Five Days ago, Mario had finished his conversation with Daisy and went home to talk to Luigi. He didn't think about at first, but when he found Luigi, dressed up as Mr. L in the closet, the pieces began to fall into place. Unfortunately he was struck unconscious before he could free Luigi. The first thing he felt was a splitting headache as he began to regain consciousness. When he reached up to rub his sore head he couldn't move his arms or his hands for that matter. At first, he thought it was just sleep paralysis, but as the grogginess faded away he became more alert. He realized his arms and hands were bound as well as his legs and ankles. But what surprised him was that he wasn't wearing his traditional red shirt and overalls. Instead he was wearing a black jumpsuit, similar to Mr. L's, only it had crimson on it. Mario continued to struggle in hopes of loosening the ropes and even tried to burn them with his firehand, but nothing seemed to be working.

"Don't bother, the rope is fire proof."

Startled, Mario turned only to meet face to face with someone he hoped to never see again.

"Shadow Mario." He growled.

The evil clone stepped towards the plumber, changing from his translucent pollution form, to his more humanoid form, resembling the hero in red, but with blood-red eyes instead of light blue ones.

"Nice to see you're awake Sleeping Beauty," The villain mocked as he flicked Mario's nose, "Your crybaby brat of a brother was worried that I killed you."

"What did you do with him!?" Mario asked in a demanding tone.

"Relax, he's fine." Shadow Mario replied casually. "He's just back in the closet all nice and snug."

Mario sighed in relief knowing Luigi was okay, for the time being, but he knew the two of them weren't out of danger yet. Mario looked up his doppelganger, glaring at him with intense hate. Shadow Mario just laughed and said:

"If you're trying to intimidate me, its not working."

"Laugh all you want Shadow Mario, but the moment I get free, I'm taking you down." Mario Snapped "And I'll take L out for what he did to Luigi!"

"Good luck with that punk." Shadow Mario mocked as he cupped Mario's face, "I didn't just double knot those ropes, I triple knotted them. Besides, it's not like anyone's going to tell us apart; In this form, we look and sound the same."

"Except for the eyes," Mario sneered "And people will notice something's not right when they notice something different in our personalities."

"I'll admit L's lousy at pretending to be Luigi, personality wise, but hey nobody's perfect." Shadow Mario Shrugged, "As for the eyes, nothing a couple of blue contacts won't fix." Shadow Mario finished as he let go of Mario's face and pulled out some blue contacts, placing them in his eyes, making his eyes similar to Mario's. "And as for our different personalities," Shadow Mario scoffed" Back when Bowser Jr. and I were the same person, I managed to fool those idiots on Delphino island into thinking I was you, so I can pull it off again, but with a better form. And should anyone get snoopy, well," The villain grabbed Mario by the hair forcing the hero to look into the cruel eyes of his doppelganger as she smiled maliciously "They may meet with an unfortunate, accident."

Mario's eyes widen at that statement, but before he could say anything, Shadow Mario threw him to the ground and laughed. Mario turned his head and glared.

"Why are you doing this!?"

"It was pretty much L's idea." Shadow Mario shrugged, "He wouldn't stopped whining over how Luigi had everything he wanted, especially when it came to that redheaded princess. As for me," He smirked, "Anything I can do to make you miserable is a victory. Not to mention that Blond princess makes an excellent prize."

"You and L won't get away with this Sha-,"

Mario's sentence was cut off when a red bandana covered his mouth, silencing him. In the corner of his eyes he could see it was Mr. L's doing. Despite the struggle, Mario was unable to free himself from L's grip as he finished tying the gag on him.

"Thank you L," Shadow Mario sighed in relief "I like him better when he's a silent protagonist." The two villains laughed as Mario continued to glare at them in hate.

"Oh cheer up," Mr. L said as he calmed down, giving Mario a playful smirk, "We'll make sure you and your brother's ladies are treated well. We'll be sure to give them a good life, and be the men they deserve."

"This is why I am SO grateful to have a doppelganger." Shadow Mario smirked menacingly "Because with the right clothes and perfect impressions, nobody will ever notice the difference."

