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...

143. A Story of Love and Tragedy

CHAPTER 20-5

-A Story of Love and Tragedy-

With all of his friends gone from the destruction of The Void, it was now Chopper standing in the darkness on his own. The dark purple and black sky still lingered over him, and the glowing purple path that was revealed to be in 3-D on the black ground. He noticed a bit of purple in the ground as well, almost resembling water a bit. But after a long travel through The Void, he believed he was near the end.

"So it's just me in this place…" Chopper trailed, looking at the darkness in the sky and the flat ground. "Sure, I was alone in Sagein Galaxy, but I soon gained help. This time, it's just me… Kinda reminds me of when I was back in Flipside at the very beginning."

Chopper took a couple of steps and tried to see what was up ahead. The area appeared flat, but he didn't see any sight of enemies. Maybe there weren't any enemies here at all? That would be very nice. It would be an easy way to the center of The Void!

His thoughts, however, were interrupted when the ground began to shake violently again. Chopper fell over, but slowly got up after the shaking stopped. That was one of the few things he did not want to see from this darkness.

"I wonder how things are back in Flipside, Flopside, and Rainbowside…" Chopper trailed. "Merlon and the other two must be really worried about us. How am I supposed to tell them about what happened to the others when…or IF I make it back in one piece?! …It may even be difficult for me to even tell them too. And I really need to stop talking to myself! It's not good!"

He began to think about the other worlds and their safety. After all, he explored the worlds while chasing Dimentio down. Some of them were nearing its end. But what about Flipside, Flopside and Rainbowside? How were things looking there?

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Rainbowside Tower-

At the tower of Rainbowside, the three shamans, Merlon, Nolrem and Olnerm looked worriedly up at the sky and watched The Void grow bigger. They knew at this point their world was going to be destroyed very soon.

"I don't know if this world has much time left," Nolrem noted. "The Void continues to grow bigger, and at any rate, our world does not have much time left… I worry about the dangers the heroes are going through…"

"Let us hope the heroes can stop The Void in time…" Merlon trailed. "After their many successes, I have high hopes for the heroes. They managed to destroy The Void before, and I believe they have the skills to reach the center of The Void."

"That was Castle Tipral they went through," Olnerm noted. "The Void is much more dangerous than the castle. I fear for the heroes' safety, since there was something written in the Light Prognosticus."

"Something in the Light Prognosticus? I would have known about this…" Merlon took out the book and went to the last page. Unfortunately, he didn't notice a page was actually missing. "Oh, no… There's a missing page in the prophecy!"

"I was just getting to that," the rainbow wizard pulled out the last page and showed it to Merlon. "I deeply apologize for this mess. I let my nephew borrow the book, but he accidentally ripped the last page off. I kept it hidden for many months, hoping you wouldn't discover its loss. At the state of this world and all worlds, you might want to take a look."

Merlon took the page from Olnerm and read the text out loud. "'Though six heroes stand against chaos in The Void, only one shall receive the purity needed to defeat the chaos.' Hmmmm… This is very troubling… Does this mean…"

"It appears that only one will be able to survive the destruction of The Void. This is what worries me… And if only one remains, then reaching The Void's core will not be easy. I don't wish to bring you two down, but I believe we need to do something to assist the heroes…or hero in need."

"If only we had help from Tippi…I mean Lady Timpani," Nolrem sighed. "I believe she would be most helpful to the heroes."

While the three shamans spoke, the Pixls looked up at the sky and hoped the heroes were safe. But from what they heard from them, things were not looking too good, especially since The Void was almost the sky at this point.

"Oh… If only we were to help them." Thoreau sighed. "That would be rather smashing. But alas, it doesn't seem like our job will be very useful at this moment. I do hope the heroes are safe. Ever since I got the taste of sweet freedom, I swore I would do anything to help them."

"I still remember the answers those heroes gave me when I asked them a few questions…" Carrie recalled. "I still believe that the heroes think Francis is a nerdy butterfly fanatic. Let's just hope they don't get hurt or injured. Is that even legal?"

"C'mon, guys! No need to worry about them! They'll be fine!" Screwdy assured. "They've gone through many obstacles! Plus, they're heroes! They're supposed to be the victors! All we can do for right now is live live LIIIIIIIIIIIVE!"

"I really hope they come out, fine, BA-BOOM!" hoped the missile Pixl, Hommissile. "Because if all worlds are destroyed, I'm probably going to EXPLOOOOOOOODE!"

"C'mon, heroes! Remember about kickin' them butts you always liked to kick around!" Kickbrin exclaimed. "Whenever you're in trouble, one of the best solutions is to deliver a kick to the…"

"Hold on, zee kicking is not zee way of fighting," Bonjourang corrected. "While I respect your opinion, monsieur, the act of kicking is not exactly zee best way of fighting. Oh… If only we could go into Zee Void, but that darkness would destroy us if we even stepped in!"

"I'd have to agree with ya," Cudge sighed. "If we were in there, the heroes would be kickin' even more butt! But I guess not… I guess it's all up to their skill at this point…"

"Heroes, the stars will always be on our side – even if you cannot see them in the darkness," Starlow said. "But all I can say is good luck."

"The True Chaos Heart is very powerful," Merlon noted. "And reaching it is a difficult task on its own. In order to help the heroes out, I believe I should call my brother so he can send the sages to assist them. I believe this would be the perfect time to do so."

"The sages Squirps, Ninbot and Luvbi?" Olnerm gawked. "Do you really believe we should send them out too? That would be putting their lives in danger! …But at the same time, they are our very last soap. …Wait, what did I say?! Hope! Very last HOPE! If we don't, then all worlds are as good as doomed…"

"It looks like we have no other choice," Nolrem deduced. "Merlon, you must call your brother immediately. His power is strong enough to send the sages deep within The Void. Tell them to get Squirps, Ninbot and Luvbi!"

"All right, I shall call them," Merlon declared, pulling out a blue cell phone. "…But I've rarely used this phone before, so this is not something I'm usually used to."

After dialing the number, he awaited his brother's call.

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Sagein Galaxy, Star Observatory-

Merlo couldn't help but look up at The Void in the sky. While it wasn't enormous like in many other worlds, it was starting to grow a little bigger. However, he had a feeling the area his brother was was not going to last long.

However, he was sensing something from The Void. Something that wasn't good.

"Oh, dear…" muttered Merlo. "From what I can sense of the heroes, Chopper seems to be the only one left. Is it possible the others are… No! I cannot think such words. It's not of my culture to think of that!"

He heard his cell phone going off, which caught his attention. "Hmmmmm? What now? Who would be calling me at a time like this?"

The yellow cloaked shaman took out his phone and answered it. "Hello? Who is calling me? I don't think this is a great moment to be calling me…"

"Merlo? Are you there? It's your brother, Merlon!"

Merlo's eyes widened in shock. "Merlon?! Why… I haven't spoken to you in a long time! Has it been…two decades since I last saw you?"

"Yes, it has been a while, but this is not the time to be speaking about a reunion!" Merlon's serious tone made Merlo listen carefully. "You have the power to summon and teleport the sages, correct?"

"Ahhh… So you need me to bring the three sages to The Void, is that correct? I was considering doing that. I sense that of all the heroes, Chopper is the only one progressing. I can't get a signal on the others…"

"Oh… That's not good. Then this situation is very dire. It is very important for you to bring the sages to The Void so they can help young Chopper fight those who oppose him."

"I will definitely do that, brother," Merlo nodded. "You can count on me."

"Thank you, Merlo… You know this means a lot. Perhaps when your game ends, you will become a Nimbi in The Overthere."

"I am glad to be helping you, brother. I'm sure our father is proud of us… I'll be seeing you." Merlo hung up his phone and put it away. Knowing that he had a job to do, he approached the center of the observatory, where three panels were. There was one with an image of space, another with a forest, and the third one had an image of the heavens.

A barrier surrounded Merlo as his hands began to glow pink. He closed his eyes and prepared to conjure up a little spell.

"By the power of the Ancients, I summon thee! Prince Squirps! Ninbot! Princess Luvbi! Your powers are requested!" Merlo raised his arms and fired his spell upward. In a matter of seconds, Squirps, Ninbot and Luvbi were teleported on their supposed panels.

"…Squoh? What happened? Squirps was in the Whoa Zone talking to Mommy, and now Squirps is here? Where is Squirps anyway?" Squirps wondered, looking at his surroundings. "Isn't this the space place Squirps was kidnapped and then rescued by the space grunt?"

Ninbot looked around his surroundings as well. Squirps was indeed correct. They were back in Sagein Galaxy on the Star Observatory. While this wasn't a place he'd expect to be back in, there was most likely a reason. But his thoughts were interrupted by a sniffle beside him.

The little Nimbi girl, Luvbi, was sobbing a bit. She was still depressed over the incident of the final Pure Heart released from Chopper. While she knew he wasn't dead, the state he was in saddened the girl. The three guys looked over at the sad girl, unsure of what was wrong with her.

"What's wrong with this girl, squirp?" Squirps asked. "Did she lose someone important?"

"Yea, verily…" Luvbi sniffled. "My sweet prince must verily be in bad condition right now after he released the Pure Heart from his body. I doth worry about whether he will live or die…"

"Who's your prince?" the green alien boy wondered before his eyes flashed. "…Is it me?!"

"Nay! Why wouldst I date a hideous alien like thee?" the words coming from the girl saddened Squirps a bit, which Luvbi noticed. "Oh… Forgivest me. I didst not mean to hurt thy feelings. I'm just verily worried and sad."

"Well, you can rest assured, Princess Luvbi," Merlo cut in. "Chopper is just fine. However, I don't know if he will be soon now that he is stuck in The Void by himself."

Those words were enough to make the girl smile. "My prince doth be fine? Oh, thank thee very much! …But now he is stuck in The Void? Oh, that dost not maketh things any better."

"This is why I need you and the other two to go into The Void. Chopper is going to need some help, and with your three powers, you should be able to allow him to use the legendary Star Rod!"

Merlo walked over to the dome-like building and took the Star Rod off its pedestal. He went back to the three and handed the Star Rod to Luvbi. "You MUST give this weapon to him at all costs! With you three sages finally back, you can restore its power and allow him to destroy anything in his path! It will also help against the True Chaos Heart, so you must remember to give this to him."

"Yea, I will dost that," Luvbi nodded, putting the weapon away. "I dost not want to disappoint Chopper…"

"So where do you want us to meet him?" Ninbot asked.

"I will teleport you somewhere safe in the deeper section of The Void where Chopper could be," explained Merlo. "Do not leave that room. Chopper will find you on his own."

"How do you know the space grunt will find us, squirple?" wondered Squirps.

"Trust me… He will."

The sky began to shake violently, causing The Void to grow. "We don't have much time for a conversation! You three need to get there immediately and help! Without your help, we may never see all worlds again…"

Using his teleportation magic, he raised his arms again. "YOU…GO…TO…THE VOID!"

With the purple glowing energy in his hands, he fired his magic at Squirps, Ninbot and Luvbi, and they were soon out of Sagein Galaxy.

"Good luck, Sage of Space, Sage of the Forest and Sage of the Heavens and Skies," Merlo murmured. "Please… Do what you can to help Chopper."

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The Void-

"Hmmmmm… Well, I'm sure some of the people are doing OK…" Chopper trailed. "Maybe some worlds are far from their destruction! …Oh, who am I kidding? Flipside is bound to be destroyed by now! Well, the only thing I can do is try to move on."

He made a couple of steps, but then he remembered something. "Hold on… Didn't Dimentio say Shade was still alive? If that's the case, then I better be on guard. Not to mention Fawful…in that whatever form he is is still lurking. But those are only two threats. Nothing too big! …Right?"

Chopper took a deep breath and gave a determined look. "OK… I think I'm ready to go. The True Chaos Heart awaits, and I must make it there in time..."

He took off, noticing a small hill going down that helped increase his speed a little. There were some enemies around, though. Three Darklings similar to the ones he encountered before were lurking around and noticed the hero's presence. They looked eager to see him show up, especially on his own.

"Well well well! Look what we have here!" one Darkling smirked. "Looksss like we've got sssome unwanted company in thessse partsss!"

"Let usss dessstroy thisss antennae hero, and then we ssshall celebrate!" the second suggested.

Chopper stopped when he realized there were three Darklings that appeared out of thin air. "Oh, crud! Three Darklings!"

"I don't think you'll be going anywhere!" the third Darkling said while conjuring up an energy ball. Once fully charged, it fired it at Chopper, which he inhaled and spat back at the enemy. He tossed a single light ball, and it was easily defeated.

"Isss that light power he'sss holding?!" the first Darkling gawked, dodging another light ball flung its way. It decided to get close up to him so it could fire magic, but Chopper jumped on its head instead and performed a stylish move. The second Darkling tried to hit him, but Chopper landed a light jump on its head, and it was soon defeated. All that remained was the first Darkling.

"Look, I don't have time to be dealing with the likes of you," Chopper explained. "I have a heart to stop!"

"And what makesss you think I will let you passssss?"

"If you won't let me, then I'll be forced to do it myself," he jumped forward and shot a couple of light balls down at the Darkling. It dodged them and hurled a couple of energy balls at the antennae hero. One hit him, while the other one was easily inhaled and spat back at the Darkling. Once stunned, Chopper charged up another light ball.

"Take this!" he cried, firing the light ball at the Darkling and destroying it once and for all. With those enemies out of the way, he progressed on, but he had to stop when he found a ? Block nearby. He struck it and got a hold of an Ultra Shroom. With nobody to share it with, he inhaled the whole mushroom and recovered 50 HP.

"I really miss sharing this with my friends… But then again, this thing really does taste good…"

He found a Void Creature, a dark purple Void Choppa and a Void Pokey just up ahead. Chopper was about to jump on the Void Choppa, but it flipped into 3-D, causing him to miss and fall over. The Void Pokey up ahead tossed a piece of its body in his direction, so he tried to kick it.

Unfortunately, since it had spikes, it ended up hurting his foot.

"YOUCH!" Chopper cried, holding his foot in pain while the Void Creature began to fire his way. Thankfully, he had enough time to jump in the air and land on the Void Creature's head. Despite being alone, there was no way he was going to let himself get defeated so easily.

He tossed a couple of fireballs at the Void Pokey while tossing some light balls at the Void Creature. They were easily defeated with those attacks, but there was still the Void Choppa. He didn't want to leave any enemies around, since he believed that they would probably follow him, which is something he doesn't want.

Thankfully, the Void Choppa made its appearance in 2-D and flew down to Chopper. He couldn't attack it with a spinning kick, so he inhaled the enemy and swallowed it. It was not too big for him to eat anyway!

"That takes care of that," Chopper sighed.

He finally reached the door, but he noticed two enemies he had never seen before. The two enemies were around Mario's height and were covered in black armor. To be a bit more specific, they had small, black shoulder pads, a black helmet that didn't cover their faces, which were merely black with purple glowing eyes, and their head was square-shaped. A symbol of the Chaos Heart appeared to be embedded on its helmet as well, which gave Chopper the idea that they were from the power of the True Chaos Heart. However, the weapons they held were dangerous as well. One was carrying a dark beam sword in its hand, while the other held a blaster.

What are these enemies named? They are called Voidrins.

"Whoa… These are new enemies!" Chopper gaped. "I didn't expect to run into something new in here!"

The Voidrin Shooter fired a glob of dark energy, which resembled a small void that reminded Chopper of Count Bleck's dark magic. He simply jumped over it and fired a light ball at the Voidrin Shooter. Sadly, it wasn't able to destroy it in simply one hit. The Voidrin Swordsman tried to strike Chopper with his dark beam sword, but he ducked under it easily and managed to throw in a light sweeping kick.

With both Voidrins trying to attack him, trying to fight back was difficult. They were pretty quick, and so were their attacks. Plus, their attacks did a lot of damage if they even hit him!

Thankfully, Chopper was able to defeat the Voidrin Shooter by jumping on it, but attacking the swordsman close up was not as easy, so he tried to throw in some rainbow balls. When he threw in one last light ball, the enemy was defeated, allowed Chopper to progress through the door.

…Only to land in the middle of the area after falling from the sky.

"Huh? What in the world?!" Chopper gawked. "Is that door even real?!"

He went back to the door and noticed that it was not a real door. In fact, it looked much lighter than what the door would usually look like. Chopper decided to check in 3-D, where he found a door on the supposed wall in front of him. He took it to another area that was a big bigger than most areas, since there was one platform slightly above him with a ? Block.

By checking in 3-D, he discovered a Brick Block that created a ladder. He climbed up it and struck the block, but the only thing that came out was a Death Shroom, which went off the platform and began to scurry around.

"Ugh… That was just a trick." Chopper groaned. However, there was another platform he could jump over to that seemed to lead the right way. The ground below him apparently led into a small wall. Ignoring the Death Shroom below him, he jumped over to the larger platform and found a gap between him and another platform. Void Bombs in a circle were moving around it, but thankfully there was a bomb missing, allowing anyone to jump through the circling bombs.

When he found the perfect moment, he jumped through at the right moment and found a door waiting for him. Chopper headed through and found an area with some platforms rather than solid ground. Down below was a bottomless pit, so there was no jumping down there.

"Yeesh… Since when were there bottomless pit areas in this place?" Chopper wondered. "…Oh, I think there was before."

He jumped on one of the large platforms and found three Voidrins waiting for him. A Voidrin Thrower, which happened to be holding a dark boomerang, threw its weapon Chopper's way. He ducked under the attack and noticed a Voidrin Swordsman charging his way. It only took him a single jump to dodge the enemy and make it fall off the platform and into the bottomless pit.

"Ha HA! Looks like you're done for!" Chopper smirked, watching the Voidrin Swordsman fall. His smirk stopped when he saw it disappear, so he turned around and noticed a small, dark portal appear. The Voidrin Swordsman jumped out while letting out a creepy cackle.

"Oh… They can escape bottomless pits."

He decided to eat one of his own fireballs to become Fire Chopper so he could charge through the three Voidrins as a fireball. He scorched the three enemies, and he even knocked away the Voidrin Thrower's boomerang. The Voidrin Shooter fell into the bottomless pit, only to come out of another dark portal.

Chopper breathed out fire, which the three enemies were caught in easily. With one last fireball, they were defeated, which made him sigh in relief and remove his Fire ability.

"…Wait, why did I do that?!" he wondered before trying to catch the bouncing yellow star. Sadly, it fell into the bottomless pit, never to be seen again. Chopper sighed and continued on, jumping on a lower platform and noticing a floating door below the higher platform. He checked in 3-D for anything, but all he found was a platform below the door with yellow Dimensional Blocks.

Knowing what he had to do, he jumped onto the platform and brought the blocks into 2-D and then he flipped back into the second dimension to go through the door. He was only in a small area with two abilities. One was Wheel, while the other was Wing.

"I don't think Wheel will help me when there are bottomless pits, so I'll go with Wing," Chopper touched the Wing ability panel to gain the power, then he left the small area. With the Wing ability, he flapped his wings and got on the higher platform while flying over some Voidrins. He decided to throw light balls down at them, since he remembered he didn't want to leave enemies around.

A Voidrin Shooter began to fire up at Chopper, but he was too fast to hit, and all of the shots missed him. Chopper decided to fire a couple of feathers down at the Voidrins and defeat them.

He noticed high above the platforms was a lonely platform that looked like it could only be reached by flying. Chopper flew up to the platform, but he noticed the door was locked, making him frown.

"Great… Well, I'm sure there's another way for me to go." Chopper jumped off the platform and began to glide down. He happened to notice another floating platform with a door, but he noticed it was fake. However, at the end of the area was a faraway platform with a ? Block and a door. He let himself glide over to the door, but he hit the ? Block first to find a Super Shroom.

He was a bit disappointed, but he took the Super Shroom anyway to recover 20 HP and proceeded into the door to discover a large pool. Chopper was about to jump into the pool, but he paused when he saw a couple of creatures…or things lurking around in the water.

Underhands.

Chopper was instantly reminded of the River Twygz now that there were Underhands lurking in the waters. Taking a deep breath, he jumped into the water and let himself sink to the bottom. There happened to be a small tunnel at the bottom, but Underhands were blocking the way.

He realized he couldn't defeat Underhands with any of his attacks. Tipral could easily do away with one with his Star powers, but him? He hardly had anything to help him win against an Underhand!

"Wait… Have I ever tried using light power against them?" Chopper wondered, swimming away from an Underhand. He conjured up a light ball and tossed it at an Underhand. It let out a screech before it died away, making Chopper smile. "Hey! It actually worked! I guess I do have a way to take them down!"

He destroyed the Underhands in his way and sunk down to the bottom of the tunnel. He found a chest surrounded by two large blocks. Chopper checked to see if there was anything in 3-D, but all he found were more blocks surrounding the chest. However, one appeared to be a little cracked.

"Hmmmmm… Maybe I just need to destroy that block!" Chopper thought, spewing a small shot of water at the block and crumbling it. He swam over to the chest and opened it, revealing a Void Key. Sadly, he couldn't go back up because a barrier suddenly appeared on top of the tunnel, preventing any escape.

"Huh? Oh, great… There's no way out of here now!" Chopper cried as he flipped into 2-D and got away from the blocks. "How am I supposed to get out of here?"

He went back into 3-D and discovered a secret path he could take, as well as a dark panel. What could it be for? He was not fully sure. All Chopper could do was take the secret path and find another door that led him into a small area with a strange, dark crystal near the edge of the floor and a large, bottomless pit up ahead.

"A dark crystal? This certainly looks much bigger than the usual dark crystals I've seen…" Chopper approached it and tossed a light ball at it, but it didn't seem to be affected. "Nothing? Well that's great…"

He pondered for a moment, unsure if touching it was a good idea. Well, he didn't have anything else left to do, so why not? Chopper placed his right hand on the dark crystal, which caused a sudden spark in his body that destroyed his Wing ability. He also felt a large amount of pain drive into his body too.

"ACK!" Chopper cried as he noticed his arm was covered in dark sparks. Whatever was happening, it wasn't good.

He eventually pulled his arm away from the crystal and held it in pain. The sparks began to go into his body as well, which seemed to be triggering something in his body.

Chopper finally opened his eyes and let out a slight scream. His entire body was surrounded in darkness, and his eyes became a glowing white. His mouth was no longer visible as well. He quickly shook himself and looked at his reflection through the floor.

"Wh-What? Oh, no… Not this… Not my Dark Star form!" he gasped. "I was hoping this would be gone when I released the Pure Heart! But it looks like… Wait a minute…"

He paused for a moment and looked around. "Am I actually controlling myself?! Is this for real?! I'm actually talking too! That's…really good! ...Er, I don't know about that. It still hurts me."

The power eventually wore off, turning him back to normal. "So it's only temporary… Well, I don't mind that too much. I mean, if I can actually control it, I won't cause much harm to people and can focus on the more dangerous targets! Though, I don't like the fact that I'll lose HP when I use it…"

With Dark Star Crystals, Chopper can temporarily transform into Dark Star Chopper! In this form, Chopper is much stronger and capable of wiping out enemies, and he is able to fly around and strike enemies below with his power! However, you will lose HP in this form, and it is not recommended to use it in its full length. To revert out of Dark Star Chopper at an earlier moment, shake the Wii Remote.

Chopper noticed a lonely platform up ahead where another Dark Star Crystal was. An idea suddenly struck him, and he touched the crystal again. Only this time, it wasn't painful as before and quickly reverted him back to Dark Star Chopper.

"All right, let's see how I can fly around with this new form. I never really got to try it out much before." Chopper jumped and used his ability of flight to make his way across the large chasm and to the door. He quickly entered it to run into a Void Koopatrol, Void Skellobit and a Voidrin Swordsman.

The Void Skellobit and Void Koopatrol charged at their target, but Chopper was able to charge up an attack in seconds and hurl dark energy at the two. The Voidrin Swordsman charged, but Chopper charged at the enemy and sent it flying to the dark and transparent wall. All it took was one more dark blast to take care of the enemy. But just to make sure, Chopper shook off the Dark Star form so he wouldn't lose any more HP.

Three chests appeared after defeating the enemies, which all contained Max Shroom Shakes. Pleased to acquire the items, he returned to the previous area, flew over the chasm in his Dark Star form, and then transformed back into the dark form again after he reached the other Dark Star Crystal.

"I guess that dark panel requires this form to step on," mused Chopper while leaving the area. He went back into 3-D and returned to the tunnel he was in and stepped on the panel. This caused the barrier to shatter and allow Chopper to swim back up. He of course, shook off the dark form.

"Now to unlock that door," declared Chopper.

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Large area-

Returning to the large area, Chopper got the Wing ability again and flapped his wings to reach the high door that was locked. After unlocking the door, he entered the door and went into the next area. Apparently there was a building far up ahead, but there was a large amount of rubble blocking the flat ground as well. Thankfully, a Dark Star Crystal was near a couple of Voidrins that were lurking around.

Chopper touched the crystal and turned Dark Star Chopper so he could fire a dark blast of energy at the Voidrins. What was also nice was that the dark energy went through each Voidrin and struck the rubble. It was able to destroy it and leave the way to the castle-like building open.

But despite having this dark form, he was not invincible. A Voidrin Shooter shot Chopper, which ended up hurting him, along with the HP he was losing while in the form. He shook off the dark power and decided to fight off the Voidrins on his own. At this point, he felt like he didn't want to use this dark form anymore. It just didn't feel…right.

Chopper ducked under another shot the Voidrin Shooter fired and tossed a light ball to finish it. His Dark Star form already did a lot of damage to the remaining enemies, so taking these guys out would be easy.

All he had to do was perform one last attack on the Voidrins and he would be just fine. He started off by jumping on the Voidrin Swordsman, and then he bounced off it and stomped on the Voidrin Thrower and then the shooter. Before he knew it, all three enemies were defeated.

"Well that's a relief," Chopper sighed, getting an Ultimate Shroom Shake out. "I kinda wanna heal myself now. I'm not sure if I should actually use those dark crystals unless I actually NEED to."

Chopper charged up a Speed Dash and took off for the ruined castle ahead. He wasn't sure what that castle was or used to be, but that wasn't anything important at this moment. He needed to progress through this darkness and reach the True Chaos Heart in one piece.

"Wait… I don't see a door!" Chopper realized, stopping in front of the castle. He decided to check in 3-D, and thankfully the door was there. "Oh… Well, I guess this is just like Castle Tipral and Tipral's Palace with this door!"

He headed through the door to discover a large room with a small staircase leading down to a pedestal. Chopper noticed on the pedestal were two people. It was a female human on the left and a male in a top hat holding up a heart that appeared to be broken in two. Chopper had to flip into 3-D to go around it and see it from the front.

Chopper got a better view of the statue when he looked up, and he was a bit surprised. "Hey… That guy on the right kinda looks like Count Bleck! But the girl on the left… I don't know who she is… And what's that broken heart in the middle?"

He soon discovered that this was not the only statue in the large castle area. Chopper moved on ahead and found a statue of a strange Pixl. He couldn't get a good description of the Pixl's appearance, but he was instantly reminded of what Merli told him. Could this have been the Pixl Queen?

But there was another statue that made him gape. Over by the side by the statue of the two, there was one statue of a round figure with two antennae holding another broken heart. Chopper got closer to the statue and realized who it was.

"Is that…Tipral?" Chopper gawked. "I never knew there was a statue of him here…"

He noticed some writing on the pedestal. Thankfully, it happened to be in a normal language that was understandable.

According to the legend, it is said that this being was responsible for saving a little girl in a space station and brought her back to her home with the Tribe of Ancients. However, many years later, the legend was said that this being attacked and nearly wiped out the tribe, leaving very little left. Apparently this attack was after the moment the Tribe of Darkness was destroyed. After that, this being never returned…

"So Tipral nearly wiped out a part of the Tribe of Ancients? Yeesh… I know it's nothing like Maquano, but that's kind of shocking. I wonder who even wrote this, and I also wonder where I am!"

He returned to the other statue that can easily be seen. There happened to be some words written down on the pedestal, so he decided to read it.

In this legend, it was said that a human girl and a person of the Tribe of Darkness fell in love, but the father from the Tribe of Darkness did not approve of the relationship over the two because of the fear that the Tribe of Darkness's powerful bloodline would be diluted. The man's father ended up cursing the human girl and forced her to wander the dimensions until her game was over, causing his son to take the Dark Prognosticus and murder her father and the rest of his tribe. Where he went, none have known…

"So if that was Count Bleck, then the human girl must be Tippi!" Chopper deduced. "And all of this was caused by the count's father… As much as I'm not a big fan of romance, that's just not right!"

He noticed a small glimmer of light underneath the statue, which caught his attention. "Huh? Was that…light?!"

Chopper wanted to get a better look, but it was difficult to see with the statue over it. Chances were, there was a secret underground path! However, this statue was big, and Chopper believed he wouldn't be able to push something like that. Nevertheless, he gave it a try and placed his hands on the statue and prepared to push.

It was much lighter than he thought.

"Wha…? This statue isn't even that heavy!" Chopper gawked while he pushed the statue, revealing a secret path. "Ah-ha! I knew it!"

He smiled as he jumped down into the secret path, eager to know what was down there.

---

Secret area-

Chopper ended up landed on a spring, which helped him gently land on the floor. There wasn't much around except for a small staircase ahead leading to a section of the area with a couple of stain-glassed windows. When he got a closer look, he could see that they were stain-glassed windows of a green alien, a robot ninja and an angelic girl. There were also giant statues of some shamans from the Tribe of Ancients lingering over the round floor.

But there were three panels on the floor that Chopper noticed up the staircase. There, he saw Squirps, Ninbot and Luvbi facing away. They were apparently looking up at the statues and the stain-glassed windows.

"Squirple-squee!" Squirps squealed. "Squirps didn't know there was a window with my face! Squirps does look handsome!"

Ninbot stared at his window and noticed him holding his katana up high like someone was victorious. The forest was in the background, yet he was confused on why it wasn't a metallic forest. That was where he lived anyway.

Luvbi, on the other hand, was not thinking too much of her stain-glassed window, but she was thinking of Chopper. She was starting to feel worried about him and if he would make it here. Being alone was not an easy thing, and she certainly didn't want him to be alone.

"Squirps? Ninbot? Luvbi?" Chopper gaped as he walked up the stairs. He smiled as he approached the three, who turned around and spotted the antennae hero.

"My sweet prince!" Luvbi cried, dashing toward Chopper and unexpectedly tackling him to the ground. "Thou art OK! I missed thee so much!"

Squirps and Ninbot watched as Luvbi began to smother Chopper's face with kisses, which he did not seem to be enjoying at the moment.

"Ack! Luvbi! Stop it, please! That's gross!" Chopper cried. "Your kisses are not helping me!"

He was silenced when Luvbi placed her own lips on his, making his eyes widen in fear once again.

"Squeh squeh squeh!" Squirps chuckled. "Squirps doesn't know why, but Squirps finds this very entertaining!"

Ninbot gave the green alien an unimpressed look and slowly shook his head. "Squoh? What? Squirps find this very funny? Don't you have a sense of humor, squirple?"

Luvbi finally got off Chopper, but she still continued to swoon over him. "Thou dost not know how much I missed thee! I thought thou weren't going to make it when thou released the Pure Heart…"

"I probably wouldn't have made it if it weren't for my friends…" Chopper replied while getting up and wiping his face.

"What happened to your friends anyway?" Ninbot asked. Chopper's face suddenly fell, remembering what happened to his friends. "Oh… I apologize for bringing up a touchy subject…"

"You don't have to apologize. You didn't know what happened to them. But, I guess I should tell you guys." the pale green gumball let out a sigh as he prepared to tell his story. "Last time I saw Blade, he was holding the ceiling with O'Chunks. He wanted us to go on because he didn't want to leave O'Chunks there himself. I don't know what happened to Kirby, Mario and Luigi because I didn't witness what happened to them. But for Sonic… I saw him getting pulled into a void with Dark. I would've helped him, but Sonic suggested I go on, and even then, Tipral was pulling me out of there."

"So Tipral went into The Void with thee…" Luvbi trailed. "I supposed he is lost in The Void as well?"

"I guess so… He and Dimentio. Apparently this whole time Tipral was using my friends and I to get to the True Chaos Heart. And I let myself believe what he said so easily… Why am I so gullible?"

"Tipral betrayed thee? I knewest there was something with him!" the Nimbi girl replied in an angry tone. "He doth be nothing but insensitive, selfish, and hideous! I always believest he was horrible!"

"You mean that dark person who jumped on Squirps in the Whoa Zone?" Squirps wondered. "He was terrible! Squirps was left in such a daze thanks to him!"

"Hold on a second…" Ninbot cut in. "Who is Dimentio?"

"Oh, yeah… I guess you guys don't know." Chopper realized. "Apparently he came back to life. But whatever happened in that room between him and Tipral, it's most likely over. But I still have that feeling of gullibility in my mind. Do you guys know why I'm gullible?"

"Chopper, I guess there may be one reason…" Luvbi sighed. "Since thou art a child such as myself, it doth be very common for children to be gullible. That's one of the many aspects of life. Eventually children will grow and become much smarter and immune to gullibility. Thou shouldst not be too hard on thyself. Thou dost not want to bring others down too, right?"

"Well… I guess you're right, Luvbi." Chopper nodded.

"Hey, heart-winged girl, squark!" Squirps chirped. "Don't forget about that rod thingy that shaman gave us! You have to give the space grunt the rod, squrip!"

"…Oh, me! I shouldst not forget!" Luvbi gasped, taking out the Star Rod and handing it to Chopper. "Merlo sent us hither to assist thee. Thou needest the Star Rod if thou art to progress. It'll make traveling through hither much easier!"

"Gee… Thanks!" Chopper smiled, taking the Star Rod from the Nimbi princess. "…Wait, it's not glowing. Did it lose its power?"

"Well it's our job to restore its power," Ninbot noted. "Us three will lend our power into the Star Rod and allow you to destroy darkness in your path!"

