Corona Mountain Showdown
Part 3 - Update 1 – Star-Powered Showdown!The three Star Spirits moved out of the way of Cackletta’s Tarot Cards, leaving the witch to falter on the ground before coming back for another dive.
”Eeyah ha ha ha ha! I was planning on destroying and capturing you loathsome Star Spirits after this! How foolish of you to come to ME!”
”Comrades! Stay away from those cards at all costs! They’re of the same origin as the ones that Bowser sealed us in!” Klevar instructed his fellow spirits.
Nodding, the three Spirits split up, with Skolar firing bolts of electricity at Cackletta. Smiling, she held out her hands, and allowed the bolts to crackle and dance on her palms, before sending it back at Skolar full-force, combined with her own magic. The force knocked Skolar on his back, with Cackletta quickly upon him. She was half-way done capturing him in a card before she felt herself be thrown back by a powerful force.
Looking up, she saw Neo Bowser, but something was different about him. She just couldn’t put her finger on it . . . could it be the hair? No . . . it was probably the fact that he was 20 Feet tall.
Neo Bowser had used his Final Smash Ball to become Giga Neo Bowser, an invincible power . . . for a short time, anyways. Grunting, Cackletta ordered Queen Bean to attack the monstrosity. The Queen threw herself at Giga’s face and began wailing on his snout, to no effect. Giga Neo Bowser simply sneezed, and the Queen was sent rolling backwards.
”Eeyargh! Grr . . . Popple! Queen Bean! Stay away from him! Just go for the Star Spirits!” Cackletta quickly threw Popple a few Tarot Cards, and the the three began chasing after their deity with Neo Bowser on their tails, with Popple after Klevar, Queen Bean after Muskular, and Cackletta after Skolar.
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On board the Battleship X-Naut, Grodus cackled to himself as he slayed the final group of invading stars warped over from the Star Spirit’s ship.
“Gaaack ack ack ack ack! Stupid Stars. They should know better than to send troops uninvited onto the ship of the SHADOW KING!”
Grodus delved into the shadows and reappeared on the bridge.
”And where were you, Sir Grodus?” Professor White inquired.
“We had a bug infestation. Status report.”
”The enemy craft has lost one of its wings and four-sixths of its attacking capacity.”
“Good, good. FIRE THE X-BEAM AT THE REMAINING WING!”
On the front of the ship, a great red light began to emanate from the ship, gathering power. When the power was at its maximum, a mighty, crimson-red beam of energy ripped through the air in an “X” shape, ripping off the remaining wing.
“GAAAACK ACK ACK ACK ACK! SUCCESS!”
On board NOVA, the captain of the vessel was far less pleased by his condition.
“WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE CAN’T FIRE!?!”
A small star pilot shrunk back in his seat as he turned to face his commanding officer. “Er . . . yes, lord Masstar . . . both of our wings have been disconnected from the ship . . . we have no further offensive capabilities . . .”
“DAMNIT! Send all remaining troops to the ground to deal with the enemy! You three idiots! What are you still doing here?!”
Kalmar sighed as he broke his concentration from his scanning of the battlefield, opening one eye, he looked at Masstar. “Well, seeing how finding a weakness on the enemy crafts isn’t really helpful at the moment, we’re tracking Geno and seeing how the others are.”
“And . . .” Masstar growled impatiently.
“Geno still is on his way here. Neo Bowser has become a giant monster – well, giantER. We haven’t found Misstar yet, and Eldstar was misplaced in time with the strange beanish child.”
“Keep an eye out for anything interesting. I need to make sure that this ship doesn’t fall.”
Masstar returned to the command center of the bridge, and with the Star Rod in hand – er, point -, Masstar raised a barrier around NOVA.
“That should keep them out. For now . . .”
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Back on the Battleship X-Naut, or more specifically, the teleporter station, Prof. White was briefing all of the troops on their assignments.
“Alright, as if you didn’t already know, your goal once you get down there is to run towards the volcano, kill anyone that isn’t from our army, Cackletta’s, or Petey’s, stay alive, stay smart, blah blah blah, go away.”
Professor White looked up from his clipboard to look at all of the
cannon fodder bold recruits, and slammed the transport button. In a bright yellow light, all of the troops shimmered out of the chamber, as their molecules rearranged and reformed on the ground, battle ready and a little nauseous.
Joining up with Petey’s force of 90,000 strong, they charged towards the volcano, decimating the troops dropped off by the Star Spirits. They were about 100 yards away from the volcano when
it happened.
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www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/n64/PMEFMLL.midWhile Cackletta and Queen Bean had been in pitched combat with their Star Spirits, Popple had done little fighting against Klevar. Probably because Klevar had stuck true to his name, and used his powers to create an illusion of a massive treasure trove in Popple’s mind. The greedy thief couldn’t resist, it just wasn’t’ fair.
Popple ran towards his hoard of imaginary treasure, and began to roll on the dirt, rubbing it on himself, believing he was bathing in a fountain of liquid gold.
Skolar had managed to slink away from Cackletta, after she turned her attention to dealing with the now-vulnerable Neo Bowser. Skolar and Klevar floated behind the thief, whispering to each other, “Alright, Skolar, take him out.”
