Author's note: I got rid of the Italian accent where you have
to add '-a' to the end of every four words Mario or Luigi speaks. Don't get
disappointed if that was your favorite part, though I don't see how anyone
could like that annoying accent of Mario and Luigi.
Disclaimer: Nintendo owns Mario & company, I'm just another writer.
1 Prologue
All things die, and some go to Hell.
Even some robots.
Even though he was destroyed, Smithy was still there in Hell, plotting deviously how to escape. He was working on a way to escape from Hell and strike revenge on the inhabitants of Mushroom Kingdom. But first he had to complete a weapon designed to terminate. It was the "AE1X-34", the mecha Bowser, or commonly called "Techna".
I hell, there was a portal leading to the other dimension, the life zone, some call it, or Mushroom Kingdom. The only way for someone who had perished to return was to defeat a guardian blocking the door. The guardian was the most powerful being there, amidst all the mountains of fire, and was almost unbeatable. But Smithy was creating a weapon, listed above, "Techna", to destroy the guardian so he could be free to wreck havoc on Mushroom Kingdom.
Smithy stood there with his hammer, whacking it against the hard green metal that was to be the rugged shell of Techna. He beat against it continuously, shaping it to look like a snapping turtle's shell, just like Bowser. He had already created a "tail", which was a segmented bar that went smaller as it came to the tail, flexibly formed with joint-like connections. Also he'd made a line of scales, which were like chain-mail armor. The only other thing he was done with were the horns, which were two jagged drills.
Suddenly Smithy's voice receptors picked up movement coming toward him. He involuntarily swerved to his right and saw Terra walking toward him. Terra was a mechanical koopa who'd assisted Smithy in his takeover before Mario, Mallow, Geno, Bowser, and Peach had put him and his master out of commission during their attack of the factory.
"Greetings, Terra," Smithy said coldly, "did you get all of them?"
"Yes, all twenty," Terra replied in a dull mechanical voice. He emptied a bag he had behind his shell onto the ground. There lay a large pile of giant red quartz-shaped crystals. Smithy smiled evilly at the sight.
"Excellent." Smithy picked up one in his spare hand and gently stood it on one of the polygonal side of the to-be shell. Then he lifted his hammer far above his head and smashed it down on the head of the crystal. It was untouched after the blow, but had sunk deep into the metal sheet. Terra handed him another, and Smithy repeated his process. He did it again and again until there were no more crystals.
"Go get more of these, right now," Smithy commanded Terra. He immediately walked off in the direction from where he'd come from.
Several weeks later their project was complete. Techna stood two feet higher than Bowser had, weighing over twice as much him. His forearm was like a giant bar and connecting to it was a bigger metal polygon-shaped arm. The hands were the same with the large claws as one-sided mini-blades, but on the back of his hands were three foot-long slightly curved spikes. His head looked almost exactly the same except for the twisted drill-like spikes for horns and the teeth as thick needles; the front two teeth were bent like a snake's and were injected with the most vicious of venom. The shell was of the similar shape to Bowser's, but instead of spikes on each part there were those powerful (And pointy) crystals. The legs were like the arms but bigger, and its underside was made of metal flat bars. His skin was yellow-orange chain mail armor, and his tail was just as described earlier, long, segmented, and thick. When the mouth of Techna opened, two twin narrow guns protruded out of it from the throat. Flame-throwers, no doubt.
"I am pleased with this weapon, are you not?" Smithy said.
"Yes of course," Terra answered, looking at the machine. "Tested yet?"
Smithy grinned, then took a remote control from one of his compartments. He pressed a switch in the center of the remote, causing the robot's eyes to light up in a bright yellow shade. The two geniuses listened as the body hummed to life. Smithy moved a joystick around, making the machine lift its feet and walk around. He demonstrated its firepower first by making Techna open its mouth, making the twin guns extend outward. He pressed another button causing flames to burst out of Techna's mouth by the thousands.
"Very impressive, said Terra, "but have you designed in him an automatic will? It is mandatory in our plan."
"It is not quite necessary yet, " Smithy said. "For now, all we need to worry about is getting out of here. The guard to the dimensional door back to Mushroom Kingdom is very tough, but no doubt Techna will defeat it. Let's go." The two metal geniuses took off in a direction seemingly endless, with Smithy commanding Techna to follow. Its eyes gleamed a devious yellow color the whole time as it followed.
