Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2017 12:06:30 GMT -8
Hello, I have decided to write a fic, it's basically my version of Life Itself and it takes place in an alternate universe, so expect some changes here and there, the prologue is finished and I decided that everyone on this site should see it as this is the first time im probably doing fanfiction like this as I usually do simple forum posts or script fics. (Fic's in a screenplay format)
I will be posting more chapters of this fic and I might be even turning it into a series, about me leaving, I will come back to the site sometimes when I finally do leave, however the visits will be short because it will just be me posting a new chapter for this fic.
I hope you all enjoy it!
Prologue
"It was supposed to be a simple plan, and it would of worked, but unfortunately the plan was just a warning about things to come, things that will change me and my friends life's forever."
His face was in a small puddle of water, he was even surprised there was water here, in this barren wasteland, the man questioned why this plan of his was even a good idea, after an entire month through this grand adventure, it just had to end on a depressing note, his plan got a lot of people killed, people and creatures that didn't deserve to be killed by...Him, not even his enemies deserved to be hurt like this.
But in the end, he won, Tabuu, all because of his stupid plan, the man with the stupid plan in question, was called Mario, an Italian plumber, but I guess you already knew that.
Mario's plan was simple, gather all his allies and enter the portal to the land known as Subspace, an empty dimension that's been sucking in numerous homes and locations that Mario's friends lived in, at first, he along with a few others, thought this was the work of their enemies, but it was something far worse.
The group did successfully enter subspace, but what followed next, was bloodshed, Mario's face was still in the water, the only water in this place, he wondered how did someone like Tabuu even have water in his dimension, or even why he was doing this, he would never get these answers, because he knew, he was next, Mario screamed in the water, before hearing a scream above him, a familiar scream that once he heard it, his heart skipped a beat.
The screams of pain coming from a princess, his most cherished love, Peach Toadstool, she came with Mario to subspace, but when the battle against Tabuu started they separated and he couldn't find her anywhere, hearing her scream made Mario extremely worried.
Especially since he's in the middle of tons of fallen souls that are lying on the ground around him, lifeless, usually they would revert to trophies when they were near death and were given time to heal, but Tabuu wouldn't let this happen, and he succeeded thanks to the help of Mario, who's plan caused most of his allies, friends and loved ones to die at the hands of Tabuu.
Mario wanted to cry, but he knew he couldn't, not when Peach was as always in trouble, he got up and straightened his cap, once he did he called out as loud as he can. "PEACH, WERE ARE-AH YOU-AH?" Mario screamed, but no reply, he tried to run, but he could only limp, Tabuu hurt him earlier but thankfully he managed to escape, but at this rate, Mario isn't sure if he can deal with another attack from Tabuu.
The limp started to become too much for Mario once he walked around the haunting land for awhile, he eventually fell and looked up at the dark purple sky.
"M...Ario..." A familiar voice called out weakly to Mario, causing the mortally wounded plumber to turn above him, to see her...Peach Toadstool on the ground near him, her pink dress that Mario would see her wearing every day in tatters and blood slowly moving out of the scars coming from her hands, and that's not getting to her bruised, bloody and scar inducing face. "Peach-ah...I'm here," Mario called out weakly to the princess, he was having trouble finishing his sentence, as he coughed up blood while doing so, he began to crawl towards the princess.
Eventually the two would be close enough to try and grab each other's hands, Mario tried to reach for Peach's, who didn't try to do the same thing as it hurt for her, it did hurt for Mario, but he was trying to suppress it as best as he could he closed his eyes, wanting the pain to end, this war to end, everything, then he touched it, the soft hands of Peach, even if she was barely alive, her hands were the only things that were still clean, and not bloody, Mario looked up to Peach, with tears in his hands, smiling.
Peach did the same.
"Mario, i'm sorry we couldn't kill Tabuu, I just want you to know, whatever happens." Peach said softly to Mario despite the pain she's in. "What?" Mario said, fearing that if he spoke louder he would cough more blood, or it would cause him to appear.
"I love yo---"
(OST - Jigoku No Kiyou (Higurashi Matsuri))
What Mario heard next was the sound of a sword plunging into someone, who's blood splattered onto Mario's face as he watched in shock, Peach's body, who was stabbed in the head by a massive blue sword, Peach slowly tried to reach out for Mario as she moaned in pain, before the sword was removed from her hand, and her head limped to the ground, motionlessly like everyone else, Mario began to cry over the death of the princess...She was gone, like everyone else.
He gave up...But "He" didn't.
"Aww, did I kill your little damsel in distress?" Was what the voice told Mario, he sounded old and weak, but despite his voice, he was quite possibly the strongest being in the dimension now, and this being grabbed Mario by the back of his dark blue overalls and lifted the weak plumber off the ground, Mario slowly looked up.
To see Tabuu looking back at him, a grin filling his face as he placed the plumber onto his large blue hand. "You, monster-ah, why did you do this-ah, kill everyone...Kill her." Mario cried tearfully as Tabuu began to explain why he did what he did.
"Simple, I want to rule every universe and be the ultimate king of the worlds, even if it means I have to go as far as to kill everyone instead of reverting them into trophies, unlike what happens to everyone in your world, death here is permanent, once your dead bam! Your in the afterlife...Forever." Tabuu grinned before laughing soon after, Mario looked down at the corpses of his fallen comrades down below, before looking back up at Tabuu, finally showing signs of defeat.
"Ok, you win-ah Tabuu...Just make my death-ah quick." And just like that Mario closed his eyes, ready for Tabuu to strike his last fatal blow on him, but he didn't, Mario open's his eyes and looked back up at Tabuu, wondering why he was not putting him out of hi misery. "Why are you not going to kill me, do you just like the fact of keeping me alive-ah as long as possible?" Mario spat at Tabuu, however, the only saliva he spat out was blood which Tabuu didn't seem to notice.
"No, I think I like it if you be my companion in subspace with me, we'll be like brothers, but i'll be a better brother than Luigi," Tabuu smirked before moving his hand towards somewhere in subspace, Mario was scared, he wasn't this scared for his life for awhile now. "No, just kill me-ah, so I can be with all of my friends again!" Mario sounded very scared at this point, but Tabuu ignored him and eventually stopped and pushed Mario to the edge of his hand, so he can see what was below him.
A large pit with a dark purple liquid at the bottom, Mario grew sickly at the liquid, especially when the smell reached him, it was stinky, the same kind of stink you would smell from a corpse, there was also, voices coming from the pit.
"Help us..."
"I miss my mommy."
"Run..."
Dark looking hands pulled themselves from the liquid, trying to escape and climb out the pit, but they can't. "What-ah!?" Mario said in confusion at the voices he heard, however, they soon vanished and were replaced with monstrous growling. "Aww look, your already showing signs of a loving pit, well don't listen to them Mario, join them." Tabuu began to shake his hand, intending for Mario to fall off his hand and into the pit, where the rest of Tabuu's victims were, Mario grabbed one of Tabuu's large fingers to try and hold on, but due to the pain, he soon let go...And fell towards the pit.
"Mario?"
Mario screamed as he fell into the pit.
"Mario, what are you doing?"
Into the liquid.
"Come on Mario, you do know what today is right?"
And was soon consumed by the liquid and hands that dragged Mario into his new prison...Or so it seems.
"MARIO!"
(OST - A Party at Peach's castle (Paper Mario))
Mario awoke somersaulting to the end of his bed, he was on top of a bunk bed with the initials "M" hammered at the end of it, meaning he owned this bed, he was also wearing pajamas and a nightcap as he breathed heavily, having just had a nightmare of his old foe Tabuu, who Mario, along with his friends who lived in different worlds, defeated a decade ago.
"Mamma mia, the third time this week." A voice coming from the unluckiest person in this world said, Mario began to look around, he moved to the side of the bed to look down and saw his brother Luigi, who was dizzy after suffering the wrath of Mario's somersault, Mario scratched his head and smiled in embarrassment. "Whoops, sorry Luigi-ah, just having one of my wacky dreams again!" Mario looked down at his brother before jumping down beside him to check on him, making an 8-bit jumping sound in the process.
"I hate-ah making that noise."
Unlike Mario, Luigi was Mario's unlucky brother and would wear clothes similar to him, as Mario loves the colour red, Luigi loves the colour green, so much so that he's currently wearing green overalls and a green cap with word "L" in the centre, Mario helped his brother up, who quickly shaken his head so he can focus some more on his brother.
"Ehh, it's ok, you are my brother after all and you do gymnastic type stuff all the time," Luigi said laughing awkwardly in the process as he poked two of his fingers. "May I ask, what were you dreaming about that made you somersault like that bro?" Luigi asked his brother.
"It was a nightmare-ah, unlike the last two dreams-ah I had, which involved Bowser & Count Bleck, this one involved Tabuu-ah, but unlike me defeat Bowser & Count Bleck, he won...And, and..." Mario had trouble finishing his dream, but Luigi hugged his older brother, wanting to let him know he's safe, especially when there living in a world such as the one there in now.
