Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Mario characters, Nintendo does.
New Kingdoms
Chapter 1: A New Purpose
Luigi strolled along the streets of the Mushroom Kingdom looking for a present for Mario's birthday in a few days time.
"He said he wanted some hoodies and tracksuit bottoms, but I'm his brother, surely I've got to get him something more meaningful" muttered Luigi as he became restless with the fact he's walking around aimlessly, he likes a good walk, but walking around for an hour and a half aimlessly gets a bit tedious after a while. However, after being lost in thought he notices everyone in town is looking up, he goes to do the same until someone shouts his name from down the street,
"Luigi! We have to evacuate all the citizens and innocents right now!" The man running towards him looked strangely too much like his brother. In fact he could easily pass as the brother's twin. He wore exactly the same as Mario except this man wore a blue cap and long-sleeved top with red overalls.
"Let's go get your brother and get everyone out of here" the man shouted. It's always about my brother. Luigi couldn't help thinking, but curiosity got the better of him so Luigi asked,
"Why? What in the world is so important that we have to get everyone out, we've taken on Bowser so many times it's boring now."
"Look up like everyone else" He orders him. Luigi looks up to realise that this isn't normal, it's a massive sword dangling from a ship the size of all of Bowser's and his children's ships put together and more, all with dark, metallic plating releasing numerous missiles that looked like bullet bills, but had a silver coating over it and a much more maniacal grin on its face. Luigi looks back to nod to then realise that standing next to the blue clad man stood a blue koopa with a red sash around his neck and a man-doll with a blue hood and gingers hair, he recognised one to an extent but decided it was unimportant along with many of his questions about them and hence ran alongside the many panic stricken civilians in search of his red clad brother.
Luigi eventually made it to the house of the plumbers and went to knock on the door until the door flew upon with Mario jumping out of the door to a height no average man could reach. Well at least this time I don't have to wake him up this time, this came with a hidden smirk as he ran to catch up with his brother.
"So what's the situation Luigi?" asked Mario, this came to quite a shock to Luigi as normally Mario would call him any short name possible, whether it would be bro, Lui, L, and even sometimes Weegg, as Luigi was thinking this he thought, when in the world did he think of calling me Weegg, I mean, it doesn't even make any sense! However, thinking this made Luigi pull all sorts of frustrated and smiling faces making Mario chuckle hard while watching his brother think. When Luigi realised this he flushed in embarrassment making Mario laugh so hard everyone starting looking at him making everyone else see light in their bleak situation. Luigi eventually replied,
"Someone told me to tell you to evacuate all the civilians from this area, I assume he wants us to go with the people, and he somehow knew about you, and me as well…" Luigi trailed off realising that it wasn't all about his brother, someone knew they were connected, almost replying to the thought Mario said bluntly,
"We are brothers, you know. That means we're a pair. By any chance is that the guy you was talking about" he pointed at the blue clad man jumping on silver bullet after bullet eventually getting inside the ship, along with the doll shooting down numerous silver bill's with what looked like pellets, and the koopa bouncing on one after the other, knocking them to the ground without exploding them somehow. "Wait a minute, isn't that Geno and Kooper?" exclaimed Mario.
"Oh yeah, I remember Kooper coming round to check some mail with you when you came round our house, I didn't know he was such a capable fighter" Luigi said in curiosity.
"I'll go help out Geno and Kooper to see what exactly is going on here, you go and follow that blue man to see what's going on here" said Mario.
"But what about the civilians, they are our number one priority, we are mushroom kingdom heroes!" shouted Luigi with passion and fire in his eyes almost disgusted that Mario had forgotten about their people, however Mario replied plainly back,
"I saw Princess Peach, Toadsworth and Yoshi evacuating all the people, if we can stop this threat now, why wait before it spreads through out the entire world; the people are safe however they will be in danger if a ship that can move at that speed can drop Smithy on someone's head!" Luigi understood until the point of Smithy.
"Who in the world is Smithy!" shouted Luigi over the shooting and smashing in the background.
"The massive sword! Now get moving before it's too late for goodness sake!" Mario argued and ordered with a serious tone, Luigi realised that there is obviously more to this that he doesn't understand and he's probably way in over his head on this one. Luigi understands Mario may have faith in him but if he can't keep up, he won't be around for much longer.
