Peach approached her castle. Not a cloud in the sky, such a placid day.
The sun gleamed brightly, but not discomfortingly. The princess slowly
trotted over the moat bridge and nudged open the door.
To her surprise, the grand castle entrance door was not locked. "The toads must have unlocked it for me," Peach figured, "what nice little creatures!" Then she crept into the main room.
The main room, like in "Super Mario 64", had a balcony that stood up ten to fifteen feet above the regular floor. On it was a big door with a star painted in the center. Peach climbed slowly up the steps onto the balcony, and gingerly placed a key in the keyhole. It turned with ease because the door as already unlocked, and Peach withdrew her key in wonder just like when she opened the grand entrance door. Still slightly puzzled, the princess made her way into a room entirely covered by a spiral staircase. She climbed up and to another door. Before putting in the key, she pushed the door, suspecting that if the others were unlocked this one was too. Sure enough, it slung wide open, and Peach continued moving through the castle.
She was now in a ring-shaped room with portraits hung all around. They were solid now, and did not lead to alternate dimensions or places. After walking halfway around the room she came to a diagonal stairway, which she went up like before and passed through the door, unlocked like every one she'd gone through.
She came to the room with the clock portrait, the rainbow sky portrait, and the never-ending staircase. Also, there was a miniature door marked "Guest room hall", which she entered upon sight of it.
Inside there, there was a endless hall with doors marked "guest room" lined on each side. Peach entered one seemingly randomly, which was unlocked as well.
It was dark in the room, almost black she couldn't see very well. It was the guestroom Mario had slept in last time he visited the castle, and she knew it contained Mario and Luigi's clubs. Peach couldn't find a switch to activate a light, so she felt around to see where she was.
The first thing she noticed when she entered the room was that beyond a guest bed darkened by the lack of light were two enormous, gleaming yellow eyes. They were about a foot apart, and seemed to be looking at Peach. She thought, "They must be a pair of nightlights of Mario's. He always did have trouble getting to sleep after Bowser fought him the original time." The princess giggled, then continued searching and feeling around the room, thinking, "I best not mind them, thought they are quite spooky."
Peach went on scavenging throughout the room, searching from underneath beds to inside the smallest compartments. Finally she found a closet door shut tight, likely locked. Peach yanked at it with all her might, but it didn't even budge. The doorknob wouldn't even shudder. "My, I think Mario locked it on purpose!" Peach thought jokingly, twisting the knob as hard as possible and trying to find a key in her pockets. She found none, and, as you guessed, was no closer to opening the door.
Suddenly the princess halted. She heard something moving within the boundaries of the room, an eerie noise that ran chills down her spine instantaneously. It was some sort of steamy mechanical sound that gradually approached her. Peach knew something was behind her, but couldn't turn around for sake of sheer apprehension. Suddenly something nabbed her. She was petrified with shock, and although she struggled, she couldn't escape the two huge metal cold arms clutched around her body. In only a few seconds she was suddenly knocked out due to the tightness of the grip.
~Techna~ (You'll notice he talks to himself in 2nd person)
Capture the princess. Achieved. Lock her in closet. Destroy closet door. Accomplished. Put princess in. Achieved. Walk to the door. Ambush Mario, Luigi. Complete mission? Undone. Preparing for combat… Beep… Beep…Beep…
~Mario~
My green brother and I rushed to Princess Peach's castle. If my suspicions were correct, Peach was currently trying to find my golf clubs, assuming that she assumed that since the closet was locked nothing was in it. I was also worried that, because he had not attacked in over a month, Bowser was planning to kidnap her when he got the chance. I knew him. He was going to wait for the ideal opportunity and then strike.
We came to the castle, Luigi and I. The main door was unlocked; Peach had already arrived. We went in, going up the balcony and into a wooden door with a star painted on it. There was a large staircase, spiral in shape, which we ran up. Entering a door at the end, we ended up in a round hall with pictures hung all around it. After going halfway around the place, we saw another stairway. We quickly chased up it.
