The speeder pulled to a stop in front of the Hyrulian Tavern. Mario and the rest all stepped out and headed into the tavern. Ness and Kirby, very frightened by the looks of the people going into the bar, decided to wait outside. Mario meanwhile sat down on a barstool and ordered his drink. Toad on the other hand had taken an interest in talking to one of the men sitting next to him.
A hand gripped Mario's shoulder and spun him around on the stool. "I don't like the looks of you", snarled the knight clad in armor that was standing there. "And things don't end well for the people I don't like. I sure hope you got life insurance buddy…" He unsheathed his sword and swung it down at Mario, as Mario flinched and turned away. He heard and loud swish, a scream, and then silence. He spun around and saw Toad standing there and the knight on the floor, cut in two.
"You should be careful in this place", said Toad, "It's full of knights and guards like that. They're forces of Ganondorf, the dark lord who's working with the Villain Empire. You're lucky that I was here with my trusty beam sword." He showed Mario the blue beam sword that he was holding, with a big grin on his face.
"Isn't that a rip-off of the light sabers from Star Wars?", asked Mario.
"This whole story is a rip-off of Star Wars", explained Toad. "If either Nintendo or Lucas Films got their hands on this, Q-bot would have about 5 billion lawsuits piled up against him. They'd strip him of every penny he had and then probably beat him with a rusty shovel."
"Oh", said Mario, nodding in agreement and smiling at the thought of Q-bot being beaten with a rusty shovel.
"But getting back on topic", Toad explained, "This man here is a first mate on a ship that might be able to take us to the Bowser Castle." He pointed to the man that he had been talking with earlier. "His name is Link and he says that he is good friends with the captain of the ship that he has told me about." Link signaled for them to follow him, and led them to a table where a tall, skinny man with a green shirt, blue suspenders, a green hat with an L on it, and a mustache similar to that of Mario's, was waiting for them.
"L-L-Luigi!!!", stammered Mario, staring at Luigi in disbelief.
"Mario?", asked Luigi staring right back at Mario, "Is that you? It is! It is! I can't believe it. What a small world! I haven't seen you since before you became a tenant in that rundown old farm. What brings you all the way out here? Come and sit down. Let me get you something to drink!"
"You know him!", sputtered a completely flabbergasted Toad.
"Know him?", exclaimed Mario, "Of course I know him. He's my twin brother." Toad just stared at him completely bewildered, so Mario added, "You see we went our separate ways some years ago. We used to be inseparable. But then one day I decided that I wanted to rent a room in that farm but Luigi decided that he wanted to pursue his career as a neurosurgeon. Well I guess that never worked out, because here he is now, flying people around along with some weird guy in a green elfish hat and a one-piece dress.
"It's not a dress", scowled Link, "It's the custom attire for my people of Hyrule. It's a perfectly normal and perfectly manly tunic."
"Sure it is", snickered Mario sarcastically, nodding his head in feigned agreement. He then coughed in an attempt to cover up the word "Queer", but Link heard it and lunged at Mario with his sword.
"Hey, Hey, Break it up you two", commanded Toad as he stepped between Mario and Link before any damage could be done. "If we are to defeat the Villain Empire then we must work together, not fight amongst ourselves. Come on we have to overcome our differences and go to rescue Princess Peach like Mario does in all of his video games. You think she'd hire some body guards or something after she was captured for about the zillionth time, but what can I say? She's retarded."
Everyone nodded in agreement and headed out towards Luigi's ship. They stopped on Platform 9 3/4, walked past the Hogwarts Express, and stopped in front of the giant spaceship, The Centennial Eagle. "It's a good thing that the Centennial Eagle doesn't sound anything like 'Millennium Falcon'", Luigi pointed out, "Or else Q-bot would have ripped off Star Wars for the 500th time within these last couple of paragraphs." Everyone nodded in agreement because Centennial Eagle definitely DOES NOT sound like Millennium Falcon so don't any of you dare think about suing me.
After Luigi had seen everyone onboard he turned to walk into the ship himself when he suddenly heard some gun blasts. He turned around and saw five Koopa Troopers standing there, firing at him. But luckily for him the Koopas have the combat skills of alfalfa, so he made it onto the ship after felling his five enemies. He ran on board, fired up the engine, and took off as quickly as possible.
As the rest sat in the back, Link and Luigi sat at the controls, speeding away form the dreaded Hyrulian Planet. As they sped through space, Link noticed an odd looking shape on the radar screen. "What's this?"' he asked pointing at the screen where the strange dot grew bigger and bigger. Luigi looked at it with confusion at first, but then a look a panic overtook his face.
