Chapter 2 Sim Sam Sum
The Koopalings flew tward Bowser's Castle. Morton was chattering like a talking doll.
"How on Mushroom World can an airship fly?" he asked. "I know that airplanes are able to fly because of the forces of lift and drag or whatever. But how does an airship do it? Is it like a helicopter with its propellers? But on some level, that doesn't make any sense. An airship is much bigger and bulkier than a helicopter. I wonder if the airship uses magic?"
As Morton ate the tim away buy talking, the Koopalings started to feel slightley annoyed. Normally, Iggy would have explained all of Morton's questions away, but right now he didn't feel like it. He didn't know why he wasn't up for it, he just wasnt.
When the Koopalings got to Bowser's Castle, they immediately noticed something was of. The stone Bowser face that hung over the entrance was gone, and the tops of the towers were disappearing right before the Koopalings' eyes. The group entered the castle and noticed something else. The carpets, which were normally red, were white wit rainbow polka dots. The Koopalings rushed toward the throne room and gawked at the sight. There was Bowser Jr, sitting in the throne, and before him knelt his father.
"But Junior, I want to go to the amusment park!" Bowser said.
"No," said Junior. "I am way to busy. Besides, you eat too much candy and throw up whenever you step on the rides."
"But I wanna go!" Bowser screamed. He sprawled his body out on the ground and started throwing a temper tantrum, banging his fists and creating a ruckus. Junior sighed.
"Alright," he said. "We'll go sometime this weekend."
Bowser stopped with his tantrum and smiled up at Junior.
"Thanks, sonny!" he said. Then he skipped away. Junior started rubbing his forehed.
"That guy has no idea how busy I am, running a kingdom and all," he said silently.
The Koopalings were dumbfounded.
"Okay," said Ludwig, "that's just wrong."
The group approached Junior reluctantly. When he saw them, Junior gave a weak smile.
"Oh, hello everyone," he said. "How's your day going?"
"Oh, it's pretty interesting, to say the least!" exclaimed Morton. "We tried to kidnap Princess Peach earlier but we saw that her castle disappeared! On top of that, the toads were happy to see us and Mario was wearing a dress and the grass started to turn white. What was that all about? That was just weird! I mean, okay, Mario wearing a dress is kind of funny, but the other things are just straight up bizarre! Why did they happen? I kind of think that somebody might have brainwashed the toads or something, because how else would you be able to explain how they acted? I also think…
Before Morton could say any more, Roy put his hand over Morton's mouth. He instantly pulled it away with a look of disgust on his face.
"Morton!" he said. "Did you have to spit on me? The bacteria Streptococcus resides in saliva!"
Junior gave the two of them a confused look.
"Wow," he said.
"I know," said Wendy. "They've been acting this way ever since the kidnapping attempt."
"We've also noticed some other strange phenomena," said Iggy, "like the wons that Morton has described. Do you happen to know where Kamek is?"
Junior put his hand on his chin.
"Hmm," he said. "I believe that he is in the library. He said that he had something important to deal with."
The Koopalings thanked Junior and made their way to the library. When they opened the door, the could see Kamek leaning over the table, mutering under his breath.
"Kamek?" Iggy asked.
Kamek turned around. When he spotted the Koopalings, he smiled.
"Oh, thank the stars," he said. "Are you guys still acting normal?"
"Relatively," said Larry. "Morton and Roy have been acting a little weird, though."
"Kamek, do you know what is going on?" Lemmy asked.
Kamek side.
"Yes, I do," he said. "The fabric of our reality is experiencing a lot of strain."
"Why?" asked Ludwig. Kamek snorted.
"Oh, the million dollar question," he said.
"Do you not know?" asked Wendy.
"No, I do," Kamek replied. "It's just that the reeson is...well, it's very interesting."
The Koopalings got a little closer to the magikoopa.
"You see," said Kamek, "the world we live in does not function the way that most worlds do. It is based off of a video game series in the Real World. Many people like the games, but one person who likes the games in particular is a mysterious teenage girl who goes by the pseudonym StarlitDuck. StarlitDuck has taken to writing down your adventures on paper and creating aspects of our world, such as the superpowered koopas called 'specials' and the koopa-human hybrid known as Celia."
"So wait," said Iggy. "Are you saying that everything that we experience in our day to day lives...is fake?"
"That depends on your point of view," said Kamek. "It is very real to you and I, but to those in the real world...it is all fictious."
The Koopalings exchanged looks. How could this all be true? There world was rooted in nothing but a series of stories? It sounded absurd! Did that mean that nothing that they thought was original? Was everything that happened or was ever going to happen in their world already planned out? Were they themselves even people like they thought they were?
"StarlitDuck, or Star as I like to call her, has written down two of your adventures so far," said Kamek. He brought out a book. "She refers to them as 'Celia's Dad," and 'Soul Swap.'"
The Koopaling took a look at the pages in the book and gawked.
"Hey!" said Roy. "Hear is the adventure that I went on with Celia!"
Ludwig took the book and started flippping threw. He gasped when he came to a specific page.
"And 'Soul Swap?'" he said. "That's the time that Lemmy and I swapped bodies!"
"Wait, that's written down?" asked Lemmy. "Hmm. I'm not sure how to feel about that."
Kamek laughed.
"It isn't a perfect record of what has happened in your lives, but it is a record," he said. Kamek sighed. "I had a feeling that Star would decide to write a lot more stories around you all, considering that she seems very fond of you. But something is amiss. Star hasn't been able to dedicate as much time to the stories as before. Which, you've probably noticed, has created a problem."
"Yeah," said Larry. "The world is turning into crazytown!"
"Exactly," said Kamek. "On top of that, Star hasn't been able to proofread her stories, so there are more speling errors."
"Speling errors?" asked Morton.
"Yep, speling errors," said Kamek.
"But why would that matter?" asked Wendy. "We won't be able to tell."
"No," said Kamek, "but the readers will be able two."
"Wait, people are reading our stories?" Roy asked.
Kamek snorted.
"I certainly hope so!" he exclaimed.
The Koopalings nodded. They coud see Kamek's point.
"But that is not all," said Kamek. "If this keeps up, than everything that you have seen, from things disappearing to people acting out of character, will only get worse. Not only that, but more things will happen. Logic will crumble!"
THe Koopalings gasped.
"There will be plot holes!"
The Koopalings gasped again.
"Hour very world will cease to exist!" Kamek yelled.
It felt like the air in the room had gotten ten degrees colder. What? How could this happen? There had to be away that they could fix it!
Suddenly, the Koopalings heard a sound coming from outside. They all gathered around the window of the library and looked down. There, they could see one of the infantries of goomba and koopa troopa soldiers. And they were turning into sheep!
"Oh boy," said Larry. "Now that's messed up."
"Look! They're running away!" Lemmy said.
Indeed they were. Those of the soldiers who had turned into sheep were prancing away from the castle, most likely hungry and without a doubt confused.
"We have to rescue them!" said Wendy.
The others nodded and headed for the doorr.