Koopacalypse: The Beginning of the End
Prologue
"Koopas are coming! Koopas are coming!", a cry ran through the toad village.
Lamma awoke to it, remembering the suffering of previous invasions when she was a young girl made her shiver as she got out of bed.
She had joined the recently posted Toad Defense Brigade which had newly extended divisions across the Mushroom Kingdom landscape.
Lamma equipped herself with her assigned gear: a poison mushroom sling, one shield, two spears, and a small emergency pack.
Running out of the door, she slammed into another toad. He turned around, the mushroom excreting a vile, posionous grin until meeting each other's eyes. The blue fungus retracted, "Sorry about that, Lamma, I guess I didn't watch where I was going."
"That's ok, Toady", she replied, "I wasn't either".
Both Toady and Lamma jogged to the meeting grounds, passing fearful villagers closing shops, houses, doors, and windows. The stank of fright whispered through everyone's ear, creeped through the nose, and injected itself into the heart. They were getting to the edge of the plain; ninety eight toads in addition. A lone MS Koopan Cruiser floated towards the group in sync with a small ragtag band of Koopa Troopas.
"Wierd. Odd. Is that it?", people spoke out as it was obvious that the koopas were out numbered 10 to 1.
As the Troopas walked towards the defenders, the cruiser made a reverse turn and headed back away from the group.
The Koopas stopped in formation, silence stabbed the air.
Finally the Toad Commander spoke up, "Is this the best you got? There's ten of you and hundred of us!".
Lamma spotted these objects that the koopas were holding. Metal sticks, deeply hollowed out inside, with wooden frame holding it into one thing. The turtles began assembling gold colored cylinders in dark boxes and stuck the boxes into a slot in the wooden frame, pulling back on a side lever emitting a double clicking sound.
Lamma and Toady looked at each other, what was this thing? A secret weapon?
"The reign of the Mushroom Kingdom ends now!", the lead Koopa yelled, "the Mario Brothers will be no more!".
The Commander threw a poison mushroom at the Koopa Sergeant, but it was absorbed with no effect. The toad decided to throw his spear. At that moment, the Seargant raised his metal stick, and with a small motion, thunder and lightning broke out into the quiet abyss. The stick flashed a small fire and a crack sound that was deafening to everyone's ears.
The toad flinched and looked down, then fell to the ground, spewing red, gunky, fluids out his mouth.
Instantly, everyone freaked into chaos. Many, like Lamma, dropped their stuff and started running to the village, although some stayed and fought. Even though her ears rang, she could faintly hear screaming and popping sounds.
"Oh where is the Golden One?", she pleaded aloud, "Where are the Mario Brothers? Where's help?".
Missles flew into the village exploading into balls of flame. Houses scolded into oblivion.
Shockwave after shockwave, lightning after lightning, thunder after thunder, drop after drop, body after body. It felt non-stop and forever, the train of thought was derailed as Lamma felt a sharp tingle of numbness that spread throughout her back, causing her to drop to the dirt.
Hard to breath, hard to think, hard to feel, hard to live.
All she saw was red and green of the grasses, all she heard was thunder and fear, all she smelled was stench, all she felt was pain.
The slow blackness and white light stung her eyes.
Lamma closed them, like the others, never to open again.
Chaos will rule until the Golden One.
The Golden One born from nothingness.