Thanks for your reviews guys, you've beaten my record of 4 positive reviews on first chapter with 5 positive reviews yayness.Let's see what some of the other characters are up to…
Bowser's castle
Bowser is peacefully sitting on his throne, plotting his next hostile takeover. That is until a certain Paratroopa flies into the castle. It is Parakarry the mailman.
"Mail call"
Bowser stood up in a rage "YOU! What is the meaning of this? You're very brave to attack alone… huh Junior?"
"Thanks Parakarry" Bowser Junior handed the Paratroopa some coins and accepted the delivery
Parakarry accepted the coins "Been quiet lately, the work load seems to be considerably less since the mailbox SP came about but still you can't deliver packages with that so I'm not totally out of work, anyway happy reading" Parakarry flies off
Bowser watched the Paratroopa leave "Did you order something by mail?"
Junior looked at his dad with a sarcastic expression "No, Parakarry flew all the way to your castle just to socialise. OF COURSE I ordered something"
"FINE what did you order then?"
"Just this book"
"You are reading? Why don't you play your 'Destroy the Mushroom Kingdom game: Featuring Bowser' I love that game"
"The story line stinks. It's so stupid, I mean the ending is you conquering the Mushroom Kingdom, Peach marrying you and having me as your child"
Bowser was outraged "How DARE you! I wrote that ENDING! Go to your ROOM!"
"Oh yes please, send me to my room, I've got a fridge, an oven, a Gamecube, widescreen TV…" Junior listed the things Bowser put in his room just to make him happy "I knew you wrote the storyline because I don't think Peach's attendant is called Toadwhatshisname"
"Don't change the subject WHAT did you get delivered?" Bowser demanded
"If you gotta know what it is it's a course book on this place called U Goom, I wanna go there"
"Junior that place is a uni-ver-sity, it is where people go to learn" Bowser explained it to Junior like he couldn't understand
Junior ignored being talked down to "I wanna conquer the world so I gotta outsmart everyone else"
Bowser grinned and laughed loudly "Now! I like the way you are heading with that thought, you go, read that book and study hard"
"Sure thing Pa" Bowser Junior then walked off to his room
Junior grinned to himself, pulling the wool over Bowser's eyes was so easy, he didn't care for conquering the world, he just wanted a valid excuse to get out of the castle for sometime, maybe cause some trouble at U goom, depending on his mood, but maybe not.
Isle Delfino – Bianco Hills
Patey Piranha held a baseball bat with one rolled up leaf, his considerably larger brother Petey prepared to spit out the ball, Petey pitches and Patey watches the ball carefully, moving into position, charging his swing before the ball was upon him and swinging smacking the ball a long distance away. It well out of Bianco Hills and headed into the plaza
"Nice hit, that's gone some distance, you've improved" Petey nodded his oversized head in appreciation
"Thanks" Patey shrugged in a half hearted fashion "I should be going off to U Goom you know"
"Yes I know, I'm going to start terrorising the locals as soon as you are gone"
"Do you have to? Why can't you just leave everybody alone? Or actually be nice, I know that might be forbidden for you but I'm just sick of people giving me stares because of you make us look bad"
"I wouldn't be Petey Piranha if I didn't throw up, making a huge mess occasionally"
"Well whatever, I can't change your mind, but if you somehow get caught by the Pianta police squad, don't expect me to break you out. On the other hand maybe I should be concerned, they'll probably mistake me for you!"
Petey looked guilty for about half a second "Fine! I'll wait a while so you are well and truly out of the firing line"
"Well at least that's something I don't have to worry about… I'll see you, hopefully not behind bars" Patey took his bag from the ground and headed back towards Delfino Plaza.
Delfino Plaza
A blue pianta holds his head down, he wears a black jacket and sunglasses, black shoes to match, his manner suggests somebody who does not like talking much, this Pianta is known only as Gerato, an alias that hides any connection to his past. Just at that moment however a baseball hits Gerato on the top of the head but missing his palm tree.
"DAMN IT!" Gerato shouts out raising his fist "Why could I be so unlucky to take a step like that at that moment for a baseball to hit my forehead…"
"Wow man smile, it IS funny, imagine a baseball falling to land right in the forehead, not on the palm tree but on the forehead. Yo, TAKE YOUR BASE!"
