Epilogue: Sunbathing

Boom Boom and Pom Pom laid out on their sunbathing benches and basked in the sun for the two hours it would be out today before it sunk below the clouds of volcanic ash and nightfall came upon them.

"Boom Boom wonders something..."

"Yeah, honey?" Pom Pom asked.

"What if Boom Boom had never told Bowsette about that fake invasion everyone was planning for her? What if Boom Boom had let her keep being the miserable King koopa that she was?"

"Then the world would be a much unhappier place," Pom Pom said. "You're not going to start blaming yourself for all the bad stuff that happened because of Bowser becoming Bowsette, right? Because... that's a total lame-o move."

"You're right," Boom Boom said. "Boom Boom was totally going to start doing that." He laughed softly.

"Well, you don't have to worry about that anymore, because you're doing a great job as Prime Minister. Everybody loves you. You could probably call yourself King and everyone'd just accept it. I'd accept it for sure."

"Boom Boom knows you're only saying that because you want to call yourself Queen."

"You're not wrong," she said with a laugh.

Still... Even if Boom Boom wasn't King in title, he was effectively the ruler of all of Dark Land. He... really liked having that power.

This was the life.

Though... he would later learn that he had forgot to put on sunscreen and his body, head to shell, was covered in sunburns.

A/N: Trying to balance life and writing at this time of year is very hard- that's why Nanowrimo is always one of the more difficult tasks of the entire year- and so sorry for not getting you as many epilogue chapters as you want as fast as you want. I learned a couple weeks ago that I am going to be sent to Japan for a job in less than a month, and so I've had to get ready for that incredibly quickly! Tough stuff, you know. I guess since the epilogue chapters are all "bonus" in a way it doesn't matter if I get them out quickly, but compared to my old output (100 chapters and 100,000 words in 15 days) it's pretty sad, isn't it?

In other news though, I'm still updating my original story ATL: Stories from the Retrofuture twice a week- you should read it! It's like Bowsette but no Mario characters! This is probably a weak appeal on a fan fiction dedicated exclusively to Mario stories, isn't it?