Post by tinfoilman on Jul 4, 2008 19:58:58 GMT -5
Ok, so I noticed the battles I wrote weren't up here; so, I'm gonna put 'em up. Hopefully they won't get purged... >_>
The Seige of Peach's Castle: Part 1
The Wonderful Reception?
"RRGGHH!" Queen Bean cry echoed through the BeanBean Kingdom. The other bandits shuffled towards the ship docked behind the monstrous Queen.
"I'm coming, see?" Popple said, sac in hand. Fawful was fiddling with his headgear as he approached his beloved ship, while Cackletta started to board the ship. Patsy was already on board Fawful's ship. The bandits stood together on the ship, while Popple opened his bag.
"Just hop in, see?" he exasperated, and the other bandits exchanged worrisome looks. "Oh, just get in, nothing bad'll happen, see?" he said, shoving Fawful into the bag. "See? Beautiful as always! Now get in!" The rest all carefully clambered into the sac, and, with Popple manning the controls (much to everyone's fear), they set off down to Peach's Castle. Time to put the plan into action!
They pulled up along the main castle road, quite some distance away from the castle itself. Popple reached into his bag, looking for Cackletta, but pulled out Queen Bean instead, who practically bit his head off.
"AIEEE!" he cried like a school girl, and he shoved the being into his sac. "Stupid monster PMS." He reached into his bag again, and felt around for Cackletta's sagging old person skin. He felt none, when he remembered her youth spell. Closing his eyes, he picked out a random Bean, and, much to his joy, it was Cackletta.
Or should I say, "Mario". She had already transformed into everyone's favourite (or least favourite) mustachioed-protaganist.
"Eyeh heh heh heh! Those fools won't suspect a thing! Come along boys!" she cried, before hopping out of the ship. Popple shoved Fawful in his bag, and they hid in her shadow. She quickly reboarded, and cloned herself.
"Almost forgot." she said with a smirk, and they set off down theyellow brick road path to the luxurious castle. Even the great "Mario" found herself himself in awe of the grand size. She shook it off, and approached the gate which stood to deter trespassers. A noticably buff Toad stood guard.
"And, who may you be?" he said, not even caring that it was after all, the great "Mario".
"Eyeh heh heh heh! Who do you think it is, bubs?" she sneered in her usual witch sneer. The guard lowered his sunglasses to inspect "Mario" closely. Cackletta composed herself.
"Er... its-a me, Mario!" she said, and the guard forgot about her odd voice.
"Liscense and regestration, please."
"Er...." this caught Cackletta off guard. "Er.... my-a other overalls?" she said, but the guard didn't buy it.
"I'm sorry sir, but I'm gonna have to send you down to the passport office, its just back down the path, first le-"
The poor guard couldn't finish his sentence as he was roasted alive by a fireball. "Mario" snickered and reached into the control booth, around the burnt Toad, and flipped the gate switch. That hadn't gone as planned, but, it worked, she was in. She rambled up to the giant door of the castle, with the two bandits in tow.
Meanwhile, at the ship, Queen Bean (who managed to force herself out of Popple's bag) was waiting in the forest near the castle grounds, waiting for her oppurtunity to strike. Peasley set up shop near the waterfall, undetected. Patsy had started driving the ship back to the BeanBean castle. There were no signs of any bandits around.
The first of bulbmin's troops arrived over a hill to the castle's west. They hid with bushes, and three Goop Guns set up shop just in range of the castle. Deep within the forest, Coconutters hid in the trees, while the Smilaxes started to perform some dance. Thousands of Piranha Plants burrowed deep within the ground, undetected for the moment.
Peach's allies were also getting ready for the battle. A giant assortment of Bloopers hid in the large lake, along with various ships and even the great Big Blooper as well. They were all getting prepped for their assignments. The Loaded Shells were inside various parts of the castle, manning their stations. Everything was in position for the fight.
"Mario" reached the door and knocked hard. A minute or so later, Peach opened the door.
"Oh, Mario, I've been expecting you! Come in, come in! I baked a lovely cake just for you!" she motioned him in, and "Mario" thought things couldn't be easier: he didn't even need to fight his way in! He opened the door, and a large reception of over 10,000 Toads cheered and hooted as Mario entered. "Mario" humbly bowed and followed Peach, the two bandits hidden inside his shadow.
Down in a control room, an officer got a life scan of two bandits following Mario. "We need to warn her!" the Toad said.
"Not now!" another replied, "Peach is busy right now, but she should be able to seperate at one point, then we call! In the meantime, ring the silent warning bell to all the troops to be on the lookout!"
"Right-o." the first toad responded, and flipped a switch.
Meanwhile, "Mario" followed Peach up one flight of stairs, where Birdo stood guard.
"Now's our chance!" Popple said silently, and they slipped from Mario's shadow into the shadow's of the walls. Peach turned to Mario.
"Birdo's going to escort you upstairs. I'm going to go freshen up." She said, and headed down a hallway. Birdo grunted, and squeezed tightly on "Mario"'s arm, leading him up another flight of stairs. Things were working out for the most part, both sides thought.
Casualties:
-hachi=
1 Toad
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The Seige of Peach's Castle: Part Two
Let There Be WAR!
Peach walked gracefully to the powder room. She stepped inside, and locked the door behind her. She made sure no one was inside with her, before turning on a small screen on the counter. She pressed a couple of buttons, and a Toad appeared on the screen. Blushing at her presence, but saluting, he started to give her a status report.
"Not much activity outside the castle so far. It seems quiet nearly everywhere.... almost too quiet. Anyways, we have discovered the presence of two other Bandits running amok in the castle. We rang the silent alarm, and hopefully we'll "catch" them." Peach nodded before responding:
"All seems to be going well. I'll go head back to Mario, so that he doesn't suspect anything." She was about to shut down the telecommunicater when a slight explosion thudded against the castle.
"What the hey was that?" Peach cried out. The Toad started to panic, and it ran over to a nearby computer. More small explosions thudded against the castle walls.
"We're being attacked!" the Toad replied, "I repeat, it is not quiet outside anymore! We'll start sending troops to fend off the attack! It seems to be some sort of explosive goop, but we can't figure out the source yet! Gotta jet, but be safe Toadstool!" The screen shut off, and Peach sighed to herself. "Not again..." she thought aloud, before exiting the facilities.
"What the hell was that?" Mario said to Birdo, who stood by the door guarding the exit, after the small explosions started rocking the walls.
"BIRDO?!" the ... thing said, with a surprised look on her....his...its face.
"Er...aieeee! Whatsa goin'-on?" the overalled man caught himself. Birdo moved to the window, and it was shattered by some of the goop, almost obliterating the dinosaur (?). She fell back with minor burns, and backed away from the walls. She went back to guarding Mario from leaving, although she wanted to see if Peach was ok.
"Couldn't have happened at a better time, see?" Popple said to his bag, or in truth to Fawful who was inside of it. "Now they'll never see us coming and going! We'll make off with all the loot in the castle!" He shadow phased through one wall, and entered a room. Beds were sprawled everywhere, and the Toads seemed to filter out of it, all in a hurry. They must be troops. Popple waited patientlly in the shadows until all of them left, before getting Fawful out and starting to wreak havoc.
"They shall taste my fury and my mustard seeds of DOOM!" Fawful cried out, before destroying everything in sight with his FuryZAP 9000, while Popple stored whatever he could find in his bag, including some Power Stars in the walls, slowly draining the castle of its powers. When the room was near empty/ destroyed, Fawful hopped back into Popple's magical bag and they shadow-phased into the next room, starting to repeat the process.
Outside, meanwhile, was starting to get interesting. The Goop Guns were the source of the explosive goop that rocked the castle, and there location still hadn't been discovered yet. Hordes of Toads poured out of castle doors, looking for the source of the goop. They searched, to no avail as of yet, but found another thing which needed to be taken care off: that fake-Bowser that Peach was talking about! He stood with around 5,000 Koopas and Goombas, to which the Toads started to laugh at.
"Goombas and Koopas? Are you serious? Come on, this will be short work!" They stormed down the yellow path to where the enemy stood, and started lobbing grenades and shooting at them, taking many surprise victims. They were surprised, however, when the seemingly ordinary troops started doing unordinary things. Some started growing ferocious teeth, others with demonic eyes, some started to weild an amazing number of knives, and others started to shoot laser guns at the Toad force. The two charges met and stared, before they started charging each other. Toads lobbed grenades into the enemies, dispatching them in bunches, before they realized not to clump together. They started an ammunition war between the Blue sniper Toads and the Goombas who conviently had laser guns. Deaths were taken at both sides. Goombas bombarded the Toad flank and started biting and kniving and doing whatever to take down their foes. The Toads, who were more of ranged units, took some hits, before moving back and letting the Red Toads, the iron sword weilding Toads take over in combat, and with their Patriotism and Angry Vibe upgrades, along with their Flaming Swords, the Red Toads were making a killing, literally.