"Relax big bro, you're safe now, you helped everyone destroy Subspace and now it's gone along with Tabuu, it's almost been a decade since that happen, can't you believe that?" Luigi let go of his brother and walked towards a nearby window in his and Mario's bedroom.
"It's like it almost happened yesterday," Luigi remembered, Mario groaned but laughed soon after. "You always say that after every adventure we been to Luigi." Mario reminded Luigi, removing his nightcap before walking towards his drawer that was at the end of the room.
However before he could even open his drawer, a large knock was heard coming from the front door of Mario brother's house, usually, when someone comes to visit the Mario brothers house they would knock quietly, except for one person, or princess.
"HEY, HEY, HEY, ARE YOU TWO AWAKE YET?" A contralto sounding woman called out from behind the front door of the Mario Brother's house, Luigi gasped. "Oh no, it's Daisy!" He spoke out loud, Mario turned towards his brother. "Daisy, what is she doing here at the mushroom kingdom, I thought her and Peach weren't going to host there-ah princess convention until next week?" Mario said confused. "No, Mario don't you know what today is, it's the 100th anniversary of The Mushroom Kingdom's founding, you promise to meet Peach at the castle today, she's going to reenact the castles opening ceremony which includes someone cutting open a red ribbon, and the princess want's you to do it, Mario," Luigi explained today's event to Mario, who gasped in shock before opening his drawer to get his clothes of the day, he needed to get dressed quickly and be at the ceremony in time or else Peach will be disappointed, Mario didn't want to see Peach sad, especially on a special day like this.
Upon opening his drawer, Mario's clothes were just blue overalls, red shirts, red caps with the word "M" on the center and pairs of gloves, just as he likes it, he quickly grabbed his clothes and slammed his drawer shut before looking at something at the side of his room.
"Luigi, is it ok I use your alone-ah cellar to get dressed for today?" Mario asked Luigi who shrugged, Mario smiled. "Thanks!" He said to Luigi before running towards the cellar door and pulling it open, once he did he jumped into the dark cellar and closed it behind him.
The knock on the front door was getting louder than before, Luigi turned towards it from the bedroom and walked towards it. "Coming Daisy!" Luigi cheerfully skipped to Daisy from behind the door. "Ugh, finally, I was waiting forever!" Daisy said annoyed from behind the door, Luigi went to unlock it, but once he did, Daisy harshly and quickly pushed the door open, causing it to smash into Luigi's face and make him hit the wall near him while Daisy walked into the main room of the house, which was also the third and last room of the house, which served as the living area.
As for Daisy herself, she was a brunette who wears a yellow dress, unlike her friend Peach, Daisy was more into action stuff and was the type of princess that did not want to be rescued, she wanted to be the person that rescues people herself, but despite her harsh attitude, Daisy, now queen of Salsaland following her father's passing, does care for her friends, especially her boyfriend Luigi, who she turned towards and realised what she did.
"Oh, Luigi, i'm sorry, I didn't know you were there," Daisy said to Luigi running towards him to check on him, the only damage that was shown on Luigi's body was his swollen nose, which Luigi started to focus again he simply shrugged the injury Daisy accidentally gave him off. "Meh, just a regular boo boo," Luigi said to the princess, who proceeded to help her boyfriend up.
"Here champ, let me help you up." Daisy helped her boyfriend by grabbing onto his hand and helping him up from the ground, once Luigi was ok again Daisy spoke once more. "So, are you ready for the ceremony reenactment Peach is setting up, it's going to be great!" Daisy said excitingly.
"Of course I am, as long as there are no fireworks, me don't like fireworks," Luigi revealed. "Luigi. there's going to be tons of fireworks at the event." Daisy also revealed, which upon telling Luigi, he quickly ran back to his bed and hid under it, Daisy followed suit, annoyed, but she tried to reassure Luigi that nothing was going to go wrong.
"Luigi, look don't worry, the fireworks will not be out of control and start any fires, the only possible thing that can go wrong is if that stupid King Koopa appears and wrecks the event." Daisy comforted Luigi, however, just then the cellar door quickly opened in front of Daisy, causing her to yelp, until the person who opened the cellar was revealed to be Mario, now wearing his everyday clothes and holding his pajamas.
"Relax Princess Daisy, it is just me-ah!" Mario smiled at the princess he once dated, Daisy rubbed her head. "Oh, Mario, I didn't know you have a cellar," Daisy said to Mario, surprised that the brothers owned a cellar. "Luigi uses it a lot-ah." Mario explained, but Luigi moved out of his bed and threw a pillow at his brother, annoyed. "Mario, don't tell her that!" Luigi said to his brother, who walked out of the room. "Anyway, i'm going to see Peach-ah now, you two going to the-ah ceremony?" Mario asked Luigi and Daisy, placing his old clothes on the table of the room.
"Yes!" Daisy said cheerfully.
"No!" Luigi said, scared, the green plumber and princess simply stared at each other.
"Well, i'll see you two there." Mario waved at the two before opening the front door and leaving to head to the castle, only to reappear once more to get a pair of scissors to use at the ceremony, the scissors were found in one of the cabinets, Luigi and Daisy watched him leave, with Daisy hoping that she'll be able to reach the ceremony on time with Luigi.
Unknown to Mario, as he is walking down his porch and down the path towards Toad Town, the main town of the Mushroom Kingdom, someone was watching him, from the air on a small cloud using a small camera, it was a yellow turtle with glasses called Lakitu, who was spying on Mario. "It looks like the main star of the Mario show is going to the ceremony, I should let King Koopa know about this now!" Lakitu thought to himself as he controlled his cloud and moved into the air, as he continued to fly the white fluffy clouds eventually became darker and more sinister by appearance.
A few minutes later, he lowered himself into the dark cloud and found himself in front of a large castle in the shape of the head of his king, his admirer, the one that will lead him and other people of his species to freedom when he manages to overthrow that wretched Princess Toadstool.
King Bowser.
Lakitu flew to the gates, where two Koopa Troopers were guarding at, they soon saw the Lakitu and stepped in front of him, preventing him from going through the already locked gate. "Halt, state your purpose Lakitu!" One of the Koopa Trooper pointed a tall and pointy spear at the Lakitu. "I'm here to see the king, I have information about what's happening today in the Mushroom Kingdom that he must know, so he can ruin it." Lakitu explained, the two troopers sighed in response.
"Really, another event the Mushroom Kingdom's planning, Bowser's already busy as it is, I don't think he'll ruin it and capture Peach today." The first Koopa Trooper said, sounding annoyed, the other stood there, silent.
"But if you want to pester the king, be our guest." He said before pulling a lever beside him, opening the gate to the castle, the Lakitu flew past the two Troopers and into the castle in front of him.
"Just don't say we told you so."
(OST - Congratulations, Everybody! (Phoneix Wright: Ace Attorney))
"Daddy, I want more makeup!" The adopted daughter of Bowser's daughter, Wendy'O Koopa bugged her adopted father, who looked very worried at his daughter who already had a lot of makeup on her face already, hell she looks like a clown with the makeup she has. "Wendy Darling, don't you think you have enough makeup already, Daddy is trying all he can to get you these expensive cosmetics," Bowser explained to his daughter, who looked pissed off.
"Well if you're buying me makeup, then why can't you let me have cosmetic surgery!" Wendy cried angrily at her father, who bowed down to his daughter. "Sorry sweetie, your too young to have that kind of thing!" Bowser begged to his darling Wendy in her luxury room filled with stolen portraits of Peach and statues, then was when Bowser's biological son burst into the room, crying.
"PAPA, I SAW SOMETHING SCARY ON TV WHILE I WAS PLAYING MY GAME!" Bowser Jr cried, his father turned. "Junior, I told you not to play those kinds of games, I thought you would be ready to see these kinds of things when I turned off the parental lock," Bowser said to his son, however, Wendy was angry that Jr was stealing his attention. "Bug off Junior, he was talking to me first!" Wendy shrieked as she took out her wand and blast a spell at Junior, Bowser was about to tell his daughter off, when he heard his other eight children call out to him.
"Yes, hang on a minute, i'll be there in a minute Ludwig, Morton, hang on!"
"Uhh, your highness?" A goomba said besides the king, who turned towards him and looked down. "WHAT!" He screamed at the Goomba, his voice loud enough to send him flying into a wall nearby.
"A Lakitu has information about what's happening at the Mushroom Kingdom today!" The Goomba explained, Bowser face palmed. "Fine, tell him i'll be there in a minute." He said before walking down the hall to the rooms of his other children, Junior and Wendy were still in Wendy's room, looking down at their father leaving to help their siblings.
And then they turned towards the goomba, the two Koopa children smiled viciously at him.
"You're our new playdate!" Junior & Wendy said at the same time, the Goomba gulped.