About a third up the stairs I saw a dark figure. The castle was completely unlighted, so I couldn't make out who or what was there. Then I saw it step. As it moved closer, I could see its size: about twelve feet in height. It made a metallic engine sound when it walked down. Soon, after coming within a four foot range of me, I could see (Or so I think) who it was.
"Bowser…?!" I whispered aloud. "What have you done to Peach?!" I exclaimed, knowing he definitely had kidnapped her.
"Yeah!" Luigi agreed, "where's the princess, you slime?!"
Bowser stood still a brief moment, then spoke up, in a dull, vibrating tone, "Peach is not here. Access to her whereabouts denied." Then he observed us motionlessly for a second. "You are Mario. You are Luigi. You are Mario and Luigi. You are THE Mario and Luigi. You must be terminated." Man, Bowser seriously had a vocal problem. I also noticed he looked different… his horns were deranged, his hand had three foot-long spikes in them (Maybe that was just an enhancement weapon he wore over his wrist, but I'm don't know), and his scales were porous, more even so than before.
"Give us Peach!" Luigi suddenly yelled before I could swear at Bowser.
"Access to her whereabouts denied," Bowser said again. His eyes gleamed yellow, even though that wasn't his eye color.
"That's IT!" I exclaimed, "that was the last straw, you vermin! Prepare to die!" I instantly held my hands above my head flatly, connecting them at the wrist. A small orb of fire started forming, and it grew quickly, soon becoming two feet in diameter. I hurled it at Bowser, making a direct hit on his head.
After the smoke cleared, I was astonished. There was Bowser, standing perfectly unharmed. He seemed infallible, the way he was standing, and the fact that he was unmoved, by even an inch, was overwhelming.
Luigi repeated my process. He saw no reason not to attack; Bowser was standing absolutely still, perpetually motionless, and if this didn't kill him he was apt to be already dead, considering his lack of any movement. Same repercussion: Bowser was untouched.
I didn't know what he had done to Peach; for all I care, she could be being tickled to death. But now I was a little concerned about myself. I stepped back a tiny bit, hoping Bowser wouldn't detect my movements, but I was wrong. Instantly he was wrestling Luigi and I, trying to keep us down, and it was working. I couldn't lift even a finger due to the weight. All of a sudden something hard as metal conked me on the head and I went black.
I regained my senses abruptly. My eyes wouldn't open for a minute, so all I could tell was that it was hot. And bright, because although I couldn't see temporarily, the light protruded through my eyelids.
My eyes shot open. The heat and brightness was because I was outside, more specifically outside on the roof of the castle, more specifically outside on the roof of the castle, with my collar clasped in Bowser's left hand. Luigi was in the opposite hand also hanging by the back of his shirt, kicking rampantly with no success whatsoever. I was inclined to do so as well, though seeing it was futile, and with the same outcome: nothing. Eventually I was sweating I had wasted so much energy, and Bowser hadn't even had his arm shuddered.
Abruptly he pulled both of us over his head and heaved forward mightily. It sent us high up in the sky, screaming like heck (At this point in time I really didn't care about admitting I'm a wuss when it comes to heights, right now I was interested in the undeniable fact that that ground and I were coming at each other at a good, decent ninety mph), until of course we hit the hard earth with a terra-shifting "CRRRAAAAASSSSSSHHHHHHHH!"
I stood up with Luigi seconds later, recovering from the hit easily. We had landed over a hundred yards from the façade of the castle. As soon as I regained my full sense I remembered how Bowser had thrown us, and immediately ran to the main door. It was locked.
I pushed as hard as I could against the side of the door, but it was locked solid. Eventually, after giving up, I said to Luigi, "It's no use. We don't have enough power to get in, and Bowser has probably sealed all the windows and legitimate entrances! Do you have any ideas?"
Luigi and I pondered for a moment. Suddenly Luigi's face brightened, and he said, "I know! Remember when we visited Peach in Marrymore?"
"Yeah, so?"
"Well, when we came, she said she lost a key in the church! I don't recall her ever finding it, so it must be there! All the keys for the doors of the castle are the same, so she only carries around one type of key, which must have been the one she misplaced!"