Mario sprinted off to help his old friends fend off the new enemies while Luigi thought of a way to get all the way up the ship without having to endanger himself too much, realising that this was impossible he thought of a more crazier plan than jumping from one to another. He called over a silver bill by running round in a circle shouting,
"Hey! Over here! We have to protect this really important building!" it turned out he was standing next to the bank which wasn't ideal seaming that he wanted to trick them not physically lead them into it, however for some reason they responded to the over here and went straight for the green clad brother. Alright, here goes nothing, thought Luigi as he prepared to jump the highest he has ever reached before. The bill's, instead of going straight for him at first, started going in a straight line across the road to get him, Luigi started to wonder whether the plan would work. But he had to have faith, because if he couldn't pull this off the whole of the mushroom kingdom could be at risk. They started to charge at Luigi at the pace of a cheetah as Luigi prepared the leap of faith. He jumped; so high it gave the bullets enough time to do a 180 spin and too little time to realise that Luigi was on top of one. The bill tried to get rid of him by going up in the air but Luigi put pressure on the front of it so it started to go at a diagonal angle, going straight towards the ship. Luckily the hanger was open right in front of them. He was going to make it. The crazy plan was going to work and he was going to be a hero and... It stopped. The bill started falling at gradually speeding pace; Luigi panicked realising that he had nothing to break his fall. But just then, the bill stopped again, and his maniacal smile was gone, now he was just smiling, he looked up at Luigi almost telling him through his eyes, I'm free, thank you. The bill then turned back around straight for the ship's hanger again. Luigi's heart was pounding so fast it felt like it was going to explode. The bullet stop in the hanger area of the ship and Luigi caught a glimpse of the blue clad hero running in through a door. Just before the bullet let Luigi down gently it said,
"The name's John, I'll explain what and why this has happened today after you do what you want to do, I'll be waiting in your tent with the evacuees." Luigi wondered how he knew about where the people were, whether this was a trick or if he was dreaming, but he pushed on in search the man in blue.
Luigi sprinted his way through aliens spread across the floor lying down. They were blue and splodgy, with yellow spots with a yellow antenna; they looked like those things he met in the galaxy with Mario, Octoombas, now I remember, but why in the world are they here? Bowser must be behind this! Thought Luigi as he stormed through the futuristic halls of the battleship. When Luigi finally caught up to the blue clad man in the large main area of the ship, he saw him looking in to the eyes of the alien, looking like he was on his last breath. It was a stand off, the alien looked like Bowser, just a dark form, just like the one him, Mario and Bowser fought on the mushroom kingdom castle tower. Except there Mario and Luigi were inside Bowser belly. Dark Bowser was blue, with purple eyes; his entire body flowed with dark energy, giving off a distinctive and potent smell. Luigi saw a smirk grow on the blue clad man's face, and then. He fell on the ground along with his opponent. Luigi was trying to understand what was going on; and then the ship rocked hard from left to right, making him slip and bang his head on the floor which knocked him out cold.
He woke to immense pain and panicked aliens running around the ship, Luigi realised he only went for a couple of minutes. He strolled over in a daze towards the window on the side of the ship, his eye widened sharply when he saw the ship was heading for the Mushroom Kingdom's castle. Remembering how massive the ship is, he knew at that pace the whole castle will be knocked 10 feet under the ground. Luigi, completely forgetting his fear of heights and the oppressing pain, he charge through the aliens into the control room controlling the ship. You would expect someone like Luigi to slip into a panic and abandon ship, but today, he felt he had found a purpose, his purpose in life, that gave him new founded bravery, or foolishness. The ships controls were mostly broken, however he found the wheel to control it, it was twice his size, but he pulled as hard to the right as possible, planning to land in the middle of forest just outside toad town. He pulled so hard that the wheel came off. Then Luigi started to panic as his plan came crashing down and ran to brace for cover.
"I… I can't believe it! Your brother did it, Mario!" Exclaimed Kooper in joy as they watched the ship steer clear of the castle. Mario fell to his knees as he watched the ship begin to set its course to which the impact his brother wouldn't ever survive.
"But at what cost! He saved a castle with no one in it, a castle that is just a public building, a castle that could be rebuilt…" moaned Mario as he thought about living without his green clad brother. Geno understood what he meant by his last word, however Kooper was much younger and didn't understand it so he went to ask but Geno stopped him and shook his head. "His life will not be in vain" said Mario bitterly.
Luigi awoke in the mess of the ship, he wanted to search for the blue man and dark Bowser however he laid there in rest as pain ran like electric through his body. Well, so much for buying Mario a present…