Ketsueki Mario

[Screech]

Professor E. Gadd sat in his laboratory, pouring over the original blueprints for several of his inventions. It was very late, but there was work to be done.
His Poltergust 3000 sat next to him.
He stood up and Yawned.
"What time is it?" he said, to himself. "Goodness!"
He stood up. "I'd better get to bed."
Suddenly, he heard a knock on his door.
"Who in their right mind would be tromping around in the forest this late. Probably another crazy kid lookin for ghosts..."
The door flew open.
"Hello, Elvin."
"You!" he gasped.
"Yes, me."
"How did you find me!?"
"I went to the Toad Town Library, and poked through a few books about ghosts. Your name inevitably popped up."
The man dropped a book on the floor. On the cover was written: "A Guide to Ghostbusting. By Elvin Gadd."
The creature at the door was certainly not very threatening to look at. In fact, if you had been watching the incident, you would have laughed.
The creature was about a foot taller than the professor, that is to say, he wasn't very big at all. he had strange pointed ears and one tooth that stuck over his upper lip. But what really made him look humorous was his skin color. He was purple.
"What do you want?" The old man said, afraid, but trying not to show it.
"I want to know..."
He walked over to the table.
"...If you ever built this!"
He pointed at the blueprints of a bizzare machine. The Ghost Portrificationizer.
"No! I couldn't make it work! You came here for nothing, so get lost"
"You are a terrible liar. I'll bet You have it in the basement somewhere, gathering dust. I'm sure you have the ghost I'm looking for down there as well. Shall we have a look?"
The Purple creature dragged Elvin down to the basement where, sure enough, the machine was sitting gloomily in a corner with a sheet over it.
"Let's start this thing up."
With a sputter, the machine started.
"Now, where would you keep your ghost portraits...?"
He started to look around.
E. Gadd grabbed a small plastic device from his labcoat pocket. The Game Boy Horror.
He turned it on and started to speak softly into it.
"Luigi! Help me! There's an intergalactic criminal in my house! His name is Tatanga, and he's up to something! Luigi! Pick up the Gameboy! Pick up!" He finished loudly, causing Tatanga to turn around.
"Calling for help!?" He crushed the Gameboy. "It doesn't matter! I'll be long gone by the time anyone get's here!"
He opened another door.
"Aha!"
The room was filled with paintings of Ghosts.
"No..no...no, not you...Where is it?"
He opened a door at the end of the hall.
"Well now. Here we are."
He looked up at an exquisite gold-framed painting of the King Boo.
"And now, old man, since I can't have you saying anything to anyone..."
"Get away from me! Hey! Noooooooo!!"

Mario and Luigi were in a huge hurry.
"Why does she send invitations on the day of the party?" asked Mario.
"I dunno." said luigi. "Hey, have you seen my overalls."
"I think they're all in the wash. You can wear some of mine."
"I can't wear you're overalls!"
"Why not? I wear yours all the time."
"You're like six inches shorter than I am!"
"So? Nobody's going to be looking at your ankles."
Mario and Luigi hurriedly left the house, and Luigi didn't even notice the beeping Gameboy Horror on his way out.

At the party, the brothers were talking with peach.
"So what are those things on yoshis' backs anyway?"
"I honestly have-"
Mario was interrupted by a sound that would put an immediate halt to Any party.
"Hey! What kinda Party is this? Where are the chicks!?"
Wario. The least dsirable person to have at a party in the HISTORY of the mushroom kingdom. And if that wasn't bad enough, tagging along was his brother Waluigi, voted worst breath and least likely to succeed in his high school.
"eeyyyyyy! Whassa goin on 'ere!?"
"Who stopped the music? I know we're awesome, but there aint no need to stop the party!"
Everyone went back, cautiously, to what they were doing.
Wario Marched over to Mario Luigi and Peach.
"What are you doing here?" peach demanded, quite upset, and curious about how they had even found out about the party.
"We came to put a little spice into this shindig!"
Waluigi didn't hear his brother. He was busy putting spice into the punch.
"Nice pants." said Wario looking down at luigi's ankles. His red and green striped socks were showing.
"Look buddy, if you're going to come in and make fun of us, you can just-wait! What's that smell?"
"Hey, don't look at me!"
"No, not that... Get everyone out of here!"
"What?"
"NOW!"


more to come tomorrow.

I might be Sadib...

[Screech]

BOOOM!
Without warning, the entire palace was engulfed in flames!
"Hurry and get all the people out, Luigi!"
"Right!"
Mario and Luigi wasted no time (which was good because the Wario brothers wasted plenty), in helping the innocent people escape.
"Who would do such a thing?" asked peach as Mario escorted her out.
"Who else? Bowser." Mario answered.
"Well maybe but..."
Mario ran back into the inferno.
Soon, everyone was out. Or almost everyone.
"The Wario brothers are still in there!" cried toad, who met with a lot less concern than he expected.
Mario and Luigi ran back into the palace.
Peach, toad, and the others stared anxiously.
Would Mario and Luigi be okay?
Would the palace burn down?
and then there was that whole Wario thing.
For a good ten minutes they waited.
Suddenly, there was another explosion!
Mario, Luigi, Wario, and Waluigi walked from the flames, their clothes torn. And they were bleeding!
"We were... hit by debris." said Luigi, barely able to stand.
They collapsed.

At Bowser's castle...
"Well, Kamek, what's next on the agenda for today?"
"Let me see, Sir." he said producing a long peice of paper from his cloak.
"Hmmmmmm...ah. You have a party crashing in an hour."
"Ooh! That sounds like fun. I think I'll get ahead and do that now!"
"Very good, Sir." said Kamek.
"Hey, kids! Ya wanna go to a party!?"
Bowser's children stampeded down the stairs.
"A party!" they cried, in a sort of unison, though you wouldn't recognize it.
The family piled into the car, a stylish 1990 copter with hip clown decalls, and they sped away to the Mushroom Kingdom.

I might be Sadib...

[Markio]

Woohoo!  Another story!

If at first you don''t succeed, try until you run out of syrup.

[Screech]

Tatanga stared out of the large window of his mothership.
Earth.
It really was an ugly planet. Perhaps a nice coating of purple mucus would make it more habitable. A little.
"Why do you stare at that planet if you don't even like it?" asked the King Boo.
"It's not about the planet. These earthlings have spat in my face. To allow that would show weakness on my part. I WILL destroy this "Mario". And this planet WILL be mine."
"You do, of course, realize that the green Mario brother would never be destroyed in that explosion, don't you?"
"Niether of them would. The explosion was only means to an end. I wasn't trying to kill them."
"Then...What were you doing?!"
"I needed this." he said, holding four viles of red liquid in his clawed hand. "Blood."
"I don't understand. That's two viles for the Luigi and his brother, but the other two...you couldn't possibly have thought the blood of those other two dimwits would be helpful!"
"I didn't at first. But in analyzing the samples, I discovered extraordinary traits in their blood."
"So you ARE incorporating it into the...the..."
"Yes. In a matter of minutes it will be ready."
"I must say, you are a strange one."

Waluigi opened his eyes. He saw a little toad boy leaning over him.
"He's awake!" cried the little boy.
"Don't you have something to say to him?" said his mother.
"Thanks mister, for saving my life in the palace."
"Beat it kid!" said waluigi, not in the mood.
"Hey!" he heard his brother say. "he's just a kid!"
"Ma talked like that to us when we were kids!"
"Yeah, but that's different!"
Wario looked over to the bed next to him. Mario was unconscious, with a crowd of people gathered around him.
Luigi was in the next bed over, with a similar congragation of toads huddled around him.
"They're waking up!" cried one of them.

I might be Sadib...

