Prologue: Going in with a Bang

It was a dark day in the Mushroom Kingdom, black clouds concealed the sky and a massive thunderstorm raged over the land; the only thing that was more intimidating than the storm that was raging for hours now was the huge black shadow in the sky that was moving towards Toad Town.
A few townspeople were out with umbrellas but quickly retreated into their houses when they spotted the shadow.
They told their families that they had seen something that promised doom and darkness and thightly locked their doors, trying to find something on TV news, however, the thunderstorm was so strong that it disturbed TVs, giving the frightened people the best information of all: Grain-Flickering.

The sky became darker and darker until something broke through it; a streak of pink light that was directly charging at the huge shadow.
The pink flash that cut through the clouds consisted of a glowing pink, heart-shaped projectile with a young woman holding tightly to it.
She was around 18, had long bright blonde hair and royal blue eyes, wearing a pink-dyed leather jacket and pencil-grey skirt as well as pink-dyed combat boots.

The woman now caught clear sight of the target she was shooting at with mach 3, straightened up and drew a golden shining sword from the sheater that was strapped to her back, she readied herself and jumped off the heart-shaped projectile which shattered into pink dust as the woman used the immense momentum of the flight to shoot herself right onto the control bridge of the massive, heavily armoured airship, breaking through the front window pane in a graceful spin and coming face-to-face with the one she had expected to stand exactly there, a huge mutant turtle creature with red hair and impressive claws and horns.

„Bowser!" the woman shouted agressively „You broke our alliance, what's the deal?"
„Haha!" the turtle called Bowser growled in an evil tone „Oh Peach, you naive girl! You seriously thought I would ever cooperate with YOU? You've gotta learn a lot, now put that sword down and be a nice girl and get in the kidnapping bag."

But Peach wasn't being a nice girl, far from that.
Instead of answering with the polite „Dear King Koopa, would you kindly shove your fat butt out of my kingdom and never return?", she now had had enough - she lifted her sword, then directed it sideways at Bowser, who deflected the attack with his stone-hard claws.

„Be careful, you might hurt yourself with that sword!" Bowser laughed „C'mon, don't be silly, I don't want a hostage that's all bloo-"
The boot Peach had placed in Bowser's stomach didn't let him finish the sentence, he prefered being launched a few feet whilst grunting in pain and surprise.
When he had recollected himself (which took a good while, given his turtle nature to have a very vulnerable underbelly), he still didn't take Peach seriously.
„You're being ridiculous, girl. You're making yourself a laughter for me and all of my men.
Why do you stubbornly refuse to understand that-" Peach interrupted him, her eyes blazing
„Your men? I will make every single one of them die the slowest, most gruesome and most painful way anyone could ever imagine if you don't move your fat *** out of my kingdom!"
„Now, what's with that language? I thought you were a princess, you should act more poli-" Peach had had enough.

An orange beam had shot from the tip of her sword, hitting Bowser in the chest, causing him to be blasted straight through the solid steel walls with an explosion.
He crashed down on the outside decks (which were still being flooded by the rain with), Peach jumping down to follow him, breaking her fall in a graceful acrobatic move, then drawing her sword once again, letting it emmit golden sparks as she swung it around.
„Show-off." Bowser thought to himself.
„Well,come on,then!" Peach called over to Bowser in a sassy tone. „...Or are ya scared that a girl will be beat you?" She giggled.

She had done it.

Bowser put on his red gauntlets, flexed his metal claw extensions and directed a monstrous roar at her that could even rival Godzilla.
When he had finished roaring, Bowser then took a massive leap ahead and as he had reaced Peach, did his signature "Bowser Bomb" which Peach dodged with realitve ease, countering with a sword swipe that resonated on Bowser's skin as though hitting metal.
Bowser tried to get Peach with a series of claw swipes which she easily avoided, given her athletic nature.
She distanced herself from her opponent with an unnecessary backflip, pushed her hands up her hips and shot a nasty look over to Bowser who was panting and for some reason, having to try real hard to not break into tears.

„Hey, what's the problem? Tired already, or have you noticed that you stand no chance against me?"
„I-I can't believe that I used to love you!" Bowser cried, trying to keep a steady voice but totally failing.
„W-what?" Peach replied, perplexed.
„I used to love you! I wanted you all around me, that's the only reason I have never given you what you rightfully deserve when I kidnapped you!" Bowser was now having a mental breakdown.
„No...way in...BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Peach had fallen to her knees, trembling with laughter.
„You...that was...real? Oh my-AHAHAHAHAHAHA!" She couldn't hold herself.

