? Or was it even disgusting. Those pupils in those green eyes sure did creep him out. And the fact that his mouth was where his eyes should've been kind of scared him.

But for some reason, he felt like he saw this thing before. It reminded him of what he saw while fighting the Necromancer at the Star Observatory. That hand and face looked similar to what Shade had turned into now.

"I… I don't wanna fight this guy anymore…" Luigi shivered. "This thing is just…unlike anything I've ever seen!"

"So, this is what you really look like, huh?" Tipral questioned. "Well it doesn't matter now. Whether you're hideous or not, I'm going to finish you!"

"This isn't my true form, but it's a part of me! And soon, you'll all be a part of me, like we're one happy, limb-tearing, family!"

"Well, looks like we have to fight you…" Chopper sighed. "I really don't wanna do this…"

With his size being bigger than them, it made him a much easier target. But the fact that he was so hideous creeped them all out. His stats weren't anything special, though. He had 480 HP, an Attack of 20 and a Defense of 10. A slight buff from before, that's for sure.

Shade stuck his tongue out as his tentacle managed to grab a hold of Chopper's feet and hold him upside down. With his long finger, he was able to flick him away and knock Chopper and Tipral down.

"Guys… Get out of the way!" Sonic cried as everyone jumped out of the way and avoided the acid.

"What's the matter? A little bit of acid won't hurt you!" Shade cackled as he tried to attack Luigi with his tentacle. The green plumber let out a yelp and ran as fast as he could until he bumped into the rocks.

"Oh, man… I can't believe I'm trapped with this guy…" Luigi moaned.

Chopper charged up a light ball and tossed it at Shade, who cringed in pain before turning to Chopper. The pale green gumball jumped back when he saw Shade's tentacle try to hit him.

He noticed Shade's tongue hanging down from his mouth as he dodged his acid. He held Starbow up and used her power to make shooting stars come down on Shade. The sky lightened up a bit, but it got dark once again when they were gone.

"We don't need any light for this place!" Shade grinned, revealing one of his fangs from his mouth. "The dark is so much nicer! Much better for murdering you all!"

Chopper chucked a few fireballs to scorch him, but they didn't seem to have any effect on him, despite dealing damage. No burn was left on him, and all he got was a punch from one of Shade's fists.

Blade hissed at the monstrous atrocity and used his fire slash to deal some damage to his leg, but it didn't make Shade screech in pain. The monster merely hissed at Shade and snapped at him with his crab-like claw, making Blade back off.

"Wait, what am I doing?! I'm fighting this guy!" Blade gripped his katana and jumped toward Shade. He slashed at him with his weapon and managed to stab his body. Shade looked down and grabbed Blade with one of his hands.

One of his hands began to charge up a dark beam of energy to fire at him, but Sonic was able to use a Homing Attack and hit the arm Blade was being grabbed by, causing Shade to screech and let go of him.

"You seem to play a little hard! That's just what I like to see!"

"Yeesh… This guy is actually pretty hard…" Chopper sighed. "I mean, without an ability, I'm not sure if I'll be able to take this guy on with ease!"

Kirby jumped up to Shade's face and began to kick at it. The pink puffball gasped and managed to avoid the crab-like claw that Shade was snapping at him. However, his Cartwheel was able to hit his chest and right where one of the green eyes were.

"Aaargh! Don't hit my eye!" Shade cried. "It's not fun when you're blind!"

"Poyo! (You can see just fine!)" Kirby shouted until he was grabbed by Shade's tentacle and hung upside down. Shade grinned as he looked at the pink puffball flail around, trying to get himself free.

"Chopper!" Chopper whirled over to Luvbi and her parents. He noticed Grambi holding Galaxia up with his wings. "While thou were fighting against yon monster, I madeth this sword to help thee!"

"Galaxia?! No way…" Chopper gasped, but he noticed Kirby was still hanging. "Get a sword for Kirby too."

Grambi tossed the golden sword to Chopper, who inhaled it and got a hat and the sword in his hand when he swallowed it. Another sword was made, which Chopper took and tossed to Kirby.

"Kirby! Take this!"

When Kirby saw the sword, he inhaled it and got a hold of the Sword ability. With a smirk, he was able to slash at Shade's tentacle and cause him to release him grip on Kirby's feet.

"Poyo! (Yeah! Now we can fight!)" Kirby cheered.

"Hee hee hee! Not bad! Now die!" Shade flew up with wings that appeared on his back as he began to spit dark energy toward the ground. Chopper managed to swing one ball of dark energy back at Shade and hit him, but it didn't stop him from spitting more down. The energy exploded and created a pulse that hit all seven.

"So, he can still fly? Well that won't stop me!" Tipral teleported up to Shade and delivered a punch to one of his eyes. Shade cried, but he was able to whack Tipral with his crab-like claw, which knocked him to the ground.

"Here I come!" Shade screeched as he flew downward, ready to hit anyone that was in his way. Luigi noticed he was coming his way, which made him yelp and run over to where Luvbi was.

"Don't stayeth near me, hairy man!" Luvbi cried, pushing the plumber away.

"H-Hey!" Luigi cried as Shade landed in front of him. He let out a scream as he dodged the acid he spat near him. Bonjourang lightly smacked Luigi to stop his screaming.

"What are you doing?!" exclaimed Bonjourang. "Zis thing may be freaky, but eet's only freaky because you are getting scared of it! You must fight back!"

"But how can I fight back?"

"Use zee power of your attacks!"

Luigi blinked for a moment, but then he realized Shade's head was hanging down near him. It looked like he was going to breathe some fire on him. That's when Luigi clenched his fists, folded himself up and launched upward, hitting Shade's head from underneath and landing behind him. Jumping on his head was definitely a bad idea.

"Oh, how terrible it is for him to avoid me… I just only wanted to be friends with you, Luigi! After all, I always enjoy tearing at your arms and toes!"

Mario clenched his hammer and jumped up to hit Shade's chest, hitting the eye in the process.

"My poor eye! I'm going to make you die die DIE!" Shade howled, trying to grab Mario with his pincer claw. Tipral was able to grab a hold of the claw and fire a Star Spear at Shade.

"When you're dead, I'll make sure you have no funeral," Tipral said as he snapped his finger and hit Shade with Star Magic. He was about to attack again, but Shade fired some dark energy at him and knocked him to the ground.

Shade jumped in the air again and slammed the ground, creating a dark shockwave that everyone was forced to jump over. Chopper saw this as an opportunity to attack, so he jabbed at Shade with Galaxia and caused him to get his attention.

