This story is unlike anything you've ever read before, because it was authored by 4 individual people. Wimpzilla, LuigiRocsz, Cascore, and BrawlFannumber1 (in that order).
The way this story was written was the interesting part. I gave the beginning premise of the story, and then sent the file onto LuigiRocsz. LuigiRocsz adds about 400 or 500 words (though some had added even more than that) and then passes it on to Cascore, who repeats the process with BrawlFannumber1. As the story progressed it twisted into something I never expected to get back, and I'm surprised, and pleased with the results.
So here is our collaborative effort. See if you can tell where a new author came in.
"Toss the frisbee over here!" One Toad shouted to the other.
"Alright, but stand back. This one's going to really fly!" His friend shouted. The sun was shining bright in the Sunday afternoon, meaning that the young Toads that played in the park had no school, no chores, and no obligations to attend to other than spending the rest of the day playing.
The frisbee wielding Toad twisted and contorted his body in order to throw the disc as far as he could. The other Toad began running backwards in anticipation of the far throw.
The frisbee was released. It sliced through the air perfectly, with no curving to the side or losing altitude, and would have been a flawless pass if not for one key factor. In it's journey through the sky it zoomed several feet above the receiving Toad's head, whizzing past him as if he weren't there.
The thrower shrugged sheepishly as he received a nasty glare from his friend. They watched helplessly as the frisbee traveled far across the playground and into the distance. Finally it began it's descent back to the earth, giving into gravity's pull. But the boys who watched their prized toy's flight were not pleased in the slightest about when it chose to descend.
"Aw crap!" One shouted as he watched the bright orange disc fall into the single green pipe that protruded from the ground. The frisbee teased him by bouncing on the thick rim of the pipe before rebounding back into the pipe's gaping hole.
Without a moment to lose the boys sprinted across the grass to the pipe. The first Toad who got there waited for the other one before groaning.
"Nice going Tom! You made the frisbee fall down the pipe!"
His friend defended, "Hey! I didn't mean to throw it down the pipe! It just did."
"Well do you know where this pipe even goes?" Tom's friend asked. "Because I don't see a sign around here anywhere."
"No." Tom admitted weakly. It was Toad safety rule number 1; never go down a pipe if you don't know where it leads. But at the moment safety was the last thing on Tom's mind, because the frisbee that fell down the pipe did not belong to him. He borrowed it from his cousin who was in town visiting. It was his cousin's most prized possession, and he just tossed it down a pipe. Tom buried his face in his hands.
"My cousin is going to kill me when he finds out!" Tom groaned.
"Hey Tom, I think I can see the bottom!" Tom's friend said as he leaned precariously over the side of the pipe.
"Freddy! Don't do that! You might fall in!" Tom said worriedly. But his warning came too late, as he watched Freddy's torso disappear beyond the rim of the pipe, then his waist, then his feet. Tom screamed to his friend as he plummeted into the depths of the pipe.
"Oh man!" Tom said. "What now??"
Tom started to look around nervously, looking for someone who could help them. Nothing: the park was completely deserted.
"Nice" Tom thought. "He had to choose the only Sunday when everybody is somewhere else to fall in a God-knows-where-it-leads Pipe…"
He peeked carefully over the edge of the pipe, standing on his tiptoes. Seeing that this was not enough to see what was beneath, he raise himself just a little bit over the broad edge of the pipe.
"Freddy?" He said. His words echoed creepily on the seemingly endless walls of the pipe. Nobody answered.
"Freddy!" He said, a little louder this time. Again, he was met only by the eerie echo of his own words.
Tom was starting to get scared by now. He backed a few steps from the pipe. What should he do? Should he run into town and ask for help? Or should he jump recklessly into the pipe to try and save his friend? No, no, that was too risky… But Freddy was his friend, and not any friend, his best friend.
"Okay then. Here I come Freddy, don't be scared!" He said as he ran towards the pipe, preparing to leap into its bottomless mouth.
Just then, a chilling cackle boomed all over the place. Tom stopped in his tracks and looked around to see where the sound came from, but he couldn't see much because suddenly and out of nowhere he felt a huge blast of something gooey that struck him from behind and thrust him forward, above the pipe, and onto a grassy patch behind it. He landed face down and ate some dirt and grass.
"He he he he he!!!" That horrible laughter again. Tom tried to look up, but the goop that covered him was too heavy and seemed to stick to him like super glue. He just heard the sound of someone stepping close to him.
"Hmm…" The person said. His voice was high-pitched, but he was undoubtedly a male. "So, what we got here…"
Tom made another effort to raise his head so he could see the person standing in front of him, and he managed to do so this time, with a lot of effort though.