An hour later
(OST - Quiet Burn (Fire Emblem Fates))
Bowser finally arrived at his throne room, and sat on his throne, looking troubled, but mischievous, he looked down at the tiny Lakitu below him. "So, you have information about what's happening in the mushroom kingdom," Bowser said as Lakitu nodded, he leaned down to the Koopa.
"Well, tell me, I don't have all day, or do I have to force you down my lava pit to get it out of you?" Bowser pressed on at Lakitu, who looked scared.
"No, Mario is going to the 100th anniversary of the Mushroom Kingdom, it was founded today a hundred years ago by the great queen of the Mushroom Kingdom, Pepper Toadstool, Mario was also seen carrying a pair of scissors, which means he's going to reenact the ribbon ceremony of the kingdom by cutting open a red ribbon in front of the kingdom with Peach watching," Lakitu explained, causing Bowser to gasp, and growl angrily.
"WHAT, WHERE'S MY RIBBON, WHERE'S PEACH KISSING MY MUSCULAR ARMS WHEN I CUT OPEN SAID RIBBON, I MARRIED HER AND THIS IS WHAT I GET!?" Bowser pouted angrily to the Lakitu, who pointed out a contradiction to him being married to Peach, "Didn't Peach file for a divorce after the Count Bleck incident?" Lakitu pointed out, Bowser responded by grabbing the Lakitu and throwing him out a nearby window, Lakitu screamed as Bowser slammed the window shut and locked it tight.
"Mario, today I will get Peach's attention, and besides...This is what she would have wanted, to see me cutting open the ribbon of the grand reopening of the Koopa Kingdom." Bowser thought to himself as he moved out of his throne and walked down the room. "The kids would want this, maybe they would stop complaining for once and admire how great a dad I am, they were always so well...With her, maybe them acting like what they are now is their way of coping with...Her gone." Bowser thought again, stopping and thinking...About his kids, his family.
His...His...
He shook his head and continued onward.
"Today is Bowser's day Mario, not yours...Or Toadstool's."
(OST - Toad Town (Paper Mario))
Mario meanwhile made it to Toad Town which was covered in banners and party streams for the Ceremony later today, Toad kids, regular Toads, and Toadettes were running around, preparing for parties or playing some games. Mario was about to head to Peach's castle to see her, however, the path he usually takes to see Peach was blocked off by a Toad Officer. "HALT!" He yelled to Mario, blowing a whistle in his face, Mario already stopped before the Toad Officer blew it.
"Ok, ok, you didn't have to blow-ah your whistle in my face!" Mario said to the Officer, who blew his whistle again, this time on purpose. "Do you want to serve jail time, and on this day, where Peach requested you to reenact the castle's founding?" Toad Officer warned, before pointing to what was behind him, which was a very large hole with yellow tape around it, preventing anyone from falling in it, unless there clumsy.
"Oh my, what happened over there, what's with that hole-ah?" Mario asked curiously. "Well if you must know, an earthquake struck this street and only this street sometime last night, we don't know how many people fell in here or where it leads to, but our toad's at the CSI department are doing their best to find out this mysterious hole." Toad Officer explained, Mario looked back at the hole...And noticed how similar it was.
"That hole...It looks like the one in my dream, with...Tabuu."
"You have a CSI department?"
The Toad Officer just blew the whistle in Mario's face once more for thinking the town can't afford a CSI team.
Mario grabbed his arm, looking uncomfortable, Toad Officer caught the gesture. "Uhh, I hope everything is ok?" Toad Officer questioned Mario, who nodded. "Aww yes-ah, i'm just going to take the alternate path to Peach's castle, it seem's i'm actually early to the ceremony," Mario said before turning around, Toad Officer blew his whistle again, causing Mario to turn back.
"Now what-ah?" Mario asked annoyed. "Don't talk that tone with me, just wishing you good day Mario!" Officer Toad said happily as Mario ran off, jumping happily as he took another path to Peach's castle.
Toad Officer turned back towards the hole. "Strange, did this hole get bigger?" He wondered.
Mario quickly found a ? block and used it to get a tanooki leaf. "Yippee, i'm lucky today-ah!" Mario said before grabbing the leaf and soon transformed into tanooki Mario, he quickly floated towards Peach's castle, landing in a row of flowers, Mario grabbed a bunch before running towards the front brown door of Peach's castle, looking up at the red tiles of Peach's roof and the stain glass window of the princess in the centre, Mario was glad that today was a special day for Peach and he was even more glad that she was still alive after the terrible nightmare he had.
"Ok Mario-ah, your just going to have tea with Peach-ah before the ceremony-ah, what will go wrong?"
Peach was sitting by a dresser in her pink room in the castle with a pink phone in front of her, she breathed heavily as she grabbed the top part of the phone and began dialling. "You're going to ask her to come and tell her how you feel." Peach thought to herself as continued to dial on her phone. "Today is a special day and Bowser isn't going to ruin it." She thought again as she almost finished dialling.
"Mario, Luigi, Daisy, Toadsworth...Rosalina will be there, even if two other people are not." Peach finished dialling and put the phone up to her left eye as it began dialling. "Hello?" The voice from the other side spoke, the voice was soft, and feminine, but low. "Hi, Rosalina, it's me Peach, or...You know, Peachy, as you like to call me?" Peach said to Rosalina, who laughed from the other line. "How are you doing Peachy, hey, isn't today the day of your kingdom's founding?" Rosalina said from the other line.
"Yes actually, I wanted to ask you something." Peach said to the girl as she tapped her fingers on the dresser.
"Yes?"
"Would you...Like to come with the ceremony, and see it, it would be great if you're here...With me, with us, I meant..."
"That sounds great Peachy, I would love to come."
Peach smiled.
"But I can't."
And then said smile turned into to a frown, Rosalina explained her reason.
"You see, I have this luma who's scared out of his mind, he saw something last night, so I have to stay and comfort him, and perhaps find out why he's scared, this is the first time in awhile I actually saw one of my lumas scared like this," Rosalina explained her reason for not coming to the ceremony, which just made Peach curious.
"Should we be worried, what if there's a new threat coming to bring harm in this world?" Peach worried. "Relax Peachy, i'll investigate it, you just go have fun with Daisy, Mario and co, we'll catch up in a few days, my luma probably saw something creepy, my guess being something from Bowser's kingdom." Rosalina jokingly said as she and Peach laughed on each side of their phones.
"Just, relax, and have fun, can you do that for me?" Rosalina asked Peach, who sighed heavily and soon sounded chipper. "You bet ya, Rosie, I did this a lot of times, yet I don't feel like i'm getting older, nor am I any close to being a queen." Peach said, Rosalina simply laughed.
"See ya Peachy, I need to go see my luma now."
"Yeah, goodbye."
Peach hung up and pushed the phone away, she put her head on the dresser, sighing to herself, and depressed that one of her close friends isn't coming to the ceremony, but Peach respected what Rosalina was doing, like her, Rosalina is doing her duties to look after her people or Lumas in this case.
"Princess?" A voice called out from behind Peach's door, she moved up and looked at the door, the voice was Toadsworth, her royal steward and a close friend who looked after her when...Her parents were not around.
"Oh, Toadsworth feel free to come in." Peach called out to the door, Toadsworth entered, holding a suitcase, making the princess curious as she moved away from the dresser and stood up from her chair. "What's that?" She asked her steward as he placed the suitcase on her pink bed. "It's a suitcase that came from someone from Keyhaul Key," Toadsworth told the princess, making Peach curious. "Keyhaul Key, I never been there since that vacation one time where Bowser kidnapped Mario, Luigi & Toad and I had to team up with Perry, I wonder what's he doing?" Peach wondered as the suitcase began to shake.
"Oh, my!" Toadsworth sounded shocked. "What's in there?" Peach wondered, Toadsworth just shrugged. "I'm not sure myself, but I must depart, Mario is also in front of the castle, with flowers," Toadsworth said, Peach simply giggled. "That silly Mario, i'll meet him in a minute, just as soon as I find out what's inside this suitcase, maybe it's a present from Perry?" Peach guessed as Toadsworth walked towards the door of Peach's room.
"Oh Princess, you have many friends," Toadsworth said Peach turned towards her steward. "But I have close ones, like you, I can't wait to see you at the ceremony with everyone else." Peach said Toadsworth nodded before leaving the room, Peach meanwhile turned back towards the suitcase and began to open it.
"Ok suitcase, whats inside you?"
Peach fully opened the suitcase, which upon doing so made her eyes widen.
"Oh my gosh."
(OST - The Star Festival (Super Mario Galaxy))
Mario stood in front of the castle, waiting for Peach, he got Toadsworth instead who said he was going to pass his appearance to Peach and that she'll meet him soon, which she soon did.
