Otto smashed through a window. He slid to a half just inches from a chain of fire turning slowly over the floor.

"Good thing I'm wearing a helmet," he said to himself. Painfully, he got up. "Hmm, looks like we landed right on our mark. That was extremely lucky."

Suddenly, Otto realized that he came with a partner.

"Mace?" Otto looked around.

"Ouch. You're just lucky that you have a helmet. I think my face is broken." Otto turned around to find that Mace had been sitting in the corner of the room, waiting for him. "Looks like this Airship really likes its security too, huh?"

As if on cue, the two heard a loud banging coming from right behind the room.

"Is anyone in there? Open the door! You just disturbed my coffee break!" came the voice of a Koopa Troopa guard.

"Uh, oh. That's not good. Got a plan?" Mace whispered quietly.

The banging intensified.

Otto scanned the huge cube-shaped room. There wasn't much, really. Just a door, a cross of fire spinning over the floor of the room, as to make the very edges of the room the only safe place to stand, and two broken windows.

"Hmm. They'll see us if we stay right here, and they'll look through the windows, so we can't climb outside and get in some other way. Besides, it's too dangerous." Otto thought out loud. "I know! If we ask them, they may join us in our rebellion against Bowser. If not, we can KO them, and tie them up!"

The banging stopped. "We know you're in there, so come out and surrender, or we smash this door open and kill you!"

There was no reply. Suddenly, the door caved in and two Koopa Troopa guards entered through the hole in the door. Both noticed that they weren't alone. The two guards searched the entire room and looked out the windows, just as Otto predicted. Then, the guards saw the pair in the corner, as if waiting for them to see them.

The guards started chasing them around the room, and Otto decided he had to ask them to help them before they did anything drastic to them.

"We are here to take over this airship so we can overthrow Bowser. Will you join us?" Otto asked the guards, as they four ran in circles.

"You're crazy, kid. You can't overthrow him! Not with eight Koopalings as his guards!"

"Eight? There are eight?"

"Yeah, Bowser Jr."

"So, I guess you won't help us right?"

"No. Bowser Jr will kill us!"

"OK, then. NOW!"

The two jumped over the trap, surprising the two guards, and tackled them. The guards fell with Otto and Mace, and Otto dropped his hammer on the floor, making a loud noise.

One guard tried to radio for help, but Otto quickly grabbed the communicator with his hand and smashed it to pieces. The four struggled for a while, still in the corner of the room, until Mace freed one hand and punched his guard hard in the face. Unconsciousness was imminent. Then, Mace aided Otto in neutralizing the remaining guard.

"That was close." Otto panted, as he picked up his hammer.

"Those were just two guys. How are we going to defeat, like two hundred of them?"

"We won't have to. We'll capture the control room and get them to join us. Some may sympathize with us and will help us. The other Koopas will have obey us or we'll lock them in the brig of this ship." Otto said.

The two friends tied up and gagged the guards and hid them in the closet located directly behind where the two had been hiding.

They avoided the flame trap on the way to the door, and peeked into the hall. It was empty. The two cautiously tiptoed down the hall, towards the control room.


An experienced Koopa Troopa walked down the hallway to the last room. The Koopa had spikes on his shell, wild red hair, and two small horns on his head. He wore a white bib with a shark tooth design on it, and he looked exactly like Bowser would have as a kid. He had seen many things since the beginning of his life, and nothing scared him. He was the highest rank officer on this airship, even higher than Boomerang Bro on-board. He had heard a disturbance in this general area. It had sounded like a bunch heavy, metal objects hit the floor. He was sure it was somewhere here, but he had to check all forty-one other rooms of this section of the airship, just to be sure. He didn't want anyone to think he was mental, like that poor, insane Koopa down in World Two, especially since Bowser had entrusted this airship to him. It had taken him fifty-four minutes to check the rooms, and he was on the last room.

The door of the room in question was slightly ajar. That's odd, thought the Koopa, it's against protocol to leave doors open without good reason. He looked inside. At first, he couldn't see anything other than the flame trap, but as the flames passed the corners, he saw that this room had a closet. Why does this room have to have a closet? None of the other rooms have one, he thought, annoyed. He opened it to reveal two unconscious guards. At first, he didn't react, but then his primitive brain realized something odd. Normally, he would beat disobedient Koopas unconscious, but someone else had knocked out these guards. There were intruders. On his ship. Bowser would kill him if he found out. He pulled out his communicator.

"This is Bowser Jr! We have a Code Green! I repeat. We have a Code Green!"

Then, the most experienced Koopa Troopa on the ship panicked as he ran towards the control room.