Good lord, I need to write something other than Mario stories. I'm becoming quite the one trick pony. ~ Jes :)
As the sun set slowly behind the trees, a gentle wind ruffled Mario's hair, he sighed happily it really felt rather good. The smell of the salty sea air was clean, pure; he remembered his days back in Brooklyn, New York. There, fresh air would be worth more than a pound of gold. He chuckled slightly at the thought, before he leaned back in his folding chair on the deck of a lovely beach house. He stared out over the ocean until he let his eyes slowly close.
"I see no infernal pathetic plumber in green trembling with an over grown 'Dust buster' on his back here to save you from your portrait fate Mario. Very unfortunate for you-" the hair on Mario's neck stood on end when two cold clammy hands wrapped themselves around Mario's mouth as he tried to cry out.
Mario shot strait up with an audible gasp, eyes open and alert as he whipped around in the plush chair of the "Peach Bomber." Honestly what a name for the royal jet...
"Mario is you all right?" Peach placed a tender hand on the plumber's cheek, which seemed to bring him back to reality. ~Just a dream, but... it felt so real?~ He blinked a few times as he stared into a pair of sapphire eyes, "I-I'm fine..." Mario was determined to hid his unease. Princess didn't look very reassured.
Mario flashed a sheepish grin. "I dreamed that a giant pepperoni pizza attacked the Mushroom Kingdom..."
Liar-
Peach burst into giggles, "oh Mario; you're so silly sometimes! But it's good that you're up, because we are here!"
"And where would here be exactly?" Peach hadn't given a lot of details on where they were going they had just picked up and gone.
"The Isle Delfino, Mario" Mario looked over to an old Toad sitting on the other side of the Princess. He wore a large brown spotted mushroom cap, no doubt to mach the long flowing brown silk robes that threatened to swallow the old Mushroomer whole if he wasn't careful. "Delfino Island never heard of it..." Mario looked thoughtful for a moment. "And I'm.... Um.... Very well traveled if I do say so myself." He added as an afterthought.
"You wouldn't have my dear boy; its location is a highly guarded secret. Such a beautiful island with as many natural resources as Delfino is in danger from other less fortunate kingdoms. Only the Mushroom Kingdom and Sarasaland Kingdoms' Princesses' know of and are welcome to the Delfino Isles."
"And don't forget the Mushroom Kingdom's hero, Chancellor!" Peach chimed in brightly.
The chancellor chuckled; "yes we mustn't forget Mario, dear." Mario grinned, though it soon faded. "I wish Toad could have come, I think if anybody needed a vacation more than me it would be that little guy..." Mario looked out the window sadly as the plain started to make its decent.
"Chancellor, why couldn't Toad come? He looked so disappointed when you said no. And I had already told him he could come too."
"Now, now, princess dear... Toad is a Royal Mushroom Retainer; and he has responsibilities... He can't just go gallivanting on vacation whenever he feels like it." Peach pouted, "but he's supposed to accompany me everywhere, you are the one that appointed him head retainer you know." She huffed. "Princess, I am accompanying you, you don't need Toad myself and Mario do you?" Peach gave the chancellor a blank stare. "Honestly, I think you wouldn't let Toad come because the Royal jet only has three seats. I think Toad would have somehow had less 'responsibilities' if the Peach Bomber had four." Mario hid a slight snigger behind his hand. Peach was never one to hold back. Mario suspected that being a princess meant you could talk to anybody any way you darn well felt.
The chancellor fidgeted in the plush seat. "Tha-That's ridicule, I-I also have responsibilities I have pressing business with the head of state on Delfino. It was only natural that I accompany you." He cleared his throat loudly and waved his hand dismissively, "Besides you don't want Toad tagging along on this romantic get away do you? " Peach opened her mouth to most likely yell at the chancellor for calling the excursion a "Romantic get away" when Mario's laughter made her ask: "And just what's so funny?" Peach folded her arms and glared at the plumber who either didn't notice or didn't care.
"Princess..." Mario started through his chuckles, "I've heard of rolling out the red carpet for royalty; but never a pink runway! They must have found out it was your favorite color."
"What?" Peach leaned over Mario to get a look out the window. The whole landing strip of the Delfino Island Airport had been covered in a thick pink substance that looked like paint.
"That's funny it wasn't like that the last time I was here..." A voice over the plains P. A system gave instructions.
