Mario & Luigi: Bit Of Paper

Mario & Luigi: Bit Of Paper is the reimagination of M&L: Paper Jam, which takes the original game and twists it to better incorporate itself in M&L and partially Paper Mario franchises. It's a crossover-sequel to Paper Mario: Comet Of Desires. It was developed by AlphaDream for the Nintendo 3DS, but was delayed by half a year. 
== List of Major Changes ==
=== Battles ===
* Unlike other reimaginations, this game keeps the original's gameplay, as it was considered to be quite good, possibly the best compared to other games. Still, one gigantic change is still made. Unlike the original, where Mario Bros. and Paper Mario worked separately and didn't respond to each other's demises, here they act in the same vein as with Mario and Luigi - if Paper Mario will fall, one of the remaining brothers WILL pick him up and dodge the attack with him. To compensate different attack pattern, bro who holds him will be able to flutter a little bit, to avoid the attack. The same goes for other bros, as if Mario and/or Luigi will fall, PM will grab one of them, and help them dodge the attack. It works in the way that randomised character will pick up each other, so, for example, if PM falls, at different turns different brothers will pick him up. If two characters falls, Mario would need to avoid the attacks for both of them, but of course at different turns. Works same in the situation where bros. fell, but not PM, which will help them avoid the attack and defend himself with Y for all the turns. His Jumping or Hammering will still take longer to do if he holds brothers, of course.
=== Overworld ===
* Starlow doesn't appear in the game at all, instead her role is taken by Paper Luigi, who will now be a tutorial master and Mr. Exposition for the team if needed (but with far more humorous quirks, compared to Starlow). With this change, PL doesn't appear as the cameo sitting being the key to the Music Player, with this role taken by a nameless Boomboxer, who will also have a different reaction to different songs being played.
* The idea of the Paper World to slowly merge itself with the normal locations of M&L world is kept, resulting in locations that look like a mix of 2D and Paper-3D sightings happen far more often.
* Several characters from both franchises return to make the story take a different route. Now, not only Koopa Troop will be the main hazard for mour protagonists, but other multiversed individuals too...
* Paper Kamer is changed to Kammy Koopa permanently, meaning that she is established as the paper equivalent to Kamek, making her the only gender-flipped version of a character.
* Beldam takes the place of Nabbit, having identical role, but with changed interactions and even mechanics.
=== Enemies and Bosses ===
* Shiny Enemies are removed due to the story reasons in Comet of Desires. Instead, they are replaced by other PM enemies or their Hyper variants. 
* X-Nauts replace Papercraft Spinies in the third Papercraft boss fight. Speaking of which, Papercraft Magnus takes central stage, instead of Junior one.
* Several bosses were change dor replaced, with the most notable being an addition of Mandibug, Crystal King and the final boss.
== Story ==
There was a peaceful day at the Mushroom Kingdom, and, as we know, this kingdom cannot stay quiet for more than a minute! And so, the day actually starts with Luigi and Toadsworth trying to find a source of the draft in Peach Castle's attic. Toadsworth spots one interesting book that he doesn't even remember the existence off, but is still fascinating by it's oddly placement there. Meanwhile, Luigi gets startled by the Scattlebug, who proceeds to chase poor greenie until he hits the shelf on which the book resides. Toadsworth rushes to him to ask if he's alright, with Luigi noding.. and then the book falls on him, making him lose conciense for second before Toadsworth wakes him up. They eyes lock on the book, however, as it indeed emits mysterious aura around itself. Luigi tries to poke it, yet it suddenly jumps. Duo gets scared, and yet it jumps again. By the third time, it opens itself, and even more mysterious thing happens before their eyes. A different, completely new creatures start to emerge from it, and they get scattered all around the kingdom territory. Mario and Peach look outside their balcony, and are amazed at the rain of different kind of creatures. Panicked Luigi rushes to them, leading them to attic, as Toadsworth explains the situation. Peach seems puzzled, but now thinks it would be better if they go wander the kingdom to understand what was those creatures and what to do with the book. Bros. agree, and, picking the book, go outside. And to say they were shocked in not to say anything. There were Toads, but different, far more... flat? 
Toads and Paper Toads were completely bewildered at this sight, but no less curious. And then, even stranger event happened, as from the sky landed paper version of Peach and Toadsworth! Two princesses were shocked, but felt really amused by this, with two Toadsworths asking if there were more of the same individuals through the world. As she says so, a green meteor falls onto Luigi. That green meteor, of course, being Paper Lugi! He then begs a pardon because of it, with Luigi doing the same... before two of them screaming and panicking upon seeing each other. Mario asks what exactly happened there, and Paper Peach explains, that it was the normal day around, until they felt an earth tremble, and then the skies were literally ripping open, as they got sucked into this marvelous world. Paper Toadsworth feels pretty troubled, as all the Toads and other citizens were launched into the sky too. And yet then, PL realises that he can't spot his own brother anywhere, panicking about it. But Mario Bros. decide not to ignore their paper counterpart's problems, and so, are glad to help find all the Toads and PL's brother too, making everyone feel relieved. 
