Chapter 10: Urban Champion
For ambiance: Play "The Godfather theme"
The chef obeyed and sat with the man.
"Well Giuseppe, you are one moth off", the man spoke to the chef, with a very intimidating tone.
"I know, I know. But I can pay half of it now… the place isn't doing as well. Just give a few more days and maybe I can pay", Giussepe quickly replied, very nervous and shaking.
The man made a face of visible anger, he frowned, clutched his fists and he was trying not to punch the chef.
"Wanna know something, Giuseppe?", the man spoke on a tone that was showing a lot of anger.
"Yes?", Giuseppe asked, looking very afraid and trying to get up
The man had a gun hidden on his pocket, it was a Beretta M9 and it was pointing the chef right on his chest.
"I will give you that time, since I like you a lot… don't get any ideas. But, a souvenir won't hurt, right?", the man quickly replied on a sarcastic tone, hiding his anger.
Giuseppe got up from the table, scared for his life, only for the instigator to grab him by the neck and launch him against the wall that was 10 meters away. The poor Giuseppe had no air left and he couldn't even move to get out, or even scream. The instigator pointed his gun at Giussepe and said.
"3 days, or you will know!", the instigator said on a discordant calm tone.
Giussepe finally managed to get up, only for the instigator to kick him in the knee, almost breaking it and making Giussepe scream out loud. He couldn't even fight back and got picked up by his attacker and launched a few yards away against a table, making it fall on top of him.
"Don't even try calling the police or it will be worse!", the man screamed at Giussepe and pointed the gun at his stomach.
Mario, Luigi and Pauline were incredibly scared, they wanted to leave right now. But for some reason, something inside Mario and Luigi said to them "You are not going to leave that man!". Suddenly, the two brothers summoned courage from who knows where and decided to make a plan.
"Call the police, Pauline!", Luigi said to Pauline on a serious tone.
"What are you trying to do?!", Pauline asked, not knowing what the brothers were about to do.
"Now!", Mario screamed at Pauline, finally making her obey.
She quickly ran as fast as she could, went to the nearest hallway and called the police. While that happened, the man was chocking Giussepe with his hand and toying with him, just to let him remember.
"My name is the Urban Champion, and you better remember that!", The man screamed his nickname as he kept choking the chef.
Luigi finally snapped, went near the service table, picked up a bottle of wine and was ready to toss it, he was very far from the guy so he had a chance. While Luigi was getting himself ready, Mario was getting himself ready for a fist fight, so he put himself on a boxing stance, fixed his cap and quickly get in the Urban Champion's range of vision.
"Well hey Mr Champion, here is your wine!", Luigi screamed at the top of his lungs.
For ambiance: Play "SSB Metal Mario remix"
The Urban Champion dodged the bottle without moving from his position, he tossed Giuseppe a few yards and aimed Luigi with his gun; the plumber of green was faster and dodged the shots by ducking behind the service table before the man could fire them. The Urban Champion ran out of bullets, and he was disposed of his gun by Giussepe who tackled him against the ground kicked his weapon away.
Giussepe ran away to call the police, while the thief simply stood up and ran towards Luigi's position and prepared himself to give him a massive beat down. Luigi tried to jump from the service table, but he was grappled by his suit and tossed against the bottle shelf, several bottles fell on him but he wasn't injured at all; his torment just started because the Urban Champion started to slap him in the face several times just to spite him, but Luigi wasn't going to have any of that so he pushes him away and the push was strong enough to make him go over the drinking table.
Luigi started to search for something to strike with, so he grabbed a bottle filled with beer, walked towards the Urban Champion right when he was about to get up and tries to hit him in the face with the bottle. But the Urban Champion managed to cancel the attack by punching Luigi in the chest hard enough to make him fall against the ground, he quickly tried to kick him to stomp the plumber from getting up, but his brother finally decided to act and Mario quickly kicked the aggressor on his behind.
Mario made him fall against the ground face first, but he quickly gets up and dodges an incoming hammer-punch from Mario, the plumber then got hit by a massive hook on his face that dazed him a lot, and then he received a massive front kick on the chest, making him almost fall down. But Mario was still standing and both started to grapple each other, trying to bring the other one down.
Luigi managed to get up and awaited for the perfect moment to attack, right when Mario pushed the Urban Champion away, Luigi picked the bottle off the ground and quickly smacked the thug on the face with the bottle so hard that it broke; but the Urban Champion only looked annoyed by the attack, but he had shards on his face, so he quickly punched Luigi in the stomach and almost makes him cry in the process.
He quickly turned to Mario and both started to clumsily punch each other, showing no dominance over the other; it was like seeing two monkeys fight each other, no technique, no style and no grace. But Mario finally to grab the Urban Champion by the arm and quickly swings his entire body against a nearby wall, making him spin around and fall down.
Mario checked on his brother, he was ok and still able to fight, they had to give time to the police. But checking his brother make him lose sight of the Urban Champion, which simply tackled him against the ground and quickly started to punch Mario rapidly in the face. Luigi quickly reacted and punched the Urban Champion in the back hard enough to make him scream and stop his attack, the plumber in green quickly grabbed the Urban Champion by the head arms and separated him from his brother.
