Last time with Larry, they went to Toad’s Factory in search of the (literal) Crystal Heart, but Toad tricked them and locked them in the factory so he and his workers could take it to the Baseball Kingdom. Teaming up with Beldam and Marilyn, Larry’s group set out for Giant Land for Iggy’s help.
With Violet, the Daisy Cruiser stopped working due to the mysterious Shy Guys from the prologue. P.T. unveiled the Piranha Flyer (as seen in a sprite comic), and after a tussle with Syrup’s crew, they made it to the Baseball Kingdom. They had to traverse a dense jungle to find a Golden Banana to trade for the (literal) Crystal Heart from Toad. Then they found an ancient underwater temple with the Amethyst Heart. The Shake King had it but was easily beaten. Then the Koopa Bros. came and tried to beat Violet and Co. They were beaten and things looked like they were going well until Larry, Grak, and Green crashed in.
Chapter 10: The Face-Off
Larry: You can’t have that Heart! Wait, why aren’t we seeing what happened to us during the last chapters?
Green: All we did was just go to Iggy, he spoke to us, then we came here!
Violet: Why do you need the Heart?
Larry: We’re stopping a great evil!
Violet: So are we!
Larry: Do you even know what evil?
Violet: No, but if we did it’d spoil some storyline elements.
Larry: Lemmy can’t take it anymore, we have to spill some beans now!
Larry shoves the Amethyst Heart into Violet’s hands and she gets a vision of the two Shy Guys.
Violet: What?
Larry: Those two Shy Guys are using a castle as their base to bring a swirly doom to the world!
Green: The Void!
Violet’s Group: *Gasp!*
Larry: Exactly! And did you ever see us?
Violet: Yeah…
Larry: Because we’re trying to stop it?
Violet: And why am I doing it, then?
Larry: Iggy didn’t tell us! The point is WE’RE stopping this!
Violet: Oh yeah? Well I want my brother back, and this is my only lead! … Apparently.
Daisy: Violet, that guy is Bowser’s son! He’s lying!
Larry: I’m not! Come on! You have to help us stop the Void! And to do that WE need the Crystal Hearts!
Violet: You can’t have them!
Larry: Fine! To be honest I didn’t even want your help, Iggy just told us that it’d be a good idea. I’d rather fight you for them!
Violet: Oh yeah?
Larry: Yeah!
Violet: Bring it on, Mohawk!
Larry: I will! Get them!
Grak: No.
Larry: …
Grak: All right!
P.T.: There’s something familiar about you.
Grak: There is?
P.T.: Yeah… Oh well.
Violet runs toward Larry and he shells toward her and there’s a boom! They’re quickly slashing and clawing at each other.
Larry: Do it!
Violet: No!
Larry does the Larry Bomb on Violet, then picks her up and chucks her into a wall. He shells toward her but Rufus catches him with his tongue, then Larry drags Rufus along with him. Daisy sprints ahead and kicks Larry’s shell into a wall and Rufus frees himself. Rufus tries to ground pound to make a shockwave but Green throws a mini Bob-omb at him and knocks him down. Green then runs up and kicks Rufus a few times until Daisy knocks him away with her racket. Then Grak slides by and knocks her over with Shell Toss. Violet runs over and catches her and helps her up, when Larry wakes up and tries punching Violet, but Daisy and Violet both punch him back and send him through the wall into a different room and follow him.
Green: Larry?
P.T. runs Green over on a gold Dolphin Dasher. Green gets back up when P.T. does it again, but this time sticks he his arm out (low to the ground though) to knock Green over. P.T. rides up onto the wall and across the ceiling in the opposite direction, as Rufus and Grak are having a mobile fight along the floor below. P.T. jumps off and hits the ground.
P.T.: Ow.
Rufus throws eggs at Grak but Grak spins in his shell to send them away.
P.T.: PAUNCH!
