Summary: In this chapter The Koopa Bros some how ended up back at home, and the only explanation they have is a note attached to Yellow's shell. To find the answers they seek the only option they have is to meet the writer of the letter in the depths of the sewers.
Take note that this is a fairly long chapter.
Chapter 4: The Depths of The Sewers.
The night sky loomed over the Mushroom Kingdom. It was currently 9pm in the Mushroom Kingdom, and the apartments outside of Toad Town were roaring with a loud noise. Apparently there was a party going on downstairs, just below the Koopa Bros 1 bedroom apartment, and the music was playing loud enough for the whole building to hear. Somehow they made it back to their home after a brutal beating from Gourmet Guy, a Hammer Bro, and a Monty Mole, and they were all knocked unconscious in their bedroom. Not any of them know how it happened, but Red couldn't figure out where they went wrong.
Red was knocked unconscious on the floor in the main room and all of his bros have regained consciousness by now. He slowly regained his conscious and he lifted himself off the ground, groaning in pain. "Uhhh…Wait! What the!? How did I get back here!!?"
Green and Black were sitting on the couch just watching TV, while they rested ice packs on their heads. "So you're finally up!" Green said as Red approached them.
"What's it look like! I wasn't dead dumbass!" Red then jumped onto the couch and landed in the middle seat. "Dude, I can't believe we blew another mission! What the hell is wrong with you guys!"
Black turned his head over to Red and he told Red "Don't even think of startin' something Red, you know damn well I did a awesome job at stalling time!"
"It's not our fault that fat ass Gourmet Guy managed to get back before we could raid the place! We would've been fine if you two didn't come looking for me and Yellow, dudes!" Green argued back.
"My fault!!! Are you kidding me dude!"
"DUH!!! It was your fault, you should have waited for me to call you up like I did when Gourmet Guy blasted into the sky!" Green then remembered the video he took of Gourmet Guy on his sugar rush, ,and he tried to change the subject "Which reminds me dude! I gotta show you this dudes!!!" As he pulled out his phone and searched for the video he was interrupted by the sudden crack of the door opening.
A Koopa Troopa walked in the door, happily whistling as he carried in a small sack of money. The Koopa was wearing a gold chain around his neck, a yellow baseball cap, sunglasses, some wristbands, and a yellow shell. "Hey bozo! You got the wrong room!" Red barked at the Koopa, who was shocked by his reaction.
The Koopa replied "But Red! It's me, Yellow!"
Black took a close look at Yellow and he looked confused "I dunno…If you're Yellow, then where's your bandanna?"
"Right here dudes!" He then took off all the extra things and put back on his bandanna, making it clear to his bros he was really Yellow.
Green asked "Dude! Where were you? And how did you get so much money?"
"Downstairs! I was having so much fun playing as the DJ for the party downstairs! They gave me a lot of money because they liked me so much!" Yellow sat down on the couch and placed his money on the coffee table.
Red and Green laughed at Yellow wildly "BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
"YOU… A DJ!!! AHAHAHAHA You can't even sleep without a night light on, and now you think you're a DJ! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!" Red was now laughing uncontrollably, on the ground with Green.
Yellow stared at the ground in disbelief until Black came over and rested his arm on Yellow's shoulder and told him "Don't listen to them Yellow, You're probably a great DJ so don't let them get to you…Hey wait, what's this!?" He looked on the back of Yellow's shell, and he noticed a note attached to it in an envelope. He grabbed it and shouted out "HEY EVERYBODY LISTEN UP!!!" "Alright dudes! It says:
"To the Koopa Bros.
I bet you're wondering why I'm helping, but I found you guys out cold near-by Forever Forest. We don't normally help others for free, and if you're smart, you'd meet me in the depths of the Toad Town Sewers. Especially after what we heard you troopa's did to a member of the family!!! (remember that Dark Koopa from Ch. 1?)
Until we meet, anonymous." Black finished reading, and threw it over his shoulders.
Green didn't like the sound of this and he asked "It sound's kinda crazy! Are you sure we have to go? I mean, the Dark Koopa Mafia lurks down there, and they're like mad crazy dude!!"
"Like I'm afraid of a bunch of puny Dark Koopa's! So…it looks like we're headed to the sewers. So let's scram dudes!"
Black, Green, and Yellow got off the couch and followed Red out the door. Green and Yellow looked nervous and Black asked them "Dudes? You guys gonna be alright on this mission?"
Green replied "I'll be fine dude! It's the Dark Koopa's I'm worried about!"
"I don't like the sewers dudes! They're dark, cold…and scary!!!" Yellow replied to Black as they walked to the bottom floor of their apartment complex. They walked outside and made their way quickly into Toad Town. Luckily everyone was sleeping by now.
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The Koopa Bros approached the warp pipe in the southern part of Toad Town. They were currently making sure they were ready to enter the sewers before they did something stupid like forget something. Red was talking amongst the others about how they'd make their way down "So we got the flashlights right dudes?"
Green answered "Got em' right her Red!" He pulled out 4 flash lights that could be attached to your wrist and he handed them out. "Oh yeah! Cool thing about these is they're almost hands free!"