"Squirp! Squirps is going to be useful after a while!" squealed Squirps.

"Be ready, Chopper…" Luvbi suggested.

Squirps, Ninbot and Luvbi prepared to lend their power to the Star Rod, but they felt the ground around them shake violently. The three would've continued, but they were suddenly teleported out of the room, making Chopper jump in surprise.

"Squirps?! Ninbot?! Luvbi?!" Chopper exclaimed. "What happened to you guys?!"

Instead of their voices, he heard a dark laughter echo through the room.

"Foolish Chopper… Did you honestly believe you would be safe here with the three sages? That's where you're wrong!"

"Who… Who are you?!"

"What? You don't recognize my voice? We have faced each other before, but I let you off easy. Now that you're here alone, I can have some fun with you!"

"Where are my friends?!"

"Oh, don't worry… They're safe. I've just taken them away from you so you couldn't achieve that power from the Star Rod! With them out of your sight, there is no safe haven for you, Chopper! And now, you shall fall into eternal slumber!"

Chopper noticed dark flames surround the circular floor, while two Void Skelloknights dropped from above. The swung their swords at Chopper, which he jumped back to avoid the shots.

"This is where your quest ends, mortal," the first Void Skelloknight spoke. "There is no escape from here!"

"Surrender and die!" the second Void Skelloknight added.

"I don't think so!" Chopper shot back while clenching his fists, which were surrounded in a light glow. "Not until I get my friends back and stop The Void!"

"Then you are a foolish child."

One Void Skelloknight raised its sword, which was now surrounded in a dark glow, and then it swung the sword to fire a dark sword beam Chopper's way. Since it was moving in a horizontal fashion, Chopper had no problem jumping over the obstacle. But he still had to get the Void Skelloknights' armor off, and with two of them, that wouldn't be an easy task.

Chopper dodged a sword swing and delivered a light jump to one of the Void Skelloknights. He ended up jumping on its head another time to break off its helmet and reveal its face. It was black with purple eyes, from what he saw. He was even able to jump on its head and do some damage.

"Ah! Maybe I can just remove their helmets so I don't have to worry about them moving faster!" Chopper exclaimed, an idea suddenly striking him. "This shouldn't be too hard!"

The same Void Skelloknight jumped in the air and tried to drive its sword down into Chopper. Sadly, his attack missed when Chopper sped past it and left the enemy's sword stuck in the ground. Chopper jumped on its head one last time and forced the enemy to let go of its sword.

To prevent the Void Skelloknight from taking its sword back, Chopper inhaled it so he could gain the Sword ability. He was able to add in some light power to the sword and slice off the rest of the Void Skelloknight's armor. Then he began to hack at the enemy until it was defeated.

"You may have taken down one of my comrades, but you won't take me down!" the other Void Skelloknight roared, trying to strike Chopper with a jump slash. Thankfully, Chopper dodged the attack and destroyed the enemy's armor, leaving it completely vulnerable to attacks. That's when Chopper began to jump and hack at it until the Void Skelloknight brought up its shield for defense.

"Crud… I forgot about that shield." Chopper grumbled.

The Void Skelloknight ended up knocking Chopper back with its shield. He almost hit the flames surrounding the ground, but just barely. And since the Void Skelloknight's armor was off, it was able to move much faster.

"Even with my armor off, I can easily catch up to you," the Void Skelloknight noted, swinging his sword at Chopper, who brought his sword up to block the attack. "Huh? How can a puny sword like that block a large sword like this?!"

Chopper could only shrug before he jumped over the Void Skelloknight and landed a light spinning kick to its face before finishing it off with a downward slash. This caused the flames surrounding the area to disappear and allow Chopper to sigh in relief too. The battle was challenging, but he became victorious.

"I can't believe I took on two Void Skelloknights on my own," Chopper realized. "Well, I guess the speed I have helped me beat them. Usually speed triumphs power! …Or is that brains?"

Since he could now leave, he decided to go back to the spring and take it back up to the large castle area.

---

Castle area-

Just when he got out of the secret area, the statue began to move on its own and close the passageway. While that occurred, there were some Shadow Wizards that moved past him and not paying attention to the moving statue. Chopper was confused on why they ignored him, but then he looked up and saw why.

There were two Maginans and one Dark Maginan following the Shadow Wizards.

"We have found the Shadow Wizards! I repeat, we have found the Shadow Wizards!" the Maginan Private alarmed.

"Very good, Private! You may fire when ready!" the Dark Maginan ordered.

The Maginans began to fire down at the Shadow Wizards. Some fought back and fired their magic at the Maginans. Even some Dark Wizrims appeared to help by firing magic at the Maginans.

"Heads up, guys! We've got a couple of Dark Wizrims! This might be a bit difficult." the Dark Maginan warned. "If you see any shots comin' your way, then you gotta MOVE!"

"Got it, sir!" another Maginan replied, shooting a Dark Wizrim and knocking it to the floor. "Uhhh… Sir? I think there's a major problem… There's too many of them!"

"What?!" the Dark Maginan noticed more Shadow Wizards and Dark Wizrims appearing. Even some Void Skellobits were joining the party! "Crud… We might be outnumbered! Backup might be required here."

Dark portals suddenly appeared, and Voidrins began to jump out of them and attack the Shadow Wizards, Dark Wizrims and Void Skellobits. The Maginans seemed surprised, since they stopped firing.

"Hey, Colonel… Do you see that?" the Maginan Private gaped.

"Yeah, I certainly do," the Dark Maginan nodded. "Looks like those Voidrins are fightin' them! Even though they may not be on our side, maybe it's best to help them at this moment. These wizard dudes are WAY too annoying, and if these guys help us, maybe things'll be easier!"

"But we can't forget that these guys are enemies too."

"Yes, that's definitely true."

While the fight endured, Chopper tried to sneak his way through the castle grounds and make his way to the door. Thankfully, no one seemed to pay attention to him. That is, until he made his way out of the door.

"Hey, sir… I think I just saw Chopper!" another Maginan noted, which grabbed the Dark Maginan's attention.

"What? You serious?!" the Dark Maginan stopped firing and grabbed the Maginan. "I want the information now! WHERE is he?!"

"Well, sir… He walked out of that door."

The Dark Maginan released the soldier and looked over at the exit. "I see… Well, as soon as we take care of these guys, then we'll go after him and pay him a little visit! I'm sure he'd appreciate that from us!"

---

Through the door-

Chopper let out a sigh of relief as the door closed. He was finally out of that mess, and thankfully no one spotted him. Apparently he was no longer in the castle but on a bridge leading over to a barren field. There was also a Save Block near him, so he struck it to save his game.

"Well, that sure was something, but I don't have time to stay in there. I have to go find Squirps, Ninbot, and Luvbi!" Chopper said as he took out the powerless Star Rod. "I need this thing's power restored…"

He crossed the bridge and felt the dark ground on his feet. Thankfully, there didn't appear to be any enemies around, so he was safe from harm. "Well, walking through here shouldn't be too bad, right?"

"Ah-ha! I found you at last!"

"Well I spoke too soon…" Chopper frowned.

"Hey, I said I'd be back, and I meant it!" Shadoo said while the dark mist appeared in front of Chopper. "And this time, no one's here to help you now, hero! It's just you and me!"

"Seriously, Shadoo? Have you even learned? I beat you last time, and I can surely do it again!"

"That's because you had your dark friend with you. …If he even is your friend! Your clones are finally complete, and this time I won't be holding back! Now is when I'll beat you and take your place as the hero!"

"Cl-Clones?!" Chopper gawked as a dark doppelgänger version of Luigi suddenly appeared before his own eyes. "What in the world…?"

"Oh, little hero… Blessed soul… I must destroy you with the power of shadow!" Shadoo Luigi declared, deciding not to capture the personalities of the heroes. "And once you fall, my clones will finally take over!"

"Not on my watch," the antennae hero challenged, swinging his sword. "Even if I had help from Tipral, this shouldn't be anything new!"

Chopper readied his sword as Shadoo Luigi began to come his way. Since he fought Shadoo Mr. L, he knew this fight would be pretty similar. But what caught him off guard was when Shadoo Luigi spun his body and tried to catch Chopper in his Cyclone. Plus, small little cyclones were firing from his sides, which Chopper got caught in.

"Crud! I forgot about those!" Chopper gulped, his Sword ability getting knocked away. He ended up inhaling it, but instead of swallowing it, he spat it at Shadoo Luigi and slightly knocked him back.

"Let's see what this clone is capable of!" Shadoo Luigi said as he jumped in the air and began to flutter Chopper's way. He decided to stop him by flinging an ice ball, which was able to leave Shadoo Luigi frozen in the air. The only problem, however, was that he couldn't reach him when he was that high.

At least he could see what his stats were. He had 100 HP, an Attack of 23 and a Defense of 8. To him, he wasn't too alarmed because the clones of Tipral's minions had the same amount of HP as this clone.

Shadoo Luigi managed to break out of his icy prison and land a jump on Chopper's head, making him cringe in pain. He never really felt a jump from Luigi's feet before, but now that he got hit by it, he finally knew that it was quite painful. "I guess I've got the feeling of many other Goombas that Luigi must've jumped on…"

With Chopper close, Shadoo Luigi tried to hit him with a Cyclone. Unlike last time, Chopper was caught in the big one and sent flying in the air. Shadoo Luigi got his chance and struck Chopper with a Super Jump.

"Yeesh! OK, that was pretty painful…" Chopper grunted. "But that doesn't mean I'm giving up so easily!"

Before Shadoo Luigi could jump, Chopper jumped on his head instead and tossed a couple of fireballs at him, leaving him with a burn that harmed him every five seconds. Chopper even threw him up in the air with an upper kick and began to attack with a rainbow spinning kick afterward. Sure, Shadoo had these clones, but he knew the real ones were much stronger and more strategic than Shadoo's clones.

"Take this!" Chopper cried, throwing his foot down on Shadoo Luigi and making him fall to the ground. He was about to land another jump on Shadoo Luigi, but his Super Jump knocked him to the ground.

"Nice try, but I have the upper hand when you're in the air!" scoffed Shadoo Luigi.

"True, but you're not looking good in the whole HP line," Chopper smirked. His smirk faded when he saw Shadoo Luigi whip up another Cyclone. He decided to inhale one of the smaller tornados and gain the Tornado ability, which made Shadoo Luigi gawk.

"Uh oh… This doesn't look good."

"Try this on for size!" Chopper cried, spinning in a tornado and catching Shadoo Luigi in it. This was enough to defeat the doppelgänger of Luigi and knock it away, never to be seen like the other doppelgängers.

But Shadoo still had more clones. Another one appeared, and it looked like a shorter version of Luigi. Chopper obviously knew this was Shadoo Mario. Chopper was definitely unsure whether this would be a difficult fight or not. He never actually faced his friends before…

"Surprised to see one of the legendary plumbers in front of you?" Shadoo Mario asked.

"Legendary? I wouldn't call you legendary. You're not the real Mario!"

Shadoo Mario jumped toward Chopper and attempted to stomp on him. Chopper spun in a tornado again and managed to catch him in a tornado and send him flying away. He had 100 HP, an Attack of 23 and a Defense of 9. Nothing too special.

Chopper was prepared to attack Shadoo Mario in another tornado, but he took his hammer out and bashed his head, leaving him dazed. Shadoo Mario also jumped on him, and it felt much more painful than Shadoo Luigi's. Maybe because Mario was more professional when it came to stomping on enemies?

However, Chopper himself was good at stomping enemies too – though he didn't do it as much as Mario, nor was he most likely better at it than him, he at least had some experience. He tried to jump on the clone, but Shadoo Mario jumped in the air too, which caused them both to bump into each other.

Chopper tried to grab Shadoo Mario while they were both still in the air, but he got to him first and prepared to throw him to the ground. Chopper ended up blowing some powerful wind to blow Shadoo Mario off him. After all, his Tornado ability was capable of letting him blow strong winds.

"Not bad, hero," Shadoo Mario complimented. "You're putting up a bigger fight than last time!"

"That's because I had Tipral helping me," Chopper replied. "I don't need his help to beat you now!"

Shadoo Mario ignored him and got his hammer out again. Chopper tossed an ice ball his way, but his hammer was able to help block the attack. But when Chopper fired a light ball instead, it actually hurt him.

Remembering from last time, Shadoo Mario started to dodge the light balls being fired his way. "You would think I wouldn't have learned from our last fight… Well, don't expect that light power of yours to reach me!"

Chopper stopped firing light balls and decided to try something different. He spun into another tornado and flew after Shadoo Mario, which only failed when Shadoo Mario performed a Triple Jump to leap over the tornado. Chopper never got much of a good look at Mario's jumps before, since he was too busy fighting bad guys, but he felt like he just did.

"What's the matter? Are you amazed at the great Mario's jumping skills?"

"Quit your boasting! It's not going to make you cool!" Chopper shot back. "You're not even the real Mario! In fact, I bet Mario's jumps would be much better and cooler than what you could do!"

All Chopper received was a stomp to the head. "Yeah, I stopped listening to you when you told me I wasn't Mario."

Chopper's Tornado ability was knocked away and shattered when Shadoo Mario bashed it with his hammer. This left Chopper a little ticked, and when he saw Shadoo Mario prepare to jump on him, he opened his mouth and started to inhale the clone. Shadoo Mario tried to resist, but the winds were too strong for him, and he was caught in Chopper's mouth.

Now that Chopper had Shadoo in his mouth, he could probably do away with him if he just swallowed him. Well, unfortunately, that didn't seem to work out, because Shadoo Mario was able to break out of the hero's mouth easily. He even kicked him in the face and knocked him over.

Chopper, now dazed, was left off guard, and it gave Shadoo Mario the chance to bash his little head and flatten him like a Goomba. Shadoo Mario performed a flip, but Chopper quickly regained control of himself and used his speed to dodge the jump. Shadoo Mario was already toppled on the floor.

"OK, he's open, so I might as well make a move," Chopper jumped in the air and surrounded his feet in a light glow before stomping on Shadoo Mario. The doppelgänger's eyes widened in pain as he let out a screech. Thankfully, it was hardly painful for Chopper to hear unlike Ridley X.

Chopper charged up another light ball while Shadoo Mario got up. He noticed the doppelgänger getting his hammer out and preparing to charge, and since it was raised up, he was open for an attack! Chopper quickly jumped and threw the light ball at Shadoo Mario, and then when he landed behind, he threw in a rainbow ball.

"Gah! Very clever, hero…" Shadoo Mario grumbled. "Sure, you may have all of this speed to help you out, but speed doesn't help you win a fight, you know. I have all your friends' tactics, and I'm going to use them against you!"

Chopper doubted that. The only thing he seemed to get was their appearance in a dark form and their abilities. It would hardly make sense for him to have something like that. So Chopper ignored him and jumped on Shadoo Mario's head when he had the chance and performed a stylish move. He was eventually knocked back down when Shadoo Mario landed a Triple Jump on him.

"Hmmmmm… You're running pretty low on HP, Shadoo!" Chopper smirked, noticing his HP bar was rather low. "I think one more hit should do it for you!"

"I don't believe that will be happening, hero," Shadoo Mario shot back as he gripped his hammer and began to spin his body around, along with his hammer. Chopper knew Mario's Ultra Hammer wouldn't let him move around when he did this, so he just waited for the doppelgänger to finish.

"I… I can't move?!"

"See? You don't know everything about my friends." Chopper stated, finishing off the clone with a simple jump to the head. He smiled, having a feeling of accomplishment until he saw a shadow clone of Blade land on the ground.

"Well… Looks like this should make things a little interesting!" Shadoo Blade smirked, readying his katana. "Let's see how you stand against this clone!"

Chopper finished drinking a Star Shroom Shake and threw the crushed can at Shadoo Blade's head, leaving him in a daze. He had 100 HP, an Attack of 24 and a Defense of 10. The can didn't do much, but when Chopper jumped on him with the light power in his feet, it did much more.

Shadoo Blade decided to retaliate as Chopper jumped off him by throwing a couple of shurikens his way. To make the fight more interesting, Chopper inhaled one of the shurikens and gained the Ninja ability. He threw a couple of kunais in Shadoo Blade's direction to block the shurikens and make them drop to the floor.

"Making the fight a little even, are ya?" wondered Shadoo Blade while he jumped in the air and threw shurikens at Chopper. Even if he was a ninja, his attacks missed when Chopper dodged them in a fast pace and grabbed a hold of Shadoo Blade as soon as he landed on the ground.

"Let's go for a little ride," Chopper smirked, jumping high in the air with Shadoo Blade. He made sure his enemy's head was facing the floor before he began to plummet to the ground. Shadoo Blade hit the floor, and he was left dazed, allowing Chopper to strike him with his small katana.

But Shadoo Blade wasn't going to finish there. He kicked Chopper and then struck him with his katana afterward. Remembering a powerful move the original Blade had, his katana was surrounded in dark energy, which made Chopper's eyes widen.

"Eat this!" Shadoo Blade fired a Dragon Beam in Chopper's direction, which caught him in the attack and sent him flying far back. Shadoo Blade dashed over to him and made a big leap into the air to drive his katana down into the antennae hero.

"Whoa!" Chopper jumped back and threw a kunai as soon as Shadoo Blade's katana was stuck to the ground. He struggled to pull it out, especially with Chopper throwing a couple of kunais his way. He ended up ignoring his blade and threw a couple of shurikens at Chopper.

An idea suddenly struck Chopper's head as he flipped into 3-D and went around the doppelgänger. Once in 2-D again, he delivered a kick to Shadoo Blade's head, which made him knock down by his katana. The doppelgänger pulled his blade off the floor and swung it at Chopper. Thankfully, his ability wasn't gone, or else he would be pretty annoyed like the other times.

"I thought being in this form would be much easier as a ninja, but I feel like I move a bit slow at times!" Shadoo Blade realized. "This is not how a ninja's supposed to be like!"

"Technically, Blade was considered the slowest in movement because his attacks did the most damage, and if he were both fast and powerful, the author would consider him overpowered," Chopper explained.

"That's a stupid idea…"

"Well it works just fine here!" Chopper tossed a light ball at Shadoo Blade before he could land another Dragon Beam on his face, and then he finished off the doppelgänger with a swing of his small katana.

"You know, the real Blade would've put more of a fight than you did. I mean, yes, you do have the abilities and appearances of my friends, but they are so weak compared to my friends! I don't think I would even be able to defeat them if I was actually fighting them!"

"Well then… Let's see how you fare against THIS?!" Shadoo Sonic landed on the ground, and the first thing Chopper felt was the doppelgänger knocking him over with a Spin Dash, which helped knock away his Ninja ability. Shadoo Sonic even destroyed the yellow star containing the said ability.

Chopper slowly got up and discovered that Shadoo Sonic had 100 HP, an Attack of 24 and a Defense of 11. "Really? Are they all going to have about 100 HP? That's just making this fight repetitive! And I already fought against him before!"

Shadoo Sonic stopped and taunted Chopper. "The speed of this hero is definitely something I'm impressed with. I've never felt any speed like this before! And with it, I'm certainly going to take you down!"

Chopper noticed Shadoo Sonic getting in a ball and charging up a Spin Dash. He quickly jumped and let Shadoo Sonic fly by so he could charge up an ice ball. Sure, this clone was fast, but he may not be if he tried to freeze him.

When Shadoo Sonic came back his way, Chopper tossed an ice ball and left the doppelgänger frozen solid. Chopper quickly jumped in the air and performed a fire jump on Shadoo Sonic, which not only thawed him out, but it also left him with a burn. Shadoo Sonic would've gotten in another ball, but the burn kept hurting him.

"Grrgh… Fine, looks like I have to fight you in another way." Shadoo Sonic knocked Chopper back with a Homing Attack, and then he clenched his fist to try to hit him with a Sonic Wind.

But Chopper saw the attack coming and jumped forward and hit Shadoo Sonic with an ice punch. He kinda knew that Sonic was afraid of water (everyone pretty much knew), but this was the closest thing to water he had. He soon thawed out the dark clone, who was soaking wet after the ice was turned into water. While he was trying to shake the water off him, Chopper jumped on his head and performed a stylish move.

"You should've remembered something," Chopper noted. "Sonic doesn't like water that much. That's probably why that doppelgänger can't handle water that much."

"Oh, the water's not too much of a big deal anyway," Shadoo Sonic curled up in another ball and began to charge his way. Chopper decided to charge up his Speed Dash and charge at the doppelgänger as well.

Both crashed into each other and were sent flying backwards. Shadoo Sonic was a quick one to get up and try to hit Chopper with another Spin Dash. Chopper didn't even have time to get up when he was hit by the Spin Dash and sent flying in the air because of it. But he quickly got control of himself while in the air and inhaled Shadoo Sonic as soon as he tried to attack him in the air.

By spitting him out, he left the doppelgänger low on HP, and Shadoo Sonic was certainly not happy with this.

"What in the world?! How did you bring me down this far already?!" Shadoo Sonic gaped.

"Well most of my enemies grew stronger HP wise, while you didn't," Chopper explained. "And since I've grown stronger power wise, I can certainly finish you off with THIS!"

He performed a flip in the air and finished off Shadoo Sonic with a light jump. Chopper would've celebrated the defeat of the clone, but Shadoo's voice still echoed around him.

"Four of my clones…defeated?! Well, I gotta say, hero, you're not too bad on your own. But I'm certainly not giving up the fight so soon!"

Shadoo Kirby appeared in front of Chopper and inhaled him in an instant. The doppelgänger spat him out and let him fall over before he ran his direction with the Fire ability on him.

"What the heck?!" Chopper gaped. "How does he have the Fire ability on him?!"

"I said I had your friends' abilities, and since I found some abilities like this, I thought I could use it against you! Also, I was hoping to use this clone for a while, since I had to appear as some shadow of this form myself when meeting your friend!"

"Kirby wouldn't have fallen for your tricks, which I believe he didn't. You're just going to have to accept the fact that you can't manipulate us!"

Shadoo Kirby growled and charged at him in a fireball. All Chopper had to do was perform a flip in the air and then jump on him.

Only problem? The flames on the doppelgänger's head ended up scorching him.

Chopper wasn't surprised to see the doppelgänger's stats. He still had 100 HP, an Attack of 24, but a Defense of 12 instead. And it was still feeling repetitive to him. In fact, this fight was feeling a little repetitive with the small amount of HP these clones had!

But that wasn't important at the moment. Right now he was facing Shadoo Kirby, and there was no way he could touch him physically. Using fire wouldn't work either because it would most likely heal him. However, there was still using ice…but water would have been much more effective. Well, he had no other choice.

Chopper ate an ice ball to gain the Ice ability. When Shadoo Kirby spotted him, he went into a fireball and charged at him, but Chopper used his freezing cold breath to freeze the fireball and make it fall to the ground, shattering entirely. Shadoo Kirby fell over, which let Chopper strike him with a light ball.

"Hmmmm… Ice… Well, I think I'll take care of that!" Shadoo Kirby got up and blew fire on Chopper, which helped get rid of his Ice ability. Shadoo Kirby smirked and removed the ability. With his Final Cutter out, he prepared to strike Chopper with the blade.

Well, until he flipped into 3-D.

"Huh? Where'd you go?"

"I'm over here!" Chopper replied, jumping on Shadoo Kirby from behind. The doppelgänger turned around to find him, but Chopper appeared behind Shadoo Kirby again and jumped on him a second time. This time, it was with some light energy.

But Shadoo Kirby wasn't going to give up so easily without a fight, so he floated up into the air so Chopper couldn't reach him. Now that he couldn't get to him, he turned into a stone and fell on top of Chopper, causing him to flatten like a pancake. Shadoo Kirby couldn't help but giggle at him.

"Look at you! You're flat like a pancake!"

"That's pretty obvious…" Chopper grumbled, getting himself up and unflattening himself. "Anyway… What was I planning on doing? …Oh, yeah!"

Chopper sent Shadoo Kirby flying with a rainbow kick and then jumped up to him to throw him to the ground with a light slamming kick. However, Shadoo Kirby was quick to get up, and he opened his mouth and tried to inhale Chopper while he was coming down his direction.

He was unfortunate to get caught in Shadoo Kirby's mouth and spat out for the second time. Plus, he was running a bit low on HP, so he drank an Ultimate Shroom Shake to heal at least 100 HP. With some energy back in him, Chopper tried to inhale Shadoo Kirby.

"You honestly believe using a similar attack against me is going to work? It's not even stronger than this clone's!" Shadoo Kirby scoffed.

Chopper ignored him and waited for Shadoo Kirby to get sucked in. With the clone in his mouth, he spat him out and then used a Speed Dash to catch up to him and land a light spinning kick.

"You cheap player! Trying to attack me while I'm off guard?!"

"Sorry, but I have to do something if I'm going to hit you," Chopper shrugged while hitting Shadoo Kirby with another light ball. With low HP, Shadoo Kirby had a feeling that if Chopper made a few more attacks on him, he would be finished, and that's not something he wanted.

Shadoo Kirby got his Final Cutter out and kicked Chopper first before jumping in the air with the weapon. Chopper was caught in the attack and sent flying to the left, so Shadoo Kirby put on the Wheel ability and began to go after him. Of course, the Wheel ability was removed as soon as Shadoo Kirby reached Chopper.

"OK, how the heck are you able to switch abilities without having to inhale an enemy?!" Chopper exclaimed.

"Since I identified the powers your friend used, I decided to use them to my advantage! I'll just constantly do this and win the battle easily! You won't have any chance!"

Chopper tried to punch Shadoo Kirby, but he dodged the punch and grabbed Chopper. "Now, let's get back to business!"

"I think you grabbing me isn't going to do much. There's a little problem." Chopper's foot began to glow as he kicked Shadoo Kirby with a light kick. "You forgot about my feet!"

Shadoo Kirby screeched in pain while Chopper finished off the doppelgänger with a light spinning kick. "Ha! Looks like you've got no more!"

"Oh, really? Did you honestly believe I would have no more?!" Shadoo scoffed. "Well this next clone is bound to blow you away!"

Shadoo searched for the clone he had, but he noticed it was missing. "Wait… What?! I swore I had that clone with me! Did I not copy it?! Urrgh… Very well then. I had two clones left, but it looks like I only have one instead."

"One? Well, that shouldn't be…" Chopper ended up baffling when he saw a shadow version of himself appear in front of him. "Hey! That's me!"

"Heh heh! That's right!" Shadoo Chopper smirked. "And I've got all of your abilities too! Let's see how you fare against yourself!"

Shadoo Chopper had 100 HP, an Attack of 24 and a Defense of 13. It didn't sound too bad, since he only had an extra point of defense. Chopper would have hit him with a light ball, but Shadoo Chopper did the same thing, which made both attacks crash into each other and cause a slight explosion.

"Ugh… How is this fight going to work out if we're both going to be using the same attacks on each other?" Chopper grumbled.

"Oh, don't worry about that," assured Shadoo Chopper. "I have my own ideas of winning this fight!"

Shadoo Chopper charged up a Speed Dash and tried to charge into Chopper, but he flipped into 3-D to avoid him and walked over to the left slightly. Shadoo Chopper went into 3-D as well and froze Chopper with an ice ball.

"You know, if my manipulation on your friend actually worked, I would have made a clone of you and probably lead your friends straight into danger!"

"I highly doubt they would even do that," Chopper retorted, breaking out of his icy prison and going back into 2-D, with his doppelgänger doing the same. "They're a lot smarter than that!"

"Yeah, but they'd believe you! They're your friend, after all!"

That's when Chopper remembered Tipral's words to him. He would've hung his head low, but he decided not to let that bring him down. Why does he need to listen to the words of this guy anyway?

Chopper responded to Shadoo Chopper by delivering a rainbow kick to his face. He followed up by jumping on him and then bouncing off his doppelgänger while performing a stylish move. All Shadoo Chopper could do was stand and gawk at the the real deal.

"You were supposed to cry and stuff! Why didn't you?!" exclaimed Shadoo Chopper.

"Because I shouldn't be listening to what a jerk like you has to say," Chopper declared, hitting Shadoo Chopper with a light ball and then hitting his face with a light spinning kick. Shadoo Chopper was just left slack jawed after falling over on the ground. But he realized that trying to harm them mentally doesn't always work.

So he decided to do what was best: simply beat the living snot out of him!

Shadoo Chopper equipped the Fighter ability and began to attack Chopper with his Vulcan Jab. The only good thing about being punched by his doppelgänger was that the punches weren't as powerful as a punch coming from someone like Mario. But, these were still pretty painful.

"I have every Copy Ability you've gotten a hold of right here!" Shadoo Chopper smirked, grabbing Chopper and throwing him far. "And I plan to use these abilities to my advantage!"

Chopper groaned as he slowly got up and saw Shadoo Chopper coming his way. With an ability like that, he had a feeling fighting him with be a bit difficult, so he jumped to dodge Shadoo Chopper's punch and grabbed a hold of the bandanna wrapped around his head. He managed to yank it off and eat it so he too could gain the Fight ability. Another bandanna appeared on Shadoo Chopper's head, but Chopper didn't seem to care.

"Now that we're more even, this fight should be interesting!" Chopper declared, getting in a fighting stance.

Both fighters launched themselves in each other's direction and began to deliver punches to each other at incredible speeds. It was difficult to see who was getting hit or who was delivering the hits because each fist met with the other. They continued this until their arms started to get tired.

Shadoo Chopper, on the other hand, cast a smirk and fired an energy ball Chopper's way. He ducked under it and hurled an energy wave at his doppelgänger, in which he dodged as well. But Shadoo Chopper made the mistake of trying to hit him with a Rising Break. Chopper simply stepped back and waited for Shadoo Chopper to land on the ground, and then he hurled another energy wave at him and then dashed over to him so he could grab his doppelgänger.

"Very clever, hero…" Shadoo Chopper muttered, charging up a fireball in his hand. "But I believe you've fallen right into my trap!"

"Trap?" Chopper would have thrown his doppelgänger, but Shadoo Chopper had already hit him with a fireball. He was forced to release Shadoo Chopper, but not before throwing an ice ball that froze the clone. Despite being burned, Chopper still approached his frozen doppelgänger and shattered the ice around him so he could grab him again.

"OK… Let's try this again." he threw Shadoo Chopper across the ground and made him fall over by the bridge. He was not in a good condition, and Chopper was feeling enough energy to finish off Shadoo, so he charged up an energy ball and hurled it at his clone to leave him very low on HP.

"So, Shadoo… Do you have anything else to say before I defeat you?"

"Well… I have something to show you!" Shadoo Chopper replied, firing a charged energy ball his way. Since this counted as a projectile, Chopper was able to grab a hold of it and fire it back in Shadoo Chopper's direction. "Wh-What?! How did you learn to do that?!"

"Well, I can grab a hold of anything that counts as something I could inhale, so that kinda counts," Chopper answered. "But that's nothing important! What IS more important is finishing you off!"

Shadoo Chopper ended up getting hit by the energy ball, leaving him with a slim amount of health left. He was eventually defeated when Chopper charged up to him and delivered a powerful kick to his face. All Shadoo could do was let out a screech of pain in defeat.

"Augh… I was…so very…close to…defeating…the small hero…" Shadoo Chopper moaned. "With the…power of…the Pixls… I almost…got revenge…on…the Ancients…"

"Pixls? There are no Pixls here!"

"Of course there…aren't! That was…all in the past… You may…have defeated me…but…there are many more…challenges that…await! Just you…wait…hero!"

Shadoo Chopper let out a slight cackle before he disintegrated, just like the dark mist of Shadoo above. Shadoo was gone, and most likely for good.

"Hmmmmm… You know, I wonder why Shadoo wanted revenge against the Ancients…" Chopper pondered. "Did they do something terrible to him? That's something I wish to know in the future…"

Up ahead, he noticed a door reveal itself. Chopper smiled and performed a Speed Dash to make his way over to the door. There, he found himself on the dark glowing floor again, but with a Voidrin carrying a bomb rushing in his direction.

"Uh oh…" Chopper fired an energy wave in the Voidrin Bomber's direction, sending it flying into a couple of Void Bombs blocking the path ahead. They all exploded, as well as a Voidrin Shooter standing by the bombs.

As soon as he reached the edge of the platform, he found a gap between him and a smaller platform with a vertical row of Void Bombs in between the platforms. Chopper sighed and stepped back to toss a fireball at the bombs to blow up so the way was cleared.

"At least those bombs were all together," Chopper sighed, jumping across the gap and then jumping on the next platform after that was a little lower. When he saw the platform slightly higher, he found a Voidrin Thrower throwing its boomerang, which made jumping to the platform a bit difficult.

He could've used his Fighter ability, but he would have to hit the Voidrin Thrower at the right moment if he were to knock it off the platform. Once it caught its boomerang, he jumped and fired an energy wave. He liked the sound of the punching sound it made as the Vodrin Thrower began to plummet into the bottomless pit.

Of course, it came out of a dark portal, but Chopper already jumped off the platform and landed on the ground below. There happened to be another floating platform above shaped a bit like a C, meaning that only one side could be accessed. Unfortunately, a block was also in the way, preventing any entry.

But that wasn't the problem right now. The Voidrin Thrower jumped out of a dark portal and chased after Chopper with its boomerang. It hit him, but it didn't stop him from approaching the enemy and hurling an energy wave its way. He quickly finished it off with a Vulcan Jab.

"OK… Now how am I supposed to get onto that C-shaped platform above?" Chopper wondered as he looked up at the platform above him. "There has to be a way up there! I mean, there's a reason why it's there!"

He decided to check for anything in 3-D. He actually found a Brick Block that created a ladder, and also a Voidrin Swordsman that was apparently wandering around in 3-D. He ignored the enemy and went back into 2-D to climb up the ladder and onto the top of the platform. There, Chopper found a ? Block that contained a Master Shroom, which he happily took.

"Mmmmmm! Now that was yummy!" Chopper smiled. "Now, let's see how I can get to that chest…"

He went back into 3-D and noticed two Dimensional blocks by the edge of the block in the way. Chopper had no problem landing on the blocks, and he was also able to get past the large block and grab the Void Key in the chest.

