Last time in an attempt to get revenge on Carpaccio, Larry and friends piloted the new and improved Koopa Cruiser on a rampage. But Violet and HER friends misinterpreted it as an attack against the Mushroom Kingdom and themselves, so Violet and Kooper infiltrated the Koopa Cruiser and blew it up, piece by piece. Many lives were lost, however Slim, Grak, and Green all fled to who-knows-where. This left Larry all alone with Violet and friends, and now with a united hate for Carpaccio, they all decided to team up… I don’t get paid enough for that! That was too long!
Chapter 19: More Shocking Than The Next Chapter?!
Inside the Piranha Flyer…
P.T.: Teaming up with the enemy is creepy. Almost as creepy as that time this guy kept stalking me. He kept forcing me to eat green eggs and ham! And I kept saying no! But he kept following me everywhere! He stood by my bed, he was in my car, he even followed me into the bathroom! And I just wanted to hit him! So I did! And then he called the police on me!
Rufus: … How come I haven’t strangled you?
Violet: According to the radar on this ship, we have to put in something belonging to the person we’re after to find them.
Kooper: I got some of the money he shot at us!
Violet: No, that money’s stolen.
Larry: I got a strand of his hair!
Everyone: …
Larry: I don’t have problems!
Everyone: …
Rufus: *cough*Weirdo!*cough*
Violet takes the hair and drops it into the item deposit.
Voice: Subject location – Carpaccio’s Lab
Rudy: Wow… That’s still vague.
Daisy: How come I don’t get many lines anymore?
Violet: Where is the lab?
Larry: There!
Larry points out the window to find a fancy building.
Kooper: How’d we miss that?
They land the ship. Meanwhile…
Sir Lance-A-Lot: Sir, if you could stop admiring your car for a second, we have intruders.
Carpaccio: You’re just jealous ‘cause my car’s better than yours.
Sir Lance-A-Lot: … Yes sir, that’s exactly it. Now if you’re done, we have some intruders.
Carpaccio: Yeah, whatever.
Sir: …
Inside…
Violet: Uh oh, there are guards blocking the entrance. While I’m sure we can take them, I’d feel better using a secret entrance.
Larry: Why?
Violet: … You’re right, to the front gate! CHARGE!
Everyone charges toward the Sir Lance-A-Lots guarding the doors.
Lancer: Hold it! Before you pass, we need you to answer some questions.
Daisy: Do your worst!
Spike: You heard her! Answer this! What’s the square root of 64, plus 9, minus three, minus twelve?
Rufus: … What?
P.T.: I’ll need my thinking hat for this one.
P.T. puts on a ridiculous sombrero.
P.T.: … Ocho!
Violet: … In English?
P.T.: Ocho!
Violet takes the hat off.
P.T.: I forgot.
Rudy: It’s eight!
Spike: D’oh!
Lance: Answer this! Do I smell cookies?
Violet: … What?!
Lance: You heard me!
Violet: … Yes?
Lance: Dang it!
Spike: Answer this! If a tree falls down in a forest and nobody’s around to hear it, are you still an idiot?
Larry: Yes! I mean-
Spike: Ha! Just for that-
Rufus knocks Spike out with an egg.
Lance: Uhhh, you may pass.
He lets everyone walk into the lab. Meanwhile…
Lance-A-Lot: Sir, they’ve made it past the front guards.
Carpaccio: Meh, it’s not like they can defeat me. Especially if they don’t pick up the you-know-what I somehow obtained.
Lance-A-Lot: No sir, I don’t know what.
Carpaccio: Good because that’d spoil it despite the fact that it’s in the very next scene.
Meanwhile…
Another Lance-A-Lot is guarding a purple treasure chest.
Stabby: I’m bored.
Kooper and Larry’s shells both hit Stabby at the same time, knocking him out.
Stabby: With my last breath, I curse any NASCAR fans!
Stabby is knocked over.
Stabby: Oh wait, I’m still alive. Can somebody help me up?
Larry: NO.
Violet goes over to the chest and opens it up. Goodstyle, the wand from the same Wario game this chapter is based off of, comes out.
Goodstyle: Hi! Carpaccio used some plot hole to trap me! If you get me out of this place I’ll let you use my powers!
Daisy: We need to go beat up Carpaccio though.
Goodstyle: Awww… Fine. Who’s the leader?
Violet: Me.
