Down in the underground sewers of Toad Town, the party slowly emerged from the entrance pipe one by one as the warp pipe's exiting sounds echoed throughout the underground maze. Pinkie somehow managed to shoot herself out of the pipe instead of slowly walking out like the Mushroom Kingdom denizens or her friends, giggling as she slid to a halt as she almost fell over the edge leading to a lower floor.
"That was fun!" Pinkie said. "Let's ride the pipe again!"
Rarity was the last to walk out, cringing and whining as her hooves walked along the stone ground. "Ew ew ew ew ew. Why did we have to walk through a sewer? Why couldn't one of those pipe things just be somewhere outside?"
"Warp pipes are similar to plumbing pipes, connected by a linked system where they all go to one central location," Goombario explained. "Since Toad Town's the central city of the Mushroom Kingdom, it would make perfect sense for this place to house the pipes connecting to each and every town we visited."
"And it had to be in a sewer of all places?" Rarity whined.
"It's not that filthy in here," Applejack said. "Looks quite clean considerin' it's a sewer."
Rarity heard a squish as her hoof stepped on something, making her fur stand up on end and she squealed in disgust. "EWWW! Ok, Lakilester, I'm riding on your cloud!" She jumped up and sat on the Lakitu's cloud, shaking her hoof that stepped on whatever it was she squished. "This place is disgusting! Please tell me I didn't step on anything...foul!"
Twilight found what Rarity stepped on, which happened to be a dried up Mushroom. "Just a dry Mushroom, though probably moist from the water running through this place." Rarity whined again, keeping any and all parts of her on Lakilester's cloud, especially her curly tail. "So...where exactly do we go to find the pipe leading to Shiver City?"
"Since Mario's a plumber, doesn't he have a map of these sewers?" Rainbow asked. Mario scratched his head as he remembered a few sections of the Toad Town Sewers, but he shook his head, having no recollection of there being a map made for this underground system. "Well, so much for that. Looks like we'll have to do some exploring."
"But where to start though?" Kooper questioned. "If the sewers expand throughout the entire town, how are we going to find Shiver City's warp pipe if we have to go through a maze of stone, metal, and water?"
"Find the coldest part of the sewers?" Bow suggested. "Shouldn't be that hard to find if the temperature suddenly drops...Not that I would know since I'm a Boo."
"Thank you, Bow," Twilight uttered with a deadpanned tone.
There were only two directions they could go, either to the right where a sand block stood in their way, or to the left. There was also a wooden panel in the ground Mario could ground pound on and bust through, leading down to the lower level beneath the gap and warp pipe bridge. Sticking together was a must, otherwise they'll end up getting lost if they split up, deciding on the right path first. Mario easily busted up the yellow block and gave them access to the next hallway. Roaming around the section were gray Goombas known as Gloombas, similar to their other walking mushroom relatives that either flew or wore spiked hats to avoid getting jumped on, though they weren't as powerful as their Hyper brethren back in Gusty Gulch. They were quickly taken care of as they had faced far tougher foes in the last couple areas and continued on.
The next room was a dead end, the only thing lying at the end was a treasure chest beyond another wider gap with another warp pipe bridge. "I smell treasure goodies!" Pinkie said. "I'm gonna see what's inside!"
Pinkie bounded her way across the bridge, her eyes on the prize that might hold something valuable. "BLOOOOOPER!"
Leaping up from the bottom of the gap was a giant white squid-like creature, floating right above Pinkie and latched its tentacles on her. "AHHH! Help! It's the Kraken! It's gonna eat me!"
"What in Equestria is that!?" Twilight exclaimed.
"It's a Blooper!" Sushie said. "How did one that big wind up getting stuck in this sewer!?"
"Hang on, Pinkie!" Parakarry said, flying forward and dive kicking the cephalopod off the flailing pony.
It lost its hold on Pinkie, smacking into the wall, letting out a pained gurgling sound. Shaking itself, it growled and flicked its tentacles, floating up in the air as if it was swimming underwater.
"They can fly!?" Rainbow asked in shock and awe.
"Yeah, Bloopers can fly. At least some can," Goombario said. "They're a lot worse in the water since they can be more mobile than in the air."
"Ooh! I can take care of it!" Watt charged herself up and zipped through the air, smacking into the Blooper and releasing a powerful shock.