Peach was walking back to go see Mario when the ground started to rumble beneath her feet.
"Oh peaches, what now?" she said calmly, still not panicking (as per usual). In reality, the Piranha Plants had started to burrow under the foundations of the castle, adding one more dilema for the Princess to deal with. It was, however, to be dealt with others; she had other things to attend to. She, grabbing the hand rail, walked quickly up the steps, and into the room where her "mustachioed lover" sat worried.
"Whatsa goin'on?" the "plumber" said as she stepped in the room. Never skipping a beat, Princess Toadstool replied quickly:
"Construction. And about the goop... its just a testing that's all, nothing to get worried about." she fibbed, and "Mario" seemed to buy it; she hoped she could cover that she knew who he actually was until a more oppurtune time.
"If-a you say-so." Mario replied. "Can.... Birdo, is it? Can she leave? She's making me anxious...." This was all a ploy to get Peach alone, but he thought the heir of the Mushroom Kingdom bought it.
"Uh... sure. Birdo, do you mind stepping out?" she said to the being.
"BIRDO!" the purple thing replied before exiting the room. Now just Peach and Mario stood together in the room, each waiting for the other to make a move. They started making small talk, waiting for each other to slip up:
"So, how'sa the kingdom?" Mario asked.
"Ok.... its been better." Peach replied.
"Anything... new?"
"Oh, no, not really. How's Aunt Maria doing?"
"She's-a fine, I guess I haven't spoken to her in-a while."
"Hm... any progress made on that "Brawl" game you were talking about?"
"Oh, you wouldn't believe what they just announced. Apparently, Mr. L is going to be an-"
Mario's exciting new discovery (that you'd probably love to hear about) was interrupted as the window crashed. Peasley stood where the window once did. He swung his rapier for effect.
"Hoho! Look who has arrived! It is I, the Great Prince Peasley!" He stood triumphantly on his Flying Bean. It was now two on one, Mario and Peasley against Peach, who was now regretting making Birdo leave.
Outside, a monsterous figure stomped through to the castle. It was the great Queen Bean, and no ordinary Queen Bean either; she was Rod of the Giant World ENHANCED Queen Bean. She romped through the castle yards, up to the lake, when something got her attention: a blob of electric goop. She turned to see the source of the shot. It was from the lake, but she only saw water. Another shot came, and this time she dodged the blast, and got a good look at the source: it was none other than Big Blooper himself. About 5,000 other smaller bloopers were in the lake as well: this would be a doozy to handle.
In all the corners of the Peach Castle Grounds, war had sprung loose. Everywhere was shootings and battling. The residents of the famous castle were in for a looooonnnngg day.
Casualties:
=hachi=
-530 Red Toads
-1090 Blue Toads
-860 Yellow Toads
=vgs=
-570 Possessed Dolls
-440 Jackal-in-the Boxes
-560 Deathbots
-320 Tyrant Trains
VGS would've lost more troops if they weren't ubers.
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The Seige of Peach's Castle: Part Three
The War Rages On
Peach let a nervous bead of sweat roll down her cheek. She was outnumbered, two on one, by the BeanBean Bandits. She stepped back, unsure of her next move, as they closed in on her. She needed to think, and fast. It struck her to sound the alarm, for her troops to come and aid her. She smacked a yellow button against the wall. A large, high pitched beeping sound rang through the building, ringing the alarm. Troops spread around the castle picked up the signal, and confirming its location, quickly hurried up the stairs. Peach knew she had to hold off the bandit duo for a little while before she could get the aide of her troops. The Princess turned back to the BeanBean's, who were closing in quickly. Princess Toadstool quickly rolled out of the corner, behind the bandits. Cackletta, who had changed from Mario into her true form, and Peasley quickly span around to face the Princess. Peasley quickly swung at her with his rapier, landing a small cut on the heroine, while Cackletta tried to transform. Nothing happened. She tried again. Still nothing.
"GRAGHH!" the witch cried out, turning furiously at Peach. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, WOMAN!?!" Peach chuckled to herself.
"I've muted your transformation, silly. Don't even try to change anymore; you'll just hurt yourself!" Peach replied to the bandit, who was now enraged.
"You've asked for it!" the witch steamed, and lightning bolts falled from the sky like snowflakes in Wisconsin in winter. Peach tried to dodge them all, but she was zapped by a few. Peasley took the oppurtunity to strike multiple times with his rapier, and Peach was down on the ground. Recouperating, she stood up, barely dodged another lightning bolt, and quickly turned into Angelic Peach, releasing a fury of light magic upon her two foes. Peasley merely reflected her attacks back with his legenedary hair, while Cackletta seemed to absorb the blows.
"How did she do that?" Peach pondered aloud, "She absorbed those attacks like a sponge!"
"EYEH HEH HEH HEH! Did you ever read my ability section, darling? Don't you know Magic based attacks are useless against me!?" the witch chuckled crazily. "NYEH HE HEH HEH! Its too late now, Peach-y girl!"
Peach stood back, when she heard rumbling from the stairs below. Her reinforcements! Just a little longer...
"THEY SHALL TASTE MY FURY!" Fawful cried from within Popple's bag. They were moving down a seemingly empty corridor, with masses of destruction left wherever they went. They saw a couple guards drinking a pint in front of a door. Something seemed suspicious, so Popple shadow phased right beside them.
"So, you locked up the treasure room, right Ernest?" the one toad said.
"You got it Phil," another, presumably Ernest, replied, "But don't you think we'd see those bandit guys coming? I mean, we're standing right in front of the only door."
Popple's eyes lit up, and he disregarded whatever the bumbling idiots were talking about now; he had hit the jackpot. He silently shadow phased into the "Treasure Room". And boy, was it ever! Popple was astounded to see multiple Cosmic Engines, sitting unguarded and unbelted. Fawful leaped out of the bag, and they started to make their way to the loot. Back outside, however, the guards had other plans. The third Toad, who was looking through a life form reading, quickly called the Toad Brigade.
"Yep, we've got live ones." was all the Toad said. Back inside, Fawful was admiring the craftsmenship of the engines.
"For such stupids, they make nice engines! I will loot them for my ship!" he said, as he got ready to drop one into Popple's sac. He lifted it when he heard a slight ticking noise.
"What is that annoying ticky noise!?" Fawful said, before the answer came to him. "RUN! RUN, POPPLE, RUNNNNNNN!!!!" The ticking stopped momentarily as our bandit pair tried to escape. It was too late.
The bandits, almost incinerated were flung brutally into the walls of the circular room. They landed on the ground with a resounding thud. Feebly, they tried to stand. They were badly burned, and had multiple broken bones. For all they knew, they popped some organs in the process. They sat up against the wall. Popple turned to Fawful, with an expression of not only pain but relief.
"Should-a seen that one coming." he said, in a lot of pain. Fawful nodded. "We'll, let's try and get outta here. I have no doubt there trying to keep us in here." They stood up, weakly, and, barely able to move, they shuffled to the wall, where Popple tried to Shadow Phase through the wall.
"I can't, I'm to drained, see?" He said to Fawful. He started to rummage through his bag, looking for a healing medicine. Pixls, coins, engines, troops, ah-ha! He pulled out a Shroom Shake.
"I knew this would come in handy some day!" He popped open the can, and slurped the liquid down. "Ah. I feel like a new ban-" He was interrupted by a large "BZZZT!" noise.
"WHAT WAS THAT?!" Fawful cried out in fear. They stood for a couple seconds. Nothing happened. "Hm..." Popple said. "Better not wait for something to happen, see? Let's go!" Popple stuffed his fellow bandit into his sac, and tried shadow warping through the door. Before he could, however, he was struck by a ball of sorts. He turned to see a grenade at his feet. He quickly jumped before it exploded, and looked at the thrower. Turns out it wasn't just one thrower; a hundred or so Kooper Troopers stood with grenades in their hands. Popple sighed, and noticed he started to feel hot and weird. He couldn't explain why, but every second, he seemed to get weaker. He knew that he had to escape as quickly as possible.
Outside the castle, the Toads were fighting valiantly against the uber-Goombas and Koopas, but they were slowly losing. It wouldn't be much longer 'till they were toast. All of the sudden, the spirit of Toadsworth, along with the spirits of the Starshade Bros. appeared.