Peach lay on the ground for a few more seconds, squirming with laughter until she straightened herself up, suddenly very serious again, taking a few steps forwards, facing Bowser again.
„Nevertheless, that doesn't change a bit." She said, sounding very determined as though she had just hatched a promoising plan and was about to turn it into reality „You're my enemy and you're going down!"
She kicked Bowser in the chest who didn't take his time to flinch, but instead directed one of his massive fists at her which obviously didn't hit it's target.
Bowser charged up a fireball in his mouth with a growl and shot it at the pink girl which immeadiately reflected it by holding her left hand in front of herself, cojuring up a heart-shaped barrier.
The fireball rebounded on it's original sender, exploding in Bowser's face, which was too much, even for the great Koopa King.
He swayed on the spot, then fell face-first to the ground with a snort.
Peach didn't think long, but instead grabbed Bowser's scaly tail and, using the extra momentum of some pink heart projectiles, swung him around and released him to gracefully crash into a pile of oil barrels, then slide up to the edge of the airship's outside deck platform on his belly.
Peach was now wearing a dangerous look as moved up to Bowser in a slow, elegant pace, as she set one foot in front of the other, approaching her enemy.
When Bowser had gotten to his feet, Peach stood only a few feet away from him, her right arm outstretched, pointing her sword at his chest.

„Whoa, you don't want to do anything you'll regret, do ya?" Bowser was slightly panicking.
„I'm not gonna regret this and you know why?" Peach sang in a high-pitched voice as she kept urging Bowser to take more steps backwards, moving him closer and closer to the ledge.
„I'm not gonna regret this because this is something I wanted to do for thirty years and I will do it now!" A murderous smile was now curling across her face as her hair clichée-wise cast a shadow over the rest of her face.
„Thirty years..." She gasped excitedly, her smile breaking into a grin „Thirty years, I've imagined to do this...thirty years I have been craving to murder you and now..." She was now clearly insane as the bloodlust swept over her, coloring her angel-like face into something as though representing the Devil himself „I will do it!"

She prepared to thrust her sword in Bowser's chest as he suddenly pointed behind her and shouted.

„Whoa! What the heck is that?!"
„Yeah, of course I'm gonna fall for that old trick!"
„No, serious-"

Boom.

An explosion had errupted behind the two of them, Peach quickly taking cover on the ground as Bowser jumped off the ledge, reappearing in his Clown Car seconds later.
„Bye-bye, suckers!" He said as he escaped.
Peach pulled out a grey walkie-talkie, shouting angrily into it.
„Mario! Why did you do that right now, I had him exactly where I wanted him!"
Above Peach's head soared a yellow propeller plane with the guy chubby, short-grown moustached man called „Mario" piloting it.
„Sorry", he spoke back into his walkie-talkie „I thought the plan was to destroy this airship. Be happy that I'm at least keeping his troops off you!"
With that, he boosted off, leaving Peach to stand there in the rain for a few seconds until she pulled her walkie-talkie out again, this time to a different person.

„Luigi, Daisy!" She called „How's the forcefield coming along?"
„Great!" The nosy voice responded in a sarcastic tone „We are doing so well, I thought we may add a little picknick on the decks to our plan! No seriously, we're screwed."
Luigi, the heavily moustached man in green had hinted on the hordes of Ace Koopa Soldiers that surrounded him and his partner Daisy who was a young woman with a dark skin tone and brunette hair, wearing a leather vest.
„Ya ready for this?" Daisy asked over to Luigi as the soldiers circled in on them, forcing the two to back against each other.

„Nope." Luigi answered, timid.
„Great to hear!" Daisy replied.
„Are you even listening to me?"
„Nope."

„Great to hear!" Daisy now turned to the enemies, drawing a portable Bullet Bill-gun as her boyfriend made his signature Poltergust 3045 form out of a tiny backpack.

Luigi turned his machine on, which caused a massive jet to errupt from the vacuum's head, mixing up the Koopa soldiers as Daisy used hands, feet and explosives to give the Koopas what they rightfully deserved: a beatdown!
But despite their efforts, the enemy soldiers where cornering them, leaving them no chance anymore.

