Chapter 11: Either radiation spread from a nuclear bomb, or two people who used to get along, but don’t anymore.
All we can see is black, with the title’s name in white. Meanwhile Mimi and Gadd enter their house.
Mimi: Dad, you’ve been completely silent. A lot. Even when you were singing to the song on the radio in the car, you were just mouthing the words!
Gadd: I’ll stay silent, but I am NOT about to not do SOMETHING to go along with a catchy song! Anyway I saw the tape you and Boshi made and… Boshi has really nice shoes.
Mimi: Ugh.
Gadd: Other than that, I saw everything and I know about your super power.
Mimi: So I’ve been through all that, and you knew? And what about that guy with the hat like Link?
Gadd: He’s taken care of…
Meanwhile, he’s tied up upside down with the Wiggles dancing around him singing, in a padded room. He looks as if he wants to get Game Overed. Back at the house…
Gadd: Now make sure Green Shy Guy and your mom never know. And it’d probably be best if Captain Gills doesn’t know either.
Mimi: Green Shy Guy also knows about my power.
Gadd: … Of course he does. I’ll talk to him later. Meanwhile you get Boshi to get rid of that tape.
Meanwhile, Toad and ABG are checking out a hillside outside the high school.
Toad: Mona was killed. On the incision, we noticed it looked like he was trying to take her brain or something like that, but was interrupted.
ABG: I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Toad: By the way, how can he leave footprints? Because he left footprints!
ABG: Plot hole, Toad.
Toad: Okay. There is another set of footprints, too. You think he had help?
ABG: I don’t know. But I think we need to speak to this “Dimentio Nolastname”.
Meanwhile Dimentio is in his jail cell at the police station. He’s playing New Super Mario Bros. and Bleck appears.
Dimentio: Hey, Bleck.
Bleck: Hey, Dimentio.
Dimentio: Why did you try to destroy the painting?
Bleck: I didn’t mean to! First I was going to just draw funny mustaches on everyone, both for fun and also to see if I could get you to think they’re completely different people so you wouldn’t come because you’d think you had no place there. And because you looked dead in the painting.
Dimentio: I died in Super Paper Mario and here I am, right?
Bleck: True. But still, just stick to being a doctor.
Dimentio: No! All of the super-powered people we know, or I know, are somehow linked. Us, the transforming spider thingy, Mr. Potato Head-
Bleck: Mr. Potato Head?
Dimentio: Don’t ask. Anyway we have to stop the atomic Bob-omb that Vincent painted!
Bleck: Oh, you can’t.
Dimentio: Your voice sounds funny.
Bleck turns into King Boo!
Dimentio: Bleck, did you die and somehow switch your top hat out for a hat like Link’s?
King Boo: No you idiot! I’m King Boo!
Dimentio: Really?
King Boo: Yes!
Dimentio: I don’t see it.
King Boo: …
Meanwhile, Tatanga is getting out of the car and a mini Bullet Bill flies by him. Then some more are fired, all of them missing.
Tatanga: … Is someone trying to hit me?
Finally, one goes through the glass dome helmet of his walker and hits his shoulder.
Tatanga: … That didn’t hurt as much as I thought.
Another hits the back bumper.
Tatanga: … Still only a mild sting. Oh, Shroob, you should probably get down.
Tatanga focuses and the next one flies by, five feet away. Then one flies through him.
Tatanga: Thank DAD for intangibility.
Elder is angry, reloads the mini Blaster, and gets down to the scene of the carnage. Or attempted carnage. As she’s angrily marching, she sees her younger sister in her reflection from a police car’s side view mirror.
Elder: What?!
Princess Shroob: I have to go to the bathroom.
Elder: We’ll go later.
Goomba (nearby, hidden): 0_0
She decides to jump in the car and drive away. Meanwhile, Vivian is standing by a door and Gadd walks up.
Gadd: What’s going on?
Vivian: He’s asleep.
Gadd: I’m gonna talk to him alone.
He enters the room and turns on the light, revealing that there’s a glass wall with King Boo tied up on the other side. The Wiggles have tired themselves out, and are asleep.
Gadd: Had enough?
King Boo: I’m a ghost! I can outlast your stupid Wiggles!
King Boo unties himself and tries to use a random power on Gadd, but it doesn’t work.