[Screech]

Mario was the first out of bed. He walked around a bit.
Luigi, Wario, and Waluigi got up as well.
"You need to rest." said a toad, walking into the toad house.
"I need to go home and check my messages!" said Luigi.
"You'll have time for that later. Right now-"
Luigi ignored him, racing out the door.
"That's very unlike him..." said peach.
Mario sat down on the bed.
"Yeah...it's wierd. Kinda like he knew there was something bad on the GBH."
"RAAAAUUURRRGGHHHHHH!"
They heard the most horrible roaring sound coming from outside. it sounded very much like the roar of a giant reptile who had just attempted to crash a party, only to discover that the entire interior of the castle had been destroyed, and who was now looking for the jerk responsible.
Koopas have a wide variety of eerily practical roars.

I might be Sadib...

Edited by - Screech on 5/27/2004 10:28:33 AM

[Screech]

Mario ran out into Toad town Square, Much to the dismay of the owner of the Toad house, who still insisted that he lay down.
Wario and Waluigi were in no hurry.
Mario found Bowser outside, pitching a fit and tearing down structures to vent his anger.
"You!" cried Mario. "Do you absolutely HAVE to be so noisy when you destroy things? We've kinda had a traumatic day, so I'd appreciate it if you'd cut it out!"
Bowser stopped. An injured Mario brother. Maybe today wouldn't be a total loss.
Bowser stomped over to Mario.
"You want me to be quiet?" he asked, of course making it clear that whatever the answer, he had no intention of doing so.
"Get away from me. I'm grumpy, I've had a bad day, and I'm really not in a good condition to even be walking around, much less inhaling the noxious fumes from your mouth."
He grabbed the spiked collar around Bowser's neck.
"So get out of my face." he said, pushing him away.
Bowser had always thought of Mario brothers as happy, good natured creatures, but when they were grouchy, even Bowser decided not to mess with them.

Luigi opened the door. He walked over to his nightstand, on which was  the Gameboy Horror, beeping. Luigi picked it up.
"You have (1) new message(s)."
He pressed the button that played back the audio.
"Luigi, help me. There's an intergalactic criminal in my house..."
The rest of the message was muted out, either by the fact that Luigi had heard enough right there, or by the fact that I can't remember the rest of the dialogue, at the moment.
Either way, Luigi knew that only one person could be behind this.
Tatanga.
He headed for the mansion.

I might be Sadib...

Edited by - Screech on 3/15/2004 10:41:54 AM

[Screech]

I have got to remember to write more. I can't do it now, but at least it'll be close to the top as a reminder.

I might be Sadib...

[Screech]

Luigi tromped through the woods. It was strange that whatever time of day, the sky was always dark, around that area.
On any other occasion Luigi would've been terrified, hesitating a little before each step, inching through the dark forest to his mansion. But Luigi's fear for himself was almost completely consumed by that for his friend. He knew what tatanga was capable of, and shuddered to think what he could do with Proffessor Gadd's knowledge of the paranormal.
He ran as fast as he could. He could only hope he wasn't too late. If only he had checked his GBH before the party! Perhaps even that would've been too late.

I might be Sadib...

[¥tterbiJúm]

My god, your posts are long.  I don't even have time to read all of them.

Ask not what you can do for your country.  Ask what your country can do for you.

[Forest Guy]

What's "Ketsueki?"

______________________________
"Legolas is a guy?!" -Sister after watching Lord of the Rings a second time.

[Screech]

Blood. I think. I may be mistaken.

I might be Sadib...

[Screech]

Bump.

I might be Sadib...

[Screech]

Luigi opened the door to Proffesor Gadd's small house. The place was a mess.
"Oh no! I think I'm too late."
He bent over and picked up a smashed hunk of wires and translucent plastic.
"The GBH."
Suddenly he felt a chill run up his spine. The kind he had felt in the old mansion. He began to hum, to calm himself. It wasn't a particularly soothing tune, but it was something. He relaxed a little bit.
Suddenly, an orange ghost leaped at him from out of thin air.
"Whhhhaaaaaa!" Luigi cried.
The ghost laughed its high pitched gurgly laugh.
Luigi ran to the opposite end of the room, just in time to avoid being hit by a punch from the ghost's disproportionately lage fist.
Luigi looked desparately for a way of escape. He saw the closest door to him, which was, though he was to scared to realize it, the door to the gallery.
He jumped for the door and opened it (just barely though, his hands were shaking so terribly).
He tumbled into the gallery and slammed the door behind him. It really didn't make too much difference but when you're running from something scary, you slam the door regardless of whether it can just go through.
Luigi backed himself up against an angel statue.
The ghost's giant yellow eys peeped through the door first, followed by the rest of its head. Luigi did the only thing he could.
"Boo."
The ghost stopped. His eyes grew even more ridiculously large than they had already been. It turned around and headed out as if luigi had turned on Proffesor Gadd's "poltergust 3000".
"whew."
"Hello there."
Luigi jumped.
"Who's that!?"
"Look behind you."
Luigi turne, slowly, around. Behind him floated the real reason for the ghost's leaving in such a hurry. A human looking ghost with a red rag tied around her head and hoop earrings in each ear.
"Madame Clairvoya!"
Just about the only benevelent portrait ghost he had met in the mansion when he had first been there.
"Luigi. I was worried that you wouldn't come."
"You were expecting me?"
"Yes. I sent a psychic message to you, telling you to check your Gameboy Horror."
"So THAT'S why I kept feeling like I HAD to check my messgaes. But why didn't you just make me come straight here?"
"My powers are not what they were when I was younger. And alive. It's easier to ask you to do something that you would normally."
"I don't think I made it in time."
"There's nothing you could have done."

I might be Sadib...

[Screech]

"I called you here to warn you."
"Of what?"
"The one you call Tatanga has released the portrait ghosts. They are not evil but they will do anything to keep from being transformed into paintings again. And what is worse, among them is the King Boo."
It took every ounce of courage and strength Luigi had not to leap out of his skin.
"W-where is the proffesor? Where did they take him?"
"He is right here. In this very gallery."
"Oh, thank the stars he's allright!"
Luigi quickly scurried up and down the aisles.
"Luigi..."
Luigi ignored her. He opened the door where the King Boo's gold-framed painting once hung.
He gasped in horror, as he stared at the face of E. Gadd in oils.
Madame Clairvoya passed through the door.
"He was portrificationized." she said.
He wasn't in the painting the same way that Mario had been. Mario had moved, and screamed, and banged on the portait. Proffesor Gadd was lifeless. Eerily so. Smiling, as if he was going to speak at any second.
"You must tell your brother that an army is on the way. Tell the rest of the Mushroom Kingdom to be prepared for an unstoppable attack. An onslaught of ghosts by night, and an a horde of villainous aliens by day."
"How in the world could we defend ourselves?"
"The Poltegust 3000 and the ghost portificationizer were destroyed, but the proffesor has another Poltergust. It's only the prototype. It has many bugs and its power is not half that of the Poltergust 3000."
"Where is it?"
"It's in a crate in the basement. It doesn't look like ghost-catching apparatus, which is the only reason why it wasn't destroyed. Don't worry about ghosts. They won't harm you for fear of me."
Luigi left the gallery, and walked right into the dark dusty basement. He started to whistle, but decided that he wouldn't, just in case he heard any gurgly ghost accompiniment.
He found an open crate. Inside were papers  of no real ghost-catching value (recipes), and some house-cleaning equipment. He picked up a tiny handheld vaccume cleaner. He inhaled and blew the dust from it. Underneathe was written "Poltergust 100".
"You have got to be kidding me."
He picked a flashlight out of the box.
"Luigi."
"Waaaahhh!" he screamed."Oh. It's you. Don't scare me like that."
Madame clairvoya floated beside him.
"I have seen, in my crystal ball, a shadowy creature. I know not what it is or what it wants, but I am afraid."
Luigi was afraid too. He darn near wet himself.
"If you find this creature, take heed. It is neither ghost nor alien, and is not accountable to either."

Luigi left the small house marginally more terrified than he was when he came.

I might be Sadib...