"I knew I shouldn't have taken those shrooms.... now I'm hallucinating like crazy!"
"It is truly us, brave warriors!" Toadsworth said. "Don't give up, you can still win!" With that, the spirits left. The Toads felt empowered, and started slicing through foes with much gust-o. Things were evening out now in this mini-war.
On the Piranha Plant side of things, it was going well. The few Toads that had discovered the source of the goop were quickly destroyed by the Fuzzies and Seed Pods. The goop had almost completely taken down the outer wall of the castle. Underground things were going well, too. The Piranha Plants were biting through foundations, going up and chomping up troops from below, causing havoc everywhere. They were met with little resistance. The Blaze Piranhas were taking out troops left and right with their fire attacks. However, a large platoon of Toads started to march up the hill, lobbing grenades and firing rifles, taking out a whole big number of Seedy Pods. Knowing it was their time to leave, half of the Seedy Pods left as the Fuzzies and remaining pods stayed valiantly. They took out a chunk of the Toad crew, before ultimately submitting, with a few stragglers escaping. All and all, things were going well for the Plant side of things.
Queen Bean was dealing with a lot right now. Big Blooper had started firing electric goop at her, along with all of the bloopers. Aircraft started to fire at her from above, which was a silly idea. She merely swatted them out of the air, obliterating most of them. She started shooting beams of energy at the Bloopers in the lake, taking out some of the little ones, and causing some damage to Big Blooper, who retaliated by getting a nice shot of electric goop into a crack in her armour. It seeped into her skin, causing great damage, but the QB raged on. She shouted very loudly, deafening (sp?) some troops and hurting them all. Big Blooper lifted his tentacles to his head momentarily, and QB saw her moment to strike with a fury of jabs and kicks right into the Blooper's gut. Big Blooper was down, but not out.
The war raged on throughout the kingdom. Not one place was silent. Things were setting up for a most dramatic finish.
Casualties:
=hachi=
760 Red Toads
590 Blue Toads
1240 Yellow Toads
9 Sky Pops
4 Shrapnel Artillery
13 B-Copters
7 Artillery
3 Teal Hawks
2 Amber Blazers
2 Rainbow Cruisers
Castle: 30% Damage (from goop, bandits, and piranhas)
=vgs=
-180 Possessed Dolls
-710 Jackal-in-the Boxes
-370 Deathbots
-460 Tyrant Trains
=Pikmin=
1700 Spikey Electric Bloopers
3600 Phantamantlettes
=bulbmin=
2 Fuzz Bushes
1 Goop Gun
1100 Fuzzies
4850 Seedy Pods
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The Seige of Peach's Castle: Part 4
The Ultimate Showdown.... of Ultimate Destiny
tinfoilman: Angels sang down, in an immaculate chorus, and down from the heavens, descended Chuck Norris. Heh heh heh... anyways.
Popple squealed as he saw he was surrounded. His sac-mate Fawful popped his head out, and started firing beams of energy into the group of Kooper Troopers, taking multiple hits. They then started to dance around, and Fawful had a tough time hitting them. He focused on the ceiling above them, shooting beams of energy and rockets at it. The mechanical troops were confused, but by the time the roof started collapsing, they got the message, although the chunks of it took down a horde of them. While they were distracted, Fawful focused on them again, but he also had to make sure that Popple wasn't hit too often by incoming grenades. Popple was searching for whatever he could find to heal himself: mushrooms, Shroom Shakes, random herbs, Cheez Whiz (IT ADDS PERSONALITY!), anything. These items gave him a brief strength boost, and he used it to try and Shadow Phase through the wall. No dice. He couldn't understand why he couldn't do such an easy task; after all, he WAS the SHADOW thief. He tried once more, but he couldn't do it. He was too weak. His legs gave out beneath him. He looked inside his sack, past Fawful fighting valiantly, and he got an idea.
"Get... outta the bag....see." he said weakly. Fawful hopped out, and started to fire randomly. Popple slowly tipped out contents of his bag; troops, small war machines, guns, machines, gadgets and gizmos, piles of gold all started dumping out.
"That should keep them occupied. Let's jet." Popple stopped pouring out the bag, and, using a Boo Jet that had been dumped out, flew out the whole in the ceiling, letting the mechanical Kooper Troopers to stare at the vast pile of loot before them.
"Let's go home...." Popple said, minus his usual exuberance. He set the course on the jet and started to snooze.
Queen Bean was getting sick of these Blooper guys; not only did they have this really huge one, they had these Ghost-like ones that would go into her armour and hurt her, and these tiny ones. Not to mention the Castle's Power Tower had started firing at her, along with a whole lot of war machines. She started to spew out a large number of Beanies. And not just regular, insanely weak Beanies. No, these were Giant Beanies, as she was gigantic. They automatically went after the regular Bloopers and Phantamantlettes. Using her amazing Wings of an Eagle, she started to fly up into the sky, and Big Blooper started firing some goop at her, missing. She stopped, and cannon-balled right into the lake, narrowly missing the humongous Blooper but sending him flying out of the lake. She grabbed the Blooper by the tentacle, and hurled him into the castle's Power Tower, nearly destroying it and taking out some war machines with it. Big Blooper was almost finished, but he still had some tricks up his.... tentacles. He blew a rather large blast of goop that caught the charging QB of guard. It stuck to her armour, even when she tried to get rid of it, it stuck and inflicted pain. QB blasted a rather painful cry that stung BB, and she prepared to charge him once more, when the ground beneath her caved in, revealing a small pitfall.
"BLOOOP! (HAHA! The secret Digger Tanks worked!)" the squid cried out with joy. QB struggled to get out, and as she did, Phantamantlettes started to seap into her armour once more. Now, if Queen Beab could feel pain, she'd be in tears now. She was, however, noticing she was feeling weaker. She got out of the pit, and stared down the squid, when all of the sudden, it started to rain. Big whoop, right? WRONG! It was conjured by the Coconutters out in the forest, and it had now blown over to the castle area. Now this was no ordinary rain; it healed allies! (Somehow just allies...) QB felt a new surge of strength and adrenaline rush through her body, and she charged BB with renewed intensity. She started screaming out Sonic Screams and Mouth Beams, trading blows with Big Blooper, who was still slightly dazed by his collision with the tower. He managed to move her back with a couple of electric goop shots, but QB was relentless in her attacks. She attacked frentically, with Hand Blasts and Earthquakes, the whole shi-bang! Big Blooper tried to fight back, but, although he landed some nice shots on the enormous freak (no offense), he couldn't dodge many of her blows, and eventually passed out. Seeing the squid was down and out (at least for now), the mind-controlled Queen flung him away, into the lake, where he lay still. She started to tear apart the castle, ripping away at any war machines that came near. Most had learned their lesson, however, and started shooting from afar, landing some good shots before she started to fire Hand Blasts at them. QB was back in control!
A bunch of war machines were following the Goop Guns through the forest, and they stopped when they saw most of them in a clearing, going to hide. They started launching any sort of projectile they could fire at them; grenades, bullets, rockets, anything. They took out a lot of Coconutters and Fuzzies, but the Fuzzbushes and Goop Guns hid blended into the bushes, and all the Smilaxes buried themselves underground. The war machines slowly entered the clearing, and some Green Toads hopped out, holding rifles, looking for those deadly Goop Guns. A rustle! They aimed their guns at the spot of the noise. But it was still again.... until a blast of electric goop shot out from behind one of the bushes. It smeared all over the war machine closest to it, and a large fizzle was heard, followed by a large spark. The machine powered down.
"ACK!" one toad said, and he hopped out of the machine, fried. The other Goop Gun started to fire electric goop as well, and the two of the them teamed up to take down (read: short-circuit) a bunch of machines. The machines took out a large number of Fuzzies and one Goop Gun, but the other (hiding behind some Seedy Pods and bushes continued to wreak havoc on the machines. Deciding a couple of Seedy Pods and one Goop Gun (which were all already retreating) weren't worth the harm, the remaining machines headed back to help out near the castle. Their jobs done, the Piranha Plant troops took their hiding positions, ready to leave when necessary.
