Scene 1, Chapter 3 – Unwanted Attack
Hey-Ho stopped dead in his tracks. Go
inside. Suddenly, a fireball was launched at Hey-Ho, barely missing him and
exploding next to his foot. He got back to reality and saw an ice ball zooming
toward him. Quickly he used his jetpack and jumped high.
The two assailants revealed
themselves by stepping out of the shadows. They were two snifits. One of them
wore a red robe, green shoes, and a flame imprinted on his robe. The other wore
a cyan robe, green shoes, and a snowflake imprinted on his robe.
The red one talked first, "Well look
who the cat dragged in?"
Then the cyan one, "What brings a
worthless piece of crap like you to The Lab?"
Hey-Ho popped out his copter and got
ready for battle. "Who are you? What do you want from me? And what's in that
lab?"
The cyan one answered, "Well, since
you're gonna die, I guess I'll tell you now. I'm Cicle and my brother here is
Torch. We're the Thermal Bros. and we're not gonna let anyone through under Dr.
Schizo's orders! Got that punk?"
"Forget the intro bro, let's just
kill him now!" No sooner had Torch said that, he fired a fireball from his
oversized mouth. Hey-Ho dodged and charged at Cicle with his rotor spinning.
"What's he trying to do—tickle me!?
Hahahaha!" Cicle shot an ice ball directly at the rampaging shy guy. Hey-Ho,
unable to dodge it, got blasted by the freezing cold ice. It was so cold that
Hey-Ho turned into an ice cube. I still live. The Thermal Bros. laughed
at the ice cube standing before them. "I can safely say that he's dead."
I have a chance. I can do it.
Hey-Ho was alive and fine. He started vibrating, which made him slide toward
Torch. He picked up speed and began to chase the fire freak.
"Ahhh! He's not alive! Get him off
me! Get him off me!" Cicle only laughed, but then he had no idea on how to
help. Hey-Ho was sliding between the two brothers. "Damn you!" Running out of
ideas, Torch launched a fireball, burning up the ice around Hey-Ho. Good.
I'm free. Torch was even more frustrated now. "C'mon Cicle! Let's nail him
now!"
The two bros launched balls at
Hey-Ho, who could then realize their patterns. Immediately he used his jetpack
and copter to dodge the incoming fireball and ice ball. The two projectiles
missed Hey-Ho, but passed over each other heading straight to the opposite
brother. Torch and Cicle were too busy laughing to realize their mistake. Torch
turned into an ice cube, and Cicle caught on fire.
Cicle stopped, dropped, and rolled
to get the flames off his body. Hey-Ho saw that there was still one left and
fired his copter blades like a boomerang. Cicle immediately saw the incoming
blades and ran for his life. "Curse you! We're getting out of here!" He ran to
Torch and pushed his frozen body along with him. "Just remember: We can't be
beaten! We're androids!"
Androids!? Why does that sound
familiar? Hey-Ho decided to proceed into the lab.
Jonathon Jones relaxed on his ship.
"Arrgh. Today was a fine day me mateys." The shark pirate has gotten a hold of
the Nintendo Gamecube, and that's all he liked to do.
Out of nowhere, the ship shook. A
frantic pirate ran to Jonathon Jones. "Captain! The ship is sinking! The ship
is sinking!"
"What!? How!?"
"A hole got punched of the ship! We
don't know how!"
"Argh… Get all our treasures and get
them on the rafts. Don't forget me Gamecube. Argh…"
"What about you captain?"
"I can survive underwater. I'll see
ye later. Argh."
"Aye aye."
Jonathon stood at the bow of the
ship, and watched as it sank slowly into the depths of the sea. "Argh. A
captain must go down with the ship."
Time passed, and the ship hit the
ground. A dark man stood on some coral and grinned. "Today is your day, Captain
Jonathon Jones…"
"Argh… Today was not a fine day…
ARGH!"
Scene 1, Chapter 4 – Origin
Hey-Ho entered the abandoned lab. I
fought hard to get in here. This better not disappoint me. But I have a feeling
it won't… The lab was dark. In the corner he saw 5 coffin like things. All
of them were relatively small—his height—except for one that had "SPCR-4"
written on it. It also looked like it had been recently opened. The others were
SLSH-1, TRCH-2, CICL-2, and DRSF-3. On the other corner he saw blueprints.
