The 13 heroes swiftly flew in the air in their arwings, mostly being nervous because anything could happen.

"Hello everyone, this is Kylie speaking to you. We have all of you on our radars back on the lab so we always know where you are and where you are going." She spoke.

"This is Arfur, I will also be helping out on this mission with you guys. Experienced any trouble so far?" He asked.

"Nope. It actually seems pretty clear so far. I don't see any damage to this area that we're in, nor do I see anything bad far off in the horizon." Daisy replied.

"Don't worry, you'll be seeing some damage soon. We're actually surprised this area hasn't been attacked yet." Kylie said.

"Okay, like, I don't get it. Where are we, like, suppose to go?" Goombella asked.

"Just keep going straight, Goombella. We'll let you know where to turn." Arfur answered.

"Hello? Okay, so I wanna order some large french fries, six chicken nuggets with no sauce, a cheeseburger and a large Vanilla milkshake." Fire Bro said.

"Huh!?" Everyone said at the exact same time.

"Fire Bro you idiot, this isn't a McDonalds drive thru! Pay attention for once in your life!" Dixie scowled.

Waluigi bursted into laughter. "Man, I like this guy! He is such a riot!"

"I am sensing chaotic energies up ahead! Are we getting closer to the city?" Rosalina asked.

"You would be correct Rosalina. Remember guys, if you see any enemies whether or not they're in the air, shoot them!" Kylie reminded.

"Oh my gosh, I can't believe I'm actually going to blast some enemies! This is the best day of my entire existence!" Toadette squealed.

"That's pretty sad, to be honest." Birdo replied.

Everyone entered into the main part of the city and couldn't help but drop their jaw at the destruction. Buildings were blown apart, there were fires everywhere, the ground had numerous cracks and holes, it was basically like a tornado went through the place and a fire bomb exploded at the same time.

"OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Peach screamed. "The mall is in ruins! Where am I suppose to get more pink dresses from now!?"

"Seriously Peach? You already have 59757589375 pink dresses in your castle. You do NOT need anymore, girlfriend." Birdo said.

"Yeah, about that...I kinda...burned all my other dresses..." Peach shamely confessed.

"What? Why the hell would you do that for?" DK asked.

"Because I got fed up with Bowser so I brought all my pink dresses and threw them in front of his castle, poured gasoline all over them, and set them on fire!" Peach explained.

"Um...okay? Were you trying to prove something by doing that?" Dixie asked.

"...I dunno, I just felt like doing it!"

Everyone facepalmed themselves, including Arfur and Kylie.

"You are such a blonde, Peach!" Yoshi spat.

"Why thank you!" Peach stupidly responded.

"AH! What are these tiny ships flying in front of us!?" Luigi freaked out.

"Oh! Those are your enemies! Quick, shoot them down before they shoot you all down!" Arfur responded.

"Ohmigosh! Like, what button do I, like, press again!?" Goombella shrieked.

"It's the blue button. Blue is for shooting lasers and green is for shooting bombs." Rosalina answered.

"Did you guys know that my great great great great great great grandmother invented lasers? Yeah, before then, people just had to use boring old guns!" Fire Bro happily spoke.

"WILL YOU SHUT UP AND SHOOT THESE BASTARDS ALREADY!?" Daisy yelled and fired away.

Everyone fired their green lasers at the ships, destroying one at a time. The ships fired back as best as they could.

"Wow this is so much fun! I can't believe I'm actually blasting some puny ships!" Toad cheered.

A shot fired from one of the ships and hit Luigi's arwing.

"AHHHHHHHHHHH! I'VE BEEN HIT! I'M GONNA DIE!" Luigi screamed and cried.

"Luigi, calm down! Your arwing won't go down because of one hit. I completely forgot to mention this to you all but there is a meter on a small screen right above your heads. That meter indicates how stable your arwing is. There is 100 life points on that meter. The less life points your meter has, the less stable your arwing is. Once it hits zero, the arwing can no longer function and will break down." Kylie explained.

