Disclaimer: I wouldn't be here now if I owned Mario, so there you have it. Happy that you've crushed my dreams Nintendo? So yeah, Nintendo owns Mario.
Luigi opened his eyes to the perfect morning. The sun was shining, the birds were thankfully quiet, best of all he felt totally rejuvenated from the previous days exploits. Of course knowing Luigi's luck, it probably wasn't going to last. To prove my point, there was a sudden pounding at the door. Luigi waited for Mario to go get it, but all he heard was his deep snores.
His good mood trashed, Luigi groggily jumped out of bed. Floorboards lazily creaked on his way to the door, once again the manic pounding the door. Luigi rolled his eyes and pulled it open. With no time to react, a manic Toad burst into the room, throwing Luigi to the ground.
"The Princess has been kidnapped!!" The crazed toad screamed in Luigi's face.
"Princess-a kidnapped!? Let's-a go Luigi!" Mario snatched his hat off of his end table and barreled out the door in his pajamas.
Mario speedily dashed across the Mushroom country side. Dew glimmered on the grass as he sped along the dirt path to Peach's castle. In no time at all, Mario found himself at Toadtown. The town itself, was in utter chaos. News that the princess had been kidnapped sent everyone into a hysteric panic. Though it's nothing new, Toads will freak out if something bad happens. Toads were such cowardly creatures at times. Only a few ever put up a fight, and those were already out in the army.
"Look everybody! It's Mario, he's come to save the day!!"One lone toad cried. The townspeople stopped their panicking and began cheering everyone's favorite plumber on.
He ignored them, his mind set on one thing, the gate to the castle. The large blue gate with the Toadstool family insignia engraved on the side slowly opened. Just beyond it was an infamous Koopa Doom Ship hanging in the air above the castle. Mario adjusted his hat, and pressed on.
Inside the castle...
Iggy looked around the room bored out of his mind. Ludwig was pacing back and forth deep in thought. Roy and Morton were chatting about some girl in a magazine. Larry, Lemmy, and Wendy were off searching for Bowser Jr., who had mysteriously gone missing only moments after they broke into the castle. At the same time, Peach was no where to be found. One could assume that she had seen them coming, and hid somewhere. But how could she know? It didn't make any sense to Iggy. Then out of the corner of his eye, he saw something red.
Fearing the worst, Iggy turned and saw a large window looking out into the castle grounds. He pressed his face up against the glass and squinted his eyes. A small figure was making it's way down the path visibly stuck out against the dirt path. Iggy's eyes grew wide as he recognized who was coming after them.
"Red alert! Red alert! Mario's here guys, someone do something!" Iggy screamed as he ran from the windows. The room suddenly came to life while Iggy screeched his warning over and over again.
"I'll take care a' dat red twerp, he ain't big a' deal." Roy grinned.
"You forget zat he's beaten us every time ve've faced him." Ludwig sighed.
"Dat was a long time ago, I'm bigga' and stronga' dan I eva was." Roy flexed his biceps.
"Fine, but take Morton vis you. Morton, keep his head out of za clouds and make sure zat he doesn't get distracted." Ludwig commanded.
"Whatever."
Morton and Roy quickly left the room and headed down to the main entrance. Larry and Wendy entered the room, they had heard Iggy's hysterical screaming. Iggy checked the window once more, Mario was kicking and pounding the door.
"What's this I hear about Mario coming?" Larry panted.
"Look out the window, that fat man in the red ain't Santa Claws." Iggy pointed.
"Like, what are we going to do." Wendy asked.
"Vhat ve came here to do." Ludwig said sternly.
"Yeah, about that, I don't think she's even in the castle any more. Heck, we can't even find Jr." Larry said nervously.
"Vhat do you mean you cannot find zem? Is zere anyvhere else you have not searched?" Ludwig snapped.
"Um, like, Lemmy's still upstairs checking it out there. Like, we haven't been up there yet." Wendy replied.
"You trust zat screwball to find anyzing by himself? Vhat vere you guys thinking?"