Shadow Mario grabbed his heroic counterpart's bound arms and dragged him back over to the closet and threw him in. Luigi, who was still tied up and gagged, looked up to see his brother on the ground. Mario raised his head up a bit let out a few muffled shouts as the two imposters waved goodbye and closed the closet door. The plumber never felt more furious in all of his life. As if it wasn't enough those two maniacs were still able to exist by some strange magic, but to come into his home, take him and Luigi prisoner, and steal their identities so they could take their lives was inexcusable. Mario's thoughts were interrupted when he heard Luigi starting to cry. The oldest of the two stared sadly at his little brother. It hurt him to see his brother in such misery. He was scared; scared of what was going to happen to them. Frankly, Mario would be lying if he didn't admit he was a little scared himself. He was afraid of what would happen if everyone did believe Shadow Mario and Mr. L were actually the Mario bros, afraid of what they may do to Peach and Daisy, but mostly, he was afraid of what would become of him and Luigi.

To the best of his ability, Mario managed to sit up a bit and scootch over to Luigi. When he got close, he laid his head on Luigi's shoulder. He shifted his bound hands the best he could over to Luigi's to try and hold his hand, but the best he could do was interlock with his pinky with his. Despite the minimal contact, Luigi managed to calm down a bit, knowing that Mario was at least with him. The two continued to sit in the dark taking solace in each others company, and wondering how they were going to escape this time.


That was just five days ago. Since then the brothers have been prisoners in their own home; weaken, starved, exhausted, and even beaten by their captors. Mario had continued to try and free himself, but he couldn't get the knots undone no matter how hard he tried. Even Luigi couldn't get them loose. Both their bindings were fire proof, and their doppelgangers made sure to remove any and all sharp objects from the closet or even anything that looked like it could help them escape. They left no room for errors. It still didn't deter the older twin though. Call it determination or stubbornness, but Mario wasn't going to give up until him and Luigi were free. Even the pain he felt from his sore wrists wasn't going to stop him. His thoughts were interrupted when he heard Luigi squeak in fright and looked up to Mr. L and Shadow Mario staring down at them, grinning like a couple of maniacs.

"I don't get why you don't just give up slick?" Mr. L smirked. "You aren't going no where and neither is this loser."

Luigi just glared at L as he chuckled at his expression. Shadow Mario untied the bros gags and pulled out a couple bottles of water for them to drink, which Luigi accepted.

"I don't get why you're keeping us alive," Mario said blankly "If you two clowns are so bent up on stealing our lives, then why not finish us off?"

"Believe me, that idea's come to mind more than once," Shadow Mario sneered as he got up into Mario's face "Unfortunately, he had a couple of hiccups in the road-"

"Hiccups! You attacked our uncle, cousins, tried to hurt our friends, and much more!" Luigi snapped "If anything you guys are just damaging our reputation, and making things harder for yourselves!"

"Hey it's not easy being a happy go lucky do-gooder all the time punk!" Shadow Mario snapped back.

"Never the less, we had a feeling something like this was going to happen, so we can just blame it all on you two." Mr. L laughed, "We'll tell them you were brainwashing us or something."

"I doubt they'll believe you." Luigi replied dryly, "Not after what you two done."

"Face it," Mario chimed in "You two may look like us, but you stink at impersonating us."

"Maybe, but we'll figure something out," L laughed.

"We got all the time in the world," Shadow Mario added, "But you two on the other hand won't."

Before the Mario bros could reply there was knock on the door. Mario and Luigi were about to scream for help, but Mr. L and Shadow Mario quickly re-gagged them and shoved them back into the closet. Mario groaned in frustration as he sat back up. If those two imposters thought they were going to get away with stealing his and Luigi's lives and destroy their reputation, they had another thing coming. He was not going to let Shadow Mario get away with this, not after what happened back on Delphino Island. Luigi was just as angry as Mario as he sat up on his knees. Granted, he was still scared, but all that fear melted away the moment the two evil counterparts threw them back in the closet. He had put up with them for five days, and enough was enough! He wasn't going to let Mr. L hurt anyone else, or be around Daisy any longer.

However, as quickly as their new found anger, and determination to escape came, it instantly changed into fear, as they heard the door opening and Shadow Mario greeting whoever as at the door. The entire sentence had turned both brother's blood into ice.

"Oh, Hello Princesses Peach and Daisy."


Now Both Mario bros have been captured! I'm so evil...Please don't kill me!

I made this chapter 7 because I wanted to make it sort of a flash back moment. I got inspired from a fanfic I read here. can't remember the name though. I'm gonna have to redo this in a while so I can properly organize this story. Sorry if it's unorganized ^^;.

And girls...WHAT ARE YOU THINKING GOING INTO THE HOUSE WITH THOSE TWO MANIACS!

So how will our heroes get free? Stay tuned.