"A sword? Well, this is going to get interesting!" Shade grinned as one of his arms turned into a spider leg and managed to swat Chopper away. However, there was a cut on the leg when Kirby slashed at it with his sword.

This made him change his spider leg back to his arm with the long finger. He tried to jab at Kirby with it, but he continued to dodge him and attacked him with a Sword Beam, which he didn't see coming.

"Spinning Sword!" Kirby cried out as he spun like a drill and hit Shade's chest. While he could only say "Poyo", he seemed to be able to say the type of move he was performing clearly.

"Hey, Kirby said a word other than that…word!" Blade realized.

"Blade, we're fighting here!" Sonic cried as they dodged Shade's foot. Shade flew up and spat down a large, dark bomb with a timer. Chopper gasped and began to slash at it with Galaxia.

"Don't try that," Tipral suggested. "That's only going to cause the bomb to explode."

"Then what's your suggestion?" Chopper asked.

"The only thing I can think of is to freeze the bomb. That'll most likely prevent it from exploding if nothing's working."

Kirby grabbed Crystaline and threw her over by the bomb, causing it to become frozen and prevent it from working. Shade noticed this and crushed the bomb by simply stepping on it.

"Awww… So the bombs aren't going to work… Hee hee hee! Then how about this?!" Shade tried to jab at them with his longer finger, but Chopper was able to swing his sword and fire a Sword Beam at Shade to stop him.

Shade let out a hiss and spat acid over by Chopper. Sonic quickly jumped in and used Reflecto to block the acid coming his way. The Pixl didn't seem harmed by the attack, to Sonic's relief. He clenched his fist and used his Sonic Wind on Shade afterward.

Shade, of course, was cackling and grabbed Sonic with his tentacle. He used him like a weapon and whacked Blade and Chopper with him, which knocked them both over by one of the rocks.

"Die! Die! Die!" Shade shouted as he kept whacking Sonic on the ground, who was starting to get a little bruised up from getting hurt. Chopper was able to get back up and toss a light ball at Shade to make him release the blue hedgehog. With another light ball at Shade's face, he was left blinded for a moment. "My eyes! I'm blind!"

"Yeah! You are blind!" Chopper smirked. "Now you can't see!"

"Chopper, we can't get cocky now," Sonic mentioned. "I know I'm one to do something like that, but right now, that's not going to help us."

Blade grinned and took this time to attack Shade with his katana. It wasn't much, but when he attacked him with his Dragon Beam, it sent Shade flying toward Luvbi and her parents. Since they were behind some of the rocks, they didn't get hurt.

But when Shade got up, he looked down at the three with a grin.

"Don't worry! I'll make sure to spend some time playing with you when I'm done playing with them by ending their games!"

Chopper managed to attack Shade from behind by slashing at his back, forcing him to turn around. Shade decided to fly up and ready another attack. This time, he fired a small dark beam of energy down near him. He tried blocking it, but he ended up getting knocked back.

But Shade wasn't done there. He spat a dark puddle, which created two Phantom Hands that grabbed Chopper's feet when he was on the ground. He cried and tried to shake them off, but it wasn't working.

"Get them off! Please!" Chopper cried.

"Maybe I can torture you with your own fears!" Shade cackled, thinking about summoning their fears. "But that's too mild. I prefer to melt your face with my acid and tear your skin off using my feet."

Tipral snapped his fingers and got the Phantom Hands off. Shade wasn't pleased, but he decided to attack with some small globs of dark energy he shot from his mouth. When he landed on the ground, he tried to swat Tipral away with one of his arms, but he was much faster and capable of hitting his face.

"Don't you realize that you've become slower and a much easier target?" Tipral scoffed, hitting Shade with another Star Spear.

"Why won't you die already?! You're just being a nuisance!"

"Pathetic excuse…" Tipral dodged his tentacle and even a spider leg he was able to change his arm to. But, since he was halfway down in terms of HP, he decided to make the fight a little interesting.

Shade cackled as he ended up growing a sharp tail as well, and his toes became longer. He flew up and allowed his three eyes on his crescent blade to shoot small, green lasers at the group.

"Oh, no… This isn't good…" Luigi gulped, jumping in order to avoid the attacks. Mario pulled Luigi out of the way when he was almost about to be hit by one of the lasers. He decided to thank him later as Shade swooped down and tried to step anthem.

Since he was airborne, Luigi attacked Shade with his Super Jump and followed up with a flutter jump. However, because of the spikes on his head, he ended up taking damage instead. He held his foot in pain as he landed on the ground. It wasn't too much, but his foot did hurt.

Mario: Are you OK?

"Y-Yeah… I should be fine…" Luigi sighed.

Shade tried to step on Mario, but he was able to dodge it and bring his hammer down on his foot, causing Shade to yelp in pain. It also helped Kirby attack with his sword. He used another Spinning Sword to help knock Shade over on his back.

"Oh, poor me! Now I'm knocked over on the ground!" Shade cried as Kirby floated above him and brought his sword down on his chest. He let out a screech as the eye on his chest was bleeding.

"Poyo? (Did that defeat him?)" Kirby wondered until he felt himself get knocked away by one of Shade's arms.

"Let's test out my new tail!" the atrocity grinned as he noticed Blade throwing a couple of shurikens. Even though they stuck onto him, it didn't seem to do much. This only got Blade hit by Shade's tail and knocked over on his back.

He tried to get up, but Shade kept his tail on him to keep him from pulling himself up. That's when Sonic hit Shade with a Homing Attack to bring his attention back to him. Kirby also attacked his tail with his sword to get Blade free.

"Whew! Thanks, Kirby…" Blade thanked.

"Poyo! (Don't worry about it!)" Kirby assured.

"I don't know what the heck you said, but it doesn't matter."

"Hey, Kirby! This could help you!" Chopper informed, tossing a light ball to Kirby. The pink puffball nodded and let the light ball hit his sword. Knowing what it could do, it was now surrounded in light energy.

"Light Sword Beam!" Kirby cried, firing a Light Sword Beam at Shade, who felt the light energy deliver pain to him. He let out a screech, which helped Chopper jump up to him and slash at him.

"Stop it with the light! It ruins all the fun!" Shade cried.

"I'm not ruining the fun. We're trying to defeat you and save Luvbi's parents!" Chopper replied, firing a Sword Beam at Shade. This caused him to try to grab Chopper with his pincher claw, but he was able to jump back. When his long and sharp finger tried to jab at him, Chopper ended up cutting it off.