Meanwhile, at Bowser's Castle, everyone seems to be even more flabbergasted by the situation, as the normal minions have been mixed with paper ones, confusing everyone. When Bowser tries to understand what's going on, Paper Bowser rushes ti the hall, asking the same, and gets into the fight with his voluminous version. Kamek instead seems to be completely confused upon seeing Kammy, thinking it's some kind of a joke, with Kammy saying the same, promting to each of them to glare furiosly at each other. The only ones who seem to be getting along are Bowser Jrs, as they immediatly go to play with each other. Kamek and Kammy decide to stop their masters at fighting, thinking that it may be better if they unite to solve this paper-esque problem at once. Clenching their teeth, Bowsers agree with this one. 
But the most interesting thing happened inside the preservation room, where Bowser keeps his enemies frozen for some nasty reasons. One unfortunate Paper Ice Snifit have flew there, and then barricaded the upper vent with his body, panicking and crying. That caused the meltdown in the room, which also actiavted signalisation. because of the meltdown, some of the ice started to melt, alongside one round piece of it, who revealed someone big after it melted. Someone with rageful eyes and the boar snout... 
As the brothers start their journey, PL decides to go with them to find his bro. Along the way, tutorial happens, in which Paper Luigi teaches the duo about their attacks and how to avoid enemies (he explains that he read that in one particular booklet). Feeling more courageous alongside the bros, PL thinks they will find Paper Mario in no time. But then, someone accidentaly runs into PL, as the two land in opposite directions. The one who bumped into him seems furious, demanding him to look for both sides. PL wants to argue, but realises that he saw this person somewhere. Indeed, the purple, hunched and ugly shadow was one of PM's enemies! Beldam seems to mistaken Mr. Mustache with this "Green Bush", but as she turns around, she literally screams at the sight of Mario Bros. She seems to clench fists in fury upon seeing Mario, but realises that he looks far different from that "manly freak" she saw. Suddenly, few Toads are heard screaming at her, and so shee flees, while, interestingly, leaving some Bros. Attacks by accident. Toads explain, that she stole their things to "get herself in shape again", as she put it. Toads actually feel glad that Bros. found their items, but decide it would be better for them to keep it, so it can help them on their way.
Their next fight occurs with two Paper Goombas, whom they defeat easily, leaving one of them with cracked first layer, that forms a notable mohawk, leaving him angry at them. He came back, but now with even more Paper Goombas, who form a Goomba Wheel. They squash the duo, leaving Paper Luigi on his own, who screams for his own brother... And, in all of the sudden, a red meteor crushes on said wheel, that gets even angrier than before. Paper Mario stands in all his moustached glory, ready to fight off Goombas. Here, the little tutorial for PM's battle movement occurs, in which PL explains his quirks and buttons to mash. With that, PM defeats Goomba Wheel, and the one with mohawk tells them, that he will indeed return. Our volumetric duo wakes up, and are shocked upon seeing Paper Mario for the first time. Two Marios inspect each other, jump together, and then gladly laugh together, forming a great bond. PL hears his brother's story, and explains to the Bros., that Gonzales has been asleep for quite some time, and when he woke up, he was at this green, completely new for him land. Trio of them decides to team up for greater results, with PL being their mentor about attacks and movements.
Later on, Toadsworth and Paper Toadsworth rush to tell the quartet that Peach and Paper Peach were kidnapped by Bowser and Paper Bowser. The main trio feels angry about it, with PL suggesting to return to their castle to see if Bowsers still there. But dragons shouts that it won't be neccessary, as they are already here. Evil duo floats above them in their Clown Cars. They taunt the team and flee to Bowser's Castle with the princesses; summoning Petey Piranha to attack trio in order to slow them down. After they defeat Petey Piranha, they proceed to a Toad Village.
They later encounter Kammy, who blocks the path with a Papercraft Monty Mole. This inspires Toadette to build a Papercraft Mario in order to destroy the blockade, which she needs more Paper Toads to assemble, so the gang unite in quest to rescue and find more Paper friends. Afterward, Toadette creates the Papercraft, with the new gameplay being controlling said Papercraft to crush same Papercraft enemies and to destroy blockages. In the end, they encounter Papercraft Montymer (the first boss of Comet Of Desires). It's controlled by that Mohawk Goomba, who states he will get revenge on them. After the battle (with that Papercraft buring itself into the ground for attacking from the ground), it's destroyed, with that Goomba sent flying into the sky. 
But as our heroes travel to their next destination, another event occurs near Bowser's Castle. As two guard Goombas argue how their paper counterparts can affect their financinal gain and the quality of their income, something bursts through the wall, scarying two Goombas. They start to run, but one of them stumbles and falls. The mysterious figure picks him up, and asks, how can he meet a little green smart guy. Goomba is panicked and puzzled by this request. The figure asks the question again, pointing out how this is bad for soldier to forget his master's look, especially since he defeated "the shelled lizard trash". Suddenly, Goomba realises who is he talking about, while joyfully proclaiming, that bowser has already defeated that nasty foe all by himself. Midbus, Fawful's previous right-hand man, is completely devastated upon hearing such terrible news, and then, while throwing that Goomba away, proclaims that he will get revenge for his master. And not only against Bowser, but against Trash Bros. too! 
