This chapter is based around Paper Mario, with a few special guests in it. If you have read a certain other story of mine, you'll know what I'm talking about.
Warning: This chapter contains blood.
I am very sorry for the long wait, I've been busy with school.
And I got kinda lazy.
Enjoy.
Luke didn't know how to feel at this moment. First he ended up in a city where he found a sword, then ended up in this cave, and now he was in a pitch black area with a giant eye staring at him.
As said before he was a pitch black eyeball with a light blue sclera, yellow iris, and a black pupil. With purple and black tentacles around him.
The teenager didn't really know how to respond. "Uhhhh hi? What are you?"
"Oh, my apologies." He cleared his deep throat. "I am Dharkon, a being of pure darkness. And I've been trapped here for years."
Luke looked out at the area he was in once again, turning back to the Dharkon.
"Does this place just not have an end?"
"It doesn't, which is why I've never been able to get out of here." The eye explained. "Now then…"
He immediately made his tentacles surround the boy, as he glanced at them.
"I don't know exactly who you are child, but there's something I know about you." He said. "What is your name?"
"Luke." He answered. "Are you the devil?"
Dharkon put a tentacle to his eyeball, thinking. "No, I am not. I may be darkness, but I am not the devil. So Luke, have you ever realized anything about yourself?"
The teenager pursed his lips, his eyes going in different directions. "I've got good grades, and I'm descent at playing the guitar. Do you want me to sell my soul? Like that Robert Johnson legend?"
"I already told you, I am not the devil. And I do not want your soul." He sighed. "Have you ever realized the power that you possess?"
Luke squinted his eyes. "Power? I mean I did use the Monado that one time, that was a bit strange."
"Hmhmhm." Dharkon laughed. "That was because of your DNA."
"Human DNA?"
The dark eye shook from side to side. "No, you are not just an ordinary human. Well, you're mostly human. But you posses the DNA of a more powerful being."
Luke was about to guess, but he decided to instead ask. "Who's the being?"
"Tabuu."
The teenager seemed more confused. "Tabuu? Who was that?"
Dharkon put two of his tentacles out and created a circle with them, as a purple flame formed into a mirror of sorts surrounded by the tentacles.
The display started showing footage of a pure blue man, in a void of darkness as footage of a war came up next. What looked to be multiple copies of R.O.B and this strange bombs.
Then it went back to footage of the blue man, he had these beautiful looking wings. But soon a fast blue blur destroyed both of them, showing Sonic wagging his finger.
Finally it cut to footage of the blue being battling some of the smashers, but there was a much smaller amount of them compared to the smashers that now lived in the mansion or were a part of Ultimate's roster.
The blue man was using attacks such as a large shuriken, laser beams from his eyes, and even turning into a sharp form and charging forward.
"Hm." Luke observed. "That's Tabuu?"
Dharkon nodded. "Yes, he was very powerful. he caused the war of Subspace."
"Oh! The Subspace Emissary, Master Hand told me about that." The teen stopped for a second, his eyes squinting. "Wait, you're saying that some of Tabuu's DNA is inside of me?"
"It is." Dharkon moved behind Luke, making him turn around. "Do you possibly know, how you got that DNA?"
Luke put a hand at his chin. "I mean, I wasn't really that much of a special kid. My parents were Astronomers, and my dad was a pastor. But I do remember going to a hospital once as a kid."
"Ohhh." Dharkon quietly laughed. "And WHY were you at that hospital?"
Luke tried thinking once again. "I was sick, and I had a condition that made me lose blood when I was young. But after I'd been given some kind of needle I'd felt completely better after that. But what does-"
He stopped for a minute, pursing his lips and looking at Dharkon. "Mm hm." The giant eyeball nodded as Luke came to a sudden realization from his explanation.
The needle had Tabuu's DNA, no wonder it was blue!
"Oh, I guess that's why. Shit." Luke said. "Well then why can't I transform into him? Or use any of the powers he had that you showed me? I could've stopped Dade and I wouldn't be here!"
Dharkon rolled his eye back and lied his tentacles back with him. "Because you aren't strong enough. You may be physically strong, but not enough to match Tabuu's power. You lack control, and without control over that power you couldn't possibly do good with his power. But…"
He got closer to the boy, his eye right in Luke's face as he intimidated him.
"I can help you access that power." He whispered. "You'll be able to access it instantly, help out the others, and be powerful enough to stop those who oppose you. But for a price."
Luke blinked.
"You help me find a way out of this place." He told the boy.
Luke's eyebrows lowered as he made a frown with his face. "I don't know the way out."
Suddenly Dharkon's eye slightly curved at the bottom, letting out a small laugh. "But with Tabuu's power you can. Now, what do you say Luke?"
He put out a tentacle, waiting for Luke to grab it and shake it. But that didn't happen as another voice interrupted the eye and the boy.
"Do not shake his hand! He only offers treachery!"
The both of them looked to another area of the pitch black void, where another circular being was.
But this one wasn't an eyeball, but instead a ball of pure light. With long wings of multiple colors like blue, gold, hot pink, and mostly white. A sort of light being he appeared to be.
"What the-who are you?" Luke asked.
Dharkon groaned. "Oh great, THIS guy."
"I am Galeem, a being of light."
"But he's not pure light." Dharkon said to the teenager. "He pretends he is."
Galeem frowned in response. "Well it sounds like someone woke up on the wrong side of nothing."
"Oh hahaha!" Dharkon sarcastically laughed. "Because we're in a void that's nothing but darkness, how original Galeem. It's totally not like you've made that same joke ever since we became stuck here."
"Well if you hadn't read the map wrong we would've maybe escaped!"
Dharkon's eye turned red. "What map?! There wasn't a map to begin with you…you…glowing ball!"
Galeem let out a small laugh in response. "Looks like your originality isn't any better than mine. And I thought you liked the darkness, it's in your name."
"Don't pester me!"
And so the both of them began arguing about nonsensical issues that didn't matter at that moment. Leaving Luke to his own thoughts until both Galeem and Dharkon decided to stop arguing.
"Welp, guess I'm just gonna wait til I can use Tabuu's powers." He thought as he crossed his legs, watching the two bicker.
"Mmm…hmm."
Mumbled a certain green plumber.
Our newest universe is one that is flat. But while the world itself may be flat, it was a world of big size. A world with creativity and arts, but also vibrant colors and people with huge personalities.
And no, not the Earth. But the latter parts were close.
This certain green plumber was Luigi, the younger Mario brother found himself unconscious in a dark and small room. Said room was filled with buckets, a mop and brooms, and there were even stickers on the walls of it.
"Huh?" He opened his eyes. "Where a am I?" Luigi began standing up and getting his stuff together.
The plumber looked down and stretched his back. "Ooh, my back." He looked at the items that were in the closet, picking up what appeared to be a broom. "This feels a little a floppy, I wonder why it's-"
Suddenly he had ripped the paper broom on accident, this caused his eyes to widen. "Oh no! I broke it, and…wait. It's paper. But-"
"Alright Luigi! Break time's over, we need you on the stage." Said what appeared to be a Toad made out of paper, holding a clipboard as light came in through the open door. "Sorry we had to keep you in here because-"
The Toad stopped when he looked up from his clipboard, both him and Luigi remained silent.
"Geez, are the plants burning or did you get fat?" He asked as he adjusted his glasses. "Whatever, we gotta film that play. Come on." He grabbed Luigi's hand and began dragging him out of the closet.
Luigi turned to the closet, looking at the other things in it. "But what about a that broom?"
"Eh, it's not a big deal. We'll just take it up or glue it later. If we can even lift up the glue bottle that is."
Now we are brought to what appeared to be some kind of stage, and not the kind in Smash Bros. The kind of stage you would see a play happen, with curtains and even crowds of people on the seats.
They were all made out of paper, just like the Toad from earlier.
Many people in the crowds were speaking with one another, their voices filling the auditorium in anticipation of the show they were about to witness.
Speaking of the Toad from earlier he had walked out onto the stage while the curtains were up. Causing all of the paper people to completely silence, looking up at him.
"Ahem." He cleared his throat. "Good morning citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom, and guests from Rogueport. Now I know that you were all expecting to see Mario star in today's show."
Luigi was behind the curtain, his eyes widened. "Mario's a here?"
"But due to unfortunate circumstances, he will not be starring in this morning's play."
That's when multiple people in the crowds started shouting and booing, throwing paper items at the Toad.
"BOOOOO! My daughter and I came here to see Mario! No one else!" A paper Koopa Troopa yelled.
"How dare you lie to us?" A paper Goomba threw a Mushroom Shake on the ground. "I want a refund!"
Toad took cover from the incoming objects, before standing backup. "No! No refunds! I SAID NO REFUNDS!" Everyone in the crowd silenced. "Thank you, now as I was saying. Mario is not in this morning's showing due to the fact that we can't find him, but I've got a replacement that's just as good as his brother! Maybe a little less. Everyone, I give you LUIGI!"
"YAAAAAAAY!" The crowd started cheering once again, while Toad stepped off of the stage and the curtains were moving. "LU-IGI! LU-IGI!"
But then the curtains came down.
"LU-IGI! LU-igi. Lu…igi?"
The crowd stopped cheering upon seeing the green plumber, as he was just standing on stage doing nothing.
Luigi let out a tiny chuckle, waving his hand. "Hi a everyone. It's a me, Luigi."
No one was impressed, but no one was upset either. Just confused, even an audience member coughed.
"Yeah…anyways!" Toad exclaimed. "In today's play, Luigi here will be facing off with another weird individual that we found off of the streets! Introducing…"
That's when on the other side of the stage, a Belmont walked out.
It was Simon Belmont! So he ended up in this paper world too.
"I will vanquish the darkness!" He exclaimed. But then the vampire hunter saw who he was up against, his fave straightening. "Luigi? Green hero? What are you doing here?"
Luigi's eyebrows raised. "Simon?! You a too?"
"Oh you two know each other, good." The Toad cleared his throat. "Now, BEGIN!" He walked backstage as the crowd went back to cheering.
Simon and Luigi looked at the crowd in a bit of a tense stance, both felt a bit under pressure. The paper people came here to watch a fight and if they didn't get it, there were sure to be some unkind words thrown around and maybe even fights.
"Okay a Simon, let's just a carefully fight each other and then-"
"HGRAH!" Simon instantly started throwing axes and crosses at Luigi, catching the plumber off guard.
