Chapter 12: the showdown part 2

Revised

Kammy and her army had begun tearing apart the town and replacing the building with small towers with koopa marked flags and statues of Bowser. They were green and gray, just the way Bowser liked it.

"Make sure that you don't miss any buildings, and if people are in them… tell them to scram!" Kammy ordered as she made her way towards the castle.

"That… was… awesome!" Link said witnessing Mario's devastating attack. "You gotta get me some of those things."

"It was nothing." Mario said rubbing his head and smiling. "Now let's-a-get back to the task at hand." he said pointing to the newly made "Bowser City."

"Right, we have to stop them." Fox said as he prepared to run for the village.

But Link grabbed Fox's coat. "Wait, what about the princess?" He said as Fox took his arm off his coat.

"Don't worry about her, she will be fine." Mario said. "Right now we have to stop-"

"NO!" Link interrupted. "You have to take this chance to save her now; otherwise…you may regret it." Link said in a loud but sad voice.

"But who knows how much chaos they can create if we let them go to far!" Mario replied.

"Trust me, if you leave now o fight Bowser your going to wish you saved her." Link said pointing to the castle.

The three of them looked at him in confusion as to why he became so emotional.

"Your right, I can't just-a-leave her there with those brutes." Mario said. "You guys go to the castle town, I'll get-a- Peach."

"Wait, I'll go with you." Link said.

"Okay umm… you know, I never caught your names." Mario said.

"I'm Link." Link said pointing to himself.

"The name's Fox McCloud." Fox said.

"And this is Kirby." Link said pointing to Kirby.

"I am-a-Mario so nice to meet you." Mario said with a smile.

Fox nodded and he and Kirby headed for the town. Mario and Link began heading inside the castle, but were halted by Kammy who was flying on her broom in sky.

"Hey, I thought the ugly white thing said you were taken care of!" Kammy yelled.

"Who are you?" Link said.

"I'm the beautiful koopa witch, Kammy!" she said. "And I'm not going to let you interfere with our plan!"

"Ha! Your too late, we already have people who should be taking out your army as we-a-speak!" Mario said.

"Oh really now?" Kammy said as she put a finger on her chin. "I'm sure lord Bowser can handle them, but just to be safe…" She said as she raised her wand. She then gathered magic and fired it at the castle. It began to grow twice it's original size and become gray and green. When it reached it's peak height, it had four golden Bowser statues on the top.

"I'll stall you and give him a helping hand ahahahaha!" Kammy scoffed as she flew away.

Mario ran up to the gate, but the door was bared shut. Mario pounded and squeezed on the iron but to no avail. Link had taken out the golden gauntlets. Mario sank to his knees.

"Watch out!" Link said as he slammed the golden gauntlets on his hands.

Mario moved out of the way as Link grabbed the bars and scrunched them together. He then threw the bars away in the moat.

"C'mon, we have a princess to save." Link said with a smile on his face.

Fox and Kirby arrived in the town.

"Halt, who goes there?" said a hammer brother.

"The delivery boys." Fox said.

"What? Delivery boys?" the hammer bro. said confused.

"Yeah, delivering a big can of whoop-ass." Fox said as he threw a bomb in the center of the army. The koopas scattered as it went off, releasing a shockwave that caused the towers to fall.

"Hey! Who's the wise guy?" Bowser said as he was carried on a throne by his henchmen in a parade.

"It's just us." Fox said.

"Oh you guys again, where's the idiot in dress and captain douche bag?" Bowser inquired.

"That's not important, what is, is that we are going to crash this party." Fox said as he pulled out his gun.

"Hmph you think you can stop us?" Bowser said laughing at them.

Fox and Kirby then traded glances and each fired a laser at the men carrying Bowser. The men scattered and Bowser fell. He got up slowly and said "you cowards, GET THEM!" Soon, almost the entire koopa army came at once towards Fox and Kirby. They immediately went into action just as Kammy arrived.

"I'm here your Gnarlyness." Kammy said as she flew down.

"Just in time, I need you to send the koopa bros. to stall the the other two members of the prick club." Bowser said. "I know they're up to something."

"Yes your scalyness!" Kammy replied. "Koopa bros.!" Kammy called. Then the brothers fell from seemingly nowhere.

"You called!" the red brother said.

"I need you to stall the two troublemakers at the castle, if they somehow managed to get inside; use the secret entrance in the moat to sneak attack them." Kammy ordered.

"Don't worry; you can be sure the koopa bros. will get the job done!" the red koopa said with confidence. With that they took off and soon made it to the castle.

"Ah crud, were to late!" The green koopa said.

"Let's just use the secret entrance in the moat." Red said. The all then jumped into the moat except yellow who hit his head on the bars left behind from the gate.

"Hurry up you idiot." Black said as he jumped in the moat.

"Right." Yellow said regaining consciousness.

Mario and Link ran up the seemingly endless stairs finding themselves lost at every turn, finding some new monster in every room. Each room the same, green and gray with only a window. Mario opened a door revealing a clubba. He immediately threw a fireball at it and closed the door.

"Dammit!" He said.

"Well whenever I'm stuck, I usually check rooms I have already been in and see if I find anything new." Link suggested. So they looked inside the room with the burnt up clubba and searched.

"Hey, what's-a-this?" Mario said picking up a candle on the window ceil.

"There were no candles in the other rooms." Mario said.

