Changing History

Chapter 3: Confusion

Bowser woke up the next day raring to finally beat Mario, still something told him that his plan wouldn't work anyway. Bowser ignored it and went to the lab to get started.

"Good Morning evil King Dad" Ludwig greeted Bowser as he entered the room wide-eyed and evil looking.

"Is the machine ready?!" Bowser asked immediately.

"Yeah" Ludwig replied quickly. "Where to you want to go in time anyway?" Ludwig asked ready to type it into a control panel on the side of the machine.

"Um…? Make it a day before my eighteenth birthday" Bowser answered tried to remember exactly what he did that long ago.

"Finished!" Ludwig replied as he pushed a button on the top left of the controls, "now first you need to put this on" Ludwig explained as he strapped a tiny watch on Bowser's wrist. "This is your means to get home, if you press this button then it should send me a beckon and then I should be able to send you home immediately!".

"Ok then can I go now?" Bowser asked urging to go.

"Yes" Ludwig answered standing firmly with his hands behind him.

"Ok here goes" Bowser said to himself excitedly as he stepped into the tall machine. The door shut and then there was a flash before Bowser disappeared into thin air.

"Ah!" Bowser yelled as he fell to the floor from the sudden change in the surroundings and ground level. He heard talking in the background.

"GUARDS!!!" the familiar voice roared.

"No please sire?" the other unfamiliar voice begged.

"I'll kill you later!" the familiar voice explained evilly. "YOU THE KOOPA TROOPA STANDING THERE!!!" he shouted furiously.

"Me?" the koopa troopa asked back nervously.

"YES YOU, FOOL!!! TAKE THIS PEASENT TO THE DUNGEON!!!" the familiar voice roared again.

"Yes your highness, right away?" the koopa troopa replied, obviously escorting the victim to the dungeon now.

"NO!!!" the victim screamed then there was a very sudden silence. "KING BOWSER YOU'RE A IDIOT, YOU'LL NEVER BE NOTHING LIKE YOUR FATHER!!!" the victim shouted.

"WAIT!!!" the familiar voice shouted.

"OW!!!" the victim yelled in pain as a punch sound was heard.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" the familiar voice asked loudly. "NOW YOU DIE!!!" he roared then there was a claw swiping noise and then a body hit the floor silently. "CLEAN UP THIS MESS AND BRING ME A CLOTH SO I CAN CLEAN MY HANDS!!!"

Someone sprinted off and there was a short silence then someone sprinted back. After a second the young King Koopa walked through into the same room Bowser had landed in with a red stained cloth in his hands. He saw Bowser lying on the floor and the little king quickly threw the cloth to the side of the room.

"Who are you?!" the young King demanded, Bowser to look up to see the younger version of himself. "AAAHHHH!!!" the younger Bowser screamed quite loudly as he took a proper look at Bowser, quickly falling back and onto the floor. Bowser laughed gently as he got up and looked intimidatingly at his teenage self while he looked a bit shocked.

Bowser reminisced what he used to look like, his teenage counterpart was a little smaller then him, a lot less muscular and had shorter hair (they were the main differences between the both of them) but Bowser had to admit he did look more evil in the good old days. Maybe what most people said about him 'raising a family had turning him soft' was true. When Bowser looked down at his younger embodiment he saw the glory and evil that was the Koopa Empire, his dad would have been proud then but now Bowser looked at himself today and saw strength and power yet not satisfaction. No satisfaction for the fact that he was a useless king, unable to conquer any kingdoms other than his own.

It had gotten to the point where the mushroom people weren't even afraid of the huge spikey turtle anymore? Mario would just come and save the day again, no-one cared if King Koopa had a new evil plan, Mario! Mario! Mario! It was all about Mario, but now Bowser had the chance to put an end to their rivalry and ironically through the beginning when it started. Also Bowser had no-one else to thank but Mario for giving him the idea and this way when he killed Mario no-one would know or remember the amount of times Bowser had fallen at his hands, thus meaning he could spread his terror upon the world once more.

"Good it worked?" Bowser laughed gently wiping himself of any dust that stuck to him from the floor.

"You look like…? My dad!" the teenage Bowser spoke in shock and plain confusion.

