Chapter 21: Walk of Destiny
Pyro Guy met up with Victor in Windmillville, but their battle was interrupted by Junker, forcing the two to put their differences aside. However the robot was stronger than either of them expected, allowing Fawful to activate his trap. Meanwhile Violet finally beat the Star Battle Arena and now has the Star Rod and is chasing Goomba to Larry/Fawful’s Castle. Everyone is heading there, everyone but two characters...
<Opening: Golden Time Lover, by Sukima Switch>
Rudy and P.T. are just sitting around the mall of Toad Town because they got lost.
Rudy: I can’t believe you let us get lost!
P.T.: Hey, I’m not the one who wanted to ride the escalators!
Rudy: Yeah you are! But I don’t care, I’m just wondering what’s taking Boshi, Bobbery, and Pyro Guy so long! Even being lost here, I would’ve heard someone arguing with Boshi or screaming about a sudden fire...
P.T.: Why are you obsessed with those guys all of a sudden?
Rudy: Well it’s been kind of a long time since we both got here at once! We should’ve all gotten back at around the same time!
Popple: Stealing wallets, that’s what I do. I like stealing, how about you?
Rudy: Hey, could you be a little quieter while you’re picking my pocket?
Popple: Huh? Fine.
Rudy: Wait a minute!
Popple: !!!
Rudy: You haven’t happened to see a purple-blue Axem Ranger, a blue Yoshi, an old Bob-omb, or a Snifit that breathes fire anywhere, have you?
Popple: Oh. They all sound like the kinds of people headed to Larry Koopa’s Castle.
Rudy: Oh no! They went on without us! P.T., we have to get there now! Boshi could put the moves on Violet! If he busts out his mad breakdancing, I might as well give up on courting her!
P.T./Popple: Yeah, because we totally care.
Rudy: Well there’s that, and the fact that we should probably be there for them to help stop Fawful, since that’s kind of what we’ve been doing for the past few days... Except you Popple, you just kind of showed up out of nowhere.
P.T.: But we don’t even know where Larry lives!
Rudy: Grass Land.
P.T.: Oh.
Rudy: And that’s really just a small part of the Mushroom Kingdom. Somewhere south of here.
P.T.: Oh... I guess we could just walk there.
Rudy: True... But first we have to find a way out of the mall.
Popple: Leave it to me, I know exactly how to get out of a place if you’re lost. I saw it on Stupid Mario Bros. once.
Rudy: Oh. because that’s a good sign.
<Song: Let’s Groove, by Earth, Wind, and Fire>
Popple, Rudy, and P.T. start dancing. The three of them just dance. It soon turns into a montage of the three of them dancing at various spots around the mall, with all kinds of weird dance moves. No one seems to notice or at least care.
...
Eventually the song ends and the three of them are outside of Toad Town.
Rudy: Wow, we even got to the city limits... Where’s Popple?
P.T.: Who cares, let’s go!
P.T. runs west.
Rudy: Opposite direction.
And so begins Rudy and P.T.’s walk toward their most difficult challenge yet, Larry/Fawful’s Castle. Ten minutes pass.
P.T.: Are we there yet?
Rudy: No, but everyone else is, so don’t think about asking me where they are again.
A golf ball hits P.T. on the head and bounces onto Rudy’s head.
Both: Ow!
Sonny’s voice: Sorry!
P.T.: Who was that?
Rudy: Just one of those generic human golfers. To be honest though, I think he hit me on purpose! Probably jealous that they’ve been forgotten by Nintendo and Camelot. But we’re not better, I was a minor character in one game and you’re not even canon!
They keep walking for a while.
P.T.: So is this chapter just going to be random occurrences or hwhat?
Rudy: ... Repeat those last two words.
P.T.: Or hwhat?
Rudy: Why are you saying it like that?
P.T.: Saying hwhat like that, my little friend dressed in red and hwhite?
Rudy: ... Nothing... Well, this is where we fought Victor all those chapters ago.
P.T.: Hwhat makes you say that?
Rudy: This is the area that we ruined with the battle.
P.T. falls into that hole he dug.
P.T.: I see.
Rudy: And just over that hill must be Larry’s Castle, which means we’re almost there!
Rudy helps P.T. out of the hole and they climb over the hill, but it’s already going to be hard.
Bloomsday: Who goes there?!
