Ketsueki Mario

[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."