More Menace goodness here, and this is probably the second best part after the part 16 in my opinion. Oh I made this and the next part ultra suspenseful, heh heh heh.
Part 12
[The scene opens up with the image of a slightly small but medieval town. Currently it is dusk or close to dusk. In front of the troupe, there is a stone arch gate with the letters engraved reading “Ortho Town.” The site has a very old fashion appearance, as most of the houses are made of simple boards and stones with thatched roofs. Yet they retain a mushroom shape not unlike the Mushroom Kingdom and the designs of the roofs are black with white spots on them. Mario, Luigi, and Mike are on the outskirts of town but there are still a few people running about]
Luigi {yawning}: It is about dusk by now. But that red and blue sunset is so pretty!
Mike: Yeah, and those dark clouds over there look just as pretty {Cough}, sarcasm
Mario: Oh what is a little rain going to hurt….he, he
[Inside the town, all kinds of people are running about. There are mainly MK Toads but many of them are more human looking as well. A few other intelligent species roam about with slightly more archaic appearances. The Toads for example, have black hats and white spots rather than white hats and red spots. And while there aren’t many koopas, if there are, the majority has silver shells and green skin]
Mike: Ha-ha! What did I tell you guys, we are in the past! And based on this entire late medieval atmosphere, we have gone back about 600 years I would say.
Luigi: Wah! And I thought a century was bad enough! 600 FREAKING YEARS?!
Mario was just plain speechless at the thought. Some sweat ran down his cheek, and his face turned red. Then he yelled out while banging his feel, “LOST LOST LOST LOST LOST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” A few people suddenly looked over in their direction. A town gates person dressed in brown came running toward them and said….
Gatekeeper: Why, noticed I did not thee three. Welcome to Ortho Town! Where art thou strangers’ part of?
Mario: We are from Toad Town
Luigi: Hello, it’s nice to meet you.
Gatekeeper: Ha-ha, noticed have I. It can be told by thy speech. A friendly emissary of this here town of ours is here to show people around!
Mario thought to himself, “Oh great, I hated Shakespeare when studying it and here I am pour the reality! Wait, why art I talking this way!”
Emissary: I see thou art from Toad Town, site of the original kingdom of this land. It seemeth that speech of the land has changed. But if thou want vernacular of that land, it can be arranged.
Mario: Please just speak English
Emissary/Tour Guide: Well I will be your tour guide for the time being. After all, we want to be hospitable to guests as long as they are just. Well let me lead you into downtown.
[The downtown area of Ortho Town was bustling with all types of artisans and merchants. A few people with triangular relics were seen by the troupe. Mario and Luigi were confused, but Mike being a History student lightly chuckled at the thought of going back in time. At the same time, he seemed slightly worried]
Tour Guide: Oh this is our lovely downtown area. Right there, you will see the crossroad area where all kinds of roads intersect! That is our town hall, isn’t the red bell tower and school-house crossed with an office wonderful?
Mario: (I’d feel like I was in a classroom if I attended a meeting in that building]
Tour Guide: Oh yes, and there is the fountain in front of it.
[Mario looks at it with an odd look, seeing the same triangular relic on top of it]
Luigi: I see many merchants running around here
Tour Guide: All these citizens never abhor! Or else you would be out of our town’s door.
Luigi: What about what the gatekeeper said about unjust people?
Tour Guide: Bah, the unjust will be punished for their crimes appalled. And those who go against the gods’ will, they are the worst of all.
[Mike almost breaks a sweat hearing that and stays silent for the next parts of the tour]
While touring the town, many landmarks were noted. Many roads and side roads ran about. There were several alleys in many ways. Even on the west side there was a field. The guide explained while it was normally for farming, there was a carnival in town. It was a very populated town but not as busy as its centre. But while walking near the Eastern part of town where the clouds came from, the Mario’s and Mike noticed a slightly darker feel to it. A jail and an area for executing prisoners was spotted, and the houses were a bit rundown.
Tour Guide: Oh I shouldn’t be here; this is such a gloomy part of our wonderful town. Cometh let us go to the inn of the town!
At the inn, Mario paid a small tip to the guide and muttered out:
Mario: Thank you good sir, may the….
Mike: Shut up Mario!
He was cutting Mario off for some odd reason, and Mario didn’t know why.
Mario: What? All I was saying was “May the stars be with you.”
Mike: Mario! You fool! Do you realize what you have just done?!
Tour Guide: St-stars?! THOU JUST SLIPPED UP THEE BEAST OF HUMANITY! All the whole time thou were all a façade. And thou shalt be punished unjust deniers of the creators of this land! HEAR YE! HEAR YE! THESE GUESTS OF THIS TOWN ART IN REALITY GUESTS OF EVIL! THEY DENY THE GODS AND HATH BEEN SENT TO BE PUNISHED BY THIS TOWN!
Mario: Wha-what?!?!
Mike: you have done it now Mario. In this day and age, people took their religious beliefs very seriously, and now thanks to you, we are all going to be ripped into pieces and burnt alive! Run! RUN!