"Hey, he's the one who wanted to go on his own. Besides, we're trying as hard as we can Ludwig. You could try to be a little bit more patient with us."
"Ve're about to be attacked by a von man army and you vant me to calm and patient? Larry zere is no time for calm and patient! Find Lemmy, search ze upper levels and report back to me." Ludwig yelled.
"Jeez, that fat moron's getting more and more like dad every day." Larry muttered to himself and ran away with Wendy.
"I heard zat." Ludwig snapped.
"Tsk tsk tsk Ludwig, I thought you were trying to get over your little temper tantrums." Iggy mock scolded.
"I have no time for this Iggy, Roy's big head's going to get the best of him and ve're the only things standing between the search party and Mario. I suggest you get ready to fight." Ludwig glared at Iggy.
"I'd hate to say it, but yeah that's probably the best plan right now." Iggy reluctantly agreed.
Meanwhile, still outside the castle...
Mario kicked and pounded the door, but it wouldn't budge. Not that it was locked, something big was holding the small door back. Ready to give up and find an alternate route, Luigi showed up as if on cue.
"Luigi! What took you-a so long." Mario shouted.
"I was-a getting dressed. Unlike someone I-a know." Luigi muttered. Mario suddenly realized that he was still dressed in his pajamas.
"That doesn't-a matter right now-a Luigi." Mario said red faced. "Do you think-a you could do-a something to bring-a down this door?"
"Well..."
"Spit it out-a Luigi." Mario snapped.
"I could-a smash it down with my-a head, but that would be-a very painful." Luigi sighed.
"Do it! Those-a Bowser creeps could escape any moment." Mario commanded.
"Alright, this is-a going to get messy, stay out of the way." Luigi ordered.
He took a few steps back and crouched down. He charged up for about ten seconds before blasting off. A small trail of fire ignited behind him as he smashed down the door head first. Splinters and two koopa princes flew left and right. Mario jumped inside to see Roy and Morton laying on the floor.
"Koopalings!" Mario shouted.
"Heh, long time no see, eh plumba'?" Roy stood up.
"Oh my head..." Luigi muttered.
"Shut 'im up Morton." Roy commanded. Morton walked up to Luigi and prepared to smash Luigi when Mario intervened. With a swift kick to the gut, Morton keeled over.
"H-how does a fat plumber like you hit so hard?" Morton coughed. He punched the stunned koopa right between the eyes and knocked him out cold.
"I've been-a kicking koopa butt for almost-a 18 years now. I learned-a thing or two about-a taking you down." Mario smiled.
"Oh yeah? Dere's no way you're gonna beat me by yourself, give it up." Roy smiled.
"Looks like-a Roy's personality hasn't-a changed much." Luigi murmured.
"You're-a right Roy, maybe I can't by myself, but-a Luigi's here." Mario pointed at his taller younger brother.
"Ha, you think you're dweeby little bro is gonna' help you beat me? I've been powa' liftin' and I'll be able to take you down wit' my pinky..." Roy held up his pinky with conceit.
"Luigi do-a the dance." Mario whispered as Roy bragged.
"W-what?" Luigi whispered back.
"Just do it so you can-a distract him. Then I'll deal-a the final blow." Mario muttered.
"-and dat's anuda reason you can't beat me 'cause..."
"Hey Roy! Watch-a dis." Luigi interrupted the monologue. Luigi started doing his strange dance, though he had no dark magic to use it's effects to it's full potential, it still was rather distracting.
"Wha? You makin' fun a me plumba?" Roy arched eye brow.
Mario slid around Roy while he was entranced, and slightly annoyed, by Luigi's dance. It gave him just enough time to get around back, Roy's weak point stuck out like a sore thumb. Mario lunged out and grabbed Roy by his tail and tugged.
Roy fell on his face surprised while Mario began twirling. At first it was all Mario's strength spinning the big beast of a teenager, then it was all momentum and centrifugal force. Roy screamed for the crazy ride to stop, his sunglasses had long since flown off. Mario timed his release carefully as he let go.