I thought over the material that he just presented, then smiled with glee as I realized it was a perfect plan. "That's genius, Luigi! C'mon, let's leave right now!"
"Wait," he ordered, "shouldn't we at least try to find an alternate solution that would save time?"
"Nah, we don't have the time. Now let's go!" Luigi shrugged, but de- continued his attempt at dissuasion and followed me as I ran out Peach's castle range. Of course, it wouldn't be easy getting to Marrymore, but it was doable.
~Bowser~
Everything was dark. I couldn't remember exactly what had just happened; my brain was hurt too much. My ears were messed up and the sounds around me were muffled or mixed together. My eyelids were literally glued together, and a lack of energy prevented me from sitting up. I couldn't feel half my body. When Techna had attacked, I was injured badly enough, but since I collided with the ground at tremendous speed I hurt even worse. A LOT worse. I was next to death, If not already there or falling towards it.
After a while of thinking and trying to move and reactivate my body, I gathered at last enough energy to open my eyes. I was numb all over so I couldn't tell whether or not I had landed on something sharp or some freakish arthropod was stinging me to death, but I saw that I was in a forest. Either the former or the latter of the two possible pains were indeed liable to happen in a forest. But that wasn't my biggest worry. My biggest was if I could gather enough might to stand up before I fell subconscious again and died of exhaustion.
I did. I finally harnessed power to at the least pull up my right arm, the one with the fewest wounds. I pushed up from the ground on it as hard as conceivable until I finally stood up on both legs again. It felt good.
Technically, it didn't feel good; the previous comment was an expression. Truthfully, I felt like I was burning in hell. The numbness had worn off, so all the cuts and scars (To be) and wounds and slashed limbs hurt like lava searing at skin.
But I was all right. Broken ribs, a few limbs broken, but my brain could figure and I could think, plus I wasn't bleeding to death (Note: 'to death'. Doesn't necessarily mean he wasn't bleeding).
I moved painfully to the edge of the woods. I could see houses, many of them, so I'd reason to suspect I had landed near a municipality. I walked slowly, plus that wasted energy, so I crawled there instead. It was actually faster.
At the end of the forest, I thought that maybe I could manage another few steps. I came to full size and stepped out of the forest's end, seeing a church with a few houses around, perhaps a village? No, it was bigger than that. Probably a town. My math was shabby, but considering the rocket power in miniature boosters attached to one large four feet diameter rocket, I would estimate landing hundreds of miles out of central Mushroom Kingdom. That would mean I was in a forest, and the only forest this far away from central Mushroom Kingdom was…
I glanced quickly around. No doubt. It was Marrymore.
~Back to 3rd Person~
Smithy peered from a keep high above the surface of the ground. Just as he and Terra were in a conversational, Techna arrived. "Did you get them?" Smithy asked as they came.
"Mission completed," Techna replied.
"Well done. The remote was not even needed this time; the auto-will was excellent, don't you think so, Terra?" Smithy asked with a fat grin
"Yes it was," the little metal koopa answered. "But I have just calculated some unfortunate news. If my calculations are correct, Bowser lies somewhere in a forest about a hundred miles from here. The rockets went slower than expected, and not enough momentum was built. Bowser is alive still."
Smithy's fat grin faded a bit. "What do you mean, Terra?"
"Bowser lies somewhere within the proximity of Marrymore, more or less."
"Any suggestions?"
"My advice is to deploy Techna at him. Techna has proven to be a match for Bowser, and he has jet boosters injected into the hind leg cavities. He can easily hover 528,000 feet to Bowser and defeat him."
Smithy thought a moment. Then he said abruptly, "Techna!"
The robot swerved its head around.
"Go to Marrymore and annihilate Bowser! Come back with his head; I want to be sure he's dead."
The steel hulk turned back around, facing the front of Bowser's fortress. Suddenly his legs popped into his shell. Before he toppled to the ground due to no balance, small rockets appeared out the two leg holes and started up. The boosting flames kicked against the ground, and Techna began aerially moving to his target in Marrymore.
