(Anti-)Heroes

By P.T. Piranha

Chapter 5: Yoshis

The nonexistent screen is black, but there are white letters that read out the chapter’s name. Meanwhile, Dimentio is with Future Yoshi.

Future Yoshi: Anyway, I have a message for you.

Dimentio: From who?

Future Yoshi: Silence! I can’t stay long, so I’m going to get to the point. You have to save a girl.

Dimentio: And that would be?

Future Yoshi: A transforming spider thingy.

Dimentio: Shouldn’t be hard to find something like that.

Future Yoshi: Doing that will prevent lots of bad Joojoo, and it’ll also prove to my mom that I can do something right!

Future Yoshi walks away.

Future Yoshi: So you know the drill: save the transforming spider thingy, save the world.

He leaves and time starts back up.

Dimentio: Wait, Future Yoshi! Do I ever get a girlfriend?! Oh crud, he left.

Kooper: What are you talking about?

Dimentio: Oh, an old Yoshi came by… OH MY DAD! THE TRANSFORMING SPIDER THINGY!

Meanwhile, Mimi is being wheelchaired into ER.

Mimi: Will you stop trying to wheel me into the TV and take me to the emergency room?

Dr. Toad: Ugh. I should’ve known. If I can’t do it when Scrubs or House is on, I can’t when ER is on.

He wheels her into the hospital’s ER. She’s put next to Wart, who looks TERRIBLE. And by next to, I mean ten feet away.

Cackletta: Hi, Mimi! Are you okay?

Wart: (Psycho.)

Meanwhile, Gadd and The Shadow are dragging Bleck through a garage somewhere in Gritzy Desert.

Bleck: Um, will you let me go any time soon?

Gadd: Not until we ask you our questions.

The Shadow: Hi, not-Count! My name is Bog-

Gadd: He’s The Shadow.

The Shadow: EVERY TIME! Every time I meet a new person, you always have to label me as The Shadow!

Gadd’s cell phone rings and he loses his grip on Bleck. Bleck takes this opportunity and reaches for his staff and does a temporary void spell to distract Gadd and The Shadow, and runs away. But they’re surrounded by a fence and the two catch up to him.

Gadd: Come with us.

Bleck: You know if I survive this and escape you’ll be in trouble.

Gadd: That’s okay. The Shadow, do what you do best!

The Shadow: Make fudge?

Gadd: Yes. But after you use your power on this guy.

The Shadow: Ugh. Fine.

Two Bogmire shadows appear to hold Bleck down, but Bleck realizes something.

Bleck: … Oh, duh!

Bleck quickly flies high up.

Gadd: I wish I saw that coming.

Meanwhile, Toad’s still on the table. He’s counting all the tiles on the ceiling. Meanwhile, a Pokey segment knocks Kamek down next to Yoshi. Meanwhile, Bleck is still flying. Meanwhile, Vincent is still painting in that trance. Meanwhile, Mimi is on a hospital bed, also counting all the tiles in there. Meanwhile, Princess Shroob is still watching Bleck’s TV. Nastasia comes in.

Nastasia: K, where did the Count-to be go?!

Princess Shroob: Whubba?

Nastasia: Bleck.

Princess Shroob: I don’t know. I don’t even know how I’m here now. Probably by car, though.

Nastasia turns the TV off. Princess Shroob turns it back on with the remote. Nastasia then grabs the TV and throws it outside.

Gourmet Guy (off-screen): OW! WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN TO ME?!

Nastasia: K, um, you’re coming with me.

Later, they come out of the elevator.

Lahla: Come with us to watch the security tapes!

Nastasia: K. Come on, alien.

Nastasia leaves.

Lahla: Good job distracting him by watching his TV.

Princess Shroob: What?

Lahla: The Don saw your tape. He was happy.

She plays a tape of Princess Shroob watching Bleck’s TV. Bleck is yelling at her, but the Shroob clearly isn’t paying attention.

Lahla: Now go back to your son.

Princess Shroob: Um, okay.

Meanwhile, Dimentio and Kooper are still on that subway.

Dimentio: He said he was from the future. And by the looks of it, he’s from a distant future. Yoshi really lets himself go. Even though I’m not supposed to know him.

Kooper: I don’t think so.

