The team's back with a new chapter! Enjoy!
The yellow door led the heroes to a strange land. A one where all looks pixelated, even the mountains.
"So this is where that door leads... I suppose the next Pure Heart must be nearby... That's odd... I can feel it nearby, but where could it be..." Tippi mused.
"Let's make heist to it then" Cody says, everyone agrees when the geek saw a flash behind the Pixl.
"Tippi, look out!" Cody cried as he saw a pink rope-like thing wrapping the fairy. Tippi began to be dragged but Cody grabbed her, with the rest following.
They tried to stop that thing from taking Tippi but it was too much and not only Tippi, Cody was also dragged away as the rest fell to the ground.
A chameleon with glasses, dressed in a yellow t-shirt appeared.
"Ner-herrrr herrrr herrr herr!
HI-TECHNICAAAAAAAL! I caught a super-rare pixelated butterfly and a potential new friend!
My friends at are going to freak when they get word of this find!
I must bring them home. I can't miss this week's episode of 'The Grodus Chronicles'! Or my name isn't Francis!
No way am I going to entrust my digital Record meow to tape an episode so epic.
This is so hi-technicaaaaal!" the chameleon proclaimed and vanished.
"Cody!" Sierra yelled and shot a missile but it was in vain, the kidnapper was gone.
"What the…" Mario mustered when…
"Oh the humanity!" a big teenager emerged from the bushes with a mushroom on his hands.
The teens recognized him and some gasped, that guy was Owen.
"Oh! Guys! Trent! Duncan! Sierra! Heather!" Owen quickly rushed and trapped everyone in a group hug.
"Let go Owen!" Heather ordered with the little air she had in her lungs, the big one let the team go.
He apologized and Mario and Peach introduced themselves.
"Nice to meet you! My name is Owen!" the young man said.
After explaining everything to him, Owen came to a realization. "That's why everything went haywire after you and that turtle monster got married… And the last thing I remember is a green guy saying something about protecting us and Gwen and Duncan hugging out of fear" he finished his explanation.
Duncan felt a grim pain when he heard that. Mario tried to get the punk out of that by allowing him to tell Owen the big news.
"So you, Heather, Mario and Peach are the first four heroes? And I'm the sixth Hero of Light?! Awesome! We get to be a team to save our worlds and win two million big ones!" Owen jumped of joy as the Wario orb and the Smash Ball were infused into his body.
He felt an incredible power increasing in his stomach and began to flash yellow. "Oh no… get away from him!" Mario cried as he grabbed Peach's hand began to run. Heather and Duncan knew what was about to happen and quickly took Trent and Sierra.
Owen let out a devastating attack, Owen Waft.
"Awesome! I can use my farts to fight and more thanks to this powers!" Owen smiled.
"Awesome would be if you don't kill us with those moves before the Void do" Heather scowled.
"All right! Then we're set to go!" Mario said, "Wait! For what I heard from a bunch of guys around here, there are two places we get through before reaching that Francis guy's place" Owen interjected.
"First, we need to keep our guards as apparently bad guys have been rampaging the area after they settled in an old fortress.
I've heard something about wrecking a part of that place with an "X" on it" Owen said.
"The other places… Sorry I forgot" he sweated. Heather looked at him unamused, she was about to ask to use the confessional but remembered Tippi IS the confessional so she can't get her frustration out of her system for now.
"Let's not waste more time! My Cody and our friend Tippi need us!" Sierra let out a battle cry and began to ran, followed by the rest of the team.
In their way, many enemies fell to her determination and that earned the team a reward of one hundred fifty dollars.
Eventually, after defeating several members of the Koopa Troop, they reached the fortress that Owen told about.
Trent spotted the X on the wall and Duncan grinned.
"Step aside, this where I shine!" he threw a grenade at the spot, Trent went ahead and used one of his rune bombs as well.
The weapons exploded and the fortress was destroyed.
From the rubble a furious beast emerged, it was Bowser.
"Please tell me someone didn't just blow up my awesome lair..." he groaned and got up. Bowser spotted the people in front of him.
"HEY! I know that 'stache from somewhere...
"MARIO! Princess Peach?! And some losers?! Why do you ALWAYS have to do that? That's like the 100th time you've shown up at my castle and screwed everything up!"
"But now you've entered a fortress of PAIN, Mario! And this time, none even your friend Japan or any country is here to help you!
No more sequels! It's gonna end right here, right now. ONCE AND FOR ALL!" Bowser roared as he stomped the ground, separating everyone from Mario and making to barricades appear.
The two began a battle.
Bowser breathed fire at Mario but he dodged it and retaliated with an overhand on the monster's face.
Bowser groaned in pain and grabbed Mario, dragged him through the floor and tossed him at one of the barricades.
"That's how it feels to be tossed by the way!" Bowser grinned.
Mario got up in pain and used one of Japan's main attacks form the last adventure, the slide attack. He tripped Bowser, grabbed him by the tail and tossed him to the air.