Rudy: Uh, Rudy the X-Naut, and this guy. Why?
Bloomsday: Good. Master Goomba has ordered me to keep any of his enemies busy should they try to interrupt his meeting with Fawful.
Rudy: Oh, that’s not good at all.
Bloomsday: BEGONE!
He starts twirling his pedals, which creates a windstorm.
Rudy/P.T.: WHOA!
They hang onto a nearby bush to keep where they are.
Rudy: You can’t get rid of us that easily!
Bloomsday then twirls the pedals in the other direction, sucking Rudy and P.T. toward him. When they get close enough, he punches them.
Rudy/P.T.: OW! No fair!
Bloomsday: I am the most powerful of the Shake King’s minions. You crossed me when you defeated my friend Large Fry. Prepare to wilt.
Rudy: Not if science has anything to do with this!
Rudy pulls out a potion and tries to throw it at Bloomsday, but a vine grows from nowhere, knocking it away.
Bloomsday: I’ve watched enough nature documentaries to know what science does to nature, and I won’t let you try it!
Rudy: Curses!
P.T.: Must smash!
He tries to swing his hammer, but a vine wraps around the weapon and takes it away.
P.T.: Come on!
Bloomsday’s vine swings the hammer, hitting both of the heroes in one attack.
Both: Ow!
Rudy: We’re being beaten by a flower! I stood up to Midbus, but I can’t handle this flower!
A missile comes from nowhere, hitting Bloomsday dead on.
Bloomsday: AAAAHHHH!!!
Rudy: What was that?
Newcomer - SOLID SNAKE
Snake: Showtime.
Rudy: Snake, quit showing up in this story; one or two jokes is good, but this is ridiculous!
Snake: Ridiculous?
Rudy: Yeah, if you keep using a joke, it gets less funny!
Snake: Less funny?
Rudy: Yeah because- Oh wait...
Bloomsday: You shall pay for that, Snake!
Bloomsday starts focusing all his attacks on Snake. Rudy begins to notice this.
Rudy: ... Say, I think we could probably just sneak in while those two fight it out.
P.T.: Aww, but I wanted to watch!
Rudy and P.T. sneak past Bloomsday and Snake, but the latter notices.
Snake: Hey, you two are sneaking all wrong!
Rudy/P.T.: !
Bloomsday: You!
Rudy: Forget it, just run!
They run to the door, but vines grow in front of it.
Bloomsday: You’ll never defeat me!
Snake: Defeat you?
Bloomsday: ...
The floral foe simply swats Snake into the distance.
Bloomsday: Any last words, you two?
P.T.: Uhhh-
???: NOT YET, FLOWER!
Everyone: Huh?
Everyone looks up to see Boshi and Bobbery drop down from a ship in the sky and land on Bloomsday’s face.
Bloomsday: MY FACE!
Boshi: Ha!
Boshi jumps off so Bobbery can explode without hurting anyone but the evil plant.
Bloomsday: GAAAA!!!
Bloomsday grabs Bobbery and slams him into the ground.
Bloomsday: If there’s anything I hate more than heroes, it’s bomb surprise attacks!
Boshi: Then you’ll hate this! NOW!
A few non-sentient Bob-ombs are dropped from the airship Boshi and Bobbery jumped from.
Bloomsday: AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
Bloomsday withers up and dies. For some reason a Heart Container and a warp to the entrance of Bumpsy Plains appears, but no one cares.
Rudy: Where’d you guys come from?
Boshi: Oh, I stowed away on some guys’ airship. Then I saw Bobbery with them, so I introduced myself and we all decided to just come here.
Bobbery, in slight pain, limps over to the other three.
Bobbery: And on top of all that, we have the Millennium Star with us!
Rudy: Awesome! So do we storm the castle and fight our way to the throne?
Boshi: Well we have an airship, we could just crash it into the castle and hope for the best.
P.T.: I like that idea better.
Rudy: I don’t. Say, where are Violet and Pyro Guy?
Boshi: I was hoping you knew.
Suddenly Midbus, Cowboy Jed, Giga Lakitu, and Junker appear from nowhere.
Midbus: YOU WILL BE PAYING FOR THE INSOLENCE THAT IS YOUR OWN!
Cowboy Jed: Yee-haw, let’s get behind the wheel!
Giga Lakitu: Worst assault ever.
Junker starts dancing.