The green man rapidly dodged many of Simon's attacks, mostly out of fear than anything. "Simon?! Why are you attacking a me?!"
"I'm sorry Luigi, but I worry that we'll be put to death if we don't battle!" The vampire hunter said as he threw another axe. "Think of it as one of our duels in the tournament of Smash Bros."
Luigi ducked under a cross once again. "O-okay! Well at least a give me a chance to attack! Hah!" He threw a green fireball out of his hand, as it began floating towards Simon.
The vampire hunter jumped into the air. "Nice try my friend, but that move has not touched me!"
But while the fireball hadn't hit Simon, it was still floating through the air.
Until it finally hit the curtain and started spreading.
"Hragh! Yah! Hergh!" Simon continued throwing projectiles at Luigi, the both of them completely oblivious to where the fire hand stopped.
"Simon!" Luigi jumped up high. "We need a to stop this!"
Simon stopped for a second, Simon uh his whip down to the ground. "But why? Aren't we supposed to battle to defeat darkness?"
"Uhhh." The green plumber pointed to the crowd. "We're a fighting because they want us t-FIRE!" He jumped in fear while pointing behind Simon.
The vampire hunter turned to the crowds. "What? A fire? Where is it?! You mean to tell me that these people only wanted us to entertain them?!"
Suddenly the fired roared as it had spread beyond the curtain, as the flames burned on parts of the stage and the auditorium.
The crowd was silent once again, all of them staring in shock at the fire. Before they got up from their seats and started running around.
"AHHH! FIRE! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!"
"I DIDN'T KNOW FIRES WERE THIS FIERCE!"
Luigi began panicking. "It was an accident! Where's the nearest water bucket?"
"It's right here!" The Toad from earlier ran towards them with a paper water bucket. "Put that fire out you two!"
Luigi grabbed the bucket immediately, turning back to the flames and pushing out the water bucket. "Okay! This should a help!"
But when the water came out it did nothing, the "water" was only burned in the fire, as Luigi looked at said bucket. "Huh?!" He proceeded to frown at the Toad next.
The paper Toad shrugged. "Everything here is paper! Even the water!"
"Well then what do we a do?!"
"Aye maties! Put yer worries away!"
The trio looked to the chairs in the audience. Most of the chairs were empty, but they could also see two paper people running up onto the stage.
One appeared to be a brown Bomb Omb. He had a big grey mustache, blue shoes, a captain hat, and a ship wheel on his back.
The Bomb Omb jumped onto the stage. "Ahem, Flurrie! You think your winds can put out those flames?"
Another paper figure floated nearby, it was a purple cloud like woman.
"I should be able to." Flurrie started sucking in air, while the Bomb Omb turned again.
"And Vivian, you can control fire right?" He asked someone else.
A purple ghost like figure appeared, with a pink and white striped hat, white gloves, and pink hair. "Of course!"
"Help with these flames then!" He said as Vivian began moving her hands near the fire, as it started to become weaker.
Luigi was a bit perplexed. "Wh-who are a you guys?"
The Bomb Omb's eye widened. "Oh! My bad maties, allow me to introduce me-self. I'm Captain Bobbery, captain of the seas!"
Suddenly Flurrie blasted a gale of wind out of her mouth and onto the fire. Putting it out in an instant! "Well, that takes care of the flames."
"That was excellent!" Vivian complemented the ghost. "That fire went out in an instant."
"Thank you, your words are kind Vivian." Flurrie nodded her head.
That's when the other paper people stopped running around, as they broke out into cheer in celebration. "YAAAAAAY!
Luigi let out a sigh of relief, wiping his forehead with the back of his hand. "Woo, that was a close! Thank a goodness the fire was put out!"
"Luigi my green friend, I do not believe this is the best time to celebrate." Simon said.
"Huh? Why?"
Suddenly many paper Toads were pointing spears at them, surrounding the two normal people.
One then yelled at them. "Freeze right there criminals! You're under arrest for almost burning down the theater!"
"B-b-but it was an accident!" The green plumber was shaking. "We didn't a mean to light the curtain, my a fire ball just a missed!"
"Please hear them out!" Vivian put both of her hands up. "I am sure that they truly didn't mean to, they were only trying to put on a show for all of you!"
A paper Koopa's angry expression immediately softened, as he looked to another paper Koopa that was his friend. "Come to think of it, they're right!"
"Yeah." A paper Goomba nodded his head. "That weird barbarian guy jumped over the fake Luigi's fireball, it was all an accident!"
"Oh." The paper Toad's said, putting their spears down. "Our sincerest apologies, we didn't know it was an accident."
"NOOOOOO!!!"
Everyone in the crowds turned to one of the entrance doors was, it appeared to be another paper Toad! But this one had a big white mustache compared to the rest.
"Well I'll be, it's the mayor!" Flurrie said.
"Mr Mayor, what's the problem?" The paper Toad that found Luigi in the closet earlier came up to him.
Mayor Toad pulled his mustache, his eyes white with panic. "My Chick-Fil-A sauce…it's missing!!"
The only reaction from the crowds was a cricket chirping, as the news didn't seem that urgent.
Until Assistant Toad put up a paper that said "Overreact" on it.
"AHHHHHHHH!!" The paper people immediately started screaming again, running around and it was like deja vu all over again.
Luigi looked a bit stumped. "Really? Is a missing sauce that a bad?" He put a hand to his mouth as Bobbery approached him and Simon.
"We'll tell you folks about it at our hotel, follow us!" Bobbery jumped off of the stage, leaving Luigi and Simon no choice but to follow after them.
A little bit later…
Elsewhere in Toad Town, our heroes had been taken to a hotel in said town. Titled the Fold Hotel, guess the people of the town were more self aware than they thought.
But the smashers already thought they were.
"Okay." Bobbery jumped onto the table. "Koops! Did anyone follow us?"
A paper Koopa in a blue hoodie with sneakers and a band aid on his nose was looking through the door hole. With him proceeding to open the door and check both sides, in the end he closed the door and turned back. "Nope, I don't think so."
Bobbery looked to the windows. "Ms. Mowz, is anyone suspicious out there?"
He received no response.
"Ms. Mowz?" He spoke her name again, but this time there was slight ruffling from the ground. "Where are ya?"
Everyone looked to a purple purse on the ground, as a small white paper mouse wearing a red mask popped out.
"Huh? I'm not looking out the window." She dived back into the purse. "I think I found some treasure!"
"Hey!" Vivian exclaimed as she squatted down and grabbed the bag. "That is my purse! Please get out of it!" She opened it and put her hands inside.
"I wasn't going to steal anything!" Ms. Mowz said as she was pulled out. "I just smelled treasure!"
Luigi put his hand over his eyes and checked out the window. "There's a no one out there, we're a fine."
"But what is the problem?" Simon asked while he crossed his arms. "Is someone after us? Who are all of you?" Are you all demons?! Answer me!"
"No no!" Koops' eyes widened as he put his arms in front of him. "We aren't demons just let us explain!"
Vivian placed Ms. Mowz done, picking up her purse and putting it away. "I'm sorry, let us introduce ourselves. My name is Vivian, a Shadow Siren."
"You maties already know my name, Captain Bobbery!" Bobbery said his name once again.
"Koops, what's up?" The Koopa waved.
"Madam Flurrie, it is an honor to meet your acquaintance." The cloud woman politely said.
"I'm a Yoshi! You got a problem?" A Yoshi Kid cockily raised an eyebrow, Luigi shook his head in response. "That's what I thought."
"I'm Ms. Mowz, I'm a treasure hunter." She bowed.
"And I'm Goombella!" A pink paper Goomba with a miner helmet and a yellow ponytail said, she was the lead of the group. "Now we'd like to ask you a few questions, Luigi."
The green plumber nodded. "Alright, what do you want to know?"
Yoshi Kid immediately jumped onto the table next to the young get Mario brother. "Why are you so meaty huh? You're not paper thin like all of us! What happened to you? Did you get a makeover? Are you an ALIEN?!"
"N-no!" Luigi yelled in slight intimidation. "It's a me Luigi! I'm not even a from here, why are all of a you made out of paper?"
"It's just how things are here." Koops shrugged. "Not much other reason. Wait, so you're not the Luigi we know?"
Luigi shook his head. "Nope, you know a paper version of a me?"
"It seems you are well known here as well Luigi." Simon said.
"We do, but we need to tell you a few things." Goombella jumped into a chair and sat down. "Something's been going on in this town, weird stuff is happening. And we think that you and your viking friend have something to do with it."
"I am not a viking, but I am a vampire slayer!" Simon raised his fist.
The others only stood in silence, as Goombella's eyelids covered half of her eyes. "That's great, now as I was saying. People have gone missing, and valuable items have gone missing. Like the mayor's precious bottle of Chick-Fil-A sauce, so we have a proposal for you two."
"Woah a woah woah, let us just explain." Luigi out his hands out. "We're from a the Smash Mansion and we were sucked up into a black hole and it-"
"THE SMASH MANSION?!" The entire party exclaimed with surprise.
Yoshi Kid put his hands at his hips. "Smash Bros?! That's totally awesome!"
"We didn't know you were smashers!" Goombella's jaw dropped. "We're sorry for just taking you guys all of a sudden like that."
"That explains why you two aren't made of paper." Vivian said. "But back to Goombella's story. We had come here on vacation from Rougeport, we'd hope to meet up with an old friend. But what's been going on has prevented us, and we can't find Mario anywhere!"
Simon had his hand to his chin, listening to their story. "I see, so a sort of…Paper Mario could help us?"
"Exactly." Madam Flurrie nodded her head.
"Mario's been missing like Vivian said." Goombella jumped off of her chair. "We tried finding leads on where he is, but not even his brother or the princess knows."
Luigi listened. "So do we have any an evidence of where he might have a gone to? Or what might a be the cause of these disappearances?"
Koops looked out the window and pointed to something outside. "It's probably that castle outside."
Luigi and Simon's eyes widened, as the two took peeks out the window.
The paper Koopa was right, there was a giant pure black castle in the sky over the Paper Mushroom Kingdom. Along with a dark purple portal above it.
Luigi knew exactly what that castle meant, while he wasn't Paper Luigi. He had definitely experienced being in that castle before, and someone he faced.
"Count Bleck's Castle." Luigi said.
"Oh? You know what it is?" Ms. Mowz asked hopping at the window frame.
The green plumber nodded. "In this a world, the paper version of me and a my brother fought him. He did have a change of heart, but not a Dimentio. It was a his plan all along, and he used me as his a puppet."
