Merida meets Iggy and Lemmy Koopa

In the glade of the forest, Merida made her way into the center of the woods, calling out his name twice.

"Mister Bat! Oh, Mister Bat!"

However, Fidget was gone again. There was still no luck for the Scottish girl to catch the gray bat.

"Oh, dear. I’m sure he came this way,” she said, looking around with her fists on her hips. "Do you suppose he could be hiding somewhere?"

Little did she know that there were two Koopalings peeking from behind the bushes.

One Koopaling has orange scales, a peach muzzle and a matching padded stomach and soles, white claws, a catlike mouth, a rainbow-colored mohawk, two canine fangs sticking out from his upper lip, and swirly blue eyes, wearing black glasses with clear lenses and matching wristbands with white spikes. His name was Iggy "Hop" Koopa.

The other Koopaling also has orange scales, a peach muzzle and a matching padded stomach and soles, white claws, and a rainbow-colored mohawk, but he has a normal mouth, no fangs sticking out from his upper lip, and normal eyes consisting of white sclerae and black pupils. Like the former Koopaling, he wore black wristbands with white spikes. But he didn't wear glasses and wore red war paint on his cheeks instead. His name was Lemmy "Hip" Koopa, Iggy's twin brother.

"Where could he possibly be hiding?" Merida wondered, as she looked behind a tree. The two Koopalings moved between the bushes and the tree, yet they were hidden within a shadow. As Merida turned toward an open log, the Koopalings moved next to the tree and they stood right behind her.

"Not here…," Merida said, before kneeling down to the log’s level. "I wonder..."

As she crawled into the log, the Koopalings looked at each other and skipped on top of the log in unison, before stopping in front of the other side of the log. Once Merida came out from the log, she stood still for a moment and brushed her dress with her hands.

"I suppose he—" she started to say, before she jolted and gasped in shock when she turned and glanced at the two Koopalings.

"Why… what peculiar reptiles."

Just then, she spotted two blue ribbons with their names embroidered in yellow and read them one at a time: "Iggy...And Lemmy Koopa!"

Merida placed a finger on the glasses-wearing Koopaling's nose, and a low honking sound came out of his mouth, surprising her.

"If you think we're made of wax, you ought to pay to see us, you know." Iggy said, and he jabbed his brother with his left elbow. As a result, a high honking noise emitted from Lemmy's mouth.

"If you think we've come to life, you ought to say something to us." Lemmy added, before jabbing his brother with his right elbow. The same low honk came out of Iggy's mouth, and Iggy bounced into Lemmy, the same high honk emitting from him. The Koopalings then hopped on the log and made the same honking noises by jabbing one another with their small feet, slim hips, torsos, and backs before landing on the grassy terrain.

"That's logic!" the Koopalings said in unison, holding their left index fingers up.

"Well," Merida said with a short chuckle, as she gave them a short curtsey. "It's been nice meeting you boys. Goodbye."

Just as she started walking away, however, the Koopalings darted and stood right in her way.

"You’re beginning backwards." Iggy said to her.

"Aye, the first thing to say actually is,” Lemmy added, before the Koopalings broke out in song again and took Merida's hands. They spun her around in a circle, like a game of ring-around-the-Rosie, before they shook her hands rapidly and released her, causing her to fall on the ground.

Iggy and Lemmy: *How do you do*
*And shake hands*
*Shake hands*
*Shake hands*
*How do you do*
*And shake hands*
*State your name and business*

"That's manners!" the Koopalings said to her, holding up their opposite index fingers in front of her.

The two front bangs of Merida's hair were covering her face, so Merida flipped them out of the way to give herself a better view.

"Really?" Merida asked them, and she then stood up on her feet. "Well, my name is Merida, and I’m following a gray bat, so—"

As she turned to leave, the Koopalings suddenly appeared in front of her again, stopping her in her tracks.

"You can't leave yet." Iggy said to her, waving his hands in front of her.

"No, the visit has just started." Lemmy added.

"I'm very sorry, but—" Merida said as she continued walking, with the Koopalings still in her way.

"Would you like to play hide and seek?" Iggy asked, as multiple clones of the Koopalings popped up from the trees and a single bush. The clones disappeared, and the Koopalings then fused themselves into one body, yet their legs and arms were still with each of the two Koopalings.

"Button! Button! Who's got the button?" Iggy said.

"No thank you." Merida replied to them politely, only to see the Koopalings in front of her again in fighting stances.

"If you stay a little longer, we’ll have a battle." Lemmy said, and the Koopalings began bopping one another in a honking, comical fight.

"That’s very kind of you, but I must get going." Merida said, as she gently pushed them out of the way. The Koopalings then jolted in front of her and stood next to two trees that served as an archway in the woods.

"Why?" they asked her in unison.

"Because I’m following a gray bat." Merida answered them, only to be blocked by them again.

"Why?" the Koopalings asked her once more.

"Well, I'm curious to know where he's going." Merida replied to them, before finally starting to leave again.

"Ohhh, she's curious." Lemmy whispered, as he and Iggy had inquisitive expressions on their faces.

"The oysters were curious, too, weren’t they?” Lemmy whispered to him, causing Merida to stop and turn around to listen to what the Koopalings were saying.

"Aye. And you remember what happened to them."

The Koopalings huddled with one another and started crying before Merida came walking straight back to them.

"Poor things!" they said in sad voices.

"Well, what did happen to the oysters?" Merida asked them. Iggy and Lemmy began marching towards the log.

"Oh, you wouldn’t be interested in hearing about it." Iggy said to her.

"Oh, but I am." Merida replied to them, as she followed them and got in front of them.

"Ohhh, no. You’re in much too much of a hurry." said Lemmy.

Merida was still in front of them as she was walking in reverse towards the log, and said, "Well, perhaps I could spare a little time."

"You could?" the Koopalings said, smiles of delight forming on their faces. "Well!"

With that said, Iggy and Lemmy placed Merida on the log before making back-flips and landed in front of the bushes and trees.