"Bahahahaha! You're just not cut out for this, Luigi!" Waluigi laughed.

"Shut up Waluigi or else I'll shoot you myself." Daisy warned.

More shots fired back from the big group of small ships and they started hitting more of the heroes' arwings.

"Like, ohmigosh! They just keep on, like, coming!" Goombella complained.

"Can you PLEASE say a sentence without the word 'like' for once?" Dixie demandingly asked.

"Ugh, screw this, I'm using the bomb! Everyone, move back!" DK ordered and slammed the green button and out came a small bomb that shot out and made a big, blue explosion, destroying all the ships in the small vicinity.

"Woohoo! GO DK!" Toadette cheered.

"Nice going." Rosalina complimented. DK blushed at her comment, not trying to hide it since no one else could see him really well.

"Wow, that was awesome! Let me try that out." Fire Bro said in glee and shot out another bomb.

"Wait Fire Bro, where are you aiming that bomb at!?" Arfur panicked.

His bomb shot towards Daisy's ship and exploded near her, knocking her away.

"AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHH! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!?" Daisy screamed and tried to get her arwing back in control.

"Fire Bro you idiot! WHY WHY WHY did you aim your bomb towards your teammates!? WHY CAN'T YOU JUST GO BACK IN THE FREAKING INSANE ASYLUM!?" Kylie raged which shocked everyone else.

"Kylie, calm down. Remember the rules? No insulting our co-workers no matter how annoying and/or crazy they are." Arfur said.

Waluigi laughed again. "Man, this day just gets better and better! Well except for the Mushroom City being destroyed part of course."

The group proceeded forward and a couple enemies kept coming every minute or so, but they took them down easily with their lasers. But they were also distracted by how ruined parts of Mushroom City were. It was a very sad sight to see considering a lot of the buildings were places the gang use to visit frequently.

"Sigh, it's gonna take years for all of this to be re-built...I really hope nobody has been killed. No one deserves this!" Rosalina said.


High up on a hill, away from the city, was Tatanga's castle. Inside, there were hundreds of prisoners that were separated into different rooms all crying out to be free. The prisoners rooms looked like your regular prison cells, except much bigger to hold more people along with a door and a barred window.

In one room, there was Mario, Diddy, Wario, Toadsworth, Pauline, Tiny, Bowser, Lemmy, Wendy, Larry, Morton, Ludwig, Iggy, Roy, Jojora, and Kammy all being held captive.

Bowser wiped tears from his eyes. "I-I don't understand! I'M suppose to be the one doing all the kidnapping here, not the other way around! This is so unfair! WHY DOES LIFE HATE ME SO!?"

Iggy rolled his eyes. "Yeah, because you had sooooooooo much success with kidnapping in the first place."

"If I just had my damn wand with me, I'd be able to get us out of here. I would blast these walls and turn those assholes into BLT sandwiches!" Kammy raged.

"Ugh, please don't mention any food...I'm already hungry enough as it is." Larry groaned, feeling his tummy rumble once again.

"Well I WOULD say to you all that we shouldn't worry since someone AKA probably Mario will save us and live happily ever after, but that's apparently not the case is it?" Morton said and tapped his foot repeatedly on the floor.

"Pipe down sonny! Master Mario is clearly in an upset mood right now so it's best to just not mention his name." Toadsworth scolded and looked over to Mario who was sitting in a corner with his head buried in his lap.

"Hey old man! Don't tell my brother what to do! You aren't the boss of us!" Ludwig yelled.

"Can you guys shut up!? I'm trying to get a signal from my PDA!" Jojora said as she pressed a bunch of numbers on her keypad.

"Will you stop screwing around with that ugly device? You've been trying to reach someone for the past hour! GIVE IT UP ALREADY, IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK!" Wendy shouted.