[Screech]

Mario put on his shoes, or rather, as much of his shoes as weren't burned in the fire, and started to head home.
"Hey! Where do you think you're going?" cried the increasingly irritated toad that was supposed to be making sure that those with Mario's sort of injuries didn't do what Mario was doing.
"I'm goin' home."
"But-but-Gah!" The small toad just gave up.
"Peach." Mario turned to the princess, who was also flustered from the day's goings-on. She looked at him without saying anything.
"I don't think this was one of your better parties."
She couldn't help but smile a little.
As Mario left, the people that had gathered in the small Toad House began to go home, one by one.
Finally, only Wario, Waluigi, and the toad owner of the Toad House remained.
"Are you...uh...leaving too?" he asked them.
"Nah! We're bein' waited on hand-and-foot. And we can sit around doin' nothin' all day until we get kicked out."
"Figures."

Mario crawled from the warp pipe just outside of his house. He was too tired to leap from it, "wha-hooing" and being generally happy.
"Tomorrow. I'll feel better tomorrow."

I should say now that what Mario said was entirely true. You see, the Mario Brothers have a strange ability to have a good night's sleep and be back on their feet, no matter how much stress, fatigue, or physical injury they have sustained the previous day.

The Toad House was getting boring. The owner had gone home for the night.
Wario and Waluigi were sitting around doing nothing. They couldn't sleep. How could they? There was no statickey TV to fall asleep to.
Waluigi looked at the clock.
"T'salmost midnight."
"Yeh."
"You bored yet?"
"Yeh."
"..."
"..."
"I spy, with my little-"
"Shut up."
They carried on like this for a few minutes.
Suddenly The door flew open and Luigi rushed in.
"Where's Mario?" he asked, only realizing a half second later that the Wario brothers were unlikely to give any sort of helpful answer.
"He went home."
Oh. Well he was lucky there. No! No, he wasn't! He had to get home!

Mario was making himself a sandwich. He opened his mouth to take a bite when the door swung open and Luigi rushed in.
"Mario...Tatanga...Ghost... Proffesor..."
Luigi took several deep breaths.
"Luigi, where have you been? I got home and you weren't here."
"It's an emergency! Tatanga imprisoned Proffesor Gadd in a painting, and let out all the portrait ghosts free. And they're going to invade the Mushroom Kingdom!"
"Hang on. Why would Tatanga want to invade the MUSHROOM Kingdom?"
Luigi had to admit that he was stumped. Tatanga somehow figured that control of the planet was vested in Princess Daisy of Sarasaland.
"I don't know but it doesn't matter!"
"Well, look. Did you ever find out when this invasion was supposed to happen?"
"Ummm..."
"Where DID you learn this stuff anyway?"
"Madame Clairvoya told me."
"Oh. The 'licensed letter reader'."
"She knows what she's talking about!"
"Okay. In the morning, we'll go and warn Peach."
"How can you sleep at a time like this?!"
Mario took a bite of his sandwich, and went to his room.
Luigi had a sneaky suspicion that Mario wasn't taking this seriously.

I might be Sadib...

[Screech]

Peach flopped onto her bed. It was starting to rain heavily. It beat down on her window, making a sort of rhythmic noise that she found quite soothing, actually.
She was finally getting a chance to relax, and had that feeling that everybody gets when it's raining outside, and you're sitting in a cozy room, doing a crossword puzzle.
"What a day!" she sighed.
Someone knocked at her door.
She irritatedly got up and opened it.
"Your Highness. You have a visitor. I know it's late but he says it's important." said the toad at the door.
"All right. I'll speak to him. Thank you."
She put her shoes back on. Dreadful pink high heels, that just about murdered her feet when she walked down the many steps of the palace.
As she entered the hall, she saw her drenched guest standing in front of her, looking scared stiff.
"Luigi! Goodness gracious! Why are you running about in the rain?"
"It started raining when I was on my way here. But it doesn't matter. I have to warn you! There's going to be an invasion!
"Luigi, there is an invasion in this kingdom every month or so. You and Mario just come and-"
"No! Not a few koopas in the mushroom kingdom! Two entire armies are coming for this kingdom! And it's not Bowser! Tatanga-"
"Who's Tatanga?"
"He's a very bad person. He's an alien. His army once tried to take over the planet by kidnapping Princess Daisy."
A lot of what Luigi was saying didn't make much sense. But Peach patiently listened to him.
"-And at night, the second army comes! An army of ghosts!" he stopped. It was probably a good idea to explain.
"They're big orange things that scream and gurgle at you unless you shine a flashlight on them. And some of them throw exploding bowling balls! And the only way you can stop them is with this!"
He held the spare poltergust about three inches from Peach's face.
"Luigi, that's a vaccume cleaner."
"It's a special vacuume cleaner! It can suck up ghosts! You have to-to-"
Luigi stopped. This must seem like utter nonsense to Peach. And he didn't know how one poltergust would stand a chance of fighting an entire army of ghosts.
"Just keep an eye open for anything wierd, okay? Get the MK army ready."
Luigi was out the door and into the rain before Peach could tell him that the Mushroom Kingdom didn't have an army.

I might be Sadib...

[gunblade88]

GO SCREECH!! Great story man :) I need to come back and start readin them! GREAT!! Keep it coming bud :D

[Screech]

Luigi knew that they would be there. And soon. But he had no idea that they would be there that very night.
Lightning flashed as Luigi searched for a place to sit until the rain let down. He finally dashed under a covered walkway.
He was really not getting a good feeling.
He thought for a moment that Madame Clairvoya might be calling him, but he wasn't actually feeling the need to do anything. Just that he should be very cautious.

Mario awoke with a start. He heard something. It sounded like someone was playing a record REALLY loud. Backwards. Twice as fast as it should've been.
Mario looked out of his window.
There was a sort of orange glow on the horizon.
Orange glow.
Orange glow.
Suddenly, Mario's mind kicked into high gear.
"Ghosts! Luigi was right!"
Mario threw on a pair of overalls, grabbed his hat and gloves, and went into Toad Town to find Luigi.

Wario and Luigi were up and walking around.
"Ya think we need to stay heere anymore?"
"Nah. Imunna go out and get something to eat."
"Wazzat?"
"I said-"
"Not you. There's someone outside. He's running around in the rain knocking on doors and yyelling something."
Wario opened the door.
"It's wunna the Mario Brothers. He's waking people up."

Peach looked up from her letter. She was writing seven. One for each king in the Mushroom Kingdom, telling them to prepare some sort of defense. There was a ruckus in the hallway that was distracting her.
"What on earth!?"
She opened the door to find toads frantically rushing up and down the hall, bumping into each other, and screaming in panic.
Toadsworth noticed her standing in the doorway.
"We have to get you out of here."

I might be Sadib...

[Screech]

It eyes opened.
"It's not much to look at..."
"Well HE is much stronger than he looks."
It sat up. What was going on? What was all this?
It had been laying on a cold table. This place was big.
"You!" said the purple thing standing beside the table.
"Do you know who we are?"
He gestured to himself and the nearly spherical floating thing beside him.
"I...don't...I know that I..don't like you."
"Good."
The newly awakened crature was confused.
"We are your masters. You live to serve us. Without us, you would not exist! Know that we have given you life and can take it away!"
This cleared a lot up, but he was still very confused.
He had thoughts, memories, and feelings jumbled up in his mind. He could remember meeting people, going places, seeing things, vaguely, as if he wasn't atually there. Only an observer. That was all.
But now, everything was so real. He could reach out and...and...
He slapped his new master's face.
"You-!" Cried the roundish ugly thing. The purple thing with arms and legs stopped him.
The purple man looked at him, almost like one looks at a young child, when explaining a difficult arithmatic problem.
"You are a very powerful being." he said. "But you do not know how to harness that power yet. We will teach you. Your power will be unrivaled by any in the world! Is this making sense to you?"
The creature instinctively nodded.
The purple creature turned to his partner and said, "His memory is remarkable. Even after its having been altered, he still knows how to communicate."
He turned again to face him.
"Your name...is Ketsueki Mario."
He handed him a black cap with a "K" on it.