Roy's huge body went flying towards the door to the grand hall that the brothers had cleaned up the previous day. With a huge crunch, the door collapsed under Roy's weight and fell to splinters. Dazed by the intense spinning (as well as the force he struck the door with) Roy and his muscles fell unconscious. On the other side of the door, Iggy and Ludwig were waiting.
"See, vhat did I tell you Iggy?" Ludwig said as he stepped over his brother's unconscious body.
"Hah, it looks like somebody was in a rush this morning." Iggy cracked up laughing when he saw Mario in his pajamas.
"Shut up Iggy, zats probably vhat got Roy smashed zrough a door." Ludwig snapped.
"Okay, okay." Iggy readjusted his focus on the Mario brothers.
"Give-a us the princess you koopa brats!." Mario demanded.
"Yeah, or we will-a um...kick your butts!" Luigi threatened.
"Bring it slim." Iggy cracked an evil grin. Luigi was immediately intimidated and slowly took a few steps back.
"Knock it-a off Luigi, they're only-a kids, you can-a handle'em." Mario tried to coax Luigi back.
"Kids? Mario, they're-a more than-a seven feet tall."
"That hasn't-a stopped me."
"But-"
"Come on-a Luigi, where's-a the man who-a sent King Boo back to where he came from?"
"Ugh, right-a here Mario." Luigi held up his fists and prepared to fight, reluctantly of course.
Iggy jumped down to where Luigi was and swiped at him with his clawed hands. Luigi yelped and jumped backwards. Mario ran over to help, but Ludwig smashed the ground with a super charged ground pound and knocked Mario down with a shock wave.
Mario jumped back up and threw a punch at Ludwig, who actually stumbled backwards from the blow. Mario leaped into the air and tried to stomp Ludwig, though that probably wasn't the best idea. Ludwig snatched Mario out the air and smashed him to the ground.
Luigi was barely keeping up with Iggy's insane and erratic attacks. Worst of all, Iggy liked to stay up close. There was no escaping him, Luigi took three slashes along his back. Luigi winced as tears welled up in his eyes, it stung like no tomorrow. Iggy took another step closer to finish him off when Luigi gave the teen his fire uppercut. Iggy's glasses flung backwards as he flipped twice and landed on his back.
"Go-a Luigi!" Mario cheered in the midst of his fight with Ludwig.
Annoyed, Ludwig tried to smash Mario with another shock wave pound. Unfortunately for the teen, Mario jumped as Ludwig hit the ground, making the shock wave useless. Now helplessly stunned, Mario stomped Ludwig's head over and over again. Luigi used his torpedo attack and slammed Ludwig in the stomach. Out of breath and defeated, Ludwig fell on his back.
"You can't-a beat the Mario brothers." Luigi smiled confidently.
"Know zis, I vill not leave empty handed. You can stop us here, but ve vill attack that small little town until ve find za princess." Ludwig growled in pain.
"Hold-a on, you don't have-a the princess?" Mario cocked his head.
"Vhat do you zink ve're here for?" Ludwig muttered.
"We've been looking all night, for where she's been hiding, but no dice." Iggy winced as he stood up.
"So if that's-a true, then who has-a the-" Mario began.
"Guys! We found Jr. and he says that-uh oh." Larry stopped in mid sentence.
"Spit it out Larry." Ludwig coughed.
"H-he says that the princess has already been taken." Larry finished.
"What!" The room erupted with exclamation.
"He says someone else made off with her, and knocked him out when they made their get away."
"Zat's impossible, no von else vas here vhen ve invaded. How could zey get avay vis za princess totally undetected?" Ludwig shook his head.
"These guys are good, real good." Iggy muttered under his breath.
"Zey had to have left somezing behind. Perhaps foot prints or hair, or even spit for all I care." Ludwig sighed.
"Hey that rhy-"
"Don't say it Iggy." Ludwig caught his younger brother as the words left the tip of his tongue.
