Chapter 1: The Adventure Begins...
After my quick departure from the main menu, I found myself in a large portside city. There was a sign at the harbor that said, "Welcome to Rougeport". I then said, "Wow, this is so cool. I'm actually in my new game!" I walked around the harbor for a bit, then I remembered something from my last issue of Nintendo Power. Rougeport got it's name due to it's high crime rate. In fact, it had the highest crime rate in the entire Mushroom Kingdom! Usually, Mario games tend to be pretty tame, and even the most dangerous situations didn't really seem like much of a problem. But that was when I wasn't in the game, unlike today. I knew I had to be careful. One wrong move and I might find myself on the obittuaries of the local newspaper!
At that moment my thoughts went to my friends and family back home. I was wondering if I'd ever get out and go home. But as I figured earlier, I probobly would have to beat the game first to get out. I hope... I decided to see if I could find a place to stay, when I heard a loud gruff voice say, "Hey, you!" I immeadiately froze with fear, but soon relaxed when I saw I wasn't the one being yelled at. What I saw was a young female goomba wearing a miner's helmet with a blonde ponytail flowing out from underneath. Then I saw three strange looking guys. Two small ones with red uniforms with white hoods covering their heads while the third guy was large and he had a purple uniform and had what looked like a Viking's helmet on.
The girl then said, "W-who'er you? What do you want?" She was obviously frightened. She somewhat reminded me of my girlfriend back home for some reason. The big guy who had spoken earlier said, "I know it might be hard for you, but don't play dumb with me! I know all about how you've been asking about the Crystal Stars, so you'd better cough up whatever info you have NOW!" Suddenly, I saw two men walking towards the group. One was shorter than the other, and he wore blue overalls, a red shirt with matching hat with the letter "M" on the front. The other was taller, and thinner also wearing overalls, but he wore a green hat and shirt instead of red ones. His hat also had the letter "L" on the front. I then said, "WOW, THE SUPER MARIO BROTHERS! Hey wait, From what I've heard Luigi was gonna have a different role in this game not much different from the one in the previous Paper Mario, and wouldn't appear until later in the game. What's he doing here now?"
Before I could answer my own question, the girl goomba ran behind Mario and Luigi, and said, "Yeah right, Like I'd go anywhere with smelly losers like you!" Luigi was noticably nervous, but Mario wasn't giving up an inch of ground. He knew trouble when he saw it, and he couldn't stop from saying, "Ok, what's going on here? What gives you the right to pick on a little girl like this goomba?" Luigi then said with a twinge of fear in his voice, "Mario, I don't think it's a good idea to get involved in this..." Mario ignored Luigi when the big guy said, "So, you guys dare stand up to Lord Crump?" At that moment, I began laughing hard. And this brought unwanted attention to me as I laughed. I then said, "Lord Crump? Man, what happened? Did somebody already take Mr. B. Adguy?" I heard a nearby sailor say to one of his friends, "Hey, I like this guy. Someone who's bold enough to badmouth someone here in Rougeport has my respect!"
The one known as Lord Crump walked up to me and said, "You dare laugh at me? I'll give you a taste of the ol' Crump-A-Bomb!" He charged at me, but I jumped to the side as he ran into a wall making the familar brick breaking sound from Super Mario Brothers on the NES. I then shouted out "Ole!" to taunt the goon further. He charged again, this time Mario landed a kick to the guy's side sending him into some nearby trashcans. He was really mad now, and he charged again this time with his fists flying. Mario grabbed my arm and jumped to our left dodging the oncoming blow. Lord Crump then fell into the water where the sailors began to chuckle to themeselves, which became riotous laughter when Lord Crump got chomped by a school of Trouters.
When Crump got back onto dry land, he said, "Ok, so you got some hits in. But now, IT'S GO TIME!" Suddenly, about fifty of those smaller guys appeared. Luigi then said, "M-M-M-Mario, w-w-what are w-w-w-we g-g-g-gonna do?" Needless to say, I was a bit scared now too. I had no idea who these guys were, but they obviously must have been the bad guys in this game. Suddenly, all of these guys attacked us at once. Somehow, they got blindsighted by the order to attack us that they didn't see us creep away with the girl goomba. After getting away, Luigi looked me dead in the eye and said, "Listen kid, I don't mean to be rude or anything, but DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN! I surely thought our gooses were cooked!" Mario then said, "Take it easy Luigi. Things could be worse." Luigi then said, "Worse? We're in a town filled with gangsters, muggers and god knows what else. HOW COULD THINGS BE ANY WORSE!"
The girl goomba then said, "Um, excuse me guys?" We turned and looked at the girl goomba, and she said, "Thank you for dealing with those bozos back there. I'm sorry for getting you guys into trouble. I only just gotten here, and I HATE IT ALREADY! This place is called Rougeport, so I should've known I'd get into some kind of trouble, but jeeze! I wouldn't have come here if there wasn't any legendary treasure around here." My ears twitched at the sound of the word "treasure". My hometown is situated in an area where many legends of explorers and other travelers get handed down, and I once heard of a treasure was hidden somewhere in the mountains of my hometown. Some friends of mine were trying to find info on the treasure so we could find it, and split it between us evenly. That is, that was my original plan for the summer before I got sucked into my game.
