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Chapter 9: First grand Set-Up
Within a hallway of the Mushroom Kingdom central hospital, a small crowd of patients, faculty and visitors had gathered for what one would describe as a "spectacle".
Ness was in the corner tied up while the caricature loomed over him. It's worth noting that the ropes Ness was tied up in was also black and 2-dimensonal.
"Alright kid I'll ask you one more time, WHY WERE YOU STALKING ME." said the caricature.
"I told you I wasn't stalking you" said Ness "though in retrospect my movements were a bit suspicious", "All I wanted to do was talk to you, to find out what made you so" Ness thought for a minute what word he should use. He did not want to make the caricature any madder then he already was.
"Flat"
"So do you think I'm some sort of freak? Is that it" said the caricature apparently madder then it was previously.
"To be honest, yeah"
The crowd gasped in shock.
"So you think I'm a freak just because I'm a 2-d character in a 3-d world?" said the caricature in an even angrier voice.
"No, I think you are a freak because you attacked me, tied me up and spent the last 10 minutes interrogating me."
The caricature had no reasonable comeback, so instead he reached behind his back and pulled out a big hammer. The hammer was also black and 2-dimensional.
"Okay you little stalker, you're about to get what's coming to ya" the caricature then pointed to a Toad in the crowd who judging by his outfit was a drummer in a marching band.
"Drum roll please"
The Toad complied.
The caricature then prepared to bash Ness on the top of the head.
"Judgement"
The hammer gently bonked Ness on the head.
"Was that it?" Ness asked the caricature then proceeded to "strangle" his hammer.
"Stupid hammer, why does it keep using level 1"
Needless to say Ness was quite dumbfounded by this series of events.
"Okay let's try this again" said the caricature, the caricature once again prepared to hit Ness with his hammer (with the added drum roll).
"Judgemen..."
"What's going on?" everyone turned to the source of the voice.
The source of the voice was a human doctor. The doctor was about 5 feet tall (making him a little taller than Ness) and had brown hair, blue eyes and a black moustache.
"Mr. Game & Watch" said the doctor apparently addressing the caricature "I send you out to get some snacks for the faculty lounge, and I find you publicly assaulting a child."
"But but but Doc this kid was stalking me" the newly dubbed Mr. Game & Watch said trying to defend himself.
The doctor looked towards Ness "is that true kid" the doctor spoke in a voice that demanded the truth.
Ness exhaled, annoyed that he kept having to repeat himself "No I'm not a stalker, although I'll admit I do see how I could have been seen as such. All I wanted to do was know why Mr. 2-dimensonal over there was well 2-dimensional."
The doctor looked at Ness sceptically "so you followed Mr. Game &Watch because you were curious about him?"
Ness nodded in response.
With a flick of his wrist, the doctor had a scalpel in his hand, which he then used to cut Ness free. "Since you're so curious about my assistant, I'll tell you everything I know Mr. uhhh."
"Ness"
"Please to meet you, I'm Doctor Mario" said the doctor "the focus of your curiosity is my assistant Mr. Game & Watch. Now if you don't mind since it such a lovely day out, why don't we discuss this in the hospital park?"
Ness nodded in agreement. With that Dr. Mario left for said park, Ness was about to join him when Mr. Game & Watch grabbed him by the shoulder.
"I've got my eye on you stalker" then Mr. G&W went to join the Doctor.
Before joining them Ness briefly wondered what he got himself into.
Meanwhile...
Luigi screamed in terror as Bowser Jr. chased him around the foyer trying to bash Luigi on the head with his paintbrush.
When fleeing Luigi was capable of great speed and stamina but Bowser Jr. was very energetic and determined. As a result neither of them would be getting tired anytime soon.
Eventually the chase caused the two of them to circle a pillar. They kept circling the pillar for about a minute.
Eventually Bowser Jr. tripped, he quickly got up only to notice that Luigi was still running around the pillar in terror.