Larry: What about me? My name’s in the title!
Violet: Fine, him too!
P.T.: What about me? I wrote the story!
Everybody: NO!
Goodstyle glows and Violet and Larry get powers.
Goodstyle: The purple lady can now become Cosmic Violet or Arty Violet. The Koopa can become Genius Larry or Dragon Larry.
Larry: But I already know how to breathe fire!
Goodstyle: Now you can do it even better! Now go find Carpaccio and get us out of here!
Everyone keeps heading forward and beating up guards along the way until they reach a bridge. Count Cannoli appears.
Cannoli: I was told that if I stopped any intruders, Carpaccio would give me Goodstyle, who was locked up. So be gone!
Larry: You mean like this guy?
Larry holds up Goodstyle.
Cannoli: Yes! Hand him over and we can all leave!
Larry: No, we need him to beat up Carpaccio!
Cannoli: Then in that case…
The Mad Hat Mk. III appears and Cannoli gets into the cockpit.
Cannoli: I attack!
The machine looks like a giant metal version of his head with two fists and a switch on the back.
Cannoli: I’ve made upgrades!
The mouth opens and breathes fire. Violet becomes Arty Violet and draws blocks that provide a shield, while Genius Larry crawls under the robot and punches the switch with his boxing glove device. The machine hat guarding Cannoli launches into the air.
P.T.: Flying Kick Attack!
P.T. starts running and jumps onto the top block and then jumps through the air. As he passes over Cannoli’s head, he kicks the hat with his foot, knocking it off his head.
P.T.: Ha!
Cannoli: …
Daisy kicks a soccer ball at Cannoli’s head. It goes through the middle block and smacks the Count so hard in the face that it knocks him out of the machine.
Mad Hat Mk. III: WARNING! THE COUNT IS MISSING! SELF DESTRUCT IN: 10, 9, 8- OH FORGET IT!
The robot explodes, taking out the whole bridge, and Cannoli falls below. Rufus has grabbed onto the doorknob of the door that led them to this area by his tongue. Violet has grabbed onto Daisy, who’s grabbed onto Kooper, who’s grabbed onto Rudy, who’s grabbed onto Rufus. On the other side Larry has grabbed onto the doorknob with his hands and P.T. is holding onto a spike on Larry’s shell. Carpaccio sees this on a screen.
Lance-A-Lot: They’ve beaten the guard!
Carpaccio: Yes, but my fan-freakin’-tastic, much like my hair, bridge has been destroyed. I don’t think they can make it here now. Not even that Koopa, because the door opens in an outward fashion.
Outside, Rufus gets an idea.
Rufus: I have an idea-
I just said that.
Rufus: … But I don’t think I’ll like it.
Violet: DO IT!
Rufus: Okay!
Rufus retracts his tongue and grabs the doorknob with his hand, and then extends his tongue out to the other doorknob and opens that door.
Larry: Hey!
Rufus then reaches for something inside the door with his tongue and retracts it, launching him and everyone with him into the door. As they pass, P.T. grabs one of them with his feet, dragging him, Larry, and the door along.
Everyone: Ow…
Rufus: I didn’t really think that would work.
Rudy: Stairs!
Everybody goes up the stairs. They’re in Carpaccio’s room!
Carpaccio: Well, if it isn’t the losers. You want this, don’t you?
He pulls out the Diamond Heart.
Violet: Exactly that!
Carpaccio: Well you can’t have it. Listen, I’ve got a date in half an hour and I don’t want to get all sweaty. So instead of turning into a ninja or racing you, I’ll just eat you!
Kooper: Come again?
Carpaccio takes his sunglasses off and becomes Head Honcho Carpaccio again.
Violet: Did you forget about my axe?
Carpaccio: My insides can’t be popped!
He gets a weird look on his face and sucks up Violet and Larry, as they are the closest.
Daisy: What about the rest of us?
Lance-A-Lot: I honestly don’t know.
Inside Carpaccio, Violet and Larry notice they’re in a blue, round room with some kind of core.
Carpacio: Heh, heh, heh…
Violet: That seems ominous…
Two bubbles appear and start rolling towards Violet and Larry. Larry turns into Genius Larry.
Larry: Attack the one closest to you with a laser!
Violet becomes Cosmic Violet and shoots lasers at the one Larry mentioned, and thus she’s now free to attack the core. She becomes Arty Violet and drops a block on the core.