P.T. punches Grak’s shell away, but when Grak’s about to hit the wall he sticks his legs out and bounces off and sticks his legs back into the shell and aims for P.T. But P.T. ducks and the shell hits the wall and hits P.T. in the back, and Rufus runs up and flutter-kicks Grak’s shell and sends it flying into a wall. Green comes back with a saber and keeps slicing at Rufus but keeps missing, then P.T. grabs Green and slams him down on the floor, and Grak’s shell comes back and knocks P.T. over.
In the other room…
Larry: Last chance!
Violet: Never!
Larry grabs a spear off of a statue of a Blooper and gets into a spear/axe fight against Violet, and it’s fierce. Daisy pulls out her racket, but….
Violet: Stay back, I can handle him! He’s just a kid!
Larry: I saved the world once! You’re just a newcomer to this series!
Violet: Hey!
Their fight continues as Larry plays cheap and trips Violet with his leg. As she falls he punches her in the face and knocks her over.
Daisy: You’re not supposed to hit girls!
Daisy kicks a soccer ball at Larry but he deflects it back. They then start playing tennis, with Daisy’s soccer ball as the ball. In the other room, Rufus is trying to get Grak with his tongue but Grak keeps dodging, until P.T. runs up and head-butts Grak into Rufus’s face.
Rufus and Grak: OW!
P.T.: Oops.
Green runs up to P.T. but P.T. spins around with the Golden Hammer and hits Green. Grak tries to use Shell Toss but P.T. turns back around with his weapon and knocks him into Rufus.
Rufus: Knock it off!
Green wildly charges back toward P.T. with a saber and succeeds and sends P.T. running in pain. Rufus gets Grak’s shell off of him and throws it at Green, knocking Green over. Then Rufus eats Grak’s shell and spits it out at Green again. Then Larry breaks through the wall and knocks Rufus out.
Larry: My minions! You’ll pay for this!
P.T.: Hi Larry!
Larry: Not you again!
Daisy’s soccer ball hits Larry in the face. Larry then picks it up and goes over to P.T. and starts hitting him with it over and over again, then finishes it by slamming it into P.T.’s stomach and sending P.T. flying into the wall.
P.T.: Ow.
Daisy comes out of the hole in the wall and so does Violet. Violet starts running for Larry with her axe out, but Larry pulls out that spear and throws it. Violet chops it in half, keeps running, leaps up, and slices down, missing by an inch.
Larry: Eep!
Violet: You want me to make sure I don’t miss?
Larry: No, no, you can do whatever, I quit! Retreat!
Larry runs over to his party members, and picks them up.
Larry: BELDAM!
Beldam comes from the shadows and transports herself, Larry, and the bodies of Grak and Green away.
Violet: Phew, that took a lot out of me. But now we have the Amethyst Heart!
Rufus and P.T. walk up.
Rufus: Uh, girls?
Violet and Daisy: What?
Rufus: That.
The Koopa Bros. Shell Stack is headed straight for them!
Violet: Come on!
Violet takes Daisy’s soccer ball from her and throws it at the Koopa Bros, knocking them all away. They all head back to the pool of water, where their fishbowls are waiting.
P.T.: Hey, where’s the guy with the beard?
Daisy: Nobody cares.
They all put their fishbowls on and swim out to find Rudy’s body unconscious on the seabed. And the Piranha Flyer’s missing!
Everyone: !
Meanwhile, in the cockpit…
Shake King: Bwahaha! My beard is so brilliant! I would have never thought of sneaking out and hijacking their ship! And the best part is…
Shake King holds out a treasure box full of the collected Crystal Hearts.
Shake King: I have their treasures!
Bwahahaha!!! Who am I talking to?
Chapter 11: Larry’s New Adventure
Last time, Violet and Co. clashed with Larry and Co. The two had a great battle and in the end, Violet won. Larry and his friends retreated but something tells me that the two groups haven’t seen the last of each other. Finally, the Shake King took off with the Piranha Flyer and left Rudy for dead on the seabed. But first, let’s see what’s going on with Larry.
