Mario's Forgotten Journey


Note: This is a little graphic and might not be recommended for people under the age of 11. The story is based on a little more mature Mario and is intended for the adult Mario fans. Mario games have been great, but they have been too kiddy in my opinion. So, now I bring you a more adult-oriented Mario. Thank you for reading this. Continue on if you can handle this.

Back-story: Bowser, pissed that Mario beat him up in Mario's last adventure, Paper Mario, has just devised a plan that is sure to be his best ever. A weird one to be sure of. Meanwhile, whatever happened to Smitty, the diabolical alien/thing that took over the kingdom for a short period of time? Whatever happened to him? Well, now what happened to Mario? Did he just stop or go on to kick even more @$$? Well, it's all really going to be explained in these next three chapters of hellish mayhem as Mario finds himself stuck in a forest, finds himself in the middle of a deal that's sure to be life-altering, and lastly, finds himself with a child on one of the most dangerous places on the planet (or kingdom). So, continue on and read. Make sure you review, even if you have to stop reading for some reason.

Chapter 1 –
Rules For Survival

Daylight poured through the half-opened window shades. Immediately, Mario flung the bed blanket off near a rusted, wooden drawer and sat up, letting the sunlight enter his eyes for a brief couple seconds. He looked away and got up from bed. This was just another morning for him. But he did something totally different from his usual morning routine. He grabbed his knapsack, filled with various items, and went to the living room and waited there. After a couple minutes of staring out the window, Luigi came in.
"All right, the bridge is open, but only up to the intersection point of the first Nap Shack. The bridge end to the heart of Mushroom Kingdom is being fixed due to the Psycho events that are happening there. So if we are to get there, we're going to have to take the side route, which leads to the pipes near Koopa Town. The pipes will lead us near the western arch gate to Red Town."
The gates led to a whole bunch of towns owned by the good King. The main town, or the capital, was the famed Red Town.
Mario, taking all this information in his head, decided to go anyway up to Red Town today for the town opening of Green Town, but also for another reason. A reason he had to keep secret. He only told Luigi, that's it. He was planning to go with Toad, a chaperone who traveled all around the world and who lived with Mario. But Toad was gone. Mario thought, Toad had gone ahead, looking to get to Mushroom Castle first looking to impress Princess Peach. Well, Mario knew this and knew he was too scared anyway to ride the pipes without someone with him.
"Listen if we leave now, we can avoid the early traffic of the farmers on the bridge and get to the side route quick. But it's the side route I'm not sure about. There's no clear-cut trail or path to get to the pipes. I guess we're gonna have to go anyway if we are to arrive there in town," mumbled Luigi.
Mario, hearing Luigi, nodded his head in agreement and decided to go on to the forest. After leaving the house, closing the door, and locking it with the house key, the two brothers descended the porch steps and went to a trail twenty feet to the right of them. There, they will cut across the bushes to get on the bridge.
Well, hell started.
"Listen, if you don't mind…" Luigi whispered while walking along.
Luigi whipped out a deck of cards, and shuffled them like a veteran card dealer. He did trick after trick with accuracy and with great handling. But after a while, Mario's eyes were doozy. It's as if he were passing out. The world around shrouded in dark clouds. And he eventually went out like that. Luigi put the deck of cards back in his overalls, took Mario's knapsack, and walked off.
"Well, I have an addiction you won't understand," Luigi whispered just before he walked off from the passed out Mario.