~Luigi~
Whack! the tennis bellowed said as Mario's racket collided with it. The ball shot over the tennis court's net and right past me, as I lunged for it.
"Game, set, and match!" Mario exclaimed. "All right!"
"Gloater…" I thought as I stood up from the ground. "Mario, let's play something different! You've already beat me four times straight!"
"Like what?"
"Uh… golf?"
"No way, I left my clubs at Peach's castle!"
"Oh…" I said, scratching my head as I pondered over what to do. Tennis was too monotonous after four games, but I really didn't have anything to do. Football---nah, never appealed to me for some reason. Soccer---hmmm… Sure, I guess. "You up for some soccer?"
"Oke-doke!" he said, giving me that exasperating smile that I hated. I put my racket up, which was lined with green along its sides and a big "L" in green placed in the center. Mario's was the same, except that he used red and had an "M" painted on the middle of his racket.
As we were exiting our Tennis court I saw someone coming toward us. As the figure came closer, I recognized her as Princess Peach. Immediately Mario called out at her, for she had not seen him, and I joined. She heard us and hurtled at us. "Hi Mario!" she exclaimed as she came closer. "Hi Luigi!" she said afterwards. "What are you boys doing on a beautiful day like this?"
"Hello Peach," Mario greeted, "I was just beatin' Luigi over here for the fourth time today…" He smirked. I grit my teeth and clenched my fist in my pocket. "…And we got bored and started leaving the court when we saw you."
"Oh, what coincidence! I was just coming over here to play a match with you but I see you are leaving now…"
"Well," I said, "we were heading for your castle because we left all our golf clubs in there. We best be heading along now…"
"Oh no, you boys just stay right here! I'll just go and fetch those clubs of yours in a jiffy!" Before either of us could interrupt to offer help she skipped off back the way she came.
After a brief moment of silence, I spoke up. "Hey, Mario, do you remember where you put those clubs anyway?"
"I… believe the last place they were in was in that closet in the guest room. She has a blot of them in HER castle, y'know."
"Would you, perchance, recall whether or not you LOCKED it?"
Mario's eye shot wide open. "Oops…" he said softly.
"You numbskull!" I said, then darted off after Peach. "Why did you lock it?!"
He started to reply, but I was too far away. Mario simply shrugged to himself and shot after the way I went.
~Bowser~
Ah… another day Mario-free. It must have been months now… Months since I've encountered that idiot Mario. Finally I have peace in my kingdom. I won't have to worry about being intimidated by the Italian twerp, because whenever I hear the twerp's done something heroic I tend to get a little mad, and after that I tend to breath fire everywhere, and that tends to tarnish my castle. So I tend to avoid a circumstance such as that.
I was recalling that adventure this particular day when Mario and I bonded in a team with Peach, that big walking puppet, and the frog-thing. Or was he something else? I can't remember anyhow. And then the five of us beat Smithy in his own factory in MY castle. I had been on cordial terms with Mario since then, but not before I invaded Peach's castle again. It was the perfect lure to get a fight with Mario, until he overcame me. I thought I was insuperable, so I tested him again by capturing the star rod. Beat me like that once more, with a little help from those pesky seven stars and that puny one 'Twink'.
But today I wasn't going to attack him. I was planning to lounge in my court in my throne, ordering koopas all day around to serve ME. They weren't very resourceful so they couldn't rebel, but they pampered me like a cat. The perfect creatures, in a weird way, considering they weren't very bright.
Speaking of service, I was getting thirsty. Knowing that there were always koopas outside my door, I shouted, "HEY! Get me a drink, koo-
Before I could finish I heard a loud slamming sound. I heard the feet of my koopas shuffling towards it, and then an abrupt "SMASH!" came. It sounded like a door had been leveled. I made out some slicing noises, but then a lot of screams of agony. It sounded like a fight was erupting. There was a weird mechanical sound, like some robot's metal footsteps. Suddenly all the slashing noises faded away, then the metal footsteps came closer and closer.
I sprang from my throne and approached the door out. As I reached for the handle, a powerful ramming vibration shook me. I stepped back in fear, a sense I hated because it de-prided me.
Suddenly claws pierced through the door. This was odd because the door was metal. More specifically, it was steel-coated, garnished with diamonds. So it was impossible to break through. Too late for that though; now the claws were bursting through several areas on the face of the door. After many holes were bored in the door, a ramming from whatever was behind it knocked the thing down, shattering it to pieces.
