fandomtownies | The Final Boss-- uh, Finale, We Swear -- Team 2

In front of the castle in the preserve stood three green warp tunnels yadda yadda.

These are the misadventures of the poor fools who picked the second one.

Toadstool	Before you lies a long, long walkway, with lava snakes jumping across. It does not look like a nice place for a vacation. But at least the little Toadstool standing in front of you looks nice.
Cable	"Where are we," a heavily-armed Cable asked of the toadstool. "Where are the kids." No, he didn't need a question mark.
Deadpool	"I'd totally answer the man," Deadpool added, twirling a sword helpfully. "He's in that nineties mode where the only way to escape is to kick his tiny, tiny shins and hope that he tumbles over as his center of gravity is so messed up due to Liefeld art."
Blossom	"Don't long underground walkways guarded by monsters usually lead heroes to the bad guys?" Blossom was honestly asking; things were so different in other worlds, let alone during Fandom invasions. She frowned, floating beside the rest of the team and not at all liking the look of those jumping flaming things ahead. Or the lava, but she could fly over the lava. She looked back to the mushroom-hat-man-thing in front of them. "Maybe he's one of the ones we have to jump on? Maybe then the firey things will go away?"
Iceman	"...He looks a lot less fangy than the squishy dudes," Iceman commented. Lack of fangs and angry eyebrows clearly meant this guy was supposed to be one of the good guys, right?
Hank	"Give us the kids and no one gets hurt," Hank growled at the little kid. "Or else I'm-a totally step on your head!"
Summer	"I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want that to happen, so just tell us what we need to know and we'll be on our way." Summer stated, frowning at the toadstool in front of them. He didn't look like a bad guy but then again, appearances could be deceiving.
Toadstool	So many people were threatening him! He was but a simple pawn in this game of life! Toadstool took a careful step back from the crazy people who weren't Italian plumbers. "Your princesses are further into the castle!"
Cable	He was just lucky Cable wasn't shoving a gun in his face. "How far," he said, ignoring every scrap of banter that had come before it.
Blossom	"You're going to take us to them?" Blossom asked. "And are they okay?"
Hank	"Head. Step. Me. You."
Toadstool	"No head step!" CRAZY EXTRA-DIMENSION PEOPLE. The little mushroom man put up his wee hands and waved them uselessly. "I am here to help! The terrible King Bowser has transformed my people into monsters, and taken your princesses. You must save them!"
Cable	"Don't worry," Cable replied, pulling one of his smaller guns out of the holster. "We're on it."