Carpaccio: AAAHH!!!
Ice crystals grow as more bubbles appear.
Genius Larry: AAAAHHH!
Genius Larry ducks and Cosmic Violet takes this to mean that he’s closest to the correct one. She shoots it.
Cosmic Violet: This switch didn’t activate!
Dragon Larry melts a crystal so Cosmic Violet can get over to another side, and Dragon Larry follows. She becomes Arty Violet and drops a block on the core, and then quickly does it to the next side.
Carpaccio: DANG IT!!!
All four switches activate and the bubbles appear.
Genius Larry: Your side again!
Cosmic Violet shoots the bubble, then becomes Arty Violet and drops a block on the switch. Cosmic Violet waits for any possible bubbles as Dragon Larry melts the crystals. Bubbles appear.
Genius Larry: Your side!
Cosmic Violet shoots it and then goes over to one of the other switches and drops a block on it. She then gets the idea to draw two more blocks and then Larry moves around to position the screen so each of the other switches gets crushed, even though technically that shouldn’t have worked. There are explosions everywhere as Violet and Larry are changed back to normal and are spit out. Outside of Carpaccio, he’s back to normal and tired.
Carpaccio: Ugh… That shouldn’t have happened… Fine, take your stupid Heart!
He shoves it into Violet’s hands.
Carpaccio: Now get out of my lab before I change my mind!
A warp pipe appears after Carpaccio presses a button on a remote control. Everyone hops in. They are conveniently right next to the Piranha Flyer. Then Violet gets a vision.
Black wings.
Violet: … That was a waste of time.
The beam from the Diamond Heart appears and it’s pointing in a different direction.
Larry: Oh child, the Void got bigger!
Rudy: We gotta hurry!
Goodstyle: What about me?
Next thing we see, Goodstyle is thrown out the window. Inside the ship…
Rudy: Dude!
P.T.: Waaah waaah. Who cares?
Daisy: Violet, how’d you know what to do during those fights anyway? You too, Larry.
Violet and Larry: We’ve played the game before.
Daisy: Oh…
Chapter 20: A Heart of Gold
Violet and friends, having newly teamed up with Larry, traveled to Carpaccio’s lab to find Carpaccio, and beat him up to retrieve the Diamond Heart. They met Goodstyle, who let Violet and Larry have disguised forms, and they met Count Cannoli, who attacked with the Mad Hat Mk. III. After that they found Carpaccio and Violet and Larry beat him up from the inside. He then gave them the Heart and sent them on their way. Apparently Larry doesn’t care about the Orbs anymore. Where will the Gold Heart be? And why on Plit did I use that horrible joke as a chapter name?!
Violet: The Diamond Heart is pointing to the Gold Heart… very close to here, in the Alergia Gardens!
Daisy: I’m sick of all the Wario-ness this story has. Let’s just get this over with!
The Piranha Flyer lands in Alergia Gardens. Everyone gets out and walks forward. Violet notices the Red Shy Guy and the Black & White Shy Guy taking a big ruby from a door.
Violet: Who are you?
Red: Gah! Be gone!
Black & White: … Didn’t you die?!
Violet: No… You might be thinking of my brother.
Black & White: !!!
Red: Too bad! We’ve hired minions to keep you from reaching the Gold Heart!
Black & White: But if you want you could go through these five doors and deactivate the seals one by one, which will bring the Ruby back and you can enter the door.
Red: … Why did you tell them that?!
Black & White: So they might try it and we can see them get killed! Then nobody can stop us from using the Void!
Rudy: You’re doing all this?!
Red: Yes we are, good luck stopping us!
The Shy Guys disappear.
Kooper: So they’re the reason we’re going through all this trouble.
Larry: Something seemed familiar about that red one.
Violet: And how did that other one know Purple?
P.T.: Who cares?
Violet and Larry: …
Rufus: Can we just get this over with before the Void gets bigger like it did right before we got here?
Larry: You didn’t even say anything?!
Rufus: I thought you’d notice!
Violet: The only door we can go in right now is the one with a picture of two swords. Let’s go in.
The group enter the door. They are greeted by two green Sammer Guys. One is tall and the other is short. They are not big and small, however.
Tall: I am Green Wolf!
Short: And I am Green Wind!
Both: Together we will dishonor your faces!
Green Wolf: To the arena! Two of you will face us!
Violet: Come on, Larry.