“Got it.”
Skolar fired a beam of energy at the Shadow Thief, who was able to easily dodge. Fuming at the two intruders, Popple began sorting through his bag. “What’s the big idea, schmuck?! Where do you get off, attacking someone when their back is turned? Well, I got ways to deal with people like you, see?! Feast your peepers on this!”
Popple held the Diamond Star aloft over his head and chuckled. “HAH! Yeah! Bet you weren’t expecting THAT, were you? Say good-bye to this volcano! This’ll teach you to mess with my treasure! EARTH TREMOR!”
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A massive tremor shook the entire battlefield. Troops lost their footing and fell on their rears; all the fighting Heroes and Champion looked down at the ground, and then up to the brim of the volcano in horror: It was ready to blow.
www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/ds/MLFTPanique.midCackletta screeched as she knew what would happen in just a few seconds. Hopping on her Rocketing Chair, she took out a Tarot Card, and flew over to Queen Bean, trapping the rampaging brute in the card for her own safety.
Popple, however, had taken the opportunity to make a sucker-punch and slamed Skolar and Klevar into the Tarot Cards that Cackletta had thrown to him. “HAH, see? Now you know why no one messes with the Great Popple, Shadowhere’s everybody going? Hanh? ACK!”
Popple, now broken out of his trance, looked up to see the volcano erupt, sending a massive blast of lava and soot straight into the air.
“WOAH! Where’s the Hydrogush 4000 I stole from that old kooky guy?! AH! No time! What do we got here . . .” Popple began frantically sorting through his bag as he fled from the lava, just feet behind him. “Laser gun? No! Sword? No! Gramma’s cookies? Maybe . . .” Popple stopped and held out a plate of delicious home-baked cookies, offering them to the lava.
Surprisingly enough, the lava stopped in its tracks, sniffed and chewed a cookie from a mouth-like appendage it formed, before spewing crumbs all over the wishful thief’s face and restarting the chase.
“Finally! Here we go! Rocket board!” Popple threw the jet-propelled skate board in front of him, and hopped on, blasting away from the lava and past the army that was still coming to their aide. The troops couldn’t quite make out what the figure was, or what it said, but it sounded suspiciously something like,
RUNFORYOURLIVES!WE'REALLGONNADIE!LAVABIGBADANDHURTYANDWHYYY!!!!!!The message became quite clear as they troops all saw the flood of lava heading towards them. With a chorus of mixed yells of fear, anger, and calls for female parental protection, they turned to escape the liquid hot rock.
Not too many of them did as well as Popple and the others.
Tens of thousands were burned alive before they crowd could make it back to their ships and to the ocean.
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www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/gba/mlss_koopacruiser.midNeo Bowser groaned as he opened his eyes and tried to identify his current location. He heard screaming below him, so he was somewhere in the air. He saw wood flooring, orders all around him, and a distinct theme song being played.
Pulling himself off of the floor, and rubbing his head, he heard familiar voices yelling to him.
“Lord Neo! You’re alright!”
”Whuh? . . . Master Troopa? . . . Urghh . . . where am I? What’s going on?”
“You’re on board the Koopa Cruiser, sir. The Dark Magitroopatrools – or whatever we call them – were able to carry you up before you got your tail singed off. Right now, we’ve pulled the Cruiser up above the smoke and soot from the volcano. The enemy didn’t’ get a chance to see us, and they don’t know what happened to you. We could take this opportunity to take the element of surprise, or flee and strike back later when we’re more powerful. Sire, the choice is yours.”
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So, yeah. Chaos, in your next plans, say if you’re going to flee and escape unnoticed, or come to Merloo’s aide.
And Merloo, all of the Star Spirits captured in the Tarot Cards or Fawful’s Headgear, you aren’t getting them back. Muskular, Misstar, and all the ones onboard NOVA are still free, but the others are mine now. Don’t get all upset now, yes, you stressed that you didn’t want them captured, but you sent Artifacts up against three Heroes. Come on. That’s like telling a lamb to slay a dragon and do your taxes.
Corona Mountain Showdown
Part 3 - Update 2 – A Twist of Fate!Petey Piranha looked down at the battlefield thinking on what action to take. On one leaf, the enemies couldn’t float too near the lava, giving him the edge. On the other leaf, neither could his allies.
“General Petey, sir. What are your orders?”
Petey turned his massive head to face the even larger head of Guppy.
“Hmm . . .” Petey mused, stroking where his chin would be with his great leafy hand. “Dump the water in the volcano and on the lava.”
Nodding, Guppy gave the order to the captain. The massive P-Eater-P flew next to the volcano, still sending up a stream of lava into the air. The giant Petey head’s cheeks began to bulge, filling up with stored water from inside its “stomach.” With a mighty spit, hundreds of thousands of gallons of water sprayed from the mouth, stopping the eruption, and creating a thick steam.
Petey looked around the fog. Or rather, he looked at the fog. It was incredibly thick, he couldn’t see his branch in front of his face.