"He he, that's funny" Bowser Jr. then sat down to enjoy the "show".
Meanwhile...
Mario and Yoshi had just entered a room located above Bowser's throne room.
The room was quite large in size and made entirely out of gray bricks. There were no windows so the only source of light was 4 torches located in each corner. There was also a large crane located at the top of the room obviously for holding Peach's cage. At the end of the room was a trophy of a large double bladed battle axe.
Kamek was also at the end of the room.
"Your an insensitive jerk you know that Mario" said Kamek "We Koopa's worked really hard on that death course and you don't even have the decency to get killed on it"
"Don't worry we promise to take death course next time we come here right Mario." said Yoshi
"Wrong, there-a wont a-be a next time, today we finish-a this!"
Kamek groaned in annoyance "don't give me any of that heroic gibberish. You should know by now that King Bowser is like a phoenix, whenever he is defeated he gloriously rises from the ashes to fight again."
"Your-a right Bowser is-a too stubborn to die, but I can a-give him such-a pounding that he'll never want to invade the Mushroom-a Kingdom ever again."
Kamek exhaled in depression then turned around to face the wall "how ironic that after all this time you still know so little about the king of the dark lands." Kamek then jumped up (after all he was quite short) and grabbed the trophy axe. He then twisted it like a knob activating a trap. The entire floor slid open causing Mario to fall into Bowser's throne room. Kamek was able to stay in the room because he was holding onto the axe switch mounted on the wall; Yoshi was able to stay in the room by using a special technique he developed called "Flutter Kick". The technique consisted of him creating a small gust of wind underneath him by fluttering his legs at incredible speeds; this allowed him to gain extra height as well as remaining airborne for a miniscule period of time. As a result Yoshi managed to remain airborne long enough for the floor to slide back into place. Also as a result of the trap Peach's cage was carried up into the room before the floor slid back.
Thanks to the trap door Mario was in the throne room while Yoshi, Kamek and a caged Peach remained.
"They said I shouldn't install that trap door, they said I was wasting my time, they said I would never need it." Kamek said with pride in his voice "I was right they were wrong, I was right they were wrong, I was..."
"AHEM" said Yoshi, tapping his foot in impatience "can we get this over with some I can go home and have dinner."
Kamek silently held his arms out, in two puffs of smoke his broomstick appeared in one hand, his sceptre in another. He then flew into the air on his broomstick trying his best to look imposing.
"Before we duke it out there one thing I should do first" with that Kamek turned towards Peach's cage, raised his sceptre and Peach's cage was immediately surrounded by a purple force field.
"There we go; Lord Bowser would never forgive me if anything were to happen to his bride to be" said Kamek "now then shall we"
Yoshi and Kamek both prepared to engage each other in combat.
Peach on the other hand who due to the surprise of the turn of events, chose to remain silent. She then made herself comfortable as she prepared to watch the battle.
"Maybe things really will be different this time" she thought.
Meanwhile...
Down below Bowser was napping on his throne. Mario fell down and landed with a loud thump waking Bowser up.
"YUGOSLAVIA, uh Mario" Bowser reached behind his throne to pick up a pocket watch "Your early, usually by now you're still on the death course. How'd you get through it so quickly?"
"I decided to go-a over it, instead of-a through it"
"WHAAAAAAT" said Bowser in anger, in his fit of rage he squeezed the stopwatch into pieces "Do you have any idea how much time, effort and money goes into those death courses?"
"I m-a told quite a lot" Mario retorted
Bowser groaned in chagrin "I had it all planed out, I would have a nap so that by the time you finished the death course I would be all rested up and ready to kick your ass, but once again you manage to mess up my plans." In anger Bowser stomped his foot on the ground causing the room to shake "HOW IS IT THAT YOU ALWAYS MESS UP MY PLANS, HOW WERE YOU EVEN ABLE TO MESS UP MY PLANS THE FIRST TIME, YOU A SELF RIGHTIOUS PLUMBER FROM BROOKLYN THAT JUST HAPPENED TO BE IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME, HOW IS IT THAT YOU WOULD ALSO BE BORN WITH THE SPECIFIC ABILITIES REQUIERED TO DEFAT ME, HOW, HOW, HOW?"
