Hmm yes, the first story I have written in well over a year (I think). As which is notorious for my writing, there is strong langauge (although not TOO bad) and violence. Once again I am back from the dead, and hopefully I am living up to my name as Mr. Zombie. This website has changed quite a bit, and apparently the old movie-style rating has been replaced with video-game style. Interesting. Also, as a note if any of my fans from my previous writings happens to read this, I plan to fulfill my long lost promise and finish posting my DBZ story.

The Doctor

This is a story based around Dr. Mario, the so-called Mario "clone." The basis of this story is that of Super Smash Bros. Melee style, as in the character's abilities are similar to that. In this tale of insanity, The Great Mario's reality will be questioned!

Chapter I

Mushroom Kingdom is safe once again! The Evil King Koopa's previous invasion of the Kingdom was thwarted thanks to the partnership of the Super Mario Bros. Bowser, angered and defeated, returns to his own dark world to reinforce his troops and begin preparations for his next assault on the Mushroom Kingdom. As Bowser flees in his Doom Ship, he shouts one last thing: "I'll get those damn plumbers!"

The Mushroom people rejoice in victory and celebrate the accomplishments of Mario and Luigi. One thing is certain though: Luigi still doesn't quite get enough credit as usual. Deep down Luigi holds great envy towards his brother Mario, who seems to always be in the spotlight while he himself stands in the shadows. This, however, he keeps to himself. Inside the Royal Castle, Luigi stands in the background as Mario is praised continuously by the inhabitants of the Kingdom, and they are even promising to erect statues of him!

Complete madness, Luigi thinks. Mario could not have done it himself! But what if I were to step up and say something? They would become angry at me because the fools would feel I was greedy and wanting Mario's glory. His glory should be my glory.

In the background, Luigi's fists clench. Someday.

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Miles outside of Mushroom Kingdom was also quite peaceful and quiet. For days the countryside had been ravaged by Bowser's invasion, but with the invasion gone life was back to normal. The sun was shining once again. However, in one area things were never normal, even with Bowser gone. A few hundred yards off the main trail to the Mushroom Kingdom was a cave, and within that cave no one knew what went on. At night those that were late returning to their homes often disappeared. And who was responsible? Nobody knew. However, sometimes a strange laughter could be heard coming from the cave. The laughter was similar to that of the Great Mario; however, it was darker and more insidious. More… evil sounding. They did not know what to make of it. They feared the cave and tried their best to avoid it at all costs.

Although the Mushroom people did not know, there was an insane doctor at work inside that cave. Enter the cave and a little ways there was a trapdoor, in the trapdoor was a long, brick hallway that led to a large wooden door. And inside that door was the madman's lab: a lab that was responsible for the countless deaths of many, and many insane experiments as well. Nobody knew it, but this was the lab of Doctor Mario.

The Doctor was only vaguely known by the people. In reality, they only thought he was a myth. Legend had it that Dr. Mario had been some kind of experiment by Bowser to create a replica of his nemesis Mario, and that the experiment had escaped. If this was true nobody knew. Mario himself had heard these rumors and shrugged them off as mere stories, something to scare children or something. So he never looked into it.

But Dr. Mario existed. Inside his lab he conducted dark experiments, sometimes with Toads and sometimes with Bowser's minions. His powers were unique. He was the victim of his own experiments. The Doctor had invented hundreds of drugs in pill-form; pills that enhanced ones mind and abilities, at the cost of going insane. But an average person could not handle such pills, but the Doctor was different. He became so addicted to his own pills that it was as if they became "one" with him. Using his own abilities that he had before the constant use of his "medicine," he fused his own powers with the powers of his pills. He suddenly had the power to create pills out of thin air and use them.

These pills could be any size and any color and have any kind of effect. Some large pills he could create that when thrown they would actually explode on an impact. This was the Doctor's solution to the one thing he lacked with his Mario counterpart: the flame fist. Mario was notorious for his fire abilities, and Dr. Mario did not have these powers. However, these pills easily countered Mario's abilities.

His lab was quite large, with tubes and life-forms all over the place. He would constantly stay awake for weeks working on his mad experiments, and this just added to more of his insanity. Inside his lab Dr. Mario wore a white lab coat to conduct his experiments, but when he went out in the darkness to find his victims he wore a black trench coat to allow himself to blend in with the darkness more. He never went outside without his black coat.

One day the Doctor had come across a Koopa, and he decided to test a batch of psychoactive mind-control pills that he had just created. The pills worked: the Koopa became loyal to him and forgot any kind of loyalty he had with King Bowser. Instead of simply killing him like so many others, the Doctor decided to keep him as an assistant. Someone had to see his work of genius. Dr. Mario simply referred to him as: Koopa.

Lately the Doctor had quite a large supply of fresh victims, due to the invasion. However, with Mario thwarting the plans of King Koopa, they became smaller. Creeping across the land, Dr. Mario finally found his victim: a Mushroom Toad. Toad was quite a common name, and somehow the Mushroom people managed to know the differences between each person named Toad.

Toad had been out late due to the celebration of Mario. He hadn't wanted to leave so late, and would have stayed back at the Royal Castle, but there was work that had to be done. He could only hope that he made it back safely.

Unfortunately for him, that wasn't going to happen. Walking across the dark path a man stepped out of seemingly nowhere. Toad became frightened.

"Why hello," the Doctor said. "How are you tonight?"

His voice sounded similar to Mario's, but much like his laugh it was darker and more insidious. The voice of a man that was evil. If Mario had been evil and not good, he would have sounded like this.

"I'm j-just on my way home," Toad said. He was shaking.

Dr. Mario could sense his fear. He loved it.

"So you're afraid. Why is that? King Koopa is defeated after all," the Doctor told him.

"Uhhh, you're right. I just don't like the dark, that's all."

Dr. Mario took a step forward. "What a shame."

Then he leapt into the air and a large fist came crashing down on Toad. It didn't kill him, but it did knock him unconscious. The Doctor picked him up with one hand and threw him over his shoulder and dashed back to his lab. What new experiments awaited?