[Coolshaymin]

A green pipe opened up in the snow, allowing Mario and his party quick access to the castle as Mario jumped out and landed in the cold climate in full body parka. Eyes appearing on his hood as he looked up at the castle. This was the place the Signal Beacon from Kirby's Cell Phone came from with no doubt. Mario took out a small gameboy like device just to verify and sure enough, he was in this castle somewhere. The plumber leader looked back at the pipe to check for his allies before turning back to the castle as he heard a very loud boom come from in there. There was the sound of fighting that was quite clear.

"What do you think made that explosion noise? Do you think it was Kirby?" Mario's hood asked as the leader scratched his head. "Maybe, hard to-a tell. Kirby's powers are-a hard to keep track of," Mario noted as he shivered a bit. It was quite cold, which is why he dressed up in his outfit best suited for the cold. He bought it back at the Shiveria Kingdom so bone-chilling temperatures were kept in mind for it. It felt good to be prepared for an ice world for once.

"Alrighty, team. Are you-a ready? It sounds like-a something has gone-a down but let's-a keep a calm head! Remember the Life Sphere's code. No hero left-a behind!" the leader gave a brief speech to his team to try and encourage them for the entry into the very feudal Japanese Castle in front of them.

Super Mario "Jumpman" Mario and Cappy Damage:0%/165% Shield HP:55%/55% Status: Giving speech

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Paula climbed out of the pipe with much difficulty before sitting on top of the warp pipe, breathing heavily over the journey towards Murasame Castle, fortunately the group had finally arrived to there destination. "That was a long journey." Paula moved her legs forward and jumped onto the snow. For her clothes that she was wearing for the mission it was simply her pink dress that she always wore, only with more added accessory's such as an open redish cardigan with a image of a Mr Saturn stitched at the back of it.

Along with her cardigan she also has leggings with pink stripes, other then that she still has her dress and goddess ribbon, and Paula felt a bit relieved that she was wearing different things sort of, since it's been awhile. She walked up to Mario, realising that this was the first time that they interacted, not counting Sonic's madness with his absolution project.

But the mission was about saving Kirby and Paula turned towards the castle, hearing the large explosion noise as well and lurched back. "It could be Kirby, or some enemy with a canon, or Kirby that morphed into an enemy with a canon. Let's hope it's the first or last one." Paula turned towards the group, holding out her pan as she got ready for the rescue mission.

"There's a code?" Paula thought about the code, this is the first time she had heard of the code, but it was a nice code, even if she had already had different versions of the same code. There was even a law that had the same name as the code back in her world, only except for hero it was kids.

[TheSpatialWeeg]

In comes Dedede soon after, the huge penguin struggling to get out of the pipe before due to his..erhm...girth. He did manage to come out, landing on his backside, which was admittedly a better landing than facefirst. The king of Dreamland's attire seen little to no change, except for a scarf around his neck. Guess the normal attire was pretty cozy already, huh.

The 6'6" penguin rose up, dusting himself off of any possible lingering snow on his garment before he heard the explosion from the castle. He, who was pretty familiar with Kirby's...repertoire, assumed it was probably him using bombs. Either that or someone else using bombs. It was still a shot in the dark, all things considered.

"Well, we might as well get movin'. Kirby might be a tough kid, but even I doubt he'll last long 'round these parts." Dedede commented. He didn't let it show, but he was actually...kinda concerned for the puffball right now. Listening to Mario's rally, the king puffed up his chest. "I'm as cool-headed as I can be right now! Hehehe!"

[TartoonHand94]

The pipe began to tremble as last, but not least, Mario’s brother Luigi emerged, shaking like a leaf.
What was the matter? Was the ominous and mysterious Murasame castle? Was he worried about all the danger they were putting themselves in to rescue Kirby? Or was he terrified of the thought of what Kirby himself must be going through at that very moment?