”Guppy,” the concerned Piranha Plan addressed, “we can’t see a thing through this fog. This is a veeeeery dangerous position to be in. We must pull out, post-has-“
The order was interrupted by the sound of a Koopa Shell being fired at the hull of the P-Eater-P, followed by several more.
”WE’RE UNDER ATTACK! Get us out of this fog, NOW!”
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Misstar shook her head as she pulled herself off the ground. She was fortunate enough to have landed on an elevated rock, so the lava didn’t kill her.
“Mmm. . . My head . . . what happened?”
“You chose a bad time to take a nap!”
Misstar jumped into the air to face Muskular.
”There you are! We’ve had everyone looking all over for you! The volcano’s erupted! Masstar has ordered everyone out of the ship. He’s really doing it.”
“Oh my Stars! We’ve got to get out of here!”
The two Star Spirits dashed into the air, towards the group of survivors floating over NOVA.
”Wait . . . where are the others? Skolar, Klevar, Eldstar? What happened to them?”
Muskular faced Misstar solemnly, with eyes full of despair. Nothing further needed to be said. Once all of the Stars had gathered, Masstar instructed them on what to do.
”Alright,” Masstar addressed, his gruff voice holding the slightest hint of sadness, “we know what we have to do. NOVA is useless in its current state, there’s no sign of Geno or the others yet, and we’re heavily outnumbered. We’re a like a flipped over Koopa. You know what we must do.”
One of the stars piped up, “Wait three turns and flip ourselves back over?”
“NO! We have to crash NOVA, and take those bastards with us!”
“That’s not how it works in Paper Mario . . .”Sighing, Masstar gave the remaining pilot the signal to start heading towards the P-Eater-P. However, it was still immersed in a thick steam, so the pilot just floated at the edge, tentatively.
”WHAT IN MY NAME ARE YOU DOING THERE, PILOT?!”
“Sir, I’m unable to find the enemy vessel. It has hidden itself in a this steam, and I can’t see- wait . . . I think- I think I see something . . . IT’S THEM, SIR! IT’S THEM!”
Masstar growled, and waved the Star Rod, dispersing the steam surrounding the area. There was the best bit of good news he had seen all day.
The Koopa Cruiser, the Uber Air Ship of the army was opening fire on the P-Eater-P.
”Sorry I took so long, guys. I had to pick up a few friends on the way over.”
Standing on the deck of the Koopa Cruiser, smiling triumphantly, was the living-doll Geno. Behind him stood Axem Red and Axem Pink, striking a pose.
”Sorry, Pink had to fix her make-up,” Axem Red explained, embarrassed.
Pink crossed her arm and stomped her foot in a huff. “Well, maybe I should just leave.”
“No, No! It’s not like that, Pink! I just meant that-“
”ENOUGH!”
A powerful figure arose from behind the arguing team-mates, and blew a small flame at their feet. Neo Bowser snorted with frustration, “Come on, LADIES, we’re in the middle of a BATTLE HERE!”
A few more Koopa Cannons were fired at the P-Eater-P, knocking some dents into the hull.
Petey growled and turned to the pilot. “Do we have any long-range weapons on this thing?”
”Uh-uh-uh Yessir! We have some Soak ‘N’ Zap Cannons and a few Bonzai Bill launchers.”
”THEN USE THEM! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!”
The pilots frantically hit keys on the dashboard, and the cannons on the ship turned to aim at the Koopa Cruiser. The giant Cheep-Cheep like head squirted a blast of water at the Cruiser, but was evaporated by the Fire Cannons before it could hit its target.
“Damn IT! Move us over the ocean! I have a plan!”
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Back with the Star Spirits, Masstar was considering his options. If he had NOVA crash into the P-Eater-P when it was that close to the Cruiser, it could destroy his allies and Geno. However, his choice was made clear as the P-Eater-P flew away from the island and over the Ocean.
“NOW! DO IT NOW!”
The pilot set NOVA to fly and crash directly into the P-Eater-P as it was hovering above the water, and flew out as fast as he could.
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Grodus looked on as NOVA began its descent towards Petey’s airship.
”DAMMIT! If only the Sun and the Moon weren’t fighting, they could work together and hold it back!” Grodus flailed his arms around in anger.
“Or,” Prof. White began, “you could use the power of the Star Rod to hold it back. It won’t be able to completely protect the ship, but it should save it from being destroyed.”
“That works too!”
Grodus waved his Star Rod in the air, and a dark purple light gleamed from the end.
A dark barrier rose surrounding NOVA, before it collided with the P-Eater-P.
Well, not precisely.
The explosion filled the barrier, looking like a giant exploding sun. Super NOVA. Hah. I made a funny!
Grodus strained to keep the barrier up for as long as he could, but he was simply not strong enough. The explosion broke through the barrier and caused heavy damage to the P-Eater-P.
When the explosion had cleared, the P-Eater-P was heavily damaged, with its engines completely destroyed.
Petey Piranha slammed his head against a wall of the ship. “WHY! CAN’T! ANYTHING! GO! RIGHT?!”