"Pull Back", he screamed, "Turn around right now." He spun the steering mechanism away from the shape which was now right in front of the ship and appeared to be the Bowser Castle. But at this point it was too late and despite their efforts the ship continued to gradually drift towards the floating castle "It's some devilry cast upon the castle by a Koopa Wizard. It's sucking us towards the castle. Quick Link, go and alert the passengers. I don't think that we're going to be getting a warm welcome."
Link ran to the back of the ship and quickly returned, followed by Mario, Toad, Ness, and Kirby.
"What's going on?", screamed Toad as the ship rocked as a plane going through turbulence would.
"We're being pulled into the castle by some sort of magic performed by the Koopa Wizards", responded Luigi. "We're gonna land right on top of the castle on the docking bay. I'm sure that they're gonna be sending troops up so everybody hide quickly. I'll take care of landing the plane safely and then I'll come and join you." Everyone ran off to hide in the storage room as Luigi steered the ship into a safe landing and sure enough, as soon as the ship touched down, Koopa Troopers swarmed around it. Luigi then ran off to join the rest in the storage room.
The Koopas boarded the ship as it landed and they spread out to search for the inhabitants. As they were searching Toad suddenly felt an itch under his nose and he let out a great big sneeze.
"I heard something from in here", yelled one of the Koopa Troopers. Everyone c'mere". The group inside the storage heard footsteps running towards them. The door suddenly burst open and a bunch of Koopa's with green protective armor and giant guns burst into the room.
"Surprise", yelled Toad as he lunged towards the Koopa's with his beam sword in hand. He lunged at the troopers and slashed the first ones head off. He then deflected the Trooper's shots right back at them, hitting them and knocking them off, one by one. He then took the green protective armor suit that was covering them.
"Here, put this on", he commanded, throwing the suits to everyone present. "Put these on and we should be able to slip by unnoticed." He slipped one on himself, and led everyone else out of the ship and down to the Docking Bay where a Koopa Captain was waiting. "We haven't found anything sir", said Toad, trying to imitate the voice of a Koopa. The occupants appear to have abandoned ship after they were caught in our magic force field. We didn't even find any cargo or shipment on board. This was just a ship caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and the crew got scared when they were sucked towards our castle and they abandoned ship."
"Very well then", replied the Koopa Captain. "Carry on." He watched as the six "Koopa Troopers" walked away back towards the Headquarters. They walked into the nearest room, closed the doors, and removed their helmets.
"We're lucky that we got through that", replied Toad when he was sure that they were out of earshot. "But it's not over yet. We still have to locate the Princess. Ness we need you to break into the computer mainframe and figure out where the Princess is being kept. Then we can rescue her and get the hell out of here." Ness nodded and ran to the nearest computer where he started typing away as Luigi stood guard by the door.
After several minutes of searching on the computer Ness finally yelled out, "I found it. The Princess is being kept in prison cell #5. The prison is located on the left wing of the third story. It's sure to be heavily guarded though so be careful. Hang on a minute….I think I see how they were keeping the force field up. There seems to be some kind of machine on the fourth floor that can harness the Koopa Wizards' power and continually use it to keep the force field standing. The blueprints on here seem to say that every hour the Wizards need to reenergize the machine with their magic. I might be able to shut the machine down from here." He continued to type some more but after another ten minutes he said, "It's no use. All systems are fully operational and very well protected. I would need the password and I've tried everything else. There's no backdoor in to the main system. You guys are gonna need to shut it down by hand. Now Mario, pass your suit's helmet over this ID scanner here."
Mario took his Koopa helmet and waved it over the ID scanner which started to beep. "The rest of you must do it too", Ness instructed, and everyone followed Mario's lead until everyone had passed their helmet over the ID scanner except Ness and Kirby.
"There", said Ness, "Now the computer has it stored in its memory that the soldiers that you are imitating are on lunch break. The computer says that soldiers KP-68, KP-209, KP-606, and KP-3 are on lunch break. You need to memorize your suits ID number in case you are questioned. Kirby and I will stay here with our suits on. However, you only get an hour lunch break. That means that the four of you have to be back here with the machine shut down, the Princess rescued, and be ready to board our ship, or else you'll be caught. There's no more time to waste. GO!!!!!!"
The four Koopa imposters ran out the door and towards the nearest staircase. They had made it all the way up to the third landing before they met anyone else. As they ran off the staircase they saw a Koopa General patrolling the area. He approached them and as he drew near Toad saluted him, and the others followed suit.