“M-M-Mama Mi-Mia it’s-a Fr-Fr-Freezing out-a here!” Nope, he was just cold. If there were ever a time Luigi envied his brother, it was now. Not everybody could afford such a luxurious Shiveria parka to keep themselves as toasty as an Ice Climber. Unlike Paula with her cardigan and leggings, or King Dedede’s scarf, Luigi came as Mario Brothers normally dressed for ice levels: in his traditional plumber’s uniform. Normally they’d be enough, but this place was abnormally cold. Home was too far to head back and change, so Luigi had to make do with what he had.

Harnessing the power of a Fire Flower he brought with him, Luigi transformed into Fire Luigi. His overalls changing from green and blue to white and green.


“Ahhh…That’s-a much better.” Luigi sighed with satisfying steam. Now that Luigi’s temperature problems were solved, he could go back to being scared, as the sound of an explosion provided reason for.
“What was-a that?” Luigi gasped at the sound of fighting. Still, bothered by loud booms or not, Luigi wasn’t alone on this mission. He had Paula, King Dedede and even his big bro Mario to have his back.

“I’m-a ready!” Luigi valiantly saluted. “No Hero Left-a Behind.” He nodded, content to be the last in line to enter the castle.

Luigi
Damage: 0%
Status: Fire Luigi

[Coolshaymin]

"Yeah, Kirby has-a some explosive arsenal and it always-a changes. Still, it could just as well be an enemy. Looks like we are all-a ready then. Let's-a go!" Mario declared as he gave a running sprint to the doors of the castle after pocketing the gameboy device. However, there was another explosion and a sound of a crunch as the doors swung open and out flew various Ninja like enemies from Ninjis to Bio-sparks. Mario had to give a side jump just to evade one flying right past him. Out of the castle marched a large blue mouse that was even taller than Dedede and wielded a equally large hammer. The blue giant of a squeak gave a few huffs as he had bombs on his person as well, maybe being the cause of the explosions.

".... Who are you?... Is that the self-proclaimed King Mememe?" The giant questioned as he stood there with hammer in hand. "That's-a one big mouse," Mario said, it was way taller than him. What kind of Mushrooms did this behemoth eat?! The leader shook his head after a moment and spoke up. "Do you know anything about Kirby?" he asked, deciding to keep his guard up and not attack. "... Kirby? Oh, you mean the pink ball that beat up de boss! Yeah, I think he was going to go beat up the boss again.... Do you want to beat up the boss too?" the hammer wielding rodent with an eyepatch asked after listening to Mario. It was hard to tell who's side the mouse was really on. Still, maybe they could talk this out. May be wise to not provoke the large, strong mouse.

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Paula approached the door with Mario and was met by a large mouse that stood in the group's way, before she encountered the mouse however, Paula took the time to greet Luigi and Dedede. "It's nice to meet the two of you, let's try our best to save Kirby." Paula wanted to get the group excited as well. She was then faced with the large mouse.

"Yes, were looking for Kirby, is he ok in there?" She asked from behind Mario to the large mouse who, although he seemed to be related to the enemy's in the castle, appeared to have a friendly atmosphere about him. He then asked the group a question regarding his boss, which was if they were going to hurt him like what Kirby appeared to have done.

"If we say no, will you let us pass? Because I feel like if we say yes then we will have to battle you." Paula wanted more information regarding the giant mouses question. Although on Mario's advice, she could try and convince the Mouse to properly join the Life Sphere and turn to the side of good, if he wasn't already.

Ok Paula, time to put your charisma skills at work. They failed you a few times a few weeks ago, but Paula knows that it won't fail her again.


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"I mean look at you." Paula continued as she smiled towards the mouse. "With a weapon like that, it could help create a lot of buildings for the unfortunate in the Life Sphere. They would really love your support should you decide to join us, or at least let us pass. We will thank you for your kind deed a short while later if you let us pass or leave the castle, the Life Sphere will provide you with a better life then what you have here." Paula tried to sway the Mouse into letting the group into the castle without raising there fists.
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[TartoonHand94]

Luigi hustled through the snow behind the line of heroes when another explosion blew the doors open and a legion of ninjas flew at them. Luigi dodged by lying flat into the snow. Camouflage is a ninja’s best friend, and you know what they say: keep your friends close, and your enemies…wait the snow around him melted. Thanks Fire Flower.