"Get out of my face you troll! The sooner I can call my news agency with whatever bars I can get in this cheap, low-rent building, the sooner we can get out of here and I can get away from YOU!" Jojora shouted back.

"Why are you even calling your agency anyways? I doubt those guys can actually even do something about us being stuck in here." Lemmy said.

"Because, since my agency's company building is on the outskirts of the city, it's possible they're still intact since I heard the guards talk about how only the central district of Mushroom City has been ruined." Jojora explained.

"So? What makes you think that anyone is even there? You do realize that anyone who hasn't been captured or killed, has probably escaped far away from this place, right?" Roy questioned.

"It's worth every shot now stop talking to me! I need total concentration." Jojora demanded and went back to typing on her phone.

Wario pounded his fists on the wall. "GAHHHHHHHHHH! I NEED GARLIC! I SWEAR TO GOD I'M GONNA GO INSANE IF I DON'T EAT SOME!"

"Oh will you shut up? It would do you good if you don't eat anything for a while anyways, you need the weight loss." Tiny laughed.

"DO YOU HONESTLY THINK I CARE ABOUT LOSING WEIGHT!? I DON'T! I EMBRACE MY FATNESS! IT'S A PART OF ME AND IT ALWAYS WILL BE!" Wario screamed and out of rage, grabbed one of the beds and threw it to the other side of the room.

"Wario, you acting like a psychopath isn't going to help anything. Just sit down and stay quiet...I want to think about Dixie and DK in peace and hope they're okay." Diddy said as he laid on a bed and stared at the ceiling.

Tiny walked to him. "Yeah, I miss them too...but I don't think we should worry too much. This is DK and Dixie we're talking about, they're tough! They can survive through harsh things."

"You know, I could really use a nice glass of ice cold beer right now. I've been craving it for so long!" Bowser Jr. complained.

"What? Since when did you start drinking alcohol!?" Lemmy asked in shock.

"Ever since dad started buying those beer cans! They actually taste really good, even though I get tipsy easily."

"Gosh, I am FAILING as a guardian!" Bowser cried again.

"Yes, yes you are." Wario added.

Pauline looked over at the depressed Mario, still sitting alone in the corner. Mario was badly injured. He had bloody cuts all over his body, trying to fight off the enemies that captured him, along with a black eye. Despite all of the controversy with her and Mario in the past (and even some of Mario's friends), he was actually the only one she really cared about in the room. Everyone else, she either thought they were annoying, stupid, or just plain weird. She walked over to him and sat next to him.

"Mario? How are you doing?" She asked.

Mario didn't lift his head from his lap. "Leave me alone...please."

"Mario, I understand that we haven't exactly gotten along for a long time, but I just wanna let you know that if you ever need someone to talk to, I'm right here for you." Pauline said, feeling his sadness.

Mario didn't respond. Pauline knew what he was sad about. He was sad about the fact that he couldn't save the day like he usually does. He was sad about the fact that he had no idea if Peach, Luigi, and the others were also captured, or hurt, or possibly worse. He was sad about the fact that it may really be the end of the world this time because this new villain seems a lot smarter and stronger than any other villain he has faced...well, except possibly the Shadow Queen. He was sad about the fact that he possibly let the citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom down due to the fact that he's known as some super hero but got caught off guard and captured so easily, leaving little hope in everyone else's minds.


The next room over had Koops, Koopie, Flurrie, Yoshie, Vivian, Bobbery, Miss Mowz, Goombario, Kooper, Bombette, Parakarry, Bow, Watt, Sushie, Lakilester, Lakilulu, and Frankly.

"I'M TELLING YOU, YOU'RE THE ONE WHO STOLE MY IPOD YOU WHORE! OH AND LOOK, THE SCREEN IS SMASHED! GEE, I WONDER WHO DID THAT!?" Lakilulu screamed.

"And I'm telling you, that I just found it under the bed and the screen was already smashed! Stop looking for someone to blame you fat cow!" Bow yelled back.

