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Chapter 13: Bowser meets Bowser

Once the heroes reached the crater of the volcano, they heard a female voice from up ahead:

"Aw, sweetie, cheer up!"

The heroes looked up ahead and saw a Thwomp couple standing near the crater.

"Cheer gone. No more cheer." Mr. Thwomp said grouchy.

"Don't be like that, thwumpling. There's still some fire left. Jump on in there!" Ms. Thwomp invited. When the heroes approached her, she turned to them. "Hey!" she stomped the ground in anger. "It was YOU imps, wasn't it? YOU'RE the ones who doused the volcano with all that water!"

"Uh oh…" Mario murmured.

"I-It's not what you think! Honestly!" Luigi shook his head nervously.

"Own up! I mean, look at you both! You're obviously plumbers!" Ms. Thwomp growled. "Thanks to your meddling, my hubby's in a stone funk! Jumping into that volcano was his hobby, you terrible men! We've been waiting for the annual eruption all year!"

"Wait, did you just say… Oh no…" Tails gulped, remembering that Veronica mentioned about a Thwomp couple coming for the volcano's eruption.

"Volcano with no fire… Not volcano… Just mountain." Mr. Thwomp muttered. The heroes sweatdropped.

"Are you HEARING this? This is all YOUR fault! So give! Give us back our fun!" Ms. Thwomp yelled furiously. "You gonna help? Speak up! You're not, are you, you bugs?! Then I'll treat you like bugs! NOW YOU GO SQUISH!"

Angered, Ms. Thwomp jumped up into the air and slammed down on the ground, creating a shockwave. Luckily, the heroes dodged it by jumping. Sonic then Home Attacks Ms. Thwomp, followed by the four Mario Bros' Trampoline Bros Attack.

As the brothers were still executing the Trampoline Attack, Young Sonic started his Spin Dash at Ms. Thwomp. However, as Young Sonic was getting close with his Spin Dash, Ms. Thwomp punched him, sending him backwards and accidentally knocked the Trampoline away. Luigi, who was the one about to land on the Trampoline, ended up falling on the ground on his back.

"OW!" he winced, and then Mario, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi landed on his chest eventually. "OWWWWWWWW!"

"Oh… My bad for knocking away the trampoline, guys." Young Sonic apologized.

"Urgh… Damn, you guys are heavy!" Luigi groaned, struggling with the heavy weight on his chest.

Then, they saw Ms. Thwomp leaping into the air, about to create another shockwave.

"Look out!" Veronica managed to stop Ms. Thwomp in place with her magic, giving plenty of time for the piled up brothers to roll out and stand up.

"That sure saved us enough time! Thanks, Veronica!" Mario thanked.

"You're welcome." Veronica replied.

Young Tails took the advantage to shoot out a blast from his arm cannon at the frozen Ms. Thwomp. Tails, on the other hand, flew right above Ms. Thwomp and shouted:

"Plasma Cannon: Drill Mode!"

The plasma from his cannon turned into a giant drill and it pierced through Ms. Thwomp, sending her back to the ground and crumbling into pieces.

But when it looked like it was over, suddenly, Ms. Thwomp shrunk down to size and split herself into four copies. The three copies and the real one lunged towards our heroes, but the babies knocked them back with their hammers.

"Veronica! Do you know who the real one is?" Sonic asked.

"The real one is the one who has the most teeth and not having a scar on the head!" Veronica told.

Sonic then looked closely at the four Ms. Thwomps and found the real one that Veronica mentioned at the far back. "Thanks a lot!" he smirked and Home Attacks the real Ms. Thwomp, leaving her dazed.

"Use this to finish her, Mario Brothers!" Veronica summons a Red Shell and tosses it to Mario.

"The red variant of the Koopa Shell! Thanks!" Mario thanked and placed the Red Shell next to his feet.

"Now let me do something that I really wanted to do for a long time!" Baby Mario grinned and jumped on top of the Red Shell with his hammer equipped.