The truth about Mushroom kingdoms plight began years ago, when Mario and Luigi were simple plumbers. Mario and Luigi were visiting the mushroom kingdom in order to study the kingdoms underground pipelines (as plumbers they found them fascinating) when Bowser attacked for the first time, the kingdom would not be used to it for a long time so naturally the kingdom was in far greater disarray. Since everyone was too afraid to rescue the princess Mario took it upon himself to save the princess and defeat Bowser (Luigi went along out of loyalty to his brother). As it turns out Mario in-born abilities proved crucial to defeating Bowser.
Bowser's first defeat marked the beginning of the cycle of peace and conflict that existed in the kingdom ever since.
"Sometimes I-a wonder that myself" said Mario " maybe it was fate or maybe it was just a bizarre coincidence, but now is-a not the time to dwell on the past-a"
"Your right NOW IS THE TIME TO LOOK TO THE FUTURE" with that Bowser breathed out torrent of flame to his left.
Mario stood upright and stern faced as Bowser's flame passed harmlessly by Mario's side. At this point he was no longer threatened by Bowser's theatrics.
The flames struck the corner of the room which (thanks to the edges of the rooms being bathed in oil) caused the edges of the room to catch fire effectively causing Mario and Bowser to surround by flames.
Bowser then made a monstrous roar of fury.
With that Mario charged towards his arch nemesis ready to do battle.
"Lets-a GO"
Meanwhile...
"So neither of you know that much about Mr. Game & Watch" said Ness
Currently Ness was having a conversation with Dr. Mario and a very suspicious Game & Watch in the hospital park.
"That's right, Mr. Game & Watch has little memory of his past, what he does remember consists of him being a drifter going wherever the wind blows."
"Oh I get it, since because of his unusual appearance he didn't feel he fit in with the town so he would move on" said Ness.
Mr. Game & Watch glared at Ness for his response "No whenever a particularly strong wind blew by he would be blown to another town, one the disadvantages of being paper thin." Dr. Mario retorted.
There was a moment of silence. Ness's earlier misunderstanding seemed to anger Mr. G&W.
"Sorry about that" Ness apologised without really knowing why.
"Yeah well you should be sorry Stalker" said Mr. G&W angrily.
"Why should he be sorry? Ness is in no way responsible for any of the misfortunes that happened in your life." said Dr. Mario.
Unable to come up with a decent come back, Mr. G&W pouted in fury.
"Is he always like this?" Ness asked.
"No, usually he's a perfectly decent person, this is just one of those times were he's being oversensitive." Dr. Mario explained "some of the places he wondered into were very "unkind" to him due to his "condition"."
Ness nodded in understanding, although he had never personal been mistreated because of his powers there were a lot of places in Toonera where meta-humans (humans who have either in born super powers or obtained super powers by some means) were treated with disdain, persecution and even hostility. A very well known example was the country called America where they were called "Mutants" as treated as social pariahs.
"SOOOOOO uh" Ness tried to think of question that would lighten the mood "why is he called Mr. Game & Watch?"
"Oh that's easy" Mr. G&W said actually sounding happy for a change "I called myself that because I look like a character from a Game & Watch system."
There was a moment of silence "you know the old Game & Watch system with the 2-D characters, it was also used to keep time hence the name, you know that system."
"Aren't they those prehistoric video games?" Ness asked
"Yeah I like the old school games, you got a problem with that" said Mr. G&W once again sounding angry.
"No I have no problem with that" said Ness "Although I personally enjoy modern games; to each his own I say."
"So you think classic games are lame huh." said G&W.
