Strikers Invitational
Hey what's up recently i replayed one of my favorite Mario spinoff games Mario strikers charged on the Nintendo Wii and completed the road to the strikers cup and thought of the idea writing it as a story adding a my own twist to it adding what happened before and in between games building the bond of Mario and his team on their long journey to be crowned strikers champions
This goes beyond saying i don't own Mario or Mario strikers charged all rights go to Nintendo and Next Level Games all rights go to them
Mario was sitting on his old, but comfortable couch on a Sunday afternoon in his cozy little home but then. He heard his doorbell ring disturbing the quiet that was ruined by the sudden noise.
Opening his eyes and turning his head so his eyesight was now on the door. "who could that-a be" Mario said in a puzzled tone. Nevertheless, Mario got up from the couch to go see who could possibly be at his door. Mario put his hand on the doorknob, turned it to the right and pull the door seeing who it was.
"Hey Mario, what's up" said Parakarry the cyan shell colored winged koopa troopa mailman of the Mushroom Kingdom with his matching brown headgear with goggles attached to the front to protect his eyes from the wind during all the flying he does to deliver mail. His brown leather satchel that he uses to carry the mail in and his basic brown leather boots to round out the look.
"Got just one letter for you the great Mario" Parakarry said in a sarcastic tone as he reaches in his mailbag to fish out the letter. Mario let out a small laugh and a roll of his big blue eyes at the mail koopa little joke. "Ah he it is" as Parakarry pulled out a rather nice, professional looking envelope. He gave it to Mario as he starts flying again once Mario took ahold of the letter in both hands. Parakarry flew higher as he said "Bye Mario see you soon"
"See yah para" Mario bellowed in a loud voice waving his hand high in the air to wave goodbye. Turning around and closing the door with the back of his shoe as he started eyeing the envelope while at the same time walking towards the kitchen to grab himself a seat and maybe a snack he didn't know. Once at the table he pulled out a seat for him to sit on posted at kitchen table. Now sitting in the chair, he finally opened the letter to see what it could possibly be and pulled out a letter and started reading.
Dear Mario.
We would like to invite you to join and participate in this season of strikers its been a while since the last session of strikers games since then we have made some changes to hopefully increase the popularity and viewership of strikers and we would like to ask you if you'd like to join in again?
One of the bigger changes is that you will now be able to choose different sidekicks instead of three of the same this will bring more strategy to the game and more faces on the field.
If you are interested, please come to toad town plaza to sign up
Sincerely,
The Strikers Committee
Mario couldn't believe it, strikers was coming back!
Mario reminisced of him and his team of red koopas and his kritter goalkeeper playing strikers at those now abandoned stadiums he still had his trophy of the super bowser cup in his room with a picture of him and his team posing with the trophy.
After thinking of the past Mario knew he still wanted to play and his team will be the very best. "If interested please come to toad town plaza to sign up" Mario reread to make sure he had the information right and got up from his chair started making his way to toad town.
After the noneventful twelve-minute walk Mario was at the said plaza in the letter and saw a Toad with a yellow doted cap and a black jacket with a small yellow trophy with wings emblem on the upper left side of it.
"Are you-a from the strikers committee" Mario asked in his thick Italian laced voice. The toad looked his way from the sudden voice and smiled seeing it was Mario. "Yes I am, so great to meet you mister Mario" as the toad extended his hand for a handshake Mario extended his hand out to shake the toad's hand and tipped his hat as he replied "Nice to meet you to but please just call me-a Mario".
"Ok whatever you like mis-" the yellow dotted toad stop himself mid-sentence to correct himself before starting again "Well Mario it seems you want to play in the new strikers league am I right" asked the toad raising a eyebrow at the same time. Mario laughed at the face the toad made but quickly replied to the question at hand "Yes I am" while nodding his head.
"Great now we have four teams to start our strikers league" said the toad with a happy voice. "Four teams eh" Mario replied simply. "Why yes my Italian friend we already had three teams sign up to play and now with you we have our fourth team" the small mushroom man answered. Pulling out a piece of paper from the inside of his jacket the striker ambassador and handed it to the rad capped hero.
"Here's the captains you'll be playing Mario" Mario grabbed the list from the strikers representative and started looking over the list of names. He read the list of names as he saw familiar names from previous strikers games like Donkey Kong and the princess of the Mushroom kingdom herself Princess Peach. Then his eyes widen when he saw a certain name he didn't expect or wanted to see. HIS name Bowser his mortal enemy.
Mario looked back at the toad still with his shock look and he slowly he started speaking "Why him?". The toad knew exactly who the plumber was talking about and let out a small sigh before speaking "Because Mario it would make great TV and new captains would spice up the landscape of the strikers playing field"
Mario still wasn't complete on board with the idea but decide not to dwell on choice of letting the koopa king play in the tournament and deicide to ask one more question on his mind. "So how will the-a tournament be set up and structure?" he asked in a puzzled state because as he remembers all the previous stadiums were not maintained and abandoned.
The yellow man laughed before responding to the red hero of the Mushroom Kingdom. "Don't worry my red friend we got it all figured out" he stated getting Mario's attention before continuing "We got new and more exciting fields for you guys to play on and we are remodeling some of old ones to be used again" he explained before moving on to a new topic. "As for the season its really simple four teams six games each you face the other captains twice three points for a win, one for a sudden death loss, and zero for a regular time loss top two teams advance to the knockout rounds and winner face the fire cup champion in a best two out of threes series to be crowned the fire cup champion" the toad explain in a long speech
Mario simply nodded to the explanation which the toad smiled at. "Good now go find yourself a team you have a month to assemble a team and train same setup as last time three sidekicks and a kritter for a goalkeeper but this time you can have different sidekicks instead of three of the same got it?" asked the toad. "Got it" replied Mario with a thumbs up to match.
With the conversation over Mario looked at the sky and notice it was pitch black and didn't notice until now. "Wow the time really escaped us didn't it" said Mario while rubbing the back of his head with his right and let out a chuckle. The toad laughed at the remark and simply replied "yes it did, well goodnight Mario and remember you have one month" as he started walking away and waving his hand at the plumber from Brooklyn. "Bye-bye" he said back with his heavily laced Italian accent to the toad and started walking back home.
Once back home his mind was still filled with nothing but strikers memories and thought as he started pondering his choice for a team. Maybe he could get a toad to join his team, maybe a birdo could be a good addition, or maybe he could think outside the box for new potential sidekicks a shy guy or monty mole possibly.
Mario rapidly shook his head to stop himself from potentially exploding his from thinking to much. "I think I-a need some shut eye" he told himself then he put on his striped red pajama pants with matching button up shirt and his night cap with his famous red M symbol on the front of it snuggly on his head then he laid on his bed drifting of to sleep still very much excited for the up coming revival of strikers.
Authors note
First chapter completed hopefully it was enjoyable for you guys I had more fun then expected writing this and thanks for making it all the way down here and reading it all next time Mario will be building his team adding two old friends and two new faces on his team to start his road to the strikers cup
Thank you for reading and see you next time!