„Daisy!" Luigi shouted in panic „Do it now!"
„But Luigi, I've never tried it before. What if-"
„Just do it!" Luigi screamed.
Daisy did it; she closed bother hands in on her chest, closed her eyes and concentrated.
An amber-colored aura of power started emitting from her and light-brown crytals raised out of the ground, floating in the air around her.
The ememies were perpelxed, especially because Luigi was also suddenly engulfed with sparks, but stayed determined and leapt ahead, trying to attack the cornered opponents when Luigi cried „Now!"
Luigi and Daisy slapped their hands together, holding each other in a tight grip, causing an electrified crystal orb to form around the couple.

After a few seconds, they left go of each other with an amazing effect.

The crystal orb exploded into millions of electric spikes which electrified and impaled the Koopa soldiers and when the smoke from the explosion had lifted, Luigi and Daisy were standing in a bloody mess of dead turtle warriors.
„Woo! I didn't know I can do stuff like that!" Daisy panted, amazed.

„Well, we better get going before more of them appear." Luigi said and the two of them started off to the airship's maintenance room.
First through some more enemies, the through the buttons and wires of the maintenance room, Luigi and Daisy found a lever with a sign saying „Forcefield" on it.

However, when they tried to pull it, it didn't move a bit, leaving the two of them to helplessly stare at each other.
"I...have an idea, but it's really tricky and requires a lot of thinking..."
Daisy said, approaching the lever once again „You have to politely ask this mechanism to-"

Clang!

With a metallic sound the lever had given in to the force of Daisy's high kick and flipped.

„See, you just have to be nice to things like these." Daisy said proudly as the two of the went up into the airship's main corridoors and giving Mario who was still circulating the airship with his plane the message the they had turned the forcefield off and giving him their location with Mario responding „Alright! I'll pick you up as soon as I've finished the date with my new girlfriend!"

With "girlfriend" Mario had meant the airship's energy core which Mario who had now entered the airship's energy tunnels was approaching.
When he reached the core, he found it as a big, sparkling crystal-shaped object that floated in the middle of a wide room, unguarded by any mercenaries.
„Well, this'll be easy." Mario said to himself „Hello, pretty girl! May I make you a present?"
The present was a missile which he fired from his plane which the core detroyed with a sentry gun.

„Ey, you don't like that?" Mario was now dodging and barrel-rolling to not get shot down by any missiles as he destroyed one turret after the other with the plane's MG, eventually being able to launch a second missile at the core which now hit it's target with a screeching bang as the core cracked, now glowing red.

„WARNING! CORE HEAVILY DAMAGED. EVACUATE SHIP, EXPLOSION IN T-120...119" A computer voice announced through speakers over the whole airship which Mario took very serious, making him blast his way through the corridoors instead of finding a normal way tho get to his friends the fastest way possible.
The announcer just had reached „...59..." when the south end of the corridoors Luigi and Daisy were waiting in exploded and revealed Mario who shot through the hole in the wall, landing his plane.

„Come on, we've gotta get Peach!" Daisy urged as the aboarded the plane with Mario then steering it around on the wide floor to get back through the hole he had just made as they took off.

Peach was still standing on the outside deck, now getting very nervous as the announcer counted „...15...14..." when the yellow plane appeared out of the dark clouds.
As it passed, Peached jumped on the plane, making herself a firm grip on it's left wing, smiling at Mario and the others.
Mario hit the „Boost" button and they left the airship behind which gave it's goodbye with a spectacular silvery explosion.
All of the team were happy as they flew across the sky, back to Peach's castle, even the clouds breaking and letting sunlight extinguish the thunderstorm.
Mario, Peach and Daisy were still celebrating their victory when Luigi finally decided to express what he thought in a dark tone.
„Bro, Peach, Daisy, don't you think that all of these people deserved something better than death?
I mean, there sure were more than 200 people aboard that ship and we just..."
„Hey, they were trying to kill us, we had to do it! Koopa forces are and will always stay pure evil." Peach argued, with Luigi responding „I really don't think so. I believe that all of these people had their story, they were probably really desperate, had nothing in their lives and had to join the military to get at least a few coins to live."
„I get you dear, I get you." Daisy sighed before Peach could argue back „But Peach is right, they were trying to kill us. I guess we just have to get over with it."

All of them remained quiet for the rest of the flight.