Waluigi, Goombette, and Boomer found themselves close to Mushroom Town once again, the town where the journey started. "Okay so we've tried Bowser and King Boo and struck out both times. Who else is left?" Goombette asked. Waluigi stroked one side of his mustache thoughtfully as he thought. After a moment though he gave up. "Wah! I don't know where else to look!" He cried in frustration. Waluigi sat on a nearby rock and muttered and twisted his hands. "I don't know how to do this 'hero' stuff and worst of all; I can't cheat!" "Hey! Get a hold of yourself Waluigi!" Goombette snapped. "You can do this; I believe in you, I believe you can save them!" "I believe in you too New Boss and I'll help you however I can… even if it gets a little scary." Boomer added. Waluigi looked at his companions in total disbelief. "Y-you two seriously think I can do this?" He asked. "Yeah, of course we do! And we'll help to do it because we're your friends and that's what friends are for!" Goombette said cheerfully. "Wha… really? Friends?" Waluigi repeated slowly, letting her words sink in.
"Exactly, we're gonna see this through; which means you're stuck with us, so don't go giving up just because the goings gotten rough." "E-exactly. What we need to do is look at this situation differently." Waluigi got up and nodded, now feeling more confident after his friends' pep talk. "You're right; I gotta find and save them, I've just gotta!" "That's right!" Goombette encouraged him. "You'll prove that you're just as capable of being a hero as any of them, you'll finally rise out of obscurity, and you'll-" "Finally get a date with Daisy!" Waluigi cut in, finishing her sentence, a dreamy look crossing his face. She and Boomer chuckled a bit. "Right, after all she'll owe you big time anyway." "G-good luck saving your princess New Boss!" "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!" Waluigi fist pumped into the air, now feeling ready to press on. He looked at Goombette and Boomer. "T-thanks… I needed that. I uh, I really…I like having friends like you two." He admitted a bit awkwardly.
"So where do we look now?" Goombette asked. "That's a good question…" Waluigi scratched his head in thought. "HOW DARE YOU!" They all jumped at the screeching yell that came out of nowhere. "Oh no…she's back…" Waluigi whispered as they all saw the source of the voice. Wendy looked furious, she also looked a mess; her bow half undone, dirt and mud splotches everywhere, and random leaves and twigs stuck to and sticking out of her shell. "How dare you leave me behind! Y-you nobody, you loser!" "Loser! I'm no loser you shell-head!" Waluigi yelled back. "You need to forget about those losers because they're gone and they're not coming back! None of them you hear me?! They're all goners because-" Wendy cut herself off, suddenly silent. "Huh? Because what? What do you know about this?" Goombette demanded. "Nothing, you little fungus!" Wendy snapped. "Oh really? You sure about that?" Waluigi sneered, drawing his hammer. "N-now wait just minute there… you wouldn't hit me would you Waluigi? I mean a gentleman doesn't hit a lady right?" She stammered, slowly backing away from the menacing mechanic. "That would be true except… I'm no gentleman and you ain't no lady so you better start talking or I'm gonna start pounding!"
Mario, Luigi and the others continued to ponder their situation but still came up empty. "I'm sorry everyone; I don't think there's anything I can do this time." Mario said dejectedly, even his mustache drooped a little bit with his frown. "It's okay Mario, I haven't given up yet, I know there's got to be a way out of here, we just have to keep on trying." Peach said reassuringly. "Hey Bro; it's okay." Luigi chimed in. "If we're sunk at least we're gonna sink together right?" "Why do I hafta get dragged down with you losers?" Wario grumbled; irritating Daisy enough to throw her shoe at him, hitting him right between the eyes. "OW!" "Stop being such a pain you- you fathead!" "Hey guys knock it off already. All this whining and arguing isn't gonna fix this mess!" Mario tried to play referee. He sighed. "At least Toad and Yoshi aren't stuck here too; although Yoshi would be really helpful right now."