Gadd: Sorry, “King Bee”. But your powers are in another castle.
King Boo: What?
Gadd: I meant they don’t work here.
King Boo: Oh. And my name is King Boo! That other name was just a slightly clever cover made by the author.
Gadd: Why do you have more than one ability?
King Boo: Uh…. DAD loves me?
Gadd: …
King Boo: …
They both then start laughing. Gadd breaks it.
Gadd: I think all your power corrupted you.
King Boo: Blah, blah, blah. When I get out, I’m getting your daughter’s power!
Gadd: Yeah, I’d like to see you try.
King Boo: I will!
Gadd: I bet you will!
King Boo: No really!
Gadd: Really!
King Boo: Yes!
Gadd: Really!
King Boo: Yes!
Gadd: Really!
King Boo: YES! REALLY!
Gadd: We’ll see…
King Boo: I will!
Gadd: Okay, enough of that.
He turns the light off and leaves.
Vivian: So we’re making sure he stays alive?
Gadd: Yep.
Vivian: Why not just have me end his Game now?
Then The Shadow enters.
Gadd: Probably not good.
Vivian: Come on! I know it’s right for me to do! You know it! Even that ghost knows it, but he can’t speak!
The Shadow: Yes I can! Where were you in basically every scene that had me in it so far?
Meanwhile in a small forest outside Gritzy Desert, the father and son aliens are running through it and they hide behind a bush.
P.T.: Taken.
They get out and go behind another bush. Tatanga gets out of his robot walker.
Tatanga: Now go back and walk, making sure you stay in your footprints!
Shroob: Why?
Tatanga: DO IT!
They start walking again.
Shroob: Dad, if that was the police, I’m sure they’d tell you before attacking you.
They then find a log cabin and Tatanga uses his ability to unlock the door. They then come inside.
Tatanga: Okay, now we have to tear these sheets.
Shroob: Do you think it was Elder Princess Shroob that was shooting at you?
Meanwhile Dimentio is sitting behind a table. Toad and ABG enter.
ABG: Your friend really cares about you. We had to Kung-Fu battle three lawyers to get to you. Literally.
Dimentio: I didn’t kill anyone!
ABG: Mario, Peach, Mr. L, Bowser, Nastasia, yourself when you tried to end the world after you lost, attempted try at Count Bleck-
Dimentio: They all ended up okay!
ABG: Still.
Dimentio: Well I meant at the football game!
ABG: We know. Why would a Mushroom City doctor come all the way to a Diamond City football game?
Dimentio: I’m not going to answer.
ABG: That’s okay.
Toad starts trying to read Dimentio’s mind, and Dimentio then starts focusing on Toad, and they are both in pain.
Both: Ow!
Toad: … Save the transforming spider thingy?
ABG: (Too late, she’s dead.)
The others both hear that.
Toad: I’m sorry, but how is she a transforming spider thingy?
ABG: I don’t know, maybe it’s a metaphor!
Dimentio: Mimi died?
ABG: No, Mona.
Dimentio: Well he was going after Mimi. If you want to stop King Boo, protect her.
Toad: He’s right.
Dimentio: So can I go?
Meanwhile Kooper finds a note on the front door of Koopley’s apartment. He reads it.
“Ha! I told you you’d be back. Oh wait, it was the other way around. Oh well.
~Vivian
PS: The frog is in the park.”
Later, inside, Kooper is on the phone.
Kooper: Yes, King Boo is after them. Now don’t hang-
It hangs up.
Kooper: …up…
Kooper looks and finds a sticky note on a laptop that says Vincent Van Gore on it with an address. Meanwhile in Vincent’s room at Dunder Mifflin, Vivian enters.
Vincent: I don’t think I can paint the future without my Power-Downs. Unless… No. If I don’t have Power-Downs, the paintings come to life instead. Literally. Or not.
Vivian: Well with your power, we stopped King Boo from killing Mimi!
Vincent: Who?
Vivian: The daughter of the guy with swirly glasses?
Vincent: That pirate from Legend of Zelda: Windwaker?
Vivian: No.
Vincent: Frankly?
Vivian: No.
Vincent: Fawful?
Vivian: No, E. Gadd.
Vincent: Oh.