Gerato looks up and sees another red male Pianta with similar clothes to his own looked around his age, but a completely different expression on his face, he is grinning like an idiot and has his palm tree slicked back, probably in a dumb attempt to look cool "You look like a dork, get LOST"
However the other Pianta didn't budge playfully punching Gerato on the arm "Aw come on, I'm cool and you know it. Name's Piantayan, and you are?"
"Names only matter in the graveyard and that's where you'll be heading if you don't get out of my way you TURD! You are the most annoying guy on Isle Delfino"
"That's plain stupid. Somebody as antisocial as you has spoken to everyone on Isle Delfino?"
"PAH! Moron" Gerato picked up the baseball and threw it directly at Piantayan before storming off. Piantayan rubbed between his eyes, but despite all the negative energy Gerato sends out and being pitched a baseball at close range the stupid grin of his never left his face
"Man that guy had issues, ah well" Piantayan shrugged off the encounter before heading for the shops
Piantayan bought some chips and chuckola cola, he was heading to U goom was and wasn't sure when dinner would be so brought a bit of food with him before heading to the docks where the ship was ready to head off. Of course when got to the docks he ran into a familiar face.
Gerato obviously was less then pleased "You again! Do you want to die that badly? I've read a thousand ways to break somebody's neck using only your fingers"
"How cool, maybe you can show me. I watched Toadinator 6 last night, you into movies much?"
"Piffle" Gerato muttered he had given up on trying to intimidate Piantayan, at least for now. It was so irritating, that stupid grin just would not budge!
"Well anyway, where you heading on this ship"
"U Goom! Now will you go away!" Gerato snapped
Piantayan's eyes lit up as he opened the pack of chips and started munching "AWESOME so am I! I mean I know I'll get there a bit in advance, but I want to check out, get settled before it all starts"heoffered some to Gerato who took a handful rudely and threw them into his mouth.
Geratofigured the best way to shut him up was not give him anything to comment on, but knowing his luck every class he was taking the perky dork would be in as well. Piantayan on the other hand was not a complete idiot, he only acted like it, and knew Gerato would not actually ever do much but he would still get a reaction by merely speaking to Gerato, which was more fun for him.
Leincart – Capital City
A black squeek, an orange sheeted duplighost and a blue Birdo walk the streets of the capital of Leincart, a place not far from Rougeport and easily accessible by water. However it isknown for its icy climateand today is no exception as light snow falls on the already snow covered streets.
"You didn't have to come out with me" the Squeek looked back behind her as she walks onwards
The Duplighost piped up cheerfully "We were bored anyway, there was like nothing to do! So Birdy and I decided to come out"
"Speak for yourself Duplica, I happened to be doing something important, until you dragged me out, where its cold, icy and DAMN freezing" Birdy replied in a equally chilling way to that of the weather but then lightened her expression when she spoke again "Saying which… Mirage what are we doing here anyway?"
"Shopping" Mirage's one word answer puzzled both her friends as they came to the largest shopping complex in Leincart.
Finding the supermarket Mirage looked to her two friends once again "Meet back here in 15 minutes, I have stuff I want to do quickly"
Duplica's face dropped "Can't we come with you?"
"Would you stop SAYING WE?" Birdy snapped again
"You really want to go into the crowded supermarket?"
"Fair enough, I suppose. I know what I want to do!See you later Mirage"
Mirage went into the supermarket. Making sure her friends or anybody else didn't tail her, she circled the isles three times and heads to the back of the supermarket where there is a plastic double doors. Mirage ignored the staff only sign and spots several crates of 'Yoshi biscuits now in a can'. Moving on she comes to a brown door located in a deep corner of the huge store room. Checking one final time to see if anybody else was behind her she puts in the number on the keypad lock then swiped a card through the slot above the keypad.
Mirage sighed deeply "Ah all the security measures just to have a few words"
There was one last 'security measure' as Mirage came into a small room with a camera located in every corner of the room and scanned varying features of her. Finally the last door opened and Mirage came to an office setting with a formal looking desk and computer with a Toad woman working on it.
"Koopfina is waiting for you, second to the left as usual" the Toad told her without even greeting her, or asking her any questions
Mirage nodded curtly and went to the room she was told to go
A middle aged female Koopa is reading over bunches of paper work. She leans back on her chair looking up towards the ceiling. Her mind wanders about recent events and her most recent assignment, to become a law teacher at U goom. She had no idea why they wanted her to do this, but at least she was not alone.
