The Great Creator and The Great Destroyer
From Yb Timeline
“We have been slipping. We have been slipping, and it is time to end this.
The planet they call Star World… IT WILL BE OURS!”
-The Dark Perforation, Topmonhit Story (Story 17: The Great Creator and The Great Destroyer; Part 17-1: Star World: A Magnet for Invasions)
The Great Creator and The Great Destroyer is the 17th story of Topmonhit Story and the 4th and final story of the Dark Perforation Story Arc. It is divided into two acts, with act I spanning nearly twice as long as act II. Act I involved The Dark Perforation Army's attack on Star World, and Act II involved the defeat of The Dark Perforation.
Characters (in order of appearance): The Dark Perforation, Metal Top, Minorbu, Orp, Hurtilu, Snophia, Stawl, Top Mon Hit, Topper Mon Hit, Oshy Gisho, Shi'un, Amphy, Christopher (James), Princess Apricot Gisho, Power Box, Sunset, Sneezier, Captain Kooplass, General Daliear, Subsourian the Dark, Scorch, Frob and Bread, Professor Oh Gee, Testube, Queen Bean, Prince Peasley, Lady Lima, Professor E. Gadd, Danny Chu, Sally, Accordiono, I.M. Ugly, Yakko, Wakko, Dot, Bowser, Kamek, Kammy, Bowser Jr., Whacko, Ripvor, Kad, Luigi, Redips, Princess Peach, Mario, Cosmic Mario, Cosmic Luigi, Mean Bean Machine, Coshi, Waluigi, Wario
Locations: Dark Perforation Castle, Star World, Dinosaur Island, Gisho Castle, Beanbean Kingdom, Beanbean Castle Town, Yoshi Bodyguards HQ, Cyber Bell Vanguard Moon Base, SWDF Base, Space, The Mushroom Kingdom, SWDF Mushroom Kingdom HQ, Beanbean Castle, Koopa Kingdom, Bowser's Castle, Soda Lake, Peach's Castle, Toad Town, Valley of Bowser
Time Period: Mid-April 2009
Story
Part 17-1: Star World: A Magnet for Invasions
In the Dark Perforation Castle, The Dark Perforation spoke to Metal Top, Minorbu, Orp and Hurtilu, telling Metal Top that he failed at Pokeworld. It realized now, however, that it had understimated their foes, and were going to strike at their main planet: Star World. It told them to do away with Snophia, as they no longer needed her, and to make sure the Space Captor was working at full capacity.
At Snophia's cell, Stawl came out of the vent and yelled they were going to take over Star World. Stawl was going off to warn them at Star World when the dungeon cell opened, and someone spoke that they were going to take Snophia away. In the Dark Perforation Space Station, a sphere-like creature was finishing preperations on a device. Metal Top and Minorbu decided it would be best for the two to work on a plan together. The Dark Perforation contemplated his resources going low, but figured it would not be a matter to concern him as Metal Top and Minobu prepared to move out...
Part 17-2: Life on Star World
At Star World, outside Gisho Castle, Top and Topper were relaxing on lawnchairs when Oshy came out, telling them it was still spring. He put an umbrella up, and it began raining for five seconds. Oshy headed back inside, and it began snowing and hailing. At Beanbean Castle Town, Shi'un was shopping around when she noticed a large crowd had gathered around. The crowd was watching Amphy, who was doing random magic tricks; also in the crowd was Christopher, who was pickpocketing random people.
Unfortunately, when Amphy asked for a volunteer, he thought the one Christopher was about to pickpocket, Shi'un, was the volunteer and called her up. Back at Gisho Castle, Oshy and Apricot were planning on going by the old YB HQ since Sneezier was planning on opening his new museum on that day when PB and Sunset showed up out of nowhere, having been at Yoshi's Island for the past 9 months relaxing. After they spoke for a bit, the former YB HQ was shown, with Sneezier opening the YB museum.
Part 17-3: Raising the Stakes
Out beyond the orbit of Star World's moon, space began to get distorted for some reason. At the Cyber Bell Vanguard Moon Base, Captain Kooplass was about to send some ROB Pawns out to investigate when the distortion sparked and a hole opened up, after which a massive beam of energy shot out, hitting the moon base and depleting it of all energy. Kooplass quickly called the chairman, Sneezier, but to Sneezier it was staticy--all he could make out was it was the moon base.
