Enrique C.G: The Bounty-hunter of Defiance

Chapter 7: Aypyidaw

Disclaimer: I don't own Nintendo.

January 18, 2010 Earth Date

Back to work on these for the upcoming Sequel.

Enrique sat on a dorm bed, worried about what's to come. He looked outside staring at the Toads practicing for aiding the war efforts, down below he caught a glimpse of Muji escorting what was Tom inside the room. He heard the sound of footsteps walking up the stairs to his room, and the door soon opened, revealing Tom. Enrique got up and his mood reverted to happiness.

"It's been a rough couple of days." Enrique stated as Tom walked into the centre of the room. "I do not really like this at all... the part about serving the princesses that is." He sighed. Tom sat on the bed next to him.

"Don't worry Enrique." He said. "This will be over and we can go home later, you know time here is a lot slower than Earth. When we get back it'll be like the morning after we came here."

"I know." He worried more. "I'm still contemplating the existence of this place, is it a dream? I mean this Morgan Freeman looking dude seems to back that observation up." Muji giggled. "I've had other humans say that to me too."

"Oh yeah, speaking of other humans, I remembered Zane saying to me, that there's a Jack Akbal here? He was one of our friends, with us that same night."

"He was taken, like you two, with Marrec, the bartender, all this news came straight to us so we know all about what happened that night. Rosalina is not like the princesses, she believes in social freedom and liberty like the northerners here." Muji explained. "When you two came to this place, Jack was sent west to Castelia, I think he is there now, he is supposed to be joining us as well, but we lost contact with him in his first mission, God knows where he is now."

"There was also a Jaapayo Bligh-Hassan." Enrique also mentioned, further listing and recalling the humans told, or lied to, by Zane.

"He's a friend of the Mario brothers, but he's far back further south than the Mushroom Kingdom, near the new construction of Toad Harbour."

"And then there was an Eric? And Ledro or something." He concluded.

"Eoréc Jones is a Koopa; a yellow shelled one, and a member of the council. Ledro Simpson is human like us, and also a member of the council, so if you include the recent humans, those aren't involved as Canon yes I know the Nintendo Franchise too I can discuss it with you guys and Ledro, that's us three, Jack, Jaapayo, Ledro and Marrec, there's seven mentioned but actually ten of us, I can't recall the rest of them."

"The young brothers, Duncan and Tobias." Tom interrupted. "I met them at Koopa Cape yesterday." Enrique also had remembered about seeing them.

"I can't recall the tenth one, his passing is unknown, but we do remember the figure." Muji concluded as well about his thoughts on humans here. "We have a meeting to discuss the plans about the sieges and battles to come. All the high-council martyrs will be there, including Ledro and Eoréc. Get some rest we will talk in the afternoon." He got up and left the room and the block of dormitories. Tom got up and looked out the window to see Archbarn gather many Toad fighters and Muji walking towards them too. He heard movement from Enrique behind him.

"I'm going out." He said. "Going for a walk, still trying to process all of this."

"Alright, I'll be here still." Tom replied as Enrique left the room.

He walked up more sets of stairs to the roof of the block, which led him to the top of the defence walls of Aypyidaw; from the top he could get a view of the southern mountain range which split Résethal Kingdom from the others, and several Toad and Koopa guardsmen watching the walls.

"Everything alright there Mr human?" One Koopa guard called him out while he was staring.

"Yeah, just needed some time to rest up here." He said back. "What's your name?" He asked quietly.

"Mywithe Unudhu, been serving Bowser for the past Earth year, he's made a few of us come to service the Red Martyrs because he too doesn't like the riots in the north."

"One Earth year is a long time here. Have you ever been to Earth, you know, at least walked it unseen?" The Koopa appeared lost for words.

"No, not there, it's not for us, I've heard that place is far worse than here." He improvised his reply.

"Ha I'd agree on that. I just can't believe this place. All its complexions, I wouldn't mind exploring the lands, just without any supervision."

"Those princesses giving you a hard time, they're all captured now; Boom Boom and Pom Pom are doing it themselves, Bowser's had nothing to do with it, he doesn't even know they're captured, only telling us to come here for the riot cleansing."

"Suppose he's had enough of capturing that princess." Enrique joked around.

"I think a better word for Peach would be, president. She has all the power in the Mushroom Kingdom, Daisy and her pretty much own all the other southern Kingdoms, the other princesses are just managing them." Unudhu carried on. "I personally don't want to rescue them, but that's what you and the other human are here for, and the Red Martyrs. I need to keep watch for hostiles, these are the Koopas who don't like any side and just want to kill."
"What does Bowser think of them?"

"Outcasts or followers of the Asquia family."

"I see, well I'm going back down now." Enrique walked over towards the roof-door. Unudhu remained at watch for the next couple of hours.

A FEW HOURS LATER... IN THE EVENING...

As the sun was setting, Enrique entered the large council room and sat on the right side of the table, several other council members had sat down after their own discussions amongst themselves had finished. The main table was filled with maps, scripts and battle-plans; he also noticed castle-looking figurines representing key cities. Muji recently assembled the figurines and the maps, laid out to form lapping sheets resembling the layout of Résethal and the mountain range south. The entrance doors had finally closed, and Enrique couldn't see Tom anywhere.