Daisy: Why does he get to go with you?
Larry: Because I’m the other star of this story! Now let’s get this over with!
They are taken to an arena. The other party members are watching in bleachers.
Green Wind: Both teams fight as teams! When one is defeated, both are!
Larry: Oh crud!
Violet: Let’s just do this already.
Green Wind sits on Green Wolf’s shoulders and they both start spinning around with their swords out and start heading toward Violet and Larry. Larry holds his racket out and Violet jumps off of it and kicks Green Wind in the face, knocking him off of Green Wolf. Larry Shell Tosses into Green Wolf, but he jumps over the shell and pokes it with his sword. But Larry is in a shell so it doesn’t hurt.
Larry: What were you trying to do? Couldn’t you see I was protected by my shell?
Green Wolf: Uhhh-
Larry spits a fireball into Green Wolf’s face.
Green Wolf: AAAAHHHH!!!
He starts running around and panicking. Green Wind is having a sword fight with Violet, only she’s using her axe instead of a sword.
Violet: What’s over there?
Green Wind looks away and Violet knocks the sword out of his hands.
Green Wind: Yikes! We surrender!
Green Wolf and Green Wind both disappear and leave behind a piece of frozen cheese.
Mario’s Clone: CHEESE!
Daisy: That was the first instance of Mario, in any way, in this whole trilogy!
Violet picks up the cheese.
Larry: That was a ripoff! Maybe we can just ram the next one down!
Everyone leaves and reappears back in the main area. The second door, the one with a P on it, reacts to the cheese and opens.
Everyone: …?
Everyone heads into the second door to find a Shy Guy with a blue vest and a big staff.
Shy Guy: DIE! I AM CRAZY GUY!
He throws his staff at Violet but Rudy jumps in the way and takes the hit.
Rufus: Rudy, wake up! That wasn’t even real wood, it was Styrofoam!
Rudy: Shh, I’m trying to impress Violet!
Rufus: I know.
Rudy: … I hate you.
P.T.: There will be no romantic subplot! You will now fight him!
Rufus: Fine, maybe I will!
Rudy: Maybe I’ll do it first!
Rufus: We’ll see!
Crazy Guy: I KILL YOU!
Crazy Guy starts running around with another staff and everyone but Rudy and Rufus backs away to watch. Rufus grabs the staff with his tongue and then swings his tongue around, thus swinging the staff and Crazy Guy around, and then lets go. Rufus then flutters up and ground pounds on Crazy Guy. Rudy picks up Crazy Guy from under Rufus and throws him into a pole, and then throws a fire potion.
Crazy Guy: I SMELL COOKIES!
Rufus rolls into a giant egg and runs over Crazy Guy. Just as he comes back again, Rudy picks up the egg and throws it at Crazy Guy and knocks both of them off the cliff and into the water.
Kooper: That was weird.
Larry: You’re not as much of a wimp as I thought.
Violet: Rudy-
Rudy: You feel the same way?
Violet: What?
Rudy: Nothing!
Violet: … Anyway, don’t you think we should’ve left him on land where we could get the key?
Rufus climbs back up over the cliff with a paintbrush in his hand.
Rufus: He dropped this like those other guys dropped the cheese. I’m just gonna take a wild guess and say that this is the key.
Violet takes the paintbrush and as everyone heads to the door Rufus sticks his tongue out at Rudy, who then pulls on it.
Rufus: Ow!
Everyone notices that the door with the Palette on it is reacting to the paintbrush, and it opens. Everyone heads in. They find a Toad with a green-spotted cap and a gray vest.
Toad: I’m Art T. Prepare to have an Art Attack!
Kooper: I’m going to beat you up for that lame joke now. Don’t worry guys, I’ll handle him!
Art T: We’ll see!
Art T. hops onto a cloud and paints a bunch of Thwomps. They come to life and all fall around Kooper and himself, and the two are trapped.
Kooper: Uh oh.
Art T. starts painting a picture on the canvas. It looks like some kind of super strong warrior, but with Will Smith’s head. Kooper Fire Shells into Will Smith but he kicks Kooper’s flaming shell into a Thwomp. Kooper then comes back with Dizzy Shell and spins around Will Smith, making him dizzy.
Art T: Gah! He’s been spinning around in a chair so much I thought he was immune to dizziness!
Kooper then hits Will Smith with a Power Shell, destroying him. But not the real Will Smith.
