Fawful's Quest For Power; Finale: The Final Confrontation When the spiral of colors ended, Fawful saw that he was standing in a ruinous arena-like location. There were stadium seats like in a football game, and six empty chairs carved into the wall.
www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/126182Vidguysteve descended into the highest chair, laughing like a madman at some joke that only he understood. “Uwee hee hee hee! Ah… Booster’s Tower… Good times… My my, the place has fallen into ruin… Oh right, I did that! Uwee hee hee hee!” After his laughing fit, Vidguysteve turned his head to face the confused Fawful. “You know, Fawful, you really are lucky… You’re about to see something beautiful- the greatest single moment in the history of Mushroom Kingdom Wars!”
“And what would that be to happen?” Fawful asked, taking a threatening step forwards.
”Why, my crowning achievement! For too long have I played second-fiddle to that do-nothing Petey P! For too long have I suffered indignity and disrespect from those beneath me! Their time is through! I now take my rightful place, as ruler, Head Administrator, and GOD OF THE MUSHROOM KINGDOM WARS! UWA HA HA HA HA HA!” Vidguysteve laughed, finally seeming to have lost the little bit of sanity he had left.
“You have a hypothetical metal fastening object remain untightened!” Fawful shouted, unable to believe what he was hearing. This madman couldn’t really just make himself God… Could he?
“Oh, of course you think I’m insane… That’s what they always say about visionaries… It’s all really quite simple, and I owe it all to Javaray the Red. One little slip of the tongue, and I instantly knew Petey’s one weakness… Maintenance Administrators hold immense powers, you see, enough to actually ban Petey himself! All I need to do is change my position and give Petey the boot… Then, when the forum is in chaos after their beloved leader has ‘abandoned’ them, out of the chaos rises their new, unquestioned ruler! NOW MARKS THE BEGINNING OF A SHINING NEW ERA! THE ERA OF VIDGUYSTEVE! UWEE HEE HEE HEE HEE!”
“And why is it that you would have tellings to me?” Fawful asked, his curiosity getting the better of him.
”Simple… It doesn’t matter what I say at this point, since there’s no chance of you getting in my way!”
www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/128577Before Fawful had a chance to react, Vidguy immediately began to fire blasts of energy from his fingers, sending Fawful flying backwards. Quickly catching his footing, Fawful shot into the air with his Headgear’s rockets, FuryZAP in hand and Headgear’s mouth glowing a lime green.
Vidguysteve simply snorted and lunged his arm forwards, stretching it like rubber, and gripping the hose of Fawful's Headgear tight. Like in every cartoon you've seen when someone steps on a hose, the energy in the Headgear began to build up, rising to the point that Fawful had installed a failsafe to release the rise in pressure to explode powerfully through the nozzle, still causing some damage to the Headgear but averting an otherwise fatal catastrophy.
An excited grin on his face, Vidguysteve swung his rubber arm and flung Fawful towards a wall on the ground floor, his arm snapping the boy away like a whip.
www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/73210“Oh… I am having wishing that I was having helpful assistance right about the time that is now…” Fawful moaned as he pried himself from the wall.
Vidguysteve casually floated down to hover an inch above the floor, a smug grin on his face. “Well,
I wish I was out of this accursed place. You help me out, I’ll help you out,” Vidguysteve offered. Vidguysteve felt something tap on his shoulder, and turned to feel a hard and heavy object collide with his face at great force, causing him to launch into the air before he caught himself and flipped around to find the attacker.
To both his and Fawful’s great surprise, Patsy and Popple were on the scene, Patsy with his lead pipe in a defensive position, and Popple rushing over to Fawful’s side to force a Mushroom into his mouth.
Swallowing the fungus, Fawful felt a new burst of energy and the two of them hopped to Patsy’s side. Vidguysteve looked at the three with great frustration, with no idea how the two vermin kept managing to appear in the most impossible places. Vidguysteve scanned the three, looking for something that could have caused their appearance, when something on Fawful – or rather,
in Fawful – caught his eye; a mild sparkling in the shape of a star that quickly disappeared back into Fawful’s skin.
”So that’s it… the boy’s become the Beanstar…” Vidguysteve deduced, stroking a long, imaginary beard. “By the look on his face… I’d say that
he hasn’t even figured it out yet… Excellent…” Vidguy observed, a wicked grin stretching across his face.