*

Toad got up from the spot where he was almost beaten to death. Some goombas got to him while he was walking on the side route and grabbed him violently. After that, they head bonked him all around his body until he was red all over. Lucky for Toad, no blood came out. The goombas then left him there and took off with all of Toad's coins. After five minutes, Toad was able to get up and walk off his sores.
"Mario's gonna get pretty angry if I don't get his bag back. I wonder if he even noticed I took his bag of coins."
Well, this toad was determined to get Mario's bag of coins back. Not for Mario, but for the Deal. He wasn't planning to give any coins back to Mario; just to give his bag back as that bag was a souvenir of Mario's from Shiver City. The Deal was big. If Toad didn't get the coins in, he would be sure that a disaster would ensue. Well, Toad picked his beaten body up and treaded the trail the way the goombas went. He walked for about ten minutes until he came upon something. Something that shocked him. He found one of the goombas from the goomba gang that beat him lying on the ground, breathless and gasping.
"He….l…p……"
Toad bent down, moaning, and picked up the goomba, who was pretty small.
"My team, th…e….y...beat me aft….e…r…we be…a…t….y..ou because they fo…u…n…..d ou….t…….I was…….on…..t…h.e.. other side of t..he…… D……..e…a….l…."
"The other side of the deal? The one that's gonna do the unthinkable and execute one of the Psychos' plans?" Toad asked.
"Y…es."
"But how did they found out?" Toad asked.
" They we….r…..e……s…..uspic…..i…ou…s."
" That means you stole the coins because you knew I was in?
"Yes, a…nd….I found…..ou…t…Go….rdo…n was in on this," said the goomba with a breathy whisper.
"No, not Gordon! Gordon's one of our biggest contributors. Without his share of the coins, the deal will unfortunately fall through! Don't you know what you're putting at risk? Ah, my muscles hurt…"
"W…ell…..n..o……
"Forget you. I don't like you ghetto goombas and probably never will. And you're near death anyway.
All of a sudden, four koopas shot down from the trees above. They each had different colored shells, but each shell was unusually bright, signaling that they were strong koopas. They each had different-colored bandanas, as to promote their toughness. Toad knew clearly who they were. They were the notorious Koopa Bros.
"Well, isn't it the prick that always follows Mario around!" the Green Koopa laughed out.
"Wait a minute, I thought you were in the ghettos, trying to not get involved with the deal," Toad said.
"We were, but the town aristocrats are coming along this path to get to the heart of Mushroom Kingdom to pay off that deal, ya know? So we're gonna take yo money and pay off the Psycho," said the stern-looking Red Koopa.
Toad was bewildered. That made absolutely no sense to pay off the Psychos, as the Deal was going to be done by another group. And what did they mean by the Psycho? Wasn't it the Psychos?

*

Mario, getting up from the card spell Luigi put him on, wiped off his pants and put his "M" hat on. He was pissed that Luigi even did that so he can just get ahead to meet Princess Peach first and impress her with how quick he made it out of the forest. Well, Mario wasn't going to let that happen to him now. Be embarrassed by his own little brother. Instantly, Mario got up and started running down the bridge as fast as he could. He was going to catch up to Luigi, beat his @$$, and take his knapsack back.
Of course, Mario was known to not think about things through and was known to be a little paranoid. He thought everybody was after Princess Peach and that he was the only one she liked, not anybody else. This was what he thought Toad and Luigi was doing, going after Princess Peach and trying to win her from the chunky plumber, Mario. For that reason alone, people didn't even try to play with a Princess Peach doll nor talk about Peach when he comes around town.