Art T: Grrr!!!
Art T. paints a blue fox.
Art T: This one’s so fast you can’t beat her!
The fox starts charging toward Kooper, who merely steps to the side and lets the fox hit her head on a Thwomp. Art T. smacks himself. Kooper does a Shell Toss on the fox, destroying it. Art T. then paints a giant bug thing in steel armor.
Art T.: Good luck getting through to him!
The bug thing opens up a claw and starts shooting a stream of fire out of it. Kooper hides in his shell to dodge it.
Kooper: Is that all?
The fire stops and the other hand launches off on a spring, grabs Kooper’s shell, retracts back onto the wrist, and then the monster slams Kooper’s shell down.
Kooper’s voice: Fire Shell!
Kooper’s shell begins spinning and catches on fire and starts melting the steel that makes up the bug in its entirety, destroying it.
Art T.: Eek! I give!
Art T. paints a black spear and it becomes real. He then runs away and the Thwomps all rise. Violet goes to pick up the spear.
Violet: For a minute there it looked like you were in trouble.
Kooper: Who, me? Nah.
Everyone leaves. Kooper starts heading to the door when Rufus holds him back.
Rufus: What was that?! I thought I told you in that deleted scene that I liked her!
Kooper: I wasn’t trying to do anything, I was just saying that those monsters weren’t giving me trouble! I’m not interested in her!
Rufus: Okay then.
Rudy comes up.
Rudy: What was that?! I thought-
Rufus: He’s not interested.
Rudy: Oh.
Back in the main area Violet holds up the spear to the scarlet-colored door and it opens. Everyone heads in. Inside is a girl.
Girl: They call me Monster Girl. In the Japanese version of this story I’m called Devil Girl but Nintendo of America changed my name.
Daisy: This isn’t a game, it’s a Fun Fiction.
Monster Girl: That’s beside the point. Now instead of eating your soul I just decided I’d have you fight my minion.
Ronald McDonald appears.
Larry: You’re kidding, right?!
P.T.: I’ll take him on!
Ronald McDonald: Ran ran ruuuuuu!
P.T. and Ronald are warped to a weird dimension that’s a mix between a park, an empty room, and a blank white space. Ronald runs up to P.T. while in a tracksuit and punches him in the face, knocking him down.
P.T.: That rather stings…
P.T. gets back up and hits Ronald with the Golden Hammer, then hits him again, then jumps up over Ronald and Sparta-kicks him in the back. But Ronald jumps over the attack and lands behind P.T.
P.T.: Falcon Paunch!
P.T. tries to punch Ronald but he leans back like in the Matrix, then comes back up, headbutting P.T.
P.T.: Maybe this isn’t working…
Ronald starts dancing.
P.T.: Okay…
Ronald: (in Engrish) Hamburger.
He throws a burger at P.T., but he hits it back with the Golden Hammer and it lands in Ronald’s mouth, making him fat.
P.T.: Wow, you let yourself go!
P.T. runs up to Ronald and hits his stomach with a hammer, but it sinks into all the fat. He pulls it back out but accidentally hits himself in the head with it.
P.T.: Ow! Why are fat people so hard to kill?!
Ronald then becomes thin and starts dancing, but he’s sticking his arms and legs out while he does so, hitting P.T. a lot of times.
P.T.: DANG IT!
P.T. smacks Ronald in the face with his boomerang.
P.T.: (Hmm, I know! I’ll kill him with Action Replay!) ZA WARUDO!
Time freezes and P.T.-from-another-dimension-kind-of-like-his-alter-ego jumps out of P.T.’s body and rapidly punches Ronald a lot. He goes back into P.T., who starts moving again.
P.T.: Falcon Paunch!
He punches Ronald in the face and when time goes back, Ronald is knocked over. Then a tractor lands on Ronald.
P.T.: WRYYYY!!!
P.T. and Ronald are warped back to Alergia Gardens. And the tractor is too.
Daisy: What were you doing in there?!
Monster Girl: Grrrrr…
Monster Girl disappears and a squirt gun appears where she stood. Violet claims it.
Kooper: Should we do something about Ronald?
Larry: Nah, he creeps me out.
Everyone goes back to the main area and the door with a tiger on it reacts to the squirt gun and it opens. They all go in. Inside, they’re greeted by a Spiky Goomba with a gold spike.