Luigi then released him and saw him getting up, ready for more. But Mario quickly tackled him hard enough that he picked him off the ground, and they didn't stop until both combatants were on the street and that is when Mario fell on his opponent, both crashing against the pavement with a lot of force. The Urban Champion punched him away and got up, only to get hit by a flying bottle of beer that dazed him, which was tossed by Luigi.
The Urban Champion was touching his head in pain as he saw how badly he was damaged, he was bleeding while Mario only had a black eye and several contusions, Luigi had an intense pain in the stomach and was clutching. The fight would take longer, but Mario noticed something, there was a sewer manhole that was open, they could make him fall down there.
Mario saw the Urban Champion getting up with an incredibly pissed off expression as he grabbed the bottle and tossed it to Luigi, the poor little brother didn't manage to dodge and the bottle hit him in the forehead, almost knocking him down.
"I'm going to skin you alive for this!", The Urban Champion yelled his lungs out.
Suddenly he saw something weird on both brothers, Luigi simply got up like nothing and crushed the bottle with one of his hands, both brothers were incredibly angry at the treat and started to "glow yellow", like if they were a star, their injuries weren't there anymore and they looked as good as new. Mario quickly did something that would be qualified as superhuman.
Mario jumped like 20 feet in the air so fast that he couldn't be seen and landed on top of the Urban Champion's chest and making his back with the pavement with the strength that no one has ever seen, he simply couldn't get up anymore. Luigi then ran at the same speed, grabbed the Urban Champion by the legs and started to spin around like if it was a living tornado.
Luigi launched him against a wall hard enough to make a visibly crack on it, the Urban Champion managed to get up but he was dizzy, barely conscious and heavily injured.
"Who are you?!", The Urban Champion screamed his longs out, barely conscious and barely walking.
Mario and Luigi stood together, Mario simply jumped in the air, spinning while doing so and landed on his feet. Luigi turned his back against the Urban Champion, and then quickly gestured some pistols and said "Bang, bang!" while winking.
"The Mario Brothers!", both brothers yelled at the same time.
The Urban Champion stumbled against the manhole and fell on it as he screamed on a tone that was so high that no man could ever emulate it. He landed on his back, but he was so injured that he wasn't going nowhere until the police found him.
A police officer came after a few seconds, Pauline was with him and she was shocked upon finding both brothers with no injuries. They weren't even tired from the fight.
"You are alive!", Pauline tackled them and hugged them.
Mario and Luigi hugged her back and quickly stooped upon seeing a police officer that was tall, young, with short blonde hair that was still very "populated", white skin and skinny. He had to ask them some questions about what happened.
"He wanted to get money for protection from the chef, the chef couldn't pay him and violence ensued, he had a gun too but he didn't have a chance to use it. I ran and called the police while these two gentlemen distracted him and dear they did well", Pauline explained to the police officer, trying to summarize the story.
The police officer looked at the two brothers with a serious face and quickly said to them.
"By Good Samaritan Laws you get a pass, but I have a question… where's the dude?"
"Oh, he… fell on that manhole. We got into a fist fight with him, but my brother and I showed him why you shouldn't cook without protection!", Mario said on a joking tone, trying to kill the mood.
"He fell or you threw him there?", the police officer quickly asked, knowing that something was off.
"Do I look like a wrestler?", Luigi asked him looking quite scared, but he ended up sounding quite harsh.
The police officer kinda chucked at that question, he was still going to let them go since they were searching for that man for a long while.
"So, during the fight he fell down there. Well, you should leave the zone while I call for backup, getting that guy off there is going to take a while", the police officer quickly answered them, and gestured them to leave.
The police officer turned his radio on as he walked to towards the manhole, and saw the Urban Champion grunting and clutching in pain, and he also wasn't thinking straight due the sheer beating.
"Mommy?", the Urban Champion started saying upon seeing the police officer's flashlight.
The police officer decided to talk to the radio and report the situation.
"Officer Link on the zone, I got an injured assailant, he attacked the chef of Giuseppe's Pizzeria, he was stopped by two men but he is very injured. I will need an ambulance too", the officer talked to the radio, revealing his name and position.
Mario, Luigi and Pauline walked in direction to Mario and Luigi's house, they had to go to sleep and clean themselves up from the fight with the Urban Champion. They were already on the entrance and before the brothers entered, they decided to talk a little bit.
"It wasn't a bad date after all, Mario", Luigi spoke to his brother, looking insecure but serene at the same time.
"Well, ignoring that we almost saw a murder and we gave to a hooligan the beat down of his life time, yeah, it was a good one", Mario replied on a joking tone.
"Sorry about getting you two into trouble. But hey, I would like to date you another day", Pauline spoke to Mario on a calm tone.
Mario quickly reacted to that, he started getting red and even shake.
"Oooh, thanks for that!", Mario said while getting flustered and "searching for air".
Pauline got close to him, she gives him a hug and a small kiss near his lips, Mario was paralyzed at the sight and feeling of that. Luigi couldn't take it and laughed a little bit at the sight of this, he even started to make some noises with his nose.
Mario returned the gesture. Pauline was also flustered and left the place, going towards the nearest bus station, it was going to take her a while to get home. Mario was so happy that he started to jump around the place as he went home, he even jumped on the stairs and when the two brothers opened the door, he screamed.
"Wohoo, Mario is the winner!"