Chapter 5: New Mission: Jewelry Land
Daisy entered a garage that had its door torn off in pieces all over the floor. She saw a small little flying pod in the garage, and heard footsteps inside the area, echoing. She turned to see a Derma, walking around the pod.
"Why did everything stop shaking? Our plan is ruined for this island! What's the point of leaving now…" the Derma said talking to himself. Daisy then smiled as the Derma walked out of the garage as she hid behind a box, and ran towards the pod.
"Yes, I'm finally leaving. Now I get to see how things are in Mushroom Land." She said in her mind. She got inside the pod, and began to start it, the engine roaring as a result. The Derma heard this and rushed back.
"Hey!" he shouted running towards her. She started to move the pod forward and noticed the darkness once again.
"Oops, I forgot. This could be a problem." She said and raised the pod up into the air, but suddenly everything got even darker. "This is going to be a REAL problem!"
Mario and Peach woke up, noticing they were moving. Mario looked around, noticing windows and light shining through them. Peach raised her head as the floor bobbed up and down, as well.
"Mario?" she asked, squinting her eyes. Mario looked at a couple of seats in front of them, and noticed all their pals were sitting on them.
"Finally you guys woke up!" Luigi smiled, looking back at them. Peach shook her head.
"Luigi? How did we get here?" she asked. Tao turned around also.
"We found you down there, not sure if you guys were alright or not. We hurried you to a cave where we beat up a couple o' baddies and stole this small plane." Tao said happily. Peach was relieved with the news, and tried to get up, but fell helplessly.
"Ouch!" she shouted, and held her calf in her delicate hands.
"What's wrong, Peach?" Mario asked. Peach stared at Mario, and then at her leg again.
"I think I sprained it when we fell." She said. Mario went to touch it. "Ahh! Don't!" she shouted. Mario nodded, and Tao turned around again.
"Don't worry, you'll be alright Peach!" he assured her. Mario got up and walked towards the cockpit.
"Whose driving this plane, anyway?" he asked. He turned to the pilot seat and saw Mallow.
"Meet your pilot and co-pilot, Mallow and Toad!" Toad remarked. Mallow steered the plane slowly for some reason.
"Mallow, you can fly an airplane?" Mario asked. Mallow nodded.
"Yup, one of the few jobs in Nimbus Land, Mario!" he exclaimed. Kin then shot up from the back.
"Why are you driving so slow?" he asked curiously. Mallow kept his eye on the dark clouds and mysterious sky in front of him.
"Don't you remember? We got a load under us." He said, grinning. Peach and Mario pondered for a moment, and then Mario opened a window and leaned out, only to see something magnificent. The giant cage with the Yoshis was hanging from the bottom of the plane, with all the Yoshis screaming in happiness that they are going to be free.
"How did you do that??" Mario shouted, astonished. Toad grinned.
"We needed to save them, too! We will bring them back somewhere safe." Toad answered. Mario sat down, amazed at all the events. Peach then limped towards the seat in where Toad sat, and sat in a seat right behind him.
"Toad, you were going to tell me something before. Before we were thrown into the lava pit. What was it?" Peach asked him. Toad's sweat dropped, and made a fake smile.
"Well, Peach, I was…uh…going to tell you because we were going to die. At least, that's what I thought. So, there isn't a need to tell you now." Toad said, trying to stop the conversation from beginning. Peach raised an eyebrow.
"Toad, tell me. I command you to tell me." She told him in a demanding tone. Toad couldn't take it. He hated that word, "command" Peach used it on him often, hence him being the royal servant and all. He had to say it.
"I hate when you do that, princess." He told her, grinning. Peach smiled.
"I knew it. Now come on, spill the beans." She told him. Toad nodded, looking out in front of him, towards the clouds they were passing by swiftly.
"Its about…Tao." He told him. Peach then got very curious.
"What can it possibly be about?" she asked him. Toad gulped, and was about to tell her when suddenly a small pod suddenly flew past them. Mallow got a suddenly burst of surprise.
"What the…" he whispered, and turned the plane to the left, where the pod flew past. Everyone in the plane looked out his or her windows.
" I see it! Its right there!" Tao shouted. He pointed outside the window, but it was gone once again. It seemed to be circling the plane.
Toadette ran around the castle, looking for something. Her brown locks of hair brushed her ears and passed her bright pink mushroom hat, and her pink vest flapped along with her.
"Toady? Toady? Where are you!" she shouted out. She sped down the halls, passing other Toad-recruits. Toady was her little brother, and her responsibility. She was looking for him and his baby blue mushroom hat bobbing around somewhere. He was often holding a small blue doll in his hand he got from a child in Rose Town. Actually, "stole" was more like it. The boy's mother owned the Inn there, and when he saw it he never took his eyes off it, and left with it in his little jacket he wore that day.
"Toady! Come on! I'm not playing around!" she shouted. Suddenly, a Toad-recruit ran from his spot and stood in front of her.
"Toadette? Where's the fire?" he asked. She glared at him for getting in her way.
"I need to find my brother, Toady. Have you seen him? I can't let him go outside! Its so dark out there, and I would get my ass kicked!" she told him, hoping for him to know where he was. The recruit shook his head.
"No, I haven't seen him. I'm sorry, Toadette. He is probably still in the castle, we have guards everywhere." He assured her. She sighed and nodded.