Just as these thoughts hit her the door opens revealing Mirage
"Your calling card?" Mirage tossed the card she had used to swipe in onto the desk
"Indeed, take a seat"
Mirage did so gaining some height and standing on the chair "So, what's going on?"
"They want me at U Goom. That's where you are studying, so it's a bit odd isn't it"
"Could it be they suspect something is going on there? And want the both of us there so we can speak to each other much more easily"
"It could very well be. I'm not quite sure what else to make of it. The Leincart Intelligence Group tells us they will provide us with further intel at a later time, and in the meantime they want us to…"
"Just observe, standard LIG policy" Mirage finished the predictable sentence
"Like you needed telling, anyway that is all"
Mirage jumped off the chair and left, caught up with her friends and continued her day as if nothing had ever happened.
Rogueport inn
Torque sits alone on his table, Blooey and Jerry were 10 minutes late, but punctuality was not their strong suit, but just then Torque hears the door open, seemingly it was Blooey based on his struggle to push the door and when he opened the door Jerry followed in.
Blooey let go of the door a little exhausted "Whew, sorry we are late Torque"
"I'm not surprised, you live to be late" Torque countered
"Hey lay off, it's not like we both have fancy gizmos on our back to open doors and get about. Anyway it was your idea to meet up in this hole of a town, so why have you dragged us here" Jerry called to Podley to make an order "Hey can I have three sodas, for my friends" Jerry went over to the counter and paid up and went back to sit down with the others.
Torque continued totalk "You know Hayzee is teaching at U Goom right? He's working with Madame Flurrie on drama and acting"
Blooey and Jerry both looked at each other puzzled "U what and who's Madame Flurrie?"
"Honestly don't you two know anything? U Goom is the place Goombella went to, you know the Goomba girl who's travelled with Luigi's brother Mario? Madame Flurrie also travelled with Mario"
"Ohhhhh right! That U goom and THAT Flurrie. So Hayzee is teaching there?" Blooey answered as if all became clear but Torque knew better but choose to ignore the easy opportunity at a sarcastic reply
"Yes. Anyway I have already signed up as I want to get some official measures in programming, science and all that. Since you have a fair bit of coins now because of the rewards from the Waffle Kingdom, I wondered if you wanted to put that to decent use at U Goom, the fees are rather low this year simply because they need numbers"
"Yeah, I read about that in the newspaper but then I got sidetracked with the headline 'Luigi caught wearing Peach's dress'. After seeing the images I exploded and set the paper on fire" Jerry shuddered at the thought of watching those pictures again as the soda was brought to him and his friends, with a special straw for bom-ombs and bloopers.
"Oh get over it. It was for a good cause" Blooey argued, he didn't like how Jerry continually attacked Luigi on that issue
"Is this about the Beanbean Kingdom incident, where Luigi and Peach did a quick swap" this time Torque was given the stupid look treatment by the other two.
"NO! Get your nose out of a book for once and catch up on recent events. That was ages ago. It was a Princess Peach clone event for charity, for orphans I think" Blooey explained
"Yeah but did Luigi have to be SO good at it, it's kinda freaky to me. Anyway Torque in answering your U Goom question, I'll think about it and work out my coins but I should be going… I think I'll do psychology, I know it's a harsh subject, but I really want to find out what possesses Luigi to do what he does"
"Okay thanks… Blooey?"
"Yeah I guess… I've always wanted to do some chemistry or medicine. I know I'm famous because of my skin but… you know I kinda wanted to see if I could get a cure to get it back to normal... I mean Luigi has done a lot for us, but that's one thing I wish he didn't do, it's really makes me think twice when somebody says 'trust me'"
"I hear you Blooey, I propose a toast. To ignoring strange people when they say 'Trust me'" Torque raising his glass switching the tool on his back to a crane and clinking the other two stationary glass only held by the faces of Blooey and Jerry.
Pleasant path
The Koopa brothers all poke through a clump of glass while Ralph the red Koopa and self proclaimed leader looks through binoculars. He is looking at the Koopa Village trying to make something out.
The yellow one stood up to stretch for a moment, nobody was even around to hide from "Say Red, why do you always get to look at what's going on?"