"I never said..."
"SHUT UP, FOR YOUR INFO..." G&W then paused almost as if in shock. Dr. Mario also had an aghast look on his face.
"Doc I think we'd better continue this conversation inside" Mr. G&W said rather nervously. Dr. Mario nodded in agreement.
With that Dr. Mario and Mr. G&W clumsily got up and half walked, half ran towards the hospital, with Ness reluctantly following.
"Hey first you wanted to get out now your rushing to get back in, what going on" Ness asked.
"HEY YOU TWO, GET OVER HERE" said a loud boisterous voice.
Ness turned to the source of the voice. The source came from a man a little taller than Dr. Mario, but his small stubby legs and round fat body made him look much more "compact", in contrast with the rest of his body his arms were broad and muscular. His outfit consisted mostly of purple overalls and a yellow t-shirt. His outfit also consisted of white gloves, green shoes and a yellow hat with a "W". Finally his face although defiantly human had ghoulish features such as constricted pupils, pointy ears, and big square toothy mouth and finally a black moustache shaped in a zigzag fashion.
Standing next to him was another ghoulish looking man assumable an accomplice of some sort. The accomplice was full head and shoulders taller than the average man and twig thin. In fact most of his abnormal height came from his exceptionally long arms and legs. His outfit was more or less the same as his accomplice the only relevant difference was the color scheme (black overalls and a purple shirt) and his hat which had a symbol that looked like an upside down "L". His face although bearing a lot of the same ghoulish features as the former was thinner plus his moustache was thin and moved straight across his face before turning upward (basically his moustache looked like a pair of horns).
It also worth mentioning that there was a purple car in the distance (obviously there's) that was parked in ambulance zone.
Both Dr. Mario and Mr. G&W exhaled loudly before forcing a smile onto their faces.
"Wario" said Dr. Mario gesturing towards the short man in yellow.
"Waluigi" said Dr. Mario gesturing towards the tall man in purple.
"How may I help you two gentlemen today?" Dr. Mario struggled on the word "gentlemen".
The newly dubbed Wario marched up to Dr. Mario (rudely pushing Ness aside) and grabbed Dr. Mario by the collar "Don't give me any of that "good day" crap, I had a deal with your cousin that he and I would fight today..."
"A deal requires that you discuss it with the opposition, instead let's say you marched up and demanded he fight you, just like you always do when you're not on your crazy money making schemes." said Mr. G&W.
"SHUT UP, anyways your cousin and I were supposed to fight today but he never showed up, SO WHERE IS HE"
"Don't forget his little brother too; he and I have a score to settle." Said Waluigi zooming up to Dr. Mario.
Dr. Mario rubbed his temples in exasperation "you two really need to do something about your obsession with beating my cousins, Mario and Luigi are both at Bowser's castle rescuing the princess as usual. They'll be back sometime in the evening then you can settle whatever score you have with them."
"WHAT, I CANT BELIVE THAT INCONSIDERETE JERK WOULD GO OFF AND FIGHT THAT OVERGLORIFIED MOVIE MONSTER WHEN HIS ARCHRIVAL IS READY AND WILLING TO DUKE IT OUT" Wario said while shaking Dr. Mario in fury.
"Who the heck are you two" Ness finally asked.
Wario and Waluigi looked towards Ness apparently noticing him for the first time "You want to know who I am?" asked Wario
Ness nodded.
Wario then let go of Dr. Mario and started to flex his muscular arms "I am the one true superstar of the mushroom kingdom" he then struck a pose "The Great Wario."
Waluigi then prepared to do some posing "and I am..."
POW
Wario punch Waluigi in the head causing him to hit ground hard "No one cares who you are Waluigi."
Ness was quite dumbfounded by the events "Again I ask, who are these two."
Mr. G&W exhaled "every town no matter how nice has its trouble makers."
To be continued...
I'm disappointed that no one checked out my poll, luckily I have a new poll.