Paper Mario one and a half
Chapter 8
100 years in the future looked a lot more different than what people said! Either this place is a deserted area, or this is what the future is like! This is basically an island with no grass, no trees, no nothing on it except dirt and mud. Outstanded, Mario walked forward 15,000 feet (about 3 miles) until he reached the beach, which was a bit more muddy. On the beach was a square thing, and curious, Mario went and picked it up.
Suddenly, it dropped and a holographic image of what he said is the 60th president announces that Hurricane Death will arrive on this island in currently 0 hours, 22 minutes, and 14 seconds! He mentioned that it was a category six hurricane, and Mario guessed that this was not a good thing at all! With fear in his eyes, he looked at the clouds across the ocean, and they were a very dark grey color with bright lightning and thunder erupting from it! And then he saw it: a small rock formation! Mario ran to it, and he touched it, wondering what happens. Suddenly, the rock moved out of the way, revealing a Speedjet 2100, the newest model! By it he also found a Wind Speed Tester. Picking it up, the wind speed was 30 miles per hour. He better start leaving! After spending 10 minutes getting in the thing, he was inside. When he relooked at the Wind Speed, Mario's jaw dropped open! The wind speed was 120 miles per hour! And to make it look true, sand flew over the jet. When he attached his seatbelt, the odd module turned on.
"WELCOME TO THE SPEEDJET 2100! PLEASE SAY DESTINATION!"
"I bet since it is advanced technology, all I have to do is say where I want to go! Mario's Pad, Mushroom Kingdom!"
"DESTINATION FOUND. DO YOU WANT TURBO?"
"Yes!"
"PLEASE WAIT 10 MINUTES."
Finally, 10 minutes later, the engine said it was finished, and the ship yelled "HURRICANE WARNING! CATEGORY 6 HURRICANE! WIND SPEED: 194 MPH. MAX SPEED POSSIBLE: 210 MPH" Mario was so shocked he could hardly breathe! The ship then shot in the air (after closing the capsule), and it shot forward, right through the hurricane!
"WIND SPEED: 199 MPH."
The ship slowly shook, but the ship was fine, mainly due to no warnings the ship blurted out. After about 5 minutes of just hovering there, the ship said "WIND SPEED IN HURRICANE IS 210, WHICH IS MAX! NOW ACTIVATING TURBO…" And suddenly, the back of the ship glowed, and the ship shot forward like a missle, and the speed count showed "2500 MPH"!
After 5 minutes, they were back at Mario's house. Well, this place looked very odd! The house was replaced with a mansion, and a tombstone labeled "R.I.P. Mario, whose body I cannot find"!
"Wow, I guess the Yoshis forgot to tell people that I would be warping to the future… Maybe I was gone for 100 years and they thought that I was dead in the place…" thought Mario. Mario entered the mansion without knocking, which ended up being a mistake, not because of the alarm now going off, but the object in the background. It was humungous! After about 30 seconds, a voice started speaking.
"Don't worry father, I will catch the intruder!" said what sounded like a 35 year old voice.
"Adda…boy…Luigi…Junior…" responded a voice that was much, much older, and Mario realized that the 130 year-old Luigi was saying that! He is still alive! This is a new record for about 500 years!
There were quick footsteps to the door, and a model of what looked like Luigi but a little bit older, had a lot of wild hair, had a beard, and looked a little taller was at the doorframe, and he was wearing a green hat with "L Jr." on it. Luigi's son, Luigi Junior! What a surprise this has been!
"Hey dad, there is some red dude that looks kind of like me!" called Luigi Junior.
"Is it…can it be…" said the very old Luigi, and he spent 10 minutes walking until he saw Mario.
"Hey, Luigi!"
"This cannot be right! You were killed on a Yoshi Island!"
"Actually, I time-warped."
"Huh?"
"When I warp in the future, my body disappears until that time, then my body reappears again."
"Huh?"
"Dad, I think he is saying when he is warping, his body kind of disappears."
"Huh?"
"Look, if you threw an apple into a portal that was set for 100 years in the future, the apple would enter the portal and never come out until the year 2200."
"Now I get it!"
"Good. So Mario basically didn't come out until today!"
After a scene of heavy thinking, Mario asked, "2 questions for Luigi. 1: How are you still alive at 130 years old and 2: how did you have a baby AT 95 YEARS OLD!"