He decided to check the "coffins"
first. SPCR-4 had a tape recording next to it. It would be best to listen to
that. He put on the headphones and hit "play."
"Specter… Or Dark Mario as you may
be called. You are my greatest creation. You are the ultimate source of power.
You are unbeatable. I am Dr.
Fungenstein. I created you—you, who cannot fail."
Cannot fail…
"You are receiving this message
because I am currently away in the Mushroom Kingdom sabotaging supplies for the
lab. You must know that everyone has a purpose—a goal in life."
A purpose. A goal. What is mine?
"Yours is to obey me and help
me plague this world. Together we can be unstoppable! Yes, we will spread out
to all parts of the world. From Bowser's Keep to the Mushroom Kingdom we will
conquer.
"But there's a true goal I must
pursue. If a person is able to go to Star Haven and sacrifice seven worthy souls
to the star, you may be granted one wish. You are to help me retrieve seven
powerful souls so that I can have everlasting rule over this world.
"You may question the other android
containers you see in this room. They are all previous models. TRCH and CICL,
or Torch and Cicle are my two soldiers. I cannot reveal DRSF to you now. The
other, SLSH, or Slasher, is an old an worthless model. It was no good and I
decided to destroy it. Unfortunately, he found out about my plan to destroy him
and ran away. Who knows what happened to him now."
Slasher.
"Now, Dark Mario, go out and destroy
for me! My destiny awaits! I will dispatch soldiers to wrest control of the
places you have terrorized."
The recording ended.
I understand now. I had no goal.
I never planned on having one. Now I know. My purpose is to DESTROY DARK MARIO!
Hey-Ho decided to view the
blueprints he saw earlier. He saw Specter, Torch, and Cicle. Specter was most
important. He had to know everything about him, so after reading through his
amazingly powerful and destructive statistics and abilities, he backed the
blueprints in his backpack. Then he came across SLSH-1. He wanted to know who
this failure was. It was a Shy Guy. A copter was built in. It can't be. Can
it? I don't eat. I don't sleep. I survived Cicle's blast. I am… an… android.
King Nimbus was reunited with his
son, Mallow not long ago. He missed him so much, that he decided to spend some
quality time with him. That would be great. It was three o'clock. Mallow should
be all dressed now. The king walked to Mallow's room and opened the door.
"Hey, Mallow, let's go—" He was cut
off when he saw his son limp in a stranger's hand.
Dark Mario glared at King Nimbus.
"Don't worry. You'll see him later… in the Afterlife! HAHAHAHA!"
Scene 1, Chapter 5 – The
Cult of Incognito
Have you ever remembered those
misfit Koopas that were sent to labor in your castle dungeons? Recently,
they've disappeared. The Shy Guys and Snifits who were under allegiance to us
also disappeared. It's strange. We were hurt most when the pipes that were
dominated by Piranha Plants have been taken over by enemy Pumpkin Plants. I've
found out that they have all banded together to form something called the Cult
of Incognito. They haven't done anything yet, but I'd be wary of them.
-Kamek
to Bowser prior to the release of Dark Mario
Hey-Ho was shocked that he was an
android. As he thought about it, it wasn't that bad. If he weren't an android,
he would've been killed before. He quickly gathered his thoughts back together
and decided to continue. There wasn't anything of importance left in the lab,
so Hey-Ho took off and found a pipe that led to the Forest Maze.
A mysterious figure noticed that
Hey-Ho left the lab and decided to investigate things for himself.
The green warp piped popped out of
the ground and shot Hey-Ho onto the ground. "Hahahahahahaha!" Hey-Ho heard mad
laughter behind him. He turned around and looked at the pipe. A vicious Pumpkin
Plant had emerged and began to fire sharp leaves at Hey-Ho. I thought
Piranha Plants were supposed to attack from pipes. Hey-Ho dodged and popped
out his blades. They started rotating slowly, then in no time, picked up speed
and started spinning rapidly.
"Eat this, you freak of nature!"