"WHAT?!" Bowser replied in shock as he fell forward.

"Yeah, you look exactly like my dad only your skin is the same color as mine and you've got less spikes on your shell than my dad. In fact you've got the same amount of spikes on your shell as me!" the teenage Bowser figured out as he examined his older form carefully inch by inch. He walked steadily around Bowser a couple of times through examination and stopped in front of Bowser clueless.

"So do you know who I am yet?" Bowser asked as he picked himself up again and raised one eyebrow.

"No, not a clue?" the teenage Bowser replied.

"I'll you, you stupid fool!!!" Bowser explained as he tapped his younger self on the head to make sure he had a brain.

"You're me?" the teenage Bowser replied in shock again. "But you're way older than me?" he stated the obvious as he trying to figure it all out.

"I'm from the future!" Bowser explained stressfully. "Listen mini me…?" Bowser's past self interrupted him.

"My name's King Bowser Koopa, but you can call me your highness!" he replied.

"Not in a million years mini me!" Bowser snapped back.

"Don't call me that you over grown tubby koopa!" the teen Bowser complained back, resorting to the insults.

"Over grown tubby, are you blind or something?" Bowser asked suspiciously. "This is pure muscle" Bowser boasted as he lifted his belly up a bit. "What about you, with your tiny chicken arms!"

"I have muscle!" Bowser younger counterpart explained as he flexed his arm muscles.

"That ain't muscle?" Bowser argued as felt his younger half's muscles properly. "This is muscle, feel 'em" Bowser showed off again.

"Wow! They're rock solid?" the teen Bowser spoke in surprise.

"Ok this has gone far enough, I have something to tell you!" Bowser explained urgently.

"What?" the younger Bowser asked curiously paying full attention immediately.

"Something's gonna happen on your eighteenth birthday" Bowser explained.

"That's tomorrow?" the younger Bowser replied quickly.

"Yes, something that will change your life and perspective of things. So I'm here to help you out tomorrow!" Bowser carried on waving a finger infront of his younger version.

"What happens then?" the teenage Bowser asked nervously.

"If I told you then you'd think I was being stupid and wouldn't believe me" Bowser answered without an answer. Bowser knew when he was younger he was VERY, VERY big headed and DEFINITELY wouldn't believe he could be beaten even if his future self came and warned him. The young Bowser would think it was absurd, Bowser would know through being him.

"King Bowser!" Kamek spoke urgently as he ran in the throne room. "AAAAHHHHHHH!!!" Kamek screamed in shock as he noticed the older Bowser.

"You're looks haven't changed a bit?" Bowser complimented as he examined Kamek from where he stood.

"Bowser?" Kamek asked, very confused but when he looking at the grown up Koopa king he knew immediately that it was Bowser for sure.

"Yeah?" Bowser replied but couldn't help blushing at the same time.

"What do you want Kamek?!" the younger Bowser asked demandingly. He crossed his arms and stared at Kamek evilly.

"Well um…?" Kamek replied speechless as if there was nothing to say.

"Respect your elders!" Bowser told off the mouthy koopa with a slap round the back of his head as if his teenage version was one of his children who needed to learn a lesson.

"Hey, who do you think you are…?!" the teenage Bowser argued back stupidly realizing what he was saying but he carried on anyway.

"I'm you and I'm older and I know better than you!" Bowser argued back instantly with a grin.

"If my dad was still alive, he'd kick your ass!" the teenage Bowser complained causing Bowser to burst out laughing.

"So since you can't beat me up yourself you'd get Dad to beat me up?" Bowser asked while in tears from the laugher.

"Yes and he'd kick your sorry butt back to the future where you belong!" the teenage Bowser carried on as he faced off against his laughing adult half who was now slain down to the floor from the young King Koopa's threats.

"I'm gonna calm down" Bowser giggled as he slowly picked himself up while breathed in and out peacefully and giggled a little.

"King Bowser, princess Peach is going to the real world on your birthday, that could be your chance to take over her kingdom!" Kamek explained quickly.

"Good work Kamek, now leave while I deal with um…? Bowser?" the young Bowser replied but obviously having a little trouble saying the last few words. Kamek quickly left the room leaving the Bowsers staring blindly at the doorway for a second.