Dimentio: He said to save a transforming spider thingy. So let’s go back to Vincent’s and if it doesn’t work, I’ll give you a map to Koopa Village.

Kooper: You won’t drive me?

Dimentio: Nope.

The train stops and Kooper gets out. Meanwhile, Toadette is talking on her cell phone.

Toadette: Yeah, one half pepperoni, one half anchovies.

She hangs up, and answers the phone again.

Toadette: Oh, you’re back. Anyway, he’s been gone for a while. He left with the Kool-Aid Man and a stranger biting on his ankle a few days ago. I’m getting worried.

She then sees Toad on the couch.

Toadette: Never mind.

Toad wakes up.

Toadette: Where were you?

Toad: I don’t know.

Toadette: Someone said you are now with the FBI!

Toad: That would be because I am.

Toadette: Since when?

Toad: I forgot.

Toadette: A lot of times, I thought your Game was Over!

Toad: By your hands?

Toadette: Well yes, but that’s not the point!

Meanwhile, Yoshi and Kamek are thrown out of a van in Gritzy Desert.

Kamek: *Kamek noises* (Those jerks!)

Yoshi: Hey! Diner!

They start walking to the Shell Diner, also dedicated to the Koopaseum.

Yoshi: They have waffles?

Kamek: I don’t know, and I won’t be speaking to you since you’re the reason those Pokeys beat us up!

Inside…

Yoshi: Hah! Yoshi! Woow! (I really hope they have waffles.)

Kamek: Hello! I’m saying this is your fault! You could’ve stopped time to get us to safety!

Yoshi: That at-ak was because I use power for cheating in Pianta Parlor. We deserve at-ak.

Kamek: Attack. And anyway are you saying having coins is the dark side?!

Yoshi opens the menu.

Yoshi: Yoshi! (They have waffles!)

Kamek: Remind me why I’m here with you.

Yoshi: We save world!

Kamek: I’m sick of saving the world!

Yoshi: You do know-thing but comb-plane since we get to Mushroom Kingdom! If you sick of it, go to Yoshi’s Island!

Kamek: Nothing, and complain. And I’m not sick of this place! It’s you that I’m sick of! And I think those peanuts may have expired, so I may be sick because of them.

Yoshi: Then just go back to Island with lame jokes!

Kamek: Fine!

Kamek leaves and comes back.

Kamek: I forgot my broom.

Kamek leaves again. Yoshi calls out as he’s leaving.

Yoshi: Too bad you know no one in Kingdom! Let alone Desert!

Kamek: I’m bilingual, I’ll find my way!

He leaves.

Yoshi: Waah! (D’oh! Oh well. Maybe now I can save Plit in less time! Woohoo!)

Bleck then lands outside and enters the Diner. He approaches the counter.

Bleck: Koopa Kola, please.

Yoshi watches him in amazement. Meanwhile, Toad is talking on a phone.

Toad: No, I can’t hear you now! Goodbye.

Toadette approaches.

Toadette: What’s up?

Toad: We’re both taking a sick day as of now. This way we can go to that stupid carnival you won’t shut up about.

Toadette: Happies!

Meanwhile, Yoshi is still watching Bleck. He finally just gets up and sits next to him. He stares with a big smile on his face and Bleck looks over.

Bleck: … Are you okay?

Yoshi holds out his hand.

Yoshi: Yoshi! The Yoshi!

Bleck shakes it.

Bleck: Uh, Bleck. BLL-EH-K.

Yoshi: You fly! You fly fast! I saw you! Whoosh!

Bleck: … Uh, no I wasn’t? No you didn’t?

Yoshi: It okay! I have time and space powers! We special!

Bleck: … Riiiiight…

Yoshi: I went to future Mushroom Kingdom! Big explosion! Boom!

Bleck: Learn to speak Mushroomese better. Anyway, I guess that would be bad for us… (Psycho.)

Yoshi: But it okay! I hero!

Bleck: Well I certainly feel better now.

A limo pulls up.

Bleck: That must be Mr. L. But before I go, do I become “First Ever Mario Villain That’s A Count Instead Of A King Or Something”?

Yoshi: That mouthful! But yes! Bleck votes dwarf others!

Bleck: And do I ever get that cool monocle with X-ray vision?

Yoshi: No.