Larry, Grak, Green, Beldam, and Marilyn are on the beach.
Grak: That was dumb.
Beldam: So?
Larry: We tried telling them, but they were convinced that they should’ve done it!
Beldam: They should’ve!
Larry: What?!
Beldam: Well… Iggy said that you never really HAD to save the world. Why do you think the girl’s the one getting the visions?
Larry: Then what am I doing all this for?!
Beldam: Well you could still stop them so we could rule the world and not them.
Larry: … Glad I thought of it! So what do we do now?
Marilyn: Guh!
Beldam: No you idiot, that’s terrible! I have a better idea! We must go and hunt for the 11 Orbs!
Larry: No.
Beldam: What?!
Larry: I don’t want to! Can’t we collect… two of something?
Beldam: These items are the most effective! Gather all of them and put them all in their place and they can grant one wish for you!
Larry: Hmmm… Sounds good! But how do we know you won’t betray us?
Green: He has a point.
Beldam: Because I can kill you if you don’t!
Larry: Let’s go get those orbs! Where do we find the first one?
Beldam: Let’s see, the only one I know of is the Cobalt Orb. Which oddly enough isn’t made of cobalt, nor looks like cobalt.
Marilyn: Guh!
Larry: Where is it?
Beldam: It’s in Hollijolli Village!
Larry: That place that the Shroobs wrecked?
Beldam: It’s been fixed! Now I’m too lazy to follow you guys around so I’ll just go wait in Twilight Town for you. Come, Marilyn! I threw out my back!
Marilyn: Guh…
The two leave.
Larry: Dang it!
Slim Bankshot: Hi! I’m a Luigi’s Mansion boss!
Larry: Your parents must be proud.
Slim Bankshot: I want to join the party so you guys will have another official character!
Larry: Okay… What were you doing?
Slim: I was lonely.
Larry: So you went to an empty beach…
Slim: No, the ghosts here are just invisible.
Larry: Okay… Leaving now!
Outside the beach…
Larry: Do you know how to get us to Hollijolli Village quickly?
Slim: Not at all!
Larry: …
Grak: Pie.
Larry: …
Green: So what about that Magikruiser?
Larry: It was destroyed.
Slim: I say we go to the bank!
Larry: How will that help?
Slim: It won’t, I just need to deposit some money.
Larry: …
One trip to the bank later…
Larry: Now what? We need some kind of transportation. But what could we use?
Green: How about that?
Everyone looks over to find Captain Syrup’s Pirate Guys (Red, Yellow, and Blue) using ropes to pull the S. S. Teacup 2 out of the water. Then Slim pulled some old, stale tater tots out of his pocket and threw them against the wall. Everyone looked at each other in confusion.
Green: Why’d you do that? And to what wall?
Slim: Nobody cares!
Grak does Power Shell and knocks all the Pirate Guys away and climbs onto the ship.
Grak: It’s fully operational! Except it’s covered in seabed stuff.
Larry and Green climb in and Slim phases through the side.
Larry: Okay! Next stop, Hollijolli Village!
The ship takes off. There, they land the Larry Mobile (new name) where Bowser landed his Kruiser in the past. Also note that they scratched out the ship’s old name and wrote “Larry Mobile” on the side.
Larry: The place is wrecked! What happened?!
The party head to the center of town to find Dodo.
Grak: Holy flapperdoodles!
Dodo: I did it! I got the Crobat Orb!
Crobat: But I’m not a Mario species!
Dodo holds up a glass ball with the same design as a time hole. The pink and yellow lines are even swirling like in a time hole!
Larry: Drop that!
Dodo: Huh?
Dodo turns and sees Larry, Grak, Green, and Slim.
Dodo: Duuuuh, why should I?
Larry: Because we’ll beat you up if you don’t!
