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// 6. The Crystal Empire 
// Story: The Koopa Uprising 
// by Fryguy 
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After succeeding to defeat three more fortresses, including Las Pegasus, the duo move on to the Crystal empire, where there wasn't a fortress, but there was the giant crystal castle, where in fact the koopa on a cloud was holding the next key. "Let's go get that key!"

"Wait, the place is heavenly guarded, and there are several taskmasters, I suggest that we go kill the guards and taskmasters first, and then get the key, we will also have to let the castle stay, but kill everything evil in it."

"Good point, let's do this!"

They devised a plan to kill everything evil in sight, but staying out of sight as well, it was when Yoshi fires arrows and swords at the guards and taskmasters when Spike makes a smokescreen. The plan worked perfectly, but the major factor was to get the key that was guarded, and the koopa guarding it is guarded, by being hidden somewhere in the castle, with no guards left, the duo had nothing to hear, except for the koopa who is rumored to throw spikey creatures.

As the duo enters the castle, an echo was heard, of someone laughing like a maniac, a laugh similar to Bowser's but it was not a deep voice like Bowser, no, someone much lighter voice, could it be the guardian of the key?

"Where are you, whoever you are, come out! Now!" Yoshi yelled to the voice.

"Oh, but how can you find me, you'll have to find me! Ha!"

But Spike is starting to get annoyed with the unfamiliar voice. "Come out, or we are going to make sure you'll never leave this place alive!"

But the voice reversed Spike's threat. "That depends, will YOU make it out alive?"

But Spike and Yoshi had already took off to find the mysterious someone that thought he could get away with tricking them and killing them.

But the duo had been failing, they couldn't find the koopa or the key.

"Wait, Yoshi! Look!"

Spike spotted something on the throne where one of the alicorns used to sit on, it was the key, and they were very eager to get it, they were thinking that the guy was surrendering. But just when they thought they had it, it was snatched away by a koopa hand. Confused, and shocked, they see a koopa with glasses on a cloud, a cloud with a face on it! "I'm not giving this up easily, it was a test to see if you weren't a complete fool to face me!"

Yoshi was now so angry he tried to throw a sword at the koopa, but the cloud had moved away with the koopa so quickly that the sword missed him by ten seconds, hitting the wall and falling to the ground, but the crystal wall was starting to crack, the sword had caused the wall to break apart, and Spike noticed. "Yoshi! Look what you did!!!!!!"

Yoshi saw the wall crack, his mind raced furiously, until he came up with an idea that he thought might work. "We got to go!"

"But the key!" Spike yelled in protest.

"Trust me!" replied Yoshi as he began to dart out of the room.

The duo was running out of the room, he started to laugh in triumph, thinking he bested the outlaws. But soon a big chunk of crystals hit his head, and that caused a fatal wound to the koopa's head, but his hand had threw the key towards Yoshi, who catches it from the air. 

The duo ran out of the castle, to see it crack, but not crumble, it stayed standing, just damaged. They did it! Only two more towns to go. But as the duo left the crystal empire, Bowser is furious when he figured out that almost all the cities were attacked and all the fortresses were destroyed. 

"WE NEED TO FIND THOSE TWO AND KILL THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Bowser yelled so loud, that he blew out his messenger's eardrums, but he replied with more cheerful news, or what he thought was. "But Bowser, you know that you still have the princesses, and that unicorn, they can't dethrone you."

"Hmmm, your right, but those two can."

"Are you kidding me that you are afraid of two small creatures so weak you can crush them, I mean, you still have that star power to get very big, remember from your second attempt to take over the galaxys?"

Bowser then remembers and nods, for he is the most powerful thing ever to live, and he'll keep it that way, even if he had to bloody his hands on innocent bystanders, he'll kill those puny rebels and prove his authority, he was now hungry, hungry for the death of Yoshi and Spike.