"Mario, how nice for you to come early before the ceremony!" Peach sounded happy, she was now standing by the door to the castle and looked down at the plumber. Mario showed the princess his flowers. "Here are some-ah flowers, I got some over there-ah for you," Mario revealed to the princess, Peach grabbed them and inspected the flowers, which had peach's growing out of them, the princess looked down at Mario and smiled.
"Peach flowers, there my favourite, it's not like I grow them in the front part of the castle or anything, that you removed." Peach snarked. "But thank you, Mario, please come in." Peach showed Mario the way into the castle, she closed the door behind her, still holding the flowers, she soon noticed the scissors Mario has.
"I'm guessing those pair of scissors will be used for the ceremony this afternoon?" Peach guessed, Mario happily turned towards the princess. "Exactly!" He said Peach smiled putting the flowers in a nearby pot. "Thanks again for doing this Mario, I offered for Rosalina to do it at first, but she said she was busy reading storeys of her youth to sick lumas, then when I offered her to come for the ceremony, she said she had to comfort a luma that saw something that made him freak out." Peach explained, Mario became curious.
"He was s---Lookout!" Two Toad guard walked in the middle of Mario and Peach, carrying a large glass statue of Peach. "Oh, that's going to the castles fountain for the ceremony today." Peach said to Mario, who looked back at the Princess. "Anyway, shouldn't we be worried-ah about the luma seeing what he saw?" Mario wondered. "Oh don't worry, Rosalina said she's going to handle it, besides I want to show you something, Mario." Peach said to Mario before grabbing his hand, Mario blushed and was lead up the stairs, through some halls, into Peach's room and through a door to a balcony.
The two could see the entire kingdom from Peach's balcony and both smiled Mario placed the scissors in his pockets in the front of his overalls. "When did you get this balcony-ah, it's got a nice view of the kingdom from here," Mario said, looking out in admiration. "Construction on it started last week, it was just finished today." Peach explained the short history of the balcony to her plumber friend. "Great-ah, now you can finally see Bowser whenever he appears in this kingdom, plus if you have a telescope you could see him sooner," Mario said Peach sighed. "My parent's would have loved to see the progress I did to the kingdom." Peach sounded sad, she placed her hands in the middle of her dress and walked back into her room to sit on her bed, Mario followed suit.
"How is your search, for-ah the king, and queen?" Mario asked, rubbing the back of his head. "If you don't mind me asking," Mario asked, slightly nervous as to what Peach's reaction will be, she just briefly laughed. "It's fine Mario, we just finished checking every island for them, as the last time I saw them they left on a boat." Peach said, looking determined. "However we didn't find them, but I believe there still out there somewhere, and i'm not giving up until I get some closure, I just hope there not dead, or in trouble, ugh I can't think about this today before the ceremony, I need to stay hopeful." Peach smiled, she soon stood up and made a punching formation with her fists.
"Let's start the ceremony by setting off the fireworks!"
(OST - Attack of the Airships (Super Mario Galaxy))
And just as Peach finished her recent sentence, a large explosion hit the balcony just near her and Mario, the blast hitting the door to Peach's room and breaking into pieces, Mario quickly grabbed Peach and pushed her and himself over the bed as the explosive blast hit the area the two were previously standing, leaving half of Peach's bed, her door and balcony in a state of ash and ruin, the two sat up from the other half of the bed, still pink and clean.
"You ok Princess?" Mario said to Peach, turning towards her. "I'm fine, but sadly not my bed." Peach said pointing to her half ruined bed. "Who would do such a terrible thing as to commit a terrorist act on the Mushroom Kingdom's founding?" Peach wondered sounding a bit angry, nobody would go this far, except for one, Mario just face palmed at Peach not quickly finding out the culprit behind her balcony blowing up and almost hurting her and Mario.
"I think I know who," Mario said to Peach before jumping over the bed and ran over to the door to the balcony, only there was no balcony now as whoever fired the explosive had destroyed it, said culprit is now flying on an airship in front of the castle, looking down at Mario, the culprit that is Bowser.
"Mario, what a surprise, you're hanging out with Peach instead of your underrated brother." Bowser taunted Mario with his relationships, Mario just raised his fists. "Bowser-ah, my brother-ah is currently with the princess of Salsaland, he'll be here soon to help me beat you up!" Mario said to the Koopa, who laughed. "I like to see him try, but you know why i'm here Mario, where is Peach so she can let me do the ceremony!" Bowser asked, Peach soon appeared, angry that Bowser blew up her balcony.
"I was going to invite you but since you blew up my balcony, i'm having second thoughts." Peach sounded bitter, Bowser shrugged. "Fine, i'll just blow up this kingdom by until you comply, you don't want to ruin the precise castle that your mom and dad spent years making, right princess?" Bowser said to Peach, who gasped, Mario grew angry. "That's it, time to get your comeuppance, Bowser!" Mario said, Bowser just shot cannonballs from the airship and towards the castle, Mario quickly jumped on them and kick them to different directions away from the castle, hitting toads, trees, and fountains, Mario eventually got up to the airship as Peach looked on.
"You can do it, Mario!" Peach said from the balcony door, supporting her friend as Mario turned back towards Bowser, who quickly shot fireballs from his mouth towards the plumber, he gasped. "I need a little pick me up!" Mario said to himself as he looked around for any powerups Bowser had in his ship.
"Sorry Mario, you won't be able to find power-ups here, just your fiery death!" Bowser boasts, Mario quickly dodged the fireballs which quickly bounced around the airship, soon sending it on fire. "Uh oh." Mario and Bowser both said in horror, the former quickly jumping down from the airship and into the flooded waters below the castle, once Mario landed he watched the airship go out of control.
"Yes!" Mario said to himself, before watching the airship crash into the castle, to Mario's horror. "NO!" Mario said in shock as pieces of debris coming from the airship and now flaming castle landed in the water near him, Mario proceeded to swim away until he got back to land, he soon ran into the front of the castle which was now consumed by fire.
"Peach, Toadsworth, where are you!?" Mario called out to the residents of the castle, however nobody replied, not even Bowser, who crashed into the castle, what if they were, Mario grabbed his chest, not wanting to think about that possibility, but it might be the reality of this situation, Mario tried to run into the burning castle but the flames prevented him from entering, he backed away, panicking, not even realise what was happening behind him.
Until his hat was suddenly blown into the fire, Mario turned...To see a dark purple cloud above Toad Town. "What-ah!?" Mario sounded worried as the cloud soon shot down purple lighting into the town, causing screaming of Toad's to be heard, an earthquake soon struck the area as Mario looked around, he turned to see cracks coming towards him and the burning castle, causing him to jump away and watch the cracks go under the castle.
Where they quickly opened up and started swallowing everything in the area, including the castle. "NO, PEACH, BOWSER, TOADSWORTH, GET OUT OF THERE!" Mario screamed as he ran towards the opened pit and reached out towards the falling castle, he couldn't reach it nor use any powerups to bring it back up, Mario was powerless to stop the castle from falling into the dark abyss below and watched it disappear with tears in his eyes.
"MARIO!" A familiar voice called out, Mario turned to see Luigi & Daisy run towards him, having caught wind of the earthquakes and the purple storm that had struck the area. "Are you ok, what happened to the castle?" Daisy asked Mario, sounding very worried, Mario pointed towards the pit, not saying anything as Luigi & Daisy turn towards it and gasp. "No..." Luigi said, in shock at what happened. "Peach!" Daisy said, worried about everyone that fell into the pit.
"It was on fire and I couldn't do anything, the next thing I knew, it was gone, the castle, Peach, Bowser & Toadsworth," Mario explained as he quickly got up and wiped his tears. "Bowser was here, but his castle is in trouble, along with Toad Town," Daisy revealed, realising something else. "My kingdom could be in trouble too." Daisy realised, Mario was confused. "What do you mean-ah?" Mario sounded confused. "Mario, this storm, and earthquake are affecting everywhere else, Keyhaul, Rougeport, even Bowser's castle, there making pits that are swallowing everything whole!" Luigi said scared, Mario turned towards the pit that swallowed up Peach's castle.
"I know-ah what I have to do," Mario said to himself as he ran towards the pit. "Mario wait!" Luigi called out as Daisy gasped, but it was too late, the plumbers brother and the princess of Salsaland watched as the plumber in red overalls jumped down into the pit, to see where it goes, this pit wasn't like any warp pipes or portals to a new land, but he would do anything for Peach or the ones he love.
Even risk his life.
"MARIO!" Luigi called out to Mario as he fell further into the pit and his brother's voice soon turned into an echo until he couldn't hear or see him or Daisy anymore, they were gone and he was alone...In this dark void, Mario felt like he was down in this void for hours on ends...Until he saw a bright light.
"What?" Mario sounded confused as the light quickly consumed soon, causing him to scream, the next thing Mario knew he fell in the hard harsh grounds of an unknown place, landing near a large tall tree in some woods, he quickly got up and looked around the dark woods, looking for the pit he came out of, but he didn't find it...Instead finding his hat, Mario picked up his hat, noticing it was unscratched despite flying into a burning castle.
