Next Gen Bros.
A Fanfic by Webcomic Central (Eric Merritt)
Disclaimer: The Characters who Nintendo made are © of Nintendo. Don, Vito, Toadsky and Demon Koopa are my creations.
Authour's Note: I just noticed the first so many chapters say by Writeman.exe. That was my old pen name. I stopped using the email that Writeman.exe is under and consenquently I forgot it. So I brought my fanfic under my new email. I'm not jacking anyone's story.
Previously on Next Gen Bros.
Demon Koopa and Luigi engaged in a duel to the death while the Koopaland invaders retreated.
The two warriors exchanged blow for blow but when the dust cleared the winner was the green gladiator, Luigi!
But after the Koopas had completely fled Luigi made a terrible discovery. The enemy he had felled was not Demon at all.
It was Kamek
And Now…
Chapter X
The Cunning Koopa
May 15th, 2036 (11:00pm)
Chai Battlefield
"This just isn't possible." Toadsky quietly sighed. "The war was almost over." Luigi fell to his knees.
"That was Kamek…I fought Kamek and could barely win…I'm no match for Demon…" Luigi said. Vito rushed over to his dad and kneeled beside him.
"Look, you beat Kamek who was a near perfect carbon-copy of Demon. If you could fell Kamek acting as Demon then why can't you match Demon?"
Toadsky quietly piped up, "Unfortunately King Luigi is right." Vito turned sharply around and glared at the magic toad.
"What do you mean? Why can't he win?" Vito roared.
"Because, like you said, Kamek was a near perfect copy of Demon. It requires a great amount of concentration for a magician to maintain transformation magic under any circumstance. Judging by the amount of damage King Luigi caused, Kamek had to focus so hard that Luigi was fighting a foe maybe about 35 as strong as Demon." Toadsky said. The percentage hit Luigi like a ton of bricks.
"What good am I then?" Luigi muttered. Don and Vito stared at the corpse of Kamek. Toadsky waved his wand.
"I'm sorry I can't look at this any more. We've gotta go."
"Go, where?"
"To the Castle. Don, with the permission of Prince Vito and King Luigi, I invite you and your soldiers to stay at Castle Sarsaland for the night. We should go ahead and plan for our next move."
Don stepped away from the group.
"My men and I must head back to the Mushroom Kingdom. Can you take us there?" Don asked. Toadsky nodded and then stopped.
"What's the matter?" Don asked impatiently.
"So..I only can do a teleportation spell if I'm included. I can't send people yet…" Everyone did a generic anime fall.
"Well," Don started. "We can go to Mushroom Castle and then to Sarsaland's. That way you only have to make two trips."
"Okay. AreaSteal!" The two princes, king and the mushroom magician along with the rest of the Mushroom/Sarsaland army were engulfed in a bright white light. Then particle by particle they turned to dust and disappeared. The Chai battlefield still reeked of death. The ground was still littered with the bodies of the fallen Toads, Yoshis and Koopa. At the center laid Kamek.
May 16th, 2036 (12:00am)
Chai Outskirts, Koopa Encampment
A small butterfly floated overhead and dove down to view the unusual creatures that had set up shop near the flower patch he normally would take refuge in. They were for the most part bruised and cut. More than one of them was missing some visible appendage. The butterfly continued his observation as the creatures stood up and continued to march southward. While following them he came upon a brutish looking one with blazing orange eyes. The creature spit out some blood and rubbed a wound on his stomach.
"Hello there," the creature said before incinerating the butterfly with a small puff of fire.
May 16th, 2036 (8:02am)
Koopaland War Room
"Hmm…it would seem my diversion didn't work as planned," Demon said. He looked at the lakitu standing before him. "That is what you are telling me correct?"
"Yes sir! I was spying on the battlefield remains and I noted Luigi and the two lordlings looking over the body of Kamek," Lakitu said. Demon sat on his throne and mulled over the information he received.
"So that means that they know I'm not dead. That mess up my surprise attack plan." Demon said with a sound of sorrow. The Lakitu had a question burning inside him but he dared not question the Koopa King. However, Demon saw the question trying to escape the Lakitu's mouth.
"Speak your mind. What is it you wonder about?" Demon asked. The Lakitu nervously looked down and thought to his high school buddy who had made the pep speech crack.
"It's just…why do we need to surprise attack the Mushroom Kingdom? Do we not have the manpower?" Lakitu asked. Demon nodded his head approvingly.
"Interesting question. I like your point. If we have the manpower, then why not just rush the Mushroom Kingdom and drown them in wave after wave of enemies," Demon said. He stood up causing the Lakitu to move back a few inches.
"You see, that's the Bowser mentality speaking. Bowser would've done something like that. He was brutish. Strong. I'll credit him with that," Demon stopped and tapped his temple with a claw, "But he had nothing up here. You see, our enemy will find some way to ingrain themselves in the Mushroom Kingdom. We can't go in Andy Gump and expect to win. We must pop up here, pop up there. Then when a bit of their outskirt defenses have been weakened we strike a large city, not the capital but somewhere important. Then retreat."
"Retreat? Why? From the sound of it at this point the war would be in our control!" The Laiktu protested. He quickly thought about what he had done and bowed.
"No need to bow. I like that boldness. Here, allow me to explain. Like you said, at this point the war would be in our control. However, being so deep in enemy territory risks them closing in around us and attack our army on all sides. At this point, even if we could hold them off, we'd lose so many warriors we'd have to do an unconditional surrender." Demon said. His voice hadn't raised a decibel since the surprise attack line.
"So we retreat. To lure them into Koopaland?" The Lakitu asked. Demon smiled and nodded.
"Exactly. That way we'll be fighting on our home-turf. We can ingrain ourselves and dish out the damage while being constantly reinforced. Even if they manage to gain a small foothold there will be no way they will be able to completely wipe out the Koopaland army."
"I see your Koopaness."
"You've given me confidence in my plan. Good job minion. What's your name?"
"Lakilester. But you can call me Spike."
"So my lord what's our next move?
"General Spike, have you heard of the legend of the Seven Stars?"
Until Next Time…
Chapter XI : The Legend of The Seven Stars
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