Chapter Seventeen: The Trolling Continues (Fixing Challenge)

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Seeing as neither of the others wanted to volunteer, Mr L stepped up first, grabbing a lever and pushing it down. Two seconds later, he was rewarded with a ketchup bottle falling at his feet, then blowing up and sending him across the room. 

Flavio instantly froze up the second he saw the Green Thunder's unconscious body roll to a stop at his feet. Bombette gave him a look, did that thing in so many terrible fanfictions where they communicate with their eyes, and then sprung into action, flicking as many levers as possible, activating hundreds of traps at the same time. 

An arrow trap activated when she ran up the wall, dozens of projectiles aimed at her. With a flip, swing of her braid, and several fake-outs, she managed to get several of the arrows to flick more switches. Cannonballs burst out the walls, the little Bob-Omb rolling and leaping to avoid them as they smashed through the other side, flicking even more of them. 

Unfortunately for her, those levers only did worse things. Thwomps of Dark Paint rained from the ceiling, forcing her to go one way or another. Fire traps opened up in the walls, certain lever mechanisms burning down before she could flip them. To top it all off, a giant swinging battleaxe flew out of nowhere, following Flavio as he screamed and tried to get away.

Eventually, the entire room had practically fallen apart, with three different songs playing in the background, at least one being death metal (take your pick). The walls had fallen apart to the point where they weren't even walls and just long areas of space showing absolutely nothing. The levers had all been flicked, broken down, burned, or just decimated in general. Crimm still lay unconscious in their bubble.

Then Flavio did a sudden turn, and the battleaxe crashed right into Inky, knocking him unconscious. As soon as that happened, the bubble disappeared, the unconscious blob of paint falling right into the Rogueportian's arms.

"Ah, I'm fining you if I find any stains!" 

"Let's just get out of here!" Bombette used her braid to snag on to his arm, pulling Mr L along by looping his bandana through one foot. "Before he recovers!"

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Answer time!

1: 2000 was the year PM came out!

2: 2004 was the year Toadette joined the roster in Mario Party.

3: The world record time for Rainbow Road is 1:59, which is 119 seconds. 

4: Blooey's first sentence (Hey there, I'm Blooey... and this guy is a total liar!) is 11 words. Not sorry about that one.

5: There were 120 Star Pieces in the original PM. That's... a lot, considering how they were all hidden and stuff.

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Point Handouts:

NintendoJedi: +10

TuliDream: +5

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After rushing out one room, Mr L shook himself awake. "What's going on?"

"Run." Bombette's eyes narrowed as she rushed into the first room she could see, as far away from the last one as she could get.

This other room, as usual, held an unconscious Paint Star within a dark bubble - although which one it was, she couldn't tell. This time, the "minigame" for them hadn't been fully prepared, with circuitry sticking out the walls and floors, and the general area looking like a total mess. In fact, it was such a mess they had no idea what they were supposed to be doing.

"So... is this..." Flavio looked up. "Ah, definitely no match for my wit! Now I will leave the rest to you."

"Oh no you don't," Bombette snarled. "You're part of this, too."

Mr L, on the other hand, had already pulled out a set of tools from the emergency stash in Brobot's 'stache, who had plummeted to the depths only to come back maybe 3 chapters later. "Are you two going to stand there bickering all day, Mr Yellow-Faced Coward and Ms Explodey?"

"WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME?" both of them yelled.

"Just get to work." 




15: Fixing Challenge

If it ain't broken, don't fix it. Unfortunately, this is a very broken paragraph I have down here. I'm gonna need you to fix it as best I can. 

RULES:

- Fill in the blanks with the best words or phrases you have.

- You will be judged on creativity, humor, and ability to take the pure undistilled essence of crack and vomit it into the template below.

- PM or comment your choices! Either is fine.


Paragraph:

One day, ____ was raining from the _____ when a giant _____ ______. Though the _____ was _____, everyone decided to _________________________. Because of this, _________ exploded and _________ ______, but ______ got in the way. So everyone _______, and ______ flew in from the _______ and _______ everyone. And that is how ________ was made.




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