The man was dressed in a really fake-looking purple Pianta disguise which made him look rather ridiculous. He wore a big mask with pretty noticeable eye holes and a plastic mini palm tree on top. He also wore purple mitten-like gloves with matching purple shoes and a purple short. He was holding a paintbrush-like staff in his left hand and had the other hand on his hip.
"Did you think you and your friend could simply waltz into MY pipe and then get away easily with all my secrets?" The Pianta-man said.
"I-It was an accident!" Tom said, struggling with the goop.
"Ha! And, do you think you will fool the great Il Piantissimo with childish lies like that!?" The man said, striking a cocky pose that consisted in placing both of his hands on his hips and raising his chin proudly.
Tom didn't know what to say. He just stared at the Il Piantissimo guy with a mixture of fear and pity.
"Now, if you excuse me, I have an affair down there with certain nosy child." Il Piantissimo said, stroking the handle of the giant paintbrush with his right hand. Then, he leapt into the pipe.
Well that was just perfect. Not only had Freddy gone and fallen into the pipe himself, but now this weird, freaky Pianta imitator thing with some crazy paintbrush was chasing after him. And Tom couldn't do a thing about it unless he managed to get this surprisingly heavy goop off of him. Somehow.
"So then I was like 'No. Way.' and she was like 'I'm not even kid-"
Before Tom realized what was going on, a pair of Koopa girls busy with the act of gossiping to one another tripped over the distressed Toad boy that was virtually glued to the ground. The girls fell head over heels in quite the dramatic fashion, throwing their arms and legs about wildly as one came crashing to the ground and the other somehow managed to tip over the lip of the pipe and fall in.
After regaining her bearings, the girl who was speaking earlier and managed to fall on the ground took notice of the goop-covered Toad boy nearby and suddenly let out a disgusted shriek.
"Like, oh my God!" she shouted as she retreated a fair distance from the boy. "That is so gross! What are you, some kind of nasty hobo!?"
"Um...no," Tom answered, feeling suddenly self conscious. "Some weird guy came by just a minute ago and-"
"Like I care," the Koopa girl scoffed as she looked around for her friend, prompting a brief sigh from Tom as he remained helpless underneath the massive goop. "Oh my God, Koopri didn't, like, fall down this pipe did she?" the girl asked nobody in particular as she peered down into the green portal next to her.
"I think she did," Tom answered sullenly, beginning to regret going to that stupid park with the stupid frisbee that stupid day. Who'd have guessed that all this would happen thanks to an overpowered throw?
"Ew, pipes are, like, so gross and grody..." the girl muttered disdainfully before turning back to Tom. "Get in their and get my friend out you dirty freak!"
"You know, even if I did like the tone of your voice (which I didn't), I wouldn't be able to do anything because this goop-"
"BONZAI!!"
What the he-
Before Tom could complete his thought, a Bob-Omb appeared out of the sky and exploded immediately upon contact with the ground. Having landed mere inches from Tom, the explosion succeeded in not only blasting the Toad straight into the air, but the searing heat managed to burn away all the goop that previously held him down. He would have been thankful for this had he not been falling through the air, flailing his arms helplessly, and screaming at the top of his lungs as he plummeted right into the pipe. When he landed though, it was not ground that he hit. Rather, he heard a noticeable groan that was not his own, and, looking below him, he found that he had, in fact, landed on someone.
"OH COME ON! ANOTHER ONE?!?" cried the same high-pitched tone from before. Tom had landed on top of the purple Pianta-wannabe he had met earlier.
"OW!"
"HEY!"
"THAT'S MY-"
"WATCH IT!"
Tom looked around the small circular room he had landed in. It was surrounded by metallic, grey walls. From the outside it probably looked like a giant silver sphere. And dozens of people- including Tom, Il Piantissimo, Freddy and the so called "Koopri" Girl- were all squashed inside, with almost no room to spare.
"DON'T LET IT DISSAPPEAR!!!" one of the toads yelled. But it was too late. The pipe vanished before anyone could get to it.
Tom looked around, trying to find Freddy. If he was going to be stuck inside a giant room packed with people in a sardine-like manner, he wanted to be close to his friend. "Freddy? You there?"
Freddy turned around after hearing his name. "Tom? Tom! It's you! I'm so glad you're here!"
"What's going on?" Tom asked.
"I've got no idea." Freddy replied, and after a few moments, added, "All I remember is falling into this room after looking down the pipe. Then this purple guy-"
"Ahem," the fake Pianta in disguise interrupted, "It's Il Piantissimo, if you don't mind."
"Yeah, whatever," Freddy continued, "Ill Piano fell on top of me after a while, then this Koopa girl, then you."
Tom was in deep thought by the time Freddy finished. A sphere full of people, a pipe left in the middle of the park without a sign, and a guy who thought himself to be a Pianta and had a giant painting stick that covered things in goop. All of that was very suspicious, and everything suspicious around Mushroom Kingdom was connected to one single person.