Which was also missing.
"Peach...Anyone?"
(OST - Precious Hewie (Haunted Grounds))
I will be posting more chapters of this fic and I might be even turning it into a series, about me leaving, I will come back to the site sometimes when I finally do leave, however the visits will be short because it will just be me posting a new chapter for this fic.
I hope you all enjoy it!
Prologue
"It was supposed to be a simple plan, and it would of worked, but unfortunately the plan was just a warning about things to come, things that will change me and my friends life's forever."
His face was in a small puddle of water, he was even surprised there was water here, in this barren wasteland, the man questioned why this plan of his was even a good idea, after an entire month through this grand adventure, it just had to end on a depressing note, his plan got a lot of people killed, people and creatures that didn't deserve to be killed by...Him, not even his enemies deserved to be hurt like this.
But in the end, he won, Tabuu, all because of his stupid plan, the man with the stupid plan in question, was called Mario, an Italian plumber, but I guess you already knew that.
Mario's plan was simple, gather all his allies and enter the portal to the land known as Subspace, an empty dimension that's been sucking in numerous homes and locations that Mario's friends lived in, at first, he along with a few others, thought this was the work of their enemies, but it was something far worse.
The group did successfully enter subspace, but what followed next, was bloodshed, Mario's face was still in the water, the only water in this place, he wondered how did someone like Tabuu even have water in his dimension, or even why he was doing this, he would never get these answers, because he knew, he was next, Mario screamed in the water, before hearing a scream above him, a familiar scream that once he heard it, his heart skipped a beat.
The screams of pain coming from a princess, his most cherished love, Peach Toadstool, she came with Mario to subspace, but when the battle against Tabuu started they separated and he couldn't find her anywhere, hearing her scream made Mario extremely worried.
Especially since he's in the middle of tons of fallen souls that are lying on the ground around him, lifeless, usually they would revert to trophies when they were near death and were given time to heal, but Tabuu wouldn't let this happen, and he succeeded thanks to the help of Mario, who's plan caused most of his allies, friends and loved ones to die at the hands of Tabuu.
Mario wanted to cry, but he knew he couldn't, not when Peach was as always in trouble, he got up and straightened his cap, once he did he called out as loud as he can. "PEACH, WERE ARE-AH YOU-AH?" Mario screamed, but no reply, he tried to run, but he could only limp, Tabuu hurt him earlier but thankfully he managed to escape, but at this rate, Mario isn't sure if he can deal with another attack from Tabuu.
The limp started to become too much for Mario once he walked around the haunting land for awhile, he eventually fell and looked up at the dark purple sky.
"M...Ario..." A familiar voice called out weakly to Mario, causing the mortally wounded plumber to turn above him, to see her...Peach Toadstool on the ground near him, her pink dress that Mario would see her wearing every day in tatters and blood slowly moving out of the scars coming from her hands, and that's not getting to her bruised, bloody and scar inducing face. "Peach-ah...I'm here," Mario called out weakly to the princess, he was having trouble finishing his sentence, as he coughed up blood while doing so, he began to crawl towards the princess.
Eventually the two would be close enough to try and grab each other's hands, Mario tried to reach for Peach's, who didn't try to do the same thing as it hurt for her, it did hurt for Mario, but he was trying to suppress it as best as he could he closed his eyes, wanting the pain to end, this war to end, everything, then he touched it, the soft hands of Peach, even if she was barely alive, her hands were the only things that were still clean, and not bloody, Mario looked up to Peach, with tears in his hands, smiling.
Peach did the same.
"Mario, i'm sorry we couldn't kill Tabuu, I just want you to know, whatever happens." Peach said softly to Mario despite the pain she's in. "What?" Mario said, fearing that if he spoke louder he would cough more blood, or it would cause him to appear.
"I love yo---"
(OST - Jigoku No Kiyou (Higurashi Matsuri))
What Mario heard next was the sound of a sword plunging into someone, who's blood splattered onto Mario's face as he watched in shock, Peach's body, who was stabbed in the head by a massive blue sword, Peach slowly tried to reach out for Mario as she moaned in pain, before the sword was removed from her hand, and her head limped to the ground, motionlessly like everyone else, Mario began to cry over the death of the princess...She was gone, like everyone else.
He gave up...But "He" didn't.
"Aww, did I kill your little damsel in distress?" Was what the voice told Mario, he sounded old and weak, but despite his voice, he was quite possibly the strongest being in the dimension now, and this being grabbed Mario by the back of his dark blue overalls and lifted the weak plumber off the ground, Mario slowly looked up.
To see Tabuu looking back at him, a grin filling his face as he placed the plumber onto his large blue hand. "You, monster-ah, why did you do this-ah, kill everyone...Kill her." Mario cried tearfully as Tabuu began to explain why he did what he did.
"Simple, I want to rule every universe and be the ultimate king of the worlds, even if it means I have to go as far as to kill everyone instead of reverting them into trophies, unlike what happens to everyone in your world, death here is permanent, once your dead bam! Your in the afterlife...Forever." Tabuu grinned before laughing soon after, Mario looked down at the corpses of his fallen comrades down below, before looking back up at Tabuu, finally showing signs of defeat.
"Ok, you win-ah Tabuu...Just make my death-ah quick." And just like that Mario closed his eyes, ready for Tabuu to strike his last fatal blow on him, but he didn't, Mario open's his eyes and looked back up at Tabuu, wondering why he was not putting him out of hi misery. "Why are you not going to kill me, do you just like the fact of keeping me alive-ah as long as possible?" Mario spat at Tabuu, however, the only saliva he spat out was blood which Tabuu didn't seem to notice.
"No, I think I like it if you be my companion in subspace with me, we'll be like brothers, but i'll be a better brother than Luigi," Tabuu smirked before moving his hand towards somewhere in subspace, Mario was scared, he wasn't this scared for his life for awhile now. "No, just kill me-ah, so I can be with all of my friends again!" Mario sounded very scared at this point, but Tabuu ignored him and eventually stopped and pushed Mario to the edge of his hand, so he can see what was below him.
A large pit with a dark purple liquid at the bottom, Mario grew sickly at the liquid, especially when the smell reached him, it was stinky, the same kind of stink you would smell from a corpse, there was also, voices coming from the pit.
"Help us..."
"I miss my mommy."
"Run..."
Dark looking hands pulled themselves from the liquid, trying to escape and climb out the pit, but they can't. "What-ah!?" Mario said in confusion at the voices he heard, however, they soon vanished and were replaced with monstrous growling. "Aww look, your already showing signs of a loving pit, well don't listen to them Mario, join them." Tabuu began to shake his hand, intending for Mario to fall off his hand and into the pit, where the rest of Tabuu's victims were, Mario grabbed one of Tabuu's large fingers to try and hold on, but due to the pain, he soon let go...And fell towards the pit.
"Mario?"
Mario screamed as he fell into the pit.
"Mario, what are you doing?"
Into the liquid.
"Come on Mario, you do know what today is right?"
And was soon consumed by the liquid and hands that dragged Mario into his new prison...Or so it seems.
"MARIO!"
(OST - A Party at Peach's castle (Paper Mario))
Mario awoke somersaulting to the end of his bed, he was on top of a bunk bed with the initials "M" hammered at the end of it, meaning he owned this bed, he was also wearing pajamas and a nightcap as he breathed heavily, having just had a nightmare of his old foe Tabuu, who Mario, along with his friends who lived in different worlds, defeated a decade ago.
"Mamma mia, the third time this week." A voice coming from the unluckiest person in this world said, Mario began to look around, he moved to the side of the bed to look down and saw his brother Luigi, who was dizzy after suffering the wrath of Mario's somersault, Mario scratched his head and smiled in embarrassment. "Whoops, sorry Luigi-ah, just having one of my wacky dreams again!" Mario looked down at his brother before jumping down beside him to check on him, making an 8-bit jumping sound in the process.
"I hate-ah making that noise."
Unlike Mario, Luigi was Mario's unlucky brother and would wear clothes similar to him, as Mario loves the colour red, Luigi loves the colour green, so much so that he's currently wearing green overalls and a green cap with word "L" in the centre, Mario helped his brother up, who quickly shaken his head so he can focus some more on his brother.
"Ehh, it's ok, you are my brother after all and you do gymnastic type stuff all the time," Luigi said laughing awkwardly in the process as he poked two of his fingers. "May I ask, what were you dreaming about that made you somersault like that bro?" Luigi asked his brother.
"It was a nightmare-ah, unlike the last two dreams-ah I had, which involved Bowser & Count Bleck, this one involved Tabuu-ah, but unlike me defeat Bowser & Count Bleck, he won...And, and..." Mario had trouble finishing his dream, but Luigi hugged his older brother, wanting to let him know he's safe, especially when there living in a world such as the one there in now.