"He took control of you? That is very demonic!" Simon exclaimed. "And I presume that this would be the doing of that Dade menace?"
"It has a his name written all over it."
Vivian had both of her hands together. "I'm dearly sorry to interrupt, but who is this Dade?"
"We'll tell you all about a him." Luigi put his arms out and gave a motion. "On a the way out." He began walking towards the exit, before being stopped by Yoshi Kid
"Way out? What do ya mean by that?" He asked.
Simon took a knee and took out his vampire whip. "We will help you all find this Paper Mario, in exchange we ask for your assistance."
Goombella seemed a bit surprised. "Really? You'd help us find him?"
"Of course! We need him to save a the universe." Luigi said bravely, taking out a feather. Throwing onto himself as a yellow cape appeared behind him. "Now…let's a g-."
Suddenly the sound of roaring engines and a huge crash came from outside, leaving everyone in the hotel room shocked.
"What was that?!" Koops span once around and span again.
"It came from outside, let's go!" Flurrie floated out of the door as everybody else followed after the cloud woman.
Meanwhile…
There was indeed a crash into the hotel, and no it was not a paper object.
It was a futuristic kart. One that was blue, and looked like the kind of kart you would drive at an extremely fast speed with about 29 other vehicles like it.
"Oh you're kidding me!" The hatch of the vehicle opened up as a certain blue racer hopped out to check the damages. "I thought I was better at driving!"
Captain Falcon, the famous F-Zero racer from Mute City.
The racer walked to where his Blue Falcon had crashed into the hotel, the wall was almost completely torn from the impact.
"Well this is a problem. I'd better move out of here and find who owns the hotel." Falcon scratched the back of his head.
Suddenly the group from the theater ran out of the hotel to see the damages, all of them surprised by it.
"Captain Falcon?!" Luigi exclaimed, catching the attention of the racer. "What a did you do?"
"Luigi? Simon? Oh I'm sure glad someone's alive!" He smiled. "Yeah…I sorta crashed into this hotel. Have you seen everything here? It's all made of paper!"
Vivian nodded her head. "It is indeed, but your vehicle doesn't seem to be."
Koops' eyes widened. "No way! It's Captain Falcon, the famous F-Zero racer!"
"Oh boy, fanboy moment." Ms. Mowz sighed.
"Why's that a problem?! He's so cool!!" Yoshi Kidbgrinned and ran towards the racer with Koops. "What are you doing here Captain Falcon sir in our paper thin world?!"
Captain Falcon put out a hand. "Now now you two, I know it's surprising to meet your hero but now isn't the time. But I ended up here from that Dade guy's black hole! But funny enough I woke up right in my Blue Falcon while I was driving! And guess who was in it with me?"
He pointed inside the hatch as a woman around Captain Falcon's she sat on the edge. She had long brown hair, a pink tight outfit with red pieces, long red boots, and even two armor plates on her shoulders.
"Hello boys, and ladies." The woman waved.
Jody Summer, fellow F-Zero racer and Galactic Faith Federation member. She joined the F-Zero race in order to bust criminals attempting to sabotage races.
Luigi's eyebrows raised. "Oh! It's a Jody Summer! Your partner!"
Koops looked confused. "Partner? I thought they were siblings."
"What kind of weird FanFiction or anime have you been watching?" Goombella asked with an uncomfortable expression on her face.
Ms. Mowz hopped onto Goombella's head, looking into her notebook. "Says the Goomba who's writing a self insert story in her notebook right now."
The paper Goomba immediately silenced, closing her notebook and putting it away.
"We aren't siblings or romantic partners." Jody hopped into the ground. "We just work together."
"This isn't Alabama." Luigi nodded. "But what a happened?"
Jody crossed her arms and leaned against the kart. "I was getting in my White Cat to come and pay Bart a visit, but when I entered I suddenly turned orange. Next thing I know I'm driving Bart's Blue Falcon and he suddenly appears in it."
"More meddling from Dade." Simon gripped his whip. "We need to stop him!"
"We should do our search for our matey Mario!" Bobbery jumped up.
"HOLD UP NOW!!"
They looked back to the entrance where a paper Goomba angrily stomped out.
"Uh oh." Vivian put a hand to her mouth.
"The hotel owner." Koops gulped.
He angrily jumped onto the Blue Falcon, glaring at Captain Falcon. "Did you crash your vehicle into MY hotel?!"
The racer nodded his head. "I did, and it was a huge accident. I can pay you for the damages-"
"I don't want your money?" Hotel Goomba yelled. "I want death, DEEEEAAATH!"
"Now hold on Mr. Goomba, there's no need for that."
Another paper figure appeared, this time it was the paper mayor Toad from before.
Hotel Goomba seemed pleased. "Oh hello mayor! Arrest these hooligans for ruining my hotel!"
"Mr. Goomba I understand your anger, but these folks can help us with something." Mayor Toad walked to the group. "As you all know, my Chick-Fil-A sauce was stolen!! And if I don't get it back, I'll go crazy! So I want you all to help me find it. And I won't take no for an answer!"
"Aw really?" Yoshi Kid asked. "We don't care about your dumb sauce!"
Luigi put a hand on the dinosaur. "But a we'll get out of a trouble, and we might find a Paper Mario if we look around."
"Yeah!" Mayor Toad smiled. "Cause if you don't find it…."
"I'll get out the scissors." He said in a deep pitched voice with terrifying eyes.
Everyone was slightly intimidated by him.
"O-okay…" Luigi shook. "Let's a search."
Elsewhere in another universe…
Now we are seen in a nighttime area with a sky full of stars. And even small clouds of smoke coming from the ground.
Because there was a blazing fire, and a pot over it. The pot was filled a sort of stew with vegetables and meat.
This was in a wooded area with a large grassy space, where the Greater Sacred Machine was parked in the grass. Along with all of the ones riding it.
"Hahahahaha!" Lissa laughed as she sat next to Ricken. "Wooh, oh man Henry that joke was funny!" The princess of Ylisse was sharing the meal with her husband Ricken and his friends Henry.
Ricken but his lip in worry. "The part about the decapitated fingers was pretty gross though."
"Oh lighten up! But I guess that's what the fire's for!" Henry laughed. "Tee-hee."
"It's delicious." Lucina said as she took a sip from her bowl. "Thank you father."
"Don't thank me." He smiled, pointing to one of the Shepherds. "Thank Sumia, she's really good at cooking."
"Her cooking and baking go hand in hand, I'd say." Gaius, Sumia's husband said as he sat next to her and received a shy giggle from the pegasus knight.
On the other side of Lucina was her husband Inigo, who was speaking with Kung Lao and Raiden.
Inigo started off the conversation. "So you two trained our daughter?"
Kung Lao shook his head. "Nope, wasn't us. But Lord Liu Kang told us it was he and I from a different timeline that trained her."
"It seems that he remembers training her too." Raiden quietly chuckled as he looked to the Fire God, sitting peacefully.
But he also had his eyes on Soleil, who was sitting a bit farther away from the others of the group and meditating. With her bowl in her lap.
Lucina blinked, before standing up with her bowl and tapping Inigo on the shoulder. "Inigo."
"Huh? Oh sure Lucy." He said without really paying attention as he was playing with baby Soleil. "O-ow! Hey!"
"Come now." Lucina slightly giggled as she pulled his ear. With the two of them making their way over to their future daughter.
Soleil still sat by herself, meditating in loneliness and thinking to herself. Thinking about Ophelia, where had her cousin ended up? Why wasn't she here like her parents and Soleil's parents? Was she safe?
"Hello Soleil." Inigo said, breaking her concentration and gaining her attention.
"Oh! Hello father." She politely bowed, ending her meditation as her parents sat down in front of her. "What do I owe of this pleasure?"
Inigo smiled back at her. "You don't need to be so formal Soleil, we're your parents."
There was a bit of silence between the family, except for baby Soleil's tiny giggles. This caused Soleil to smile and put her hand out.
"She's definitely grown." Soleil placed her hand out.
"And you have too Soleil." Lucina said, placing her own hand on her future daughter's hand. "But we'd like you to tell us more about your training."
The young adult but her lip. "Erm. Mother, father, I'm not sure if it's very important."
Inigo was next to place his hands on both his wife and daughter's hands. "Of course it is Soleil, we haven't seen you in a year. We want to know what's been going on."
"You told me that Liu Kang was your master." Lucina pointed out. "Could you tell us more about that?"
Soleil stared at them for a few seconds, before slightly nodding her head. "Of course. After Ophelia and I had gotten into a fight, I'd run away as you guys know. And I wasn't living well, it was awful. I lived on the streets with dirty clothes, slept on the cold ground, and had to resort to stealing from shops. But I'd ended up at a long staircase on a rainy night, but it happened to be the Sky Temple which is where I met Lord Raiden and Master Bo Rai Cho. I explained my story and they told me everything about the Mortal Kombat tournament, and I decided I would fight in it. I started training with Master Bo Rai Cho before the temple was attacked, and so I began training under both Master Liu Kang and Master Kung Lao. They taught me martial arts, and I became a master. But I…also told them that the Smash Mansion would willingly fight in the Mortal Kombat tournament."
Lucina and Inigo's eyes widened. "What?!" They exclaimed.
"Yes…and that's why they all showed up. And…Dade had destroyed the mansion." Soleil closed her eyes in shame. "I managed to escape, but I didn't deserve to. It's all my fault."
She placed a hand over her eyes, trying to hide her tears.
Both of her parents looked concerned.
"Oh Sunshine no." Inigo put his hand on her arm. "Please don't cry, it wasn't your fault."
"Inigo is right Soleil." Lucina sat next to her as both comforted her. "You didn't know he would invade, I'm sure he planned it."
Soleil removed her hand. "Yes it was my fault mother!" She said quietly. "I led Shao Khan to the mansion and he was allied with Dade, it's my fault!"
"Your parents are correct, Soleil."
The three looked up, where Liu Kang stood above them.
"Master Liu Kang!" Soleil bowed once again. "Thank you for gracing us with your presence."
A smile emerged from the Fire God's face. "The pleasure is mine Soleil." He said as the family stood back up. "But what your mother and father say is true. That black hole would have been created regardless of us showing up, I foresaw it."
"Foresaw it?" Inigo asked. "You can do that?"
Liu Kang nodded his head. "I had gained much power when becoming a God, but I had did myself of much of it. But I foresaw an event of all the timelines and realms in jeopardy."
