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Chapter 9: Mid-Bus Rivalry

Upon exiting Dimble Wood, Bowser arrived at the Bumpsy Plains; a small grassy area located west of the woods, north of Cavi Cape, east of Blubble Lake and south-west of Bowser Path. It is filled with small patches of red flowers, pinecone-like landscapes, blocks, rocks, Flifits and Sneeds. The name obviously came from 'bump'; an area of skin that is raised up because you have hit it on something.

In order to reach his castle, Bowser had to travel to the northeast while slide punching blocks and rocks on his way. Once he reached the end of these plains, Bowser found an entrance to a road that leads to his castle: the Bowser Path.

This rocky road contains many conveyor belts and spikes, so the Sliding Punch is slightly appropriated. There was a Chain Chawful, a Chain Chomp who was mind-controlled by a parasite green Sworm, who tried to attack Bowser, but he managed to defeat it.

He continues onward, until he heard some faint voices:

"Huuuungry…"

"Want out now…"

Up ahead beyond the conveyor belts, there was a cage where many Shy Guys were trapped in.

"Baaack hurts…"

"So sick of standing."

"Where's our Bowser…"

Bowser made his way through the conveyor belts and destroyed the cage by punching it, setting all of the Shy Guys free.

"FREEEE!"

"King Bowser!"

"THANK YOOOU!"

"All right! C'mon, you guys!" Bowser said.

"Finally freeee!" one of the Shy Guys exclaimed.

"Our king rules!" another one spoke.

"Hey! What's with all the chatter?" Bowser asked as he tries to move back to the Shy Guys, but the conveyor belt was dragging him backwards. "The chatter! Quit it! Move it!"

"SHOO-RAH!" all of the Shy Guys cheered.

With that, the Shy Guy troop joined Bowser, allowing him to use a new attack in battle: the Shy Guy Squad. Bowser continues to head to his castle.


Meanwhile, in Bowser's Castle…

"My Lord Midbus! Bowser approaches!" a Goomba informed.

"MUH MUH!" Midbus laughed. "The clock strikes payback hour. Do plan two. To your posts!"

"Roger!" the two Goombas saluted and left.


Back with Bowser…

"Eh? What's with all this shaking?" Bowser questioned when the whole place around him began to shake.

He looked up and saw his castle once again taking off to the skies.

"Whatcha got now, huh?" he asked bitterly. "Not that it matters much! I WILL have my revenge!" he then proceeds to follow his castle.

Once he reached a dead end from outside of the path, he looked at his castle in the distance as he hears Midbus' laugh:

"MUH MUH MUH! Bowser crawls up like an innocent Koopa. Such is his courage." he smirked.

"Koopa?" the two Goombas thought confused.

"You rang?" ironically, a Green Koopa walked in.

"I DID NOT! THAT WAS ONLY A COMPARISON!" Midbus yelled at the Koopa, who jumped in fright and scurried off. "Bowser! Next time, I punch your thigh bone, your eye bone, and your dry bone!"

"Dry Bone?" the two Goombas thought confused again. Ironically again, a Dry Bones walked in.

"Ummmm… Did you call…"

"NO!" Midbus yelled before the Dry Bones could finish.

"Thought not…" the Dry Bones muttered before leaving.

"Bowser! Next time goes a different way than this way went." Midbus told Bowser.

"Learn to speak already! And then bring it on, chump!" Bowser growled.

"Hmph. I scoff. I scoff at you. You bluff. It is time. The special weapon of Lord Fawful. I will release it. SUPER ULTRA WONDER ULTIMATE RUTHLESS GREAT IRON BALL! HYAH!"

The Bowser head on the castle sunk and a cannon showed up. It then blasts a HUGE cannonball towards Bowser, but he rose his arms and grabbed it.

"GOOOOOH!" he struggled with the cannonball, trying to push it up. "I am NOT getting crushed by one of MY OWN cannonballs! Guys! Help me out again!" he called for the heroes inside his body.


Inside Bowser…

"Did you call for us, Bowser?" Mario asked.

"YES! I'm right now struggling with a large cannonball! Hurry! Stimulate my muscles! And do it GOOD!" Bowser spoke.

"Alright! Let's hurry, guys!"

He and the gang rushed to the Arm Center and played the rhythmical minigame again. After completing it, Bowser successfully hurled the huge cannonball, and it hit the top of his castle, damaging it badly as it returns to its original spot on the ground.

