Luigi's house…
A short professor with strange glasses and a suitcase stood at Luigi's door, waiting.
"What's keepin' him? I told him I was coming! Unless the guy forgot? Nah… Luigi's a vigilant one."
He sat there for a moment, repeatedly knocking. The silence of the inside of the house was broken when the professor pixelated through the TV, instead.
"Ah! That's better! Luigi?"
Silence.
"Oh, come out! I don't have a big ghostly adventure this time!"
Still silence.
"Fine! I guess I'll find you!"
The professor searched for about 2 minutes. "Eh…? What in the-?" A weird device stood before the professor. Said device being from the back of Luigi's closet.
"Criminy, what the heck is that?"
The professor, letting curiosity get the best of him, pushed a button on the device. He flew back as a strange beam flew out, opening a portal at the end of the room.
"What do we have here…?"
The professor walked into the strange portal.
He fell into a new location, with sleek flooring and strange interior designs.
"...what is this? W-where's that weird doohickey taken me?!"
He turned frantically, searching for someone to complain to.
"Where in the-"
A mix of unholy noises scared him to his core. Not like anyone had heard before, that's for sure. For sure a lie.
The professor looked around. "Okay, Elvin, what do you know about scary places… I know!"
At base…
Luigi threw himself awake to a familiar voice calling his name. "What in the…"
He skidded to a halt in the portal room. "WHAT THE… E. GADD?!"
E. Gadd smirked, stupidly. "Ah! There you are! I've been down and dirty lookin' fer ya!"
"How did you-"
"I broke into yer house, sonny!"
"...h...how are you-"
"LUIGI! SHUT. UP." Called an annoyed 3.
"...oops…" Luigi lowered his tone to a whisper, "Do you know where you are? You aren't supposed to be here!"
"Frankly, I believe that there's no place I shouldn't be. Anyhoo, where am I?"
"You're… well… let's just go out of here, oka-"
E. Gadd started walking, blatantly ignoring Luigi's request.
Luigi grabbed E. Gadd. "Listen, can you wait here for a second? Thanks."
Luigi slammed a nearby door. An unsuspecting the captain turned to them. "Oh, hey, Luigi. What's up?"
"We have a problem…"
"Is it THAT bad? Did Simon block up the toilet again?"
"Don't remind me of that…" Luigi shivered.
"It was that curry we fed him, tore the poor guy to shreds..."
"Anyway... uhh... Could you… come out here for a second?"
"Sure, what's the-" The captain opened the door and locked eyes with E. Gadd. "...what in the heck is HE doing here?"
"Why, HI there, random folk! Luigi, who's this fella, here?"
"... I… uhh…"
It took E. Gadd a few seconds to process what the captain's badge read.
"HOLY MACKEREL! You're with the MultiVerse Pungence!"
"Protection."
"That's what I said, MultiVerse Perfection."
The captain sighed. "...welp, we're just gonna hafta mind-wipe 'em. Or maybe he'll forget by himself."
A few minutes later, E. Gadd had sat himself on the couch, in the lounge, watching a TV show.
Luigi turned to everyone in the hall. "We… uhh… have a guest."
"He looks like Alph's weird cousin." Declared Simon.
"Well, he's here and we're waiting for Alpha to say anything to us-"
The captain strutted in. "The mind-wipe machine is down. Said that the masked guy broke it and it won't be fixed for a while. So… we have to endure THAT guy for a while."
3 glared at the laughing E. Gadd.
"I'm conflicted between being disgusted and adoring. He's cute in a creepy way."
"I think we need to get your oxygen levels checked."
The next day….
"Hey guys, look!" 3 skipped into the lounge, "I've been thinking about a color change, what do YOU think?"
Alph gave her a long stare. The color green(in his opinion,) looked nice on her.
"I like it! It could be a tad darker…"
Luigi beamed. "It's MY hue of green! I LO-"
"HUH… How DO you change your colors? It's always bugged me…" Queried Simon.
"It's complicated."
Somewhere else…
Billy checked his comms again. "Is it ready?"
"NO." An angry Leader enunciated,
"Ngrrrr…"
"Calm down, it's really close now! I think the eyes are all that's left!"
"Listen… What IS your name? I can't scold or insult you if I don't know your name, chump."
"For future reference, the team calls me 'Cleats' sometimes."
"Cleats…?"
"Yes. Cleats- HOLY MOTHER OF JENNA IT'S READY!"
"You're joking, aren't you."
"Yup, it just twitched. It should be ready anytime now. The eyes are developing and we're a few minutes ahead of schedule!"
"Good. Then I'll be here, waiting on ya- OH! That's it! Tell Mick to go and get his mushroom back!"
"Sure thing."
A few minutes later…
Everyone turned to hear a thunk come from the vent.
"What was th-"
A spotted mushroom with legs knocked the cover off and turned their way.
"YOU." Growled Simon, "You double-legged little crap. I've been searching for YOU for a long time! COME HERE!"
Simon ran after the mushroom.
Everyone paused.
3 turned to Luigi.
"Should we help him?"