Mario was still banging on doors, warning people people of the incoming invasion.
"You have to get up! There are horrible things coming this way!"
"Hey Mario! Ya wanna keep that down!?" it was Wario, followed by Waluigi, stepping out of the toad house.
Mario, for a split second, considered NOT warning them. But he thought better of it and told them about the danger at hand.
"And you waited till NOW to tell people about this!?"
"I know! I goofed! I should've listened to Luigi!"
"Well, it's too late now! We have to start  telling people."

Toadsworth took peach to the drawbridge. He handed her a folded peice of paper.
"Find the Mario brothers!" he said.
Peach ran, as fast as she could to Toad Town, only barely aware of what was happening.

I might be Sadib...

[Markio]

Great story, I like how your plots always tie together.  And how you continue your stories without abandonment.  And how everything is perfect. ...WAAAAA!!! I'm so jealous!  Oh well.  Does Bowser appear later in the story?

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, especially if you have good aim!

[Screech]

Thank you, Markio. Someone's reading at least.

Bowser'll show up later. If I can figure out how I'm going to do it.

I might be Sadib...

[Screech]

Peach found Luigi first. She had been worried that she wouldn't be able to find the Mario brothers, and was relieved to find one of them in the square.
"Luigi!"
"Luigi looked in the direction of the sopping wet woman who was calling his name.
"Peach? Is that you?"
Peach raced to the covered walkway.
"Luigi. Toadsworth told me to find you and Mario." she looked around. "Where is Mario?"
"He's-"
"Hey! Everyone get out of bed!"
Mario was making a racket, waking people up to warn them, but generally recieving the same reply: "Go to bed, ya lunatic!".
Wario and Waluigi were right behind him.
"Mario! Over here!" cried Peach and Luigi.
Mario heard them and brought the Wario brothers over to the walkway.
"You guys have to help! We've been yelling for an hour, and only three people have left town!"
"Yeah! And one guy threw a shoe at me!" said Wario.
Lugi was about to say something, but suddenly stopped, his mouth hanging open. His eyes grew wide.
"What is it?"
"What's wrong with you? yoo choking on something?"
Luigi managed to point.
The four others spun themselves all the way around, to see the town, the horizon, the entire SKY filled with orange creatures of the night as far as the eye could see.
"This...is like...a million times worse than I guessed it would be." stuttered Lugi.
Mario took the closest thing to a stance he knew how to take.
Luigi whipped out a flashlight and took a deep breath.
THe wario brothers looked at each other, nodded, and flexed their mighty muscles. then they stood behind Mario and Luigi.
They were NOT going to win this fight.

Bowser took a good look outside his window. That horrible tapping sound made by the rain was keeping him awake. The night sky was dreary and gloomy. Full of dark clouds. He loved it.
Something in the distance made a very pretty glow. It was orange, and completely ruined the dark, depressing atmosphere of the night.
"What? Fireworks?"
Bowser watched with curiosity, as the glow slowly grew larger. It seemed to swallow up the rainclouds hanging over Toad Town.
"Dad?" Bowser jumped, hit his head on the top of the window, and spun around, to find Bowser Junior trying to look out the window as well.
His seven siblings entered his room as well.
"Dad, everybody in the castle is freaking out! Kamek says that there's something really bad in the sky."
Bowser quickly shut his window.
"It's allright. Nothing is going to hurt you. If there's something out there, Kamek and I will keep it away. Now you need to go to bed."
"But dad, I think it's something REALLY scary." said Bowser Junior.
"Go to bed."
"But-"
"Now!"
The koopalings were just about to leave, when kamek flew into the room on his broomstick.
"Sir! You and everyone else in the castle must leave! Look!"
He pointed pushed open the window and pointed a clawed finger at the glow, which was getting bigger and bigger. In fact, it now no longer looked like a light, but a million tiny creatures rapidly making their way to the castle.
Bowser saw in the distance, thanks to the illumination given off by the horde of creaturse, that toad Town was completely covered with them.
Kamek drew from his robe, a map. "Follow this! There is a safe place in the Mushroom Kingdom! I'll be with you shortly!"
Kamek pulled a book from his robe and began to chant something from it, waving his wand.
Bowser loaded the kids in the car, and took off, for the Mushroom Kingdom.

I might be Sadib...

[Markio]

On subject: Great Story!  I think I should say something different every time you post something...

Off subject: Wow, Screech, three posts from a thousand.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, especially if you have good aim!

[Screech]

Actually, I have over a thousand posts. This is my third username. The other two are "Screech the Hedgehog" which I hated, and "****Mystery****", which I hated.
But I didn't realze that I was this close to a thousand with this username. Cool.
And thanks again, Markio.

I might be Sadib...

[Screech]

Mario was simply awed by the sheer number of ghosts surrounding them. It was breathtaking.
Luigi had had some experience with ghosts before, but he knew that without the Poltergust3000, they weren't going to beat them.
But they would try. They would at least give everyone in town time to escape. Maybe they could even hold them off until sunrise...
Mario jumped over one of the ghosts flying toward him, and ducked under the huge fist of another, just in time to get beat over the back of the head by the first.
Mario couldn't avoid them. There were just so many of them, that any move he made was countered by two or three of them.
Peach swatted at one with an umbrella, which simply flew through as if there was nothing  there.
Two of them grabbed her. One by each hand, and flew into the air.
Luigi was thrown into the door of a mushroom house, which was ripped off its hinges by the force of the crash.
Luigi hopped to his feet and rejoined the fray, just in time to see Peach flying into the air.
Luigi quickly turned on the flashlight and shined it at the ghosts.
They suddenly screamed and vanished, letting Peach fall.
"I gotcha!" cried luigi, attempting to judge where she would land.
He was punched in the stomache and slipped on a banana peel. The green ghost responsible for this thought it was very funny.
Peach, as it happened, landed right on top of Mario, who was being pummeled by a particularly mean ghost.
Mario and Peach felt themselves grabbed by the ankles.
The ghost began to spin around and around, and around.
Mario felt that he was about to recieve his karmic comuppence for years of bowser throwing.
Wario and Waluigi were doing quite well, if you'll believe that.
They had a very simple strategy: hide.

Mario  and Peach were hurled at least thirty feet in two separate directions. Mario was thrown in the direction of Luigi, who was just getting up off of his back.
Mario slammed into Luigis stomache, knocking him backwards, BACK onto the banana peel, which slid the both of them into the house that luigi had flewn into earlier.
They were both unconscious.

I might be Sadib...

[GiftedGirl]

What's the point of the banana peel? Anyway, it's funny! Ha!

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"Can I have a cookie? No wait, 10 cookies? Can I have 20 cookies? 20 COOKIES?!?" --Wilson, ''Good Boy''

[Screech]

There's an ghost in Luigi's Mansion that eats bananas and throws the peels at you.

I might be Sadib...

[GiftedGirl]

I know that. But why'd it knock 'em out?

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Pokemon Jirachi wishmaker! One of the greatest Pokemon movies ever! But the short (Pokemon Gotta Dance) was stupid...

[Popple]

They hit the house. Houses are often made of hard materials that can, if struck by a person's head, can knock that person unconscious.<p>

Screech+nothing=incredibly good story writer

Let me away from this boulder!

[GiftedGirl]

Now I get it! Thanks, Popple!

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Pokemon Jirachi wishmaker! One of the greatest Pokemon movies ever! But the short (Pokemon Gotta Dance) was stupid...

