Daddy's Back
Chapter One: Bowser's Worries
It was morning and the royal Koopas were having a family meeting on a big round table in a meeting room hidden deep in Bowser's castle. "So family how should we beat Mario?!" Bowser asked curiously while he assuring himself that this time he would beat Mario and rule the mushroom kingdom. Bowser looked suspiciously around the table for someone to answer.
"Uhm…" Ludwig Von Koopa (Bowser's eldest son) cleared his throat, "I think you mean how can we beat Mario?" Ludwig corrected his father stating that the chances of beat Mario this week were as slim as when he lost to Mario the week before. Not that it was a bright idea the week before, it was too original like every plan he had. It went like this, Bowser kidnapped the princess, took her to his castle and then got beaten up at the hands of Mario with maybe a little help from power ups and his pal Yoshi and brother Luigi.
"No! Coz we're gonna beat that little thorn in my side Mario this time so shut up!" Bowser shoved out his chair and smacked on the table while growled. The loud smack on the table ringed through everyone's heads while Bowser gently sat himself down again still assuring himself he would beat Mario this time even if he knew it weren't gonna happen.
"Well I've got this new potion" Ludwig claimed, instantly grabbing Bowser's attention.
"What is it?!" Bowser asked curiously waiting for an answer while making his eldest son nervous with his glaring eyes.
"It's a growth potion it makes you bigger for a while!" Ludwig answered proudly.
"For how long?" Bowser asked curiously as he tapped one of his claws on the table at a steady pace.
Ludwig paused, Bowser stopped tapping his hand on the table and the room went silent for a minute. The one question Ludwig didn't want his dad to ask, he asked. "For…? For about 10 seconds" Ludwig answered, feeling like a let down he slowly looked down at the table while Bowser reacted to the answer.
"How can I crush Mario, Luigi and Yoshi in 10 seconds?!" Bowser asked Ludwig furiously.
"I don't know?" Ludwig replied slowly.
"So anyone else got any useless plans?!" Bowser asked expecting someone reply. The room went silent and the rest of the koopalings looked down in shame. "Ok then meeting's over you can leave! NOW!" Bowser shouted and within seconds the room was emptied with the exception of Bowser and his wife Anna.
(Most people see Bowser's wife as a large koopa with a spikey shell like Bowser but I think of her as an ordinary koopa about half the size of Bowser with extraordinary features, in fact I believe that her children, the koopalings are the same size if not bigger than her. I imagine her having a light purple shell, wearing a mint green head scarf and having long dark purple hair (but her hair's only visible when she don't have her head scarf on). I imagine her character as someone caring and responsible yet possibly a bit demanding when on her own with her husband. But you can imagine her how you want?)
(Back to the story?)
She walked at a steady pace around the table until she was behind Bowser. She massaged his shoulders before asking, "what's wrong Bowser, you seem very upset today?" Anna was obviously concerned.
"Go away Anna, I told everyone to leave me alone!" Bowser complained as he swayed his shoulders to shove Anna away.
"When someone says they want to be alone, they really want someone to be with them!" Anna explained stubbornly as she moved in front of Bowser to get in eye contact with him.
Bowser turned away from Anna. "That's stupid why would I do that?" Bowser asked when he was doing exactly that anyway.
"Bowser!" Anna replied quickly as she slapped him and immediately got him to look at her again.
"Maybe I am having some worries at the moment?" Bowser explained emotionless, as he rubbed away some of the stinging in his cheek.
"Go on I'm listening!" Anna replied impatiently.
"Well its tough being a father, I can't keep up with them!" Bowser explained angrily but quietly as he looking onto the floor and clenched a fist.
"Bowser you're a good dad and the kids all love you" Anna tried to cheer Bowser up, she picked his head up and looking in his eyes. They were angry with fire burning in the back of them and his eyebrows shaping down with his evil eyes.
"I wonder what it was like for my dad?" Bowser moaned as his eyes turned to a feeling less expression.
"Do you miss your dad?" Anna asked.
"Maybe? I don't know?!" Bowser replied shoving himself away from his wife again. "I've been thinking of how my dad raised me and how I'm raising my kids!" Bowser explained a little more aggressively.
"Bowser your father raised you with torture and punishment is that how you want to raise our children?" Anna asked Bowser, not sure if he was feeling well now. Anna could only be thinking one thing, 'how could you even think of raising my kids the way your dad raised you' but she didn't say it because it would offend Bowser. Bowser worshipped his father, he was a god to him.
"But Anna? You wouldn't understand the bond me and my father had!" Bowser explained and he wasn't lying. Bowser's father was the evil King Morton Koopa, he didn't have any qualities to be a dad. He didn't play with Bowser or spend time with him in any way. Even Bowser himself was confused about the reason why he cared even the slightest bit for his demonic father.
"Bowser clear your head of this nonsense!" Anna argued in response to Bowser's complaining.
