The Top Plot for Takeover
From Yb Timeline
"This was one just one giant conspiracy from the start."
-Subsourian the Dark, Topmonhit Story (Story 23: The Top Plot for Takeover); Part 21-16: That’s a Lotta Plotta!)
The Top Plot for Takeover is the 21st Topmonhit Story. It involves the return of Dark Top and the fulfilling of a long and convoluted plan he began over a year prior to the story. It is part of a "trilogy" that is more of a group of stories where each one focuses on a different member of Team TOT, though it's more of a focusing on their main foe.
Characters (in order of appearance): Light Top, Oshy Gisho, Topper Mon Hit, Power Box, Sunset, Sneezier, Sera, Subsourian the Dark, Scorch, Queen Snophia Icle, Chills Pacone, Stuffwell, Seet, Princess Apricot Gisho, Dark Top, Metal Top, Mime Dee (flashback), Shadow Danny (flashback), Gruntilda (flashback), Fawful (flashback), Tron, Blork, Whacko
Locations: Shiver Star, Chills Pacone Office Building, Star World, Gisho Castle, SWDF Meeting Place, Popworld
Time Period: July 11th-September 1st
Teaser
Story
Part 21-1: Not-So-Jolly, the Snowman
After a recap of events involving the Iclan Kingdom in The Dark Perforation Saga, it explained that the kingdom was in economic turmoil after the reconstruction. In order to stay intact, Snophia had to either tax the citizens to nothing or recieve help from the ruler of the planet, Chills Pacone. She chose the latter, and went to meet with him, but called for some diplomats to help her out. Instead, she got the usual: Team TOT and friends.
At Chills Pacone's office building, July 11th, Team TOT, PB, Sunset, Sneezier (with Sera), Sub and Scorch came in to meet Snophia. Their reason for being late was they had trouble finding a parking space (or, more specifically, they were arguing if they should use a handicapped space). Now that they were there, however, they went into the elevator and it went up; the music put Light Top to sleep, while Sneezier was trying to get Sera to stop hopping around.
In Chills Pacone's office, Chills waited for them to come. They were late, which he disliked; he was willing to wait one more minute, and as soon as that minute came the elevator opened and they burst out. Chills said they were late, and he may take that into consideration. They were about to begin the talks, with Sub and Scorch on alert, when Sera ran out of the elevator; Sneezier chased her, and Light Top woke up. Chills recognized Sneezier and Light Top as the ones who killed his father, and all the members of Chills' mafia that were there aimed their weapons at them, effectively ruining the whole thing before it began.
Part 21-2: The Aftermath of Darkcorp
Chills had his mafia members fire at Light Top and Sneezier, and with Sub telling Chills to stop or else (with a fireball in his hand), Chills suspected foul play from the SWDF and they began to open fire on Sub as well. The two sides fought throughout the room when a snow-white waddle dee showed up to help Chills, but Sunset stopped him from attacking Light Top. The two began to fight when PB yelled at them all to stop, now standing on a table. This caused everyone to stop, though Chills wanted it to continue until he got revenge.
PB thought it was all just a mistake, and Sneezier realized something, asking Chills if his father was Ansnowio. Chills answered yes, and Sneezier said that was Dark Sneezier and Dark Top who had killed his father to begin Darkcorp. Despite this, Chills still wanted his revenge, and it was obvious the talks were close to breaking down at that point. In the waiting room, they waited for Chills to cool off while Sneezier mused that if it hadn't been for that event, Darkcorp wouldn't have formed. Topper got an idea from that, and they went back to see Chills.
Topper explained to him that, although it made Topper hate himself for saying it, what was true was that because Ansnowio was killed, in his quest for revenge Chills became the ruler of a whole planet instead of only a regular mafia boss. Chills realized he was right, and while he was not about to thank Light Top and Sneezier for it, he would let them go for the time being. The talks quickly started up as Snophia agreed to tell Chills where the kingdom was if she got a low interest rate and 40% of the kingdom's profits went to Chills. Having done nothing but nearly wrecked the whole thing, Team TOT and the others left.
