Next Gen Bros.
A Fanfic by WriteMan.exe
Disclaimer: The Characters who Nintendo made are © of Nintendo. Don, Vito, Toadsky and Demon Koopa are my creations.
Author's Note: Sorry about the chapters being so short. I did this so people don't get bogged down in one chapter and are like "my God, SO much scrolling!" However in a bit chapters will get a bit longer. I mean not by like ten pages or anything but maybe to six pages or so. So…get ready.
Previously on Next Gen Bros.
The Koopaland Invaders have charged at the Sarsaland defenders, an assault that would normally have ended with disastrous consequences…that is if the Mushroom Kingdom had not aided in the fray.
Demon Koopa, annoyed with how long the invasion is taking, orders his Koopa Army to fallback.
However, before he goes…he's going to challenge King Luigi to a winner takes all battle royale.
He has promised that regardless of whether the Green King emerges victorious or not, his Koopa will retreat for the day.
But
can Demon really be trusted?
Can the King of Sarsaland dethrone
the King of Koopas?
And Now…
Chapter IX
The
Green Offensive
May
15th,
2036 (10:15pm)
Chai Battlefield
The evening sky had lingered on a bit longer than anticipated. The duel between the king of Sarsaland and the King of Koopas would be fought with a pink horizon out.
"The stars will weep for you…" Demon wistfully said. Luigi dug into the ground and adopted a fighting stance. A quiet wind blazed through the area where the fight would begin. The two viciously eyeballed each other, waiting for the other to make the first move. Demon smiled and let a small "Boo" escape his mouth before dashing towards Luigi. Luigi waited until the last conceivable second before dodging Demon's claw. He then spun around and knocked Demon back with a roundhouse kick.
"Who do you think you are? Chuck Norris?" Demon roared. Luigi smugly smiled.
"Whatever gets the job done.
May
15th,
2036 (10:17pm)
Elsewhere on the Chai Battlefield
"Come on! Press forward! They're pulling back!" Vito triumphantly declared as the Koopa began to turn tail and rush back to their leader. Vito, not one to miss an opportunity, charged forward with the strength of his entire company behind him. Don was having fun killing Koopaland warriors as he saw them.
"Toadsky, do you know any defensive spells yet?" Vito asked his young ally. Toadsky looked up. He noticed a Paratroopa trying to drop a Bom-Omb on a small group of unsuspecting Toad Knights. "Bubbler!" Toadsky screamed as he blasted a barrage of bubbles from his wand that entrapped the Paratrooper and his explosive. The enemy cursed quietly as the bomb went off inside the bubble, killing the both of them.
"Yeah. I know one but…I can't use it." Toadsky said. Vito used his sword to tip over a large Buzzy Beetle. He then kicked it, effectively knocking out eight koopas. A small chime was heard.
"Why not. We may need defensive cover soon." Vito protested. Toadsky looked down at a hurt Toad.
"Recovery 200." He said softly as the Toad watched his wounds heal almost immediately under the cover of a faint white light.
"I can do recovery spells for right now. Just believe me when I say I don't want to use this spell until it is absolutely necessary."
"Okay. I'll trust you." Vito said. Toadsky nodded and smiled. He then adopted a fighting stance and held his staff out like a sword.
"LongSword!"
May
15th,
2036 (10:20pm)
The Duel
I should be able to keep up with this old man Demon ruefully hissed. But so far the duel had been tipping in favor of the green king. Luigi had yet to use his sword. Demon growled and charged again.
"Hmph. Give that technique some rest!" Luigi screamed as he ducked and tripped Demon. As the Koopa King fell Luigi gave it a high kick in the stomach. Demon fell to the ground and spit up some blood.
Demon shook his head and cracked his knuckles. He laughed a little and then faced Luigi. Luigi warily eyed his opponent.
"What's so funny? I'm two sword slices away from making turtle soup out of you!" Luigi declared. He could recall a time he had ever been this confident about anything. Maybe he could kill Demon. Maybe he could end the Invasion right here. With his own two hands.
"Watch Mario! Watch as I avenge you." Luigi thought. Demon was still laughing. Luigi looked around and saw the Koopaland army surrounding him.
"You lying bastard! You swore-" Luigi started. But Demon cut him off.
"That it would be between me and you. And that is how it shall remain. However, I will make sure the same rule applies for you. It would be fair if Don or Vito came in and attacked me would it?"
Luigi stood straight up and relaxed. "I guess that would be unfair." He finally said. Demon laughed.
"Good. Now then, will you fight me for real? All this time you've been holding back. Cut loose. Have some fun." Demon said. Luigi chewed on this thought for a second. Had he been holding back? No, he'd been fighting full-force. He had no reason to hold back. But if Demon thought he was holding back then that meant…
"I-I'm not challenging him…" Luigi whispered quietly. The mental assault had worked. Demon swaggered to the Sarsaland king and smiled.
"If you really wanted me dead you'd have drawn your sword by now. But I see you don't mean to kill me. You're weak…and the weak will never be able to kill me…the end."