Grak: Duh-derr!
Dodo: I can’t do that! Valentine will punch me for falling!
Green: You mean Valentina will punish you for failing?
Dodo: Yeah! Now leaf!
Larry: Hand over the Orb!
Dodo: I’ll fit you!
Larry: We accept!
Dodo sticks his beak out and starts running toward Larry.
Larry: Scatter!
Larry’s party members run away and Larry jumps over Dodo and hits him in the back with his racket, but that does no harm. Dodo turns around and pecks Larry into a house. Slim comes out of nowhere and starts whacking Dodo with his pool stick. Dodo grabs it and slams it down on the ground. But Slim hangs on and phases through, dragging the pool stick and Dodo to the ground. Slim comes back up with the pool stick in his hands and hits Dodo in the face with said stick. It then breaks.
Slim: NOOO!!! SALLY!!!
Dodo gets up and punches Slim into a distant house. Grak’s shell then starts sliding over to him with Green on it. Green starts slinging mini bombs at Dodo with a slingshot, but Dodo punches them back at the pair, sending both into the air. Dodo then flies up and pecks Green into Grak’s shell, and both fall into a house below.
Dodo: I won!
Larry: Dang! For an idiot you sure are strong!
Dodo: Thinks!
Larry: What’s that?
Dodo: Where?
Dodo looks away and Larry snatches the Cobalt Orb and heads for the Larry Mobile.
Larry: EVERYONE, TO THE SHIP!
Dodo: HEY!!! NOBODY TRACKS ME!!!
Dodo chases after Larry. Green rides Grak’s shell past Dodo and Slim flies past Dodo at the same time. Dodo grabs Slim by his ghostly tail but Slim phases through and they all make it to the ship.
Dodo: NOBODY TRACKS DODO!!!
The ship is lifting up, but Dodo jumps up onto the roof of the ship as it takes off.
Dodo: SURFER!
Dodo starts pecking at the roof and making dents.
Larry: AAAAHHH!!! One of you guys go out there and stop him!
Grak: Not it!
Green: I can’t do it!
Slim: He broke Sally!
Larry: Ugh! I have an idea, but Slim’s going to have to make us all intangible.
Green: Why?
Larry: Just trust me!
Larry tells them the plan. Larry presses the “Self Destruct” button and the four of them group together and Slim makes them all intangible and the ship explodes!
Dodo: Looks like Dodo’s blasting off again!
Dodo blasts off into the distance. Slim then makes them all tangible.
Grak: Now what?
Larry: … I didn’t plan that part out yet.
Everyone but Slim starts falling.
Everyone but Slim: AAAAAHHHHHH!!!
Slim: Whoops!
Slim flies down and grabs all of them and carries them all to a mountaintop.
Larry: Well we got rid of him, but it cost us our ship.
Green: Now what do we do?
Larry: I say we head to Twilight Town and see if Beldam knows anything new.
Grak: How are we gonna get there?
Larry: Well where are we?
Grak: We’re in Gusty Gulch.
Larry: Really? Well I heard Tubba Blubba moved back, so let’s see if he can do anything! He used to work for my dad!
Larry, Grak, Green, and Slim head through Gusty Gulch.
Slim: Uh, I heard this guy likes to eat ghosts, so maybe I should just-
Green: Don’t worry, I think it’s just Boos.
They then stop at a group of enemies.
Hyper Goomba: SUGAR!!!
Hyper Paragoomba: COFFEE!!!
Hyper Cleft: ROCK STAR ENERGY DRINKS!!!
Grak: Hey, he finally inserted something that gives people energy “here”.
(Note: See Paper Mario Bros.)
Larry: Let us through!
Hyper Cleft charges at Larry but Slim makes him intangible. Then Hyper Cleft runs all the way back to where he is from the opposite direction.
Green: Did he just run around the whole world?
Larry: Forget this!
