Prologue: This is a story about greed and power, betrayal and justice, but most of all, about good and evil. A story told from a world unlike any other, a world known only as the Mushroom World. This is about Kooledge Koopa.
Long ago in an ancient time before the emergence of the Koopa Empire, before the rise of the Toadstool Kingdom, before the birth of Princess Peach Toadstool, before the Mushroom Kingdom invasion by Bowser, farther back before the birth of the Mario Bros., even before Yoshi's epic adventure with baby Mario, there was an ancient race of primitive yet also intelligent tribe of Koopas known as the Azmeck Koopas. These were the ancestors of the modern koopas we know today. There homeland was on a large island in the darkest and farthest region of the Mushroom World described only as the Jurassic Region on an island called Koopa Shell Core because of a large Koopa shell-like mountain formation. Much of the land found there is virtually jungle and wild much like its name sake was filled with tropical and prehistoric plants and animals. Over time the Azmeck Koopas soon began to expand beyond their island and moved outwards to the other various land throughout the region and started to build a mighty kingdom by colonizing the surrounding lands and enslaving the inhabitants of the islands.
The Azmecks built roads, temples, palaces and other types of buildings. On one of the small islands they had conquered lay a series of strange mines filled with an unknown kind of glowing mineral which would soon be labeled quarilithium or quarious stones. What the Azmecks didn't realize was that the precious glowing red stones had magical properties. It was not long after the conquest and enslavement of the other tribes before several natives decided to rebel against the Azmecks and cause a violent war which nearly destroyed the Azmecks. The chief of the Azmecks who have recently finished studying the stones discovered that the quarious stones could be forged into a single stone to produce magic to level the war in their favor. So the Azmecks used the glowing ore and forged it into the legendary Kroopa Stone. They used it against the rebels and quickly ended the rebellion or so they thought, when a small band of human inhabitants (humans who somehow did evolve in the Mushroom world) decided to also mine the ore to make their own weapon to counter the Kroopas Stone. Two humans above all took up the task to make the weapons, the ancestors of the Mario Bros. these two brother chiefs forged what would be known as the legendary Quarium weapons.
The Golden Hammer and the Silver Plunger filled with good magic was just the kind of power to defeat The Azmeck oppressors. So the small band of humans decided to attack the Azmecks during one of their biggest festivals, the honoring of their chief god Kookoolackala Koopa maker of the world. The Mario Bros.' ancestors found that the festival would distract the Azmecks long enough for their tribe to finally end their rule and free the enslaved natives. When the festival began there was a big fire in the middle of the town joined with the haunting sound of drums that surrounded them. The essence of cooked meals filled the air and everywhere one looks there was dancing, laughter, and of course sacrifices on the golden Kookoolackala Temple. The Azmecks would sacrifice their captors to the glowing vortex swirling inside the temple which is said to be the source of all Koopas; the flowing soul of Kookoolackala Koopa. This was the perfect time to strike and the two plumber chiefs were determined to strike hard at the Azmecks. Just as the festival was about to end, the humans attacked using their new found weapons to cut through the city with vicious force. The Azmecks soon realized that they were in deep trouble and mobilized to counter attack. They brought out the Kroopa Stone and the two factions humans and koopas clashed with each other; the mighty force of the weapons and the stone caused the whole city and island to quake. The heavens shook and the very earth cracked as the power of the legendary items seemed adamant in destroying the very fabric of time and space.
A sudden storm appeared on the horizon to destroy the island and everything else in its path. The humans and the Azmecks could only watch as the storm drew nearer and nearer. The storm wreaked havoc on the island destroying whole cities in a matter of minutes. The people panicked and tried to flee the island. A few Azmecks survived the storm by fleeing to their ships while the rest were killed. As for the Mario Bros.' ancestors, they too survived by hijacking a ship and sailing west to unknown territories, this led to the Mario Bros.' appearance to the Mushroom Kingdom region and the surrounding lands. As for the Azmecks, they landed in the Dark World region the future home world of Bowser. During the violent storm the legendary items were scattered to the winds, almost as a sign from heaven that such power should not be used again. The Kroopa Stone was blown to a nearby island inhabited by the giant MegaKoopas the distant cousins of the Azmecks though much more dimwitted so the stone was of no real use to them except for idol worship. The Golden Hammer too was picked up by a nearby island in the hands of the Boom-Boom clan where it has remained ever since. The Silver Plunger however traveled much further then the others and found itself on an obscure island on the frontier of what would be known as the Dino Region.