"What are you identification numbers?", the General asked them, looking at them suspiciously.
"Are numbers are KP-68, KP-209, KP-606, and I am KP-3", responded Toad. The general took out a small pal pilot like machine and started looking at it.
"Is says here that you are on lunch break", the General said curiously. "Why are you up here on the third floor? Don't you troopers usually head down to the troop center on the first floor? Why are you up here? The only things here are the prison and the Generals Quarters."
"We wish to eat in the prison", responded Toad. "Our business is our own though we will tell you why we head here. Our friend here likes to taunt the prisoners during his free time." He pointed towards Mario. "He's a bit sick in the head, but we always keep him company when he comes down here. Now if you allow us we would like to continue our lunch break." The general looked at them oddly, but turned and walked away.
As they rushed into the prison Mario whispered, "Wow. That was too close. I'm surprised that the general didn't question us more. I didn't expect him to buy the story about me being sick in the head." As they rushed into the prison they were greeted by two guards.
"What is your business down here?", asked one of the guards.
"We wish to have our lunch break down by the prison cells", responded Link.
"What?", the guard replied. "That's definitely not allowed. You four better go back down to the Troop's Center. You're not getting in here."
"Like hell were not", yelled Luigi. He pulled out his blaster and shot the two guards. The second guard stumbled and tripped the alarm before slumping to the ground. Luigi pulled off his helmet and was grinning from ear to ear as he looked at the two guards.
"IMBECILE!!!!!", yelled Toad. "Now the alarm's been set off. The entire Imperial Army is going to be upon us in no time. How do you expect to escape now? And I was supposed to sneak up to the fourth floor to destroy the force field machine. Now that's impossible."
"Go to the fourth floor now", yelled Mario, "Before reinforcements arrive." Toad took off out the door and down the hallway. They watched him as he sped up the stairs, and Mario got a bad feeling in his gut. He didn't think that this was going to end very well.
Luigi ran over to prison cell # 5 and blasted open the lock. He swung open the door and walked into the cell where Peach sat terrified and cowering in a corner. Luigi swept Peach over his shoulder, despite her screams for help, and ran back towards Mario and Link who were now barricading a door with any objects that they could find. As they backed away from the door and looked for an alternate way out, the door suddenly began to shake.
"They're breaking in", screamed Link. "There's no escape. We're doomed."
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A hand gripped Mario's shoulder and spun him around on the stool. "I don't like the looks of you", snarled the knight clad in armor that was standing there. "And things don't end well for the people I don't like. I sure hope you got life insurance buddy…" He unsheathed his sword and swung it down at Mario, as Mario flinched and turned away. He heard and loud swish, a scream, and then silence. He spun around and saw Toad standing there and the knight on the floor, cut in two.
"You should be careful in this place", said Toad, "It's full of knights and guards like that. They're forces of Ganondorf, the dark lord who's working with the Villain Empire. You're lucky that I was here with my trusty beam sword." He showed Mario the blue beam sword that he was holding, with a big grin on his face.
"Isn't that a rip-off of the light sabers from Star Wars?", asked Mario.
"This whole story is a rip-off of Star Wars", explained Toad. "If either Nintendo or Lucas Films got their hands on this, Q-bot would have about 5 billion lawsuits piled up against him. They'd strip him of every penny he had and then probably beat him with a rusty shovel."
"Oh", said Mario, nodding in agreement and smiling at the thought of Q-bot being beaten with a rusty shovel.
"But getting back on topic", Toad explained, "This man here is a first mate on a ship that might be able to take us to the Bowser Castle." He pointed to the man that he had been talking with earlier. "His name is Link and he says that he is good friends with the captain of the ship that he has told me about." Link signaled for them to follow him, and led them to a table where a tall, skinny man with a green shirt, blue suspenders, a green hat with an L on it, and a mustache similar to that of Mario's, was waiting for them.
"L-L-Luigi!!!", stammered Mario, staring at Luigi in disbelief.
"Mario?", asked Luigi staring right back at Mario, "Is that you? It is! It is! I can't believe it. What a small world! I haven't seen you since before you became a tenant in that rundown old farm. What brings you all the way out here? Come and sit down. Let me get you something to drink!"
"You know him!", sputtered a completely flabbergasted Toad.