Guppy tried to calm down his leader from a distance, not wanting Petey to turn his aggression out on him. “Look on the bright side. We’re in the ocean, and we have mostly aquatic units, and the engines are the only thing shot. We need to make a few repairs, but we can be back on our feet soon! And until then, we can stay here.”
“Fine . . . but I still have a few more head-smashes in me.”
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On the bridge of the Battleship X-Naut, Grodus fell back onto the ground, exhausted.
“Whew. That was a bit more difficult than I thought it would be. I’m surprised tha-hurgh!”
“Sir Grodus? Sir Grodus, are you alright?”
“Whuzzat? Yes, yes, I just received a system alert from TEC-XX back at the base. I installed a program that would alert me if someone tried to hack into TEC. It looks like we have trouble back at home. Put the ship on warpspeed!”
The ship’s engines began to warm up, and a piercing noise filled the air as the massive battleship rocketed away from the battlefield in the blink of an eye.
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A mighty cheer let out from the Koopa Cruiser and the survivors of the Starlight Squadron, believing they had won the day. However there was someone they had forgotten.
“Eeyah ha ha ha ha ha! FOOLS!”
Everyone turned their heads to see Cackletta, Popple, and Queen Bean all standing on the brim of the volcano, grinning ear-to-ear.
“So you beat the light-weights, not bad. But let’s see how you do against the REAL competition!”
Geno, Axem Red, Axem Pink, and Neo Bowser all made a very impressive jump and landed on the opposite edge.
“Just you three? HAH! This will be no sweat, you’re outnumbered!” Neo Bowser boasted.
Geno closed his eyes and concentrated, searching for a faint energy he felt. “No. There’s one more coming. I can feel it.”
Far from the volcano, a wormhole opened, spitting out everyone’s favorite Beanish Toady.
“I have confusion! Where is Fawful being?”, the nervous toady looked around the area, “O GREAT CACKLETTA! WHERE ARE YOU HAVING THE BEING?!”
“FAWFUL!”
”O GREAT CACKLETTA!”
Fawful shot towards Cackletta’s side at break-neck speeds, hovering by her side in his Headgear. Inside the dome, a faint vision of Eldstar’s worried face could be seen flashing every now and then.
Masstar felt the energy that Fawful’s Headgear was giving off, or rather the Star Spirit inside of it was giving off. “GENO!”
“I know, he has Eldstar. I can feel it.”
Cackletta’s face twisted into a sinister smile. “So, what say we have a little wager? Four on four for the Star Spirits?” Cackletta brandished the captured stars’ cards before tucking them back into her robe.
”Agreed. You will pay for your crimes, Cackletta, dearly,” Geno stated calmly, maintaining a calm complexion. He had to do this, or the Spirits would be lost.
The eight Heroes stared each other for what seemed like an eternity, each waiting for someone to make the first move. With a loud “Gwooohooohooo,” Queen Bean began the fight, diving at their opponents.
The final fight of Corona Mountain had begun.
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WOO! So, yeah. Next update will be the last one, it’ll just be a four-on-four battle royal between all the Heroes. And unless there are any objections, I’d like to have it work like this:
Neo Bowser – Cackletta
Geno – Fawful
Axem Red – Popple
Axem Pink – Queen Bean
Sound good?
Corona Mountain Showdown
Part 3 - Update 3 – Duel of Fatewww.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/n64/bowser_1.midQueen Bean jumped across the volcano, ready to crush Axem Red. Red was in total shock, unable to move any part of his body.
”RED! LOOK OUT!”
Axem Red felt himself get shoved aside before Queen Bean could attack him, and looked with horror as Pink was knocked back by the rampaging royalty.
“Erk . . . I’m alright, Red! You go after the little man with the bag!”
“But Pink-“
”Just shut up and do it!” Neo Bowser roared. The Koopa prince grabbed the startled Axem Ranger, spun him around and threw him at Popple head first.
Red landed in a heap, right in front of Popple, who instantly began searching his pockets for something valuable. Or lint to sell to that creepy guy that collected lint.
“I’ll be takin’ this now, see? Hah! Let’s see how you do without your . . . is . . . is this a condom?”
Axem Pink’s face turned red as everyone snickered at the two Axem Rangers and for the first time, Popple actually gave back something he stole.
Clearing his throat, Axem Red turned to his opponent, “So. . . uh . . . we gonna do this, or what?”
“Uh, yeah. Sure.”
Axem Red swung his axe over his head, which Popple promptly stole and threw back at Axem’s head, knocking him over.
Geno instantly dove for Cackletta, but was intercepted by Fawful blasting him with a few energy sprays. “If you think that you will be fighting the Great Cackletta, then you are of being much stupidness!”
”I don’t even have a comeback for that since I can’t understand what you’re saying! SPEAK ENGLISH!”
“I HAVE FURY!” Fawful blasted a few more energy sprays at Geno, which he promptly dodged.
Neo Bowser and Cackletta were having a stare-down, neither one making a move yet. Neo Bowser opened his mouth, and Cackletta prepared to defend herself. However, not fire, but words came from his mouth.
“I shall defeat you, Cackletta, and rescue my father! Then he will be truly proud of me!”
