AND NOW...

I, King Bowser Koopa King, present the first chapter from the Fanfic entitled,

-Relaxation, Restoration & Recapture-

~v~

WHAM! The back doors of Bowser Castle slammed open as eight incredibly exhausted royal Koopas trudged they're way inside. Kamek, the last to enter, used his magic to shut the door behind him. He flew over everyone as they moaned and groaned collapsing on the carpeted floor.

(1)"Uhhghh, my nonexistent neck hurts!"

Larry complained as Morton rolled his beady lil' eyes. "You think you're the only one with body ailments! Shut up!"

The King of Pain shook his head grunting horribly before speaking to his children, "All right everyone…as we all know…my plan..was a failure." He sputtered as Goomba and Koopa Minions ran into the room and began treating everyone's wounds.

Ludwig sneered, "As if that wasn't obvious." He grumbled with a thick British tongue as Wendy added in her two cents.

"Yeah! This is the last time..I EVER... Help you in your stupid..STUPID little plans Daddy! I mean you took us…out of that horrible boarding school…just so we could get flattened by a castle! I mean look!" She weakly held up her little pinky, "I broke a nail..! Do you know…how..much it costs to get them done! DO YOU!"

Bowser exhaled deeply, "Of course I do…I pay for them!" He replied frustrated as Kammy scuttled into the room.

(2)"Oh no! I knew I should've gone along with you your majesty! You could've used my healing to keep you safe! Yet you insisted on going without my magical support!"

"What are you talkin' about! He had me! There was no need for you to come along!" Kamek huffed glaring at her.

(3)Kammy scoffed, "Oh yeah! He needed you to make him big did he! How many times has that failed him! My healing magic would have done him and the kids more help and you know it!" She shouted causing him to ball his fists, "As long as I can remember, he's been growing to epic proportions and failing every time! Even his latest escapade in space failed and he was the size of a planet!" Bowser shook his head in regret.

"Yeah…that didn't go as well as I hoped…"

The naggy woman turned to her King, "If I would have gone with you you're largeness, I could have been of great help! Instead you had me go way across the world to pick up the kids. Waste of my services!"

Iggy Koopa crossed his arms insulted by her words, "You're the waste!"

She smiled apologetically and turned back to Kamek as they began to argue back and forth completely ignoring the Royal family. Roy Koopa gritted his teeth, picked up his wand and shot a magic ball at them causing them to shriek; it just barely missed them.

"HEY! Beavis and Butt-head stop getting on my nerves! We need healing! Kammy get over here! NOW!" He ordered as she bowed and ran over to him. She then began healing every one of them with her therapeutic magic. However, she couldn't fully cure them; normal medicine and such would be needed to complete the restoration of broken bones.

The big bully stood up and stretched his muscles. "Man! That feels so much better!"

Junior grinned after feeling the witch's magic course through his wounds healing him. He felt so good that he jumped in the air and then did a small back flip. "Aha ha ha! Ha ha haaa! I feel like a kazillion coins!"

"Yeah! Me too!" Lemmy chirped bouncing on his rubber ball.

(4)The eldest Koopaling stood up and dusted himself off irritated. He was annoyed by them, by everyone for that matter, especially his dad. It was always his stupid plans that caused them to fail, and when he finally got tired of them 'failing', he simply sent them away to a boarding school. He growled remembering how Bowser practically threw them out after Junior was brought to the castle by the Stork; (at least that's what Bowser told them, Ludwig knew the truth; although he didn't hate his baby brother for replacing them, (no one did actually, except for Morton Koopa Jr., he claimed Junior stole his spot as the cutest Koopaling) he still resented his father for sending them away the way he did. Ludwig didn't even want to be King of the world or whatever; he only wanted to be the world's greatest composer; but, he knew that the only way to make his dream come true was to help Bowser kill Mario. With his father happy and out of his hair, it would be a lot easier to be what he always wanted to be.

The big-haired teenager hid his resentment as he faced his dad, who was getting bandages placed on him and a temporary cast on his leg. "Ahem, Father, I would like to make a suggestion."

Bowser was about to say something to his son when the king suddenly yelped in pain. "AAYYEE!" A Koopa had accidentally dropped Bowser's heavy leg causing it to send pain riveting though his scaly body. Lemmy Koopa started laughing as Bowser's face contorted into anger while turning to the Para-Koopa. (5)"WHY YOU LITTLE-!" He cried as the Para-Koopa screamed and shot away just as the Beastly ruler reached out in an attempt to squeeze the life out of him. Furious he began yelling for Kammy 's magic to heal him.

"HURRY UP WOMAN!" He boomed as she rushed to his side. Ludwig rolled his eyes.

"Ugh, forget it. I have work to do." He said as he walked away from the family going into another hall. Wendy smirked as she looked at herself in a wall mirror. "Oh my, aren't you just the cutest! That jerk Mario almost ruined this perfection! I can't let it happen again!" She hissed as Larry walked up to her.