Mario and co. cross the desert to reach Bowser's Castle to save the Princesses. When they first arrive, they encounter Beldam. She completely freaks out, but then decides to settle the score with them. Mini-boss fight starts, in which Beldam uses her fists and ice attacks to hinder our progress. To avoid fists, just hammer her when she appears in front of heroes. With the Ice, she will sent the breeze waves across the ground, that will freeze the Bro if he doesn't jump over it. Upon defeat, Bros. retrieve two Bros. Attacks, with Beldam powerless laying on the ground, cursing italians. However, as they continue, they are thrown back by Roy, who mocks them for snooping around enemy territory like it's a walk in the park. He summons a stone brick, requiering learning the Trio Hammer. After breaking the brick, Wendy appears after some time, flipping the bridge while laughing, that Bowser will be unstoppable with those paper "cuties", sending Mario and Luigi down into Doop Doop Dunes Grotto.
Realizing that they need to fight two Koopalings on top of a high ledge that cannot be reached from the ground, the trio explore the grotto and make their way out to the Toad Village, where they ask the Paper Koopas for an item to "get to high places". Getting a paper trampoline after completing a few more Koopa missions on the surface, the trio return to the Grotto, and use it to reach the Koopaling Duo, who fight the same way as the original game, though the damage they inflict is slightly lower. After escaping the grotto they proceed, only to encounter Kamek and Kammy. The two create Papercraft Kammy, and an army of Papercraft Goombas and Papercraft Pokeys, but Toadette arrives with Papercraft Yoshi. Some locations include a distinct statues of Koopas wearing the Tutankoopa's nemes. Before the boss fight, Kamer is furious, that Kammy stole the spotlight from him, which makes Kammy gloat, that she is far more helpful to her Bowser than Kamer will ever be. Kames is offended, stating that he won't help control this thing at all, until Kammy point at the sillhuette of Yoshi Papercraft. This completely inverts Kamek's behaviour, as he screams to minions to charge at the green dinasaur-cardboard, shocking even Kammy After a battle, the bros emerge victorious, and can finally cross the bridge to Bowser Castle. After the battle, though, Kamek admits that Kammy's style of fighting was admirable. She, feeling fluttered, complimentes the way Kamek moves his wand, too. However, after they cross, the bridge is hit with a cannonball, and a second one knocks out the Mario Bros. They are arrested by Wendy, Roy, Larry, Ludwig and an army of Chargin' Chucks. Jrs pick the book that felt from Luigi. Meanwhile, a strange silhuette with glasses is seen spying on the situation, reporting to some Four-Eyes that the book is at Bowser's hands.
The trio are stranded in the cell, as Luigis start to panicks. Marios, for some unexplained reason, hammer their brothers.. which indeed calms them down! PL analyses the situation, questioning if maybe PM's powers can help now. He's right, and the heroes ar eout of their cell, albeit without Command Blocks and even Bros Attacks. Heroes must fight Hammer Bros. for such things, which they succesfully acquire. After quite some time and traveling around, the team finds Mohawk Goomba, who accidentally locked himself in the cell on his duty, which was the punishement for his incompetence. He promises that, even if he is not some pink Know-it-All, he will teach them about Battle Card set if they free him. He goes into the menu, but is shocked upon seeing that they have ZERO cards. Mohawk quickly teaches them everything he knows about said cards, and then sneaks away, claiming his retiral from Bowser's ranks. The trio find out from the Toad named Chat T. that prisoned citizens (not only Toads) are being forced to search for some powerful energy resource by Bowser and Paper Bowser in order to make an "ultimate papercraft,". After that, heroes soon run into a gate with a round-shaped indent in the center, which is blocked by Roy. He complains, that Wendy gave hi, all the job, so he really wants to let off some steam. How? By smacking protagonists, of cource! But before that, someone smacks him instead. That someone is.... Lord Crump??? 
The former commander is suprised to see PM here, who stands between Crump and others, ready to fight. PL explains, that this man was a big shot of some notorious organisation, with the name of... Y-Nuts, he thinks? Crump screams, that it was X-Nauts, and that it was Mario's fault that it was all ruined. Crump wanted to turn the life around after that... but understood that being a power-hungry evil general is far more easier, and his informants told him an interesting info about the Book from which they came. If they can't conquer their own world, why not control THIS world! Heroes are ready to fight him, but he escapes, leaving X-Nauts R to deal with them. Mini-boss fight with them happens, in which they are attacking the heroes by jumping, running onto them, or using Roy as the projectile. Yes, literally. They use poor ucouncisness Koopaling as the football, which Bros. must reflect with their Hammer. After reflecting for some time, he wakes up, and randomly jumps either on X-Nauts, or on random Bro. They also need to reflect him jump with the hammer. Once defeated, the trio continue back to the Twinsy Tropics Dungeon. Meanwhile, Lord Crump digs the area aroung, maddened that he still can't find that dumb energy source Mole was babbling about. Suddenly, Beldam, still bruised and dizzy after her fight, appears right under him, causing two to freak out. Upon jumping back on the ground, Crump recognises her, and so is she. They get mad with each other, stating that each of them are traitors, who only used others for their own interests... At this point, they actually agree with this statement... But still hate each other! However, one silhuette from the front says, that their "hate is like piece of puzzle pf win". Silhuette reveals himself to be Midbus, who causes an uneasy feeling in Crump and Beldam. At the other part of the world, Bowser Jr. duo annoy the Magikoopas into giving them a vacation to Bowser's Villa on Mount Brrr and take the Princesses with them. They also try to tell the Bowser duo about the book containing Paper Mario niverse, but are ignored. 