The weapon was found by a tribe of Rexes for an untold time. As for the homeland of the Azmecks, the island itself sank to the bottom of the sea. As time went by humans and mushroom people expanded and eventually creating various civilizations throughout the known mushroom world. The Koopas too expanded though not at the rate they once achieved in their homeland. They too eventually created civilizations not only in the Dark World but abroad to all the other lands they even recruited other species to help them like Goombas and other known Mario enemies we know today, some where good koopas, others where still bad but not as cruel and evil as their ancient predecessors. It was during the early pirate age when a fierce pirate called Long Beard Koopa sailed the many seas in search of treasure and fortune when he came across the Dino Region and landed on an island settled by the Rex Tribe called Cretaceous Rex Isle. There, Long Beard Koopa plundered the island and killed many Rexes. He then stormed their temples searching for valuables when he came upon the Silver Plunger. Not knowing it magical properties, he took the weapon just as part of his plunder of treasure.
He set sail across the seas to make port at the Koopa islands his home turf when on the way, his ship the H.M.S KoopaDoopa was hit by a powerful hurricane and sunk somewhere near a small hideaway he had established called Castaway Isle., the Silver Plunger with it, was soon lost to history. As for the rest of the mushroom world it would take several centuries when a small family would rise to become the most powerful and most well known mushroom royal family, the Toadstools. For 200 years, the Toadstool family ruled what would be known as the Mushroom Kingdom. The Mushroom Kingdom included not only Mushroom Shores (now known as Mushroom kingdom formally) but the surrounding lands such as the ones found in the Super Mario 3 game. The other regions known to the Mushroom world would be the Dino Region such like in super Mario World and Dark World Bowser's home that included various koopa themed islands. There where other regions like Princess Daisy's region called the Garden Region due to a variety of plants found there and other obscure lands found in Mario's world like various Yoshi islands scattered thought the world. Now back to what happened to Bowser's ancestors, one in particular takes this story to its relevant status. This is about Bowser's great-great-great-great-grandfather Morton Koopa. During the Imperial Age, Morton Koopa was a very powerful conqueror and did many things to greatly expand the Koopa Kingdom to an empire. With the help of his Koopa army led by his most powerful troops the magikoopas a cult of wizard-like koopas, he quickly and easily extended his grip on the whole Dark World region. One magikoopa in particular who greatly helped Morton was a young yet very ambitious koopa, named Kooledge Koopa. He was a very powerful magikoopa in that he was promoted to becoming the king's royal advisor. Over time Morton came to rely on kooledge to help him in matters of state and war abroad. But Morton soon took kooledge's advice and took credit for it.
This was a bit troublesome for kooledge but not as bad so he dismissed it and went along with the king. Several years later kooledge felt that he was becoming nothing more than a petty royal advisor and not much else and that his magic was meant for much more than state matters. He began to ponder if he should use his power to take over as king of the Koopa Empire to make it better, but he then thought of the king and tried to block out the notion of betrayal. It was during a significant war campaign against Morton and a tribe of x-nauts (a small but powerful tribe of dark matter beings) that kooledge decided if he could ask the king for a more suitable position in power like royal general of his entire armies and not just a boring statesman. Morton strongly disagreed stating kooledge was too important to him to handle things at home then on the battlefield. Kooledge couldn't believe it after all he had done for Morton he was just cast aside to stay as a silly government official then a powerful soldier for the empire.
Kooledge left the king to his battle plans and began to think the empire would be greater if he could give the orders and not just take orders. This was the beginning of Kooledge's treachery. After the war, Morton was trying to decide how he could forever keep his control of the conquered lands he had. Kooledge suggested looking for the legendary Kroopa Stone the ancient weapon of the Azmeck Koopas that gives its owner unparalleled magic and grant wishes. Once again Morton took the idea as his own and set up an expedition to find the stone. Morton lead a group of his finest troops to find the stone to the Megakoopa island while Kooledge stayed behind to beginning planning a take over. It was about 5 years before Morton returned from his expedition and as he arrived back to Dark World, he didn't come back empty handed as he did find the stone and brought it back to his kingdom. The koopas celebrated and put the stone in the royal vault. Kooledge knowing that the only way for his take over to succeed, he needed the stone.
So that evening he gathered what magikoopa he could who was loyal only to him to storm the vault and take the stone.
"Now my "king" you will fall and I will rule this empire." "No more will I sit back and let you take advantage of me, I will make this empire better
then you can," thought Kooledge as he and his loyal magikoopas approached the vault. "Halt! Who goes there," said one of the guards. "Oh it's
you Kooledge what are you doing here, you know no one is allowed in here without the king's permission?" "I don't need the king's permission, I
will take over this empire now," cried Kooledge as he cast a spell on the guards. "Quickly now get the stone before anybody else comes to
investigate," said Kooledge.
Boom! Kooledge and his men burst though the vault and were within inches of reaching the stone when Morton'selite troops the Koopatrol entered and sounded the alarm.
"Not so fast Kooledge," said one of the troops. "The king shall hear of your betrayal."
The battle was raging on when Morton finally entered the fray and saw his once loyal advisor fighting against him. "Kooledge stop this why are
your fighting against me?" asked Morton. "Because you have squandered my talents and not fit to rule this empire without my help," shouted
back Kooledge. "You will pay for your treachery Kooledge mark my words." said Morton.
