Chapter 2: The Invasion

Mushroom Castle, 20 minutes before the attack.

"I can't believe I got caught up in this mess."said Luigi, walking down the halls with his brother."Relax lil' bro, the whole meeting is only gonna last an hour."said Mario

"Yeah... an hour of politicians arguing for a war that ended ten years ago," argued Luigi.

Both Mario and Luigi stop, and Mario puts his hand on Luigi's shoulder."Look, I don't like it as much as you do; but the faster we get this whole issue settled, the faster we can have a normal life again."said Mario

Mario then removes his hand from Luigi's shoulder and then continues moving down the hall of the east wing of the castle.

"Come on we need to hurry, the meeting gonna start in a couple minutes," said Mario.

Meeting room, 15 minutes before the invasion

Mario and Luigi enter the room to see multiple people sitting down on chairs around a roundtable talking to one another, those people were the kingdoms court.

The kingdoms court consisted of three people of each from the Mushroom Kingdom, Koopa region, and Dinosaur Island. The purpose of the court was to help rule the kingdom and the other regions.

As for Mario and Luigi, they weren't part of the court, they were just there because of the Princess.

Mario and Luigi walk up to their seats, which were next to the Princess."Good, you two made it we were just about to start." said Peach whispering to Mario and Luigi.

After a while, people began to stop as a politician stood up and started talking.

"Thank you, everyone, for joining this meeting, and also big thanks to the Mario brothers for joining us, and for saving our great kingdom and our lovely Princess!"said the politician.

Everyone then looked over at the Mario Bros and clapped to them, and got welcomed gestured from both of the brothers.

"Alright, now let's begin with the riots in the Koopa Region."said the politician sitting down.

Some of the politicians started talking with some of them saying that we should do military actions.

Those who said that gotten an ugly reaction from those from the Koopa Region.

One of the Politicians got up and yelled at that politician who said it, more people started arguing saying that this action will restore order in the region, while others said this would only cause another war.

It wasn't until someone within in the group caught Mario's attention. It was a Koopa with blue hair on the left side of the roundtable was holding his wrist with his right hand as if he was hiding something.

Mario kept on watching him until the Koopa got up from his and headed straight for the door leaving the room.

Mario got up and headed to the door following the politician.

Mario closes the door behind him and looks both ways in the hall, Mario spots him heading to the down the west wing.

"Where do you think you are going?"said Mario looking at the suspicious Koopa, the Koopa turned around nervously."Umm... to the restroom. *Gulps*"said the Koopa.

Mario raised his hand over his shoulder and pointed to the other side of the hall."The restroom is that way."said Mario.

"Oh heh... man thanks ugh... for pointing me in the right direction." said the Koopa, Mario then points at the sign on the wall saying were rooms are.

"Ugh... heh I guess I didn't notice that..."Mario then walks up to the Koopa causing him to back away.

The Koopa then runs down the hall and raises his wrist."Kamek, I need you to teleport me now, one of the brothers found out about me!"said the sprinting Koopa.

Mario then chases the Koopa down the hall.

Mario gains on the Koopa, but before he was able to grab him; squares, circles, and triangles fell down on him and then the Koopa vanished.

Mario stopped and looked at were the Koopa disappeared. *Sirens* Mario jolted and turned around listening to the alarm.

'Sirens?...'said Mario in his thoughts, Mario then runs back to the meeting room to see what's going on.

The plumber gets to the door but before he can open the door, an explosion is heard, then the doors break apart and then Mario slams into a wall knocking him out.

2 minutes after the invasion

Mario was on the ground, waking up from getting launched into a wall, he then gets up on his feet but then grabs his left arm from pain and see's a piece of wood and blood on his arm.

Mario then looks around and see the politicians running from something in the meeting room.

The plumber enters the room and sees fire, a giant hole in the wall, and broken pieces of wood all over the floor.

Mario looks down on the floor and sees Princess Peach on the ground bleeding from her forehead.

"Peach!"yelled Mario, he then goes on his knees, ignoring the pain from his shoulder and the pain from the wood pressing against on his legs and knees.

Mario then puts his right arm on Peaches shoulder and shakes her, causing her to stir.

Mario relieved that Peach is still alive, sees his brother getting from the ground.

Luigi runs up to Mario and then looks on the ground to see Peach on the ground.

"Mario is she...?"." No... she's alive but unconscious."said Mario getting up from the ground.

"Luigi... I need you to carry Peach we need to get out of her before anything else happ-."Mario looks at the hole in the wall and sees an airship moving towards them.

He then looks up and sees a shadowy figure on the front of the airship.

"No way, it can't be..."said Luigi, in shocked, the shadowy figure then jumps off the airship and lands on the ground feet first and then the shadowy figure became clear.

"Bowser..."said Mario in shock.

Bowser was just standing there glaring at the plumbers with hatred.

"How... how are you still alive?!"said Mario. The lizard king just stood there glaring at them.

"Who cares, he can be stopped again *Luigi runs up to Bowser and gets ready to punch the lizard.*."."WAIT, LUIGI!".

Luigi is then grabbed by the throat by Bowser, Mario then runs up to save his brother but fails when he is kicked by the lizard king and then puts his foot on Mario's chest.

"Pathetic humans... you think you can defeat me *Scoffs* you two don't even deserve to live... after what you did to me,"said Bowser still holding the brothers in his grasp.

"But I'll let you suffer what I've suffered for the past ten years." Then two boards of wood slide down from the ship and land on the ground next to Bowser, then Hammerbros march down on the planks and get in formation in front Bowser.

A red Hammerbro then moves forward in front of the hammerbros that are in formation.

"Waiting for orders my King."said the red Hammerbro." I want you and your squad to capture the rest of the kingdoms court and send another squad to capture the two Yoshis and bring back to my airship... alive."said Bowser ordering the red Hammerbro.

"As you wish my King."the red Hammerbro then orders the squad to capture the court then radios another squad to capture the Yoshis.

The Hammerbros leave the room, then Bowser picks up Mario by the throat then carries the brothers onto his airship.

End of Chapter 2

Stay tuned for Chapter 3: Running