"Then maybe you have to blow it out." Link said.

Mario blew out the candle but nothing happened.

"Maybe something-" Link was interrupted by the club of the clubba who had just awakened. Mario turned around just to see the club.

When they opened their eyes, they could see Peach tied up hanging from a rope over a pit of lava. Soon they realized they were tied up as well. While struggling to get loose a figure came into focus. The creature came closer and sniffed the two. It then revealed itself as an ape. Koopa bros. had come from the shadows.

"Well if it ain't our old buddy Mario." Red bro. said.

"The koopa brothers." Mario said.

"You know these guys?" Link inquired.

"It's a long story." Mario said.

"welcome to the greatest show on earth!" Yellow exclaimed. Mario and Link looked around to see peach over a pit of lava.

"The fair Princess wet herself as she falls closer and closer into the lava pit." Black said.

"Help me!" Peach said as she inched closer into the pit.

"Mama mia!" Mario said as he struggled to get to his items.

"Hey don't worry you'll get to have fun too." Red koopa said in a sarcastic tone.

"Yeah, DK has been aching for some new playmates." Green said.

"Donkey Kong, why would you work with these villains?" Mario said confused.

"DK will do anything we tell him to, or maybe he wants his island to be destroyed." Red koopa said as he reached for a lever. "Adios!" he said right before he pulled the lever and a trap door appeared below Mario and Link. They fell through and DK had followed.

Fox blew the smoke off his gun and watched as the koopa army writhed in pain. They had easily been defeated by Fox and Kirby despite their numbers.

"urrh… dammit!" Bowser said as he watched his soldiers crawl on the dirt.

"Maybe you should have trained your army a little better, and think about the quality of there fighting skills instead of the number of soldiers there were." Fox said as Kirby folded his arms and nodded.

"grrrr… I won't let get in the way of my greatest achievement!" Bowser said.

"That's telling them my lord!" Kammy said.

"Kammy you old hag! Why didn't you help them when they were getting there asses handed to them?" Bowser said infuriated by his own failure.

"Sorry I-" Kammy choked out.

"It doesn't matter, just hook me up!" Bowser interrupted the witch.

"Yes your rudeness." Kammy said as she waved her wand and cast a spell on Bowser. Bowser began to glow. Fox and Kirby watched in horror until he suddenly stopped. Bowser hadn't seemed to change.

"What the hell Kammy, how come I haven't grown like two stories tall?" Bowser said.

"Try breathing your fire my nastiness." Kammy said.

Bowser blew his fire breath and was shocked to discover his fire split into large fire balls that homed in on Fox and Kirby. They tried to run but were quickly caught by the massive flames. It caused an explosion that sent them 20 yards away.

"Damn!" Fox said as he slowly rose from the ground.

"Hahaha! Not so high and mighty now, are ya?" Bowser laughed triumphantly.

He fired more flame missiles at the two. Kirby jumped up and held his breath causing him to float. He then fired lasers from the gadget on his head. It had destroyed a few of them, but two remained. Fox quickly ran in front of Kirby and turned on his reflector and successfully bounced the fire balls back.

Bowser could only look mouth agape as the balls crashed into him. Fox and Kirby began firing laser after laser into the smoke. When it cleared, it revealed Bowser was hiding in his shell and hadn't received any damage.

"Shoot, we need to break through that shell." Fox said lowering his gun.

Bowser got out of his defensive position with a smile on his face. He began laughing and entered his clown car. He rose in the sky next to Kammy and they prepared to attack.

"Damn!" Fox said realizing their disadvantage. When he turned to look at Kirby, he only saw him running at top speed as the koopas began to strike.

"Don't leave me here you coward." Fox screamed as he chased the puffball down.

Now when they opened their eyes, Mario and Link saw a dark room. They were finally able to get out of the rope as the lights began to turn on. Soon they realized they were in a stadium filled with a screaming audience.

"Wow, a whole stadium under a castle." Link said.

"That Kammy Koopa sure did a good-a- job." Mario said.

Suddenly Donkey Kong came crashing down on Link. He then stole his bomb bag and ran off.

"HEY!" Link said as he got up.

"Don't worry, it's just a bag. And besides, DK gives back anything he-a-takes." Mario said.

"No, it's not the bag I'm worried about!" Link said.

Donkey Kong then took out a bomb and it blew up in his hand. He began shaking and hopping up and down while making unorthodox grunts. He then smashed the bag on the floor, activating the bombs in it, and then threw it at the two. They panicked as it exploded.

Luckily, they jumped out of the way in time and covered their eyes at the flash. When they opened them, Donkey Kong was in the air. They jumped out of the way again and watched as DK fell down and curled into a ball. He rolled over them and then pounced on them while they were on the ground. Link got up causing DK to retreat. Link prepared to take out his sword, but was stopped by Mario.

"Wait! Donkey Kong will listen to reasoning, trust me." Mario said trying to calm Link down.

He slowly walked up to the hopping and grunting Donkey Kong and said "Listen, neither of us want to fight like-a-this, so why don't we-"

DK punched him out and he fell into Link. They could hear people in the audience screaming "Punish them!" or "Give 'em hell!"

Link's patience was running very thin. "That's it!" He said as he got up and pulled out his gauntlets. "Since I'm not going to cut him up, and he won't listen to reasoning, I'll just have to give him what he wants..." Link said as he put on the gauntlets. "A good challenge!"