The warrior and God then put his hand to Soleil's cheek. "Soleil, you truly have become a fine warrior. You trained effortlessly to improve yourself and become strong, I had trained you say and night and I can say that it has paid off. You are humble, respectful, and disciplined. Quite the opposite of what you were when you began your training. So please, do not be hard on yourself."
Soleil wiped the remaining tears from her eyes, a sad smile on her face. "Thank you master, that means everything to me."
She proceeded to close her eyes, both of them bowing to each other in respect.
Inigo chuckled. "Well I don't believe we've introduced ourselves." He put his hand out and shook Liu Kang's hand. "I'm Inigo, Soleil's father."
"And I am Lucina, her mother." Lucina shook his hand along with her husband. "We are in your debt for watching over our daughter and training her."
Liu Kang nodded his head. "It is pleasure to meet the both of you, and it was an honor to train her."
Suddenly there was a rustle in the bushes.
Soleil was the first to notice, as she turned around and pulled a blade out of her pocket sheathe.
"Someone is there!" She said, catching the attention of the other three.
Lucina pulled out Falchion while Inigo took out his own sword, but Liu Kang stood still.
He stepped forward next to Soleil, with both of his hands put together. "There is no need to worry, they are no threat."
Soleil quickly looked to her master. "What? You can sense them?"
"Yes." He nodded his head. The princess slowly but surely put away her knife, as her parents put their own weapons away. They trusted the word of Liu Kang.
Two figures emerged from the darkness of the woods, both appeared to be young women with black hair. They appeared to be sisters.
One wore a magenta outfit with a face mask and a ponytail, while the other had a blue face mask and a blue outfit. The one in magenta had two sai blades on her while the one in blue had folded fans.
"Woah." Soleil's eyebrows raised. "They're elegant, like royalty."
Liu Kang nodded his head. "They are." He proceeded to bow to the two women. "Empress Mileena, Princess Kitana, your prescience is appreciated."
Both seemed slightly surprised.
"Lord Liu Kang, we did not expect to see you here." The woman in blue bowed.
"What are you doing here?" The woman in magenta asked, noticing the others. "And who are they?"
Liu Kang put his hand out to the three. "This is Soleil, she was one of my students. In a previous timeline. And these are her parents, they are royalty like they both of you." He looked to the aforementioned three. "Soleil, this is Empress of Outworld Mileena and her sister Princess Kitana. Both of them are allies."
"I see." Soleil nodded her head and bowed to the both of them. "Any ally of Master Liu Kang is an ally of mine."
"Thank you for your kindness." Mileena tilted her head down before putting out one hand.
"It is a pleasure to meet you." Kitana placed her hand out next to her sister's. "You were his student in a previous timeline?"
Soleil shook both of their hands with both of hers, a smile emerged on her face. "Yup! When he and Master Kung Lao were younger. So you're an empress and you're a princess?"
Kitana gave a polite smile and nod as Mileena gave one nod.
"That's great!" She cheerfully exclaimed. "I mean, I am a princess as well."
"Liu Kang." Mileena ignored her and looked to the Mortal Kombat champion of a previous timeline. "Where are we? What is going on?"
That's when officers Eric and Bill walked over to the group, the latter still eating his stew.
"We can explain." Eric said. "There's this evil guy called Dade, he is no joke. He's taken the power of multiple string fighters and plans to merge all universes into one. And he's been toying with the universes like a child, mixing up the people of their universes into others."
Kitana seemed a bit confused. "Wait, are you saying that someone else can also manipulate the realms? Not just Lord Liu Kang or Shang Tsung?"
"Shang who?" Bill asked as he swallowed some stew. "But yeah he's gotten his hands on an extremely dangerous power, and he's messing up everything so here we are now."
"We have been traveling to different universe, recruiting warriors to try and stop him." Soleil then got on one knee and bowed. "Empress Mileena, Princess Kitana, will you please help us in our struggle against Dade? In order to save the multiverse?"
The sisters looked at each other in the eyes, both nodding.
Kitana helped Soleil up. "We will, anything to save the realms."
"Your assistance is reassuring. Thank you." Liu Kang put both of his hands together and bowed.
"Hey!"
The group looked back to the Greater Sacred Machine, where the Shepherds and others were going back into it and taking down the equipment used to make the stew.
Spider-Man was on it on all four of his limbs. "We're gonna start heading out to the next universe, you don't wanna miss out on that do you?"
"We're coming!" Inigo called out. "I believe it's time we head out."
"Agreed. We should leave." Liu Kang said as the entire group made their way back to the Greater Sacred Machine.
Lucina walked with a smile on her face, before Soleil walked next to her and whispered. "Hey mom?"
"Yes dear?" Lucina asked politely.
"Thank you. I love you."
"I love you too Soleil."
Meanwhile….
Back in the Toad Town, the group was still searching for Mayor Paper Toad's bottle of Chick Fil A sauce. How long had they been looking though?
"You mean to tell me after three hours you STILL HAVEN'T FOUND MY SAUCE?!"
The group was back in the Toad Town center, many of them appeared tired as Koops was heavily breathing. And the sun was going down.
"Well what do you expect? You think it's easy finding a small bottle of sauce in a town like this?" Goombella asked.
Luigi put his arms out and towards the paper Goomba. "Now a now Goombella, let's not get a rash." He turned back to the mayor. "Mayor, when was a the last place you remember having your a sauce?"
"Hmmm." Mayor Paper Toad stroked his chin. "Well…I do remember holding it when I went to bed last night. Then I woke up…and it was missing!"
"Do you have a possible idea of where it may have gone?" Vivian asked. "Perhaps it fell under your bed or maybe someone stole it."
Mayor Paper Toad shook his head. "Nope, I've lived alone ever since my wife left me. She uhh…made me angry because she said I loved my Chick Fil A sauce more than her. And I just uhh…" He looked at a paper knife in his hands creepily. "So I did what was necessary.."
Some of them gasped in responses. "Oh my, you didn't kill her…did you?" Madame Flurrie asked.
"Nope." He sighed while dropping the knife. "I took her to Chick Fil A, and now she's married to a bottle of Chick Fil A sauce."
That's when a female paper Toad walked by the group with a bottle of sauce, kissing it and sticking her tongue out at Mayor Paper Toad.
That's when Captain Falcon walked away from the group to a store.
"We are sorry that we haven't found your condiment, but I'm sure it has to be somewhere around…this!"
Simon pointed right to the ground, where there was a drop of yellow sauce on the ground.
Simon put his fingers to it and rubbed them together. "It smells…like barbecue sauce! That was one of the ingredients yes?"
Goombella took out her book and flipped through pages. "Yes! That's one of the ingredients."
"Then it may be close, but where?" Vivian thought out loud, only to hear the sounds of slurping. "Hm? Hey!"
She turned around to see small drops of sauce fall to the ground, from the hand of someone…
Who was holding a bottle of Chick Fil A sauce in their other hand! Pouring what remained of the sauce onto her other hand and eating it up like a bear eating honey.
It was a Shadow Siren just like Vivian, though this one was quite….large. Also have a yellow and white striped hat along with short orange cut hair.
"Marilyn no!" Vivian exclaimed as she attempted to grab the sauce from her. "That isn't yours!"
"Guh!" Marilyn exclaimed as she tried to pull back.
The others turned and seemed confused. "Marilyn?" Jody asked. "Who is she?"
The pink haired Shadow Siren turned back. "She is one of my sisters, she has your sauce!"
"WHAT?!" Mayor Paper Toad exclaimed, running right towards the two of them. "GIMME THAT!" He swiped it right out of their hands. "Oh please still be filled with-"
But as he rapidly shook it to try and get some sauce out, nothing came out of it.
Koops' eyes widened. "Uh oh."
"It's empty." Yoshi Kid said, as Mayor Paper Toad began breathing heavily.
"Well that's unfortunate matey, but we'll just be making our way-" Bobbery was immediately interrupted.
"MY SAUCE IS GONE!!!" He yelled in anger. "MY PRECIOUS CHICK FIL A SAUCE…IT'S ALL GONE! Ohhh, ohh you all. Oh I know what all of you are in for…"
The Paper Toad immediately began rising in the air, his eyes glowing purple as a threatening aura illuminated from him.
Everyone stood intimidated, with Jody Summer placing a hand by the holster on her hip and Simon reaching for his whip.
"I…I'll cut all of you!" Mayor Paper Toad put his arms up as a giant pair of scissors came from the sky.
Just as he was about to send it towards them, a miracle happened.
"Hey man, here's a new bottle." Captain Falcon walked up and tossed a new Chick Fil A bottle to the mayor.
The mayor immediately went back to normal, landing right on the ground as the scissors went away. He seemed overjoyed.
"Yes!! Oh my precious full bottle were reunited!" He exclaimed as he began hugging it and rubbing his face on it.
"Ehh." Goombella and the others seemed disturbed. "I knew the people here were a little weird but…"
Luigi looked to Captain Falcon. "Cap, where'd you find a a that sauce?"
The F-Zero pilot pointed behind him. "At the Chick Fil A store."
He was right, there was a Chick Fil A store right behind them. Not the restaurant, but a store that sold Chick Fil A related products.
Ms. Mowz's eye twitched. "So…you're telling me…that we wasted four hours of our time to find this sauce…when we could have just bought a new bottle here for…how much was it?"
"Three coins." Captain Falcon answered.
"Three coins?" She finished her statement.
"Oh yeah, I forget we have those." Mayor Paper Toad let out a laugh. "Oh well! Thanks for giving it to me! I have a reward for all of you! Here!"
He took out a cardboard box and handed it to the group, as Luigi peaked inside of it with Koops and Vivian.
Inside was a little black cat with amber eyes, as it looked up in curiosity. "Meow." It meowed.
"Awwww." The three of them awed. "It's a kitty cat." Luigi said, picking it up the little black feline out of its box.
"But what is a cat doing here? The cats we have are made out of paper!" Goombella stated.
"Well a cat's a cat!" Yoshi Kid said.
Madam Flurrie looked at the mayor. "Thank you for the feline, but where did you find it?"
Suddenly the sound of chains were heard from the closest of ears.
"Well it's a funny story. I was going to my garage to-AAAAHHH!"
That's when what appeared to be a spear tip connected to a chain stabbed right through Mayor Paper Toad.
Everyone gasped.
"Oh a no! Mayor!" Koops exclaimed.
