Interlude 1: In a land of unknown.
When Bowser regained his consciousness, he had found himself another headache, and a queasy body…
Had his plan failed again? Had Mario stomped him once again? Had Mario take Peach away from him again?
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Wait, hold up, some ain't right.
He hasn't kidnapped Peach yet. In fact, his plan was about to start, that's right, he was…
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Oh.
In the next instant, a roar that no creature in Remnant ever heard of, shook the very sky and the earth.
"KAMEK!"
And had caused the Grimm in nearby areas to have their attention caught.
Interestingly enough, this place is also a wasteland filled with… well… Grimm.
A series of altered destinies like a butterfly effect has started from this very moment.
- In Dark Land?/Bowser's castle
When everyone wakes up, many things have gone wrong. And so chaos and panic have let loose.
Their king is nowhere to be seen, so is their prince, and the Koopalings and many important henchmen. What's even worse is that Sir Kamek is missing too.
With the important people gone, whoever is left with the highest authority is automatically placed in charge.
Luckily, Lady Kammy is still with them, but that is probably the only good news.
With everything in shambles, the first priority is to restore the order of their army, and then they can worry about the next step.
Standing in the empty Throne room, with a long scroll and a feather pen in hands, a woman seem to be in her late 70's, standing in 6'4'' with a hunching back, a woman with many striking, and hag-like features that strongly resemble a stereotype witch, silver-white short hair in a swing-layer cut that ends in shoulder length; her old, shrunken face filled with many wrinkles, sharp and pointy nose; with outstretched vampire like fangs that resemble Magickoopa's fangs; and a sharp eyes that seemingly digging into your mind to searching for your deepest secret; and gold ring earrings hanging on her vampire-like pointy ears; and a large, brown, oval-shaped glasses seating on her nose.
Dressed just like a witch too, with light-purple witch hat that band over, a Bowser emblem badge pin on the hat; clad in a long purple cape with black inner that flows freely behind her back; a light- purple turtle-neck sweater; long open purple sleeve with pink cuffs; a brown belt with waist bag and many trinkets; white trouser with brown high heel boots.
A long broom with half cyan and purple puffy cloud-like ends floats beside her.
This is Kammy Koopa, the Right-hand Woman of King Bowser, the 4th highest rank in the entire kingdom, with Junior being 2nd, Kamek being 3rd. Kammy's word holds great weight in the kingdom.
Checking her magic scroll, the lady Magickoopa carefully looked through the orders she was giving to the minions in the past hour.
Having the Captain Squad in charge of overseeing working progress.
Having the Goombas and Buzzy Beetles clearing the wreckage or debris.
Having the Koopa Troopa, Shy Guys, and Hammer Bros fixing damaged rooms or objects.
Having Lakitus scouting the whole Dark Land, seeing anything unusual.
Having the remaining henchmen guarding the other fortress scattering around the Dark Land.
Having the rest of the remaining minions doing patrol and guard duty.
Having the Boos, Dry Bones, and other undead Minions handling reconstruction at night.
Having Kamella in charge, leading the other remaining Magickoopa on finding a spell to reverse their situation.
If not, at least finding a cure to transform everyone back to normal.
And… most importantly...
Finding Lord Bowser.
Finding Lord Junior.
Finding Kamek.
Finding Koopalings.
Finding the missing henchmen. Goomboss, King Bob-omb, King Boo, Petey Piranha, Big Bully, Gooper Blooper, Bouldergeist, Motley Bossblob, Mollusque-Lanceur, and Crystal King.
Kammy massages her wrinkly face tiredly, she doesn't know if it's the miracle of Star Spirits, they didn't lose any low-rank Minions in this disaster. Most of them only end up being teleported across different locations in the Dark Land. Who later reports through Flying Mails or Koophone calls.
They're not sure which part of Mushroom World had they ended up with, or are they in a different world? Kammy silently prays to the Star Spirits, hoping for the safety of her Lord and their people. The irony, considering she once helped imprison the Star Spirits.
The door to the Throne room suddenly opened, as 2 figures hurried in.
A man in 4'6'' with thick black eyebrows, reverse-vampire fangs stick out from the bottom lips; fluffy short brown hair; dressed in a brown military outfit (World War 2 America uniform.); with a red flag warped on his back.
This was Captain Goomba, who also suffered the same fate as the rest of the Bowser Kingdom.
Another man in 5'6'' with a white mask held by a brown belt with holes as eyes and mouth, dressed in a red long hoodie coat that ends in upper legs, black pants with blue military boots, a flag warp behind his head.
This is Captain Shy Guy, second hand of the Captain Squad. People say he had a cold attitude, but his comrades know he is just a shy guy with a big heart that just likes acting cold. (Not that anyone needs to know...)
The two walk in front of Kammy, as they bring news of the Kingdom's current state to report.
"Lady Kammy, we have registered every available Minion, as well as all other fortress's state." Captain Goomba salutes as he reports to the Right-hand Woman.
"As well as sorting out the side effects of our current condition," Captain Shy Guy adds.
And they shared a shiver down their spine simultaneously, yeah, when I mean all of them have been changing half-human, I mean all of them. The Dry Bones, Bone Goomba, or Bone Piranha, all have been turned into living human skeletons.
It was actually super terrifying to look at them. Humans are super weird, and disgusting sometimes.
But it becomes even worse when a Shy Guy takes off their mask… let's just say... they didn't earn the name Shy Guy for nothing. Even the Shy Guy themselves are pretty shaken up by their current true face underneath.
Ignoring their moment, Kammy asked a more pressing matter at hand. "Are Airships available at the moment?"