In the battle plains, on the Uber Koopa/Goomba vs. Toads front, the numbers were diminishing on both sides. Only around 1000 or so Toads stood on the one side; the others had either gone to help out elsewhere, or had perished in battle. On the Demented Christmas Toy side, only around 500 or so stood. The rest had died in battle. Their leader, Bowser, stood, and he still hadn't gotten very involved in battle. He had swiped at a couple Toads, but he more or less had done nothing. That was about to change though; seeing as the fight needed a finish, Bowser charged the enemy lines, roaring ferociously and swiping fiercely. He breathed out a large wave of flames, roasting some unsuspecting Toads before they could even squeeze their trigger. He went into his shell "fortress" and started to ram over Toads like they were bowling pins. He clawed through hordes of Toads, their bullets merely bouncing off of him. He roared fiercely, when a particularily smart Toad lobbed a grenade into the Koopa King's mouth.
"RGGHHHH?" the beast said as the grenade made its way down his large throat.
"KA-BOSH!*" the grenade went off in Bowser's gut, who merely fizzled out, as he was just a clone. The remaining Toads hunted down the remaining toys and, after a short-lived resistance, a hundred or so Toads stood while all the demonic toys had been exterminated. They went to go to help someone else out.
Peach stared down the bandits, who must have heard the reinforcements, as they had a new sense of urgency. Peasley quickly did a hair flip, momentarily blinding the princess, and Cackletta started to mutter some words. A poof was heard, and when Peach regained herself, a couple of ghosts stood before her: Toadsworth and the Starshade Bros. She was happy to see them before they started to moan and scream and rattle chains, shouting they killed Mario, they're gonna kill her. She was momentarily caught off guard, and Peasley went around behind her, without her noticing. He stabbed her through the heart with his scepter. Amazingly, however, she shook it off; she can survive one mortal blow. She recomposed herself, and using her Vibe Sceptor, used her Gloom Vibe, slowing down the bandit duo. She then used her Calm Vibe to heal herself, and started to shoot Psych Bombs and light blasts, all getting hits on the BeanBeans. The Bandits replied by using Thunder Bros. attacks, but they knew there time was limited before the reinforcements arrived. Cackletta tried to use her Beansheart (or however you spell it) to create a barrier around the room, keeping the troops from coming in. She was about to start when she was hit with a shell.
"OUCH! WHAT THE-" she replied, before her Beansheart started to feel weird. She tried the barrier: it didn't work. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE NOW!?!"
"I used my Crystal Shell! Your Beansheart is now useless! Don't even bother!" Peach said with a subtle smirk. She then pulled out another shell, firing it quickly at the evil witch, and it smacked her in the head. "And now, you'll start to feel weaker!" Cackletta growled maniacally, but the princess did not lie: she could feel that her power was, well, third-ed. Peasley and Cackletta were now frentic with their attacks, throwing out everything in their arsenal, and try as she may, Peach could not avoid every attack. She was down on the ground, with Cackletta closing in on her. She charged up Peasley's rapier and he got ready to deal one last strike. The door opened at perfect timing, and hordes of Star Troops marched in, already firing.
"Don't you just hate that?" Peach said with a smirk. Her "Star Warrior Constructs" all started firing energy blasts at the bandits, who could dodge a bunch but not all of them. Peasley tried to slice them up with his rapier, but they combatted that with their golden swords. Meanwhile, Peach focused on healing her troops with moves like Group Hug and Calm Vibe, and even Peach Blossom. Cackletta and Peasley didn't stand a chance; try as they might, they were going down, and even though Cackletta denied it, Peasley saw it, and he knew what he sadly needed to do. They first however tried leaving, but the Star Warriors and Peach prevented that by blasting them back. Peasley knew there was nothing else he could do.
He stabbed his rapier into Cackletta's chest, taking everyone off guard. He pulled it out, with the Beansheart at the tip, and, calling upon his Flying Bean, crashed out a window, and flew away, Beansheart in hand. He knew that Cackletta would be alright as long as he kept this alive.
Casualties:
=hachi=
1350 Red Toads
930 Blue Toads
1570 Yellow Toads
310 Green Toads
7 Sky Pops
6 Shrapnel Artillery
9 B-Copters
4 Artillery
1 Teal Hawks
1 Amber Blazers
1 Rainbow Cruisers
Castle: 20% Damage (from Queen Bean and piranhas)
=vgs=
-All remaining troops
-Cackletta's Body (Beansheart still good)
=Pikmin=
2100 Spikey Electric Bloopers
1400 Phantamantlettes
=bulbmin=
1 Fuzz Bush
1 Goop Gun
250 Fuzzies
1670 Seedy Pods
=WD=
750 Kooper Troopers (ok, I know you sent a lot of troops, and that I haven't used nearly any of them, its mostly because I didn't know where you wanted them attacking or whatever (not you or hachi had it in your plans) and.... I just couldn't add them in without knowing that stuff... I should've asked earlier, but... its better than you losing troops. Again, sorry. :c
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The Seige of Peach's Castle: The Finale
A Shadow Spreads
Peach stood shocked beside Cackletta's heartless body and among her numerous Star Warriors, who stood with looks as befuddled as a robot could pull off. She couldn't believe how things turned out. Still in disbelief, she exited the room, and entered the control room, where a bunch of Toads and Birdo stood waiting.
"How'd it go?" one particularily-old looking Toad asked, and the Princess gave him a look of defeat. "That's too bad.... well, let's get down to debrief. Masterson, castle damage!"
"Er.... we have taken 50% damage, and the Power Tower needs some repairs. Otherwise, all defenses are a-go." a Toad at the far end of the table replied.
"Hrm, I guess it could be worse.... Otto! Look alive! I need vehicle report!"
"Well, I've lost contact with alot of machines, so I presume they are destroyed. In total, we've lost almost 75 war machines!" Otto replied with a grim look.
"75! What a terribly-unfair war mod! I mean..... nevermind that. Speedy-K, troop count!"
"Around 13K, Jimmmmmmmmmm-aaaa!" the sunglasses-covered Toad replied with a smirk.
"That isn't too bad....Boris! How did the hero battles go?" Jimmy asked the only Toad who hadn't spoken yet.
"Well, as Peach will tell you, they had Peasley and Cackletta on the ropes, but a stunning move by the Prince saved both of them. Fawful and Popple managed to escape while QB is still stuck in our courtyard. Big Blooper took big damage from her but is still ok, and it seems like Peach is ok. mirite?" Boris answered, looking to Peach.
"ur-rite. I mean, yes." she replied, before turning to Officer Jimmy. "Anything else news-worthy?" she said with a sigh.
"Well," Jimmy started, "I've gotten word that our satellite is detecting a large disturbance in its radar. Its currently investigating, but, we can only assume its another attack. We've taken precautionary measures; we've started to evacuate troops, and the Meteor Golem is ready to leave when you are."
"Right.... I'm getting out before I get attacked again. I'm too tired to fight anymore."
"PATSY!" Cackletta's Beansheart somehow shrieked.
"Here." the bean replied.
"POPPLE!" she screamed out.
"Here."
"FAWFUL!"
"Here."
"PEASLEY!"
"Here."
"QUEEN BEAN!" No response. "I SAID..... QUEEN BEAN!" Still nothing. "Where could that incomptent fool have wandered off to."
Truth be told that Queen Bean was meeting a large resistance trying to leave the Castle area. They were not letting her escape, firing all of their guns from a distance so she couldn't attack. If she tried to smash through the walls, all of the air machines would force her back with all of their ammunition. She tried and tried, but couldn't leave. Troops and machines alike kept pounding and pounding on her, when a small shadow appeared on her. The Queen looked up, and noticed how the shadow kept getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger. It got to the point that it was covering the whole entire castle grounds.
"RRGH?" the Queen said as her final words.
It seemed a large dark castle had seemingly been dropped from the sky, and it obliterated the entire castle, leaving only dust and debris. Thousands of troops were flattened, but most war machines made it away from the impact. An eye witness (we'll call him... Tim F. Mann) had this to say about the scene:
"IT WAS AWESOME! IT WENT KA-BOOM! srsly though, I saw the whole thing from this island of pirates, through my binoculars. There was this Goomba on it, a particularily fat one, and he was making the sign of the cross alot. And then the impact. After the dust settled, all I could see was a large black castle sitting (in pieces) where Peach's castle once was. A lot of war machines managed to escape. Oh, and I saw this weird Golem like thing escaping as well.... I dunno, it seemed important."
Casualties:
=hachi=
3450 Red Toads
1930 Blue Toads
2370 Yellow Toads
2000 Star Warrior Constructs
2 Sky Pops
1 Shrapnel Artillery
3 B-Copters
Castle: DESTROYED!