The plumber continued another overhand, sending Bowser to the ground.
The beast reached his boiling point and grabbed Mario. Then, he began to slash him with his claws.
Bowser then slammed Mario to a wall and launched him upwards. Mario suffered a Star KO.
Everyone looked at the scene shocked, "I usually like violence but man, I never thought these guys could get really hardcore. Especially knowing the type of games I've seen from them" Duncan thought.
Mario returned to the fight, "You've improved" he complimented Bowser.
The hero proceeded to stomp Bowser and landed a strong dropkick on the beast.
Bowser rolled to the ground, defeated.
"Noooo! I HATE Mario! It's... It's not fair!" he groaned.
The barricades disappeared and the others rushed to Mario. "That you? Not bad!" Duncan smirked.
"Ahhhhh! Princess Peach! My lovely wife!" Bowser smiled, "Your WIFE? That...sham was not a wedding!" Peach shook her head.
"WHAT?! Are you kidding me?! How could you forget our big day?" Bowser sighed. "What are you doing here, anyway, Bowser?" Peach asked.
"How should I know? I was locked up in Count Bleck's stupid castle... When all of a sudden, BAM! I and the minions wake up face-down in this field. Then we found this awesome castle, and I thought, why not make myself a lair?" he smirked and glanced at Duncan and Owen.
"Wait… you were those kiddos who attended the wedding! Wasn't there a girl with black and green hair with you?" Bowser wondered.
Duncan looked away, "It is all right buddy, we'll find her" Owen comforted his friend.
"So, well, you see... Bowser... We really need to tell you something important" Peach began her explanation.
10 minutes later
"WHAT?! Bleck got us married just so he could make a Chaos Heart so that he could destroy the world? And I'm the fifth Hero of Light!? And you say this girl Heather and those other two Duncan and Owen are heroes along with you and Mario as well?!" Bowser yelled.
"Indeed, now, we really need your help. Why don't you come with us?" the princess looked at Bowser.
"No. I don't wanna. I'd think about it if it was for you, but there's NO WAY I'm helping Mario! And for some reason, I don't want to help Heather as well! For what I know she only scowls!" Bowser yelled.
"She's always like that" Sierra blunts, "Don't push me" Heather glared at them
"I'm Bowser! I'm grade-A, 100% prime-cut final boss! I'm going to take over the world any day now! No way am I helping Mario! He's always trashing my awesome plans" the beast turned his back.
"We don't have time for this Bowser" Mario retorts.
"Pleeeeeeease? For me?
And what will happen to your poor minions who were caught by Count Bleck? They've been brainwashed! They now do HIS evil bidding, not your evil bidding... Now your minions will have to toil under a different cruel and merciless master" Peach tries to convince him.
"FINE! I'll join your stupid quest. You happy?!" Bowser shouted.
"Oh, thank you, Bowser! You're so sweet!" Peach patted his arm.
"NO! I'M NOT SWEET! And I'm not helping Mario just to save a bunch of worlds. I'm only doing it so I can rule someday. So don't get all cuddly with me, Mario and Heather!
Minions! Hold down the fort until I return" Bowser commanded his minions.
The minions agreed but secretly planned to throw a party.
"Fine... C'mon. Let's get your stupid Precious Heart, or whatever you call it" Bowser yelled, "Wait, first, take this…" Peach handed him the remaining smash ball and three recallers.
Bowser grinned as he felt his smash powers coming back and performed a Bowser Bomb. "Aw yeah! I'm back! Now let's get that thing!"
"I SAID MOVE IT!" Bowser yelled and with that, he joined the team. "Aw, group hug!" Owen said and pulled everyone to another hug, "3… 2…" Heather, Duncan and Bowser said and the big guy let everyone go.
"Somehow he reminds of America" Mario whispered to Peach, who giggled a bit.
Mario and Peach fist-bumped and along with the teens, they continued their tracks.
With Bowser in the party, the five heroes and two partners made a most unlikely octet, much to Trent's slight frustration.
As Mario and Heather walked ahead, they spotted something that made them briefly stop and stare...
"What is it, Mario?" asked Peach, as she turned to see the blue expanse head.
The great, glittering waves of the Tile Pool stretched as far as she could see.
Fort Francis was somewhere across the water...
Meanwhile…
"You can't do this just because I don't share your hobbies!" Cody yelled as he was put in a cell. "Ner! I'm sorry but allowing you to escape would be low-technical but maybe you could come to your senses and then join in my crusade of amazing series and collections. And now I'm off to continue admiring that butterfly's might!" Francis said and left Cody on one of the cells of his fortress.
"There's no way I'm staying here forever. Feels strange to say it but now I want Sierra to be here more than ever" Cody sighed.
He then noticed the keypad on the wall "Maybe I can…" the teen used PK Thunder but it couldn't reach it, he shrugged it off and continued trying…
How will things go for all the team with this setback? Stay tuned to find out!