"Affirmative! Ma'am, all ships didn't take any damage, we're ready to take off at your command." Captain Goomba salute again.
"Good, I want to form a search team, and have them scouting the land beyond, to see if we can locate Lord Bowser or Lord Junior, or Koopalings and the others."
"That's… a brilliant Idea." Captain Goomba says.
Kammy immediately had her nose up as she took the compliment haughtily. "Of course it is, after all, I am the magnificent, beautiful, and brilliant Kammy Koopa. Ka ha ha ha ha ha!"
Captain Shy Guy looks at their egoistic boss through the poke face mask. "That's… good and well, but who do you have in mind for this team?"
Adjusting her glasses, Kammy smirked. "But of course, I already have a selected group in mind."
"Well, what are you waiting for, tell us." Captain Goomba pressed on, like a kid he was.
But before Kammy could open her mouth, someone flew into the Throne room.
"L-L-L-Lady Kammy!" A Lakitu soldier (Dressed in a yellow and green jumpsuit, riding on a cloud with a smile face.) flying towards them. "Emergency! Some unknown flying creature is spotting coming toward Dark Land!"
"Huh?" The Right-hand woman and the captains exchange looks.
- Back with Bowser
The Koopa King is having an extremely foul mood. Not only because his plan failed, but it failed right before it could even start.
He was teleported to Star knows where, in a dead wasteland that looked super dull and lame.
And then there were these black ugly beasts, they just kept coming and coming to him. Asking for trouble.
Being a nice guy, Bowser gave them what they deserved. A fist to the face.
It does sustain his boiling anger for a bit, but still not enough. But ehh, punching bags are punching bags.
However...
The worst thing about all these problems is that he doesn't know if Junior is safe or not.
When he finds Kamek, he's gonna kick his butt so hard that'll send the Magickoopa flying straight to the moon.
Why is he always surrounded by idiots? And speaking of idiots...
Several yards behind him, three men were cowering in fear behind a broken lamp poll.
One short man in 4'5'', with thick black eyebrows that was frowning; reverse-vampire fangs stick out from the bottom lips; fluffy brown hair in a puffy bob cut; dressed in brown military outfit (World War 2 America uniform.), with a blue cape hanging on his shoulder, and a black scout hat with white fur ball and a Bowser emblem.
Another man is a tall man in 6'2'', with blonde short hair; his mouth in a slightly V-shape line; a pair of white wings behind his back, dressed in yellow light plate armor that covers his body (greek armor without the helmet); arms, elbow and shoulder guards; red pants with knees and legs guards, and green shoes; a red water bucket paint black wear on his head, with the Bowser emblem print on it; and a red Koopa shell on his back.
The last person is a mysterious man in 5'9'', with a white mask hold by a brown belt with holes as eyes and mouth, completely covered his face to the world; dressed in a green hoodie and a fancy wind coat with yellow buttons; white pants and brown boots, a large brown backpack on his back, filled with tools such as magic wand, shovel, hammer, Bullet Bill Blaster, and a black flag with Bowser emblem print on it.
This Trio is known as Elite Trio, constructed by Private Goomp, Corporal Paraplonk, and Sergeant Guy. They are a unique special unit of Bowser Kingdom.
Currently, they're rankless, as Bowser hasn't assigned a job for them for a while. They're basically a "Three Random Guys." in existence. But they consider themselves as King Bowser's personal bodyguards.
Despite the usually overlooked statue, these three will work hard to achieve promotion.
But currently, they're just too scared to do their job. As they've witnessed their King's wrath first hand.
"Are you three coming or not?" Bowser impatiently asked, his ever-low patient has reached a new low level, almost none exist you could say.
They look at each other nervously, before looking back at the human-looking guy that was a creature that was once known as Bowser.
Standing in full glorious 7'8'' tall, the imposing huge man with fiery red hair with a green base that looked like burning fire, burning red eyebrows and small shaved beard; beast-like red eyes that could rival any predators; bull horns and shark-like teeth; a green spiked Koopa shell rests on his back; and his yellow spiky tail hanging behind his butt.
Dressing in a stylish mobster boss look, his black spiked band still on his neck, arms, and wrists; a yellow shirt with a black vest; green tie with his own emblem print on it; a white mink scarf hanging around his neck; black business pants holding by a silver belt with chains; and black leather shoes.
This is the now human-ed Koopa King, while he'll always prefer his fearsome monstrous look, he has to admit he does look good in this current state. Too bad that Princess Peach can't see his new look right now.
'I wonder if Peach would like this look?' Bowser thoughts in the back of his mind,
And around Bowser, are hundreds upon hundreds of black creatures laying around in defeat, either knocked down in piles, embedded into floors or walls, or straight-up burning into ashes.
They have witnessed the most epic and downright terrified beat-down that ever existed. And if they have to give their thoughts, it was super surreal.
The black beasts end up scattering away with their tail between their legs. A nasty glare from Bowser had sent fear down their very soul, and seeing the man in front of them was truly a terrifying force, the black beasts retreated. Not wanting to meet the same fate as its fallen kin.
Said man on the other hand just wants to get out of this place as soon as possible.
"If you three are done gawking like an idiot, help me find out where exactly I am at right now!" The King roared, which was enough to make the three move their legs.
"Y-Y-YES SIR!"
Seeing the three idiots off their way, Bowser massaged his face tiredly.
Just…
What has he gotten himself into this time?
*Growl* A loud grumbles, unlike any creatures, echo through the empty wasteland.
And the source of it?
Was Bowser's belly...
"Oh crud, I'm hungry."
To be
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