"You know, there might be something where Jr. crashed." Larry suggested.
"Zat's a good idea, ve'll begin za investigation zere." Ludwig nodded as they followed Larry.
"Um...excuse-a me, but what-a are you-a doing." Mario asked.
"Ve don't have time to fight over zis, vhats the point if zere's no princess to fight over?" Ludwig muttered.
"Y-you just don't-a quit a big fight like-a that! It's against-a boss fight rules." Mario yelled exasperated.
"But he's-a got a point Mario." Luigi butted in.
"Who's-a side are you on Luigi?" Mario snapped.
"I was just-a saying." Luigi shrugged.
"Vell if you'll excuse us, ve have a crime scene to investigate!" Iggy said with a huff, mocking Ludwig's accent.
"I don't talk like zat." Ludwig muttered as they walked away.
"Hey, you said act my age, what better way to do that than to mimic my superiors." Iggy argued.
"You know that's kind of immature Iggy." Larry shook his head.
"What do you know about being mature? You're only like 11 years old"
"Vell at least he takes his job seriously, remember za time vhen you..."
Mario and Luigi looked at each other. Both visibly tried to suppress their laughter as the bickering teens walked away.
"You're-a right Mario, they are just-a kids." Luigi chuckled. "What do we-a do about Roy and Morton over there?"
"Don't-a worry about them. I-a think that our top-a priority should be to-a find where the-a princess has been taken."
"Where do you-a think we should-a start?" Luigi asked. Mario thought for a moment, then looked at Luigi.
"We start-a where the Koopalings are." Mario replied.
"Mario, you-a know they won't let us-a investigate on-a our own." Luigi said surprised.
"Not unless we-a work out-a deal."
"D-deal? What-a sort of deal do you mean?"
"Just-a play along, I'll think of it as I-a go." Mario muttered.
"Well, you've-a never steered me-a wrong before bro." Luigi shrugged.
"Let's-a go." Mario grinned.
At the crime scene...
The eight Koopalings ran back and forth. They tore up the area in search of clues. Though their labors were fruitless, but most of them got a kick out of destroying a room. It wasn't until Lemmy noticed a slim blue object porturding from some of the clown car's wreckage. His lazy eye looked up and down it.
"Wait! Guys, I think I found something..." Lemmy shouted.
"Let me guess, you found a new toy to play vis?" Ludwig rolled his eyes.
"No Ludwig, it looks kind of like twine, blue twine." Iggy muttered.
"That's not like twine you moron, that's totally hair." Wendy snapped.
"How do you know?"
"It's a girl thing."
"Yeah, right, except on important thing, you don't have any hair!"
"Shut up, I like know a piece of hair when I see one."
"All right, like little miss 'girl thing' tell me who it belongs to." Iggy grinned.
"It kind of like looks like Ludwig's-"
"Well, well, well Ludwig, I should've known." Iggy snapped.
"Hold on and let me finish! It looks like Ludwig's, but it's like thinner and greasier." Wendy stuck out her tongue in disgust.
"You know we should get the DNA of this little puppy and see where it takes us." Iggy smiled.
"Vell, von zing. Our airship is lacking in a DNA scanner, and if we go home empty handed dad'll kill us. So vhere do you plan on getting a DNA scan?" Ludwig argued.
"Dude, do you always have to rain on my parade?" Iggy sobbed.
"Hold it-a right there." Mario called over to the koopalings.
"Oh boy, look, we'd love to fight you and all, but we're trying to solve a mystery here." Larry sighed.
"Actually, we're-a here to help." Mario tried on his most convincing smile as he said this.
"And we should trust you? We're like mortal enemies after all." Wendy frowned.
"Look, we-a both want to find the princess. I-a think that if we-a put our resources together, we can-a find her-a faster." Mario explained.
"Don't trust them guys, like Wendy said, they're our enemies." Jr. growled.
"Besides, what happens after we find her?" Iggy arched an eyebrow.