At an SWDF base, a couple scientists were noticing the sudden loss of power at the moon base, and realized that this shut down a good chunk of Star World's defenses. Above the atmosphere of the planet, another, larger hole appeared and hundreds of ships came out with a dark, round space station in the center. They began the next phase of their plan by having all the ships move between the space station and Star World, then the space station sent out hexagonal grids that surrounded Star World. The space station then blasted out massive energy into the discs, all of which connected with one another. The entire planet began to shake, and the grids were enveloped in dark, black clouds with lightning striking in the sky.
Part 17-4: Oh Yeah, Surrender. That’d Make For An Interesting Story.
A couple days later, both the Alliance of Worlds have been trying to get into Star World and Star World had been trying to get out. Thus far, neither of them had had any success. While Sub, Scorch, Frob and Bread were talking about the current situation, all the monitors on Star World turned to static and Metal Top appeared on screen, there to announce they were giving Star World time to surrender. They were there to take over the world for The Dark Perforation, but then Minorbo popped on the screen to add to Metal Top's announcement. They began to argue when Orp popped on to tell them to stop. Hurtilu then appeared, there to complain that his toilet's backed up. Metal Top screamed and disconnected them all, then gave Star World one hour to surrender.
At Gisho Castle, Top, Oshy, Topper, Stuffwell, Whacko, Apricot, Oh Gee, Testube, PB and Sunset just finished watching the announcement. Top demanded Oh Gee find where Metal Top was broadcasting from; PB and Sunset decided to stay where yoshis need them, at Gisho Castle. Oh Gee found there were four signals, above The Mushroom Kingdom, Beanbean Kingdom, Dinosaur Island and Koopa Kingdom. The longest one, which would be Metal Top's signal, came from above the Koopa Kingdom, and Top headed there.
Meanwhile, at the Beanbean Kingdom, Shi'un was speaking with Queen Bean, Prince Peasley and Lady Lima about what was going on; Shi'un was allowed to stay at the castle, but then a bean guard spoke up and was pushed aside by Christopher, followed by Amphy. They came up to speak with the queen, but then the part ran out of time.
Part 17-5: The Most Powerful Warrior in Existance
When asked if they were there to help fight, Amphy said yes, while Christopher said no. Queen Bean agreed to give them one billion Beanbean coins in exchange for helping them; Christopher immediately agreed. Just then, E. Gadd showed up, having been staying at the castle during the whole incident. E. Gadd said he had a new invention that might be able to help, and they followed him to the makeshift lab he had. There, he showed them a teleporter he built that could teleport anyone there, even through time and dimensions. It was ran by magic, and luckily Amphy was there to supply said magic.
Meanwhile, at the Mushroom Kingdom, Danny and Sally came into the SWDF Mushroom Kingdom Headquarters to help (Danny saying he'd drag them into it anyway), and were greeted by Scorch, Frob and Bread. Accordiono then teleported into the room, along with I.M. Ugly, and although a fight nearly began, they told them they were there to help. Sally asked where Sub was, and Scorch said he had gone to Dinosaur Island to help defend it, and that General Theobald would be presiding at the Mushroom Kingdom.
Outside Gisho Castle, Oshy, Topper, Apricot, Oh Gee, Testube, PB and Sunset watched as an SWDF Dropship landed and Sub came out, followed by some soldiers. Sub had decided to come guard Dinosaur Island, while Topper asked if the dropship could head back to the Mushroom Kingdom. Back at the Beanbean Kingdom, E. Gadd had finished preperations and activated the teleporter, sapping Amphy of magic (though E. Gadd said he'd be fine in a few minutes... or hours.) Then, a large suit of green and silver platemail, along with a helmet, fell on Christopher. Whoever it was asked if they had called for the most powerful warrior in existance. Instead, they got Yakko, Wakko and Dot.
