Looks like it's time to continue.
Oh, I wasn't mad at you MadMario, sorry if it came off that way ^_^.
Anways...
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Mario slowly, almost cartoonishly lifted his head over the edge of the barrel. He had jumped into this barrel of flour after being almost spotted by Chef Torte's apprentice, who was trying to find something to entertain himself with in the process.
Mario was lucky he didn't have allergies. He blinked a few times, clearing his eyes of flour. His keen ears began to pick up on the conversation between Chef Torte and his apprentice:
"Zo, you wish to know what ze 'plan' is, aye? Well, iz very, very top-top-top-top secret!! So, don't tell anyone!", Chef Torte demanded, thwapping his apprentice on the head with ladel. The apprentice ducked his head, muttering, "Y-yes sir...".
Chef Torte hooked his arms behind his back, striding back and forth in front of his apprentice like a general to his troops, smiling broadly, and to Mario, it seemed like an evil smile. But, it could have just been the flour clouding his vision...
"Ah, well now. The plan has to do with ZIS very cake! Zis cake which I made with my own hands!! I put my zoul into this cake! It iz... perfect!!", Chef Torte continued, bragging on about his cake, "And with zis cake we shall implant... Super-Omb Z12!"
***
"Super-Omb Z12!?", shouted Luigi. "Keep 't down, youngin'!", the old Toad whispered, "They don't think I know about it! But, heh, get this! I hear every word! And the guards seem t' get extree bits o' information every night 'o so, so I figger I 'bout got this 'Omb' figgered out!", he said, glee in his voice.
"Well...I'm not sure I wanna know...but...what's this Super-Omb Z12 supposed to do?", asked the green-clad hero, rubbing his chin as he came to his own horrifying conclusions. Thoughts of millions of bob-ombs taking over the Mushroom Kingdom filled his head. Bowser reigning. Mario gone. Peach overthrown. It made him shudder.
"From what I've heard, they plan to implant it inside of a big, big cake! And then, they're gonna have a Mario look-alike deliver it to Peach!! When she presents it to the town as a gift...well, the Bomb explodes!! But, not yer av'rage Bob-Omb, no sirree. This bomb...well, I heard 'em say something like Chef Torte put his..."zoul" in it or something...not sure on that part."
"Soul, maybe?", Luigi asked, already beginning to figure it out.
"I bet'choo! OoHH! I bet! Oh! Yeah! I bet...that's what "zoul"'s sposed to be. Yep."
"...Yeah, go on.", Luigi said, wondering if this whole plan was some dilirium caused by the Tonic...
Luigi sat forward on the old cot that the Toad had been sinking on, looking up towards Prih. T, who was just a little taller than him standing up. The bed smelled of old tonic formulas and a muskey scent which the old Toad said was cologne but was obviously just hay or something other.
"Well, I think they plan to stick Bowser's soul...his evil nature, and his form, into that bomb...somehow. I bet Kamek came up with this one!", the old Toad muttered, growling under his breath.
"This doesn't sound good. What...happens when this big thing explodes...?", Luigi asked timidly.
***
"BOOM!!", screamed Chef Torte, making an explosion motion with his arms, "It zends out Bowzer's zoul to all of the Mushroomians, and they are completely taken over! Izn't it great!?", he said. "Even Peach won't be able to resist him!! He'll have them all to his will!! And once the explosion occurs, it will spread not just over the Mushroom Kingdom, but through the entire world! Hahahahahahahaha!!", Chef Torte cackled.
Mario and Luigi jumped back in their seats. They had felt the shock at the same time. How could Bowser have come up with such a plan in so short a time?
Mario didn't hesitate after that. He leapt from the barrel, catching the outside edge of it with his floury foot as he leapt, kicking the barrel towards Chef Torte, who was knocked into the air and came down to land in a bag of sleepy sheeps, falling sound asleep.
Mario moved quickly, dashing to the apprentice, and sweeping his feet from under him, causing him to tumble into a vat of Jammin' Jelly, where he got stuck, his head being visible as he sat unable to move.
"I'm not gonna allow this plan to happen!!", Mario screamed at the snoozing Torte and the trapped apprentice. He bolted through the door to the next room.
Mario looked down. He shook his head. The staircase he stood at seemed to travel and spiral down forever. Stones and bricks were lost in places. Every part of Bowser's Castle seemed to be falling apart!
Mario slowly crept down the steep spiraling staircase ( I dare any of you to say "steep spiraling staircase" 5 times fast! ). He wasn't sure of what would be around the next curve, so he tiptoed quietly, ready to pounce at the sound of footsteps.
Mario's ears twitched. Just then, he heard the light step of another's shoes coming up the stairs. The muscles in his legs stiffened, and he drew back, before leaping into a tall mustached man that had been ready to attack him.
Mario and Luigi tumbled down the staircase, fighting at each other in ignorance to who they were fighting. Luigi bit onto Mario's arm, who then kicked him sharply in the shin. Eventually they smashed through a faded part of the wall, sprawling into an almost cleared out stone room, and landing next to one another.
"You biter!!", Mario screamed, lunging at the figure in the dark. Luigi pushed his hands to his sides, throwing fireballs out in each direction, to give Mario the message.
"Luigi!?!", Mario yelled. "Hey, Mario!", Luigi said, and hugged his brother for a short moment.
"No time for-a hugging, bro. You've gotta' hear what Bowser's planning!", Mario began to explain, when Luigi interrupted, "I already know! This old Toad named Prih T. told me the story before I escaped from the prison I was in."
"You were in a prison? And you escaped? What else happened to you?", Mario asked.
"No time to tell it all, bro. We need to find out-a where we are, and fast!", Luigi said, looking around him, and thinking, 'Hope there aren't any ghosts...'
* * * Will Mario and Luigi make it back to the Mushroom Kingdom in time to warn Princess Peach!? Will Bowser be able to beat them this time?! Come see next time!
See how the mustache hides the slightly sad smile... and the sideburns, portraying his simple, blue-collar roots... and his legs, thick, wide, the legs of the masses!