The Lesson
By SelenityK
AN: To all the people who reviewed my story, thanks!!! J I really appreciate reviews. Here's the third installment of my story. There are some violent scenes in this, so be warned! I do not own anybody in this story.
Chapter Three
Peach's van pulled up on Mario's Pad, the little island where Mario and Luigi resided. Peach put on her sweetest face when she knocked on the door. Luigi answered after two knocks.
"Hi, Luigi! I need to speak with Mario," Peach said.
There's an…odd quality to Peach's eye, Luigi thought to himself. Luigi went back into the house and shook Mario until he awakened. Mario came to the door in his pajamas, sleepily rubbing his eyes. Luigi closed the door, believing that Mario and Peach needed their privacy. After Luigi was in the house, Peach yanked Mario's head, slamming him against the wall a couple of times.
This move woke Mario completely up. "What's wrong, Peach?" Mario asked, a questioning look on his face.
Peach did not answer the question. She took out a length of rope and proceeded to tie Mario's limbs together. Peach hurled him in the van with Bowser, Mario struggling with her the entire time.
What the hell had come over Peach? Mario wondered. He got his answer when he was thrown in the back of the van.
Bowser!
Or so he thought.
Mario was full of surprises and question when he saw Bowser cuffed and gagged in the back of the van. Something must be seriously wrong with Peach. Or maybe it's not the real Peach!
"So you're in the same predicament too, I suppose" Mario said to Bowser.
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So Peach had kidnapped Mario! Bowser concluded. He wondered what the hell Peach wanted with him and Mario. Screw Mario! What had Bowser ever done to Peach, besides kidnap her a few times?
Bowser tried to speak, but the only sound that came out of the gag was a series of meaningless mumbles.
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Was Bowser trying to say something? Whatever it was, it had to be important. Mario slid across the floor and used his teeth to pull the gag from Bowser's mouth. Bowser took some deep breaths and spat on the floor. The gag left a horrible taste in Bowser's mouth.
"I can't believe this!" Bowser whispered
angrily. "Kidnapped by a girl! Peach, no less!"
"I'm still trying to figure out how
we offended her!" Mario replied. "Bowser, what have you done this time!"
"'What have I done?'" Bowser repeated. "I'm the victim this time!"
"Shhh!" Mario whispered harshly. "We have to get out of this van!"
"I heard that!" Peach's voice wore the false kind of sweetness. "There's no way you're escaping me! I have this van triple-locked!"
Another burst of evil laughter; Mario and Bowser groaned. This was going to be an extremely long ride.
Peach was right, there was no way that Bowser or Mario could escape. Bowser found this out the hard way. He head-butted the van door, but it repelled him and he was thrown back. Bowser had managed to suffer a worse headache than before.
"We may as well give it up!" Mario said hopelessly. "I know Peach. If she says that there's no way that we're escaping, then you'd better believe that we're not escaping. At least not yet! Mario mouthed to Bowser.
Bowser fully understood Mario's meaning.
The ride went on for what seems like hours, and then the van came to a sudden stop. Bowser's body rolled to the other side of the van.
Mario could hear the crushing sounds of Peach's footsteps as she walked to the van door. The door opened, and Mario's eyes had to readjust to the sunlight, the van had been so dark.
"Peach, what have we done to you?" Mario asked again when he saw her.
Peach dragged Mario from the van, pulled out a rope and tied Mario to a nearby tree.
The only thing that Mario could make out was that he and Bowser was in some forest. Mario would need to know their location so they could escape when the time was right.
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Bowser suffered silently as he felt Peach tie him to something hard. Bowser could feel the drifts of wind on his tired face. The air smelled like nature, so Bowser knew that he was outside somewhere, but where, he hadn't the slightest clue.
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"So you want to know why I kidnapped you?!" Peach spoke harshly, her chest moving up and down rapidly. It was tough work, dragging Mario and Bowser around, after all. Peach turned to Bowser. "It's because I'm sick of you always kidnapping me. I thought that I'd return the favor."
Peach kicked Bowser in the stomach. She had worn the shoes for the occasion: heels with sharp spikes along the bottom.
Bowser bellowed out in horrible pain as the pain inflicted by Peach reverberated through his body.
"You bitch!" Bowser shouted out in a mixture of pain and anger at Peach. 'Bitch' was the word that Bowser had never called Peach in all the times he had kidnapped her.
"A 'bitch' am I?" Peach's voice drawled out. A vicious look appeared on Peach's face. She grabbed her almighty pole and struck Bowser across the face. Mario cringed as he heard a crunching sound echo from Bowser's direction. Bowser's nose was broken, dark red blood slowly dripping from his nose. Bowser was quiet after that.
"Peach!" Mario called out "Why are you doing this to Bowser. Even he hadn't treated you the way you're treating him. All the times that I've rescued you from him, you've never had a scratch on your body, let alone a broken nose! Bowser does not deserve this!"
"Yes he does!" Peach said. "And so do you!" Mario's eyes widened in fear; Peach had put the fear of god into him.
"You know what else I'm sick of?" Peach continued. "Filthy plumbers like you trying to rescue me!"
"You needed to be rescued!" Mario said. "Bowser would have overrun the Mushroom Kingdom if I hadn't saved you in time!"
"Hasn't it ever occurred to you that I could have rescued myself?" Peach crossed her arms. "I have magical abilities far beyond your comprehension, taught by Merlin himself! Why would you listen to my dimwitted subjects? They have no clue about my magic!"
"They missed you, Peach!" Mario said. "When I first arrived in the Mushroom Kingdom, the windows were draped black for the love of you!"
"Who cares what they think!" Peach said icily. "You'll do no more rescuing from now on!" Peach seized Mario's hand and crushed it.
Mario screamed out in severe pain. His hand throbbed violently. Peach continued to talk.
"I'm leaving you two in this forest until you've contemplated your behavior, young man and Koopa!" Peach said in a grandma voice.
Another set of evil shrieks, and Peach was in her van, driving away from the forest, leaving Bowser and Mario to survive in the forest.
How would Mario and Bowser ever get out of this one?