Part 17-6: The Invaders Make Landfall
The Warner Siblings introduced themselves, although Shi'un seemed to know who they were already, and Yakko explained the most powerful warrior in existance was busy (though Wakko said he was just on the can) so they sent them instead. They agreed to help, however, and Prince Peasley went to prepare the troops. Meanwhile, at Bowser's Castle, Bowser was fuming at Metal Top's announcement; he wanted to do evil, not fight evil. Kammy's head began itching, and Top (along with Whacko) jumped out of it. Bowser yelled at Top, asking what he was doing here, and Top said he was there to help (whether they wanted help or not) since Metal Top was above the castle. Bowser agreed, as long as Top stayed out of his way, and went to prepare the troops... but tripped over Top.
In Metal Top's ship, it was speaking with Minorbu, Orp and Hurtilu. The four had already noticed Star World was preparing to fight, and knew they weren't going to surrender. They decided now was the time to strike, though Hurtilu forgot what he was supposed to do--Metal Top explained he was to simply drop and find "the castle", then set up base there. They would then send more information to him. Unfortunately, Hurtilu thought they meant now, and hit the button, dropping. The others decided to simply go ahead and begin.
At the YB Museum's secret hangar, Sneezier blasted out over Soda Lake with the Ultima Gundam, and sent a message of "hope" out to Star World. As soon as he finished, Hurtilu's ship slammed into him, both falling into Soda Lake, causing a massive tidal wave. AT the Beanbean Kingdom, Orp's ship landed; at the Koopa Kingdom, Metal Top's ship landed; and at the Mushroom Kingdom, Minorbu's ship landed on Peach's Castle, destroying half of the top turret. All of them had other smaller ships around them (save Hurtilu's ship). The war had begun.
Part 17-7: The Battle of Beanbean Castle Town
At the Beanbean Kingdom, as soon as the ships touched down all the smaller ones opened up and manners of creatures of all types ran amock in the town, devestating it. Ten minutes later, the beanbean military came out to fight. Shi'un, Amphy, Christopher and the Warners came out with them, all led by Prince Peasley. During the fight, a large, round creature with a huge mouth trapped Shi'uns arm under its great weight and attempted to eat her, but a blur appeared and impaled the creature with a sword-like object, killing it. Shi'un saw the one who had killed it... was a black velociraptor: Ripvor.
In Orp's ship, Orp watched as the fight slowly turned to the Beanbean Kingdom's favor. One of her syringes suggested she use the ship's beam to blast the town, and she agreed; it charged up, and began firing a red laser at the town, blasting large craters and Beanbean soldiers. Amphy and Christopher ran back to the castle, and Shi'un and Ripvor soon followed, knowing they would get blasted by the laser if they stayed. The Warners sailed into the castle on a boat, and Peasley soon followed, promising not to let the kingdom be destroyed.
Part 17-8: The Clam of Dinosaur Island (no, there’s no clam in this part)
While the rest of the planet was at war, Dinosaur Island was, surprisingly, fairly quiet. After the tidal wave from Hurtilu's ship subsided, the only real forces were small forces at Butter Bridge, Chocolate Island, and a single ship at Yoshi's Island. At Gisho Castle, the decided base for the SWDF at Dinosaur Island, there had been no attack. PB wanted to go out and help the yoshis in trouble, but Sub told him that the ther fronts were doing fine so far, and that the castle would likely be attacked. One thing that struck him as odd, however, was Sneezier wasn't there. PB tried to call him, but they got no answer; he then tried to locate his Platinum Shroom. It was located in the middle of Soda Lake. Due to this, PB and Sub decided to go try and locate him, leaving in a small blooper-shaped sub.
At the Mushroom Kingdom, things were much worse; as soon as Minorbu's ship landed, it sent out a barrier, blocking anyone from entering the castle. Anyone already inside was either kidnapped or killed. Scorch, Topper, Sally, Danny, Frob, Bread, I.M. Ugly and Accordiono looked on at the castle from a trench. The troops had tried getting through, but their shots were unable to get through while the shots from the inside could go out. Danny exclaimed that he could get through, and attempted a Volt Tackle; he crashed into the barrier, but nothing happened. The current guard blasted then Danny away with a laser.