The Mario trio, alongside the freed Toads find themselves stranded at Twinsy Tropics. Our heores confort a depressed Paper Pianta. PL asks what's wrong, and Pianta explains, that his whole life now been turned upside-down. not only he now knows, that he is a paper creature, but realises, that whole his life could only be put on one pathetic page, getting envy that Mario got his whole life written on countless pages. PL scolds him for that, stating that his life can become as unique and wonderful as Mario's if he just wanted to, instead of complaining and doing nothing. Everyone are shocked (especially PM), but Pianta says he's right, and apologises. Indeed, he opts to help our adventurers, by building a boat to return to Sunbeam Plains. Before that, however, heroes must rescue all other Paper Piantas. After that,Piantas do build a boat, and the crew safely returns to the Sunbeam Plains. They head to Peach Castle, but Toadsworth and Paper Toadsworth are all sweating and panicking, as they explain that the Princesses were taken to Mount Brrr. They also explain, that this mountain can be accessed through Gloomy Woods, promting for our band to run to it.
Getting to the woods, the trio find new papercraft terrain that covers and changes the landscape to a terryfying degree. As they go, they notice that one Green Toad is being chased by giant Paper Mandibug! He cacthes him, as he starts rambling a long and intellectual monologue, before noticing our trio. At that, PB tosses Toad aways, swoops in and initiates a boss battle! As this fight replaces Paper Petey Piranha fight, attacks are different too. It's actually dangerous to try to Hammer him, as he will just bite your character, so opt to jump on him. Also, it's not him who steal Copy Block. Sometimes, he sends a very small Mandibug to pick it up for him, after that he attacks by sending his paper copies onto the heroes. Thpugh you can sometimes hit that small bug, resulting in Mandibug having way less copies. Those copies can attack all characters, and you must deflect them with you Hammer. Sometimes, they can cheat, seemingly goind into the direction of one bro, but then, after a second, coming to another. . To make things more spicier, he can summon other mini Paper Mandibus, who can attacks by bumping into heroes (jump over them), or actually fly over heroes (of cource don't jump then). After evading much and depleting half of his health, he turns red, and gains the attack, in which he chases Mario Bros. This attack is somewhat similiar to Paper Petey - his copies will run behind Mario or Luigi in a sequence and fold up on the ground, which the player must memorize. As the copies are sent out, some will be spaced out and some will be grouped closely together; the Bros. must jump over the copies in the correct order to avoid damage, and grab onto Paper Mario's paper airplane form if the copies are grouped together. After everything, they defeat him, and then this Mandibug splits into several clones, who all get scattered through the world. They then talk to Toad, who thanks them for helping him out, calling himself Note T. - same green Toad they saw earlier on, who gives them 1-UP DX. 
Arriving at the woods, they meet a starving Wiggler who claims to be the guardian of the forest. Kammy soon appears to block the path with junk, which Wiggler considers littering. Feeding the Wiggler nine berries and a Melon they win from a Yellow Yoshi in a race, the Mario trio use him to break the blockades. The Magikoopa duo tries to hinder them, with Kammy cursing Wiggler and forcing him to battle the team. The battle is not changed, except Kammy Koopa is taking place of Paper Kamer. Also, Spear Guys are redesigned to look more like they looked in Yoshi's Island. Also, if Wiggler defeated before-hand, Kammy can make three clones of herself, and trio must guess, which one is the true Kammy. After she is defeated and Wiggler is freed, Wigglerseemingly dies, thanking everyone for their help, as Flutter Guys take him to the light. Everyone are mourning him... until he flies right into the scene, revealing that he's FLutter now! He decides to help the heroes, so he flies them to Mount Brrr. In the end of it, Beldam, Lord Crump and Midbus are watching from the mountain at that, with Crump stating that they need to hurry with their operation. Beldam suggest that maybe Mario BRos. can actually take care of Koppa Troop on the mountain if they want their plan to succed, ubtil Midbus shut them off, stating that yhey nee dto fight all their enemies straight up, to show who's the true bosses here! And literally knocks them over the hill, himself going into the opposite side, commanding X-Nauts to be at least somewhat helpful. 
At Mount Brrr, the source of paper terrain is revealed to be a summit base, where Iggy, Lemmy, Morton and, instead of King Bob-omb, Crystal King use the cannons to blast the land with papercraft. However through their way, heroes understand, that Koopa Troop plans are breaking apart, as X-Nauts are invading their whole base and Villa! As you can guess, the main enemies here are X-Nauts, alongside their scientists. Koopalings and Crystal Kings are panicking, while X-Nauts start to capture their papercraft machines. Because of that, Jrs and Princesses shortly evacuate to their dads castle, lamenting that they never got their own Papercraft. Midbus, feeling relaxed that all went according to his plan, even thought Bedlam states it was SHE who made all of this, as she angrily runs off to find something powerful to use, whispering that controlling her other sisters were FAR more easier. Midbus, instead of actually trying to do anything, summons Lord Crump and commands him to... get him a couch and give him all the food they can found. Crump gets mad, stating that he can't command him, as they equally made the aliance. AND Midbus threw them over the hill! Midbus can't care less, stating that "I was nerd's hand at right for time. Make my useless biddings as you are useless!" They get into a fight, until X-Naut PhD announce in the middle of the fight, that Papercraft Magnus is ready to deploy. Crump is overjoyed, running away, while Midbus stops that PhD, proclaiming he got a task for them... 