"Fine…" Toadette walked down the hall. "Is the Chancellor still gone?" she asked him. The Toad turned around.
"Unfortunately, he is. He's still at the hospital, but he's fine. He just needs some rest. We have all of us in charge now, so everything still is in good hands." He told her. She nodded, and continued to walk. Down to the main hall of the castle, about eight Toad recruits were guarding and walking around, talking amongst each other. Toadette passed by them all, and swerved through a couple of walking recruits towards the door that led to the hall with three other doors, one to the guest room, one to the basement and one to the kitchen. As her hand reached out for the doorknob, she heard glass shattering. She turned around and saw dog like creatures that jumped through the windows. The Toads were armed and started shooting at them, but suddenly Derma's started to barge in.
"We are being attacked! Send more recruits ASAP!" a Toad yelled into his walkie-talkie. He continued to fire at the menacing beasts. Toadette was in shock, but still had enough sense to run out of there. She ran through the door and slammed it shut behind her, hearing sounds of gunfire and screams. Waitresses and cooks started running out from the kitchen.
"What's going on in there?" a confused waitress asked Toadette. Toadette locked the door and walked towards them.
"We are being attacked! People are dying in there! We need to get out, quickly!" she shouted. Every one of them was astonished and scared at the same time.
"What are we being attacked by?" a cook asked.
"I don't know! We just have to get out! Quick! Into the kitchen and out the door!" Toadette commanded them. As they all quickly turned towards the kitchen, they heard smashing coming from inside there.
"Oh no…" a waitress said. They all backed away, some running into the guest room.
"Wait! We have to stick together! Like brothers and sis…" suddenly Toadette remembered. She remembered something horrifying. Her brother was still somewhere in the castle, who knows where those monsters could have been as well. She suddenly ran towards the main hall, where all the gunfire still took place.
"Toadette, where are you going?" a cook asked.
"Just lock the door!" she shouted not answering his question. She closed the door behind her, only to be faced with a war scene. She ran behind a tall flower plant, and waited for the door to the main bedrooms to be clear of anyone. It was finally a clear shot to run towards, and as she turned from the plant, a dead Toad recruit was laying on the floor.
"Ugh…" Toadette groaned. She then took a deep breath, and sped in the middle of the war scene. She ran, and was half way.
"Come on…you can do it Toadette," she told herself. She suddenly tripped over a gun that was lying on the floor, and fell down.
"Not happening," she said to herself. She got up as fast as she could, but suddenly heard a click of a gun. She turned her head, only to find a gun being pointed towards her, and the owner was pulling the trigger.
Mallow turned on the headlights of the plane, dived the plane down, and then looked up. The little pod was also coming down with them, but who was driving it?
"What the hell do they think they are doing?" Toad asked looking up at it.
"Lets get in for a closer look!" Tao shouted. Mallow steered the plane upward, and took a closer look at the person. They got near enough, and knew whom it was. The long brown hair, the small crown, the yellow dress, it was all familiar. It was Daisy.
"Daisy!!" Luigi shouted as he got up out of his seat and squished his nose between his face and the window. Daisy looked at the face that was looking back at her.
"Luigi!" she shouted in joy. Just then, a loud noise came from nowhere. As they flew in that area, large airships and other small pods started to rise from the clouds and pass them by. Inside were, of course, Dermas. They thought that Daisy and Mallow's planes were driven by Dermas too, so they kept going. Pods were getting too close to Daisy's pod, so she quickly found a black cloak and covered herself. Just then, Mallow's radio started to get static noises.
"Ship 18, do you read me? Over." A Derma spoke through the radio. Mallow didn't want them to find out that they weren't Dermas, so he changed his voice.
"Yes, I read you. What is our mission?" he said in a rough voice.
"Our mission is to head to Jewelry Land where King Derma already established headquarters and token over the citizens. We shall land our lava dragon onto the hot springs inside its transportation device. Land as soon as you see the tip of Jewelry Land, got it?" the Derma told Mallow.
"Yes. Thanks. Over and out." Mallow responded, and closed the radio. He looked at Toad, then back at everyone.
"Guys, Dermas are everywhere on Jewelry Land, how are we going to step foot?" Mallow told them.
"We might get caught…" Luigi sighed. Peach found some strength and stood up, her leg still aching a little.
"Prince Pine! King Fret! They are captured?" Peach asked worryingly. Mario nodded.
"I'm afraid so, Peach. We will save them, but that's the least of our problems." He told her. Luigi then noticed the airships opening up in the back and letting some pods inside.
"Guys! Look! There must be a button that opens the airship in the back! Lets get Daisy in here!" he told them. Mallow nodded, and then stared at all the buttons.
"Which one does that…?" he asked. He and Toad looked for the one that would open it.
"Make sure we don't press the wrong one…" Toad whispered to Mallow. Mallow nodded, thinking of what button they should press.
"This one?" Mallow asked. Toad shrugged.
"Try it, I guess." He told Mallow. Mallow pressed the button, and everyone heard some machinery opening.
"What could that be?" Kin asked. All of a sudden, a missile zoomed out from under the airship and passed them quickly. Everyone gasped as the missile hit an airship and it exploded, causing Toad and Mallow to steer their airship down, away from the explosion. Fire swirled through the air and pieces of the hit airship flew everywhere.