Back at Soda Lake, Sub and PB saw something coming up in the water: Sneezier's Platinum Shroom. The mini-sub grabbed it with a tentacle, and brought it in. They then noticed near the lake floor something much larger coming up... a large cave shaped like Bowser's head. They realized it was the Valley of Bowser, having sunk after Super Mario World, and decided to go inside to see if Sneezier was there.
Part 17-9: Projectile Allies
Meanwhile, at Bowser's Castle, innumerous creatures marched towards the castle. Bowser was having his own minions come out, though, as well as himself, Kamek, Kammy, Bowser Jr. and Top were out. Metal Top saw Top and went over, and after a brief talk, Metal Top transformed into UFO Metal Top and fired a beam at them, blasting them away. Top began to run from Metal Top as it fired at him, but Top stole a hammer from a Hammer Bro. to become Hammer Top and knocked the beam back. The Koopa Troop began fighting against the invading creatures, with Bowser doing a lot of smashing.
At one point, Bowser tossed a rock into Top's mouth and threw him at a PS2 creature trying to eat Bowser Jr., but as Top still had the hammer ability, he was only Rock Hammer Top. Later, Top became Throw Top and used Bowser as a projectile, spinning him around until a ghostly flame got caught in it, forming a tornado. Metal Top was caught in the tornado and thrown from it, then Bowser was thrown into a group of creatures, bashing them away.
Part 17-10: The Lean, Green Sneak Machine
At Peach's Castle, Minorbu had ordered everyone in the castle imprisoned on its ship. One person, however, managed to elude capture: Luigi, who had hid in a closet. He was too afraid to go out, but when he began wondering what happened to the others, he realized he needed to help and braved out... only to have a bunch of cleaning supplies crash down. Luckily nothing heard him, and he began to sneak away. When a creature was about to come towards him, he jumped into an air vent, but climbing through there he got stuck.
Once Luigi got out, he fell on a pig-like creature, but it was knocked unconscious. He quickly dashed out through a window and landed safely in a bush, but soon after activated a trap, causing a large hammer to smash into him from above. This only buried him into the ground, however, and he dug his way around until he popped out inside a barrel. He got an idea and went towards the exit to the barrier and asked to leave; the orange creature that was on guard agreed to let the barrel out, and deactivated the barrier long enough for Luigi to escape.
At the SWDF Toad Town Encampment, Topper was complaining about the food there, wanting a five-star meal. Although Scorch said the military had no fancy chefs, they did have a Mukumuku chef that gave Bread a cookie. A soldier then ran in to tell Scorch someone who was in the castle had escaped: Luigi. Luigi came in and was greeted by everyone, and he told them he escaped by disguising himself as a barrier. As Accordiono said, it was so simple, it was complicated! ...or not.
Part 17-11: Superweapon Showcase
At the Koopa Kingdom, the earlier battle had ended in a draw, and both sides retreated while they waited for the other side to make a move. While waiting, Bowser's Castle began experiencing some shaking and loud pounding noises on the outside; Kamek and Kammy reported that the invading army had snuck up to the door and was trying to break through. Bowser, enraged that they tried to sneak up to his castle, decided to blast them to kingdom come, or at least the Mushroom Kingdom.
On the top of Bowser's castle, a large statue of Bowser came up, half the size of the castle itself. The arms and mouth of the statue began to charge, and an ion beam fired from the mouth of the statue, blasting the pathway to the castle to pieces. Now Metal Top was the one enraged, but had its own secret weapon, and the battleship transformed into a giant robot twice as tall as Bowser's castle. It then blasted the ion cannon, destroying it; it then fired missiles at the castle, pounding it until it gave.
Top decided to go out and find Metal Top and fight it himself, so Bowser gladly tossed Top out a window on his Wheelie Scooter. Along the way, he ate a hammer and began to smash creatures around, but then realized Whacko was riding behind him on his wagon! Top complained that he never did anything before, but Whacko said this time would be different. Top couldn't turn back now, so he told Stuffwell to prepare the secret fuel. Stuffwell emptied the fuel--hot sauce--into the Wheelie Scooter, and it blasted ahead, flying up and into the ship's bottom--specifically, the actual boosters of it.
