Part 19: Kracko Krackdown
BATTLE START.
Enemy: Kracko
Fighting: Kirby, Mario, and Poppy
Kracko: Prepare to meet your maker!
Mario looks around.
Mario: I don't see Shigeru Miyamoto anywhere.
Kracko: No you idiot! I didn't mean that!
Mario looks around again.
Mario: Neither are my parents.
Kracko: ARGH! I'll shut that mouth forever!
Mario: But you don't have any duct tape!
Kracko: You asked for it...
Atttacker: Kracko
Attack: SUPER THUNDERBOLT!!!
Target: Mario and Kracko!
Effect: 1,000 damage dealt!!!
HP Left: Kracko 4,000; Mario 0!
MARIO FAINTS!!!
Poppy: Woohoo! Finally, finally, FINALLY I wasn't the first one to go!
Squitter: I think this guy has a "thing" for exclamation marks...
Attacker: Poppy
Attack: Item: Double Trouble
Target: Poppy
Effect: Attacks twice next turn!
Sonic: What? What good will that do? Do the math, it amounts to the same amount!
Poppy: We'll see...
Attacker: Kirby
Attack: Copy
Target: Kracko
Effect: Steals Power. Kirby gains Spark
Power! Kirby takes another turn!
Attacker: Kirby
Attack: Electric Ray
Target: Kracko
Effect: 500 damage dealt
HP Left: 3,500
Poppy: While he obviously has strong offense, he has weak defense.
Attacker: Kracko
Attack: SUPER THUNDERBOLT!!!
Target: Kirby and Kracko
Effect: 1,000 damage dealt!!!
HP Left: Kirby 0; Kracko 2,500!
KIRBY FAINTS!!!
Poppy: Now you'll see the reason behind my "Double Trouble"! He has a really low defense, so...
Attacker: Poppy
Attack: Item; Avenge
Target: Kracko
Effect: Deals 1,000 damage for each
fainted person in battle, in this case 2,000.
HP Left: 500
Poppy: And now for my *gulp* second attack...
Attacker: Poppy
Attack: Self-Destruct
Target: Kracko and Poppy
Effect: 1,000 damage dealt!
POPPY FAINTS.
KRACKO IS DEFEATED!!!
POPPY WINS!!! (somewhat)
Squitter: Hmm... I expected something a little longer...
Sonic: Hey! This shouldn't be in script format!
Whoops!
"Good," said Sonic. "But there's something else that doesn't make sense. Both sides lost, so how did we win?"
"Easy," explained Squitter. "It's because while they lost the battle, the two of us didn't faint. Even though we weren't actually fighting, we still technically win."
"I guess that makes some sense..." said Sonic.
BANG! Kracko explodes into one million, fifty-four thousand, four hundred and ninety-eight pieces! His eyeball managed to get out of it in one piece, though. "I'll get you for this!" it hissed before jumping away.
"What?"
Well, his eye is sort of like his brain, mouth, and, well... eye. It's the most important part of him, and it's nearly indestructible. The rest of him is really sort of a projection of his mind, as he's psychic (which is how he speaks, as he's telepathic). It's sort of like a Vell-Os Arrow in EV Nova.
"What's a Vell-Os Arrow, and what's EV Nova?"
Well, a Vell-Os Arrow is a sort of ship (a stronger form of the Vell-Os Dart), and EV Nova is the third game in the Escape Velocity series, which is a computer series, although it's only for Macintosh. HAHAHAHA, Windows users! You can't play it, you can't play it!
Additional Note: Okay, okay, so EV Nova
is now out for Windows, but it wasn't at the time this was written, so
BACK OFF!
"I really, really, really, REALLY wish Lord Seth was the narrator right now..."
Well, he's not!
"In any case," said Squitter "We'd better use Pick Me Ups to heal these guys."
A few Pick Me Ups later...
"Phew! That was painful!" said Poppy.
Not as painful as if your ship in EV Override blows up when-
"I hope we get that substitute substitute substitute narrator soon..."
I AM the substitute substitute substitute narrator!
"Whoa boy..." said Mario. "I wonder why we seem to run through narrators so fast."
The contracts don't last long.
"Oh," said Poppy.
"Hey! Look what Kracko left behind!" said Sonic. "It's another of the Scrolls of Power!"
OUR HEROES GAIN THE LIGHTNING SCROLL!!!
Mario flashed the peace sign (again) and the scroll floated down into his hand. Sonic took it and the other scrolls and put them together to try to figure out the message.
"Well," he sighed, "it looks like we still don't have enough to figure out the whole thing. If only we had the one that Bowyer took..."
"Oh well," said Mario. "Hopefully we'll be able to find the rest."
Meanwhile, elsewhere...
????? was looking at our heroes through a crystal ball-like device.
"Yes... they're collecting the Scrolls of Power, all for me, and they don't even know it!" he cackled (yes, it's a he... well, sort of, as he's a robot). "Soon, all eleven scrolls will belong to me. I already have two, and they have five! Yes... soon they and I combined will have them all, and I shall simply take all of the scrolls from them, and then I shall complete my plans. Mwahahaha!!!"
How beings that are not of flesh can possibly have genders, I have no idea. In any case, Mack, Bowyer, and Smithy all seemed to be male... and this figure (who we still cannot see properly because of the shadows) is also like that.
Back to where our heroes are...
"Hmm... I wonder what this is," wondered Squitter out loud.
"I think that it's a... miniature warp hole. If I'm correct, it'll transport us somewhere on Plit."
"Let's find out!" Before anyone could stop him, Squitter walked into the warp hole and disappeared.
"Well," Mario sighed, "I guess we'll have to go after him."
One by one, our heroes all reluctantly stepped into the warp hole and disappeared.