Boshi: Wait, if you’re the Fawful Six, where are the last two of you?
Giga Lakitu: Those Karate guys were tired of not getting paid, so they broke into the vault and left, but now we’ve got to kill you!
Midbus: DO THE PREPARATIONS FOR PAIN!
Bobbery: It’s four against four, and I’m not feeling so well.
Rudy: If only my robot dog Goddard were here to give me options!
Boshi: You’re really reaching for those references, aren’t you? Anyway, I’ve dealt with Cowboy Jed, he’s all talk and a few Spiny Shells.
Bobbery: Giga Lakitu, we’ve met that chap before, but I tell you he’s an absolute pushover.
Rudy: Well Midbus is pretty good.
P.T.: I couldn’t even beat my guys. And has anyone even seen Junker before in real life?
Rudy: He probably fought Pyro Guy. Speaking of which, do you know where he is, Bobbery? Boshi doesn’t.
Bobbery: He was abducted by Fawful! I thought I told Boshi...
Giga Lakitu starts whispering to Midbus…
Giga Lakitu: Why are we all standing here and just letting them talk?
Midbus: I DO NOT KNOW. DIE!
Midbus charges over toward the party.
Party: Oh goodness.
Boshi: Uh, Shade? A little help!
The airship promptly lowers and Fin pulls out a ladder for the party to climb. They all get on and Petey leans over the side, spitting cannonballs at the Fawful Four.
Shade: All right, guys, I’m crashing this ship into the castle. Hold onto something! It could get messy!
Rudy, Boshi, Bobbery, and Blooper hold onto part of the ship. Blue Toad and Yellow Toad run into the engine room. P.T., Petey, and Fin hold onto a coin that Petey picked up off the floor.
Shade: GO!
???: No, wait!
CRASH!
Chapter 22: Imperfect Dark
Rudy and P.T. made it to Larry/Fawful’s Castle and almost couldn’t defeat Goomba’s guard, Bloomsday. Luckily, Bobbery and Boshi came to the rescue just in time to bomb him to death. However the remains of the Fawful Four came to mess them up, but the good guys all boarded Shade’s ship and crashed into the castle’s top floor. What will become of them?
Violet, Goomp, Guy, and Paraplonk land the Star Platform on top of Larry/Fawful’s Castle.
Goomp: So, uh, that Goomba just got out of Hot Rodrick’s car and planted an evil flower, or something.
Paraplonk: Well it’s a good thing we’ve got another way into the castle.
Two Dark Mechawfuls appear.
Dark Mechawfuls: YOU BE SMACK-TALKIN’ OUR CASTLE?
Guy: Oh no! They’re Fawful’s strongest generic minions!
Violet: Oh no! Uhh... I wish-
One of the Dark Mechawfuls punches the Star Rod out of Violet’s hands.
Violet: Hey!
Guy: Ha!
His Magikoopa wand shoots a few geometric shapes at the robots.
Dark Mechawfuls: AHH! THESE SHAPES! THEY ITCH! EVEN THOUGH I HAVE NO NERVE ENDINGS!
Violet pulls out her axe and cuts the robots, defeating them. Or rather, their bodies. The heads fly away in fear.
Goomp: That was weird.
Paraplonk: Here’s that Star Rod back.
Violet: Thank you. Well, guys, I don’t think we can take on Dark Fawful alone like this. He’s probably got a lot of minions. I mean, I could try a wish, but this Rod’s been acting weirder the closer we get to this place.
Goomp: Maybe test it?
Violet: Okay... I wish the day was saved!
Nothing happens.
Guy: Maybe the Dark Star’s power is blocking the Star Rod and it can only do smaller wishes?
Goomp swipes it.
Goomp: I wish for a tuna melt!
He gets one.
Goomp: Awesome!
Violet: Okay.
She takes the Star Rod back.
Violet: I wish my friends were here.
Bloomsday’s voice: Who goes there?!
Rudy’s voice: Uh, Rudy the X-Naut and this guy. Why?
Paraplonk: Well that was convenient timing.
Violet: It looks like they’re having trouble down there. Come on, guys, let’s-
Suddenly a few more Dark Mechawfuls appear.
Dark Mechawful: WE HAVE FURY!
Violet: Oh no...
Guy shoots more shapes at the robots while Goomp uses Tattle, pointing out weak points that Paraplonk can hit when using Sky Dive. But most of the important damage is done by Violet and her axe.
