Daddy's Back

Chapter Three: Morton's Story

Morton ran straight forward to the throne seat and sat on it. "Bowser can you feel and hear the memories flashing through your head!" Morton spoke emotionally as he watched Bowser carefully walk through the room.

"Yeah none good though maybe that's why I left this place?" Bowser replied nervously walking toward his father who's expression turned evilly causing Bowser to step back instantly.

Morton roared, "WHAT THE HELL DID I DO WRONG!!! TELL ME!!!" Morton shouted at Bowser. Morton's shouting echoed through the large hall while Bowser stepped back again from his father's intimidation.

"I don't know, what are you talking about?!" Bowser argued bravely. Morton had trained his body up in the most torturing way all his life. He was almost invulnerable to pain so Bowser wouldn't have a chance if he fought him.

"I raised you to hate everything including me but since I last saw you Bowser, you've completely changed!" Morton explained loudly and disappointed in an angry way.

"What?" Bowser asked even though he understood Morton, but he thought none of that mattered. He though Morton had realised that he'd changed and he had accepted that. After a second of thought Bowser blew smoke from his nostrils as his anger rose. What did his father expect of him?

"Bowser listen to me, we are royal Koopas, ROYAL KOOPAS!!!" Morton shouted clearly, his shout echoed again though the empty throne room. "We are the embodiment of evil we don't just raise a family!" Morton explained as he thrashed his hand in front of him furiously.

"What are you saying dad?!" Bowser asked demandingly. "That you're disappointed with me!" Bowser stomped into the floor and sighed afterwards.

"Listen to my story Bowser, long ago I decided I would need an heir to the throne, a son to rule when I died, so I gathered all the healthy female Koopas in the kingdom, you can imagine what happened next!" Morton laughed shortly and carried on. "When they had their babies, I got rid of the female babies straight away. Then I checked and tested the males. The ones that were worthy were privileged, they were...?" Morton was interrupted by Bowser.

"What happened to the ones who weren't worthy?!" Bowser asked seriously.

"I killed them and ate them for dinner just like my daughters!" Morton's eyes flared evilly as Bowser stood in shock and disbelieve wanting to cry. "So where was I...?" Morton paused, "I remember now, ok so the privileged few were monitored and eventually I started eliminated them until there was one left! His name was...?!" Morton stopped as Bowser interrupted him again which was starting to annoy him.

"Wart?" Bowser interrupted his father with a random guess, after all Wart was his older brother.

"Yes, exactly, but Wart wasn't what I expected though? He...? He was very independent, he was tough but independent. So when he refused to train with me that wasn't really what I was looking for in a future king but at the same time it was?" Morton explained in disappointment almost confusing himself while Bowser was completely confused. "After Wart was about a year and half old things happened in the Koopa kingdom and I was really involved in it all...?!" Bowser interrupted again.

"The Koopa Revolution 35 years ago" Bowser figured, speaking gently as he remembered his history. Apparently he was born after it was over?

"Yes! Well anyway I got your mother pregnant again during that time and before I knew what was happening I had two more kids!" Morton carried on with a loud evil laugh afterwards.

"Two? But I only have one brother? Where did the other one come from?" Bowser asked in confusion.

"You're mother had twins!" Morton answered seriously.

"I had a twin?" Bowser started tearing while in shear shock.

"You still have a twin!" Morton laughed evilly, "named Scarno Koopa!"

"But the chances of us not encountering each other in the last twenty odd years are impossible?" Bowser replied completely shocked before he shook for half a second and stared at Morton coldly.

"JUST LISTEN AND STOP INTERRUPTING!!!" Morton roared from annoyance and Bowser quickly went silent. "Good, so I figured I'd keep one of you. I tried to find out who was eviller but you were both exactly the same. You did everything together!" Morton explained and paused again staring humorously into Bowser's watering eyes, "so I just picked one of you and it just happened to be Scarno then I threw him into another dimension. I didn't want to destroy him coz I planned to check on him one day in the future, maybe to see if he had stayed evil and it was worth bringing him back!" Morton laughed again only a little less insanely.

"Why didn't you keep both of us?!" Bowser asked furiously, stomping the floor again only this time piercing it.