"Are you trying to break that mirror?" He joked causing Lemmy and Roy to laugh out loud.

Wendy merely turned her nose up at him clearly unimpressed. "You're not funny…Now go away before I rip that Mohawk off your head!" She threatened with a smirk.

He gulped, "Um! If anyone needs me, I'll be in my room!" He informed them and quickly walked away.

"So papa! What's our plan for today?" Bowser Jr. asked.

"Do you see what I'm doing?" Bowser Sr. asked his son who quirked his eyebrow puzzled. He then looked over his dad seeing that he was laid out on the floor with his leg and head being lifted off the floor by several fluffy pillows. Covering his red eyes was a large folded horizontally, moist white towel.

The little prince smiled a bit, "You're…relaxing?"

"Bingo…"

"So…we're gonna relax all day? Just…relax?"

The King of Relaxation nodded slowly, "That's riiiiight, and you hear that kids?" they looked to him as he kept on, "Today…we unwind...after all, we need to have a bit of leisure time. Am I right, or am I right?"

Wendy beamed, "You couldn't be more correct daddy!" She agreed as she skipped off to her room with tanning on her mind.

(6)Morton closed his eyes as he lolled out on the floor and let himself be over taken by feelings of respite. "Ah..I'm speechless as how soothing this is. I have no words at all to describe the feeling of respite. It's like my sentences were just snatched out of my mouth and left absolutely no voice in my mouth to say just how tranquil this is. I'm forever quiet now, unable to speak thanks to the saccharine feelings of leisure time. I'm forever speechless in effect to the-"

"AARAGH! MORTON! CAN IT! Geeze!" Roy cut in with a shaking of his large fists. "You seriously need to look up the word 'Speechless'!"

Lemmy giggled and decided to get off his ball and lie on the carpet. "Relaaaaxaaaatiooooon." He moaned as he closed his eyes.

Even Roy was trying to get into the mood as he walked to the halls to go upstairs to his room. He had thoughts of sleeping on his own soft bed and snuggling up with his cuddly, wubbly little Tanooki Bear.

Nevertheless, two Koopalings didn't share this want.

Iggy gagged at the thought of relaxation. He was way too hyper and hated sleeping and boring inactive things like that. He wanted fun and excitement. He loved fighting Mario and co. It kept life fun and interesting. He wished he didn't have to sleep. Just the thought of such a thing made him want to hurl. He automatically hated the day thanks to his lazy father.

He stamped his foot angrily and spoke up, "There's no way I'm relaxing! I don't want to sit around like a bunch of cabbages doing nothin'! I want to have fun!"

Bowser didn't even answer. He was silently snoring which meant it wouldn't be long before monstrous sounds would echo from his body. Junior beamed at his weird brother, "Hey! Why don't we do something together?" He suggested as Iggy looked at him bemused.

"Like what?"

"Umm, you could show me some of your cool inventions!"

Iggy gasped and clapped his hands together excited, "Perfect! Brilliant idea Bowser!" He hollered calling Junior by his first name unlike the others. Bowser Jr. guessed it was because he couldn't call their dad by his first name, so he decided to use it on the (Jr.).

The wired brother reached forward laughing hysterically and grabbed his brother's arm and almost dragged Junior as they ran through the halls and into Iggy's downstairs room. The little red-haired prince was a bit nervous at what he had just gotten himself into, but it was better than just sittin' around he figured.

Iggy stopped at his closet and then winked at Bowser Jr. before looking at the door and speaking in a bizarre language Junior could only think was some nerd code. Finished, the door slid sideways into the wall allowing entrance. The two walked in and Junior watched as his brother jumped over the stair rail, landing on the bottom floor where he flipped a switch on the wall. Instantly, light exploded in the room brightening everything. The Koopa prince shielded his eyes from the intense light.

"Welcome! Welcome new visitor! This is my la-bor-a-tory! Don't push any buttons or pull any levers and we'll be perfectly fine!" He instructed as Bowser Jr. nodded slowly amazed at all the technology everywhere. He was impressed at all his strange-looking brother had been working on. It was so high-tech and glossy! In the air held by suspensions was an entire armada of Airships!

"WHOA…" was all the prince could let out. Directly above him was the infamous Koopa Klown Car. This version was the original that the copies are based off of. Junior used a newer version that the King was planning to use. Oh how the little scamp wished he could get his hands on the Big daddy of Bowser's machines.

"Amazed Bowser? I knew you would be. It's hard not to be! Even I, the genius behind these beauties, can still be flabber-de-gasted seeing my powerful creations!" Iggy said jumping up and down with a big grin. "Come over here Bowser! I have something that will help us both!"

The mini-Bowser walked over to his brother and watched as the hyper-active Koopaling began pressing buttons on a large machine. "What's this thing?"