Goomp: It’s like there’s an infinite supply of these guys or something! When does it end?!
Shade’s voice: All right, guys, I’m crashing this ship into the castle. Hold onto something! It could get messy!
Violet and the three minions notice the airship headed straight for the castle.
Shade’s voice: GO!
Violet: No, wait!
CRASH!
...
Blue Toad is the first one to wake up. He notices the wreckage of the airship and the castle wall. Even the roof collapsed. A few of the people onboard were flung quite a ways into the throne room they’re in. There are three minion-type guys, an Axem, and some robot scraps.
Blue Toad: Am I the only one left alive?
???: Nah, I’m alive.
It’s Boshi. Soon all the others wake up and meet with each other.
Rudy: Violet, what’s been going on?
Violet: I won the Star Rod in the Star Battle Arena, but Goomba appeared and attacked, and then he came here. These guys are helping me.
Shade: I guess I haven’t explained it yet, but me and my party are trying to stop Fawful too. We got the Millennium Star, picked up Boshi and Bobbery, and came here.
Rudy: Oh. P.T. and I just walked here.
Shade: And I have the Millennium Star!
Violet: Yay!
Shade: Right... here? Weird, I could’ve sworn it was in this pocket.
???: Looking for this?
Fawful appears, but as Dark Fawful; he no longer resembles Larry in any way.
Dark Fawful: I have completeness! Enough of the time has been passed, now Fawful’s body is back to being here! The fink-rat Larry will soon do the disappearing act from the plane of reality!
Everyone gasps.
Dark Fawful: I have chortles! As well as the Millennium Star!
He holds it out.
Dark Fawful: Now to be eating it, then it cannot have use against Fawful!
Dark Fawful inhales the Millennium Star.
Guy: That’s how he got us!
Violet: No!
Violet runs up to Dark Fawful, but gets sucked in as well.
Everyone else: AAAH!
Dark Fawful: Well that does the taking care of the one who is her. Now to be disposing extra threats!
Dark Fawful inhales Shade, Petey, Fin, and Blooper.
All four: NOOOO!!!
Dark Fawful: The black wind begins to blow. Fine, give me your best shot. IF YOU ARE PREPARED FOR THE VOID!
Boshi: Ugh, quoting old school RPGs? Way to kill the mood.
Dark Fawful: Kill? Or enhance?
Boshi: ... Kill.
Dark Fawful starts glowing.
Yellow Toad: Maybe it’s not over just yet; Violet left the Star Rod here!
Goomp: Nah, it’s weakened around the Dark Star’s power. But I did get a nice tuna melt.
Dark Fawful: SUMMON!
Dark Fawful disappears in a purple puff, but is replaced by Victor, Pyro Guy, and Poochy. They all have red eyes (Victor normally does anyway, being a Dark Koopatrol, but eh). Then the Fawful Four barge into the room, short of breath.
Giga Lakitu: Worst... staircase... ever...
Midbus: YOU WILL STILL NOT BE ESCAPING US!
Victor: DIE!
Poochy: Arf!
Pyro Guy: *muffled*!!!
Boshi: Uh, Bobbery? Rudy? P.T.? Toads? Other guys I don’t know? I think we’re actually going to die here. I think this is, without a doubt, the one fight we can’t win.
Rudy: This is looking pretty bad...
Yellow Toad: I wish Midbus was frozen!
Midbus freezes.
Midbus: NOT... AGAIN...!
Yellow Toad: Hey, it worked!
Pyro Guy starts spitting fireballs in Midbus’s direction while Victor, Poochy, and Junker start attacking the party.
Cowboy Jed: ... I’m-a just gonna go play Mario Kart Wii, this job’s leavin’ me plumb tuckered out.
Giga Lakitu: Right behind you.
The two of them leave.
P.T.: Super Fist of the-
Victor swings his sword at P.T.
P.T.: Hey!
Guy aims his wand at Poochy, causing him to turn back to normal.
Poochy: Bark!
Blue Toad: Hey, the spell turned the dog back to normal!
Bobbery: Why, I’ll be! Quick, aim for the others!
Guy shoots the spell at Pyro Guy and turns him back to normal, but Victor chops the wand in half.
Guy: Aw no.
Pyro Guy: *muffled*!
He breathes a continuous stream of fire on Victor.