Bleck: D’oh! Anyway I’m going back to another part of Gritzy Desert now.

Yoshi: Take me?

Bleck: Fine. Where are you from? Wait, I already know. Yoshi’s Island?

Yoshi: Yoshi! (Yes!)

Bleck: Cool. I’ve never been there. Except that one time I’ve been there.

Meanwhile, Gadd enters Mimi’s room in the hospital.

Gadd: Cacklepie says you let the car hit a building while trying to drive into the ocean.

Yes, I made that Gadd’s pet name for Cackletta.

Mimi: Yeah, that’s exactly what happened. Although either way, I did have the intent of having something bad happen.

Gadd: Okay, I couldn’t read the rest of the script, I accidentally spilled ketchup on it. But apparently I have to grin evilly and assure you that no one will know about anything that’s happened to you recently.

Mimi: That doesn’t sound assuring.

Gadd: I know.

Meanwhile, Vincent is cleaning his brushes when Dimentio enters.

Dimentio: Gore, I need you to help me. I actually did fly after you drew that painting of me flying!

Vincent: So?

Dimentio: I don’t know. Just assuring you that I believe in your power. Apparently we have to meet. I think I have to go somewhere that you know about. And do you have any tacos?

Vincent: No.

Dimentio: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…

30 minutes later…

Dimentio: …OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Anyway, I’ll go look over some paintings.

He sees the one with Yoshi and Kamek under the Vimmy banner.

Dimentio: Morbid. And hey! That guy reminds me of Future Yoshi!

He sees the one with Mimi being scared.

Dimentio: Ha! Stinks to be her.

He sees the one with him being surrounded by Paragoombas.

Dimentio: Emphasizing my flight issues, are we?

He then sees another painting.

Dimentio: Hey! The transforming spider thingy!

Meanwhile, the limo stops at the Koopa Kola Bar. At that hotel/bar/Pianta Parlor from before, Bleck gets out.

Bleck: So what will you say to anyone you meet?

Yoshi: Vote Bleck!

Bleck: That’s a good boy.

Yoshi gets out and grabs his suitcase and leaves. Later in the parking garage, Yoshi gets into his car and pretends to drive. He presses a button and things start going crazy. He pulls out the manual to see if anything will work.

Yoshi: Owowowow! (Oh noes! It’s all in Mushroomese!)

Meanwhile in the Koopa Kola Bar, Bleck is talking to Nastasia on the up escalator.

Nastasia: Do I get that saltine now?

Bleck: Nastasia, I didn’t want to tell you this, but… there was no saltine.

Nastasia looks bummed out.

Nastasia: K… I knew it… I just didn’t want to believe it.

Bleck sees Princess Shroob on the down escalator.

Bleck: Hey! You’re the chick who watched my TV! Don’t do that!

He follows her.

Bleck: We talk about flying, you later come in and watch my TV, and next thing I know, I’m being attacked by a short guy and a shadow!

Princess Shroob: Uh, I don’t recall… Okay, fine! I had to do it to make you mad so you could be caught on tape for blackmail!

Bleck: How is yelling at you about barging in and watching my TV considered blackmail material?

Princess Shroob: Not sure exactly.

Meanwhile, Toad is preparing the dinner table with pizza. Toadette enters.

Toadette: You ordered pizza for a romantic dinner?!

Toad: It’s not delivery. It’s DiGiorno.

Toadette: Okay then.

Meanwhile, Gadd enters Wart’s room and closes the door.

Gadd: Hey, I’m Mimi’s dad!

Wart: Cool! … Uh, I’m a frog!

Gadd: I know.

Wart: I’m going to sue you, okay?

Gadd: No.

Wart: Aww.

Gadd: I should End your Game for trying to make my daughter’s life more difficult, but instead I’m going to wipe your memory.

Wart: How much of it?

Gadd: I don’t know. It’s always random. Now be quiet.

The Shadow appears.

The Shadow: In the short time you know me, I’d like you to know me as Bog-

Gadd: As The Shadow!

The Shadow: WHY?!

Gadd: Just wipe his memory.

The Shadow: Can you at least cut it down to just “Shadow”?

Gadd: I wouldn’t count on it.

The Shadow: Ugh. Fine!

Two Bogmire shadows hold him down and he wipes his memory.