"This is my newest creation! It has the ability to end sleep!"

Junior frowned, "End sleep? Why would you want dat?"

Iggy chuckled, "Its obvious brother! I want to never sleep again! I want to be able to stay awake forever! I hate going to sleep! I waste time dreaming when I could be plotting against Mario or working on my experiments! Time is too precious!"

Bowser Jr. scratched his head confused, "But we need sleep, right? I mean, we can't survive without it…right?"

The kooky Koopa guffawed before wiping his eye and pointing at his machine, "Bowser please! We don't need sleep! We're Koopas! Besides! My machine is also capable to giving sleep! And if I wanted, I could turn on the wide spread!" He noticed his brother's befuddled look and closed his eyes continuing, "Meaning, I have the power to put everyone-and I mean, EVERYONE of the Kingdom of Shrooms-to sleep! With the entire Kingdom having forty winks, King Dad could simply walk into Peach's castle and swipe her and no one would be able to stop him! Aha aahhhhaha! Brilliant huh!"

The Koopa prince smiled big, "Dat's cool! Papa wouldn't have a single problem! How did you create this!"

(7)"By using Sleepy Sheep items! I can use them to cause sleep and reverse the effects! You wanna see how powerful it can really go! On full it can reach Beanbean Kingdom! Even going as far as Dinosaur Island!" He then paused and put a hand to his cheek, "Though for some odd reason, it has no effect on the Beanish-type…"

Bowser Jr. was keyed up now, "Who cares! Let's get this thing started!"

"Okay! Heh he heeeee!" Iggy squealed like a little school girl as he pulled a lever and watched as the machine started to shake and churn glowing a bright sky blue and yellow. The greenish-scientist then remembered, "Here! Put these on!" He commanded grabbing a pair of blue goggles, one for him and one for his visitor. With their eyes protected from the sheep's power, they stood back watching the machine start to pulse. The top of the light-blue trapezoid-shaped invention opened up permitting a small antenna to pop out.

Now out in the open, the transmitter started to glow and finally, a smoky blue light radiated from it. Bowser Jr. gasped as the light flew over their heads in all directions. The Sleepy Sheep machine, was about to get to work.

~v~

"Alright you law-breakers! Its time to go back inside! Yard-time is over!" A large Toad guard shouted as he watched as all the prisoners go back inside the Mushroom Kingdom Penitentiary. The Toad smirked as they marched back inside. He loved his job, ordering low-life scum around for a hefty pay-check. It was simple. No one tried anything stupid. The prison was un-breakout-able! Besides, if any idiot tried to get out, all the prison had to do was call the Super Mario to deal with any breakouts. The security guard was about to go in when he noticed one creep was still in the yard. Toadry gritted his teeth as he walked towards the prisoner.

"Hey you! What are you still doing out here in the yard! I said back inside!"

The small criminal lay out on the floor face first exhausted from the sun's hot rays. He moaned as the guard stood over him.

"Get up you sun-dried punk!" He crossed his arms waiting for the villain to get up. But the little guy didn't even try. "Fine! I'll just drag you in there!" He grumbled grabbing the prisoner by his orange jumpsuit.

Now was the moment the little bandit was waiting for! Grinning big, the baddie opened his mouth and bit the Guard's leg as hard as he could.

"AHH!" yelped the patrol holding his shin, "Why you litt-" was all he could say before he was struck in the face by a medium-sized dumbbell. He was knocked out before he even hit the ground.

(8)With a snicker, the villain dropped the heavy weight. "Tee he he heee…That'll show you. And now, for my long-awaited escape!" With a quick swipe of his hand, he snatched the security access card from the patrol's waist key-chain, "I'll be takin' this, see!" He spat before putting his hands to his mouth sniggering. He had finally devised the perfect escape. Now all he had to do was steal the guard's cloths and make his getaway. The Shadow Thief was back…

~v~

"Did…did it work? Is it safe to take off the glasses?" Junior asked. Iggy looked around and turned to his invention.

"Uh, sure, yeah." He answered taking off his own. "As to if it worked, of course it did! I think…come on! Let's have a look!" He said as he grabbed his brother's hand almost yanking him off his feet.

They ran up the stairs and into Iggy's room and out into the hallway. Instead of going into the room where their family was last seen; they headed up to the north tower to get a good look of the Kingdom.

Once they reached the tower, the scientist ran over to his large telescope and peered into its peeper. "Well, what do you see?" Junior asked impatiently watching his brother scan the area.

Iggy smirked and spun around facing his youngest sibling, "By-golly I knew it would work!"

"Really! Let me see!"