Victor: AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!
P.T., Blue Toad, Yellow Toad, and Rudy all get this next attack in.
All: FALCON PUNCH!
The attack sends Victor flying into a wall, knocking him out. But Junker throws a garbage ball at the party.
Yellow Toad: Oh yeah, kinda forgot about him!
Boshi: But it was nice of him to just stand there while we took care of the others.
Junker picks up Bobbery and throws him into a Junker Can, but the sea bomb explodes as soon as he’s inside.
Bobbery: You’ll have to try better than that, vile device!
Junker starts getting real mad and resorts to throwing dirt Thwomps everywhere.
Rudy: It’s getting crazy in here!
The minions are just hiding behind the throne at this point. P.T. attacks with his hammer, so the Junker picks him up.
P.T.: Bad idea.
While the cyborg is distracted, Bobbery detonates at its feet, defeating the robot. P.T. drops to the floor.
P.T.: Ow.
Dark Fawful: I HAVE FURY! You have given my minions the Glass Joe vs. Little Mac thrashing! Have the preparations for the funerals of yourselves, because now comes the fury of Fawful!
Yellow Toad: I wish-
He gets a shadow ball to the face, causing him to drop the Star Rod. Dark Fawful warps over and eats it.
Dark Fawful: No one will play with the toys during the meeting of Fawful’s!
Boshi: Ha!
He starts throwing eggs at Dark Fawful, but a fist covered in dark energy deflects all the projectiles.
Boshi: This... isn’t going to get any better for us, is it?
Dark Fawful: Dinging dings! A winner is you!
Rudy: Now what?
Suddenly Tiki Tong (the final boss of Donkey Kong Country Returns) rams into Dark Fawful.
Dark Fawful: Ow!
Tiki Tong: ROOOOOOOOOOOARRRRRR!!!
Tiki Tong’s hands start glowing with power. He picks up Dark Fawful and spews banana juice all over him.
Party: Ewww...
The beast promptly slams Dark Fawful onto the ground. And the banana juice is having an effect! It’s turning the body back into Larry’s! Yay!
Tiki Tong: ROOOAR!
Rudy: Gee, uh, thanks for the Deus Ex Machina, Tiki Tong! But why?
Tiki Tong: Destroying the Dark Star was my purpose.
Blue Toad: Wait, you’re a good guy? But you were enslaving those animals to take bananas!
Tiki Tong: To create my hands. If those stupid apes hadn’t defeated me then, I could’ve had more time to prepare for this day! I mean, the game never explicitly said why I was doing all I could to get the power of the bananas.
Bobbery: I guess...
Goomp: How’d you get here?
Tiki Tong: I was sent by The Big Man. I owed him a favor.
P.T.: You’re not telling us who that is, are you?
Tiki Tong: No. But you’ll find you when the time is right. All I’m saying is that things aren’t going to go back to normal simply because the Dark Star’s power is gone. So beware.
Tiki Tong starts to fly away.
Rudy: Wait, what about Larry and everyone else inside him?
Tiki Tong: It’s up to them to destroy Fawful once and for all. When they do, they shall be released. For now, just wait.
Tiki Tong floats away. The party looks around to assess the situation. The ceiling and walls are ruined, frozen Midbus and the scraps of many robots are all that’s left of Fawful’s army, Victor is unconscious against one of the remaining walls, they’ve now got Poochy with them, and a giant Tiki came from nowhere and spit up banana juice on Dark Fawful to turn his body back into Larry’s so that their friends could fight Fawful inside the body, and there’s still a threat somewhere out there.
P.T.: ... This was one of our weirder battles, wasn’t it?
Everyone else:
... Yep.
Chapter 23: Larry’s Inside Story
Everyone made it to Fawful in order to finally purge Plit of the Dark Star’s last remnants of power, but he had some tricks up his sleeve that made things harder for the party. Both artifacts, Violet, Shade, Petey, Fin, and Blooper were absorbed into the darkness. When all seemed lost, Tiki Tong came from nowhere to turn Fawful into Larry, having been sent by “The Big Man”. Now all that’s left is for those inside of Larry to defeat Fawful and then all will be well. Maybe.
Inside Larry’s body, Violet, Shade, and most of his party are somewhere in a void. They’ve spent a while walking around until they finally found Larry.
Larry: Take that, Team Plasma!
Violet: Larry?