"That's exactly what your mother asked just before I threw her out!" Morton stated as he looked carefully at Bowser, enjoying the pain and torture he'd inflicted from the things he'd just said. Morton then carried on to say, "because if you grew up with a brother around you, not including Wart since he was so independent! Then I figured you would talk, become connected and you would both start caring for each other and then you would both lose the evil I worked so hard to create!" Morton's eyes glowed evilly and smoke steamed out his nostrils.

"We were your kids didn't you care about us even one little bit?" Bowser asked with the watering eyes from before.

"I've only cared maybe slightly about two people and that was your mother and you Bowser, your mother was just a basic male and female attraction. You know, constantly together, kissing, making love, etc. But you Bowser was different, somehow you tapping into my mind. I started to think about your safety, the things you were doing, your interests, things that I never thought about before. I thought a lot about it and then I started feeling guilty which almost lead me to insanity?" Morton took a deep breath. "So I decided to end my life and with that I let the mushroom king stab me in the chest in the final battle and from my last breath I asked him to tell his people that he killed me and that I put up a descent fight" "Morton growled silently with anger as he finished.

"I always thought you were invincible as well dad?" Bowser replied quietly.

"So I'm at the end of my story, do you know the moral of it?!" Morton asked, quickly leaning forward to see if Bowser knew the answer.

"No what is it?!" Bowser growled as he asked in reply.

"The moral is that pure evil can't have families or their black hearts would get corrupted by their presence and they would start to love them and slowly but surely go mad!" Morton explained seriously, he seemed to know what he was on about.

"Now I know why you shouted but yes dad...?! I have changed but maybe for the better. When I met Anna and we married I didn't think I could get happier until I held Ludwig for the first time, do you remember my first born son!" Bowser explained hoping he could help his father's confusion.

"But Bowser don't you see?" a tear trickled out of one of Morton's eyes. "I'm plagued to think about every child I've killed over and over again and I'm plagued to think about the fact that I threw your mother away and I never loved someone and admitted it and never raised a family. I never witnessed your birth and I've never even held you, not ever!" Morton kneed down and cried gently under his bulky arms, giving Bowser the impression that he was coming to his senses.

Bowser walked carefully towards Morton and whispered to him, "you don't have to remember the bad things you've done in the past. I forgive you dad" and he stood in front of him keeping his eye contact with his confused almost insane father.

Bowser touched his father on the shoulder but Morton pushed him away quickly, "I... I CAN'T FORGET ABOUT IT, THINK BOWSER! THINK ABOUT IT! I'M EVIL, YOU'RE GOOD?!" Morton roared violently and sobbed afterwards as he wiped his snout.

"But dad I care about you and you can forget. It was a huge mistake in the past but it's over now?" Bowser replied quietly to help Morton calm down.

"NO!!! SHUT UP!!!" Morton shouted holding his hands over his ears.

"Dad?" Bowser carried on quietly.

"SHUT UP!!!" Morton roared louder.

"I'll let you think about this for a bit so I'm leaving for a while, it'll be better for you!" Bowser replied silently and turned away from Morton.

Bowser started to walk out the castle when Morton started laughing evilly. He started to get louder and louder until he shouted madly, "BOWSER DON'T YOU DARE LEAVE!!!"

"What?!" Bowser replied seriously and quickly turning around as if he was prepared to have a fight, which was probably the case.

Morton stood up and walked slowly over to Bowser while his intimidated son stepped back and starred at Morton insane expression in a very worrying and frightened way. When Morton reached him he swung a quick punch to the side of Bowser's face causing Bowser to quickly fall into the ground. Morton quickly laughed insanely as he waited for Bowser to react in some way. "Bowser you're not ever gonna leave!" Morton stated with the same evil grin he had 20 years ago.

"DAD!!!" Bowser roared as he got onto his hands and knees ready to pick himself back up. "You're insa...!" Bowser tried to finish but Morton booted him harshly in the stomach.

"Didn't you listen to me?!" Morton growled angrily while Bowser was panting for air, "YOU FOOL!" Morton shouted insanely before pulled him up and dragged him through a few short corridors and into another room, which looked like a lab of some kind.