Bowser Jr. ran up to the powerful gadget and lowered it to his height. He scanned the Kingdom and gasped seeing toads everywhere past the Darklands sprawled about asleep. He could also see the many car accidents caused by drivers in a slumber. He didn't care if anyone was harmed though; so he swung the telescope over to Mushroom Castle and sure enough, the Toads outside were fast asleep. That meant only one thing. Iggy's machine amazingly worked! It was time to re-capture the Princess!

The little prince was so ecstatic that he turned from the gadget and gave his weird but brilliant brother a high-five. "All right Iggy! Let's go tell papa!"

Iggy was about to cheer with him until he realized one horrible thing he hadn't thought about before it was far too late. "OH NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" He hollered with his lands to his cheeks in alarm.

"What is it!" Junior inquired with big eyes. Iggy ignored him and raced past him running back into the castle. He ran as fast as he could and ended up tripping over someone's foot. He yelped and got to all fours and looked to see who tripped him. With big eyes he gasped to see it was an unconscious Lemmy snoring loudly. In shock, the only conscience Koopaling turned to see everyone that was in the room knocked out! Kamek was lying on the floor with Kammy on his back drooling ice-cold rivers onto the wizards cloak.

"AGHAST! I'm such an idiot!" He screamed as Junior walked up him looking around.

The Koopa prince was baffled at what he was looking at himself. The reason they used the machine, was so they could get their father in the mood for re-claiming the princess. With their dad asleep, all was in vain. Or so he thought…He then remembered that they were Koopalings! They were the sons of a beast! They didn't need him to kidnap a princess. After all Bowser Jr. himself, captured her several times. (9)He even ruled over the Koopa Troop for a short while when Mario 'killed' his papa. Surely he could waltz into Peach's castle and grab her while everyone was away in Dreamland.

With an evil grin, the youngest son of Bowser put his hands on his hips and let out a hearty laugh causing his brother to look at him in confusion. Junior then pointed at Iggy, "Well Igster! The machine worked! We don't need to wake anyone up! We can go kidnap Mama Pea-I mean, Princess Peach ourselves!"

Iggy slowly started to smile, "When the power of the Sleepy Sheep wears off tomorrow, and King Dad wakes up…He'll see her in front of him and practically EXPLODE with happiness at what we had done! We'll be praised and receive all kinds of gifts!" He added with enlarged eyes.

They slapped each other a high five and turned to the back door with wickedness in their eyes. The plan was so simple, a child could complete it. All they had to do was bring the Princess back to the Castle. There would be no one to stop them, no one at all. Everyone was fast asleep. The two malevolent Koopalings looked at each other grinning and walked out the door leaving their slumbering family behind.

~v~

-Disclaimer: I do not own anything at all! If I did Junior would have green eyes when he grows up to actually have normal eyes lol

I hope you all N-joyed my re-edited first chapter! It acts like a direct sequel to the video game NSMBW! Also, the castle in the game is not their home in my story. They have one true castle they call home that Mario never destroys. Whenever Bowser kidnaps Peach and holds her hostage, he takes her to a castle far from his original. So, it's always his extra Castle that ends up demolished or stormed by the Mario team. Just a lil' Mario lore for the heart!

PLEASE REVIEW! =D

Thanks for reading!

I hope you all have an awesome day/Night!

~JLT

The next upcoming Chapter will be entitled...

-The Return of that Guy!-

-Notes & References and ALL OF THEE ABOVE!-

(1) Ever notice how most of the characters in the Marioverse have no necks? Luigi's 'neck' is his chin! xD

(2) An explanation why Kammy Koopa was absent from NSMBW! Plus there's one mentioning why she was absent in both Mario Galaxies. She was on her way to pick the kids up when she lost her memory, came home and was sent back on the long mission to pick up the kids! Poor old woman.

(3) 'Epic Fail' is all Mega Bowser does. Hasn't earned him a victory yet lol When will Biggie Bowser succeed!

(4) Ludwig's thoughts about his baby brother. I thought it was necessary to explain them to you. Hope you thought they made sense!

(5) "WHY YOU LITTLE!" Homer's favorite scream lol It fitted so well! XD

(6) Morton wasn't called Bigmouth for nuthin'! lol

(7) Foreshadowing…Love it! Iggy used items from the Paper Mario series to create his awesome creation! Smart huh?

(8) The Return of the Shadow Thief! "I'll be takin' this, see!"

(9) Junior would make a swell leader of the Koopa Troop! I don't even think the other Koopalings are that into wanting to be the next King. Ludwig wants to be a musician, Lemmy wants to be a circus performer, Roy wants to be a body builder with his own gym (sure he'd rule the kingdom, but there's other things he'd rather do), Iggy wants to be the next Albert Einstein (He'd rather create than rule), Wendy wants to be the next Top Model and be rich, Morton wants to straight up rule the Kingdom so he and Junior definitely clash, Larry wants to own a chain of casinos and cheat everyone of their coins. So Bowser Junior would be the best to run the Kingdom. :D