=vgs=
-Queen Bean
=Pikmin=
980 Spikey Electric Bloopers
370 Phantamantlettes
1300 Mecha Bloopers
670 Bloopa Troopas
=WD=
1250 Kooper Troopers
I'll PM everyone their final troop losses/war machine losses/base defense/loot/etc. Hope everyone's happy with the result. >_>
The Seige of Peach's Castle: Part 1
The Wonderful Reception?
"RRGGHH!" Queen Bean cry echoed through the BeanBean Kingdom. The other bandits shuffled towards the ship docked behind the monstrous Queen.
"I'm coming, see?" Popple said, sac in hand. Fawful was fiddling with his headgear as he approached his beloved ship, while Cackletta started to board the ship. Patsy was already on board Fawful's ship. The bandits stood together on the ship, while Popple opened his bag.
"Just hop in, see?" he exasperated, and the other bandits exchanged worrisome looks. "Oh, just get in, nothing bad'll happen, see?" he said, shoving Fawful into the bag. "See? Beautiful as always! Now get in!" The rest all carefully clambered into the sac, and, with Popple manning the controls (much to everyone's fear), they set off down to Peach's Castle. Time to put the plan into action!
They pulled up along the main castle road, quite some distance away from the castle itself. Popple reached into his bag, looking for Cackletta, but pulled out Queen Bean instead, who practically bit his head off.
"AIEEE!" he cried like a school girl, and he shoved the being into his sac. "Stupid monster PMS." He reached into his bag again, and felt around for Cackletta's sagging old person skin. He felt none, when he remembered her youth spell. Closing his eyes, he picked out a random Bean, and, much to his joy, it was Cackletta.
Or should I say, "Mario". She had already transformed into everyone's favourite (or least favourite) mustachioed-protaganist.
"Eyeh heh heh heh! Those fools won't suspect a thing! Come along boys!" she cried, before hopping out of the ship. Popple shoved Fawful in his bag, and they hid in her shadow. She quickly reboarded, and cloned herself.
"Almost forgot." she said with a smirk, and they set off down the
"And, who may you be?" he said, not even caring that it was after all, the great "Mario".
"Eyeh heh heh heh! Who do you think it is, bubs?" she sneered in her usual witch sneer. The guard lowered his sunglasses to inspect "Mario" closely. Cackletta composed herself.
"Er... its-a me, Mario!" she said, and the guard forgot about her odd voice.
"Liscense and regestration, please."
"Er...." this caught Cackletta off guard. "Er.... my-a other overalls?" she said, but the guard didn't buy it.
"I'm sorry sir, but I'm gonna have to send you down to the passport office, its just back down the path, first le-"
The poor guard couldn't finish his sentence as he was roasted alive by a fireball. "Mario" snickered and reached into the control booth, around the burnt Toad, and flipped the gate switch. That hadn't gone as planned, but, it worked, she was in. She rambled up to the giant door of the castle, with the two bandits in tow.
Meanwhile, at the ship, Queen Bean (who managed to force herself out of Popple's bag) was waiting in the forest near the castle grounds, waiting for her oppurtunity to strike. Peasley set up shop near the waterfall, undetected. Patsy had started driving the ship back to the BeanBean castle. There were no signs of any bandits around.
The first of bulbmin's troops arrived over a hill to the castle's west. They hid with bushes, and three Goop Guns set up shop just in range of the castle. Deep within the forest, Coconutters hid in the trees, while the Smilaxes started to perform some dance. Thousands of Piranha Plants burrowed deep within the ground, undetected for the moment.
Peach's allies were also getting ready for the battle. A giant assortment of Bloopers hid in the large lake, along with various ships and even the great Big Blooper as well. They were all getting prepped for their assignments. The Loaded Shells were inside various parts of the castle, manning their stations. Everything was in position for the fight.
"Mario" reached the door and knocked hard. A minute or so later, Peach opened the door.
"Oh, Mario, I've been expecting you! Come in, come in! I baked a lovely cake just for you!" she motioned him in, and "Mario" thought things couldn't be easier: he didn't even need to fight his way in! He opened the door, and a large reception of over 10,000 Toads cheered and hooted as Mario entered. "Mario" humbly bowed and followed Peach, the two bandits hidden inside his shadow.
Down in a control room, an officer got a life scan of two bandits following Mario. "We need to warn her!" the Toad said.
"Not now!" another replied, "Peach is busy right now, but she should be able to seperate at one point, then we call! In the meantime, ring the silent warning bell to all the troops to be on the lookout!"
"Right-o." the first toad responded, and flipped a switch.
Meanwhile, "Mario" followed Peach up one flight of stairs, where Birdo stood guard.
"Now's our chance!" Popple said silently, and they slipped from Mario's shadow into the shadow's of the walls. Peach turned to Mario.
"Birdo's going to escort you upstairs. I'm going to go freshen up." She said, and headed down a hallway. Birdo grunted, and squeezed tightly on "Mario"'s arm, leading him up another flight of stairs. Things were working out for the most part, both sides thought.
Casualties:
-hachi=
1 Toad
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The Seige of Peach's Castle: Part Two
Let There Be WAR!
Peach walked gracefully to the powder room. She stepped inside, and locked the door behind her. She made sure no one was inside with her, before turning on a small screen on the counter. She pressed a couple of buttons, and a Toad appeared on the screen. Blushing at her presence, but saluting, he started to give her a status report.
"Not much activity outside the castle so far. It seems quiet nearly everywhere.... almost too quiet. Anyways, we have discovered the presence of two other Bandits running amok in the castle. We rang the silent alarm, and hopefully we'll "catch" them." Peach nodded before responding:
"All seems to be going well. I'll go head back to Mario, so that he doesn't suspect anything." She was about to shut down the telecommunicater when a slight explosion thudded against the castle.
"What the hey was that?" Peach cried out. The Toad started to panic, and it ran over to a nearby computer. More small explosions thudded against the castle walls.
"We're being attacked!" the Toad replied, "I repeat, it is not quiet outside anymore! We'll start sending troops to fend off the attack! It seems to be some sort of explosive goop, but we can't figure out the source yet! Gotta jet, but be safe Toadstool!" The screen shut off, and Peach sighed to herself. "Not again..." she thought aloud, before exiting the facilities.
"What the hell was that?" Mario said to Birdo, who stood by the door guarding the exit, after the small explosions started rocking the walls.
"BIRDO?!" the ... thing said, with a surprised look on her....his...its face.
"Er...aieeee! Whatsa goin'-on?" the overalled man caught himself. Birdo moved to the window, and it was shattered by some of the goop, almost obliterating the dinosaur (?). She fell back with minor burns, and backed away from the walls. She went back to guarding Mario from leaving, although she wanted to see if Peach was ok.
"Couldn't have happened at a better time, see?" Popple said to his bag, or in truth to Fawful who was inside of it. "Now they'll never see us coming and going! We'll make off with all the loot in the castle!" He shadow phased through one wall, and entered a room. Beds were sprawled everywhere, and the Toads seemed to filter out of it, all in a hurry. They must be troops. Popple waited patientlly in the shadows until all of them left, before getting Fawful out and starting to wreak havoc.
"They shall taste my fury and my mustard seeds of DOOM!" Fawful cried out, before destroying everything in sight with his FuryZAP 9000, while Popple stored whatever he could find in his bag, including some Power Stars in the walls, slowly draining the castle of its powers. When the room was near empty/ destroyed, Fawful hopped back into Popple's magical bag and they shadow-phased into the next room, starting to repeat the process.
Outside, meanwhile, was starting to get interesting. The Goop Guns were the source of the explosive goop that rocked the castle, and there location still hadn't been discovered yet. Hordes of Toads poured out of castle doors, looking for the source of the goop. They searched, to no avail as of yet, but found another thing which needed to be taken care off: that fake-Bowser that Peach was talking about! He stood with around 5,000 Koopas and Goombas, to which the Toads started to laugh at.
"Goombas and Koopas? Are you serious? Come on, this will be short work!" They stormed down the yellow path to where the enemy stood, and started lobbing grenades and shooting at them, taking many surprise victims. They were surprised, however, when the seemingly ordinary troops started doing unordinary things. Some started growing ferocious teeth, others with demonic eyes, some started to weild an amazing number of knives, and others started to shoot laser guns at the Toad force. The two charges met and stared, before they started charging each other. Toads lobbed grenades into the enemies, dispatching them in bunches, before they realized not to clump together. They started an ammunition war between the Blue sniper Toads and the Goombas who conviently had laser guns. Deaths were taken at both sides. Goombas bombarded the Toad flank and started biting and kniving and doing whatever to take down their foes. The Toads, who were more of ranged units, took some hits, before moving back and letting the Red Toads, the iron sword weilding Toads take over in combat, and with their Patriotism and Angry Vibe upgrades, along with their Flaming Swords, the Red Toads were making a killing, literally.