As Luigi raised his head out of the snow bank, he found his team in the shadow a new blue figure that certainly wasn’t a ninja.
Just Luigi’s luck: Now that he’s over being afraid of King Dedede, an even bigger enemy with an even bigger mallet shows up.
“That’s-a one big Mallet!” Luigi quacked, cowering behind King Dedede.

If Mario were to look back for advice on whether or not to beat up de boss, he’d see Luigi shaking his head no.


Luigi
Damage: 0%
Status: Fire Luigi

[TheSpatialWeeg]

Of course, Dedede went alongside the team as they moved to enter into the castle...however after an explosion and several enemies passing by them came their first ever obstacle: a biiiig mouse. Bigger than the King himself, actually.

And of course, the first impressions were...less than pleasing.

"Excuse me?! It's King DEDEDE! And I tell you, my title is NOT self-proclaimed! I fought for this position." Dedede replied incredulous, folding his arms in a huff and scowl combo. Sheesh, barely started the search and his temper was already being tested. Noticing Luigi cowering behind him, the King was going to brandish his mighty hammer...until he noticed Pala tried to talk the mouse down. So they were going that route, huh? As much as he wanted to clobber that oaf just now...at the end of it all, it was probably going to be a waste of time. Besides, the others clearly didn't want to square up against the brute. A shaky breath and he opened his mouth to talk.

"...We don' want to fight your boss. We're just here to grab Kirby, feed 'im some cookies and bring him back home, ok? Now, if you'll excuse us, we'll go on our merry way." Dedede commented, with a mild lack of energy behind his tone of voice.

[Coolshaymin]

While Paula and Dedede tried to the large mouse over, Mario looked back to notice his Fire Brother was quite intimidated. The plumber in parka moved to go behind King Dedede and put his hand on his brother's shoulder. "Don't-a worry, bro! I have-a your back. Just give it the most you can and we will stop the bad guys as brothers. We're not alone either! I know you can be-a brave, bro," the brother encouraged, deciding Luigi could use some brotherly encouragement.


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"... Say yes? Battle? So you do want to fight de boss?" Storo asked in confusion, Paula's words confusing the large mouse. "Storo help build? I am very strong... Not sure what boss would think though..." the extra large rodent seemed interested in Paula's proposition looking at his mallet. "Storo does not want to fight Penguin. I prefer to not fight. Storo is doing pink ball a favor. De boss was possessed again and he said he'd help bring him to his senses. Please help bring boss back to senses...." Storo requested. Though clearly the group was interested in Kirby... Oh hey! He had THAT thing. Oh man, he was truly the smarterest now.

"Tell you what. Storo let you pass. I want you to help save de boss though. I'll even give you a reward. Storo found this chest around castle but it won't open. After the last two times we took treasure like this, it may be better you take it. The pink ball seemed to be interested in it for some reason before this happened," the mouse explained as he held out a red chest to the group, offering peace and goodwill. "Do you-a think we should take it?" Mario asked the others, not quite sure he trusted the chest. The mouse seemed gentler than what first impressions may lead one to believe but could the chest be trusted? Then again, if Kirby apparently found interest in the chest, maybe it held something very important to their mission. Though why Kirby did not take it is still not answered.

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"We would rather not fight the boss, or at the very least complete this mission without fighting that much." Paula explained to the Mouse, who seemed confused as to what Paula meant with what she said, but fortunately it seemed the mouse didn't want to fight the group either. He would allow them to enter the castle, so long as they also rescue his boss as well, he then offered the chest. "Thank you, we'll make sure your boss is alright." Paula elated to the mouse, she looked at the red chest.