[Screech]

Wario and Waluigi looked on as the mario brothers met their unfortunate (but really funny) fate.
Wario's eyes moved to peach, who was flying through the air and trying to slow herself down with her parasol.
Wario grabbed his brother's attention by placing both hands on either side of his head, and turning it.
"Whoa! You can see up-"
"No! She's gonna get hurt, you idiot!"
Peach's fall was slowing, and she felt relieved. But suddenly,her parasol turned inside out, and she fell screaming from the sky, and with a heart stopping "thud", her screams stopped.
Wario and Waluigi jumped out from their hiding place and, narrowly avoiding being struck by a ghost, ran to the spot they had seen Peach fall on.
Peach was alive. Good to know. But she was unconscious, like the Mario brothers.
The Wario brothers were a lot of things, but stupid was not one of them. They knew that they had to get away or be killed.
Waluigi picked up peach.
"Hide 'er." said Wario. "We'll get the Marios an find somewhere to go."
"Hey! What's this?" Waluigi picked up a peice of paper.
"She was holdin' that when we found her..."
They unflolded it.
"A map! I bet this goes to a safe place!"
"How can you tell?"
"It says 'map to a safe place'."
"I'll get the Luigi and Mario!"

"At Dukar, we place our emphasis on serving you, supporting
you, and helping you be as successful as possible."

[Markio]

Your stories always have the right balance of humor and "serious-ness".  And you always come up with the best ideas for stories.  "Dang, you're good."

By the way, do you read through the previous parts of the story before adding another part?  I'm just wondering, because I do that a lot and wonder if anyone else does that.

I wish I was in the forest with a dragon right now.

[Screech]

Luigi and Mario wouldn't come to. No amount of face-slaping could wake them up.
"Aww man!! I gotta carry these losers all the way to the safe place?!" said Wario, frustrated.
"Ya sure ya got 'em?" asked his brother, who only had to carry the marginally lighter princess.
"I got 'em, I got 'em. " Wario said, throwing his shoulder up  to get Mario's unconscious body balanced with Luigi's.
"Man, these guys are heavier than they look!"
"Seriously?"
"Yeah, man. Jeez, what do they eat?"
Wario, and Waluigi looked for an opening, in the waves of ghosts, big enough to run through.
"I think...nope."
"They move around too fast! We're never gonna get through."
"An' it ain't like Boos neither. You can't make 'em dissapear by lookin' at 'em."
Wario thought about this.
"Hey! Didn't Luigi say that these things don't like flashlights?"
"Yeah..." said Waluigi, catching on. He picked the Luigi's flashlight out of his pocket. "Too bad we don't have that vaccume thing, too."
"Vaccume? This thing?" asked Wario. He lifted the dust-buster sized housecleaning device, that he had found lying near Peach, but had thought little other than, "Hey. Free vaccume."
"Naw! It's a big one!"
"Y'think this'll work anyway?"
Waluigi paused. "I dunno. Let's try it."
Wario and Waluigi tore through the glowing curtain of supernatural creatures of the night. Wario holding the flashlight in his teeth, and waluigi running behind him, vaccuming with his free hand.

Kamek stared an orange ghost right in the face, and with a terrible screech, he closed his book and threw his wand in the air, where it levitated for several seconds, and suddenly created a huge, brilliant light, consuming the entire castle.
Every ghost in the immediate vicinity blinked out of visibility, and headed to the Mushroom Kingdom instead.
But Kamek knew he could not keep the ghosts away for long. Not even with his powers.
He did remember some magical artifacts that could drive the ghosts back. And they we're obtainable.
The only problem was: Would King Bowser allow it?

"At Dukar, we place our emphasis on serving you, supporting
you, and helping you be as successful as possible."

[Markio]

Hooray, more of the story.  I'm still reading.

Everything is as smooth as sandpaper pajamas.

[Screech]

I'm back, but I doubt I'll be able to work on this very much. I just got a new computer, so that'll help.

"At Dukar, we place our emphasis on serving you, supporting
you, and helping you be as successful as possible."

[Suffix]

I like the villians. Tatanga has been almost unheard of for quite a while, and your decriptions of him are pretty funny.
*waits and bounces eagerly*

Edited by - Suffix on 10/23/2004 8:22:40 PM

[Screech]

"Haw uh ohahh uh a ehheh ayy?"
"What?" said Waluigi, yanking the flashlight from his brother's mouth.
"I said, 'How far to the secret place?'"
"Oh. It ain't far. 'less I'm holdin the map upside down...nope. I got it right."
"We better get there soon. My arms are gettin' tired.
Waluigi squinted.
"The map's gettin' wet, but I think that cave up there is the place we're lookin' for. Go in on this side, the map doesn't say what's in the other side."
"Geez! We passed up like, seven caves on the way here!"
They went in, and dropped Mario, Luigi, and Peach on the ground.
"So... I wander what makes this cave so safe."
"Maybe 'cuz it's near the Koopa border. I hear that fugitives go east of the border to hide out. That's kinda like what we're doin'."


Bowser and the kids parked the clown copter near the east entrance of their cave. It wasn't easy to hide it, but they managed roll it behind a bush. Close enough.
"Alright kids! Everyone into the cave. Go! Go! Iggy, hurry up! You're gonna get soaked!"
Once they were all in, they sat down to rest.
"Dad..." said Bowser Junior "How long are we gonna be here?"
"I don't know." said Bowser.
He was worried that they would be going home at all.
"I'm hungry." he heard one of the children say.
"And I'm wet, and cold." said another.
They couldn't stay here long. He had kids with him. And there really wasn't anything to eat.
Perhaps there was something in the cave that he could burn, for heat. he doubted it, but it wasn't impossible.
As he wandered around, he began to hear voices.
Voices that sounded an aweful lot like...Mario Brothers.

"At Dukar, we place our emphasis on serving you, supporting
you, and helping you be as successful as possible."

Edited by - screech on 11/22/2004 12:52:07 PM

[Markio]

I'm a man of few words, so... :D

Enjoy life.  There''s plenty of time to be dead.

[Screech]

Mario and Luigi were awake, but peach was still unconscious.
"...so anyway, Waluigi carried Peach, and I got you guys, and we high-tailed it out here." Wario finished the story.
Mario said nothing for a moment.
They could hear the rain spattering on the cave.
"Well...thanks." said Mario.
"Yeah." Said Luigi. "Without you guys, we would've been killed"
"Don't mention it." said wario.
"Ever." said Waluigi. "We don't want the word gettin' out."
Luigi looked over at peach.
She was still out.
"It seems like we've been knocked around a lot lately. I hope we don't have head trauma or something when this is over."
Mario had been listening to the sound of heavy breathing, further into the cave.
"Hey. You guys hear that?"
"Hear wha-Oh. That's freaky. It's like a stalker Darth Vader or something." said Wario. "Go see what it is." he told his brother.
"Why do I have to go?"
"Cuz I said so!" he slapped him on the back of the head.
"Alright! Alright! Mama Mia, you sound like my mother!"
Waluigi inched a little bit closer to the dark interior of the cave.
The breathing noise had stopped when Mario spoke up.
"Who's there? Huh? Ya think yer funny? Ya think yer like those stupid kids that call ya and breath into the phone? That's really cute."
Waluigi disapeared into the darkness.
"ROOOAAAR!"
The tall, lanky italian zoomed to the mouth of the cave, where the others could see him.
"What the-!?"
Following him came an enourmous koopa that was instantly recognizable.
"Bowser!" cried every conscious person in the cave.
Bowser grabbed Waluigi.
"Don't you EVER step on my tail again, you little punk!"
Mario stood up. "Leave him alone. If you came to pick a fight, pick it with the Mario brothers, not him."
"Pick a fight, nothing!" cried Bowser. "You stupid plumbers followed me out here, because apparently, my life isn't difficult enough as it is!"
Luigi stepped between them. "Hang on!"
He spoke to Bowser, "Why are you out here, if you didn't come after us?"
"Stupid ghosts that usually stay around that stupid forest, near that stupid mansion, all decided that they were gonna come after my stupid castle!"
Wario and Waluigi exchanged worried glances.
"Y-you mean they came into the Koopa Kingdom, too?"
"Yeah. Why do you care?"
"Because I don't think we're gonna be safe here for too terribly much longer."
Bowser wasn't listening. His attention had turned to the motionless form of Peach.
"What'd you imbeciles do to her!"
Wario Rubbed the back of his head.
"Well, she had a little fall..."
"Didn't you idiots think to check for broken bones!? Her leg needs to be set!"
Mario was curious as to how bowser knew so much about first aid, and broken bones and such, but his head hurt so much that he decided to let it go.
When bowser was done, he ran to the inner area of the cave and called for his children.
"Kids! C'mon! Allaya! Get yer tails in gear!"
Bowser junior was the first one visible.
"Did you find something to eat? WOW! You found some Mario brothers! You're the best Dad in the world!" he leapt at Luigi's leg, but Bowser snatched him away.
"No sir! We do not eat mario Brothers!They're practically in-laws, and you know how those taste!"
"Sorry."
Again, Mario just let that one go.
"So..." Said Luigi, "You brought your kids...that's nice."
"Yeah." said Bowser.
Awkward silence.
"They've grown up a lot." he said.
"I guess they have, since you saw 'em last."
More silence.
"I mean, what was that, like, the Dinosaur Land incident?"
"Yeah. I think so."
An even longer silence.
"So, you're not gonna, like..."
"Kill you? No."
"Oh. Okay. That's good."