. . .
”UH-OH! Somebody has some Daddy issues!” Cackletta taunted wildly.
Neo crossed his arms and stomped his foot, “Nothing could be my father from the truth.”
“Op! You said ‘my father’,” Cackletta mocked, covering her mouth and snickering.
“No I dadn’t-didn’t!”
“A-HA!”
”DADDY NEVER LOVED ME!”
Cackletta folded her arms, closed her eyes, and turned her head towards her feet, trying to put on a sagely appearance. ”So, the truth comes out.”
”AND NOW YOUR HEART COMES OUT!”
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Masstar watched the battle with great concern, particularly for Geno. While they were both equal in strength, the strange green one had a weapon that boosted his strength exponentially. Geno hadn’t obtained his Legendary Weapon yet, so he was at a severe disadvantage.
“There must be something I could do to help . . . the Star Rod! GENO! CATCH!” Masstar threw the Star Rod towards Geno with all his strength. The living puppet bounced off of Fawful’s Headgear, and caught the Artifact in mid-air, landing perfectly on his feet.
”What do I do with this?” The Star Warrior called.
“Absorb it into you! It will stay safe and we can take it out later!”
“Fink-rat of blue and brown! Your stick of space lights won’t be able to have helping you now! SNACK ON MY FURY!” Fawful cried before firing out a few more energy blasts.
Geno frantically tried to figure out how to absorb the Star Rod, with Fawful’s attack getting closer and closer.
”Oh man, I wish I knew how to do this!”
The Star Rod glowed and became a bright white color, floating gently into Geno’s chest.
“HA! TASTE DEFEAT, STUPID WOOD-FINK!” The energy blasts hit their target, leaving a great cloud of smoke upon impact.
”Ha-ing! You are tasting the sandwich of defeat at the handwiches of FAWFUL!”
“Dude, enough with the sandwich references.”
“Whating of the?!”
The dust cleared, revealing Geno, completely unharmed, having been protected by a barrier.
“Hey, this trinket IS useful. Let’s see what else it can do . . .”
Geno waved his hands into the air and became a blue vapor, and headed straight for Fawful, who had no time to get out of the way. Geno had pulled a move out of Cackletta’s book, and possessed Fawful. Now swirling around inside of Fawful’s head, Geno took full control.
”Alright! Now I can- what the Hell? What is THAT?!”
Geno-Fawful stared in fear and confusion as he saw a group of rocks morph into sausages with top hats and tuxedos. They all began to spin and dance around as they chanted in eerie unison, “Dance with us Fawful! Dance with us into oblivion!”
“This is too messed up! I’m outta here!” Geno forced himself out of Fawful’s body, and landed in a heap on his stomach. “I am NEVER going in that weirdo’s head again. EVER.”
”HA! Fawful’s mind is like that of a safe who is genius and the stupids who are you are not having the able to get inside!”
”I got inside, it just was freaky as Hell! That’s it, let’s do this!”
Geno and Fawful dashed at each other, Fawful with his FuryZAP in hand, and Geno with fists shining with Holy light.
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On board the Koopa Cruiser, Master Troopa couldn’t take it anymore. Back as a child, he would have run in there by now, maybe with Bat wings or a cool staff, but now he could only sit there and watch.
”Forget that! All Shell Launchers! Fire at Cackletta!”
The sound of Shell Launchers being loaded and primed could be heard, as the turrets turned and took aim at their target, in heated combat with Neo Bowser.
“FIRE!”
A rainbow of Koopa Shells flew through the air, all aiming for the Bean Witch. However, about 10 yards from their target, the shells exploded as a green barrier quickly flashed over the top of the volcano.
Cackletta, having witnessed this, cackled with glee. “Finally this thing starts working again! I’ve been trying to get the Beanstar to make a barrier for a couple hours now! I suppose it loves a fair battle! Sorry, boy, it looks like your toys can’t help you this time!”
“I don’t need them to take you down, you ancient bag of bones!” Neo blasted another wave of flames at Cackletta as she flew into the air and retaliated with a barrage of lightning strikes, which Neo dodged.
”PEST!”
”HAG!”
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Axem Pink was not doing very well against Queen Bean. While her defensive powers were strong, and she could heal her injuries fairly quickly, Queen Bean didn’t show any signs of tiring or slowing down any time soon.
’This isn’t good. . . I don’t think I can stop her . . . I have to think of something quick, or I’m as good as scrap!’ Pink thought as she put up another Petal Shield to block Queen Bean’s massive fists.
Pink took the opportunity to counter-attack, and slashed at Queen Bean’s arm, cutting through her Diamond Armor and into her flesh. Pink hopped back confident she had done some serious damage. After all, she cut deep into the bone; no one could still fight after that.
However, rather than screams of pain, Queen Bean screeched with anger, using the powers of her T-Shirt to make a powerful cry, forcing Pink to cover her ears. Taking the opportunity, Queen Bean delivered a powerful blow into Pink’s stomach, sending her flying and skidding on the ground.
“There’s . . . there’s just no way she could do that! I cut right down to the bone! How can she still punch with that arm and not even flinch?!”