To her surprise, the grand castle entrance door was not locked. "The toads must have unlocked it for me," Peach figured, "what nice little creatures!" Then she crept into the main room.
The main room, like in "Super Mario 64", had a balcony that stood up ten to fifteen feet above the regular floor. On it was a big door with a star painted in the center. Peach climbed slowly up the steps onto the balcony, and gingerly placed a key in the keyhole. It turned with ease because the door as already unlocked, and Peach withdrew her key in wonder just like when she opened the grand entrance door. Still slightly puzzled, the princess made her way into a room entirely covered by a spiral staircase. She climbed up and to another door. Before putting in the key, she pushed the door, suspecting that if the others were unlocked this one was too. Sure enough, it slung wide open, and Peach continued moving through the castle.
She was now in a ring-shaped room with portraits hung all around. They were solid now, and did not lead to alternate dimensions or places. After walking halfway around the room she came to a diagonal stairway, which she went up like before and passed through the door, unlocked like every one she'd gone through.
She came to the room with the clock portrait, the rainbow sky portrait, and the never-ending staircase. Also, there was a miniature door marked "Guest room hall", which she entered upon sight of it.
Inside there, there was a endless hall with doors marked "guest room" lined on each side. Peach entered one seemingly randomly, which was unlocked as well.
It was dark in the room, almost black she couldn't see very well. It was the guestroom Mario had slept in last time he visited the castle, and she knew it contained Mario and Luigi's clubs. Peach couldn't find a switch to activate a light, so she felt around to see where she was.
The first thing she noticed when she entered the room was that beyond a guest bed darkened by the lack of light were two enormous, gleaming yellow eyes. They were about a foot apart, and seemed to be looking at Peach. She thought, "They must be a pair of nightlights of Mario's. He always did have trouble getting to sleep after Bowser fought him the original time." The princess giggled, then continued searching and feeling around the room, thinking, "I best not mind them, thought they are quite spooky."
Peach went on scavenging throughout the room, searching from underneath beds to inside the smallest compartments. Finally she found a closet door shut tight, likely locked. Peach yanked at it with all her might, but it didn't even budge. The doorknob wouldn't even shudder. "My, I think Mario locked it on purpose!" Peach thought jokingly, twisting the knob as hard as possible and trying to find a key in her pockets. She found none, and, as you guessed, was no closer to opening the door.
Suddenly the princess halted. She heard something moving within the boundaries of the room, an eerie noise that ran chills down her spine instantaneously. It was some sort of steamy mechanical sound that gradually approached her. Peach knew something was behind her, but couldn't turn around for sake of sheer apprehension. Suddenly something nabbed her. She was petrified with shock, and although she struggled, she couldn't escape the two huge metal cold arms clutched around her body. In only a few seconds she was suddenly knocked out due to the tightness of the grip.
~Techna~ (You'll notice he talks to himself in 2nd person)
Capture the princess. Achieved. Lock her in closet. Destroy closet door. Accomplished. Put princess in. Achieved. Walk to the door. Ambush Mario, Luigi. Complete mission? Undone. Preparing for combat… Beep… Beep…Beep…
~Mario~
My green brother and I rushed to Princess Peach's castle. If my suspicions were correct, Peach was currently trying to find my golf clubs, assuming that she assumed that since the closet was locked nothing was in it. I was also worried that, because he had not attacked in over a month, Bowser was planning to kidnap her when he got the chance. I knew him. He was going to wait for the ideal opportunity and then strike.
We came to the castle, Luigi and I. The main door was unlocked; Peach had already arrived. We went in, going up the balcony and into a wooden door with a star painted on it. There was a large staircase, spiral in shape, which we ran up. Entering a door at the end, we ended up in a round hall with pictures hung all around it. After going halfway around the place, we saw another stairway. We quickly chased up it.