"This is your captain speaking, I urge you to fasten your seatbelts as we touch down. Thank you for-" no sooner than the plane's wheels touched the runway that it gave a violent lurch that sent Mario and the chancellor to the floor. Peach flew forward but was stopped thanks to the leather strap snuggly fastened across her lap. "See you really should have listened when they said to put on your seat belt" Mario resisted the urge to say Yes, Mamma-
"Mama-mia, what's going on?" Arguing between the copilot and the pilot could be heard over the still running P.A.
"Sir there's some kind of pink goo all over the runway I can't keep 'er steady!"
"We're goanna slid right off the strip and into the sea!!"
Mario got tossed around on the floor as the plane fishtailed wildly while the pilots fought for control.
Some luggage tumbled out of the overhead compartment and pelted the poor plumber on the noggin. He could have sworn he heard on of the suitcase yell "ouch" when it hit the floor.
"I've gotta do something" Mario cried as he grabbed the door handle to the plane and used it to keep from falling back to the floor.
"Mario, I know you're strong; but you can't stop a jumbo jet!" Peach tried to grab Mario's hand but the seatbelt restrained her.
"I can try!" Mario gave the door handle a twist and he tumbled backwards out of the plane and fell a good 25 feet before landing in the strange goo that covered all 700 feet of the airport's runway. The plain continued forward and left the plumber behind.
"Ow, ow, ow, OUCH! Oh, bad idea... " Mario screamed as he slid head long towards a utility shed on the side of the runway. "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" Mario crashed right through the wooden doors of the shed before coming to a stop in a pile of junk.
Mario swatted at a few Starmen doing a rumba around his head.
"Mario? What are you doing here? " Someone or something was on the inside the shed with Mario "Huh," he asked dimly.
Mario looked around quickly and briefly wondered if he was going nuts. "Mario!" Mario looked to the back of the shed .his heart fell there was no one in the shed just a weird looking tank. A large round glass bottom filled to the bursting point with water. Two handles on either side with lots of complicated looking buttons and a long tube connected to a nozzle that resembled a bird's beak. If there was no one in the shed then who was yelling? "Mario!" The plumber nearly jumped out of his skin, that water tank was speaking to him. "Are- are you talking to me?" He stuttered "No, I'm talking for my health... do you see anyone else here?" Mario's mouth went dry he must have hit his head harder than he thought. "Hey, I'm talking here, are you or are you not the only Mario here?" Mario stared at the contraption blankly before nodding yes. "Mario, put me on!" Its voice was high and synthesized. "I haven't got time for this I gotta save my friends!"
"FLUDD can help put me on, put me on!" The water tank jumped up and down like a little boy that's had too much sugar.
When Mario didn't move the contraption jumped forward "Put me on, put me on!" Mario thought quickly, it did say it could help him save Peach. Maybe it really could help him. Maybe he might still have a chance. Mario grabbed the leather straps on the tank and slipped them on like a backpack, it was light as a feather he would have no problems running with this thing on. Before Mario could even think a huge blast of water came out of the nozzle that was facing behind him and at the same time propelling him forward out of the shed and back onto the slippery pink goo. Mario took one step on the goo slipped and fell flat on his face.
"It's no good, I can't even move in this stuff and the plain is almost at the end of the runway, I'll never catch it now. They're gonna slid right in to the ocean!"
"Not if FLUDD can help it!" Mario caught a mouth full of goop as a stream of water pushed him along the slick surface of the pollution at an incalculable speed. "Whaaaaaaaa- this cockamamie contraption's got a mind of its own!" Mario shot forward and was slowly gaining on the out of control peach bomber the water jetting from the tank on his back cleaning the runway in its wake. the pink goo seemed to melt at the smallest drop of plain ordinary water. "We're doing it! The plain's just up a head! If we get all the goo off of the runway the plain's wheels should be able to get enough traction for the brakes to work!"
"We? FLUDD is doing all the work!"
"Princessjustremaincalmwhateveryoudodon'tpanicthere'snothingtoworryaboutatallwe'llbefine"
The chancellor still on the floor with his arms over his head did his best to comfort the hysterical princess. Peach rolled her eyes in exasperation.