"I think that was the wrong button…" Mallow told them with a sweat drop.
"No shit…" Tao said, frustrated. Mario turned to Tao.
"What's your problem?" he asked him. Tao turned to Mallow.
"Am I the only one who realizes that all the Dermas who witnessed us attack will be all over us?" Tao told Mario with a growl in his voice.
"Your right! They're going to want to catch up with us and ask us why we did that…" Toad said, starring up at the airships and smoke left from the airship that they hit. Luigi's nose was once again squished against the window, and he was looking upwards.
"What's wrong, Weegy?" Mario asked his brother.
"Daisy! She's still up there! What if she got hit?" Luigi asked in a worried tone. Peach gasped. Suddenly, the radio started to begin making static noises again.
"Ship 18! What is wrong with you? What was that for? What was your motive?" a Derma furiously asked. Mallow gulped and changed his voice again.
"Err…I had a…" Mallow started.
"Cramp!" Toad whispered.
"Yeah! A cramp! And then…I…" Mallow stopped again.
"Grabbed…uhh…cramp pills!" Toad finished him off again.
"Yes! Cramp pills! I went to grab cramp pills, and I was opening it and…" Mallow pondered for a minute. "It slipped out of my hands and fell on the button and released the missile!"
"Don't make this more difficult then it already is, 18. I will report you to King Derma at once." The Derma growled. Mallow was furious.
"Why? I told you what happened!" he shouted.
"Too bad. You will be punished at once." The Derma shouted back at him. Mallow frowned.
"Fine. May I ask, what ship number are you?" Mallow asked.
"Ship 26. Over and out." The Derma said suspiciously. Mallow smirked and steered the airship up.
"Mallow, what are you doing?" Toad asked. Mallow didn't answer, he just kept the ship up until he was with all the airships again. He looked for Ship 26, and spotted it.
"Yes…" Mallow grinned. Toad wondered on what he was up to, until Mallow aimed at Ship 26 and pressed the missile button.
"Mallow!" Toad shouted, but before he can stop him the missile was released and it shot through Ship 26, causing it to explode. Mallow laughed evilly.
"Mallow! We are going to be in even more trouble now!" Luigi shouted. Luigi then noticed an airship gaining on Daisy, and opening up its back.
"No!" Luigi shouted as the airship took in Daisy's pod and closed behind her. Suddenly in turned towards them. So did the other airships.
"What's going on Mario…" Peach asked squeezing his hand. Mallow then shouted to the back.
"Everyone, put on your seat belts. Fast." He commanded them. They all buckled up, and Mallow started to steer downward. All of a sudden, all the airships fired at them.
"Mallow! Quick! Dodge them!" Mario shouted holding on to the arm rests as he and Peach looked out the window. Mallow swerved back and forth dodging the missiles. Mallow turned the airship towards the airships, and fired a missile. He hit Ship 22, and it exploded lighting Ships 12 and 3 on fire.
"Score!" Mallow shouted. Toad then noticed a button with 3 little symbols of missiles on it. He pressed it, and a little screen in front of him lit up.
"I think we choose which airships we hit with this one…" Toad told Mallow.
"Don't hit Ship 11! Daisy is in that one!" Luigi shouted. Toad nodded, and pressed the button. The missiles fired and hit three other ships, causing them to fall down. Ship 12 also fell and exploded. Everyone cheered.
"Woohoo! This is the best!" Mallow shouted to everyone. The radio started to go on once again.
"Ship 18! Stop! What the hell is the matter with you!?" the Derma shouted at Mallow. "We must stop you!"
Mallow spoke back. "Go ahead. Try it a**hole!" he shouted. Toad laughed and slapped Mallow five. Suddenly Ship 9 appeared out of nowhere right next to them, scraping them with its wing.
"Where'd this guy come from?" Peach asked.
"We can't fire at him, the explosion will hit us too!" Mallow shouted. Mario unbuckled himself.
"Luigi, come with me." Mario ordered Luigi.
"W-W-W-Why? What are we going to do?" Luigi asked with fear in his eyes and voice. Mario unbuckled Luigi's seat belt and dragged him to the back with him.
"There has to be something around here…" Mario whispered. He went inside a room and flicked on the lights.
"Weapons!" Luigi shouted. Mario smiled and picked up a machine gun, as did Luigi.
"Sweet." Luigi commented. Mario opened the side door, causing a strong gust of wind to swipe by the front of his body. He hung on tight as he spotted Ship 9. Luigi motioned Mallow to slow down the airship.
"Come on, Luigi!" Mario shouted over the wind, and he jumped onto the wing of the aircraft. Luigi bit his lower lip, strong enough to bruise it, as fear filled his heart. He walked to the edge of the exit, and looked at his brother on the wing.
"I can't do it!" Luigi shouted with fear.
"Yes you can! Jump Luigi!" Mario shouted back with determination. Luigi swallowed bile, and jumped off on to the wing. As he shouted in cheer, he stepped back and slipped backwards. As he thought it was over, Mario grabbed his shirt and pulled him back up.
"Nice one, bro." Mario snickered. Luigi fake smiled and stood next to his brother, and loaded his machine gun. Ship 9 was scraping their aircraft even more, and soon enough a hole would emerge. Peach gazed at them through the window.