About a third up the stairs I saw a dark figure. The castle was completely unlighted, so I couldn't make out who or what was there. Then I saw it step. As it moved closer, I could see its size: about twelve feet in height. It made a metallic engine sound when it walked down. Soon, after coming within a four foot range of me, I could see (Or so I think) who it was.
"Bowser…?!" I whispered aloud. "What have you done to Peach?!" I exclaimed, knowing he definitely had kidnapped her.
"Yeah!" Luigi agreed, "where's the princess, you slime?!"
Bowser stood still a brief moment, then spoke up, in a dull, vibrating tone, "Peach is not here. Access to her whereabouts denied." Then he observed us motionlessly for a second. "You are Mario. You are Luigi. You are Mario and Luigi. You are THE Mario and Luigi. You must be terminated." Man, Bowser seriously had a vocal problem. I also noticed he looked different… his horns were deranged, his hand had three foot-long spikes in them (Maybe that was just an enhancement weapon he wore over his wrist, but I'm don't know), and his scales were porous, more even so than before.
"Give us Peach!" Luigi suddenly yelled before I could swear at Bowser.
"Access to her whereabouts denied," Bowser said again. His eyes gleamed yellow, even though that wasn't his eye color.
"That's IT!" I exclaimed, "that was the last straw, you vermin! Prepare to die!" I instantly held my hands above my head flatly, connecting them at the wrist. A small orb of fire started forming, and it grew quickly, soon becoming two feet in diameter. I hurled it at Bowser, making a direct hit on his head.
After the smoke cleared, I was astonished. There was Bowser, standing perfectly unharmed. He seemed infallible, the way he was standing, and the fact that he was unmoved, by even an inch, was overwhelming.
Luigi repeated my process. He saw no reason not to attack; Bowser was standing absolutely still, perpetually motionless, and if this didn't kill him he was apt to be already dead, considering his lack of any movement. Same repercussion: Bowser was untouched.
I didn't know what he had done to Peach; for all I care, she could be being tickled to death. But now I was a little concerned about myself. I stepped back a tiny bit, hoping Bowser wouldn't detect my movements, but I was wrong. Instantly he was wrestling Luigi and I, trying to keep us down, and it was working. I couldn't lift even a finger due to the weight. All of a sudden something hard as metal conked me on the head and I went black.
I regained my senses abruptly. My eyes wouldn't open for a minute, so all I could tell was that it was hot. And bright, because although I couldn't see temporarily, the light protruded through my eyelids.
My eyes shot open. The heat and brightness was because I was outside, more specifically outside on the roof of the castle, more specifically outside on the roof of the castle, with my collar clasped in Bowser's left hand. Luigi was in the opposite hand also hanging by the back of his shirt, kicking rampantly with no success whatsoever. I was inclined to do so as well, though seeing it was futile, and with the same outcome: nothing. Eventually I was sweating I had wasted so much energy, and Bowser hadn't even had his arm shuddered.
Abruptly he pulled both of us over his head and heaved forward mightily. It sent us high up in the sky, screaming like heck (At this point in time I really didn't care about admitting I'm a wuss when it comes to heights, right now I was interested in the undeniable fact that that ground and I were coming at each other at a good, decent ninety mph), until of course we hit the hard earth with a terra-shifting "CRRRAAAAASSSSSSHHHHHHHH!"
I stood up with Luigi seconds later, recovering from the hit easily. We had landed over a hundred yards from the façade of the castle. As soon as I regained my full sense I remembered how Bowser had thrown us, and immediately ran to the main door. It was locked.
I pushed as hard as I could against the side of the door, but it was locked solid. Eventually, after giving up, I said to Luigi, "It's no use. We don't have enough power to get in, and Bowser has probably sealed all the windows and legitimate entrances! Do you have any ideas?"
Luigi and I pondered for a moment. Suddenly Luigi's face brightened, and he said, "I know! Remember when we visited Peach in Marrymore?"
"Yeah, so?"
"Well, when we came, she said she lost a key in the church! I don't recall her ever finding it, so it must be there! All the keys for the doors of the castle are the same, so she only carries around one type of key, which must have been the one she misplaced!"