The Blooper shuddered and twitched, electricity pulsing through its squishy body until it turned into a charred black color. With X's in its eyes, it floated down to the ground like a feather, falling over as it landed by the pit and fell down into the water below with a splash.
"...Well, that was easy," Lakilester said. "It'll be a cinch getting through here without too much trouble."
With the fairly weak Blooper beaten, Pinkie bounced off to the chest to claim the treasure inside. Opening it up, she pulled out a pink badge in the shape of a boot with a crystal in the center of the same color and shape.
"A badge?" she questioned. "All that's here is a Shrink Stomp Badge? What a waste." She blew a raspberry and tossed the badge away. "This story doesn't use badges anyway. They just take up too much space, and Mario doesn't need to wear them to do stuff he could normally do in his other games." Bounding back to her friends, she moved on ahead toward the opposite path back where they entered. "Oh well! Onward to more sewer tunnels!"
The others looked down, watching the badge float away as the current carried it through a drain, forever lost in the sewers as it made its way out somewhere in the ocean. Finding no use for a boot-shaped badge regardless, they hurried after Pinkie and continued down the other path to search for Shiver City's warp pipe, Mario smashing the stone block barring them from venturing further. The room from the left of the entrance pipe had three rectangular spots on the ground with an empty circle in the between them, the pathway blocked by yet another stone block.
"BLOOOOOOPER!!!!" Another Blooper shot up from the water flowing down along the side, this one slightly bigger than the last one.
"AHHH! Another one!" Pinkie screamed, grabbing Mario and holding him up over her head. "Mario, get caught in its slimy tentacles for me!"
"Are you sure these things don't live in sewers!?" Rarity exclaimed.
None of them had any clue why there were Bloopers in Toad Town's sewer system, but Mario decided to deal with it after getting out of Pinkie's firm grasp. It dove down on him, trying to jump on him with its weight, but the plumber smacked it away with his hammer. After shoving it away, he leapt at it and reared his hand back to punch it, only to suddenly get shocked as the Blooper released an electric jolt around its body, letting out a shuddering yell of pain before falling to the ground.
"Uh oh," Sushie said. "That's no ordinary Blooper with a growth spurt. That's an Electro-Blooper!"
"Umm, I don't think I can be of any help," Watt mumbled, slowly floating down as her electric tackles would barely do anything to it.
"I can take a little shock!" Rainbow said, flapping her wings and tackled the Electro-Blooper. She felt the painful shocks that protected its body, but she toughed it out as she slammed it into the wall, then bucked it hard as she flew back. Unfortunately, she had to land as her limbs twitched. "Agh! Horseapples, that's stronger than I thought."
"Ok, so long-ranged attacks will deal with this thing safely," Twilight suggested, lighting up her horn as she lifted Bombette with her magic. "Ready to blow it up, Bombette?"
"Ready as ever!" the pink Bob-omb said, lighting up her fuse and waited to explode.
The Electro-Blooper floated closer, and just as Twilight was about to fling the lit up bomb, it turned its undercarriage over to them and sprayed a heavy blast of ink at them. They were all caught off guard as they spluttered, their bodies coated in ink, even dousing Bombette's lit fuse.
"EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWW!!!!!" Rarity screamed. "THAT IS DISGUSTING! IT INKED US! BLACK DOES NOT WORK WITH MY WHITE FUR!"
Bow was the only one who didn't get inked, chuckling impishly as she managed to turn intangible right as the Electro-Blooper sprayed its ink at them. Mario quickly shook off the ink, leering up at the Blooper, its body shuddering as if it was laughing at them for inking them. He pounded his fists together, his Lucky Star lighting up orange and yellow while coating his hands in the same mix of aura. Spotting the aura around his hands, he knew his protective ability was active to keep him from getting shocked, but he was really curious to see what kind of power Applejack gave him, even if it would obviously be more strength. Jumping up toward the Blooper, he brought his fist back and punched it hard, its electrified body no longer phasing him, but the blow immediately sent the cephalopod flying across the room and slamming into the wall at mach speeds, leaving behind an imprint of its body.
Everyone gaped in awe, including Mario as he landed and looked down at his hands. He was sure to beat up Bowser quite easily with this much power, but despite the two of them being enemies, he didn't want to kill the Koopa King. Luckily, his powerful blow didn't kill the Electro-Blooper, hearing it gurgle in pain as it slipped out of the mark left behind, falling to the ground, then crawled its way back into the water in defeat. As soon as it disappeared in the sewer water, a blue switch fell down from the ceiling, landing in front of them with a thud.