Peach was walking back to go see Mario when the ground started to rumble beneath her feet.
"Oh peaches, what now?" she said calmly, still not panicking (as per usual). In reality, the Piranha Plants had started to burrow under the foundations of the castle, adding one more dilema for the Princess to deal with. It was, however, to be dealt with others; she had other things to attend to. She, grabbing the hand rail, walked quickly up the steps, and into the room where her "mustachioed lover" sat worried.
"Whatsa goin'on?" the "plumber" said as she stepped in the room. Never skipping a beat, Princess Toadstool replied quickly:
"Construction. And about the goop... its just a testing that's all, nothing to get worried about." she fibbed, and "Mario" seemed to buy it; she hoped she could cover that she knew who he actually was until a more oppurtune time.
"If-a you say-so." Mario replied. "Can.... Birdo, is it? Can she leave? She's making me anxious...." This was all a ploy to get Peach alone, but he thought the heir of the Mushroom Kingdom bought it.
"Uh... sure. Birdo, do you mind stepping out?" she said to the being.
"BIRDO!" the purple thing replied before exiting the room. Now just Peach and Mario stood together in the room, each waiting for the other to make a move. They started making small talk, waiting for each other to slip up:
"So, how'sa the kingdom?" Mario asked.
"Ok.... its been better." Peach replied.
"Anything... new?"
"Oh, no, not really. How's Aunt Maria doing?"
"She's-a fine, I guess I haven't spoken to her in-a while."
"Hm... any progress made on that "Brawl" game you were talking about?"
"Oh, you wouldn't believe what they just announced. Apparently, Mr. L is going to be an-"
Mario's exciting new discovery (that you'd probably love to hear about) was interrupted as the window crashed. Peasley stood where the window once did. He swung his rapier for effect.
"Hoho! Look who has arrived! It is I, the Great Prince Peasley!" He stood triumphantly on his Flying Bean. It was now two on one, Mario and Peasley against Peach, who was now regretting making Birdo leave.
Outside, a monsterous figure stomped through to the castle. It was the great Queen Bean, and no ordinary Queen Bean either; she was Rod of the Giant World ENHANCED Queen Bean. She romped through the castle yards, up to the lake, when something got her attention: a blob of electric goop. She turned to see the source of the shot. It was from the lake, but she only saw water. Another shot came, and this time she dodged the blast, and got a good look at the source: it was none other than Big Blooper himself. About 5,000 other smaller bloopers were in the lake as well: this would be a doozy to handle.
In all the corners of the Peach Castle Grounds, war had sprung loose. Everywhere was shootings and battling. The residents of the famous castle were in for a looooonnnngg day.
Casualties:
=hachi=
-530 Red Toads
-1090 Blue Toads
-860 Yellow Toads
=vgs=
-570 Possessed Dolls
-440 Jackal-in-the Boxes
-560 Deathbots
-320 Tyrant Trains
VGS would've lost more troops if they weren't ubers.
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The Seige of Peach's Castle: Part Three
The War Rages On
Peach let a nervous bead of sweat roll down her cheek. She was outnumbered, two on one, by the BeanBean Bandits. She stepped back, unsure of her next move, as they closed in on her. She needed to think, and fast. It struck her to sound the alarm, for her troops to come and aid her. She smacked a yellow button against the wall. A large, high pitched beeping sound rang through the building, ringing the alarm. Troops spread around the castle picked up the signal, and confirming its location, quickly hurried up the stairs. Peach knew she had to hold off the bandit duo for a little while before she could get the aide of her troops. The Princess turned back to the BeanBean's, who were closing in quickly. Princess Toadstool quickly rolled out of the corner, behind the bandits. Cackletta, who had changed from Mario into her true form, and Peasley quickly span around to face the Princess. Peasley quickly swung at her with his rapier, landing a small cut on the heroine, while Cackletta tried to transform. Nothing happened. She tried again. Still nothing.
"GRAGHH!" the witch cried out, turning furiously at Peach. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, WOMAN!?!" Peach chuckled to herself.
"I've muted your transformation, silly. Don't even try to change anymore; you'll just hurt yourself!" Peach replied to the bandit, who was now enraged.
"You've asked for it!" the witch steamed, and lightning bolts falled from the sky like snowflakes in Wisconsin in winter. Peach tried to dodge them all, but she was zapped by a few. Peasley took the oppurtunity to strike multiple times with his rapier, and Peach was down on the ground. Recouperating, she stood up, barely dodged another lightning bolt, and quickly turned into Angelic Peach, releasing a fury of light magic upon her two foes. Peasley merely reflected her attacks back with his legenedary hair, while Cackletta seemed to absorb the blows.
"How did she do that?" Peach pondered aloud, "She absorbed those attacks like a sponge!"
"EYEH HEH HEH HEH! Did you ever read my ability section, darling? Don't you know Magic based attacks are useless against me!?" the witch chuckled crazily. "NYEH HE HEH HEH! Its too late now, Peach-y girl!"
Peach stood back, when she heard rumbling from the stairs below. Her reinforcements! Just a little longer...
"THEY SHALL TASTE MY FURY!" Fawful cried from within Popple's bag. They were moving down a seemingly empty corridor, with masses of destruction left wherever they went. They saw a couple guards drinking a pint in front of a door. Something seemed suspicious, so Popple shadow phased right beside them.
"So, you locked up the treasure room, right Ernest?" the one toad said.
"You got it Phil," another, presumably Ernest, replied, "But don't you think we'd see those bandit guys coming? I mean, we're standing right in front of the only door."
Popple's eyes lit up, and he disregarded whatever the bumbling idiots were talking about now; he had hit the jackpot. He silently shadow phased into the "Treasure Room". And boy, was it ever! Popple was astounded to see multiple Cosmic Engines, sitting unguarded and unbelted. Fawful leaped out of the bag, and they started to make their way to the loot. Back outside, however, the guards had other plans. The third Toad, who was looking through a life form reading, quickly called the Toad Brigade.
"Yep, we've got live ones." was all the Toad said. Back inside, Fawful was admiring the craftsmenship of the engines.
"For such stupids, they make nice engines! I will loot them for my ship!" he said, as he got ready to drop one into Popple's sac. He lifted it when he heard a slight ticking noise.
"What is that annoying ticky noise!?" Fawful said, before the answer came to him. "RUN! RUN, POPPLE, RUNNNNNNN!!!!" The ticking stopped momentarily as our bandit pair tried to escape. It was too late.
The bandits, almost incinerated were flung brutally into the walls of the circular room. They landed on the ground with a resounding thud. Feebly, they tried to stand. They were badly burned, and had multiple broken bones. For all they knew, they popped some organs in the process. They sat up against the wall. Popple turned to Fawful, with an expression of not only pain but relief.
"Should-a seen that one coming." he said, in a lot of pain. Fawful nodded. "We'll, let's try and get outta here. I have no doubt there trying to keep us in here." They stood up, weakly, and, barely able to move, they shuffled to the wall, where Popple tried to Shadow Phase through the wall.
"I can't, I'm to drained, see?" He said to Fawful. He started to rummage through his bag, looking for a healing medicine. Pixls, coins, engines, troops, ah-ha! He pulled out a Shroom Shake.
"I knew this would come in handy some day!" He popped open the can, and slurped the liquid down. "Ah. I feel like a new ban-" He was interrupted by a large "BZZZT!" noise.
"WHAT WAS THAT?!" Fawful cried out in fear. They stood for a couple seconds. Nothing happened. "Hm..." Popple said. "Better not wait for something to happen, see? Let's go!" Popple stuffed his fellow bandit into his sac, and tried shadow warping through the door. Before he could, however, he was struck by a ball of sorts. He turned to see a grenade at his feet. He quickly jumped before it exploded, and looked at the thrower. Turns out it wasn't just one thrower; a hundred or so Kooper Troopers stood with grenades in their hands. Popple sighed, and noticed he started to feel hot and weird. He couldn't explain why, but every second, he seemed to get weaker. He knew that he had to escape as quickly as possible.
Outside the castle, the Toads were fighting valiantly against the uber-Goombas and Koopas, but they were slowly losing. It wouldn't be much longer 'till they were toast. All of the sudden, the spirit of Toadsworth, along with the spirits of the Starshade Bros. appeared.
"I knew I shouldn't have taken those shrooms.... now I'm hallucinating like crazy!"