"Come on, guys! Be careful!" she shouted uselessly, she was unheard by the brothers. Mario and Luigi aimed for their rival ship.
"Ready?" Mario asked.
"Uh-huh. Are you?" Luigi asked. Mario slowly pulled the trigger.
"Yeah…" and with those words, they fired away, bullets piercing the metal of the aircraft next to them. Smoke started to rise and following it was fire, as the aircraft was near explosion. It started to lower, and soon it was below them as the brothers continued to fire at it. Finally, the aircraft fell loosely, and after a while a "BOOM" was heard from below as pieces of it went everywhere. Luigi slapped his brother five, and made an ok sign to the princess. The princess smiled happily and everyone cheered.
It was empty. Nothing happened. Everything was fine. Toadette sighed with relief at those words as the owner of the gun pressed the trigger furiously. Toadette got up from her falling spot and ran towards the door that lead to the hall with all the bedrooms. She slammed herself against the door and turned the doorknob quickly. She sent the door flying open and closed it behind her, and locked it.
"Thank…GOD." She shouted out loud. She leaned against the door to catch her breath, and wondered if any one else from the other side would make it. She shook the thoughts off, and walked down the hall slowly. She saw a door that lead to the princess's bedroom, and another door that lead to another guest room and the Chancellor's room. She entered the princess's bedroom first, only to find it messy, real messy. She found no trace of any gunshots, and the windows were untouched.
"That's weird…" Toadette whispered. All of a sudden she heard a rustling sound coming from behind her bed. Then a small giggle.
"It better not be what I think it is…especially at a time like this." Toadette grinned. She slowly walked behind the bed, and spotted her little brother, Toady, ripping up some papers.
"Toady! Toady! Your safe!" Toadette shouted and picked up her brother and flung him in the air and back into her arms.
"Toady hears big noises and hide cause he scay-wed!" Toady said to his sister. Toadette smiled and squeezed his brother tight.
"Don't worry, everything will be ok." She comforted him. Toady smiled and yawned.
"Me tiwed…" he whispered, and pointed to his little blue doll. Toadette picked up the doll and handed it to him, and rocked him back and forth. Toadette starred out the window into the darkness, with only small little lights visible.
"Why is this happening…" she whispered.
"Don't worry, junior. Its just the dark…" Bowser said to his son in his deep, rough voice. Bowser Jr. looked up at his dead.
"JUST the dark? Are you aware of my fear of darkness? Are you AWARE of something called Scotophobia? Are you?" Bowser Jr. shouted at his father.
"Yes, I am aware damnit! Go to your room! It's no big deal! We have hundreds of lights in this castle!!! Go play with your Punch Me, I'm Mario action figure!!!!" Bowser shouted back at his son. Bowser Jr. made a weak, childish roar at him and stomped out of the room and Bowser let out a mighty roar that sent his son running.
"God damn spoiled brat…" Bowser growled. He picked up his mighty feet and walked towards his window and looked outside. He had a pretty good view from being up so high, but now with all this darkness, he couldn't see a thing.
"Your majesty…" a Koopa Troopa said as he walked through the door. Bowser still kept his eyes outside.
"Eh? What the hell do you want?" Bowser asked with a growl. The Koopa approached him with a letter.
"It's a letter from your children." The Koopa said, placing the envelope on the windowsill and stepped back. Bowser picked up the envelope and tore it open with his claws. Inside was a letter.
Dear Dad,
This place rocks. We really got a lot of help from this secret training academy at Yoshi's Island. We are all having fun, and ready to kick some plumber ass. We will come back soon, later next week. Were looking forward to seeing you again. See you soon….
Love, Iggy, Morton Jr, Lemmy, Ludwig Von, Roy, Wendy, and Larry.
Bowser smiled an evil grin at the letter as he crumbled it up and threw it in the trash bin.
"They're coming back. They finally were trained, long enough to kill that Mario and his brother Louie. Luis? Whatever." Bowser grumbled. "I hope all that training worked…"
"It probably won't." Bowser Jr. snapped from around the corner. He walked inside the room and Bowser turned to face his youngest son.
"And how the hell would you know ya' little munchkin." Bowser scowled.
"I remember those stories of all my brothers and my sister. They sucked." Bowser Jr. exclaimed. Bowser roared, causing Bowser Jr. to cover his face.
"They are better now. They went to secret training academy hidden very well on Yoshi's Island. Now they will do it. All members of the Koopa family went there." Bowser told his son triumphantly. Bowser Jr. raised his brow.
"Even you? I see how well that turned out…" Bowser Jr. said sarcastically. Bowser roared once again at his son.
"What's that suppose to mean!?!" he shouted. Bowser Jr. sighed. Bowser continued after his son's interruption.
"All Koopa's went there, and turned out just fine." Bowser finished.
"Even…. mom?" Bowser Jr. asked in a low voice. Bowser's eyes widened, and there was a long moment of silence. Suddenly they heard shouting outside the castle. Bowser ran towards the window. He saw the lights shining on his Goomba's, Koopa Troopa's, and Spiney's trying to fight off weird creatures with cloaks over them.
"What the hell is that?" Bowser whispered to himself. Bowser Jr. tapped his dad's shell.
"What is it? Whose there?" Bowser Jr. asked worryingly.