What I saw filled my heart with apprehension. In front of me stood something big---about two feet bigger than I was---with glistening yellow luminescent eyes that struck me with utter horror. Worse was the fact that it somewhat resembled me. How insulting. But worst of all was what the thing was: a ROBOT. A machine. An android. Whatever you want to cal it, it was mechanical. The thing looked at my stilly in the eye with a frightening glare, one that made me stop in my tracks too.
Whatever it was, it was sure horrible-looking. It had yellow chain mail armor covering everything around its body except for the back, stomach, and limbs (Including a segmented, dull yellow tail). Its head was polygon shaped, with two twisted horns near the middle of the cranium. It had big, foot and a half long spikes on the back of its hands that were curved around like the claws were. The claws on its hands and feet were narrow but like pocketknives. The shell---or what looked like a shell like a koopa's or mine---had these weird red jagged spikes on the back of it, which was polygon-like in shape. His arms and legs' upper part was like a large yellow bar, and the lower part of the limb was thick with four sides and a gigantic elbow/knee. It was almost shaped like… me…
Then I heard some beeping sounds penetrate from its head. I couldn't make out what it was doing, until I heard 'Target confirmed' come from the thing. I immediately knew it was to attack, and I began to move away to avoid some attack, but not before the machine lifted its jaw, revealing a line a finely sharp teeth, and as the mouth widened two cannons about an inch thick and circular extended from its throat. Before I could react flames spouted out of the guns like a flame-thrower and seared at my skin. It burned like mad, and I fell to the ground in torment.
After what felt like a coma for several minutes, I stood up. There was that mechanical Bowser, in the exact position from the minutes past. "What… What are you?!" I asked despairingly after pulling myself to my feet, not knowing whether to be mad or seriously scared.
After a brief silence, the robot said in a vibrating, dull, mechanical tone, "I am Techna. Bowser relation." Then he glared at me weirdly like he was scanning me. "Bowser. You are Bowser. You are THE Bowser."
I stood up fully. Extending my claws, I slowly stepped closer to the metal beast. "What do you want?"
After another short noiseless motionless period, he spoke up again. "You are Bowser. Bowser must be terminated."
Uh oh.
I lunged at Techna, the metal me, bearing my claws as far out as possible, trying to hit him so he wouldn't kill me. Instead of attacking he turned his iron body around, positioning crystal-like red spikes directly at me. Unable to stop, I flew into his back, where I was gouged like a beaten soldier. Injured badly, I clumped to the ground. Before I went unconscious again, I glanced up at him. Suddenly the red quartz-shaped spikes began to radiate, then laser beams, monstrously giant at that, shot from the tips of the spikes. They darted down towards me, burning my skin like the fire. Before I blacked out again, I saw him reach for me. Then I went blank.
After my mind was blank for a couple hours, I heard cold footsteps and an evil coughing laugh. I tried to open my eyelids, but they wouldn't budge. I was too weak from the preceding battle. All my strength was drained. But after a minute of concentrating, I came to.
I was out on a high balcony of my fortress. I don't know how I got here because I went unconscious in the assault that thing---I think he said his name was Techna, but I'm not sure---did on me. Apparently he carried me up here. Instantly I realized why I couldn't move; because ropes were tied around my entire body. I leaned my head around and saw a red cylinder- shaped red object tied to my back. The ropes encircled me and the cylinder thing all in one round tie. I was tied halfway up the thing and could see little rockets below and above me. I was bewildered about what it was and what was going on until someone walked out of the door onto the balcony. After a quick scrutinizing I concluded that he was Smithy.
"You!" I exclaimed as my eyes fell upon him.
"Ah, I see you haven't forgotten our last encounter, hm?" Smithy grinned dementedly and then called out, "Terra!"
A small mechanical koopa appeared out of the castle's door. It slowly walked to Smithy as if he was his master. "Terra?" I said, puzzled altogether, "how could you still be here?! I remember specifically destroying a cohort of Smithy's bearing your name!" I tore my head back up at smithy's level. "And you!" I yelled. "Mind explaining how YOU came back here before I pound you to death?!" I said, struggling with the ropes but unable to get any looser.
"Ever been to hell?" Smithy said wickedly.
"No, 'cause I've never been as vile as you, you metal freak!"