Everyone's eyes widened as they listened to Shade's cries. He cried almost like a child, but he seemed to be fuming with anger. He stomped the ground, creating shockwaves that hit Chopper and Tipral, and then he spat some acid near them.

"You know, your acid trick isn't going to work," Tipral noted. "You've been missing us most of the time."

"Hee hee hee!" Shade could only giggle and spit acid at both Chopper and Tipral, causing them to become poisoned. He even tried to freeze them with his ice breathe, but Luigi was able to get the two out of the way.

"Whoa… I actually saved two people!" Luigi gaped. "I know I saved people before, but from THAT?!"

He turned around and noticed Shade was spitting fireballs their way. Sonic got Reflecto up and deflected the fireballs back at Shade, leaving a burn on him. Blade also threw Hommissile to deal some extra damage.

"Man, this guy can take a lot!" Blade realized. "I don't know if he's stronger than the Necromancer or not…"

"The Necromancer was faster," Chopper recalled. "But he's got a lot too."

"Come on, heroes! I still want to tear your flesh away!" Shade cackled as Tipral got on Carrie and used her to jump on Shade's head. Because Carrie was immune to the spikes, he was able to harm him.

"Good. At least you're capable of hurting him with a jump." Tipral commented.

"Well, at least I'm helping, although I'm not too pleased to be helping an enemy…" Carrie trailed.

Shade tried to snap Tipral away with his tentacle, but he was able to teleport away and attack his body with a Star Burst. Shade cringed in pain, but he was able to knock Tipral away with his tentacle with ease.

Noticing their HP was low, they decided to have a Star Shroom Shake in order to recover 150 HP. Thankfully, it didn't seem like Shade was going to be healing himself, so they just watched as he breathed out ice, which was unfortunate to freeze Kirby and Sonic.

Blade helped thaw out Sonic, while Chopper helped Kirby. With them unfrozen, they charged at Shade, with Sonic using his Spin Dash and Kirby slashing at him with his sword. Sadly, the light power he had on it seemed to go away after the Sword Beam.

"OK, now that we're healed, we shouldn't have a problem beating you!" Chopper declared, spinning his sword around to hit Shade's legs. He ended up getting stepped on by the monster, but when he was about to get stepped on again, he held Galaxia up and listened to Shade cry out.

"You… You made me step on something pointy!" Shade cried. "You shouldn't have done that…"

"Well, I did!" Chopper clenched his sword while he held Starbow up. His dark breath was almost about to hit him until Shade was pelted by a couple of shooting stars. He ate one of them, which resulted in pain from inside his stomach.

"I guess insanity lowers your intelligence," Luigi realized as he took this chance to throw Bonjourang at him. "I can't believe it… I'm actually doing well against something this freaky!"

Shade turned his head to Luigi and shot a dark blast at him that knocked him over. Mario was about to help him, but Shade fired one at him too, knocking him over as well. They knew he was almost defeated, and that meant that the fight was almost over.

"Face it, Shade," Chopper began. "Even as…that, you're still not going to guarantee victory, you know!"

"Victory doesn't matter now! I just want to enjoy tearing you apart! I might end up wearing you as a towel for my bath!" Shade grinned.

Chopper's eye twitched, but he wasn't going to let his words bother him. After all, he was now a psycho, and psychos aren't one to speak the truth.

However, before Shade could continue on, he ended up getting hit by a dark Star Spear from Tipral, who was able to attack him while Chopper "distracted" the atrocity known as Shade.

"You're not too bad with distractions," Tipral noted before he kicked Shade in the face, giving him a bruise. "Well, he's almost defeated. I might as…"

Chopper stopped him and raised his sword. Shade quickly shook his head and hissed at them while his forked tongue hung out. Chopper clenched his sword and brought it back as it began to glow.

"Chopper, what are you planning?" Tipral asked.

"Let him dost what he doth be planning," Luvbi suggested. "Thou shouldst not discourage him!"

"Who said I was discouraging him?"

"Oh, I see what this is… Oh, how enjoyable this will be!" Shade cackled as he began to charge toward Chopper, who still continued to charge up some power.

"It should be any second now…" Chopper thought.

Meanwhile, Sonic and Blade were continuously bashing at Shade with their attacks, and Mario even managed to grab a hold of his back. This seemed to slow him down and try to shake everyone off him.

"You guys sure love to play! But I did say playtime would stop here! This is where death starts!"

Mario: Not likely!

"Yup! I think it's all over for you!" Sonic smirked.

"Hee hee hee! Oh, it's never over for me!" Shade grinned. "There's plenty of fun, bloodthirsty death to come around!"

"Poyo! (Not likely!)" Kirby smirked. "Poyo! (Just see for yourself!)"

Shade was able to shake everyone off, but at this moment, it was a bit too late for him to make an attack on Chopper, who just finished charging up his sword.

"Take THIS!" Chopper cried, jumping up to Shade and delivering a power slash with light energy on Galaxia.

"Blah! What the…?!" Shade let out a scream as a bright light enveloped him. His eyes widened too as the whole area lit up once again. They noticed Shade was reverting back to what he previously was. Not only that, but the place seemed to shake, and it looked as if the platform they were on was quickly descending downward.

"Yeah! We did it!" Blade fist pumped.

"It looks like it endest for him now…" Grambi trailed.

"Y-You…" Shade hissed, looking up at the heroes as he landed on the ground. "I said playtime was over, and yet you all manage to beat me in that horrifying form?!"

"Let's face it, Shade. It's over." Chopper declared.

"And now, it's time for me to get to business," Tipral cracked his knuckles and walked over to Shade. "I'm going to destroy you once and for all!"

However, he was knocked back by one of Shade's dark spells he fired at him. He raised his arm as he growled at the heroes. They noticed his flaming sword was coming to him, and once he grabbed it, a red beam came down on him.

"But when you get me past three phases, you REALLY tick me off!" Shade roared, holding his flaming sword up. "I really wanted to have some fun, but when you get me to here, that's when I have to do things the hard way!"

"Fine then," Chopper declared, pointing Galaxia at him. "If this is how you wanted to end it, then so be it."

"Oh, and I also made sure this platform would plunge down!" he grinned. "So that way, whether I end your game or you end mine, we'll both end up dying in the end!"

"Thou art crazy!" Luvbi gasped. "So… It doth be over hither?!"

"Hee hee! Of course!" Shade nodded in a hyper tone. "Now we shall duel! It shall be the greatest of all duels! And even everyone from all around whether they're reading this story or not can watch as we murder each other mercilessly!"