The rest of the night continued like this. It was morning, before Peach showed signs of waking up.

"At Dukar, we place our emphasis on serving you, supporting
you, and helping you be as successful as possible."

[Markio]

Still reading.  Here's a specfic compliment: It is good.

Enjoy life.  There''s plenty of time to be dead.

[Screech]

"Thank you! maybe this'll be the last time any of us have to be unconscious for this little ordeal!"
Peach was sitting up against the wall of the cave.
"So...If I have this correctly...Bowser, you don't want to hurt us right now...Wario brothers, you saved my life... and there is absolutely no hope of ever driving the evil forces out of either kingdom?"
"Yeh, s'bout right." said Waluigi. "I'm hungry."
Mario, Luigi, Peach, Wario, and Bowser simultaneously shot him a dirty look.
She sighed, "If I could have mailed my letters, we might have some sort of defense."

"At Dukar, we place our emphasis on serving you, supporting
you, and helping you be as successful as possible."

[Screech]

"What letters?" asked Mario.
"Luigi told me to send for help from the kings of the mushroom kingdom. If I had enough time to send my letters, we might have a chance of fighting those things."
They all picked up their heads.
"Do you hear that?" asked Luigi.
There was a buzzing, humming, sort of sound, that they could barely hear at first, over the rain.
"Do-Do you think they found us?" asked peach.
"Hmm...it doesn't sound like ghosts." said Luigi.
"Or anything I've ever heard Tatanga's guys use."
Bowser smiled.
"That isn't a ghost or an alien! It's Kamek!"
Sure enough, the Magikoopa flew in on his broomstick.
"Sir! Oh,and madame I suppo-"
He crashed into the cave wall.
"Kamek! Are you okay?!"
"Yes sir...ooh. My head!"
"Shake it off, kamek!"
"Yes sir...I'm so very glad you and the children made it. I'm sorry, but it was beyond my power to save the castle."
"How many people made it out?"
"Well sir, apart from you and the children, about 30 koopa troopas, 10 paratroopas, no goombas I'm afraid, the other magikoopas of course, and some of our boos slipped out among the ghosts. Not enough to fight them.
Actually, that's what I was hoping to ask you about. You see, there are certain magical weapons that we might use to gain an advantage against them. Do you remember the magic wands we once stole and used to transform the kings of the mushroom kingdom into beasts?"
"Of course! Man, I nearly laughed my tail off! Can we get hold of those things again?"
"uh...well, yes, I believe so...but to do so would require an alliance with those currently in possession of them."
"Oh no! That means we'd have to ask permission from-"
"We ARE in the room." said Mario.
"We'd let you use the wands," said Peach. "But we have no way of getting them."
"Grr! That's right!" Bowser slammed his fist into the wall. "We can't deliver those stupid letters!"
Kamek's face lit up.
"Sir and Madame, If I could make a proposition."
"Yes?" said Peach.
"If I were to deliver your letters on my broomstick, and the kings sent enough..uh...troops, we could combine forces.
Lord Bowser could train your troops to fight Tatanga's, and the wands, one for each of the koopalings, could be used to fight the ghosts."
"No way!" cried both of the mario brothers, in unison.
"There's no way we're letting your kid's get their claws on those wands!"
"We ARE in the room." said Wendy.
"And besides, only the Poltergust three-thousand can beat ghosts." said Luigi.
"Well we don't have a lot of options now, do we?" said Kamek.
Bowser was curious. "How many 'poltergust' things can we get?"
Luigi lowered his head. "At the moment...one. One really weak one."
"There then," said Kamek. "Your only choice is to trust us."
Mario and luigi reluctantly admitted that he was right.
Peach handed over the letters.

"At Dukar, we place our emphasis on serving you, supporting
you, and helping you be as successful as possible."

[Screech]

"So, I am to request that each king send the soldiers here?" asked Kamek, suddenly aware that there may be a flaw with his plan.
Bowser realized too.
"a thousand mushrooms sitting around this one spot is gonna look suspicious."
"And Tatanga's no dummy. He's got spies all over the place I bet. He'll notice if all those Toads are marching out here." Luigi added.
"But what can we do? There's no other place to hide." said Peach.
"What about Beanbean?" suggested Wario.
"NO!" said Bowser. "That place is just too frickin' wierd."
Mario had an idea.
"Kamek, is there any more to this cave than waht we're sitting in?"
"Yes, it goes deep into the mazelike underground area beneath the mushroom Kingdom. You've been downn there before. Why do you ask?"
"That means that there would be plenty of room for the mushroom guys to eat, sleep, and train.
And, If they still work, they can get here by using the warp pipes that I used the first time I kicked your butts outta the MK!"
Bowser and Kamek winced.
"Sorry." he said.

Ketsueki Mario tore into the large mario shaped doll, spun around and kicked the Luigi doll.
He grabbed Wario by the arms and threw him into Waluigi.
Before either of them could know what hit them, he was ripping them to tiny shreds.
Peach stood before him.
he leapt over her head, and nailed the Luigi doll once more.
"Stop!" rang the voice of tatanga.
Ketsueki sighed. he was REALLY getting tired of this clown.
"Why didn't you hit the peach doll!?" he screamed.
Ketsueki felt the sudden urge to scream back. To argue. And maybe slap the little wierdo around a little. He held himself still, with difficulty.
"I...don't have a problem with Peach....Master.
"You have a problem with her If I say you do!"
"Fine."
King boo appeared in front of him.
"I rather liked the part where you used the one doll to smack the other."
Tatanga cast a disaproving glare at his translucent partner.
"You will do it again. And again, if you do not beat your record."
The two of them walked off to the side of the small arena, where they could moniter him safely.
"His jumping has improved. He's becoming more a Mario brother every second."
"Do you suppose that could be a problem?"
"No. He lives to destroy them. You can see it in his eyes when he obliterates those dolls out there. he realizes that his only purpose is their downfall, and has commited himself so completely to that goal that anything else, eating, sleeping, even his own well being, is barely a priority."
"He doesn't like us. It worries me."
"It isn't necessary for him to like us. Only to obey us."
Ketsueki pounded on more of the dolls, making sure to hit Peach and a few of the toads while Tatanga was watching.
He had heard them speaking, and they knew it.
But he didn't care.
They were evil, heartless villains, who cared nothing  but for themselves.
But he didn't care.
They were using him, and when they were finished they would probably destroy him as well.
But he didn't care.
All he knew was that he was created for a reason. Good or evil, he could not deny himself his purpose.
He ripped the arms off of the Mario doll.

"At Dukar, we place our emphasis on serving you, supporting
you, and helping you be as successful as possible."