Hey-Ho charged, cutting up all the leaves. The Pumpkin Plant then became scared
and tried to hide back in the pipe, but Hey-Ho was too fast. The blades sliced
the Pumpkin Plant into oblivion. A Piranha Plant popped out of the pipe. It
looked quite vicious. "Hissssssssssssssss… I would normally try to kill you…
Hisssssssss… but sssssssssssince you sssssssssssaved my home, I'll thank you.
I'd give you sssssssssssssssomething, but I don't think I have anything of
interessssssssssssst," hissed the Piranha Plant.
"No problem."
Hey-Ho walked on in the forest and
saw a Goomba. The Goomba, being the stupid idiot that it was, charged at
Hey-Ho. This is a nice time to do the Mario. Hey-Ho jumped on the
Goomba. Nothing. He looked down and saw that he was standing on the Goomba,
which then proceded to bite Hey-Ho. "OW! Enough games!"
The blades started spinning, and
Hey-Ho brutally ripped up the poor Goomba. Damn! I'm too light! "Hey Shy
Guy!" The Piranha Plant was calling Hey-Ho. He went back to the pipe and the
plant.
"I saw that Goomba skirmish. That
reminded me that I had something that you would probably be interested in." The
Piranha went back into the pipe and fetched two marigold shoes. "Stomping
shoes. You'd be able to stomp those Goombas easily." The pair of shoes was the
same color as Hey-Ho's shoes.
"Thanks a lot!" He put them on and
began to dash out. Then he ran back. "Ummm… can you tell me how to get out of
here?"
It was an hour after Hey-Ho got
directions from the friendly Piranha Plant. He saw the exit and was ready to
procede to Moleville. "Hey you, who are you?"
Hey-Ho turned around. It looked like
a wooden doll with a blue hat and a blue cape. "Wh-who are you?"
"I asked you first."
"My name is Slasher. I'm on a
classified mission."
"Is that so… and do you work for the
Cult of Incognito?"
"The what?"
"I guess that means no. My name is
#@%*(#(*@&%(@%(*@&%*(@&#%#, but that is impossible to pronounce for
you to pronounce, so just call me Geno. Anyway, I am a guardian of Star Road,
and I only use this body on this world. Lately, I've witnessed that there are
three powers of evil that are aiming to take control of the Wish of the Seven
Stars. Are you familiar with that?"
"I think so. If you gather up the
seven special stars scattered on this world and gather them together, you can
make a wish."
"Correct. I've traced them to the
Cult of Incognito. The Cult of Incognito is a cult where renegade Mask Koopas,
Shy Guys, Snifits, and others try to take over the world."
"A cult has to have a leader. Who is
it?"
"Dr. Schizo, A.K.A. Dr. Fungenstein. He's called Schizo because he
likes to talk to himself."
DR. FUNGENSTEIN! Is this a
coincidence I'm living in?
"What are the three threats of
darkness?"
"Dr. Schizo, the Thermal Bros, and
the one who calls himself Dark Mario or Specter."
This is becoming an even bigger
coincidence.
"Each of them are incredibly
dangerous and will do anything to accomplish their goal. If you are truly good,
then you cannot let them get their hands on the seven stars!"
"That is something that I can live
up to."
"Then do it, Slasher. I have my own
path to take to bring down the empire of Incognito." Geno walked away and
melted in with the shadows.
Bowser was snoring loudly on his
throne forming bubbles. Kamek stood at his side staring at him queerly.
Four Sledge Brothers were sitting
next the entrance playing poker. The door slammed open. Bowser woke up and saw
the intruder down the hall. An evil and chilly air swept into the room. The
four Sledge Brothers halted their game and stood up ready to attack. "It's
Mario! Get him!"
"It doesn't look exactly like Mario
to me."
"It doesn't matter. All plumbers are
a threat to us!"
They all hurled their large sledges
at the solitary Dark Mario. Dark Mario scoffed at this foolish attempt and
caught one of the sledges in his hand. "To show I mean business…" He crushed
the sledge with his grip. He proceeded to ignite three brothers out with
fireballs.
Bowser and Kamek watched the whole
thing and were slightly shocked. The fourth hammer brother was scared now. He
pulled out another sledge, but Dark Mario dashed forward with incredible speed
and smashed the sledge. Then he kicked high at the brother's neck at knocked
his head off. Now Bowser and Kamek was scared.