"Well Mario, I drunk a life potion that lets me live a lot longer at 50 years old, so I can live til 150! And I never had a baby! When my friend gave birth to a baby, she said that it was too bloody and gave it to me the second it was born, and I raised it as Luigi Junior!"
"I see…"
"Anyway, Mario and Dad, listen. I was watching the news, and they said a 50 year old Mario was blowing up our neighborhood. Yeah, OUR neighborhood. We all know that Mario is definitely not 50, and that he is evil. We have to destroy that thing and find information about it! I bet you $10 it is a robot… a VERY SKILLED AND COMPLEX robot…"
"Ouch! Luigi and Luigi Junior, lets go kill ourselves a ro-" Before Mario finished his sentence, a large fiery shockwave blew up the backside of the house, causing a blast of smoke and fire to move around the mansion.
Mario ran outside and found an impressive 25-years-older-looking Mario with fireballs loaded in his hand. "Ahhhh, Mario. So nice to see you...or...me in a stage 25 years younger. So, ya think ya can stop me, Mario? I think ya will be k'll'd n' 'few seconds. Stupid voice box…. 'T is time ta die!"
"What an odd accent." Thought Mario, and he transformed into Fire Mario. In this form, he shot a fireball, which the fake Mario easily deflected.
"Ya'r pathetic, Mario!" said the fake Mario, and he shot a fireball, this time 5 times stronger, which sliced across Fire Mario's arm, splattering some blood in the grass.
"Darn. This was my good arm." complained Mario, and he thought it was time for the Bang Explosion Fireball. He then used his injured arm to charge a fireball, and Luigi Junior understood. He ran in front of Fire Mario, and he started to get angry and Luigi Junior sent a clear shockwave at the fake Mario, hitting him and sending him right into the neighbor's house. "Wow! You have mind powers!" exclaimed Fire Mario, and he pushed his power to the fireball and it got bigger.
After 5 minutes of mind attacks on fake Mario and Fire Mario charging the fireball, it became huge! He then became Ultra Fire Mario, which was Fire Mario but more strong, and he yelled "DDDDIIIIIEEEEEEE!" and shot the fireball with full force, which became a ball the size of the mansion going upwards towards the fake Mario!
As a counter-attack, fake Mario sends a Fire Blast at the ball, which connects, and the fake Mario is actually winning the war of pushing it away! Suddenly, he gets hurt by an electricity ball, and Ultra Fire Mario looks at Luigi. He smiles at Ultra Fire Mario, and looks up and nods. Ultra Fire Mario then pushes full power and the blast becomes ferocious. As a final resort, fake Mario shoots a fire laser at Luigi, then the blast hits him.
His body starts to break up, and he yells "NOOOOOOO!" right before the blast finished. The ball went up in the air very high and exploding, giving a nice airborne fire explosion for everyone to see. UFM becomes regular Mario and faces Mario, and his face goes from pure happiness to uttermost shock.
The screen becomes slow motion, and the laser slices right into Luigi's heart and through the other side. Blood shoots out of both sides, and Luigi falls in a puddle of blood. Within just 10 seconds, Luigi dies, body still in the blood puddle. Mario starts crying, but not nearly as bad as Luigi Junior, who is on the floor right by Luigi just pouring with tears!
10 days later, they still are a little unhappy, but not as bad as it was on the day Luigi died. Now, there was Luigi's tombstone now in the dried blood puddle, and it was loaded with security, for no one was allowed to touch it. Finally, Luigi Junior asked a very important question to Mario on that tenth day: "Why did you come to the future anyway?"
"Ohhh yeah! I forgot! I should be finding the person who threw this bomb at the island!"
"Tell me what the label was."
"Sure! It was:
This is the Ultra High Tech Sonic Bomb
Copyright 2104
Made in USA 2.0
Use at own risk"
"Wow, those are rare! Believe it or not, but there was only one left in the Weapon's Guard!"
"Wait, was the bomb he threw the one from the Weapon's Guard?"
"No, actually. There were 2 before that, and the one he threw was the one no one knew where it was."
"I think I better get the last one and destroy it before the guy gets it, right?"
"Yup!"
"But it is the future! He is probably like already there!"