But her husband didn't take it well as he jumped up violently and started shouting, "THAT NONSENSE!!! YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IS MY FATHER AND MY FATHER IS NOT JUST SOME NONSENSE IN MY HEAD!!! MY FATHER'S A GOD!!!" Bowser breathed fire to the left of him to avoid hurting Anna as smoke came out his nostrils and his scales heated up. After a minute Bowser cooled down by breathing slowly in and out while he slowly sat back in his seat. "Sorry Anna?" Bowser apologised slowly as he tried to breathe in and out still.
"I'm just saying you might start worrying the kids?" Anna explained a bit nervous whether or not she was safe anymore.
"But that's it you see, they worry about me, they worry too much about me, I might have cared about my dad but I never told him and he was the same. My point is the kids should be evil, but what if they're not evil enough? Maybe they're turning good?! Maybe I'm the one turning good?!" Bowser panicked now doubting himself rather than his kids.
"No you're just a good father, Bowser you're evil and your kids are evil too. They're strong, they cause a lot of mischief and they also fight a lot too" Anna replied reassuringly and kissed him on the head.
"NO!" Bowser shouted, "its me I'm not evil enough?! I wish my dad was here he'd know what to do?!" Bowser sobbed in confusion and smacked the table.
"Oh, Bowser you're evil just clear your mind" Anna hugged him and started to exit the room.
"Wait Anna!" Bowser quickly blurted out before she had a chance to leave. "What if I was able to bring my father back to life?!" Bowser suggested with excitement causing Anna to turned around quickly and look at Bowser in worry.
"Bowser why would you do that, your father's dead you shouldn't mess with nature. This is just a phase you're going through?" Anna explained as she tried to get Bowser to change his mind.
Bowser ignored Anna while he thought about the idea for a second or two. "Anna I've decided I'm gonna revive my dad!" Bowser explained his decision and cheered up instantly.
"Are you sure Bowser?" Anna asked hoping he'd change his mind.
Yes, absolutely!" Bowser replied as sure as he could be.
"Ok then well Ludwig might know how to revive Morton?" Anna suggested.
"Yes, exactly what I was thinking, let's go see him" Bowser replied and without wasting time he strolled to Ludwig's lab with Anna following nervously. "Ludwig!" Bowser spoke proudly as he walked boldly into the room, "Ludwig I've got a favour to ask of you!"
"What is it King Dad?" Ludwig asked curiously expecting his not so smart father to ask him to build another stupid pointless machine.
"I want you to build a machine that will revive your grandpa!" Bowser explained hoping for Ludwig to reply positively.
"Revive Grandpa, I didn't know I even had a grandpa?" Ludwig replied a bit confused.
"Well where do you think I came from!" Bowser argued back sarcastically.
"Um… I never really thought about it…? Well I think I've already got a machine that would do that?" Ludwig answered after thinking about it for a second.
"Can you do it right now then?" Bowser asked a bit surprised and not too sure if he was ready to see his dad this soon.
"No, first I'll need some piece of Grandpa's DNA!" Ludwig answered as Bowser stared at him in confusion.
"A piece of what?" Bowser asked, absolutely oblivious to what DNA meant.
"Some of Grandpa's blood, scales, a strand of hair maybe?" Ludwig explained a little simpler for his dumb dad.
"I've got a lock of his hair in a box in my bedroom?" Bowser explained slowly, shocking Anna a bit since she didn't know it existed.
"Yes that will work, go get it please?" Ludwig asked him nicely.
Bowser wasted no time running off to his bedroom and grabbing the little box with the lock of hair in it, then he was back at the lab just as quick. Bowser gave Ludwig the little box gently and watched Ludwig as he grabbed one of the strands with a pair of tweezers.
"Ok Dad have you ever touched these?!" Ludwig asked seriously while looking carefully at the little strand of hair which looked grey, but it was very old.
"Only when I was a kid, why?" Bowser explained but asked curiously why it mattered as he looked at Ludwig suspiciously.
"Because I don't want to clone you. You see if there is some of your DNA on these hairs you could just imagine what would happen" Ludwig laughed gently.
"So does that mean that there's a chance a kid version of me could be the end result of this experiment…? Thing?" Bowser asked in confusion as he tried to gasp what Ludwig was saying.
"Yes you've got it!" Ludwig replied to Bowser, sighing with relief that he didn't have to explain. "But it's ok because before I start the revival I'll clean the hair and then Grandpa should be brought back fine!" Ludwig explained.
"So can you get started then?" Bowser asked nervously.
"Yes, I'll start right away, all I need to do is make a few minor changes to one of my machines. Come back in about five hours and I should be done!" Ludwig answered.
"Ok then in five hours I'll have the whole family in here so you better be done!" Bowser replied. He walked out the lab excitedly with Anna following behind him.
"Bowser! Are you completely sure you want to do this?!" Anna asked in the most serious way she could.
"Yes Anna completely!" Bowser answered without hesitation. After that Bowser left Anna standing on the spot as he shared the news with his children.