Although it was still daytime in the "real" world of camp, it was night in Darkland. It always was. Kinda like Gotham City, actually. In Darkland, however, the inhabitants didn't really care.

Smiling with all his fangs showing, Bowser approached Kamek, who was still hanging from the wall in his tower.

"Magikoopa on the wall, NOW who is the most powerful of all?"

Kamek gulped. "You are the most powerful in all of the Mushroom Kingdom."

"I knew it," laughed Bowser. "So Peach is dead?"

"You are the most powerful in all of the Mushroom Kingdom," Kamek repeated, after a moment of hesitation.

"Answer my question," growled Bowser, narrowing his eyes.

"She's alive," moaned Kamek. "But she's gone! The girl is out of the picture, completely! She's staying with those kids at that camp!"

"WHAT?" bellowed Bowser.

Kamek shrank down into his cloak, realized that he had said the wrong thing. In fact, he had just said one of the worst things anyone could say to Bowser at that time.

"You're telling me that the girl who rivals me for most powerful of them all is staying with some of my worst enemies? Those freaking kids who somehow manage to defeat me, time and time again? The kids who constantly make me look like a joke? THOSE KIDS?"

"Yes," squeaked Kamek.

"I thought the forest took care of her!" shouted Bowser.

"We left before we could confirm that," Kamek said softly, know that anything he said would probably end up resulting in pain.

"I WAS BORED!" screamed Bowser. He began throwing various items of furniture around in a rage. Many of them ended up hitting Kamek.

Lemmy, one of Bowser's children, peeked in, only to be hit in the face by a table. Already being a scatterbrain, he was on his feet again in an instant. "Hi, King Dad," he said cheerfully.

"Whadda you want?" growled Bowser.

"I couldn't help but overhear your fit of rage and wondered if I could help."

Bowser sighed deeply. "I don't know, probably not. I figured that if it came to this, I could turn to plan B or something."

"Well, there ya go!" grinned Lemmy.

"Yeah," said Bowser, brightening up a bit, "I like plan B's. B is Bowser. I'm Bowser. That makes me happy. That's good...problem is, I DON'T HAVE A PLAN B!"

He began throwing things around again. Lemmy ducked into his shell. "I know!' cried Lemmy. "I'll get Iggy! He'll probably have a good idea! He's smart!"

As Lemmy scampered down the stairs (and stumbled a bit, because his head was still in his shell), Bowser simply groaned. "Aww, great."

"Is there something wrong with your son?" Kamek asked groggily.

"Nothing serious," said Bowser, "but when Iggy and Lemmy are together, they do this thing where they finish each other's sentences, and it creeps the sprinkles out of me."

Lemmy returned a moment later (with his head out of his shell this time) with Iggy behind him.

"We've come..." began Lemmy.

"...to help!" said Iggy.

Bowser and Kamek shuddered.

"What seems to be the problem?" asked Iggy.

"Peach is alive and King Dad wants to get rid of her!" explained Lemmy.

Iggy paced around Bowser, thinking aloud. "Well, I could invent some big robot or something."

"Nah," said Bowser, "she's with those stupid kids. I don't want them getting involved. As much as I love giant robots, we have to use something really inconspicuous."

"Well, then why..." began Lemmy.

"..waste my genius?" finished Iggy. "Just use poison or something!"

"THAT'S IT!" shouted Bowser. "Kamek, we're off! If I'm gonna poison Peach, I'm gonna do it with style! Get my biggest, finest Doomship ready!"

"I thought you said you wanted to be inconspicuous," Kamek pointed out.

"Yeah, maybe when I'm actually carrying it out," said Bowser. "But now I'm just getting ready. We're gonna go all out on this! Think how dramatic it'll look to everyone! Let's fire some cannons for the heck of it!"

Laughing madly, Bowser ran out of the room. Kamek sighed and followed him, leaving a confused pair of Koopalings behind.

The whole "Bowser liking plan B" thing actually was inspired by an old "Get Fuzzy" comic where Bucky the cat liked plan B because B is also for Bucky.

Otherwise, I really don't have much to say on this chapter other than a note relating to Iggy. If you may remember, Ludwig was the genius of the Koopalings back in that Monster-Mixer episode where I was trying to stick closer to the Mario cartoons. I've decided to change things up and make Iggy the genius (I heard somewhere that he was the one who build the giant mechas in "Yoshi's Safari") and Ludwig more of flamboyant musician, as he appeared in other media. Meh, there's a million continuities for Mario. Sometimes you just have to choose whichever one you like the best.