"Hmph! Like that, chump?" Bowser scolded. "But… My castle…" he thought as he looks at his damaged castle before growling: "It will be mine again!"

With that taken care of, Bowser walks to his castle.


Because Bowser's Castle has been taken over by Fawful, the interior was completely redesigned: there were golden Fawful statues at the entrance, many Bowser monuments had Fawful's glasses on the eyes, and the whole place pretty much feels like an entrance to a theater. Once Bowser entered the castle, some Goombas greeted him:

"WELLCOOOOME!"

"A guest arriiiiives!"

"Welcome, dear guest!"

"Guest!"

The Goombas approached Bowser as he spoke confused:

"Uh… Guest?"

"Welcome to Fawful Theater!" one of the Goombas welcomed. "Pleeease wait in the lobby! Soon the show will start!"

"Fuh… Fawful Theater?!" Bowser didn't believe that his castle was turned into a theater. "Don't joke with me! This is my castle!" but the same Goomba repeated the same phrase earlier, making Bowser even pissed: "HEY! IDIOTS! You KNOW me! Knock it off!" he breathes fire, blowing two of the Goombas away, but they came back.

They once again repeated the same phrase, and Bowser was now losing his mind:

"NNNGRRRRARGH! STOP SAYING THAT!" he does the same thing as before, but once again, the Goombas came back and spoke the same thing.

"Oh, boy. Looks like trouble up there." Starlow said from inside Bowser.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Bowser asked, looking down at his stomach.

"They won't listen to you. Fawful controls them now. They've been brainwashed."

"Crud!" Bowser facepalmed. "Great. Not only did this guy take over my castle, but now he's all up in my minions too!"

"For now, I think you ought to go in and have a look around."

"Stupid Fawful! That guy is gonna PAY!" Bowser growled before deciding to explore around.

As he was listening to his own brainwashed minions' conversations, he heard that they no longer remember of him, which made him even angrier on the inside. But he decided to not express it and continues to explore.


Later…

The double doors leading to the theater opened up, and a Goomba's voice came:

"Tonight's Fawful Show begins SOOOOOOOOON!"

"YES! FINALLY!" a Koopa shouted in happiness.

"That seat up front is mine!" a Dry Bones exclaimed.

Bowser then saw all of the Goombas, Koopas, Boos, Shy Guys and Dry Bones heading inside. He decides to follow them.

Inside, what used to be Bowser's Throne Room was now the stage itself. Unfortunately for our Koopa King, all of the seats were taken!

"There are NO seats left?!" he spoke in unbelief. He heads towards the Goombas at the door and calls: "HEY!"

"Yessss? What is it?" one of the Goombas asked.

"I have no seat!"

"Yes, take an open seat, pleeeease."

"There are NO open seats! Do something now!"

"Oh, dear guest, I feel for you, but there's naught I can dooo."

"Both of you, zip it! I AM KING BOWSER!"

"Is there a problem?" another Goomba's voice came as he walks in.

"Oh, Boss, phew! This guy…" the same Goomba from early spoke.

"So this big galoot here, right? He's all like, I have no seeeat! No seeat! And he won't shut up!" the other Goomba explained. "But he won't stop, and we're all, we just can't do it, buddy, OK? So we have no idea what to do. And this lug's getting surlier. He's not going away. And he has no seat! Nothing! Not a chance! So we do some solid thinking and totally fail. No big seats! I mean, we got small seats! And…" the Goomba began blabbing on, and once he finished, the two Goombas and even Bowser were speechless.

"Uh… Right. Gotcha." The Goomba Boss said. "Whoa." He thought astonished since he never heard a Goomba talk so much. He turns to Bowser and continues: "Um… So the issue here is this guest lacks a seat?"

"I'm not a guest! I AM KING BOWSER!" Bowser yelled.

"Bowser? Aha! King Bowser! Of course! How stupid of me! I was just handed your name! Lord Fawful has arranged for special VIP treatment for you! Only the finest, of course! So, my dear King Bowser! Allow me to guide you to your special seat! This way, please!"

"Oh yeah? Really? The VIP treatment?"

"Prepare VIP SEEEEEEAT!"

Then, an opening on the floor opened up, revealing a seat made for Bowser that looked more like a throne.

"Bingo! Just perfect!" Bowser exclaimed. "That seat is pure Bowser!" he walks to the VIP seat and sits down.

