WARNING! This story may feature name changes and all around plot changes, but it will still be the same plot, only with minor, or drastic changes. This story takes place in the world of the first Paper Mario. Meaning that if you picture these characters, picture them paper form!

The Mushroom Kingdom.

A Kingdom full of beautiful flowers and clear waters. A Kingdom where sunny days are abundant and rainy days are there when needed. A kingdom on a land so vast and so incredibly large, most of it has yet to be explored. A Kingdom that has many animals, and just as many species.

The Mushroom Kingdom.

A kingdom where Toads perform their daily tasks, while Koopas try to get on with their lives as well, the ones that aren't loyal to Bowser that is. A kingdom where a beautiful princess rules. And two plumbers have to make sure her toilets don't overflow.

The Mushroom Kingdom.

A kingdom frequently attacked by the ruthless Bowser, an overgrown Koopa. A kingdom whose princess is just as frequently kidnapped. And two plumbers have to make sure she is returned safely. Bowser tries almost every week to kidnap Princess Peach, but strangely enough he hasn't attempted to this week. That's where our story starts.

Mario, the robust Italian plumber that he is, woke to the smells of spaghetti, meatballs, and eggs. After cleaning up, he entered the tiny kitchen and was delighted to find Luigi already slaving over breakfast.

"Luigi! My favorite Breakfast? What's the Occasion?" Mario asked, pulling a chair up and sitting down. Luigi looked over at Mario and sighed, "Mario, any breakfast is your "favorite" breakfast."

"Yeah, but this one is my favoritest!" Mario replied, picking up a fork and eagerly awaited the food, while luigi sighed at Mario's use of his created word. When the delicious delectable's appeared at Mario's plate, he quickly dug his fork into the food, and with an expert spaghetti twisting ability, already had most of the spaghetti on his fork. The food was mere inches from Mario's watering mouth, when a swift knocking came at the door. Sighing heavily, Mario carefully placed the fork down and opened the door. Toad stood on the other side, panting deeply. It was obvious he had run all the way form the castle, and he wheezed out, "Mario! T-t-trouble at t-the c-c-castle!" before fainting on the ground. Luigi carried the unconscious Toad to Mario's bed while Mario leapt to action. Forgetting his food completely, he rushed towards the castle.

Reaching the castle, Mario approached the throne to find Toadsworth slumped over on it. As Mario came within reach of Toadsworth, he suddenly jumped up. "Mario!"

"What happened?" Mario asked.

"Bowser! Oh dear! I awoke this morning, and this note was left upon the Princesses pillow!" Toadsworth explained, handing Mario a crudely drawn note. The note simply said how Bowser kidnapped the princess, and how the Mario Bros. should "try" and get her back. Mario looked at the note thinking, why would Bowser leave a note? And mention the Mario bros. Surely he knows by now that Luigi doesn't fight him. Suddenly Luigi burst into the room, waving a belt in the air.

"Mario! Your tool belt!" Luigi called, handing his brother the belt.

"Thanks…" Mario said, before trying to put the belt on. Try is exactly what he did, but the belt wouldn't go around his midriff. Examining it carefully he sighed, "Luigi, this is your belt."

"Oh…" Luigi said, as Mario handed him the belt and rushed off.

Luigi looked down at the belt, and wrapped it around himself, before chasing after Mario.

When they arrived back at their house, Toad was sitting at the table, Pouting.

"Why'd you guys leave?" Toad asked, "All the windows are locked and I'm too short to reach the doorknob!"

"Sorry, OK, gotta go!" Mario said quickly, grabbing his tool belt and turning around, and exiting the house right away. Aware that Luigi and Toad were following him, Mario spun and confronted them.

"What are you doing?" Mario asked.

"I'm coming with you! I want to fight for once!" Luigi cried as Mario looked at Toad, "And you?"

Toad jumped, and then responded quickly! " I'm tired of you guys getting all the glory! I'm supposed to guard the Princess, and gosh darn it, I'm going to!"

Mario shook his head, "No, you have to protect Toadsworth!"

"He's got other toads there to protect him! Come on! I've got a healthy abundance of Mushrooms!" Toad whined, waving a mushroom above his head.