"It is truly us, brave warriors!" Toadsworth said. "Don't give up, you can still win!" With that, the spirits left. The Toads felt empowered, and started slicing through foes with much gust-o. Things were evening out now in this mini-war.
On the Piranha Plant side of things, it was going well. The few Toads that had discovered the source of the goop were quickly destroyed by the Fuzzies and Seed Pods. The goop had almost completely taken down the outer wall of the castle. Underground things were going well, too. The Piranha Plants were biting through foundations, going up and chomping up troops from below, causing havoc everywhere. They were met with little resistance. The Blaze Piranhas were taking out troops left and right with their fire attacks. However, a large platoon of Toads started to march up the hill, lobbing grenades and firing rifles, taking out a whole big number of Seedy Pods. Knowing it was their time to leave, half of the Seedy Pods left as the Fuzzies and remaining pods stayed valiantly. They took out a chunk of the Toad crew, before ultimately submitting, with a few stragglers escaping. All and all, things were going well for the Plant side of things.
Queen Bean was dealing with a lot right now. Big Blooper had started firing electric goop at her, along with all of the bloopers. Aircraft started to fire at her from above, which was a silly idea. She merely swatted them out of the air, obliterating most of them. She started shooting beams of energy at the Bloopers in the lake, taking out some of the little ones, and causing some damage to Big Blooper, who retaliated by getting a nice shot of electric goop into a crack in her armour. It seeped into her skin, causing great damage, but the QB raged on. She shouted very loudly, deafening (sp?) some troops and hurting them all. Big Blooper lifted his tentacles to his head momentarily, and QB saw her moment to strike with a fury of jabs and kicks right into the Blooper's gut. Big Blooper was down, but not out.
The war raged on throughout the kingdom. Not one place was silent. Things were setting up for a most dramatic finish.
Casualties:
=hachi=
760 Red Toads
590 Blue Toads
1240 Yellow Toads
9 Sky Pops
4 Shrapnel Artillery
13 B-Copters
7 Artillery
3 Teal Hawks
2 Amber Blazers
2 Rainbow Cruisers
Castle: 30% Damage (from goop, bandits, and piranhas)
=vgs=
-180 Possessed Dolls
-710 Jackal-in-the Boxes
-370 Deathbots
-460 Tyrant Trains
=Pikmin=
1700 Spikey Electric Bloopers
3600 Phantamantlettes
=bulbmin=
2 Fuzz Bushes
1 Goop Gun
1100 Fuzzies
4850 Seedy Pods
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The Seige of Peach's Castle: Part 4
The Ultimate Showdown.... of Ultimate Destiny
tinfoilman: Angels sang down, in an immaculate chorus, and down from the heavens, descended Chuck Norris. Heh heh heh... anyways.
Popple squealed as he saw he was surrounded. His sac-mate Fawful popped his head out, and started firing beams of energy into the group of Kooper Troopers, taking multiple hits. They then started to dance around, and Fawful had a tough time hitting them. He focused on the ceiling above them, shooting beams of energy and rockets at it. The mechanical troops were confused, but by the time the roof started collapsing, they got the message, although the chunks of it took down a horde of them. While they were distracted, Fawful focused on them again, but he also had to make sure that Popple wasn't hit too often by incoming grenades. Popple was searching for whatever he could find to heal himself: mushrooms, Shroom Shakes, random herbs, Cheez Whiz (IT ADDS PERSONALITY!), anything. These items gave him a brief strength boost, and he used it to try and Shadow Phase through the wall. No dice. He couldn't understand why he couldn't do such an easy task; after all, he WAS the SHADOW thief. He tried once more, but he couldn't do it. He was too weak. His legs gave out beneath him. He looked inside his sack, past Fawful fighting valiantly, and he got an idea.
"Get... outta the bag....see." he said weakly. Fawful hopped out, and started to fire randomly. Popple slowly tipped out contents of his bag; troops, small war machines, guns, machines, gadgets and gizmos, piles of gold all started dumping out.
"That should keep them occupied. Let's jet." Popple stopped pouring out the bag, and, using a Boo Jet that had been dumped out, flew out the whole in the ceiling, letting the mechanical Kooper Troopers to stare at the vast pile of loot before them.
"Let's go home...." Popple said, minus his usual exuberance. He set the course on the jet and started to snooze.
Queen Bean was getting sick of these Blooper guys; not only did they have this really huge one, they had these Ghost-like ones that would go into her armour and hurt her, and these tiny ones. Not to mention the Castle's Power Tower had started firing at her, along with a whole lot of war machines. She started to spew out a large number of Beanies. And not just regular, insanely weak Beanies. No, these were Giant Beanies, as she was gigantic. They automatically went after the regular Bloopers and Phantamantlettes. Using her amazing Wings of an Eagle, she started to fly up into the sky, and Big Blooper started firing some goop at her, missing. She stopped, and cannon-balled right into the lake, narrowly missing the humongous Blooper but sending him flying out of the lake. She grabbed the Blooper by the tentacle, and hurled him into the castle's Power Tower, nearly destroying it and taking out some war machines with it. Big Blooper was almost finished, but he still had some tricks up his.... tentacles. He blew a rather large blast of goop that caught the charging QB of guard. It stuck to her armour, even when she tried to get rid of it, it stuck and inflicted pain. QB blasted a rather painful cry that stung BB, and she prepared to charge him once more, when the ground beneath her caved in, revealing a small pitfall.
"BLOOOP! (HAHA! The secret Digger Tanks worked!)" the squid cried out with joy. QB struggled to get out, and as she did, Phantamantlettes started to seap into her armour once more. Now, if Queen Beab could feel pain, she'd be in tears now. She was, however, noticing she was feeling weaker. She got out of the pit, and stared down the squid, when all of the sudden, it started to rain. Big whoop, right? WRONG! It was conjured by the Coconutters out in the forest, and it had now blown over to the castle area. Now this was no ordinary rain; it healed allies! (Somehow just allies...) QB felt a new surge of strength and adrenaline rush through her body, and she charged BB with renewed intensity. She started screaming out Sonic Screams and Mouth Beams, trading blows with Big Blooper, who was still slightly dazed by his collision with the tower. He managed to move her back with a couple of electric goop shots, but QB was relentless in her attacks. She attacked frentically, with Hand Blasts and Earthquakes, the whole shi-bang! Big Blooper tried to fight back, but, although he landed some nice shots on the enormous freak (no offense), he couldn't dodge many of her blows, and eventually passed out. Seeing the squid was down and out (at least for now), the mind-controlled Queen flung him away, into the lake, where he lay still. She started to tear apart the castle, ripping away at any war machines that came near. Most had learned their lesson, however, and started shooting from afar, landing some good shots before she started to fire Hand Blasts at them. QB was back in control!
A bunch of war machines were following the Goop Guns through the forest, and they stopped when they saw most of them in a clearing, going to hide. They started launching any sort of projectile they could fire at them; grenades, bullets, rockets, anything. They took out a lot of Coconutters and Fuzzies, but the Fuzzbushes and Goop Guns hid blended into the bushes, and all the Smilaxes buried themselves underground. The war machines slowly entered the clearing, and some Green Toads hopped out, holding rifles, looking for those deadly Goop Guns. A rustle! They aimed their guns at the spot of the noise. But it was still again.... until a blast of electric goop shot out from behind one of the bushes. It smeared all over the war machine closest to it, and a large fizzle was heard, followed by a large spark. The machine powered down.
"ACK!" one toad said, and he hopped out of the machine, fried. The other Goop Gun started to fire electric goop as well, and the two of the them teamed up to take down (read: short-circuit) a bunch of machines. The machines took out a large number of Fuzzies and one Goop Gun, but the other (hiding behind some Seedy Pods and bushes continued to wreak havoc on the machines. Deciding a couple of Seedy Pods and one Goop Gun (which were all already retreating) weren't worth the harm, the remaining machines headed back to help out near the castle. Their jobs done, the Piranha Plant troops took their hiding positions, ready to leave when necessary.
In the battle plains, on the Uber Koopa/Goomba vs. Toads front, the numbers were diminishing on both sides. Only around 1000 or so Toads stood on the one side; the others had either gone to help out elsewhere, or had perished in battle. On the Demented Christmas Toy side, only around 500 or so stood. The rest had died in battle. Their leader, Bowser, stood, and he still hadn't gotten very involved in battle. He had swiped at a couple Toads, but he more or less had done nothing. That was about to change though; seeing as the fight needed a finish, Bowser charged the enemy lines, roaring ferociously and swiping fiercely. He breathed out a large wave of flames, roasting some unsuspecting Toads before they could even squeeze their trigger. He went into his shell "fortress" and started to ram over Toads like they were bowling pins. He clawed through hordes of Toads, their bullets merely bouncing off of him. He roared fiercely, when a particularily smart Toad lobbed a grenade into the Koopa King's mouth.
