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Mario Total Drama Island

Episode 1

Two Toads stand at the edge of a dock, on an island somewhere in the Mushroom Kingdom. One of the Toads were yellow, the other one blue.

"Hello everyone and welcome to Mario Total Drama Island, where 22 Mario characters – well that's not strictly true there are about 2 or 3 from other places battle for a million coins!" Blue Toad said enthusiastically. "The place looks better on the application form for the show so they might be a little surprised."

"We'll elaborate more when everyone gets here" Yellow Toad added. "Speaking of which the first boat is pulling up now."

From the boat they heard a loud "Yahoo!" as the famous plumber in red jumped off the boat and onto the island quickly followed by his slightly taller brother wearing green.

"Mario! Luigi! Oh man are we glad to see you" Blue Toad exclaimed, obviously a big fan of the pair.

"Here comes the glorious Princess Peach and her good friend Daisy" Peach stepped off the boat gracefully and then Daisy followed, slightly less gracefully.

"This place looked nicer on the application form. Are you sure we're in the right place?" Peach asked thoughtfully. Daisy nodded her head in agreement.

"Yep! This is the place, like it or not." Yellow Toad stated.

"If that's the case I'm leaving." Peach said as she tried to get back on her boat, but it drove away leaving Peach to fall into the lake, shortly followed by a scream. Blue Toad burst out laughing, much to the princess's displeasure.

"Hey Toad, who's on that boat?" Luigi asked.

"Why, it's Yoshi!" Blue Toad said as the green dino stepped down and looked around.

"This is... well, it's certainly not what I was expecting" Yoshi said.

"Wait, since when could you talk?" Mario asked in confusion.

"I suppose it's just convenient." Yoshi said "It's harder to be a team player if I can't even communicate with anyone."

"That makes a lot of sense actually" Mario replied.

"Oh, someone else is arriving." Daisy said. Everyone's attention was brought to the boat. A cyan Yoshi jumped onto the dock.

"What is going on here? I was told this place was a five star resort" she said.

"Surprise! It's not." Blue Toad said to her. "Wait what's your name again?"

"Aqua" she quickly said. "Oh boy, it's those jokers."

As she said that, two men comically tripped over each other, fell off the boat and then spectacularly face-planted the dock. One was short, overweight and wore a yellow hat and the other was way taller, skinny and wore purple.

"Wario and Waluigi are here!" Wario exclaimed in third-person followed by a "weh" from Waluigi

"Aren't you guys lucky" Yellow toad groaned with no enthusiasm at all

Peach laughed. "I feel bad for the poor people who have to put up with these guys."

Bowser and Donkey Kong arrived next, both of them groaned in disappointment and Bowser stood next to Peach.

"Please go away." Peach said, obviously not fond of the Koopa King

"The eleventh contestant to arrive is Zelda!" Blue Toad yelled "I did say not all of them were strictly Mario characters."

"Oh great, this place looks like brilliant fun, great job on the location. I love the middle of nowhere." Zelda uttered "Has Link arrived yet?" she asked.

"I'm glad at least someone likes this place, and no Link isn't here at the moment." Yellow Toad answered.

Zelda sighed. "I was being sarcastic you dolt."

Yellow Toad glared at her. "Anyway you guys are all on one team, you can choose the name later."

Peach paused. "I'm on a team with the Wario Bros.?"

"Great observation skills genius" Zelda said as she walked past. Peach groaned and stuck her tongue out at Zelda.

"Now that's not behaviour fit for a princess, what would Toadsworth say?" Zelda said mockingly.

Peach just pushed Zelda off the dock and into the water, before moving on.

"Anyway let's see the other half of the contestants!" Blue Toad stated.

Another Koopa with a spiky shell arrived next, but he was a lot smaller than Bowser.

"Bowser Jr.! I'm so glad you arrived!" Bowser exclaimed

"Dad! You're embarrassing me on live television!" Bowser Jr. shouted back to him.

"Sorry son" Bowser says as he turned away with dismay.

Suddenly a loud "I have arrival!" made everyone in the camp jump, even the hosts.

"Oh, right. We invited Fawful." Yellow Toad sighed and then was quickly followed by a "Eyeh heh heh!"

Yellow Toad said to Blue Toad "You invited Cackletta too?" Blue Toad just nodded.

The small beanish man in a stylish red cloak stepped off the boat followed by a much larger beanish witch wearing purple.

Cackletta laughed "Eyeh heh heh! I will single-handedly crush all of you if this is my competition."

The next person to arrive had an air of calm surrounding her. She wore a blue dress, had platinum blonde hair and a wand in her hand.

"Rosalina is here everyone" Yellow Toad said as she just walked past him. "Um, anyway here comes Toadsworth and Toadette."

A mushroom girl came out of the boat first with pink pigtails going down her back. Afterwards an elderly Toad came out muttering about the safety of the island and the princess.

"Oh no" said Peach as Toadsworth walked up to her.

"Princess! You're alright! Thank the stars! I was very worried after you left without me!" Toadsworth burst into tears of joy.

"Is he always this... melodramatic?" Rosalina asked and Peach nodded with a look of disapproval on her face.