Luigi flashedback to when he and Mario were little. No matter what happened Luigi always seem to be to weak to save the day. Mario always saved him. He never could get the job done. He never was the hero…
"No more…" Luigi whispered. Demon tauntingly leaned in.
"What was that?"
In one swift motion Luigi drew his sword and sliced Demon across the face. Demon staggered back and placed a hand, er…claw, over the bleeding wound.
"No longer am I weak. I am Luigi! King of Sarsaland and I will kill you to avenge my brother!"
"Tough words punk. Come and test your mettle!" Demon snarled.
May 15th, 2036 (10:49pm)
Circle around the Duel
The Koopaland invaders had formed a circle around the Luigi-Demon duel but their numbers were fading fast. With no orders other than to stand guard, they were easy prey for the combined Mushroom forces.
"Toadsky. Got anything?" Vito asked as he skewered a Koopa Knight through his armor. Toadsky thought for a second and snapped his fingers.
"Invis1" Toadsky said as he slowly turned transparent. Vito panicked and loudly questioned where he'd gone.
"I've made myself invisible. That way I can go and sneak in and see what the Koopa's are hiding here. I can go through them completely unharmed so don't worry."
Vito nodded. However, since Toadsky was invisible, he nodded in the wrong direction and Don got the nod.
"What the hell is wrong with my cousin?"
Toadsky silently crawled through the enemy lines. A dead Toad who had been unarmed fell on top and through Toadsky's head. He saw the Toad and gave out a small yelp. Thankfully, the clanging of the weapons was so loud he went unnoticed. He finally made his way to the center ring and saw…
May 15th, 2036 (10:52pm)
The Duel
Luigi slashed at Demon but this time the wily Koopa dodged the swipe with a marked look of deftness.
"Can you feel it. That little birdie inside you screaming at the top of its feathered lungs. It screams "I can't do it."
"Shut up. You've yet to hit me!" Luigi arrogantly yelled.
"A fact of this battle I intend to change right now." Demon roared as he plowed forward and drilled a closed fist into Luigi's jaw. The king flew backwards and landed in a heap.
"Hmph. So much for a flawless victory." Demon sneered.
"I'll still come off with the fatality!" Luigi shot back and charged with his sword trailing behind him, Demon dodged the swipe and picked Luigi up high in the air before slamming him brutally onto the ground.
"Hmph. What an easy little duel this turned out to be." Demon triumphantly roared. Luigi jumped to and adopted a fighting stance.
Toadsky watched in awe as the battle continued to rage on. Luigi, surprisingly agile for someone nearing eighty, traded punches, kicks and slices with the dark Koopa until both were battered and scared. Luigi's right arm was cut to essentially the bone while the entire right side of his face was slashed. Demon didn't look too much better: his shell and underside were viciously torn up. His right eye lay some ten inches from Toadsky.
"There is some fight left in you." Demon managed to say with a river of blood pouring into his mouth from the eye wound.
"Watch as it extinguishes the light from your eyes and your darkness from this world!" Luigi said as he made a final charge at Demon. Demon braced himself and as soon as Luigi was with in striking distance he made a final swipe. The slash would have no doubt beheaded Luigi had he not bounded in the air, something he would later admit he hadn't done since Super Mario Bros. 2. Luigi executed an amazing forward flip and drove his sword deep into the shell of Demon. The sword stuck halfway in the shell before stopping. Demon staggered forward. Luigi turned around and leapt in the air once more.
"When you go to Hell, tell Bowser I send my regards!" Luigi said he kicked the sword's hilt driving it through the Koopa's shell and through his underside.
"But…" Demon whispered as he staggered forward. He turned to face Luigi. He glanced down at the fatal sword.
"That's not a good thing…congratualations…" Demon said softly. "Be a pal and tip me to fall on the side…I don't want to fall…on this sword."
Before Luigi could move the demented Koopa fell backward and slid down the sword before the lack of balance tipped him to the side. Luigi bowed and faced the enclosing circle of Koopaland invaders.
"Demon?! Impossible…" a high ranking Koopa said in shock. He immediately gave the order to retreat. Toadsky's Invis ran out just as the retreat order was given.
"We-we did it." Luigi tiredly said. Vito and Don smiled. The Mushroom Kingdom Army had emerged victorious.
"It's curious though…" Don said quietly.
Luigi turned to his nephew.
"What's curious?" Luigi asked.
"Oh, it's probably nothing. It's just I crossed swords with Demon during the battle-" Luigi stopped and cut him off.
"When…" Luigi asked.
"When what?" Don asked.
"When did you fight Demon?!" Luigi roared.
"While the Koopas were retreating. Why?"
"That's impossible. Demon started fighting me after he called the fallback." Luigi said.
"Maybe Don imagined it?" Vito said. Don shot him a deathglare. Then it hit all four of them instantly. Luigi ordered the two princes and Toadsky to follow him to Demon's corpse.
Luigi stared in awe.
"No…it can't be…"
Laying on the ground, pierced through the stomach laid the enemy of the Mushroom Kingdom. However, it wasn't Demon.
It was Kamek.
Until Next Time…
Chapter X : The Cunning Koopa