Suddenly a hoard of townsfolk ran in anger toward the Mario Bros and the koopa. It was like an angry bull heard being teased by thousands of red capes, and they were headed right toward the heroes.
Townsman: Ye monsters shalt be slain!
Woman: Will thee survive? NAY! Will thee be burnt alive? YAY!
Luigi: WAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!! PLEASE! SHOE SHOE!
Townsman: These art the boots of mine! Shoes nay!
Mike: Shut up and run you idiot!
[They run down a few streets behind an angry crowd of various people, all yelling. Mario notices an open door on one of the houses and it appears to be empty. The group runs into it.]
The house’s interior was a little run down and shack like. There were only two windows, one small one in the front not even large enough to fit a child, and another in the back that was fairly big. Some generic furniture lied around the muddy floor, including a table, chairs, a double bed, and dresser. The group pushed the larger furniture into any place where there could be an opening.
Mario: What is with these people? One moment they are hospitable and the next moment they are a blood thirsty mob.
Mike: I’m a bit of a historian and can explain this, you see….
He was cut off by a loud bang on the door. The mob was closing in on the house, and had already started to chop through the front door. Mario ran up to hold it and an axe chopped through the dresser holding the door back; missing his face by 2 centimeters.
Mike: Yikes! I don’t know about you guys but I’m getting out of here. Follow me out the back window. {Jumps through the back window}
Luigi: Oh come on! Wait for me! {Runs out the back too}
Mario: Am I the only one here?!
Then the Mob chopped through the door and front window. Someone threw a torch threw the window and the door was about to be swung wide open.
Mario: [dukar]! I’m getting out of here myself! {Runs out the back} Wait, where did those guys go?
[Cut to Mike, and he is alone in a back alley]
Mike: Great, that was close guys…..guys?
[Cut to Luigi, and he is somewhere far away from the mob on a random road]
Luigi: [darn]it! Where did they go! WAAAAAAAAAAH!
[Cut to Mario, who is still running from the mob]
Mario: Please tell me this is a dream! Please tell me! Dieing once is enough!
All three were temporarily separated; and while Mario was huffing the whole time to get away from that mob, Luigi and Mike were sneaking around trying to find each other. However the sneakiness wasn’t stealthy at all; as they were both caught.
[Mike’s situation]
Townsman: Those heretics escaped our grasp. Pay they will when we spot them!
*Footsteps are heard
Townsman 2: Hath you heard that? {They look down the alley}
Mike: Oh crap!
Townsman: And he is an unbearable man of foul language too! UNJUST ART THOU! THEE SHALT BE PUNISHED!
Mike ran down the alley and climbed over a back wall. The townsmen followed him. Unfortunately for Mike, he ran into a huge crowd who was fully aware of what was going on. He ran back, over the fence, seeing that the two men cornered him. He bowled them over with his shell shock move, and ran. He headed towards the crossroads of the town
[Luigi’s situation]
Luigi was in the wide open, and was lucky that no one was around when he ran to where he was. The streets were wide, and he caught a breath. Luigi was merely walking to the crossroads. He was the only one who wasn’t grasping gasps for his life. That is, until he bumped into a lone person walking about the street.
Person: Who art thou!
Luigi: Oh, just a traveler, I’ll…erm, be going now, you see?
Person: YOU?! Thee art one of three monsters! Thee art the green monster that hath cometh with three travelers of doom! HEAR YE! ONE OF THREE IS HERE!
Luigi: Oh crap!
Person: A swear! A vulgarity thou art! Thou shalt be punished for thy deeds of evil!
And Luigi ran for his life faster than he ever ran…
[Mario’s situation]
Poor Mario was running the entire time. Fortunately, he had great stamina and only five people were chasing him by this time. In his situation, he ran to the fair area that the tour guide has shown him.
Mob: Off with his head! Off with his head!
Mario: Your heads are loose enough to fall off!
Mob: Thee shouldeth giveth up and go stand in the attraction of dummies! Thou could stand still and maketh our axes easier!
Mario: I have no idea what you said but I’m running until you all drop-a!
Mario ran onto a table to avoid the small crowd, and since the table was long, the crowd tilted it over with Mario still on it. He got back up and ran into a medium sized circular tent with orange stripes on it. The mobsters ran into it with Mario, but it was part of a quick getaway plan Mario thought up of at the last minute. As the mobsters charge into the tent, Mario back flipped over them, ran out the exit, and then pulled a few tent spikes out of the ground. The tent collapsed and trapped the 5 people in it. They scrambled around under the cloth and by the time they escaped, Mario was gone, heading toward the crossroads.
[Mario, Luigi, and Mike are headed toward the crossroads, Mario on the east, Luigi on the west, and Mike in the north. Soon they run down them only to crash into each other]
All: nice of you to drop in.
[A few screams of the mobsters are heard in the distance]
Mike: We need to hide guys…..look, it is that ladder the house builder was using earlier! Up there!
[They climb up and knock the ladder down at the last second right before the townspeople come into the crossroad]
Mario: Okay, Mike, about that explanation about what the heck is going on here