All around the world, Princess Peach was loved. Peach did amazing things and was one of the only toads to ever leave Mushroom Kingdom. She bought souvenirs for some of the peasants she knows in the ghettos. And she invented a court system that would put the bad toads in a thing called the "Isolation Fields" and also made sure that every one of the toad citizens were following the rules and laws. But many revolted against this court system for the reason that it didn't always work. The Psychos were one of them.
The Psychos were the first major group to protest about it. They wore black-hooded coats over their roundish head and always covered their bodies with a long shawl. Toads actually supported them until one month later, when they killed one guard outside the castle and beaten the Duke of Blue Town. The Duke of Blue Town was often called "The Next King" as people wanted him to be on the throne after their current King stepped down. But chances looked low for him being King as he wasn't the heir to the throne. Well, after the attack, the Duke resigned for no reason and fled Mushroom Kingdom to a far corner of the world. It is said he lives in the deep bays of Hannah, a village that was known to be inhabited by monsters. Few toads have been there, as it was a 700-800 mile trip.
Anyway, all the toads hated the Psychos. Many members left. But the head master and a few members remain. And that's how they got the name "Psychos."
Mario knew what he had to do once he got in Mushroom Kingdom. He had to rendezvous with the Duke of Red Town, who had the most power under the King. He sent a letter to Mario stating that Mario needs to get here immediately as some urgent business has come up. But Mario knew whom he was visiting first. He wanted to visit Peach first. Peach had some kind of aura that lured Mario onto her. It was almost like magnetism. Of course, Peach was known to be a whore, or somebody that "gave" a lot. It was sort of true in Peach's younger days as her title was not yet Princess and was Daughter of the King. She knew one man….and well, let's not get into that. Mario didn't know about Peach's younger days and still loved her. But Peach wasn't sure about him.
While Mario was thinking about Peach and what the Duke might want, a noise came behind him. He looked back to see who it was. Nobody was there. He thought it was probably a squirrel or a bird looking for food. So he continues running…until he heard footsteps behind him. Mario looked back and got his fists ready. He saw nobody there. He examined the bushes. Nothing. He checked the trees. Nothing. So he looked around and stood perfectly still, cupping his ears. He then bent down and lowered his face. He blew away some dust that was resting on the ground and put his left ear to the ground. He could feel something. It was quiet footsteps. He now knew that someone was watching him. A look of fear rised in his eyes. Something was very wrong. He got up and walked quietly. Footsteps once again followed his footsteps. His eyes curved back to the road behind them. All he saw a blur from the sun. After rubbing his eyes from the onslaught from the sun, he looked down at the ground behind him to see if there's a shadow. Nothing. It's as if a completely invisible person was following him.
"Luigi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Mario yelled out.
Nothing. He had thought the culprit was Luigi, but now he didn't. A sense of doubt rised inside Mario. What if it was that huge Koopa, Kent? Or what if it was a Boo or a regular ghost? He started walking faster as his pulse was racing. His pace was getting quicker and quicker by the minute. What is it? What in hell was it? This sucks. Was somebody stalking him or what? He kept walking even though he heard footsteps that were pacing with his behind him. Then…the footsteps stops. Mario looks behind him and sees nothing. With a look of confusion on his face, he continues walking, even though he knew the stalker was getting closer and closer to him.