"Have you all conceded defeat yet?" Their captor asked as he entered the room once more. "Never!" Peach snapped. "We WILL find a way out of here!" Daisy added. He only laughed. "I highly doubt that. After all, you only have 30 more minutes before it's all over." "What do you mean by that!?" Mario asked in alarm. He simply laughed again and pulled a small remote from his pocket and pushed a button. The sound of stone grinding against stone echoed through the room as a large section of the floor slid away to reveal a deep pit beneath. "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Luigi cried as he firmly attached himself to one of the bars of his cage. "Mwhahahahahaha!" Their captor laughed manically as the glow of the lava beneath filled the room. "Uh, somebody please tell me that's a large pit of nacho cheese." Wario said, his eyes fixed on the fiery liquid. "Why are you just now making this threat?" Mario asked. "Well you see I had to wait for my minions to bring some friends over for the fondue party." He explained. Mario looked back down into the pit and saw that what he thought were bubbles in the lava was actually something entirely different. Three Blarggs (Lava dwelling dinosaurs that are not always very friendly or easy to deal with) were swimming around in the lava below. "It's kind of a toss-up; will you succumb to the heat or will the Blarggs get to play with you first?" He burst into more wicked laughter as he pressed another button on his remote and the cages began their agonizingly slow descent toward the lava pit and eager Blarggs below.
"H-hey now waits a minute! I'm not a very good guy at all, in fact, I'm scum! Let me join your side and I could be a great minion!" Wario tried to bargain with their captor. "I don't think so. I know you'll do whatever pays the most and that's not a reliable trait. I'm not as stupid as Bowser; I'm not going to hire a greedy idiot like you to do diddly squat." "Well at least we know Wario can admit the truth." Daisy scoffed, trying not to think about the approaching end. "Hey I don't you wanna boil like mushroom soup any more than I do Princess Attitude!" Wario spat back. "H-hey Bro… before we go I just wanna tell you something, something I've wanted to say for a long time…" Luigi said, shaking but still maintaining a vice grip on the bar. "What is it Weegee?" Mario asked, focusing on his little brother rather than their impending doom. "I love ya Bro but I gotta say-"
"Who the heck is THIS guy?" Luigi was cut off by Goombette, entering the room and looking at the culprit behind this evil plot in total confusion. "And just who the heck are you, a Goomba Scout? I'm not buying any of your crummy cookies." He said. "I'm no Goomba Scout shell brain!" She snapped back. "Somebody get rid of- Wendy what are you doing here?" Wendy entered behind Goombette rather sheepishly. "I-I'm sorry… He-he threatened me and I ended up t-telling him everything…" "You WHAT!" He fumed, pulling out a magic scepter and zapping her with it, turning her into a frog and scooping her up into a jar. "Useless, just like the others." "Hey! She's finally off my back! Yeah!" Waluigi said, entering the room with Boomer cowering behind him. "And so the beanpole arrives." "Yeah, and who're you?" Waluigi asked, looking over the Koopa in front of him with little interest.
The Koopa growled a bit. "Why does everybody keep asking who I am? WHY?" He fumed. "Uh…Because we don't know? Though I could swear I've seen you somewhere before…" Luigi said thoughtfully, stroking his mustache with one hand while still clinging to the bar of his cage with the other. "Hey you dumbbell how about you get me out of here!" Wario barked at Waluigi. "If you want me to save you then shaddap fathead!"
Waluigi barked back. "Both of you shut up!" The Koopa bellowed; his wild blue hair whipping around as he turned to look at Wario and then back at Waluigi. "Seriously, who ARE you anyway?" Waluigi asked again. The blue haired Koopa growled again. "You've GOT to be kidding me! NONE of you recognize me at ALL!" There was a resounding no in response from everyone in the room. "Oh COME ON! I'm LUDWIG VON KOOPA!" Ludwig roared in exasperation. "Oh yeah! Now I remember you! You're one of Bowser's henchmen!" Luigi said. "Oh for the love of- YES! But I'm not a henchman to my father… I am a GENIUS! An evil MASTERMIND! I am going to get rid of you goody goodies and take over the Mushroom Kingdom! And you can't stop me, ya beanpole!"