Spiky Goomba: I’m Gavin! And this is Hobbies!
An orange Yoshi appears.
Hobbies: Hey.
Gavin: One of you will die! Who will it be?
Daisy: I’m the only one who hasn’t fought yet, so I’ll go.
Daisy then appears in some kind of arena. Gavin runs by riding on Hobbies with a lot of Microgoombas following behind, kind of like Nruff and Nellie from Kirby’s Dreamland 2.
Daisy: What do I do?
Gavin: Stand there as we run over you!
Daisy: You’re just moving randomly!
Gavin: So?
Daisy: …
Gavin and Hobbies, as well as their minions, keep running around randomly. Daisy pulls out her Tennis Racket and it becomes a big Flower Racket. When Gavin and Hobbies start running toward her, she smacks them with the Flower Racket and knocks both of them out. But they get right back up and they’re all warped back to Alergia Gardens.
Gavin: Dang it! Hobbies, it’s time.
Hobbies: Crud, I liked being a living being!
Hobbies turns into the big ruby. Apparently that’s his real form. Gavin then runs away.
Larry: We did it! Let’s go put it in the door and get the last Crystal Heart!
Violet: Last?
Larry: There were seven, weren’t there? And this is the seventh!
Violet: There are eight.
Larry: Oh…
Everyone heads to the main
area. Violet puts the ruby into the door. The door then opens and everyone
enters.
Chapter 21: The Final Hearts
The gang went to Alergia Gardens to get the Gold Heart. They ran into the two Shy Guys who broke out of the Underwhere in the Prologue and who are responsible for the Daisy Cruiser breaking down as well as the whole Void business. To proceed to the Gold Heart, they had to defeat five warriors hired to stop them. They defeated Green Wolf and Green Wind, Crazy Guy, Art T, Monster Girl, and Gavin and Hobbies (who turned out to be the ruby). We also learned that both Rudy and Rufus have a crush on Violet that came out of nowhere. Now what awaits the group beyond the door? I don’t know! Oh wait, I do…
Everyone continues through the door. They find the Gold Heart sitting on an altar.
Rudy: Score!
Rudy runs up to grab it when-
A red blur zooms past and takes it from Rudy. It’s Red Ninjakoopa! His brothers then land next to him and they all do their pose.
Koopa Bros.: Here come the Koopa Bros!
Violet: You again?!
Red: Oh yeah, you know you couldn’t stay away from us, chick!
Violet: Call me that again and you can say goodbye to your arms!
Black: Ha, she totally burned you, Red!
Red: Shut up, Black! It’s time to floor them!
Rufus: Didn’t you already try that? And then we beat you?
Yellow: Well this time we have a secret weapon!
P.T.: You didn’t tell me you were bringing a secret weapon, Luigi!
Violet smacks P.T. with the flat side of her axe.
P.T.: Ow.
Green: It’s time… for…
Koopa Bros.: THE HEAVY METAL KOOPA BROS!
They all pose and then glow. When you can see them again they’re all coated in metal.
Daisy: How’d you do that?!
???: Because of me!
Carpaccio appears.
Daisy: I thought you were leaving us alone!
Carpaccio: I let you have that one treasure, didn’t I? I’m not interested in that anymore. I want this one! And I don’t see your name on it.
Violet: You hired these losers to beat us up?
Carpaccio: Yeah, well I turned these whiners into winners using my transformation technology. They can now become metal when they want.
Green: We’re heavy metal!
Carpaccio: It’s that kind of talk that keeps you from being great like me. Now finish them off or you’re fired.
Koopa Bros: Yes sir!
Carpaccio steps back to watch the action.
Violet: Uhh, charge?
Everyone Else: … CHARGE!
Everyone charges toward each other. Kooper tries his Fire Shell to melt the metal coating on the Koopa Bros. but it doesn’t work. The brothers then stack up and start chasing everyone with their Shell Stack Attack. Rufus, Larry, and Kooper all look at each other and nod. The two Joopas get into their shells and charge toward the Koopa Bros. Rufus rolls into an egg and follows. The three collide with the metal shell tower and the Koopa Bros. are knocked over because of it.
Kooper: That hurt even in my shell!
Yellow: Not us though!
P.T. tries to hit a random Ninjakoopa with his hammer but it bounces off the metal coating and the hammer flies back behind P.T., knocking him backwards.