"Oh yeah, and I bet the Easter Bunny just so happens to travel from Sarasaland over to Yoshi's Island in less than 24 hours each year. NOT! You've always hated me so if anyone here would want to ruin something of mine, it would be you!"

"WHAT? That doesn't even make any sense you broad! Just take your stupid iPod, listen to your crappy Toadney Spears music, and leave me the hell alone!"

Bombette jumped in. "Can you both just stop already!? Seriously, all of this yelling is going to make us insane and it isn't gonna solve anything!"

"Buzz off you pink-markered bomb! I'm going to rip this slut of a ghost INTO SHREDS!" Lakilulu threatened.

"Oh, I would LOVE to see you try!" Bow retorted.

"Ugh whatever! I am so done with this." Lakilulu screeched and stormed off.

"Me too!" Bow added and stormed off in the same direction.

"Same here!" Bombette also added and went in the same direction.

"Uhh, guys? We can't just storm off in to the same direction together! Kinda defeats the purpose!" Lakilulu pointed out.

"Fine, you go back there and I'll stay right here!" Bombette said.

"How about you both stay on the other side of the room for the rest of the time we're in here!?" Bow said.

"GOD, YOU PEOPLE ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO DEAL WITH!" Lakilulu raged.

"For pete's sake JUST KILL ME NOW!" Koopie groaned and laid down on her bed.

"Speaking of 'kill', um...does anyone have any idea what they might do to us?" Koops asked in worry.

"Who knows, my boy. They could either starve us to death, torture us, make us their slaves...anything could happen. I do know for certain we WILL get out of this mess sooner or later!" Bobbery said.

"But how though!? Mario is the only person that could save us, and he got captured too! Let's just face it you guys, unless a miracle happens, we aren't getting out of here. All hope is lost..." Kooper sighed.

"Geez, can you be any more pessimistic? You just gotta have patience. Someone or something will get us out of here, I can promise you that." Watt stated.

"Hey wait a second, can't Bow just turn invisible since she's a Boo and simply float through the walls, out the castle and get some help?" Parakarry pointed out.

"Don't you remember, Parakarry? I already tried doing that, but there's like a force field protecting these walls that blocks me from getting out." Bow answered.

"Not really surprised to be honest. The leader of those slaves that captured us seemed pretty smart...even smarter than Bowser! Well, that's not really saying much I guess. Still, he seems like he knows what he's doing. By the way, does anyone remember his name?" Goombario asked.

"Not to mention, I can't even use my veil ability here, because, like Bow said, there's some stupid force here that's preventing me from doing it!" Vivian cried.

"Wasn't his name Tangela? Or Tamango? Or Tamale?" Yoshie asked.

"His name was Tatanga. I've read about him before actually. Our hero that we all know and love, Mario, went on a quest many years ago to save Princess Daisy, who was captured by Tatanga. Mario ended up defeating Tatanga and rescuing Daisy but it seems now that ever since then, Tatanga has been planning his revenge and...well...here we are, under his control." Frankly explained.

"Wow, I never knew for one second that this guy had a famously bad history. Still though, why revenge now after so many years? Doesn't make much sense." Sushie commented.

"It's probably because he wanted it to be completely unexpected so that Mario and others would be caught off guard. And, uhh, he pretty much succeeded in doing that." Lakilester added.

"Well whatever the case is, darlings, we must keep our head high and pray that we will get out of this ugly disaster soon...along with getting out of these disgusting and inhumane prison cells!" Flurrie preached.

"But you wanna know the worst part about being locked in here though? There's nothing of interest in this room that I want to steal and keep for myself!" Miss Mowz complained.


The next prison room over had Mona, Mimi, Nastasia, O'Chunks, Lady SaSa, Shy Guy, Fly Guy, Wiggler, Boo, Dry Bones, Tippi, Banjo, Kazooie, Amy Rose, and Charmy Bee.

