No Such Thing
Chapter 3- Out of All Places
Just so you know, this story takes after Mario Kart 8 and before Bowser Jr. was invited to the fourth installment to the Super Smash Brothers series. I'd figured that's where it would fit best. If this took place after Smash 4, then this would meet quite a few plot holes in the future.
When I post this chapter, I will put up a new poll based on your favorite Koopaling from this.
~KF
"QUICK, GET TO MY AIRSHIP!"
The eight offspring of Bowser were now dashing for their eldest brother's airship before their skeletal father suddenly leaped out of the castle. Since he was Dry Bowser for a reason, fire would not put a stop to him. The only thing that could is if the entire castle collapses on him. But, the Koopalings knew that it wouldn't happen in just a minute or so, notwithstanding the fact that blue flames burn things quicker than normal ones since they were at a higher temperature.
And during that minute, all of them made it on board safely.
"W-Wait, what if someone's right behind us?" Morton thought out loud. "We should at least give them a chance!"
"Morton, we don't have time! We have to leave, now!" Iggy declined.
"B-But-"
"Listen to him, Morton!" Wendy disputed. "We may not can save everyone, but we can at least save ourselves! If we just leave them like that, I'm pretty sure they'll understand!"
By the time Ludwig took off, his siblings didn't have the nerve to look back. They were already in enough horror, none of them knowing how much they could take. Thus, they were surprised that they were somehow still conscious.
So instead of looking back, the seven of them just sat beside each other looking down at the floor without even uttering a sound. The only noises came from the castle they were abandoning, and Ludwig controlling his airship.
"T-This is one heck of a nightmare, indeed... I want out of this..."
To make sure he wasn't dreaming, he had to pinch himself as hard as he could. "OWWWW!"
"... ... ..." He was met with six stares.
"...Look, I had to do it, okay!?" He defended himself with a glare. "You all would have done the same thing! I don't know if our father will make it or not! It's normal to feel this way!"
"...He's right..." Larry admitted in his mind. "None of us want this to be real since nothing like this has ever happened to us before. We're not that much of some spoiled brats we are, are we? I don't any of us deserve to almost lose our father... almost..."
Another silence followed, only to be interrupted once Lemmy asked a question. "Hey Ludwig,... where are we going...?"
"... ... ..."
"...Ludwig...?"
"... ... ..."
"... ... ...?"
"...He doesn't know..."
They all stared at their youngest sibling, whose eyes gradually became flooded with tears. "...I don't blame him... He's so upset about this not even he knows what to do... We don't even know where we can go at this point... ...Maybe Friday the 13th is real, and pretty soon we're gonna be next. ...I bet almost the whole castle is burned down, now, all because of dad... And it's not even his fault..."
He finally couldn't hold and let the tears flow. "...We should've tried to save him in the first place... But,... we couldn't do a thing!" The poor child buried his head in his folded arms as Wendy attempted to comfort him, despite the fact that she knew that it would not help at all. Yet she was astonished by the fact that he was not screaming like crazy even though he was only five years old.
"Just what did we do to deserve this? We're not that bad, are we?" Iggy mumbled. "We have one parent dead, and now the other is... I don't know... Just what should we do now? None of us even know where we could go until we find a way to save him... if it's even possible..."
Lemmy was one of the few who actually heard his words. He felt sorry for him. So, he began to think of all the places in the universe they could go to until they had a plan. To his own surprise, it didn't take him long to figure something out.
"...Maybe we can go to the Mushroom Kingdom..."
Almost instantly, his siblings minus his oldest shifted their eyes toward him, all with shocked, frozen, and confused facial expressions. Junior halted his crying, Wendy stopped attempting to comfort him, and from that statement, it completely enraged Iggy.