Deadpool	"There are needless spikes on the floor," Deadpool pointed out, tilting his head to the side. "Aqua Lad, get to work on that." He was so kind to Bobby.
Aqua Lad	Sigh. "It's Ice. Man," Iceman grumbled. "I could make a slide," he said thoughtfully. "But ice wouldn't necessarily be any easier to move on than the platforms." Unless you were him, of course. "The snakey dudes, on the other hand, that's cake."
Blossom	"Is there anything at the other end that would make the walkway stop moving?" Blossom asked, not seeing anything herself. "If Ice Man can freeze the snakey things, I could fly people over...? It would take a while, though."
Hank	"Cake the snakes, Aqua Lad!" Hank ordered, thrusting a mighty finger into the air mightily. "And then all we have to do is time our jumps properly! No sweat!"
Deadpool	Oh, Deadpool liked Hank now. "I can ninja over," Deadpool insisted. "Rick Jones over there just needs to take care of things like a good lil' homo sapiens superior. And not die before that happens. Though, really, Nate's the Summers here. So he's got a higher chance of it happening. Tough luck, Nate."
Blossom	"Yes Mayor," Blossom nodded and looked over her shoulder. "Professor Pitt? Hank? Both of you will need to be flown across, yes?"
Hank	"Oh, come ON!!!" Hank pouted. "I can DO this! I mean, it's not like this is the first time I've jumped on moving platforms across a pit of spikes in a bad guy's lair!" ...Actually, it was. But it might not have been! Hank's life was like that.
Blossom	Blossom crossed her arms and looked at Hank. "Are you sure? Because if you fall, we have to stop and rescue you and that means we may not get to the kids in time." Well, she'd stop and help; she wasn't sure about certain parents in their party.
Hank	Hank crossed his arms, too, and glared at her. Gradually, his gaze dropped, and he scuffed a toe on the floor. "Psssht, fine," he grumbled. "But only 'cause you made me." Reluctantly, he held out a hand to Blossom..
Blossom	Blossom had a cat; she was not about to lose a glaring contest with a human, sorry. "Teamwork, Hank!" She smiled encouragingly at him as she grabbed his hand and easily lifted him to join her hovering a few feet off the ground. "You totally get to save your energy for fighting the monsters on the other side! Keep your feet up, okay? And let me know if you see something coming at us."
Hank	"I can do better than let you know!!!" Hank replied with a grin. To demonstrate, he started spitting fireballs at random that luckily managed to miss all of his teammates. Oh, yes. Someone had let the boy near a Fire Flower. Fear him.
Deadpool	"...dibs on leaving this kid in the spikes!" Deadpool stop being helpful.
Iceman	"Would the paperwork really be worth it?" Iceman wondered, sending a blast of ice towards a flamey-snake thing that was getting a little too close as he ice-slide across the spike pit.
Cable	"No one gets left behind," Cable said. Or growled, really. He was in something of a Mood. (In other words: no one gets left behind, unless it means Jan got put in any danger. In which case everybody could go-- anyway.) He took a running start towards the walkway. Telekinesis was a helpful thing, here.
Hank	"You know, I'm beginning to think that you people don't understand the meaning of 'teamwork'," Hank grumbled. "Or 'friendship'. Well, except Blossom, and she's a girl. The rest of you? You're all too busy understanding the meaning of... of... 'pootieheads'!"
Deadpool	Deadpool shrugged at him before taking a running leap over to join Cable. For him it was less 'telekinesis' and more 'LOOK AT ME, I'M SPIDER-MAN!', though. "We're lookin' for our messiah kid," he called over. "Plus, if this was a 'team up' we'd have a nifty title to it."
Summer	"We could always come up with one, just for the heck of it," Summer offered, as she waited to be flown over to the other side by Blossom. Sometimes, she found herself wishing she had some sort of ability. Now would be one of those times.
Blossom	Blossom had been trying to come up with a good team name since they'd left the Town Hall, to no luck. The closest she'd come up with was MECH - The Mayor's Excellent Citizen Heroes, but she didn't like it. She couldn't think about that right now, though. "I'll be right back, Professor Pitt. Please be careful." Blossom could probably carry both Hank and her across, but the two were different heights and weights ~~and Hank was probably going to wiggle a lot~~ so she wasn't sure about her navigation skills at the same time. Tugging lightly on Hank to get them higher, and hoping he'd stop randomly shooting fireballs, Blossom flew out over the walkway, trying to time her loops and dodges to miss the snakey things that jumped at them.

Bowser	He's big, he's mean, he's ugly, and he's not going to be nice to you. He's also blocking your way onwards and flinging things at you. Why yes, it's the incredible BOWSER!
Deadpool	"Oh, look. A dragon-lizard-furry thing," Deadpool remarked, pulling a sword. "This'll be fun!"
Cable	"Concentrate your fire on the head and the belly," Cable bellowed. (Bellowed was definitely the right term for it.) "Keep your eyes open and KEEP MOVING!"
Hank	Hank jumped and spat fireballs for all he was worth, but the stupid mutant turtle kept dodging them. "Stand still, you crummy breath-face!!!"
Blossom	The mayor's advice made sense considering the rest of the monsters this weekend. "Does anyone know if we can jump on him?" Blossom had her sling out the minute she wasn't carrying anyone. Now she was using it to fling her rocks at the monster, trying to avoid hitting the others when he jumped out of the way. "Heads up!" She called out as the creepy ugly dodged again and another of her rocks went awry. She hoped no one was in the way, since she was loading up for another shot and not really taking the time to wait and see.
Iceman	Iceman ducked in time to avoid being hit by the flying rock, and started flinging ice in the lizard thing's direction. "I think right here is where I make the requisite pun about you chilling out, dude," he told it.
Summer	Summer was getting good at dodging rocks and things coming her way. "I'm not sure we should even try to jump on him," she said, eying the spiked shell on his back. Yeah, that would probably hurt a lot.
Bowser	Fireballs being spit at them was the best they could hope for in response to any attempts at attacking him like that. Because video games had special rules about boss fights, after all. "I will enjoy destroying you aaaaall!" Bowser crowed in classic villain fashion, moving side to side in a way that was annoying. Then fired more of those fireballs at them. Because he was a people person.
Iceman	Okay, the ice was doing nothing. Iceman was... definitely not used to that. It was really kind of annoying. And while Professor Pitt had a point (heh) about the spikes on the dude's back, his head was relatively unprotected. Minus those horns, anyway. "Here goes nothing," he muttered mostly to himself, raising an ice-column high enough to jump off of, doing so just when the dragon-thing moved close enough.
Bowser	There might have been an odd little sound effect there as Bowser stumbled backwards, shaking his head. That did indeed seem to be his one vulnerable spot! If you could get there. Because now he was pissed and roaring again. "You will never escape here aliIIiiiive!"
Cable	Cable was going to take no chances and fire at that head, but he was also already mobile. Heading for the creature itself, in fact, while it was still busy roaring and not, you know, spitting fireballs. And by heading we meant 'launching his boot at its head'.
Bowser	That was cheating! No fair being ready right away for another hit! Bowser stumbled further back, stomping the ground hard enough to make it shake beneath the feet of those nearby. "Stop that!" How could he threaten people properly if they kept doing that?