"Maybe. I think he's got it."
Simon stumbled back into the lounge. "Everyone MOV-"
A huge cloud of green spores covered the room in seconds. Everyone woozily exchanged glances.
The captain walked in, with a facemask on. "What in heaven is this?"
"Yeah, what's goin' on in… here…" E. Gadd stood in a weird daze.
"Mother of… THERE YOU ARE!" A mushroom stood in the middle of the room.
"I'm gonna get ya!"
The captain vaulted over an entranced Alph and into the kitchen, where the thing kept spreading the spores.
He chased it, knocking over the blender, the toaster, the juicer(Alph's,) the whole fridge, (somehow) the whole couch, and most of the chairs in the process.
"GET BACK HERE, YOU SPOTTED FREAK!"
The mushroom skipped and hopped around the whole facility, making desperately sure that he didn't miss a step, due to an angry the captain on his heels. Gary(the mushroom) skidded to a halt and turned, making the captain skid to a halt.
Luigi scooped up the mushroom. "Whew! Got 'im!"
The captain slowly drew his hammer as Luigi dangled Gary by his leg.
"...Luigi. You know what you have to do with it, right?"
"And what would that be?"
"You remember what I said we, as MVPs, do with runts?"
"...yeah…?"
It's the impostor.
The captain swung, barely missing them, due to a well-placed dodge.
"Hey HOSER! I'ma hit ya so hard, you'll be seeing stars as you fly their way!"
"Not if you can't catch us!" Taunted a cloaked Mick.
The captain pursued the duo throughout the halls. They carefully dodged as the captain swung.
In the shipping bay, the captain finally landed a hit. Mick hit a wall and felt himself go limp. "N-no! CRAP! Uhh… Have mercy?"
The captain paused. "This is a dirty trick, isn't it?"
"That depends."
"On?"
"If you're fast enough to turn around and not get hit in the back of the he-"
The captain rolled away, missing a strike from Marco.
"Hey, pillow head! You picked the wrong time to mess with us!"
"Hey, sand-for-brains! You wanna roast, huh? If you guys are dating, I think your forehead's pregnant! Boy, it is... large."
"Ooh…" grumbled Mick, "That was a good one.."
"Shut up, Mick, before I kill you myself."
Marco turned to the captain. "Arris, you ready?"
Arris dropped in.
"Come on, bring it!"
In the lounge…
Luigi snapped out of his daze. "Mamma mia…. What'd I miss?"
He looked around, then heard a commotion from the shipping bay.
"OH NO! Guys!"
3 snapped out of it after a few slaps to the face.
Alph woke up after being used to slap Simon awake.
Everyone darted toward the shipping bay.
Back at the bay…
The captain laughed. "One brutal swing and out both of you go, you know! What are you gonna do?"
"You'll see…"
Arris turned to Marco.
"You said you could do the cool thing, where's the big suit at?!"
"I'm trying, hold up!"
The captain drew the hammer fully and slowly stepped forward. "If you're not gonna fight back, I'm just gonna hit ya."
Marco smirked. "You should have done that. It would have saved you."
A huge, bulky, crystalline suit, blue and red, (like Marco's dress and hair,) dropped in.
"We have THIS."
The captain blanched. "OH. That's what you meant by big suit."
The suit popped out of thin air and Marco jumped into the air.
When she came down, she came down inside of that huge suit.
"Who's winning now?"
The captain turned. No agents came to his rescue.
"Guess I'm by myself…"
He turned back. "Bring it."
A few minutes later…
The crew ran in to witness Marco backhand the captain into the wall.
"Urgh... guys…"
Luigi kneeled near the captain.
"What, what is it?"
"You… listen. I'm not gonna be cliche, if I'm gonna die, I wanna see you kicking their asses the last thing I see."
"Don't worry. I gotchu."
Luigi turned to Marco and Arris. "HEY!"
They both laughed. "And what are YOU gonna do-"
"WHAT'S THAT BEHIND YOU?!"
Everyone except for Luigi fell for it. Luigi took this time to attach a mine to Marco's back and wait.
"Wait a second, that was a trick! How dare YOU?!"
Luigi pulled out a remote. "Oh, please, the pleasure's all… mine."
Arris screamed and jumped farther than a cat upon contact with a cucumber.
"THERE'S A MINE ON YOUR BACK!"
She noticed the mine.
"So there is."
Alph sat behind the two, who still screamed about the mine on Marco's back.
They both screamed louder as Alph mounted a battle suit, bigger than Marco's.
Marco and Arris sat in a battle position, their backs to each other.
"Marco. We flee, or we fight?"
"MICK! Get your lazy butt over here!"
Mick disappeared and popped in beside them.
"I think we should cut some rug… we have what we wanted."
"Yes, but they're gonna follow us!"
Luigi smirked.
Simon stole some of 3's popcorn.
"GUYS!" Luigi called, "There's still a bomb on you!"
They all quickly realized that they were standing really close to each other.
In a flash, all of them were sent flying.
"AH! CRAP!" Mick skipped to his feet, but was scooped up into Alph's mech's arms.