"OK, that was easy. I was expecting something a little more challenging…"

He jumped onto the larger platform ahead, only to discover a dark portal. Instead of Voidrins, Maginans flew out. There were about three of them. The same three he saw back in that castle area.

"Well well well! Looks like we found ya, kid!" the Dark Maginan smirked. "Don't think you'd be getting away from us now, would ya?"

"And get a load of the bandanna he's wearing!" the Maginan Private laughed. "It looks so stupid on him!"

The soldier thought the others would be laughing, but it soon noticed the other two weren't laughing and giving him an annoyed, look, making him quiet down. "Oh… My bad. Continue on, sir."

"Good. And keep quiet for the rest of the conversation!" the Dark Maginan snapped before turning back to Chopper. "Now… You see here, we have orders from Tipral to take you down. Of course, we were always told to blast you, and now that you're all here alone, it makes defeatin' you a lot easier! I'll make sure to-"

"Well there's a problem with your order," Chopper cut in. "I don't think your leader is around anymore."

"Hold on a sec…" the other Maginan started. "Are you saying our leader's game is over?"

"Well… I guess."

"I'm guessing you were the one who did him in."

"Not at all," Chopper replied, shaking his head. "I don't even know what happened to him back in that fight between him and Dimentio! But I'm assuming he and Dimentio are gone…"

"So… You don't know what happened, huh?" the Dark Maginan aimed its weapon at Chopper. "Well if he's gone, then we'll let his soul finally rest in peace by bringing you down once and for all! He would very much appreciate that!"

Chopper gulped and dodged the shot that nearly hit his foot. It was even less safe around here with these enemies trying to destroy him, so he jumped to the platform ahead where a locked door happened to be, and he unlocked the door and progressed through the door.

"Don't let that kid get away! There's no way we're letting him out of this darkness alive!"

"What if we fail?" the Maginan Private asked.

"We won't. Chopper can't even leave this place, and if he even tried to move on ahead, a couple more of us will be there to stop him! Believe me, he is going to have a tough time roaming through this place!"

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Next area-

Chopper came across a long path leading up to a loop, but at the same time, he was not safe with a couple more Maginans lurking around. This time, there were two Dark Maginans flying around, and they ended up spotting Chopper.

"Ah, so you finally show up," the first Dark Maginan said. "We were just looking around for something to shoot at! Looks like we found some target practice! Although small, it should be pretty helpful when it comes to shooting other small things!"

"Wait… How will that help us?" the other Dark Maginan questioned. "Does it even matter?"

"Well… When you think about it, not really. Anyway, let's get back to what really IS important: destroying Chopper!"

Chopper gulped and tried to run on ahead. The other three Maginans from the previous area came out of the door, and they noticed the two Dark Maginans watch Chopper make a getaway.

"Uh oh… There goes Chopper." the Maginan Private sighed. "And he's too fast for us! We can't get him when he's moving like that!"

"Calm down, Private," the Dark Maginan snapped. "We have a gadget in our jetpacks that were designed to chase down fast people such as Chopper. Just activate 'em and we'll be after him in no time!"

The Maginans all activated a gadget on their jetpack, which made their fly faster than before. They chased Chopper through the loop and down a hill and began to fire. Chopper saw the shots and turned his head as soon as the hill became flat ground.

"Oh, geez… I got some enemies on my tail." Chopper grumbled. "At least their aiming's bad."

"Yeah, sir… He's kinda right." agreed the Maginan Private. "We can't even seem to shoot this kid!"

"Just shut up and fire, Private!"

"Oh… Right, sir!"

The soldiers continued to fire, while Chopper was forced to speed up. He was lucky that their shots were missing, because they never thought of shooting him where he was going to be instead of shooting him where he was.

Chopper ended up running up a hill, which was starting to slow him down. He began to sweat as he heard the shots getting louder. A missiles was fired from a Dark Maginan's missile launcher that ended up blowing Chopper forward and also made him fall to the ground.

"Ha HA! Got 'em!" the same Dark Maginan fist pumped. "Told ya I'd be able to hit the kid!"

"Well now that we got him, let's just open fire instead of approaching him!" suggested the colonel. "Surrounding him and waiting for him to surrender is just a dumb and clichéd idea anyway!"

Unfortunately for them, Chopper already got up and began to run on ahead. They stopped talking and continued to fire at the annoyed hero.

"OK, I can't just run forever!" Chopper groaned. "I need to learn to fight back against these guys! Maybe then they'll learn to leave me alone!"

He began chucking light balls in the air to create one large light ball. He did this before with his Master Gloves, and he was hoping he would be able to do something like that with his light power. Hopefully he had that kind of ability without those Master Gloves…

"What is he doing?" one Dark Maginan gawked. "Is he just throwing light balls up into the sky? He didn't even hit us!"

"What a lousy move!" laughed another Maginan.

Chopper noticed his plan was working, making him smile as he threw more light balls into the sky to form one large light ball. Once it was big enough, he stopped throwing light balls and focused on running instead.

"He stopped throwing those light ball things," the Maginan Private noted. "So should we keep firing?"

"…For the fourth time… YES!" the Dark Maginan near him yelled before he noticed something glowing in the sky. "Wait a sec… What the heck is that thing in the sky?"

"Looks like a giant light ball to me…"

They gulped as the light ball fell on most of the Maginans and destroyed them. All that remained were two Dark Maginans that were firing more missiles at Chopper. Sadly, their missiles were missing most of the time, and they were getting a little aggravated.

"COME ON! Why can't these missiles hit their target?!"

"Yeah, I know! We got him one time, but now they're all missing!"

"Well that's a good thing," Chopper thought while smiling. "I really like the fact that the missiles aren't getting to me!"

His thoughts were instantly shattered when he ended up bumping into a wall ahead. There was no other way, and when he turned around the two Dark Maginans caught up to him and smirked.

"Well, looks like you have nowhere else to go!" the first Dark Maginan grinned.

"So you're just going to have to surrender and die now!" demanded the second Dark Maginan.

"Wait a second… Why isn't it 'surrender or die'?" Chopper wondered. "What's the point of surrendering if I would end up dying anyway?"

"Well, because it… You know what, forget that. Let's just get rid of you once and for all."

Chopper sweat dropped, but he suddenly realized something. He threw his arms in the air and flipped into 3-D before the shots could be fired. When the Dark Maginans noticed Chopper was gone, they were suddenly left confused.

"What the… Where'd that kid go?" the first Dark Maginan asked.

"I swear he was here…" the other trailed. "Wait a second… Maybe he has that weird power to flip into the third dimension! I remember Tipral once said something about that!"

"…What the heck are you talking about? What third dimension? There are multiple dimensions that were already swallowed up!"

"Oh… Well I'm sorry about that, sir."

Chopper couldn't help but snicker at the two's behavior. They barely had any knowledge of flipping, and he couldn't be seen by them either. What was also nice was that there was indeed a path he found up ahead leading to a door, but that was only accessible in 3-D.

He approached the door and opened it to a small area with a block in front of him and a large spiky path ahead leading to a small hole that looked like the shape of the block in front of him. There was also a Void Skellobomber flying around and dropping its head onto the floor.

Chopper started off by getting rid of the Void Skellobomber by jumping and attacking it with his Rising Break. It didn't defeat the enemy, but a light ball was enough to get rid of it and make it drop a Thwomp item.

"This might be helpful," Chopper said while taking the item. "Now… Let's see what I'm supposed to be doing here…"

He flipped into 3-D to discover that there was an open path in the spiky path, so he decided to push the block through the open path until he got past the spikes and reached the hole. The only problem? There happened to be two holes shaped like the block, with one to the left and the other to the right. Chopper decided to push the block into the left hole, but nothing happened.

Well, except for two Void Bob-ombs that fell from the sky with parachutes and tried to blow up on him.

Chopper's eyes widened as he went back into 3-D and returned to the door. He actually found another block waiting for him, and thankfully the two Void Bob-ombs blew up, so he didn't have to worry about them.

"OK, let's try this again… Only this time, I'm not going to put it in the same hole." Chopper pushed the block to the other side in 3-D and pushed it into the right hole rather than the left. This made a door appear for him, as well as a Voidrin and Darkling. His Vulcan Jab was able to take care of them before entering the door.

But when he came out of the door into the next area, the background was a little different. It seemed to show a reflection of himself, which Chopper decided to take a look for himself. From the look of it, the background was a bit like a mirror.

"Oh, cool! A mirror background!" Chopper smiled. "This might be pretty cool!"

Up ahead was a Dark Super Star Crystal over by a bottomless pit. Sadly, there didn't appear to be anything around over by the bottomless pit, so going over there would be pointless in Chopper's Dark Super Star form.

But there was something else Chopper noticed. There happened to be a Darkling in the mirror sneaking up on him, but when he looked in the direction the Darkling was coming, he couldn't see it except on the mirror, leaving him confused.

"What the heck?! What's with this place?!"

He decided to punch where the Darkling would have been, and to his surprise, he noticed the Darkling in the mirror get hurt. Chopper couldn't help but smirk as he began to fire a couple of light balls that destroyed the enemy.

There was also a Voidrin Shooter in the mirror over by the Dark Star Crystal. Chopper was able to jump on its head and then touch the crystal to gain the temporary Dark Star form. He flew over the bottomless pit to see if there was anything around. There was only a ? Block that contained an Ultra Shroom, so he ate it to recover 50 HP. He returned to the ground and went into 3-D to discover an opening in the mirror background.

"Hmmmm… Very interesting…" Chopper trailed as he went back into 2-D and discover to his right a door. Upon entering it, he discovered a glowing light pedestal with light orbs surrounding it. It almost looked like a beam of energy was firing at each orb from the pedestal.

Chopper guessed that destroying it was the only option, so he fired dark blasts of energy at the orbs and pedestals to destroy them before shaking the dark power off him. It was something he was hoping he wouldn't have to go through another time.

Before anything else could be done, he heard shaking coming from the previous area, so he left through the door, flipped back into 3-D to go to the other side, and found a Void Duplighost wandering around a door near him. Chopper landed a couple of Vulcan Jabs on it to defeat it before progressing through the door.

He found himself standing on a platform near another Dark Star Crystal, and he also saw a path below him with a loop and a hill moving down. However, he noticed an upper path he could take that had a few obstacles in the way such as large square platforms surrounded in spikes, and there were Void Skellobombers and Dark Maginans flying around.

"OK… Do I take the upper path, or do I go to the lower part?" Chopper wondered. "I'm sure taking the upper path would be so much easier, but being in that Dark Star form might drain some of my HP…"

Chopper let out a sigh and touched the crystal to become Dark Star Chopper, and then he flew over the ground and made his way past a few enemies in his way. There were small platforms with arrows to help him not go too high up in his flight.

A Dark Maginan tried to fire at him, but what Chopper did was make a huge jump in the air to blast off to a high ledge that happened to lead to an alternate path. There was even a small amount of rubble in the way, so Chopper dashed through it all to smash through the rubble and disintegrate it.

Even the Voidrins and Void Creatures did not stand a chance once Chopper charged into them. But since he didn't need the form anymore, he reverted back to his normal form and found two bouncy platforms that led to two loops. And since his speed didn't slow down from the two platforms, he was able to run through them both and run down a steep hill leading to a spring pointed at an upper right angle.

He launched off the spring and caught a hold of a zip line to head down to a ledge where a door happened to be. There was a Darkling firing an energy ball his way, but he did away with it with a light ball before progressing through the door into a new area. This time, he came across a large area with a path leading down and a platform with a spring. There was also a Voidrin Thrower over by the platform too.

"OK… So should I use that spring that leads up to some missile, or do I take this path over here…" Chopper wondered. "I guess I'll take the more interesting route."

Chopper landed a kick on the Voidrin Thrower and then bounced off its head to reach the platform and bounce off the spring. The missile had a handle, so he was able to grab it and activate it, making it fly up in the air.

"Ooh! This is actually really nice! …Let's just hope I don't hit anything in the way. I don't think that would be too nice."

Void Bombs and Dark Maginans were lurking around the skies, and Chopper certainly didn't want to bump into any of them, or else this missile would be history. What made things worse was when the Dark Maginans were firing.

"Keep firing, soldier!" one Dark Maginan shouted. "This kid's going to be toast when we shoot him off that missile and send him crying to his mommy!"

This ended up angering Chopper and forced him to fire a light ball at the Dark Maginan's jetpack, causing it to malfunction and make the soldier fly all over the place until it crashed into a Void Bomb, causing both the Dark Maginan and the Void Bomb to explode. Thankfully, Chopper was no longer in its range to get hurt by it.

He eventually reached the path above and let go of the missile to land. A ? Block was near him, as well as a Void Koopa and two Void Goombas that tried to headbonk him. Chopper dodged them and hit the ? Block to make the Magic ability pop out. Knowing that was more useful, he took the power and became Magic Chopper.

"Now this should make things a bit easier! …Maybe." Chopper cast lightning that struck the two Void Goombas and the Void Koopa, leaving them paralyzed so he could finish them off with some fire magic.

He ran on ahead and noticed a pole up ahead with a spiral path leading down to a loop, which he took to catch a zip line going down to a spring. It ended up launching him up to a loop that led him down a small hill and onto the ground. Thankfully, a small ledge helped slow him down because there was a bottomless pit past the ledge.

Chopper jumped onto the ledge and found a platform he could jump on that led to a dark glowing slide. Upon getting on it, he happened to spot some Dark Maginans in the distance shooting at some Dark Wizrims firing at them. …Wait, they didn't look like Dark Wizrims!

"Huh? What's with those Wizrims?" Chopper wondered. The Wizrim appeared dark purple, and it had threatening purple eyes and a double-bladed scythe wand. It was twirling its weapon around and firing dark magic at the Dark Maginans, who looked like they were having a tough time.

"Could that… Could that possibly be a Void Wizrim?!"

He ended up sliding down as he watched the Dark Maginan trying to fight off the Void Wizrim, and it was certainly having a tough time as well. It had a double-bladed scythe! Of course that would be pretty dangerous! Not to mention one of the blades damaged a small section of the trooper's arm armor.

"Geez! This guy's putting up one heck of a fight!" the Dark Maginan wheezed. "My shots don't seem to do much when it's constantly blocking them with that weapon! And it even has magic it can shoot out too!"

The trooper revealed a blade hidden in its arm and tried to jab at the Void Wizrim, but it easily blocked the attack and struck the Dark Maginan with its weapon. Chopper's eyes widened in surprise at the fight. Before, he was seeing the Maginans taking down these guys, but now it looked like the fight was much different with the Wizrim being much stronger.

While he was sliding, he happened to knock a couple of Void Goombas away, which he was happy with, but he wasn't happy when he saw the slide end. It made things worse when there was no floor connected to the slide!

Thankfully, he ended up landing on a platform near another long path leading down to a door ahead. Chopper jumped off the platform, charged up a Speed Dash, and ran down the pathway until he landed on a platform where the next door was. This led him into another area with mirrors, but this time, he noticed a large bottomless pit and two Void Skellobombers flying around, as well as a Voidrin with wings called a Voidrin Flyer. They were apparently dropping bombs to the ground.

"Voidrins flying around now? Yeesh… I wonder how many of these guys are here." Chopper sweat dropped. "Not only that, but I don't see any floor around except for where I'm standing! Yeesh… But on the other hand… I can knock these guys out easily!"

He raised his arms and let lightning strike down on the four enemies lurking around. Chopper smiled after striking them one last time and defeating them. With that finished, he decided to flip into 3-D, since he could get a better view of the mirror background.

There, he noticed a hidden path revealed on the mirror. Sure, he couldn't see it on his side, but the mirror helped reveal the path he needed to go. With that, he followed the visible path on the ground until he got to an actual section of the floor that was visible on both sides.

"OK, so the only way to see where I'm going is if I go into 3-D," Chopper deduced after flipping back into 2-D. There, he was met with a Voidrin Bomber charging in his direction. Thankfully, an ice spell was able to stop it from even hitting Chopper and left it frozen solid.

He jumped over the Voidrin Bomber and cast a fire spell to thaw it out and let the bomb explode on the Voidrin Bomber, thus defeating it. With that settled, Chopper went back into 3-D and discovered some Voidrin Flyers flying around in 3-D too.

"Great… I almost forgot that there are some enemies that may be around in 3-D as well." Chopper sighed, following the path he saw on the mirror to reach the door ahead. His lightning spell took care of the Voidrin Flyers, and when he went back into 2-D, he found an unconscious Shadow Wizard lying on the ground, making him confused.

"What the heck? What's this Shadow Wizard doing unconscious?" the antennae boy would have jumped on the enemy to take care of it, but he felt like that wouldn't make him feel like a better person. Instead, he decided to get a better look at the enemy and noticed some small spots on its robe.

"Those spots… What are they supposed to be?"

Chopper would've pondered about this, but the Shadow Wizard's eyes opened, and it saw Chopper and grabbed him.

"Ack! You're not unconscious!"

"I was, but your voice happened to wake me up," the Shadow Wizard hissed. "Too bad I don't have the energy to end your game at this moment. Stupid little bug thing happened to jump me all of the sudden!"

"Bug thing?" Chopper wondered, cocking his head. "What on earth are you talking about?"

"That bug thing with those red eyes and that strange grin. From what I heard, it said something like 'fury'. I would've squashed it, but it suddenly jumped on me and knocked me out. Ugh… I swear I'm going to get that little bugger!"

"Hey… That sounds a lot like Fawful!" Chopper realized. "Ever since he turned into that…thing, my friends and I have never been able to catch him. I'm guessing he's somewhere close!"

While Chopper was suggesting to himself that he should try to stop him, the Shadow Wizard was slowly reaching for its wand and aiming it at Chopper. "Well… You go ahead and do that. Right now, I have to finish something."

"Like what?" Chopper wondered before seeing the Shadow Wizard's wand aimed at him. His eyes widened as he jumped over the magic and defeated the wizard with a jump. After all, it was pretty weak. But he couldn't help but feel bad about hurting a wizard in a weak state.

But then again, it was trying to destroy him.

Well, it wasn't something he should be trying to discuss to himself. He opened the door and moved on to another small area with no mirrors. But he did see an enemy he didn't remember seeing for a while. There were a couple of them too.

"Are those…Muths?" Chopper gawked, watching the giant mammoth-like creatures roam around. They were dark purple, and their tusks were much bigger than a normal Muth or even a Mega Muth. The last time Chopper remembered seeing them was inside that mountain in the snow world.

Thankfully, he wasn't too far from them, so they didn't happen to spot him and charge in his direction. But he was prepared for anything if they even tried to approach him. He had the Magic ability on, and that was a power that would most likely help him against these guys.

Chopper decided to take things slow for once and approached the Void Muth in front of him. It happened to spot him and began to charge his way. Chopper tried to stay calm and prepared to make his move when it began to get closer.

"Chew on this!" Chopper shouted, firing an ice spell to the ground and making chunks of ice rise out of the floor. The Void Muth was stuck in the ice and was left frozen. Chopper smirked and followed up with a fire kick that thawed the enemy and even left it scorching.

This also gave him the chance to continually bounce on its head and defeat it after a while. It dropped a Bone-In Cut for Chopper, which he ate to double his attack power for ten seconds.

Smirking, he used his fire magic to make fire rise from the ground and hit two Void Muths at the same time. Now that his attack was stronger, he could do much more damage and do away with these enemies. After defeating the two with more fire magic, one dropped another Bone-In Cut.

But Chopper had a sudden feeling that fighting these guys would take a while.

And indeed it did. After a couple of minutes (five to be more precise), Chopper had taken care of every single Void Muth that was in the area, both in 2-D and 3-D. It was a long fight, but Chopper felt like it was worth it. It felt like he became stronger attack and HP wise, and that was perfectly fine.

So he approached the door and headed into the next area to discover a couple of Dark Maginans and Shadow Wizards fighting in the air. There weren't many, but one was certainly struggling against a Void Wizrim, and another Dark Maginan was struggling against a wizard in a dark purple robe and had purple eyes. Oh, geez… Another dangerous enemy, and it was most likely a Void Wizard.

"Crud! How are we supposed to fare against these guys?!" exclaimed a Dark Maginan who got struck in the chest by a Void Wizard's magic. "These guys are so much stronger! And they're so much different too!"

"Ugh… Well we shouldn't let that stop us from fighting back!" another Dark Maginan shouted. "We've got better technology than these idiots! We're bound to kick their butts in no time anyway!"

"Yeah, let's hope…"

The Dark Maginan fighting the Void Wizrim was apparently losing at this point, with most of its shots being blocked by the Void Wizrim's weapon. Unfortunately, its weapon got sliced in half, forcing the trooper to resort to its pistol, but that wasn't enough for it to be defeated by the Void Wizrim.

"Whoa! That Wizrim just defeated that Maginan!" Chopper gaped. "And here I thought the troopers were going to be the ones victorious in this fight. Well, I guess it doesn't look like it…"

Realizing that he spoke a little too loud, he covered his mouth. He certainly didn't want any of them hearing him. Sure, they wanted to shoot at each other, but they ALL wanted to end his game.

Thankfully, the enemies didn't appear to be paying too much attention to him, so he slowly snuck his way past the enemies. The only problem was the door up ahead, which was being guarded by two Void Wizards. Maybe he could fight them, but that would bring the attention to the others, which would make them try to fight Chopper instead. Not too much of a good idea.

To his relief, the Void Wizards moved away from the door to fight two Dark Maginans that were firing down at them.

"Let's take 'em out!" exclaimed the first Dark Maginan. "They're gonna wish they've never messed with us!"

"Plus, they're blocking the way too!"

The two Void Wizards exchanged glances and then flew up to them and fired magic out of their wands at the two troopers.

"Phew! Thank goodness I don't have to deal with them!" Chopper thought. "Now the way is open!"

Chopper ran as fast as he could through the door and headed into a smaller area. The violence could still be heard through the door, but that wasn't important. He had a feeling they'd be too busy dealing with them.

"Well at least this place has no en…" Chopper paused when he saw two Void Wizards staring at him. "Oh…"

The Void Wizards let out a creepy cackle as they aimed their wands at Chopper. Dark purple magic was fired his way, which Chopper easily dodged. However, the only problem was that this magic was homing, so it started to follow Chopper around, which he noticed.

"Oh, come on!" Chopper ran over to the two wizards and let the magic hit them, only to have the shots disappear by their wands. Geez, they were not as stupid as he thought they were!

Nevertheless, he tossed two light balls at them to stun them, and then he used his fire magic against them to scorch them. After all, they were kind of similar to the previous wizards, so the fight wasn't going to be much of a challenge.

A simple jump defeated them and allowed the door ahead to reveal itself. There was also a Save Block and ? Block too. Chopper would've approached the door, but something dropped from the sky and scurried over to the door.

"Wait… Isn't that the bug thing Fawful turned into?!" Chopper gaped, noticing it go through the door. "So I'm close now! I've gotta catch it before it moves on!"

He ate the master Shroom from the yellow block, and then he saved his game with the Save Block before entering the door. He wanted to be quick, or else getting to Fawful would be almost impossible.

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Next area-

When Chopper walked through the door, he came across a large area with a couple of platforms above him. There didn't appear to be a door up ahead, so it appeared that the Dark Star Core wasn't going to be going anywhere.

Speaking of that, the Dark Star Core was already scurrying away until it noticed no door around.

"I gotcha, Fawful!" Chopper declared, speeding up to the Dark Star Core and making it turn to him. "You've got nowhere to go!"

"…Fury?" the Dark Star Core questioned as it looked up at Chopper.

"You've got nowhere else to go, so you might as well stop here."

Instead of answering, the Dark Star Core decided to get closer to Chopper, which made him back away from the creepy grinning whatever it is.

When Chopper backed far away enough, the Dark Star Core raised its two small arms and grew to a much bigger size compared to Chopper. It now had three jagged spider-like legs, two jagged arms and hands with three fingers, and the Dark Star that was attached to its antenna. Chopper could see the Dark Star glaring at him, and even the Dark Star Core was grinning evilly and cackling.

Chopper blinked for a moment with his mouth wide open. "Oh… Uhhhh… Oh, great. I was hoping this would be a lot easier, but I guess things have changed, haven't they? So be it. It's my job as a hero to stop you, and that's what I intend to do by defeating you!"

He clenched his fists and jumped on one of the platforms to hit the Dark Star Core with a light ball. Sadly, it didn't seem like it was harming this thing, and he could tell when it let out a creepy cackle. Chopper sighed and took a look at its stats. The Dark Star Core had 640 HP, an Attack of 25 and a Defense of 14. That was just for the Dark Star on the antenna, though.

That wasn't the only thing. Apparently the Dark Star Core had other stats aside from the Dark Star such as the red glass eyes, which had 80 HP each and a Defense of 8. And each of the three legs had 60 HP and a Defense of 6.

"Oh… So I can attack multiple sections of Fawful?" Chopper wondered before noticing a shadow arrow being fired his way. He looked up at the Dark Star, which was about to fire another shadow arrow, but he jumped out of the way and threw a light ball, which seemed to leave it's eyes widening in pain.

Chopper smirked and fired fire magic at the Dark Star Core's eyes, causing its hand to cover its eyes, while the other grabbed Chopper and held him over by the Dark Star, which fired a dark pulse that left Chopper flinching.

"I wish this thing could actually talk," Chopper winced. "It would make this battle much more interesting."

He managed to break out of the Dark Star Core's grasp and jumped onto one of the platforms. Chopper raised an arm and let his lightning magic hit the Dark Star, but this only made the Dark Star Core knock Chopper off the platform with one of its hands. Now that he was on the ground, the Dark Star Core's arms went into the ground, and dark balls of energy went through its arms and were coming in Chopper's direction.

Chopper used his lightning spell to strike the balls of energy and destroy them, and then he let an icicle fall from the sky and land on one of the Dark Star Core's eyes. This gave him the chance to also hurl a couple of light balls at its legs. Sadly, only two of the legs were lifted off the ground.

"Oh… Well this isn't good." Chopper frowned. "I guess I can't really hit Fawful's weird leg things while his eyes can see them."

The Dark Star Core let out another cackle as its antenna, arms and legs disappeared and began to chase after Chopper around the whole area. Chopper gulped and began to jump from platform to platform to avoid the evil Dark Star Core getting closer and closer. If this was a straight run, then sure, he would be able to get away from this thing, but he was jumping, and jumping for him was not faster than running.

"FURY!" the Dark Star Core roared when Chopper took one glance at the giant bug thing. He let out a yelp and jumped off the platforms when he noticed it getting much closer. He raised his arm and let lightning strike the Dark Star Core's eyes, which was enough to crack them and leave it blind. Its legs, arms and antenna reappeared, allowing Chopper to hurl an ice spell at the legs.

After a fire spell, the three legs were gone, and the Dark Star Core came crashing to the floor. The bottom half of its body was left destroyed and splattered on the floor, but the upper part of its body was still there, as well as the Dark Star on the antenna.

"OK… So I can finally attack it with ease." Chopper started off by jumping on the platforms and making his way up to the Dark Star. He performed a light jump and was being stylish when he bounced off.

Unfortunately, things were not going to be as easy as he thought now when a shadow arrow appeared and began to spin around the Dark Star. Chopper quickly got down on the floor, but the shadow arrow aimed for the floor and started to spin then. It began to get faster as it continuously spun too. Chopper just focused on jumping every time the arrow got near his feet.

"OK, I just need to jump to dodge this. Nothing difficult!" thought Chopper as he jumped one last time, which made the Dark Star finally give up and fire the shadow arrow in Chopper's direction.

"What?! Oh, come on! …Well, maybe I could use something to throw that thing back?" the pale green gumball wondered, since he noticed the shadow arrow was approaching him rather slowly. "Maybe my Magic ability has something that'll give me a hand…"

Chopper created a hammer out of fire and swung it at the shadow arrow. This caused the weapon to be thrown back at the Dark Star and leave it stunned for a while. Smirking, Chopper struck it with lightning and then jumped up the platforms to use a light jump to do extra damage.

Was this being affected by light just like most dark enemies? That was something Chopper wondered.

After throwing a light ball at the Dark Star, it took action by charging up a powerful beam. Unfortunately, Chopper wasn't sure what it was going to do, but he had a feeling the attack was going to be powerful. Maybe getting behind it was the better idea.

"I better do that then," Chopper flipped into 3-D and went behind the Dark Star Core. He noticed a giant, purple beam fire out of the Dark Star for a brief moment until it stopped. Chopper took this chance to jump up the platforms and hurl a charged light ball at the Dark Star.

"I bet you weren't expecting that!" Chopper smirked.

The Dark Star finally detached itself from the Dark Star Core's antenna and used its power to revitalize the rest of the body. Chopper gaped after he heard the creepy cackle from Fawful. How was it able to do something like that?!

Dark lasers were also being fired from the Dark Star Core's antenna and were following Chopper around. He ended up leading them to the Dark Star, but the shots only disintegrated before it touched the Dark Star. Chopper was left disappointed, but he managed to land in a jump on the antenna.

The Dark Star Core took action again and let its eyes flash to make the whole area covered in dark smoke. This made things difficult for Chopper because he could barely see where the Dark Star Core was.

"Ugh! I don't like this one bit!" Chopper cried. "How am I supposed to get to Fawful when everything's covered in smoke?!"

For some reason, he could see two glowing eyes and below the eyes were glowing red eyes. That was most likely the Dark Star Core cackling, while the Dark Star above was probably going to make another attack. However, it didn't appear to make one, which Chopper noticed and brought his guard down.

"What is it doing?"

Since his guard was down, the Dark Star Core fired a blast of dark energy in Chopper's direction and knocked him off the platforms. He was not pleased, and it made him even more annoyed when the Dark Star Core was laughing at him. But at the same time, he was annoyed with himself.

"Why did I bring my guard down like that?" Chopper sighed. "That was so dumb of me!"

He noticed a hand trying to reach him, which he reacted just in time to avoid it and land on the Dark Star's arm. He ran up to its face and fired a lightning bolt at both eyes. Chopper even hit its antenna with a lightning bolt too.

"OK, I still need to focus on hitting the antenna, but it'll make things easier if I get the legs and eyes down too! Then again, that antenna's probably going to still attack me, so the choices are kinda tough…"

The Dark Star Core's mouth opened, and out came some dark poisonous breath that Chopper was forced to cover his face from. Unfortunately, he still got a little poisoned by it, which turned his whole face pale. The Dark Star Core cackled maniacally and used its other hand to throw Chopper off its arm.

"Geez… I don't feel so good…" Chopper coughed, taking damage from the poison every five seconds. "Too bad Piccolo's not here… Her music always helped cure status ailments…"

He decided to take out the closest thing he had to curing poison and drank a Super Shroom Shake to recover only 20 HP. Chopper did away with the can and was no longer feeling sick. An ice hammer appeared in his hand as he climbed up to the top of the area and slammed the hammer on the Dark Star Core's antenna.

Chopper would've hit the antenna again, but the hammer was shattered by a small dark laser the Dark Star fired. That didn't matter anyway, because he was already near the Dark Star Core's antenna, so another light jump was able to hurt the Dark Star and the Dark Star Core.

Another idea struck Chopper's head, making him create a sword out of fire. He prepared to hit the Dark Star's antenna, but its mouth opened and let out a scream that not only made Chopper fall to the ground, but it also blew out the fire sword. The Dark Star Core let out another cackle and picked up Chopper and lifted him over to its antenna so the Dark Star could detach itself and appear next to him to fire a dark pulse.

"Oh, this again? This isn't so hard to dodge." Chopper jumped to dodge the pulse attack, and then the Dark Star Core raised its arm even higher, while the Dark Star rose to his height again. Another pulse fired from the Dark Star, but Chopper had no problem jumping over it like before.

That's when the Dark Star Core finally gave up trying to hurt Chopper like this and dropped him to the ground. Chopper sprang back into action upon landing on the floor and created an electric bat that he used to hit one of the Dark Star Core's eyes and also its antenna. Thankfully, that bat left one of its eyes cracked.

"Ahh… Well, if I can crack the other eye, then that means I won't have a problem destroying the legs!"

He prepared to fire another lightning bolt at the other eye, but the Dark Star Core made its move first and threw Chopper to the ground. He was able to get up quickly and react in time when he saw the Dark Star Core spew out its poison breath.

"When in doubt, flip about!" declared Chopper, flipping into 3-D and avoiding the attack. After the Dark Star Core finished its stinky breath, it noticed Chopper was missing, leaving it confused.

Well, until its other eye was cracked by a rainbow kick Chopper delivered from behind.

"And that'll help you win a fight!"

Chopper landed on the lowest platform and looked down at the three legs. A lightning bolt hit all three legs, but before he could destroy them, the Dark Star Core's antenna began to flash, forcing him to look up instead. The whole area ended up getting fogged up, and the only thing he could see were two red cracked eyes getting closer.

Oh, and that cackle. He could hear that too.

"Ugh… I really hate that cackle of Fawful's…" Chopper mumbled. "In fact, I don't know if Fawful is being controlled by that thing or vice versa. I'd say he's controlling its power, but I don't think he can say much…"

The Dark Star Core's head appeared in front of Chopper and began to chase him around. Sadly, Chopper couldn't do much, because when he hurled a light ball at the enemy, it did practically nothing. The only thing he could do, however, was run.

To make matters worse, the Dark Star from the core's antenna was trying to charge in his direction, forcing him to jump each time it came his way. He tried jumping on the Dark Star, but because it was surrounded by a green glow, he was hurt and pushed back near Fawful instead.

Thankfully, the fog faded away, and the Dark Star Core's arms and legs both appeared, along with its antenna. Chopper also noticed something with the Dark Star. It eyes were closed shut, possibly from the cracked eyes on Fawful.