"So, we shall leave in half an hour, this will give us time to discuss our plans and tell all the members with us today our missions, Enrique, you and Tom have a separate task which is for the princesses and their rescue that we heard about." Archbarn announced, soon followed on by Muji. "As for the rest of us." He said. "The hostile Koopas, the ones who cause the havoc amongst the towns here are no longer sighted in Vurduresa anymore, for that place is in ruins and uninhabited. Key structures and towns where they are most likely to be are within the towns of Umbrock, Takhar, Karbût, and Dargo. We will need separate missions for each of those places, and either we give them freedom in a good way, or a bad way, and by the way Enrique." Muji starts pointing to various council members. "That is Eoréc; this is Ledro, Attilo, Koover, and Lumpy." He showed Enrique the yellow-shelled Koopa, another human, a white-shelled Paratroopa, a normal looking green-shelled Koopa, and a green figure similar to that of Yoshi. The council members greeted and nodded at Enrique, some confused about the empty chair next to him.

"Who's the missing person?" Attilo asked.

"He should be here soon." Muji replied, interrupting Enrique's attempt to respond.

"It seems that Dargo is one of the towns that has a lot of oil reserves too, they once rebelled against the Sarasaland Toads who tried to take if off of them, I know that it won't be easy trying to claim that town." Lumpy mentioned to the council. "That's going to be the hard one."

"I know people in Umbrock, but Boom Boom knows that place well if he's up to something there. I suggest... I lead the campaign in Umbrock, they see me, they think friendly." Koover stated.

"We don't know what we're dealing with here!" Eoréc called out in distress and anger. "We are more likely to hurt our own when we don't know who's in charge of these foul creatures."

"Best you don't join this council at all with that attitude." Attilo responded hurtfully.

"So we should send you to Dargo then? If you're the bravest one here?" Eoréc shouted back.

"Be Q-."

"Fine! I will actually, and I will show you how to bring peace to these lands, whether it takes my life or not!" Attilo stood up interrupting Archbarn attempting to silence the two.

"You two don't even know what we are doing." Muji laughed, Enrique on the end grinned in response. The main door opened suddenly and the council turned their heads, Tom had finally arrived, who walked over towards the empty seat and sat down, still a silence, as the council kept staring at him and as soon as he sat down they turned their heads back at each other.

"It's nice of you to join us for this meeting, Tom." Archbarn mentioned.

"We're discussing our own plans first." Muji mentioned. "So Attilo, you want to lead your campaign for Dargo?"

"Once we know who we're after, we can calm them down. There'll be no need to take their oil that's theirs." Attilo replied. Lumpy to his left gave a sigh which confused Enrique.

"I will go to Karbût, I will need about 20 personnel, I know what to do there and what it's like, and Pom is there word has it." Ledro added on to the battle plan ideas. Some heads turned towards him in agreement, several council members discussed amongst themselves whereas Tom turned his head towards Enrique.

"What do we do?" Tom asked.

"I don't know yet." He replied rather anxiously. "I like these guys, but not the job we've been set by them."

"Well we can stay here if we're given access. I kind of like it here too." Tom cheered, he looked amazed as he was handed an object over by Enrique, and it was a vibrant component-looking piece part. He also handed Tom over a book.

"Take this, and find other pieces to make one." Tom opened up the book and read the cover showing a guide to build a Portable Portal.

"So it's settled then." Archbarn announced loudly, gathering the room's full attention. "Umbrock will be led by Koover backed up by Eoréc, Dargo will be led by Attilo backed with Lumpy, Karbût will be led by Ledro and more personnel, and Archbarn and I will go to Takhar. Numbers are being issued around now we already have some scouts in the surrounding areas. Tom and Enrique, we need you fully focused for your missions, others can get ready for your campaigns, out now." Muji remained by his side as all of the other council members and Toad and Koopa Guards at the back of the room vacated out of the main room, the doors closed quickly leaving Tom, Enrique, Archbarn and Muji left in the room. Muji revealed some new maps placed onto the table, an extremely detailed map of Résethal and a map of Vurduresa.

"I will leave you three to discuss the plans for the princesses, I'm afraid that's not my job." Archbarn got up and left the room, causing a sense of home for the two. They all then sat down at the front of the table, Enrique let out another big sigh and rested his head on the table in distress.

"The sooner this is done the sooner you can go home Enrique." Muji warned, Enrique raised his head up monotonously and stared back at him. "Word has it the princesses are still in Vurduresa, Tom you can find the time machine if it's still there when the princesses had it last." Muji hands the two over earpieces, Tom glanced at his while he put it in his pocket temporarily, whereas Enrique immediately placed it in his without looking at it.

"How are we going to get there?" Tom questioned. "Last time I remembered the princesses were at Vurduresa station, captured there maybe."

"There should be a train at Aypyidaw station that should take you two to Vurduresa quickly." Muji further explained. "Then it's your duties to find the princesses and save them from there."

"Good!" Enrique said immediately after Muji was finished, he got up quickly and stormed out of the main room, heading for the station.

EOC: Note I'm going to change Chapter 10 slightly in which it won't be exactly the same as Tom's now. The last three shall be done quickly like this one.

And yes, Lumpy and Koover are Canon for anybody who spotted.