"Going somewhere?"
Marco slowly regained composure, but not before 3 decided to jump on her back.
"HEY! Get off of th-"
3 held on tightly, only letting go to wallop the back of Marco's exposed head.
"Take that, Gamma stains!"
Arris raised her battleaxe.
"Here, I'll get her!"
Simon caught her swing with his sword and countered her strike with his own.
Simon smirked as Arris dodged a flurry of sword swings. "Can you keep up?"
Arris frowned after being pinned to the wall by Simon's knives again. "I hate this."
When Marco was the only one left, she paused. "...dang it… thought that the suit would get 'em…"
She looked up to catch Luigi placing another mine.
"Hi. How are you, this fine evening."
Explosion. The suit blew itself into pieces, which disappeared into thin air.
"How in the heck?! We used the suit this time!" Complained Marco, "We should have won!"
Mick stood by a portal. "Hey! We got Gary, that's all that matters, let's GO!"
The team watched as they scurried into the portal.
"Woo! We win!" Cheered the captain.
"Aren't you 'drastically bleeding out'?"
"No, I was kidding to get you to beat them up."
?
Shallows tapped the glass a few times.
No one's here. Nice.
He looked around Alpha's office.
Alpha's office has no cameras… but footsteps are recorded when someone walks through without his consent.
He turned back. Maybe that draw-erase board can help?
He picked up the board and pulled off the marker.
Perfect.
Shallows tossed the marker in his hand, gave the floor receptors a look, then drew on the floor. He drew one large circle and stood in it, then watched as the receptors checked for a prisoner, not being able to see through the marker drawing.
Hohoho… pure genius?
The glass cell flipped upward, letting Shallows back into the outside world.
Well… that was easier than I thought…
He took a step out and the alarms went off.
Bullcrap.
With Billy…
"Hi, buddy…." he cooed to the strange incubating man, "how are we today? Doing good, are we?" He slowly laughed to himself, "You're all grown up, aren't you? Look at him…"
Cleats awkwardly smiled, "...yeaaaaah... "
"You have any kids, Cleats?"
"Nope. I have a niece and nephew."
"Ah, ok… I… uhh… went to blow up the mushroom kingdom, earlier. The only thing that stopped me was that I had a little brother. A few days old. I'm heartless. But that would have been too far. So I stopped. And I made a new plan." Billy turned, a strange, malicious aura coming off of him, and the green substance in the chamber behind him illuminating the room.
"And it's brilliant. A baby stops the destruction of a whole village. I'm not stopping, I'm not a wuss. So I worked around the child. Tell your group to meet me at base. I've got a real banger to show them, after this!"
Billy turned back to the incubating man. "You're gonna do it. I'll see the MVPs lives to their ends, with YOUR help." He put his hand on the glass, "It'll all be worth the wait and delay and whoopings. It'll all be worth it. They've beaten us too many times to get us now. We'll slay those meddling no-good pieces of garbage soon enough. Trust me. WE WILL."
Cleats leaned in. "...does that thing look familiar to you?"
"Nope. I just got someone to steal a sample, stemmed it from their cells and created artificial fluids required to make a human child."
"Yes… but does it not look familiar… I've seen someone who looked like him."
"Too bad, I don't know 'em."
"Okay…"
With our friends….
They sat around a sleeping E. Gadd.
"What do we do with him?" mumbled Luigi.
"We're gonna hafta keep him, until Alpha fixes the machine." Replied the captain.
"Okay… but he'll just be here, either useless or messing in something of ours…"
Simon picked up E. Gadd's suitcase.
"Okay, but he's got some good gadgets. We could use some of them to… y'know… win?"
"We're gonna have to endure a good period of time with that guy. So be ready for that…"
?
Marco looked up at a disappointed Arris.
"Hey. I knew the suit was a stretch. We're going to have to train again to-"
"You can't train to fight MVPs. No, this isn't even the MVPs anymore, this is personal. That one team." Interjected the brit, rudely.
"I don't think it was about the whole corporation anyway, I could guess that it was against them the whole time.. You see how they always pop in, every time we do ANYTHING?"
"I don't think we're fighting an even battle anymore... the boss's got SOMETHING up his sleeve and I don't think anyone's gonna like it..."
Name: (currently the only one we have,) Billy
Age: 19
Height: 4" 11"
Weight: 100 lbs
Species: Toad
Blades Ranking: 100%
Self-Defense Ranking: 180%
Guns Ranking: 200%
Blunt Weapons Ranking: 20%
A high-class inventor from Gamma corp. lives for two things: The death of the MVPs and his long-awaited vengeance against the Mushroom Kingdom. The lack of anything he can use to fight with motivates him to create new weapons and prime up the ships to suit new or disadvantaged soldiers, such as himself. Omega's head technician.
i'm going to heads up the guest review, nice try! It's not Alph and he's VERY much alive(and 3 WOULD be pissed af), but they had someone else in mind... someone BAD. Do not forget to fave/follow! Because I'm plan to randomly jam out 3 chapters in a row and I'd HATE for you to miss it!