"Because Yang, I'm the leader and therefore have to make the decisions, which means I have to see everything"
"Why are you the leader?" Ben the black brother countered
"It is a proven statistic that red Koopa's are smarter then any other type, so that natural that I'm our leader"
Greg the green brother sighed "You dyed your shell, you are just a green Koopa, and green Koopas are the dumbest ones according to that thing you read"
Yang and Ben both snickered, Greg of course made an idiot of Ralph, but nobody pointed out that Greg too was a green Koopa.
"Shut up, shut up, Kooper is coming, he's been talking with Kolorado for at least 15 minutes now" Ralph and the others ducked into the grass
Kooper had an preoccupied look on his face he was muttering something they couldn't hear until he came closer "No, I don't mind having a party but… why doesn't Frankly and the other U goom staff get some more hired help"
Each brother gave the other puzzled glances
"It's not really my call but I'll be there in about 5 hours I gue…"
The rest of what Kooper said again could not be heard, he was walking at a face pace
"Is it just me or has Kooper gone nuts? He's talking to himself"
Yang slapped Ben over the head "He was talking on a phone, clearly some big gig is going on at this U Goom"
"U Goom is a university so?" Greg stated stupidly
This time Ralph slapped Greg over the head
"OW! What IS your PROBLEM!" Greg shouted atRalph almost in his face
"YOUR stupidity!" Ralph shouted back
"HEY! You're the one who's denying the green shell thing!"
Yang sighed getting in between them "Both of YOU, SHUT it! We know Kooper's been running around like crazy lately, now we know it is probably something about a party… so it would be rude of us not to crash it"
Ralph nodded in approval "I like that idea, let's follow Kooper, he's got his mind on other things so it should be pretty easy to track him"
"Track him? How amateur is that! He already told us where he was going!"
Ralph realised that Ben was right "Alright let's go, to Toad town, somebody has to know about U goom" He stood up and headed into town and Yang and Greg followed him
Ben stood up and properly placed the black bandana on his head and brushed the grass off himself and shouted as he went after the other three "Hey guys wait up"
Will the Koopa brothers actually achieve something? What is Kooper really doing after his recruitment work? With more characters joining in on the lunacy who knows what's going to happen at the end of it all.
Author notes, oh yes there are a few.
A/N1: Destroy the Mushroom kingdom was a half joke put in the forums, we just don't want Petey to get his own game before Bowser does. Even my Petey loving friend (who owns Patey) believes that is going too far.
A/N2: TAKE YOUR BASE! Piantayan of course is referring to the line used in Mario: Superstar baseball, so funny, you can even hit Baby Mario or Baby Luigi with the ball! I usually randomly shout out CRIPPLE as I'm about hit someone on the head
A/N3: In Japan, Birdo is known as Catherine but she has never been given a race name. It's not the first time (Yoshi/Toad) so anybody of Catherine's species will be referred to as a Birdo. It's clear that Catherine/Birdo is not the only one of her kind because several appear in Mario Tennis.
A/N4: The names for the Koopa bros. are NOT official, they are Yoshizilla's creation, but consistency between authors seems cool. Ralph: Red, Yellow: Yang, Green: Greg, Black: Ben. According to Goombario Black is fashionable but aside that not much else is known about them…
A/N5: Red Koopas ARE more intelligent, this is a true fact, yellow and blue are the second most intelligent and green are the dumbest, black and purple are both unnatural colours and any Koopa with this colour has dyed their shell (they did not exist prior to Paper Mario). I'm pretty sure of this, I know for a fact King K's team mates dyed their shells to match their leader, and some Koopas are pretty serious about looking cool, so I imagine changing their shell colour is just another thing they do.
Anyway the red Koopa will not ever walk off the edge and will turn around and sometimes even head in the direction that Mario is in. The blue one can defend itself out of its shell, and the yellow one knows how to be invincible when it wants to. The green one however will happily walk off an edge without a second thought and cannot defend itself at all outside its shell. Like most stats though they are only a rough guide and just because somebody is part of a stupid average doesn't mean they are stupid, so don't worry Koops fans, I will do him justice.
A/N6: Originally the first part of chapter 2 was covering Kooper's recruitment but it dragged a lot and got bogged down and I just didn't like it especially when I'd stated the previous chapter that Kooper had finished his recruitment. Then I had an idea when introducing the Kooper brothers. The next chapter will cover Kooper's end of things.