"Alright, sweet! So next, we gotta stick together with this one dudes! We don't know what's down there and I'm pretty sure there's Bloopers down there. And finally, we gotta keep our cool! We're the Koopa Bros and we can't act like a bunch of crybabies because we see an Kremling or…hey wait, did I say Kremling…"
Greene reminded him "Kremlings only live around DK Island and other near-by islands. You should really start paying attention Red!"
"And you need to keep your mouth shut!"
"Hey! Screw off Red!"
"ALRIGHT!!! Can we just down there already!" Black yelled, before Red could answer Green.
Red continued his instructions "Alright! Alright! I'm finishing here!!! Anyway, we can't let anything hold us back dudes! So who's ready!?"
"I was born ready man!!!" Black calmly stated.
"Err…Are you sure we're ready!"
"We're ready for anything dude!"
"No!" Yellow whined.
"Cool! So let's rock dudes!" Red jumped down the warp pipe, followed by Black.
Yellow hesitated at first until Green started to push him and he ordered Yellow "Dude! Let's go already!"
"Uh…Okay." Yellow jumped into the warp pipe without thinking what he did, and he was followed by Green.
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Red and Black waited for Green and Yellow as they stood on the cold stone surface of sewer ground. There was basically nothing but pipes, stone, platforms, and waterfalls connected to lakes and underground streams. Plus the several cobwebs on the walls and around the place. Red was knocked in the back of the shell by Yellow and Green and he fell flat onto the cold surface.
Red muttered to himself "Damn it Yellow!!!" He picked himself off the ground and brushed himself off and turned his flash light on. He turned to Yellow and asked "Dude! What the hell was that about! You kicked me!!!"
"But dude! It wasn't my fault, you were in the way of the pipe!" Yellow explained to Red.
"We're not gonna get anywhere if we keep arguing like this. So let's go." Green told Red and Yellow.
Black asked "So…which way do we go…I see three paths."
"I dunno….They all look scary to me!" Yellow stated.
Red pointed out a path that had an arrow attached to it "Dudes, I think this one is our best bet."
"Yeah…You think!" Green muttered.
"C'mon dude! It's pretty obvious there's an arrow just telling us to go that way!"
"No duh! They're obviously gonna lead us to them, if they had to force us to come down here!" They shined their lights on the path, and walked towards the left. When they entered the room a barred door slammed down on the entrance, and the exit.
The Koopa Bros shrieked "AAAHHHHHHH!!!!" They were now trapped and the room began to crawl with Gloombas, hiding in the shadows of the room, running around.
"Dude! I hear something!!!" Black shined his light across the ground searching for the source of the noises.
Yellow shouted "AAAHH!!! WHAT WAS THAT!!!!"
Green and Red frantically searched the are with their lights and until Red saw a Gloomba run past the light. He shouted "HOLY CRAP!!! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT THING!!!"
Green observed it's small figure and blue shape as they saw more and he explained "Dudes, I think they're Gloombas! We can handle them!"
Black cheered "Yeah! Time own these fools!"
"Alright dudes! Tower formation let's go!" As Red commanded the others. Green stood on all 4's on the ground, and they proceeded to jump up onto one another, until Red jumped on top and gave his command pose. As the Gloombas finally revealed themselves, Red and the others withdrew into their shells, and began to rapidly spin and glow. They then fired themselves at the Gloombas like they were bowling pins, and killed all of them. They then returned to their normal positions after they popped back out.
"Too easy!" Green cheered as the others got off him. The doors rose back up as the Gloombas were eliminated.
Red then instructed his bros "Let's get outta this room! I hope this won't take too long." As they walked onto the next area Black began to talk "Hey, do you think we'll find some rare treasures down here dudes?"
"There were, but Mario already took them! Lousy overweight plumber!" Green mumbled.
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The next area had a massive waterfall beside the door. There was another door on the platform connected to the wall, and across the waterfall was another platform with an arrow. There was a fairly large sized gap between each platforms. "AWWW! Smells like B.O.!!!"
"Well what did you expect, it's a fricken Sewer!" Green stared at Red like Red had no common sense.
Yellow complained "I don't like the looks of this…It sure is a long ways down…" Yellow looked down to the lake of slimy water below and he was terrified of falling now.
Black looked around for their options and he pointed out "Alright, it looks like we either take the door near us, or we hop the platforms."
"So what are we supposed to do! You'd expect a ladder to connect to the bottom wouldn't you!" Green looked for a ladder to find another way. If they wanted to find the depths they had to find the lowest level there was.
"I say we jump it!!!" Red commanded his bros.
"WHAT!!! Are you crazy! There's no way I can make it!"
"Relax dude! We're Ninjakoopas! We're supposed to have great jumping skills!" Black reassured Yellow they'd be fine.
Red ran over and jumped the gap without warning. He flawlessly jumped it with great acrobatic skills as he flipped, like he was doing a Screw Jump. He grinned at his bros and gave them a thumbs up. He said to them "Dudes! C'mon! It's too easy if you just remember every once of training we've ever done!"