"Relax big bro, you're safe now, you helped everyone destroy Subspace and now it's gone along with Tabuu, it's almost been a decade since that happen, can't you believe that?" Luigi let go of his brother and walked towards a nearby window in his and Mario's bedroom.
"It's like it almost happened yesterday," Luigi remembered, Mario groaned but laughed soon after. "You always say that after every adventure we been to Luigi." Mario reminded Luigi, removing his nightcap before walking towards his drawer that was at the end of the room.
However before he could even open his drawer, a large knock was heard coming from the front door of Mario brother's house, usually, when someone comes to visit the Mario brothers house they would knock quietly, except for one person, or princess.
"HEY, HEY, HEY, ARE YOU TWO AWAKE YET?" A contralto sounding woman called out from behind the front door of the Mario Brother's house, Luigi gasped. "Oh no, it's Daisy!" He spoke out loud, Mario turned towards his brother. "Daisy, what is she doing here at the mushroom kingdom, I thought her and Peach weren't going to host there-ah princess convention until next week?" Mario said confused. "No, Mario don't you know what today is, it's the 100th anniversary of The Mushroom Kingdom's founding, you promise to meet Peach at the castle today, she's going to reenact the castles opening ceremony which includes someone cutting open a red ribbon, and the princess want's you to do it, Mario," Luigi explained today's event to Mario, who gasped in shock before opening his drawer to get his clothes of the day, he needed to get dressed quickly and be at the ceremony in time or else Peach will be disappointed, Mario didn't want to see Peach sad, especially on a special day like this.
Upon opening his drawer, Mario's clothes were just blue overalls, red shirts, red caps with the word "M" on the center and pairs of gloves, just as he likes it, he quickly grabbed his clothes and slammed his drawer shut before looking at something at the side of his room.
"Luigi, is it ok I use your alone-ah cellar to get dressed for today?" Mario asked Luigi who shrugged, Mario smiled. "Thanks!" He said to Luigi before running towards the cellar door and pulling it open, once he did he jumped into the dark cellar and closed it behind him.
The knock on the front door was getting louder than before, Luigi turned towards it from the bedroom and walked towards it. "Coming Daisy!" Luigi cheerfully skipped to Daisy from behind the door. "Ugh, finally, I was waiting forever!" Daisy said annoyed from behind the door, Luigi went to unlock it, but once he did, Daisy harshly and quickly pushed the door open, causing it to smash into Luigi's face and make him hit the wall near him while Daisy walked into the main room of the house, which was also the third and last room of the house, which served as the living area.
As for Daisy herself, she was a brunette who wears a yellow dress, unlike her friend Peach, Daisy was more into action stuff and was the type of princess that did not want to be rescued, she wanted to be the person that rescues people herself, but despite her harsh attitude, Daisy, now queen of Salsaland following her father's passing, does care for her friends, especially her boyfriend Luigi, who she turned towards and realised what she did.
"Oh, Luigi, i'm sorry, I didn't know you were there," Daisy said to Luigi running towards him to check on him, the only damage that was shown on Luigi's body was his swollen nose, which Luigi started to focus again he simply shrugged the injury Daisy accidentally gave him off. "Meh, just a regular boo boo," Luigi said to the princess, who proceeded to help her boyfriend up.
"Here champ, let me help you up." Daisy helped her boyfriend by grabbing onto his hand and helping him up from the ground, once Luigi was ok again Daisy spoke once more. "So, are you ready for the ceremony reenactment Peach is setting up, it's going to be great!" Daisy said excitingly.
"Of course I am, as long as there are no fireworks, me don't like fireworks," Luigi revealed. "Luigi. there's going to be tons of fireworks at the event." Daisy also revealed, which upon telling Luigi, he quickly ran back to his bed and hid under it, Daisy followed suit, annoyed, but she tried to reassure Luigi that nothing was going to go wrong.
"Luigi, look don't worry, the fireworks will not be out of control and start any fires, the only possible thing that can go wrong is if that stupid King Koopa appears and wrecks the event." Daisy comforted Luigi, however, just then the cellar door quickly opened in front of Daisy, causing her to yelp, until the person who opened the cellar was revealed to be Mario, now wearing his everyday clothes and holding his pajamas.
"Relax Princess Daisy, it is just me-ah!" Mario smiled at the princess he once dated, Daisy rubbed her head. "Oh, Mario, I didn't know you have a cellar," Daisy said to Mario, surprised that the brothers owned a cellar. "Luigi uses it a lot-ah." Mario explained, but Luigi moved out of his bed and threw a pillow at his brother, annoyed. "Mario, don't tell her that!" Luigi said to his brother, who walked out of the room. "Anyway, i'm going to see Peach-ah now, you two going to the-ah ceremony?" Mario asked Luigi and Daisy, placing his old clothes on the table of the room.
"Yes!" Daisy said cheerfully.
"No!" Luigi said, scared, the green plumber and princess simply stared at each other.
"Well, i'll see you two there." Mario waved at the two before opening the front door and leaving to head to the castle, only to reappear once more to get a pair of scissors to use at the ceremony, the scissors were found in one of the cabinets, Luigi and Daisy watched him leave, with Daisy hoping that she'll be able to reach the ceremony on time with Luigi.
Unknown to Mario, as he is walking down his porch and down the path towards Toad Town, the main town of the Mushroom Kingdom, someone was watching him, from the air on a small cloud using a small camera, it was a yellow turtle with glasses called Lakitu, who was spying on Mario. "It looks like the main star of the Mario show is going to the ceremony, I should let King Koopa know about this now!" Lakitu thought to himself as he controlled his cloud and moved into the air, as he continued to fly the white fluffy clouds eventually became darker and more sinister by appearance.
A few minutes later, he lowered himself into the dark cloud and found himself in front of a large castle in the shape of the head of his king, his admirer, the one that will lead him and other people of his species to freedom when he manages to overthrow that wretched Princess Toadstool.
King Bowser.
Lakitu flew to the gates, where two Koopa Troopers were guarding at, they soon saw the Lakitu and stepped in front of him, preventing him from going through the already locked gate. "Halt, state your purpose Lakitu!" One of the Koopa Trooper pointed a tall and pointy spear at the Lakitu. "I'm here to see the king, I have information about what's happening today in the Mushroom Kingdom that he must know, so he can ruin it." Lakitu explained, the two troopers sighed in response.
"Really, another event the Mushroom Kingdom's planning, Bowser's already busy as it is, I don't think he'll ruin it and capture Peach today." The first Koopa Trooper said, sounding annoyed, the other stood there, silent.
"But if you want to pester the king, be our guest." He said before pulling a lever beside him, opening the gate to the castle, the Lakitu flew past the two Troopers and into the castle in front of him.
"Just don't say we told you so."
(OST - Congratulations, Everybody! (Phoneix Wright: Ace Attorney))
"Daddy, I want more makeup!" The adopted daughter of Bowser's daughter, Wendy'O Koopa bugged her adopted father, who looked very worried at his daughter who already had a lot of makeup on her face already, hell she looks like a clown with the makeup she has. "Wendy Darling, don't you think you have enough makeup already, Daddy is trying all he can to get you these expensive cosmetics," Bowser explained to his daughter, who looked pissed off.
"Well if you're buying me makeup, then why can't you let me have cosmetic surgery!" Wendy cried angrily at her father, who bowed down to his daughter. "Sorry sweetie, your too young to have that kind of thing!" Bowser begged to his darling Wendy in her luxury room filled with stolen portraits of Peach and statues, then was when Bowser's biological son burst into the room, crying.
"PAPA, I SAW SOMETHING SCARY ON TV WHILE I WAS PLAYING MY GAME!" Bowser Jr cried, his father turned. "Junior, I told you not to play those kinds of games, I thought you would be ready to see these kinds of things when I turned off the parental lock," Bowser said to his son, however, Wendy was angry that Jr was stealing his attention. "Bug off Junior, he was talking to me first!" Wendy shrieked as she took out her wand and blast a spell at Junior, Bowser was about to tell his daughter off, when he heard his other eight children call out to him.
"Yes, hang on a minute, i'll be there in a minute Ludwig, Morton, hang on!"
"Uhh, your highness?" A goomba said besides the king, who turned towards him and looked down. "WHAT!" He screamed at the Goomba, his voice loud enough to send him flying into a wall nearby.
"A Lakitu has information about what's happening at the Mushroom Kingdom today!" The Goomba explained, Bowser face palmed. "Fine, tell him i'll be there in a minute." He said before walking down the hall to the rooms of his other children, Junior and Wendy were still in Wendy's room, looking down at their father leaving to help their siblings.
And then they turned towards the goomba, the two Koopa children smiled viciously at him.
"You're our new playdate!" Junior & Wendy said at the same time, the Goomba gulped.
An hour later
(OST - Quiet Burn (Fire Emblem Fates))
Bowser finally arrived at his throne room, and sat on his throne, looking troubled, but mischievous, he looked down at the tiny Lakitu below him. "So, you have information about what's happening in the mushroom kingdom," Bowser said as Lakitu nodded, he leaned down to the Koopa.