"It's-a everyone for themselves-a, maybe you can-a even redeem yourselves after that-a fight today." Mario bartered.
"Tempting, regain my honor, as vell as having a fair chance at taking za princess, but tell me, vhat 'resources' do you have to offer?" Ludwig asked. Mario didn't know how respond, but Luigi swooped in and saved the day.
"I know someone-a with a DNA scanner you're-a looking for." Luigi smiled. Mario looked at his bro with appreciation.
"Yeah, but how can we still trus-" Lemmy began.
"Did I-a mention that I'll bake cookies later?" Luigi added.
"Count me in!" Lemmy jumped.
"What! Won over by cookies and resources? You guys make me sick, what would Papa say if he was here." Jr. growled.
"Vhat are you going to do about it? Go tell him?"
"Um...yeah!" Jr. pouted.
"Vell do you know how to fly an airship?" Ludwig asked.
"No, but why would I? Papa always hired me a chauffeur if I'm not riding …his...clown car." Jr. trailed off looking at the wreckage that was once his clown car. "That's not fair! The only guys in the family who know how to drive one of those things are you and Iggy!"
"Exactly, so I would suggest joining our little quest vis Mario if you vant to get home vis your precious Mama Peach." Ludwig grinned for the first time on the trip, and frankly to most, that wasn't good news.
"So lead the way to th DNA scanner-" Iggy jumped.
"And cookies!" Lemmy shouted.
About ten minutes later, over the Morbid Woods...
Luigi and Mario rappelled down the sides of the doom ship as Ludwig and Larry eased the ropes down. There was a small cabin sitting in the middle of the seemingly abandoned and the aptly named Morbid Woods.
"Are you-a sure he's-a here?" Mario asked unsure of the disturbed environment he was in.
"Of-a course, he's always-a here if he's not-a running his-a cafe." Luigi replied.
"I-a hope for the sake of the-a princess that you're-a right." Mario whispered.
Luigi lightly tapped on the door. There was a sudden shaking and rumbling. Mario took a few steps back, but Luigi stayed. Mario looked at his younger brother with wide eyes. He had never seen Luigi so brave before.
"Who dare disturbs my-" A deep booming voice began.
"It's-a us, the-a Mario brothers." Luigi sighed.
"Oh, sorry about that. I'm just trying out my 'Securitron 9000' to see how well it kept out intruders, did ya feel scared?" E. Gadd chuckled
"I had-a goosebumps." Luigi laughed with him.
"That's great! So what is it you boys need?"He asked.
"First of all, we need-a your permission to let-a in some, um, slightly intimidating guests." Luigi said politely.
"Are they interesting? Do they have character traits that distinguish them from most." E. Gadd ran down his list of questions.
"Oh you-a have no idea." Luigi rolled his eyes.
"Well let'm in!" The old man demanded. Luigi turned around and gave Ludwig a thumbs up.
"Alright ve have za go." Ludwig relayed the message to his siblings. One by one they hooked up to a rope and readied for the jump. Bowser Jr. stayed behind pouting about how he was going to tell Bowser all about their exploits. He was promptly ignored while Ludwig stood over the diving plank.
"Hey, what about Morton and Roy. They're still out cold!" Larry shouted with sudden realization.
"Oh zey'll be fine. Zings'll get interesting vonce ve tell zem ve've joined forces vith za Mario bros zough." Ludwig sighed.
Ludwig let out a high whistle. One by one the koopalings (excluding Roy, Morton, and Bowser Jr.) jumped down the sides of the airship and landed next to the Mario brothers. The door opened and in they went.
Inside E. Gadd's little cabin was much bigger than the outside. A stair case led down into a large laboratory area covered in beakers with chemicals and various machines. Ludwig looked around intrigued by who could own such a remarkable place.
"Ah Luigi, good to see you." E. Gadd welcomed. "And I'm guessing that these are our interesting guests, my you're right they do look interesting."
"These are the Koopalings." Luigi tried to put on the same convincing smile that Mario had on earlier. E. Gadd looked over at them. Lemmy waved his arms around, Ludwig was still looking over the room.