Instead of being taken aback by the insult, Smithy continued. "In hell there is a portal leading back to life. By creating Techna I was able to fall the guardian of the portal and bring myself and my loyal servant, Terra," Smithy said, pointing to his metal koopa, "and wreak all the havoc we want. I assume you have already met Techna, yes?"
Of course, how could I not have? He mutilated me, scarred me for life everywhere, and burned me hours before now. As I thought on, suddenly the wall besides the balcony burst over. Out of the giant hole just formed in the façade came Techna, the walking metal me. His eyes shone like before, intimidating me as had happened retro now, a shining so demonic that I shut my eyes upon eye contact.
"I thought so," Smithy muttered. "Techna was SUPPOSED to ambush you…" Smithy stated, shooting a reprimanding glare at Techna, "…but Techna had to kill your guards to get to you, arousing attention. Unfortunately you were awake when he attacked, and therefore you know too much."
"Yeah? And what can YOU do about it?" I retorted. "I can just cut myself loose and smack the living heck out of you!"
"Not exactly," Smithy smirked, "you are currently tied to a remarkably enormous rocket, equipped with super-boosters that will make you fly at hypersonic speed into the air and back down again, causing you to inevitably perish."
My heart sank at that moment. I was about to be shot up in the air, causing nausea, which I really, really hate, and fall down again and die. What a horrible fate. I thought I would partake in a day full of relaxation, instead I was in vice-versa. Smithy lit a match on one of his fingers and held it up to a rope hanging out of the bottom of the rocket. The fire gradually ate up the rope. Old cartoon antics; you never get tired of them until you are about to die.
"Any last words?" Smithy asked sarcastically.
"Just two. I swear that if even one of your dirty men places a foot on my castle, I will pound your ugly steel carcass so bad that it will bleed."
"You won't live too see when that even happens," Smithy said, grinning atrociously, then he, Terra, and Techna stepped back several feet to allow safe boosting. The flame disappeared inside the cylinder-shaped rocket, then explosions erupted out of the underside of the thing and I was propelled up. The last thing I saw before I was completely out of sight of the castle of mine was a one of yellow eyes, glinting as maniacally as every encounter thus far.
Author's note: How'd you like it? Feel free to flame if necessary. Oh, and just in case you are wondering, Techna is my original character. He is not from any Mario game I know of, and I don't believe there are any fanfics featuring a mechanical Bowser other than this. Oh, and remember to review!
Disclaimer: Nintendo owns Mario & company, I'm just another writer.
1 Prologue
All things die, and some go to Hell.
Even some robots.
Even though he was destroyed, Smithy was still there in Hell, plotting deviously how to escape. He was working on a way to escape from Hell and strike revenge on the inhabitants of Mushroom Kingdom. But first he had to complete a weapon designed to terminate. It was the "AE1X-34", the mecha Bowser, or commonly called "Techna".
I hell, there was a portal leading to the other dimension, the life zone, some call it, or Mushroom Kingdom. The only way for someone who had perished to return was to defeat a guardian blocking the door. The guardian was the most powerful being there, amidst all the mountains of fire, and was almost unbeatable. But Smithy was creating a weapon, listed above, "Techna", to destroy the guardian so he could be free to wreck havoc on Mushroom Kingdom.
Smithy stood there with his hammer, whacking it against the hard green metal that was to be the rugged shell of Techna. He beat against it continuously, shaping it to look like a snapping turtle's shell, just like Bowser. He had already created a "tail", which was a segmented bar that went smaller as it came to the tail, flexibly formed with joint-like connections. Also he'd made a line of scales, which were like chain-mail armor. The only other thing he was done with were the horns, which were two jagged drills.
Suddenly Smithy's voice receptors picked up movement coming toward him. He involuntarily swerved to his right and saw Terra walking toward him. Terra was a mechanical koopa who'd assisted Smithy in his takeover before Mario, Mallow, Geno, Bowser, and Peach had put him and his master out of commission during their attack of the factory.
"Greetings, Terra," Smithy said coldly, "did you get all of them?"
"Yes, all twenty," Terra replied in a dull mechanical voice. He emptied a bag he had behind his shell onto the ground. There lay a large pile of giant red quartz-shaped crystals. Smithy smiled evilly at the sight.
"Excellent." Smithy picked up one in his spare hand and gently stood it on one of the polygonal side of the to-be shell. Then he lifted his hammer far above his head and smashed it down on the head of the crystal. It was untouched after the blow, but had sunk deep into the metal sheet. Terra handed him another, and Smithy repeated his process. He did it again and again until there were no more crystals.