"RGGHHHH?" the beast said as the grenade made its way down his large throat.
"KA-BOSH!*" the grenade went off in Bowser's gut, who merely fizzled out, as he was just a clone. The remaining Toads hunted down the remaining toys and, after a short-lived resistance, a hundred or so Toads stood while all the demonic toys had been exterminated. They went to go to help someone else out.
Peach stared down the bandits, who must have heard the reinforcements, as they had a new sense of urgency. Peasley quickly did a hair flip, momentarily blinding the princess, and Cackletta started to mutter some words. A poof was heard, and when Peach regained herself, a couple of ghosts stood before her: Toadsworth and the Starshade Bros. She was happy to see them before they started to moan and scream and rattle chains, shouting they killed Mario, they're gonna kill her. She was momentarily caught off guard, and Peasley went around behind her, without her noticing. He stabbed her through the heart with his scepter. Amazingly, however, she shook it off; she can survive one mortal blow. She recomposed herself, and using her Vibe Sceptor, used her Gloom Vibe, slowing down the bandit duo. She then used her Calm Vibe to heal herself, and started to shoot Psych Bombs and light blasts, all getting hits on the BeanBeans. The Bandits replied by using Thunder Bros. attacks, but they knew there time was limited before the reinforcements arrived. Cackletta tried to use her Beansheart (or however you spell it) to create a barrier around the room, keeping the troops from coming in. She was about to start when she was hit with a shell.
"OUCH! WHAT THE-" she replied, before her Beansheart started to feel weird. She tried the barrier: it didn't work. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE NOW!?!"
"I used my Crystal Shell! Your Beansheart is now useless! Don't even bother!" Peach said with a subtle smirk. She then pulled out another shell, firing it quickly at the evil witch, and it smacked her in the head. "And now, you'll start to feel weaker!" Cackletta growled maniacally, but the princess did not lie: she could feel that her power was, well, third-ed. Peasley and Cackletta were now frentic with their attacks, throwing out everything in their arsenal, and try as she may, Peach could not avoid every attack. She was down on the ground, with Cackletta closing in on her. She charged up Peasley's rapier and he got ready to deal one last strike. The door opened at perfect timing, and hordes of Star Troops marched in, already firing.
"Don't you just hate that?" Peach said with a smirk. Her "Star Warrior Constructs" all started firing energy blasts at the bandits, who could dodge a bunch but not all of them. Peasley tried to slice them up with his rapier, but they combatted that with their golden swords. Meanwhile, Peach focused on healing her troops with moves like Group Hug and Calm Vibe, and even Peach Blossom. Cackletta and Peasley didn't stand a chance; try as they might, they were going down, and even though Cackletta denied it, Peasley saw it, and he knew what he sadly needed to do. They first however tried leaving, but the Star Warriors and Peach prevented that by blasting them back. Peasley knew there was nothing else he could do.
He stabbed his rapier into Cackletta's chest, taking everyone off guard. He pulled it out, with the Beansheart at the tip, and, calling upon his Flying Bean, crashed out a window, and flew away, Beansheart in hand. He knew that Cackletta would be alright as long as he kept this alive.
Casualties:
=hachi=
1350 Red Toads
930 Blue Toads
1570 Yellow Toads
310 Green Toads
7 Sky Pops
6 Shrapnel Artillery
9 B-Copters
4 Artillery
1 Teal Hawks
1 Amber Blazers
1 Rainbow Cruisers
Castle: 20% Damage (from Queen Bean and piranhas)
=vgs=
-All remaining troops
-Cackletta's Body (Beansheart still good)
=Pikmin=
2100 Spikey Electric Bloopers
1400 Phantamantlettes
=bulbmin=
1 Fuzz Bush
1 Goop Gun
250 Fuzzies
1670 Seedy Pods
=WD=
750 Kooper Troopers (ok, I know you sent a lot of troops, and that I haven't used nearly any of them, its mostly because I didn't know where you wanted them attacking or whatever (not you or hachi had it in your plans) and.... I just couldn't add them in without knowing that stuff... I should've asked earlier, but... its better than you losing troops. Again, sorry. :c
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The Seige of Peach's Castle: The Finale
A Shadow Spreads
Peach stood shocked beside Cackletta's heartless body and among her numerous Star Warriors, who stood with looks as befuddled as a robot could pull off. She couldn't believe how things turned out. Still in disbelief, she exited the room, and entered the control room, where a bunch of Toads and Birdo stood waiting.
"How'd it go?" one particularily-old looking Toad asked, and the Princess gave him a look of defeat. "That's too bad.... well, let's get down to debrief. Masterson, castle damage!"
"Er.... we have taken 50% damage, and the Power Tower needs some repairs. Otherwise, all defenses are a-go." a Toad at the far end of the table replied.
"Hrm, I guess it could be worse.... Otto! Look alive! I need vehicle report!"
"Well, I've lost contact with alot of machines, so I presume they are destroyed. In total, we've lost almost 75 war machines!" Otto replied with a grim look.
"75! What a terribly-unfair war mod! I mean..... nevermind that. Speedy-K, troop count!"
"Around 13K, Jimmmmmmmmmm-aaaa!" the sunglasses-covered Toad replied with a smirk.
"That isn't too bad....Boris! How did the hero battles go?" Jimmy asked the only Toad who hadn't spoken yet.
"Well, as Peach will tell you, they had Peasley and Cackletta on the ropes, but a stunning move by the Prince saved both of them. Fawful and Popple managed to escape while QB is still stuck in our courtyard. Big Blooper took big damage from her but is still ok, and it seems like Peach is ok. mirite?" Boris answered, looking to Peach.
"ur-rite. I mean, yes." she replied, before turning to Officer Jimmy. "Anything else news-worthy?" she said with a sigh.
"Well," Jimmy started, "I've gotten word that our satellite is detecting a large disturbance in its radar. Its currently investigating, but, we can only assume its another attack. We've taken precautionary measures; we've started to evacuate troops, and the Meteor Golem is ready to leave when you are."
"Right.... I'm getting out before I get attacked again. I'm too tired to fight anymore."
"PATSY!" Cackletta's Beansheart somehow shrieked.
"Here." the bean replied.
"POPPLE!" she screamed out.
"Here."
"FAWFUL!"
"Here."
"PEASLEY!"
"Here."
"QUEEN BEAN!" No response. "I SAID..... QUEEN BEAN!" Still nothing. "Where could that incomptent fool have wandered off to."
Truth be told that Queen Bean was meeting a large resistance trying to leave the Castle area. They were not letting her escape, firing all of their guns from a distance so she couldn't attack. If she tried to smash through the walls, all of the air machines would force her back with all of their ammunition. She tried and tried, but couldn't leave. Troops and machines alike kept pounding and pounding on her, when a small shadow appeared on her. The Queen looked up, and noticed how the shadow kept getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger. It got to the point that it was covering the whole entire castle grounds.
"RRGH?" the Queen said as her final words.
It seemed a large dark castle had seemingly been dropped from the sky, and it obliterated the entire castle, leaving only dust and debris. Thousands of troops were flattened, but most war machines made it away from the impact. An eye witness (we'll call him... Tim F. Mann) had this to say about the scene:
"IT WAS AWESOME! IT WENT KA-BOOM! srsly though, I saw the whole thing from this island of pirates, through my binoculars. There was this Goomba on it, a particularily fat one, and he was making the sign of the cross alot. And then the impact. After the dust settled, all I could see was a large black castle sitting (in pieces) where Peach's castle once was. A lot of war machines managed to escape. Oh, and I saw this weird Golem like thing escaping as well.... I dunno, it seemed important."
Casualties:
=hachi=
3450 Red Toads
1930 Blue Toads
2370 Yellow Toads
2000 Star Warrior Constructs
2 Sky Pops
1 Shrapnel Artillery
3 B-Copters
Castle: DESTROYED!
=vgs=
-Queen Bean
=Pikmin=
980 Spikey Electric Bloopers
370 Phantamantlettes
1300 Mecha Bloopers
670 Bloopa Troopas
=WD=
1250 Kooper Troopers
I'll PM everyone their final troop losses/war machine losses/base defense/loot/etc. Hope everyone's happy with the result. >_>