*

Toad was getting pounded. The Koopas were violently shelling him. The Koopas were pounding him with their attacks until he turned red.
"That's enough, fellow bros," yelled out the Red Koopa.
Toad breathed a sigh of relief as he heard that. The goombas just beat him and now he's getting pounded by the Koopas because he allegedly didn't show them any money.
"Now, let's do our tornado attack!" The Red Koopa yelled.
All the other koopas agreed by yelling in unison and started getting in the tornado formation. The tornado formation was all four koopas getting on top of each other until it looked like they formed a tower of koopas. Then, the koopas would spin in unison, creating a "tornado" of koopas. But the unique thing about it; they'll do it on the person they're attacking. Right on their belly or back. Toad whimpered at the fact of them doing this horrible move on his belly. But it happened. They formed the tower of koopas on Toad's belly, which weighed like a ton on Toad's soft belly, and started spinning. The Koopas did this for about twenty-five seconds straight. Afterwards, Toad was near death. Toad was gasping for air as the Koopas came off him.
"That's what you get, little Toad," whispered one of the koopas in Toad's ear.
Toad didn't even know if he was bleeding or not. But one thing was certain. He wanted revenge like all hell. He wanted to make all these Koopas spill their blood out and die slowly. He wish he had the strength to fend off the Koopas, but sadly, Toad wasn't as blessed with good strength like Mario or Luigi.
"What about this goomba right here? Looks like this guy has some money on him."
"Check him"
Toad heard a lot of ruffling going on. Then, after a couple of seconds, it stopped as one of the Koopas started talking.
"Nope, this cheap doesn't have any coins."
"Well, kick him."
Lots of kicking was going on as the Red Koopa smiled evilly at the little goomba.
"Wait a minute, we didn't check the damn toad here, y'all."
"Yeah, that's right. Shell him over."
A koopa shelled Toad on his back.
"All right, check him."
Hands were groping Toad's reddened skin all over his body. Toad moaned with each hand coming on him to check him.
"Nothing. Bitch was telling the truth, boss."
All of a sudden, the goomba gang that beat Toad up the first time head bonked the Red Koopa all at the same time from behind him. The Red Koopa went down with an echoing impact that scared Toad badly. The Koopas got into attack form. A goomba went ahead of himself and thrust himself against one koopa. The koopa retaliated with a throw down and another koopa shelled that same goomba while he was on the ground. At this time, all the goombas hurled their bodies at the Koopas. It was clear that the goombas thought these koopas had money, and therefore, tried to beat up the koopas for their money. A fight would have commenced if it weren't for the Red Koopa.
"YO, CHILL, YA IDIOTS!" yelled the Red Koopa.
The fight stopped, but the goombas got the injured goomba back on their side. The other goomba, who was on the other side of the Deal, finally passed out. It seems as if they didn't care about him, their own flesh and blood. Anybody can tell from this that the deal would be a life-altering event no matter what happens during the Deal. Meanwhile, Toad was there mending to his wounds, which were luckily not bleeding but reddened.
"Yo, I think we can all see that there's no point to us fighting. After all, we're all after money. Well, most of us, I think. Therefore, we should unite. We all shouldn't be fightin. I'm not saying this just to save the Koopas; I'm saying this cause we need to unite. Man, if you think about, small groups aren't effective; large groups are. And for this mission we received, we're gonna need help," said the demanding Red Koopa.
The goombas all looked at each other while the speech was given. The leader of the goombas was a tall goomba with an eye patch over his left eye, reminiscent of a sea pirate, the worst of bandits. The leader pondered about this for a while and finally came up with a decision.
"We'll agree, but the thing is that we want 50% of the coins," the leader of the goombas said.
"Done. But the thing is that we need help on this mission we're doin. We'll just brief it with you when we get to someplace where we're alone," said the Red Koopa.
"Why not here? This little Toad ain't gonna do anything," the leader responded.
"Eh, this is one of our biggest tasks. And plus, he'll tell Mario, that fat plumber who wear those fruity overalls. I know, let's beat him up until he's knocked senseless."
"Fine, how about we end him? It'll be better anyway and will keep your "task" a secret."
"Fine with me and my group," said the Red Koopa.
"Ok. FELLOW GOOMBAS, UNITE AND KILL THIS TOAD RIGHT HERE," shouted out the goomba leader.
All the goombas surrounded the poor little toad as Toad's eyes suddenly enlarged when he finally realized what they were going to do to this poor little Toad. But Toad didn't have any energy left in him to yell help or even scream. His eyes grew teary as the goombas got closer to closer to his lying body. One of the goombas started to laugh. Toad could sense they were all ready in their position to head bonk him.
"I'll go first," said one of the goombas to the other goombas.
The goomba who said that was already in head bonk position. He chuckled before he jumped off.
But something out of the blue happened. Out of the bushes came somebody Toad knew who would save him. Out of the bushes came out a man who was known all-throughout the land to save people at times like these, when they're on the borderline of death. He was Mario. Mario came out of the bushes and leaped at the goomba getting ready to head bonk Toad. Mario got his hands on the goomba and laid on his eye a blackness caused by the power of Mario's punch. Mario laid several more punches on the already-bleeding goomba until some goombas came on Mario headfirst. Mario fell back, but immediately leaped at the goombas, only for them to move out of the way and for him to miss. He hit the ground hard as several rocks blew out of the way of his landing. While Mario was getting up from the ground, the Red Koopa shelled Mario with accuracy on Mario's legs to trip him up. All of the goombas got onto his back to keep him down on the ground. The goomba leader was pissed that Mario bled one of his goombas. He, therefore, yelled a command to his gang of goombas.
"TORTURE MARIO. HELP US, KOOPAS!"
The goombas and the koopas got together for an attack on Mario. But Mario wasn't about to let them beat him up. He kicked off all the goombas on him and leaped up from the ground. He quickly got into his fist position with a smirk on his face.