Mario then kicks the shell, and Baby Mario swung his hammer at Ms. Thwomp when he was close enough before the shell rebounds to Luigi. Luigi kicks the shell next and Baby Mario once again hammers Ms. Thwomp. They continued the rally until Ms. Thwomp collapsed on the ground, facing defeat.

"We did it!" Baby Mario cheered as he gets off the Red Shell.

"Thwompie-pie… They beat me…" Ms. Thwomp said frustrated as she gets up.

Mr. Thwomp then jumps high into the air and slammed down, causing the heroes to bounce.

"STUPID MEN!" he yelled furiously. "TREAT LADIES NICE!"

"Oh, honey-thwump! You're out of your funk!" Ms. Thwomp remarked.

"Mister, we're sorry for beating up your wife, but we came here for a reason." Veronica said.

"Yes, we doused the lava out because we want to enter in so that we can save a pretty lady." Mario added.

"Wait, really?" Mr. Thwomp questioned. The heroes nodded. "You young…and not too bright. Bright noses…but dumb heads. Still, saving pretty lady is important job."

"You… You guys are really going in?" Ms. Thwomp asked.

"We go into mountain! Not volcano…but OK. You all jump on me."

"Alright!" Sonic exclaimed and he and his younger self hopped on, followed by Luigi…on his own.

"Yeah! I made it!" Luigi cheered.

Tails grabbed his younger self's hands and flew with him to Mr. Thwomp's head while Mario helped his younger self climb up before he climbed up on his own.

"Luigi… You know that you had to help your younger self climb up first before you, right?" Veronica glared at Luigi after flying up.

"What?" Luigi raised an eyebrow, until he looked at Baby Luigi still on the ground. "Oh, right…" he sweatdropped.

"Huh? Look! He's trying to climb up on his own!" Young Tails pointed at Baby Luigi, who was holding on to Mr. Thwomp and slowly climbing up.

"Unnnngh… I can do this, I can do this…" Baby Luigi spoke for himself as he struggles to climb up. "If my bro managed to climb the chain back at Baby Bowser's Castle, then I should be able to climb on Mr. Thwomp too!" he thought with confidence.

However, his tiny hand slipped off just as he was almost reaching the top.

"Oh-WAH!" he screamed as he fell down on his butt to the ground. He then started to cry in pain: "WAAAAAAAAAAAH! THAT HURT!"

"Oh no! I was careless again! How could I?" Luigi lamented.

"Don't feel down, Luigi. You can make up to it. Just head down, calm your younger self and help him climb up." Veronica said while placing her hand on Luigi's shoulder.

"Okay." Luigi jumped down and went to his younger self. He then kneeled down and started to gently pet Baby Luigi's head. "There… There…" he spoke in a soft voice as he continues to pet.

With that, Baby Luigi slowly stops crying and closed his eyes while cracking a smile, enjoying his older self's petting.

"Aw…" the rest of the heroes smiled.

Luigi then grabbed Baby Luigi's waist and lifted him up to the rest of the group.

"Thank you!" Baby Luigi thanked.

"No problem!" Luigi replied and jumps on Mr. Thwomp's head afterwards.

"Oh, how exciting! Take me with you, too, sugar-thwomp!" Ms. Thwomp squealed.

"How in the world is he going to do that?" Sonic thought while raising an eyebrow.

"You…too heavy." Mr. Thwomp replied.

"*gasp* ex-CUSE me?! How DARE you?" Ms. Thwomp yelled in shock.

She then took a few steps away from her husband and rammed into him, pushing him and the heroes…RIGHT into the crater.

"WHOOOOOOOOAAAA!" the heroes screamed as they fell down into the crater.

"JERK!" Ms. Thwomp scoffed.

Meanwhile…

"Bwah ha ha!" Bowser laughed evilly. "This place is a pit! It's hot, stinky, dangerous, and one humongous fire hazard! I LOVE IT! Talk about a perfect place for me to build a second castle!"