"Well, tell me, I don't have all day, or do I have to force you down my lava pit to get it out of you?" Bowser pressed on at Lakitu, who looked scared.
"No, Mario is going to the 100th anniversary of the Mushroom Kingdom, it was founded today a hundred years ago by the great queen of the Mushroom Kingdom, Pepper Toadstool, Mario was also seen carrying a pair of scissors, which means he's going to reenact the ribbon ceremony of the kingdom by cutting open a red ribbon in front of the kingdom with Peach watching," Lakitu explained, causing Bowser to gasp, and growl angrily.
"WHAT, WHERE'S MY RIBBON, WHERE'S PEACH KISSING MY MUSCULAR ARMS WHEN I CUT OPEN SAID RIBBON, I MARRIED HER AND THIS IS WHAT I GET!?" Bowser pouted angrily to the Lakitu, who pointed out a contradiction to him being married to Peach, "Didn't Peach file for a divorce after the Count Bleck incident?" Lakitu pointed out, Bowser responded by grabbing the Lakitu and throwing him out a nearby window, Lakitu screamed as Bowser slammed the window shut and locked it tight.
"Mario, today I will get Peach's attention, and besides...This is what she would have wanted, to see me cutting open the ribbon of the grand reopening of the Koopa Kingdom." Bowser thought to himself as he moved out of his throne and walked down the room. "The kids would want this, maybe they would stop complaining for once and admire how great a dad I am, they were always so well...With her, maybe them acting like what they are now is their way of coping with...Her gone." Bowser thought again, stopping and thinking...About his kids, his family.
His...His...
He shook his head and continued onward.
"Today is Bowser's day Mario, not yours...Or Toadstool's."
(OST - Toad Town (Paper Mario))
Mario meanwhile made it to Toad Town which was covered in banners and party streams for the Ceremony later today, Toad kids, regular Toads, and Toadettes were running around, preparing for parties or playing some games. Mario was about to head to Peach's castle to see her, however, the path he usually takes to see Peach was blocked off by a Toad Officer. "HALT!" He yelled to Mario, blowing a whistle in his face, Mario already stopped before the Toad Officer blew it.
"Ok, ok, you didn't have to blow-ah your whistle in my face!" Mario said to the Officer, who blew his whistle again, this time on purpose. "Do you want to serve jail time, and on this day, where Peach requested you to reenact the castle's founding?" Toad Officer warned, before pointing to what was behind him, which was a very large hole with yellow tape around it, preventing anyone from falling in it, unless there clumsy.
"Oh my, what happened over there, what's with that hole-ah?" Mario asked curiously. "Well if you must know, an earthquake struck this street and only this street sometime last night, we don't know how many people fell in here or where it leads to, but our toad's at the CSI department are doing their best to find out this mysterious hole." Toad Officer explained, Mario looked back at the hole...And noticed how similar it was.
"That hole...It looks like the one in my dream, with...Tabuu."
"You have a CSI department?"
The Toad Officer just blew the whistle in Mario's face once more for thinking the town can't afford a CSI team.
Mario grabbed his arm, looking uncomfortable, Toad Officer caught the gesture. "Uhh, I hope everything is ok?" Toad Officer questioned Mario, who nodded. "Aww yes-ah, i'm just going to take the alternate path to Peach's castle, it seem's i'm actually early to the ceremony," Mario said before turning around, Toad Officer blew his whistle again, causing Mario to turn back.
"Now what-ah?" Mario asked annoyed. "Don't talk that tone with me, just wishing you good day Mario!" Officer Toad said happily as Mario ran off, jumping happily as he took another path to Peach's castle.
Toad Officer turned back towards the hole. "Strange, did this hole get bigger?" He wondered.
Mario quickly found a ? block and used it to get a tanooki leaf. "Yippee, i'm lucky today-ah!" Mario said before grabbing the leaf and soon transformed into tanooki Mario, he quickly floated towards Peach's castle, landing in a row of flowers, Mario grabbed a bunch before running towards the front brown door of Peach's castle, looking up at the red tiles of Peach's roof and the stain glass window of the princess in the centre, Mario was glad that today was a special day for Peach and he was even more glad that she was still alive after the terrible nightmare he had.
"Ok Mario-ah, your just going to have tea with Peach-ah before the ceremony-ah, what will go wrong?"
Peach was sitting by a dresser in her pink room in the castle with a pink phone in front of her, she breathed heavily as she grabbed the top part of the phone and began dialling. "You're going to ask her to come and tell her how you feel." Peach thought to herself as continued to dial on her phone. "Today is a special day and Bowser isn't going to ruin it." She thought again as she almost finished dialling.
"Mario, Luigi, Daisy, Toadsworth...Rosalina will be there, even if two other people are not." Peach finished dialling and put the phone up to her left eye as it began dialling. "Hello?" The voice from the other side spoke, the voice was soft, and feminine, but low. "Hi, Rosalina, it's me Peach, or...You know, Peachy, as you like to call me?" Peach said to Rosalina, who laughed from the other line. "How are you doing Peachy, hey, isn't today the day of your kingdom's founding?" Rosalina said from the other line.
"Yes actually, I wanted to ask you something." Peach said to the girl as she tapped her fingers on the dresser.
"Yes?"
"Would you...Like to come with the ceremony, and see it, it would be great if you're here...With me, with us, I meant..."
"That sounds great Peachy, I would love to come."
Peach smiled.
"But I can't."
And then said smile turned into to a frown, Rosalina explained her reason.
"You see, I have this luma who's scared out of his mind, he saw something last night, so I have to stay and comfort him, and perhaps find out why he's scared, this is the first time in awhile I actually saw one of my lumas scared like this," Rosalina explained her reason for not coming to the ceremony, which just made Peach curious.
"Should we be worried, what if there's a new threat coming to bring harm in this world?" Peach worried. "Relax Peachy, i'll investigate it, you just go have fun with Daisy, Mario and co, we'll catch up in a few days, my luma probably saw something creepy, my guess being something from Bowser's kingdom." Rosalina jokingly said as she and Peach laughed on each side of their phones.
"Just, relax, and have fun, can you do that for me?" Rosalina asked Peach, who sighed heavily and soon sounded chipper. "You bet ya, Rosie, I did this a lot of times, yet I don't feel like i'm getting older, nor am I any close to being a queen." Peach said, Rosalina simply laughed.
"See ya Peachy, I need to go see my luma now."
"Yeah, goodbye."
Peach hung up and pushed the phone away, she put her head on the dresser, sighing to herself, and depressed that one of her close friends isn't coming to the ceremony, but Peach respected what Rosalina was doing, like her, Rosalina is doing her duties to look after her people or Lumas in this case.
"Princess?" A voice called out from behind Peach's door, she moved up and looked at the door, the voice was Toadsworth, her royal steward and a close friend who looked after her when...Her parents were not around.
"Oh, Toadsworth feel free to come in." Peach called out to the door, Toadsworth entered, holding a suitcase, making the princess curious as she moved away from the dresser and stood up from her chair. "What's that?" She asked her steward as he placed the suitcase on her pink bed. "It's a suitcase that came from someone from Keyhaul Key," Toadsworth told the princess, making Peach curious. "Keyhaul Key, I never been there since that vacation one time where Bowser kidnapped Mario, Luigi & Toad and I had to team up with Perry, I wonder what's he doing?" Peach wondered as the suitcase began to shake.
"Oh, my!" Toadsworth sounded shocked. "What's in there?" Peach wondered, Toadsworth just shrugged. "I'm not sure myself, but I must depart, Mario is also in front of the castle, with flowers," Toadsworth said, Peach simply giggled. "That silly Mario, i'll meet him in a minute, just as soon as I find out what's inside this suitcase, maybe it's a present from Perry?" Peach guessed as Toadsworth walked towards the door of Peach's room.
"Oh Princess, you have many friends," Toadsworth said Peach turned towards her steward. "But I have close ones, like you, I can't wait to see you at the ceremony with everyone else." Peach said Toadsworth nodded before leaving the room, Peach meanwhile turned back towards the suitcase and began to open it.
"Ok suitcase, whats inside you?"
Peach fully opened the suitcase, which upon doing so made her eyes widen.
"Oh my gosh."
(OST - The Star Festival (Super Mario Galaxy))
Mario stood in front of the castle, waiting for Peach, he got Toadsworth instead who said he was going to pass his appearance to Peach and that she'll meet him soon, which she soon did.
"Mario, how nice for you to come early before the ceremony!" Peach sounded happy, she was now standing by the door to the castle and looked down at the plumber. Mario showed the princess his flowers. "Here are some-ah flowers, I got some over there-ah for you," Mario revealed to the princess, Peach grabbed them and inspected the flowers, which had peach's growing out of them, the princess looked down at Mario and smiled.