"... ...Lemmy... and I thought I was insane!" He snapped and stood up on his feet. "We almost died back there and now you want us to go to the last place we want!? You mean to tell me that we should just go to the castle of Princess Peach and just tell her straight up!? JUST WHAT WOULD YOU THINK SHE'D SAY!? AND WHAT IF MARIO'S THERE!? HE'S GONNA CONVINCE PEACH THAT THIS IS ALL A TRICK SO THAT DAD CAN TAKE OUT THE KINGDOM! NEXT THING THAT'LL HAPPEN IS THAT WE WILL GET KICKED OUT OR WORSE! THEN, WHAT-"
"Now calm down, alright!" Lemmy shouted back. "Just where else can we go to!? I know the fact that going THERE means that there is an extremely high risk of us getting kicked out of the Mushroom Kingdom, but we can at least try! So, don't think I'm trying to put all of our lives in danger-"
"LISTEN TO YOURSELF!" His taller, green-haired brother interrupted. "IF I WERE YOU, I WOULDN'T COME TO THAT CASTLE BEGGING FOR PEACH AND MARIO FOR THEIR HELP TO BRING DAD BACK IF WE ASK THEM! AND STAYING IN THAT CASTLE UNTIL WE COME UP WITH SOME IDEA WILL RESULT IN AN EXTREMELY ANGRY MARIO WHICH WE LEAD HIM INTO KICKING US OUT! THEN, HE'S GONNA ORDER THE LAME TOAD POLICE TO BANISH US FROM THE KINGDOM! I KNOW YOU'RE TRYING HELP, BUT I'M NOT GONNA GET MY HAND HELD BY THEM OUT OF ALL PEOPLE LIKE A COWARD-"
"WHAT CHOICE DO WE HAVE!?"
All eyes were directed at the turned away Ludwig who was just staring into the night sky as his airship kept proceeding forward.
"... ...Look, Lemmy's right okay? I know going to Mushroom Kingdom is the one thing we don't want, and you guys know it, too. But, let's face it. We have no other way... So, we're gonna have to deal with it... and make a deal with the devil..."
"...But,..." Morton lifted his head. "due to dad's many attempts to take over the Mushroom Kingdom and capture Princess Peach and destroy the plumber himself, I'm pretty sure he considers us the devil..."
"So, we can just forget all the other times we actually tolerated Mario, right?"
"... ..."
"That's what I thought. Mario is not cruel to us at times like those... Though, unfortunately, you guys haven't learn that yet... Unless, you all can correct me if I'm wrong..." He shifted his eyes over to them without rotating his head.
The other seven kids of the King of the Darklands all glanced at each other.
"We understand..." confirmed Iggy.
"We'll deal with it..." nodded Roy.
"We can try..." replied Wendy.
"You're not wrong there, Ludwig..." responded Morton. "...But, what if Mario just decides that we're still considered evil to him no matter what? Maybe he can be nice to us for a while but then all of us a sudden, he starts treating us with disrespect? You guys know how friends can just turn on you just like that. I mean at this point, we can just trust no one like it's April Fools Day. And then pretty soon, Mario will somehow make Peach not trust us as well... She will learn to hate it no matter how hard we try, even though-"
"We have to try anyway, Morton." Larry answered with a sigh. "Even if Mario still doesn't like us, it's not the reason why we're coming there... We're doing this for our father... If the worst was to happen, we can at least hope that Mario isn't there."
As Ludwig continued to direct the airship, he was sunk into his own thoughts. "Princess... please accept us... We're all relying on you..."
Instead of the last chapter being short, this one ended up being short instead. I'm barely over a thousand words, not counting the author's note. *Slams head on desk* Just what do I have to say for myself? For those of you who like long chapters, I apologize. I couldn't think of anything else that would actually make sense for this. I was starting to type up something that would happen, but it wouldn't have been accurate enough. So I had no choice but to leave it like this.
Don't worry, though. I'm pretty sure chapter 4 will make up for it. I know it's going to be longer than this because of where things are going for now.
I encourage everyone to review!
Questions:
1. If you have no choice, would you go to the last place you want in order to save your family?
2. If you were Mario, would you accept the Koopalings, or would you just reject them?