The Shadow: Oh yeah, my clones get to be called Bogmire, at least a little, and I’m stuck with  “The Shadow”!

Meanwhile, Dimentio is amazed at all the paintings.

Dimentio: Actually, I’ve seen better.

Vincent: …

Dimentio: Hmm. This painting of a Yoshi and Magikoopa… It looks like either everyone is after a root beer float, or everyone is trying to save the transforming spider thingy. Who is she, anyway?

Vincent: I don’t know, I had some Power-Downs before painting this.

Dimentio: Anyway, I think you should keep painting so we can know what’s gonna happen to the girl.

Vincent: Only if you give me money for Power-Downs. I need those, as proven.

FLASH!

Dimentio: Excuse me, I was taking pictures on my cell phone, and the flash was on too much. But I do think I’ll have that brush. The other day after I met you I drew something that would come true.

Vincent: Okay. (Weirdo.)

Meanwhile, Mimi enters Wart’s hospital room.

Mimi: Hey, there’s no vending machine in here! Oh, sorry for what I did. I was aiming for the ocean.

Wart: And you are…?

Mimi: Mimi Gadd. Well, I’m not part of the Gadd family, but- Wait you know this!

Wart: Nuh-uh!

Mimi: Do you at least know your name?

Wart: Freddie, right?

Mimi: … No.

Meanwhile, Princess Shroob enters her house and sees a bunch of Koopas investigating, led by Pennington.

Princess Shroob: Woah!

She enters the kitchen and finds Shroob and Dry Bones.

Pennington: Ma’am, where is Tatanga?

Princess Shroob: I don’t know.

Pennington: Has he tried to call?

Princess Shroob: No.

Princess Shroob: Do you have any bacon?

Princess Shroob: No.

Pennington: (Darn!) Anyway, we saw Tatanga nearby a few minutes ago.

Princess Shroob: Why hasn’t he been caught yet?!

Pennington: Well he was a final boss, and he does have a cloaking device.

Princess Shroob: True… But can you catch him? Because he’s been stalking us and odd things are happening because of him leaving.

Pennington: Like?

Princess Shroob: Just keep me safe!

Pennington: Okay… for a fee. Sorry, I’ve spent a week in the Mushroom City Hotel, run by Shy Guys who repeat themselves.

Koopa Investigator: Yo, someone’s approachin’ the house!

Pennington: Okay, you’re all one-third cop, so positions!

They all hide and aim Fire Flowers, Mini Bill Blasters, and squirt guns. Kamek enters.

Kamek: What the? … YOU?!

Meanwhile…

Lahla: You do something for the Don whenever he wants, or we’ll show this tape to the public!

Bleck: And how is this blackmail?

Lahla: Your campaign supports caring about your family’s feelings.

Bleck: And?

Lahla: Did your wife not tell you that you should calm down and not immediately blow up when people use your stuff?

Bleck: That’s just a minor thing.

Lahla: True, but consider who’s writing this story…

Bleck: … Oh crud.

Meanwhile, Toad and Toadette are still eating pizza.

Toad: You’ve got some cheese on your face, sweetie.

Meanwhile, Kamek is handcuffed to a chair and is being questioned.

Princess Shroob: How do you know me?

Kamek: I played Mario and Luigi 2.

Princess Shroob: That doesn’t count.

Kamek: Oh. I’m a frequent visitor to your joke site.

Princess Shroob: You’re the guy who said they stink!

Kamek: Uh, no I didn’t?

Princess Shroob: Your username on that site tells me everything.

Kamek: Crud.

Princess Shroob: Just go. Uh, and pretend I told you that the girl on the site telling jokes just LOOKS like me.

Kamek: Fine.

He leaves. She goes into Shroob’s room and finds him fiddling with a computer. And I’m not just saying that, he’s actually playing with a fiddle and one of the fiddles is leaning on his computer as if he expected the computer to play it. She exits and finds Tatanga in the shadows. And he’s mad.

Tatanga: No, I stubbed my toe.

You’re in a robot walker.

Tatanga: I stubbed my toe on something inside the walker?

Okay. Meanwhile, Yoshi is sitting on the trunk of his car, juggling Yoshi eggs, bored. Kamek appears, and he drops all the eggs on the ground.