Vivian: I’ll be leaving before the bomb goes off, so here’s my number.
She leaves. Vincent notices the painting of Yoshi and Kamek under a banner. Meanwhile the event in that painting is happening right now.
Yoshi: Waah! (I didn’t save Goombella! Then I didn’t save the transforming spider thingy! Now I can’t save the world! Stupid world! Why can’t it just take care of itself?!)
Kamek: *Kamek noises* (Maybe it was save the transforming spider thingy, then save the world.)
Yoshi: Yoshi! (Nah, sounds more like an “If, Then” thing.)
Kamek: *Kamek noises* (Says you!)
Yoshi: Hah! (Future me says it, so I think I know!)
Kamek: *Kamek noises* (What?! That doesn’t count!)
Yoshi: Owowowowow! Yoshi! Waah! Dimentio and Vincent! (Yeah, come back when you get a super power!)
His phone rings. He answers.
Yoshi: Hello?
Other Guy: Yoshi? The Yoshi? This is Vincent Van Gore.
Yoshi: Happinesses!
Kamek: “Happies”.
Vincent: We have to meet somewhere.
Kamek: Who is it?
Yoshi: Next part of journey!
Kamek: Stupid destiny.
Meanwhile, Toad and ABG are interrogating Mimi and Gadd. Well actually ABG is. Toad is watching through glass.
Mimi: -so I ran away as he ended her Game.
ABG: Did he do anything odd? Something like falling a few stories and walking away without any damage?
Mimi: Zuh?
ABG: You said Dimentio took them both over the edge, so he couldn’t have got away without pain!
Mimi: That reminds me, is Dimentio okay?
ABG: He got away without damage too. Do you know anything about that?
Mimi: I don’t know.
Gadd: Well look at the time! Time to go!
ABG: Okay.
Mimi: Can I see Dimentio?
ABG: Fine.
Toad walks up to the family as they leave.
Toad: Short and sweet: We’re trying to stop King Boo.
Gadd: Um, thanks, Mr…
Toad: I don’t know, really.
They leave.
ABG: I’m sure they’re hiding something.
Toad: I couldn’t pick anything up from them! Like something blocking their thoughts out! Like at Podley’s before I fainted.
The two of them leave now. The Shadow appears to have been watching from around the corner. Meanwhile Elder runs through the woods, and she finds the partly dinged-up robot walker.
Princess Shroob: Aw cripes, now what did she do?
She goes to a river and looks at her reflection.
Princess Shroob: Okay, what did you do NOW?!
Elder: I don’t know, just tried to get Shroob back!
Princess Shroob: By attacking Tatanga?!
Elder: He’s a freaking criminal!
Princess Shroob: Okay, this is getting out of hand.
A few feet away…
P.T. (in the bush): Who is she talking to?
Kool-Aid Man: The river fairy?
P.T.: No, he died.
Back with Princess Shroob…
Elder: Yeah, like you know what “in hand” means!
Princess Shroob: Well since you’re my split personality, you do what I say!
Elder: No way!
Princess Shroob: Why?
Elder: Because you’re a wimp, and because I’m older!
Shroob: Hi, Mom.
Meanwhile, the police let Gadd and Mimi into Dimentio’s cell.
Dimentio: Oh, you’re okay.
Mimi: Yeah.
Gadd: Hi, I’m her dad!
Mimi: Wait outside!
Gadd: Okay.
He does.
Mimi: How long have you known about it?
Dimentio: Is this chicken-related?
Mimi: No! The super power!
Dimentio: What, you heal?
Mimi: Yeah, I thought only I could do it.
Dimentio: I knew I had to save you for some reason.
Mimi: That would be…?
Dimentio: So I can save the world!
Gadd knocks on the glass wall.
Mimi: Almost done!
Dimentio: I didn’t know about the healing before falling.
Mimi: Okay. Bye.
She leaves. Meanwhile, Shroob and his mom approach the cabin.
Shroob: Dad’s inside, and he’s hurt.
Princess Shroob: Okay… (voice slightly changes) I’ll see about it.
We see that her arms are slightly bigger and her face is more monstrous, revealing her sister’s taken over again. She uses her ram attack to knock the door over. She starts to enter and gets hit with a gold hammer. She falls over and Tatanga jumps out and hits her again. He then grabs her mini Blaster and she knocks it away from him. P.T. nonchalantly walks by and takes the hammer.
