CHAPTER ONE
"Grr... Why do my evil plans always fail?" Bowser growled as he was pacing across the floor of his castle. "I've tried so many times to capture that princess but Mario always spoils everything!" Bowser sat down on his throne and put his hand to his forehead.
"Well, your nastiness," one of his koopa troopas said, addressing the koopa king, "maybe you need to focus on a plan to get Mario out of the way first."
Bowser roared and shot flames at the koopa. "SILENCE!" he bellowed, "How DARE you interrupt me when I'm trying to think!" He sat down again and suddenly got an idea. "I've got it!" he shouted, "What if I come up with a plan to get Mario out of the way first? It's brilliant! I'm glad I thought of it!"
"You're a genius, sir!" said the burned koopa.
"Yes," Bowser snarled, "but HOW will I get Mario out of the way?"
"I've got an idea, papa!" Bowser Jr. said, "I saw it in a cartoon once!"
"What's your idea, Junior?" Bowser asked.
"Well, what you could do is send letters to Mario and Peach, asking that they meet at a certain place at different times, set a trap at that place, and have Mario come first so he falls into the trap and is taken care of before the princess comes and falls in our trap too!" Junior explained.
"Yeah, but won't they figure out that I sent the letters?" Bowser asked.
"We could type them so we wouldn't have to worry about matching handwriting," Junior suggested.
"True, but even if the letters are typed, it's customary to include a handwritten signature at the bottom of the message, and signatures are even harder to forge than just handwriting," Bowser pointed out.
"We wouldn't have to forge a signature!" Junior exclaimed, "Fortunately for us, Peach broke her right arm in a go-kart accident recently and she's right handed so she wouldn't be able to sign a letter anyway! And Mario knows this because he was there when the accident happened!"
"Hmm, that would work for the letter from Peach, but what about the letter TO Peach?" Bowser asked.
"Well, our plan is to capture Mario, so we only really need to send a fake letter from Peach to him so he goes to the site of our trap. We can kidnap Peach from her castle later after Mario's taken care of. We've always been able to do that!" Junior explained.
"Junior, that's brilliant!" Bowser praised his son. "Let's get started right away! Where should we ask Mario to go?"
"How about Shooting Star Summit?" Junior suggested, "Peach loves going there with Mario, so that would be a good place to tell Mario to go in the letter without sounding suspicious."
"Ok! Go type the letter! And make it sound convincing!" Bowser ordered his son, "I'll work on planning the trap!" As Junior left to go type the letter, Bowser laughed evilly and rubbed his hands together. "This plan can't possibly fail!" he snarled.