"...Wow...Mario just got OP," Lakilester commented.
"Yes, fascinating," Rarity said. "But does anypony have any CLEAN water and a towel, or something!? I don't want to be covered in squid ink! It's so disgusting!"
"Well, cephalopods like Bloopers must protect themselves by squirting ink on predators," Fluttershy said. "It must have thought we were invading its territory."
"Or it made fun of us," Rainbow said. "I swore I heard that thing laughing."
The pegasus tried to shake the ink off herself, making Rarity squeal in disgust as she splashed some on her. "Rainbow Dash, stop that!"
"Anyway, distractions aside," Twilight said, using her magic to wring out the ink out of everyone, forming it into a massive blob of blackness before dropping it into the water. "What's this switch do?" Before asking for a volunteer, Pinkie jumped on it with a cheerful grin, squishing it down and activating it. Popping up from the three rectangular spots grew out three blue warp pipes, though where they went to left another question in the alicorn's mind. "Ok. Warp pipes...Where do these ones go?"
"Maybe one of them leads to Shiver City?" Goombario decided to check on the right warp pipe and jumped inside it. After a moment, the Goomba came back up. "Hey, this one leads to my house!"
"Really?" Kooper asked. He went up to the second pipe and jumped inside, reappearing a moment later with the same excited expression as Goombario. "This one goes to Koopa Village! And I think I overheard Kolorado getting scolded by his wife over there."
"Ooh! Ooh! I wanna jump in the next one!" Pinkie begged, not needing permission as she cannonballed in. It took a bit longer for Pinkie to come back, but as she did, her poofy mane was slicked back as her body was covered in saliva. "Dry Dry Outpost! And I saw Chompy again! Too bad he's too big to fit in the warp pipe."
"So, now we have shortcuts to reach the places we've been through," Twilight pondered. "This sewer system really is a central point for the warp pipes connected to each location in the kingdom."
"Did any of those places have a spa?" Rarity asked. "I still feel dirty and sticky from all that ink."
Bow grumbled and rolled her eyes. "Quit whining. You've lived a week in my 'dusty, filthy mansion'. You can survive a few hours after getting inked by a Blooper."
Rarity scrunched her muzzle and leered at Bow. They continued onward down the path after Mario smashed through the block. Unfortunately, there really wasn't much down the other way as they reached a few dead ends, only finding a chest with yet another badge Pinkie tossed out, still considering them pointless to use. There weren't any other warp pipes aside from one they jumped in to reach this level of the sewers, forced to backtrack to the entrance from Toad Town and go through the boarded up hole. Mario ground pounded down on it, busting through and landing down into a lower level from where they started. The others jumped down after him, Rarity still riding with Lakilester on his cloud while Applejack and Pinkie were carried down by Rainbow and Twilight.
This level was where the water was flowing down, possibly flowing out to the ocean, a pathway on the other side of the water to their right while there was another passage close by on their left. Choosing dry land over going across the sewer water, they proceeded to the left path. Inside the room, they spotted a few purple-shelled Koopa Troopas roaming about. Entering the room was a bad thing, the doors on either end being barred shut by iron poles dropping down from the archways. The Koopas smirked when they faced the trapped group.
"Well, well, well, lookie here, boys," one of them said. "We got ourselves some intruders messin' around in our turf. And it's Mario and his little group of sissies."
"Uh oh. Dark Koopas," Kooper said. "Careful with these kinds of Koopas. They can leave you pretty dizzy if they get too close."
"Not a problem if we outnumber them five-to-one," Lakilester said. He looked over at Fluttershy and Rarity, the timid pegasus not much of a fighter unless a cute animal is in danger while the latter was afraid to get her hooves dirty by walking on the stone floor of the sewers, sitting on his cloud all the while. "...Well, sort of."
"We'd like to see youse guys try and stop us!" another one goaded as the trio of Koopas chuckled. "None of yas are gettin' outta here unless ya beat us, or we knock your blocks off. Don't matter if there's more of yas."
"We don't have time for this," Twilight said, lighting up her horn and casting a spell to get rid of the annoying roadblocks. The Dark Koopas shot forward, surprising her at how fast they moved as one of them approached her. Before she could retaliate, he brushed past her, his shell spinning rapidly and managed to cause the alicorn to spin around like a top, screaming wildly as she went out of control. The other two tried to hit Mario and Kooper, but they managed to get out of the way of their dizzying spins. As soon as Twilight finally slowed to a halt, her eyes were rolling in her head while her hooves staggered to find her balance. "Uuuuugh. W-Where is rightside up anymore???"