Chopper gripped his sword as he noticed Shade instantly charge at him. The flaming sword he had was incredibly dangerous and unlike anything he's seen before. Even his stats were much more threatening than before. He had 500 HP, an Attack of 21 and a Defense of 12.

"OK, this is serious," Blade said as he charged at Shade, but he simply punched the cat and struck him with his sword, leaving a burn on him and knocking him back. "Hey! That's not fair!"

"But life isn't fair, Blady! Everyone knows that!" Shade cackled.

"I'm going to… Wait, did you just seriously call me 'Blady'? That's it. I'm definitely going to finish you now."

Shade let out a snicker and flew up while raising his sword. Before they knew it, fireballs began to fall from the sky like comets, and it forced everyone to move before they were scorched.

"That's right! Run! RUUUUN! Run like the filthy cowards you are!" Shade cackled as he watched them all trying to dodge the fireballs.

"OK, I guess he's gone mad now," Chopper admitted.

Shade swung his sword and fired a flaming Sword Beam at Chopper while his tongue hung out. He tried to block the attack, but he was only pushed back by the force of the Sword Beam.

Sonic used his Whirlwind to keep Shade occupied. He was hoping the flaming sword would end up going out, but it didn't seem to work. However, he managed to hit him with Screwdy's corkscrew quickly.

Of course, he had to find Shade spinning his sword around like a maniac toward him. Sonic tried to avoid it by ducking, but he ended up getting harmed by the sword and left with a burn.

"Aw, man! It doesn't look like ducking's going to help us here…" Sonic trailed. "We just need to be quick with dodging."

"We just need to find some sort of weakness to him…" Chopper pondered until he noticed Shade spinning near him. He heard his loud cackle as he was sent flying to one of the rocks.

"Oh, geez… That hurt…" he got himself off the rock and noticed a couple of burn marks on his face. Shade stopped and stuck his tongue out again.

"Awwww… Did I give poor Choppy some burn marks?" Shade snickered. "Well those burns look much better on you! Maybe I'll leave them on you when you're dead, along with everyone!"

Kirby attacked Shade from behind by jabbing at him. This caused the alien kid to turn around and try to attack him. The pink puffball managed to bring his sword up and parry his attack.

"Poyo! (Don't think it's just between you and him!)" Kirby noted. "Poyo! (It's seven against one!)"

"Hee hee! That may be… But that's not going to help you here!" Shade flicked at Kirby's face before whacking him with his sword. Kirby was left confused afterward.

"Poyo? (You can understand me?)"

"I took over the body of one of Choppy's kind! Of course they have the ability to understand the great 'poyo' language! Oh, how magical it is! Magic filled with death, terror, and tearing everything apart on you!"

"Ugh… That name… I can't stand it…" Chopper grumbled.

Shade jumped up and brought his sword down on the ground. It created a wave of fire on both sides that scorched everyone. Kirby even tried to freeze his sword with the help of Crystaline, but it didn't work.

"Ice probably isn't going to work," Tipral stated, snapping his finger and hitting Shade. "Let's just throw all we've got!"

Shade pulled his sword out of the ground and swung it downward to fire another flaming Sword Beam. This time, it was directed at Mario. When the plumber saw this, he quickly jumped over to keep himself from getting scorched.

Mario: That was too close…

Shade grinned and changed his flaming sword to ice as he flew up and summoned large chunks of ice down on the seven. Blade became frozen by one of them, while Chopper and Kirby sliced at them with their swords.

"Wait, his sword can change to different elements?!" Luigi gaped.

"Magic can do many things!" Shade squealed, firing an ice Sword Beam directly at him. Luigi yelped and jumped over the attack, landing on Shade with his feet instead. While the alien kid cringed, he was able to hit Luigi with his sword and leave him shivering.

He changed his sword back to fire as he made giant fireballs fall from the sky and thaw out Blade. Seeing his sword, he suddenly had an idea as he prepared to make a move on Shade.

"Time I fought fire with fire!" Blade declared, attempting to attack Shade with his fire slash. Shade quickly blocked his attack, and soon both were clashing with each other and trying to leave one another vulnerable.

"Oh! Fire! It's like we're fighting fire with fire!" Shade gasped.

"Yeah, of course we are!"

Blade managed to kick Shade and successfully hit him with a fire slash. Unfortunately, this ended up being bad for him when Shade lunged at him and knocked him back. He then flew up and charged straight for him.

But with Luigi's Super Jump, he was able to stop Shade from hitting Blade.

Shade collapsed as Luigi walked over to him. His eyes slightly flashed purple as he got up and spun his flaming sword around maniacally, hitting Luigi and Blade in the process.

"Oh, how much fun it is seeing you suffer!" Shade cried as he kicked Blade's shin and attempted to slash at him again. Only this time, Tipral threw him against a rock across from them.

Shade got up with ease and raised his sword so fireballs could fall from the sky. Mario got hit by one, which knocked him over on his back. Shade about to jump on top of him, but Luigi grabbed Kickbrin and used him to knock him back.

"Don't even try to hurt my bro!" Luigi shouted as he grabbed Bonjourang and threw him at Shade's face.

"Ooh… So the younger brother is trying a little harder… I like that." Shade grinned, swinging his sword down and firing a small wave of fire Luigi's way. He tried to jump over it, but he ended up getting scorched and left with a burn. Shade stuck his tongue at him before getting bashed by Mario's hammer.

Mario's eyes widened as he brought his hammer up to block Shade's sword. Thankfully, his hammer was fireproof, unlike his normal hammer, which was made out of wood. But before he could try to attack him again, Chopper jumped on Shade's head with a light stomp, making the alien kid turn to Chopper instead.

"Hmmmmmm…" Shade grinned at Chopper as he decided to lick his flaming sword's flat side, which made Chopper cringe.

"You're literally LICKING a sword that's fire!" Chopper grimaced as he brought his sword up when he saw Shade charging at him. He blocked his attack and slashed at Shade. He jumped back, so Chopper shot a fireball his way. Shade brought his sword up and let the fireball absorb it. Chopper grumbled to himself as he prepared to attack Shade with his sword again.

Shade jumped up again, but this time, he began to perform a cartwheel around the area while spinning his sword around. Chopper ducked to avoid his attack, and Kirby floated above him. When the time was right, he brought his sword down on him and sent Shade flying toward Chopper (though it's strange how a thrust downward could do that).

