Chapter 2: Family
Note: Play Toad Town-Paper Mario for ambiance.
It has been a day after Timbo found the three babies. It was a hot day and it was fairly quiet, with the Toads doing their daily activities as usual, children went to school, the fathers went to work and the women did too or they stayed at home looking after the little ones.
Today, it was Timbo's "shopping day", so he was at the main market of the town. The market was outdoors, the prices were neither too high nor too low, and as a result of the economy was going well. The market was filled with a lot of products; vegetables, fruits, drinks, sweats of any kind and meat.
Everyone in the place was in a good mood, they bought what they would eat today or what they would eat over the course of a week, and one could easily see it by the number of bags they carried. Timbo simply took several meat slabs, some cartons of milk and one carton of orange juice, the milk was for the kids and the rest was for him.
When he returned home, he found Mario and Luigi jumping everywhere as if the floor was lava. Those kids, just by jumping, reached the height of an adult man, they also shouted as if they were burning.
Timbo panicked, grabbed both and began to embrace them due the shock. He put them on the table and began check them out in case of injuries.
"They have no bumps, no cuts, my god. These lunatics!", Timbo said to himself, scared.
Seeing that they had no wounds, he left them on the table while preparing a bottle near the sink, he placed the milk on it and began to feed Mario, while Luigi spent his time staring at the ceiling and sucking his thumb. Mario looked pretty hungry, being unable to stop drinking the bottle while making noises.
When he finished drinking, Timbo began to clap him on the back so he would burp, with Luigi feeling alone and turning his back away. Timbo felt bad about it, so when Mario finally burped, he left Mario in the bed, and then he grabbed Luigi and started feeding him with a different bottle. He drank it slower than Mario and he was also not as loud.
He played a little bit with him, throwing him into the air and catching him when he reached his arms. Mario woke up to hear that and wanted the same thing, so he left Luigi in the bed and started to play with him too, Luigi began to applaud him for some reason, while Mario just laughed and was having a lot of fun.
After playing for a few minutes, Timbo left Mario on the bed alongside Luigi and he began to read a book about a boy dressed in green who saved the world from a giant blue pig, that was the summary of the book in a nutshell, but also it was a very good and epic tale.
He was on the part where the hero was facing the pig, Timbo began to notice several parallels when he fought against the former King Koopa a month ago. It even had the same description, the sky turned red, many fled or died on duty, there was only one bastion of defense consisting of a single soldier.
A month ago…
Note: Play Thunderclash - Dark Lord Bowser (best cover you will ever hear!)
The village was on fire, the sky was painted red, the nearby forests were on fire and the Toads that were captured were crying for mercy, but the Koopas and Goombas didn't want to give them anything, they only wanted the Mushroom Kingdom and its fertile land, it didn't matter if they had to kill half a million Toads in the process or destroy half of the kingdom to achieve it.
The Toads had only a few hundred casualties, because the Koopas captured the great majority. The Koopa Troop had similar casualties, but the Koopas couldn't be captured, since they always fought till the last man, and would rather than die than serve the Toads.
The Koopas were about to enter the castle, only a gigantic steel door that has hundreds of feet wide and tall was stopping them from doing so. The King of the Koopas was about to break it, but before doing so and seeing that "the coast was clear", he wanted to give a few words to his troops.
"Today, this will be remembered as the day that the hunger was stopped, as the day when the Toads became our slaves and the day were we finally can enjoy a picnic with our family!", King yelled, completely happy and confident.
The Koopas and Goombas shouted "hurrah" full-throated, quite a few moved away while one of them had the courage to get into its shell and to spin on himself, spinning so fast that generated a tornado, the Koopa was launched against the gigantic giant door at hypersonic speeds.
The blow was so powerful that the door was literally disintegrated, nothing was left of it, only iron dust; the King alongside three Goombas and Koopas entered while the others were kept guarding the village in case of a counterattack.
The castle was dark, there wasn't a single guard around, because either they were either dead, missing or captured. In the throne room, the King of the Koopas hoped to run into Toadsworth, but instead he found Sergeant Timbo, with a hammer made of unbreakable steel, wearing an armor also made of steel that covered his entire body except the head; he was quite furious, anyone on the room could see a "wildfire" on his eyes.
The King laughed, his last opponent was a poor old man that was furious beyond reasoning, but there was more than meets the eye.
"Look at him, the last bastion of defense is a poor old man", The King says to his soldiers and laughs.
A Timbo's eyes twinkled and in a single second, he smashed one of the Goombas by jumping and landing on it, the King could not react and saw all his Goombas being crushed one by one, and also saw his three Koopas without their shells and on the ground, battered by the blows of his opponent's hammer.
Timbo was behind the King, hammer on hand and with a face filled with determination, ready to fight.
"You've made the biggest and last mistake of your life", Timbo threatens him on his scratchy voice.
"You did as well, little one!", The King replied menacingly.
Note: For ambiance play. Super Mario 64 - Bowser Road & Battle (OC ReMix)
The king roared like a dragon, expelling fire from his mouth, covering the entire castle on flames in merely a second, Timbo had to literally run from the flames of hell. He ran away, to the exit of the now burnt down castle.
When Timbo came out, all the King's army noticed him, the Goombas tried to tackle him and headbutt him, the Koopas tried to hit him with their shells. Timbo had to fight hundreds of opponents, which were almost as determined as him.
Timbo dodged and parried every blow of a total of 20 soldiers, from both Goombas and Koopas equally. He punched, crashed and hammered his opponents away, the Goombas were crushed by Timbo's jumps or hammered by him; the Koopas didn't fare any better, each time one of them got kicked out of his shell, Timbo kicked said shell like a soccer ball against dozens of opponents, knocking them out cold and sending them flying hundreds of yards away.