"Relax. I got an Underground Vehicle. Just say the location, and it takes you there underground at 5-40,000 MPH, depending on the distance. Just use that."
"Okay. Where is it?"
"It is under the WELCOME! mat! BTW, if anyone found it, they would have to say the right words to use it. You must say: 'SHLLL SAA SEEV SEEK'. This is an ancient language that was used by the Molians, which were underground people, thousands of years ago."
"Aren't you coming too?"
"Of course! Follow me!"
Luigi Junior threw the welcome mat out of the way and opened a trap door, which really was invisible to see the handle ("A future trick" said Luigi Junior)!
They followed the path downstairs to a diamond door. Luigi Junior said: SHLLL SAA SEEV SEEK, and the door opened. They entered and the door instantly closed. Once they walked forward a bit, lights came on, showing what looked like a small 2–person cart on a long railroad track. They entered, buckled up, and put on odd glasses, which Luigi Junior explained makes speeds above 1,000 feel like for your body only a 30 MPH speed, so it makes it more relaxing.
"PLEASE SAY DESTINATION."
"Weapon's Guard Front Entrance."
"SCANNING………..TARGET FOUND. MAX SPEED: 40,000 MPH."
"See Mario, the place is really far!"
"PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR RELAXER XV GLASSES ON. DO YOU?"
"Yes."
"JOURNEY WILL NOW START."
The ship suddenly shot forward very, very fast until it was already 40,000 MPH in just 10 seconds, explained Luigi Junior, but Mario thought he was lying. It looked like he was going 40,000 because of how quickly they were passing lights, but it only felt like they were going 30 MPH! The glasses actually worked!
After 2 minutes, something very odd and unexpected happened. Bow popped out and said how much longer (she also had the glasses on), and Mario was scared out of his skin and jumped up. "What the heck are you doing here! Shouldn't you be way at the ship?"
"Surprise, Mario! I was really invisible, following you the whole time! Also, that fight with the fake Mario was AWESOME!"
"Errr Mario, who is the ghost?"
"Ohhh, sorry, I forgot to tell. She was secretly following me, and how she entered the portal I don't know ("I was invisible, so it never detected me when I entered!" answered Bow instantly)…okay, I know now. Anyway, the ghost's name is Bow, and she was with me in the whole adventure I was in. You see, I was searching for your dad, Luigi, in the adventure when he was kidnapped. Hard to explain, really. Because of a break in the space-time continuum, I technically never saved Luigi, but I will change that, which will also change this future. It is confusing, I know."
They were silent until another 6 minutes (the talk was 2 minutes long) were over and they could actually get off the thing and to the Weapon's Guard.
"WE ARE NOW AT THE WEAPON'S GUARD. PLEASE TAKE OFF GLASSES AND GET OFF ON EITHER SIDE."
After Mario, Bow, and Luigi Junior took off the glasses, they exited, but Luigi Jr. lead them to the trunk, where he pulled out 3 guns.
"Okay, it might be unnatural running with guns since we have powers, but we need them, for no matter how hard we try, we cannot enter without these. Yes, these are their guns. I stole them in a spying mission. Unfortunately, these were found in the most unguarded sector, Level One Guns, so these guns are at the lowest level. Anyway, here you go."
He handed Mario a long gun with a yellow circle printed on the front, then he handed him a chip. After doing the same to Bow and himself, he started to speak again.
"The chips makes your guns have unlimited ammo, and this was stolen from the Private HQ, and these were hard enough to steal, so be thankful! Insert your chips into the circle, and if your gun glows yellow, it has been installed correctly."
They did so, and all 3 guns glowed yellow correctly. After some practice by shooting old soda cans from the trunk, Mario grabbed 3 sodas from the container and said they would leave. Once they reached the steps that exited the underground, Mario asked: "What are these sodas? They only have a red label with a lightning bolt."
Luigi Junior replied by saying: "Those are Power Sodas! They boost your strength and speed for 5 minutes after drinking. Also, you automatically drink the whole thing, for a force makes you do so, so it only works once!"
Mario tucked them in carefully, and they entered the door and exited the underground and were in front of the Weapon's Guard.
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Well, yet another Chapter finished! I bet you are wondering how their journey goes through the Weapon's Guard, huh? Well, stay tuned for Chapter 9!