"Twilight!" Kooper called out, running to help her, only to be blocked by the Dark Koopa that almost hit him. "Out of my way!"
"So, you must be Kooper, huh?" he asked. "An old buddy of the Koopa Bros.?"
"They're not my friends anymore," Kooper growled. "Those idiots are trapped in their own dungeon in their fortress."
"That's what you think." Kooper cringed at the Dark Koopa's words, catching him off guard when he suddenly got sucker punched by the one who hit Twilight.
Kooper was sent falling over, quickly ducking into his shell and zipping off away from the double-teaming Koopas. Before they could attack Twilight in her defenseless state, Parakarry and Rainbow dove in and kicked their faces, sending them sailing toward Kooper as he bounded off the wall. He popped out of his shell, holding out both his arms as he clotheslined both Dark Koopas, sending their heads smacking into the ground and dazing them. Mario was busy with the one that almost hit him, blocking his return bounce with his hammer before slamming it down hard on his shell. The powerful impact caused the reptile to pop out of his shell, leaving him in his white boxers.
"Aww, come on, man!" the last conscious Dark Koopa whined, trying to cover himself with his arms helplessly. "That's seriously not cool!"
Kooper grabbed him, tossing the shell-less Koopa toward the nearest wall and pinned him against it. The others dealt with the unconscious Dark Koopas, Pinkie bouncing on both their backs to pop them out of their shells, Applejack and Rainbow pinning them to the ground, and Fluttershy and the others went to Twilight to keep her from staggering around until she could see clearly again. With their shells kept away from them, Kooper began to question the conscious Koopa Troopa.
"What did you buddy mean when I told him the Koopa Bros. were trapped?" he asked.
"I-I don't know what you're talking about, man," the Koopa said nervously, only to get a swift punch in the gut.
"Tell me right now!" Kooper demanded.
Letting out a wheezing gasp, he coughed and held his hands up in surrender. "Ok, ok! I'll talk! Some of the soldiers from Bowser's castle went to check on them a couple days ago! They got them out of that cell and brought them up there, but that's all I know! I swear!"
"They're free?" Kooper asked.
He growled, their situation now worse as his former friends were no longer caged up, Red Ninjakoopa swearing vengeance on him and Mario after the beating they got. And with them now in Bowser's fortress high in the sky, they'll no doubt be an obstacle in their way to rescue the princess along with the Koopa King's elite troops guarding the castle. The Dark Koopa tried to take advantage of Kooper's distracted gaze, but his punch was held back by a lavender aura, Twilight's dizziness finally subsiding as she made him punch himself unconscious.
Now with all three Dark Koopa's knocked out, the bars moved away, another blue switch dropping from the ceiling, which was immediately pressed to reveal another blue warp pipe. After gathering the Koopas and tying them up, they tossed them in the warp pipe with Mario following after them, the plumber returning a moment later with a smirk on his face, informing them that it lead to Boo's Mansion where the Boos "greeted" their new arrivals as soon as they woke up. Making sure to take note of which pipes lead where, Twilight approached Kooper, the blue-shelled Koopa leaning against the wall as he processed the unfortunate news.
"You really don't want to see them again, huh?" she asked.
"No...I thought I was done dealing with those four idiots..." Kooper sighed, dreading the day they'll encounter the four Ninjakoopas again. "Who knows how strong they'll have gotten?"
"Well, you're not going to fight them alone," Twilight said. "You have all of us to help fight alongside you. And this time, my magic's regained its full strength unlike last time. We've all made it this far as a team, and we're much better coordinated than that quartet of wannabe villains."
Kooper looked at Twilight and grinned. "...I guess you're right. It won't end like last time with me taking them on by myself." Feeling reassured that their encounter with the Koopa Bros. will be much easier the next time, he recovered from his slight slump and rejoined the others with Twilight. "Let's keep going. We've got a pipe to Shiver City to find."