"He's not Mario!"
Dark Mario pulled out a translucent
red cube from his pocket. "Say hello to your friends." Thirty seconds later, an
incredibly high and bloodcurdling laughter filled the whole castle.
Scene 1, Chapter 6 – Mario's
Shadow
The Arena was a massive arena built
in the Mushroom Kingdom where battles were hosted annually. The competitors
fight, but no one is supposed to die or get severely injured. After all, the
mushroom people were decent people.
Luigi and Toad sat in the announcer's
box. Mario was standing in the center of the arena. Luigi spoke first. "Mallow
has been late for fifty-five minutes and counting. We will postpone the
tournament if we have to wait five minutes longer."
Five minutes passed and a mushroom
went on the field to deliver the news. The trademark chill swept into the
arena. A fog also swept into the arena. The mushroom was one foot away when it
suddenly went limp. Mario turned to ask what was going on. "What is-a going
on-a here?"
The fog cleared, but the damage from
Dark Mario's blight still penetrated the souls of the thousand spectators in
the arena. Dark Mario stood there tightly gripping the dead mushroom's neck. He
has a wicked grin on his face.
Waluigi was sitting in the audience.
He, like everyone else was shocked. "Unbelievable-a! Who in the world is-a he?"
The usually silent Dark Mario spoke,
"I wish to battle you."
Mario replied rather shakily, "I'm
only scheduled to fight Mallow."
Dark Mario's cocky grin widened even
more. From his pocket he took out his six-sided cube. On every side except one
there was the limp figure of Dark Mario's victims. He twisted the cube slowly
showing the fear-stricken face of Croco, the defeated face of Chef Torte, the
miserable face of Captain Jonathon Jones, the angry face of Mallow, and Bowser,
who wasn't limp. The enraged turtle king started slamming on the cube with
combined feelings of fear and hate. "'Tis an absorption cube. I can absorb
anyone I want with it, but for now… I'm interested in you."
Mario was obviously shocked but he
decided to take this challenge for the sake of the Mushroom Kingdom. "I'll
accept the challenge."
"Ahh… very good. Let me just remind
you that you are obviously no match for me, and I'm far superior to you." Dark
Mario's still had his cockiness.
Luigi jumped in from the announcer's
box. "It seems Mario has accepted the stranger's challenge! Let the battle
begin!"
Mario began the match by landing his
hardest blow into Dark Mario's face. Dark Mario didn't even budge. In response,
Dark Mario tripped Mario and landed a blow to the overly sized stomach. Mario
fell down with tremendous pain.
"Tell-a me… before I go down… Who
are you and what do you want with-a me?" gasped Mario.
"I am Specter," Dark Mario replied coldly, obviously refraining
from using the name that most people called him, "My mission is to grab you and
the six other chosen ones to sacrifice."
"Sacrifice what?"
"I can't tell you."
By then, Mario recovered. He grinned
slowly. "That was all I needed to know." He took out a Metal Cap out of his
pocket and put it on his head. Instantly his body was encased in metal. "Never
thought of that, did you?"
Specter didn't anticipate this. His
cocky grin disappeared, and he decided to get serious. He pulled back a punch
and let it go at Mario. Mario stuck his hand out and caught the punch. It
didn't faze him. As he was blocking Specter's attack, he used his other fast
and connected it with Specter's head. The result was Specter being launched ten
feet in the air and landing with a loud thud.
Specter slowly got up. Blood oozed
from his face. He scowled, but that didn't do anything as Mario rushed forward
and landed another uppercut to the chin. After landing on the ground again, his
head started throbbing. Mario ran over and put one hand on top of Specter's
head. Then, using the other hand, let out one of his hardest punches on
Specter. Specter flew into the ground with tremendous pain. Blood was dripping
down his whole face.
At that moment, Specter caught
everyone by surprised. He began with a little chuckle, then laughter, then a
maniacal and insane laugh, until it reached his bloodcurdling, incredibly evil
laughter. Mario was dumbfounded. Specter stood up, still wounded and laughed,
"You think you know everything you need to know about me… Well there's a lot
more to me than you can ever know!"