"Know him?", exclaimed Mario, "Of course I know him. He's my twin brother." Toad just stared at him completely bewildered, so Mario added, "You see we went our separate ways some years ago. We used to be inseparable. But then one day I decided that I wanted to rent a room in that farm but Luigi decided that he wanted to pursue his career as a neurosurgeon. Well I guess that never worked out, because here he is now, flying people around along with some weird guy in a green elfish hat and a one-piece dress.
"It's not a dress", scowled Link, "It's the custom attire for my people of Hyrule. It's a perfectly normal and perfectly manly tunic."
"Sure it is", snickered Mario sarcastically, nodding his head in feigned agreement. He then coughed in an attempt to cover up the word "Queer", but Link heard it and lunged at Mario with his sword.
"Hey, Hey, Break it up you two", commanded Toad as he stepped between Mario and Link before any damage could be done. "If we are to defeat the Villain Empire then we must work together, not fight amongst ourselves. Come on we have to overcome our differences and go to rescue Princess Peach like Mario does in all of his video games. You think she'd hire some body guards or something after she was captured for about the zillionth time, but what can I say? She's retarded."
Everyone nodded in agreement and headed out towards Luigi's ship. They stopped on Platform 9 3/4, walked past the Hogwarts Express, and stopped in front of the giant spaceship, The Centennial Eagle. "It's a good thing that the Centennial Eagle doesn't sound anything like 'Millennium Falcon'", Luigi pointed out, "Or else Q-bot would have ripped off Star Wars for the 500th time within these last couple of paragraphs." Everyone nodded in agreement because Centennial Eagle definitely DOES NOT sound like Millennium Falcon so don't any of you dare think about suing me.
After Luigi had seen everyone onboard he turned to walk into the ship himself when he suddenly heard some gun blasts. He turned around and saw five Koopa Troopers standing there, firing at him. But luckily for him the Koopas have the combat skills of alfalfa, so he made it onto the ship after felling his five enemies. He ran on board, fired up the engine, and took off as quickly as possible.
As the rest sat in the back, Link and Luigi sat at the controls, speeding away form the dreaded Hyrulian Planet. As they sped through space, Link noticed an odd looking shape on the radar screen. "What's this?"' he asked pointing at the screen where the strange dot grew bigger and bigger. Luigi looked at it with confusion at first, but then a look a panic overtook his face.
"Pull Back", he screamed, "Turn around right now." He spun the steering mechanism away from the shape which was now right in front of the ship and appeared to be the Bowser Castle. But at this point it was too late and despite their efforts the ship continued to gradually drift towards the floating castle "It's some devilry cast upon the castle by a Koopa Wizard. It's sucking us towards the castle. Quick Link, go and alert the passengers. I don't think that we're going to be getting a warm welcome."
Link ran to the back of the ship and quickly returned, followed by Mario, Toad, Ness, and Kirby.
"What's going on?", screamed Toad as the ship rocked as a plane going through turbulence would.
"We're being pulled into the castle by some sort of magic performed by the Koopa Wizards", responded Luigi. "We're gonna land right on top of the castle on the docking bay. I'm sure that they're gonna be sending troops up so everybody hide quickly. I'll take care of landing the plane safely and then I'll come and join you." Everyone ran off to hide in the storage room as Luigi steered the ship into a safe landing and sure enough, as soon as the ship touched down, Koopa Troopers swarmed around it. Luigi then ran off to join the rest in the storage room.
The Koopas boarded the ship as it landed and they spread out to search for the inhabitants. As they were searching Toad suddenly felt an itch under his nose and he let out a great big sneeze.
"I heard something from in here", yelled one of the Koopa Troopers. Everyone c'mere". The group inside the storage heard footsteps running towards them. The door suddenly burst open and a bunch of Koopa's with green protective armor and giant guns burst into the room.
"Surprise", yelled Toad as he lunged towards the Koopa's with his beam sword in hand. He lunged at the troopers and slashed the first ones head off. He then deflected the Trooper's shots right back at them, hitting them and knocking them off, one by one. He then took the green protective armor suit that was covering them.
"Here, put this on", he commanded, throwing the suits to everyone present. "Put these on and we should be able to slip by unnoticed." He slipped one on himself, and led everyone else out of the ship and down to the Docking Bay where a Koopa Captain was waiting. "We haven't found anything sir", said Toad, trying to imitate the voice of a Koopa. The occupants appear to have abandoned ship after they were caught in our magic force field. We didn't even find any cargo or shipment on board. This was just a ship caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and the crew got scared when they were sucked towards our castle and they abandoned ship."