Kamek: Yes, I’m back. Get over it. Should we call Vincent again?

Yoshi: Yoshi! (Likely.)

Meanwhile, Dimentio and Vincent see the now finished painting. I can’t describe how Mimi looks, but it’s as terrible as Vincent was when Yoshi found him.

Vincent: Woah… How’d you do that?

Dimentio: I don’t know, like a kid who’s unclear as to if the boogeyman exists.

Vincent: So we should probably save her.

The phone rings.

Vincent: Ugh, that crazy Yoshi.

Dimentio takes the phone.

Dimentio: Ciao?*

(*Ciao can also mean hello.)

Yoshi (on the other end): Meestir Vain Gory?

Kamek (on the other end): I’m pretty sure it’s “Van Gore”.

Dimentio: Who are you?

Meanwhile, Yoshi is on the phone with Kamek nearby.

Yoshi (on the other end): Yoshi! The Yoshi!

Meanwhile, back at Vincent’s…

Dimentio: Oh my… I’m Dimentio Nolastname, and I have to tell you something.

Meanwhile…

Yoshi and Kamek: 0_0
 

Chapter 6: Better Thirds

In Vincent’s apartment, we see the painting of the explosion, and the title of the chapter appears over it.

Dimentio: Oh my… I’m Dimentio Nolastname, and I have to tell you something.

Kamek (on the other end): Yes?

Dimentio: I really like chicken. But that’s not important. I have to tell you, “Save the transforming spider thingy, save the world”. I think.

Yoshi (on the other end): What spider thingy?

Dimentio: Dunno.

Kamek (on the other end): Where’s this transforming spider thingy?

Dimentio: Dunno.

Kamek (on the other end): Well YOU’RE certainly helpful!

Vincent: Tell him about the Yoshi from the future!

Dimentio: (covering the speaker) That would be him. Only in the present day. (into phone) Some Yoshi claimed to be The Yoshi and from the future, and he spoke to me and told me that message I told you and that I get a hook hand. But he wouldn’t say if I get a girlfriend.

Kamek tells Yoshi this. Dimentio also describes what future Yoshi looked like.

Dimentio (on the other end): Just get your butts over to Mushroom City!

He hangs up.

Yoshi: I get fat?!

Meanwhile, back with Dimentio…

Dimentio: We should probably arrange this to figure out who these people are.

Vincent: Do we have to?

Dimentio: Yes! Wait, one’s missing!

Vincent: Bob took it.

Dimentio: That Goomba that doesn’t know my name?

Vincent: Tommy, right?

Dimentio: …

Meanwhile, Cackletta and Mimi are making cupcakes. She’s wearing a glass belt with water inside and put Captain Gills in it, so she won’t have to hold the bowl and the cupcake stuff. Mimi takes the pan out of the oven without any oven mitts. We get it, you can heal!

Mimi: Just making sure the audience knows.

It’s chapter six. I think we’re clear. Cackletta doesn’t seem to notice at all, she’s just talking on the phone. About what, you ask? Let’s see.

Cackletta: Can you hear me now? Good. Can you hear me now? Good.

Gadd: Hi!

Cackletta: Can you hear me now? Good.

Mimi: Dad, buy a cupcake or I’ll use my laser cannon thingy on you!

So that’s what it was for!

Gadd: Nah. Oh, and Mimi’s biological parents want to meet her.

Meanwhile, Princess Shroob is startled at night by a loud noise. She checks Shroob’s room. Nothing unusual. Except for the fact that Darth Vader is there, but now isn’t the time to mess with that. He’s probably not going to do anything. Maybe. She goes back in her room to find Tatanga.

Tatanga: Hi, Princess!

Princess Shroob: Hi, Tatanga! Wait, how’d you get here?

Tatanga: There was a gaping hole in the wall.

Princess Shroob: I knew I should’ve got that fixed!

Tatanga: I think I still have a right to live here! So can I see Shroob? And will you please go see what’s at the door?

Princess Shroob: Well since you said please.

She opens it and finds a Koopa cop.

Cop: Mister Pennington wants to know if you’re sure there’s no bacon.

Princess Shroob: I’m sure.

She closes the door.

Princess Shroob: What’d you do before you got arrested?

Tatanga: I was listening to my iPod.

Princess Shroob: I mean, what did you do to get arrested?

