The Greatest Enemy: A Super Mario Fanfiction
Chapter 1: The Morning Rush
"Oh my goodness!"
Mario shouted as fast moving Bullet Bills shot from cannons at him from all sides. He had to dodge, duck, and roll just to avoid half of them and then he had to jump over the rest to make sure he didn't get pummeled by the black bullets. Mario could see Bowser directly in front of him, laughing as the airship he was standing on zoomed through the dark storm clouds with thunder rolling in the background. Mario was enraged,
"If you think you are so tough, then come and fight me one on one, no weapons!" Mario shouted at Bowser. Bowser stopped laughing, just for a moment, then jumped high in the air and slammed down on the Airship throwing Mario clean off of it. Mario screamed and yelped as he tumbled through the clouds, the last thing he saw was Bowser's smug face and the dark, ominous thunderclouds that looked like they were ready to strike…
Mario continued to shout before he realized he was in his bed safely under his covers with his brother Luigi giving him a mean stare that looked like he wanted to kill someone.
"Oh, sorry bro," Mario apologized. Luigi rolled his eyes before slowly lifting his feet out of his bed and putting on his boots.
"That is the third time you screamed in your sleep Mario," Luigi said coldly,
"What was it this time, Bowser was attacking you on a giant airship before throwing you off?"
"I did not do that three ti-wait, how did you know?"
Mario inquired, but Luigi just shrugged,
"Wild guess."
Mario rubbed his eyes and looked outside, noticing it was light out before checking his clock and gasping.
"Oh shoot! Luigi, we have to get to Peach's Castle! She wanted us to be there at 8 and it is already 7:50!"
This made Luigi go wide eyed as he checked his own watch and quickly got dressed. The brothers put their clothes on, ate some cereal, and then ran out of the house in preparation for jumping into the Warp Pipe that would transport them close to Peach's Castle.
"Luigi, your shirt is on backwards!" Mario shouted after Luigi as he ran towards the Warp Pipe.
"Bro, we don't have time! Let's-a-go go go!" Luigi shouted back. And with that, he jumped headfirst into the pipe causing Mario to grunt and jump in after him.
The brothers sped through the pipe before hopping out in Toad Town, the bustling town full of the mushroom like Toads. The town was fairly busy as Toads bustled about to get to work, school, and other places. In the far right of the town, close to the gates that led to the open plains of the kingdom, Mario and Luigi jumped out of the Warp Pipe and rushed through town weaving through all of the Toad inhabitants.
"Race you there, Luigi!"
Mario told his younger bro while jumping over a Toad carrying an Item Box.
"Hey!" The Toad screamed after Mario as he shook his hand at him.
"Mario, I'm not sure this is safe..."
Luigi replied as he also jumped over the same Toad.
"Hey! Did you not hear what I said to your brother?"
The Toad screamed.
"Sorry Mister!"
Luigi shouted back.
"Last one there has to cook dinner! No holds bard!"
Mario snickered to Luigi
And with that, Luigi suddenly changed his demeanor.
"Oh no bro, I am not letting you beat me this time,"
Luigi said back.
And with that, both brothers sped up their pace running through the narrow streets of Toad Town passing by house after house. Luigi suddenly jumped over Mario and hit a floating ? Block in the air making a Super Acorn powerup pop out of it. Still running, Luigi ate the Acorn and transformed into Flying Squirrel Luigi.
"Hey! Using ? Blocks to get powerups is cheating,"
Mario playfully said to Luigi.
"But you said 'no holds barred',"
Luigi replied snarkily.
Mario simply shrugged and started to run faster, the wind whipping through his huge mustache while Luigi took to the skies and glided using his Flying Squirrel Suit. It was peaceful in the skies, just a clear blue view with white fluffy clouds here and there, and Luigi took this time to reflect on all of the adventures he had been on with Mario, who was almost right below him.
"Hey bro, remember that time we got thrown to that giant acorn tree, and had to run all the way back to Peach's Castle?"
"Oh, totally! But that doesn't even compare the time we went to Dinosaur Island."
"Oh yeah, that's where we met Yoshi. Such a nice guy… But you cannot ever forget the Sprixie Kingdom adventure."
"Oh my gosh, I totally forgot about that one!"
"Seriously?"
"Yeah"
There was a moment of dead silence before both brothers started laughing like crazy.
"I never want to lose you, bro,"
Mario said to Luigi when he caught his breath from laughing and running.
"And you as well, bro"
Replied Luigi.
Mario and Luigi were starting to get tired from running through Toad Town, but fortunately the elaborate gate to Peach's Castle was just ahead. Luigi touched down next to the giant gate before Mario ran up to it and started to walk to the handlebar.
"Yes! I got to the gate first! Tonight, you shall make lotsa spaghetti!"
Luigi told a tired Mario as he started laughing again.
"Ok bro, you win."
Mario replied as he let Luigi pushed the gates open and talked to the guards so they could see the owner of the castle, Princess Peach.
Meanwhile, a lanky turtle figure was silhouetted in shadow. He watched the events unfolding in front of Peach's Castle from up on a hill and snickered.
"It is time for my plan to make the Mario Bros. fight their greatest enemy."
He said to no one but himself before slowly walking away.