FORGET THE EPISODE; I'M CHANGING IT ALL UP FROM HERE.

HOW WILL LUIGI MAKE IT OUT ALIVE? I DON'T EVEN KNOW!

OH WAIT... I DO.

THIS JOKE WENT NOWHERE, TO THE ACTUAL STORY.

BEFORE THAT THOUGH, I WOULD LIKE READERS TO WATCH THE EPISODE AND JUDGE THE IMPROVEMENT ON THE STORY.

EDIT: HOLY SHELL! WHAT THE KOOP CAUSED ME TO DELAY THE RELEASE OF THIS CHAPTER?! I FINISHED THIS AT LEAST A MONTH AGO!

Chapter Nine: Give it to Me

He was cold, that much he knew. Everything was dark.

All he could remember at first was seeing ice balls get launched at him.

In his mind, he attempted to remember what had happened, only to feel pain in his leg.

'Luigi... Luigi...'

That sounded like Margie. She sounded close by, but he couldn't tell where.

He felt the area around him getting warmer, and he felt relief, and prepared for his surroundings.

He saw Margie, still on her chain, recovering from shooting some fireballs. He saw that he was surrounded by stone, with bars on one side.

He saw Iggy on the other side of those bars.

'M-m-margie, d-did I win?' He was shivering from the ice.

Margie sighed, which told him everything.

'Does it look like you won?'

Iggy laughed to himself.

'Just wait until my siblings get back.'

'From what?' Margie questioned.

Iggy put the keys he was holding onto his wrist.

'I guess I can tell you. My siblings are taking Mario to the Down Pour so he can fix it. I'll be back.'

He left the room, and left Margie and Luigi in the room alone.

'Great... now they've turned my brother into a slave!'

Luigi turned to her, now warm.

'I can see that...'

He tried to walk towards the door, but the pain came back, and he fell over, but he shot out his hands to break the fall.

'Ah...ha...' He moaned.

He looked at the leg that was hurting. It almost looked broken.

'A wrench to the leg thrown by Mario... how are you still alive?' Margie joked.

He didn't find it funny; it was painful; he couldn't remember when it happened last. It didn't help that his other leg was chained to the wall.

'I-I... lost...' He murmured.

'How couldn't you? I was spitting fireballs at you, and Mario threw his wrench. That's nearly impossible to beat.'

He sat against the wall. It was rough and uncomfortable.

He looked around the dungeon. He saw a puddle of melted ice where he landed after the wrench hit him, and there were burnt spots where Margie's fireballs hit the floor and walls.

'Why did I think I could do it?'

Margie laughed in a way that was meant to reassure him.

'Maybe, it's because you used to be a Mario Sibling.'

He turned away to the wall.

'What? Are you going to turn away from me? That's a bit immature...'

He hit the wall.

'I don't deserve it...'

'Yeah, I don't deserve this, and neither does Mario.'

He gave her a 'death stare'.

'What did I do now?'

She doesn't get it. How can she not get it?

'None of us deserve to be locked up like by the Koopalings. That's why you need to get out of here.'

Luigi felt so surprised he thought he was going to spring up.

'Me? Why me?! Just look at me!' He yelled.

Margie motioned to him to calm down.

'You're the most agile person around. I know you can get out, somehow.'

He looked through the bars to see if he could fit through, but he could tell that he couldn't.

'Even if I could... the wrench did too much.'

Margie looked at his broken leg. She didn't need to feel it to see that it was broken.

'I guess you were right - you're not a Mario Sibling!'

Luigi gasped.

Did she finally catch on?

'A Mario Sibling wouldn't give up so easily!'

Luigi stood in anger, keeping his broken leg off the ground.

'Then why don't you save the day? You are a saviour after all!'

She faced the wall away from him.

'Why are you looking away?'

She grasped her chain like she was trying to break it.

'You know I can't win.'

He sat back down and scoffed.

'Why is that?'

What a great time to torment...

'You know why!'

Her yell echoed in the tiny room. It was loud enough to make him back against the wall more than he thought he could.

'You know that my item block was my only real weapon! Now those koopas have taken it away. How am I meant to rescue my brother when I'm defenceless against his strength?!'

She was breathing heavily.

She's angry now.

'Well look at me! Even with a cat suit, I can't avoid a wrench that you could've avoided without one, and now, I've been captured by the Koopalings!'

'Not to mention that Mario's been hypnotised; who knows what could happen to him?'

As if on cue, they heard the door creak open, and thud against the wall.

They looked at the doorway, and the Koopalings came in with Mario, who was still hypnotised.

'I see you're back. Was the damage serious?' Margie asked jokingly.

The Koopalings marched down the stairs.

'It was capable of destroying the machine, but otherwise wasn't anything problematic.' Ludwig replied.

The steps of them were the only sounds in the room.

'Iggy decided to rig it up to the pipes underground to grab us some extra coins. It's not much, but any coin is worth grabbing.'

I expect nothing less from Koopalings.

'How many coins do you think you'll get?' Margie questioned.

'A few hundred a system on average. That should give us a several thousand eventually.' Iggy stated.

Margie's eyes widened, with a face that stated 'even we don't get that much'.

They reached the bars, and Morton was twirling the keys around on his claw when Mario spotted Luigi again.