Bowser.
"MWAHAHAHA!" laughed a mysterious person outside the sphere.
Koopri gasped dramatically after hearing the evil laugh. "Like, oh my God, like, what was that? It's probably a flesh hungry Boo! WE'RE ALL GONNA, LIKE, DIE! WE-"
"SHUT UP ALREADY!" Il Piantissimo shouted, interrupting Koopri's panic attack.
Tom tried taking a peek through a badly-nailed hole on the wall. But all he saw was more darkness.
"Captured citizens of Mushroom Kingdom, I think it's only fair to tell you all how you will perish," said the laughing voice from before. "I've decided that the best way to defeat Mario, my archenemy, is to use a giant weapon against him. Kidnapping your princess has proved useless in the past, because Mario is always lucky enough to defeat me when the time finally comes for our epic battle. So, using my new Super Bowser Cannon v1.1, I'll launch a giant metallic ball full of people- you –and Mario will be instantly crushed."
Tom didn't know what to say. He never considered the idea that he would die being used as a giant projectile to destroy the town hero.
A random Toad below Tom and Freddy decided to speak up. "This'll never work! Even if we are killed, Mario would never let himself be hit!"
Bowser's laugh was heard. "Au contraire, my dear victim. You need to think for a second. Would Mario let you all just get killed? With being hero-y and stuff, I don't think that'll happen. And by the time he finds out that this ball is indestructible…SQUASH!!!!"
Tom's mind was finally working correctly. And he got the perfect idea to get them out of that mess.
"Pssst, Freddy, you still got your cell phone?" Tom whispered.
Freddy rummaged through his pockets, and after a while took out the cell phone his mom had given him in case of an emergency. "Hmm, emergency cell phone. Great idea. This seems like an emergency."
Tom took the phone and quickly wrote a message. If he risked calling, they were sure to get caught.
"Mr Mario! Help! We're traped in 1 of Bowser's evul skeems! He wants 2 use us as a giunt bullet! B kerful!"
Then he pressed "Send". If Mario didn't answer quickly, they would all be doomed.
Bowser's voice was heard once again. "Alright Kamek, put them in the cannon! In a few minutes we'll get Mario's attention with some Bowser-works and my master plan will be complete!"
"Come on, hurry!" Tom muttered to himself.
And, just in the nick of time, Mario appeared, shouting his classic Triple Jump "Wahoo!" as he entered.
Bowser turned around and saw Mario, who was already in battle position. "Wha-wha…but how?" He turned around and angrily looked at the silver sphere. "Grrrr…ahh! Doesn't matter! The cannon is ready to launch, and there's nothing you can do about it!"
Mario just gave Bowser a confident look. "Yipee!" he screamed as he jumped over Bowser.
"HA! You missed me!" Bowser shouted, grinning at Mario.
But Mario just gave him a look that said, "Oh, really?" Then he grabbed on to Bowser's tail.
All Bowser managed to say was, "Uh, oh." Bowser was launched at full speed by Mario's spinning throw and landed right on top of the opening of the cannon…where the sphere was supposed to come out. And the launching sequence had already started. Beep…beep…beep, beep, beep beep beep-
"Crap."
KABOOM!!!!!!
The cannon was destroyed, Bowser and his minions were launched very, very far away and the indestructible sphere full of people was unharmed. Mario stood on top of the sphere, where there was a giant nail. He did a Star Spin and the nail disappeared, opening the sphere and letting all the captured hostages pour out.
"Yay, we're saved!" yelled Il Piantissimo.
A star emerged from the empty sphere and Mario grabbed it, did his "I Got a Star" dance and left.
"So…this was just part of a Star mission? We were never in any real danger?" Freddy asked, puzzled.
Tom sighed. "Apparently," he replied. "Well, at least we can go now."
So the two friends, having had a great adventure, walked off towards the sunset, ready for the long walk home.
But then stopped. "Wait a minute, aren't we forgetting something?" Tom asked.
Freddy pondered for a moment, then shook his head, and continued walking. "If we did, it's probably not important."
"Yeah…you're right."
A note from Luigi Rocsz: If you didn't understand this, let me explain. Il Piantissimo is a character from the game Super Mario Sunshine that challenges you race him (much like Koopa, the Quick of Super Mario 64). This may not seem really important BUT at the end, after you defeat Bowser and yadda, yadda, Il Piantissimo is seen picking up Bowser Jr's magic paintbrush (sorry for the spoiler if you hadn't finished the game yet).
LuigiRocsz just wanted to clear this up for anyone who didn't understand what Piantissimo was doing with a paint brush. So what did you guys think of this little experiment? Tell me your thoughts with a review, but for now we'll move onto more interesting news.
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