“You know, Patsy…” Vidguysteve called out, something sinister in mind, “that was quite a strong blow from that pipe… I think it might have even given me a headache…” Vidguysteve waved his hands above his head and two massive stones appeared by his sides, which shortly after their summoning, crashed down towards the ground and began to roll ominously towards the trio.
“Take two of these and call me in the morning! Uwee hee hee hee!”
“Ergh… Who is this guy!?” Popple groaned, stretching his bag wide open and letting one of the balls slide safely in.
“He’s some kinda nut…” Patsy responded with a similar growl as he pushed the second ball into the indent Fawful’s body made earlier and held it in until it lost all of its kinetic energy and sat motionless in the gap.
Vidguysteve put a finger to his bottom lip and began to ponder to himself. “Hm… I’m starting to feel like I’m falling into a rut… TIME FOR SOMETHING NEW!” he cried unexpectedly, causing the three to jump from surprise.
Vidguysteve held out his hand, and a large collection of sparkling golden lights appeared around his hand. The lights dispersed, leaving behind an Alto Saxo-ma-phone. Vidguysteve brought the black mouthpiece to his lips, and began playing a haunting melody, somehow able to alter the sound into several different noises and beats.
www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/78191As Vidguysteve played, a black silhouette of a large, round object with two pods on the sides of the machine materialized out of nothingness. On the top, a glass dome held the featureless pilot. The machine flew above the three and began to fire large blasts of fire out of the pods at the three, who quickly jumped out of the way of the blazing projectiles. The pods readjusted and began to fire again, this time singing Patsy’s rear, causing the Beanie to curl into a fetal position.
Seeing Patsy in a ball, something clicked in Popple’s mind, as he quickly grabbed Patsy and threw him at the cockpit of the machine. The pilot showed some signs of damage, as the machine flashed. Taking this window of opportunity, Fawful flew into the air and began to mercilessly blast the pilot’s dome with his Headgear’s Energy Blasts. Within seconds, the silhouette had enough and exploded into a storm of musical notes.
Not the least bit concerned, Vidguysteve simply began to play a different tune, this one even faster paced than the first.
www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/32678Again, a black silhouette of a penguin – or perhaps a duck, it was impossible to tell – wielding a massive mallet appeared and instantly jumped high into the air and over Fawful, crashing down on the Bean and sending them both to the ground. Fawful was quick enough to pull out from under the bird to avoid having his head broken open like a melon.
As the creature hit the ground, it gave out such force that it caused small seismic waves to ripple the floor around it. More interesting, however, were two stars that appeared on either side of the attacker. Fawful’s Headgear quickly vacuumed it in, and spat it back at the bird, full-force, knocking it back. The bird reached behind its back and threw a small orange creature no larger than Patsy that began to wander and hop around the arena.
Popple quickly took out a pool stick from his bag and grabbed Patsy and crushed him into a ball once more. After hurriedly analyzing the arena, Popple aimed the stick and shot it forwards into Patsy, causing the Beanie to ricochet off of the walls and eventually into the waddling creature, who bounced back into its thrower, causing both of the creatures to explode into a burst of stars and notes.
Growing slightly agitated, Vidguysteve played a new tune, this one with a jazzy swing.
www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/55942Large black playing cards rose from the ground, each a King of Spades, creating a perimeter around the outside of the arena. The cards suddenly stretched out their arms and began to swing their swords around dangerously, forcing the three beans to duck to avoid being sliced into ribbons.
The three would have simply stayed in their safe crouched positions, had three slot machines that vaguely resembled cowboys not rolled into the open and open fire on them. Patsy, who was the nearest to the gun-slinging slots, jumped into the air to dodge a wave of bullets, and landed on the center machine’s arm. Patsy danced back and forth on the three arms, forcing the bullets to harmless direct towards the floor, allowing Fawful and Popple to deal with the cards without interruption., smashing them into harmless notes.
Without warning, the music ceased, and the apparitions vanished. Vidguysteve held his mouthpiece up to an eye, inspecting the instrument. “Crap… Freaking reed broke…” Vidguysteve grumbled. “Fine, my mouth was getting dry anyways!” he shouted as he returned his weapon to nothingness.
