Scaredy-Cat Mega Mole!! Final Challenge in the Flame Pool!?

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Scaredy-Cat Mega Mole!! Final Challenge in the Flame Pool!?
Publication Super Mario-kun Volume 1
Based on Super Mario World
Previous chapter Kamek Returns!! Ultimate Battle of Magic!?
Next chapter Formidable Enemy Amazing Flying Hammer Bro!? Hammers Aren't Scary!?

Scaredy-Cat Mega Mole!! Final Challenge in the Flame Pool!? (強敵アッパレ！！　ハンマーなんてこわくない！？) is the seventh chapter of the first volume of Super Mario-kun. This chapter revolves around a friendly Mega Mole that Mario and his friends help while being underground.

Plot

Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi are traversing an underground labyrinth. After a while, the trio finds a sign with the map of the cave system. Mario calls the founding of the sign a "good thing" and Yoshi misinterprets that the sign is good to eat and devours it. The Mario Bros. are furious and, after trying to make him spit the map, they grab a saw to open his belly. Yoshi runs in fear, as he is chased by the Mario brothers, until they all fall down a slippery cliff. The trio softly land on something, as they shortly discover that it is a Mega Mole that they landed on. The trio cowers on the ground in fear, and so does the Mega Mole.

The Mario Bros. laugh to the idea that a big enemy is scared of them, upsetting the Mega Mole, who presents himself as a coward Mega Mole that is always left behind by his companions, as the Mega Mole also takes off his sunglasses. Yoshi tries to butt in the conversation, but the Mario brothers start arguing with him, still angry for the map. Meanwhile, the Mega Mole falls in a pond and panics, as he cannot swim. Mario grabs the Frog Suit to help him, but it is too worn out to work, so Luigi tosses at his brother a Power Balloon. Using Balloon Mario as a lifesaver, the Mega Mole reaches land and, to thank them, offers to escort the trio to the cave exit on his back. During the ride, Mario bashes his head on some stalactites.

The Mega Mole arrives at a river of lava and explains that the exit is on the opposite shore, and they can easily reach it with the Lava Lift. The first part of the trip proceeds quietly, until a Blargg emerges from the lava and insults the Mega Mole for betraying the Koopa Troop, revealing that he was also ordered to kill him too. The Blargg spits fire at the Mega Mole, but the Mega Mole is able to shield himself from the flames using Mario. Mario is not happy to be used as a human shield, but also will not give up for his friends: he tries to burn the Blargg with a fireball, but of course it only makes him stronger and Luigi angrier since Mario did not learn his lesson from the Bowser snowman fight.

Luigi suggests to use liquids, but the only one at their disposal is mucus. Mario then asks Mega Mole how to defeat a Blargg, but the Mega Mole finds, that in the Super Mario World guide, that Blarggs cannot be defeated. The Blargg attacks with more fire breath and prepares the finishing blow. However, the Mega Mole finally finds the courage to save his friends, as he jumps on the Blargg, diving straight in his mouth and clogging it. The Blargg falls back into the lava and Mario, Luigi and Yoshi mourns their friend's death, admiring that he did not die as a coward. The Mega Mole is then revealed to have survived from the lava, much to his friends' joy. Being near shore, the Mega Mole quickly got out from the lava, with the Blargg's mouth (whose tiny body is revealed) still stuck to his head, pleading to be put back into the lava.

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Trivia

  • This is the first Super Mario-kun chapter for several things:
    • The first chapter to introduce Mega Moles and Blarggs to Super Mario-kun.
    • The first chapter to introduce a friendly member of the Monty Mole species, as well as being the first chapter to have a friendly member of an enemy species.
    • And the first (and one of the only) instances where a Mega Mole's eyes are shown.
  • Luigi is still angry at Mario for what happened with the Bowser snowman fight from the sixth chapter.
  • This is the second instance of Super Mario-kun explicitly breaking the fourth wall, as the Mega Mole reads the Super Mario World guide to find out that Blarggs are invincible.
  • Ironically enough Yoshi would later eat a Monty Mole in the following chapter (along with several chapters in later volumes). This would unintentionally contradict Yoshi (along with Mario and Luigi) being friendly towards the Mega Mole in this chapter.
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