"I say we take it, I mean whatever's inside could be helpful to us. Plus this looks like a perfect set up for a mini side quest that we can do during the mission." Paula voiced her opinion on the chest, offering to hold it. "I'll carry it." She asked the Mouse, and Mario if he agreed to take the box.

[TartoonHand94]

Paula sure had the right idea. She has quite the head on her shoulders for a girl so young. Luigi wholeheartedly agreed. Anything would be better than fighting a mallet mouse That big. King Dedede was on the same page too. Looks like they might get out of this without being pounded after all. Now if they could all turn back the way they came, then they’d be guaranteed to get out of this unscathed. …What was he thinking?

Luigi almost yelped at the sudden touch of his shoulder. Looking up-er down, he saw that it was the hand of his trusty bro, Mario. Ever since they were wee bambinos, Luigi always felt safer whenever Mario was around. And this time was no different. In fact, this time, with Mario’s words on encouragement, not only did Luigi feel safe, he felt secure. He felt strong!
“Y-yeah… You’re-a right, bro!” Luigi perked up a little, proceeding to march right up to Storo. “In fact, why don’t-a we put up-a our dukes and show this-a squeaky mallet what we’re-a made of—Oh? you don’t-a want to fight? Oki-doki then.” He flipped on a dime and backed off as soon as Storo admitted he didn’t want to fight. Phew. Dodget a Bullet Bill there.

Good thing too, for instead of pounding them, Storo offered them a chest. “Ooooh~ Don’t-a mind if we do~!” Luigi grinned, more than willing to take the shiny chest off of Storo’s hands. They must be full carrying that mallet anyway.

“No please, allow me.” Luigi cut in front of Paula to carry the chest like a gentleman. “Thank’s-a Storo, you’re alright in-a my book.” He graciously accepted the chest. Who knows what could be in it? What if there were more chests awaiting in the castle?
“Let's-a Go, everybody, Kirby’s-a counting on us!” The new and improved non-cowardly Luigi lead the charge into the castle.


Luigi
Damage: 0%
Status: Brave Fire Luigi

[TheSpatialWeeg]

--Wait, the mouse didn't want to fight too? Well, now he just felt like a jerk. "...Sorry." Dedede muttered, averting his gaze. Turns out that Storo was actually aware of his boss' predicament, and he ended up granting passage to the group, with a gift to boot! 

Now, while Mario was slightly wary of what could be inside, Dedede was quick to say otherwise. "Well, we won't know what it is until we take the risk. I say we take it!" Dedede voted, making the choice unanimous amongst the group. He hoped it was something neat, but hey, one could never know.

In any case, he turned over to address Storo. "A'ight, Storo. We'll save your boss. Gonna make sure that whatever dark spirit possessin' him gets what's comin' to 'em!" he said. It was probably best to refrain from saying that usually to exorcise people in his world, they'd have to receive a massive beating, though Storo could probably catch on to that. Or probably already did. Who knows.

[Coolshaymin]

"... Yeah, you might-a be right. Thanks-a Squeaky, we will help out your-a boss!" Mario assured after the others. In his experience, there has been times treasure chests that were mysterious held some great evil... or cursing ghost. Either way, his allies seemed sure it's fine at the very least so maybe he was concerned over nothing. "Storo thanks you! He last saw the pink ball running down the left hallway. Oh yeah, one more thing. The other Squeaks are acting kind of funny but still good. Could you try to talk some sense into them before attacking? Boss is too far gone but Storo don't think they are," Storo suggested before they left. "We will keep-a that in mind. Let's-a go!" Mario said as he hurried down the hallway.

(Storo was easy to convince, but the other Squeaks will be a bit harder, however, they may be keeping hold of treasure of their own if you can get their gratefulness. Collect all three treasures and something good may happen.)