"Hee hee! I think I wanna do that again!" Shade cackled, turning back to Chopper and thrusting his sword toward him. Chopper ducked again and managed to kick at his feet with ice energy.

Sadly, that didn't seem to work, and Chopper ended up getting hit by Shade's sword. What made things worse was when Shade raised his sword again.

"Oh, come on..." Sonic groaned. "More fireballs?!"

"Oh, it's something else special," Shade grinned as he was surrounded by a flaming tornado that began to suck everyone in. Everyone tried to hold on to the ground to prevent themselves from getting sucked in.

"I'm not going to let myself get burned so easily," Tipral growled, tossing a Star Spear at Shade, but the fire seemed to stop the Star Spear from reaching him. Kirby threw Crystaline in instead, but that didn't seem to freeze the tornado, to their dismay.

When Shade noticed they weren't letting go, he stopped the tornado and spun his sword around rapidly to hit everyone. Luigi let out a yelp as he noticed his cape was on fire, so he took it off and began to shake it to get the fire off.

In the end, Sonic threw it to the floor and stepped on it to take out the flames. Luigi frowned and put his cap back on, which was now messy. And since Shade was charging at him, Blade stopped him with a Dragon Beam.

"Got 'em!" Blade grinned as he rushed over to Shade and swung his katana at him. He only struck him once, because when he tried to attack again, Shade brought his sword up and blocked his attack.

"You'll have to try better than that, Blady!" Shade snickered.

"Blady? Come on, now! That's such a stupid nickname!"

Shade gave him a grin and punched his face before firing a flaming Sword Beam his way. Blade gulped and got scorched, which gave Tipral the opportunity to strike him with a Star Spear.

Shade decided to blow on his sword and let some fire scorch Tipral. He let out a slight cackle before flying up to Tipral and striking him with his sword. Tipral grunted as he felt a burn mark on him, but he was able to punch Shade with a Star Punch.

"I'll admit, you are putting up a good fight," Tipral commented. "But that's not going to help you here, Shade!"

Shade only responded by jumping in the air and gliding over to Tipral, who tried to grab him, but ended up failing because Shade was able to swing his sword at him and scorch him again.

He let out another grunt and prepared to attack with a Star Burst, but when Chopper jumped in between them, he was forced to stop when he blocked Shade's fire sword with ease with Galaxia.

"I kinda wish Meta Knight was here..." Chopper trailed. "He's better at using Galaxia than me."

Shade performed a flip in the air and spun his sword as well, trying to slice at Chopper. His had was left on fire, which he had to shake to get the flames off. When he put it back on, he blocked Shade's attack and slashed him with his sword.

"Hee hee hee! You're all enjoying this battle, aren't you?" Shade grinned.

Mario: Not at all!

"Poyo! (We just wanna get out of here now!)" Kirby cried.

"Well you're not getting out of here, heroes! Like I said, we're all going to die, whether you or I deliver the final blow!" Shade's tongue hung out as he flew up to Chopper and attacked with an uppercut slash. Chopper managed to block it, but it pushed him back a bit.

While Chopper continued to block Shade's attacks, Sonic got up in the air and used his Bounce Attack to hit Shade and leave him dazed. Shade decided to make things interesting and make his sword full of electricity, which ended up changing it to green instead of red.

"I think he's got electricity now…" Luigi gulped.

"Then we'll fight fire with fire!" Chopper smirked, tossing a rainbow ball at Shade instead. "...Oh, wait. I completely forgot that I don't have the power to use electricity..."

Shade cackled and fired an electric Sword Beam their way. Kirby tried blocking it, but he ended up getting paralyzed, as well as Blade, who was trying to move, but was unable to.

"Dang it! I can't move!" Blade cried.

"Oh, how shockingly great it is to see you paralyzed like that!" Shade smirked, ready to thrust his sword straight into Blade's chest. Sonic was able to hit him with a simple Spin Jump to get his attention.

However, Sonic was not expecting himself to get shocked so easily when Shade pointed his sword at him. It left him in a daze, which allowed Shade to jump on his head and knock him to the ground.

But as soon as Chopper was able to swing his sword at him, he was knocked to the ground again. Chopper approached him, but he quickly got himself up and flew upward while raising his sword.

Before they knew it, they saw small sparks falling down from the sky and ready to electrocute them all. Not even Tipral was able to avoid it. Chopper flipped into 3-D, and he was still harmed by the electricity. The only one who didn't get harmed as much was Kirby, who used his Defend to take minimum damage.

When Shade flew back down, he turned to Kirby and repeatedly slashed at him with his sword to paralyze him.

"Since you refused to take much damage, I had to make you pay the price," Shade sneered, changing his sword to fire again. "Personally, I love the scent of your burning flesh from my sword! Oh, how fun it is to burn people!"

"Poyo! (You should try speaking in a way that doesn't creep us out!)" Kirby shouted.

Shade smirked and used his magic to recover 120 HP, which made everyone gape at him.

"He can heal?!" Chopper gaped.

Mario: You gotta be kidding me!

"This is going to be a long battle…" Luigi sighed.

Shade flew up again and made large fireballs fall from the sky again. Tipral had an idea and put invisible boxes around everyone and himself so the fireballs wouldn't harm them. When Shade noticed this, he looked a bit surprised.

"Hmmmm? What's that? You managed to avoid my fireballs?!"

"I should've thanked that stupid clown for that ability," Tipral muttered as he skated and jumped up to Shade and kicked him to the ground. He soon teleported to the ground and delivered a punch that sent Shade flying near Luvbi, Queen Jaydes and Grambi.

"That kid seems to take a lot..." Queen Jaydes trailed.

"Let's hopeth they can win this..." Luvbi trailed. "But even then, we might all die..."

"Hee hee... That's right, little girl!" Shade snickered. "That way, there's no winner! Oh, how joyful that is! Maybe I can burn that bun of hair!"

Luvbi let out a shriek and fluttered back. Her parents faced Shade and told them to not threaten their daughter, but they were interrupted when Tipral snapped his finger and hit Shade with Star Magic.

"Oh... Let me get back to destroying them..." Shade trailed as he whirled around and struck Tipral with his sword. Chopper joined in and punched Shade's face with a light punch, since it seemed the most effective of his elemental hand attacks.

Once Shade was left dizzy, Chopper attacked him with a light uppercut kick to send him flying in the air. This gave Luigi the perfect chance to attack with a Super Jump and knock him down.

"You people are starting to annoy me!" Shade whined, stomping the ground in anger like a child as he rapidly swung his sword down at a fast pace near Luigi. The green plumber stepped back and watched as Shade lunged at him.