Bowser growled. "People attempting suicide…"
Daisy entered a garage that had its door torn off in pieces all over the floor. She saw a small little flying pod in the garage, and heard footsteps inside the area, echoing. She turned to see a Derma, walking around the pod.
"Why did everything stop shaking? Our plan is ruined for this island! What's the point of leaving now…" the Derma said talking to himself. Daisy then smiled as the Derma walked out of the garage as she hid behind a box, and ran towards the pod.
"Yes, I'm finally leaving. Now I get to see how things are in Mushroom Land." She said in her mind. She got inside the pod, and began to start it, the engine roaring as a result. The Derma heard this and rushed back.
"Hey!" he shouted running towards her. She started to move the pod forward and noticed the darkness once again.
"Oops, I forgot. This could be a problem." She said and raised the pod up into the air, but suddenly everything got even darker. "This is going to be a REAL problem!"
Mario and Peach woke up, noticing they were moving. Mario looked around, noticing windows and light shining through them. Peach raised her head as the floor bobbed up and down, as well.
"Mario?" she asked, squinting her eyes. Mario looked at a couple of seats in front of them, and noticed all their pals were sitting on them.
"Finally you guys woke up!" Luigi smiled, looking back at them. Peach shook her head.
"Luigi? How did we get here?" she asked. Tao turned around also.
"We found you down there, not sure if you guys were alright or not. We hurried you to a cave where we beat up a couple o' baddies and stole this small plane." Tao said happily. Peach was relieved with the news, and tried to get up, but fell helplessly.
"Ouch!" she shouted, and held her calf in her delicate hands.
"What's wrong, Peach?" Mario asked. Peach stared at Mario, and then at her leg again.
"I think I sprained it when we fell." She said. Mario went to touch it. "Ahh! Don't!" she shouted. Mario nodded, and Tao turned around again.
"Don't worry, you'll be alright Peach!" he assured her. Mario got up and walked towards the cockpit.
"Whose driving this plane, anyway?" he asked. He turned to the pilot seat and saw Mallow.
"Meet your pilot and co-pilot, Mallow and Toad!" Toad remarked. Mallow steered the plane slowly for some reason.
"Mallow, you can fly an airplane?" Mario asked. Mallow nodded.
"Yup, one of the few jobs in Nimbus Land, Mario!" he exclaimed. Kin then shot up from the back.
"Why are you driving so slow?" he asked curiously. Mallow kept his eye on the dark clouds and mysterious sky in front of him.
"Don't you remember? We got a load under us." He said, grinning. Peach and Mario pondered for a moment, and then Mario opened a window and leaned out, only to see something magnificent. The giant cage with the Yoshis was hanging from the bottom of the plane, with all the Yoshis screaming in happiness that they are going to be free.
"How did you do that??" Mario shouted, astonished. Toad grinned.
"We needed to save them, too! We will bring them back somewhere safe." Toad answered. Mario sat down, amazed at all the events. Peach then limped towards the seat in where Toad sat, and sat in a seat right behind him.
"Toad, you were going to tell me something before. Before we were thrown into the lava pit. What was it?" Peach asked him. Toad's sweat dropped, and made a fake smile.
"Well, Peach, I was…uh…going to tell you because we were going to die. At least, that's what I thought. So, there isn't a need to tell you now." Toad said, trying to stop the conversation from beginning. Peach raised an eyebrow.
"Toad, tell me. I command you to tell me." She told him in a demanding tone. Toad couldn't take it. He hated that word, "command" Peach used it on him often, hence him being the royal servant and all. He had to say it.
"I hate when you do that, princess." He told her, grinning. Peach smiled.
"I knew it. Now come on, spill the beans." She told him. Toad nodded, looking out in front of him, towards the clouds they were passing by swiftly.
"Its about…Tao." He told him. Peach then got very curious.
"What can it possibly be about?" she asked him. Toad gulped, and was about to tell her when suddenly a small pod suddenly flew past them. Mallow got a suddenly burst of surprise.
"What the…" he whispered, and turned the plane to the left, where the pod flew past. Everyone in the plane looked out his or her windows.
" I see it! Its right there!" Tao shouted. He pointed outside the window, but it was gone once again. It seemed to be circling the plane.
Toadette ran around the castle, looking for something. Her brown locks of hair brushed her ears and passed her bright pink mushroom hat, and her pink vest flapped along with her.
"Toady? Toady? Where are you!" she shouted out. She sped down the halls, passing other Toad-recruits. Toady was her little brother, and her responsibility. She was looking for him and his baby blue mushroom hat bobbing around somewhere. He was often holding a small blue doll in his hand he got from a child in Rose Town. Actually, "stole" was more like it. The boy's mother owned the Inn there, and when he saw it he never took his eyes off it, and left with it in his little jacket he wore that day.
"Toady! Come on! I'm not playing around!" she shouted. Suddenly, a Toad-recruit ran from his spot and stood in front of her.
"Toadette? Where's the fire?" he asked. She glared at him for getting in her way.
"I need to find my brother, Toady. Have you seen him? I can't let him go outside! Its so dark out there, and I would get my ass kicked!" she told him, hoping for him to know where he was. The recruit shook his head.
"No, I haven't seen him. I'm sorry, Toadette. He is probably still in the castle, we have guards everywhere." He assured her. She sighed and nodded.