Green and Yellow chickened out at first, but Black reacted quickly and ran over, and did the same as Red. He shouted out to Yellow and Green "You guys can do it! Let's go!!!"
Yellow hesitated at first and weakly said "O-okay…Here I go." He ran over, and pushed off the ledge, and landed alongside Red and Black. He was relieved he made it across.
Green decided to move along and he ran over, pushed off like Yellow did, but he didn't push off hard enough and missed. He screamed in fear as he dropped to the ground "HELP ME!!!!!"
Black immediately took action, and dove for the ledge to grab Green's hands and he locked onto his hands. "I got ya dude!" He pulled Green back up and Green was gasping for air.
"*pant* Thanks Black, I would've been a goner if it wasn't for you dude."
"You're lucky I'm strong enough to even pull one of you guys up."
"Alright dudes, let's quit the chattin' and move on." Red picked Green off the ground and Black got up. They walked on towards another door at the end of that path that led to a large stairwell. The stairwell was dark like every other room, and required lighting. They walked down the staircase and examined how long they were.
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After 10 minuets of climbing down stairs, they finally managed to reach the bottom. Outside the area was the large lake. They walked along the edges and Red told everyone "Alright, this should be as low as it can go!"
"Yeah, I guess…" Green answered. They continued to walk along the path until they reached a huge fancy looking door, with a couple of Dark Koopa's guarding it.
The Koopa Bros headed towards them and one of the Koopas asked "State you names and business here!"
"We're The coolest of the cool!"
"The badest of the bad!"
"The strongest of the strong!"
"THE KOOPA BROS!!!" They struck their thumbs up pose like normally. They were then escorted inside and to the main office office
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Red, Black, Yellow, and Green walked into the office room. The office looked like your typical Mafia Don office, and behind the desk the chair spun around revealing a Dark Koopa wearing a tuxedo, and he had a thick Italian accent. He greeted them "I've been expecting you! What's taken you-a so long!"
"Dude! Who the hell are you!?"
"Allow me to-a introduce my self. I am Don Koopa, The Don of The Darkshell Mafia."
The bros then shouted "MAFIA!?"
"Si! Dis is a mafia. I thought you were a bunch of incompetent fools to take on my request, but you-a actually managed to make it-a down here before the Blooper in the lake woke up."
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Back in the chamber with that large lake, a MASSIVE Blooper rose from the lake screaming "BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPER!!!!!!!!!!"
Back in Don Koopa's office the Koopa Bros turned their attention to toe source of the noice. Don Koopa explained "That-a happens every oh…7 hours, so don't be alarmed."
Red spoke to him, like they said he would be the only one to actually talk "Why the hell do you even have it out there! What were you trying to do have it kill us!!!"
"I wouldn't talk to the Don of a Mafia like that if I were-a you! And we keep it there in case those good for nothing Mario Bros come down here to thwat our operations!"
"So, what do you want with us!?"
"Allow me to explain! When we heard about the beating you gave our hitman, Salvador Koopa after he returned, we were infuriated. BUT!!! We decided after we witnessed the mission you guys attempted in the Pizza Palace we'd help you out by getting you to your home before any further humiliation was brought upon you."
Red smugly said "Hmph! So that's how we ended up at our house."
"Since we helped you out, there is only one thing I ask of you."
"What? An assination, robbery, the mafia usual."
"No, far more complicated! Have you heard of the floating city of Glitzville?"
Black shouted out "DUDE!!! That place has some of the coolest fighters I ever seen!"
Red turned back to Black and reminded him "I thought I said I was only allowed to talk!!!"
"Well, it's a good ting you know what I'm talking about. You-a see! We used to have a serious funding and bribing going on there. We work with the Pintia Syndicate in Rougeport, and they've informed us the Promoter for the Glitz Pit had dropped our funding and support for the Pit. It seems Mr. Grubba was fired and his assistant Ms. Jolene now runs the Pit. They used to give us free seats in a box office there, and they used to pay us in return. Now it's nothing…
Well your mission is to go to Glitzville, enter the Pit, and pose as a gang of warriors. Once you enter the pit your mission is to just play along, BUT while you do so, we want you to find a way to turn off the city's power for the boosters keeping it in the air, and we want you to bring it DOWN!!!"
"How the hell are we supposed to do that!!!"
"You'll find out soon enough! Till now, take the pipe in the main lobby to teleport to Rougeport. Then get some tickets from Don Pintia, and head on to Glitzville. If you shall fail, We shall see you get a visit from The Bros"
Yellow shouted "NOT THE HAMMER BROS!!!"
"Oh, MUCH worse, I have a Hammer Bro, a Sledge Bro, a Fire Bro, a Boomerang Bro, and a Sumo Bro ready to execute you if you guys fail. So What's it gonna be, you're life, or the end of the Glitz Pit…"
Around the end of this chapter I just got lazy and didn't give much detail since I felt it was carrying on too much. I tend to do that, but in my next story you'll see less of it. I just really wanted to get this one up soon. Next time we final get to Rougeport with Kooper, Bombette, and Parakarry. You may even get the first appearance from Spike! Till next time.