...Until Mario jumped on him.

He was about to use his Super Ground Pound on Shade, but he kicked the plumber away and began to spin his sword around like he was in a tornado. ...And speaking of tornado, he was being surrounded in a small tornado that let him fly around the platform.

"Poyo! (This is intense!)" Kirby gaped.

"Yeah! I mean, whoever thought he was capable of THIS kind of stuff?!" Chopper gawked before he was scorched by the small fire tornado that came near him. He was covered in a bit of soot and was left with a couple of burn marks on his arms and face when he slowly got up.

"Did you enjoy the fire?" Shade grinned as he grabbed Chopper by the antennae and pulled him up to face him. "Because I can make it hotter for you if you want, Choppy! Hee hee!"

"Don't even think about it," Chopper growled, thrusting his sword toward him and knocking Shade back. Kirby took this chance to use his Sword Beam and strike the alien kid with ease.

Shade raised his sword to attack Kirby, but he noticed something suddenly hit his arm. He looked at the shuriken that struck his arm with a surprised expression.

"Take THAT, Shade!" Blade smirked.

"Hee hee hee..." Shade simply pulled the shuriken out, and it looked as if nothing had hurt him there, leaving Blade to gape.

"He pulled it out as if it was nothing! What ARE you?!"

He even used his own magic to recover 120 HP.

"Are you serious?!"

Shade only replied with a grin as he shot a fireball from his sword straight at Blade, who blocked it with his katana and jumped in the air and threw Hommissile down at him. The explosion made him cough some smoke, giving Blade the opportunity to attack with his katana by swinging it at him.

But some of the smoke Shade coughed went into the sword instead, which made it stronger and allowed him to bring his sword down on Blade and leave him scorched. He noticed a burn mark on his tail and even some burns on his ninja clothing and gear.

He clenched his fists in anger as he saw Shade cackling at him. He also noticed the trail of fire left on the ground as well. But it didn't matter at this moment, because Shade was in a large, fire tornado.

Everyone grabbed a hold of the rocks on the ground, but it wasn't enough. They were sucked into the tornado and sent flying with a couple of burns on them. Everyone appeared to be in bad shape now!

"Ugh… We should seriously heal up…" Luigi moaned.

"Good idea," Chopper agreed as they soon landed on the ground. He took out a Master Shroom Shake and drank it to recover 200 HP. He passed it around until Tipral had the last sip and disintegrated the can.

As soon as Shade landed on the ground, Chopper jumped up and brought his sword down on him, followed by jabbing at him. Shade didn't seem to care and tried to swing at him, but he missed because of Chopper's speed.

"Look at yourself! You all don't look so good…" Shade grinned.

"You don't look so good either," Chopper retorted, noticing how his face looked. He still had some scars on his face, as well as a couple of bruises. Shade didn't care though. He twirled his sword around rapidly and charged straight at Chopper, knocking him back over by Tipral.

But this didn't seem to make Tipral happy at all. He felt more anger in him as he pushed Chopper off him and stood up.

"I've had enough of you!" Tipral roared, now surrounded in a purple glow. He walked over to Shade and grabbed a hold of him with both hands.

"Ooh… Looks like someone's getting angry…" Shade snickered, sticking his green forked tongue out at Tipral.

"Oh, I'm getting angry all right! Especially after what you did! Listen here, Shade… When I say I'm going to end someone's game, I mean it!"

"It's so entertaining to see you get this angry! Come on! Let all the anger out in you! I want to see you SCREAM!"

"Then I'll unleash my strongest attack on you!" Tipral declared, his eyes glowing purple as he threw Shade to a wall. "STAR BLAST!"

Tipral unleashed a huge blast of Star energy in the area, which sent everyone flying back by some of the rocks. The throne Shade sat on was destroyed by the attack. The only one not on the ground was Tipral, who looked down at Shade, who was badly injured from the attack.

"Hmph… So you still live?"

"Hee hee hee!" Shade giggled, quickly getting up and striking Tipral with his sword. "That was fun! Gimme more! More! More! MORE!"

Tipral raised an eyebrow as he got up, but Chopper jumped in the way and brought Galaxia down on Shade. When the alien kid got up, he fired a flaming Sword Beam his way, so Chopper tossed some ice energy on his sword and fired an ice Sword Beam to counter it.

"Ooh! Opposite elements fighting!" Shade sneered as he tried to attack Chopper in a cartwheel. He tried to block his attacks, but he was knocked down by the fire sword and left with another burn mark.

"Geez… This guy's putting up a bit of a fight… But it doesn't matter here! You're almost done for!" Chopper smirked.

"We'll see!" Shade stuck his tongue out at Chopper as he used his magic to help himself recover 120 HP. Chopper let out a growl and hacked at Shade with Galaxia, followed by drilling at him.

Mario even spun his hammer around to deal some damage to Shade, followed by Sonic's Bounce Attack and Luigi's Cyclone. At this point, Shade had enough and used his magic to stun everyone but Chopper and Tipral.

"Poyo! (Hey!)" Kirby cried.

"I'll handle you guys later," Shade smirked. "Right now, I want to have some fun with these two!"

"Gladly," Tipral answered as he teleported in front of Shade a delivered a Star Punch in between his eyes. Shade held his face in pain as Chopper was able to toss a light ball at him to weaken him.

Even when he healed himself, it looked like he was going to be the loser.

But that didn't matter to him. No matter what, everyone was going to die here, so he simply spun his sword around and hoped he would be able to hit them both. Unfortunately, that didn't work, because Tipral was able to use his Star Burst, which countered his spinning.

"Face it, Shade. It's over for you." Tipral declared. "And now I'm going to finally have my revenge against you!"

"But why revenge? Revenge is so boooooooring!" Shade snickered.

"Yeah, revenge isn't always satisfying…" Chopper pointed out.

"Shut up, Chopper. Don't side with him!" Tipral retorted before he felt himself getting struck by Shade's sword, making him fall over. Chopper gasped and saw Shade flying his way, so he got his sword ready and blocked his attack.

While that was going on, the whole place was starting to shake as it continued to plummet. How fast was it going down? Nobody knew, but Chopper didn't have the time to think about that. He still had a psychotic kid to deal with.

Shade blew at his sword to allow Chopper to get scorched again. Chopper simply ducked and slid under the fire and managed to hit his feet with Galaxia. Shade cringed and tried to strike Chopper, but he seemed to block every hit.

"I'm gaining some confidence now!" Chopper thought as he managed to blind him with a light ball.