The paper Toad with a spear through his chest rapidly waved his arms. "No no! I'm okay! After all I'm paper! Nothing some tape or glue can't fix!"
Then flames rose up from right under the mayor, burning him straight to a crisp as he yelled.
Black ashes fell to the ground, that was all that remained of Paper Mayor Toad.
"Oh a no!" Luigi yelled in fear as he ran to the ashes. "Who a could have done this?" He glanced up.
Suddenly the chain spear retracted back from farther away, disappearing into the hands of someone.
The figure stood on two feet, staring menacingly at the group of paper and non paper people. He wore gold and black ninja armor, with a black and gold mask along with two swords on his back.
His eyes were pale white, like he was an undead warrior.
"Who are you?!" Simon whipped out his Vampire Killer in anger. "Speak your name, demon!"
The ninja only stood still. "I am no demon, I am a hell spawn." He stepped forward, while the chained spear dangled from one of his hands. "I was told to send a message."
"Why did you murder the mayor?!" Goombella asked.
"Who are you?" Jody pointed her pistol at him.
The ninja stood still again, looking slightly to the ground. "I have no true name, the only name I go by is Scorpion."
Captain Falcon's eyebrows raised. "Guys, that's the ninja guy from Mortal Kombat! I saw him with those other Mortal Kombat guys at the mansion."
"Goombella, do you have any information on this scallywag?" Bobbery flipped to look at the Goomba, who was already flipping through the pages of her book.
She read the words and nodded her head. "That's Scorpion, he's a resurrected Japanese warrior. He was revived by the sorcerer Quan Chi so he could enact revenge on the one who murdered his family. He believes it is the original Sub-Zero, but the true killer of his family is-"
Luigi immediately covered the mouth of the Goomba. "I a think we shouldn't speak about that anymore."
"No, let her speak." Scorpion stated, intrigued by Goombella's description. "There is a true killer? I know it is Sub-Zero."
"Nope." Goombella shook her head. "It's not, it was actually-"
Suddenly a pitch white bald man appeared by Scorpion through a green portal. He was dawned in black, with a golden amulet that had a green jewel on his belt.
"Quan Chi." Goombella blinked.
"So this is Quan Chi?" Simon asked. "What has he done?"
"He was from Outworld before he ruled the Neatherrealm after toying with dark magic."
Simon's eyes widened in response. "Dark magic?! An ally of Count Dracula he must be! I'll finish both of them!"
"I won't let you stand in my way of vengeance!" Scorpion stepped forward and drew one of his swords, before Quan Chi put out one hand.
"Scorpion." The sorcerer said. "Now is not the time. We must return to the castle."
"But…"
"You will have the chance to fight them." Quan Chi turned back to the portal. "Let them come."
Quan Chi walked through the portal, as Scorpion looked back.
He pointed at Luigi. "You."
The green plumber gulped.
"I want to fight you, maybe you could lead me to Sub-Zero." The revenant clenched his fist as it caught on fire. "The rest of you may join, but you will not be victorious over me."
He followed his master into the portal, as it went away.
Everyone just stared at where the portal used to be, until Captain Falcon patted Luigi on the back. "Dang Luigi, Scorpion wants to fight you? You're done for."
"Bart!" Jody frowned at the pilot.
"I know. But don't worry Luigi we'll fight him with you!" Captain Falcon smiled. "Right Simon?"
The vampire hunter nodded. "Of course! Anything to help a friend and slay evil!"
"Meow."
The group looked down again at the black cat, who was holding a drawing on a piece of paper in her mouth.
Captain Falcon picked up the drawing and looked at it. "It's a drawing of Wario."
"Maybe Wario knows a this cat!" Luigi had his finger on his chin. "Maybe we should a find him. It a seems like we're always doing one thing after another. But I guess we're a going to Count Bleck's a Castle."
Goombella interrupted. "Wait you guys, we still haven't found Mario. We wasted so much time finding sauce that we forgot about him! And we still have no idea where he could be!"
"dang, isn't that unfortunate? quite the tearable situation you're in."
They all turned their attention to what appeared to be a skeleton in a blue hoodie and…Paper Mario!
"Sans?!" Falcon exclaimed. "What are you doing here?"
The skeleton shrugged. "just chilling with my new friend. he's like Mario, but kinda flat." He laughed.
Paper Mario stood staring at everyone else, before jumping up once and waving at everyone.
"MARIO!" The group from Rougeport ran to him and embraced him in a giant hug.
"We missed you!!" Goombella smiled.
"We're so happy to see you!" Vivian's hug was the tightest out of any of his other paper partners.
Bobbery stepped back a bit with two closed eyes. "You've brought tears of joy to this old bomb's eye matey."
"Sans, you a found Paper Mario?" Luigi asked the skeleton. "And how'd you get here?"
The skeleton shrugged in response. "eh, i come here every now and then to chill with him. We were just having some water." Sans started trying to drink his paper water. "but I must say that it's a little flat. hehehehehe."
Goombella's eyebrows furrowed. "Wait, so where was he when you met up with him?"
Some time ago…
"hehehehehehhe."
Sans was laughing outside of Paper Bowser's Castle, holding a spray paint can with Paper Mario.
"Wahoo!" Paper Mario jumped up once, as Sans continued laughing.
Suddenly the large gates to the door opened, as Paper Bowser came out and saw the two of them. "Mario?! What are you doing here with your third dimensional friend?"
"uh oh kiddo." Sans said. "we better make like toilet paper and roll before we get wiped. hehehehehe."
The skeleton and Paper Mario quickly ran away from the paper turtle.
Paper Bowser wasn't happy in the slightest. "Hey! Get back here! Huh?"
He then looked at what was spray painted on his castle.
It was Bowser drawn with a turd on his head with "Bowser is a turd man" above it.
"MARIOOOOOOOOO!!!"
"Alright, then." Madam Flurrie stated. "Well we're very thankful that you reunited him with his."
"And now, we will make our way up to that castle!" Simon pointed up to Count Bleck's Castle.
Paper Mario jumped once. "Wah!"
Luigi blinked. "Can he a say any real words?"
"Nope, he can only make those noises when jumping." Koops answered the green plumber. "Now uhh, how are we gonna get to that bridge?"
Bobbery cleared his throat, catching the attention of the others. "I believe I have a solution maties."
Everyone blinked.
"Meow." The cat said.
Not to much later…
"Since when could your ship fly?!"
Goombella asked in amazement as they were all now on a floating pirate ship. One that was owned by the old Bob-Omb from his days of sailing the seas.
Which he still does, mind you.
But an addition to this ship was needed to fly, so giant mechanical wings were attached to the sides of it.
"Hahaha!" Bobbery laughed heartedly as he turned the wheel of the ship. "Let the sails down, swab the poop deck! We're above any ocean I've ever seen!"
Koops pursed his lips as he stood perfectly still, worried they might fall off.
Simon quickly ran to the side of the ship and looked down, seeing a long black bridge near the bottom. As the falling sun was shining on the pure dark structure.
"We're right above the bridge! It's time!" The vampire killer looked back at the helm of the ship.
Admiral Bobbery nodded his head. "Alright yer scurvy dogs! Head to the side of the ship, and jump on the counter of three."
Everyone quickly ran to the side, looking at what they were supposed to land on when they were to jump.
"3…"
Everyone grabbed the person next to them's hands, bracing to jump.
"2…"
Some of them gulped.
"1…"
Captain Falcon smiled.
"JUMP!! Jump maties, jump!"
Everyone immediately jumped right off of the ship, descending towards the black bridge. Skydiving off of the ship like a Fortnite Battle Bus.
We'll get to that later on.
"Okay, everyone. Get your parachutes out soon, we don't wanna fall flat!" Goombella exclaimed.
"Um, what parachutes?" Vivian asked out of curiosity.
At the moment everybody's eyes widened.
None of them had parachutes. Bobbery hadn't even thought of giving them to the group!
They immediately started falling faster.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" Everyone screamed as they dived straight down to the bridge, crashing with a "THUD!" Right against it.
Except for the paper Inhabitants of this world, they just floated like a piece of paper onto the ground. Paper Mario and his partners flipped back up without any pain at all.
"Yah!" He jumped up once.
"Oh yeah, we're all made of paper." Koops realized as he scratched his head. "We can't die from falling."
Yoshi Kid jumped once. "We're immortal! Nothing can harm us!"
"What that ninja with the spear did to the mayor says otherwise." Madam Flurrie raised a finger.
Luigi pushed his hands to the ground and pushed his face out of it, shaking his head rapidly. "Ooh, we could've a died from that!"
"But we survived my green friend!" Simon said in determination. "Wait, where are Sans and that car?"
"CRASH!"
Speaking of Sans, the skeleton landed right on Captain Falcon's back. Right before the F-Zero pilot had the chance to get up.
"hehehehe. thanks for letting me land on your back." The skeleton smiled. "i would land on my own but it's already broken. hehehehe."
The black cat peaked out of Sans' hoodie. "Meow."
"Sam's, the cat was in your hooded sweatshirt?" Simon asked the joke cracking skeleton, who nodded.
"yep, guess you could say she was a purr-fact fit." Sans laughed as a few others groaned at the joke.
Captain Falcon hopped back up and adjusted his back. "Wait, it's a girl? How do you know?"
The skeleton shrugged his shoulders. "i had an instinct. i guess you could say I wise purr-cise." He made another bad day joke, causing everyone to groan once again.
"Can we please throw him off of the bridge?" Jody asked.
"Woohoo!!" Everyone looked up and saw Admiral Bobbery floating down towards them, wearing a parachute.
He landed on the ground and unstrapped the parachute. "I haven't had that wild of a ride since the days of me giant squid fighting!"
"Wait, you had a parachute?" Luigi asked. "Why didn't a we have any?"
Bobbery jumped once. "Extra parachutes weren't included with the ship matey."
Vivian put a hand up. "If you are down here, who is piloting the ship?"
The Bob-Omb laughed in response. "Oh well that would be…" His face dropped. "Uh oh."
The ship was seen crashing towards the air, heading straight for a castle that looked very familiar. Before it crashed right into it and created a giant paper explosion.
"MARIOOOOO!!" A monstrous voice yelled from the castle.
"Uh we better get moving." Koops flipped around as the group ran towards the castle.
The group had been walking for a few minutes now, getting closer to the entrance of the castle.
Until they stopped in their tracks.
"Why did we stop?" Jody asked out of curiosity, before she looked past some of them and saw what stood in their way. "Oh."