"Ok, he's coming!" Luigi said, hoisting Toad over his shoulder and turning towards bowser's keep.

"Hey! Put me down! This is inhumane!" Toad cried, beating his tiny fists against Luigi's shoulder.

"Knock it off! Honestly, we're only getting the princess back, not going on a grand adventure." Mario scolded.

Luigi looked down, and dropped Toad, who got up and brushed himself off, glaring at Luigi, before all three set off the road.

As they approached Bowser's Keep the stench of burning charcoal grew stronger, and stronger still. When the keep was in plain sight, the ground suddenly exploded in front of them, showing them with dirt. Dozens of Goombas flew everywhere, each one on fire, as lave seeped from the ground. Some of the Goombas, the smart ones, immediately stopped, dropped and rolled. Some stupid ones just kept running around on fire, while some really stupid ones stopped, dropped, and rolled right back into the lava.

A Goomba suddenly fall down in front of them, and Luigi bent over to inspect him.

Luigi pulled back, gasping, "That's not lava! It's alive!"

Sure enough, on closer inspection it wasn't exactly lave, but many individual little blobs, moving around.

Suddenly the lava seeped in their direction, and as though reacting to Luigi's voice, and it sprang at them. Before it struck, effectively melting them, a brownish-blue blur flew form over their shoulders and struck headfirst into the lava, and a coat of ice incased the lava. A Goomba with a blue spiked cap landed on the ground, and turned to greet them.

"Your Mario right? This thing attacked our village. You've got to help us!" The Goomba said breathlessly.

Mario gave a start as he realized these weren't Bowser's troops, and nodded his head, "Yeah, we'll help!"

"Good, I'm Bloomba." With that Bloomba leapt at the frozen lava, and it shattered. Mario pulled his hammer out and charged into the fray as well, and Toad pushed Luigi after him. Realizing they weren't winning all the remaining lava detached itself from the Goombas and merged together. It melted into a large ball, the changed shape. When it was finished it roughly resembled an extremely large Goomba composed of Lava. Instead of usual Goomba eyes though, it had two soulless black eyes. It opened its mouth and a raspy voice came from its mouth.

"Who do you think you are, interfering in our plansssss?"

"I'm Mario, this is Luigi, and Bloomba." Mario said.

"Who isssss the little one? He looksssss deliciousssss!" The creature said, staring at Toad.

"Gah!" Toad yelled, running behind Mario.

"That's no one who concerns you! What's your name?" Bloomba demanded.

"Foolsssss! I am Moltar!" The creature yelled, taking a step closer to Toad. Bloomba leapt in front of Toad, and Moltar stopped, eyeing the spike on Bloomba's hat wearily.

"Your beef is with me! What's with you? Attacking our village! We did nothing to you!" Bloomba yelled.

Moltar threw his head back and laughed, "Your village wasssss pathetic! It wasssss an easssssy victory! Yet, thisssss cassssstle hasssss many deliciousssss treatsssss! Yesssss."

"Shut up!" Bloomba yelled, bounding at Moltar, but he smashed into the ground as Moltar melted into lave and seeped back into his hole.

"He went to Bowser's Castle! After him!" Mario shouted, as him Bloomba and Toad rushed forwards. Luigi lingered, staring at the hole Moltar came from.

"Moltar? I wonder where he came from…" Luigi trailed off, shaking his head and following after the others.

At the large castle doors, Bloomba stopped them, giving Mario a pair of boots.

"Here, these were made by my Father, they will allow you to stomp on him." Bloomba explained, and he waited for Mario to put them on, before Luigi threw open the doors.

The sight before them caused Toad to gasp out loud. Koopas ran amok, lava attached to them. They were yelling about fires and very faintly you could here a rasping voice, "Yesssss, much more deliciousssss."

Sensing their approach, Moltar formed itself into his normal form, and glared at them.

"Why did you follow me? Leave, before I mussssst dessssstroy you!" Moltar threatened.

"Go! Go! I have Mushrooms, so if your wounded, come to me!" Toad urged, waving a mushroom in the air, before an injured Koopa snatched it up, eating it hungrily.