Queen Bean gave another howl and blasted a ball of kinetic energy at Pink, sending her even farther back.
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www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/104294“PINK!” Axem Red cried out, seeing his love be smacked around by that monstrosity.
“Heh-heh! I’d worry more about what happened to you, rather than your little girlfriend, see?”
Turning his head, Axem Red was able to duck in time to avoid a saw blade to the head. “Why do you carry this much random garbage?!”
“Bah! You don’t know how much money I get off of all this stuff!”
Popple began throwing tires, bones, Beanies, Poison Mushrooms, Shampoo bottles, and all other sorts of random items. Axem Red was only barely able to dodge these, awkwardly positioning himself to avoid each one.
Finally, Popple had the fortune to pull out a Tommy Gun, and used it to fire sprays of bullets at Axem Red’s feet. Red was able to avoid most of them, and the ones that hit didn’t hurt much, but he just didn’t like how the battle was going for him so far. Popple had kept him on the defense so far, and he hadn’t scored any decent hits yet.
Red got his chance when Popple pulled out an unlit Bob-omb. Quickly firing a blast of fire at it, it ignited and exploded in the thief’s hand, heavily damaging the surprised and scorched scoundrel and leaving him open.
Axem Red dashed at Popple and opened up a flurry of axe slashes, before smacking Popple away by swinging his axe like a golf club. Axem Red smiled as he watched his enemy land on the ground, twitching.
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Geno and Fawful had been fighting blow-for-blow, neither willing to give up.
Fawful had decided to mix up his attack pattern, and occasionally use his Headgear’s speed to body-slam into Geno, sending him careening backwards and off of the side of the volcano, and managing to latch one hand onto the edge, he pulled himself back up. Geno looked up only to meet Fawful grinning madly and dashing towards him, ready for another slam.
Geno used his control over the winds to blow Fawful off course, but wasn’t prepared to block the Energy Blasts Fawful sent careening at him at the last second. Getting pushed back even further, Geno began to tire. ‘How much longer can I stand up to this guy? He’s young and crazy, he won’t get tired soon . . . this is hopeless!’
Masstar, having sensed Geno’s distress, became furious with the puppet. All of his allies were on the line, and he was getting worked up over this one squirt?! Well, Masstar knew how to fix that, he was well adept at playing at Geno’s strengths and weaknesses; he knew exactly how to motivate him.
www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/17941“GENO!” the gruff voice of Masstar shouted, “IF YOU DON’T BEAT THIS FREAK RIGHT NOW, YOU’LL NEVER GET INTO BRAWL!”
Geno suddenly snapped to attention and was enveloped with a great white flash of light, and a great burst of wind blew from him. The light cleared and revealed Geno; he had become slightly taller, gained large angelic wings, sprouted spikes from his hands and head, and was surrounded by an angelic aura; the sheer power of it caused nearby rocks to float off the ground and disintegrate.
“That’s it, boyo . . .” Masstar looked on proud of his warrior.
An image of the Star Rod appeared on Geno’s chest, giving him one final burst of energy. Despite all of this, Fawful was not intimidated in the slightest.
“Ever of the what. You can call the mustard of spiciness mayonnaise of strange tasting, but it is still your DOOM!”
Fawful chattered wildly as he unleashed his fury in the form of more energy blasts.
Geno just smirked as he held out his hand and deflected them with virtually no effort at all. The balls went careening towards Queen Bean, knocking her off-balance, and reflected off of her Diamond Armor and slammed straight into Fawful, singing his cloak.
“I have seeing . . . so this is the power of the Rod of the sparkly Stars . . . Fawful is not having fright! Fawful is having a secret weapon! Your Star Ghost of olderness!”
“. . . Haste.”
Geno slowed down the passage of time, making him seem to move at super-sonic speeds. Geno looked over at a random hummingbird (because there’s always a hummingbird when you slow down time) and saw its wings flapping slowly. Nodding, Geno walked towards Fawful and began to attack his Headgear’s dome, where Eldstar was being held.
Using the spikes on his hands, Geno began to make some decent damage, causing the dome to crack. However, the Haste spell wore off and the surprised Fawful blasted Geno point-blank with his FuryZAP 9000.
“What are you having doneness to my beautiful Headgear?!” Fawful panicked, unable to fire any energy attacks with the cracks in the dome leaking plasma.
“Just this.” Geno raised his left palm up and fired the spike directly towards the Headgear’s weak spot, breaking it open and freeing Eldstar in a burst of light.
”I-I have f-f-f-fright! I must be making the leaving of great haste-“
”You wanna leave?! FINE BY ME!”
Concentrating his energy in his hands, Geno fired a massive beam of energy at Fawful, sending him spiraling over the island and out of sight.
With the deed done, the effects of the Star Rod wore off, and Geno reverted to his normal self before collapsing on the ground, completely exhausted. Eldstar floated over Geno and smiled knowing that the Star Spirit’s rescuer was getting some well-deserved rest. Eldstar levitated Geno and brought him to lie on the deck of the Koopa Cruiser.