Tatanga: I’m innocent! I thought that if I got some money from Don Pianta-

Princess Shroob: You ruined us!

Tatanga: Whoops.

Meanwhile, Mimi and Boshi are walking home from school.

Mimi: I wonder if my parents have super powers, too.

Boshi: I dunno.

Meanwhile, the car parks and Kamek gets out of the driver’s seat. Yoshi’s sitting in the other seat, playing with a rolled up newspaper like a light saber. And in case you’re wondering, they removed their masks and capes long ago.

Kamek: *Kamek noises* (So what happens if it explodes when we get there?)

Yoshi: Wooow! *SMW Yoshi noise* (That’s just it. If we get there, it won’t! Kind of like that movie. I think it was called “Two Guys Who Came To A Place So It Wouldn’t Explode”.)

Kamek: *Kamek noises* (But why did Dimentio tell us the message instead of future you?)

Yoshi: Yoshi! (I don’t know.)

A car pulls up, blocking their exit. In the car’s passenger seat is the Pokey from before. He walks up to Yoshi’s side.

Pokey: Come here, we want to do stuff to you!

Kamek: WE’RE INNOCENT!

Pokey: Nuh-uh! And now it’s time for… REVENGE!

Meanwhile, Cackletta answers the door.

Boshi: Outta here.

He leaves. Meanwhile…

Princess Shroob: Just leave in the morning, if you’re that desperate for a place to crash!

Tatanga: Fine.

Meanwhile, Yoshi is standing behind Kamek who is trapped at a poker table with the Pokey, a blue Shy Guy, and a Spiky Skellobit.

Yoshi: (whispering) Yoshi! (We have to get back to the adventure!)

Kamek: (whispering) *Kamek noises* (Just help me win this so we can be rid of these guys, and we’ll be done!)

Spiky Skellobit: So what, you use some ancient Yoshi’s Island Voodo?

Kamek: Um, no… Yoshi’s Islanders are… lucky? Yeah, that’s it!

Blue Shy Guy: Like the Irish?

Kamek: Sure… Let’s go with that.

The poker game begins. Yoshi stops time and messes with all the cards, giving Kamek a very good combination. I don’t know my poker, so I’ll leave that to your imagination.

Kamek: Aha!

Yoshi falls over. Kamek helps him up, and he sees a blue Spiny Shell that looks to be aimed at the two of them.

Kamek: Can we take a bathroom break?

Spiky Skellobit: Okay.

The two enter the bathroom.

Yoshi: I no need bathroom!

Kamek: Yoshi, that guy has a blue Spiny Shell aimed for us!

They hear a man’s voice, but they don’t care.

Kamek: We have to escape!

They start hearing a violent fight outside. Vim starts leaking through a crack in the door.

Kamek: This guy means business!

Yoshi: Owowowowow!!! (NOOO! I could’ve saved them! But I hid in here like a little baby with a lollipop! … Mmm, lollipop…)

Kamek: *Kamek noises* Whatever, let’s just leave through that window.

Meanwhile, Princess Shroob wakes up and finds Tatanga sleeping in his separate bed. Yes, in this story they have two separate beds.

Princess Shroob: Tatanga! I thought I told you to stay on the couch!

Tatanga: You did?

She looks in the mirror to find her odd reflection behind Tatanga. Shroob enters.

Shroob: Daddy!

Tatanga: Sonny!

Orange Juice: Sunny-D!

Meanwhile, Vivian watches Kooper pack up.

Vivian: So you’re just gonna go back to Koopa Village? (Say yes!)

Kooper: Yeah, I have to bury my dad. But I have the odd feeling I’ll be back.

Vivian: (NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!)

Meanwhile, Tatanga and Shroob are sitting at a table outside.

Tatanga: How is your mom?

Shroob: Purple. How’d you get out of jail?

Tatanga: I walked through the wall.

Meanwhile, Cudge and Dottie enter the Gadd home.

Gadd: Mimi, these are your parents: Cudge and Dottie.

They all have a seat in the living room.

Cudge: Well she appears to have my stubbornness.

Dottie: And my sensibility.

Captain Gills: It’s amazing how you know all this without even speaking to her or anything! Oh wait, I’m the pet, I don’t talk.

Mimi: Anything else I get?