"Fine…" Toadette walked down the hall. "Is the Chancellor still gone?" she asked him. The Toad turned around.
"Unfortunately, he is. He's still at the hospital, but he's fine. He just needs some rest. We have all of us in charge now, so everything still is in good hands." He told her. She nodded, and continued to walk. Down to the main hall of the castle, about eight Toad recruits were guarding and walking around, talking amongst each other. Toadette passed by them all, and swerved through a couple of walking recruits towards the door that led to the hall with three other doors, one to the guest room, one to the basement and one to the kitchen. As her hand reached out for the doorknob, she heard glass shattering. She turned around and saw dog like creatures that jumped through the windows. The Toads were armed and started shooting at them, but suddenly Derma's started to barge in.
"We are being attacked! Send more recruits ASAP!" a Toad yelled into his walkie-talkie. He continued to fire at the menacing beasts. Toadette was in shock, but still had enough sense to run out of there. She ran through the door and slammed it shut behind her, hearing sounds of gunfire and screams. Waitresses and cooks started running out from the kitchen.
"What's going on in there?" a confused waitress asked Toadette. Toadette locked the door and walked towards them.
"We are being attacked! People are dying in there! We need to get out, quickly!" she shouted. Every one of them was astonished and scared at the same time.
"What are we being attacked by?" a cook asked.
"I don't know! We just have to get out! Quick! Into the kitchen and out the door!" Toadette commanded them. As they all quickly turned towards the kitchen, they heard smashing coming from inside there.
"Oh no…" a waitress said. They all backed away, some running into the guest room.
"Wait! We have to stick together! Like brothers and sis…" suddenly Toadette remembered. She remembered something horrifying. Her brother was still somewhere in the castle, who knows where those monsters could have been as well. She suddenly ran towards the main hall, where all the gunfire still took place.
"Toadette, where are you going?" a cook asked.
"Just lock the door!" she shouted not answering his question. She closed the door behind her, only to be faced with a war scene. She ran behind a tall flower plant, and waited for the door to the main bedrooms to be clear of anyone. It was finally a clear shot to run towards, and as she turned from the plant, a dead Toad recruit was laying on the floor.
"Ugh…" Toadette groaned. She then took a deep breath, and sped in the middle of the war scene. She ran, and was half way.
"Come on…you can do it Toadette," she told herself. She suddenly tripped over a gun that was lying on the floor, and fell down.
"Not happening," she said to herself. She got up as fast as she could, but suddenly heard a click of a gun. She turned her head, only to find a gun being pointed towards her, and the owner was pulling the trigger.
Mallow turned on the headlights of the plane, dived the plane down, and then looked up. The little pod was also coming down with them, but who was driving it?
"What the hell do they think they are doing?" Toad asked looking up at it.
"Lets get in for a closer look!" Tao shouted. Mallow steered the plane upward, and took a closer look at the person. They got near enough, and knew whom it was. The long brown hair, the small crown, the yellow dress, it was all familiar. It was Daisy.
"Daisy!!" Luigi shouted as he got up out of his seat and squished his nose between his face and the window. Daisy looked at the face that was looking back at her.
"Luigi!" she shouted in joy. Just then, a loud noise came from nowhere. As they flew in that area, large airships and other small pods started to rise from the clouds and pass them by. Inside were, of course, Dermas. They thought that Daisy and Mallow's planes were driven by Dermas too, so they kept going. Pods were getting too close to Daisy's pod, so she quickly found a black cloak and covered herself. Just then, Mallow's radio started to get static noises.
"Ship 18, do you read me? Over." A Derma spoke through the radio. Mallow didn't want them to find out that they weren't Dermas, so he changed his voice.
"Yes, I read you. What is our mission?" he said in a rough voice.
"Our mission is to head to Jewelry Land where King Derma already established headquarters and token over the citizens. We shall land our lava dragon onto the hot springs inside its transportation device. Land as soon as you see the tip of Jewelry Land, got it?" the Derma told Mallow.
"Yes. Thanks. Over and out." Mallow responded, and closed the radio. He looked at Toad, then back at everyone.
"Guys, Dermas are everywhere on Jewelry Land, how are we going to step foot?" Mallow told them.
"We might get caught…" Luigi sighed. Peach found some strength and stood up, her leg still aching a little.
"Prince Pine! King Fret! They are captured?" Peach asked worryingly. Mario nodded.
"I'm afraid so, Peach. We will save them, but that's the least of our problems." He told her. Luigi then noticed the airships opening up in the back and letting some pods inside.
"Guys! Look! There must be a button that opens the airship in the back! Lets get Daisy in here!" he told them. Mallow nodded, and then stared at all the buttons.
"Which one does that…?" he asked. He and Toad looked for the one that would open it.
"Make sure we don't press the wrong one…" Toad whispered to Mallow. Mallow nodded, thinking of what button they should press.
"This one?" Mallow asked. Toad shrugged.
"Try it, I guess." He told Mallow. Mallow pressed the button, and everyone heard some machinery opening.
"What could that be?" Kin asked. All of a sudden, a missile zoomed out from under the airship and passed them quickly. Everyone gasped as the missile hit an airship and it exploded, causing Toad and Mallow to steer their airship down, away from the explosion. Fire swirled through the air and pieces of the hit airship flew everywhere.