Continuing on, they had to turn back when they entered the next room since it was a dead end with nothing important. The only way left was across the water, which everyone wasn't too keen on doing with the floating bottles and cans floating on the surface, along with whatever contagions might lurk in the surprisingly clear waters. If the Bloopers were able to survive living in these waters, then it was a risk they were willing to take, at least for some of them. The smallest members of the group hitched a ride with Twilight, Rainbow, or Fluttershy, Kooper clung onto Parakarry's hands as the Paratroopa carried him across, Sushie swam across the water, Watt, Bow, and Lakilester hovered over, the latter carrying Rarity as she whined while keeping her tail from touching the water, and Applejack and Pinkie were levitated over by Twilight's magic.
"BLOOOOOOOOOOOOPER!!!!!!!" The others let out a groan in annoyance as yet another Blooper showed itself to try to stop them after they all got across.
"Just how many of these things are there!?" Bombette exclaimed.
The Blooper popped out of the water, all jaws dropping as they saw one of the biggest ones they had ever faced, roughly three times bigger than the Electro-Blooper. "Oh for Celestia's sake!" Rarity cried out.
"What had that thing eaten to make itself that big!?" Applejack questioned.
"I don't know, but it looks like it's going to eat us for dinner!" Goombario exclaimed, nearly avoiding a tentacle as it tried to snatch him.
It floated up in the air and began to dive down on the group, Pinkie Pie screaming again and using Mario as a shield once more to avoid getting caught again. Luckily, using his new super strength as his hands glowed orange, he grasped the heavier Blooper's tentacles and pushed it back. Before he could send it across the room, it strained itself, then let out a grunt, releasing two Blooper Babies out from underneath it, latching onto the plumbers face and squeezing him with their tentacles. Mario tried to pry the babies off his head, forgetting about the mother while the others gaped in shock.
"Baby Bloopers!?" Fluttershy exclaimed, a little mortified at first, but after seeing how they looked as newborns, she squealed excited. "They're cute!"
"And dangerous!" Rainbow added. "They're suffocating Mario!"
"I'll save him!" Watt said, rushing up to the Blooper Babies and zapping them off the plumber.
Once they let go, Lakilester finished them off by throwing Spiny eggs at them, sending them falling into the water with a splash. The Blooper mother was enraged, growling as its body began to turn red, its muscles bulging and a vein popping out from the side of its head. Sushie gasped, recognizing what kind of Blooper they were face.
"Oh dear...That's a Super Blooper!" the Cheep Cheep warned. "It just supercharged itself, and it just got a whole lot dangerous!"
The Super Blooper let out an infuriated gurgle, diving down on the group and slammed down on Mario, Kooper, Parakarry, and the ponies sans Rarity, Lakilester moving out of the way in time as the bigger victims were crushed underneath its tentacles. The others quickly attacked it before it pressed down on them harder, Goombario headbonking the Super Blooper, Bombette tackling it, Sushie belly flopping on its head, Bow repeatedly smacking it hard with her fan, Watt shocking the tentacles to get them off the trapped members, and Lakilester raining a storm of Spiny eggs at its face. Unable to take much abuse, it floated away, and as soon as Mario was freed, he got back up on his feet, jumped up high above it, and with his hammer combined with his enhanced strength, he slammed it down on the Blooper's head, sending it diving down into the water, leaving behind a hole in the water for a brief moment before it came rushing back up in geyser of a splash.
"Whoa," Goombario uttered in awe. "That immense amount of strength combined with the strongest hammer Mario has...That could do a serious number on Bowser...You guys think that might be strong enough to actually break Bowser's invulnerability if he uses the Star Rod?"
"I don't think it would work," Twilight said once she got back up. "Not even our magic of friendship was able to break that barrier."
Another switch fell beside them, creating another warp pipe nearby as it was pressed down. Mario went down the pipe and returned later, finding a shortcut to Yoshi's Island if the whale wasn't around the pier to give them a lift to Lavalava Island. Moving further down the long, winding maze of a sewer system, the next room was a long hallway with two separate paths; one side had a bed of spikes that lead to a green warp pipe, while the other was a flat stone path leading further along to wherever it lead.
"Sheesh. How long have we been wandering these sewers for?" Rainbow whined. "I'm starting to feel like the walls are closing in on us."
"Well, let's hope you don't get a case of claustrophobia when we go through those warp pipes," Bombette said. "Where exactly do we go now?"
"How about the flyers check out what's down that pipe and wait for them to come back?" Twilight suggested. "There shouldn't be much more of this place to go to find the way to Shiver City...At least I hope there isn't."