He swung the silver wrench he was still holding, and slammed it into the bars, causing both Margie and Luigi to jump.

'You don't have to beat up Luigi anymore. We're taking him on a little... trip.' Iggy ordered.

Mario backed away from the bars, but he was still grasping his wrench.

Morton unlocked the door, and the Koopalings stepped back as Margie lashed out like a cat, struggling against her chain.

'Back away...' Iggy pointed his wand at Mario. '...or your brother will pay.'

Margie backed away as Morton and Roy walked in with chains.

Roy broke Margie free, only to lock her onto another chain that he had around his wrist.

'It's tah keep you from runnin' away.'

He dragged her out, no matter how much she tried to push away.

Morton did the same thing to Luigi, but he 'kindly' put his broken leg onto a wheeled object.

'That's so you can see our plan.'

Luigi barely struggled against him.

The door shut behind them, and Morton locked it.

'Why are you letting us out? Are you idiots or something?' Margie joked, laughing near the end.

Roy yanked her chain, and she fell to the hard stone floor, having no time to stop the fall with her arms. Her chest slammed the floor, and Luigi could've sworn he heard a crack as she landed.

He gasped as she stood back up, moaning as she did.

He looked at the chain around his leg as Morton tugged on it.

'That could happen to you if you're not quiet.' Morton threatened.

Margie breathed heavily.

'Say somethin' again, and I'll do it even harder!'

Luigi knew Margie was cussing at him in her mind, as she always did.

Katy laughed. They could tell from the tone that she found pain funny.

Ludwig started to go up the stairs, and his siblings followed him, Roy and Morton following behind, dragging Margie and Luigi with them.

Margie tried to break her chain, but it only hurt her hand.

Luigi only had to move one leg as his broken one stayed on the wheeled object that moved it for him. It even made travelling up stairs easy.

The stairs took a few seconds to walk up. Margie looked back, and had a small feeling of freedom.

The door closed as Larry shut it.

They walked across the room, and to the stairs going up on the other side.

The stairs weren't as tedious as the ones going down to the room, but it still felt like they were hours long, even as they turned.

After what seemed like hours of nothing but walking and evil Koopaling laughs, they reached a corridor of jail cells.

Margie and Luigi couldn't tell how many jail cells there were, but they could see and hear that the most of them held all the residents of the Mushroom Kingdom.

The most of the remaining cells had some of the residents of the Sarasaland. The rest contained a few of the berry-like residents of the Berryberry Kingdom.

The thing that caught their eye was the Koopa King himself, looking into a cell only a few blocks away.

'What'll be, princess?'

They could see Princess Peach's gloved arms grasp the bars.

'No deal, Koopa Creep!'

The Koopalings walked up to Bowser, who couldn't hear the chains. He was concentrated on the princess.

'I have told you this several times. Either give me your kingdom, or face the water.'

Princess Peach crossed her arms.

'It'd be a worthy sacrifice!' She declared.

'You tell him, Peach!' Came a familiar female voice.

Princess Daisy. That koopa's got my Daisy!

'He won't take my kingdom either.' Came a male voice.

Margie gasped, which Bowser didn't hear.

That must've been Prince Barrybarry.

'Are you sure? My children can make the machine worse.'

'How?'

Bowser smirked.

'Your entire kingdom can fall with you.'

Princess Peach gasped, and stepped back from the bars, thinking of what choice to make.

'Give it to me.'

The Koopalings didn't stop moving, and they passed a cell that contained a green Yoshi.

Margie looked into the cell, and was shocked at the sight.

The Yoshi was depressed and staving, and chained horribly to the wall.

She stepped away to the group, and got as close to the Yoshi as she could.

It looked at her happily.

'Yoshi, Yoshi!' It cried.

'I want to help, I really do!'

She attracted the attention of Bowser, and the Yoshi stepped back.

'Why are you...?'

ROOOAAAR!

Bowser's roar alerted her, and Roy pulled her, only enough to drag her open.

Bowser ignored the princesses and prince, and looked at his children.

'Ha ha ha!'

His evil laugh made Luigi stepped back as far as his chain allowed.

'Great job! You've finally kidnapped the green 'stache.'

Luigi stood straight.

'H-hey, m-my name is L-Luigi!' He stuttered.

The Koopalings laughed at him.

'I heard you've 'de-brotherised' yourself. Good job.'

Good job?

'What do you mean 'good job'?'

Bowser didn't answer. The princess and prince stepped up to the bars, and saw Margie and Luigi.

Princess Daisy smiled ecstatically.

'Luuuigiii!' She shouted.

Margie payed quick attention to Prince Barrybarry. The glasses he needed were cracked.

'What's your plan Bowser?' Margie demanded.

Bowser walked closer.

'Set him free.'

Morton unlocked the chains that held Luigi, and he tried to run, but the wheeled object detached, and he fell.

'W-w-what do you want?'

Bowser looked at his children.

'I want a battle!'

WAS THAT A DEUS EX MACHINA?

THE TENTH CHAPTER CONTAINS A FIGHT SCENE, AND FIGHT SCENES ARE MY WRITING WEAKNESS, SO THE NEXT CHAPTER WILL TAKE A LONG TIME TO COME OUT.