Another Mario Chapter. Enjoy!
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me: well, i think this is the conclusion for the Mario intro-
luigi: so we only three chapters? no fair!
me: yes it is, the supreme commander guys only got three chapters!
luigi: but the sinkhole people got six!!
me: well, they were MY characters, and with the intro i gave them, it was hard to NOT have six chapters.
luigi: but-
me: stop complaining, i think you'll like this chapter.
luigi: really? why?
me: just wait and see...
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Chapter 12: A Win for the Heroes?
The plumber brothers were soon at the castle walls. Walking around to the front entrance, they encountered a moat - but Bowser had accidentally left the drawbridge down. Mario and Luigi looked at each other and shrugged; Bowser's inconvenience was a boost to them.
They walked across the drawbridge and encountered two sleeping koopa sentries. Tip-toeing past them, Mario and Luigi silently opened a second door to the castle and entered. Inside was eerily quiet, with no sentries of any type to be seen; Mario took it to be the sign of a trap, although before he could tell his brother Luigi had accidentally triggered the first trap they were to come across. All of the doors on the first floor were blocked by steel blockades, and the staircases to the upper floors crumbled into rubble.
Not wasting any time, Mario grabbed a mushroom out of the power-up bag and ate it. Growing to twice his size, he picked up Luigi and set him on the higher ledge, and then climbed up himself shortly before the mushroom's effects wore off and he shrunk back to normal size.
The pair continued down the hallway, weary of any other traps (although Luigi set off a spike-pit trap by accident and had to be rescued by Mario). Soon they could feel the heat of lava, and when they opened the final door, there was Bowser, standing on a platform in the middle of a gigantic lava pit.
"Bwa ha ha ha ha!" he laughed, "I've been waiting for you, Mario!" He jumped once and slammed into the ground, causing the platform along the walls that Mario and Luigi were standing on to shatter and break, forcing the pair onto the middle platform.
"You kidding?" Luigi taunted, "Every single time you kidnapped the Princess, Mario beat you up and rescued her! What makes it different this time?"
"This." Bowser pulled a lever (that had previously not been there) which opened a section of the wall behind him, exposing Peach in a cage - which was being slowly lowered to the lava 10 feet below. Bowser laughed again. "Bwa ha ha! What's it going to be, Mario? Defeat me, or save your Princess? You can't do both in ten minutes, can you?"
Then the mutant turtle jumped into the air again, pounding the platform to make it teeter. The plumber's end dipping into the lava below, they quickly jumped forward, only to be hit with a swipe of Bowser's tail. Mario was knocked out and laying on the platform as it leveled out, and Luigi landed behind him, though still conscious. When he stood up, Bowser began to gloat.
"Bwa ha ha! Like my upgrades?" he swung around, exposing his tail, which had been coated in metal with extra spikes.
Luigi looked nervously from Mario, to Bowser, to Peach. The cage had reached the 8 foot mark, leaving only eight minutes for Luigi to take action and save the Princess - but he couldn't leave Bowser to deal with Mario. The green plumber looked over his shoulder. The power-up bag had been snagged on the wall when Mario and Luigi had to jump free, and was still hanging there. Taking a gamble, Luigi back flipped to the bag and randomly grabbed an item, hoping it would help. He stuffed it in his mouth, and then-
-landed in the lava.
"Ha ha ha ha ha!" Bowser laughed again, "trying to be heroic and landed in the lava, that's real funny-"
The king koopa stopped laughing when the spot where Luigi had fell began to glow - and out popped a sparkling Luigi. Luckily for the plumber, the item he had grabbed had been a star.
Luigi ran towards Bowser and gave him a had punch to the stomach, which sent the koopa flying backwards through the wall and to the ground below. He then broke the bars in Peach's cage, carrying her out and also picked up Mario, leaping through the hole that Bowser had made.
When the trio landed on the ground outside, Luigi's star ran out - although they didn't need it anymore. Mario coming to, they looked over at Bowser, who was setting up a tantrum.
"WAAAAAH!" he whined, "I had almost won this time! I had almost gotten rid of that meddling plumber! The plan was foolproof! WAAAAAAAAAAAH!" he suddenly looked up. "Aw crap! I forgot!"
Peach looked at Bowser suspiciously. "Forgot what?"
Bowser got up and began lumbering off as fast as he could (which wasn't too fast) away from the castle. "The self-destruct!"
"Self-destruct?!" Luigi exclaimed, but not before the castle behind them exploded, enveloping the entire pipe plains in a gigantic detonation, and-
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heh heh heh, quite the end, eh? another cliffhanger, just like with my sinkhole series. don't worry, it will all tie together soon...
well, now that the Mario intro is complete, i will be moving to the Sonic the Hedgehog intro, and after that will be the Kim Possible intro, the Naruto intro, the Metroid Prime intro, the Stargate intro, and then my eighth grade life. Keep looking back, i may have all of these intros completed within two weeks, and then i'll get on to the actual plotline.
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On another note. Please, people, reveiw. I only have three as of this moment. even if it's just to tell me how bad this is, or what i need to improve, or whatever... please review! (but no gibberish please).