"You don't say...my they sure look different in their pictures. Then again my pictures are outdated, perhaps I should take some new ones- now hold on a second, what are you two doing with Bowser's children?" E. Gadd shouted with sudden realization.
"We are-a teaming up to rescue the princess, and we-a need your help." Luigi replied.
"W-what do you need from me then?"
"Ve found a hair sample at the scene of za kidnapping, and ve're wondering if ve can use your DNA scanner?" Ludwig asked.
"A hair sample you say!"
"Yeah, and we want you to compare it to this one." Iggy plucked a hair out of Ludwig's head and held it up. Ludwig threatened to smack Iggy, who shook his finger and mouthed act your age. Ludwig reluctantly put his hand back down and looked over at E. Gadd. The old man thought for a moment, lend a helping hand to the Koopalings? He never thought he'd see the day.
"I guess I'll do it, but only because Luigi's here. After all, it's for a good cause." E. Gadd grabbed the two hair samples and walked over to a large machine.
"Zat's you DNA scanner, it's huge!" Ludwig commented.
"No, no of course not, it's my storage system. My DNA scanner's a hand held."E. Gadd shook his head as he typed in a few letters. A small dual screened machine popped out of a hatch on the side of the machine.
"Impressive, I see you have za latest DSi model." Ludwig grinned.
"Yeah, I never leave home without this baby. Not only is it a DNA scanner, it's a digital camera, video game system, mp3 player-"
"-UV lamp, Geiger counter, altimeter, tape measure, and many other useful accessories. Yes I've read about it on za internet."
"I have to admit Luigi, Bowser's kids have good taste." E. Gadd chuckled. "Now on to DNA scanning."
E. Gadd scanned the hairs with the built in camera and downloaded the DNA sequence as well as other foreign materials. He frowned as the results pulled up. looked over at Ludwig with and arched eyebrow.
"Both samples have the exact same DNA sequence, however I must ask, did you find that other hair sample in a shower drain or something because it's absolutely disgusting." He muttered.
"Vhat! Zere's got to be somezing else, scan the foreign materials on the hair." Ludwig demanded.
"Ah yes, good idea." E. Gadd studied the foreign materials meticulously. "Oh my...."
"What is it? Is there the sample of a murder victim on the hair too!?" Iggy shouted.
"N-no, it's something quite different actually. Excuse me, but mister Ludwig, have you ever bent space and reality in your lifetime?"
"Not zat I know of." Ludwig looked confused.
"This other hair sample has AU residue."
"What?" Iggy asked.
"Alternate Universe residue. It's a supernatural phenomenon that occurs when one jumps a universe." E. Gadd explained.
"But zat's just a myth, you know zat's not true! Here, let me see." Ludwig took the DNA scanner and looked over the screen. He saw exactly what the scientist saw, small sparkling traces of AU residue. "No vay, it can't be."
"It is true Ludwig, but I do have the good news slash bad news scenario thought out for you."
"And zat would be?"
"The bad news first, I'm sorry Mario, but your princess is in another Universe. However the good news is that I can take to that same universe using this hair sample's AU residue." E. Gadd smiled.
"How so?"
"With my teleportation device, which I use to get to my office at the local Cafe I own. I can scan the residue and jump to that universe. However, not only have I never tested it before, I've no way to get you back."
"That sucks." Iggy muttered.
"Vait I have an idea, if zose people got to our universe, zen zey should have a vay back."
"Why you people have a genius on your team. So the plan's plain and simple, I send you to that universe to locate the princess, then you can use the same way they got in to get out."
"Before that happens, can we get some of Luigi's cookies, I can't stop thinking about'em." Lemmy piped in.
"Yes Lemmy, we-a can get some cookies before we jump-a universe."
"Great! Can you make choclate chip? I love chocolate chip, though any cookie would work. Do you know how to make them like my mom used to? I remember she had the best!" Lemmy went on and on about cookies.