Scorpion stood in front of the gates, looking at the ground in a pose that inferred he had been waiting for them.
There was a small line of silence between both opposing sides, the first word would determine what was to take place after.
"Hey!" Captain Falcon exclaimed. "You were waiting for us right?"
Scorpion said nothing, but looked up with his pale white eyes. "Yes, I wanted a fight did I not?"
Luigi bit his lip in a bit of fear, hiding behind Simon.
"You." Scorpion said as he looked in Luigi's direction. "You silenced the one who had information about my family. Now tell me, who killed my family?"
Luigi jumped up. "Well uh…I don't actually a know who killed your family. I just didn't want her to a s-s-say something that would enrage a you. So I don't—"
"It was Quan Chi."
Everyone's eyes widened as they looked at Goombella, who had interrupted the green plumber to say what she was going to say earlier.
Scorpion's eyes widened. "What?!"
"It's true." The paper Goomba nodded once. "Quan Chi was the real murderer of your family and clan, he used his sorcery to impersonate Sub-Zero and then killed your family. He did it so you could become his fighter."
The revenant only stood still, taking a few seconds to process that idea.
"You lie." He said. "Sub-Zero was the true murderer of my clan, I saw him do it with my own eyes!"
"Keep calm now matey!" Bobbery exclaimed. "The lady's telling the truth, just hear her out."
"I've heard enough." Scorpion's eyes ignited flames. "If you won't tell me I'll beat it out of you!"
The revenant ninja then threw his spear out as it was going towards Luigi. "Get over here!" He called out.
"Ah!" Luigi ducked right under the spear in time, as he side stepped to get away from under it.
But before Scorpion could retract the chain it was grabbed by a yellow hand.
Captain Falcon gripped the spear, not letting go as Scorpion still held onto it.
"Looks like you're not getting your spear back anytime soon." The F-Zero pilot shot Scorpion a grin.
Scorpion shot him a quick glare, pulling out one of his swords and slicing the chain in two. It dangled to the ground.
He then created another one and span it around. "Think again."
Captain Falcon pursed his lips, before throwing the spear away and getting in a fighting pose. "Alright then, show me your moves!"
Scorpion put his sword back. "Will do. Aargh!"
The ninja ran towards the racer and jumped above him, kicking at him while Captain Falcon blocked the blow with both of his arms. Scorpion suddenly went up in flames. "Huh?" Captain Falcon asked.
"Hah!" Scorpion yelled as he was right behind the captain and punched him in the back.
Captain Falcon took the blow and quickly turned around, his leg heating up. "Falcon Kick!" He blasted forward and kicked Scorpion in the gut, slightly launching him back.
Both stood on opposite sides, as Captain Falcon shot another green. "Not bad."
"You haven't won." Scorpion launched his arm forward as his spear shot out.
It hit Captain Falcon slightly in the stomach, as the racer gutted through it and grabbed it with both hands.
"Get over here!" Scorpion pulled Falcon right towards him with ease, as the latter was suspended in the air by the spear.
As soon as Captain Falcon was close he pulled the spear out of his chest and threw an uppercut towards Scorpion, but the revenant quickly moved his head away and took out a sword. He slashed at Falcon who ducked under its slash and delivered a spin kick from the ground.
Knocking Scorpion down but he quickly jumped up into the air, throwing out another spear towards the captain.
But it was blocked by a mace on a chain, both chain weapons intercepted each other and even tangled together.
"Hm?" Scorpion looked down to see that Simon had used his whip, the vampire hunter glared at him.
"Enough!" Simon pulled back his whip and brought Scorpion face first into the ground. "Listen to us demon!"
Scorpion quickly recovered and grabbed Simon by the neck, holding him up. Simon bit his lip and grabbed his neck, trying to get Scorpion to let go of him.
"I won't listen to any more lies!" Scorpion took out his spear and put it next to Simon's stomach. "I will finish you."
He began to move it across the vampire hunter's stomach, about to stab it forward.
Until…
"Hgggrah!"
"Scorpion stop! Look at this!"
The ninja turned around, his eyes widening.
He saw what appeared to be a glowing screen, one that came from a red device being held by Luigi. "Thanks E. Gadd." The green plumber thought to himself.
The footage on the screen showed footage of Quan Chi, standing behind a corner and slightly smiling. Using his sorcery to turn himself into…
Sub-Zero! The original one, Bi Han to be exact. This certainly caught Scorpion's attention, as the disguised sorcerer in the scene walked into what appeared to be a gathering room.
Where it was filled with Lin Kuei ninjas, who saw Quan Chi as Bi Han.
Then it showed footage of the Lin Kuei attacking the village of the Shirai Ryu clan.
Finally it showed a young boy and his mother hiding in one of the temples, where "Sub-Zero" created a large icicle with his hand.
"No…." Scorpion muttered the words. "No…"
That's when "Sub-Zero" raised the icicle, the scene fading out as the cries of a woman were heard.
"NO!" The revenant yelled, his pale eyes widening.
Until the last shot of a dead Hanzo Hasashi lied on the ground, his murderer standing over his body.
Quan Chi.
The screen disappeared as Luigi put the device away, everyone stared at Scorpion. With the revenant falling down to his knees.
"You see now?" Goombella asked him. "That's what we tried to tell you. Quan Chi was the killer of your family, not Sub-Zero."
"I…I've been led astray…this entire time?" Hanzo tightened his fist. "Quan Chi…."
Scorpion slammed a fist into the ground, cracking it. "AAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!" He yelled to the sky as flames erupted from his body, before looking back down. "Harumi….Satoshi…"
The revenant then felt a hand placed on his shoulder, as he glanced up to see that it was Captain Falcon.
The pilot nodded. "Yeah, I know it's a lot to take in. But do you get it now?"
"That sorcerer was manipulating you!" Simon exclaimed as he had put his whip away.
Scorpion slowly got back up on his two feet, continuing to look down at the pitch black ground of the bridge. "You're right." He said.
A green portal then appeared in front of them, as Quan Chi stepped out just like the last time.
"Scorpion, I see you still haven't killed them." The sorcerer said. "What is preventing you-"
That's when Scorpion's spear flew right by Quan Chi and next to his head, hitting the castle.
"Quan Chi…you lied to me." Scorpion stated with flames in his eyes. "You've lied to me all of this time!"
The sorcerer stood solemnly, before a smile came from his face.
"Hmhmhm." He laughed with closed eyes. "So you know now, you truly know."
"Did you really kill my family?!" Scorpion asked.
"What do you think? Haven't you seen what they showed you?" Quan Chi asked rhetorically. "Yes. I killed your family, not Sub-Zero. He didn't even know who you were when you both fought in the tournament."
The revenant was even more angry. "So it is true, you murdered them! You don't even know what awaits you!"
The sorcerer laughed again. "Oh really? You can't kill me, I created you."
BITE!*
"What?" Quan Chi looked down to see that the black cat from earlier had bitten him on the foot. "Oh, a small feline. How pathe-"
That's when the cat jumped up and turned into a giant glove, floating in air and punching Quan Chi in the face once.
The punch was powerful enough to knock him back slightly, giving Scorpuon an opportunity to teleport and hold him by his neck.
"Agh! Gur." Quan Chi grit his teeth as he held up by the ninja. "Scorpion…so you're going to kill me now?"
"Your death will not be painless." The revenant walked to the side of the bridge while still holding the sorcerer by his neck and tightening his grip. "I'll drop you.."
Quan Chi started to struggle a bit, kicking his legs even. "Scorpion…this is brutality."
Scorpion put his arm out further. "Wrong Quan Chi, this is not a brutality. This is a fatality."
The ninja let go of the sorcerer as he immediately fell towards the ground.
"HHHHEEEYYYYYYYAAAAAHHH!" Quan Chi yelled as he flailed his arms around while falling from the bridge. The castle was quite high up compared to other locations in the Paper World, so it wasn't likely that the sorcerer would survive.
Scorpion let out a small breath, with his fists opening up as he had finally had his revenge.
"scorpion wins." Sans said. "fatality."
The ninja let out a small sigh. "Finally, now my family can rest."
Luigi patted Scorpion. "It's an over now a my friend."
"So now that you are free." Simon has his arms crossed. "What will you do?"
Scorpion looked back to the other members of the group. "I have my vengeance, but I am still alive. I may as well be useful to some extent. I will join your struggle."
He put an arm to his chest, bowing to Luigi and the others. "I swear by the Shirai Ryu."
Captain Falcon gave him a salute. "Welcome to the team Hanzo."
"Even if you did kill the mayor." Madam Flurrie pointed out.
Back in Toad Town…
"More tape! More tape!"
Paper Mayor Toad exclaimed as he was back in his office, with his secretary putting tape all over him.
"So…should we go inside?" Ms. Mowz looked up as everyone was in front of the door.
"There are more warriors inside." Scorpion threw two spears towards both sides of the gate. "Urragh!"
He pulled on both of them as their gates opened up quickly, slamming against the walls of the castle. A dark aura was released from the gates of the castle, it felt a bit ghostly even.
Luigi slightly shuddered. "Okay, let's a go." He looked down at the black cat, who had transformed back into a cat after becoming a giant glove.
The car jumped back into Sans' hoody. Looking out from his shoulder.
"hehehe, i know my hoodie was purr-fect." Sans made another joke.
Jody took a look at the cat, petting it as the feline purred. "Hmm, I have a feeling that this cat is special. It did just turn into a giant fist after all."
"Whatever it may be, she'll certainly be helpful." Vivian smiled as the entire group walked their way into the castle.
Paper Mario looked to the inside of one of the doors, as he peeled something off of it.
It was Mr. Game & Watch! He blended in so well with the castle that it was impossible to see him.
"Beep boop." Mr. Game & Watch took out his bell and started wringing it.
"Yah!" Paper Mario jumped up once, while the two continued on their way.
Inside of the castle…
(Play Castle Bleck from Super Paper Mario)
The castle had this completely dark feeling, except for the lit torches hanging from the ceiling.
"Wow." Koops said as he looked up and flipped around. "Pretty dark."
"Where do we start?" Jody asked.
Scorpion pointed up the long staircase in front of them. "We head up these stairs, those other warriors are here."
"FIRE BOLT!"
The group heard a yell and explosion from higher up in the floors, as one of the doors was blasted right off and came right off of the tall staircase.
"Door incoming!" Captain Falcon pointed up, jumping right towards it and gripping his fist.
Paper Mario jumped up with him, grabbing his other arm as the two had both of their fists ready.