Part 17-12: Turn Down Gundam
At the Beanbean Kingdom, the Warners were swinging on a chandelier. Elsewhere, Amphy and Christopher were speaking with Ripvor, who they had just realized was there. As they spoke, Shi'un overheard them speaking about the X-Nauts, but Ripvor lied and said they were fighting them, trying to stop them from getting a Chaos Emerald until the Metal Army got in the way. Outside the castle, Orp and the army was about to march into the castle when the Turn A Gundam flew overhead. A creature shaped like cake showed up, saying that it was a robot built by the Celestial Architects, and that a group of scientists figured out a counter to it. The cake itself being the counter.
In the castle courtyard, the Turn A Gundam landed. Shi'un explained it was hers, and the Warners spoke with bad voice-overs. Orp and some creatures entered the castle, but Shi'un attempted to stop them with the Turn A Gundam. Instead, the cake fired discs at the gundam, which turned into holes that literally sucked the energy out of it, transferring to Shi'un and knocking her out. With that, Orp prepared to take the castle.
Part 17-13: Invading Your Own Castle?
Topper, Scorch, Sally, Danny, Frob, Bread, I.M. Ugly, Accordiono, and Luigi scurried to the barrier of Peach's Castle to try and get in. Unfortunately, the current guard, Kad, wasn't fooled and hit them with a laser, blasting the barrels. Danny yelled at Luigi, hitting him with a random hammer (which sent him into the ground) while Kad blasted lasers at them. Luigi made it to the other side by digging and popped up under Kad, after which he smacked it away with a hammer. He then deactivated the barrier, letting the others through.
At Minobu's ship, a sparkplug creature alerted Minorbu that the barrier was down, so Minorbu decided to go show them the true might of the Dark Perforation Army. The SWDF moved through the castle, slowly taking it back, until they reached an upper hallway where Minorbu and his forces were waiting. After a brief conversation, Danny ran forward to attack Minorbu, but it knew he was going to do that and fired a shot at him, knocking him away. While the two forces began their fight, Accordiono, I.M. Ugly and Luigi appeared in Minorbu's ship to find Mario and Peach.
Part 17-14: Valley of Hurtilu
At the Valley of Bowser, PB and Sub took a look around to find Sneezier. He was only a few feet from them, working on the Ultima Gundam. It was then they noticed that Hurtilu's battleship was down there at the former location of Bowser's Castle. They decided to strike at the source. Meanwhile, in Hurtilu's battleship, things were going fine when the ship was rocked by an explosion. They were under attack by the Ultima Gundam, but one of the creatures in the ship activated a shield and began firing its own missiles at the Ultima Gundam.
Sub and PB went inside the battleship thanks to Sub's teleporting, ending up right in the control room. After realizing who they were, Hurtilu decided it was time for smashy-smashy time. It wouldn't go too well for Hurtilu, as he was smashed into the generators during the fight, causing the shield power to drop. With that, Sneezier was prepared to give them all the Ultima Gundam had. At Gisho Castle, a force of Dark Perforation Creatures made their way towards the castle.
Part 17-15: Cosmos? Muku, muku!
Luigi, I.M. Ugly and Accordiono went down the halls of Minorbu's ship, illusions making them invisible. They reached the room with the jail cells, but the guard, a backwards spider with a giant single eye, had infrared vision so it could see them. They turned visible, and during a brief struggle, Luigi shocked Redips with electricity, defeating it. They got the keys and unlocked the prison cells.
Back in the castle, the fight continued; Bread decided to use the cookie the Mukumuku chef gave her against a large dragon creature. The cookie tasted horible, but it melted into a Mukumuku that, although it did nothing useful at first, came out with a giant bob-omb that blew up the dragon and several other creatures. The fight appeared to begin going in favor of the SWDF, and it didn't help with Mario and Luigi showed up in the back. They were ready to fight, so Minorbu brought in some cosmic goo that split and formed into Cosmic Mario and Cosmic Luigi.
Part 17-16: Weird Robotnik Reference
Things had not been going well for the Beanbean Kingdom. The invaders had nearly taken the castle, and the heroes were holed up in the throne room. They did have a backup plan, but it was only activated in the Beanstar room; it was then Queen Bean realized the invaders could get it. Hearing this, Ripvor disappeared. Outside the throne room, he dashed through the shadows to the Beanstar room, activated a lever that he hoped was the backup plan, and pocketed the Beanstar, the security system of which was deactivated.