As our bunch continues, they understand, that machine made the platfomrs way high to jump on them. Paper Luigi tries to drill himself onto the Earth, but just crambles nad becomes akin to accordion. At this point, Luigi tries to do the samem, and just hits the ground with his face. Mario, however, explains the idea to PM, stating that's it indeed genius. PM shows this, by actually becoming a drill and starting to dig the ground. Then, he grabs Mario and Luigi, learning Trio Drill to move to go underground and bypass obstacles, as well as climb the dirt walls covering the mountain cliffs. After that abd some going forward, they stumble someone they couldn't believe their eyes - Midbus!.... lying on the couch, while X-Nauts thow food at his mouth and keep him cool. To say the heroes are puzzled is not to say anything, but X-Nauts (who were questioning why they even waste their time for that pig) run in complete fear upon seeing our quartet. Midbus questions what happened, and threatens to punish X-Nauts for disobeying, until he sees heroes too, falling from the couch on his face. He is incredibly wrathful at all of them, stating that they ruined his life alongside Bowser, and that he worked too hard for them to break his plans again. PL remarks, that they saw him doing nothing but sleep and eat, to what he goes completely frenzied, initiating a Mini-Boss fight this time. 
Midbus uses a wider variety of attacks, most of them are from BiS: Midbus rolls up and belly flop several times before rolling directly above heroes, who can counter by Hammering at the right moment, although now it will bounce from several Bros. at once, kind off similiar to the attack of Cackletta's Soul. Midbus may also land in front of crew, creating a shockwave that can confuse AND damage Bros., so jump over that wave. At random point, Midbus will also attack Paper Mario by swinging a bunch of junk right at him, so he need to flutter above it. Upon gaining Fury Status, Midbus starts to roll, turning himself into a gigantic snowball from which Mario and Luigi need to run away. It will sometimes send ice blocks right in front of them, sometimes so big they need PM's help to fly over. At the end, M&L fly over him with PM, and Ground Pound right on his face, ruining whole ice ball thing. They do defeat him, but he still stands up, proclaiming that he can't be dedeated that easily, and that -BAM! Suddenly, Ice Snifit falls on his head and then runs away. He doesn't understand anything, but soon, a huge chunk on crystallic snow falls right on him, shocking everyone around! They then observe the top side of the mountain, where they see a creepy swarm of clouds, blasting hail onto the ground. Defending against Ice Snifits and Hyper Paragoombas, they, however, finally encounter Lord Crump near the base. He asks where that idiotic boar lays around. Team explains their gentle whooping of his snout. Crump is shocked, and then.... dances as he was never as happy as today! He was really annoyed by him, so it was kind of a fabulous thing they done... Still won't make him turn against his ideals, so he will show them his Papercraft Magnus at last! 
This thing block the way, but heroes come to the Penguin Village, where they do must help some penguins that got lost. There, they realise that Toadette went sick, so they actually help the village's doctor, who says that they must bring a handful of items to him. After completing the quest which actually required Paper Mario to go solo for some time and then carefully go throigh the VERY thin crack between the mount, they acquire anything they need, and Toadette gets her help! After sneezing again, blowing some Papercraft details into an actual Papercraft Peach, she is... at first, is quite amused by this power of her, but then gets serious, and, with Penguins helping lifting thing, helps Mario Bros. to attack Papercraft X-Nauts, that attack either by bumping into you, or by jumping onto you. With Peach, you can of course deflect their bump attacks, and then jump on them without problem. By the end, they come to the Papercraft Magnus, with Lord Crump stating, that his greatest machine will not fall for such a pathetic carton dress. Machine attacks by sending it's fists onto you, one after another. After some time, they respawn, and he can do this attack again. Block them with umbrella. At some point he will fly upwards (using gigantic soda bottles), and there will fall right onto Papercraft Peach if you are not careful. After quite the battle, the robot will fall, making Lord Crump completely wrathful.. Until he learns, that the book they were coming to get is... essentially, at Bowser Jr's hands, and, after raid initiated by Midbus, they fled the scene. Crump is silent until he screams all the batallions to get out of here and go to Bowser's place, while still proclaiming that our goody-doers won't come at one piece during their next encounter. Some X-Nauts accidentally leave some Sun Medallion. It opens the gate in Twinsy Tropics Dungeon. 