"Hmmmm… Is it possible that the Dark Star Core is blind? Or am I just thinking too deeply…" Chopper wondered, quickly dodging a dark laser the Dark Star fired down at him. He already hit the legs before, so maybe he just needed to strike them with a powerful attack to destroy them!

He created a fire sword and rushed over to the first leg he saw. Chopper slashed it a couple of times and let it disintegrate. He also fired some lightning at the third leg and then threw the fire sword to destroy it. That left the middle leg, but the Dark Star Core already noticed him and grabbed him.

"Chortles!" cried the Dark Star Core while it rose its arm so the Dark Star could detach and fly down to Chopper's height. It didn't even have a chance to send a dark pulse because of the light ball Chopper managed to toss first.

But the Dark Star Core still kept its grip on Chopper and tried to crush him with its other hand. Chopper only had one arm left free, but he couldn't get out of the freaky bug's grip.

"I guess I have no other choice but to…" Chopper looked down at the remaining leg and fired a spear made of electricity to destroy the leg and make the Dark Star Core crash onto the floor. Just like before, the lower half splattered all over the floor, and the only thing left to fight back at the moment was the Dark Star.

"Well, looks like I took care of that without any problem!" Chopper smirked as he pointed up at the Dark Star. "Now it's just you and me!"

He fired electric arrows at the Dark Star, which was able to pierce through the round…whatever the heck it was. This only made it fire small shadow arrows in his direction, which Chopper dodged by using his Speed Dash to blast off. While he jumped over the Dark Star Core, he hurled a couple of light balls at the antenna and then jumped up the platforms to fire poison magic to poison it.

Well, it would've been poisoned, but this wasn't like other enemies that had more of a life. The Dark Star was just a mere object.

"Oh… So the poison barely did anything…" Chopper sighed. "Great. Just great. What else could I do?!"

While he pondered, the Dark Star charged up a giant beam and fired it at Chopper while he was distracted. Not only did he take a lot of damage, but he lost his Magic ability as well. That too was shattered by the beam, leaving him with no Copy Ability.

Chopper landed on the floor face flat, obviously injured by the attack. He was even covered in a couple of small burns on his arms and a bit on his face. But that didn't stop him from getting up and tossing a weak light ball at the Dark Star. It didn't do much damage like his other light balls, but it was enough to harm the antenna.

But what made things worse was when the Dark Star detached from the antenna and prepared to heal the rest of Fawful's body.

"Oh no you don't!" Chopper cried, jumping up to the Dark Star and tackling it to the floor. Trying to grab a hold of it was difficult because of how heavy it felt to him, and the fact that it could attack him still made things even more dangerous. Which was why he was blown back by its dark laser.

"Ugh… Honestly, I wanna know what this thing is. Fawful somehow absorbed its power, and he was suddenly turned into that…bug thing. And I'm talking to myself again!"

The Dark Star floated up and summoned a few enemies to assist it. He saw a Starman, Blade Knight and a green angel called an Annie. While getting the Angel ability would have been nice, Chopper inhaled the Starman instead and got the Hi-Jump ability, which he used to propel upward and tackle the Dark Star.

Both he and the Dark Star crashed into the wall, but the Dark Star came out OK and flew over to the remains of Fawful and revitalized the rest of the body. Now the Dark Star Core was revitalized, allowing it to go on the core's antenna once again.

"Oh, great… Now I have to go through that whole cycle again! …Unless I just stick to attacking the antenna instead?"

He made a big jump up to a platform below the Dark Star Core's antenna and followed up by propelling himself up to the Dark Star to charge into it. The Dark Star didn't take it too well and fired a small dark laser at Chopper that ended up missing. Chopper used his cape as a parachute to slowly float onto one of the platforms that were at a higher distance from the Dark Star Core.

"OK, I don't know if Fawful could actually get me from here…" Chopper thought while hitting the antenna with a light ball. He wished his Hi-Jump ability could do a little more, which made him wonder if getting the Angel ability was actually the better idea.

The Dark Star Core's antenna continued to fire lasers at Chopper, but he kept jumping from platform to platform to easily dodge them. He even propelled downward to hit the Dark Star again and recoiled when it tried firing another shadow arrow his way. Only this time, it was homing.

"Uh oh… Not good!"

He jumped over to a couple of platforms as fast as he could to avoid the shadow arrow, but he suddenly had an idea that could possibly work. Chopper headed back to the Dark Star Core's antenna, jumped on it, and let the shadow arrow hit the Dark Star while he was behind it. Let's just say the Dark Star didn't take it too well and was left stunned.

Chopper smirked and hurled at least two light balls until the Dark Star Core took action and began to grab some of the platforms and hurl them away, limiting the amount of platforms in the area.

"Are you kidding me?! Why would you do that?!" Chopper gaped.

"DARKNESS!" the Dark Star Core cackled, grabbed Chopper and letting glowing energy flow through its arm and make contact with Chopper. Each time he was struck by the glowing energy, the grin on the Dark Star Core appeared to get wider.

It eventually threw Chopper to the ground and let his Hi-Jump ability get knocked away. Thankfully, the ability was still bouncing around, so Chopper was able to inhale it just in time, but instead of swallowing it, he spat it at the Dark Star Core's antenna as soon as he got to its exact height. He had a feeling the ability wouldn't be too helpfully anyway.

More glowing energy flowed through the Dark Star Core's arms as it tried to grab Chopper again. He easily dodged the arms this time and left the Dark Star Core blind for a moment with a light ball. Chopper proceeded up to the top platforms remaining and jumped on the antenna stylishly after bouncing off. He also added a light slamming kick too.

The Dark Star Core would've grabbed him again, but like before, it ended up missing. But the grin on its face certainly didn't wear off just yet. It cackled and let the Dark Star detach from its antenna so it could fly over Chopper and fire small lasers down.

Chopper was unfortunate not to know about the Dark Star lingering over him until he got hit by one of its lasers. He looked up and saw the target firing another laser. Thankfully, he managed to get out of the way just in time before the laser hit the platform.

"I guess Fawful is trying out some new strategies..." Chopper mused. "Not bad. I'd commend him for that if he was actually speaking to me..."

The Dark Star began to rapidly spin around while firing lasers all over the place. Some came in Chopper's direction, but they weren't too difficult to avoid. The only problem was avoiding them when they ricochetted off the walls, since he didn't expect something like that to happen.

"Great... Now they're ricochetting off the walls!"

He ducked under one laser, and then he jumped off a platform to avoid another. He tried to hit the Dark Star with at least one light ball, but that wasn't enough to stop it from firing more all over the place. He decided to land on the ground and stay over by one of the Dark Star Core's legs so the lasers could most likely hit them. Sadly, he forgot that the legs could lift off the ground while the eyes were not cracked.

Chopper frowned before getting shot by one of the lasers and knocked over. The Dark Star took notice of this and attached itself to the Dark Star Core.

"Stupid lasers..." Chopper grumbled. "Why does this guy have to be annoying? Even his voice is annoying!"

He noticed the Dark Star Core sink its hands into the ground and let more energy surge through its arms. The ground started to shake, and suddenly the ground was starting to glow. Chopper took this as a sign to get off the floor, so he did just that.

The floor was instantly filled with heating energy that got even brighter, and since the Dark Star Core noticed Chopper off the ground, it tried to swat him off the platforms so he could get hit. But Chopper wasn't going to make this easy and jumped on its arm as it reached out.

Sadly, the energy surging through its arm was enough to harm Chopper and make him fall onto the ground. He wasn't sure what feeling he received from hitting the hot floor, but the only thing he could do was let out a cry while rocketing upward.

"YEEEEOUCH! THAT'S HOT!"

The Dark Star Core grabbed Chopper again and brought him to its antenna so the Dark Star could do its job of attack. Fortunately, Chopper could move freely, so he got two light balls ready and threw them at the antenna when it was about to make an attack. He also jumped off the Dark Star Core's hand and landed a light kick to the antenna too.

"I kinda wish my friends were here to help me fight him…" Chopper trailed. "It would be nice to have someone to talk to while I fight Fawful."

He looked back up at the Dark Star Core's antenna, which was giving him a glare. It fired a laser his way that was easy for him to dodge, but after dodging, a strange feeling entered his mind.

Fawful getting a hold of the Dark Star was technically his fault, after all. If he didn't go after those thirteen Gold Beans two years ago, Fawful may have not likely gotten a hold of this kind of power.

But at the same time, he remembered that one of the reasons why he was here was to fix the mistake he and his friends made with the resurrection of The Void. And since he was now duking it out with Fawful with the Dark Star's power, he could fix the mistake he made two years ago.

And Chopper was going to make sure that mistake would be fixed.

The Dark Star Core opened its mouth, and an apparition of Cackletta appeared and charged at Chopper. With a confident look, he performed a flip over the apparition and chucked two fireballs at the antenna. He also jumped over the two hands that charged at him and jumped on the Dark Star Core's antenna three times before landing on one of the higher platforms.

"Listen here, Fawful!" Chopper exclaimed. "I may have helped you get that Dark Star thingy, but I'm going to fix that problem by defeating you! You understand?!"

The Dark Star Core responded with a cackle while its antenna fired lasers toward him. Chopper opened his mouth and inhaled one to gain the Laser ability, which he used to fire a charged laser at the antenna. He also fired two lasers at the dark being's eyes to slow it down.

"Let's see how you like this!" Chopper cried, firing a laser at the wall, which ricocheted and hit the Dark Star Core's antenna. The Dark Star's eyes widened in pain before it got hit by a rainbow jump that was happily delivered by Chopper. When he bounced off, he flipped and landed a light jump afterward.

At this point, he knew the Dark Star Core was not looking too good. Maybe he had a chance after all!

He jumped over another laser and charged up a laser while flinging a light ball at the Dark Star Core's antenna. This caused the Dark Star to detach from the antenna again and chase after Chopper while surrounded in a glow. Chopper even tried hitting it with a light ball, but it didn't seem to have any effect.

"So the antenna's invincible, so what?" Chopper thought. "Avoiding it isn't so difficult if it's chasing me around!"

Chopper landed on the floor and ran under the Dark Star Core's legs. That apparition of Cackletta was still around, and it was chasing after him now. He hurled a light ball that only phased through the apparition, so the only way for it to go away was to simply run away.

The Cackletta apparition let out a cackle and was catching up to him. Chopper tried to slow it down by jumping up a couple of platforms and leading it to the Dark Star Core. It eventually faded away while the Dark Star dropped a couple of dark bombs onto a couple of platforms. Chopper jumped off the platform he stood on to avoid the radius of the explosion on other platforms. A couple of them were destroyed in the process while the Dark Star attached itself to the antenna.

"Finally! Now I can finish this up!" declared Chopper, firing the laser he was charging for a while at the antenna. Its eyes quickly closed shut in pain, leading to the Dark Star Core's eyes to close too. Chopper smirked and jumped onto the remaining upper platforms to chuck a few more light balls.

At this rate, the battle would be finished in no time.

Unfortunately, his Laser ability didn't last for too long when the Dark Star Core spat a dark blast from its mouth at Chopper, knocking his ability away and shattering it in the process. He was left disappointed, but it was no big deal. Light power was probably enough to help finish this ugly thing off.

The Dark Star Core's antenna started to store some power in order to fire a large, dark beam like it did before – only that time it was when the rest of Fawful's body was unable to move. Chopper flipped into 3-D and went around the Dark Star Core so he could get behind it and watch the antenna fire a gigantic dark beam.

"Good thing I wasn't caught in that," Chopper thought, letting out a sigh. "I'd probably be a goner!"

When the attack was finished, Chopper's hands and feet were now surrounded in light power as he jumped up to the Dark Star Core's antenna and began to deliver a few punches and kicks. His kicks seemed to be more effective, so he decided to spin his foot and let the light power do the job. That was, until he was blasted back onto the top platforms by the antenna's laser.

Chopper looked at himself and noticed the bruises and burns left from the Dark Star Core's attacks, and then he compared them to his opponent. It didn't look like there were any scratches left on the Dark Star Core! Not even one! But maybe the power from the Dark Star Core was starting to get weakened. Even the antenna was looking a bit weakened without scratches.

He pulled himself together and made a big leap to kick the Dark Star Core's antenna, but once he saw a shadow arrow pop out, it was time to stop and land on one of the platforms. At least a couple of more hits would probably do it in. Maybe…

Chopper tried tossing a light ball, but the shadow arrow only deflected it back, forcing him to jump onto another platform while dodging the shadow arrow spinning around. He could hear the annoying cackle the Dark Star Core let out while he continued to jump over the shadow arrow until it stopped and decided to fire it his way.

"Uh oh… I don't know if I have anything that could help me deflect that thing back at the antenna!" Chopper realized. "My Magic ability had something, but I don't think I have anything to…"

He paused when he remembered something he still had in his inventory. The Star Rod still happened to be in his possession when he pulled it out. While it lacked power, it could possibly help…

"Well, might as well try," Chopper gripped the de-powered Star Rod and waited for the shadow arrow to come his way. He swung it as soon as it got close, and it was flung back at the Dark Star Core's antenna. Its eyes widened in pain, giving it a sign that it was in severe pain.

Now was his chance to finish it off! With the light power in his feet, Chopper put away the Star Rod and made a big leap to the Dark Star Core's antenna. It would've tried to grab him if he weren't too high from its reach, but all it received was pain from Chopper's light jump.

When he landed on the floor, he noticed the Dark Star was completely frozen. "Did… Did it work?"

A bright light emitted from the Dark Star Core's antenna, causing it to explode upon being completely covered in the light. There was also a large, dark explosion that came from the rest of the body. Chopper had to cover his eyes in the process.

When he felt the explosion stop, he opened his eyes and saw nothing remaining of the Dark Star or Fawful. Even the platforms around were gone as well.

"Finally… The fight's over." Chopper sighed, letting himself relax a bit. "That was one heck of a battle…and it was all done by myself! Though… I guess this means this is the end of the Dark Star?"

Chopper looked around, and his frown changed to a smile. "Well… I'm glad I finally fixed one problem I caused. However, there's still fixing the bigger problem…"

"Why… The failing…"

The ten-year-old stopped smiling when he saw something fall in front of him. It was the Dark Star Core…or rather, Fawful. He was back to the size he previously was in the bug form, but unlike the bug form, an antenna and legs did not appear on his body. Two teeth were missing from his grin of defeat.

"Huh?! Oh, no… You're still at it?" Chopper gaped. Though, from hearing his actual voice in a dark tone, he had a feeling that the dark power of the Dark Star was no longer corrupting his mind.

"You…antennae…with…why…fury…whenever…" Fawful mumbled.

"Look, Fawful. Face it, you lost."

"But Fawful…just wanted…to acquire leadership like…Cackletta… The…loss of…Cackletta motivated Fawful to…step up… But I have failure… Fawful tried… Fawful gave the 110 percents… Fawful worked the overtime… Fawful was the team player… Fawful put in the hours… Fawful got the hands dirty… Fawful…"

"OK, I get it!" Chopper cried. "You don't need to ramble on!"

"But every time… Always… The Green Antennae arrives… Always in Fawful's way… Alwaysalwaysalways…"

Chopper couldn't help but feel a little sorry for Fawful. After all, Cackletta was probably the only person he ever cared about, and he most likely wanted to follow in her steps. Then again, Fawful was always crazy, and a villain like him is always a villain. But at a state like this, he had nothing in him.

"I always got in your way because technically, you ambushed me most of the time!" Chopper explained. "Well, you actually ambushed me and my friends… But you understand what I'm telling you. At a state like this, you're pretty much done. You're done with this evil business."

"I have remorse…" Fawful trailed. "Fawful understands… Fawful realizes the pain delivered to the heroes… Fawful gives up… Fawful will disappear with no troubles like you want…"

"You don't have to leave forever! Maybe you can have a change of heart! There's always a chance, you know!"

"No no… Fawful must disappear to prevent more troubles…" the dark bean denied. "Now here Fawful goes… The disappearing… Forever disappearing…"

"Strange… Why would Fawful choose to disappear?" Chopper thought. His thoughts were interrupted when he noticed Fawful's grin get wider while he grew to a much bigger size.

"WITH YOU!"

Chopper gaped while Fawful was surrounded by a bright light, causing him to explode. It was a powerful explosion, and it was even able to send Chopper flying back over by the door he walked through.

Thankfully, the explosion didn't really injure Chopper when he was able to slowly get up. There were a couple of more bruises left on him from the explosion, but they didn't feel too painful.

"OK… I don't understand what Fawful was trying to pull off…" Chopper trailed. "Did he…just destroy himself? I guess he was evil until the very end… What a shame. But he and that Dark Star thing are finally gone, so I don't have to worry about them for now!"

A door was also revealed up ahead, making him smile. He was wondering where the door would be, and now that it was revealed, he could finally get out of this area. The only problem, however, was that he was a bit wounded, so he had to be a bit cautious.

Chopper took a deep breath and entered through the door up ahead. He only fought two big enemies, so he had a feeling things would only get much more difficult from here.

Coming out of the door, he was in a flat area with a hill going down up ahead. There were a few Voidrins lurking around, as well as some Dark Maginans. Thankfully, there weren't any wizards in sight, to his relief.

Actually, he wasn't relieved. He was pretty low on HP, and there were enemies around! A couple of hits from them and he would be done for. But… There was a ? Block nearby, so his worries went away when he discovered a Master Shroom come out of the block after hitting it.

"Ahhh… Much better!" Chopper sighed, now healed from the wounds and burns from the battle. "That was actually very nice!"

He proceeded on ahead, but he was forced to stop when one Voidrin Shooter spotted him and began firing his way. Chopper inhaled one shot and spat it back at the enemy before jumping on its head. He even managed to pull off a stylish move while he was still in the air before landing. Though, the Voidrin Shooter was still alive...

Thankfully, he didn't have to worry too much about finishing it off, because a Dark Maginan happened to do the job for him.

"Gack! I missed!" the Dark Maginan spat. "I got that Voidrin thing instead! Maybe my next shot will be luckier..."

Chopper looked up and watched the Dark Maginan fire down at him. It was flying around with its jetpack, so there could be something he could do to distract the trooper. He started off by throwing a light ball at its jetpack. Unfortunately, it barely did much damage.

"Sorry, kid, but you're not making my jetpack malfunction!" the Dark Maginan cackled. "It ain't strong enough for that!"

It fired another shot, so Chopper inhaled it and knocked it away after spitting the projectile in its direction. He also finished off the Voidrin Shooter with a light ball and ran down the hill. The Dark Maginan quickly shook itself and glared down at the running boy before chasing him.

Chopper didn't even look back and continued down the hill before meeting up with a loop. He was already moving fast, so going through the loop was not so bad. The only thing he was worrying about was the Dark Maginan chasing and firing at him while he was running down.

"Whoa... Things might get a little too fast!" Chopper gaped, noticing his speed increase as he continued running down. "Where does this lead to?!"

He looked up and saw two Darklings join in the fight, forcing him to dodge the energy balls coming his way. Great. Now he had three enemies on his tail. This was just what he needed...

There actually happened to be a spring on the wall he was running down, which cast a smile upon his face when he finally reached it. Now he was launched to the upper right onto a black platform with a purple trim. It kind of reminded him of those squares up in the sky from The Void's darkness. There were actually three of these platforms and a bottomless pit down below.

Of course, the three enemies were something to worry about too.

"You might as well stop running and fight," suggested the Dark Maginan. "...Or, you could run and be a chicken! We're not leaving, that's for sure!"

"Yesss... You could be the baby or the idiot!" one of the Darklings hissed.

"OK, let me ask you this..." Chopper began. "What are you trying to achieve by destroying me?! Your leader may be gone now, but why do you still have the need to go after me?! You people are technically free from his rule!"

"You're ssstill the enemy," the second Darkling replied. "You sssee, we don't like you, and after what you've causssed in the passst, we wisssh to sssee you sssuffer!"

"Well sssorry," the hero responded, trying to imitate the Darkling.

"Insssult my tongue again and you'll get it!"

"Forget hisss insssultsss," the other Darkling suggested. "Let usss focusss on taking down thisss boy!"

The two Darklings fired their magic while the Dark Maginan was shooting at Chopper. To dodge it, he did a backflip onto the next platform and hurled two light balls to take out the two Darklings. They didn't even stand a chance against that power.

However, the Dark Maginan was able to handle one light ball thrown at its face. Chopper could've made another move, but he decided to use one of his items instead, such as the Thwomp. It grew to a bigger size upon pulling it out and went over the Dark Maginan before coming down and crushing the trooper.

Chopper smiled and jumped up to the last platform and noticed a trail of rings going down to the floor below. He wasted no time and let himself free-fall downward and land on the floor. He noticed a few holes on the floor, making him flip into 3-D to discover a narrow pathway. It was certainly a small one, and it made things worse with the Void Skellobombers that had the ability to flip into 3-D.

"Void Skellobombers... That's just what I needed to get in my way." Chopper groaned while carefully walking across the narrow walkway. The Void Skellobomber took notice of Chopper and tried throwing its head down. He wasn't sure how its head came back on, but he didn't care.

It wasn't too hard to make it to the other side, to his relief. But what awaited him back in 2-D was a locked door. Chopper groaned and approached the door to see if there were any hidden paths.

"Great... Nothing. There wasn't even a hidden path in 3-D either! This is just what I needed..."

He turned around and went back to the narrow walkway. Upon flipping into the third dimension did he discover something down below. There was actually no bottomless pit down below! Only a Void Boomboxer and Void Wizard were down there!

Nevertheless, he jumped down and landed on top of the Void Boomboxer. After bouncing off, Chopper had to watch out for the Void Wizard's magic coming his way. The homing magic still bothered him, and it didn't seem to do much when he tried leading it to the Void Boomboxer.

But the Void Boomboxer wasn't going to let itself get attacked so easily. The headphones it wore were at maximum volume, and a huge sound wave was fired from both sides of the headphones.

Chopper cringed while trying to block the loud screeching sounds. He didn't know what kind of sounds they were, but he didn't care. They were just too much for him!

"Augh! Those sounds are just unbearable!" he cried.

Thankfully, the cringing sounds didn't last too long, but he was still left off guard, thus allowing him to get hit by the Void Wizard's magic. But that only encouraged Chopper to fight back more by jumping on both enemies.

The Void Wizard tried to stun Chopper, but it missed and ended up getting defeated along with the Void Boomboxer. He sighed in relief as he opened the chest and got a hold of a Void Key.

"You know, I don't think I needed to fight them for this key..." Chopper realized.

There was a spring to the left in the pit that helped bring him back up to the narrow pathway, but he was forced to go into 3-D and move carefully again. The Void Skellobomber took notice of him again and started to toss its head onto him, which it failed to do once he crossed the walkway.

With the Void Key in his hands, Chopper unlocked the door and headed into the next area. He found a small portion of the floor slowly spinning vertically, as well as a Void Spiky Skellobomber flying around. Past that small portion was a Void Skelloknight, and behind it was a dark purple metallic enemy with purple eyes and spikes on its head while holding a spinning, sharp shield. There appeared to be something glowing on its back too.

"Hmmmm... Let's see what happens when I step on here..." Chopper stepped on the spinning portion of the floor and made his way across. Surprisingly, he didn't fall off when he slowly moved along with the spinning ground. "Yeah... This is definitely strange."

Eventually he made his ways across and avoided the Void Spiky Skellobomber's head being thrown down. The only thing he had to worry at this point was the Void Skelloknight approaching him. The other enemy, known as the Spinier Shield, followed from behind. All Chopper could do was wait until the Void Skelloknight swung its sword so he could jump over it to attack.

Though, his plan ultimately failed when he got hit in the heads by the Void Spiky Skellobomber's head, resulting in him being dazed and then struck by the Void Skelloknight's sword. While the weapon wasn't jagged, it certainly had a lot of power in it.

"A small boy does not stand a chance against me," the Void Skelloknight scoffed. "Surrender now, and maybe your game may end less painfully."

"Ugh... I don't think so!" Chopper retorted, quickly getting up and inhaling the Void Spiky Skellobomber's head that was still on the floor. He spat it at the Void Skelloknight, but it didn't even harm it. However, it was a good enough distraction for it to loosen its grip on its sword. Chopper smiled before inhaling the sword to gain the Sword ability.

"What?! Very clever..."

Chopper jumped over the Void Skelloknight while getting its helmet off with a swing from his sword. He then sliced through its armor with a light slash. Despite being armorless and weaponless, the Void Skelloknight was far from finished. Another sword appeared out of thin air, which was used to try to attack Chopper. He was lucky to parry the attack just in time.

"I see you're surprised by this," the Void Skelloknight noticed, seeing Chopper gape. "The Void's power that surged into my body has somehow granted me the ability to create another sword out of thin air."

Chopper was unsure of whether this Skelloknight's mind was its own at the moment or if it was corrupted by The Void's power. He didn't bother asking questions and attacked the Void Skelloknight while it was left off guard. He was still trying to be aware of the Spinner Shield behind him, so he jumped over the enemy while attacking it to worry less about it.

When the Void Skelloknight fired a Sword Beam, Chopper flipped into 3-D to avoid them, and then after going into 2-D again, he charged up light power in his sword to hopefully do away with the enemy.

"See how you like this!" Chopper cried, firing a Light Sword Beam that destroyed the Void Skelloknight and even hit the Spinner Shield. Sadly, it was left unfazed, to his dismay. "So light power doesn't affect these guys? Well that's nice..."

There was still the Void Spiky Skellobomber he had to worry about, so he jumped up to the enemy and spun his sword vertically a couple of times to let its dark, angelic wings fall off and make it fall to the ground. Now it was a normal Void Spiky Skellobit, but it was certainly not going to leave itself vulnerable, so it started to charge.

Chopper let out a sigh and finished it off with a light slash.

"Well, at least that wasn't too hard," Chopper said, turning back to the Spinner Shield. "Now for you."

He fired another Sword Beam in its direction, but like the other attack, it had no effect on it. Chopper even tried approaching it, but its free hand stretched and tried to jab at him like a spear. Even jumping over the enemy didn't seem to work, to his dismay.

"Ugh... It won't let me even jump over it! Unless... It's hiding something behind its back!" Chopper thought, pondering for a moment.

The Spinner Shield began to charge toward Chopper, while he put his flipping to use and got behind it in 3-D. He discovered a purple glowing spot on his back, which he struck with his sword and defeated the enemy in a single hit.

"I guess they have very little HP..." Chopper trailed. "I have no problem with that."

He noticed the ground move upward and then down like a giant lump or pimple. Going at a normal pace wouldn't help that much, so Chopper used his Speed Dash to go up the hill and then down. There was another he ran past and then he was going down a hill with a loop ahead. No enemies in sight, to his relief.

Past the loop was a small ledge for Chopper to jump over slightly and run through the next loop. A spring happened to be on the edge of the floor, which launched him over to another section of the area with a Dark Star Crystal on one platform and a dark crystal over by transparent dark platforms.

There were two other platforms over the transparent platforms too. Two dark portals with Voidrin Bombers and Swordsmen were popping out. Light balls were useful in taking them out and also clearing the platforms by hitting the dark crystal.

"Forget that crystal," declared Chopper. "I'm not risking it..."

He jumped through the cleared platforms and to an alternate tunnel path with a spear on the floor and on the ceiling. They would retract for a moment and then pop out of the floor or ceiling after a couple of seconds, so Chopper had to make his move at the right time.

Oh, and the two Void Wizards forming a small tower at the end weren't helping either.

"So... I guess I have to watch out for these spears AND their magic?! This isn't helping me one bit!"

When the first two spears retracted, Chopper quickly jumped past them and ducked when the Void Wizard on bottom fired its dark magic. Jumping couldn't worked too, but his ducking could make many projectiles pass over him. Afterward, he jumped past two more pairs of spears and reached the Void Wizards.

Their eyes widened when Chopper fired a light ball in their direction. They were knocked over by the door and then stomped on by Chopper's two green feet. One even dropped an Ultra Shroom Shake.

"I'll take that!" Chopper exclaimed, picking up the item and heading through the door to find something surprising. "What the... Giant stars?"

Over a large bottomless pit, there happened to be some giant black stars with a purple trim. There was only a Dark Maginan that had the ability to flip into 3-D flying around. No big deal for Chopper. Right?

He jumped on the first large star and noticed it move counterclockwise. Chopper was forced to jump before he could fall into the pit below, and it even got the Dark Maginan's attention.

"Huh?" the Dark Maginan turned and took notice of Chopper. "Well, what do we have here? The little boy I was hoping to find!"

"Great... The trooper spotted me." Chopper groaned. "Thanks..."

"You're welcome! This should be fun..." the trooper was about to pull the trigger on its weapon, but dark lightning fired down from the sky and hit the Dark Maginan. Chopper gaped as he jumped back over by the door. He wasn't sure what happened, but he had a feeling something bad was going to happen.

The Dark Maginan's dark gray armor changed to a black color, and its weapon and eyes were dark red. There were also some curved spikes on its arms and legs and a retractable spike on the top of its helmet. It said nothing as it fired a dark purple laser from its blaster in Chopper's direction.

Chopper brought his sword up and tried to block the attack, but it only shattered the weapon. The Void Maginan felt pleased and fired a plasma bomb from its grenade launcher it now sported. Chopper jumped over the blast radius and began to jump from star to star while avoiding the Void Maginan's dangerous shots.

"I'm now weaponless, and I don't know how I'm going to take that Void Maginan down!" Chopper thought, jumping to the last star and reaching a dark platform. He removed his Sword ability and began launching light balls at the Void Maginan. They seemed to be doing some damage, to his luck.

He hit the Brick Block to find the Paint ability, so he took that ability and waited for the Void Maginan to land on the platform. It drew its hidden dark blade and lunged forward in Chopper's direction to hit him.

"Don't even think about it," Chopper warned, attempting to jump on the Void Maginan, only to get hurt by the spike that popped out from its helmet. He held his foot in pain while letting out a cry. But that didn't stop him from paralyzing the Void Maginan with yellow paint.

The Void Maginan tried to attack, but it couldn't move, allowing Chopper to shoot fireballs, ice balls, rainbow balls and light balls to finish it off. It was thankfully the only one around, so he could proceed up ahead. There was just a small pit below he needed to jump over. Nothing bad.

But when he jumped, he felt something hit him from above. Above him was an invisible coin block.

"What the heck?! Are you serious?!" Chopper gaped, barely able to cross the pit. "Whose idea was that?!"

He traveled up the small hill and found another Spinner Shield. The same process from before was repeated from the previous Spinner Shield, and once behind, Chopper chucked a fireball at its back to destroy it.

There was a door just up ahead, but when Chopper got a better view of it, it happened to be locked.

"Locked? Great... Well, there must be something hidden here..." Chopper threw his arms up and flipped into 3-D. Indeed there was a path over to his left he took to reach an alternate area. There was a Void Key on the floor waiting for him, as well as a glowing white orb that reminded Chopper of the ones he saw flying up in the sky before.

It seemed to depict a volcanic wasteland.

"I guess that was a world that was consumed by The Void..." Chopper trailed. "I'm guessing this is where it stays, considering that it doesn't move... Well, at least I have the key in front of me."

He approached the key, but a Void Wizrim landed in front of him and grabbed the key first. Chopper quickly got in a fighting stance, but the enemy gave him a glance before flying into the orb.

"Ack! No!" Chopper cried, trying to chase after it until stopping in front of the giant glowing orb. "Great... It got away. I'm not sure what to do at this point... I guess I might as well go after it."

He jumped into the orb at a quick pace, hoping to catch that Void Wizrim.

---

Fiery wasteland-

Chopper was expecting the world to be very hot and full of brown and red, but when he landed on the rocky floor, he noticed everything was all gray, as if time was stopped. Everything was so colorless and almost lifeless too. It was the exact opposite of what he saw before entering.

"I can't believe it..." Chopper gasped. "Inside The Void, the world feels so emotionless and...kind of depressing. And it's also..."

Chopper had to stop when he felt himself cringing in pain. For some reason, being in this world was actually hurting him. Was it because he did not fit with everything else in this bland dimension? He wasn't too sure.

The Void Wizrim didn't get any farther, that's for sure. It was flying away, but it too was suffering from this dimension as well. Chopper simply jumped from rock platform to platform and reached the large one to encounter the enemy.

"OK, listen..." Chopper started, still wincing from the pain of the dimension. "The only option here is for you to hand over that key! Then maybe I might let you go..."

The Void Wizrim looked at the key and then back at Chopper. The only response he received was its double-bladed scythe wand being thrown his way. Chopper yelped and jumped over the weapon before splattering red paint on the Void Wizrim. As soon as it caught its weapon, it was scorched by the flaming paint. It still managed to hit Chopper with its scythe wand, though.

With Chopper harmed by the scythe, he tried throwing some paint cans at the Void Wizrim. Its only defense was slicing the can in half, but that only let the paint splatter all over it. It happened to be white paint, which helped freeze the enemy. A flaming spinning kick was all he needed to thaw out the floating wizard and leave it low on HP.

He would've finished the Void Wizrim off, but the atmosphere was already doing damage, and it apparently took care of it and made the Void Wizrim drop the Void Key.

"Well, I guess this world was too much for the Void Wizrim..." Chopper trailed picking up the key. He winced again as he felt the pain from the colorless world. "I seriously need to get out of here!"

He hopped back over to the platforms and jumped into a dark portal that he happened to come out of upon entering this world.

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The Void-

Upon returning to the dark, barren wasteland of The Void, the pain was no longer lingering in Chopper. He took one glance at the white orb and saw the color of the world like before, unlike what he saw in there.

"Well, let's get to unlocking that door," Chopper sighed, returning to the locked door after going into 3-D. He unlocked the door and headed into the next area. He was quickly reminded of the column of ascending and descending platforms from Castle Tipral and Tipral's Palace. At least, they were there, if he fully remembered.

With two Void Maginans firing at two Void Wizards, Chopper had a feeling everything around here was going to be full of these corrupted enemies. Whether they had full control of themselves, he didn't know.