[Screech]

"What now?" said Peach.
"We wait." said Bowser. "Kids. Get to bed."
The Koopalings did as told.
The Mario brothers didn't feel much like sleeping. Neither did peach.
The Wario Brothers laid down on the ground and fell asleep instantly.
"Are you tired?" Peach asked.
Mario and Luigi shook their heads.
"We're too worried to sleep."
The rain let up a little.

Tatanga examined Ketsueki Mario.
"I believe you are ready." he said. "Find them, kill them, and come back here."

"At Dukar, we place our emphasis on serving you, supporting
you, and helping you be as successful as possible."

[Screech]

The sun began to rise and Mario realized that, somehow, he had dozed off.
He looked around. Everyone was sleeping.
Bowser and the Koopalings were inside their shells, the wario brothers were both mumbling incoherently in their sleep about girls and/or money, and peach was tossing and turning, perhaps having a nightmare.
"Hey." said Luigi.
Mario Jumped.
"you scared me."
"Do you have a funny feeling?"
"What?"
"Like, a chill up your spine. It's creepy."
"umm...no." Said Mario, attempting to understand what Luigi was saying.

Ketsueki Mario looked at the cave. It was definitely a good place to hide.
He had been searching tirelessly all night for the Mario brothers, and this was as likely a place as any for them to be holed up in.

"Hey, who's that?" asked Luigi, squinting at the figure in the distance. "He's coming this way!"
Mario noticed too.
"It doesn't look like any aliens or ghosts I've ever seen. He looks human."
he was coming closer.
"Woah!" said mario.
Luigi was speechless. his funny feeling was getting worse. The warning of Madame Clairvoya floated through his head.
The man was about Luigi's height, and had a very round head and a familiar large, round nose, beneath which was an ungroomed black mustache.
His ears were pointed, and his eyebrows were enormous. His eyes were blood red.
His arms were muscular, like Wario's.
He wore black overalls, with a dark gray shirt, and a black cap with a large uppercase "K" on it.

He stopped.
"Mario and Wario brothers!" he shouted. "I'm sorry I came so early in the morning, but my orders are to kill you quickly! Come out and fight, or I will come in after you!"

"At Dukar, we place our emphasis on serving you, supporting
you, and helping you be as successful as possible."

[Markio]

Woah, where have I been the past few posts here?  This is cool!  I like the part about KM not caring for some reason.  Probably the whole "he was created for one reason" and then he destroys the doll.

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” -Atticus Finch

[Suffix]

Man, I should write fan fiction. It's just so easy to understand! Good work.

[Ultima Shadow]

Must... bump... great... story!!

Edited by - No-One on Whichever day that happens to be convenient for me at Whatever time I feel like it.

[The Blue Toad]

Wow!  I cannot stop reading this story!  I give it an A++!

If Toad is a mushroom and a mushroom is a fungus, can we say that Toad is a fungus?

[Screech]

Kestsueki stood for a moment. he heard from the cave:
"I'm sorry, what?"
He answered back, "I came-I came to kill you."
There came no answer for a moment.
Suddenly he heard Mario shout.
"Can you give us a sec?"
Ketsueki sighed. "I'm not in any big hurry, but I was told not to waste any time."
"Just hang on, for like five seconds."
"Fine."

Mario stood up, put on his shoes, and dusted himself off. Luigi woke the wario Brothers.
"What do you want?" asked Wario groggily.
"There's a guy outside who wants to kill us." answered Luigi absently. He was afraid of this scary, if handsome, fellow, and wasn't paying much attention to anyone but him.

The four of them walked from the cave. Ketsueki Mario stared them down.
They were all familiar to him. Like brothers. He looked at each of them and knew what made them tick.
"Who sent you to...y'know...kill us?" Asked Mario.
Luigi began to shiver.
"It doesn't matter. You'll be dead in an hour."
"You-You really think you can take all for of us?" asked Mario. He obviously did not believe it.
"In about an hour, yes."
"Ummm...what are you going to do? Like...after we've been...Uh...dealt with?" asked Luigi.
"I don't know." he replied. "I really don't like the way they run things. i may go after them next. Of course they may decide to kill me."
"Who?"
"It doesn't matter. We've talked enough."
With this, he punched mario in the stomache and calmly turned and kicked Wario in the face.
Luigi and waluigi ran in opposite directions.
Ketsueki turned his gaze to Waluigi.
he caught up with him quickly, and grabbed the back of his neck.
Waluigi froze.
Ketsueki prepared to break his back, when out of the corner of his eye, came a large muscular yellow plumber. Wario drew back his fist.
Ketsueki turned and held waluigi in front of him, like a shield. Wario's fist connected with his brother's face.
Ketsueki tossed waluigi in the air and caught him by his legs. he spun around and realeased him, allowing the momentum to hurl him into wario's gut.
"It's a big target." he said.
Mario charged him. He was running at full speed.
Ketsueki smiled.
He jumped. High. Higher even than Luigi
Mario stopped. Where had the strange man gone?
mario looked up, only to see a big brown shoe, come right down onto his face, knocking him down.
Mario was bewildered.
"He...he stomped me. He stomped ME!"
Mario stood up. "Grrr! That's copyrighted!" he cried.

"At Dukar, we place our emphasis on serving you, supporting
you, and helping you be as successful as possible."

Edited by - Screech on 6/2/2005 2:02:01 PM

[Markio]

Wow, what a great, twisted combination of darkness and humor.

Thank you for visting my world, come again ... Now entering reality, welcome back.

[Screech]

Mario stood up.
He said that he could take them in an hour...it wasn't even five minutes and they were already getting their butts kicked.
Mario was just too slow to get a hit on him normally.
He had an idea. There were brick boxes scattered throughout the Mushroom kingdom. If there was one nearby....
Mario dashed in the direction of the first one he saw.
Ketsueki Mario instantly knew what he was planning. He took off after him.
Mario didn't look back. If he stopped for an instant, Ketsueki would catch him.
He noticed Ketsueki behind him. With his speed, Mario would't make it.
Mario slowed a bit.
As Kestueki came up behind him, Mario stopped, crouched, and, using his arms as a pivot, spun his legs around, tripping Ketsueki Mario.
"Wooh!"
Mario wasted no time. he rushed to the brick box, and busted it with his fist.
Mario had hoped something would pop out of it. A mushroom, a leaf. Anything he could use!
A brightly colored flashing flower emerged from the box.
Mario grabbed the fire flower and turned around just in time to make eye contact with Ketsueki mario.
"Take this!" he yelled.
He released from his index finger an enourmous wave of fire, consuming Ketsueki.
Ketsueki Mario, fell over on his face.
Mario gave a thumbs up to Luigi.
Luigi was about to do the same, when a look of horror appeared on his face.
"Hey! What's wrong?"
Luigi pointed and gasped.
"S'amatter? You look like-"
Mario didn't finish. Two gloved hands had grasped his neck.
Ketsueki Mario, still on fire, had grabbed him from behind.
Luigi quickly popped Ketsueki in his face.
Ketsueki let go for an instant, and mario elbowed him in the stomache.
Ketsueki rolled on the ground, attempting to extinguish the flames, while Mario, Luigi, Wario, and Waluigi looked on. It was disturbing to look at.
Both sets of brothers walked back to their small cave.
"Where...do you think you're going?"
They turned around. He had succeeded in putting out the fire and was standing up.
"Get over here."
Wario and Waluigi laughed.
Mario didn't think it was funny.
"Look. You're good, but you can't take down all four of us. Go back to wherever you came from, and leave us alone. We don't want to hurt you, if we don't have to."
Ketsueki looked at them. He had underestimated their chances, and it had cost him. He was in no condition fight at all.
He saw something else he hadn't counted on. Inside the cave entrance, was a monstrous, koopa. he recognized it as Bowser, someone he vaguely remembered, but had been explicitly warned about. And he had his kids with him.
His analytical mind began to tell him that he could not possibly defeat four strong humans, one giant turtle and eight small monsters.
He nodded.
"The next time I see you, you will die."
He began to walk away.
"We can't just let him go!" exclaimed Wario "He'll tell where we're hiding!"
Ketsueki glared at him. "I won't tell. Don't worry."
"But-"
Luigi remembered what Madame Clairvoya had told him. "He is neither ghost nor alien, and is not accountable to either."
"He won't tell." Lugi said.
Ketsueki smiled.
"who are you?" Mario asked.
"You."