"Go get more of these, right now," Smithy commanded Terra. He immediately walked off in the direction from where he'd come from.
Several weeks later their project was complete. Techna stood two feet higher than Bowser had, weighing over twice as much him. His forearm was like a giant bar and connecting to it was a bigger metal polygon-shaped arm. The hands were the same with the large claws as one-sided mini-blades, but on the back of his hands were three foot-long slightly curved spikes. His head looked almost exactly the same except for the twisted drill-like spikes for horns and the teeth as thick needles; the front two teeth were bent like a snake's and were injected with the most vicious of venom. The shell was of the similar shape to Bowser's, but instead of spikes on each part there were those powerful (And pointy) crystals. The legs were like the arms but bigger, and its underside was made of metal flat bars. His skin was yellow-orange chain mail armor, and his tail was just as described earlier, long, segmented, and thick. When the mouth of Techna opened, two twin narrow guns protruded out of it from the throat. Flame-throwers, no doubt.
"I am pleased with this weapon, are you not?" Smithy said.
"Yes of course," Terra answered, looking at the machine. "Tested yet?"
Smithy grinned, then took a remote control from one of his compartments. He pressed a switch in the center of the remote, causing the robot's eyes to light up in a bright yellow shade. The two geniuses listened as the body hummed to life. Smithy moved a joystick around, making the machine lift its feet and walk around. He demonstrated its firepower first by making Techna open its mouth, making the twin guns extend outward. He pressed another button causing flames to burst out of Techna's mouth by the thousands.
"Very impressive, said Terra, "but have you designed in him an automatic will? It is mandatory in our plan."
"It is not quite necessary yet, " Smithy said. "For now, all we need to worry about is getting out of here. The guard to the dimensional door back to Mushroom Kingdom is very tough, but no doubt Techna will defeat it. Let's go." The two metal geniuses took off in a direction seemingly endless, with Smithy commanding Techna to follow. Its eyes gleamed a devious yellow color the whole time as it followed.
~Luigi~
Whack! the tennis bellowed said as Mario's racket collided with it. The ball shot over the tennis court's net and right past me, as I lunged for it.
"Game, set, and match!" Mario exclaimed. "All right!"
"Gloater…" I thought as I stood up from the ground. "Mario, let's play something different! You've already beat me four times straight!"
"Like what?"
"Uh… golf?"
"No way, I left my clubs at Peach's castle!"
"Oh…" I said, scratching my head as I pondered over what to do. Tennis was too monotonous after four games, but I really didn't have anything to do. Football---nah, never appealed to me for some reason. Soccer---hmmm… Sure, I guess. "You up for some soccer?"
"Oke-doke!" he said, giving me that exasperating smile that I hated. I put my racket up, which was lined with green along its sides and a big "L" in green placed in the center. Mario's was the same, except that he used red and had an "M" painted on the middle of his racket.
As we were exiting our Tennis court I saw someone coming toward us. As the figure came closer, I recognized her as Princess Peach. Immediately Mario called out at her, for she had not seen him, and I joined. She heard us and hurtled at us. "Hi Mario!" she exclaimed as she came closer. "Hi Luigi!" she said afterwards. "What are you boys doing on a beautiful day like this?"
"Hello Peach," Mario greeted, "I was just beatin' Luigi over here for the fourth time today…" He smirked. I grit my teeth and clenched my fist in my pocket. "…And we got bored and started leaving the court when we saw you."
"Oh, what coincidence! I was just coming over here to play a match with you but I see you are leaving now…"
"Well," I said, "we were heading for your castle because we left all our golf clubs in there. We best be heading along now…"
"Oh no, you boys just stay right here! I'll just go and fetch those clubs of yours in a jiffy!" Before either of us could interrupt to offer help she skipped off back the way she came.
After a brief moment of silence, I spoke up. "Hey, Mario, do you remember where you put those clubs anyway?"
"I… believe the last place they were in was in that closet in the guest room. She has a blot of them in HER castle, y'know."
"Would you, perchance, recall whether or not you LOCKED it?"
Mario's eye shot wide open. "Oops…" he said softly.
"You numbskull!" I said, then darted off after Peach. "Why did you lock it?!"
He started to reply, but I was too far away. Mario simply shrugged to himself and shot after the way I went.