P.T.: That’s mine.
Shroob: People, stop fighting!
Elder: You’ll thank me!
He tries to get her to stop, but she pushes him away onto a sharp rock.
Shroob: Ow! Do I have to thank you for that too?!
Tatanga: Shroob!
Tatanga goes over to his son, and Princess Shroob changes completely back to normal!
Princess Shroob: (You jerk! You make me do all the bad stuff, and give me control back AFTER I do the worst thing of all?!)
Elder: (Shut up, Yux. Wait…)
Tatanga: Don’t come near us, you evil alien!
Princess Shroob: Um, sorry about that.
Meanwhile, Boshi comes up to Mimi on the empty football field.
Boshi: Here’s the tape.
He sets it down, and Mimi pulls out a rubee. She stabs it down into the tape.
Boshi: Ooh, shiny! Can I have that?
Mimi: No!
She keeps stabbing it, then puts it away.
Mimi: Now don’t bring this up to anyone.
Boshi: Fine.
He puts the remains of the tape in a trashcan. Meanwhile in Shroom City, Vincent gets out of a bus. Yoshi and Kamek walk up to him.
Vincent: So you’re Yoshi?
Yoshi: Yes!
Soon, at a table, Vincent is going over the comic from the future.
Vincent: So you actually went to the future?
Yoshi: Yes!
Vincent: Oh. I can only use my power when I’m down.
Yoshi and Kamek: ?
Vincent: Poison Shroomed.
Yoshi and Kamek: … Zuh?
Vincent: After I use a Power-Down!
Yoshi: Waah!
Kamek: Woah!
Vincent: Um, yeah. Anyway, what else was in the future? Did I have a cool eye patch?
Yoshi: Was a big Bob-ohm-
Kamek: It’s “Bob-omb”.
Yoshi: Was a big Bob-omb, big as town. Destroy lots! Saw you! No patch.
Vincent: What was I doing then? Was I at least leaving to get the eye patch?
Yoshi: Oh no, you dead. Head open.
Vincent: … I just threw up in my mouth a little. But that doesn’t matter, ‘cause he’s taken care of. The guy who does that to people, that is.
Kamek: Good. That guy recently ended Yoshi’s friend’s game.
Yoshi: Then a waitress’!
Kamek: There was someone other than the waitress?
Yoshi: Yeah, Mr. Potato Head. Donut axe!
Kamek: “Do not ask”.
Vincent then finds a picture of Goombella standing next to Yoshi and Kamek. The two buddies from Yoshi’s Island are in a booth.
Vincent: This her?
Yoshi: Yoshi!
Vincent: I’ll take that as a yes. So you’re gonna stop the atomic Bob-omb?
Yoshi: Yes.
Vincent: Okay, I think I’ll help. Here’s a picture of it.
He shows him a picture of a wrench hitting Kamek in the back of his head.
Vincent: Wait, that’s not it.
As he flips to the right one, a wrench hits Kamek in the back of the head. Then he shows the right one.
Kamek: Ow…
Vincent: I don’t know how to stop it. But I did recently draw a picture of an exploding person.
Meanwhile, Green Shy Guy is reading in his kitchen, and Mimi enters.
Green Shy Guy: Mom and Dad are out.
Mimi: Oh. So did Dad tell you about the power?
Green Shy Guy: The what?
Mimi: My power?
Green Shy Guy: Who we talkin’ about?
Mimi: Did you even see Dad all day?
Green Shy Guy: No.
Mimi: Then how’d you get home?
Green Shy Guy: I don’t know.
(Cookies if anyone knows why he’s so confused. No, it’s not a reference, it’s actually a plot point.)
Meanwhile the family of aliens is heading towards the car outside the restaurant.
Tatanga: You’re getting help!
Princess Shroob: But my sister’s stronger than me!
Tatanga: Too bad!
Princess Shroob: Look. Soon my sister will takeover, grab Shroob, and run off, possibly doing something bad to you, maybe stopping to get a hotdog. I don’t know, but just don’t trust me.
Shroob: I’m still hurt.
Tatanga goes to Shroob, and Princess Shroob heads to a policeman from the opening of Mario Power Tennis.