"I sincerely hope something like that doesn't happen to me..." Chopper thought, shuddering from the thought. "I definitely wouldn't want to be corrupted from the darkness of The Void!"

He started by jumping on the first column of descending platforms. He avoided the Void Skellobomber flying in between the platforms and landed on the ascending platforms. "OK, now this is definitely something I remember..."

While crossing the platforms, he saw one of the Void Maginans pull out a rocket launcher and fire a dark missile at the Void Wizard. Its magic helped turn it back at them, but they only flew under so the missile would miss.

"Wow... They're going all out..." Chopper thought upon landing on the ground. At least, he thought it was the floor.

He remembered a pipe being hidden in 3-D in Castle Tipral, so he went into 3-D to see if there was anything interesting. What he found instead was a small walkway to his left leading to a pipe. That only brought him to a small area with the Ninja and Pirate ability.

"Hmmmm... Well, I've been using the Ninja ability a lot, so I'll go with Pirate." Chopper took the Pirate ability and gained his usual captain's hat and eyepatch. He returned to the previous area and let the cannon pop out of his mouth to fire a cannonball at the Void Skellobomber in his way. He always enjoyed using that move.

There were four more columns of platforms ahead, which he jumped across to reach the door ahead. He would've left the two Void Maginans and two Void Wizards to fight, but one missile came his way, forcing him to jump out of the way.

"Oh, crud... I think they know I'm here!" Chopper gulped, turning around, only to realize the missile only came his way on accident. "Oh... They're still focused on hurting each other..."

He pondered whether or not he should get rid of them, since he didn't want to worry about them following him. But at the same time, Chopper avoided a few enemies in the past, and they didn't seem to go after him. Plus, they didn't spot him, so they'd probably be too busy fighting.

Chopper entered the next area and saw how flat it was. It wasn't even that big, to his surprise. He also saw a path in the background and another on the other side. Walking to the end of this road only led him nowhere. ...And also to a Void Wizard.

He drew his scimitar and slashed at the Void Wizard. When it fired a close-range magic attack, Chopper jumped back and fired a cannonball from his mouth at the wizard, and then he finished the job by lunging his scimitar at the Void Wizard. It got sent flying away before disintegrating. Chopper was relieved that it didn't drop an item.

"All right... So where am I supposed to go from here?" Chopper wondered. "I guess I have to flip?"

He went into 3-D and saw two paths he could take. One to the upper left and another to the lower right. Chopper chose the upper left and found himself in the background upon flipping back. There was also another enemy waiting for him. A dark purple Void Jawbus.

"Great... Not these guys!" Chopper tried shooting a cannonball over the beast, but its head popped out and took the hit instead, doing absolutely no damage. His best bet was to go into 3-D, which helped him get behind the Void Jawbus and strike its glowing purple tail a couple of times to defeat it.

He reached the end of the path in the background and went back into 3-D to find another path to his right that led to another path across from the other where the Void Wizard was. This time, he encountered two Void Cherbils that were spewing out their terrible gas.

"This shouldn't be too hard," stated Chopper, who shot cannonballs at the two enemies and then swung his scimitar to finish them off. Afterward, he ended up stumbling upon a pipe ahead, which led him to another section in the background. Sadly, there was nothing hidden around except for a ? Block containing a Dark Shroom. It didn't get much far before it got squished by a cannonball.

"Well, there's not much here. Might as try that other way."

He jumped back into the pipe and went into 3-D to take the right path. Things felt a little stranger for him because usually he was used to going into the background at times. But this... He was never in the foreground before.

The only thing he had to worry about were the two Void Spanias and Void Fuzzies lurking around. Chopper only had to toss some light balls to get rid of them, considering that they could only get him at a close range. Nevertheless, he was able to take a mid-left path in 3-D to find a door.

"Well that was not much of a tricky maze... It was actually pretty interesting!"

Chopper headed into the next area through the door to find himself standing on a platform, and below him were different colored blocks. They were definitely larger than other blocks he saw before, but the red ones had a large circle in them, indicating that they acted like bombs. There were mostly yellow blocks, but the blue ones were somehow connected to the red bomb ones.

He jumped down onto the lower platform and looked at the two red blocks next to him. Chopper decided to hit the right one with his scimitar, causing the red block to explode, along with the blue ones to his right.

"Oh... So the explosion opened a path below!" Chopper realized, taking the time to go down the open path and onto some more blocks around ten feet below. Once again, there were two red blocks he could hit on either side, so he jabbed at the left block with his scimitar, destroying the blue blocks on that side.

He jumped down and destroyed some yellow blocks that stood in his way to drop down even further to the next platform with blocks. Unlike the others, there was a Void Spiky Skellobit that tried to poke him with its spear. It only took a scimitar attack and two cannonballs to take care of the undead creature.

Chopper destroyed the red blocks and dropped down to the last platform full off blocks. A Void Jawbus happened to spot him and try to bite him, but flipping into 3-D helped take out its tail.

After destroying the red blocks, he jumped through the open way and landed on a large platform below where he found a door. There were a couple of other small platforms above to the side, but there wasn't much there except for a dark portal and also a ? Block.

But the Voidrin Bomber was what worried him the most.

"Great... One of these guys..." Chopper jumped on one of the platforms while the Voidrin Bomber jumped on the large one. The fuse wasn't activated on the bomb on the Voidrin's head, so he decided to shoot a fireball at its fuse to let the bomb do the work for him. The Voidrin Bomber was left defeated from the explosion, and it let Chopper grab the Super Shroom in the ? Block.

"A Super Shroom... Well, I suppose that's better than nothing..."

He jumped back to the large platform and entered the door into an area full of smaller platforms and a bottomless pit below.

"Crud... This isn't what I was hoping to go through." Chopper groaned.

Jumping onto the small platforms was no easy task. Even if there were many of them around, landing on one was not an easy task. Plus, with the two Void Maginan Troopers patrolling the skies, Chopper might have a problem.

They also happened to spot him, making them fire down at him. Chopper started to jump onto each small platform and tried shooting light balls at the Void Maginans. He managed to hit them with at least one, but the light didn't envelop them like it would with the Darklings.

Speaking of Darklings, there were two that greeted him up ahead.

"Crud... This isn't good..."

He jumped toward the two Darklings and swung his scimitar to deal some damage to them, and as soon as he landed on the small platform slightly above on his right, Chopper defeated them with two light balls. It was when he got to a larger platform did things get a little more interesting.

Chopper turned to the two Void Maginans and got in a fighting stance, but two Void Wizards flew in and knocked the two troopers away. He was left in a confused state, but he jumped over to the locked door on the last platform. Chopper had a feeling there was something missing here.

Returning to the fight between the two sides, Chopper went into 3-D and discovered a small hole...that he happened to be standing over.

"Oh, crud..." Chopper gulped as he fell through the hole and surprisingly landed on a platform below. "...Oh, well that wasn't such a bad landing."

He went back into 2-D and discovered another large white orb in front of him. From what he could see, it was a speedway with a couple of skyscrapers in the background and a red sky. It almost looked a little similar to a place called Stardust Speedway.

"Interesting... I'm guessing that the key is somewhere in here..." the ten-year-old let out a sigh. "Great... This isn't going to be fun..."

Chopper made a quick jump into the orb before anyone could go after him.

---

Speedway world-

Chopper had a rather smooth landing when he entered the new world, and just like the previous one, it was dull and frozen in place. He was standing near a hill going downward and up to a loop, but the pain from this world made him stop looking.

But hey, there weren't any enemies to bother him!

"If traveling through this world wasn't so painful, I'd probably be a little more interested in this place..." Chopper winced. "But, I have to find the key, so I better start going, and fast."

He took off down the hill and through the loop. Even though the pain was still surging through his body, Chopper still carried on and went through a long corkscrew up ahead. He couldn't help but notice the large statue in the background. It was a bit difficult to see what it was, considering that it was too far for Chopper to see.

The speedway seemed to end after the corkscrew from what Chopper could see, but when he got closer, platforms appeared out of thin air, making Chopper surprised and even made him trip and fall over.

"Ow! What... What the heck was that?!" Chopper gaped, slowly getting up and brushing himself off. "Did platforms suddenly appear before I could fall into some kind of abyss?"

He decided to take it a little slow and went at a slower pace than before. While progressing on the platforms, the ones behind him started to fade away as more appeared in his direction.

Well, they stopped appearing when he noticed a chest on a platform in the distance. But Chopper easily discovered some hidden platforms in 3-D that led to the platform. However, unlike the others, these were actually moving.

"That was too easy," Chopper said, reaching the platform with the chest and getting the Void Key from inside. "All right, time to backtrack all the way back..."

He raced his way back after going past the platforms in 3-D and finally reached the portal leading back into The Void. A quick jump was all he needed to return to the darkness.

---

The Void-

When Chopper returned to the large platform, he discovered the enemies he saw before were still duking it out. One of the Void Maginans threw a plasma grenade, which missed and landed right by Chopper. The explosion knocked away Chopper's Pirate ability and left some soot on his face. Thankfully, the enemies paid no attention to the grenade and continued fighting.

"I better keep it quiet so they don't see me," Chopper thought, quietly jumping to the platform with the locked door. He saw a Save Block and ? Block too, so he recovered 200 HP from the Master Shroom and also saved his game.

"Wait a second..." the pale green gumball paused for a moment. "Usually when there's something like this, I'm expected to fight someone! But I already took care of Shadoo and Fawful! Who else could there be for me to fight? Unless...Shade is through here..."

He gulped, remembering the last time he faced off against him. Discovering what was written in his diary really did change his mood after exposing his secrets. And to think what he would be right now... Those thoughts made Chopper shudder. But he knew he had to progress onward, so he grabbed a hold of the door and pushed it open.

"If Shade wants a fight, then I'll be ready!"

---

Through the door-

When the door closed behind him, Chopper noticed that the area he stumbled upon wasn't actually small. In fact, there was a raceway just ahead with the hill moving down and leading to a loop. He was actually a little surprised.

"Oh... So Shade is not here, I guess..." Chopper trailed. "Well, I guess I'm safe for now."

Four Void Maginans landed in front of him and aimed their blasters at his head. "Why did I speak so soon?"

"Stand...where you...are!" one of the Void Maginans said in a dark voice, yet it seemed to pause every few words. "We've...got you!"

"Wait... I thought The Void's power is corrupting your minds!" Chopper gaped. "There must be an explanation!"

"You...URK...will not...be...ooooog...going...any...further!"

Something seemed a bit off here. It almost sounded like the troopers were in a bit of pain, but they seemed to be standing just fine. Unless... Unless these Maginans were trying to fight off the corruption? That's what Chopper seemed to assume. That probably made the most sense to him.

"Stand...where you are!" another Void Maginan demanded. "You...are trapped!"

Chopper tried to flip into 3-D to get past them, but they too had the ability to flip, so he discovered them in 3-D as well.

"That trick...gurg...won't work!"

Chopper let out a sigh and went back into 2-D. "Great... I guess I really am trapped."

"Say your prayers...hero!"

The Void Maginans were about to pull the triggers on their guns, but they were interrupted by an explosion...which actually came from one of the troopers. They stopped to look at the blown up Maginan, but they were destroyed in the process.

"What the heck?!" Chopper gaped, noticing the troopers get destroyed. "Whoa... They're gone! Thank you for the..."

When the smoke was cleared out, he saw the figure standing in front of him very familiar. It actually seemed to resemble Chopper a bit, and the only one here that would resemble Chopper...

"No, it couldn't be you, Tipral... You were destroyed in that fight with Dimentio!"

"You're right, I'm not Tipral," the voice replied, clearing away most of the smoke. "I don't really care for him anyway."

"Wait, if it's not him then... Oh, no..." Chopper saw a robotic replica of him standing in his way.

"Wait... Chopper?!" Robo Chopper's eyes widened before he tried shooting at him. Chopper, however, managed to jump over the bullets and land on top of his robotic doppelgänger's head.

"What the heck are you doing here, Robo Chopper?!"

"And I wanna know what you're doing here, Chopper!"

"I don't have time for questions! I have to go!" Chopper declared, making a run for it before hearing another word from his robot counterpart. He did not have time to fight someone like him, and honestly, he didn't care how he got in this place anyway.

"Oh, no! You're not getting away from me!" Robo Chopper roared. "I didn't forget what happened back on that rainbow speedway!"

Robo Chopper flew after his enemy, and he was able to catch up with him very easily. After Chopper got past the loop and the bumpy hills, he stopped in front of Robo Chopper on the flatter part of the speedway. He tried to get past him, but Robo Chopper wouldn't let him through.

He even tried jumping, but Robo Chopper flew up and knocked him back. Apparently talking it out was perhaps the best option.

"Listen, I don't have time to be dealing with you!" Chopper cried. "Just let me through!"

"We didn't finish what we were settling before," Robo Chopper mentioned. "I could've defeated you easily, but that no-good demon knight ghost thing happened to show up and send me here!"

"Wait... Maquano sent you here of all places? But why here?"

"I don't know, but I don't care at this point. I've been searching this entire place for an exit, but I never found one! So much for trying to destroy you... Oh, wait a second, I think that all changed now that you're here!"

"Robo Chopper, this is not the time for this," Chopper noted, trying to keep his guard up in case he got attacked. "Every single world is at stake here! Do you really want everything to get destroyed?! That means no making a robotic army, no worlds to take over, no nothing! Our games... Our games will most likely be...over."

"Chopper Chopper Chopper..." the robotic version of Chopper slowly shook his head. "You honestly think making a robotic army is what I care about? Sure, the thought of it sounds nice, with me being able to wipe out all organic life, but that is not my biggest priority. Far from it. I have one bigger goal in my mind. Take a guess at what it is."

"Let me guess... You want all the pizza in the world?"

"No! I want YOU gone for good! You've been a major pain ever since we first fought six years ago! Even when I left Maquano, I still failed to defeat you! Do you know how it feels to lose to you every single time?"

"Oh, wow... All you wanna do is defeat me. What a surprise." Chopper yawned. "So, you don't care about all worlds getting destroyed, right?"

"That's correct."

"So I guess it's all true that you have no care over anything whatsoever. If you're trying to be like me, then you're doing it all wrong. You're more like Tipral than me."

"Yes, now shut up so I can finish you," Robo Chopper suggested, trying to grab a hold of him. He ended up missing and fell over, while Chopper landed behind him and took off.

Robo Chopper quickly got up and noticed Chopper escaping. "You're not escaping from me, Chopper!"

With his thrusters ready, he blasted off after Chopper. He would've stayed on the ground, but he thought it would be much easier to get to him while being above. It would also help him spot Chopper too.

He noticed him run through a loop and through a corkscrew, so he flew down and managed to get on the speedway so he was beside Chopper.

"How'd you managed to catch up to me so easily?!" Chopper gaped.

"My thrusters are capable of many things," Robo Chopper noted, readying his blue laser sword. "This won't hurt a bit!"

Chopper slightly jumped over the weapon when Robo Chopper tried to swing at his feet. They noticed the speedway curve a little more to the left, which made jumping for Chopper a little more difficult, since he could easily fall into a pit below. But for Robo Chopper, he felt like he was at an advantage.

Noticing this, Chopper sped up through the speedway and ran past Robo Chopper. He actually discovered the speedway was ending and leading up to an area with some sections of the floor being flashy, and above were some platforms and bumpers one could bounce off.

But Robo Chopper caught up and tried to crash into him. Since Chopper was no longer running on a curve, he jumped over Robo Chopper so he could fly straight past him. Both of them ended up in the larger section of the area, and to Chopper's delight, the door was up ahead.

However, Robo Chopper shot at the door to create an invulnerable barrier, and one was even made to prevent Chopper from going back to the speedway.

"Now you're not progressing or turning back," Robo Chopper declared. "And we can finally settle this once and for all!"

Chopper sighed and got in a fighting stance. "Looks like I have no other choice... I didn't want it to come to this, but I guess the only way to get to the True Chaos Heart is to defeat you..."

"A fight with you is all I need! Nothing more, nothing less!"

"And how do you plan on getting out of here? You don't know the way out of here, you know. And even if you tried backtracking the way I went through to enter The Void, you can't because some of the doors have been sealed shut. You'll be trapped here for all eternity, you know!"

"That doesn't matter as long as I finish my main mission: destroying you!" Robo Chopper declared, clenching one of his metallic fists. "And there's nothing you can do to alter my mission!"

"Your main mission is like most bad guys' missions," Chopper scoffed. "But why do I care so much? I'll give you what you want, since I have nowhere else to go. But we better make this quick!"

"Oh, I'll make this quick all right," the robotic counterpart replied, changing his hands to machine guns. "All you have to do is hold still and it'll all be over!"

He fired bullets rapidly at Chopper, but he managed to jump in time and avoid the shots. He spun in the air before landing on Robo Chopper's head and forced him on his back before landing in front of him.

"Sorry, but I'm not going to let you get me so easily," Chopper stated. "Duty calls, and you can't let anything stop you from fulfilling that duty."

Robo Chopper was quick to get up, and he tried grabbing Chopper, who was too fast for him and jumped away. This only irritated the robot more and made him fire at his enemy once again. Too bad his shots were not even hitting Chopper.

However, when Chopper stepped on the flashy section of the floor, he was launched upward to one of the platforms above. Robo Chopper noticed this and flew up after him. From analyzing Robo Chopper, Chopper discovered that he had a max HP of 660, an Attack of 26 and a Defense of 14. Yikes. That's a lot!

And though Chopper did not take Robo Chopper seriously most of the time, he could see the rage in his eyes and a feeling of death he wanted to deliver to him. But, the gunshots being fired from Robo Chopper's machine guns stopped Chopper's thoughts and made him jump across the platforms to dodge them.

"Seriously, Robo! Haven't you learned?!" Chopper exclaimed. "I'm too fast for your gunshots!"

Robo Chopper ignored him still and continued to fire in his direction. Chopper ended up bouncing off one of the bumpers and jumped on his enemy's head again to stun him and allow him to hurl a light ball in his face, leaving him blind for a moment.

"What the... What is this?!" Robo Chopper roared. "I don't remember you using this against me in that fortress!"

"Oh, yeah... I think I forgot to mention that I've got a few new moves on me now." Chopper noted. "Obviously I was going to be much stronger if you planned on taking me on."

"Yes... That is true... However, I'm sure you would've realized I got stronger myself."

Robo Chopper stopped firing his machine gun and changed one of his arms to a missile launcher. He fired a missile on the platform Chopper was standing on and blew him off it. He was left bouncing on the bumpers, allowing Robo Chopper to fly up to him and grab a hold of him.

"Don't you remember that I carry some of your data?" Robo Chopper wondered, holding Chopper by his feet while he hung upside down. "I'm capable of doing THIS to you!"

He flew upward slightly before flying downward while spinning. He made sure Chopper's head was facing the floor so the damage done to him would be even greater. Upon crashing onto the floor, Chopper fell over on his back while in a dazed state, and Robo Chopper readied his machine gun and fired.

Unfortunately, his plan of finishing Chopper at this point was a failure when Chopper inhaled the bullets and spat a yellow star at his robotic counterpart. This knocked him onto the flashing floor and sent him flying into one of the bumpers. It even made him fall to the floor again since he hit the bumper on its bottom.

Chopper was left confused until he found himself getting hit by multiple punches delivered by Robo Chopper. He finished off his combo by firing a charged beam that sent Chopper flying to the blocked door.

The ten-year-old noticed Robo Chopper firing another missile his way, forcing him to take action by inhaling it and gaining the bomb ability. He threw the bomb in his hand in Robo Chopper's direction, but he too chucked a bomb toward him and made both bombs crash into each other and explode.

"Oh, geez... He does have a lot of my abilities without having to copy them." Chopper realized. "Sure, Shadoo may have had some, but this is Robo Chopper! He's been around longer, and he probably has better experience with them!"

Robo Chopper pulled out another bomb and threw it at Chopper again. "Eat this, Chopper!"

"Ha ha, very funny..." Chopper groaned, his face covered in soot from the explosion. "Such a clever joke you pulled off..."

"I wasn't trying to be funny," hissed Robo Chopper. "Now just shut up and let me end your game!"

Chopper flipped into 3-D and managed to get behind Robo Chopper and drop a bomb beside him in 2-D. He then jumped on his head to get his attention, making him fire his machine gun once again. Of course, the bomb behind him interrupted his attack and forced him to shoot homing missiles.

"Let's see how you like homing missiles, Chopper!"

While dodging one was easy, avoiding three of them was not. To stop the missiles, Chopper chucked some bombs at two of them so they would blow up, but he was hit by the third, making his Bomb ability get knocked out in the process.

"Well, I don't need to use my Bomb ability to win this fight," Chopper thought. "I can still use some different strategies against him!"

Robo Chopper charged at him and prepared to grab Chopper, but he had other plans. He ducked under his robot counterpart and threw a rainbow ball while he noticed he missed Chopper. Robo Chopper quickly turned around and cast a death glare at Chopper.

"What was that you just pulled on me?" Robo Chopper hissed.

"A little rainbow ball that I got from touching a rainbow," Chopper answered, hitting Robo Chopper with another one.

"You touched a rainbow to gain that power... That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." Robo Chopper's fingers grew longer and sharper like claws and charged at Chopper so he could claw at him. His claws almost hit Chopper, but every time the robotic counterpart tried to claw at him, he would always avoid them.

Robo Chopper was getting pretty frustrated at this point, so he retracted his sharp fingers and decided to fight with his blue laser sword. Chopper would've dodged the attack, but Robo Chopper was much faster and managed to strike him a couple of times and kick him onto the flashing floor.

Before Chopper could do anything, he was sent flying upward and ended up hitting one of the bumpers, which threw him back onto the flashing floor. It continued to repeat for him, which Robo Chopper seemed to be liking.

"Ow ow ow ow! This is crazy!" Chopper cried.

"Hmm hmm hmm! You can stay like that all you want!" Robo Chopper cackled. "...However, seeing you like that for a while is eventually going to get old. And I'd rather end your game than toy with you!"

Robo Chopper fired a laser while Chopper was in the air, making him fall onto the non-flashing section of the floor instead. He launched a couple of more missiles at Chopper, who yelped upon seeing them come his way.

But instead of running, he inhaled them and fired them back at Robo Chopper. Unfortunately for Chopper, Robo Chopper was not as stupid as he thought, and he quickly covered himself in needles to take minimum damage. Not even a light ball was able to go through those needles!

"You'll have to do better than that, Chopper!" Robo Chopper cackled, the needles on his head disintegrating.

"If that's what you want, then that's what you'll get!" Chopper's fists were surrounded in both fire and ice energy, and then he charged at Robo Chopper. Seeing this as a stupid move, the robotic being readied his flamethrower and prepared to scorch him.

But Chopper disappeared with a single flip.

"What the... Where'd he go?!"

Chopper appeared on top of Robo Chopper and landed a stomp on his head. While he was off guard, Chopper spun his arms and hit both Robo Chopper with fire and ice energy. It was like he went from being burned to frozen, etc. He stopped when Robo Chopper was frozen and then jumped back to charge up a fireball.

While it would be a better idea to leave Robo Chopper frozen like that, chances were he was going to break out pretty soon. So, a charged fireball would most likely help Chopper deal more damage to his enemy. Well, his plan would've worked until Robo Chopper broke out himself.

Even still, Chopper's fireball was fully charged, so he fired it at Robo Chopper and scorched his robot counterpart. Sadly, the fire didn't burn him.

"Dang it... I was hoping to leave a burn on him!" Chopper thought, jumping over Robo Chopper's laser sword swing.

"Hmmmm... I think I have an idea!" Robo Chopper exclaimed, a light bulb appearing over his head. Even though Chopper heard him, he didn't know what his counterpart was going to pull off, so his only option was to attack before he attacked first.

Sure, he got in a light ball, but Robo Chopper was able to spin his laser sword vertically on the ground to send Chopper flying back, and then he fired a missile so he could store some power in his laser sword.

"Ugh... What's he planning this time?" Chopper moaned, seeing Robo Chopper storing power in his weapon. "Wait a second... Is he planning a Sword Beam?!"

"That's right!" Robo Chopper grinned, swing his sword and firing a blue Sword Beam in Chopper's direction.

Unfortunately, Robo Chopper was not expecting Chopper to inhale the Sword Beam.

"Wait... What?!"

Chopper swallowed the projectile and gained the Sword ability. Robo Chopper was almost left speechless, and he didn't even have time to dodge Chopper's lunge attack, which knocked him onto the flashing ground.

"You stupid little kid! You were lucky!" Robo Chopper roared, trying to gain control in the air again. "However, I'm not going to let THIS be out of luck!"

Robo Chopper's hands turned into laser cannons, which he used to fire blue lasers at Chopper. There was no point in blocking the lasers, so he went into the air with the help of the flashing floor and spun his sword vertically in the air to hit Robo Chopper. Chopper was even able to leave a scratch on one of his counterpart's arms.

"Gah! Look what you've done to me!" Robo Chopper fired a laser at Chopper and knocked away his Sword ability. "And don't think you'll be getting to that ability anytime soon!"

He blasted Chopper's Sword ability and left it completely shattered, leaving Chopper with no ability. But that didn't stop Chopper from kicking Robo Chopper away with the help of his light power. But that didn't seem to be hurting Robo Chopper as much as enemies such as Voidrins or Darklings.

Upon landing on the ground, Chopper saw Robo Chopper ready his machine guns again and fire in his direction. All he did was run from the shots and jumped when he fired near his feet or tried to shoot him where he was going to be. Robo Chopper was certainly getting some fun out of it.

"That's right! Run all you want! But it's not going to help you in the distant-" he paused when he noticed his machine guns were no longer firing bullets. "What the... I'm out of ammo already?!"

Upon noticing this, Chopper threw a rainbow and light ball in his direction to knock him over by the barrier where the door was. He even got ready to jump on Robo Chopper, but like any fight, the bad guy usually had a strategy for something like this, especially someone like Robo Chopper.

Robo Chopper knocked Chopper away with a punch and then began to roll up in a ball while being surrounded in needles. It was almost like Sonic's Spin Dash in a way, which was not good.

"Crud!" Chopper cried, jumping over Robo Chopper when he came rolling his way. He noticed him quickly turn back and come back in his direction. But when he jumped, Robo Chopper jumped too and knocked Chopper on the floor. After getting out of the ball form, his needles faded away, and he grabbed Chopper.

"You know, I think I have an idea of what to do with you," Robo Chopper flew up to one of the bumpers and began to throw Chopper into it, which bounced him back to Robo Chopper. He continued to do this to leave Chopper completely dizzy so he would have a harder time fighting.

Chopper eventually fell to the floor, where he was trying to find Robo Chopper, but his sight was giving him problems.

"Ugh... So...dizzy!" Chopper moaned. "It's hard to see and move!"

"Now that you're in that state, let me introduce you to my giant laser cannon!" Robo Chopper's arm changed into a giant laser cannon, which he aimed at Chopper and began to charge up. "With you like that, there's no possible way that you'll be able to avoid my laser!"

Despite being dizzy, Chopper unintentionally walked on the flashing ground and was launched up onto one of the platforms just before Robo Chopper's laser cannon fired. He actually noticed Chopper land on the platform, and boy, was he angry.

"My attack...missed?!"

While on the platform, Chopper was able to quickly gain control of his movements again and looked down at the giant blue laser being fired down below. He was actually surprised that the barrier blocking the door was not affected. What a strong barrier that was!

Robo Chopper was left frustrated, and that frustration led to Chopper landing a light jump on his head. He even ate an ice ball to gain the Ice ability so he could attack him with his Ice Storm and summon ice chucks from the floor to hurt Robo Chopper. Maybe switching to different powers wasn't such a bad idea?

"It's time this battle got a little cooler!" Chopper declared, using his Ice Breath to freeze Robo Chopper and kick him into the barrier to his left. The ice shattered around Robo Chopper, and he was left a little dazed from the attack.

Chopper got ready to make another attack, but Robo Chopper beat him to it and used his flamethrower to get rid of his Ice ability. But that didn't stop Chopper from inhaling some of the fire and gaining said ability.

All Robo Chopper could see was a fireball charging in his direction. He tried to stop it, but he only got knocked back even further on the barrier. Chopper also removed his ability and performed a light spinning kick on Robo Chopper too.

"Guh... So, you have gotten a lot better." Robo Chopper groaned. "But that's certainly not going to get in my way!"

Robo Chopper grabbed Chopper and threw him across the area. He flew over to him, but instead of actually attacking, he landed in front of him with no weapons pointed at him.

"I think I mentioned something about copying your data, right?" Robo Chopper recalled.

"Yeah, you already told me that you copied my data," Chopper replied, quickly getting up and getting in a battle pose. "I get it, OK? You're using some abilities that I've used in the past."

"Yes, you're correct. But now that I think about it, there is some data I carry that you probably don't know of!"

"What do you mean...?"

"You'll see," Robo Chopper's eyes flashed as he lifted off the ground and began to brighten. Chopper had to cover his eyes from the blinding flash, but when he was able to see Robo Chopper, he definitely looked different. First off, the light green plating on him was now golden yellow, and his eyes and thrusters were now red rather than blue. His green feet were a darker yellow, but his silver hands didn't change.

"Oh, no... Did you seriously..."

"That's right! I've gotten the data of your Super Star form!" Super Star Robo Chopper exclaimed. "And with this new power in my disposal, I'll use it to crush you!"

Chopper's eyes widened when Super Star Robo Chopper began to fire light energy from the sky, which started to rain down upon Chopper. He quickly dodged the light and used the flashing floor to jump up to Super Star Robo Chopper and deliver a punch.

"Oh, don't even try that," advised Super Star Robo Chopper, who grabbed a hold of Chopper's arm and started to hang him over the floor. "You know, now that I copied this power, you're less likely to win this fight!"

He threw Chopper to the floor and then stomped on him for additional machine guns gained unlimited ammo, and when he fired, bullets embedded in light energy fired Chopper's way. Sadly, his attack missed his opponent, and all he got was a kick to the face.

The only problem? It hardly did anything.

Chopper's eyes widened as Super Star Robo Chopper fired a yellow laser, which threw him onto the floor and left him battered up in the process. Super Star Robo Chopper flew down and grabbed a old of Chopper.

"Face it, Chopper. You've lost!" exclaimed Super Star Robo Chopper. "You can't stop me like this!"

Chopper wish he could've done something to fight back, but Super Star Robo Chopper's grip was too strong. "I think it was supposed to end up like this anyway. Sure, I was programmed to be similar to you, but I was also made to surpass you in every way!"

"If that's true...then how come it usually ended up with me defeating you most of the time?" Chopper wheezed.

"Probably because you were lucky most of the time. When you beat me those last few times, your friends were helping you then. But now, you've got no one to help protect you! I bet they abandoned you, didn't they?"

"Don't talk about my friends like that..." Chopper warned, a hint of anger in his voice.

"Oh, now I see! They're dead, aren't they? They had to sacrifice their lives just to save you? That's very interesting! I guess that makes you the lonely little boy you always were ever since you lost your mommy and daddy and your birth planet!"

"SHUT UP!"

"What in the world?!" Super Star Robo Chopper gaped. "This isn't anything I've found from copying your data!"

Dark Star Chopper rushed at his enemy and drove him into the barrier with a powerful dark punch. Super Star Robo Chopper was actually harmed by this, and it left him shocked.

But that's not where it ended just yet. Dark Star Chopper charged up a small beam of dark energy and fired it at Super Star Robo Chopper. His eyes nearly widened in pain, and it left him a bit exhausted when the dark beam stopped. He had no idea what kind of power Chopper had now, but from what he could see, it was dangerous.

"Sure, you may have that...form of yours, but that won't stop me from fighting back!" Super Star Robo Chopper fired his machine gun at Dark Star Chopper, only to have them bounce off his body. He stopped that and charged straight at him, which knocked Dark Star Chopper over by the other barrier. The light blast he fired seemed to even hurt him as well.

"HA! It doesn't look like you're invin-" Super Star Robo Chopper felt himself get cut off when Dark Star Chopper grabbed him and threw him to the floor. He fired dark energy down at his foe, but that didn't stop Super Star Robo Chopper from fighting back. He fired some light energy at the attack being thrown at him, causing an explosion between the two.

Dark Star Chopper floated down and slammed Super Star Robo Chopper's face to the floor. And that was when Super Star Robo Chopper realized something. Chopper most likely did not have complete control over this form. Why would he sound so threatening? That didn't make much sense. He would've thought more into it, but Dark Star Chopper began to hurl more dark energy down at him. The fact that he could fly made it much worse for him.

Super Star Robo Chopper put up a shield to protect him from said blasts, only to have it shatter after Dark Star Chopper fired one more blast. This only angered him more and made him teleport in front of Super Star Robo Chopper and deliver a powerful dark punch.

"I don't think so!" the robot counterpart raised his arm and blocked the attack. He tried to attack by swinging his now yellow laser sword, but he was left surprised when Dark Star Chopper was able to grab it. But at the same time, it looked like the light from the weapon was hurting him.

"I wanna know where you got this form from," demanded Super Star Robo Chopper, who punched Dark Star Chopper in the face with his free hand and fired a light missile to blow him back. "Did you gain this ability somehow?!"

"Forget it then!" Super Star Robo Chopper charged up a light beam and fired it in his opponent's direction. At the same time, Dark Star Chopper charged up a dark beam and fired, which pushed the light beam away from him.

At this point, the two were struggling to push their own attack toward each other. They were definitely using up a lot of their power to win the struggle, but neither of them were winning it.

"You certainly aren't going to get anywhere with that power!" Super Star Robo Chopper shouted. However, he had a plan up his sleeves that his opponent would never expect to do. He teleported behind Dark Star Chopper and let the dark beam hit the barrier, and he tried to grab him. Dark Star Chopper quickly turned around and swung his arm, making Super Star Robo Chopper recoil. "Since I have light power, I can do THIS to you!"

He landed a light punch on Dark Star Chopper and flung a large light ball of energy at him afterward. To follow up, Super Star Robo Chopper fired a barrage of light missiles in his direction, hoping to finish off his enemy.

