Level 3 Start

Bowser's walk through the castle was only slowed by two more toads that thought they were brave, but instead they were just like the ones standing outside. He dropped them with a quick fireball. They may have went down but they had also barricaded the doors to Peach's throne room, which Bowser quickly found out. Instead of giving the toads a break he used them to break through the door itself. The toads were doing minimal damage if any at all so Bowser simply dropped his unlucky battering rams. He backed up a few paces and broke out into a quick sprint launching himself at the door shell first. He cracked through the doors as if he had opened them.

He got up to look at his handiwork and turned quickly to regard the princess. What he seen made a lump in his throat. Before him was the princess and a dozen heavily armed guards. Peach's face held a stern look as if she was expecting the entire thing.

"What do you want Bowser?" Peach said as she tried to bore a hole through the large koopa with her gaze.

"My dear dear Peach," Bowser said in a lighthearted tone, "I'm just here to have a nice little chat with you and the plumbers."

"I wholeheartedly believe you've come to 'chat'," her tone carrying a sharp edge.

"I have and I'm in a hurry. So summon the plumbers, NOW!" Bowser roared putting the fighters on their toes.

Bowser opened his mouth to roar another order but a hammer cracked him in the back of his head making the floor rise up to me him very quickly. Bowser recovered quickly and with a growl turned to see who blindsided him. It was Mario who had thrown the hammer and he had a very fierce look on his face. Luigi was still holding on to his hammer trembling slightly.

"Now now boys," Bowser was rubbing his head. "I've not come here fight, just to talk." Despite saying, yet again, his true intentions he could see the look of doubt on the two plumber's faces.

One of the brave toad fighters took action while Bowser's attention was elsewhere. He slowly came forward and prodded his weapon into Bowser's shell with force. Bowser yelled as he turned around and grabbed the weapon the toad was carrying and used it to toss the toad across the room, hitting a wall with a hard "thump"

Taking Bowser's action as a sign of aggression the other toads quickly yelled and charged. They were quickly silenced and put aside by a great paralyzing roar and a large fireball; which threw them away like the first toad had been. Burned toads littered the throne room, leaving the only conscious ones to their business.

"So . . . do I get my 'chat' now?" Bowser turned back to regard the princess.

"Talk, we're listening," came Peach's answer.

"Plumbers up front," Bowser bent over and picked up the hammer that had struck him just moments earlier and tossed it back to Mario. "I'm only going to say what I have to say once."

Mario and Luigi gave the koopa a wide berth as they passed on each side. They each took a side next to Peach, there hammers ready for anything. Bowser quickly noticed how tense they were and gave a hearty laugh. His smile showing his sharp teeth, the group in front of him unsure what could be hiding behind that smile.

Level 3 Complete