"At Dukar, we place our emphasis on serving you, supporting
you, and helping you be as successful as possible."

[Markio]

"Who are you?"
"You."

That made me laugh, it probably shouldn't've.  Yay, though, more story!

Depending on your preferences, this signature is either funny, thought-provoking, dramatic, or something else.

[Screech]

Mario was confused. This guy was a whackjob.
He watched as Ketsueki walked away.
Mario turned to Luigi.
"How do you know he won't tell?"
"I feel it. Like, in my gut."
Wario looked over at Luigi.
"You're letting that guy go because of indegestion?", he asked.
Luigi sighed.

"What do you mean, you never found them!?" Screamed the purple alien.
"I mean that I looked for them and I did not see them. I'll try harder." His "Master" was getting more and more irritating.
"And how did you manage to set yourself on fire?! I send you to look for a fat plumber, and in addition to not finding him, you come back with severe burn injuries!"
"Yeah. That's kind of a long-"
"Your incompetence is unacceptable."
Ketsueki clenched his fists.
His thoughts wandered to one of his faded memories. One of Tatanga being humiliated. He couldn't suppress a smile.

"At Dukar, we place our emphasis on serving you, supporting
you, and helping you be as successful as possible."

[Screech]

Wario opened his eyes.
No noise. He must've been the first awake.
He sat himself up.
"Whoa!" He cried.
There in front of him, stood an elderly, bearded man with a crown. Behind him were several identical toads.
"Good morning." said the man.
"Ain't nothin' good about it." grumbled Wario. "Who the heck are you?"
"I am the king of Grass Land" he said.
Wario hopped up. "King, huh? I'm a king too." He slapped the Grass Land king on the back.
"Are you, now?"
"Yeh. Got a big ol' castle and everything."
Mario lifted his head.
"What the-? Who are you talking to?"
Wario turned to look at Mario.
"Mind your own business, common peasant." He turned back to the King. "Don't mind the riff-raff."
Mario sighed.
"Are they here?"
Sure enough, there were seven men, dressed in fancy clothes and wearing crowns on their heads. Each had some toads standing with him.
"Oh, hey. Don't stand so close, Your Majesty." Mario said, gesturing away from the sleeping Bowser. "He's liable to hurt you if he wakes up and the first thing he sees is a Mushroom King."
"Oh. Indeed." The king took several wide steps away.
"Where are your soldiers?" Mario asked.
"They're below ground, eagerly awaiting your expert training."
"Wha-? Oh, no. No, you see, I'm not training them."
"Oh...will it be the the younger one, then?"
"Umm...no. Err...we don't actually know anything about that kind of stuff."
"Then who?"
Mario pointed at the sleeping koopa.
"You can't be serious."
"We don't like it either, but we have no choice. They were the only ones who could contact you."
"I don't understand. Why couldn't you have used the tunnels we took to get here?"
"Because..." Mario could not think of a good reason.
Kamek approached them.
"Ah..yes. I had hoped, that you woudn't realize-"
"You tricked us!"
Kamek backed up.
"Now, now. You wouldn't want to do anything hasty."
"I think I would."
"We're all on the same side here, right?"
"I thought we were." Mario made a grab for him.
"You wouldn't have agreed, any other way!" he cried, ducking out of the way. "We need your help, and you need ours."
Mario swung.
"Think about it! We can't afford to be fighting each other!"
Mario stopped.
The others had been awakened by the noise.
"Oh. The Kings are here." said Peach.

[Markio]

Yaaaaaaaay!  More story! *drools*
Go Screech!  Go Screech!

[gunblade88]

My my, I'm really diggin this story. For some reason the funniest part to me was when you misspelled "Luigi" as "Lugi". B/c both are green and run. hah! no. . .seriously I've noticed a maturation in your writing style or at least your development of ideas. I've always enjoyed reading your stuff and personally believe that someday you should publish. :) Congrats and please continue writing!

[Screech]

This story's been bugging me lately. Just sitting in the back of my head, poking my brain and whispering, "Hey. Finish me." Sorry for digging up an ancient topic.



Peach greeted the kings and their retainers.
"Hello." she said, somewhat awkwardly, smoothing out the wrinkles in her dress. "As I'm sure you are all well aware, we need your help."
The kings all looked at peach. It was a sight. She did not look as carefree, or cheery, as they had always seen her. Without her trademark bubblyness, she seemed...worn down. They could not suppose that the last few days had been pleasant, but the princess was practically a proffesional kidnapping victim. She was very rarely without her usual spunk.
"For a very long time," she began, "The mushroom kingdom has been a peaceful place. We owe that to our protectors, the Mario Bros. But it has come to light that we cannot rely on two men, however brave or loyal, to defend us. As I speak, there is a growing threat to our kingdom, and very posibly the entire world. Even the Mario brothers are not capable of holding back this invasion. Already we have been forced from the castle, and into hiding. I believe that we can fight back, but..." She took a deep breath.
"We cannot do it alone. The Koopa Kingdom has offered it's support, and with the leadership of their King, Bowser Koopa, we can train our mushroom people as soldiers. I know I must ask a lot from you. I must ask you to trust the people we once called our enemies. I must ask you you to place powerful magic in the hands of those who once used it against you."
Peach was not sure how the kings were going to react. She could order them to give up the wands, but she wanted their willing cooperation. She liked to think that the kings would trust her.
"I must ask you to give the valued magic wands of your country to our cause."
To her surprise, every one of the seven Kings stepped forward, wand in hand.
"We shall do anything you tell us." said the king of Grassland. "Even if it means allowing that...creature to use our wands."
Bowser stepped up. "Watch it, bub! You may not realize that I hold your fate in my hands."
"Bowser." said peach. "Do I have your solem vow that until this threat is passed, you will be serving in the new Mushroom Kingdom army? That you will yeild to my command, and that you will do anything in your power to protect our people? That is, yours and mine."
Bowser was appalled. "I most certainly wo-!"
Kamek coughed loudly.
Bowser sighed. "You have my solem vow...your highness."
"Then you are now the first general of the Mushroom Army."
Bowser wanted to hit someone, but with great difficult, restrained himself.
Bowser felt a tap on his shoulder. Mario stood behind him.
"Luigi and I are watching you. Don't try anything funny."
"Careful, Private Mario." Bowser said smiling. "Now. Where are my troops?"
"Underground." said Peach
Bowser bowed quickly and hopped into the pipe that led to their impromptu boot camp. Peach and the Mario brothers followed, with Wario and Waluigi right behind.
The large area beneath the cave was dimly lit. There were rows of brick boxes, and platforms that moved up and down over seemingly bottomless pits. Probably once used by miners.
Bowser was addressing his troops.
"Allright you lazy maggots! Every fungus here who wants to be a soldier is now under my command. You do not eat, sleep, or bathe until I tell you to.
I am not going to lie to you. You miserable little toads are going to experience pain beyond you wildest imaginations. Because of your inexperience, you will be sectioned of into numbered units. Each group will be assigned officers from the more battle hardened Koopa kingdom. these officers will be training you in combat. You will learn to operate cannons with sentient artillery, you will learn to throw hammers, fireballs, and boomerangs, and you will learn to use your bodies as weapons.
Your reward for loyalty and obedience will be your survival, the only punishment for failure is anihilation.
You will hate your superiors, and you will certainly hate me, but when this thing is over, you'll thank the stars for every order I ever gave!"
Peach stared for a second. "What have I done?" she said to herself.