"I think that was the wrong button…" Mallow told them with a sweat drop.
"No shit…" Tao said, frustrated. Mario turned to Tao.
"What's your problem?" he asked him. Tao turned to Mallow.
"Am I the only one who realizes that all the Dermas who witnessed us attack will be all over us?" Tao told Mario with a growl in his voice.
"Your right! They're going to want to catch up with us and ask us why we did that…" Toad said, starring up at the airships and smoke left from the airship that they hit. Luigi's nose was once again squished against the window, and he was looking upwards.
"What's wrong, Weegy?" Mario asked his brother.
"Daisy! She's still up there! What if she got hit?" Luigi asked in a worried tone. Peach gasped. Suddenly, the radio started to begin making static noises again.
"Ship 18! What is wrong with you? What was that for? What was your motive?" a Derma furiously asked. Mallow gulped and changed his voice again.
"Err…I had a…" Mallow started.
"Cramp!" Toad whispered.
"Yeah! A cramp! And then…I…" Mallow stopped again.
"Grabbed…uhh…cramp pills!" Toad finished him off again.
"Yes! Cramp pills! I went to grab cramp pills, and I was opening it and…" Mallow pondered for a minute. "It slipped out of my hands and fell on the button and released the missile!"
"Don't make this more difficult then it already is, 18. I will report you to King Derma at once." The Derma growled. Mallow was furious.
"Why? I told you what happened!" he shouted.
"Too bad. You will be punished at once." The Derma shouted back at him. Mallow frowned.
"Fine. May I ask, what ship number are you?" Mallow asked.
"Ship 26. Over and out." The Derma said suspiciously. Mallow smirked and steered the airship up.
"Mallow, what are you doing?" Toad asked. Mallow didn't answer, he just kept the ship up until he was with all the airships again. He looked for Ship 26, and spotted it.
"Yes…" Mallow grinned. Toad wondered on what he was up to, until Mallow aimed at Ship 26 and pressed the missile button.
"Mallow!" Toad shouted, but before he can stop him the missile was released and it shot through Ship 26, causing it to explode. Mallow laughed evilly.
"Mallow! We are going to be in even more trouble now!" Luigi shouted. Luigi then noticed an airship gaining on Daisy, and opening up its back.
"No!" Luigi shouted as the airship took in Daisy's pod and closed behind her. Suddenly in turned towards them. So did the other airships.
"What's going on Mario…" Peach asked squeezing his hand. Mallow then shouted to the back.
"Everyone, put on your seat belts. Fast." He commanded them. They all buckled up, and Mallow started to steer downward. All of a sudden, all the airships fired at them.
"Mallow! Quick! Dodge them!" Mario shouted holding on to the arm rests as he and Peach looked out the window. Mallow swerved back and forth dodging the missiles. Mallow turned the airship towards the airships, and fired a missile. He hit Ship 22, and it exploded lighting Ships 12 and 3 on fire.
"Score!" Mallow shouted. Toad then noticed a button with 3 little symbols of missiles on it. He pressed it, and a little screen in front of him lit up.
"I think we choose which airships we hit with this one…" Toad told Mallow.
"Don't hit Ship 11! Daisy is in that one!" Luigi shouted. Toad nodded, and pressed the button. The missiles fired and hit three other ships, causing them to fall down. Ship 12 also fell and exploded. Everyone cheered.
"Woohoo! This is the best!" Mallow shouted to everyone. The radio started to go on once again.
"Ship 18! Stop! What the hell is the matter with you!?" the Derma shouted at Mallow. "We must stop you!"
Mallow spoke back. "Go ahead. Try it a**hole!" he shouted. Toad laughed and slapped Mallow five. Suddenly Ship 9 appeared out of nowhere right next to them, scraping them with its wing.
"Where'd this guy come from?" Peach asked.
"We can't fire at him, the explosion will hit us too!" Mallow shouted. Mario unbuckled himself.
"Luigi, come with me." Mario ordered Luigi.
"W-W-W-Why? What are we going to do?" Luigi asked with fear in his eyes and voice. Mario unbuckled Luigi's seat belt and dragged him to the back with him.
"There has to be something around here…" Mario whispered. He went inside a room and flicked on the lights.
"Weapons!" Luigi shouted. Mario smiled and picked up a machine gun, as did Luigi.
"Sweet." Luigi commented. Mario opened the side door, causing a strong gust of wind to swipe by the front of his body. He hung on tight as he spotted Ship 9. Luigi motioned Mallow to slow down the airship.
"Come on, Luigi!" Mario shouted over the wind, and he jumped onto the wing of the aircraft. Luigi bit his lower lip, strong enough to bruise it, as fear filled his heart. He walked to the edge of the exit, and looked at his brother on the wing.
"I can't do it!" Luigi shouted with fear.
"Yes you can! Jump Luigi!" Mario shouted back with determination. Luigi swallowed bile, and jumped off on to the wing. As he shouted in cheer, he stepped back and slipped backwards. As he thought it was over, Mario grabbed his shirt and pulled him back up.
"Nice one, bro." Mario snickered. Luigi fake smiled and stood next to his brother, and loaded his machine gun. Ship 9 was scraping their aircraft even more, and soon enough a hole would emerge. Peach gazed at them through the window.