*

Luigi, who followed his brother secretly through the trail, was viewing this fight between Mario and the goombas. He was shocked Mario would stupidly put himself in the middle of a gang meeting here. But then again, Toad's life was at risk. Luigi moved around the bushes behind Mario, witnessing his brother getting beaten by this newly formed gang of goombas and koopas. As Mario got up, Luigi started wondering. Should he get involved or not? While Luigi was pondering this, Mario thought up of a plan.
Mario looked at the Red Koopa in the eyes while the others were getting ready to attack him. The Red Koopa was looking back.
"STOP!"
Everybody looked at the owner of that voice, the Red Koopa.
"I always wanted to beat Mario one-on-one, in front of my dawgs. So, everybody, back down, and watch me beat the living crap out of Mario."
The Red Koopa stepped up near Mario and got into an attack formation. Mario stepped back with one foot and got into a strafe position. A battle was about to ensue. Mario looked at the Red Koopa. The Red Koopa stared back. This koopa wasn't as weak as he was back then in Paper Mario. He got stronger and much more wiser. The Red Koopa laid himself out on the ground and started to insert his body back again into his shell, but stopped halfway through as to spite Mario. Luigi was witnessing all this and was shocked. He knew what Mario was planning: to beat the Red Koopa if he can and break up the Koopa Bros as their leader had been defeated by Mario. They had to bow to Mario if Mario beat their leader. Then with the Koopa Bros. Help, Mario would defeat the goomba gang. Then he would be able to save Toad. All this for Toad. Luigi thought of participating in this fight, but knew Mario would get angry if he would. So he sat quietly behind the bushes viewing all this drama going on. The Red Koopa circled around Mario, but Mario was the first one to make an attack. Mario threw a punch, but the Red Koopa dodged it and pushed Mario back. Right after the push, the Red Koopa got into shelling position and would have shelled Mario if it wasn't for the greedy Blue Koopa. The Blue Koopa, out of nowhere, attacked the goomba leader and took his bag of coins. The other goombas retaliated and fought against the Koopas. It was an all-out war now! Mario vs. Koopas vs. Goombas! One goomba tripped up the Green Koopa, which left his soft underbelly susceptible to head bonk attacks. The Blue and Black Koopa were holding their own against a horde of goombas by shelling multiple goombas at once. The Red Koopa was fighting with the goomba leader. The goomba leader wasn't that bad of a fighter. He kept his own and evaded the shellings of the Red Koopa. Of course, Red Koopa's shell was more stronger than the other koopas' shells, so head bonks barely effected the Red Koopa. The goomba leader was at a disadvantage. But Mario didn't have time to watch the fight. He went over to the half-dead Toad, picked him off, and started running for some safe ground. But a goomba came and blocked them, a big goomba that is. The goomba wanted to fight and beat the legendary Mario. And judging by his size, he had a chance of beating Mario. Mario couldn't use his fists because he was carrying Toad, and he was desperately looking around to find spots to run away to.
"Fear not, bro!" cried the courageous Luigi.
Luigi, viewing all this fighting between the goombas and koopas, decided to help Mario get out of there. As he was running toward Mario, he curved and ran toward the big goomba. He launched himself off the ground and straight into the big goomba, knocking him down. There, Luigi got on his stomach and started punching him all over his body. Luigi made this goomba look frail. After about six more earth-shattering punches, the big goomba passed out with trickles of blood running down the corridors of his mouth.
"I'm sorry I had to do this to you, poor goomba, but it was either you or my bro," whispered the grim Luigi as he got up off the big goomba's body.
Mario looked at Luigi and gave him a little wink for his help. After that, the two brothers ran ahead on the path the big goomba was blocking and kept going until they couldn't run anymore.
"Wow!" Gasped out the breathless Luigi.