Princess Shroob: Quick, arrest me!
Policeman: Why?
Princess Shroob: I killed people!
Meanwhile, Tony’s arm is sticking out of the desert ground.
Tony: Almost free!
Meanwhile, Tatanga and Shroob are watching Princess Shroob get arrested. P.T. appears.
P.T.: Arrest me too! I want to know if the rumors of free ice cream are real!
Kool-Aid Man: Me too!
Policeman: No!
Both: Aww.
Meanwhile Toad and ABG are in a car, watching the Dunder Mifflin and drinking Big Gulps.
Toad: Did it have to be Seven Eleven? Why couldn’t we stop at A&W?
ABG: Wah, wah, wah! (Ugh, why exactly did I go to Seven Eleven? Aw cripes, he heard me!) Did you read my mind?
Toad: Maaaybe.
They then notice Gadd and The Shadow walking out of the building.
Toad: That purple guy! He’s the one from Podley’s! I can’t read his mind!
Toad tries extremely hard, so much that he explodes! However after the smoke clears, he’s fine.
Toad: That was weird. But I did get two words: “King Boo”. Oh, and some whiny complaints about not being referred to by name, but that doesn’t seem important.
Meanwhile, Mimi and Boshi meet up on the field again.
Boshi: What?
Mimi: Green Shy Guy somehow forgot about my power and everything!
Boshi: Power?
Mimi: … You’re kidding me.
Boshi: I don’t even know you!
(Cookies if you know what’s with Boshi, too. Still a plot point.)
Boshi: Cookies?! Where?!
Get back to the story!
Boshi: Fine.
Mimi: Dang it, it got to you, too!
Mimi leaves.
Boshi: That was weird.
Meanwhile Gadd slips a tray of food into King Boo’s cell. The Wiggles eat it all before he gets there.
King Boo: Will you get these guys out of here already?
Gadd: Oh, they’re not in here to annoy you. They’re in trouble too. They’re too annoying to be in society.
Meanwhile in a motel room, Yoshi and Kamek are watching Vincent stare at a blank canvas. He starts focusing, and he’s in a trance. He grabs Kamek’s wand and clicks the jewel on the end down, and a pen tip comes out the bottom. He then starts drawing with it.
Kamek: How’d he know?
He then starts running out of ink. So Vincent throws the wand away, and pours ketchup onto a saucer. He grabs Yoshi’s tongue, dips it in, and draws with that on new paper. Meanwhile Gadd gets a phone call as he drives home.
Mimi: You remember what we spoke of last night, right?
Gadd: Yes. Why?
Mimi: Boshi and Green Shy Guy are now completely clueless! And wait… WHERE’S MOM AND GREEN SHY GUY?! And maybe Captain Gills, too!
Gadd: I’ll be right there.
Mimi hangs up. Then the door is open and The Shadow enters. Two Bogmire shadows appear and hold her down.
The Shadow: Hi, I’m Bogmire. And I work for your dad! Oh, and I hope you tourists have figured it out by now, because it’s too late to get your cookies now.
Mimi: (muffled) What?
Bogmire: He sent me here to make you forget everything, just like to that blue Yoshi and to your brother. And also to your mom. I had to visit your mom a lot, let me tell you! *chuckle*
Mimi: …
Bogmire: Anyway, he’ll be here, and he wants you to forget everything. (Okay, stay serious. Don’t squeal like a little girl because no one’s calling you “The Shadow” yet.)
Bogmire lets out a small squeal.
Bogmire: Anyway, it’s important that you don’t forget, so act like you did. (D’oh!)
Meanwhile, Vincent keeps painting with Yoshi’s tongue.
Yoshi: (The ketchup’s running out! I’m starting to taste paper! It tastes nasty!)
Kamek walks over to see Vincent’s painting. It’s Yoshi, about to throw an egg at a monster of some sort. Meanwhile, Kooper answers his phone.
Kooper: Yes?
Meanwhile, Vivian is walking down the hall in Dunder Mifflin.
Vivian: It’s me, Vivian. I’m not who you think I am.
Kooper (on the other end): Okay.
Vivian: Now kill the guy who killed your dad!
She hangs up and enters King Boo’s room. She turns the light on.