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Mario taking the lead was apparently not so great an idea as he was surprised by a bomb hitting him square in the face and sending him back quite a bit. "Hey! Looks like I bombed another one! He was much easier to hit than that stupid ball thing we were ordered to take down. Speaking of how that going, Tryclyde?" A mouse with sunglasses and bombs stated as he looked back at a three headed snake struggling  to chomp down on Kirby who was keeping the snake's mouth open and standing firm. It was good the puffball was strong despite his small stature. "Mouster?! Tryclyde? What are you two doing here?" Mario questioned, identifying the three headed snake and mouse duo. "Surprised? We got intel from a guy calling himself Doc that you'd be here and he paid us well. Not that he needed to, me and Clyde been wanting a chance to pay you two back, see? Tryclyde! You almost down gulping that stupid pink ball!" the mouse called back after explaining. "We are trying. But he refusssssesssssss," the snake responds. Mario attempts to dash past Mouser but quite narrowly manages to sideflip back to avoid a bomb. "Paula, Dedede, help Kirby. Me and Luigi will keep-a Mouser busy," Mario said to his comrades before running to Mouser and attempting to smack him with a hammer.


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And he lands a solid blow that sends the sunglassed mouse reeling a bit and clearly got the Subconner's attention.

THE SUBCON DUO, MOUSTER AND TRYCLYDE STAND IN YOUR WAY!

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Paula smiled at Luigi. "Thank you for your kindess." She said to the plumbers brother as she walked into the castle, giving the chest to Luigi for carry and possibly get crushed with. Mario quickly gott hit in the face by a bomb, that appeared to be from an old friend of his, who had turned foe. Paula looked over to Mario in worry. "Oh dear Mario are you ok?" It seems the plumber was, as she told her and Dedede to tend to Kirby, who was busy fighting off a snake. She nodded and gestured for Dedede to follow her as she charged towards Kirby and the three headed snake he was fighting.

"Hey snake person, lay off Kirby!" Paula warned the snake before firing three shots of thunder towards each of his heads.


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[TartoonHand94]

“Not-a problem.” Luigi smiled back at Paula as he valiantly marched ahead with the chest.
His lead was soon taken over by Mario, as carrying the chest meant he couldn’t move as fast as his empty-handed brother. Being second in line would prove not to be such a bad thing for once.
“Mario?” Luigi quacked in distress as Mario got hit in the face with a bomb. He almost dropped the chest onto himself in his rush to help his brother, but where did the bomb come from? And more importantly is there another one headed this way?

From whence the bomb came, came a voice straight out of the Mario Bros’ nightmares.
“Mou-mo-mo-Mou-mo-mo-Mou-mo-mo…” Luigi chattered through his teeth, once again too weighed down by the chest to outright flee. “Mouser?!?” And Tryclyde, if the bomber mouse weren’t bad enough, the three-headed snake from the same nightmare, perhaps a worse one was here too. Why couldn’t they have been the chocolate mouse and the gummy snake from one of the sweet dreams?

And as much as he could just drop the chest and high tail it for the exit, Luigi couldn’t. Mario just volunteered the both of them to take Mouser down. In all fairness, Luigi would rather battle the bomber mouse than the three-headed anaconda.

But how would Luigi attack? Throw the chest at him? Nah that’s crazy. He might hurt the chest.


(J6Zq82kFp_1d20+2 Luigi's Fire Ball @ Mouser. Does 4% Damage)
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It was hard to toss fireballs with one hand and carry the chest in the other. What he had to do was fight bombs with missiles. Luigi had no choice.
“I’ll be right-a back. Just sit-a tight.” He whispered to the chest as he gently set it down.
“Let’s-a go…” Luigi sighed reluctantly as he bounded off the chest and made a torpedo dive bomb at Mouser.

(p_1d20+3 Luigi's Green Missile @ Mouser. Does 21% Damage)


Luigi
Damage: 0%
Status: Brave Bird Fire Luigi1d20+2·1d20+2·1d20+2·1d20+3