*

Both of the bros collapsed on the ground five minutes later. They looked at the dark, gray sky, filling itself up with puffs of clouds and blocking the sun from giving sunlight. The environment around Luigi and Mario was dark and humid, as well as chilling in the way quiet forests go.
"What the hell just happened back there?" Asked the bewildered Luigi.
Mario just shrugged his shoulders. He was looking at Toad, who passed out while Mario was running. Then, Mario looked at Luigi and pointed at Toad.
"Yeah, I know, he got pretty much his life beaten out of him," responded Luigi to Mario.
Luigi looked at the sky, as he was getting ready to say something.
"Sorry about dazing you out back there. I was gonna go ahead and well, do something in Red Town you won't understand. Here's your knapsack back. Guess I just got too scared of one thing called the Deal. You heard of it?"
Mario shook his head to indicate no.
"Well, it's something the Duke of Red Town might tell you. Get to him first. I don't know if I have time to explain it to you."
Mario looked confused for a moment or two.
"Listen, we have to move on. Something's big at risk here. You can stay here, but I'm going."
Luigi got up and started walking down the path.
"Hey, wait for me!" yelled Mario with the injured Toad in his hands. Mario ran up to Luigi and Luigi took Toad off his hands for a while.
"Toad gained some weight," said the amazed Luigi.
Mario nodded. So, for the first time on this trip, the two brothers started walking together, side by side, with one of the brothers was carrying an innocent on his hands.

*

The two brothers, with Toad unconscious still, finally got to the pipe that led to the western arch gate of Red Town. Mario sighed a breath of relief.
"Well, here it is," said Luigi, who was still carrying Toad.
Both of them started towards the pipe but were stopped immediately. Somebody came down from the trees to block their way to the pipes. Wait a minute, not a somebody. Some group. It was the Koopa Bros. They jumped off the trees down on the pipe to block Mario and Luigi's way to Red Town.
"Well, well, look who we stumbled on," said the Black Koopa.
The Red Koopa held up a bag, a bag with important significance to Mario. This was Mario's souvenir from Shiver City. The Red Koopa waved it around the air for a while.
"I heard this was rare, Mario. I heard this is worth a lot of money and it's from a city that barely anybody have heard of."
Mario was pretty angry. It was worth a lot of money and was given to him by Mayor Penguin. He had souvenirs from all the major cities around the world, and he wasn't planning to go to Shiver City again for another bag. It actually sounded pretty pathetic at first, but to Mario, that bag meant big.
"Listen, give yo toad to us and we'll give you the bag. That toad has been bad to us lately and we want him…for some special stuff. Now I know you're gonna say no, so I have another thing that I want to trade you."
The Red Koopa took off his shell. Inside the shell laid the dormant goomba leader of the goomba gang.
"We beat the crap outta the goomba gang simply for the coins in this bag. So this bag's worth shit to us right now. But this goomba leader is worth big to us. After we beat him and his gang, we found he had a tattoo on his left foot after his shoe fell off. And you know what that tattoo meant, Mario. It meant that he was one of the four head generals of the Goomba Protagonists. You know them, don't you? The gang that hates all other species except their own kind. Well, if word got out this one died near Red Town, the goombas in that group will go berserk and immediately declare a war against the King. That won't be good for Mushroom Kingdom's new diplomacy program, would it? Nor would it be good with other goombas. So here."
The Red Koopa pulled out a poisonous mushroom. Mario at first thought they were going to poison him right there. But he saw the poisonous mushroom was bitten on one side.
"That's right, he already took a bite. And he's knocked out, so the poison's taking effect."
He threw the goomba leader's half-dead corpse to Mario and Luigi. Mario and Luigi caught him and rested him on the ground. Luigi checked his pulse rate.
"Damnit, it's slowing down, Mario. This guy's gonna be dead in a couple of minutes," said the exasperated Luigi.
"Yes, and now is this what you might be looking for?"
The Red Koopa pulled out a blue mushroom, antidote to the poisonous green mushroom. Mario readied his fists at the sight of the bright blue mushrooms as he hoped he could fool the Red Koopa, get a good chance that way at beating up the koopas, and get that blue mushroom. But sadly, there was no way to do all that in a couple of minutes.
"Mario, I don't know if I can keep the guy alive. It's poison, after all. He's gonna pass away in about a minute or two," said the frustrated Luigi.
Meanwhile, Toad was almost dead too. Mario bent down near Toad and looked at Toad. There was evidence of blood in his mouth by the little trickles that came out of his mouth. It was a good thing Toad wasn't pouring blood like the koopas planned to do back down on the entrance of the side route. Toad had a good couple of hours of life in him. That would be more than enough time to get him to Grand Town Hospital.
"Mario, poison's taking serious effect now! You could see him turn blue! Damn, we're gonna need that blue mushroom to cure this @$$!" exclaimed the frantic Luigi.
"Listen, Mario, we'll give you the blue mushroom for the Toad, and if that ain't enough, I got a special bag to throw in there for you, Mario. So what do you say?"
"Mario, the guy's groaning! And his body is turning blue! He got just about 20-30 seconds of life in him!" Damnit, bro, get that mushroom.
Mario was about to leap at the Red Koopa, but decided not to. Instead, Mario nodded his head.
"Yes, finally, ya dumb prick, I knew you would see our side for a change!" The Red Koopa cackled out.
Mario bent down again near Toad. It almost sounded like Toad was hyperventilating when he got near him, so he struggled to pick him up gently in all this rush.
"Mario! What are ya doing!? Don't you know that's Toad, your friend?! Don't you know you're throwing away his life because of this goomba?! Mario, Mario, what are you doing?! Damn you! Man, LISTEN, BITCH!
But it was too late for Luigi to do anything. Mario was carrying Toad and was already on his way to the Red Koopa.
"If I do this, I'll lose Toad, but I stop an upcoming war. But, no, a real hero always cares for everybody. I don't really care for that asshole goomba, but I'm stuck. I wish Peach were here to help me. I just wish I didn't have to make this decision," Mario thought to himself.
Mario was on the edge of a breakdown. The Koopa Bros. Luigi. The Goomba Leader. Toad. One of them is going to die if he don't hand Toad over, Toad will die if he hand him over, there's only ten seconds left to save the goomba leader, he can't think up of a plan to get that blue mushroom, Luigi's yelling at him, the Red Koopa's screwing him, and he was getting tired.
"I………I……….I……………." Mario droned off.
He could not complete the sentence. He fell and passed out towards Luigi. Toad flew out of his hands and down the hill they ascended before they saw the Koopa Bros.
"Screw giving Mario his stuff back, there's Toad, get him!" Yelled the determined Red Koopa.