In a second, the lights went out and the whole room became silent as a Goomba's voice came:

"And now, without further ado, THE FAWFUL SHOOOOOOOW!"

"I HAVE FAWFUL!" Fawful exclaimed as the stage lit up, and Fawful appeared on it. "Excited crowd! You feel it?" he waved to the crowd, who cheered to him. "Fawful is also feeling it! I am needing to feel it even more, though!" the crowd cheers louder. "MORE!" the crowd cheers even louder. "MOOORE!" the crowd cheers really loud.

"Ugh, they really know how to pop someone's eardrums…" Bowser grumbled after uncovering his ears.

"Oh, I am feeling the power! It high-fives Fawful's face! And now I will use that power to call our most special guest, who you will be cheering! Today's special guest… The famous KOOPA KING! BOWSER!" Fawful announced as all of the laser lights moved to Bowser, who looked around confused while the crowd was cheering.

Suddenly, the seat Bowser was on moved towards the stage really fast. Bowser flinched in surprise by that before he was launched out of his seat and slammed into the wall.

"I HAVE CHORTLES!" Fawful laughed. "It is an entrance of amazement! Like only a special guest does! Now a Midbus battle will unfold like an angry dip of many layers on the chips of wildest hopes!"

"Urgh…" Bowser stood up as he rubbed his head and noticed Fawful. "YOU! FAWFUL!" he roars and tries to slide punch him, but he dodged it.

"I HAVE CHORTLES!" Fawful laughed again. "COME! MIDBUS!"

Midbus then steps on the stage and engages Bowser.

"You have come. As I expected." He spoke. "Now it is time. Now we will fight! Then you will lose! And you will cry!"

"Really! You lugged yourself up onstage, huh? Nice! Now I can give these folks a REAL show!" Bowser said while cracking his knuckles.

Midbus charged for Bowser while swinging a wrecking ball, but Bowser was able to duck to avoid the wrecking ball and once Midbus stopped swinging it, Bowser proceeds to punch him in the face. Midbus tosses the wrecking ball at Bowser, but he sends it out with the spikes on his shell.

The crowd cheered for Midbus, offering him a large hot drumstick, but before he was able to eat it, Bowser used his vacuum ability to suck in the drumstick. This got Midbus furious and does a body slam at Bowser, but he ducked and his spikes hit Midbus.

Thanks to the drumstick he ate, Bowser's punch dealt more damage than before. The crowd then cheered for him this time and offers some coins to him. Midbus inflates his belly while walking towards Bowser. Bowser quickly does a series of punches on Midbus's belly before uppercutting him, and he fell on his back to the ground.

With Midbus struggling to get up, Bowser took the opportunity to finish him off with the Shy Guy Squad: he pulls out the Shy Guys and sent them back. Three groups of Shy Guys held both ends of a rope as Bowser curls into a spiked ball with the rest of the Shy Guys pushing him into the rope. Bowser then launches forward like a slingshot, hitting Midbus with great speed, finally knocking him out.

Two Goombas came to the stage and fetched Midbus. The Goombas dragged him offstage as Fawful steps to the middle and announces:

"And the winning is for… BOWSERRRR!"

The crowd went wild as Bowser laughed in glory:

"BWAHAHAHA! That's right! Lemme hear it! Keep those cheers coming! You remember me now, I bet! The unbeatable King Bowser!"

"Such a fight of fury!" Fawful remarked.

"SHUT IT!" Bowser yelled at him. "You think I forgot my castle?! Old pink was just a warm-up! Now I punt you outta here!"

"Oh, Fawful is leaving! But first! You had victory! Now the celebrate!"

"Celebrate?"

"Yes, at the magic feast of honor! COME! BOOS!"

"You rang?" a Boo's voice came.

Three Boos wearing red bow ties came into the stage and one of them spoke:

"Ah, our winner! The king, Bowser… Looks promising!"

"Heehee!" the other two chuckled.

"His belly cries out for the magic feast of honor!" Fawful said.

"We're on it, sir! This way, please, King Bowser!" the same Boo from earlier replied.

"Hmph! Seems suspicious, but you're going to such trouble…" Bowser spoke in a suspicious tone before laughing again: "BWAHAHAHA!"

The Boos then led Bowser out of the stage, with Fawful following behind.

To be continued…


You probably already know what's going to happen next, right? But after all these chapters, the female guide of this remake will finally show up at the next chapter! Until then! Please review.