Cackletta: Anyone thirsty?

Dottie: Ham!

Cackletta: … That’s not a drink.

Dottie: It is where I’m from!

Cackletta: … Right… Cudge?

Cudge: Kool-Aid!

Kool-Aid Man: I hate you for that! I’m leaving!

He does.

Cackletta: Mimi?

Mimi: Nothing.

Cackletta: You sure?

Mimi: Yes.

Cackletta: … Really?

Mimi: YES!

Gadd and Cackletta leave the room.

Cudge: So… Wanna hear about that time I got used to hit a Spiky Goomba?

Meanwhile, Princess Shroob drives into a parking lot.

Princess Shroob: Okay.

Tatanga gets up and gets out. He also grabs his robot walker from the trunk and gets in it. His wife gets out and they go downstairs to a door. Sirens are wailing! Tatanga enters and finds that it’s the poker room from before! Only the Pokey is now an unconscious Skellokey, the blue Shy Guy is an unconscious Boo Guy, and the Spiky Skellobit… he’s the same, only unconscious. Game Overed, to be exact. And they have purple meteors smashed into their heads.

Tatanga: Ouch! Honey, you should probably leave.

Princess Shroob: I don’t have to if I don’t want to! *looks* OH MY DAD!

They leave. Meanwhile…

Cudge: We’re divorced!

The adoptive couple is hiding in a closet with blinds.

Cackletta: Captain Gills thinks we shouldn’t do this!

Gadd: I bet not! How would you even know?

Cackletta: His dorsal fin is glowing.

We see that it is.

Gadd: Oh. Just ignore it.

Mimi: Is there anything odd about you two? Other than the fact that I can’t possibly be a biological child of two Pixls?

Dottie: Well… I’m allergic to Mega Mushrooms.

Cudge: And I can’t hit more than 10 spiky enemies a day or I need plastic surgery on my face.

Gadd’s cell rings, and everyone looks at the closet. Gadd takes the call. Meanwhile, Vivian is talking on the cell phone in Kooper’s apartment.

Gadd (on the other end): You didn’t even try to get him to leave?! And HE’S the one who said he’ll be back?

Vivian: Yeah, I think the script was written wrong at this part.

Gadd (on the other end): Well did you find anything out?

Vivian: Well… Dimentio Nolastname says that he can fly, but we don’t know. And he said he met a person who could stop time.

Gadd (on the other end): Okay.

Vivian: The time traveler, who he said was a Yoshi, said to “save a transforming spider thingy”.

Meanwhile…

Gadd: 0.0

Meanwhile…

Tatanga: Have you seen anything similar to that?

Princess Shroob: When I barrowed money from Don Pianta, there was eventually a bunch of dead Piantas with meteors smashed into them.

Meanwhile…

Tony (buried): I’m still alive! I ate Rocko to survive! But I’m getting thirsty!

Meanwhile…

Shroob: Where’s my backpack?

Princess Shroob: Let the grown-ups talk.

Shroob leaves.

Princess Shroob: Should we tell the police?

Tatanga: No.

She goes and finds Shroob’s backpack in her room and finds her odd reflection in the mirror, again. Now Princess Shroob is suddenly on the couch. She enters Shroob’s room.

Shroob: I know, I have to hurry if we’re going to get to Grandpa’s! You said this a few seconds ago!

She enters her own room and approaches the mirror.

Princess Shroob: That settles it… I’m crazy.

Odd Reflection: Oh get over it.

She sees her reflection. It resembles Elder Princess Shroob.

Princess Shroob: But you’re a figment of my imagination!

Reflection: No I’m not.

Princess Shroob: Yes you are.

Reflection: No I’m not.

Princess Shroob: Yes you are.

This goes on for a few minutes.

Reflection: NO I’M NOT! And you’re not crazy! Well you are, but not how you meant it. So what do you think Tatanga will do when he figures out what we did?

Princess Shroob: We who?

Reflection: Well after the part where I got you to get ice cream, we framed Tatanga, Game-Overed some Piantas, stole lots of money, Game-Overed the Piantas in the garage…

Meanwhile…

Tony (buried): STILL alive!

Meanwhile…

Reflection: …and then got those guys at the poker game.