Only two missiles hit Dark Star Chopper, while the rest were destroyed by a wave of darkness fired from his hand. He even flew down to smash the flashing sections of the floor to prevent them from working. Super Star Robo Chopper was slightly impressed, but he wasn't going to let that stop him from charging at him.

"Wait... Where is he?!" Super Star Robo Chopper exclaimed, noticing Dark Star Chopper's disappearance. "I just saw him a second ago!"

Suddenly, Dark Star Chopper appeared behind Super Star Robo Chopper and fired a dark beam that did a large amount of damage. In fact, it left his enemy with a lot of scars on his robot body. While him? It was hard to notice because of the darkness enveloping his body.

"Gah... How did Chopper gain this much strength?" Super Star Robo Chopper grunted, looking up at his enemy, who slowly descended onto the floor. His eyes widened as he saw the dark being approach him while charging up more dark power in his hands.

"You... Are you really controlling this power?!"

When he finally approached Super Star Robo Chopper, he punched him twice. The second punch was able to send him flying upward before he hit the floor. Dark Star Chopper looked down at his enemy angrily. He was weak, that's for sure, and he could easily do him in now.

He prepared to charge up more dark energy, but something else was in his mind too. The pain it was dealing to him. Not just physically, but emotionally. In his mind, he wanted to revert back to himself, but the anger he lashed out already took control of him in this dark form.

In fact, his anger was what made him feel bad when he got to speak to his mother while he was left unconscious many years ago. Did he want to disappoint his mother yet again after all these years?

The darkness slowly faded away from Chopper, and he was back to his normal form. Now there were sound bruises and burns left on him from what Robo Chopper delivered to him. There was even a small hint of sadness in his eyes too.

"Why did I let this happen to me?" Chopper wondered. "I tried controlling my anger, but I let it get to me too easily..."

Super Star Robo Chopper noticed Chopper in his normal state and quickly got up. "Well well well! Looks like you decided to revert back to your normal form! How nice of you to do that! Now I can finally finish the job!"

Chopper had taken a lot of damage while in his Dark Star form, but instead of trying to attack, he stayed calm, which made Super Star Robo Chopper suspicious.

"You're rather calm... I mean, look at yourself! You're injured, beaten, burnt!"

"I don't need my Dark Star form to beat you," Chopper declared. "...Well, yeah, it did help me beat you down a bit, but in the end, there's one problem to that form unlike something like Super Sonic."

"And what's that?" Super Star Robo Chopper wondered, slowly trying to raise his arm to shoot his enemy. But because of how weak he felt, he didn't even have enough strength to do so. The power seemed to be fading away, and he knew it.

In the end, Robo Chopper was back to his normal self, and he was also very exhausted as well.

"I thought this power lasted forever unlike Super Sonic!"

"Yes, that's true, but you're not really invincible like he is. In fact, if you wear out your strength, you're going to turn back to normal much weaker. If that happens in a fight, you're an easy target, and chances are you'd lose if you knew nothing about its weaknesses."

"Well, there's one problem with that," Robo Chopper said while getting up. "You're a living being, while I'm a robot. Robots don't tire as much!"

"Wait... But what about-"

"Robots can recover rather quickly. I bet you weren't expecting that! Once I recover, I'll just turn back into that form and bring you down! On the other hand... I don't think I'll need my Super Star form to bring you down! I can just do THIS!" Robo Chopper launched a bunch of missiles Chopper's way, whose eyes widened in surprise. He completely forgot that he was programmed with the ability to recover. No wonder why he said he surpassed him.

"I'm not giving in so easily yet," Chopper thought. He opened his mouth and prepared to inhale the missiles. Every single one of them went into his mouth, which Robo Chopper did not expect.

He spat them back in Robo Chopper's direction, whose eyes were widened in both surprise and fear.

"Oh, no.."

Chopper gave him a small wave as the yellow star full of missiles made contact with Robo Chopper, causing the missiles and Chopper's robot counterpart to explode in the process.

When the smoke was gone, Chopper saw all of Robo Chopper's robot parts fly everywhere in the sky. His head, however, landed right in front of him.

"So... Who's the better one now?" Chopper asked, looking down at the angry Robo Chopper's head.

"Listen here, Chopper," Robo Chopper hissed. "You may have beaten me this time, but I'm bound to come back in the future. I've done it before, and I'll simply do it again. The cycle will only continue from here."

"Well, then if you come back, then I'll be prepared to fight you again. You'll just be the same old Robo Chopper like every single time. I've been fighting you for six years, so of course I'd probably expect that. Anyway, I've got to get going. I can't stay here any longer, you know."

Robo Chopper could only give him a death glare. He couldn't even hop around either. "I hope you suffer through this dark void. Plus, you're not going to find much ahead. But if your game ends, I'll remember to go find you in The Underwhere when I come back!"

"Well, we'll see about that. But for now, adios!"

Chopper kicked Robo Chopper's head like a soccer ball and sent him flying away from his sight. He turned away and slowly walked over to the door, which was now open for him now that the barrier was finally gone.

For some reason, the battle against his foe felt the most satisfying out of all the battles against him thus far. It made him smile a bit.

"Well, I better keep going," Chopper stated. "Though, I should be a little more careful now that I'm traveling closer to The Void's center..."

He pushed his way through the door and wondered what awaited him ahead.

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Next area-

When Chopper walked out of the door, he encountered a speed booster just up ahead, as well as two Void Maginans that were flying around. Wasting no time, he used the speed boost to increase his speed and go up the tall lump on the ground and eventually down.

Of course, he had to deal with the two Void Maginans firing down at him. And with low HP, one shot from them could do him in.

Running on flat ground was no real chore for Chopper, but what was a bit of a chore was avoiding the trooper's shots and making small jumps while at it too. But a Void Wizrim actually came in and went after the Void Maginans, to his surprise.

"Oh, nice! That Void Wizrim can keep them company while I try to heal!" Chopper thought, taking out a Max Shroom Shake and drinking it to recover all of his HP. He threw the can back, which ended up getting sliced in half while the Void Wizrim was spinning its weapon at the Void Maginans.

"Ahhh! Much better!" Chopper smiled, now fully healed of the injuries from his fight against Robo Chopper. It was nice that he had these items, because without them, he probably wouldn't have made it this far.

And since he had much more energy, he could run much faster away from the three enemies and leave them to their business. This allowed him to run down the hill below to increase his speed even more. He even ran through a loop and ran up the floor (or wall), which started to curve upward after going past the loop.

Chopper was sent flying upward because of how fast he was moving, but he landed right by the edge of the floor. He noticed a small pit with two springs facing each other, which he jumped over, and up ahead was a wall.

"I guess this is what Robo Chopper meant by when he said I wouldn't find much ahead," Chopper recalled. "Then again, I have something that he doesn't!"

He heard something behind him, so he turned to discover a dark portal and a Voidrin Swordsman jumping out before it closed. Chopper could've just escaped now, but he decided to fight back and started by throwing a light ball. He found himself a little guilty of making the first strike, but then again, these enemies probably want him dead.

The Voidrin Swordsman responded by throwing its sword, but Chopper had no problem jumping over it and landed a stomp on the enemy's head, which he made more dangerous with his light power added. Eventually he took it down when he inhaled its sword and spat it back in its direction.

"OK... Now let's see what's behind this wall." Chopper threw his arms up and went into discovered an open area leading to a door ahead with spikes popping out of the floor in most of the area. He carefully made his way through while studying the floor. Thankfully, Chopper was in a safe zone as soon as the spikes rose up again.

He waited for a moment for the spikes to retract, and then he ran over to the door ahead. Chopper reached for the door, but he noticed something written on it.

To the person who has made it this far,

Congratulations on your efforts, hero. Making it this far is certainly no easy feat. But through this door, all of your skills will be put to the ultimate test. If you succeed, then you will reach your destination. Failure will result in your demise.

"All of my skills will be put to the test, huh?" Chopper fixed the cuffs on his gloves and opened the door. "Then I'll try to be prepared."

He walked through the door, and what he found through the next area was a flat ground, but unlike the other areas, the path was lit up by lanterns with black and purple flames. It didn't do too much to lighten his surroundings, but it was not something he saw often.

Three Void Goombas and two Void Koopas were lingering around here, but what also caught Chopper's attention were the three empty orbs past them. Obviously he had to use one of his elemental hand powers on them.

"These guys? Well, I wouldn't consider them much of a threat..." Chopper trailed, dodging a Void Goomba's headbonk and jumping on another. He even got one Void Koopa to hide in its shell after jumping on it. One kick helped knock away the enemies around him.

He turned his attention back to the three orbs. Using something such as fire or ice could do the trick, so he tossed fireballs into the orbs. Unfortunately, they all disappeared inside the orb.

"Huh... So I guess that's not it... I guess there's something else I have to do."

Chopper flipped himself into 3-D and discovered a small hole nearby he could jump down. Below was a lower section that contained two Darklings that could flip into 3-D and a depiction of ice on the floor with three, small vertical lines below it. What that meant, Chopper had no idea.

The two Darklings, on the other hand, were getting a bit annoying. Chopper dodged their energy balls with a jump and landed on their heads with a light jump before jumping back up through the hole above.

"OK, I don't understand why there were those two lines near that depiction of ice..." Chopper trailed. "Is there some kind of key to those orbs?"

He approached the three orbs and remembered that the ice depiction had two lines. Chopper pondered over this until he realized what that meant.

"I should've known that was it!"

Chopper's hand began to glow white as he tossed an ice ball at the second orb. Now it was filled with ice. "OK... So there must be some clues around here that can help me find out what needs to be in those other two."

Going back into 3-D, he noticed something behind the door. There was some kind of rainbow with one line, indicating that it could be a one. Chopper went back into 2-D and noticed something else. One lantern had three, small lines below it. It was a bit difficult to see, but it was there.

"Well, looks like I know what to do now," Chopper smiled, approaching the two other orbs and tossing a rainbow ball in the first and a fireball at the third. The ground slightly shook as a door appeared past the orbs in 3-D.

After going into 3-D, he entered through the door and found another flat area. This time, there was a walkways in the background and foreground like he saw previously, and in front of him was a Void Biospark and Void Waddle Doo. They spotted him and charged until Chopper ate the Void Biospark and gained the Ninja ability.

With his katana, he dashed toward the Void Waddle Doo and finished it with a single slash. Afterward, he approached the door that was surprisingly ahead.

"That was too easy," Chopper scoffed, entering through the door.

Only to come out of the previous door.

"Oh... Well that wasn't right then."

He flipped into 3-D and entered the foreground to find a Void Jawbus and Void Spania lurking around. Throwing kunais at the Void Spania finished it off, and getting behind the Void Jawbus's tail and attacking it took care of it.

The door Chopper approached here happened to be fake, because it ended up falling on top of him once he started to open it. He slowly got himself up, relieved that the helmet he wore protected his head from serious damage.

"I guess that's not the right door either," Chopper sighed, going into 3-D and finding another path ahead leading to his left. He exited the foreground and returned to 3-D to find another door, as well as a Voidrin Shooter and Spinner Shield.

The Spinner Shield took notice of him first and began to charge. Its shield helped block Chopper's kunais, forcing him into 3-D to destroy it with a single swing of his katana. He would've attack the Voidrin Shooter, but it already shot him with a dark blast and knocked away his Ninja ability.

"Ugh... I hate it when that happens!" Chopper groaned, dodging its next shots and jumping on its head to perform a stylish move in the air. He finished it off with a light jump and bounced off of the enemy to land on a Void Cursya he didn't take notice of by the door.

"Dang it! I can barely jump!" he cried, struggling to make a full jump in the air. "And I don't have Piccolo to help either... Well this is nice..."

Despite being unable to jump freely, he chucked a fireball at the Void Cursya to defeat it.

The door just up ahead ended up disappearing as soon as Chopper opened it, making him fall over on the ground face first. He let out a grunt before getting up, and he decided to go into 3-D and head into the background. Technically, it was the second section of the background because he passed the previous one.

A Void Maginan and two Void Koopatrols were patrolling the area, and there was also a door up ahead. Chopper was unsure of how long this would end for him, but he started off by taking out an Invincibility Candy that he had with him. He didn't get to use it that much, but now was probably the time.

"I've never tasted this thing before... I wonder what it tastes like?"

He dropped the candy in his mouth, and when he took a look at his arm, he saw it was flashing, along with his entire body. Chopper also felt a lot of energy in him, like he was invincible or something.

The Void Maginan tried to shoot at him, but the shot only bounced off Chopper and backfired in its direction. Chopper smirked and charged at the three enemies, knocking them away and allowing him to enter through the correct door.

Going into the next area, Chopper noticed a large gap between him and a door up ahead. Two Void Skellobombers that had the ability to flip in 3-D were flying around and dropping their heads down the bottomless pit below. There was also a dark crystal near the edge of the floor.

A Void Bob-omb charged straight at him, but with the invincibility he still possessed, Chopper knocked away the enemy and threw a light ball at the dark crystal. Despite being lit up, he didn't see anything on the bottomless pit.

"Hmmmm... Well, I think I know what to do here." Chopper flipped into 3-D and discovered a narrow pathway over the bottomless pit. It was also glowing and slightly flashing. "Oh... I don't think I can take my time here!"

He carefully crossed the narrow path, which actually curved to the left and right at points. But he eventually reached the door ahead while his invincibility and curse wore off. Now he was more relieved than before.

The next area was much different than the previous ones. There were now glowing heart-shaped lanterns full of black darkness, and there were different types of entryways around. Chopper saw about ten of them.

"Oh, geez... This isn't what I was hoping to see..." Chopper groaned. "Castle Tipral had an annoying maze like this too... I bet this one is much worse..."

Three Void Fuzzies and a Void Koopatrol were around this area for Chopper to defeat. A couple of ice balls helped take care of the Void Fuzzies, and he even froze the Void Koopatrol so he could defeat it with a few rainbow balls. It dropped an Ultra Shroom Shake, which Chopper happily took.

"I'll just drink this to heal my HP..." he drank the shake and recovered 50 HP before disposing the empty can. "Now let's see... From what I can remember, I have to find the correct door, right?"

Chopper flipped into 3-D and saw two open entryways to his right and one to his left. Going through the left one, he found two Void Spiky Skellobits that charged at him when he went back into 2-D. Since jumping on them wouldn't help, he inhaled one and spat it at the other and then finished them with a light ball.

"I take it that I'm going to be facing every enemy I've encountered in this dark place..."

He found another entryway to his upper left in 3-D and found four Boararithms after flipping into the second dimension. Three stomps on each of them defeated them, so he went through another entryway to his left.

Chopper discovered a door all the way to his left once he flipped back into 2-D. There were also two Void Creatures and a single Void Vironoid too. Oh, and also a ? Block containing the Needle ability.

"Well, might as well take it," Chopper took the ability and used his power to roll up in a needle ball and charge toward the three enemies. He even left some needles on them so they could explode and deal more damage. Only the Void Vironoid was left, but Chopper finished it off with a light ball.

With that aside, he approached the door and opened it. It was sadly a fake door.

"Oh, no... You've gotta be kidding me... There's fake doors here?!"

Thankfully, it didn't fall over him like the other fake door did. It simply fell into the background. Despite that, Chopper was annoyed and went into 3-D. There was actually a lower entryway by the door to his right he took to find another door to his left in 2-D.

"I hope this is the right one..." Chopper grumbled, slowly opening the door. He was happy it was the right one.

He found a similar-looking area to the previous one he was in, but the heart-shaped lanterns had a small shade of dark purple to them rather than black. Chopper also noticed a Void Cursya and a Void Anti Guy patrolling.

"Weird... Void Anti Guys are enemies here?" Chopper thought, nearly grimacing at the sight of them. They really did stand out compared to most of the other enemies because of how much they glowed.

He took care of the Void Cursya and approached the Void Anti Guy. It spotted him and tackled him. The attack wasn't as powerful as he thought, but it did the same amount of damage as a Void Maginan's attack.

When the Void Anti Guy got up, it charged at Chopper again, only this time it was stomped on a few times and beaten. Chopper proceeded to go into 3-D and took the lower right entryway this time. It was a small little area, but only one Spinner Shield was there, along with a chest.

Defeating it was easy, and the reward Chopper received from the chest was great as well. Even though he had enough Max Shroom Shakes, this was still something important.

He took the way to the right into a larger area full of Void Cherbils and two Void Vironoids Chopper ignored and took a lower right entryway to run into two Void Wizards and a Void Skelloknight up ahead by the door.

But Chopper certainly didn't want to waste his time with these enemies. He took out another Invincibility Candy he had and became invincible thanks to it. Plowing through the wizards and armored warrior was a snap!

He entered through the door into the last major maze area, where he ran past two Void Boos and Void Bones in his way. The heart-shaped lanterns were now a dark purple color compared to the previous ones. Chopper went into 3-D and took the middle right entryway and ran into a single Void Wizrim. He was able to beat it easily before the invincibility wore off.

Smiling, he went over to the upper right entryway and discovered two Phantom Hands that grabbed a hold of his feet. Seeing them made him nearly scream.

"Oh, no! Not these guys!" Chopper cried. "I was hoping I wouldn't run into them!"

The Phantom Hands let out a screeching squeal as they tried pulling Chopper into the shadows. He winced while trying to shake them off, but it was difficult with two grabbing a hold of them.

He let out a small whimper when he tried punching at them. Light power seemed to do very little against them for some reason. None of his attacks seemed to be doing much at the moment.

But to his luck, a Voidrin Shooter ended up shooting at one of the Phantom Hands, making it release one of Chopper's feet. Upon realizing this, he turned to the other enemy and shook it off easily. They were much weaker when they weren't grabbing a hold of someone.

He gave a more determined look and struck both enemies in a rolling needle ball. He even hit the Voidrin Shooter, but its shot knocked his ability away afterward. But Chopper didn't care. He finished the three off with a light ball and proceeded to the upper right area to find a Voidrin Swordsman, Shooter, Thrower and Bomber with the ability to flip.

They threw everything they had against him, but Chopper was faster, and his speed helped him attack each of them and finished them off with his light power added. They were tough opponents at first, but now he knew their strategy, and taking them down was much easier.

Chopper finally reached the final section of the maze area, where he met up with three Void Maginans ready to shoot at him. He opened his mouth and inhaled each shot coming his way. When he spat the projectiles back at them, they were sent flying toward a large, dark crystal that stood in the way. Their jetpacks even malfunctioned, causing some to crash and explode.

He had a feeling of satisfaction upon defeating them, but only one obstacle was left in his way.

"A giant dark crystal..." Chopper gaped, looking up at the large object. He threw a light ball at it, but that didn't seem to do much. "No... I think I'm going to need a lot more than that."

He started to charge light power in both his hands and his feet so he had enough power to take care of the dark crystal. Once fully charged, he jabbed his right fist into the dark crystal, making it envelope in light. Chopper kicked it multiple times and then finished it off with the remaining light power in his left hand.

The dark crystal shattered in his path.

"Whoa... I can't believe I pulled that off." Chopper gaped, watching the crystal disintegrate and reveal a door. "I guess as you learn to use your power more, it will become stronger."

He proceeded through the door and found a transparent stairway before him. As Chopper made his way up, he heard a battle below the stairway. The wizards and Maginans he previously fought against were all corrupted by The Void's power and were fighting each other to the death.

Chopper couldn't help but stop to check the battle out. Many of them were struggling against each other, and some were very worn out. These were powerful enemies, but apparently they too were capable of exhausting themselves to this point.

"Wow... It's gotten really crazy down there..." Chopper remarked, making his way up the stairs until he reached the top. There, he found a door with a black heart embedded in the center. "That fight down there... Maybe they know that it leads near the end... If that's true, then I can't waste any time!"

With Chopper determined, he opened the door and found himself in a large area suitable for a fight. There was a depiction of the Chaos Heart in the center of the floor, and there were small black hearts all over the torn walls. Up ahead was a sealed door, and in 3-D were two doors.

But at the same time, things felt quiet. A bit too quiet.

The air around Chopper seemed to grow heavier, and for some reason, a strange, eerie sound could be heard around him. It felt a little unsettling, especially since he was alone.

The very first thing Chopper did was look back at the door behind him in case if enemies jumped out to attack. Surprisingly, no one did.

"OK... I think I should be safe here..." Chopper sighed, stepping away from the door and approaching the door ahead. He tried opening, it, but it would not open. "Oh, great... Is this one of those doors that can't be opened with something like a key?"

It was certain that the True Chaos Heart was somewhere behind this door. But what also worried Chopper were the three sages. He never found them anywhere through this darkness, so most likely they were close. Finding them was certainly the key to restoring the Star Rod's power and destroying the True Chaos Heart.

Not knowing what else to do, Chopper flipped into 3-D and saw a door to his left and another to his right. He chose the right door and found a small area with a small, deep pit before him. But for some reason, he couldn't approach said pit because a barrier got in his way.

"What the heck?!" Chopper gawked, knocking on the barrier a little. "Oh... I guess I can't go this way then..."

There was thing that did catch his attention, however. There were four lanterns above him. However, not all of them carried fire. In fact, only one had fire, while the others had ice, rainbow and light.

"Weird... Well, that must be something important." Chopper checked the order of the lanterns. In order, it was rainbow, ice, fire and light.

He left that area and decided to check the door to his left. It was a small area with four orbs on the floor rather than lanterns off the ground in the previous small area. But he remembered the order of the elements, so he got to work, starting with the far left orb.

Once he shot the correct ball of energy in each orb, the small area began to slightly shake as a giant light orb began to slowly float down in front of Chopper. He noticed a massive field of many different kinds of flowers.

"That place... It looks so familiar..." Chopper trailed. "I might as well check it out."

He placed his hand on the orb, and suddenly, his body was enveloped with white light as he began to travel into it. Hopefully there was something helpful in this new world.

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?-

Upon entering through this new dimension, Chopper noticed something different compared to the other worlds he traveled through from the light orbs. This world had actual color inside instead of the usual dullness.

"Whoa… This isn't what I thought it would turn out to be…" Chopper trailed, looking at the bright blue sky and at the flowers below. "Hold on… This IS the place I was in that weird dream I had! But… I don't understand… Was that…some sort of vision?"

He walked around the large flower field, but there didn't appear to be much around. Running wouldn't be the best idea either. Chopper didn't want to step on the pretty flowers.

Chopper eventually stopped walking and picked up one of the blue flowers on the ground. It looked just like the one at his mother's grave.

When he looked up at the sky, thoughts of his parents suddenly began to plague his mind. They were so hard to wash away, and it made him miss them. After all, he lost them at the age of four, and he was lucky to have gotten off that planet. …Well, lucky doesn't sound like the best term.

"Why did all of this have to happen?" Chopper sniffled. "Everything I know and love are now gone, and I've been feeling pretty lonely through this darkness. I don't know who would understand how I'm feeling at this moment…"

"It's OK, Son… I think I understand."

Chopper slowly turned around and saw a spirit of his father standing in front of him. Behind him was his mother, and many other spirits including Chopper's partners he had traveled with, Merlumina, Squirps's mother, Squirpina XIV, Crysta, Colonel Disk, Wenbi, Bang, Night, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Meta Knight, Fumu, Bun, Knuckle Joe, Silica, Kit Cosmos, Sir Arthur, and Ortorain.

It was mostly everyone he had met that had sadly perished from The Void or other circumstances.

"Everyone's all here…" Chopper trailed. "I thought every single one of you had perished…"

"We have perished," Crysta confirmed. "But our spirits have stayed safe in the colorful field full of beautiful flowers. It is the only safe place we could linger…"

"Unfortunately, all of those who had their games end by The Void do not go to the aftergame," explained Merlumina. "It was said 1,500 years ago that when The Void takes in anything in its path, they are stuck in the darkness and wither around as spirits. At least, that's what I remember. I was a young girl back in the day, and I was very attractive to many people, especially two men who stumbled upon me… And then…"

"We get it already," Koopla cut in. "You don't need to ramble on again."

"We've heard that for such a long time," Bruce added.

"So I guess The Underwhere and The Overthere are not crowded with you guys then…" Chopper trailed, looking down at the flowers. "I'm sorry about the loss of you all. I didn't mean for this to happen."

"Chopper, this was never your fault," Tonya replied, approaching Chopper. "None of this was your fault."

"But it is," he retorted. "Tipral needed something to revive the Chaos Heart, and it was something involving me. In all honesty, if Tipral never got what he needed from me, then he would not have brought back The Void."

"Out of curiosity, what was it that you did to bring back The Void?" Vivian asked.

"I was kissed on the lips…"

"Oh, yes, I do remember something," Merlumina remembered. "According to the Light Prognosticus, there are three ways to summon the Chaos Heart, which will summon The Void. The first is to unionize a fair and noble princess and a monster king… The second option is to steal five of the six heroes' dreams and use its power to summon the Chaos Heart… And finally, the hero whose dreams were not taken must kiss a princess on the lips…"

"That doesn't sound good…" Tails trailed.

"Yeah... But didn't she kiss me?"

"At this point, it no longer matters," Flyer said. "Chopper, there's always a chance to fix something."

"Yes, listen to your friend," agreed Tonya. "You shouldn't put yourself down like this. You are getting so close to the True Chaos Heart! By putting yourself down, you're only going to cause harm to yourself. That's not something I want to be seeing from my son…"

Chopper frowned as he looked at his mother. "I'm sorry, Mom… It's just… I feel like it's my fault because I not only caused The Void to return, but I was so convinced that Tipral was going to help, only to have him backstab me in the end when we encountered Dimentio…"

"Gullibility is a common thing among children your age. It's something you grow out of and will eventually learn in the future."

"But the thing is, he wants to destroy all worlds! I was pretty much helping him all along! Saying something like that isn't going to make me feel better!"

"It's not too late to fix your mistakes, though," Meta Knight mentioned. "Remember five months ago with the Crystal Star incident? You didn't listen to me, but when you realized you made a big mistake, you decided to fix up the mistake by defeating Maquano and restoring peace to the universe."

"He's right," Bow nodded. "Not all worlds are finished yet."

"You still have time to fix your mistakes…" Vivian trailed.

"…I think I understand," Chopper slowly nodded. "I do remember those past incidents caused by me. And I do remember fixing that up."

"If you're not too late, you can get to the True Chaos Heart and destroy it," Flyer informed. "With The Void's source of power finally gone, all worlds will return to normal again."

"How am I supposed to destroy it, though? I was told that I need to destroy it, but I don't know how."

"You will find out when the time comes," Ortorain informed. "Right now, you shouldn't linger here any longer. We're worried that it might have some bad effects on you. However, I should mention something… I'm sensing some strong energy coming from the area where that sealed door is. I don't know what it is, but it feels like something or someone is waiting for you there."

"And to get through that sealed door, a weapon is needed that you may find in that pit where the lanterns are," Colonel Disk informed. "Try to be on the lookout, though. With some dangerous enemy that could be in your way, being cautious is not a bad idea."

"OK… Thanks for the information…" Chopper trailed, looking at his group of friends. However, there was one thing he noticed. "Wait… Where are Kirby, Sonic, Blade, Mario, and Luigi?"

"We don't know…" Berry answered with uncertainty. "We haven't gotten a clue…"

"We don't believe those who have died inside The Void linger as spirits like us," Geno explained. "Their fates…are unknown at this point…"

"But don't let that discourage you from continuing on," Tonya suggested. "They'd want you to continue on. They're not as selfish as you think."

"I guess so…" Chopper trailed.

"Now thou must forgeth onward," Wenbi declared. "Thou dost not have to worry about us. We will be fine hither."

Chopper looked up and saw a shining light fall from the sky and land on him. He felt himself floating off the ground and slowly ascending into the sky. When he looked down, all of his friends were waving goodbye to him.

"Good luck, Chopper…" Tonya gently smiled. "We hope you are successful in your task."

Chopper slightly smiled and began to wave goodbye to his friends. A tear dropped down his face and phased through Tonya's face while he slowly began to wave goodbye.

"I miss you guys so much…"

---

The Void-

Chopper slowly exited the light orb and landed on the dark floor. He turned his head back to the orb and notice it slowly drift away. He could not believe he saw all of his friends who had either risked their lives to save him or had their games ended by The Void. And this is what happened to them? It not only disturbed him, but it also saddened him a bit.

But he was told there was a weapon that could help him breach through the sealed door over by the other door. That was something he needed.

Chopper opened the door and returned to the round area, while the door he walked out of disappeared into 3-D. He slowly took a couple of steps, but a ghastly voice suddenly echoed around him.

"So… I finally found you!"

A strange cackling could be heard around Chopper, but before he could react, he felt himself get hit by a projectile. He didn't know what it was, but he knew he wasn't alone here.

"Who's there?!" Chopper called out. "Show yourself!"

He didn't get a response except for dark magic being thrown in his direction. Chopper quickly got out of the way and went into 3-D to go to the right door. The small area was the same as before, but now the barrier blocking the pit below was gone.

"Huh… So the barrier that was in my way is finally gone… Well, I was told to go down here, so that's what I should do."

He jumped down into the pit, which eventually led him into another round area, but this time with two doors in 2-D and two others in 3-D. Unlike the other round area, there was no Chaos Heart symbol on the floor.

There was another dark projectile coming his way, which made Chopper yelp and go into 3-D. He took the path to his left and entered another similar-looking area. More projectiles were being fired at him, but he didn't know who or where it was coming from. He didn't care. He hurried over to the door straight ahead in 2-D and entered through it.

Upon entering into the next similar area, Chopper recoiled when dark lightning struck the ground near him.

"Oh, geez! I could've gotten hit there!" Chopper cried. "Thankfully I didn't…"

He flipped into 3-D and went to the door to the right to enter the next area, then he hurried to the door straight ahead so he didn't have to run into another magic attack. At the same time, Chopper noticed a few mirrors around this time, where he noticed two glowing white eyes staring him down.

"Is that…Tipral?" Chopper gaped, noticing a projectile fire out of the mirror. He dodged it just in time and hurried through the door.

"How many of these places are there?" he wondered, entering the next similar room and dodging dark lightning coming down from the sky. He quickly headed over to the left door in 3-D and entered another area. This time, there were some Phantom Hands roaming around.

"Oh, no… I was hoping I wouldn't run into them…"

He conjured up a light ball and threw one at one of the Phantom Hands. The light ended up stunning it, allowing Chopper to approach it and finish it with a jump. At a far range, he didn't feel as worried, but up close where they could attack, it was a major problem.

Chopper finished the other one off with the same strategy and went into 3-D to take the right door. He was led into another round area, except there weren't two doors in 3-D. Only one straight ahead.

"I guess I went the right direction," Chopper realized, running over to the door to open it. He was disappointed that he was in another round room. But, there was one thing different compared to the others. First off, there were no other doors with the exception of the one Chopper walked out of. And lastly, there was a chest in the center.

He approached the chest and kicked it open. Inside was a silver hilt that strangely looked familiar to him when he picked it up.

"Wait a second… Isn't this…" Chopper grabbed the weapon and gained the Spectrum Sword ability. In his right hand was the rainbow-colored laser sword. "The Spectrum Sword? But… What's it doing here? How did it survive The Void?!"

Then again, he mostly kept his Spectrum Sword in his house. But how it managed to survive, he had no idea.

Up ahead, a dark beam appeared, as well as a Save Block and ? Block. He hit the ? Block first to get a Master Shroom, then he hit the Save Block to save his game. He had a feeling something important was through this beam.

Chopper quickly ran into the dark beam, and he was instantly transported out of the area.

---

Through the beam-

When Chopper was able to see his surroundings, he noticed he was back in the area with the sealed door up ahead. He knew he had to break that seal with his Spectrum Sword, so he slowly approached the door…

Until a dark projectile fired near him.

"Oh, I don't think so…"

Chopper looked up and saw darkness forming a phantom-like being. When the darkness faded away, Chopper quickly got in a fighting stance.

"Maquano!"

"Surprised to see me here, are you?" Phantom Maquano asked, glaring down at his nemesis. "I must congratulate you for making it through that maze set up just for you. Though, I suspected you would go through that with no problem…"

"I should've known you would still be around after Robo Chopper mentioned you…" Chopper trailed.

"Ah, yes… That fight between you and him I was watching the whole time! I never knew that kind of anger would drive you to be like that! Maybe if you were on my side in your dark form, we would both be unstoppable."

"Well don't expect me to join you, because I'd never join you after what you've done to me."

"Hmmmm… Yes, I just thought of that. And there's also the fact that you've foiled my plans many times. Now I'm just in my phantom state. But I came here so I could finish the job."

Phantom Maquano drew his sword and pointed the tip down at Chopper. "I'm sure you have time to face me."

Chopper's Spectrum Sword turned on, showing off the rainbow light coming from the laser sword. "Well… I could do that, but…"

He charged toward the door ahead and attempted to slash it, but Phantom Maquano beat him to it first and fired a dark barrier that prevented him from destroying the door. "But what, Chopper?"

"Great… I guess I have no other choice…" Chopper muttered, turning back to the floating dark phantom. "Fine… We'll fight this out. I was warned about something being in my way, so don't expect me to be surprised."

"Well good luck with trying to hurt me," scoffed Phantom Maquano. "You honestly haven't learned from before!"

"What do you mean?"

"None of your attacks aren't going to destroy me. That means I can easily defeat you with something like THIS!" Phantom Maquano fired dark energy down in Chopper's direction, but he wasn't going to dodge it like before. He swung his weapon and sent the projectile flying back at Phantom Maquano.

However, instead of getting hit, Phantom Maquano caught the dark energy and absorbed it.

"Well, maybe I couldn't beat your phantom before, but I've got something I didn't last time! Watch this!" Chopper charged up a light ball and hurled it in Phantom Maquano's direction. The light managed to harm him and leave him completely vulnerable to attacks.

"AAACK! What have you done?!" barked Phantom Maquano. "I'm not invulnerable anymore!"