Larry: Huh? Oh, I wasn’t totally just playing Pokemon to pass the time while I fade into nonexistence.
Violet: Larry, what’s going on?
Larry: I’m guessing you somehow got absorbed by Fawful.
Dark Fawful: YES!
Everyone else: Ah!
Dark Fawful: And I have fury! A wooden beast acted as a dog taking my body acting as a sandwich!
Petey: What?
Dark Fawful: Now Fawful will possess vengeance!
Fin: Well it’s better than possessing Larry.
Larry: No Fawful, I’ve had enough of this! If your body’s turned back into my body, then I say you’ve lost!
Dark Fawful: As long as there remains a scrap of meat of Fawful on the salad sandwich of Larry’s body, it cannot ever be a sandwich of the vegetarian variety!
Petey: What?
Shade: I think he’s saying that as long as he’s in here, he’ll still be a part of Larry.
Blooper: I’ll be your friend online if you promise to leave.
Dark Fawful: To you I say no!
Violet: Then we challenge you to a battle! If you win, we’ll stay here forever and you’ll get Larry’s body back. But if we win, you have to disappear forever.
Fawful: Fine!
Petey: Uh, and you just assume that all of us want to stay in here forever?!
Violet: Otherwise he wouldn’t agree to it!
Shade: Relax, it’s five against one! Six if you count Larry.
Larry is trapped in a dark cage.
Larry: Hey!
Shade: Or not.
Fawful: Fawful challenges the ones who are you to a game of Strikers!
Violet: Uh... I guess?
Shade: We accept. Now let us huddle.
The party goes over to huddle.
Violet: Um... I’ve never played Strikers before... ever.
Petey: Hey, I was a captain in the second game, just leave it to me! Now all we’ll need is matching sets of power armor, a hi-tech ball, outrageously powerful moves, and a bad attitude.
Fin: Why?
Petey: Uh, hello? In the Mushroom Kingdom, soccer is SERIOUS BUSINESS!
Fin: ... Fair enough?
Petey: I call captain! Lady, since you don’t know how to play, you can just be the goalie.
Violet: Okay...
Fawful: My team is here!
His team is Fawful, Goomba, Hot Rodrick, and two Snawfuls.
Fawful: BE PREPARED FOR A SMACK DOWN!
Soon, everyone’s suited up. Petey’s team is red and Fawful’s is green. Petey and his team walk up to Fawful’s, which is missing their leader. Petey confidently points his leaves at himself as if to say that he is indeed all that.
Petey: Heh.
Fawful’s team points up at the sky and Fawful slams down.
Fawful: I HAVE FURY!
Hot Rodrick: Sir, why are we doing this again?
Goomba: He promised me some more power!
Hot Rodrick: Oh.
And the game begins. Petey’s team is on what would be the player’s right, and Fawful’s is on the other side.
Petey: HA!
Petey hits the ball over to the other team’s net, but Hot Rodrick is acting as the goalie and is actually pretty good at keeping it away. Violet, on the other hand, is so scared of the ball that she cowers whenever it comes anywhere near her.
3 - 0
Fin: Wow. Just wow.
Blooper: They got three goals already! And that’s without any Mega Strikes!
TIME UP!
Petey: SHOOT!
Petey eats a Snawful and spits it out.
Blooper: Uh, best two out of three!
Fawful: Fawful has allowing. Five minutes of preparation!
Petey’s team huddles.
Petey: Okay Vi, you’re deadweight, so we’re moving you to a position that matters less.
Violet: Please tell me it’s being a spectator.
Petey: No, you’re just switching with Shade.
Shade: Oh boy...
Petey: Just do it, man! I don’t wanna stay here forever because we lose!
Shade and Violet switch places and the game begins again. They start doing considerably better, with Blooper and Fin knowing better than to pass the ball to let Violet actually do anything but stand there. However her chance comes when Goomba kicks a ball toward Shade and Violet catches it.
Petey: YOU FOOL!
Violet: What?
Blooper: You don’t use your hands unless you’re the goalie!
Violet: Oh... Darn it.
Shade: Ugh, just kill me now, DAD! ... Again. See, I was dead once, in fact that’s how we met, Petey-
Petey: Yeah, I remember, Chapter 15 of the original story, shut up.
Fin: What do we do now?! He’s about to win as soon as the timer starts back up.