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To come there, heroes must travel to Poop Poop Dunes again. There they meet another foe - Beldam, who quiclk;y scatters away, while also giving brothers Bros Attacks if they manage to defeat her. Upon all this battles, she genially questions if this how Vivian felt during her rage moments... and still chuckles at bors. that they think they can defeat anything and anyone who comes across them. But what would happen if they encounter someone, who they can't defeat? Will their determination be enough, to defeat something that is invincible to no end? PL thinks, that no matter who, they will always defeat anyone, if they are all together!... Bedlam remarks, that, maybe someday, they will be separated, and what then? She goes into shadow, but Bors still stay strong, as posivitive things are far more common in life if you generally believe it that way. Neverless, in the end, heroes are suddenly ambushed by forces of Lord Crump, who openly says, that this moment will show his full potential.. with the power of thousands of X-Nauts, and if they remember his promise. A boss battle with him starts, which replaces Chargin' Chucks. His attacks are mostly associated with sending millions of X-Nauts for Bros. to disintigrate. One of attcks involve sending them straight to them, which protagonists must Hammer. Some jump at Bros, requiering different time to attack. He can also attack by trying to bump himself, although he can trick you, by seemingly going to this Bro, then going to that Bro.. and then changing his direction on the way for the third time! His main shtick is also making a barricade from his own minions, which makes all the weak damage succumb to poor X-Nauts. Strong attacks will penetrate defences and go to Lord Crump at once. Depletion of his health causes him to form a gigantic ball of X-Nauts, and runs on it while Bros run from him. Some Nauts will try to catch them from behind, but jumping in right moment will cause them to fly straight into a ball, making it less and less, until it's only Crump running. Grab PM and jump right on him. He gets defeated, as X-Nauts grab him and run away. 
Quite some time passes, and heroes stumble across Mohawk Goomba, and despite his best efforts, they still do not remember him. He claims that he wants to help them reach Bowser's Castle and hitches a ride in Mario's pocket, much to his chagrin and PM's shock. When the group reaches the gate leading to Bowser's Castle, however, Mohawk Goomba betrays them and allows two Fire Bros, who have taken over as wardens, to take the Sun Medallion with them, revealing his plan to regain Bowser's favor. After fighting them across the dungeon and reclaiming the medallion, the team finds him, but decide not to chase after Goomba, as they do not want to waste any more time, as he quickly scatters away, thinking that Bowser will burn him to the crisp if he find out. The party opens the mysterious gate seen earlier, which leads to a new part of the dungeon filled with conveyor belt and Spike Tops (same design from BiS:BJJ). They then follow this path out to a new area of Twinsy Tropics, which leads to Bowser's Castle. There, they fight Larry and Ludwig, that try to stop the heroes from saving the Princesses. Before they proceed, PL observes and quickly asks if there is any change his brother can randomly turn into a paper plane. PM suts and thinks for quite some time, until shrugging shoulders and literally turning into one. Yup, that's how heroes learned Trio Glide and glided through many pits. 
Inside Bowser's Castle, the trio encounter the Magikoopa Duo and their new Papercraft King Boo, which Morton and Lemmy pilot. Luckily, Toadette arrives on time with Papercraft Luigi, with PL lampshading their fight against Boos, Luigi confirming. After the victory, Kamek kidnaps Toadette to bring the production of papercrafts to a stop, then prepares to build Papercraft Bowser. The gang later rescues Toadette before encountering the Bowser Juniors on guard duty. The Princess Peaches then escape and greet the team, but are caught by the Bowser Juniors. They mean to fight, but after accidentally revealing they possessed the book the Bros, the pair flee. The group eventually catches them and forces them to hand over the book, but the Juniors escape after giving them a decoy book. The gang chases them down. After deciding to fight the trio, they are promptly beaten. The Bowser duo come in and, enraged by this, lift the castle into the sky, turning the castle into Megaflash Castle (redesigned one, now spots a significant amount of shine, like with the effect of Stickers, also is formed as Bowser's shell). Mario and co. escape the castle, leaving the book behind. As they head back to Peach's Castle the Bowser duo take their revenge by destroying Peach's Castle with cannonballs. Toadette realizes she can build a staircase with the Paper Toads from the summit of Mount Brrr to reach Megaflash Castle. 
but due to paper terrain blocking certain paths, end up on the haunted west side. Both Mario and Paper Mario are promptly kidnapped by King Boo and his minions, leaving Luigi alone to find them. Luigi manages to find them, but he and Mario soon realize that "Paper Mario" is King Boo in disguise. Paper Mario is rescued and King Boo is defeated, and the trio meet up with Flutter once again, who flies the trio back to Mount Brrr. At Mount Brrr, the group rescues all the remaining Paper Toads to build the staircase, and proceed to venture to the summit of the mountain. At the Papercraft Base, King Bob-omb appears and proceeds to start a self destruction sequence, whom the trio defeat before the timer runs out. Lakitus then arrive at the summit with a large delivery of Paper Toads to build a staircase to Neo Bowser Castle. 