"Ack! I can't see!" Shade cried as he covered his eyes. Chopper smiled and noticed one more hit would be able to take him out – if he had enough power in his attack.

"Chopper!" Grambi called out, making the antennae boy turn to him. "Thou must finish him with a powerful light slash! If thou succeeds, he will be defeated!"

"O-OK," Chopper nodded as he watched Shade still cry over him being unable to see. He tossed a light ball at Galaxia and allowed the sword to take in the light power. He raised his sword, which began to glow with light energy.

Everyone who was stunned was even gazing at the glowing sword.

"Hee hee…" Shade giggled, regaining his sight and giving Chopper a grin. "You honestly thought that would last forever, did you? Well, maybe it's time to put an end to this!"

"Yes, we're definitely ending this," Chopper smirked, readying his sword. "Look like you'll be the one losing!"

"What?!"

Chopper ran toward Shade, and with one powerful slash, he was able to deliver the final blow to the alien child. Not only that, but the heroes were no longer stunned and were able to move.

Tipral slowly got up and noticed Shade's eyes widening in pain. Chopper whirled around and looked back at Shade.

"Game over, Shade," Chopper smirked.

"Hee hee… Oh, I wouldn't be so sure on that…" Shade wheezed, giving them all a grin as his eyes flashed purple for a second. "I did say we'd all die at the end of this battle…"

"He's right," Queen Jaydes gasped.

"Well… So long!" Shade let out a cackle as he collapsed, resulting in the entire platform getting destroyed. Everyone's eyes widened as they were all plummeting to their doom while pieces of the platform flew away.

"HEE HEE HEE HEE… AH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!" Shade cackled as he was sent flying out of the comet. The rest of the group, however, were going straight down instead.

"So Shade blew up the entire platform just to finish us…" Tipral growled, clenching his fists as he saw Shade disappear.

"So… What do we do now?" Luigi asked.

"All we can do is fall to our deaths."

Everyone but Tipral: WHAT?!

"But… I dost not want everything to endeth like this…" Luvbi cried. "We dost not deserveth to die so soon…"

"Well… I guess all we can do is say goodbye…" Sonic trailed.

"I wouldn't say that so soon," Queen Jaydes interrupted. "Grams and I are capable of using incredible powers. Thankfully, I believe our powers are returning to us."

"And we doth have enough power to saveth us," Grambi mentioned.

"Poyo! (Use it, please!)" Kirby cried.

Before they knew it, everyone was no longer falling. They felt the powers of the two aftergame rulers allow them to slowly descend instead. At this rate, they knew the fall would be much safer.

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Later-

When they found solid ground below them, the king and queen of the aftergame stopped using their power as soon as they landed on the ground. There was nothing of any importance. It felt…very empty.

"Where are we?" Blade asked.

"I'm not so sure…" Queen Jaydes trailed. "Wherever we landed, we're somewhere safe. I don't see any monsters around here anyway."

"Well that's a relief," Chopper sighed, but he noticed his sword shattered, and now his hat was gone. "Great… Now my ability's gone."

"Poyo, (Same here,)" Kirby added, noticing his Sword ability was gone.

"Do you think Shade survived that attack?" Sonic wondered.

"Doubt it," Grambi answered. "That attack was verily powerful. We art lucky to maketh it hither alive."

Everyone took a look at themselves and saw how battered up they were. That fight must've taken a lot of energy.

"Well, if he's dead, then I'm satisfied," Tipral declared. "He deserves it anyway."

"But what about the Pure Heart?" Luigi reminded. "We came to Shade thinking he had it, but now we don't know where it is!"

"But the door brought us hither," Luvbi noted. "It doth hath to be hither somewhere!"

"Then… We have to search…" Chopper trailed, his voice sounding like he wasn't looking forward to it. "This is going to be fun…"

"Chopper…"

The voice caught everyone's attention, especially Chopper's, whose antennae were now perking up.

"Wh-What was that?" Luigi stammered.

"Show yourself!" Chopper cried, getting in a fighting stance.

"Chopper… Please come here…"

Up ahead, they saw two spirits waiting for them. One was lime, had a body shaped like a thick oval, a black mustache, and was wearing a gold and green helmet on his head with a red plume. His armor also matched the color of his helmet, while his cape was red. The other figure had an oval-shaped body as well, but she was shorter. Her skin color matched Chopper's pale green, while her light green hair was in a ponytail. On her head was a light blue tiara with a yellow star in the center. She also wore light blue light armor and brown, leather gloves.

While everyone was gawking at them, Chopper was the one who was surprised the most out of them all.

"Mommy… Daddy…" Chopper trailed as he slowly walked over to the spirits of his parents, who were smiling at him.

"Chopper's…parents?" Tipral spoke, not being immune to the sudden surprise like the others.

Chopper began to run faster over to his parents, with his mother opening her arms. He opened his arms too as tears ran down his face.

"Come here, Chopper..." Tonya trailed as a tear came down her face as well.

When he reached his parents, he hugged them, not caring if his arms phased through them.

"Mommy... Daddy... I..." Chopper stammered.

"It's OK, we're here for you," Tonya assured, patting Chopper's head. "We've always been here for you, even if you never saw us..."

Chopper began to remember all the times he saw his parent's spirits, from the flower field in King Lakilar's palace, his mother at Staris's Shrine, and even at Flower Hill at the Illusion Forest. He remembered those being simple illusions.

But this... This felt more real. For the first time in six years, he was actually talking to his parents.

"I... I don't believe it." Blade gaped. "These are your parents?"

"Yeah, it's us," Toalune nodded. "You've all done a pretty awesome job collecting those Pure Hearts, I'll admit! I'm actually proud of my son..."

"Though, we haven't found the Pure Heart here," Chopper mentioned, letting go of his mother. "The door led us to this comet, but not even Shade had it! I'm...kinda sorry if I have to go right now."

"But it did lead you to the right place," Tonya assured. "You're right where you need to be."

"Really? Then-"

"Just fork over the Pure Heart already," Tipral demanded. "You obviously have it."

"Whoa, Tipral! No need to get all rude." Sonic scolded. "I don't think Chop's seen his parents in a long time... Let him talk to them."

"Wait... So you hold the Pure Heart?" Chopper asked, turning back to his parents. "Can we see it?"

"Well... It's...complicated..." Tonya trailed nervously. "We...don't actually have the Pure Heart..."

"You don't? Then... Why were we led here if there's no Pure Heart?"

"...Should I tell him?" Toalune asked.