It was then that Orp and some Syringes came in; Ripvor revealed he had taken the Beanstar, and that they wouldn't get it; Orp left her syringes there to take Ripvor down, and she went into the throne room with some creatures. It appeared to be empty until a massive robot Beanie with a mouth and arms like Trunkle fell down. Prince Peasley introduced it as the Mean Bean Machine, a nuclear powered robot that can be only used once due to the danger in using it. Orp ran out, yelling at the creatures to stop it from firing, but the Mean Bean Machine was able to fire a blast so powerful it destroyed nearly all the creatures.
After the blast, the syringes panicked and ran out of the Beanstar room. Ripvor ran after them, and in the ensueing chaos, most of the creatures were killed, although some escaped with Orp. Ripvor and the Beanstar, however, disappeared. With Orp defeated, Amphy and Christopher were given their one billion Beanbean Kingdom coins... which, at the current exchange rate, was only 100 Mushroom Kingdom coins.
Part 17-17: The Fight for Gisho Castle
In the Valley of Bowser, Hurtilu's battleship was getting attacked by the Ultima Gundam's missiles. Hurtilu realized the battleship was supposed to be incredibly armored well, so he told the creatures operating it to ram the Ultima Gundam. At Gisho Castle, Oshy, Sunset, Testube and some SWDF soldiers were fighting off some Dark Perforation Creatures. The main threat there was a tank-like vehicle with three guns. Testube was stuck running on a rolling spikeball the whole fight.
Luckily, during the fight, Apricot tossed a feather to Oshy that he ate to gain wings, then while flying Oshy ate a black koopa shell to become metal. Though it hindered his flight a bit, he managed to get over the tank and do a metal ground pound from high up, slamming the tank and essentially disabling it and the guns. Just when they thought they were done, the Ultima Gundam blasted out of Soda Lake, pushed by Hurtilu's battleship.
Part 17-18: Tops Collide!
Metal Top continued attacking Bowser's castle with his robot when some creatures detected an intruder; just then, Top bursted into the control room on his Wheelie Scooter, slamming Metal Top with it. The two began their battle while Metal Top told the creatures to continue attacking the castle, but during the fight Metal Top (with the fire ability) was slammed into the control panel. Later Top accidentaly dropped Stuffwell and a bunch of ability bubbles, so he inhaled all of them, causing him to become Hyper Top temporarily, smashing into a large number of creatures.
A robotic koopa finally got Metal Tops attention: The fighting was causing the robot to deactivate due to damage on the control panels, and Metal Top and the creatures had to escape via an escape ship. Top, however, was not quite as lucky, and began falling towards the ground. It was then the robot ship exploded. About a couple hours later, Top woke up on a pillow in Bowser's Castle. It turned out Bowser had saved him as thanks for destroying that robot ship, but then told him to leave before he changed his mind. With that, Top left the kingdom.
Part 17-19: MORE BATTLING
In Peach's Castle, Mario and Cosmic Mario were fighting, though each of their attacks seemed to cancel out. Luigi, however, was running from Cosmic Luigi. The others were still fighting against other various creatures, and at one point Scorch threw a frag grenade into the fight, but a floating hand grabbed it and gave it to Scorch. Scorch threw it back at the hand, and the hand gave it to Accordiono. Accordiono gave it to Minorbu, who threw it at Bread (bouncing off her head, Bread threw it at Cosmic Luigi, Cosmic Luigi gave it to Luigi, Luigi gave it to Mario, and Mario threw it out the window.
Eventually with the force of Bros. Attacks, Mario and Luigi were able to defeat their cosmic counterparts. After Danny smacked Minorbu out with a Volt Tackle, a large assortment of smaller creatures showed up. Minorbu announced for all elite creatures to fall back and to let the fodder stall them. The fodder was simple to beat with just one attack, but all of the elite troops had escaped to Minorbu's ship, which had flown off. They had taken the castle back, but for how long?