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www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/snes/SmrpgBossUltra(1).midAxem Pink was unable to fight back against Queen Bean any longer. This had been getting ridiculous. She was a lover, not a fighter – though she supposed that Popple had already made that apparent to everyone. She was meant to assist the others and stay safe, fighting big bruisers like this was Yellow’s job.
Axem Pink barely managed to block another punch from Queen Bean. She hadn’t realized how tired she really was. She had barley enough strength to create a decent shield anymore.
Raising another petal barrier, Pink knew that this fight would not end well for her, so she thought of a way to get out of the battle, live, and get everyone’s attention!
‘Alright! Let’s do it! <3’
Pink weakened her shield just enough so Queen Bean’s fist broke through the barrier and impacted with her stomach, sending her flying into the air and off of the volcano, landing on the Koopa Cruiser. Pink smiled internally, knowing that any second everyone would come rushing to her side to see if she was alright.
‘. . . Any second, now . . . come on . . .WHERE IS EVERYONE?!’
Pink heard Masstar’s voice in her head laughing at her. ‘You’re a bad actress.’
Moaning to herself, Axem Pink banged her head on the Cruiser’s floor, and fell asleep.
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“PINK!” Axem Red yelled, worried for his love.
“Keep your eyes on the prize, ya maroon!” Popple took the opportunity to swipe Axem Red’s Axe. “I’ll be takin’ that now, see?” Popple grinned and started swiping at Red, who was doing fairly well at dodging the attacks, having spared with the others so many times.
Popple slashed at Red’s legs, only for Red to jump and land on the axe blade and kick Popple in the teeth. Popple dropped the axe, and Axem Red wasted no time in scooping it back up.
”I’ll be taking this back, thanks!”
Axem Red watched as Popple started to get off of the floor, spitting some blood on the ground.
”Boo, see? I’m the LEGENDARY Shadow Thief for a reason! I ain’t about to keel over to some red drip
except for that other guy!”
Axem Red shook his head and exhaled deeply. He didn’t want to have to resort to this. “I’m sorry, but you’ve given me no other option.
I SHALL UNLEASH THE WRATH OF ANUBIS ON YOU!”
“Anuboo? Whaddaya talking abo-oh.”
Popple looked up as the giant head of the Egyptian Dog-God growled at him, and fired powerful black and yellow lasers out of his eyes, striking Popple and leaving him twitching as a sizzling mass on the ground.
“Thanks, Anubis!”
“Everybody gets one.” And with that Spider-Man quote, Anubis vanished.
Popple slowly lifted himself up off of the floor, looking around nervously.
‘Oh man . . . things don’t look too good for old Popple . . . looks like it’s time for Plan ‘B’.’
“Uhh . . . Th-that’s her, officer!” Popple jumped to his feet and pointed his finger accusingly at Cackletta. “She’s the one that trained me to be evil!” Popple then turned to flee, hoping to make a getaway, but Axem Red had done so much, he figured that he might as well finish him off.
With a war cry, Axem Red dashed up from behind Popple, and with a powerful swing from his Axe, Popple went flying into the air and over the horizon, complete with the flash of light and “ping” noise.
Shaking his head in embarrassment, Axem Red dashed off towards the Koopa Cruiser to check on Pink.
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youtube.com/watch?v=ESiUHbXakFkCackletta and Neo Bowser were the only two fighters left, and both had been fighting fairly evenly. However, Neo had one advantage that the Bean Witch didn’t: a 30 year age difference. Thanks to being in the prime of life, Neo was able to come back fairly quickly from each attack Cackletta could muster. Though she was more powerful than him, she was also exhausted from all of the action she had participated in, and her age drastically limited her stamina. It wasn’t long before Cackletta found herself in a rather unwanted position.
Neo Bowser had his claws clenched tightly around Cackletta, pinning her arms to her sides and slowly crushing her. Cackletta strained and struggled with all her might, but just couldn’t escape the grasp of the vengeful Koopa. Looking into his eyes, Cackletta saw pure malice and hatred; the once playful and mischievous Bowser Jr. had become a cruel, tyrannical king, even more than his father was.
‘Well, I completely corrupted a little kid. I’d call this a victory.’
Neo Bowser roared as loud as his lungs could in Cackletta’s face, causing her skin to stretch backwards and her eyes to tear from the noise. Staring daggers at the witch who killed his father, Neo Bowser grinned toothily, the way a tiger does when it spots its prey.
“Now,” Neo began, stepping closer to the opening of the volcano, “let’s see if my theory of what happens when a witch is introduced to fire comes true or not!”
With a powerful push, Neo forced Cackletta down into Corona Mountain’s shaft. Cackletta let out an ear-piercing screech, reverberating off of the walls down the volcano; it seemed like she was falling for an eternity.
Neo Bowser snorted, spat on the ground, and turned his back to his enemy and faced the remaining forces on the Cruiser and in the air, “WE HAVE WON! Now, let us attack Bean Castle, and rescue my father! LONG LIVE THE KOOPA EMPIRE!”