Waluigi just scoffed. "Ha! You loser! Nobody even REMEMBERED you! I'll pound you flatter than a pancake easily!" "Oh really? You really think a lousy filler character can take on a character who's been a boss in SEVERAL games?" Ludwig sneered. "You? A boss? Don't make me laugh! You were only a boss in TWO games! The rest was all remakes and even then you were only a boss cause of your DADDY! I was actually a boss on my OWN merit you loser!" "Sure you were a boss…ONCE and it wasn't even a main series game, just a stupid spin off to cash in on another genre!" Ludwig hissed, waving his scepter around as he spoke. "You've never even been IN a main series game! You're just a pathetic, lame, FILLER so fatso will have a partner and the little green nitwit can have a useless rival!" Waluigi grit his teeth at the emphasis on the word 'filler'. "At least I've actually been a player character in more than one game and actually gotten more recognition! Do YOU have a Mario party board or Kart track named after you? I don't think so!" "Hmph! I have far more class and talent than a dimwit like you, I don't hear you composing musical scores or acting with any manners at all!" Ludwig sneered. "Face facts Wa-Loser; you're just a pathetic filler whose only real purpose is even out the numbers for a tennis match, you'll never even be a REAL boss character much less a hero character! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Waluigi hated hearing those words but a part of him still doubted he really could fight the tides, overcome his humble beginnings as a filler and really become something more; finally carve out his own place as a true main series worthy character and just before he could say another word Goombette and Boomer spoke up. "You really need to shut up; you shell brain! Waluigi has everything it takes and more to deal with the likes of you and be whatever character he wants to be!" "Y-yeah! N-New Boss is t-twice-no, three-no, a million times the boss you'll ever dream to be!" "Oh, how cute… you have just, two adoring fans. You must be ecstatic just to have that much support." Ludwig sneered. "Ya know what? I'm sick of you and everybody else sayin' I'm nothin' but a filler! I could EASILY be a better boss than you and a better HERO too!" Waluigi glared at Ludwig, a silent challenge. Ludwig chuckled. "Okay then, let's see what you've got! You filler beanpole!"
With a wave of his scepter Ludwig's own flying clown vehicle, a smaller version of Bowser's, appeared. Ludwig jumped in and proceeded to start throwing beams from the scepter and bob-ombs while flying around the room. "Hey! You cheater!" Waluigi yelled. "Takes one to know one, filler trash!" Ludwig taunted back. Waluigi grit his teeth again and turned to Goombette and Boomer. "We need a plan." They ran around dodging Ludwig's attacks as they talked. "Yeah, I'm out of chain chomp orbs and without Wendy's shell we're short a projectile." "M-maybe not…" Boomer motioned towards Ludwig's Koopa Troopa guard by the door. "Good idea Boomer!" Goombette, being the closest to the guard, made a run for him and hit him with her hammer, knocking him out of his shell. The guard ran out of the room quickly, abandoning his shell in favor of avoiding the cross fire and just in time as Waluigi then swung hard with his mallet and sent the shell flying through the air and bouncing off walls. While the shell bounced around and effectively distracted Ludwig, Goombette and Boomer tried to help the others. "How do you work these stupid things?" Goombette fumed in frustration as she tried to stop the cages from lowering any further. "He had a remote on him. I think that's the only way!" Peach explained. "Great. Just great. Hey Waluigi! The dork has the controls for the cages!" Goombette shouted.
Waluigi kept hitting the shell to keep up its momentum but Ludwig was good at evading the shell and didn't get hit at all. "You're pathetic! You REALLY thought you could beat me? Just how STUPID are you? You dumb plumber!" Waluigi caught the shell in one hand as it bounced off a wall and flew back toward him and looked Ludwig square in the eye. "Just how stupid are YOU? Did you really think I was actually aiming this whole time? That was all just a warm-up and an opportunity to figure out how to best use this thing." He waved the shell in his hand. "And now that I've seen how it works I can put it to some REAL use!" He tossed the shell up in the air and whacked it as hard as he could with his mallet sending it flying right past Ludwig. "You're such an idiot! You missed brick-head!" "No I didn't." Waluigi grinned wickedly. Suddenly Ludwig felt the shell hit him in the back of the head, having bounced off the wall behind him at just the right angle, and effectively knocking him out of his flying clown vehicle. "Ouch…" He whimpered on the ground, rubbing his aching head. "You think a shell to the head is all it takes to beat me?" "No, but ground pounding you might do it!" Ludwig dodged Waluigi's attempt to ground pound him but failed to dodge the combined might of his mallet and Goombette's hammer. "Ou…ch." He muttered, flattened out like freshly rolled cookie dough. "Ha-ha! We did it!" Goombette cheered. "Yeah, yeah, YEAH!" Waluigi exclaimed happily. "Waluigi number one! Now who's the loser? You're the loser!" Ludwig just glared at Waluigi. "Oh, and by the way…I'm a mechanic you shell head!"
