Chapter 8 Koopas Meet Koopas
Back in the Koopa Kingdom, dusk was already settling down upon the land. As the sun sank below the horizon, many people were getting ready to turn in for the night. Larry and Roy, however, were not. Instead, they were playing a game of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in the common room. Larry grinned like a maniac when his avatar crossed over the finish line first.
"Oh yeah baby, I won!"
Wendy, who had just entered the room, put her hands to her ears.
"Yeesh, Larry, can you keep it down?" she asked. "There are aliens in the Buoy Base Galaxy who have gone deaf from your shouting!"
Larry laughed as a smirk landed on his face.
"You don't need to be quiet when you are awesome!" he said. He started to do a little dance, if for no other reason than to rub in the point that he was awesome. He could hear Roy let out an annoyed groan, but Larry did not cease with his jig until Ludwig entered the room.
"Hey, have you guys seen Iggy?" he asked. "I want to ask him for the password so I can take my power suppressor off."
Larry stopped dancing as the three Koopalings turned toward their eldest brother.
"No, I haven't seen Iggy," he said.
"Come to think of it, I haven't seen Lemmy and Morton either," said Wendy. She looked a little worried.
"Huh," Roy said. "Where could they be?"
Suddenly, a whooshing sound could be heard in the the room. Larry looked around, confused as to what it was. It sounded similar to a vacuum cleaner, sucking up all of the dirt on the floor. What's more; it was growing louder and louder, and the louder the noise grew, it seemed the more windy it got in the room.
"What's happening!?" Wendy shrieked.
Suddenly, a screaming sound could be heard as well. Then, a green vortex appeared in the room, and out of the vortex fell what Larry assumed to be a dragon koopa. Larry gawked.
"What_the World Eight_just happened?" Larry asked in complete bafflement.
"I don't know," Roy said. He approached the Koopa that had fallen out of the vortex. "Hey Buddy, are you alright?"
The koopa stood up with a groan, and when he did everyone gasped. The Koopa looked exactly like Roy!
"Of course I'm alright," the koopa said with his very thick, very defensive Brooklyn accent. "I'm not a sissy!"
Roy stared at the koopa, his mouth hanging so wide open it could serve as a hanger for fighter jets.
"Another me?" he asked. "That's...that's….AWESOME!"
Suddenly, another vortex appeared in the room. Larry, Wendy, and Ludwig turned toward it, and out of it another koopa came. He crashed right into Ludwig, who just so happened to be his look alike.
"Ugh," Ludwig's look alike said while he got up on from the ground. "That really did a number on me."
"Yeah, trying being the one being crashed into," said Ludwig. Then they each got an eyeful of the other, and both of them screamed in fright. By this point, Larry was beyond confused; he was frazzled.
"Woah," he said as he turned to Wendy. "This is getting weirder and weirder by the minute."
"You can say that again," Wendy said with a snort. From across the room, one last vortex opened up, allowing two more koopas to come threw. One of them looked like Wendy,a nd another looked like Larry. The one who looked like Wendy groaned as she got up.
"Kooky!" she yelled. "You said that this would be a fun trip! Well it wasn't! I think I broke one of my nails!"
The Wendy look alike burst into highly exaggerated, very loud cries when she had said the last part of the sentence. The Larry look alike, on the other hand, studied the room with a greedy yet subtle gleam in his eyes.
"Hmm. Nice place," he said. Then he chuckled sinisterly. "I wonder if there is anything for us to steal?"
"We don't have to worry about stealing right now, Cheatsy," said Ludwig's look alike. "All of this will belong to us soon enough!"
Larry stared at the koopas, a million questions bouncing around like pinballs in his mind. What was going on? Why did these koopas look like them? Did this have anything to do with Iggy, Morton, and Lemmy going missing? As if he could hear his thoughts, Ludwig stepped forward with a frightened, confused look.
"Okay seriously, what the World Eight is going on?" he asked. "Who are you guys? Where did you come from? WHY DOES THE ONE WHO LOOKS LIKE ME HAVE WEIRD HAIR?"
The Ludwig look alike giggled.
"Oh, I suppose that an explanation is owed to you on some level," he said. "My name is Kooky von Koopa."
"I am Cheatsy Koopa," said Larry's look alike.
"I'm Kootie Pie," said Wendy's look alike. "And that last one right there is Bully. We are alternate versions of you."
"HAH!" Bully said as he studied Roy. "More like the better versions of you."
"Hey!" Roy said. "What are you talking about 'better versions?' Have you seen my muscles?"
Roy did a flex as he said this, to which Bully just rolled his eyes. Larry still felt confused.
"Wait wait wait," he said. "So let me get this straight; you guys are alternate versions of us?"
"We are indeed, my interdimensional double," said Cheatsy with a sneer. Larry looked at Cheatsy and felt a pit form in his stomach. He did not like this guy; not one little bit.
"Wait," said Ludwig. "If you guys are alternate versions of us, does that mean you come from an alternate universe?"
"Don't be stupid; of course it does," said Kootie Pie. Ludwig looked toward Kooky.
"And his name is Kooky von Koopa?" When Kooky nodded, Ludwig looked ready to faint. "Man! That's even worse than Ludwig Vanessa!"
Kooky just laughed again. The sound was so weird that Larry himself felt like giggling along with him.
"Well I'll tell you what, Ludwig Vanessa," Kooky said. "I want you guys to give us a tour of your castle."
"And why should we do that?" Wendy asked. "We just met you; we have absolutely zero reason to trust you."
"That may be true," Kootie Pie said. "But what if I told you that we could tell you where your brothers are?"
"Yeah," said Cheatsy. "Aren't their names Iggy, Morton and Lemmy?"
Larry felt his heart skip a beat.
"You...you know where they are?" he asked.
"We do," said Kooky sinisterly. "And if you want to see them again, you will do exactly as we say."