Princess Shroob: But they had a meteor smashed into them! And I don’t mean a Meteor Smash like Luigi’s Super Smash Bros. Melee taunt.

Reflection: So?

Princess Shroob: And did those poker players even do anything?

Reflection: I didn’t want any witnesses! Wow you’re slow! Just get the money and get Shroob far, far away from Tatanga.

Princess Shroob: Okay…

In Shroob’s room…

Shroob: Mom has a secret just like you do.

Tatanga: You said that three seconds ago.

Back with Shroob’s mom…

Reflection: Just do what I tell you or let Tatanga have Shroob.

Princess Shroob: Okay, I’ll do what you say. Where’s the money?

Meanwhile, Yoshi and Kamek are walking to their car.

Yoshi: Hah! Yoshi! *SMW Yoshi noise* (Do you think I should’ve saved those people?)

Kamek: I don’t know. Maybe you can go back in time and stop it.

Yoshi: Do over?

Kamek: Yes, like that.

Yoshi opens the passenger door. Meanwhile, Cackletta enters the living room where Mimi is.

Cackletta: Where’s your dad? By that I mean Elvin.

Mimi: He’s with my Pixl parents.

Outside, Gadd walks the Pixls to their car.

Cudge: I think that went well!

Inside, Cackletta and Mimi are cleaning up the kitchen.

Cackletta: -Then we saw something was wrong with you as a baby, like a disease, so we tried to find your Pixl parents, but we couldn’t.

Mimi: Disease? As in?

Cackletta: A cough. And some congestion. But we got Mucinex.

Mucus: Grr, I hate Mucinex so much!

Gadd enters.

Gadd: That was weird.

Meanwhile, Princess Shroob pulls a suitcase and Mini Bill Blaster out of her attic.

Stuffwell: Freedom! Please let go of my handle!

Princess Shroob: So that’s where I left my magical talking suitcase!

She goes down into her room. But Tatanga is there.

Tatanga: BUSTED!

Princess Shroob: 0.0

Stuffwell: Oooh, this does not end well for you.

Princess Shroob: Tatanga, dear, I’m being controlled by a weird reflection.

Tatanga: Lies!

Tatanga takes Stuffwell.

Stuffwell: Easy! My leather is sensativial!

Remember, Stuffwell makes words up sometimes.

Tatanga: And I’m taking Shroob with me.

Princess Shroob: … Oh no you di-in’t!

Did she seriously say that? Princess Shroob takes Stuffwell and throws a purple star that destroys Tatanga’s robot walker and launches him into a wall. Shroob is in the doorway.

Shroob: … For a second there I thought I saw you two having a fight.

Tatanga: Uhhhhh, no we’re not?

Shroob: That’ll work… for now.

Shroob leaves. Princess Shroob closes the door and starts changing into a replica of her odd reflection. She looks for Tatanga, and his hand reaches through the wall and slams her head into it. Tatanga appears through the wall.

Tatanga: That has to be one of the coolest attacks you can do while being intangible.

Princess Shroob: So this is how you “walked through the wall” to escape jail?

Tatanga: No, there was a hole in the wall so I walked out.

She drops Stuffwell and throws him onto the bed, breaking it.

Bed: Ow!

Everyone: What?

Bed: Uh, nothing.

Princess Shroobs arms change into tentacles, as do her feet, and she grows huge. She wraps her arm tentacles around Tatanga, and Shroob enters.

Shroob: Aha! … OH DEAR SWEET DAD, DAD J., AND ALL OF THE PEOPLE IN THE OVERTHERE COMBINED!

The parents look to see him. Tatanga then uses his powers to escape and have Princess Shroob wrap her arm tentacles around her own neck, then Tatanga picks Shroob up and leaves. Stuffwell follows.

Stuffwell: Wait! Don’t leave me with her!

Meanwhile, Vincent has painted that very scene in his apartment. Vivian enters.

Vivian: Hi! I’m a fan of your work!

Vincent: Everyone is.

Mr. L: Not me! I had to fight it all! Wait, I’m not supposed to be here, AND I’m not supposed to know I’m Luigi. L-ater!

He jumps out the window and lands on Gourmet Guy. Meanwhile, Princess Shroob is still unconscious after accidentally choking herself, and she’s still in monster form. Wait, what was the point of this scene change? Oh well.

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