Squidding Around
Chapter 6
Hey guys another chapter! Before we start, sorry for the long wait again been really busy dealing with life like laziness, work and other things...so hopefully next chapter will be up later.
Another thing is sadly I missed out on Team Fancy vs Team Costume Party but Fancy won the Splatfest so yay for them, therefore I'm waiting for the next one. Splatoon also received another update which means more weapons..not surprised. Anyway, enjoy the chapter!
Meanwhile in the Mushroom Kingdom…
A large, wooden whale of a floating battleship with a sail that resembles a pirate ship with a head of a certain Koopa on front end of the ship is seen, gently sailing towards Peach's castle. Its appearance quite intimidated the creatures living below, they ran and screamed, running for shelter as the shadow from the ship engulfed an entire town filled with Toads and other nimble creatures.
"Bowser is here! Run!" One of them cried out
"He's going after the princess!"
On board, there is a couple of Goombas, Koopa Troopas, Shy Guys, Fuzzy Beetles, Bob-ombs, a few Wigglers and a Teletubby for some reason, your average typical minions serving under Bowser, a dragon turtle with a big green spiky shell on his back who's posture looms over the front end of the battleship setting his sights on the one and only Princess Peach and her castle. He hasn't seen or heard from Mario, Luigi, Steve, Toad or SMG4 for an entire day yesterday so he figured it's the perfect strike to do so.
He chuckled under his breath and it turned into evil laughter "Bwah ha ha! Soon, that Princess Peach will be soon be mine after I captured her for like the 2,546th time and finally get her to polish my shell!" He laughed his head off "Gwah ha ha!" A stray bee then suddenly flew into the Koopa's mouth and got caught in this throat causing him to hack and cough intensely "Ah! Swallowed a bee!" he continued coughing until it finally came buzzing out. "That was a close one…"
"Seriously man, how are you going to capture her this time you fat turtle?" Asked a plumber that looks like SMG4, but his overalls are black, quite the opposite to the white overalls SMG4 wears and he's the evil version as he works with the Koopa King. He looks quite unhappy.
"Shut your trap SMG3! I know a way to capture the princess with ease! Just you wait!"
"If you insist…if this fails we're blowing it up"
"Don't worry SMG3, it's the most perfect strategy I haven't thought of in years! It will be successful" He assumed
"Oh boy…" SMG3 rolled his eyes
The battleship hovered over the green, flowery fields near the castle. Bowser's smirk appeared on his wicked face. SMG3 gave an indifferent look knowing Bowser is probably to going to fail again as usual. The Koopa King rubbed his hands together "Now to put my plan into action…"
Inside the castle
Toadsworth, the elderly mushroom humanoid walked out of a smelly room with an angry expression on his face, in his hands held a broom, a dustpan and a big bag of trash he dragged across the floor with. The stench of pasta was strong from the bag, thanks to Mario and his spaghetti eating habits but Steve couldn't be any worse.
"Hmpf! That's the last time I'm cleaning up after Mario! This job stinks…literally! I had it with that fat plumber! I'm going to have a little chat with him if he ever comes back! I'll-" Then there was a knock at the door which made him annoyed even more. Peach's lovely, soothing voice can be heard when she left her room "Toadsworth! Get the dang door!" she ordered
"Right away Princess!" Toadsworth answered, and forced himself to the door "It better not be one of Toad's pranks again…" he muttered under his breath
Outside, the koopa king was chuckling quietly to himself thinking the plan is going smoothly but the black overall plumber couldn't believe his stupidity. He looked very annoyed.
"Seriously Bowser? That's your perfect strategy? I should've came up with that instead of you" SMG3 complained
"Oh really, I don't see you come up with anything other than being a complete nuisance" Bowser retorted back "Besides does my plans always fail?"
"Uh, when you played that "Capture the Princess" mini-game?"
"That worked"
"Sending a huge Bullet Bill towards Mario in hopes of him getting blown up but instead got sent to our secret lair?"
"It sort of worked I mean…he came to us to make it more personal" Bowser answered
"That time you pretended to be Mario for a day and tried to eat some spaghetti and somehow almost got shot by the police?" SMG3 recalled
Bowser became silent, his lower lip lowered and then looked back at the door "Don't bring that up please" he said, remembering that awful day
Then the door swung open, and out came a pissed off Toadsworth "What?" he yelled, startling them both. "This better be worth it!"
"Uh…can we have the pretty princess? Pretty please?" Bowser grinned sheepishly. SMG3 face palmed "Like's that ever going to work…" he reckoned, surprisingly the elderly mushroom guy bought it as he pondered for a brief moment
"Hmm…that'll be 85,000 coins" He offered
"What? You got to be kidding right?" Bowser was dumbfounded
"Nope, 85,000 coins will get you the princess guaranteed or if not too bad for you!"
"Can't we work this out? I'll get a fairy from another kingdom, a lifetime of shrooms or whatever you toad things eat!" SMG3 offered
"I don't want a fairy from another kingdom or the shrooms! I just want 85,000 coins or else" Toadsworth demanded
"Fine! We'll be right back with the coins" SMG3 assured as he and Bowser turned and pretended to leave. "Good" Toadsworth slammed the door shut and walked back to the main room of the castle, Peach happened to be there with a confused look on her face "Who was that Toadsworth?" she wondered
"Hmmph, just a fat turtle and a plumber with black overalls stopping by" He said, walking past the princess
"Okay the- wait...wait a fat turtle and a plumber with black overalls?" Peach asked "Uh oh"
Then an air horn suddenly blared out in a fast tempo, the front door was smashed in and went flying, Bowser rampaged through the hall, Toadsworth and Peach screamed, then they died down when Bowser stopped right in front of them.