King Boo: Do I know you?
A small flame appears on Vivian’s fingertip.
Vivian: Yeah, I was Koopley’s neighbor.
King Boo: You were next door the whole time? And you have the power of persuasion?
Vivian: I prefer “Jedi Mind Trick”.
King Boo: And I have telekinesis, but I prefer “The Force”.
Vivian: Ahh, I see we’re both Star Wars fans! Wasn’t it neat when Darth Vader finally turned good before dying?
King Boo: It actually struck me as clichéd, but sort of touching. Eh. So, anyway?
Vivian: Now you’re going to stand still and burn yourself on my finger.
The fire on her finger turns into a fireball.
King Boo: Now I’m going to stand still and burn myself on your finger… NOT!
King Boo pulls his hand back, and Vivian flies through the glass… and into King Boo, knocking him into the yellow Wiggle.
King Boo: Didn’t mean for you to hit me!
Vivian pulls up the fireball from a few minutes ago.
Vivian: Fiery Jinx!
She burns King Boo and all the Wiggles. All 5 enemies lose 5 HP!
Vivian: Oh, I was trying for Shade Fist, but that works too.
Meanwhile, Dimentio is in a bunk bed in jail, and Bleck appears.
Bleck: Okay Menti, let’s go.
A guard opens the door, and Dimentio gets out. They both walk out.
Bleck: Well, got it out of your system now?
They get outside. Dimentio sneezes.
Bleck: Don’t tell me you’ve caught a cold! This is a new cape!
Dimentio: It’s fine. Anyway, the transforming spider thingy could heal, the killer had The Force, and this one cop can read minds! I have to stop a bomb and save the world.
Dimentio trips and falls. But he lands in a slightly different and abandoned Mushroom City. He’s wearing an overcoat and has a watch on.
Dimentio: Weird.
He sees a lot of empty cars with their doors open. He walks around and finds Bleck’s campaign HQ. No, not his castle. That’s where he lives. He walks towards it, and a cab pulls up. Kooper gets out. Kooper sees him and shells away in fear.
Dimentio: What?
He follows him and finds Toad.
Toad: Get back, you!
Dimentio: You again?
Dimentio turns and finds Princess Shroob, Tatanga, and Shroob running away in fear.
Dimentio: Oh come on, is EVERYONE scared of clowns now? I don’t even know you!
Mimi appears and heads towards Dimentio, stopping in fear when she sees him. Bleck walks out of his office, and Bob walks up to him.
Dimentio: Oh come on! Do I need a restraining order? And you, green girl! What are you staring at?
Vincent then phases through the ground, and pulls Bob away from Dimentio.
Dimentio: Thank you, Vincent.
He then sees Bleck is approaching him, with Yoshi and Kamek behind him.
Dimentio: Okay, this is getting weird.
Mimi: Sorry. Not.
She walks away.
Dimentio: About what?
Dimentio then sees that his hands are orange. He then reaches into his pocket and finds an empty bag of cheetos.
Dimentio: Ahh, cheetos. The only thing I love more than chicken. And myself.
He then notices that not only are his hands covered in the residue of cheetos, but they are also glowing orange. Bob tries to come towards Dimentio, but Vincent won’t let him. Yoshi and Kamek sadly leave.
Yoshi: (whispering) Hungry.
Kamek: (whispering) We’ll get something after this.
Dimentio: Okay, seriously, tell me what’s going on.
Dimentio looks and finds P.T. and Kool-Aid Man on a bench, eating out of one of those big cans with three kinds of popcorn, interested in the situation. P.T. pulls out a big bendy straw and sips from Kool-Aid Man.
Kool-Aid Man: Ahh! My brain!
Dimentio: Oh come on! Are ALL the characters that appeared here?
Bleck stops in front of Dimentio.
Dimentio: What?
Dimentio starts glowing brightly and screaming in pain.
Dimentio: OW, OW, OW, OW, OW, OW, OW, OW, OW, OW, OW, OW!
Not “ow”. More like generic screaming! But whatever. The camera zooms out to reveal that the whole thing was in Dimentio’s head.
Dimentio: Aw cripes, the explosions’ because of ME!
Bleck: What?
Dimentio starts spazzing out.
Bleck: Ugh. Dimentio, get a grip!