Part 17-20: Characters Reunite
At Dinosaur Island, the Ultima Gundam continued fighting against Hurtilu's ship when the tank at Gisho Cannon took out a much larger cannon and fired a cannonball at the castle front door, allowing creatures to get in, but Oshy quickly realiated. As the two fights went on, Sunset suggested attacking the tank from the inside, so Oshy pulled out a clockwork Oshy egg which Sunset hit with a golf club into the tank, after which it exploded and fell apart. The rest of the creatures were defeated by Testube rolling over them with the giant spike ball.
Soon after Hurtilu's battleship was damaged to where it was about to fall, and the creatures escaped through an escape ship. Sub and PB returned to Gisho Castle while Sneezier shouted insults to the retreating ship. Confusingly enough, the events of this part so far had occured before the other three areas. Thus, the next day came, and at the SWDF Mushroom Kingdom base, Scorch, Topper, Sally, Danny, Frob, Bread, I.M. Ugly, Mario, Luigi and Accordiono entered only to be greeted by Oshy, Apricot, Sub, PB, Sunset and Sneezier.
The two groups spoke with one another about the current state of things when Top, along with Whacko, popped out of Sub's robes. Sally said she thought Shi'un was at the Beanbean Kingdom, and it was mentioned that Rogueport was also hit, but Coshi was helping ward off the attack there. Later that night, Coshi came with some clone troopers, a cast on his leg. He told them that the Dark Perforation Army had taken Plasshi, and that he wouldn't rest until she was back safe with him. The door then opened, and Prince Peasley, Shi'un, Amphy and Christopher came in. Peasley announced that both the Mushroom and Beanbean Kingdom were safe, but then Coshi recognized Amphy and Christopher from when they were with the X-Nauts, and in an instant had Christopher up against the wall.
Part 17-21: The Diamond to Defeat the Darkness
Peasley asked Coshi if he would not threaten one of their allies, and Coshi dropped Christopher to the floor, shocked Peasley would call them allies. Shi'un realized that they and Ripvor had been working with the X-Nauts, and Sub was shocked and raged that Ripvor was there. Peasley said they believe that Ripvor had been kidnapped, and Sub was glad to let them keep him. Before he could say anything about Amphy and Christopher, however, Oshy and PB interrupted, saying they still had things to deal with there: The shield around Star World was still there, and no matter what they had tried, they couldn't break through. An attack on the inside would possibly work, if they could get inside.
Almost as if on cue, Wario and Waluigi came in, apparently there to "help them" take back Diamond City. Wario said the creatures had taken over the city, and through Topper doubted its importance, Wario claimed the creatures had been talking about a teleporter to their space station. With that, they could get into the space station and deactivate the shield, but since some of them needed to stay behind to guard the kingdom, they decided for Subsourian, PB, Sunset, Sneezier, Danny, Amphy, Christopher, Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi and the Warners to go.
Except for the Warners. Although they wanted to go, Sub refused to let them come, as he thought they would jeopardize the mission. The next day, they prepared to set sail for Diamond City... except Wario and Waluigi decided to stay behind, figuring the others could take care of it. Team TOT were also staying behind in case the kingdom was attacked, and with that, they headed to Toad Town docks.
Part 17-22: Preparing for the Sortie
Character Introductions
- MEAN BEAN MACHINE
Mean, Green Bean
Trivia
- This is the only story in the Dark Perforation Arc that doesn't have the diamond from the first three stories.
- This is the first full story Shi'un has appeared in.
- This is the first story PB and Sunset appeared in since The Yoshi Bodyguards ended (not counting Tick Tack Emissary.
- Originally it was planned for the suit of platemail to fall on Topper.
- Part 17-10 features an early version of Fuubuumeguu.
Connections to Other Stories
- This is the final part of the Dark Perforation Arc, which included King Top, The New Master Plan, and Pokemon Obscure Metal.
- The events of Grodus Rising are mentioned multiple times, both as when Amphy and Christopher meet up with Ripvor and when Coshi recognzied Amphy and Christopher.
- Metal Top would return in The Top Plot for Takeover.
- Accordiono mentions that he and I.M. Ugly would not have appeared had it not been for the previous story, Revenge on SWDF.
- Ripvor was last seen in Revenge on SWDF, going from Stardust Fields to Hoo Mountain. It can be inferred from there he went south to Beanbean Castle Town.
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