~Bowser~
Ah… another day Mario-free. It must have been months now… Months since I've encountered that idiot Mario. Finally I have peace in my kingdom. I won't have to worry about being intimidated by the Italian twerp, because whenever I hear the twerp's done something heroic I tend to get a little mad, and after that I tend to breath fire everywhere, and that tends to tarnish my castle. So I tend to avoid a circumstance such as that.
I was recalling that adventure this particular day when Mario and I bonded in a team with Peach, that big walking puppet, and the frog-thing. Or was he something else? I can't remember anyhow. And then the five of us beat Smithy in his own factory in MY castle. I had been on cordial terms with Mario since then, but not before I invaded Peach's castle again. It was the perfect lure to get a fight with Mario, until he overcame me. I thought I was insuperable, so I tested him again by capturing the star rod. Beat me like that once more, with a little help from those pesky seven stars and that puny one 'Twink'.
But today I wasn't going to attack him. I was planning to lounge in my court in my throne, ordering koopas all day around to serve ME. They weren't very resourceful so they couldn't rebel, but they pampered me like a cat. The perfect creatures, in a weird way, considering they weren't very bright.
Speaking of service, I was getting thirsty. Knowing that there were always koopas outside my door, I shouted, "HEY! Get me a drink, koo-
Before I could finish I heard a loud slamming sound. I heard the feet of my koopas shuffling towards it, and then an abrupt "SMASH!" came. It sounded like a door had been leveled. I made out some slicing noises, but then a lot of screams of agony. It sounded like a fight was erupting. There was a weird mechanical sound, like some robot's metal footsteps. Suddenly all the slashing noises faded away, then the metal footsteps came closer and closer.
I sprang from my throne and approached the door out. As I reached for the handle, a powerful ramming vibration shook me. I stepped back in fear, a sense I hated because it de-prided me.
Suddenly claws pierced through the door. This was odd because the door was metal. More specifically, it was steel-coated, garnished with diamonds. So it was impossible to break through. Too late for that though; now the claws were bursting through several areas on the face of the door. After many holes were bored in the door, a ramming from whatever was behind it knocked the thing down, shattering it to pieces.
What I saw filled my heart with apprehension. In front of me stood something big---about two feet bigger than I was---with glistening yellow luminescent eyes that struck me with utter horror. Worse was the fact that it somewhat resembled me. How insulting. But worst of all was what the thing was: a ROBOT. A machine. An android. Whatever you want to cal it, it was mechanical. The thing looked at my stilly in the eye with a frightening glare, one that made me stop in my tracks too.
Whatever it was, it was sure horrible-looking. It had yellow chain mail armor covering everything around its body except for the back, stomach, and limbs (Including a segmented, dull yellow tail). Its head was polygon shaped, with two twisted horns near the middle of the cranium. It had big, foot and a half long spikes on the back of its hands that were curved around like the claws were. The claws on its hands and feet were narrow but like pocketknives. The shell---or what looked like a shell like a koopa's or mine---had these weird red jagged spikes on the back of it, which was polygon-like in shape. His arms and legs' upper part was like a large yellow bar, and the lower part of the limb was thick with four sides and a gigantic elbow/knee. It was almost shaped like… me…
Then I heard some beeping sounds penetrate from its head. I couldn't make out what it was doing, until I heard 'Target confirmed' come from the thing. I immediately knew it was to attack, and I began to move away to avoid some attack, but not before the machine lifted its jaw, revealing a line a finely sharp teeth, and as the mouth widened two cannons about an inch thick and circular extended from its throat. Before I could react flames spouted out of the guns like a flame-thrower and seared at my skin. It burned like mad, and I fell to the ground in torment.
After what felt like a coma for several minutes, I stood up. There was that mechanical Bowser, in the exact position from the minutes past. "What… What are you?!" I asked despairingly after pulling myself to my feet, not knowing whether to be mad or seriously scared.
After a brief silence, the robot said in a vibrating, dull, mechanical tone, "I am Techna. Bowser relation." Then he glared at me weirdly like he was scanning me. "Bowser. You are Bowser. You are THE Bowser."
I stood up fully. Extending my claws, I slowly stepped closer to the metal beast. "What do you want?"
After another short noiseless motionless period, he spoke up again. "You are Bowser. Bowser must be terminated."
Uh oh.