Everyone let out a mighty roar of victory, and Neo Bowser took a moment to take a deep breath and calm down. ‘First thing I’m gonna do once Dad is back is take a bath in some nice lava springs.’
youtube.com/watch?v=V8Ca_edg6RENeo’s relaxation would need to wait, however, for all of the celebration and cheers were cut short by the volcano beginning to shake violently. Neo Bowser wheeled around to see what the problem was. “Wha-what is this?! Is the volcano erupting again?!”
”Eeeyah ha ha ha ha ha ha!”
’That laugh . . .’
That familiar laugh that sent chills down his spine. It couldn’t really be . . . There was simply no way that she could still possibly be-
“Eeyah ha ha ha ha! . . . I’m surprised you’ve pushed me this far . . .”
Neo’s pupils shrunk back in disbelief as he saw two massive purple hair bulbs rise out of the volcano.
“So you want to see your father again? Very well then!”
Two massive, scaly claws reached out from the volcano’s interior and latched tightly onto the sides of the volcano, bringing with them-
“HEREEEEEEEEEEEE’S BOWSER!”
Bowzilla pulled herself out of Corona Mountain, but was only able to reveal the top half of her body, getting her lower torso stuck due to her massive girth.
“YOU WITCH! How DARE you take on my father’s shape!”
“You calling me a look-alike, kid? Eeyah ha ha! Sorry to burst your bubble, kiddo, but this is the real-deal Bowser! Or should I say, BOWLETTA!”
www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/5958Neo Bowser couldn’t believe it. His father was out of his grasp. That horrible monster had taken complete control over his beloved father. She desecrated the mighty Koopa King and all he stood for. She manipulated Neo’s love for his father for her own gain. But the worst part was, she . . . she . . . she . . .
“YOU GAVE DAD BOOBS!”
Bowzilla roared and blew massive columns of flame in random directions, swiping at any troops trying to approach her on the ground.
The Koopa Cruiser flew in close to the side of the volcano, narrowly dodging blasts of fire and giant Flarets, while returning fire with a few Koopa Shells and electric blasts.
“Lord Neo!” Master Troopa called from the deck of the Cruiser. “Lord Neo, please! We must flee! We don’t have enough power to deal with her now! We must escape! LORD NEO!”
Neo Bowser just stared blankly at the giant monster that called itself his father. His entire body went numb. He couldn’t any pain or move his legs. He didn’t want to feel anything anymore.
“LORD NEO!” Master Troopa jumped off of the Koopa Cruiser and grabbed Neo, dragging him back to the Koopa Cruiser before rocketing off, far away from that place. The Star Spirits all followed close behind, protecting the Cruiser as it made its getaway.
Floating on the ocean, Petey looked up at the giant monster breathing fire and destruction.
“Oh yeah. She can definitely take care of him . . .”
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WOO! Another battle done! Alright! Here come the casualties and other things. Yay.
Neo Bowser1000 Super Koopa Kids
500 Giga bowser statues
200 Dark Dry Para Magikoopatol
2000 Lava bubbles
2000 Burning bloopers
2000 Inferno Piantas
3000 Red Duckys
1000 Red Shelled Nokis
500 hammer bros
500 Boomerang bros
Mecha Bowser (Mecha Bowser technically wasn’t destroyed, he was just left behind at Corona Mountain)
MasstarCompact Star: 4000
Swerve Star: 4000
Winged Star: 4000
Rocket Star: 4000
Bulk Star: 4000
Formula Star: 4000
Turbo Star: 4000
Skolar*
Klevar*
Kalmar*
*Kidnapped by Cackletta
NOVA
(Merloo, just so you understand why you lost so many troops, most of them were killed when Petey’s and the X-Naut’s combined forces were charging up the volcano. It was 150,000+ to 35,000)
Axem Red2,500 Axem Clones
Cackletta5,000 Castle Guards
(Fawful’s Headgear needs 20 Day Project to be repaired before it can be used offensively again)
X-Nauts4,000 Elite X-Nauts (Powerful Elite Melee Unit)
3,000 X-Naut PhDs (Healing/Chemical Unit)
1000 Sky-Nauts (Flying Melee Unit)
4000 Yux (Long Range Unit)
2500 X-Naut Demomen (Long Range Explosive Unit)
2000 O.D.S.X (Meduim Ranged Electric Units)
3,000 X-Plasmas (Short Ranged Fire Unit)
4000 Chemical-Nauts (Short Ranged Poison/Chemical Unit)
2500 Spy Nauts (Transforming Unit)
2500 X-Naut Defenders (Defence Unit)
4000 X-Rockets (Long-Range Anti-Vehicle Unit)
Petey Piranha1,000 Red Koopa Troopa
1,000 Urchin
1,000 Gringill
1,000 Orange Cataquack
1,000 Boss Bass
1,000 Blooper
1,000 King Crab
1,000 Sushi
1,000 Rocky Wrench
1,000 Giant Clams
1,000 Smoulderin' Stu
1,000 Jumping Blooper
1,000 Snooze-a-Koopa
1,000 Rip Van Fish
1,000 Wet Bones
1,000 Frogog
1,000 Clapper Seals