P.T.: …
He’s then attacked by Green’s metal shell.
Violet: We can’t beat them like this. Hmm… I know! Daisy, maybe if we knock them into the water it’ll stall them long enough for us to get the Gold Heart!
Daisy: Worth a shot.
Daisy pulls out her Soccer Ball and kicks it insanely hard at Black’s shell, knocking it over the edge. The ball somehow comes back to Daisy.
Rudy: Hmm… You know Yellow Ninjakoopa, you’re not cool at all!
Yellow: Oh yeah?!
Yellow tries to Shell Toss at Rudy but he steps aside and picks up the shell.
Yellow’s voice: Huh? What’s going on?
Rudy then throws the shell over the edge.
Rudy: Guys, we gotta throw them over the edge!
Larry then gets an idea. He starts spitting fireballs rapidly at Green Ninjakoopa.
Greeen: Aaah, stop! I’m protected by metal but it still stings too much for me to move!
Rufus gulps up Green from behind and spits him out over the edge.
Red: Ozzie’s in a pickle! I mean I’m in a pickle!
Kooper: P.T., quick, give me your Action Replay!
P.T.: Oh, I lost it.
Kooper: Crud!
P.T.: Chicken Wing Attack!
P.T. pulls out a giant chicken wing.
Kooper: WHAAAAAAT?!
Everyone: WHAAAAAAT?!
P.T. then throws it at Red, knocking him back. He’s on one foot balancing on the very edge.
Red: Eep!
Kooper Power Shells into him, knocking him over and bouncing back himself.
Kooper: Ow…
Violet: Now to- The Gold Heart’s gone!
Larry: You didn’t do anything during that fight, you could’ve stopped Carpaccio from taking it!
???: Arrr! And where are you going with that?!
Everyone looks to see…
Everyone: Captain Syrup?!
They all see Captain Syrup holding Carpaccio by his collar and holding a saber to his neck.
P.T.: I thought you died!
Syrup: Don’t get excited, I’m killing you right after I kill him!
???: Well I’m stopping you first, so what?!
A green shell hits Syrup and knocks her away.
Carpaccio: Who are you?
Grak emerges from the shell. Green then appears.
Grak: I’m Grak Barn!
Green: And I’m Green Pirate Guy. We were trying to stop you but then we got scared of the Void and left so we became freelancers.
Carpaccio: Is that so? Tell you what; if you team up with me you’ll each get 10 percent of whatever we take.
Grak: I demand more!
Carpaccio: You each get 5 percent.
Grak: 10 percent it is!
Carpaccio: That’s what I thought. Now finish them!
Grak and Green notice that it’s the people who were wrecking the Koopa Cruiser… and Larry?
Green: Larry, there you are! Where have you been?
Larry: You guys ditched me so I had to team up with these creeps!
Green: Oh…
Grak: Well now we have to beat you up.
???: Not yet!
The Koopa Bros. are back in normal form and have climbed back up.
???: Not yet either!
Captain Syrup gets back up.
P.T.: Good grief, how many villains are going to make a reappearance in this chapter?!
Carpaccio: I guess I’ll have to transform even though I don’t want to. Oh, and by the way Koopa Bros, you’re fired!
Red: Awww! … We don’t need you! Come on guys, let’s beat him up too!
Black, Yellow, and Green: Cowabunga!
Carpaccio: Again, no great person says that kind of stuff.
Carpaccio turns into a ninja again and the Koopa Bros. take on their metal form.
Syrup: What?! Why can’t I transform?!
Green starts riding on Grak’s shell and holds out his sword. Violet hops onto Kooper’s shell and does the same. She stares intensely at Green.
Green: Eep! She’s not backing down!
Grak’s too busy singing to notice.
Green: …
Violet knocks Green off of Grak’s shell with the flat side of her axe, and Green is knocked out now. Grak’s shell keeps going until it goes off the edge.
Grak: D’oh!
Larry and Rufus are using the strategy they used earlier on the Koopa Bros. to defeat them one by one until Syrup runs in and starts swinging her saber, but then P.T. hits her with his boomerang.
P.T.: Aha!
Captain Syrup: Arrr!
P.T.: Oh no…
P.T. runs away and screams like a little girl until Rudy hits pursuing Syrup with a fire potion and the pirate catches on fire.
Syrup: AAAAHHHHH!!!
She runs off the edge and leaps into the water. Green wakes up.