"Falcon Paper Punch!" The captain yelled as he and the paper counterpart of Paper Mario punched the door right towards where it came off of.
The two landed back down at the bottom of the staircase, with Captain Falcon dusting his hands off. "How about that?"
Jody gave a clap. "Good punch Bart."
"not bad, too bad I couldn't find the right punchline. hehehehe." Sans laughed.
"We don't have time to waste, let's go!" Simon pointed up as everyone started running up the long staircase once again.
Everyone ran at a quick pace, the staircase was long so that in order to get to the top they'd need to go as fast as possible.
"So…Scorpion." Luigi said as they were running. "How'd you end up a here?"
Scorpion didn't move hishead. "The one called Dade sent Quan Chi and I to conquer this world. Along with two others."
"Hmm." Luigi scratched his chin. "Did a one of these others look a like some kind of paper jester?"
The ninja nodded his head. "That's exactly what one of them was, he's a sorcerer no less than Quan Chi. You have history with him?"
The green plumber pursed his lips, remembering how his paper counterpart had been possessed by the jester and used as a puppet.
That was a memory he would rather forget about.
"Kind of." Luigi nodded. "I just a hope we can stop him."
"Hyah!" The voice exclaimed again.
Luigi's eyebrows raised. "I think I've a heard that voice before!"
"Bell look out!"
"Got it!"
Captain Falcon grinned. "We're gonna jump right through the door and kick ass, alright?"
"Alright!" The paper companions of Paper Mario said in agreement.
"AHHHH!"
The entire group busted right through the doorway and struck battle poses. Scorpion took out one sword and his spear while Jody drew her pistol and Paper Mario drew his hammer.
They stopped to see a group of adventurers battling multiple monsters in the main room of the castle.
It was…the Hestia Familia! From way back in 2021's picnic! But they were also accompanied by a woman with elf ears and wearing a green cloak, also wielding a wooden sword along with a katana.
But Bell was also carrying something on his back, but it was covered pretty well.
Bell stabbed his Hestia Knife into the head of a pitch black monster, stepping on its tail as it immediately exploded into dust.
Welf used a magic sword to wipe out a wave of monsters that approached him. Normally magic swords would be destroyed after a few uses, but this one wasn't.
"Welf, look out!" Mikoto ran towards him and jumped over the blacksmith with her hands on her katana. Proceeding to delivered a quick drawn slash that went right through a flying bat monster.
Said monster exploded into dust along with the others.
"Nice catch Mikoto!" Hestia cheered from the side.
Lili shot out a few bolts from her arm crossbow, hitting two monsters.
"Luminous Wind!" Ryuu exclaimed as she blasted a gust of wind at those two monsters which blasted them back and made them hit the wall. All before they exploded into dust like the other monsters.
She landed on the ground as the room was now empty, all of the monsters had been cleared out.
"Woo." Welf sheathed his magic sword and let out a small sigh. "That was close."
"I'm glad we're now safe." Haruhime herself seemed relieved too.
"Hey! Hestia Familia!" Luigi waved as he caught their attention. "It's us! Remember?"
Bell put away both of his knives and walked towards them. "Oh! You're all friends of Goddess Palutena right?"
"The smashers?" Lilicruna pulled her hood back up. "Why are they here?"
"Long story short, the multiverse is being corrupted by a powerful threat." Captain Falcon explained. "And we were sent here randomly by getting sucked into a portal."
Hestia put one hand forward. "Hold on, it's that ninja who was with that sorcerer!"
The group was about to pull their weapons out once again, but Captain Falcon protested by getting in front of Scorpion. "Woah woah hey! He's with us, he's cool."
Scorpion nodded his head. "I am not an enemy, I killed Quan Chi."
"Really?" Welf let go of his sword. "Well that's a surprise."
"Speaking of a surprises. Bell, what's a that on your back?" Luigi asked as he pointed to something strapped to the adventurer's back.
Bell turned his head. "Oh! Right, we haven't introduced her."
Hestia opened up what was on the back of the white haired adventurer, pulling out…
A baby! One that looked a year and a half old. The baby had white hair and blue eyes.
The smashers and paper partners were surprised.
"Mama mia, it's a baby!" Luigi smiled. "Wait, what?"
"This is Meteria." Hestia exclaimed as she kissed the baby on the cheek. "She's Bell and I's daughter! She's so cute!" She gave more kisses to her daughter's cheek, causing the baby to laugh.
"Fwia Bwolt!" Meteria put her hand out and shot a flame bolt out of her hand, hitting the wall.
The smashers' eyes widened, that literal baby just shot powerful magic out of her small hand.
Luigi pursed his lip. "Strong a baby."
Simon walked to Bell and put his hand out. "Will you join our cause in saving the universes?"
Bell without hesitation shook the vampire hunter's hand. "Of course! You're all our friends after all."
Ryuu nodded her head. "Any friend of Mr. Cranel or anyone in our Familia is a friend of mine." She proceeded to respectfully bow.
"Ryuu's a new member." Hestia placed Meteria back into the strap on Bell's back. "She's strong too, so you can count on her too!"
"You guys'll need to count on each other if you'd want any chance!"
"Hahaha! How can you beat us when you can't see us? Hahaha!"
A mysterious voice laughed as everyone began looking around immediately.
"Who spoke?" Scorpion asked. "Reveal yourself!"
Luigi immediately gained a serious expression on his face. "I know a those voices. They're…"
Suddenly two wicked villains of Mario's universe appeared in the air, one was the purple jester and the other was a Boo wearing a crown.
Dimentio and King Boo!
"Those a two!" Luigi pointed at them. "I had a feeling Dimentio would a be here, but I guess King Boo's here too!"
The ghost king shrugged. "Eh, why would I miss the chance to see my good old friend Luigi again? Besides, Dimentio and I are pretty much good friends now!"
The jester nodded his head. "Yeah and we share something in common, anyone wanna guess?"
Yoshi Kid immediately answered. "You're both purple?"
"Close, but nope!" Dimentio crossed his legs. "It's that we've got a history with him! So…we thought it'd be great to not just take him out but also all of you!"
"We already know Quan Chi went splat, but we don't need him to take down all of you!" King Boo claimed. "Thanks for betraying us Scorpion." He murmured.
Bobbery chuckled. "Yeah? And what makes you think we can't take you two little scallywags down?"
Dimentio chuckled himself, proceeding to snap his fingers.
That's when two giant black claws came right out of the ground as terrifying growl noises was let out while the ground.
Bell's eyes widened. "No, oh no."
"It can't be…" Ryuu started to slightly tremble.
Two giant black skeleton arms came out as the giant creature ascended with its whole body. It was a giant black skeletal monster, with spikes on its entire body and tail, with pure blood eyes.
"Skkkkrrr." It growled while pulling itself out of the ground.
The Juggernaut, a beast that came from the dungeon. And it wasn't anywhere close to a one of the weaker monsters you would find, it truly was a monster to be feared.
"There's no reason to worry." Bell drew his Hestia Knife. "We've fought it before, and there's no way they can get it under control."
Dimentio chuckled. "Oh really? Well this isn't the Dungeon buddy."
He snapped his fingers again, with chains wrapping around the Juggernaut's head.
"Haha!" King Boo floated into the Juggernaur, which made the creature move around spastically around the castle interior.
"Everyone, stand back!" Simon got his whip out as everyone began drawing their weapons and getting slightly away.
The Juggernaut stood up again, its eyes now glowing purple. "Uuuuuuurrraaagggghhh!" It let out a call, with Dimentio landing in the Juggernaut's head and crossing his legs.
"I think you'll find this more challenging than before." He tapped his finger on the Juggernaut, giving it a color scheme similar to him. "Now, let the fun begin!"
Bell turned back to the group. "Ryuu and I have fought this thing before, it has strong defensive force on its entire body and is very dangerous."
"Oh so it'll be easy to take it out though right?" Koops asked, receiving unsure looks from all of the Hestia Familia. "Right?"
Ryuu shook her head. "No, it's very strong. Not to mention, it's possibly stronger now thanks to the combined power of that ghost and jester. So we'll need some sort of strategy."
"We need to breach its skin." Bell said. "It needs to be strong enough to do so."
Scorpion immediately teleported into flames, landing right on top of the beast with one of his spears and stabbing it into his back. He proceeded to jump back towards the group, pulling the chain towards him as the monster was being dragged.
Luigi looked stunned. "Mama Mia, Scorpion's a strong!"
The revenant then pulled out one blade, proceeding to stab in into the head of the beast.
"Hey! Get off!" Dimentio blasted him away with just his hand, causing the chain to break but Scorpion landed safely onto the ground.
That's when hexagons on the Juggernaut's body completely cracked and shattered! Taking down that defense was easy.
"Oh." Dimentio said. "Well you still won't take us down!"
"Everyone scatter!" Captain Falcon and everyone ran around the castle, dodging a tail attack from the Juggernaut.
Luigi jumped up into a higher floor of the castle, running on top of it. The Juggernaut swiped his tail at the plumber, but he jumped into the air and grabbed a pole hanging from the ceiling.
The Juggernaut then went after Simon, who began chucking axes and crosses at him. "Die demon! No monster possessed by a ghost will walk longer on this world!"
The creature launched one of its claws at Simon, with the vampire hunter tilting back and using his whip to block the attack. "Urgh." The beast growled while Simon ducked under it.
Simon slid under the Juggernaut and pulled on his whip, but little did it do anything as the Juggernaut shook it off easily.
"Rgha, agh." Bell was blocking slash attacks with both of his knives. "I need an opening!"
"i got ya kid." Sans said as he put his arm out for the cat to get out. "alright kitty, now move up to the roof. i got the purr-fect plan."
The Juggernaut was about to hit Bell with his tail, but something stopped that.
Boink!*
"Hm?"
The Juggernaut turned around quickly to look at Sans, who had thrown a bone at him.
(Play Sans from Undertale)
"hey buddy." The skeleton said. "you and i are kinda similar. we're both pretty boney if you know what i mean." He laughed. "i know you've got a few bones to pick, but why don't you just chill for a bit? i got a joke, so a skeleton and a goose walk into a bar-"
—
2 hours later….
"and then i told my brother, that isn't how you mix tomatoes. you need to learn how to ketchup. hahahahaha."
Sans had been telling jokes for 2 hours straight, making almost everyone around him groan.
"Someone, please, MAKE HIM STOP!!!" Lilicruna screamed as she covered her ears, unable to listen for even a second more of Sans' terrible puns.