"Very well then", replied the Koopa Captain. "Carry on." He watched as the six "Koopa Troopers" walked away back towards the Headquarters. They walked into the nearest room, closed the doors, and removed their helmets.
"We're lucky that we got through that", replied Toad when he was sure that they were out of earshot. "But it's not over yet. We still have to locate the Princess. Ness we need you to break into the computer mainframe and figure out where the Princess is being kept. Then we can rescue her and get the hell out of here." Ness nodded and ran to the nearest computer where he started typing away as Luigi stood guard by the door.
After several minutes of searching on the computer Ness finally yelled out, "I found it. The Princess is being kept in prison cell #5. The prison is located on the left wing of the third story. It's sure to be heavily guarded though so be careful. Hang on a minute….I think I see how they were keeping the force field up. There seems to be some kind of machine on the fourth floor that can harness the Koopa Wizards' power and continually use it to keep the force field standing. The blueprints on here seem to say that every hour the Wizards need to reenergize the machine with their magic. I might be able to shut the machine down from here." He continued to type some more but after another ten minutes he said, "It's no use. All systems are fully operational and very well protected. I would need the password and I've tried everything else. There's no backdoor in to the main system. You guys are gonna need to shut it down by hand. Now Mario, pass your suit's helmet over this ID scanner here."
Mario took his Koopa helmet and waved it over the ID scanner which started to beep. "The rest of you must do it too", Ness instructed, and everyone followed Mario's lead until everyone had passed their helmet over the ID scanner except Ness and Kirby.
"There", said Ness, "Now the computer has it stored in its memory that the soldiers that you are imitating are on lunch break. The computer says that soldiers KP-68, KP-209, KP-606, and KP-3 are on lunch break. You need to memorize your suits ID number in case you are questioned. Kirby and I will stay here with our suits on. However, you only get an hour lunch break. That means that the four of you have to be back here with the machine shut down, the Princess rescued, and be ready to board our ship, or else you'll be caught. There's no more time to waste. GO!!!!!!"
The four Koopa imposters ran out the door and towards the nearest staircase. They had made it all the way up to the third landing before they met anyone else. As they ran off the staircase they saw a Koopa General patrolling the area. He approached them and as he drew near Toad saluted him, and the others followed suit.
"What are you identification numbers?", the General asked them, looking at them suspiciously.
"Are numbers are KP-68, KP-209, KP-606, and I am KP-3", responded Toad. The general took out a small pal pilot like machine and started looking at it.
"Is says here that you are on lunch break", the General said curiously. "Why are you up here on the third floor? Don't you troopers usually head down to the troop center on the first floor? Why are you up here? The only things here are the prison and the Generals Quarters."
"We wish to eat in the prison", responded Toad. "Our business is our own though we will tell you why we head here. Our friend here likes to taunt the prisoners during his free time." He pointed towards Mario. "He's a bit sick in the head, but we always keep him company when he comes down here. Now if you allow us we would like to continue our lunch break." The general looked at them oddly, but turned and walked away.
As they rushed into the prison Mario whispered, "Wow. That was too close. I'm surprised that the general didn't question us more. I didn't expect him to buy the story about me being sick in the head." As they rushed into the prison they were greeted by two guards.
"What is your business down here?", asked one of the guards.
"We wish to have our lunch break down by the prison cells", responded Link.
"What?", the guard replied. "That's definitely not allowed. You four better go back down to the Troop's Center. You're not getting in here."
"Like hell were not", yelled Luigi. He pulled out his blaster and shot the two guards. The second guard stumbled and tripped the alarm before slumping to the ground. Luigi pulled off his helmet and was grinning from ear to ear as he looked at the two guards.
"IMBECILE!!!!!", yelled Toad. "Now the alarm's been set off. The entire Imperial Army is going to be upon us in no time. How do you expect to escape now? And I was supposed to sneak up to the fourth floor to destroy the force field machine. Now that's impossible."
"Go to the fourth floor now", yelled Mario, "Before reinforcements arrive." Toad took off out the door and down the hallway. They watched him as he sped up the stairs, and Mario got a bad feeling in his gut. He didn't think that this was going to end very well.
Luigi ran over to prison cell # 5 and blasted open the lock. He swung open the door and walked into the cell where Peach sat terrified and cowering in a corner. Luigi swept Peach over his shoulder, despite her screams for help, and ran back towards Mario and Link who were now barricading a door with any objects that they could find. As they backed away from the door and looked for an alternate way out, the door suddenly began to shake.
"They're breaking in", screamed Link. "There's no escape. We're doomed."
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