"ARGH! There must be some way to get rid of them!"

Bowser paced around a dark room of his floating castle. Used to the victory of the Mario Bros., he was trying to think of a way to get rid of them. Nothing came to mind.

I already tried practically everything. Every time I get that princess back, they get in the way. Then I attempted to got after HIM after a while...

Bowser paced some more. He tried capturing them, humiliation, framing, stupid brute force... Nothing worked, and he was out of ideas.

"I can't take it!"

He hit the wall with such great force that it opened a secret passage. Deciding that he had nothing to lose, he ventured into a part of his castle that he had never seen before. It was very dark in there, and he had to bring his flashlight. It was a long, winding tunnel that led in some sort of spiral, with the exterior mostly covered with an impregnable unknown material. Finally, it led to a dead end.

It can't end here. It seems too important to hold nothing...

Bowser knocked the walls to detect anything hollow. Nothing, apparently. He tried throwing hammers around, but nothing broke. Then he tried his fire breath. The disguised material at the very end made a hole.

Aha! So it's vulnerable to fire here...

He let out some more fire, and made the hole big enough to go through. What he saw made him marvel at his fortune, but then made him frown in disgust a few seconds later.

"Goddamn it, Iggy..."

Iggy Koopa, in the meantime, was enjoying a nice, quiet nap in his room. Very relaxing to him after a hard day's nightmare. A strange device near his bed rang out noisily. It seemed to function like an alarm clock, but it's looks said otherwise. Iggy angrily awoke from his slumber and slammed the device. Afterwards, an automatic electronic voice emitted from it's speakers.

"Iggy," It began in a feminine robotic voice. "Papa summons you. Leave immediately."

Iggy sat there for a moment and thought about what it could be for. He then took his glasses, and put them on, as he couldn't let anyone see him without them. He went to his device and dialed an access code on it. A menu appeared on the device's small screen. It held all the current locations of everybody, should he need to use it. He selected "Papa", but nothing showed up.

"What?" He asked to himself. "I should know that my very own custom Alarmist machine should bring up anyone's location in the castle due to unique wired infrared technology. Except for the abandoned area... Oh no..."

Iggy dashed out of his room and quickly sped off to Ludwig's. He had never expected Ludwig to uncover anything, as he was not the type to break anything of his own. When he finally reached there, Iggy waited for a few seconds to prepare for a speech. He then nervously came in with his eyes closed, as if ready to be punched.

"Uh, Ludwig, let me explain that I'd NEVER interfere with your privacy, and, uh, this was to be sealed away forever, so I'd NEVER come back! Please don't hurt me! I did it for the future of the world! -Gah! It's not as gay as you might think!"

"What? I can't hear you. Come closer, Iggy..."

What he had heard was his father's voice. He almost sighed, as Ludwig was gone. Still, what was he doing in Ludwig's room? Doesn't matter. He went right on in the tunnel without hesitation.

"It's about time you showed up. What's this doing here?"

He looked around the room. It had been long ago since he had seen it, but he definitely remembered it well. With the imposing statues of some Koopalings, it was hard not to remember. Some pillars were in the middle, and there was an elevator that led to similar rooms. He had to remember it, as he built the infernal thing himself.

"Can it be your museum, Papa?" He half-asked. He wasn't quite sure he'd ever see it again.

"Why, yes! And what's it hooked to?" He similarly half-asked.

"The Timulator?" He half-asked again.

"Why, yes it is, son! My time machine is discovered at last! But why do you suppose it hidden?"

This game of pretending to ask was getting boring, so Iggy decided to end it.

"Alright, I'll tell you. I hid the entire museum here because time is such a delicate subject! Don't you realize taking important items from the past and then destroying the Timulator could erase us all from existence?"

Bowser got a little angry at his son for doing this behind his back.

"Well, not if time flows the way I, the Koopa King, think it does! You told me that Mario destroyed it after I got back! You said it was nothing but rubble!"

"You should have checked yourself, then. I simply used a cost-efficient way of transporting it to this castle, and cleverly hid it in the walls, never to be seen again for selfish desire." Iggy stated.

Bowser was still angry, but he almost seemed to understand Iggy's need to hide it from obsessive use. However, he still had one more question...

"Alright," Bowser conceded. "So it would be bad if I possibly erased our current existence. Yeah, I really didn't think it through after all... But remember that I found another hole in the wall? It was raining, and it wouldn't stop leaking. Remember what I found?"

Iggy was almost shocked that Bowser brought it up. He was just silent when he first found it, then left to himself. He eventually grew to accept it. What was found hidden in the walls was a rather large, apparently abandoned stack of bisexual porno mags, with the name "Iggy Koopa" labeled on each issue...

"Y-yes, Papa... Everyone knew..." Iggy was holding back some familiar tears.

Bowser almost cringed at the thought, but he wanted to know that he wasn't as mad and intolerable as he sometimes seems.

"Y-yeah. Look, I really don't want to know how you live your life in THAT way, okay?" Bowser almost shouted.

"A... Are you ashamed, Papa?" Iggy asked.

"No I'm not, so don't think that I am." He said, sighing. "Just don't keep anymore secrets..."

Iggy nodded, although he lied. He actually had half the entire castle secretly in the walls, where he was free to do whatever he liked. He operated, designed, and programmed many marvelous things in secret, and only those really close to him knew, except Bowser. Iggy couldn't possibly know how he'd react, so he never planned to tell him. It was his monument to his undeniable genius, but most others thought he was just crazy.

... But he'd show them!

"Great... Now, all that stuff aside, let's get down to business. Iggy, I want you to modify this time machine so that I can go ANYWHERE! Then, I'd go to the future! (Not to the past 'cuz that didn't work out well.) I'd see a land where the Koopas rule over Mushroom! Then, I'd know what caused Mario's downfall, making me do it as soon as presently possible so we'd rule sooner! And bring me the appropriate equipment for the travel!" He laughed.

Iggy sighed. I guess it'll be just one of those days...