The team begins to make their way through Gloomy Woods to get to Mount Brrr, but the usual entrance to the forest is blocked by paper landscape objects, so they enter via the west entrance, accessible by some clouds above Sunbeam Plains. This side of the forest however turns out to be haunted, and the party end up separated by the Boos living there. They also prank Luigis by turning them into a purple color, as they scream at each other bacause of that. As a result of this, Luigi has to travel alone through the forest alpngside Paper Luigi, dodging Boos and ghostly copies of Mario on his way to save the other two. Eventually, after dodging ghosts and solving various puzzles, Luigi finds Mario, trapped upside down in a tree next to a group of Boos. Freeing his brother from the ghosts, the two then work together to find Paper Mario among the Boos and other enemies in the woods. Sometimes, PL can instinctfully tell the way where his brother may reside, cause of the link between brothers. However, some voice always tell them to flee before something terrible happens. As further they go, more amgrily voice becomes, saying that PM can't be saved. 
After doing this for a bit, and coming across a suspicious empty area with a healing block, the duo find Paper Mario seemingly safe and sound. However, it turns out this version of Paper Mario is actually King Boo in disguise. In an attempt to fool them, he immediately reverts back to Paper Mario, and tries to convince the Bros. that he is the real Paper Mario, but fails. King Boo then loses control of his transformation powers, as he quickly transforms into Paper Peach and then Paper Bowser, before finally gaining control and giving up. He says it was him who said all those messages to them, finally getting ready to destroy the- 
-KING BOOooOOOoo!!! 
Suddenly, some downright monstrous voice calls completely shocked King. Boo starts to panick, until that voice shouts for him to stop, as King Boo floats in the air frozen. Suddenly the source of the voice reveals hi... no. Herself. Cackletta, or rather her spirit, floats right near completely frightened King Boo. She scolds him for leaving her when she needed her ectoplasmic lotion for skin. King Boo tries to explain that he needed to kidnap some flat doofus under Bowser's orde- Cackletta sut him off, stating that if her skin will dry out, her enormous wrath will supress Bowser's. That's it, until she sees Mario Bros... at that point, she screams their names at them at the top of their lungs, as Bros. are getting completely mad. PL asks if they now her, and they explain the whole situation to him. PL is shocked that such a nefarious witch can even exist, while Cackletta remarks that the existence of such nefarious plumbers are the real mystery. She feels relieved to not see "any pompouse prince or pathetic turtles", but remarks that if they are, then her favourite pupil was defeated, which sparks another rage from her. The "queen" orders King Boo, who calls her "honeyboo", that he will take care of Bros,. while she take care of the "flatened red doofus". 
Unlike the original, now Cackletta helps King Boo during the battle. It's also her that's accidentally sets PM free if you attack her, while then angrily blaming King Boo for that with fire in her eyes. After some time, she grabs him again, making him unplayable for some time. In the chase sequence, Cackletta feeds King Boo with flames, promting him to get bigger until he can spit fire himself. Overall, nothing much changes. After the fight, Cackletta picks her defeated "boyfriend" up. Pl asks, how that ever happened that she now resides here? She explains, that after getting ejected from Bowser's body, she came in the afterlife, where shemet King Boo who immediatly fell in love with him, and now she uses him for anything she wants. She escapes with him, not until cursing all of them to a horrible fates, as PM joyfully joins their party just again. Instead of Roy fighting Bros., they need to defeat Larry Koopa in his Clown Car in the mission Back Atcha, Roy!. He encourages them to fight, as he can finally show off to the whole Koopa Troop his full potential. His full potential gets trashed completely, so Larry flies out Clown Car.
Upon his defeat, Flutter comes to the sound of some random explosion. complaining that that Koopa Clown will just pollute the forest. But then he gets insanely happy upon seeing our team. PL explains the situation, and Flutter happily agrees to help. Especially since he really wants to practice some flying techniques. At Mount Brrr, the group rescues all the remaining Paper Penguins to build the staircase, and proceed to venture to the summit of the mountain. At the Papercraft Base, however, dark blue clouds appear, and right there, Crystal King appears, mocking their attempt at returning the Princesses, finally having a potential to bring not one, but TWO Marios to Bowser at once! Boss Fight is different at this point. He doesn't activate self-destruct, but rather has different mechanic. If Bros. and PM don't do their turn for quite some time, they will immediatly freeze, making them unplayable for the rest of the fight until they cure the status allighment. His attacks consist of sending Crystal Bits right at you, whom you should Hammer to send them right back to Crystal King to damage him. You can also break them before they do damage to you. His second attack is summoning freezing beams, that heroes must jump over. kind of similiar to the spinning hand attack of Cackletta's Soul, but the beam will move in two directions per turn. He can also summon fake copies of himself, each one taking a battle turn if you don't defeat them or find the true one. Upon taking half the damage, will summon the snow billow, as he will repeat the greezing beam attack right on top of it. Mario with luigi must jump over it, or they will take damage from it. He can also hinder PM's movement by sending Crystal Bit to him, so control him too. After some time, M&L will hold PM to fly right to him, but he will try to send Freezing Tornadoes to you, so avoid this too. In the ned, he gets defeated, and laments over the fact that he let down Bowser twice. 