”Ooh! Idea! Idea!” Vidguy giggled like a six-year-old learning to call someone a ‘poop-head.’ He reached into his red coat’s pocket and pulled out two small, silver and black cylinders and threw them at the trio, all prepared to react to whatever insane scheme the insane Administrator was concocting now.
They felt slightly… disappointed when the latest trick appeared to be nothing more than someone throwing a pair of AA batteries their way. Not the most practical or common weapon, but not as inspired as some of his other ploys. Vidguysteve didn’t seem to think so, as he wiggled his index fingers at the batteries, causing them to grow at an alarming rate, before floating in the air and colliding into Popple and Patsy at an unavoidable rate.
“They’re
BATTERY rams! Get it? Like ‘battering’ rams? Cause… the words sound… Huh… this joke seemed a lot funnier before I started typing it… (my actual thoughts right now
)” Vidguysteve explained with an exasperated tone, receiving an all-too-familiar blank stare of yet another person who didn’t understand his (sinisterly) brilliant sense of humor.
Fawful had heard just about enough. First, this madman crashes his home and assaults him before stealing his Headgear and Ship. Then, after he breaks him out of jail after setting him up on a long, perilous, and not to mention wet quest, only to offer him a spot as his side-kick, thinking that he could replace Cackletta. Now, he was treating him and his cohorts like punching bags, and treating the whole thing like a game- a joke! Fawful had heard just about enough out of this madman… he felt a strange, tingling sensation pumping through his veins, but was too distracted by his fog-bringing fury to care.
“Fink rat!” Fawful cried, snapping Vidguysteve to attention. “You are being of much stupidity, for you are not having great knowledge of Fawful! I am Fawful! The greatest and most loyal toady of the Great Cackletta! I am having much devotingness to the Great Cackletta, even though she is being dead of deceasingness, and will make the world her snack cake! And this battle is the mustards on that sandwich of desire! The mustards…” Fawful ranted, withdrawing a yellow bottle with a sticker of Fawful’s ridiculous face on the front from within the confines of his robe. “… of your DOOM!” Fawful squeezed the bottle, causing the contents to squirt out into the beanish boy’s open mouth.
www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/109650Fawful felt an incredible sensation within him. He hadn’t quite tested the full effects of his concoction, but he didn’t predict its effects to be this powerful. Thoughts flashed through his noggin at a speed to put light to shame, and time seemed to slow down around the boy. Energy and strength pumped through his tiny frame with each beating of his heart, and he felt a renewed sense of vigor and strength flowing from him.
Fawful faced Vidguysteve, his eyes filled with fire and his body surrounded by a green aura. Fawful’s eyes narrowed, his young face twisted into a bitter scowl. Fawful opened his mouth and shouted with all his might,
[glow=LimeGreen,2,300]”I HAVE FURY!”[/glow] his voice being echoed by another, deeper, more powerful one.
Fawful dashed towards Vidguysteve, who was instantly prepared to block, when suddenly the child vanished. Looking around, Vidguysteve felt a powerful fist connect with the back of his neck, followed by a mule-kick to his Adam’s apple.
Clutching his throat, fighting the urge to vomit, Vidguysteve looked up only for Fawful to pistol-whip him in the teeth his FuryZAP. Fawful proceeded to grab him by his hair (which was more painful to Vidguy than anything thus far) and fly him straight into the air before diving full-force towards the stone floor below.
Fawful had become a full-out berserker, somewhat unaware of what he was doing himself. For the few milliseconds he had every so often where his mind was his own, he made a mental note to remember to use the Mustards of DOOM whenever he got that weird, tingly feeling for maximum results. Returning his focus to the task at hand, Fawful blasted towards Vidguysteve again, fists extended Superman-style, colliding with his stomach and smashing him into a wall. Fawful didn’t let up at that point, still pushing Vidguysteve harder and harder into the stone, forcing them back in sudden bursts of cracking rock.
By the look on Vidguy’s face, Fawful could have sworn that his eyes would fall out from bulging out so much, or he’d find out what he ate last, so Fawful stopped only for a moment with his assault and delivered a powerful uppercut directly to Vidguysteve’s jaw, with such strength fire seemed to streak out behind the Administrator as he flew through the air.
Finally catching himself in the air, Vidguysteve took the opportunity to recite a line from Beepower.
”Uppercut Ted had a dream. a flower dream. When he awoke, Flower Ted was gone and only Uppercut Ted remained! Comics without violence my ass!” Vidguysteve chuckled to himself.