I lunged at Techna, the metal me, bearing my claws as far out as possible, trying to hit him so he wouldn't kill me. Instead of attacking he turned his iron body around, positioning crystal-like red spikes directly at me. Unable to stop, I flew into his back, where I was gouged like a beaten soldier. Injured badly, I clumped to the ground. Before I went unconscious again, I glanced up at him. Suddenly the red quartz-shaped spikes began to radiate, then laser beams, monstrously giant at that, shot from the tips of the spikes. They darted down towards me, burning my skin like the fire. Before I blacked out again, I saw him reach for me. Then I went blank.
After my mind was blank for a couple hours, I heard cold footsteps and an evil coughing laugh. I tried to open my eyelids, but they wouldn't budge. I was too weak from the preceding battle. All my strength was drained. But after a minute of concentrating, I came to.
I was out on a high balcony of my fortress. I don't know how I got here because I went unconscious in the assault that thing---I think he said his name was Techna, but I'm not sure---did on me. Apparently he carried me up here. Instantly I realized why I couldn't move; because ropes were tied around my entire body. I leaned my head around and saw a red cylinder- shaped red object tied to my back. The ropes encircled me and the cylinder thing all in one round tie. I was tied halfway up the thing and could see little rockets below and above me. I was bewildered about what it was and what was going on until someone walked out of the door onto the balcony. After a quick scrutinizing I concluded that he was Smithy.
"You!" I exclaimed as my eyes fell upon him.
"Ah, I see you haven't forgotten our last encounter, hm?" Smithy grinned dementedly and then called out, "Terra!"
A small mechanical koopa appeared out of the castle's door. It slowly walked to Smithy as if he was his master. "Terra?" I said, puzzled altogether, "how could you still be here?! I remember specifically destroying a cohort of Smithy's bearing your name!" I tore my head back up at smithy's level. "And you!" I yelled. "Mind explaining how YOU came back here before I pound you to death?!" I said, struggling with the ropes but unable to get any looser.
"Ever been to hell?" Smithy said wickedly.
"No, 'cause I've never been as vile as you, you metal freak!"
Instead of being taken aback by the insult, Smithy continued. "In hell there is a portal leading back to life. By creating Techna I was able to fall the guardian of the portal and bring myself and my loyal servant, Terra," Smithy said, pointing to his metal koopa, "and wreak all the havoc we want. I assume you have already met Techna, yes?"
Of course, how could I not have? He mutilated me, scarred me for life everywhere, and burned me hours before now. As I thought on, suddenly the wall besides the balcony burst over. Out of the giant hole just formed in the façade came Techna, the walking metal me. His eyes shone like before, intimidating me as had happened retro now, a shining so demonic that I shut my eyes upon eye contact.
"I thought so," Smithy muttered. "Techna was SUPPOSED to ambush you…" Smithy stated, shooting a reprimanding glare at Techna, "…but Techna had to kill your guards to get to you, arousing attention. Unfortunately you were awake when he attacked, and therefore you know too much."
"Yeah? And what can YOU do about it?" I retorted. "I can just cut myself loose and smack the living heck out of you!"
"Not exactly," Smithy smirked, "you are currently tied to a remarkably enormous rocket, equipped with super-boosters that will make you fly at hypersonic speed into the air and back down again, causing you to inevitably perish."
My heart sank at that moment. I was about to be shot up in the air, causing nausea, which I really, really hate, and fall down again and die. What a horrible fate. I thought I would partake in a day full of relaxation, instead I was in vice-versa. Smithy lit a match on one of his fingers and held it up to a rope hanging out of the bottom of the rocket. The fire gradually ate up the rope. Old cartoon antics; you never get tired of them until you are about to die.
"Any last words?" Smithy asked sarcastically.
"Just two. I swear that if even one of your dirty men places a foot on my castle, I will pound your ugly steel carcass so bad that it will bleed."
"You won't live too see when that even happens," Smithy said, grinning atrociously, then he, Terra, and Techna stepped back several feet to allow safe boosting. The flame disappeared inside the cylinder-shaped rocket, then explosions erupted out of the underside of the thing and I was propelled up. The last thing I saw before I was completely out of sight of the castle of mine was a one of yellow eyes, glinting as maniacally as every encounter thus far.
Author's note: How'd you like it? Feel free to flame if necessary. Oh, and just in case you are wondering, Techna is my original character. He is not from any Mario game I know of, and I don't believe there are any fanfics featuring a mechanical Bowser other than this. Oh, and remember to review!