The goomba girl then said, "By the way, my name's Goombella. Who're you guys?" I then said, "My name's Ray." Mario and Luigi then introduced themeselves, and Goombella then said, "WHAT? THE Mario and Luigi?" The brothers nodded. Goombella then asked what the famous plumber duo was doing in Rougeport, then Mario explained the letter they got from Princess Peach, and the strange map she figured must have been a treasure map of sorts. Goombella got excited about that, and asked to see the map. She took one look at it, and said, "Wow, I wonder if this might be the treasure map that leads to the treasure I'm looking for?" I then asked, "Why are you looking for this treasure?" Goombella then said, "I'm studying to become an Archeologist. Finding treasure when I'm not in class is sure to give me extra credit at U Goom! I can see my dream becoming a reality thanks to you guys! Say, you guys should meet my old history profossor. I hear he's studying the legendary treasure said to be beneath Rougeport. I came out here to meet up with him, but that's when those wierdos caught me."
We gladly decided to help her find the renowned Archeology expert, Prof. Frankly. When I was still getting info about this game from legitimate sources before it was released, I heard that this Professor Frankly was the inspiration for the famous koopa archeologist Kolorado, who first appeared in the first Paper Mario. I figured I'd take everything in stride. Eventually I'd find a way out. However, at that moment, my friends and family gathered around my TV set astonished at what had happened.
My mother said, "WHAT HAPPENED? Video games don't just suck people into the TV like that!" Suddenly, a large bulky teenager said while glancing out the window, "Well, you guys may call me crazy, but after the amount of Sci-Fi movies I watched I can safely say that this storm might be the cause." A smaller, more fit young man said, "What're you talking about Ben? There is no way that a storm can do this. I mean, we've played video games with Ray before during storms and nothing wierd happened!" The bigger kid, Ben then said, "Can you come up with a better explanation as to why Ray is a waffer thin character sprite in a video game Josh?" Josh kept quiet. He knew when he was beat in an argument. A young lady with brown hair and sparkling green eyes then said, "I hope Ray'll be alright... I heard about all the dangers that this game has for Mario from one of my friends who beat the game last week, and the final boss is a living nightmare!"
The girl began to shed a few tears at the thought of all the things that can and will happen. My father then said, "Don't worry about a thing Shelby. I may not know anything about video games, but I know enough to know there isn't anything Ray can't handle. I once saw him playing that tennis game with Mario in it, and he was playing against a giant spiked turtle who could breath fire on the ball and send it across the court at high speeds. Ray was having a tough time, and nearly lost several times, but he kept at it and won the match in the end. Ray'll be fine, I'm sure of it. He knows all about these crazy worlds from experiance, so he should be fine."
Josh then said, "Uh, guys? I think I see something amiss here. When I was looking at pictures of this game on the internet, while although they shown Luigi was in the game, they didn't say he was gonna be helping Mario as if he were one of the partners in the game. I think that if Ben's theory is correct then that storm did something else to the game other than just drag Ray into the game." Ben then said, "Yeah, now that you mention it, Mario and Luigi were never given this many lines of speech in a game by their voice actor Charles Martinet before. In fact, they don't sound anything like Charles Martinet's voice at all! They seem to have a thick Brooklyn accent." My mom then said, "They sound the way they did on the old Mario cartoons when they were voiced by Lou Albano and Danny Wells... I remember Ray saying that while although Charles Martinet was an excellent choice to be Mario and Luigi, he said he would always consider Lou and Danny as the true voices of Mario and Luigi."
Dad then said with a concerned look on his face, "I think you kids should stay with us for a while and check on the game from time to time to Make sure Ray's ok." My friends agreed with my dad, and they left and told their parents they'd be staying at my house for a few days. They left out the part of me being sucked into a game to prevent humiliation. Even my parents had to lie to other family members to make sure no one panicked. As for me, I was gonna see a lot more insanity before the day was over...
To be continued...
Trouter is the fish enemy from the American version of Super Mario Bros. 2. On the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, they were portrayed as piranha-like fish who would eat anything in sight. I decided to use that version of the Trouters to make this fanfic funnier.
Also, it's easier for me to use Mario and Luigi's Brooklyn accent from the old Mario cartoons so they can talk. Putting "-a" after almost every word can be annoying, but that's how the games are done so it works fine there. Also, I applaude Charles Martinet for his excellent voice work for many of the Mario characters. Along with Mario and Luigi, he plays Wario, Waluigi, Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, and Toadsworth.
The Brooklyn accents were provided by famous wrestler, Captain Lou Albano (Mario), and famous TV star, Danny Wells (Luigi). These two were (and still are) considered the true Mario and Luigi. For those who don't know about thse two, look them up on the internet. The reasons I consider them the true Mario brothers is because aside from their voices, they even look like Mario and Luigi (even without the fake mustaches and costumes they wore on the Super Mario Bros. Super Show).
The script writers for the show also shaped the future of the Mario series by making the personalities we're so familiar with from Mario's love of pasta, Luigi's cowardice, Toad's mixed feelings of courage and fear, and even Bowser's cliche'd (but still funny) villian diolouge. I'm gonna use a lot of stuff from the Super Show to add more comedy to this story, so enjoy!