P.T.: Woah! Get back down!
P.T. hits Green with the Golden Hammer and knocks him out again. Ninja Carpaccio appears behind P.T. and attacks a pressure point.
P.T.: Thursday!
P.T. faints.
Carpaccio: Okay…
Violet and Kooper do what they did to Green to Carpaccio, only he notices and dodges. Carpaccio reappears after they pass by and he throws a dagger at Kooper’s shell, causing him to go crazy and crash into a pole.
Violet and Kooper: Ow!
Larry’s shell then hits Carpaccio from behind and then Rufus starts egging Carpaccio and Rudy throws a fire potion at him.
Carpaccio: Gkkk!
Green: Ugh…
P.T. knocks Green out again without even getting up. Violet runs up to Carpaccio and leaps into the air with her axe out and lands. Carpaccio warps to avoid damage. Violet’s attack makes a big cut in the ground as if some giant boulder landed there.
Carpaccio: Yikes… That could’ve been me.
Violet: You want it to?!
Carpaccio: No… You really want all of these then? Fine, I’ll leave you alone with them.
Carpaccio kicks Green to wake him up.
Carpaccio: Wake up. You’ve got to go find your friend. We’re going to look for those other Orbs.
Green: Ugh… Yes sir…
Green tiredly follows after Carpaccio. Carpaccio then turns and sets down the Gold Heart and continues on his way.
Green: Should I-
Carpaccio: They’ve earned it…
The two leave. Violet goes over to the Gold Heart and picks it up.
Violet: Aha! Woah!
She gets another vision.
A silhouette shaped like Violet.
Violet: What?
P.T. gets up.
Daisy: Where’s it pointing to now?
Kooper: If I had to randomly guess I’d say Midas River.
Larry: That was way too specific. But I’ll take it. Come on, guys…
Everyone heads back to the Piranha Flyer as it takes off. Eventually it reaches Midas River.
Manager: Welcome to Midas River! If you compete in the Canoe Race you get this pretty Garnet Heart!
Larry pushes the guy over and takes the Garnet Heart.
Larry: The world’s at stake, pal, we don’t have time for this! Here.
Larry hands it over to Violet.
Violet: All right, that was the easiest one yet! Woah!
A black- and white-striped face.
Violet: Who was that?!
Rufus: Who cares, you finally got all the Crystal Hearts! Can I go home now?
Violet: No, now we’re going to Flipside.
At Flipside…
Violet: Merluvlee, we got all the Crystal Hearts, so now what?
Merluvlee: Hmm… Did you get visions whenever you held one of these?
Violet: Yeah.
Merluvlee: Tell me about them.
Violet: Okay… I’d rather just make a cheap chart…
1. “Swirly Doom”
2. A castle
3. Larry, Grak, and Green
4. –
5. Blue
6. Black wings
7. A person who looks like
Violet
8. A black and white face
Merluvlee: I see… What about that fourth one?
Violet: There was some confusion so I never really saw anything.
Merluvlee: Let’s see… The evil you were trying to stop was the Void that’s been growing lately, and that’s a “swirly doom”. The bad guys are hiding in old abandoned Castle Bleck in the center of the Void. Larry Koopa and his two friends will both be found there-
Larry: They’re not my friends.
Merluvlee: Ignoring that. After you are done you will find yourselves in a blue world. You will encounter black wings, as well as someone who looks like Violet… and you will also come face to face with the one with the black wings.
Violet: Oh. I guess that makes sense.
Rufus: What do you want to bet that fourth one would’ve given us a lot of information?
Violet: Hmm… A black and white face… That black and white Shy Guy knew my brother and he’s the reason for the Void. Do you think a Shy Guy is his natural form?
Rudy: I don’t know.
Daisy: How do we get to Castle Bleck? And how do we stop them?
Merluvlee: You must defeat the black and white one and his associate and then hold up the Crystal Hearts in the face of the Void. And as for getting there… the Void is big enough, you could probably just fly in.
Larry: That’s it?! We just fly into the Void and hope we make it to the castle?!
Merluvlee: Yep. Do it and you MAY die. Don’t do it and you WILL die.
Larry: Ugh…
Violet: Well I guess that’s what we have to do. Come on, guys…
P.T.: I don’t wanna.
Violet glares at him.
P.T.: Sheesh, fine!
Everyone heads outside and hops into the Piranha Flyer.