Then, Baby Bowser fell down into the room, landing a few feet away from Bowser at the hall.

"Gwah ha ha ha!" Baby Bowser laughed. "This place is sooo nasty! Boiling hot, reeking, and just MADE for trouble! TALK ABOUT AWESOME! This is the EXACT place to build my second castle!"

He then walked towards the end of the hall…and found himself standing in front of his adult self.

"Hey! You there!" both Bowsers shouted.

"This place belongs to ME, you twerp!" Bowser growled.

"Take off, gramps! This place is MINE!" Baby Bowser growled back.

"Hold it… DID YOU JUST CALL ME GRAMPS?!" Bowser roared.

"Grrr! You look familiar! Yeah, you look just like a bigger, fatter me!" Baby Bowser stated. "You copycat!"

Bowser stomped towards his younger self and hissed:

"YOU'RE the copycat! You can walk like me and talk like me, but you ain't me. You're just a shrimpy brat!"

"You're one rude dude, tubby!" Baby Bowser stormed. "Who raised ya, Chain Chomps?"

"Me? You're the one with the bad attitude, Goomba-breath!" Bowser gritted his fangs. "You'll never amount to nothin'!"

"GRRR!" both Bowsers snarled.

Back with the heroes…

"…AAAAAAAAAHHHH! *THUD!*" the heroes screamed as they landed inside the volcano with a loud 'thud', sending them flying out in all directions and landing on the floor.

"Oomph! She scary. I pay for that." Mr. Thwomp muttered. "Now you know why you treat ladies nice."

"We can see that…" Sonic groaned as he slowly gets up, along with the others.

"Pretty lady you look for in this place… She stolen?" Mr. Thwomp asked.

"Yep." Mario and Luigi nodded. They then told everything to Mr. Thwomp.

"Mmm… Very long story. But understood." Mr. Thwomp said. "Big Bowser is in bottom of volcano."

"Thanks for telling us." Tails thanked.

"OK. You hurry and rescue pretty lady."

The heroes made a nod and looked around the area.

"Okay… This place is even hotter than Gritzy Desert." Sonic wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Well, duh! We're inside a freaking volcano!" Young Sonic rolled his eyes.

This place is called the Thwomp Caverns: hot and dense caverns located inside the volcano. There are many walls with magma flowing inside, more Thwomp-like monuments, enemies able to survive in this hot area like Gold Koopeleons, Blazing Shroobs and Thwack Totens are patrolling everywhere and there were many dangerous obstacles.

The heroes had to overcome the caves' dangerous obstacles, solve puzzles and clear trials, which are the ones involving the removal of the colored blocks blocking their path down.

A little while later…

"Is it me, or is it getting hotter every time we take a step down?" Young Tails asked.

"Oh good, I'm not the only one who's thinking that…" Sonic said in relief.

"Isn't it obvious? We're getting closer and closer to the volcano's bottom!" Mario stated.

"Well, there's our last Thwomp Elevator." Veronica pointed.

"Thank god! I'm literally DYING in here!" Young Sonic shouted in relief as they all got on the elevator.

"We go DOWN!" the Thwomp said as he plummets down to the lowest floor of the volcano, which was the same place where both Bowsers met. Strangely enough, only Peach was there, still with the Shroob Mushroom on her face, while none of the Bowsers were there.

"Whoa… Is this what the bottom of the volcano looks like?" Luigi looked around.

The kids then saw Princess Peach at the very end of the hall, while the adults were busy looking around.

"Look! There's the adult princess!" Young Tails exclaimed. "Guys! She's here!"

But the adults didn't listen. Baby Luigi, Young Sonic and Young Tails walked towards Peach while Baby Mario walked back and called his older self:

"HEY! OLDER ME!" he pulls down Mario's pant leg to call his attention.

"What is it?" Mario asked.

"The princess! The princess is over there!" Baby Mario pointed.