Part 21-3: Popcorn World
Team TOT returned to Gisho Castle and headed into the dining room, only to see Apricot and another Top, drinking lemonade! Light Top was confused as to who it was at first, as was Apricot, having thought it was Top all along, and Light Top tried to guess who it was. He guessed nearly every form of Top there had been except for the correct one: Dark Top. Light Top was ready to defend himself, but Dark Top said he wasn't there for evil purposes, but for peace. Specifically, diplomatic relations.
About an hour later they were at a meeting place with Team TOT and the other guest stars, and Dark Top began to explain why he was there. There was a flashback to The Plot of Evil Dreams when Light and Dark Top stopped Metal Top from taking control of the dream machine, and Dark Top said he escaped and made it to a planet called Popworld. He said there was a tyrant ruler named Blork there who he overthrew after gaining the trust of the people, and the people then made him the ruler. Team TOT and the others weren't convinced, so he suggested they come to Popworld to see how his rule has changed the planet firsthand. After a bit of research, they agreed to humor Dark Top and go to Popworld with him.
Part 21-4: Blooper Hippo
At Popworld, everyone went to Dark Top's castle and while looking out the balcony, Dark Top sang a song about his rule on Popworld. PB was convinced, as it was hard to argue with a song, but Light Top continued to say Dark Top was evil. Dark Top said all he ever wanted was power, which he now had on Popworld, and that all he wanted from Star World was to be allies... and possibly funds to help the planet grow. He also mentioned that he had a problem: Blork, the former ruler, had been causing some problems with the loyalists to him, and it would be useful if they would go and stop him.
They weren't sure if they should, but decided to so they could see just what type of ruler Dark Top had overthrown. It was then they noticed Tron was stuck on the Starcruiser Prime, and got it down. With that, they got in their ships and headed to where Blork and the loyalists were last seen. Sub and Scorch remained on the Nightwind IV until confirmation of Blork's location was obtained, but while flying through the air Top's Star Ship and the Starcruiser Prime were hit by missiles and had to make an emergency landing.
Specifically, Top made a crash landing. They appeared to be unscathed, except for the fact they were surrounded by goombas and capsule Js. Blork then came out, being carried on a portable thrown by some squishes, and was a massively obese blooper with a silver crown on its head and a large mouth. He snarled at them, and they were about to fight when the Starcruiser Prime crashed, destroying the entire encampment. Blork sent his loyalists to attack them while he escaped after the stress nearly got to him. The goombas, capsule Js and some Hammer Bros. began to attack them.
Part 21-5: Vague Foreshadowing Ahoy!
The goombas, capsule Js and hammer bros. attacked Team TOT and the others, but were starting to lose when they attempted to activate a missile to blow them into the sky. Just then a frag grenade landed near the capsule Js and blasted them away and a Pelican Dropship came down, which Sub and Scorch came out of. After the hammer bros. went down, the goombas all ran. With that, they decided not to go after Blork (as they were unsure which direction he went anyway), and for the next week an uneasy alliance began between Popworld and Star World.
Dark Top obtained a large number of newspapers from Star World to catch up on the news, and at his castle, he read about various things (mentiond in Trivia), most notably The Dark Perforation's defeat and how it had built Metal Top. Suspecting Metal Top wouldn't bother anyone anymore, a loud thud was then heard in another room. Dark Top went to investigate and found a large box that was gift-wrapped. He read a note on it, and stated that "He’s not going to be a problem anymore…"
Part 21-6: Say “Blubber Blooper” 3 Times Really Fast
Three weeks later, on August 2nd, Topper was filling out a form on the computer (the "interests" box), when his Palladium Fire Flower rang. He answered, only to find he had picked up a real fire flower instead and was soon scorched. Oshy answered the Palladium Fire Flower, and it was Dark Top. At Dark Top's castle, Dark Top told them that Blork was causing trouble again, but him going and stopping Blork himself wouldn't be the best publicity stunt. Oshy asked why they should help, and Dark Top's answer was they were the good guys.
