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What the heck just happened.
“DON’T panic Rabbid Peach! We’ll just stroll casually along the back of this flying creature and reach your location in no time!” Beep-0 assured, with Mario and the creature standing with him. (despite the fact beep-o floats) “Uh-oh! Strike the words ‘casual,’ ‘stroll,’ and ‘don’t panic’! We’ve got hostiles incoming!” Beep-O cried, seeing the two Rabbid shy-guy looking bois getting ready to throw hands. “ Mario, take cover- and don’t get caught out in the open! Move from cover to cover-and remember to attack!” Mario nodded and let out an excited “HERE WE GO!”
Heroes
The battlefield layout was one stone block, and then a few steps forward on either side were two more blocks, with the two enemies standing beside either of the farther two, and in front of those were Rabbid Peach who was still stuck on the manta’s tail. Mario walked over to the first block of cover, aimed both of his Dual Slinger at one enemy, and fired. The enemy he fired at then disintegrated… oof for them.
Enemies
The last bad guy was kind of just hanging out at this point, he went behind one of the further stones, and fired at Mario. However, Mario was covered as in HE WALKED FORWARD TO HIS BLOCK, BUT DIDN’T SWITCH TO A DIFFERENT POINT HORIZANTALY. So the projectile just hit the block. It let out a grunt, and deepened itself in its cover.
Heroes
Mario walked to the farther block of cover, hiding on the right (->) side. He then fired at the last enemy, but it was of no use. Both shots hit the block, breaking it in half. Mario let out a confused “Huh?” before going back into cover.
Enemies
There wasn’t much the last enemy could do. It fired one of it’s pellets, it hit the block, the block cracked a little.
Heroes
“Rabbid Peach is within reach!” Beep-O yelled in triumph. “Focus on getting to her now by moving to the tip of the manta’s tail!” But rather than just walking over to Rabbid Peach, Mario walked over beside the Rabbid shy guy(?), pulled out the Dual Slinger, and aimed both shots at the last enemy. It suffered the same fate as it’s partner, and disintegrated. “You know, you didn’t have to do that!” Beep-O scolded as Mario walked over to the goal. “I know, it just felt-a right!” Mario replied.
Mario and the boys finally got to Rabbid Peach, who was still flailing around, but then flung off the manta’s rear. Mario went to help and the creature was reasonably worried, but it’s expression changed to back to normal as Rabbid Peach somersaulted multiple times, landing on her feet in a ninja-like stance. Mario showed delight in her recovery as the diva smirked and made that shoulder brush motion that people sometimes do. Mario suddenly looked beside him making a startled face. Yet another Rabbid shy guy(?) appeared. Rabbid Peach pulled out her rocket launcher, the Triple-troll, and Mario pulled out the Dual Slinger, however, something was wrong. Though the heroes were ready for action, their weapons were not. Their weapons had lost power. Mario looked at his laser pistol in confusion upon seeing this, and Rabbid Peach’s phone fell off, driving her to aggressively slap the rocket launcher while making some angry rabbid sounds.
“Rabbid Peach! You’re safe - despite the mysterious, malevolent energy sabotaging our weapons!” Beep-0 exclaimed, whilst Rabbid Peach checked her phone “Neutralizing our weapons? Ha! We’ll simply rely on our powerful Dash move that has saved the day for us during many a battle!” Beep-0 said, as he floated over to a strange egg. “Using dash, we can jar those egg-like things loose. Once they’re in your possession…” he paused, then continued, “…you can throw them at the creature’s orb-shaped eyeball protuberances- its weak spots!” Beep-o instructed.
Heroes
Rabbid Peach started off. As Beep-0 said, she dashed into it, picked it up, and threw it at the weird eyeball. Mario did the exact same thing. (how long did you think It would be)
Enemies
That one enemy tried to shoot Rabbid Peach, and failed, because she was behind cover.
Heroes
“The last weak point is beyond that gap. We’ll need to find a way to get over it - time for some team jumping!” Beep-0 pointed out in his British accent. Rabbid Peach ran to the edge of her area of movement, and Mario did the same. “HEY!” Rabbid Peach said, as without warning Mario team jumped off of her. Mario turned around to apologize “I’m-a sorry, I thought you would’ve expected I’d-a do that! Beep-0 just-a told u--” “Just dash the egg.” Rabbid Peach said in an intimidating tone. Mario made a worried face as he did as she said, dashing the egg and yeeting it at the last weak spot.