The adult heroes turned to where the infant was pointing and saw Peach. Baby Mario then joins with the other kids as Mario exclaims:

"Let's go get her, everyone!"

"All right!" Sonic replied as they made their way to the end of the hall.

"Eh? What's that in the ground?" Baby Luigi noticed something coming out of the ground in front of Peach.

Just then, Baby Bowser emerged out from the ground by spinning on his shell like a drill.

"Hey! That's-!" but Baby Mario was interrupted when Baby Bowser knocked the kids backwards.

"GAAAAAAH!" they screamed as they flew back next to their adult selves.

"Babies!" Mario shouted in shock as he and Luigi quickly gave their baby selves piggybacks.

"What the—NO WAY! Him again?!" Sonic yelled in unbelief.

"Gwah ha ha ha!" Baby Bowser laughed evilly. "Don't think I got punted off Yoshi's Island like some scrub! No way! I LEFT! On MY terms! And now I'm here getting ready to launch the revenge scheme to end all revenge schemes!"

"That's what you'll see!" Mario growled as the heroes charged at Baby Bowser until another drilling shell came out of the ground as well, knocking everyone backwards as Baby Bowser laughed.

The shell that came out was much larger and was similar to Baby Bowser's shell. The one who came out…was the adult Bowser!

"I can't believe it! Bowser is teaming up with his younger self too!" Tails said shocked.

"Bwah ha ha!" Bowser laughed evilly. "This little firebrand reminds me of a younger me. Look at him! The kid's got a flair for evil!"

"'Firebrand'? Isn't that the name of my hand power that I obtained back at the Beanbean Kingdom?" Mario thought while raising an eyebrow. "Oh well, it's probably a reference."

"I'm bringing him on board as my partner, and the two of us are gonna thrash you losers!" Bowser continued. Baby Bowser climbed on his back and grinned:

"This is the real deal! Winner take all!"

"You might have your own partner with you, but these ones with me also have partners from the past! That's why you'll never lose to the Partners in Time!" Veronica grinned. The heroes with her grinned as well.

"Let's see about that!" Bowser smirked. "TAKE THIS!" he jumped up and slammed on the ground creating a shockwave, but the heroes dodged it.

"Really? Are you copying Ms. Thwomp or something?" Sonic teased. "Well, then I'll do the same thing I did first with her!" he Home Attacks Bowser, which knocked Baby Bowser from his back.

"OW!" Baby Bowser groaned from the impact. "Pesky hedgehog! Burn!" he breathes fire from his mouth at Sonic, but he dodged it.

"FINALLY! For once Bowser doesn't call me a rat! Did you become dumb or something when you got older?" Sonic teased Bowser again.

"DON'T CALL ME DUMB, FILTHY RAT!" Bowser yelled and tries to punch him, but he dodged that attack too.

"AND DON'T CALL ME A RAT!" Sonic yelled back as he does a Surprise Attack at Bowser, which hit like an uppercut.

"Grrr! This is getting annoying! How about this!" Baby Bowser took out a hammer while Bowser retreated into his shell. Baby Bowser swung his hammer at Bowser, sending him towards Mario.

"Oh, you wanna play? Then we'll play too!" Baby Mario grinned as he hammered Bowser's shell back at Baby Bowser, but he hit it back and send it towards Luigi this time.

"Joining in too!" Baby Luigi hammered Bowser's shell back.

They continued the volley until Baby Bowser's timing went off and the shell hit him.

"UGH!" he groaned. "STINKY BABIES!"

"GRR! Let me take care of them!" Bowser growled and was about to breathe fire at the heroes.

"Not on my watch!" Veronica send out her Time Stopping spell at Bowser, but he retreated into his shell and the spell bounced off of it. "What? How?" she couldn't believe that.

"HA! Nice try!" Bowser smirked as he came out of his shell and then suddenly his tail was grabbed…by Mario. "HEY!"

"Next time, don't leave your tail out!" Mario smirked. "Well, let's finish this in the old, fashioned way!"