A man wearing green with blonde hair was next to arrive. He had a sword with him which struck some contestants as odd.

"Link! Finally someone worth talking to has arrived" Zelda yelled. Link nodded back to her.

A rather large pig-looking man arrived. He was about the size of Bowser and looked as strong too.

"Midbus everyone!" Blue Toad introduced him, but nobody seemed very pleased with his presence except for Fawful. "Midbus, I know you have a short temper but try to keep it under control and don't get kicked off too early" Yellow Toad added.

Next was a young Koopa with a big green hat and a pink shell. She had a camera with her.

"Kylie Koopa! Hi!" Blue Toad squealed, being a big fan of the journalist.

"I heard this place was great, but it don't look that great to me." Kylie said, frowning

"Anyway, we got two more to go and here's one of them now!" Yellow Toad said as a small monkey with a red shirt and cap swings on a vine, jumps off, does a couple frontflips and then landed.

"Wow, that was impressive!" Daisy shouted and then gave a round of applause. Several others joined in.

"Hi Diddy Kong!" Blue Toad said but Diddy Kong just walked straight past him. "Why do people keep doing this? We're the hosts!"

Rougeport, a couple hours ago

A young woman with long white hair, no older than twenty years old ran towards the docks screaming as she was late for her trip to Hoenn to meet her friend. She was about to get on when a small beanish man with a mask and a purple striped shirt jumped on her boat and left.

"Your boat has been taken by the great Shadow Thief, see?" the man shouted as he blasted his favourite song on speakers at maximum volume.

The woman cursed under her breath wondering what to do now. She had been planning this for ages and this 'Shadow Thief' just took it all away. She even forgot to put on shoes. Another boat pulled up. She perked up thinking this was another boat to take her to her planned holiday.

Somewhere in the Mushroom Kingdom, now

"It looks like our last contestant is arriving, say hello to Pop- uh, who are you?" Yellow Toad asked

"Are you saying this isn't Hoenn?" the woman said.

"No. You're in the Mushroom Kingdom. On TV too. We're kind of expecting a certain person called Popple" Blue Toad added.

"I'm on TV? Well, I hope my family sees this. I think Sakura especially would enjoy seeing me here. Anyway would this Popple happen to be a 'Shadow Thief'?" she replied

"Yes he refers to himself as that sometimes." Blue Toad said. "How do you know?"

"That goon stole my boat to Hoenn!" she shouted in dismay "What do I do now!"

"I suppose you can join this show in his place, uh, what was your name again?" Blue Toad asked

"My name is Corrin." she said.

"Anyone know who this gal is?" Bowser asked "I'd kidnap her anyday."

"Of course YOU would Bowser." Peach retorted.

"Um... thanks?" Corrin said, not sure how to take the Koopa King's comment.

"Anyway, Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Yoshi, Aqua, Wario, Waluigi, Bowser, DK and Zelda are on one team and Bowser Jr., Fawful, Cackletta, Rosalina, Toadette, Toadsworth, Link, Midbus, Kylie, Diddy Kong and Corrin are on the other team. Now choose a name for your team!" Yellow Toad said.

After some discussion about team names and complaining about certain people, it looked like the teams had decided what to name their teams.

"Well" said Blue Toad "Tell me what you've got"

Peach walked forwards confidently and said "My team will be called Sweet Peaches."

The rest of the team paused. Yoshi was the first to say something. "Not to be rude, but that kind of contradicts the team dynamic if you name the team after yourself."

Wario took a less subtle approach. "Hey! We discussed names for TEN MINUTES and even then you decide to ignore our input and name the team after yourself. Great."

"Well the first thing you say is accepted, that's the rules!" Blue Toad said with glee.

"I have chortles!" Fawful yelled thinking the team name mishap was quite amusing.

"Okay so the teams are 'Sweet Peaches' and 'I have chortles'. I'll admit you could have done better." Yellow Toad stated.

"Fawful! Why did you do that?" Toadette said in disappointment.

"I have sorriness! Fawful did not mean for that. Fawful apologises to you." he said in reply

"I suppose I accept, but try to be more careful in the future, okay?" Toadette sighed.

"Fawful agrees, Fawful will have care." Fawful said.

"Anyway, this is how the game works. You're in two teams and will compete in challenges. The winners will get a reward, however the losers must send someone home via a voting system. You got the most votes, then you leave. And there is no coming back. Ever. Last one left wins a million coins!" Yellow Toad explained.

(Confessional)

Yellow Toad- "You can also share your thoughts or say something private in here."

Corrin- "This certainly isn't what I expected from today, but I'm glad to be here I suppose?"

"When is the first challenge?" Waluigi asked.

"In about 20 minutes, meet me on the top of that cliff. I'll explain there." Blue Toad said with a grin.

So that's the end of the first chapter. This is my first story and I'll admit I'm not the most experienced writer, so constructive criticism will be accepted. It may seem a bit slow but that's because we're introducing lots of characters and there isn't much action. Chapter 2 will be out soon. I'm not making any promises on a release date as I'm not great at keeping deadlines or staying on schedules.

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