"Peach flowers, there my favourite, it's not like I grow them in the front part of the castle or anything, that you removed." Peach snarked. "But thank you, Mario, please come in." Peach showed Mario the way into the castle, she closed the door behind her, still holding the flowers, she soon noticed the scissors Mario has.
"I'm guessing those pair of scissors will be used for the ceremony this afternoon?" Peach guessed, Mario happily turned towards the princess. "Exactly!" He said Peach smiled putting the flowers in a nearby pot. "Thanks again for doing this Mario, I offered for Rosalina to do it at first, but she said she was busy reading storeys of her youth to sick lumas, then when I offered her to come for the ceremony, she said she had to comfort a luma that saw something that made him freak out." Peach explained, Mario became curious.
"He was s---Lookout!" Two Toad guard walked in the middle of Mario and Peach, carrying a large glass statue of Peach. "Oh, that's going to the castles fountain for the ceremony today." Peach said to Mario, who looked back at the Princess. "Anyway, shouldn't we be worried-ah about the luma seeing what he saw?" Mario wondered. "Oh don't worry, Rosalina said she's going to handle it, besides I want to show you something, Mario." Peach said to Mario before grabbing his hand, Mario blushed and was lead up the stairs, through some halls, into Peach's room and through a door to a balcony.
The two could see the entire kingdom from Peach's balcony and both smiled Mario placed the scissors in his pockets in the front of his overalls. "When did you get this balcony-ah, it's got a nice view of the kingdom from here," Mario said, looking out in admiration. "Construction on it started last week, it was just finished today." Peach explained the short history of the balcony to her plumber friend. "Great-ah, now you can finally see Bowser whenever he appears in this kingdom, plus if you have a telescope you could see him sooner," Mario said Peach sighed. "My parent's would have loved to see the progress I did to the kingdom." Peach sounded sad, she placed her hands in the middle of her dress and walked back into her room to sit on her bed, Mario followed suit.
"How is your search, for-ah the king, and queen?" Mario asked, rubbing the back of his head. "If you don't mind me asking," Mario asked, slightly nervous as to what Peach's reaction will be, she just briefly laughed. "It's fine Mario, we just finished checking every island for them, as the last time I saw them they left on a boat." Peach said, looking determined. "However we didn't find them, but I believe there still out there somewhere, and i'm not giving up until I get some closure, I just hope there not dead, or in trouble, ugh I can't think about this today before the ceremony, I need to stay hopeful." Peach smiled, she soon stood up and made a punching formation with her fists.
"Let's start the ceremony by setting off the fireworks!"
(OST - Attack of the Airships (Super Mario Galaxy))
And just as Peach finished her recent sentence, a large explosion hit the balcony just near her and Mario, the blast hitting the door to Peach's room and breaking into pieces, Mario quickly grabbed Peach and pushed her and himself over the bed as the explosive blast hit the area the two were previously standing, leaving half of Peach's bed, her door and balcony in a state of ash and ruin, the two sat up from the other half of the bed, still pink and clean.
"You ok Princess?" Mario said to Peach, turning towards her. "I'm fine, but sadly not my bed." Peach said pointing to her half ruined bed. "Who would do such a terrible thing as to commit a terrorist act on the Mushroom Kingdom's founding?" Peach wondered sounding a bit angry, nobody would go this far, except for one, Mario just face palmed at Peach not quickly finding out the culprit behind her balcony blowing up and almost hurting her and Mario.
"I think I know who," Mario said to Peach before jumping over the bed and ran over to the door to the balcony, only there was no balcony now as whoever fired the explosive had destroyed it, said culprit is now flying on an airship in front of the castle, looking down at Mario, the culprit that is Bowser.
"Mario, what a surprise, you're hanging out with Peach instead of your underrated brother." Bowser taunted Mario with his relationships, Mario just raised his fists. "Bowser-ah, my brother-ah is currently with the princess of Salsaland, he'll be here soon to help me beat you up!" Mario said to the Koopa, who laughed. "I like to see him try, but you know why i'm here Mario, where is Peach so she can let me do the ceremony!" Bowser asked, Peach soon appeared, angry that Bowser blew up her balcony.
"I was going to invite you but since you blew up my balcony, i'm having second thoughts." Peach sounded bitter, Bowser shrugged. "Fine, i'll just blow up this kingdom by until you comply, you don't want to ruin the precise castle that your mom and dad spent years making, right princess?" Bowser said to Peach, who gasped, Mario grew angry. "That's it, time to get your comeuppance, Bowser!" Mario said, Bowser just shot cannonballs from the airship and towards the castle, Mario quickly jumped on them and kick them to different directions away from the castle, hitting toads, trees, and fountains, Mario eventually got up to the airship as Peach looked on.
"You can do it, Mario!" Peach said from the balcony door, supporting her friend as Mario turned back towards Bowser, who quickly shot fireballs from his mouth towards the plumber, he gasped. "I need a little pick me up!" Mario said to himself as he looked around for any powerups Bowser had in his ship.
"Sorry Mario, you won't be able to find power-ups here, just your fiery death!" Bowser boasts, Mario quickly dodged the fireballs which quickly bounced around the airship, soon sending it on fire. "Uh oh." Mario and Bowser both said in horror, the former quickly jumping down from the airship and into the flooded waters below the castle, once Mario landed he watched the airship go out of control.
"Yes!" Mario said to himself, before watching the airship crash into the castle, to Mario's horror. "NO!" Mario said in shock as pieces of debris coming from the airship and now flaming castle landed in the water near him, Mario proceeded to swim away until he got back to land, he soon ran into the front of the castle which was now consumed by fire.
"Peach, Toadsworth, where are you!?" Mario called out to the residents of the castle, however nobody replied, not even Bowser, who crashed into the castle, what if they were, Mario grabbed his chest, not wanting to think about that possibility, but it might be the reality of this situation, Mario tried to run into the burning castle but the flames prevented him from entering, he backed away, panicking, not even realise what was happening behind him.
Until his hat was suddenly blown into the fire, Mario turned...To see a dark purple cloud above Toad Town. "What-ah!?" Mario sounded worried as the cloud soon shot down purple lighting into the town, causing screaming of Toad's to be heard, an earthquake soon struck the area as Mario looked around, he turned to see cracks coming towards him and the burning castle, causing him to jump away and watch the cracks go under the castle.
Where they quickly opened up and started swallowing everything in the area, including the castle. "NO, PEACH, BOWSER, TOADSWORTH, GET OUT OF THERE!" Mario screamed as he ran towards the opened pit and reached out towards the falling castle, he couldn't reach it nor use any powerups to bring it back up, Mario was powerless to stop the castle from falling into the dark abyss below and watched it disappear with tears in his eyes.
"MARIO!" A familiar voice called out, Mario turned to see Luigi & Daisy run towards him, having caught wind of the earthquakes and the purple storm that had struck the area. "Are you ok, what happened to the castle?" Daisy asked Mario, sounding very worried, Mario pointed towards the pit, not saying anything as Luigi & Daisy turn towards it and gasp. "No..." Luigi said, in shock at what happened. "Peach!" Daisy said, worried about everyone that fell into the pit.
"It was on fire and I couldn't do anything, the next thing I knew, it was gone, the castle, Peach, Bowser & Toadsworth," Mario explained as he quickly got up and wiped his tears. "Bowser was here, but his castle is in trouble, along with Toad Town," Daisy revealed, realising something else. "My kingdom could be in trouble too." Daisy realised, Mario was confused. "What do you mean-ah?" Mario sounded confused. "Mario, this storm, and earthquake are affecting everywhere else, Keyhaul, Rougeport, even Bowser's castle, there making pits that are swallowing everything whole!" Luigi said scared, Mario turned towards the pit that swallowed up Peach's castle.
"I know-ah what I have to do," Mario said to himself as he ran towards the pit. "Mario wait!" Luigi called out as Daisy gasped, but it was too late, the plumbers brother and the princess of Salsaland watched as the plumber in red overalls jumped down into the pit, to see where it goes, this pit wasn't like any warp pipes or portals to a new land, but he would do anything for Peach or the ones he love.
Even risk his life.
"MARIO!" Luigi called out to Mario as he fell further into the pit and his brother's voice soon turned into an echo until he couldn't hear or see him or Daisy anymore, they were gone and he was alone...In this dark void, Mario felt like he was down in this void for hours on ends...Until he saw a bright light.
"What?" Mario sounded confused as the light quickly consumed soon, causing him to scream, the next thing Mario knew he fell in the hard harsh grounds of an unknown place, landing near a large tall tree in some woods, he quickly got up and looked around the dark woods, looking for the pit he came out of, but he didn't find it...Instead finding his hat, Mario picked up his hat, noticing it was unscratched despite flying into a burning castle.
Which was also missing.
"Peach...Anyone?"
(OST - Precious Hewie (Haunted Grounds))
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