"Hey dummy! Get us outta here before we're molten soup!" Wario barked. The cages just over half-way down the pit by now and getting closer, and hotter. "Please, hurry and help us!" Mario chimed. "Right, right. Where's the control for this stuff?" "I won't tell you a thing." Ludwig said defiantly. "Y-You better tell him; O-or else." Boomer threatened. "Or what, you pitiful excuse for a boo?" "I-I'll scare you like you've n-never been scared before!" Ludwig just laughed. "Do it Boomer. Scare him like no other boo can!" Goombette encouraged. "Yeah, show this little punk what happens when you pick a fight with us!" Waluigi added. "R-right!" Boomer turned his back to Ludwig for several moments. "What's the matter? The poor fwighted baby boo can't figure out how to make a scawey face?" Ludwig taunted in a baby talk tone of voice. Then Boomer quickly turned around; revealing his scariest scary face yet and let out the scariest boo giggle a boo ever giggled. Ludwig was so terrified that his hair turned white and he couldn't get out the door fast enough; even the Blarggs in the lava pit fled through tunnels that fed into the lava pit from outside just from the sound alone.
"Great job Boomer!" Goombette applauded her friend. "Looky here, he dropped his remote on his way out. What should we do with it Waluigi?" "Finders keepers!" Waluigi chuckled as he took the remote and pressed the button to lift the cages back up to ground level. He then pushed the third button which opened all the cages. "Freedom! Whoo Hoo!" Wario practically spilled out of his cage and onto the floor. "Ah, finally! Safe, solid ground!" Luigi sighed in relief. "Hoo boy, I really thought our geese were cooked there for a minute!" Mario said, wiping the sweat from his brow. "Thank goodness!" Peach said as she carefully made her way out of her cage. "You said it!" Daisy agreed.
Once they were all safely out of the cages everyone made their way outside of Ludwig's lair, which as it turns out was hidden in the sewers under Mushroom Town. (Eww!) "We should have a party and celebrate!" Mario suggested. "Yeah bro, that sounds like fun!" Luigi agreed. "How about we make it a royal affair and have the party at my castle?" Peach suggested. They all agreed with her suggestion. "A party at the castle? Heck yeah I'm on board with that! Especially for the food!" Wario said; salivating.
They all chattered as they headed to the castle and Waluigi lagged behind. "Geez, I go to all that trouble and not even a "thank you", they all just left." He muttered under his breath. Waluigi slowed his pace until he stopped. "What's up?" Goombette asked. "I'm just gonna go home. I didn't prove a thing. They're all just walking away, going to have their party without me." Goombette looked at the group then back at Waluigi. "Who needs them? You've got me and Boomer. We'll just celebrate your victory ourselves!" Waluigi smiled a little bit. "T-that's right New Boss! We'll celebrate with you! Y-you're cool and t-totally a hero to us!"
Toad and Yoshi sat waiting in Waluigi's living room, watching whatever was on TV. Just then the door opened and Toad jumped and hid behind Yoshi. "It's just me you chicken! How're my babies?" Toad peeked over Yoshi and saw Waluigi. "Never mind your creepy piranha plants, what about Mario and the others?" He asked. "They're fine. The princesses and the Stuper Marios are at the castle partying." "And stupid Wario." Goombette added. "Really? That's great! Thank you so much Waluigi! Come on Yoshi, let's go see everyone!" Toad jumped up and excitedly took off to Peach's castle with Yoshi. "Yeah, yeah. Go celebrate you stupid little fungus." Waluigi muttered and sank down on his chair. "Hey, buck up champ." Goombette encouraged. Suddenly there was a soft knock at the door. Waluigi got up and cracked the door. "Who is it? Daisy?" He was surprised and somewhat confused to see Daisy standing at the door. He opened the door all the way and saw her looking at him with confusion. "Waluigi… Why are you here?" She asked. "You all just left without me to have your little party; I know how to take a hint-" "No Waluigi, no; we wanted to celebrate YOU saving us! You should be at the castle with everyone else." Daisy explained. "I'm sorry, everyone just got so carried away and excited that I guess there wasn't enough communication." He stood there dumbfounded for a moment. "R-really?" Daisy nodded. "Yep. We really are grateful Waluigi. Thank you." "U-uh, y-you're welcome… Uh, Daisy…" He trailed off, trying to keep from fidgeting nervously. "What?" "Do you maybe want to… go um… food?" Daisy chuckled as Waluigi stammered. "I-I mean I know you and Luigi and all but I did save you this time so maybe just as a reward or-" "Maybe." She answered playfully. "Let's go to your party and we'll see~" Waluigi felt the blush rise in his cheeks and couldn't help fist pumping and jumping for joy. "Yeah, yeah, yeah! Waluigi is the hero!"
And they celebrated all night at Peach's castle with lots of food (and I mean LOTS of food to satisfy Wario's humongous appetite!) and Mario Partying until the sun came up.
(Ludwig? Bowser grounded him for plotting behind his back and turning Wendy into a frog.)
The End!