"No. It's my responsibility." Tonya stated, floating closer to Chopper. "We may not have the Pure Heart... But you were led to us to find the heart's true whereabouts."

"Then... Where can we find it?"

Tonya placed a hand on Chopper's head, and in a brief flash, a feint image of a rainbow-colored heart had appeared from within the antennaed boy.

"Poyo! (It's a rainbow heart!)" Kirby gasped.

"What's...going on?" Chopper inquired as the rainbow heart slowly faded away in him. "I...had the Pure Heart this whole time?"

"For six years, actually..." Tonya explained, floating away from Chopper. "It was my final gift to you..."

"What do you-" Chopper paused for a moment, suddenly realizing what she meant. "Wait... That thing that gave me those powers?"

"That Pure Heart is unlike any other Pure Heart you've seen," Tonya explained. "It gives the person abilities unlike anything they've had before. Not only that, but it chooses who it stays in, and the host protects it from harm until it needs to be released. Truth be told, it was never a Pure Heart from the start, but it was once called the Sacred Heart – it was because how much power it had in it. Maquano knew about this heart, and he wanted to destroy it."

"He thought he destroyed it when he blew up Mondrao... But he was wrong." Toalune added. "And it was thanks to that heart that you managed to become who you are now."

"Oh..."

"Are you all right, Chopper?" Tonya asked.

"I...don't know..." Chopper frowned. "I don't know what to say to you two..."

"Go ahead and let it out, Son," Toalune assured.

"It's just..." Chopper's eyes began to water. "I felt so alone in my life because of what happened to you and everyone else! There was no one there for me in the end! Everyone...wanted to get rid of me... And... And... I still can't get over any of the horrible things I've done! Why weren't you there for me?!"

At this point, Chopper had sank down on the floor making a small puddle.

"Wow... Now that I think about it, I don't know if I could've handled what Chopper had gone through..." Blade remarked.

"Yea, verily..." Luvbi trailed, staring sadly at the floor. "While I hadst Mother and Father... Chopper...had no one..."

"Chopper..." Tonya began, uncertain of how to speak. "We...can't express how sorry we feel about what you had to deal with your whole life... Being alone at such a young age... None of us could possibly imagine handling that. It wasn't my choice that the Sacred Heart chose you... But we accept full responsibility for not being there for you in the end..."

"Heck, we didn't know that the Sacred Heart would become a Pure Heart," Toalune added. "Perhaps when the Purity Heart was destroyed and split, one of its essences went to the Sacred Heart. You might've felt that, right?"

"He was knocked out when that happened, probably," Tipral mentioned.

"This is your fault, you know," Blade muttered to Tipral.

"Even though we may have made some mistakes... We still want you to know that we love you dearly." Tonya spoke softly. "While your father and I may have had some issues... You were the greatest gift to us... The Sacred Heart also considers you its greatest gift, and it wanted you to have a good life as well. Don't you have a good life?"

"I've been alone on Clara for many years... That doesn't sound like a good life to me..." Chopper trailed.

"Oh...I'm so sorry..."

"Hold on..." Chopper blinked when previous events flashed in his head. He slowly looked back up at his parents and wiped the tears from his eyes. "Actually, now that I think about it, my life hasn't been that bad. I've actually made some friends along the way, and they've been really nice to me. They really made me feel...less alone." he turned to his friends with a smile. "Thanks, guys..."

Everyone but Tipral gave a smile back.

The Pure Heart's feint image reappeared within Chopper again. "I think I'm ready to let it out now..." he decided. "But what's going to happen to me?"

"Chopper... We're not sure what will happen when you release the Pure Heart..." Tonya trailed. "There are countless possibilities..."

"So... You mean I could...?" Chopper wondered, but his concerns were unfortunately answered with a nod from his parents. Yet... He showed no fear. "OK... I'll do it."

"Are you sure, Chopper?" Toalune asked.

"Yeah! I do want to! Because... You told me that I need to make these decisions because it's something I want to do. And... I want to save all worlds!"

"Wait... I might lose thee?" Luvbi cried, fluttering over to Chopper. "Nay... This can't be right!"

Mario: Are you sure you want to do this?

"Poyo! (Yeah! You don't have to, you know!)" Kirby cried.

Chopper turned to face his friends with a smile. Then he turned back to his parents and gave them a nod.

"Mommy... Daddy..." Chopper began, giving them a happy giggle. "I'll see you soon!"

Opening his arms and closing his eyes, the rainbow Pure Heart had been released from his body. As it floated onto the ground, the antennaed boy slowly fell back. Sonic quickly rushed in to catch him before he could hit the ground.

"Chopper!" Luvbi cried, she and the others hurrying over to Chopper.

"He's still breathing," Sonic noted. "Though, he doesn't look like he's in the best shape..."

"Well at least he's not gone..." Luigi sighed.

"As for you, heroes..." Tonya began. "For Chopper's sake, please take the final Pure Heart. It's also one of our final wishes as well..."

"We'll take the Pure Heart," Tipral answered, slowly giving her a nod.

"Please... Hang in there, hero." Cudge muttered.

"I don't want to lose you..." Starbow trailed.

"We can assure you that we'll take it," Blade nodded. "If Chopper dies... He'll be remembered."

"Thank you, heroes... We really appreciate it..."

Luvbi grabbed the Pure Heart and took it over to the rest of the group. "Listen... Kirby, Sonic, Blade, Mario, Luigi, and even you, Tipral... I'm verily sorry for all the trouble I caused to thee. I shouldn't hath been so terrible to thee. And to maketh it up to thee, I want thee to take this."

Mario: We will.

"And don't worry about it, Luvbi," Sonic assured. "We knew there was some kindness in you. You just had to find it in your heart."

"Thank thee... Thank thee all." Luvbi weakly smiled, still tearing. "And please taketh care of Chopper..."

She placed the final Pure Heart before the heroes, which slowly began to float above them. All of the Pixls began to perform a sad dance as Kirby, Sonic, Blade, Mario, Luigi, and Tipral held up the last Pure Heart.

Toalune and Tonya looked down at the unconscious Chopper one last time before fading away.

YOU GOT A PURE HEART

END OF CHAPTER

With the end of Shade, our heroes managed to get a hold of the final Pure Heart, but at a terrible price. Luvbi couldn't hold back the tears as she looked down at Chopper while her parents took her back home. With the unconscious Chopper, our heroes decided to take the Pure Heart and him back to Flipside. All that remained was the unconscious Chopper, his friends, and the final Pure Heart...