"Okay Sans, that's enough a!" Luigi sighed while shaking his head. "Wait…"
They all glanced at the Juggernaut, both it and Dimentio were fast asleep! Sans' jokes must've put him to sleep because they were so bad.
"It's asleep!" Bell exclaimed as he creeped slowly to the mouth of the Juggernaut. "Then that means. Captain." He looked to Falcon. "May I ask you for your help with this?"
"Of course." Captain Falcon quickly hurried over to the mouth, as he begin lifting it. "Go for it kid."
The hero nodded. "Right." That's when he began charging up something in his hand, ready to shoot out Fire Bolt.
But Dimentio jumped up and smiled. "Just kidding! Chomp!"
That's when the Juggernaut leaned forward and gobbled up both Falcon and Bell. Shocking everyone.
"BELL! METERIA!" Hestia cried.
"Bart! No!" Jody clenched her fist.
The two of them, gone immediately in the blink of an eye as almost all of them stood in shock.
"Hmhmhmh. Haha!" Dimentio laughed. "I told you all that you all can't defeat us. Ain't no more damage on this Jugger….naut?"
The monster started shaking a bit.
"Fire Bolt!"
A fire bolt blasted out of its body.
"Falcon Punch!"
And took a hit from the inside.
Multiple bolts of flame shot out of the creature's body multiple times, as it kept taking blows inside too!
"Fwiyah bwolt!"
Suddenly a shot blasted out of his chest, as both Bell and Captain Falcon jumped out of it and rolled on the ground.
"Yay!" Meteria clapped. "Monstwe ded!"
"Bell!" Hestia ran to her lover and daughter and threw her arms around her. "Oh thank the Gods and Goddesses you're okay!"
Bell let out a small laugh. "Don't worry Goddess Hestia, I'm alright."
"nice play." Sans complimented. "guess you thought it was time to turn up the heat. hehehehe."
Falcon ignored Sans' joke. "Well I think we killed it! No doubt about th-"
But that's when someone was struck by the tail of the beast.
And who was hit by its sharp and pointy tail?
Paper Mario.
The entire area filled out to red, and Paper Mario became a pitch black silhouette. Before the top half of him was sliced off of his bottom.
The top half began floating to the ground, while the bottom just fell flat right on the ground.
"MARIO!" Vivian yelled.
"MARIO!!" All of his other companions cried out.
The reddened scene went away, and Paper Mario was left on the ground in half.
"No, no…." Luigi's eyes started tearing up a bit. Even if it was a paper counterpart, it was still like seeing his own brother die.
"Haha!" Dimentio laughed as the others turned angrily towards him. "Guess you could say that was a REAL fatality! Hahahahohohohoheeee…huh?"
That's when Paper Mario's two halves began shaking, jumping up and connecting back together without a problem. "Yahoo!" He exclaimed.
"What?!" Dimentio's jaw dropped.
"Oh right." Goombella said. "We're all made of paper. Him getting cut was just a physical change. Now burning him would've been different!"
Dimentio got up off of the Juggernaut's head. "That's now how it works! This isn't Earth Science class! Whatever you'll still never beat me!"
"Meow."
The jester looked up from the ceiling, where the black cat was. She proceeded to jump off of the ceiling lines and down towards the jester.
But not before turning into a giant glove, casting a shadow over Dimentio.
"Oh boy."
That's when the giant glove crushed him, and the Juggernaut.
But right after that the glove turned into a Mr. Game & Watch lookalike, chucking multiple bombs on him multiple times.
Until Dimentio and the Juggernaut were left in pieces and in flames.
Everyone just stared.
"Wah!" Paper Mario jumped once.
"Well…that was easy." Jody said as the pitch black figure turned back into her cat form, moving and rubbing its her head on Jody's leg. "I know there was something different about this cat."
Scorpion let out a sigh. "A tough battle, but we killed it."
"And Dimentio while we were at it." Yoshi Kid remarked. "Yikes."
King Boo popped out of the Juggernaut, shaking his head and letting out a sigh.
"Eh, I'm gonna go on vacation. See ya Luigi." The Boo created a suitcase and put on sunglasses, before floating towards the wall and disappeared.
Simon turned to green plumber. "Luigi! Shouldn't we go after him?"
He shrugged. "Eh, I'll see him again in the next Luigi's Mansion game."
"Hey guys!"
Hestia raised her hand as everyone gathered around her, with Ryuu holding out what appeared to be an orange crystal. "Ryuu found this in the Juggernaut's body, she thinks it might be useful."
She nodded her head. "I believe we should give to Bell, he fought hard to kill the Juggernaut."
"I was there too ya know!" Captain Falcon protested.
The elf ignored the racer. "Here Bell." She dropped the crystal into his hand, as he smiled with grace.
"Thank you Ms. Ryuu."
But before the crystal could land in his hand, someone else caught it.
Meteria, to be exact.
The little baby was sitting on the ground, holding the crystal in her hands and looking at it with curiosity. "Ah?" She asked, immediately trying to put it in her mouth.
This alerted everyone.
"Meteria no!" Hestia exclaimed. "Don't put that in your mouth sweetie!"
"That's not baby food!" Haruhime said in distress.
"How de she get out of the strap?!" Welf asked as everyone kept trying to take it from the young baby.
When suddenly Hestia had grabbed and pulled it away.
But it slipped from her hands and landed on the wall.
Crashing into a million pieces."
Everyone had pure white eyes of shock upon seeing this.
"Uh oh." Luigi said.
The entire group immediately started glowing orange, all floating in the air in confusion.
"W-w-what's going on?!" Lili asked.
"I don't know!" Captain Falcon was moving his arms around.
That's when they all disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Back at the cave…
"So let me get this straight, you two just wanna plan your wedding now?"
Falco and BOTW Link were talking with Twilight Link and Midna, both sitting on a rock.
"Yeah, we've been trapped here for some time now. And we figured since it's been a year we've gotta get back to wedding plans."
Midna leaned on her fiancé. "If we die I'd rather be married to Linky before."
Falco gave a shrug. "Alright, I'll go talk to everyone else about it."
Wario was still doing his best as "Dr" Wario. He kept trying what he could to make Mia feel better. But not much success was found.
"Eat the pill!" Dr. Wario exclaimed as he tried to put a Dr. Mario pill down Mia's throat.
"I already told you, it's too big!" The Beorc complained.
"That's what she said!" Flame Red called out from back, receiving a small frown from his son and a chuckle from his wife.
"Good one dear." Cynthia had her hand by her mouth, giggling.
"Daaaad." Red murmured to himself.
Both Queen Nia and Nia stood over Ethan, who was sweating with a blanket over his body.
"It's no good, nothing's changed." Queen Nia shook her head. "Come on dammit, heal!"
Suddenly multiple orange silhouettes entered the room, manifesting into the heroes we saw not long ago.
"Hmm." Wario scratched his chin as he threw the pill away while still looking at Mia. "I wonder…hmm."
All of them were created in the room, leaving them in surprise.
Luigi especially. "Huh? What? Where are we?!"
"Oh hey green." Bowser put a hand up as he was playing a card game with Revali. "Got any fours?"
"Go fish." He said.
Simon stepped forward and looked around the area. "Link? Samus? You're all alive? Thank Heaven!"
"More people arrived." Ganondorf let out a sigh. "Great."
But the person who seemed the most excited was the cat.
Especially when she saw Wario.
"Meow!" The cat jumped away and started running towards him.
But it started glowing pink while running, before jumping forward and changing shape.
"Wario!!" A girl's voice exclaimed with joy.
"Wah?" The greedy man turned his hat only to be tackled to the ground by a princess.
This princess delivered multiple kisses to his face as she left everybody in shock. She wore an elegant pink dress, she had bright red and long hair, and a crown too.
Wario shook his head from the impact. "Eh? Oh! Shokora it's you!"
She stopped kissing him and gave the fat man a toothy grin. "I haven't seen you in so long! Where were you my strong garlic man?"
SHOKORA
Shokora was the princess of the Golden Pyramid. Having been assisted by Wario in a past adventure.
Everyone stared at the two in shock.
"What a the?!" Luigi's eyes popped out and jaw dropped.
"Wario…" Bowser said.
"Has a…" Samus spoke next.
"GIRLFRIEND?!" Captain Falcon seemed the most shocked out of them all.
Wario let out a small laugh. "Read and weep losers, this is Princess Shokora. My…lover."
Samus' eye twitched as she put a hand to her mouth. "I think I'm going to be sick…"
"So that's why she wanted to see Wario!" Madam Flurrie spoke.
"B-b-b-but why?!" Luigi asked.
Shokora looked at him in confusion. "Why what?"
"Why a Wario?!" The green plumber threw his arms towards the fat man, who was too busy picking his nose. "What could make a you love…HIM?!"
The sweet princess put a finger on her lip. "What don't I love about him!" She cheerfully said. "He's funny, strong, manly, and saved me! And he's got a big heart."
Ganondorf chuckled at the comment, knowing it to not be true.
"Oh. Hold on." Wario put a finger up and bent over, letting out a small fart. "Haha."
"Hahahaha!" Shokora started laughing.
Luigi shook his head. "You learn a something new everyday."
Captain Falcon eyes turned their attention from Wario and Shokora to Ryuu, who was standing next to him. "So…are you single?"
"Not interested." The elf didn't bat an eye but did step forward to check on the sickened smashers. Leaving Captain Falcon to sigh of disappointment.
Elsewhere…
In a very colorful city, well not really colorful right now because of it being nighttime there was a record store.
The city was known as Diamond City. Where Wario and his employees at Wario Ware Inc made video games.
But right now we're looking at a music store. This store sold anything music related from CD's, records, and even instruments.
We see a teenage boy looking through the CD's. He had blue hair that which covered one of his eyes, as well as a blue shirt and tight bulletproof pants, and even a black uniform with shorter sleeves.
"Hey there young man!" Said a dog in a pink shirt, being Joe the owner of the store. "Is there anything specific you're looking for?"
The young man put down the CD and turned. "Nah I'm fine, thanks though."
The dog smiled. "Alright then but if you need help you can ask me!" He said charismatically. "I've never seen you around here, what's your name?"
The young man adjusted the badge on his black uniform.
It was a symbol for a symbol.
Specifically, Gekkukon High School.
"My name is Chikara Nakafure Arisato Kirijo. I know it's a mouthful."
To be continued…hopefully soon.
