I just stared at him for a few moments. There was nothing I could do. Not now anyway. The guards were still standing there. So I turned around, and went back in the pipe. I got back to the Peach's castle. I ran inside to tell Peach and Toad what happened.
Toad already knew. He had one of his visions right after I left. He said that Bowser had sealed the gate magically, and the only way to break the spell was to collect the six golden coins. Bowser had apparently used these magic coins to cast the spell on Mario Land, and had scattered them all over the land, and had them guarded by six of his worst baddies.
Great, I thought to myself. I get to go on another crazy adventure in some land I don't know. What was this now, my 7th journey? But this time it was different. When I fought Donkey Kong, it was because he had Pauline. When I saved the Mushroom Kingdom it was because Toad was holding me. When I saved Sub-Con, it was because I was trapped there. When I saved the Mushroom World, it was because Bowser had captured Peach. When I saved the Yoshi Islands it was because Peach had been captured. But this time, I wasn't trapped. Nobody I cared about was there. I could just let the Koopas have that island and they'd never bother me again.
But even I couldn't make myself believe that. Of course they wouldn't just stay on Mario Land. It was small, and they would be sure to expand to the rest of the Mushroom Kingdom, if not the entire dimension. And I couldn't let the people who lived there just die, even if I didn't know them. And besides, I was Mario Weber, destined savior of the Mushroom citizens.
I went to the warp pipe leading to Sarasaland to try and get Luigi, but it seemed every pipe except for the one going from the castle to Mario Land was blocked (another reason to go on with this.) So, I went on another adventure.
I searched through the entire island. The entire landscape had been greatly reconfigured by magic, and I'm guessing it was also made much larger. The six coins were being guarded by 6 of Bowser's meanest baddies, and along the way of found a lot of the oldies like goombas and koopa troopas. The island grew the same kind of blocks as the mainland Mushroom Kingdom, Mushrooms, flowers, and also some new carrots that gave me the power to fly.
I found the 6 coins in about 7 weeks. After that, the gates to the castle opened, and I went back there as soon as I could. It was terrifying. Not the castle, but just talking to Wario. His words were so cold and cruel. He really believed that I ruined his life. And I started thinking, what if he was right? What if I was just as terrible as he was making me out to be, and that I had traumatized this man. But I snapped out of it. I had to. Even if I was right, I couldn't let him win.
He wanted me dead. He was vicious. As vicious as any Koopa or monster I'd ever faced, maybe more. The fight dragged on, and we both got pretty beat up. It was different than fighting a monster. I'd never really fought a human like this before. It was hand-to-hand, fist-to-face action. But I was able to get him down after what seemed like an hour. He was out-cold, and I didn't know what to do. I couldn't kill him; he was innocent after all. But I couldn't just leave him there for Bowser to seize him again. So I took him with me back home.
Toad tried to undo the spell Bowser had put him under, but it was hard. He didn't know what kind of magic Bowser used, and it was apparently strong. He was able to decrease it a little. Wario would no longer be a homicidal maniac, but he would have greater strength, strong feelings of resentment against me, and most of all, extreme greed. He was still unconscious, and the truth was, we had no idea what to with him. We decided that he had to be far from civilization, but still not be cruel to him. So Toad cast a spell to have him placed in the center of a dense forest, thousands of miles from the nearest city.
But less than a month after another thing came to shock us all. But this one wasn't so much a problem for me as it was for Toad and Peach. It was discovered that a small pack of koopa troopas, goombas, and other of Bowser's army living secretly in the west coast of the Mushroom Kingdom. They had only now been discovered because they were planning a housing development in that area and stumbled upon their nest. There were almost a thousand of them. They claimed that they had come in 2 years ago in 1990, when Bowser had attacked the Mushroom Kingdom for the second time. They claimed that they were good and didn't follow Bowser, so they stayed here in secret in hopes of living a good life. But many didn't believe them, and frankly neither did I. I thought for sure they were spies preparing another attack. After all, we knew Bowser was alive, and we had no idea when he would strike again. And since Toad was the Prime Minister and Peach was the monarch who must approve all final decisions, the fate of these creatures lied in their hands.
Me, Luigi, and dozens of guards accompanied Toad down to their nest to find out the truth. I didn't feel safe there for one second. I was so used of thinking as them as the enemy, as seeing hundreds of them together scared me. But I guess it was also wrong of me to think that they were all evil. Toad put a spell on their leader so that he could only tell the truth, and his story came out exactly the same. Than he cast another spell on all of them, so that if anyone of them had bad intentions against the Kingdom, they would rise in the air. And they all stayed on the ground. So he and Peach decided to allow them to continue living there, and to become legal citizens.
This sparked off a lot of controversy. Many Mushroom Citizens felt it was wrong to have them here, even if they weren't evil. They were just prejudice, I guess. Most of them stayed in the village they had already set-up. Some decided to move into the cities and live amongst the people, which a lot of people hated. They could hardly find a job or a place to stay or anything. So to support them, the castle hired 5 koopa troopas and 5 goombas to be on staff. But I still wasn't sure that they couldn't be spies. But I was wrong. They were great creatures, and I grew to be close friends with many of them, and our number of creatures on staff has increased since then.
A few months later came the wedding of Daisy and Luigi. It was a beautiful ceromony, nothing went wrong for once since we came here. They deserve happiness. They are meant to be, I think. Like me and Peach. And seeing them walk down the aisle, made me wonder how come me and Peach never got serious. We had known each other for 7 years, been in love for most of that, and I had saved her life a lot.
But life went on, peacefully. All the years I spent in Brookyln, thinking that how life was supposed to be, thinking the things I did, which I'm pretty embarrased about, was the way to have fun. It's like when I entered this land, my soul was cleansed. Everything here is good. I live in a castle, I have great friends, a great woman, and live in the greatest place in the universe. Just breathing the air on a hot summer day is great. It's clean, not like the air back home. And there are almost no roads and sidealks and buildings and big cities, no, almost every where is grassy meadows and forests, and well, nature. I have nothing to do in my life but relax. I'm spoiled really. Sometimes I think I don't deserve so well. And my old friends and life. That was all gone. But than I remember how bad I felt when I returned there for that brief time, and I feel better.
My friends and me often went go-karting for fun. And when a charity go-kart race was opened, Toad convinced us to join to gain money for charity. It was really fun, and we spent a great day racing against ourselves, and other amateurs and pros. Me, Luigi, Toad and Peach signed on right away. We also got Yoshi, Daisy (note from the author: in the real game Daisy does not race, Bowser does. But this causes serious plot problems for me.) And Toad invited his friend Donkey Kong jr., the son of the ape who had attacked New York. I felt kind of awkward around him seeing as how he looked just like his father. We also got a Koopa Troopa named Trenston, who had been making a name for himself as a racer.