Mona was tugging on the large cell bars of the only window in the room. "AGGGGGGGHHHHH! C'MON! I WANT OUT OF THIS PLACE!"

"Um, excuse me but what do you think you're doing?" Nastasia asked.

"What does it look like I'm doing!? I'M TRYING TO GET OUT OF THIS HELLHOLE!" Mona yelled in response and continued tugging on the bars.

"Do you really think you could just break those bars apart so easily with your bare hands? Just forget about it. We aren't going anywhere anytime soon." Nastasia coldly said.

"Well I refuse to stay in this filthy, smelly, rathole any longer! There has to be a way out...there always is!" Mona sighed and gave up on the bars.

"Even if you do somehow get out of this place, what makes you think you'll make it far? They probably have guards patrolling way outside of this place so you'd probably be overtaken by them within seconds." Boo said.

"What I wanna know is, is this really the apocalypse that's been rumored to happen for years now? Could this guy that captured us really try to end the world?" Dry Bones asked.

"Well, it's past December 21, 2012 so I doubt that it's the same 'apocalypse theory' you're talking about." Shy Guy said.

"Wanna know the worst part though? I won't be able to release my new album anytime soon! The first single was suppose to come out later this month then the album would be released over a month later, but now it's all ruined! I HATE MY LIFE!" Lady SaSa cried.

"Huh? You're a music artist or something?" Mimi asked.

"Duh! Do you not know who I am?" She asked back. Everyone else didn't notice it at first, but she was dressed very oddly. She was a Toad with long platinum blonde hair, super long eyelashes, pink and glittery eyeshadow, golden colored lipstick, a dress on made of bubbles, and 9 inch heels.

"Uhh...oh! I think I know you! You're the one that went crazy and shaved her head a few years ago, right?" Wiggler asked.

"NO NO NO! THAT WAS TOADNEY SPEARS! Come on people, I'm the one and only...LADY SASA!" She exclaimed while flipping her hair and doing a model pose.

"Sorry, doesn't ring a bell." Charmy added. Everyone nodded in agreement.

Lady SaSa sighed depressingly and sat down on one of the beds. "I knew I should've released my album last year..."

Meanwhile, Tippi was staring outside the barred window. "I wonder if Dimentio got captured too..."

"Bleh! That pompous son of o' bitch probably joined forces with the guy who captured all o' us! We all knew how he is!" O'Chunks yelled.

"I wouldn't be surprised either. Dimentio is quite powerful and smart...and evil. It would be no shocker if he played a role in this." Mimi added.

"Ugh, I'm actually not even suppose to be in this dump! Me and Charmy here were suppose to be traveling to Sarasaland but noooooooooo! SOMEONE here begged to visit Mushroom City because of the supposed 3 story arcade that was on 64th street, which wasn't even all that glamorous!" Amy spat.

"It was too! You're just mad because you sucked at all the games you played there!" Charmy retorted.

"Me and Kazooie were actually on vacation in this city too but...uhh...yeah, it was definitely a 'right place, wrong time' kind of deal." Banjo said.

"I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD IF I STILL HAD MY EGG ABILITY I WOULD BLAST THAT MOTHERFUCKER WITH MY FUCKING GRENADE EGG ALONG WITH HIS FUCKING SLAVES AND DESTROY HIS FUCKING LAME CASTLE WITH A BUNCH OF FUCKING GRUNTY CLONES THAT I CAN CREATE USING THE FUCKING CLONE MACHINE THAT THAT MOTHERFUCKING WHORE BUILT LAST YEAR IN HER FUCKING DISGUSTING CAVE!" Kazooie exploded.

"Holy crap! Can ya tone down the anger and swearing please!?" Wiggler exclaimed.

"Sorry about that. She forgot to take her pills this morning." Banjo said.

"Guys, this isn't the time to be arguing like a bunch of ugly people!" Fly Guy said and then did a model walk throughout the room while everyone stared at him in disgust.