*

"Mario?"
Luigi finally woke up the obese plumber by saying his name and by continuously slapping him on the face.
"Mario! Do you remember what happened?"
Mario kept staring at the blank-faced Luigi.
"No, you don't. Well, Toad's gone. The Koopas took him. The goomba leader has managed to survive. Survive a couple of minutes after you passed out while delivering Toad to him. Toad flew out of your hands and rolled down the hill near us where the Koopas got him. The Koopas got him down there and took off with him. A couple minutes after that, the goomba leader died. I hid him in the bush near Koopa Village. I know this ain't gonna sound right, but I'm gonna frame the Koopas in Koopa Village, even if they're good. Once they find the body there, lots of stuff will happen. I don't know if they found it or not, but once we get to Mushroom Kingdom, we gotta tell Peach about this. You understand?
Mario nodded. He knew what was going to happen to Koopa Village soon, and he couldn't let that happen to the good koopas. Yet, he couldn't fathom the fact of Mushroom Kingdom being attacked over the suspicious murder of one of the goomba generals. He couldn't let that happen.
Everything's going wrong. The goomba general died. Toad's kidnapped. The Koopa Bros are still out there. The Deal is going to be one disastrous event if the money didn't get to the mysterious group whose going to carry out the deal if their demands aren't met. And there are still the notorious Psychos lefts. Or is it Psycho? Meanwhile, most of the toad citizens in Mushroom Kingdom aren't aware of the Deal. And what do the Koopa Bros. have to do with the deal?
But there was still one thing that was right. The brothers were still together. And they'll always be together when there's crime or plumbing to be done. They will always be together because of their dependence on one another. And Mario realized that as the two brothers were on their way to the green pipe that lead to the western arch gate that leads to Red Town.





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Next Chapter: What is this Deal? Mario will find out. How are the Koopa Bros involved in the Deal? What is Luigi's secret "stuff" he had to do in Red Town? Will the Deal be carried out? Or will it be stopped? Also, many of the other questions you have will be answered in the next chapter in this three-chapter story. Don't worry; I'll have Chapter 2 up soon. Until then, review!