After the battle, PL remarks how less chilling it got there once Crystal King got defeated. By this time, Toadette comes, announcing that she got enough Paper Penguins to form a staircase right to the Megaflash Castle. However, right at this time, one X-Naut observes the crystal Midbus was stuck under. Suddenly, the pig emerges right in under him, sending X-Naut to fly ntil Midbus effortlessly catches him. He commands to take him to Bowser's Castle, until X-Naut remarksthat Lord Crump ended their alliance because of their unfriendl- Midbus screma sat how he could do this, after everything hog has done! If it wasn't him, than they would never come so far! X-Nauts remarks that it was him that ruined their chance at safely getting the book, but Midbus sents him flying in rage, promting to find another way to transport himself. Suddenly, he sees Flutter, whom he asks to "take him to lizard castle. No rejects". Flutter remarks, that he was told by Bros. not to trust pink brute, but Midbus immediatly jumps onto him, stretching his flower to control his movement, making poor butterfly take him to the castle. After Bowser Jr.'s defeat, the two Bowsers activate the rocket engines on the castle, which lift it up into the sky. At this point, the castle's main cannon is used to destroy Peach's Castle, and the party is blasted off the balcony by Kamek. Once Mario, Luigi and Paper Mario reach the summit of Mount Brrr, they use the Paper Toads to form a bridge up to the castle, which they used to enter. The remaining Paper Toads then become Toad Trail, Mario's last Bros. Attack.
At the castle, they find Toadette, who is defending Papercraft Mario, Luigi, Peach and Yoshi. However, the Kameks release their new Papercraft Bowser, which burns them all to a crisp. Toadette mourns the loss of her work, but then realizes that she could build a Papercraft out of the same material, Fire Ore, which she asks the trio to collect around the castle. The collected ore is used to assemble Papercraft Fire Mario, which then defeats Papercraft Bowser. The Bowsers and Kameks try to stall the Mario trio by dissassembling the bridge to the rest of the castle. As the Mario trio reassembles it, Lemmy, Iggy, and Morton activate a timer that charges up the castle's main cannon for a final blow to destroy any remains of Peach's Castle. The Mario trio manages to break the cannon before proceeding to the final area.
Before they can face the Bowsers, the Kamek Duo fights them, but are defeated. In the final corridor, the Bowser duo sends multiple waves of troops, including Goombas, Koopa Troopas, Spinies, Ninjis, Hammer Bros., Spikes, Shy Guys, Broozers, and finally the Koopalings to finish off the trio. They defeat them all and proceed to challenge Bowser and Paper Bowser themselves, who reveal they plan to trap the Bros. in the now empty book and burn it, both of them subtly hinting that they each wish to trap the other one in as well.
After Bowser Jr.'s defeat, the two Bowsers activate the rocket engines on the castle, which lift it up into the sky. At this point, the castle's main cannon is used to destroy Peach's Castle, and the party is blasted off the balcony by Kamek.
Once Mario, Luigi and Paper Mario reach the summit of Mount Brrr, they use the Paper Toads to form a bridge up to the castle, which they used to enter. The remaining Paper Toads then become Toad Trail, Mario's last Bros. Attack.
As part of retrieving Luigi's final Bros. Attack, Mega Thwonk, the trio must chase Beldam (who thought about getting something great from Bowser) and fight six battles. Three of these battles are against рук, while another three are alongside рук against Bowser's troops, as she understand that it would far better to fight WITH the Bros here than AGAINST them. It is possible to skip the first two battles against Beldam by chasing him around until he engages in battle with an enemy. Instead of jumping on the enemy, she goes in shadow, and spawns right in front of him, also giving him a Frozen status. Instead of sending Buzzy Beetle Shell, she sends Ice Ball to Bros, who must richochet it with their Hammers. After some time, Beldam will send it to the enemies, if she doesn't miss it of course. 
During some time, it's revealed that X-Nauts have counter-attacked Bowser's forces in the castle, to gain some control over Papercrafts. Heroes navigate the various rooms to reach the second floor, where they encounter Toadette with the papercrafts from earlier. After seeing these destroyed by the new Papercraft Bowser, the group hunts down the energy source from around the building, the one whom Bowser and Crump hunted. As it appears, it's revealed to be Sun, as at one point it accidentally fell into a mine, and then they took him for their own gain. Sun really wants to return to Flower Fields to give the light to all the flowers again, so it has no qualms against helping heroes to fight Bowser's troops, as it's become the crucial part of a new Papercraft Fire Mario to defeat Papercraft Bowser. After it's desctruction, a cutscene appears, as Flutter kicks Midbus head first onto the castle, completely red and furious, remarking that he is forever banned in his woods. Midbus shrugs it off, as he's finally near the book!... And doesn't even know how to get book . And where is it. And where is he... Then, however, he hears some huge explosion. He calls this "technical failed occu..occuu...OCCURONDCE", until he sees a comically large shadow right under him. Right above him, however, is the falling Papercraft bowser's head, that falls right at the screaming pig below.
This then leads to the bridge to the next area being destroyed, and the Bros. have to navigate the surrounding room to repair it. However, once this is done, the castle's biggest cannon is charged up and readied for a final attack on Peach's Castle, which the Bros. break before proceeding. Before they can enter the main tower though, the Bros face Kamek and Kammy in battle. Defeating them quickly to move on, they progress forward, encountering the Koopalings who are battled consecutively (Wendy O. Koopa and Roy Koopa, then Larry Koopa and Ludwig von Koopa, and finally Morton Koopa Jr., Iggy Koopa and Lemmy Koopa at the end).
The trio then face off against the two Bowsers,
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