"What's up?" Bowser greeted, then look back at the front door which is not there anymore "Sorry about the door heh" SMG3 face palmed in shame, sliding his hand down over his face.
One hour later….
"What?! Whaddya mean they're gone?!" Bowser roared "Where the heck did the shroom eating fatso brothers, that dumb mushroom guy and that blocky freak go then?" He was very enraged, letting out some steam from his nostrils
"We don't know Bowser, that's what we want to know" Toadsworth explained, trying to calm Bowser down but this made him more angry
"This is a waste of my time!"
"Wait, aren't you gonna get the princess?" SMG3 reminded him
"I was but…I want to find Mario and those dumb friends of his first!" Bowser sounded unsure about it "This seems too easy"
"Well this is too easy Bowser, whaddya say we go find them? SMG3 suggested, almost mocking him
"Last thing I heard about them is that they're supposedly going to Koopa Park, to go see a pig race" Toadsworth recalled them talking about it nonstop
"Well guess what old timer? You're coming with us to help find them!" Bowser demanded, stomping his foot to ground, shaking the castle.
"Yeah! As if!" Then the elder Toad remembered all the moments of Peach being a brat towards him which was yesterday causing him to change his mind quickly, this is the perfect to take a break from her commands "On second thought, yeah let's go" He agreed
This shocked Peach "Wait what? What am I supposed to do?" She asked. The guys all glanced at each other and then at her
"What?" She asked
Next thing you know, they're outside and Peach is seen on Bowser's airship at the front end of the ship "Well Peach you're the captain of my ship for now! I'll be back later and you better not color it pink or put flowers on it!" The Koopa King shouted.
They see the airship turning around and headed off somewhere "Sooooo where exactly is the airship going Bowser?" Toadsworth wanted to know
"I don't know to be honest, probably the Sprixie Kingdom or something but that's not important! We have a mission to do!" Bowser roared "So where is Koopa Park, old Toad?"
"It's far away from here, so I'm guessing they took that blue pipe over there?" Toadsworth said in a way that sounded like a question "I can't remember which one" They see an unusual tall blue pipe much than the green one next to it. How in the world did they did not see that when they arrived here? Why is it even there in the first place?
"Are you sure its not the green one?" Bowser asked the elder Toad
"Yes, its not the green one..it leads to Mushroom Amusement Park" Toadsworth answered firmly
"Bowser, I doubt you can fit in there" The blue-black plumber teased
"Shut up, SMG3"
"Let's get a move on shall we?" Toadsworth was impatient. He and SMG3 ran to the blue pipe and hopped in it, followed by Bowser who surprisngly can fit.
As soon as they disappeared, another Toad wearing nerdy glasses happen to witness the whole thing as he was hiding in a bush. Out of curiosity, he decided to follow them to see where this pipe leads to, and he hopped in it as well.
Flounder Heights
"There's nothing on TV tonight, just a bunch of lame shows" Toad kept surfing through the channels on the plasma TV "Hell, even the stupid shows Mario watches are more interesting than this"
The Mario brothers are asleep at this time. SMG4 and Steve are chilling in their apartment and Toad wanted to stay up late because he felt like staying up. He sighed, slumping in the couch. He can hear some murmuring, talking and laughing from the Inklings either from next door or the hallway, they are pretty active at night like they are during the day. The lights from other buildings are visible from the window, seeing shadows of the squid kids.
Seeing how young looking they are made Toad think...just how old are they? One of the questions that he and the rest neglect to think or ask about, seeing them splattering each other in the Turf Wars. How old are the Squid Sisters? He thinks they are the same age as everyone else. Also, will Peach care about him not coming back for a day?
Probably not, there a bunch of other Toads as her servants. A knock on his door made him snap out of his thoughts.
"What do they want now?" Toad grumbled to himself, walked to the door and open the door by hopping "Who wants to ge- ohhh" He looked up and see a familiar face...Cassidy. She is wearing Cherry punk boots, checkered shirt, glasses and still has the pointy headgear, her tentacles are now dark purple. "Hey" She greeted
"Hey" Toad replied back
"Are you the only one awake?" She wondered
"Yep, the fatso Brothers are sleeping...so what are you doing here?"
"Oh! Well um...I heard you guys have gotten much better at Turf Wars and gotten fresher than before, so I want to get these weapons for you and your human friends" She backed up, and brought in boxes in various sizes which Toad was astonished
"Woah, what kind of weapons are these?" Toad became slightly eager, keeping his eyes on the boxes which made Cassidy giggle a bit "Wait until morning, Toad you don't want to ruin the surprise..let's just say they're a lot better than the weapons Sheldon gave you"
"Well thanks, Cassidy" Toad said
"No problem...when I get back I will explain Ranked Battles, well I gotta go...see ya later" She said, and with that she closed the door.
"Ranked Battles huh? Wonder what's that like...? Eh, back to the shows" Toad went back to the couch and continue binge watching TV. "Wonder what weapons we got? Guess we'll find out later"
End of chapter! Looks like Bowser, SMG3 and even Toadsworth are looking for them, who's the nerdy looking Toad following them? Find out in the next chapter