As the battle went on Morton had the advantage and Kooledge was forced to retreat to his HQ Spiral Cauldron, the homeland of the magikoopa cult but with the stone in hand taken during the battle. The next day Morton met with his best generals and asked them what he must do. His generals felt that since Kooledge has betrayed them, they have no choice but to attack Spiral Cauldron and put an end to Kooledge. Morton was deeply disappointed that his most trusted advisor would betray him like this and he began to discover why but the safety of the empire was more important and Kooledge must go. During the next few days Morton planned and planned how he would get Kooledge and the stone back. The next day Morton surprised kooledge with a sneak attack and stormed the HQ, the battle raged for hours with neither side gaining an advantage over the other until Kooledge brought out the stone to even the odds to his favor.
"NOW Morton the time has come for me to end your rule and the beginning of the age of Kooledge Koopa." "Not while I am king," said Morton.
Kooledge using his brilliant knowledge of magic began to cast a mighty spell that to take Morton and his soldiers to another dimension by using a spell that would allow the alignment of the sun, moon and the earth, in a phenomenon called the full earth which occurs every 1000 years to harness the stone's powers.
"Wampa, wampa, koolala, koolala, thrump," chanted Kooledge. Realizing what was happening, Morton called upon the magikoopas that were
loyal to him to quickly counter act Kooledge's spell. "Droonga, droonga, mala, mala, strumgoo, frumgla, voom!!!," chanted Morton's wizards.
"NOOOOOOOO! This can't be I can't be stopped now," cried Kooledge as his spell backfired and started to turn him to stone. "There your
highness Kooledge has been stopped," said one of his magikoopas. "Now Kooledge for your crimes you will forever be cast in stone as a reminder
of your betrayal," said Morton. "Ha, your magicians are amateurs this spell will only last for a limited time; I will be back when the full earth returns
and my power returns to me, ha, ha, ha." With that Kooledge turned to stone and Morton headed back to his kingdom leaving Kooledge in his stone prison.
Over time the incident was eventually forgotten and all knowledge of it disappeared to history. It was during the 201st year of the Toadstool rule and the golden age of the royal family, when many good times came to the Mushroom Kingdom, especially the birth of Princess Peach Toadstool. It would be another few years on the outskirts of Mushroom Shores that the famous Mario Bros. would be born and the beginning of a legend. By this time Bowser was only an infant but already an evil tyrant in training thanks to his servant Kamek another powerful magikoopa who was in charged of ruling the Koopa empire until Bowser was old enough to rule himself thus ushering in the epic adventure of Yoshi and baby Mario against Kamek and baby Bowser. Kamek realized the threat the baby twins would pose to the Koopa Empire if they were allowed to grow up so he decided to get rid of the baby twins but found himself entrenched in a battle with the yoshis. Sometime later and now older, Bowser came up with the most sinister plan to date, the invasion of the Mushroom Kingdom, this event would trigger The Mario Bros. first encounter with Bowser since their infant days. This too was the same occasion when the Mario Bros. would meet Princess Peach for the first time and most likely not the last time. After the defeat of Bowser the Mario Bros. thought they had seen the last of him until one day he returned but this time not alone, for Bowser brought with him his 7 bratty kids: Larry, Wendy O', Roy, Lemmy, Iggy, Morton Jr., and Ludwig Von Koopa. This was the first time Mario and Luigi fought the 7 kids and not necessarily the last time. For Bowser and his kids would meet again, this time in Dinosaur land where Yoshi and Mario would meet once again but with Mario not having any knowledge of his time with Yoshi when he was a child. Throughout the years Mario and Bowser would battle each other, time and time again not knowing that their biggest adventure was about to take place. One starry night, Smithy, an evil robot from another dimension came to Mario's world with the intention of conquering it for himself and turning it into a world of weapons.
Mario needed help to defeat Smithy so he gathered up new friends such as Mallow lost prince of Nimbus land and the mysterious Geno from the Star Road. Mario would also get the help of Princess Peach and from an unlikely help from Bowser whose castle was taken over by Smithy's minions. With the help of his friends, Mario defeated Smithy and saved his world from conquest, but what they didn't know was that the consequences of killing Smithy was that his dark star which powered Smithy had a backlash of wayward power. Since there was no body to contain the star it was free to radiate its evil influence to unknown space. This was just what Kooledge needed for the star's power awoken him from his stone prison a year early. During his time as a stone figure he was able to quietly gather his magikoopa minions to prepare for his return and during this time he also learned about the strength of the Mario Bros. Kooledge then decided to use the Mario Bros. to help him get his revenge. Although the dark star of Smithy was not enough for Kooledge to take physical form yet, he could telepathically send his messages to his men to carry out. This would now be the single greatest adventure the Mario Bros. would ever experience for it will be Luigi who would determine the safety of the world this time, let the adventure begin……………………..