Smooth Criminal

By: The Mystery Squeezit

Disclaimer: I think we all know this by now -_-

A/N: …..Wow, that's all I have to say. This little piece of fan fiction hasn't been updated in over a year. Many of my reviewers have probably given up on checking to see if it's been updated. Hmmm, I'll try to update more often after this chapter. Anyways, I made this chapter longer than my usual stuff so enjoy it……or at least try to. ^_^

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Chapter 5: Confrontation

Mario sighed as he looked out the window of the tiny police car he was currently riding in the back seat of. Mark Shroom was talking nervously into his cell phone to his fellow detectives about his recent discovery. The plumber only half listened to the detectives' conversation, he knew that he was in for the worse. He would have to do his best to convince them that he was not Red Ninjakoopa's murderer.

The police car came to an abrupt stop in front of the Toad Town police station. Mark Shroom slowly got out of the car, and cautiously led Mario inside the enormous building. As he was led inside Mario noticed paramedics rushing inside, pushing a wheeled stretcher, that was supporting Red Ninjakoopa's mangled body.

Minutes later, Mario was sitting down in chair, surrounded by what seemed to be a dozen or so guards, all who were wielding guns. Mark Shroom sat across the room in a desk, ready to question Mario about what had happened. Before he could say anything, a paramedic walked in holding a clipboard.

"It didn't take us long to figure out who the victim was." The doctor started. "He's been on the Mushroom Kingdom's Most Wanted list for years."

Mark Shroom was confused. "Who was it? The Mushroom Kingdom's had a long list of criminals. All of them whom seem to have some type of affiliation with Bowser."

"It was Red Ninjakoopa. The other three Ninjakoopas weren't anywhere near the crime scene, so I'm assuming they don't know anything about their brother's murder."

"Might as well call the other three. Their probably wondering what has happened." Mark Shroom grumbled scribbling down the Ninjakoopa's phone number and handing it to the doctor.

"Thank you." The doctor said quietly. He then turned around and left the room.

Mario who was just sitting there, suddenly stoop up, causing chaos among the guards. "Listen, I know it will be hard to believe me here, but it's the truth. I saw the murderer running away, shortly after he had killed Red. He was covered from head to toe in a black cloak, so I didn't catch a good glimpse of him."

Mark Shroom sighed at Mario's description of the murderer. He had described him as the average stereotypical murderer seen in horror movies. He couldn't remember the last case he had worked on where the criminal had dressed like something seen in the movie "Scream."

"Listen Mario," The detective began. "I'm not going to jump to conclusions and say you did it. I'm just going to tell you the flat out truth. In your current situation, it's not looking so good for you. When the other detectives and I arrived, the only two there were you and Red Ninjakoopa."

Mario stood up, only enraging the guards further, and stepped towards the detective's desk. "Listen Mark, I'm serious. That criminal is a flat out genius. He had his own secret warp pipe or something. I don't know what else he could've used to have gotten away so quickly."

One of the guards, a koopa who had looked like he had been taking some serious steroids, walked up to Mario and attempted to pull him away from Detective Shroom. Mario broke free of the koopa's vice-like grip, and faced his longtime friend once more, trying to prove his innocence.

The koopa guard was now clearly angry, growled to Mario in his deep voice. "Look pal, I know you've never been questioned as a criminal before, but you gotta stay in that chair the whole time." He gestured to wooden chair Mario had been sitting in earlier. "Got it?"

Mario just sighed. He didn't want to get into anymore trouble then he all ready was, so he walked back to the chair and sat down.

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Back in the morgue area of the police station, Red's brothers had just entered arguing amongst the doctors and nurses who were trying to tell them the bad news.

"Why are we here?" Yellow Ninjakoopa spat at a terrified looking nurse. "We didn't do nothing!"

"Yeah!" Green added. "Is this some kind of a setup to get us in jail?"

"No, this isn't a setup. This is a very serious situation and it involves your brother" The nurse, whom Yellow had yelled at earlier, tried to explain.

"Well what is it, lady?" Yellow practically screamed at her.

The nurse sighed. "Follow me." She said. The nurse led the three brothers into a corridor and headed to the room where Red's body was being inspected.

"Heh, did Red murder some of these people or what?" Black Ninjakoopa joked, looking into the window of one room, eyeing the bodies of victims of earlier murder cases.

The nurse stopped in front of a room, whose number was written on the clipboard she was carrying. "Here we are. Room 826." She gently opened the door, and said to the doctor who was currently operating on Red's body. "Doctor Fungi, these three are here to see their brother Red."

Doctor Fungi looked up. "Well guys," He said to the three confused Ninjakoopas. "I don't know what to tell you. But your brother, he was found murdered this morning in Forever Forest."

"Uh, this is a joke, right?" Green said, obviously not believing a word of the doctor's statement.

"This is no joke, sir." The doctor claimed. "If you want to see for yourself, his body is over there on that stretcher."

The three Ninjakoopas walked over, once they saw their brother's body, they were shocked.

"Who the hell did this?" An infuriated Yellow hissed at the nurse and doctor who were standing near the room's entrance.

The nurse looked down at the records on her clipboard and reported to them, "The detectives have not figured out the actual murderer. But for right now, there is only one suspect and that is: Mario."

"Mario? What drugs are you under the influence of, women? Why would Mario wanna murder our brother." Black Ninjakoopa asked walking away from his brother's body.

"We don't know why Mario would do anything like this. But right now he is our only suspect. He was seen at the scene of the crime. He claims that he saw another possible subject, but our detectives have not found any evidence of his claims." Doctor Fungi concluded.

"Can we talk to Mario? Where is he?" Yellow questioned, wanting nothing more then to beat the living crap out of Mario.

"He's currently in being questioned by Detective Shroom." The nurse answered, calmly. "You can talk to him afterwards."

"Good." Yellow grumbled. "My brothers and I would like a word with him about this."