The manta shook violently, making a pained wailing sound and the heroes fell back to the Manta’s rear. The Manta began to plummet into a blue-grey island with glowing pink vein-looking things. They screamed as the splatoon 3 big man but beeg and from space Manta crashed into the island, destroying it, huge shards flying, barley missing our heroes. It then ALMOST IMMEDIATLEY crashed into another island, and the force of the impact was so much that Mario and the bois (and girl) flew away to another island, (geez that’s a lot of islands) into a sort of ravine thing. Mario with his cat-like agility was able to slide and jump to the bottom, but Rabbid Peach was not as nimble. She just fell and went splat. “Rabbid Peach, are you oka--” “I’m alright.” Rabbid Peach assured him weakly before jumping back up onto her feet. They were on guard, and rightfully so, as multiple Rabbid shy guys (?) surronded them on sort of perches in the ravine before jumping down in an attempt to corner them. The creature went down to Mario’s weapon, as if to tell him to utilize it. “Huh? The thing just stopped-a working a few minutes ago, I don’t-a know wha--” Mario tried to explain but was almost immediately cut off by Rabbid Peach who was shaking her gun angrily, and then looking at the creature, seeming annoyed. It was visibly confused, but then touched the Triple-troll. Rabbid Peach looked at it for a few seconds but then it sparked a little, and started working again. The creature flew over to Mario, and did the same to his Dual Slinger, touching it, and then it began to spark. The heroes were ready for the next battle.
“Our weapons have been reactivated! Time to take cover, take aim, and fire at those baddies!” Beep-0 exclaimed. “Just beware that this dimension works quite differently from our own, you cannot move AFTER you shoot!” he warned.
Heroes
Mario walked up to a block of cover at the end of his AOM, once again aiming two shots at the same enemy. He fired, and one hit the enemy cover, and another actually hit them dealing 61 damage. Rabbid Peach went to a cover at her AOM, pulled out her weapon, and aimed it at the enemy in front of her. She fired, dealing 32, 32, and 42 damage, defeating the enemy. (Cause the game won’t say kill JUST CALL IT WHAT IT IS UBI)
Enemies
The first enemy on Mario’s side tried to fire at Mario. It missed due to him being behind cover. His brother tried to do the same, and it did have better results, breaking Mario’s cover in half.
Heroes
Mario team jumped off Rabbid Peach (who once again wasn’t very happy about someone jumping on her head) and then dashed the weaker bad guy, and defeating it. He then aimed both his pistols at the last enemy, effectively defeating it.
Now the manta was just kind of floating aimlessly in the void. Mario and Rabbid Peach looked t each other, an nodded. They jumped down from the space island thingy, and onto the ray.
(extra emphasis on the word “onto”) It was littered with Goombas who were just walking around aimlessly, unprovoked, not doing their usual thing that is one-hitting Mario. Suddenly, the sky ripped revealing what looked like the night sky. The two turned around getting into defensive positions to see what happened. Two giant blue hands with stars within them grabbed the edges and pushed them open. (guys don’t say anything stupid.) One of the hands went out reaching for the heroes. Then came out a huge thing, it was pink with a weird cloak-hood on it, with a swirl within said cloak for a face. It opened an orange eye, as Mario looked in confusion, then shock. One could say it then stood up, revealing ribbon-like tentacles and its hands disappeared. The Goombas were still just walking around, but then turned to look at the monster, making confused Goomba sounds. The thing glared at them, as the sentient mushrooms looked on. Its eye glowed. The Goombas looked. It glowed more. The color of the Goombas eyes shifted to that of ???. Its eye glowed even more, and the Goombas turned around, and began to start running to the heroes. Its eye glowed more before fading down…
“Allow me to introduce myself,” the creature stated before inhaling deeply. “ My name is Starburst. And THAT- that vicious, HORRIBLE monster is CURSA!! We barley escaped it- now it won’t stop chasing us!” Starburst cried. Beep-0 gasped “This “Cursa” is well out of range, yet the energy readings I’m picking p from it are beyond my ability to measure!” Beep-0 exclaimed. “I-I can help! I can give Mario the ability to power up his attacks! It’ll even have the same effect on his friends!” Starburst said. “We’ll take all the help we can get! Mario, be sure to see what this new ability of yours can do. Speaking of abilities…” Beep-0 started before floating over to Rabbid Peach, his “expression” going to the vertical ovals being cut off, looking like narrowed eyes, “Remember that both of you have your signature Techniques at your disposal. I have a feeling you’re going to need them!”
Heroes
Mario dashed into the 3 Goombas in front of him defeating them (just call it what it is Nintendo!), and almost immediately Rabbid Peach proceeded to team jump off him to a Rabbid shy guy(?), dashing it and then getting behind cover. She pulled out the Triple-troll and fired it at the stooge beside her (not the one she dashed the one beside her that what attack her if she didn’t strike first.) defeating it. Mario aimed at the enemy Rabbid Peach dashed, and fired. Only one of the shots hit, but said shot did defeat the enemy so, NOICE. Within the 1st turn, they had defeated 5/13 enemies. It was a good start.
Enemies
A troop of Goombas walked over to Rabbid Peach and dashed her, dealing 40 damage each. Another troop of Goombas walked as well, but ran out of movement area, and did nothing. (Useless, like me!) One Enemy did try to fire at Rabbid Peach, but failed to hit due to cover. Another enemy fired at Mario, and actually did hit dealing a critical hit of 92 damage.
Heroes
Rabbid Peach dashed into the Goomba line that dashed her, yelling “GOTTEM,” as she did so. “Rabbid-a Peach, is starting to concern-a me,” Mario told Beep-0, seeing the expression of slight insanity on her face as he went to team jump off of her. He then dashed into the Goomba troop that couldn’t get to anyone, moved forward, aimed both shots of the Dual Slinger at one of the Rabbid shy guys(?) and fired, killing defeating it. He then activated Starburst’s Turbocharge to help Rabbid Peach, who had moved over to Mario’s location and fired her her weapon at the last enemy, but only one rocket hit.