"Oh, no!" Rarity exclaimed. "If Lakilester's going to go, I'm staying right here! I'm not getting off this cloud!"
"Uhh, I'm cool with staying here," Lakilester said. "Even though my cloud can be useful for carrying someone over those spikes."
Going along with the plan, Rainbow went on ahead with Parakarry, Bow, and Watt down into the warp pipe. More lower floors of the sewers laid beneath where they exited, the pathway not even needing to be bothered using as the small search group flew over to the next path, ignoring the Spinies wandering around. There were more Dark Koopas in the next room, but again, they flew over them since they couldn't jump high enough to reach or attack them. The last room was met with yet another dead end, but looking over the raised wall revealed a big treasure chest, just like the ones in Dry Dry Ruins, Boo's Mansion, and Mt. Lavalava.
"Oooooh. Secret treasures," Watt said in awe.
"I have a feeling it's some kind of upgrade for Mario," Bow said. Parakarry hovered over and opened the chest, pulling out a pair of red and yellow boots made for the heroic plumber. The Paratroopa hovered up and showed them the shoes, looking brand new and unused despite being placed in that chest who knows when. "Ha. Called it. New boots."
"And they're definitely Mario's size," Parakarry added. "They look a lot more sturdier than the Super Boots he's wearing. Could be handy to add a bit more kick when pouncing enemies."
Taking the boots with them, they flew out and back toward the pipe, regrouping with the others and showed Mario the new shoes. Figuring they would come in handy, Mario took off the Super Boots and put on what Bow had dubbed Ultra Boots, since it had the same shades of color like his hammer. They were indeed a perfect fit for his feet, almost as if they were made for him. Placing the Super Boots in Twilight's bags, they continued onward, Mario testing out his new boots on the Dark Koopas wandering about in the room, easily trouncing them and making them wheeze as he bounced on their soft abdomens.
Once in the next room, they began to feel a slight chill in the air as they spotted a blue door across a wide gap that seemed impossible to jump across, a green pipe leading even further down to another section of the sewers. "Hey, is it me, or did it get colder in here?" Applejack asked.
"Feels like we're getting closer," Goombario said. "My best bet is checking that door over there."
As they pondered how they could get across, the Lucky Star shined again, making Mario's eyes glow white as the power of perception helped him see something the others couldn't. Spaced out across the gap were invisible question mark blocks, no stranger to randomly bonking his head on any of these during his previous adventures that nearly made him drop down a pit or two. Jumping down to the lower floor, he looked up at the invisible blocks, then leapt up and hit the underside. The thumping sound along with a coin jumping out surprised the rest of the group as they watched Mario reveal the blocks they couldn't see. After hitting the last one, Mario leapt up onto the other side, turning to the others as they saw the white aura in his eyes fade away.
"Invisible blocks?" Twilight questioned. "So these blocks can be intangible as well?"
"Hey, how come Bow didn't tell us about the ghostie blocks!?" Pinkie asked. "Did you want us to think of crazy ways to get up to the other side, like getting a giant trampoline!?"
"I didn't even know they were floating there," Bow said. "Us Boos can't see invisible blocks. They're a lot different from how we turn intangible...I don't actually know how they're made invisible to begin with."
"Can we please move on and get out of these sewers?" Rarity pleaded. "I still feel icky from that disgusting Blooper spraying its ink on me, and I need a bath. I do hope there's a spa in Shiver City."
With their bridge now created thanks to Mario's enhanced vision through the Lucky Star, the party traveling on foot hopped across the blocks while those able to fly hovered across, Lakilester having to skim over the block bridges as he was forced to stay low near the ground with Rarity along for the ride. Once they made it to the other side, they entered the doorway, feeling a blast of cold air as if they had stumbled into a walk-in freezer. All that was in the small room was a green warp pipe on a small platform, where they could practically feel the source of the frigid air pouring out into a faint mist. Everyone braced themselves as they dove in, exiting the other end in a frozen section of the sewers, the pipes the used to flow water out frozen solid along with the water along the sides.
"Brrrr," Sushie shuddered. "I think I'd rather stay in Mt. Lavalava with this cold. I'm going to turn into a fishcicle."
"We must be in the right place, then," Kooper said.
The party climbed up the stairs leading to another pipe, where it must lead to Shiver City. One by one, they all climbed through, awaiting seeing what Shiver City looked like and maybe take a breather from fighting three different Bloopers and the wandering enemies in the sewers.