Snawful: Get back to the game!
Violet has to take the ball back to the center, and the last ten seconds of the match resume. But then it gets crazy! Blooper actually scores!
3 - 1
Blooper: Yeah! I’m great and made of awesomeness! IN YOUR FACE, FAWFUL! IN IT!
Fin: Why so harsh all of a sudden?
Blooper: I don’t know, I just figured it was mandatory to be like that in Strikers.
Then Petey gets a Mega Strike in! He celebrates by strutting in rhythm to his own theme song.
Petey: Hahaha!
Shade: All right!
Fin: Way to totally cover for Violet’s lack of skill!
Violet: ...
And time’s up! Petey’s team wins! They celebrate by having Petey play limbo.
Larry: Great, now you guys are tied.
Fawful: Huddling!
The teams huddle.
Petey: All right, guys, that was mostly luck. Let’s work with that. And let’s do this!
The third game begins.
<Song: Golden
Time Lover (Rough English Translation), by Sukima Switch>
(It’s a Japanese
song, this is a rough translation.)
My body is
failing I don’t know what to do right now.
Lost control
and confused now I am angry.
Not the moon
or the sun is on my side.
There’s no
choice but I keep on saying keep on going.
Petey’s team is doing pretty well defensively. Thanks to a Mega Strike, he gets three goals.
This is my
situation, cannot run from it anymore now.
I’ll fight
with my guts and all my passion.
Got to plan
ahead so my target won’t be out of reach.
All I need
is my pride and then-
Fawful’s team makes a comeback with Fawful’s own Mega Strike, as they try to even out the score.
Is this the
wine of sweet victory?!
Or is this
the fruit of defeat?
Shade tries to block the shots, but three of the four make it in. Petey’s team is visibly disappointed.
I have it both
ways if destiny is a lie.
But I want
to control fate and the world...
Blooper, Fin, and the two Snawfuls are kicking the ball back and forth more or less until Goomba headbutts it in Shade’s direction.
Glorious golden
time I will win with my two hands!
All I need
is this poker face and then I am sure to win.
And throw
them in a place of illusions.
Violet does something right for once and intercepts the ball, kicking it back to Blooper. The squid slaps it towards Petey, who headbutts it into the enemy goal, past Rodrick. Fawful’s team is furious.
Can’t escape this pressure game!
Fawful tries even harder to score, and gets in a shot.
I will reach
the borderline and climb to the top!
But what will
I sacrifice to get it-
Is the one
thing I don’t want to lose.
Goomba goes at it once more, but Shade blocks it and throws the ball toward the other goal, and Fin headbutts it into the other goal.
Song: Golden
Time Lover
Performed
by: Sukima Switch
Album: Um,
actually I don’t know.
Fin: Ow.
Fawful: NO! IT WILL NOT HAVE A CONCLUSION SUCH AS THIS!
Shade: Hey, you’re losing anyway. I mean, come on, you’re not even dark anymore.
Fawful: No!
Blooper: And you’re bound by a deal, meaning that if you don’t comply, the Deal Police will take you away forever.
Fawful: NOOOOOO!!!
He explodes in a puff of dark smoke, which forces everyone out of the body. They reappear in Larry’s ruined throne room, outside of Larry’s body. The Koopa wakes up, coughing up dark smoke, the Star Rod, and the Millennium Star.
Larry: Ow...
Everyone who wasn’t in Larry is confused. Especially since they’re not familiar with Goomba and Hot Rodrick. A ghost of Fawful appears.
Fawful: FINK-RATS! THIS IS NOT THE CONCLUSION OF FAWFUL!
Violet: You’re a ghost now, you can’t hurt us!
Fawful: But Fawful can renew the library book that is Larry’s body!
Larry: Rrrrrrr!!!
Larry crawls over to the Millennium Star and holds it up.
Larry: JUST DIE ALREADY, FAWFUL!
The Millennium Star absorbs the power of Violet, Rudy, Blooper, Fin, Petey, Bobbery, Blue Toad, and Yellow Toad. They’re the only ones present who have won a Mario Party board recently. Their power goes into the Millennium Star and is shot out at Fawful’s ghost.
Fawful: I HAVE PAIN!
Bam! This causes all the dark power to turn into regular old power, turning Fawful into a mere Boo.
Fawful: ... Fury?
Everyone stares at him blankly.