Enemies
That one stooge moved into better cover and then fired at Mario. (really short turns here)
Heroes
Mario dashed into the last enemy, aimed both Dual Slinger shots at it (which by the way was at 2 hp. NOMERCYFORTHEWEAK) and fired, ending the battle.
BATTLE CLEARED
Mario looked up to Cursa, who’s eye was glowing once again. All of a sudden, it was hit in the face by a spaceship! The spaceship flew over to the Manta, flipped over, and a sentient rope was formed with Luigi holding Rabbid Mario, who let out his hand for the other two to grab. Mario nodded, grabbed Rabbid Peach’s hand, jumped, just barley making it to the others. They immediately pulled them all in, flipping the spaceship back over. Cursa tried to grab the ship, but it was too fast for the Master hand rip-off. The flew away leaving only a star from Cursa’s point of view…
“Welcome Mario and Rabbid Peach. It is fortunate that you are unharmed - your safety is critical to our mission,” said dryly a blue hologram that looked like two long pyramids with bunny ears. “Hey! Hello! Remember me? The entity who created you? I’m alive too!” Beep-0 shouted with bitterness. “Also fortuitous, but with a critical successes factor that is lower in comparison by 31.832193,” she replied.
“Hehe- forgive JEANIE here for her arrogance, everyone. As the ships new Artificial Intelligence she just became self-aware yesterday…” Beep-0 explained sheepishly, as everyone snickered at a hologram absentmindedly roasting a bot. Beep-0 continued, “OBVIOUSLY, I have a lot more testing to do, but seeing as how we’re in an emergency situation here I-uh--” Beep-0 said, being cut off as Starburst flew in, making a nice little noise as it went in. “Hey wittle fella! Aren’t you sparkly?! Did you come on board with Mario?” Rabbid Luigi said, smiling and clapping. The table they were all standing around put up a hologram of a Luma and a Rabbid. “Intresting,” JEANIE said in a curious tone, every piece of her turning slowly. “It appears that this creature is equal parts Rabbid and Luma. It contains a massive amount of harnessable energy as a result. I suspect there are more of them scattered throughout the galaxy, though without more research the exact number cannot be determined.” The hologram fused, show a picture of what looked like Starburst. “How could this have happened? Rosalina would never have allowed this!” Princess Peach asked, looking at the projection. Upon hearing the name “Rosalina” Starburst broke out into a nervous float-wiggle. “Mama! S-she’s in trouble because of Cursa! Please, help her! PLEASE!” The projection shifted into something only a certain pink star warrior could defeat single-handedly - Cursa. “Oh, no… Rosalina… Something terrible must have happened!” Peach exclaimed, looking at the monster. The projection shifted again to some tentacles. “Cursa is conquering the galaxy using a corruptive energy called Darkmess,” the projection shifted again. “I can pinpoint the epicenter of this activity - Cursa’s stronghold,” JEANIE explained. “It would take our ship an eternity to travel the distance between our current location and this stronghold, however using a PURIFIED form of Darkmess energy, we could create a series of Warp Tunnels that would make such travel almost instantaneous.”
“JUST what I was about to suggest to our friend here. Hmm, what do we call your kind? Aha! How about ‘Rabbid Lumas’?” Beep said, floating happily. “SPARKS!” Rabbid Luigi yelled, as Starburst made a squeak of approval.”Really? Because objectively speaking I think ‘Rabbid Lumas’ is kind of perfect - no?” Beep-0 replied. “Uh… no.” Luigi said quietly. Rabbid Mario was not as dialed back. “It stinks!” he stated, and everyone (Except beep-0 who was doing the expression with the 2 orange dots on his screen) nodded. “The closest planet within range is Beacon Beach. The Darkmess has already spread there. Not enough data to define the level of danger,” Jeanie declared grimly. “Please, Jeanie, adventure may be new to you but not to US. I expect the level of difficulty of THIS mission to be… well pretty average,” Beep-0 claimed. “Of course, I reserve the right to change my mind at any point during our mission,” he continued, “Regardless with the Rabbid Lumas behind us the rocky road ahead will be made just a little smoother,” Beep-0 said. “I believe the consensus was, ‘Sparks’.” JEANIE replied. “OH, WHATEVER. What matters is - we have their help. Listen, now that Cursa knows they’re with us, I bet it will never bother us again!” Beep-0 said, cheerfuly, but also sheepishly. However, he would be very wrong. Cursa would in fact bother them again. Many many times. (and also none of them are a pink star warrior so no single-handed victory for you)
Back at Cursa’s stronghold, Cursa was instructing three particular minions, its eyes glowing again. The minions looked up, their eyes glowing. “I NEED the energy from those creatures. Bring them to ME!” it instructed in a loud, whispering, unsettling voice. Their eyes glowed red, upon hearing this, and they moved out.