"Hey!" Toad yelled, smacking the Koopa on the head over an over as the Koopa tried to get away, "at least ask nicely!"

Mario rushed at Moltar, and leapt at him, stomping on his head.

"Arrrgh!" Moltar screamed stepping back, "How did you damage me? Impossssssssssible!"

Bloomba was up next, head bonking Moltar on the foot, freezing it to the floor. As Mario jumped again, Moltar Bent his own head back, and head butted Mario. Mario flew into the wall, leaving a small crater as Mario fell to the ground, unconscious.

"Mario!" Luigi yelled, pulling a metal cap from his belt and smacking it on his head.

Seconds later, 3 tons of gleaming steel was brutally pummeling Moltar, and Moltar's flames were starting to fade.

Suddenly the doors on the other side of the room burst open, and an angry Bowser stomped into the room, being closely followed by a green-shelled Koopa.

"What is the meaning if this?" Bowser roared, and the castle literally shook. Spotting Mario and Luigi, he grew even angrier, "What in the world? The Mario Brothers assaulting my castle? It doesn't work that way!" Bowser howled.

"It wasn't us!" Toad exclaimed, "It was him!" Toad said, pointing at Moltar.

"I don't care! Your all gonna pay now!" Bowser snarled, leaning his head back, flames brewing in his mouth.

"No!" Bloomba yelled, as Bowser bathed Moltar and Luigi in a torrent of flames. When the inferno was finished, Luigi stood unharmed, but the metal cap had blown away from the breath, and Moltar stood proudly, his foot free of ice and his body relit.

"You foolisssssh dinosssssuar! I'll sssssee you all later!" Moltar laughed, as he seeped slowly into the ground.

"You idiot!" Bloomba yelled at Bowser, as Mario slowly awoke.

"Bowser!" He cried, getting on his feet in a flash, "Where's the Princess?"

"What? I don't have your stinking Princess!" Bowser growled, as the little green Koopa crossed his arms nodding, "Yeah! We were gonna kidnap her tomorrow!"

"You little idiot! Shut up!" Bowser growled, bonking the Koopa on the head.

"Who's the shrimp?" Asked Toad.

"Shut up!" Bowser yelled, as the Koopa pointed a thumb to himself, "I'm the heir to the throne! My name is Dave!"

"Dave the Koopa…" Luigi said, shaking his head.

Bowser turned upon Dave again, and smacked him on the head, "Don't talk to them! They're the enemy, remember!"

"Right!" Dave saluted.

"If you didn't kidnap the princess, then who did?" Mario asked.

"What, the princess was kidnapped?" Bowser asked, his head swiveling to look at Mario.

"Wait! What about Moltar!" Luigi cried.

"Moltar!"

"Moltar!"

"Moltar?" Bowser asked, "Who's Moltar?"

"Think about it! This weird new enemy appears, the same day the princess is kidnapped! Coincidence? I think not!" Luigi said.

"STOP IGNORING ME!" Bowser yelled, stomping on the ground.

"We gotta find him!" Bloomba yelled, turning to leave with the others.

"But how?" Toad asked.

"Let's go to Merlin!" Mario replied, before stopping as Bowser and Dave stomped in front of them.

"You're not going anywhere! My castles been attacked, and someone's gonna pay!" Bowser snarled, as Dave nodded his head vigorously.

Mario sighed loudly, and muttered, "I don't have time for this." As Bloomba shouted, "We didn't attack you castle! Moltar did!"

"Exactly! That's why I'm coming with you! So I can defeat Moltar!"
"What?" Luigi Gasped.

"I knew it…" Mario mumbled.

"Huh?" Toad Asked.

"Come again?" Bloomba said.

"Yeah, what?" Dave asked incredibly.

"Not "us". Me." Bowser growled, looking at Dave.

"Nuh-uh, I'm coming, you can't stop me!"

"Yes I can!" Bowser growled, smoke coming form his nose.

"If your insist on coming, we are leaving now!" Mario Shouted, pushing by Bowser, and grabbing the doors. They opened to, instead of sunny skies, pure darkness, and it washed over all of the heroes, including the villains.