The King came out from the burning castle with a slasher smile on his face. He noticed his troops being annihilated by a single Toad and that filled him with so much rage that he ran against the metaphorical ocean of people. His troops noticed the King running towards them, so they moved away as fast as they could, leaving Timbo alone.
Timbo saw the King running at him, so fast that he couldn't see it coming, and suddenly he felt the King's horn penetrating his arm and before he knew it, he was being tackled against a nearby mountain. The King crashed Timbo against it, creating a massive quake that was felt all over the continent, and also causing the whole mountain to violently fragment and fall down.
The avalanche almost crushed both fighters, but both ran away from it with relative ease.
When the massive amount of sound of rocks being crushed disappeared and the smoke dissipated, the opponents finally spotted each other; the King saw something amazing, Timbo's armor only had a hole and he was just dizzy from the blow, along with being quite angry.
"Do you think a simple goring… is gonna kill this old bone and destroy the armor that the Star Spirits created?", Timbo taunts while showing his hammer.
"Stupid fossil!", The King screams, and enraged starts hitting the ground, causing large earthquakes.
Timbo sprinted with his hammer in hand, ready to hit the King on his face to shut him up. The King managed to intercept the blow in the half run, grabbing the Toad's head and then smashing him against the ground with enough power to create crater that was 10 kilometers deep, with Timbo screaming during the whole ordeal. Timbo got up immediately before the King could crush his head with his foot, and quickly hits the King's jaw with his hammer, sending him dozens of miles in the air.
In the air, the King began to breathe fire from his mouth as he fell, causing the pile of smoke and fire to envelop the sky, blotting out the sunlight in its entirety, the fire turned mountains, valleys and other villages into ashes in seconds. The flames reached Timbo from the ground, who in response threw himself to the ground, rolling and trying to turn the flames off, but nothing seemed to work until he plunged into the nearest river, not knowing that the King would land there.
Timbo was crushed by the equivalent of a piano falling at reentry speeds. The impact vaporized the entire river and crushed Timbo, denting his armor more than what it already was. But the Toad was not going to give up, so he stood up and lifted the multi ton Koopa and threw him hundreds of yards away and against the ground, creating a hole that was 30 meters deep.
The King jumped from said hole, making a hole twice as big when he landed. His eyes were now red, he expelled fire from his nose and his mouth, even when he had the last one closed; Timbo saw a large piece of grass that was coming from the ground, he pulled it out and it turned out to be a large turnip, that was nearly 5 meters tall and 4 meters wide. When he tried to throw it, the King of the Koopas released a lot of fire from his mouth, so Timbo used the turnip as a shield.
It did not last long because immediately the flames consumed the turnip and the King stopped the attack at the mere moment, he ran and punched Timbo in the face so hard that he launched him all around the world in less than a minute. Said "launch" backfired since when Timbo "came back", he hit the King in the nape in the process, causing him to go numb for a few seconds.
Timbo rose from the ground, grabbed the King of the Koopas by the tail, and started to spin around himself many times and going faster, after a few seconds he threw the king dozens of kilometers away in direction to the west.
The King ended up landing in a desolated desert. The poor king crashed against the plains, making a gigantic crater that could be seen from space with ease, he stood up and cried out in fear and anger because an old Toad was giving him the fight of his life.
He roared to call his opponent as he pounced his chest, Timbo came running in less than 10 seconds and was about to give him a big punch in the face, when he tried to do it; the poor Toad was intercepted and the King just hit him in the chest with great power, which makes Timbo fall to the ground and scream in pain. Also creating an explosion so powerful, that sand flew out of the atmosphere and those that didn't fly were turned into glass.
Timbo got up and hits the King below the belt with a kick. Causing him to scream in a very acute tone, as an opera singer.
"My Goombas!", King Koopa shouted, with little air left.
"We do not need them ... anyway", Timbo answers him, exhausted.
He made the mistake of turning his back on his opponent as he left, because it gave the opportunity for the King of the Koopas to recover and use his claws to brutally slash Timbo's back. The poor Toad screamed in pain as he felt the claws touch and destroy his skin, and the worst was yet to come.
The King grabbed the Toad and jumped while spinning in the air while holding him, when he reached 20 kilometers in the air, both started to fall and the King makes Timbo lands back first into the ground, creating a crater of the size of a whole city; his armor was completely destroyed and the punishment he had received was so much that he couldn't fight back at all.
The fight now was reduced to something pathetic, both sides had already given everything in the previous minutes and could not go on, but only one of the two could only live, so there was no other option. Punches and kicks flew for almost a minute as the two sides gradually collapsed from fatigue.
Both collapsed to the ground, but the King got up, thought of his son and his kingdom which had to fight for, he could not die here for nothing. So he grabbed Timbo by the legs and began to charge all the fire as he could on his mouth, to burn Timbo alive.
Timbo in a desperate move, closed the king's mouth right when the fireball was about to be shot, causing the king to swallow its own fire and choke on the smoke. The fireball exploded in his throat, it did him no harm but the smoke was killing him little by little.
The King liberated Timbo from his claws, the Toad fell head first on the ground but he still got and saw that the King was crying, trying to scream and even started to have a seizure. Timbo couldn't believe his eyes, he defeated the king of all the Koopas.
The King choked to death, his body was completely full of soot and had his tongue sticking out of his throat. After checking that he was surely dead, Timbo walked towards the Mushroom Kingdom, which was at the east; he was lucky to live to tell the tale.