"Is he-a usually this-a talkative?" Mario asked.
"Only vhen he's excited." Ludwig shrugged.
"Alright, so now you know the plan. Prepare for quite a trip, because I'm pretty sure it's going to be awhile before you get back." E. Gadd warned. "Come back when you're ready okay? And Ludwig, when this whole issue's over, mind if you hang out here sometime. I think you'd be interesting to chat with over some coffee and snacks."
"I'm flattered, of course I'd love to!" Ludwig smiled. Iggy rolled his eyes.
"You forget Ludwig, that we'll be worst enemies with the Mario's again." Iggy brought forth the issue.
"Shut up." Ludwig snapped.
One by one, the Koopalings reboarded the ship. Bowser Jr. waited with the recently awoken Morton and Roy. Both of which were pleasantly surprised that Mario was now on their side. It took Morton, Ludwig, and Iggy to restrain the enraged Roy Koopa, who's pink head had changed to a shade of bright red.
Mario and Luigi steered clear of the insane pink menace. Soon, things calmed down, Mario and Luigi were allowed to walk freely along the deck. As nice as the Koopalings had been so far, the idea of treating Koopalings as allies was still foreign to them, so they stayed close to each other like they always had done before. The clouds raced by as Ludwig and Iggy drove the ship. Mario and Luigi sat on the small bunk beds in the lower levels of the airship.
"I-a hope she's okay." Mario sighed.
"Oh-a Mario, Peach has been through so-a much, this-a shouldn't be-a surprise to her." Luigi said calmly.
"That's-a true, and it can't-a be bad for us either. I mean she's-a been to the moon, and we've-a all gone to a different dimension. You, Peach, Bowser, and I." Mario smiled fondly at the memory.
"You know-a what, Bowser really isn't such-a bad guy whene he's a good guy. He's-a too proud to admit it though." Luigi frowned.
"I-a wonder if the-a princess is-a thinking of us right-a now."
"She probably has her own-a issues to deal with, I-a don't think she's ever jumped a universe before..."
Meanwhile, in foreign skies...
Peach's eyes groggily opened. She felt like she had a hangover. When what seemed like ages passed, she finally rose from the bed. The sheets were white with brown stars dotting them. Her eyes looked around the small room she'd been tossed into.
It was dark and dreary, the only light source was the moonlight from the outside. Various toys lay all over the floor in disarray. Music and laughter could be heard coming from behind the door leading into the room.
"What are they doing?" She asked her self as she curiously approached the door. Peach leaned against the door and held her ear against it.
"...the deed's been done, we fought for the princess and won!" A high soprano voice sang.
"The day's ours, the fun's begun!" A goofy voice joined in.
"Princess Toadstool's ours and it's going to stay that way, that was a lot of work now it's time for..." The soprano voice sang again.
"Play!" The harmonies joined in with the two lead singers.
Peach suddenly realized they were singing a show tune! She took a few steps back from the door and burst out laughing. Who did these kids belong to? Suddenly the music stopped and foot steps pattered over to the door. Peach tried to stop laughing, but only managed to take it down to light squeaks.
"Eeheowoehe, that's music to my ears!" Kooky exclaimed.
"We've made the princess burst into tears back there, king dad'll be pleased by how rotten we've been." Cheatsy giggled.
"I dunno,"
"But that's kind of mean." Hip and Hop sighed. There was a huge thump and groans emanated from the other side of the door.
"You two are gettin' too soft, say somtin' like dat again and I'll beat some sense into ya'!" Bully shouted.
"You know, it's getting kind of late." Kooky yawned
"Yeah and we didn't get any sleep last night..." Cheatsy murmured.
"I think we should..."
"hit the hay." Hip and Hop both yawned.
"Hey Princess! Is my cabin under your hopefully very high expectations? I hope you hate it so much because I don't want you to sleep in my cabin tonight. No way, I like my bed, and my stuff, and my wall paper. You'd like Kootie Pie's way better, it's nice and girly and pink." Bigmouth let loose.