Larry takes a rock and serves it with his racket. It hits Hyper Paragoomba in the eye, knocking him down. Slim throws an 8-ball at Hyper Goomba, knocking him out. Then finally Green throws a mini bomb at Hyper Cleft, blasting him into the distance. The four then continue to Tubba Blubba’s place.
Larry: (knocking) Knock knock.
Tubba Blubba (inside): Who’s there?
Larry: Larry.
Tubba opens the door.
Tubba: What is it?
Larry: Do you have a boat or something?
Tubba: No. Why?
Larry: We need to get to Rogueport Island.
Tubba: You don’t need a boat for that!
Grak: Yeah you do! Now what?! Hooha!
Tubba picks up the four of them, swings his arm around, and then chucks them off into the distance.
Tubba: Bye!
Chapter 12: The Legend of the Orbs
Larry, Grak, and Green were instructed by Beldam, after their defeat at the hands of Violet and Co, to collect the 11 Orbs. Teaming up with Slim Bankshot, they found the Cobalt Orb (which looks nothing like cobalt) in Hollijolli Village, where Dodo had already retrieved it. After losing to him in a fight, Larry and friends stole it from him and made a quick escape, sacrificing their new ship (Captain Syrup’s old ship). Later Tubba Blubba sent them to Rogueport Island, where they could see Beldam for more information.
Larry and friends crashland at Rogueport’s harbor.
Green: Ow…! Hey, I’m back home!
Larry: Focus! Okay, we need to find a way to Twilight Town from here. What do you think we should do?
Green: I-
Larry: Ignoring that, I say we should ask around until we find the significant NPC.
They do.
Darkly: Why would you need to go there?
Larry: Because we need… Okay, it’s too boring to explain, we just need to get there, okay?
Darkly: Well you’ll need your name somewhere on your person to get into the pipe under the west side of town.
Grak, Green, and Slim all pull out nametags.
Larry: D’oh!
One tattoo later…
Darkly: There. A million coins, please.
Larry: I don’t think so!
Larry knocks Darkly over and they head to the west side of town.
Grak: How do we get under the gate?
Green takes out his saber and chops it up, leaving a hole.
Green: You’re welcome.
They all fall in and head to the pipe and hop in. At the Shadow Sirens’ House…
Beldam: You again?! What is it?!
Larry: We need to know if you know how to even find another once you find the first Orb!
Beldam: I don’t know! Go find an old guy! They know a lot! I’m busy looking up information about Mario & Luigi 3! They’ve recently announced it!
At Rogueport…
Frankly: Hmm? And who might you be?
Larry: Not important! Just tell us what you know about the 11 Orbs! One of them looks like this!
He holds up the Cobalt Orb.
Frankly: Sweet DAD Jr! You’ve found an Orb?! They’re only the most wonderful Power Objects in the known world! If you gather them all together in one certain place, they’ll grant any wish you want! No restrictions! And no bad stuff like if you wish for a million coins then they turn out to be counterfeit and not real!
Larry: Hmm, I like the sound of that. We found this in Hollijolli Village, some bird wrecked the place and found it near a crater that the author stupidly left out.
Frankly: It must’ve been buried deep underground. So that’s the… Cobalt one, right?
Larry: Why’s it even called that?
Frankly: Not important!
Grak, Green, and Slim: Why don’t we get lines?
Frankly: Equally not important! So I told you the story of the Orbs.
Larry: Well how do I find the next one?
Frankly: Well did you try shaking it?
Larry: … Why?
Frankly: If you do that, it’ll show you the way to the next one!
Larry: Okay…
He shakes the Orb. A beam of light goes all the way to the wall. Outside he finds that the light continues. Frankly follows Larry and his party members outside.
Frankly: From the looks of it, that could lead straight to the Mushroom Kingdom! Why are you even after these things anyway?
Larry: Not important! So how do we get there?
Frankly: I heard Cortez has a boat.
Larry: A boat, eh? Hmmm… I’ll take it!