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Finish that bastard!

"Quick, someone hit him on the head again before I get pissed and cut it off, thus making this way out of the age warnings for the game!" Really now. Really.

Blossom growled. "I'm out of rocks!" Stupid stupid can't touch the monsters even with your weapons rules. "And he won't stay still so I can jump on him." Her falling from the air wasn't as accurate as her throwing aim; she needed something to throw... Ah! "Professor Pitt? Want to go flying again? I'm going to throw you at his head, if that's okay!"

She wasn't going to have much time to decide, since Blossom was swooping down for her rather quickly, reaching to grab her hand. Hopefully Iceman would cover any of the fireballs that might be tossed at Professor Pitt midflight?

Normally, Summer would think twice before agreeing to be thrown at someone's head. Strangely enough, this wasn't one of those times. "I'm all for it!"

Seeing Blossom swoop down, she quickly grabbed onto her hand. Summer hoped she could avoid any fireballs coming her way as she felt herself being launched toward Bowser, aiming a strong kick at his head.

With that third and final hit on the head, Bowser stumbled one last time before collapsing with a roar of, "NOOOOoooOOOOooo!" in an overly dramatic fashion that might hurt a few eardrums nearby.

But he started to fade away...

...or shrink away into one of those obnoxious mushroom monsters.

Oops?

Blossom had finally removed her hairbow and charged it with enough energy to make it into a boomerang, ready to throw it if this wasn't the final hit they'd been hoping for...

"Eh?! That was just a costume?!"

"Aw man," Iceman whined. "We got the decoy bad guy?" Hey, he'd played a video game or two in his time. He'd noticed a few... striking similarities to how they worked at play (no pun intended) in the last couple days.

"Oh, come on!" Summer couldn't believe it. That was not cool!

"Where is Jan?!" Cable snarled.

He had his priorities.

"Chill out, everyone!!! I got this!!!"

Hank started shooting fireballs at the goomba. As you do.

Thankfully for anyone who wanted to interrogate it, his aim still sucked.

Deadpool was nowhere near as helpful about this, shooting at the poor confused thing instead of actually asking questions. "I was nice and calm and all that team up crap before. But now I'm just gonna kill things!"

Somehow the mushroom guy from before picked this moment to arrive and nearly get shot. So you'll have to excuse him for cowering just a bit. This group was scary, okay?

He missed plumbers!

"Thank you for your help," he said, looking as though he'd rather be hiding. Even though he was still smiling. "But your princesses are in another castle."

...

"FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--"

"...Yeah, I called it," Iceman sighed.

And then, after a pause. "So... anyone know the way out?" Were they supposed to go back to the beginning and try jumping up the pipe or something?

"...Are you sure?" Hank asked. "I don't think there WAS another castle."

Blossom had to hold back and not actually throw her hairbow at the cute little man-toadstool thing. Or at Professor Deadpool.

She took a breath and folded her arms. "I don't know what you are all talking about," look, she didn't LIKE video games, okay? "but where are the kids?!"

Summer glared at the toadstool, not appreciating the little stunt he'd pulled. And that smile was kind of creeping her out. "We want to know where the kids are, now."

She was not happy and she'd gladly go through the correct castle to get them back. If he'd be so kind to tell them.

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The Final Boss-- uh, Finale, We Swear -- Team 2

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