"Get a hold of yourself, Chancellor, if Mario said he would save us then Mario will save us! I'm going up to the cockpit to see what's going on!" Peach unlatched her belt and grabbed hold of the nearest object that was bolted down and made her way to the front of the plain.
"It's no good... we're going to go into the ocean, the brakes aren't any good if the wheels can't grip the runway, this stuff is just too slick!" Shouted the pilot
"Well it's been a good life..." Muttered the copilot.
"Mario will save us I know it!"
The two royal Mushroom pilots turned around "Princess!"
"I want a status report!"
"Report?! With all due respect Princess, there's nothing to report except that we're all gonna die! There's only a three hundred feet of runway left before the landing strip ends and the plain shows no sign of stopping on this slick stuff, it's like ice!"
"Mario will save us I know it!"
"Mario what's he goanna do against a plane?!
"I'll tell you what he's goanna do-" the pilot started before the copilot shouted" Look there he is!" Point madly out the front windshield the trio saw Mario sliding through the muck on his stomach being propelled by a just stream of water.
"Look, he's clearing the runway!"
"Oh, Mario" Peach sighed
The plain gave another jolt as the wheels finally caught traction on the newly cleaned runway.
"We're finally slowing down!" Peach cried
"We're not out of the woods yet Princess, slow is not stopped!"
"Wahoo, the plain is slowing down!" Mario's heart skipped a beat to see the plain slowly regaining control on the runway.
"Mario!" The water tank ushered "Mario!" The plumber wasn't listening he did however notice a rather significant drop in speed.
"Hey, lard butt!"
"What?"
"FLUDD is out of water..."
"Out of water?!" Mario glanced behind him, it was true the spouting stream of water was gone and Mario was rapidly loosing speed. The only saving grace was that there was enough clean runway to keep the Peach Bomber from becoming a very luxurious home for some tropical cheep cheeps. But with out the powerful water propulsion system there was now way he could out run the plane, which was quickly gaining on him.
"He did it! I'll be a Goomba's uncle he actually did it! We'll have this plain sitting pretty at the end of the runway with no trouble now!"
"Wait a minute captain, what's Mario doing? He-He's slowing down!"
"What?! But we're going too fast we'll run him over!" Princess clasped her hands to mouth.
Back on the runway Mario finally came to a full stop in one of the small puddles of goo still left on the runway. It wouldn't cause any trouble for the plain, too small, but it was large enough to put the plumber in hot water.
"I can't move- whoa!" Mario had failed for the third time to get out of the plane's path and off the strip. It was no use there was no way he could get any traction in this stuff. He slipped and slid and in the end just lay on his stomach waiting to be crushed by the cheerfully pink jet with the Toadstool coat of arms painted on the side. "Weege can have my wrench set; Toad can have my stamp collection..."
"FLUDD is brilliant!" Mario made a sound of disbelief but the contraption on his back would not be deterred. "Eh, FLUDD is it? What ever you're going to do you'd better do it quick or we're both about to become a pile of scrap!"
"Calculating distance to airplane speed times weight of grossly over fed plumber divided by wind speed, PH content of substance -" The plain nearly on top of the plumber as the device kept rattling off numbers and equations. The plain only thirty feet from crushing the Hero of the Mushroom Kingdom into a fine paste
"Oh, dear my poor Mario we're going to squish him!"
"Oh, FLUDD..."
"... By the sum of the rout of-"
Twenty feet-
"Princess, he will have died a hero many times over-"
"FLUDD..."
"... By the square rout of how many plumbs could a plumber plumb if a plumber could plumb pipes..."
Fifteen feet-
"Oh, Boo-hoo, I can't watch."
FL- FLUDD..."
"Ratio of FLUDD units propulsion to..."
Ten feet-
"F-FLUDD!!"
"Checking calculations..."
"FLUDD IS BRILLIANT!!"
The plane came crashing over the spot were the once proud hero laid in a pool of pink ooze, until finally stopping. The tip of the plane's nose hanging just one inch over the side of the Delfino Island's runway.
All was quiet... for about five seconds before a rubber slid uncurled from airplane's door and the sobbing Mushroom Kingdom's princess came tumbling out.
"Oh, poor Mario..." she choked out. The chancellor came sliding out looking very frazzled and somber he quickly took to the princess's side and gave her a few little comforting words. Which to Peach that's exactly what they were... Words that offered very little comfort.