"Come on, guys! Be careful!" she shouted uselessly, she was unheard by the brothers. Mario and Luigi aimed for their rival ship.
"Ready?" Mario asked.
"Uh-huh. Are you?" Luigi asked. Mario slowly pulled the trigger.
"Yeah…" and with those words, they fired away, bullets piercing the metal of the aircraft next to them. Smoke started to rise and following it was fire, as the aircraft was near explosion. It started to lower, and soon it was below them as the brothers continued to fire at it. Finally, the aircraft fell loosely, and after a while a "BOOM" was heard from below as pieces of it went everywhere. Luigi slapped his brother five, and made an ok sign to the princess. The princess smiled happily and everyone cheered.
It was empty. Nothing happened. Everything was fine. Toadette sighed with relief at those words as the owner of the gun pressed the trigger furiously. Toadette got up from her falling spot and ran towards the door that lead to the hall with all the bedrooms. She slammed herself against the door and turned the doorknob quickly. She sent the door flying open and closed it behind her, and locked it.
"Thank…GOD." She shouted out loud. She leaned against the door to catch her breath, and wondered if any one else from the other side would make it. She shook the thoughts off, and walked down the hall slowly. She saw a door that lead to the princess's bedroom, and another door that lead to another guest room and the Chancellor's room. She entered the princess's bedroom first, only to find it messy, real messy. She found no trace of any gunshots, and the windows were untouched.
"That's weird…" Toadette whispered. All of a sudden she heard a rustling sound coming from behind her bed. Then a small giggle.
"It better not be what I think it is…especially at a time like this." Toadette grinned. She slowly walked behind the bed, and spotted her little brother, Toady, ripping up some papers.
"Toady! Toady! Your safe!" Toadette shouted and picked up her brother and flung him in the air and back into her arms.
"Toady hears big noises and hide cause he scay-wed!" Toady said to his sister. Toadette smiled and squeezed his brother tight.
"Don't worry, everything will be ok." She comforted him. Toady smiled and yawned.
"Me tiwed…" he whispered, and pointed to his little blue doll. Toadette picked up the doll and handed it to him, and rocked him back and forth. Toadette starred out the window into the darkness, with only small little lights visible.
"Why is this happening…" she whispered.
"Don't worry, junior. Its just the dark…" Bowser said to his son in his deep, rough voice. Bowser Jr. looked up at his dead.
"JUST the dark? Are you aware of my fear of darkness? Are you AWARE of something called Scotophobia? Are you?" Bowser Jr. shouted at his father.
"Yes, I am aware damnit! Go to your room! It's no big deal! We have hundreds of lights in this castle!!! Go play with your Punch Me, I'm Mario action figure!!!!" Bowser shouted back at his son. Bowser Jr. made a weak, childish roar at him and stomped out of the room and Bowser let out a mighty roar that sent his son running.
"God damn spoiled brat…" Bowser growled. He picked up his mighty feet and walked towards his window and looked outside. He had a pretty good view from being up so high, but now with all this darkness, he couldn't see a thing.
"Your majesty…" a Koopa Troopa said as he walked through the door. Bowser still kept his eyes outside.
"Eh? What the hell do you want?" Bowser asked with a growl. The Koopa approached him with a letter.
"It's a letter from your children." The Koopa said, placing the envelope on the windowsill and stepped back. Bowser picked up the envelope and tore it open with his claws. Inside was a letter.
Dear Dad,
This place rocks. We really got a lot of help from this secret training academy at Yoshi's Island. We are all having fun, and ready to kick some plumber ass. We will come back soon, later next week. Were looking forward to seeing you again. See you soon….
Love, Iggy, Morton Jr, Lemmy, Ludwig Von, Roy, Wendy, and Larry.
Bowser smiled an evil grin at the letter as he crumbled it up and threw it in the trash bin.
"They're coming back. They finally were trained, long enough to kill that Mario and his brother Louie. Luis? Whatever." Bowser grumbled. "I hope all that training worked…"
"It probably won't." Bowser Jr. snapped from around the corner. He walked inside the room and Bowser turned to face his youngest son.
"And how the hell would you know ya' little munchkin." Bowser scowled.
"I remember those stories of all my brothers and my sister. They sucked." Bowser Jr. exclaimed. Bowser roared, causing Bowser Jr. to cover his face.
"They are better now. They went to secret training academy hidden very well on Yoshi's Island. Now they will do it. All members of the Koopa family went there." Bowser told his son triumphantly. Bowser Jr. raised his brow.
"Even you? I see how well that turned out…" Bowser Jr. said sarcastically. Bowser roared once again at his son.
"What's that suppose to mean!?!" he shouted. Bowser Jr. sighed. Bowser continued after his son's interruption.
"All Koopa's went there, and turned out just fine." Bowser finished.
"Even…. mom?" Bowser Jr. asked in a low voice. Bowser's eyes widened, and there was a long moment of silence. Suddenly they heard shouting outside the castle. Bowser ran towards the window. He saw the lights shining on his Goomba's, Koopa Troopa's, and Spiney's trying to fight off weird creatures with cloaks over them.
"What the hell is that?" Bowser whispered to himself. Bowser Jr. tapped his dad's shell.
"What is it? Whose there?" Bowser Jr. asked worryingly.
Bowser growled. "People attempting suicide…"