"She's not getting my room! She's staying...in....yours!" Kootie Pie screamed.
"Oh never mind Princess, you can't stay in Kootie Pie's. She won't let you, however might I suggest that you ask for Kooky's cabin, it, unlike my messy and horribly dirty cabin, is very clean and organized. Instead of boring old wall paper on the walls, there's good old schematics and blue prints, and all sorts of gizmos lining the wall I'm sure that you'd app-"
"Shut up!" Everyone yelled at Bigmouth. It was so loud that Peach winced behind the door.
"She's sleepin' in your cabin tonight." Bully growled.
"Well where am I going to sleep, huh? You don't expect me to just sleep on the fl-"
"Yes we expect you to sleep on the floor!" Cheatsy snapped.
Peach couldn't help but feel sorry for the kid, his siblings were so rude to him. Not known for being a horribly mean person. Peach sighed and did the unthinkable.
"You know what, um...Bigmouth, that your name?" Peach asked.
"Yes you're highness, princess Toadstool. At your service."
"I think we can share the room." Peach kind of gagged at the thought of sharing a room with one of those kids, but deep down inside she knew that the last thing she needed was to get on their bad side.
"I-, wait did you just say that? Tell me she just said that..." Bigmouth began.
"She said it." Bully sighed. For once, there was silence.
"Um, thanks, y-your highness." Bigmouth uttered probably the shortest sentence in his life.
"He's going talk her ears off all night..." Cheatsy laughed.
"Yeah, shes going to regret that descision." Kooky smiled.
The door clicked open and in stepped that skinny loud mouthed kid. He looked nervously, like Peach's kindness had only been a ruse to lure him into a trap. Peach leaned against the wall and sighed.
"So, P-princess Toadstool-"
"Call me Peach."
"Peach, why're you being nice to me? Is it a trick? I mean, no one's ever nice to me..."
"I could tell Bigmouth, it's against my nature to be anything but nice, so I decided that you needed a good deed most." Peach explained.
"Wow, you really are different. You used to be so cranky and mean. I guess that what Kootie Pie said was true."
"That what's true?" Peach asked.
"That blondes have more fun of course." Bigmouth laughed.
"You know the only time I can remember having brown hair was when your father kidnapped me for the first time. It wasn't my natural color, I dyed it that way because my dad thought blonde hair looked fake and not fit for someone who was to rule the land when they grew up." Peach smiled.
"Oh, I guess you know what it's like having a king dad too, huh." Bigmouth smiled.
"So why do you talk so much? I mean that's why you're siblings are so mean to you."
"It's impulsive, I can't help it. If I get excited, which I usually do, I go on and on about nothing, I repeat every thing I say, every thing I say is repeated when I'm excited. Then no one listens, so I talk more so people will listen. Because it's no fun when people don't listen to what you have to say. It's the only way I can get people to pay att- oh I'm doing it again aren't I." Bigmouth's face turned red.
"Hey it's alright kid, it seems like all of your siblings have they're own little personality flaws." Peach sighed.
"It's part of being a Koopa, there's no way around it." Bigmouth shrugged.
"I guess you should get some sleep, it was nice getting to know my prison warden." Peach smiled.
"Um...yeah....thanks." Bigmouth dashed over to his bed and fell asleep almost instantly.
Peach thought back as she fell asleep herself. She remembered Bowser's real children. Regardless of their rude behavior and the fact that they always kidnapped her, they were still kids. They made interesting conversation and played games with her. Peach smiled as she remembered clocking in hours of Contra and Double Dragon on Ludwig's prized NES. Which he probably still has to this day.
She smiled, the first time all night, and fell asleep at peace.
A/N: Alright, another chapter up, I'm so happy I could sing a show tune myself. This one's quite a bit longer the last, so yeah...
So now I've sort of answered your question on how there's "Kooky and Ludwig." But opened up a whole new set of questions.
By the way, how's my driving? Tell me in your reviews if you feel so inclined, thanks for reading so far!