"He was a great man, and he will be sorely missed. He gave is life so that you would be safe, dear."
"But I didn't even get to say Goodbye-"
"Goodbye, why Princess, are we leaving already? We only just got here." Mario covered from head to toe in a thick oily pink sludge walked around from the other side of the Peach Bomber and flashed the princess a sly grin. "Mario, you're alive!" Peach ran past the chancellor with such speed the poor shroom thought the spots on his mushroom cap would fall off!
Mario opened his arms ready to embrace his damsel in distress.
"Ugh, And you smell like a sewer!" Mario turned bright red; of course you couldn't tell with the pink goo covering every square foot of his body.
"eh, heh, heh, yeah..." he chuckled quite embarrassed "I guess I do..."
"But how did you- I mean you were there one minute and then. I was so afraid that you- you were-" Peach once again got sniffling. "Awe, I'm ok Princess there's no need to cry..." Mario wanted to wrap his arms around the girl, whisper reassuring words in her ear, protect her from her own thoughts of what could have happened. All that came out "I'm fine really!" After a few more sniffly moments the princess finally noticed the strange gadget that Mario was wearing.
"What is that thing on your back?"
"This, oh this is FLUDD," Mario said as he gently slid his arms out of the straps and set the tank gently on the ground in front of Peach. "This is how I kept from being a plumber pancake." Mario explained that when FLUDD ran out of water that it sucked up the puddle of goo that Mario was wallowing in and used it to blast Mario out of the way of the planes wheels just in time.
"FLUDD, you named it? What does that stand for exactly?" Mario didn't know that's what it had called itself so that's what he would call it too.
Mario opened his mouth to explain but the strange apparatus seemed to beat him to the punch.
"F.L.U.D.D." Peach jumped when the appliance began to speak. "Flash, liquidized, ultra, dousing, devi- oh, FLUDD does not feel well..." The machine started to sway
"What's wrong with it?" Peach asked with mild concern. It did after all save Mario and helped Mario save her. Mario shrugged "dunno" it was fine just a minute ago.
Peach bent down to the nozzle and gave it a little pat, why she seemed to think that the FLUDD unit could feel comfort by her action was a mystery. "Oh, you poor-" SPLAT! In a flash Peach was dripping with the pink ooze smelled like a barrel full of rotting eggs.
"EWW, gross, what is this stuff?"
"I can explain that-"
"You!!" Mario spat coldly
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Somewhere a figure draped in shadows watches the scene unfolding in the Delfino Airport on a 47' monitor with nothing but the up most disgust.
"It's not fair, not fair, NOT FAIR! Stupid Mario, you were s'pposed to crash, not save everybody! You're stupid, stupid, stupid!" The Monitor started to shake slightly when the figure started throw a tantrum hoping up and down
"Do you see I told you it wasn't as easy as it sounds to kill Mario?" Another darker voice in the shadows of the control room stated calmly.
"But- but I really tried..."
"And look at that" upon the screen Mario was wearing a huge grin when Peach kissed him on the cheek despite the fact they were both covered in pink slime
"Don't do that Mamma! Mario is STUPID!" The figure yelled at the group on screen who remained oblivious.
"Now, now, calm down-"
"But Mario is Stup-
"Yes, I know Mario is stupid; but we're goanna get rid of him and then you can have your mamma back."
"Promise?"
"Would I lie to you?"
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Something's I would like to explain. First off if you haven't been tipped off by the title, this is a Super Mario Sunshine Story. However, this piece of fiction really only shares the name of the game. I could do a strait up adaptation of the Gamecube Nintendo video game; but that would be soooooooo boring, don't you agree?
There are some things that will remain the same as the game however like the true identity of "Shadow Mario," don't know who that is? You will-: Grin: I'll have him causing forty times more trouble in this story than he does in the game. ^_~
So there will be some spoilers for the game. But I really will try to keep them to a minimum so that you can enjoy the game as well as this story. :Phew: is it just me or am I bit more long winded that usual?
You can look forward to chaps with a lot of action. I plan to add a few cameos by characters that aren't even in that game, Wario, Waluigi And King Boo, to name a few- Well technically King Boo is in the actual game but that is beside the point. Don't expect chapters to be quite this long in the future. I haven't decided yet just how long I want chapters to be.
Read, review, and enjoy! ~Jes :)