"Wait, don't tell me… NO! NOT AGAIN!" Bowser yelled, knowing what Mario was about to do.

Mario spun Bowser around just like in that certain game you all know about and shouted:

"So long-a, Bowser!"

At the same time, Mario throws Bowser and he crashed into the wall, with his head stuck into it. Baby Bowser went in shock when he saw that.

"Now I know that your tail is always your weakest spot!" Mario teased.

"Wow! That was an amazing trick! I think I'll do that next time I'm fighting Bowser!" Baby Mario exclaimed.

"Believe me, you'll be using that a lot!" Mario grinned.

"NO! COOL DUDE!" Baby Bowser yelled. "GRR! Now you've done it! Now I'll have to handle you by myself!"

"Not if we do it first! Mario Brothers!" Veronica summoned a red orb with a Chain Chomp in it and tossed it to Baby Mario.

"Yay! The Pocket Chomp!" Baby Mario exclaimed.

He opens the orb, releasing the Chain Chomp that chases after the brothers immediately. Mario then comes by and stomps Baby Bowser's head while being chased by the Chain Chomp, with Baby Luigi riding it and Baby Mario was at the Chain Chomp's chain holding his hammer. Once he got closer to Baby Bowser, Baby Mario hammered him and the Chain Chomp goes off screen. It then came back, except Luigi was the one being chased and he did the same thing as Mario did. The babies also changed positions: Baby Mario was the one riding the Chain Chomp, while Baby Luigi was the one riding the chain with his hammer out. Once he was close, Baby Luigi hammered Baby Bowser. The process continued until Baby Bowser was finally defeated.

Bowser, who was still in the wall, managed to regain conscious and pulled himself out from the wall and fell down to where Baby Bowser was lying.

"CRUD!" both Bowsers lamented in defeat.

All of a sudden, the whole place began to shake.

"Huh? What's happening?" Young Sonic questioned.

The earthquake became louder...and it stopped…?

"Uh…is that it?" Sonic raised an eyebrow.

Suddenly, a large lava geyser shot out from where the Bowsers were, sending them into the air!

"WHOA!" the heroes flinched as they watched the Bowsers being launched upwards.

The geyser sent out the panicking Bowsers out of the Thwomp Caverns and into the high skies. Just then, a Shroob Saucer flew by and accidentally knocked Bowser down from the Thwomp Elevator.

"GLAAAAAAAARRGH! Little dude! Get stronger and more evil! Always!" Bowser shouted.

"Big dude! I'm gonna be even bigger, stronger, and eviler than you someday!" Baby Bowser shouted back as he leans down from the elevator's edge.

Bowser then fell and fell…and he landed RIGHT into the Time Hole sending him back to the present. As for Baby Bowser, he kept going higher and higher, until the elevator started to fall. Luckily, it landed right at the top of what appears to be a LARGE UFO.

"Did I just land on something?" Baby Bowser wondered.

Back inside the volcano…

"Well, there they went." Sonic smiled.

"Yeah! Now we should be able to return Princess Peach back to our time!" Mario exclaimed as they walked to Peach.

But then, they heard a loud noise from the outside, followed by a laser shoot that unknown to them, opened up a large hole leading to the volcano. Then, a long purple tube came into the room and it abducted Peach!

"PEACH! NO!" Mario cried out.

"Oh hell no! We're not about to lose her again! HURRY! After her!" Sonic led everyone to the tractor beam, following Peach inside the massive UFO.

To be continued…

Of course there has to be humor even in the boss fights! I think I did a pretty well job on the fight with both Bowsers by adding that one reference I keep mentioning in my stories plus the way Mario throws Bowser!

Also, that part where Luigi calms down his younger self by petting his head was for me the cutest moment in the game. The other heroes' reaction reflects the same reaction I had the first time I saw that scene. ;)

Uh oh! Peach was abducted! Will the heroes save her? Is she really Peach? Find out in the next chapter! Please review.