At the dock…
Larry: There it is!
Larry points to Cortez’s huge boat.
Grak: Derr!
Slim: Well how’d we miss that?
Larry: It doesn’t matter, it’s there so we can use it now!
Larry and friends go to Cortez’s skull.
Larry: Cortez, let us use your boat!
Cortez: No!
Larry: Please?
Cortez: I don’t want to.
Larry: Why?
Cortez: I’m too lazy!
Grak: What if we give you a pie?
Cortez: You have any?
Grak: No.
Cortez: Then no!
Larry: Do you at least know a way we can get to the Mushroom Kingdom?
Cortez: Well I can let you USE my ship, but you cannot HAVE it. You should’ve said that from the beginning.
Larry: …
One trip later, the team find themselves at Toad Town docks. Larry and friends run away to avoid being seen. They’re in an open field now.
Larry: Okay… Uh oh.
Green: What?
Larry: The next Orb is the Mini Orb.
Green: So?
Larry: It’s… in Super Mini Mario World!
Grak: That toy theme park that Mario built for his toy likenesses?
Larry: Yeah. We can’t get in since we’re public enemies of the Mushroom Kingdom!
Grak: Well you are! And Green’s just a pirate! But I’m good!
Slim: And I’m obscure! Plus I could just phase you through so nobody notices!
Grak: (Darn, there goes my shot at a solo chapter!)
Larry: Great idea! But we need a way to get there fa-
CRASH!
There’s a huge crater behind them. Larry and friends run up to it to find out what crashed.
Larry: Oh no… Are you kidding me?!
Grak: Come on!
It’s Dodo! He wakes up.
Dodo: I’m back!
Dodo flies up and out of the crater. Slim’s looking at Sally, who he’s taped back together.
Slim: You’ve hurt my pool stick… Now you must pay!
Dodo: Duuuuh, I’m too string! You can’t bait me!
Larry: We’ll see about that!
Dodo: Duuuh, well I have Boss with me now, she’s on her way here!
Green: How? All you did since we last met was fall through the air!
Dodo: I used cell fun in the air!
Everyone: …
Dodo: I’ll bait you while she’s still away. DIE!
Dodo charges beak-first at the group.
Green: Look, it’s raining!
Dodo looks up like a turkey with his mouth open, and Greek heaves a mini bomb into Dodo’s mouth and it blows up inside him, causing lots of feathers to fly about. Dodo is now unconscious but with no signs of any wound.
Slim: That was easy! Let’s go!
The group continue to Super Mini Mario World. Then Dodo gets right back up and pecks Green hard and sends him flying into the air.
Larry: Don’t you ever die?
Dodo: Idiots in stories never die! Only smart ones!
Larry: D’oh! It’s true! (We’ve got to use his idiocy to our advantage…) Wait! Uh, Dodo? Before you kill us you have to fulfill our last requests.
Dodo: Duuuh, okay.
Grak: I want pie.
Dodo gives Grak pie.
Slim: I want you to say “I’m a weener.”
Dodo: I’m a weener.
Larry: Now go look for Pladoodles.
Dodo: Barbecue or normal?
Larry: (Gotta think of a real obscure kind!) Uh, dill pickle!
Dodo: Okay!
Dodo runs off.
Larry: Something tells me that shouldn’t have worked. Oh well.
Green crashes into a bush nearby.
Larry: Green, stop lounging around, it’s time to go to Super Mini Mario World!
Green: Ugh… Coming…
Green dizzily follows the rest of them.
Grak: Are we there yet?
Larry: This is gonna be a long walk…
So the quest is clear. Larry must find the 11 Orbs if he wishes to gain power. And his next one is at Super Mini Mario World. Will Larry find the Mini Orb? Will Green become the group scapegoat? Will Grak ever stop talking about pie? Is Frankly getting crazy? And will Dodo ever find those Pladoodles? All this and more… the time after next time!