Violet/Shade/Petey/Fin/Blooper: ...
Larry: ...
Goomp/Guy/Paraplonk: ...
Rudy/P.T./Boshi/Bobbery: ...
Blue Toad/Yellow Toad: ...
Poochy: ?
Fawful: Fury?
Suddenly a purple door appears. It’s Queen Jaydes!
Jaydes: There you are, #2389. Thought you could escape back into real life again, could you? Well now that you’re back to normal, we’ll take care of that. It’s back to Underwhere Road for you.
Two D-Men appear and take Fawful away. Jaydes notices everyone giving her blank stares of confusion.
Jaydes: Erm... Well, thank you for your help, you guys.
Jaydes follows her workers back into the door, and it disappears.
Everyone: ...
Fin: We did it!
Everyone else: YEAH!
Rudy: Viol-
Boshi pushes Rudy aside.
Boshi: So Violet, how was it?
Violet: It wasn’t easy, but we managed to beat him in there at the last minute.
Petey: More like last ten seconds.
Shade: Well guys, we took care of Fawful.
Petey/Fin/Blooper: Sure did!
Shade: What say you we pick up Victor’s body and go celebrate?
Petey: I’m down.
Fin: Me too!
Blooper: Yeah, I guess so.
Fin: Coming, Poochy?
Poochy whimpers and jumps into Boshi’s arms, catching Boshi off-guard.
Boshi: Hey!
Fin: ... Well, I guess you come from the same island, so it’s fair to give you back. Bye!
Shade’s team leaves with Victor’s body.
Goomp: Well, we can see things are wrapping up around here, so we’ll just head back to Ludwig’s castle then.
Paraplonk: Yeah, we’ll just see ourselves out.
Guy: Bye!
They run out.
Violet: Well that was kind of rude of them to leave us with this mess...
Larry: It’s fine. Now that everything’s taken care of, I can focus on getting my section of Grass Land back to normal.
Rudy: Um actually... It’s not all normal yet.
Violet: Huh?
Rudy: Well this guy named Tiki Tong came in and barfed banana juice onto Fawful, or something like that. Then Fawful turned back into Larry, and Tiki Tong said that defeating him inside Larry would be what’s left to do.
Larry: Yeah and it’s taken care of!
Blue Toad: Yeah, but he said something about things not going back to normal!
Yellow Toad: Yeah, and he mentioned some guy called The Big Man!
Bobbery: We took care of Giga Lakitu, Fawful, and all his other minions. In the three years since the Subspace threat, there’s been less evil in the world. What more could it possibly be, though?
P.T.: The Dark Star?
Boshi: We just took care of all of that, genius.
Poochy: Arf!
Pyro Guy: *muffled*!
Larry: No, Pyro Guy, I beat the Shadow Queen three years ago. Well, it’s not important. Let’s rest up and then celebrate with a lunch in the cafeteria. Who’s with me?
Everyone else: Yeah!
They all head out. Goomba and Hot Rodrick get up from behind some rubble.
Goomba: Ow... I guess everything’s done here. Well... I may not have any of the Dark Star’s power anymore, so physically I’m back to normal at last... But I tell you something, Rodrick, I had an epiphany when I was on that side.
Hot Rodrick: Uh, okay.
Goomba: My vision can still come true without the Dark Star’s help.
Goomba pulls out a communicator.
Ludwig’s voice: Huh?
Goomba: King Ludwig, sir! It’s terrible! Some fools attacked Larry’s castle and nearly killed him! Maybe they’re getting revenge for some guy he beat up once! This stuff is BIG! We’ve got to send the entire military after them!
Ludwig’s voice: What?! This cannot be! Who are these traitors to the Koopa Kingdom?!
Goomba: Their names are... Axem Violet, Rudy Riverson the X-Naut, P.T. Piranha, Boshi, Admiral Bobbery, Pyro Guy, Blue Toad “Yvan”, and Yellow Toad “Wolley”.
Ludwig’s voice: Some of those names are familiar to me... Kammy! We must send everyone we have to stop this group of radical people! They made an attack on Larry and destroyed most of his castle! ... What do you mean, “How do you know?”! Goomba told me, he’s my most trusted minion sent to Larry!
Hot Rodrick: Things are getting interesting, huh?
Goomba: Indeed...
Things haven’t ended yet.
<Ending: Tsunaida Te, by Lil’B>