As Fawful came launching for him for another assault, Vidguysteve quickly anticipated his direction and jumped out of the way at the last second to counter-attack and send Fawful flying into a wall by means of a tennis racket.
Fawful quickly flipped himself around and launched a flurry of FuryZAP blasts at maximum power, which his target quickly deflected by quickly repositioning his racket. Gritting his teeth, Fawful added his Headgear into the mix, creating a storm of energy. Vidguysteve panicked as he began to nervously deflect the first few shots, realizing that he couldn’t keep up the defense for long. Snickering, Vidguysteve used his free hand to summon a stone wall to separate the two. Undeterred, Fawful continued his onslaught, rapidly breaking through the rock wall.
Vidguysteve wasted no time and quickly began to pull off a “Kid Buu technique.” Vidguysteve extended a tentacle into the ceiling of the arena and burrowed it into the stone. Controlling its movement, he directed it towards Fawful’s general direction, along the top until bending it downwards once it hit the intersection of the ceiling and wall. Grinning, Vidguysteve commanded the appendage to shoot straight towards him, hopefully puncturing Fawful in the process.
His plan did not go over as well as he had hoped, and the tentacle burst through Vidguysteve’s rock wall empty… handed (?). Vidguy cringed as he felt the tentacle be detached from the rest of his head and burnt into a cinder, as Fawful burst through the opening and slammed head-first into the Administrator. Flipping around as the two tumbled through the air, Vidguysteve was able to force Fawful off of him.
Turning around, Fawful spat at the ground as he charged forwards again, fist reared back for a powerful punch. Vidguysteve hurriedly caught the punch in his own palm, and with an elbow to the spine, sent Fawful plummeting down to the ground below.
’Curious…’ Vidguysteve thought. ‘I was able to catch the blow with greater ease than I expected… and he seems to have slowed down… Uwee hee hee hee! Looks like this little boost is fading! Now, all I need to do is stall!’
Vidguysteve quickly dropped to the floor and raised a small forcefield around his body, and smiled maliciously at Fawful, who had already begun his latest assault. Fawful’s energy blasts and blows to the barrier steadily decreased in speed and strength, unknown to the berserker bean. Vidguysteve chuckled to himself victoriously; he was putting all of his energy into the barrier, and it was small and concentrated enough to keep himself protected without needlessly wasting power.
He had already won.
As the minutes passed, Fawful became noticeably drained, his blows lacking any ‘oomph,’ and his speed becoming sluggish. With one final weak punch, Fawful collapsed forwards, lacking the energy to keep himself balanced on two feet.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmmZyTwVVqYVidguysteve lowered his defense, grinning like a hyena circling an injured gazelle. “Well, Fawful, I hope you’ve learned your lesson… You shouldn’t stray away from your own league… I mean, REALLY! I’m friggen GOD!” He laughed, amused by the mere idea of resisting him. “You should leave the big boss fights to the pros… Stick with fighting people like Toadsworth or someone like that who you have a chance of beating… Oh well, look on the bright side Fawful: you’re incredibly lucky! Most people have to live with their mistakes… You get to DIE with them! Uwa ha ha ha ha! Any last words?”
Fawful weakly held his head up for a second, coughing out a small pool of blood, and barely managed to utter a short sentence. “Wh-why? Why do you have doing of this?”
Slightly annoyed by both the fact that the boy still seemed to have some - albeit a very small amount of – energy left in him, and he didn’t really want to write much more. Squatting down low on the balls of his feet, Vidguysteve gently lifted Fawful’s bruised and dirty face with his index and middle fingers to look him in the eye.
Vidguysteve opened his mouth, and rather than an insane whooping sound or scream, whispered with a disturbing calmness, “Why?” The calm spell ended as suddenly as it began, and he shouted this time, “WHY?!” Quickly regaining his composure, Vidguy returned to being calm. Fawful internally shuddered at the look of it; it was like a poisonous snake slowly slithering towards him: you knew from a glance it was deadly, but had a calmness about it that only further set you on edge before the unpredictable lurch and the feeling of fangs in your neck and a poison forcing you into submission spreading through your veins.