"Then it looks like the fight has turned to my favor!" Chopper smirked, readying his Spectrum Sword. "Let's finish this!"

"So be it…" Phantom Maquano shook the pain off him and glared down at Chopper. "I hope you're ready, Chopper!"

Phantom Maquano flew down and lunged at Chopper with his sword. He missed his attack when Chopper jumped over him and struck his back with his laser sword. Unlike before, this attack was actually harmful to him.

"Not so invulnerable now, are ya?" Chopper taunted, watching Phantom Maquano turn to him in anger.

"Sure, I may be vulnerable to attacks, but that doesn't mean I'm going to give up so easily!"

Phantom Maquano fired another dark ball of magic down at Chopper and then fired a Dark Sword Beam in the process. Chopper swung the magic back in Phantom Maquano's direction while jumping over the next attack. But like before, Phantom Maquano grabbed the magic and threw it to the ground, creating a dark pulse attack that knocked Chopper back.

When Chopper got up, he tried to check his opponent's stats. Apparently Phantom Maquano had 680 HP, an Attack of 27 and a Defense of 15. Definitely a lot stronger than Robo Chopper, but that wasn't going to stop him from fighting back.

While his Spectrum Sword may be a bit similar to his Sword ability, he had better experience with this weapon, especially when he has it as his ability. Chopper aimed his weapon at Phantom Maquano and fired small, spectrum lasers in his direction. A few of them were blocked, but he ended up getting struck by at least two lasers.

After shaking off the pain, Phantom Maquano disappeared and suddenly appeared in front of Chopper. A swing from his sword helped knock Chopper away and over by the door behind him.

"Oh, and just to be sure…" Phantom Maquano threw his sword in Chopper's direction, despite him not being his target. Chopper ducked under the sword and noticed it hit the door, causing a dark barrier to surround it. "You're not going to be escaping any time soon!"

"I don't plan on escaping," Chopper stated. "I have to get through that sealed door, and if it means defeating you, then so be it!"

Phantom Maquano seemed pleased as his sword came flying back to him. He flew higher up in the air and fired dark magic down at Chopper. In response to this, Chopper spun his laser sword and deflected the attacks back at Phantom Maquano, except the dark magic was no longer dark.

Chopper's nemesis didn't have enough time to react and got struck by the magic. He winced, but it wasn't enough to stop him. Phantom Maquano descended to the floor and brought his sword back, which began to charge up some dark power.

Seeing this, Chopper began to charge up some power in his Spectrum Sword. His weapon took less time to charge up, and in no time, he fired the attack Phantom Maquano's way. He was hit at the moment he fired his Dark Sword Beam down at Chopper.

Unfortunately, Chopper didn't get his chance to block his attack and was struck by the Dark Sword Beam. Phantom Maquano couldn't help but grin at the pain he was in.

"Ah, yes! That's what I want to see from you!" Phantom Maquano exclaimed. "As soon as I am done with you, I'll have no problems getting my body back!"

"There's a little problem with that, though," Chopper started, jumping up to Phantom Maquano to attack. "The Void's probably going to destroy The Underwhere as well. It's not likely you'll be able to get it in time."

Phantom Maquano whacked Chopper away from him. "Hmmmm… Yes, that is true, but I plan to slow down the True Chaos Heart's power so I can get to The Underwhere in time. Then I'll probably destroy that thing, since I want the universe to end by my own hands."

"Then why don't we both destroy the True Chaos Heart so we can both get what we want?"

"Would you really want that?" Phantom Maquano asked, spinning his body along with his sword. Chopper held up his Spectrum Sword to block the attack. "I wouldn't help you. I still have enough power to defeat you, so helping you wouldn't be worth it."

Chopper frowned and struck Phantom Maquano when he was open after he finished spinning his sword. It would've been nice to have someone help him destroy the True Chaos Heart, but at the same time, this was one of his biggest enemies. Why would he work together with someone he utterly despises?

Phantom Maquano punched the ground near him to attempt to knock his opponent back. Chopper jumped at the right moment and spun his laser sword vertically at Phantom Maquano, followed by a light ball to the face. But that only got the dark phantom angrier.

With his sword, Phantom Maquano swung upward and sent Chopper flying in the air. He flew up and swung at him before swinging his sword downward to make Chopper crash onto the floor. He was about to drive his sword down at Chopper, but his enemy had other plans.

Chopper quickly got up and flipped into 3-D to avoid the attack before going back into 2-D. He threw the Spectrum Sword at Phantom Maquano like a boomerang, which hit the phantom's chest a few times. Phantom Maquano tried to grab it, but Chopper ran up to him and used the light power in his feet to deliver a kick to his chest before getting his laser sword back.

"Ungh… Impressive…" grunted Phantom Maquano. "I see you've learned a few tricks with that thing. Or maybe I'm just forgetting the last time you fought me with that stupid sword."

"Probably the latter," Chopper answered, attempting to drive the Spectrum Sword into Phantom Maquano's chest. It probably wouldn't phase through him if he was vulnerable right now.

Phantom Maquano saw this and brought his sword up to block the attack. He knocked Chopper away from him with a bit of his own dark magic, and then he proceeded to fire a stronger magic attack in his direction upon flying back up.

Seeing the attack coming his way, Chopper swung his Spectrum Sword at the attack and sent it back at Phantom Maquano. Rather than catching it, he swung it back in his direction. This reminded Chopper of the past fights he endured where he had to throw an attack back at his opponent, so this wasn't anything new to him.

All it took him was another swing from his laser sword to send it flying back at Phantom Maquano.

"Are we really going to resort to a petty game of tennis?" Phantom Maquano asked, swinging the magic back at his enemy. "You realize that if we continue this, we aren't going to get anywhere!"

"Well I'm not stopping," Chopper replied, throwing the attack back.

Phantom Maquano gave him a suspicious look, but he didn't care. He had his own plan to keep him off guard. Upon swinging the magic back at Chopper, he teleported behind him and tapped his arm.

But what he received was a fist full of light energy to his leg.

"Nice try, Maquano," Chopper said while swinging the magic at him while he was off guard. This sent him flying to the left door. Getting up was nothing difficult.

"How did you know…?"

"I had a feeling you were going to try to distract me. Plus, you kinda tapped me on the arm, which gave me the idea that you were behind. I wouldn't say that was the best move…"

Instead of getting angry, Phantom Maquano only smirked. "Hmmmm… Yes, you're right, Chopper. That was rather dumb of me."

Chopper's confident look faded away slightly. "What do you mean?"

"However, wanna know something that wasn't dumb of me? Teleporting those three friends of yours at the moment you were going to restore the power of that stupid Star Rod!"

Chopper's eyes widened in shock. "What?! But why?!"

"Because I wanted to see you have a hard time," Phantom Maquano chuckled. "If the Star Rod's power was restored, then it wouldn't have been as fun to see you suffer like you used to when you were four! Plus, it would've made traveling through here way too easy."

Chopper gave his nemesis a cold glare. "I can't believe you would do something like that… But at the same time, I'm not surprised to see you do something like that."

"I know. That's what's so great about being me."

Phantom Maquano flew in the air again and snapped his finger. Suddenly, a couple of blades began to circle around Chopper, but spinning his Spectrum Sword helped wipe them out. He fired another light ball at Phantom Maquano, which sadly missed.

"Where are they?" Chopper asked. "I want an answer from you. Now."

"Hmmmm… You know, now that I think about it, I don't remember exactly where they are." Phantom Maquano answered, which only got Chopper mad. "I teleported them to a random place in The Void. You never know, they could be right where you and your friends started here!"

"You better not have hurt them!"

"Oh, don't worry. I didn't hurt them. …Yet!"

Chopper clenched his fist and prepared to charge at Phantom Maquano, but dark lightning struck Chopper and made him fall over on the floor. A cackled echoed through the room as Phantom Maquano raised his sword and let dark lightning strike it. Chopper had a feeling he was the one who made that dark lightning hit him.

As angry he was, he didn't want himself to get too angry. That rage from Robo Chopper was certainly something he wanted to forget, and that would only hurt him in the process. So he stayed calm and pushed himself back up to deflect Phantom Maquano's thrown sword back his direction.

Phantom Maquano had no problem catching his weapon and fired dark magic to the floor. Dark fire instantly shot out of the ground, with one scorching Chopper. Despite that, Chopper swung his Spectrum Sword and summoned a strong gust of wind that blew out the fire.

The gust even caught Phantom Maquano and sent him crashing onto one of the barriers. But he didn't let that stop him from firing a Dark Sword Beam at Chopper.

"This again? Come on…" Chopper sighed and jumped over the attack so he could swing his sword twice and summon two Sword Beams. One was made of fire energy, while the other was electric. With one swing, he sent them flying to Phantom Maquano, burning and paralyzing him in the process.

"Gah! Not bad, Chopper… If I could move, I'd show you something new!" Phantom Maquano hissed.

"Well, you're not moving right now, which lets me do this!" Chopper smirked and hurled two charged light balls at Phantom Maquano. He was about to throw his laser sword until he got struck by dark lightning.

He could see Phantom Maquano let out a slight chuckle as more dark lightning began to fire down. Chopper continuously dodged each attack and threw his Spectrum Sword at Phantom Maquano to stop his attack. Even though the attack hit Phantom Maquano, he was able to move again.

Phantom Maquano caught Chopper's Spectrum Sword and threw it back at him, as if he was trying to hurt him with it, but it only stabbed the ground near Chopper's foot.

"Why are you giving me this back?" Chopper questioned.

"Because I have no use for it," Phantom Maquano answered. "And I'd rather let this fight be more challenging than easy. It makes destroying you much more satisfying!"

Chopper was surprised about him being a bit honorable. Then again, he said he wanted the fight to be more satisfying, and Chopper being weaponless wouldn't be as satisfying for him. Nevertheless, Chopper pulled his laser sword off the ground and prepared for the worst.

"Now, I did say I'd show you something new!" Phantom Maquano raised his arms, and dark energy began to materialize above him. It was beginning to create a large ball of darkness. Chopper's eyes widened as it got bigger.

"Take THIS!"

He threw the ball of darkness in Chopper's direction and watched as his laser sword tried to deflect it. Sadly, it was too big, and Chopper was only struck by the darkness.

When Phantom Maquano got a glimpse of Chopper again, he noticed he was a bit battered up from the attack. Some small marks from the dark energy were on his face and arms. It almost left him shivering. Then again, The Void was a bit of a cold place too.

"I almost forgot about the cold feeling this whole place gives me thanks to that dark attack…" Chopper shivered.

"Then allow me to heat things up for you!" Phantom Maquano opened his free hand and let a burst of dark fire burst out. Upon seeing this, Chopper fired a large, blue laser made of water energy that put the fire out and struck Phantom Maquano in the chest. This gave him the chance to jump up to his enemy and strike him with the light energy in his Spectrum Sword.

"So, let me get this straight…" Chopper began, hitting Phantom Maquano with a light kick and jumping back to avoid Phantom Maquano's sword swing. "If you were watching me go through this place on my own, then you were watching my friends and I when we first entered The Void!"

"You're partially correct," Phantom Maquano replied, throwing his sword in Chopper's direction and firing dark magic in the sky to let it rain down. "I only discovered you when I saw you fighting that robot thing that secretary lady sent out. Upon seeing you guys, I wanted to follow you through The Void and see what you would run into. It was rather interesting to see you and Tipral working side by side! Well…until he betrayed you!"

"Don't even remind me…" the antennae boy muttered, spinning his laser sword above him to block the magic coming down on him. "But I'm not worrying about him or Dimentio any longer."

"That's good to hear, because I'll be the only one standing in your way now!"

Chopper managed to knock Phantom Maquano's sword back at him and then throw a light ball to slightly stun him. He then charged straight at him and threw his Spectrum Sword surrounded in light energy at the phantom. While it phased through his body, the light still managed to hurt him.

Seeing his sword bounce off the barrier, Chopper chased after it until Phantom Maquano landed on the floor and threw magic to the floor. Darkness seemed to fired upward in Chopper's direction to prevent him from getting the Spectrum Sword. He also saw Phantom Maquano jump in the air and swing his sword in Chopper's direction. He was glad he missed.

"Hey! What ever happened to the whole challenge?!" Chopper exclaimed.

"I was considering throwing your weapon back to you, but then there's the fact that you still hold light power. That's already enough to fight me!" Phantom Maquano hissed. "Now hold still!"

Chopper jumped over Phantom Maquano and snatched his Spectrum Sword before swinging at his back. The phantom turned to Chopper with a clenched fist.

"You know, I was actually considering letting those three friends of yours live, but at this point, I'm starting to change my mind!"

"There's no way I'm going to let you do that," Chopper retorted, blocking Phantom Maquano's sword and stepping on his foot, which hardly did much. He decided to go into 3-D and go over by the door he entered to reach this area. When he got back into 2-D, he charged up a Spectrum Sword Beam.

"I hope you like a Spectrum Sword Beam, Maquano!" he hollered as he swung three Sword Beams toward Phantom Maquano. Not even his sword was enough to block the fire, ice and light he fired. Phantom Maquano cringed from every hit, but he had a trick up his sleeves.

"Let's see you deal with this!" he threw the magic at Chopper, which turned into dark dust that made Chopper suddenly fall asleep. "Heh heh heh… Well, looks like that worked after all!"

He charged up more of his dark magic and hurled it at Chopper. It ended up waking him up, but Phantom Maquano didn't care that much. All he cared about was defeating Chopper, which he was getting close to doing.

Upon realizing his HP was low, Chopper drank a Master Shroom Shake to recover 200 HP before disposing the empty can. He threw it straight at Phantom Maquano, but it only phased through him. The empty can did slowly disintegrated, however.

"OK… I think I might have the energy to fight back now." Chopper sighed, getting under Phantom Maquano and hitting him with an upward slash. He also threw a light ball to make Phantom Maquano wince in more pain.

"Gurgh… Why must I hate light power so much?!" Phantom Maquano grunted. "If only it didn't do as much harm to me…"

Chopper: ^.^

"And I'm willing to wipe that look off your face too!" Phantom Maquano roared as he performed an overhead slash downward to hit Chopper. Sadly, his attack was blocked and allowed Chopper to charge into him with his laser sword like a drill. Even then, Phantom Maquano was able to hit him with at least one magic attack, and fortunately for him, it paralyzed Chopper.

"Gah! Great, looks like I'm not moving for a while!" Chopper cried.

Phantom Maquano cast a grin under his helmet as he lunged forward and struck his enemy with a single swing of his sword. He even stabbed the ground to make his dark magic rocket upward below Chopper so he was sent flying in the air.

"This is all too easy for me," Phantom Maquano chuckled, throwing his sword at Chopper and letting it drop his HP down a couple of times from each hit before letting his sword come back to him. "Just imagine what I could've done with my real body!"

"Ungh… That's not happening…" Chopper groaned, now able to move after he landed on the floor. "I'm not going to let you even get your real body after what you did last time!"

"We'll just see about that!" Phantom Maquano teleported high above the ground and raised his sword, which began to slowly grow bigger. He threw it straight to the ground and caused the ground around Chopper to shake violently, as if an earthquake was being triggered.

"Hold on… So you were the one who made me lose my friends, is that correct?!" Chopper asked, remembering this shaking from somewhere.

"I said before that I only encountered you when I saw you fighting that robot thing, so none of that was my doing. I'm just doing this so I can put an end to you!"

Chopper looked above him and noticed some dark blades falling from the sky. That must've been something Phantom Maquano was trying to use again, him, so he spun his Spectrum Sword in order to block them. Afterward, he jumped in the air and then hit Phantom Maquano with an upward slash.

"Why don't you actually come down here and fight for real rather than stay up there?!"

Phantom Maquano's sword turned back to its normal size as he floated down and fired a Dark Sword Beam in response. Chopper put his flipping to use to dodge it, and then he struck his foe three times with his Spectrum Sword after flipping again. Phantom Maquano noticed a small bit of light fade away on his chest. This wasn't a good sign for him…

Chopper noticed this and couldn't help but smirk. "Well… Looks like I'm finally getting something done here!"

"Oh, I'm not done yet! I'll just simply heal myself!" Phantom Maquano started to use his magic to heal himself, but he didn't feel himself get healed. "…Wait, what? It's not working?!"

"Huh?"

"My healing powers aren't working! Perhaps because I am just a mere phantom… If I was in my real body, this would've surely worked. Gah! Fine then, I'll just have to take you out the hard way!"

Phantom Maquano disappeared, but when he reappeared, there were about five Phantom Maquanos surrounding Chopper. They were slowly getting closer, with their swords raised above them.

"Wait… What?!" Chopper gaped.

"Looking for me?" Phantom Maquano cackled.

Chopper flipped into 3-D, but they were still able to see him. In fact, they were circling around him now.

"How am I supposed to find the real one?" Chopper thought. "It's not like I can hit them all at once! …Or can I?"

Chopper spun his Spectrum Sword around, along with his entire body, which helped hit every single Phantom Maquano. The fake ones seemed to disintegrate, while the real one was hit a couple of times by his laser sword.

Phantom Maquano stepped back and panted heavily as Chopper flipped back into 2-D. "I guess that wasn't the best idea to pull off… So be it! I'll just have to resort to my shadow demon form to destroy you!"

He closed his eyes and prepared to transform into his almighty shadow demon form, but when he opened his eyes, he noticed he was still just a phantom. "Are you kidding me? I can't use that form in this state?!"

Chopper took notice of this and smirked. "Well this is interesting! I was actually worried about your shadow demon form, but now that you can't transform into it, I think we all know who's going to win this fight!"

"Don't get your hopes up just yet, Chopper! Even as a phantom I'm no pushover!"

Chopper ignored him and swung his Spectrum Sword at Phantom Maquano, expecting to get a good hit on him. All he got was a phantom sword blocking his attack and knocking him back from the force of Phantom Maquano pushing him away. He noticed the phantom jump up and attempt to bring his sword down on him again, but his Spectrum Sword was all he needed to block it.

Chopper's left hand was free while trying to block Phantom Maquano's sword, but he was struggling at the same time. Physically, he was much stronger because of his bigger arms and demonic strength. Chopper…was nothing like that.

But with his free hand, he managed to hit Phantom Maquano in the chest with a light ball, which helped stun him and let Chopper strike him a couple of times with his laser sword. Phantom Maquano winced in pain after Chopper struck him with one last attack.

"Look, Maquano, we can just stop here so you can let me through," Chopper suggested. "I REALLY don't have time to stay here and fight!"

"It's too late for that," Phantom Maquano retorted. "We're already fighting right now. I'm not going to simply stop here and let you through. That would be a stupid move on my part."

"And you don't care that every world is at stake here?! Even the aftergame is most likely going to get destroyed!"

"It's actually one of the last places that would get destroyed, actually," the phantom corrected. "I would have plenty of time to slow the process of the True Chaos Heart and then get my body back! But wasting your time here… That doesn't sound so bad!"

He let out a cackle as he lifted his arms and fired another large ball of darkness back at Chopper. Since he couldn't throw it back, he was forced to dodge the attack and fire some lasers from his Spectrum Sword to hit Phantom Maquano. Each shot actually hit him, surprisingly.

Phantom Maquano tried to not make a big deal out of it, but the problem for him was that he was running low on HP. Chopper could probably land a couple more hits on him and he would probably be done for. There was no way he wanted to be humiliated like this again after the last six years.

He was going to be victorious this time.

It was time for him to go all out on Chopper, so he teleported in front of his archenemy and began swinging at him in a fast pace. Chopper didn't even see it coming, and neither did he have the time to block his attacks either.

"What the… What are you doing?!" Chopper exclaimed.

"Finishing this!" Phantom Maquano roared, grabbing a hold of Chopper and throwing him up in the air. "You've forced me to resort to this, Chopper! You should know what happens when you make me stoop to this level!"

While Chopper was in the air, he flew up and swung him higher up so he could grab him again. He didn't drop him yet, but he held him by his foot so Chopper was looking down at the floor below. He was much higher than he thought.

"Are you planning on dropping me?" Chopper asked.

"Oh, I'm definitely planning on that," Phantom Maquano nodded. "Do you think you can survive a fall like this?"

"Well, I was able to survive a couple of falls. I fell off a train, which was most likely a long fall for me. I don't think everything here is necessarily realistic, you know."

"Even then, the force of the impact might not let you handle it. And I'm guaranteed to make sure that the impact is huge! But, I'm done talking for now. Enjoy the ride!"

He threw Chopper downward and watched him plummet to the ground below. Yeah, he was expecting him to survive the fall, but he had a feeling it was probably going to leave him a bit hurt.

It turns out the latter didn't happen.

Phantom Maquano looked down and noticed Chopper slowly falling to the floor. His eyes were widened in surprise.

"What?!"

Chopper noticed he was slowly falling and was left surprised too. "Huh? What's going on here? I'm not falling to my doom?"

When his feet touched the floor, he noticed he didn't have any injuries. "Hey! I don't know what happened, but whoever just did that, thank you! …Or maybe it was something I had?"

Phantom Maquano teleported back to the floor and lunged at Chopper, expecting to hit him. But Chopper was prepared for this and ducked under his sword. One swing helped weaken Phantom Maquano even further, and it also made him teleport away from Chopper as well.

"I don't know how you managed to slowly land like that, but I'm going to make it all up to you!" Phantom Maquano swung his sword a couple of times and summoned at least four Dark Sword Beams. He pointed his sword at Chopper, and they were fired in his direction. "This time, luck won't save you now!"

"So that's how you wanna play, huh?" Chopper swung his laser sword a couple of times and fired some Spectrum Sword Beams at Phantom Maquano. "Then I guess I'm going to play the same way!"

Both attacks clashed, and both Chopper and Phantom Maquano were hit by each other's attacks. They were both left exhausted from the aftermath, but they still had some strength remaining in them to finish the fight.

Chopper looked at himself and noticed the bruises and burns left on his arms again. Great, this is just what he wanted too. And it was also hard to see what wounds he left on Phantom Maquano as well. But then again, Robo Chopper was left weak in his Super Star form, but he didn't look like it from his appearance. Maybe the same thing was going on with him.

"Don't think it's over just yet, Chopper! I've still got a little present just for you!" Phantom Maquano raised his right arm, making dark energy materialize above him. It was small, but it looked dangerous. "This is more than enough to take you down in a single blow!"

He cast a grin as he fired it in Chopper's direction. "I hope you appreciate this little gift!"

Chopper slightly gaped and tried to jump over it, but that didn't stop Phantom Maquano from firing more. "Oh, come on! He has even more of those!"

He had a light ball ready as he continued to charge at Phantom Maquano, but it wasn't long before he finally got to him and managed to strike his chest with the light ball. Phantom Maquano could feel some light envelop in his chest, which made his eyes widen in pain.

"Oh, no… Don't tell me…"

Chopper smirked and used some of the light power in his Spectrum Sword to finish him off with a powerful light slash, which left a light scar upon the phantom's chest. The result was the light growing bigger and enveloping Phantom Maquano's body.

"You… YOU… I can't believe you actually had it in you to do this to me." Phantom Maquano screeched before closing his eyes. "But you do realize you can't necessarily end a ghost's game, right?"

"But you're not a ghost," Chopper replied, stepping back. "You're a demon. …Or a phantom, I guess."

"Yes, I guess you may have a point. But don't get your hopes up so soon. I don't believe this will truly be the end of me. I will only be returning to The Underwhere in my prison. And what will I do next? Well, I'll have to plan that out later. I'm hoping to get back at Queen Jaydes and the rest of the universe afterward once I finally rise again! …But that may be in the future."

"That is if you ever come back."

Phantom Maquano ignored Chopper and gave him a glare as the light enveloped every single part of his body except for his head. "Goodbye for now, Chopper. Don't expect our next fight to be the same!"

His head was soon enveloped in the light, and then his entire phantom started to slowly disintegrate.

"The cycle will only continue from here!"

Chopper listened to the voice fade away before letting out a sigh. "Finally… I'm finished with the fight."

He looked at the barriers, which faded away as well. "Which means I can finally…"

Chopper approached the sealed door, and with one slash, it crumbled, revealing a slightly larger door in front of him. He smiled slightly and turned his Spectrum Sword off, knowing he won't need it. He then progressed through the door.

When Chopper entered the next area, what he saw ahead was a long staircase. Probably the longest staircase he had ever seen before. It was split into at least four sections. Thankfully, Chopper found an Ultimate Shroom to eat to recover 100 HP before going up the stairs.

When he reached the top of the first portion of the stairs, he was greeted by two Void Wizards firing their dark magic in Chopper's direction. Thankfully, his Spectrum Sword was able to block their attacks, and after hitting them with a dashing slash, he left them with a burn.

"Whoa... This weapon really is powerful against enemies like those." Chopper realized, throwing his laser sword at them while it spun and waited for it to come back. "It's a force of nature!"

Once he caught it, he progressed up the next set of stairs. He could see a Void Skelloknight and a Void Wizrim waiting there, but when they spotted Chopper, they immediately got into fighting positions and moved down the stairs.

"You are not moving any further!" the Void Skelloknight bellowed as it prepared to swing its sword. But when it saw Chopper ready to attack, it brought its shield up.

Its shield was sliced in half by the Spectrum Sword.

"Wh-What?! My...my... My shield!" the enemy looked down at Chopper in shock. "What kind of weapon is that?!"

"A weapon that's capable of defeating you," Chopper answered, slicing the Void Skelloknight's armor in half. Three slashes was all it took for Chopper to finish off the enemy. It was that strong.

Upon seeing this, the Void Wizrim began to slightly sweat, but it still had the guts to attack with its double-bladed scythe wand. It spun it around like crazy while firing dark magic, which only got deflected by Chopper's Spectrum Sword. Its weapon also got sliced in half.

The Void Wizrim's eyes widened before it was quickly finished off by a few more slices from Chopper's weapon. He hit the ? Block nearby too, which made a Death Shroom pop out. A stab instantly destroyed it.

"I never knew this sword was strong enough to take care of these guys with no problem..." Chopper gaped. "It was all so difficult before, but not anymore..."

He went up the third section and discovered five Voidrins and a Spinner Shield waiting just for him. Chopper fired a Spectrum Sword Beam that sliced through the Spinner Shield and left it completely shattered, while the Voidrins were letting out screeches before they slowly disintegrated from the combination of fire, ice, electricity, etc.

Now there was only one last part of the staircase that led up to a door. After Chopper climbed up the stairs, he was met with three Void Maginans that were firing in his direction. His Spectrum Sword blocked their shots and struck them instead. Chopper smirked and threw his weapon at them to defeat them. The weapon soon returned for him to catch.

"Wow... That was easy!" Chopper gaped, finally reaching the door at the top of the staircase. He looked at the door and saw the black heart embedded on it. "Hmmmm... So this could be where the center of The Void is... I just hope I'm not too late..."

He let out a deep breath before pushing the door open.

---

Through the door-

To his disappointment, he was not actually led into the center of The Void. If that were the case, then the True Chaos Heart and The Void's core would be here. Sadly, that was not the case here.

What he DID find was a large and tall place with a small pool of water that was up to Chopper's feet. The pool itself was shaped liked a heart, and the water was black. The center, however, did not have water. There were three beds placed in the center on dry ground and was also surrounded by dark purple curtains, and in those beds were three people.

"Hmmmmm?" Chopper treaded through the small pool and finally reached the center. After getting past the curtains, he noticed in the three beds were Squirps, Ninbot and Luvbi. All three of them were sleeping. "Oh, thank goodness they're here! I was almost worried for a second!"

Chopper approached the bed Luvbi was in and noticed she was breathing. He was relieved, but also worried that the three could be unconscious – or whatever state Ninbot was in that defined being unconscious for a robot. Trying to shake them away would probably be a bad idea.

"Hey, Luvbi! Can you hear me?" Chopper asked, trying not to be too loud. The area around him was silent, so it wouldn't be too difficult for her to hear. Plus, his voice echoed around too. "Luvbi? Uhh... Chopper's here!"

Luvbi slowly began to smile and let out a dreamy sigh in her sleep. "Oh, Chopper... Thou hast come hither to protect me! Thou art so sweet!"

"Luvbi, wake up, seriously."

"Hmmmm?" Luvbi's eyes slowly opened, and she raised her head to see where she was. "...Pray, where am I? I thought my sweet prince was hither..."

"Uhhhh... I'm kinda here..." Chopper trailed, slowly backing away from Luvbi. Her eyes softened and her heart fluttered when she saw him looking at her. "Uhhhh... Hi?"

"Oh, Chopper!" Luvbi cried, jumping out of her bed, delighted to see Chopper.

"Squeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuurp… Squirple squeeple squinks!" Squirps yawned, stretching his tentacles before waking up. "Squoh?"

Ninbot turned on and noticed what was going on. "Hmmmm? I'm...awake again?"

"The space grunt has come back!" Squirps cheered. "Squirps thought we disappeared for a moment! In fact, that's what Squirps was dreaming about, squirple!"

"That did happen, though," Chopper mentioned. "You three were about to restore the Star Rod's power, but you were suddenly teleported away from me and most likely here..."

"But who didst that?" Luvbi asked.

"I already found out who did it. He's gone...for now."

"He is? I see..." Ninbot trailed. "So... Us sages must do our job and give you the Star Rod's full power."

"Squiiiiiirp! Squirps is on it!" Squirps opened his mouth, and a bright white light shot out at the Star Rod Chopper pulled out. Ninbot opened his hand, making the same light go into the Star Rod. And finally, Luvbi closed her eyes, and light came out from her body and into the Star Rod.

When Chopper held up the Star Rod, it flashed and brightened around the four. No longer was it dull with no power, but a bright yellow Star Rod.

"The Star Rod hast finally been restored..." Luvbi stated. "Now thou art capable of fighting back powerful weapons like yon Dark Star Scepter!"

Chopper smiled as he lowered the Star Rod. "Thanks, guys... I really do appreciate the help. I've got a little more confidence now since I was forced to go through here on my own."

"I'm happy to help thee, Chopper!" the Nimbi girl smiled.

"Hey! I think I found something over here!"

"Squoh? Squirps just heard something!" Squirps warned, alarmed by the voice. "We're not alone here, squirple..."

"Whoa! What a huge place!"

"I hear it too..." Ninbot trailed with shifty eyes. "Be on the lookout."

"No, I think you three should find someplace safe," Chopper suggested. "I'll go search for that noise."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah. I have the Star Rod AND the Spectrum Sword on my side! I'm perfectly fine! You three aren't as prepared as I am for something like this. So... Find someplace safe. Please."

"Squirps might as well find a safe place..."

"Very well, I'll respect your decision."

"Just come back in one piece, my prince..."

The three stepped away from Chopper and used their own sage powers to teleport out of the area. The curtains and the bed disappeared in the process too, leaving only Chopper in the gigantic area. Him and a dark rope that happened to drop down from above.

Chopper approached the rope and looked up to see where it led. It was much longer than he thought. "Well... I guess I should climb this thing. Maybe I'll be led to whatever's around here..."

He grabbed the rope and started climbing up. Sure, climbing a rope wasn't the hardest thing, but what was difficult was trying not to look down. Higher up, Chopper could see a small platform connected to the rope, and above the small platform was a much larger platform.

Chopper sighed in relief as he got himself onto the small platform, but before taking a break, he flipped into 3-D and jumped on the Dimensional Block he saw above him and managed to get onto the larger platform before going back into 2-D.

"Phew... Well that's a relief." Chopper sighed. "That climb took me a while..."

"Hey, I think I heard something!"

Chopper's antennae sprung up as he looked around in an alerted state. He saw a dark purple armored trooper slowly descending from above. It didn't seem to notice Chopper, but he recognized the appearance.

"What's a Darksprine Trooper doing here?!" Chopper thought, his mouth agape at the Darksprine. "I thought they were all gone ever since I defeated Maquano in Dark Subspace World!"

"There was something I heard here for a moment..." the Darksprine trailed as it looked down on the platform. When it spotted Chopper, its eyes slightly widened for a moment. "Chopper...? Hey! Guys! I found Chopper!"

"Uh oh... There's more?" Chopper mumbled as two more Darksprines joined the other. "Three? Three Darksprines?!"

"Yup!" the second Darksprine nodded. "And you thought all of us would be all gone by now... Not the case here!"

"And I'm surprised you even made it this far on your own," the third Darksprine complimented. "I mean, going through all of that danger? That takes a lot for someone like you. I'm guessing we took a different way than you, though..."

"Listen, I don't have time for this," Chopper explained, hoping they would be convinced. "I need to get to the True Chaos Heart now! And I'm not even that far from it!"

"Too late for that, Chopper! Anyway, I'm sure you know why we're even here in the first place, so to put it short, it's time to meet your end!"

The three Darksprine Troopers began to fire at Chopper with their assault rifles, but like always, Chopper had no problem avoiding the shots. The only problem was that the Darksprine's weapons didn't require reloading, so they were continuously firing purple lasers at him.

"Can't you stop?!" Chopper exclaimed.

"Ummmmm... No." one Darksprine answered before going back to shooting. Chopper was forced to retaliate by chucking a few light balls at them. Three of them hit the three troopers, but even then they weren't too harmed by it. Then again, these troopers were made to stand up to many different kinds of attacks.

One shot even hit Chopper, and compared to the Void Maginans, these did much more. In fact, the Darksprine appeared to be stronger than any other enemy he had faced around here. Looks like the strongest was saved for last then.

He decided to put his Spectrum Sword to use and started to spin it in order to deflect shots back at the Darksprine. Being prepared for this, they put their arms in front of them and made a small barrier block the shots. Chopper sweat dropped and fired some Spectrum Sword Beams at them. That surprisingly destroyed their barriers.

"Crud... Those barriers don't seem to work too well against that thing." a Darksprine sweat dropped. "Whatever. That's not stopping us."

Chopper threw his Spectrum Sword at one Darksprine, which surprisingly did a lot of damage to it. Upon getting his weapon back, a light ball managed to destroy one of them.