I thought over the material that he just presented, then smiled with glee as I realized it was a perfect plan. "That's genius, Luigi! C'mon, let's leave right now!"
"Wait," he ordered, "shouldn't we at least try to find an alternate solution that would save time?"
"Nah, we don't have the time. Now let's go!" Luigi shrugged, but de- continued his attempt at dissuasion and followed me as I ran out Peach's castle range. Of course, it wouldn't be easy getting to Marrymore, but it was doable.
~Bowser~
Everything was dark. I couldn't remember exactly what had just happened; my brain was hurt too much. My ears were messed up and the sounds around me were muffled or mixed together. My eyelids were literally glued together, and a lack of energy prevented me from sitting up. I couldn't feel half my body. When Techna had attacked, I was injured badly enough, but since I collided with the ground at tremendous speed I hurt even worse. A LOT worse. I was next to death, If not already there or falling towards it.
After a while of thinking and trying to move and reactivate my body, I gathered at last enough energy to open my eyes. I was numb all over so I couldn't tell whether or not I had landed on something sharp or some freakish arthropod was stinging me to death, but I saw that I was in a forest. Either the former or the latter of the two possible pains were indeed liable to happen in a forest. But that wasn't my biggest worry. My biggest was if I could gather enough might to stand up before I fell subconscious again and died of exhaustion.
I did. I finally harnessed power to at the least pull up my right arm, the one with the fewest wounds. I pushed up from the ground on it as hard as conceivable until I finally stood up on both legs again. It felt good.
Technically, it didn't feel good; the previous comment was an expression. Truthfully, I felt like I was burning in hell. The numbness had worn off, so all the cuts and scars (To be) and wounds and slashed limbs hurt like lava searing at skin.
But I was all right. Broken ribs, a few limbs broken, but my brain could figure and I could think, plus I wasn't bleeding to death (Note: 'to death'. Doesn't necessarily mean he wasn't bleeding).
I moved painfully to the edge of the woods. I could see houses, many of them, so I'd reason to suspect I had landed near a municipality. I walked slowly, plus that wasted energy, so I crawled there instead. It was actually faster.
At the end of the forest, I thought that maybe I could manage another few steps. I came to full size and stepped out of the forest's end, seeing a church with a few houses around, perhaps a village? No, it was bigger than that. Probably a town. My math was shabby, but considering the rocket power in miniature boosters attached to one large four feet diameter rocket, I would estimate landing hundreds of miles out of central Mushroom Kingdom. That would mean I was in a forest, and the only forest this far away from central Mushroom Kingdom was…
I glanced quickly around. No doubt. It was Marrymore.
~Back to 3rd Person~
Smithy peered from a keep high above the surface of the ground. Just as he and Terra were in a conversational, Techna arrived. "Did you get them?" Smithy asked as they came.
"Mission completed," Techna replied.
"Well done. The remote was not even needed this time; the auto-will was excellent, don't you think so, Terra?" Smithy asked with a fat grin
"Yes it was," the little metal koopa answered. "But I have just calculated some unfortunate news. If my calculations are correct, Bowser lies somewhere in a forest about a hundred miles from here. The rockets went slower than expected, and not enough momentum was built. Bowser is alive still."
Smithy's fat grin faded a bit. "What do you mean, Terra?"
"Bowser lies somewhere within the proximity of Marrymore, more or less."
"Any suggestions?"
"My advice is to deploy Techna at him. Techna has proven to be a match for Bowser, and he has jet boosters injected into the hind leg cavities. He can easily hover 528,000 feet to Bowser and defeat him."
Smithy thought a moment. Then he said abruptly, "Techna!"
The robot swerved its head around.
"Go to Marrymore and annihilate Bowser! Come back with his head; I want to be sure he's dead."
The steel hulk turned back around, facing the front of Bowser's fortress. Suddenly his legs popped into his shell. Before he toppled to the ground due to no balance, small rockets appeared out the two leg holes and started up. The boosting flames kicked against the ground, and Techna began aerially moving to his target in Marrymore.
