Mushroom powerup

Suddenly I had a face filled with grinding teeth as a mouth tried to devour me whole. Despite the fact that I was now eight feet tall, I was being drawn in to the darkness.

The control panel had symbols, not words for the power ups. I didn't recognize most of them. When had Mario used a carrot, or a frog, or several caps. There was one that I did recognize.

I focused on the mushroom, and I activated it; the system was designed to be operated by cranial impulses so the user could have his hands free. I would have expected someone like Leet to want to call out his attacks, but maybe he'd already done voice recognition.

Suddenly my form exploded outward. My Mario form had already been unnaturally fat and bulky; now I doubled my size in all directions, and my strength had increased as well. I tore my way through, and I realized that the teeth were pointed backwards for quite a way down.

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Truce