“One bad day,” he responded, rather That’s it. All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am.” He suddenly rose to his feet and slowly spun in a circle, arms extended, and with his eyes having a distant look to them.“Just one bad day. You had a bad day once, am I right?” Vidguysteve turned his head to look at Fawful, still barely managing to keep his head off of the ground. “I know I am. I can tell,” he added with a smirk. “You had a bad day and everything changed. Why else would you talk like someone from a poorly-translated Sega Mega Drive game? You had a bad day, and it drove you as crazy as everybody else.”
Vidguysteve watched with sinister satisfaction as he could almost SEE Fawful’s thoughts, contemplating this new bit of information. Fawful couldn’t suppress his look of concern as he mulled over the idea that he might actually be like the madman that stood before him. No… no there was no way he possibly-
Fawful’s thoughts were interrupted by a voice that cut through the air like a knife. ”Of course, you’re not God here. Shame, really. Well, Fawful, I hope that you’re satisfied with your final little discovery. Time for you to reunite with your hag.”
www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/109479“NOW!” A voice shouted, and Vidguysteve turned to see Patsy and Popple dashing towards him in a desperate rush. The two didn’t care what happened to themselves anymore. They had a goal in mind and they would fulfill it if it cost them their lives.
“Miserable bugs!” Vidguy growled through clenched teeth. “I’LL CRUSH YOU BENEATH MY FEET!” Vidguy’s hair extended two long tentacles that grabbed the duo by their necks, and quickly slammed their faces into the ground, before tossing them up into the air. While airborne, the tentacles forced Popple and Patsy face-first into each other, before slamming and grinding their faces along the walls and floor of the arena.
Fawful watched in shock as his short-time companions were selflessly giving every last ounce of strength they had to help him. He couldn’t understand it. They hadn’t known each other for long; they didn’t support one another; they weren’t family; they hardly seemed to like another. Yet here they were, ready to sacrifice themselves for him.
Why?
Popple was blasted with a Finger Beam in the shoulder, letting out a scream of agony.
Why?
Patsy was constricted by the tentacle like a snake, howling in pain.
Why?
It was all Fawful could do to think to himself, asking why. Why this was all happening? Why were people he hardly knew showing such kindness? Why did Vidguysteve choose him to bring this suffering upon? Why did he feel something wet running down his face?
Why?
Why was he doing all of this? Why didn’t he simply get over Cackletta’s death and live as a normal person? Why did the memory of the dead witch haunt the confines of Fawful’s mind? Why couldn’t he save her when she needed him the most? Why was he so useless?
Why?
Why wasn’t he trying harder to avenge Cackletta? Why was he showing this weakness when he had the most to lose? Why did he feel a burning sensation in his chest? Why did he feel strength returning to him? Why were his arms and legs pushing him up off of the ground?
Why?
”Do you see?!” Vidguysteve shouted and the broken forms of Popple and Patsy as he kicked them in the ribs. “Do you see now why no one could ever pose a threat to me?! It’s because I’m an Administrator! It’s because I’m the strongest! It’s because I’m GOD! And it’s because I’m a-“
”FINK-RAT!”
Vidguysteve turned his body around to face Fawful, preparing a witty line to belittle the child, before the sound of laser pierced the air.
Vidguysteve’s entire body went numb; he wasn’t completely sure what happened. He turned and he heard a noise and then he felt… cold… Vidguysteve slowly turned his head to look downward at his chest, where a burning hole in his heart greeted him, pumping blood, staining his already-deep red sweatshirt.
Not believing his eyes, the boy lifted a shaky hand and touched the warm gooey substance that flowed out from his body, and looked back towards Fawful. The beanish child held his FuryZAP 3000 in his hand, smoke rising from the barrel of the blaster, and a determined glare on his face.
Trying to laugh, still unable to believe what was happening to him, Vidguysteve’s face only became one of dread and fear.
”But… I’m… God…” The boy’s face drained of color and became a twisted look of pure horror, as he fell to his knees and then laid motionless, face-down in the dirt.
Fawful had seen enough of the condition in his life to know that he would not be troubled again by the Administrator.
Vidguysteve was dead.
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That’s right! I beat you all to it! I committed suicide!... kinda… Anyways, next update will be the last one. As always, comments are DEMANDED.
Well, it's a good way to start the week off, I suppose. Finished up the main actiony part of Fawful's Quest, and now we all get to enjoy the Finale of Super Mushroom Kingdom Wars Deluxe!