How You Remind Me: A Story of Two Plumbers, British Agents, a Mewtwo and Near Conquest
Chapter 1
Chapter 1: How They Meet
The next day, Princess Peach, Toadsworth, and Mario woke up to see that someone had tampered with the teleporter and brought 5 unknown humans and a Gardevoir and Ninetales to the castle via the teleporter. They also saw their dinosaur friend Yoshi standing next to the teleporter.
"Yoshi!" Mario shouted. "What did you do?"
"What did I do? I thought I was teleporting people from some tower in England," Yoshi replied, confused.
"What you did was teleport more mouths to feed," said Toadsworth. "Great, Professor E. Gadd won't be happy to hear about this."
"Hey, what's going on?" shouted a voice coming from a corridor. From the corridor came a Toad with multicolored spots on his hat and a black vest and gray shoes. He also had very light skin which complimented his pink eyes.
"Yoshi, our mischievous pal here, apparently messed with the teleporter last night and brought a bunch of people and some monsters to our world," said Toadsworth. "You know, people from other worlds sound welcoming, until they start wreaking havoc."
"Huh?" came a voice that could only come from one of the 5 humans. One of the humans rose up to reveal a beautiful woman with golden hair wearing a violet headband and eyes matching in color. Her suit also had the same color as her headband. "You think we'll wreak havoc on you?"
"Daah! Whose voice is that?" shouted Toadsworth.
"Sorry, that was me." said the woman. "My name's Anita Knight, and these are my friends, the guy in the blue suit, he's Victor Volt." The Toad wearing the black vest started to snicker.
"Sorry," the Toad apologized. "It's just that you almost sound exactly like a British woman."
"I am British," Anita replied, a little angered by the Toad's comment.
"My mistake," said the Toad. He blushed while realizing his mistake. "You see I'm not used to humans other than Mario and Luigi being in the castle. I'm Jarvis. Anything you need, I'll do on notice."
"Yeah, uh, that's not necessary right now," Victor pointed out.
"Right," Anita agreed. "I haven't introduced you to the rest of the individuals teleported here. If you're wondering about the others, the monsters you're seeing are a Gardevoir (that's the Psychic-type Pokémon you see standing next to me) and a Ninetales (the Fire-type Pokémon that looks like a nine-tailed fox). The rest of the humans are the midget Professor Professor-"
"Professor? Professor? Some parent was actually cruel enough to name their kid Professor? Either they were really drunk or one of them was psychic," Jarvis remarked, cutting off Anita.
"Shut the hell up, Jarvis!" Mario shouted. "Anita's speaking!"
"Thank you, um…." Anita replied.
"It's-a me Mario!" Mario shouted with glee. "And the tall green guy's my brother Luigi."
"You look so pretty, Anita," Luigi sighed dreamily.
Mario made a facepalm slap. He and Luigi and everyone else had just met the newcomers and Luigi was already drooling over Anita, which he shouldn't have been doing since he and Daisy were now an item.
"Thanks, Luigi, but I already have a boyfriend," Anita responded, smiling a little to show she appreciated Luigi's compliment.
"Uh, what about the middle-aged guy?" asked Jarvis. "You're not introducing us to him."
"I apologize," the middle-aged man replied. "As you know, for reasons of the tightest security, my name is Changed Daily. Today, you may call me…."
His phone beeped. When he looked at the screen, he looked disappointed. The Toads, Yoshi, Toadsworth, Mario, Peach, Luigi, and Jarvis were confused, wondering why, until the middle-aged man spoke again.
"Oh…..Lord Strawberry Hammer."
Everyone laughed for 3 minutes. Then when the Gardevoir and Ninetales stepped forward, they stopped laughing.
"I got to admit, that name's kinda funny and sounds stupid." said Luigi after the laughter died down.
"Hey, um, who do the Gardevoir and Ninetales belong to?" Jarvis asked after a while.
"They're my Pokémon," Lord Strawberry Hammer replied. "Gardevoir, Ninetales, introduce yourselves."
"Hi, I'm Gardevoir and this is Ninetales," said the Gardevoir, who was pointing to the Ninetales, who was now next to her.
"Hello, I'm Ninetales," the Ninetales replied. She had the same British accent Anita and Lord Strawberry Hammer did, except it sounded a little heavier. Yoshi spat out whatever he was drinking in reaction to hearing the Gardevoir and Ninetales speak.
"What the hell? Did they just talk?" exclaimed Yoshi. He could see that Mario and Luigi were, too, shocked to hear them speak.
"Yes, they did," said Anita, who seemed nonchalant about Gardevoir and Ninetales speaking.
"No way," Luigi responded. "I must be hearing things."
"Me too," said Mario. "In fact, I'll just drink a glass of tea while I confirm how wrong I was about this ridiculous misunderstanding."
"I almost forgot about the 5th human," Gardevoir realized. "Guys, meet our prisoner, Doctor Doctor."
Mario then spit out his tea.
"Holy crap! You talk! You actually talk!" Mario exclaimed.
"Another one? Come on, what's up with the names-?" Jarvis replied, a little outraged by the last thing Gardevoir had said.
"You're speaking out of turn, Jarvis," Gardevoir warned. "Let me finish. Our prisoner happens to be a criminal genius/leader."
"You mean….?" Mario started to say.
"Yes, she's an evil bitch," Gardevoir answered, cutting Mario off. "As long as she behaves, I'm confident she won't try to have you all killed or something like that."
"Oh my," Toadsworth replied, sounding a bit nervous now. "I knew something bad would happen if we brought people from other worlds to ours."
"Not if we keep our prisoner under control," Gardevoir assured him. "Right, Ninetales?"
"Right, Gardevoir," Ninetales answered. Then she turned to face Doctor Doctor. "You better behave or you very bloody well know what will happen."
"No promises," Doctor Doctor replied.
And that was how Mario and Luigi met Victor, Anita, Professor Professor, Lord Strawberry Hammer, Doctor Doctor, Gardevoir, and Ninetales. It was a very strange and awkward moment for them when they first met, and the first nights spent together didn't go well as Toadsworth thought. Jarvis kept asking the newcomers questions, which were starting to make them really uncomfortable. But what would happen next would rock the newcomers' world a little much.