Topper woke up, saying he dreamed that he was a hamburger on the grill being topped with fire flowers. Oshy hung up, and explained the situation to Light Top and Topper. Though they didn't want to, they knew they had to, and a couple hours later were at Popworld Canyon, along with the other guest stars. Without warning they were attacked by a group of bang-bangs, but those were quickly dispatched and they found the encampment over a hill and began to attack. Blork saw them and roared at them, angry at seeing them again.
Blork said he wouldn't stop terrorizing the people until he was back where he belonged, and a fight between them began. Although Blork tried to attack them with his tentacles, when one was cut off he said he couldn't even feel them anymore. Although they kept cutting off the tentacles, Blork spat up intestinal juice at them, though the tentacles were still his main method of attack. Tron hit him with a Zap Cannon, paralyzing him, but Blork tried to stop them, wanting to propose a proposition...
Part 21-7: Topmonhitnoe and Another Top Too
Part 21-8: Technology Tumble
Part 21-9: Of Course You Know What This Means!
Part 21-10: The Grayest Day
Part 21-11: The Scent of Death
Part 21-12: Assassination Assessment
Part 21-13: Time for Da Bate
Part 21-14: Democracy? More Like DEMONocracy!
Part 21-15: Super Magic Man
Part 21-16: That’s a Lotta Plotta!
Part 21-17: Return of the Microwavable Top
Part 21-18: Betrayals R Us
Part 21-19: The Face Down Your Other Side in a Final Battle Scene
Character Introductions
- BLORK
The Blooper with Blubber
Trivia
- Because the start of this story involves the Iclan Kingdom and its aftermath of The Dark Perforation Saga, this was originally supposed to occur after The Dark Perforation Saga. However, because Topmonhit wanted to group it with Return to Gisho and a currently unknown-named story, it was pushed to #21.
- Part 21-1: Not-So-Jolly, the Snowman is a reference to Jolly the Snowman.
- Everyone wants to use Popworld in something.
- Blork's appearance is somewhat of a reference to King Hippo, who is not only obese like Blork but, as SZM once pointed out, has eyes like that of a Blooper, which Blork is.
- Dark Top's song is called "Dark Topolis".
- The letter that came with the gift read "This is a black hole cannon, capable of forming a black hole warp to anywhere in the galaxy. For purposes of the plot, use these coordinates, and you can find Metal Top. From, a fellow with his head in the cloud."
- Part 21-7: Topmonhitnoe and Another Top Too is a reference to the campaign song of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler in the 1840 United States presidential election.
Connections to Other Stories
- The story begins with a recap of events involving the Iclan Kingdom during The Dark Perforation Saga.
- Ansnowio was killed in an RP Chronicles story about the origins of Darkcorp.
- Dark Top's last appearance was in The Plot of Evil Dreams, which he disappeared at the end of. There is a flashback to this in Part 21-3.
- Dark Top read multiple newspaper articles, including:
- "Shroobs... X-Nauts..." refers to Return of the Shroobs and X-Chaos. This is because they are mentioned before Order Extermanatis, which occured in The Blackest Days.
- Dark Top reads an article about The Blackest Days, speaking of how the YB used Order Extermanatis which led to the YBs eventual breakup.
- Dark Top also read about Star World freezing over in Icy Heart of Darkness! The Final Story of Sneen! and the X-Nauts returning in The Oddtastic Adventure.
- Dark Top then reads about King Top, commenting he wasn't the only Top to become king.
- Dark Top also read about the Metal Army's defeat.
- Finally, Dark Top read about The Dark Perforation and its defeat from the SWDF and Pokeworld Defensive Forces, as well as how The Dark Perforation had created Metal Top.
Preceded by: The Legend in the Stars | Timeline The Top Plot for Takeover | Followed by: Return of the Confederation |
Preceded by: The Prince and the Spider | Topmonhit Story The Top Plot for Takeover | Followed by: Bloo and Mogmire: Perfect Partnercuters |