"Cough... cough..." sputters Yorpy. "I'm... not feeling so well..."
with that he falters forward and lies prostrate on the ground within
the dense foliage. "Yorpy! Speak to me, buddy!" Screams Yoshi. Yoshi
runs over beside him and is about to shake him awake but is startled
when Yorpy suddenly begins to glow. Yoshi backs up. Yorpy, in a burst
of unexpected and uncharacteristic energy leaps to his feet. "Well
hello there chocolate cake." says yorpy in a deeper, more commanding
voice than anything heard from him previously. Yoshi stares at him. By
this time Kaploy, Vigilante and Newt arrive on the scene. "I brought
my best foot flowered." Yorpy says while pushing his way through the
group. "It sure beats breaking up with me." He says, turning to beckon
them. "Uhhh..." says Newt. "I just found him like this." Yoshi
explained. "He's gone completely nuts!" says Kaploy. Suddenly, and
without warning a bipedal dinosaur the size of a kangaroo appears in
the foliage in front of Yorpy. Yorpy turns and glares at it. The
dinosaur, seeing that we are only armed with a slingshot and coconut
launcher decides we are an easy snack. It lunges at Yorpy. Yorpy
begins to glow bright blue, then a hot white. Time seems to stand
still in awe. The blue day lit sky turns a deep purple and a beam of
magnificent intensity is emitted from his single eye. The dinosaur,
still in midair, is struck by the beam squarely in the chest causing
his body to turn to a substance reminiscent of chocolate pudding. The
sky returns to its original color and the steaming pile of pudding is
lying on the ground. "I think I won the powerball." Yorpy says
triumphantly. The group, stunned by this display of pure awesomeness
and baffled by Yorpy's sudden lunacy begin their trek through the
dense jungle with Yorpy in the lead. After an hour or so they come to
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