Meanwhile, at the highest part of the castle sat the man himself in his throne room, the one that's responsible for all of this madness.

Tatanga.

Beldam, Marilyn, and Doopliss entered the throne room.

"Hello my king. Everyone is successfully locked up and the guards are patrolling the hallways along with the castle grounds." Beldam reported.

"Excellent! Things are going very well according to plan. Well, at least I'm doing much better than that disgusting fool, Bowser! He should be ashamed of even calling himself a Koopa!" Tatanga exclaimed.

"Heh heh heh, you've got a good point there, my king. You would think after trying like 75 million times to capture the princess only to be defeated by that midget plumber, he would know by now, eh?" Doopliss laughed.

Tatanga smiled. "Indeed. But, of course, a part of this wouldn't be possible if my lovely servant, Grodus, here wouldn't have lent me his magic stick...or wand...or whatever the hell you're suppose to call this."

"Um, yeah...do you think you could return that to me anytime soon?" Grodus pleaded.

"I'll return it when I feel like it. Now Grodus, go away, I need to speak to these three alone." Tatanga ordered.

Grodus sighed and slowly walked to the exit but also muttered the word, "Asshole..."

Tatanga stood up and stomped his foot. "What did you just say!?"

Grodus jumped and turned around. "N-n-nothing, my king!"

"You know Grodus...I brought your body back easily with your very own magic stick because you couldn't do it yourself considering you were just a head. But you do realize that I can take that away anytime I want, right? Especially the more angry you make me..."

Grodus sighed again. "Yes, my king. I apologize."

"Good. Now go."

Grodus slowly exited the room and slammed the door.

"Awkwarrrrrrrrrrrd..." Doopliss commented.

"So...uhh...my king! What is it that you wanted to talk about with us?" Beldam asked.

"It's Dimentio. Where the hell has that joker been? I specifically told him to come back here after his watch at 1pm...and it's now almost 20 minutes later!"

Then, as if on cue, a flash suddenly appeared in the room and Dimentio instantly showed up.

"Ah! Sorry I took so long to get back to you my king. I was distracted by...something..." He said.

"Hmm? And what is this something if I may ask?"

"I believe there are intruders coming this way. It was hard to tell who it was, but it looks like they were driving some kind of airborn vehicle. And there seemed to be a lot of them!" Dimentio explained.

"Oh great. Well, it was to be expected. SOMEONE always has to come save the day from evil..." Doopliss complained.

"What should we do about this, my king?" Beldam asked.

Tatanga rubbed his chin, deep in thought. It took him a minute before he could respond.

"Say...did we capture Princess Peach?" He asked.

Beldam raised her eyebrow. "Um, I don't believe that we did...but there's no need to worry about her! The girl can't even save herself from Bowser despite being the richest woman in the kingdom!"

Tatanga took another minute to process his thoughts. Everyone else in the room was dying to know what he was thinking, but was a bit afraid to ask.

"Okay then. We already have those small ships of ours destroying the remains of the city, but we're gonna need more if we want to defeat these guys. You three! Send out the next wave of enemy ships out and tell them to attack any ship that does not resemble theirs! Dimentio, get back to the tower top and keep a look out. Me...I must do something important."

EOC.

So this chapter basically introduced the rest of the characters. Next chapter will have our heroes approaching the castle, but of course, they'll be experience A LOT more trouble along the way. Please review.

Also, I should've mentioned this last chapter, but chapter updates are going to be more infrequent from now on, meaning that the fastest update you'll expect to see will be 6 days (unless I say for sure there is going to be an update quicker than that). The reason is because the chapters in this fic are going to be a lot bigger than my usual standard chapter length, which means that it's going to take more time to write each chapter. So yeah, I just want to not put myself in such a pressuring position that it doesn't stress me out TOO much. So expect updates as short as 6 days and as long as 2 weeks. If I somehow update later than 2 weeks, then you can start a mob and chase me down to the ocean.