All of a sudden, the skin on
Specter's face peeled away to the side revealing an inside of muscles, broken
blood vessels, metallic bones, and wires for nerves. His eyes were metallic
optics, and his brain was an artificial component with many wires coming out of
it. Everyone in the arena realized he was an android.
Specter pointed to himself so
everyone could witness. As blood constantly gushed out of his organic blood
vessels, some wiring came out and started zapping the blood vessels. They all
immediately started clotting up. The wires continued zapping until the clot was
gone and the blood vessels were like new. The skin folded back and covered his
face again. He used his arm to wipe away the remaining blood. If you never knew
Metal Mario delivered such destructive blows to him, you'd think he's as good
as new.
Specter gloated, "I'm a high class
android. The best of the best. Dr. Schizo designed me without any flaws!" The
android dashed in and grabbed Mario's neck. He started draining Mario's energy
through the red jewel in his hand. Mario quickly twisted out and started
breathing rapidly to get his energy back.
Mario wasn't determined to give up
that easily. Nor was he determined to fall into the same trap again. He took
off his metal cap and put on his vanish cap. Instantly, Mario disappeared from
the naked eye. Specter wasn't bothered at all. He raised a finger a shot a
fireball at Mario.
"Ow! Mumamia! How did you see me?"
"Infrared, stupid."
Again, Mario tried a different
strategy. It had to be a good one if he was to defeat this mad android. He took
off the vanish cap and put on his infamous wing cap. "Let's fight flyer with
fire!"
With three jumps, Mario flew up into
the air and above the arena. The audience "Oooh"ed at the show. Again, Specter
smirked. His body began to rise into the air. Mario was stunned. "How did-a you
do that!?"
"Easy. My cape is made of
everlasting P-Wing material. I told you. Dr. Schizo thinks of everything!"
Mario sneered at that remark and
fired a fireball Specter. The air show had begun.
Specter dodged the attack, and
surprisingly, shot an ice ball at Mario.
Mario, who was gliding around,
dodged and fired three more shots at Specter.
Specter dodged each of those and
fired a surprising lightning ball at the airborne Mario. Unfortunately, Mario
was too slow and couldn't dodge the dangerous blast. It smashed into Mario and
circulated through his whole fat body. The plumber went unconscious and fell to
the ground.
Luigi screamed into the microphone,
"Ladies and gentlemen! You have seen it! The amazing Mario went down!"
Then Toad jumped in and said,
"Everyone! We can't let this mad android plague the world! Everyone! Prepare
for battle! Attack him! The Mushroom Elite Troops will come in soon!"
Everyone (except Waluigi) started
pouring into the stairs of the arena to get Dark Mario. Dark Mario picked up
the paralyzed body of Mario. He took out his absorption cube, pressed a button
on it, and touched Mario with it. Mario got swallowed up inside into the last
remaining cube face. His job was done. He walked out of the stadium as his
blight followed him.
All of the audience stopped dead in
their tracks when they realized Dark Mario left the arena. Immediately, Mask
Koopas, Shy Guys, Snifits, Snufits, and Beezos started pouring in from all
entrances (and the sky).
Luigi and Toad weren't doing too
well. They knocked out some Mask Koopas and kicked their heads around the
arena. At the same time, they were dodging thousands of Snifit and Snufit
bullets. Also at the same time, they were watching out for the Beezos swooping
by. Finally, Luigi decided to use his firepower and started blasting the
Beezos. Once the Beezos were knocked out, he targeted the Snifits and Snufits
and knocked them out as well. Toad used a Mask Koopa head and knocked out the
Shy Guys and Mask Koopas. The two heroes breathed a sigh of relief as they
cleared most of the Cult of Incognito army.
"You shouldn't have done that," said
a voice from behind them. Luigi and Toad immediately swiveled around and saw
the Thermal Bros. poised to strike. Before Luigi or Toad could do anything,
Torch and Cicle immediately let out two strong kicks, knocking out Luigi and
Toad.
Waluigi gasped in horror as the
arena, not to mention the rest of the Mushroom Kingdom was being overrun by CoI
lackeys. He began to flee. Torch turned his attention to the fleeing Waluigi
and fired a fireball. Waluigi caught on fire and fainted as he burned up. Cicle
would've grinned if his mouth was flexible. "Operation: Successful."
END
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