"Well! Looks like you're not as entirely strong as I thought you were!" Chopper smirked, firing lasers from his weapon at the other two Darksprine. He managed to take out another one, which left one one more.

"Gah... Whoever thought you'd take us down like this?" the Darksprine Trooper moaned. "I gotta give you some credit, though. Whatever you got, it sure made you strong."

"So, will you let me go?"

"Not a chance!" the Darksprine raised its arm and fired a metallic string that could wrap around Chopper – if it wasn't cut by the Spectrum Sword. "That's not all I have in store for you!"

The Darksprine flew toward Chopper at full force, hoping to knock him off the platform. But once it made contact with Chopper, it was instantly destroyed by a yellow star that fired from Chopper's Star Rod.

"Well that wasn't so hard," Chopper smiled, putting away the Star Rod. "If that's the last of the enemies I have to deal with, then I'll be pleased."

After letting out a sigh, Chopper approached the next rope that was hanging down from a small platform above. Thankfully, this climb wasn't as long as the previous, but when he got onto the platform, it was small. Very small.

But it wasn't as small as he thought. Upon going into 3-D, he discovered that the width of the platform was much wider than he thought. They were still narrow for him to cross, so he had to be careful when walking to the center platform where another rope was. He climbed it up to another similar-looking platform like the other and flipped into 3-D to go to the left of the narrow pathways. There was a platform all the way to the left where a door was.

"I guess that's where I need to go," Chopper said as he approached the left side of the narrow path. There was a small little switch with a star labeled on it, which gave him an idea. "Oh, I think I know what to do here."

He took the Star Rod out and swung the switch, creating two glowing light platforms, which helped him jump onto the platform with the door, and thus, it allowed him to move on.

Chopper was hoping to reach The Void's center, but to his disappointment, it was a slighty big, silent area with a Save Block and a ? Block. The air sounded very eerie and heavy. Much more than it was when he fought Phantom Maquano.

"I'm close..." Chopper trailed. "Very close..."

He hit both blocks and got a Master Shroom from the ? Block. After recovering the lost HP from the Darksprines, Chopper approached the door in front of him, took a deep breath, and entered.

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Next area-

When Chopper walked out of the door, he walked a couple of steps until the door closed shut behind him and startled him. Most of the time a door closing shut didn't startle him, but in a silent area like this, it certainly did with its echoes.

"Ugh... The more I progress, the creepier this place becomes..." Chopper winced, taking a couple of more steps. There were some statues of Chaos Hearts lined up, and on the floor was another depiction of a black heart. Although, this one was much bigger than before. He guessed this was indeed the road to the center of The Void.

Taking a deep breath, he decided to charge up a Speed Dash in order to get to the True Chaos Heart quicker.

"Hee hee hee hee hee hee…"

"Huh?" Chopper stopped charging up his Speed Dash and looked around. "What was that I just heard? ...Was it just my imagination?"

Instead of running, he cautiously walked onward, his eyes darting around the area. However, little did he know he was being followed.

"Oh, Chopper... I'm coming for you!"

Chopper quickly turned his head, but he saw nothing. "Who's speaking to me?"

When he looked back in his direction, a figure was standing in front of him. Actually, the figure was very close to him.

"WAH!" Chopper jumped away while the figure let out a small cackle. "Who ARE you?!"

The figure looked up at Chopper with its creepy grin and its purple glowing eyes. Scars were still left from his face and arms, and even his black gloves were a bit torn up.

"Shade..."

"I've…b…e…e…n waiting f…o…r...y…o…u...C…h…o…p…p…e…r…" Shade cackled.

"What the... What's with your speech pattern?" Chopper asked, a little freaked out. "What...happened to you?"

"You made me this..." Shade slowly began to approach Chopper, who tried to step away, but he felt his arms being grabbed by the freaky alien. "L...o...o...k...a...t...m...e..."

Shade opened his mouth, and his green forked tongue began to hang out of his mouth, making Chopper gape.

"Let go of me!"

"Y...o...u...changed...m...e..." the freaky alien child hissed. "You...h...a...d...to...see...w...h...a...t...w...a...s...in...the...diary... Now...y...o...u...see...me...a...s...who...I...a...m..."

"Stop with that weird speech thing! It's hard to understand what you're saying!"

"That...jester sent...m...e...h...e...r...e..." Shade explained in a creepy voice. "I...was lost...trapped...i...n...s...a...n...e..."

"Please! Stop it!" Chopper managed to free one of his arms and punch Shade, knocking him back slightly. But that hardly affected Shade, because he started to twist his head so it was upside down. Chopper was forced to cover his eyes.

"You will...not escape...from here...a...l...i...v...e..." Shade said as his head twisted right-side up while still staring at Chopper.

Chopper tried not to freak out and stayed calm. "Look, Shade... I have to get going. The True Chaos Heart is most likely just up ahead. You being here is not helping. And even if you want that heart's power, I wouldn't get you get past it."

"But I don't want...the Chaos Heart. All...I want to do...now...is...t...o...d...e...s...t...r...o...y...y...o...u! D...e...s...t...r...o...y...y...o...u..."

"But why?"

"You revealed...my...s...e...c...r...e...t... Those...who have...discovered...my secrets...have...p…e…r…i…s…h…e…d…"

Shade drew his wand and used its dark power to block the way back and also made the statues of the Chaos Heart and the symbol on the floor transform into a symbol of his face. He let out a cackle before lowering his wand.

"Now we shall finally put an end to this!" Shade grinned as he took out his flaming sword, which was now glowing purple. "Tearing you apart...will be...s...o...m...u...c...h...f...u...n!"

"So be it," Chopper declared, turning on his Spectrum Sword. "I guess it's come to this..."

"Hee hee hee... I am looking forward...to seeing...y...o...u...d...i...e!"

Shade began to approach Chopper and prepared to strike him with his sword. But instead of using his blade, he fired dark magic at Chopper instead. It was too fast for the pale green gumball to dodge, and he was hit by the small blot of magic. What made things worse was that Shade wasn't done there. He jumped in the air and raised his sword, which made small, purple comets rain from the sky.

"What the heck?!" Chopper cried, avoiding the comets that could've done a large amount of damage to him. In fact, he noticed that Shade had 700 HP, an Attack of 28 and a Defense of 16. OK, it was twenty more HP than Phantom Maquano, but Shade was a smaller target, and he seemed much faster at that.

Shade licked his wand before firing two projectiles of magic in Chopper's direction. They were also homing, which made escaping them more difficult.

But his Spectrum Sword, on the other hand, came to be quite helpful against those projectiles. Spinning his laser sword helped deflect them back at Shade, which he didn't bother to block for some reason. Even then, it didn't look like Shade was in any pain. He was just...looking crazy.

"More! More!"

Chopper gawked before he saw Shade fly up in the air and fire more comets downward. He decided to see if he could block them with his Spectrum Sword, but they were too big, making him get hit by at least one and also leading him to get knocked on the ground. Shade continued to cackle like a maniac before approaching Chopper.

Before Shade could try anything, Chopper quickly got up and swung his Spectrum Sword at him, which he responded by letting out a squeal that was so cringe-worthy to Chopper. When was the last time he ever squealed in a fight?

He tried to get in another hit, but Shade brought his sword in front of him and blocked the attack, while he used his wand to hit Chopper with a close-range magic attack.

"Come on, Choppy! Why don't we...p...l...a...y...!" Shade giggled, swinging his sword to fire a Nova Sword Beam at his enemy. Upon hearing this, Chopper opened his eyes and managed to avoid the attack just in time.

He charged up a light ball while Shade was being crazy again and managed to throw it into his face. While it hurt him big time, Shade was not pleased.

"The light... I...h...a...t...e...t...h...e...l...i...g...h...t!"

Chopper gulped as Shade tried to grab a hold of him again, but thankfully, he managed to get around him by going into 3-D and landed a jump on his head afterward. Chopper even performed a stylish move while in the air.

When Shade got a glimpse of Chopper again, he swung his sword down and let a wave of purple fire come flying in his direction. Chopper tried blocking it, but his Spectrum Sword couldn't handle that much fire, so he was left scorched.

"Yes... Yes...! Y...e...s...!"

Chopper was almost wondering if Shade ever encountered any of his own minions around this area. The ones transformed by The Void, mind you. In fact, how was he still wounded from the previous fight yet still have more HP than last time (well, more like the final form)?

But he had no time for thinking when he saw Shade charging straight at him once again. Chopper took action by striking him with his Spectrum Sword, and then he jumped in the air and swung his sword downward on him, then he left him frozen with an ice ball.

"That should stall him for a while," Chopper sighed before Shade was able to easily get out. "Oh..."

"Let me hear you scream, Choppy!" Shade squealed. "S...c...r...e...a...m!"

"It's hard to understand what he's saying! He's just saying these things at random! And why does he want me to scream?!"

Shade fired magic to the ground, and suddenly fire geysers appeared below Chopper. Upon noticing the flames, he jumped out of the way before they could shoot upward, while Shade touched the flames and let it burn his hand.

But despite that, his hand completely healed after the fire was gone. Yet the scars left of him from the previous battle weren't?

And his Spectrum Sword... It was able to plow through powerful enemies like the Void Skelloknight, but it wasn't dealing as much damage to Shade. Perhaps because he was something much different.

The flames disappeared, and Shade jumped in the air and flew down at Chopper at a lower left angle. Chopper, thankfully, managed to hit him with his Spectrum Sword before there was any chance of him attacking. While dazed, Chopper struck him with his light kick and then threw in a rainbow ball.

Shade let out a hiss before spinning himself like a ballerina. His sword spun around too, and it was getting closer to Chopper.

Blocking the attack was probably not going to help, so Chopper went into 3-D and moved around Shade before flipping into 2-D again. When Shade stopped spinning, Chopper threw his Spectrum Sword and let it spin while it hit Shade before it returned to him. Even then Shade was still giggling like a psycho.

"You shouldn't have...done...t...h...a...t..." Shade moaned, firing a wave of dark magic at Chopper that sent him flying away. To prevent him from going any further, Shade created a barrier that stopped Chopper and even hurt him.

"Ow! What the heck?!" Chopper winced as he got up. He turned to the barrier and frowned. "Thanks, Shade... That was really appreciative!"

"Hee hee hee! S...o...m...u...c...h...f...u...n...w...e...w...i...l...l...h...a...v...e...!"

Chopper decided to stay away from Shade for a while and shot lasers from his Spectrum Sword. There were blue, red, yellow and even white lasers being fired at Shade. Of course, they each had an effect on him, but Shade only brushed it aside and shot more magic at Chopper.

This time, Chopper was prepared for the attack and swung his laser sword to deflect the projectiles. They were sent flying back to Shade, who didn't even bother to block them. He just let them hit him.

And he laughed. Continuously.

Chopper could've twitched, but he tried to remain calm and not freak out. He shot more lasers and tried to hit Shade, but surprisingly, all of the projectiles were blocked at a speed not even Chopper could block with a weapon. Heck, not even Maquano could do something like that!

"What the..."

Shade spun around again, but instead of spinning his sword, he spun his wand and let projectiles fire all around him. Jumping over them wouldn't help, so Chopper went into 3-D. They were even firing in 3-D too, meaning he had to keep cautious.

"Chopper Chopper Chopper Chopper Chopper Chopper Chopper Chopper Chopper Chopper Chopper!" Shade repeated crazily. "I'm...h...a...v...i...n...g...f...u...n...!"

Chopper flipped into 2-D again and spun his Spectrum Sword at the remaining magic projectiles. They were much easier to block than the previous ones, leading to Shade getting hit by at least two of his own attacks.

"Chopper Chopper Chopper Chopper!"

"Will you stop repeating my name?!" Chopper cried, throwing Shade a fire punch when he got close to him. Unfortunately, that didn't stop him from getting behind him and grabbing a hold of his arms.

"Chopper..." Shade hissed. "A...r...e...y...o...u...h...a...v...i...n...g...f ...u...n...?"

Chopper's eyes widened as he struggled to break his arms free, but Shade was going to make sure he wouldn't get away. At least, not yet.

Shade cackled and flew up with Chopper, and then he dropped him so he could lunge at him with his sword. But to Chopper's surprise, he swooped up before his sword made contact with him.

When Shade landed on the floor, his green forked tongue decided to hang out of his mouth while he decided to perform a cartwheel while spinning his sword vertically. A trail of purple fire was left behind him while trying to hit Chopper, who ended up scorched in the process.

"Victory won't be yours!" Shade giggled. "You...are...all...a...l...o...n...e..."

Chopper slowly got himself up and looked at the crazy alien. "I may be alone, but that's not stopping me from continuing on and defeating you. I'm so close..."

"Yet you're so far!"

Shade threw his sword and let it fly toward Chopper, who threw his sword in order to counter it. They were both knocked back and caught by their owners, who both fired Sword Beams that made an explosion in between them. Even when Chopper fired a light ball, Shade countered it with his dark magic.

If this continued, they weren't going to be getting anywhere.

"That's it. I have to get in close." Chopper sighed as he ran toward Shade and swung his Spectrum Sword. He managed to get in at least one hit, but when he swung another time, Shade stepped back at an incredible speed, the he charged at Chopper and grabbed a hold of him.

"Don't be so shy, Chopper!" Shade exclaimed in a creepy voice. "I...t...i...s...g...o...o...d..."

"No it's not!" Chopper shrieked, hitting Shade with his Spectrum Sword again. After backing away, Shade felt a scar on his cheek and noticed a burn was left there. He let out a screech and ascended off the floor to start firing his dark magic at Chopper.

Most of it was easy for him to avoid, but then Shade started to fire blots of magic like a machine gun from his wand. Chopper was left agape for a moment before getting back to his senses and blocking the attacks.

And while he did this, Shade continued to giggle like an insane child.

However, he eventually stopped and landed on the floor. Chopper happened to find another wave of purple fire coming his way, so he flipped and avoided each wave Shade fired from his sword. But eventually he went back into the second dimension and landed a stomp on the alien child's head, leaving him stunned for a brief moment.

"Better act quick!" Chopper thought, delivering a multiple amount of swings from his Spectrum Sword on Shade until he blocked them with his purple flaming sword.

And while they were clashing, Shade began to twist his head like before.

"Wh-What the heck are y-you d-doing?!" Chopper gaped.

"Hee hee hee! S...o...m...u...c...h...f...u...n..." Shade moaned, his head completely upside down. Chopper backed away and avoided Shade's swing again to cover his face. This was not something very common, especially for someone who had taken a child's body.

Shade eventually turned his head back to normal and raised his sword while in the air to make more comets fall from the sky. One hit Chopper and knocked him on the ground while being left with a burn.

"Ugh… Those comet things are so strong…" Chopper groaned, getting himself up in the process. "I don't know how long I'll last against him if he continues this."

"You can always give up, Choppy!" Shade grinned. "There's always a chance to surrender…and…g…o…b…a…c…k…"

"Well I can't go back because there's a barrier in the way!"

"Hee hee… I almost forgot. I have a better idea in store…for…you!"

Shade let out a snicker as spider legs began to form out from his back and lift him off the ground. To Chopper's relief, he was not in his spider form. He was just himself…except with three tall spider legs on his back.

Not much had really changed in the fight, except that Chopper couldn't jump on him, and also most of Shade's attacks involved him trying to swing one of his spider legs at the pale green gumball.

Shade even jumped in the air and tried to land on top of Chopper, but he had other plans. He swung his Spectrum Sword when Shade landed, and he managed to hit two of his spider legs and cut a part of them off.

"Ha! Looks like you can't do much when you're not completely balance!" Chopper smirked, noticing Shade struggle to keep himself balanced. Now that he was closer to the ground, Chopper performed a flip and jumped on the alien's head. Unfortunately, that was all he could do before Shade sent him flying back with one of his other spider legs.

After Chopper got up again, the spider legs that were cut off only regenerated, leaving Shade to snicker at Chopper.

"Try all you want!" Shade exclaimed. "The fun will continue to last! …F…o…r…e…v…e…r…"

One of his spider legs went through the floor and appeared behind Chopper, smacking him and leaving him dazed. Shade approached him as soon as the spider leg returned to him, a grin now forming on his face. It was a grin that gave Chopper a bad feeling.

Since getting close would be too much of a risk, Chopper began shooting lasers from his weapon and let each shot hit Shade. He didn't flinch, but it seemed to be doing some harm to him now that he was scorched. Plus, since it was fire damage, it seemed to be doing something with Shade's spider legs for some reason after a while.

"What the… Well, looks like there's been some…problems." Shade hissed, letting the spider legs snap off on their own and allowing him to land on the ground unharmed. "But…it only gets better, Chopper… M…u…c…h…b…e…t…t…e…r…"

"At least I don't have to worry about the spider legs," Chopper thought, getting into action and jumping on Shade with his light jump as soon as he had the chance. This ended up angering Shade and made him hit Chopper's cheek with his scorching sword.

"WAH!" Chopper cried, feeling a burn on his cheek. "Oh, geez… This really does hurt!"

"You…delivered pain to me…then…I shall deliver it…t…o…y…o…u…"

Shade swung again, but thankfully Chopper managed to block it in time and hit Shade with a rainbow kick, followed up by an ice ball that froze him for about a brief moment. Chopper jumped back just when he broke out of his icy prison and tossed a light ball and then a fireball. Shade easily blocked the fireball with his sword.

"Chopper…" Shade started, lowering his head. "How does it feel...to be…a…l…o…n…e?"

Chopper couldn't bear to look at those creepy eyes.

"None of your friends are here… I could easily tear them apart, but they are not here to support you. That means I can have…fun."

"What do you mean by 'fun'?" Chopper gawked, noticing Shade's hand reaching for the now purple glowing sun on his blade crescent. "Oh, no… Shade! Please! No no no no no! I don't want you to turn into…that!"

"Hee hee hee…" Shade touched the glowing sun, which brightened and then got enveloped in darkness. His entire body was enveloped by the darkness, and he was soon transformed into his hideous form that Chopper couldn't bear to look at from before.

It was like revisiting a nightmare. Except this time, there was no one to help him.

"How do you feel, Choppy?" Shade asked. "D…o…y…o…u…f…e…e…l…g…o…o…d…?"

"No! Stop!" Chopper cried, hurling a light ball at Shade and making him screech. He didn't even want to see this atrocity either. The only reason why he had an easier time before was because his friends were there to back him up. But to fight him without friends like this? He didn't want to think too far.

Shade made the first move and stretched his tentacle in order to grab Chopper. The loud snapping sound of his tentacle near Chopper's foot made him nearly yelp and jump. But when Shade tried grabbing him again, Chopper sliced it with his Spectrum Sword.

"Hee hee hee… So…foolish…" Shade grinned, his tentacle regenerating in just a second, making Chopper shake a bit.

Shade charged at Chopper and attempted to step on him with his large foot, but Chopper got out of the way in time and swung his Spectrum Sword at the eye in Shade's chest. He let out a small squeal before Chopper struck him again. This time, his squeal got even louder.

But Chopper tried to hold his own and prevent himself from possible vomiting or crying out in fear. That's just what Shade wanted, right?

Another thing he had to worry about was the crab-like claw that was snapping at him when it got close. It even got sliced off by Chopper, but like the tentacle, it only regenerated.

"Hee hee hee! Tearing your limbs will now be…so…much…e…a…s…i…e…r…" Shade cackled.

Chopper winced when the…whatever he was now began to spit acid out of his mouth. Getting close to it was way too risky for him, so he went into 3-D where he was safe. He was a bit surprised to know he was a bit 3-Dish in this form. It wasn't something he paid much attention to the previous fight. Then again, it was probably because he was too busy fighting him.

The arm with the long finger tried to attack Chopper by extending its finger, but that too got sliced off and easily regenerated.

"I don't think slicing pieces of him off are going to work," Chopper thought, his eyes widened at the monster. "They're just going to come back!"

"Oh, Chopper…" Shade nearly sang, making his arm go through the floor and grab Chopper's foot when it rose near him.

"WAAAAAH!" Chopper shrieked, trying to pull his arm off his foot. "Wh-What are you d-doing to me?!"

"The fun is just…st…a…rt…i…ng…"

Shade opened his mouth again and got ready to vomit more acid, making Chopper gape. However, an idea suddenly struck his mind.

After conjuring up a light ball, he hurled it into Shade's mouth, who happened to swallow it whole. The result was Shade coughing in pain and forcing himself to release Chopper, who sighed in relief. Light also happened to be enveloping his mouth, but from what Chopper could hear, he was in pain.

Deciding not to waste time, Chopper ran toward the hideous being and spun his body like a drill once he jumped. He managed to stab the eye in his chest and leave him even more vulnerable to pain, so he started to swing his Spectrum Sword full light power at Shade, who let out more squeals.

"URK…the light…p…a…i…n…"

Chopper threw another light ball at him, which helped the light enveloping his mouth. But that didn't stop Shade from grabbing Chopper with his tentacle and throwing him onto the ground. But thankfully it wasn't too much of a big deal for Chopper when he got back up.

"Well, I've definitely weakened him a bit," Chopper thought. "I really want to get him out of that form, though…"

He took out the Star Rod and looked at it for a moment. Using that to fight Shade wouldn't be a bad idea, but he wanted to save it for something more important. His Spectrum Sword was already helping him enough anyway.

"Maybe I might use it once…" Chopper decided before looking back up at Shade. He gave the Star Rod a swing, and a yellow star fired at the abomination, causing Shade to squeal loudly from the light.

"AIIIYEEEEEEEEEE!"

Having enough of this, Shade reverted back into his normal form and was kneeling on the ground in pain. While he coughed, small light particles began to come out of his mouth. Eventually he got up and cast off his creepy grin.

"It's not over yet…" Shade snickered. "N…o…t…o…v…e…r…"

"Uh oh…" Chopper gulped, noticing Shade's right hand turn into a long whip that hit Chopper in the face and left a mark. When his hand turned back to normal, the alien skipped over to the hero and swung his sword in his face, leaving another burn, but much more severe.

"Hee hee hee!"

Chopper winced as he rubbed his burnt cheek, but he had no time to cry over it, because Shade was about to swing again. He brought his Spectrum Sword in front of him and parried the attack.

"Shade! Really! What has gotten into you?!" Chopper cried. "Why do you act like this?!"

"Leaving me like this was the wrong choice," Shade hissed. "You've…ruined…me… You…left me…to this… N…o…w…I…w…i…l…l…r…u…i…n…y…o…u…!"

"What do you mean by ruining you?! Dimentio was responsible for bringing you here! Blame him!"

Shade ignored him and let his tongue hang out before pushing him back. He fired dark magic from his wand, hoping to hit Chopper, but the projectiles were easily blocked and thrown back at him. Even still, he was left unfazed.

"The secrets are what ruined me… Choppy…don't you realize…reading someone's…secrets is a bad…idea?"

Chopper was not sure what to say at this moment. All he could hear was Shade's creepy giggling while he raised his sword and summoned comets to fall from the sky. Chopper ran from the comets, and as soon as he was close enough, he dove at Shade with his Spectrum Sword and knocked him to the floor.

"Is that all you've got against me?" Chopper asked, striking Shade while he was on the floor.

Shade got up and wiped the small burn left on his face. "Now that I think about it…"

He turned to one of the statues and used his magic to lift it off the ground. Shade tried smashing the statue onto Chopper's head, but his Spectrum Sword did the job for him by slicing it in half.

"That's not going to work," Chopper stated. "Think of something better."

Shade gave him a smirk and used his magic to recover 150 HP. "Is that better?"

"H-Hey! That's not fair! You shouldn't be allowed to heal yourself!"

Shade ignored him and swung his sword so another wave of fire could be flown at Chopper. He tried countering it with a Spectrum Sword Beam, but the wave of fire seemed to go through it and scorch Chopper. On the other hand, Shade was hit by the attack too.

But because he was a bit low on HP, he drank a Star Shroom Shake to help recover some of his lost health. Using a Max Shroom Shake was a bit too risky at this point. It was better saved for something else.

Shade slowly rubbed his head from the pain he received before his eyes flashed at Chopper, who looked at him in return. At the same time, dark lightning also flashed in the background, and a small tremor occurred.

"I don't know how much time is left…" Chopper trailed. "Listen, Shade… Moving on is a necessity. You need to understand the circumstances here."

"I don't need to," Shade retorted. "I'm already happy! Happy enough to rip you apart, vomit on you, and squeal!"

"He doesn't care… If only he did…"

Shade grinned at Chopper as he stabbed the ground with his sword, causing him to be enveloped in a purple, fiery tornado. The statues of him were sucked in and destroyed in the process, and even the barriers started to shake a bit. Chopper, however, was started to get sucked into the deadly tornado, and even running was difficult.

While he ran, he fired blue lasers made of water energy at the tornado, but that didn't seem to be doing too much.

"Chopper…" Shade moaned. "T…h…e…r…e…i…s…n…o…e…s…c…a…p…e…"

The tornado only got bigger, and it got closer to Chopper as well. More lasers were being shot, but they continued to do nothing. Shade's glowing eyes and face could be seen through the tornado, and from the look of him, Chopper had a feeling he was probably satisfied.

Looking at his Star Rod again, he let out a sigh and swung another star projectile and let it fly at the tornado. "I was hoping to only use the Star Rod once against Shade, but it doesn't look like that's happening any time soon…"

The star hit Shade, which stopped his attack and made the purple tornado fade away. This also left him off guard, which helped Chopper fire a Spectrum Sword Beam and then a charged swing that did much more damage than a normal swing. What was also nice was that Shade was starting to become low on HP.

"Hee hee… Don't get so happy yet." Shade knocked Chopper back with a kick and used his magic to recover 150 HP. "And I've also got something else in store!"

Chopper gawked as Shade sliced through the ground and let darkness fire out. Using his wand, he fired the darkness in Chopper's direction, who was trapped and also felt himself wincing in pain as well.

"Ack! What is this?!"

"A present…from…m…e…" Shade grinned twirling his wand and letting the darkness recede so he could finish the job. "Seeing you suffer… It makes me…h…a…p…p…y…"

Chopper would have said something about how Shade was speaking, but he didn't want to have to repeat himself again. Instead, he created a light ball and swung his Spectrum Sword like a bat to send it flying at Shade, who winced from the hit, but was able to fire his magic repeatedly.

As for Chopper, he only spun his laser sword in order to deflect Shade's magic.

"Stop blocking my magic!" Shade whined. "I just want to watch you suffer so then I…can…d…e…s…t…o...y...y…o…u..."

Having enough of his speaking, Chopper jumped on Shade's head and, while in the air, threw his Spectrum Sword at him.

"I honestly don't want to repeat what I told you before…" Chopper groaned. "And if you continue to do that, it's probably going to make me less afraid."

In response, Shade grabbed Chopper's Spectrum Sword and threw it back at him. It only stabbed the ground, but Chopper was able to retrieve it and see Shade twisting his head again.

"…OK! I think I take back what I said before!"

Shade snickered as he transformed one of his hands into a whip and tried smacking Chopper. Slicing the whip was no option, so Chopper jumped on top of it and used it to approach Shade and deliver a light kick to his face. That was more than enough to knock him on the floor.

Chopper was at a safe distance as he looked down at Shade. "So you must've had enough, right?"

"Hee hee…" Shade giggled, slowing raising his body to face Chopper. "N…o…t…e…v…e…n…c…l…o…s…e…"

He used his wings to fly in the air and even tried to dive toward Chopper with his sword in front. Chopper was struck at least once and knocked back before Shade decided to land on the floor and fire three Comet Sword Beams. Not even Chopper could handle all three of them.

But he wasn't finished there. He touched the sun on his head and let it envelop into darkness. Chopper was expecting him to transform into that hideous abomination, but instead, Shade's right arm was transformed into a dark, monstrous hand that created a wave of energy shaped like said hand to grab Chopper.

"What the heck?!" Chopper gaped before feeling himself get thrown to the ground. When Shade released him, he threw his hand, only this time, it delivered a punch to Chopper's face. "What is that?!"

"Just something I can do," Shade grinned, letting the wave fade away before Chopper could run toward him. He swung his Spectrum Sword, but Shade's dark hand managed to block it. "See? Your stupid blade is useless! Now we can have fun once and for all…"

Chopper frowned and delivered a light punch, which made Shade screech and turn his hand back to normal. "I guess not."

Shade growled at Chopper and tried to bite at him, but Chopper swung his Spectrum Sword and left another burn on Shade's cheek. But what Chopper could see, Shade was getting angrier at this rate.

"Grrrgh… I was hoping for fun, but still you decide to hurt me!" Shade yelled. "You're sincerely asking for me to destroy you…"

"Face it, Shade. You're getting weak. I can tell."

"Hee hee… But so are you…"

"That's not going to stop me from trying to defeat you, though."

Shade gripped his sword and wand tightly and then touched the sun above his head. "Then… You leave me with no other choice. You…will…meet…your…e…n…d…!"

He slowly started to spin his body and arms around, and when he increased, Chopper noticed purple fire and dark magic circle around his body. Not only that, but darkness started to envelop him as well.

"Oh, no… This isn't good." Chopper gulped. "If he finishes that attack, then chances are I might not be standing…"

Ignoring Shade for a bit, Chopper looked at his Star Rod and Spectrum Sword. "Hmmmmm… What if I combine some of the power from the Star Rod and Spectrum Sword? Maybe I can use something like…the Spectrum Star Beam?"

He decided to act quick and added some of the power from the Star Rod to his Spectrum Sword. It was now glowing yellow as he started to prepare his attack. Looking back at Shade, he noticed the darkness and purple fire grow bigger. It was almost started to suck Chopper in too.

"H…e…e…h…e…e…" Shade moaned. "Y…o…u…w…i…l…l…n…o…t…l…i…v…e…t…o…s…e…e…a…l…l…w…o…r …l…d…s'…d…e…m…i…s…e…"

Chopper could tell Shade's voice was getting weaker with all the power he was using up in his single attack. But he didn't care, because his attack was prepared, and he had to make the final blow.

"Well, I'm sure I might live to see your end," Chopper stated as he raised his Spectrum Sword. "Spectrum Star Beam!"

He swung his Spectrum Sword, and a wave of spectrum energy combined with the Star Rod's power was fired in Shade's direction. It pierced through the large amount of darkness conjured up, which began to fade away as Shade let out an ear-piercing squeal.

"Ugh… That was unbearable…" Chopper moaned, covering his antennae from the loud squeal. He took a glimpse of Shade, who was now lying on the ground and approached the defeated alien child.

However, the big difference was that his eyes were black once again.

"Chopper…" Shade wheezed. "Con… Congratulations… I never thought to see this day…"

"What? What do you mean?"

"I never would have thought you'd be the one to finally finish me off… Even as my enemy, I never guessed the powers of the Star Rod would be in your hands. If only you didn't get a hold of that Star Rod… Stupid sages…"

"Wait… How do you know about the Star Rod?"

"It carries the power that a parasite such as myself can't stand. I knew of its existence in Sagein Galaxy, but I didn't want Luvbi to be taken to that world like how Squirps and Ninbot were. By keeping her away, restoring the Star Rod's power would be inevitable."

"But Luvbi was taken to Sagein Galaxy," Chopper corrected.

"Yes, she was taken there, but only to the Comet of Darkness. She couldn't use her sage powers to restore the Star Rod then. That's one of the few reasons why I kidnapped her parents and sent her that letter. It would help keep you and her away from that stupid Star Rod."

"But I ended up getting its power restored, so it ended up backfiring on you."

"Ungh… Yes, it did." Shade let out a cough, realizing that he was getting weaker. "Chopper, before you go, I have something to say to you…"

Chopper blinked for a moment, looking confused. "What do you want?"

"I want…" Before Shade could continue, his eyes flashed purple for a moment, and he raised his body and let out a hiss at Chopper, who jumped back when he saw him try to grab him. However, he stopped and slowly fell down again, but this time, completely motionless.

Chopper was left panting as Shade's body was slowly fading away from existence. He was actually expecting something nice to come out of him, but it looked like he was crazy until the very end. A bitter beginning and a bitter ending…

He stood silent for a moment before he decided to take off. With the barriers finally gone, it was time for him to reach his destination. There was no one else in his way except for the True Chaos Heart now.

But while he ran, he started to think about those he had met through his journey to get the twenty Pure Hearts. There were those that were friendly, those that were a bit too friendly, and there were people who were opposing him and his friends. He could nearly hear their voices in his head at this point.

"I've met so many friends and enemies along the way…" Chopper trailed. "But now most of them are all gone…"

The feeling of betrayal from Tipral still haunted him. He couldn't believe that he was actually helping one of his greatest enemies this whole time. But then he remembered that he still had a chance to redeem himself, because he was so close to the center of The Void.

"I wish my friends were here for this… It feels much more complete to destroy the True Chaos Heart with them."

He caught glimpse of a large door up ahead at the end of the pathway. It was black with the center embedded with a depiction of the Chaos Heart, just like the trail on the floor. Chopper was also approaching a ? Block, which stopped to hit. A glowing yellow Mushroom popped out and landed on the floor. He ate it to fully recover his HP.

"That's probably the only Max Shroom I'm ever going to see…" Chopper trailed as he approached the Save Block near the door. Saving his game was an important thing too, especially since this was the end.

With everything finished up, Chopper slowly approached the large door in front of him.

"OK, Chopper… You can do this. There's only one more obstacle in the way… Destroying it is the only thing I have to do, and then all worlds will be saved."

He took a deep breath as he reached for the knob. "All right… Here it goes."

Chopper kept a bold look and pushed the door open.

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That was the longest chapter I've ever written in a while, being around 60,000 words long. However, it'll probably be the last time I ever write something this long. And that means the remaining chapters will not be incredibly long for those who don't like the length of these.

But Chapter 20-5 isn't completely over yet. Much like the other fifth parts of a chapter, the next chapter(s) consist of the final battle and the ending. It's a good thing I decided to separate that from this chapter, right?

There's not much else I can say here. Get ready for the finale in the next few chapters, and boy is it intense.