Chapter 10 - Battle of the Bros.
The war was filled with determination. Nobody was willing to let up. Even when one person died, they died with honour. Peach and Bowser were getting involved occasionally, but their main goal was to keep their soldiers strategised. Both of their eyes eventually fell on Mario and Luigi. Surprisingly, neither of them were holding back. Any time one landed a hit on the other, it sent one of them back a few steps. That was until they used everything they had used together. From physical moves like jumping and spinning to using items like fire flowers or red shells. Every hit was tiring the other out.
"Luigi… huff… we can't go on forever…" Mario's words were beginning to slur.
"No, we can't. But I can go on long enough. I always have been." Luigi wasn't sounding as tired as Mario.
"This isn't what we should be doing right now! We should be fighting Bowser together, or having fun! Not brutally beating each other up." Mario was using his energy for talking now. He needed his brother back, the kind-hearted, energetic person. His inspiration, his only family, the one person that pushes him forward.
"Luigi… please, just stop. We all need you, we all care for you." a new voice came in.
"You think you're going to make me stop? Daisy, I'm not going to go back to people that I can't trust."
"HOW ARE YOU GOING TO TRUST BOWSER OVER EVERYBODY THAT'S PUSHED YOU FORWARD?" Daisy was screaming just to get into his head, sending chills through both the bros.
"IF YOU MEAN THEY PUSHED ME FORWARD TO FIGHT FOR HIM, THEN WHY ARE YOU CONFUSED?" Luigi returned the shouting. He was beginning to lose his patience now. Daisy and Mario were both taken aback and saw that their words weren't working.
"Don't make me do this, Luigi, please…" Daisy was getting ready to fight him instead.
"You're fighting on the wrong side," Luigi replied coldly, "But have it your way. I have nothing more to lose. Just the gain of satisfaction" Then the clash became a two on one with Daisy and Mario both taking hits at Luigi. What the three of them didn't notice was Bowser Jr. Sneaking his way around the rabble and having a clear shot at grabbing Princess Peach. He took out a device that made Peach confused as she lost connection to her soldiers. She then gets dunked head first into the Koopa Clown Car, her screams for help suppressed by a blanket being laid on her as Bowser Jr. towered above her with his fist in the air.
"Time for you to answer to Papa." was the last thing that the princess heard before being consumed by darkness and the tense sound of silence.
A.N: I know this chapter was short but I've had little time lately, however I should be getting time to write something a bit longer than this.
For now, I'm Boid Man and that was chapter 10 of Landing on a 1-Up!