Dark Mario has added Luigi, Tuigi, Toad and Yoshi to his list of captives and has made Bowser retreat after trying to kill him. Mario and Bowser must work together to stop Dark Mario now. Will Bowser stay true to this temporary truce? Will Mario finally be able to defeat Dark Mario? Find out in this next exciting Chapter of MARIO IN THE DARK!
Dark Mario had Luigi bots surround the Castle, because he was smart enough to figure that Mario would come back. By the time Mario and Bowser had reached the castle, they knew they would have to form a plan.
"Okay Mario, I have an idea. You go face Dark Mario and I will go free everyone and destroy the stupid Luigibots! Rod and Reel will come with me" said Bowser.
"I actually like that idea!" said Mario.
"Don't get used to this partnership, Mario. Once this is done, I am back to capturing the princess and you rescuing her and thwarting my plans!" said Bowser.
"Yes, of course!" said Mario. "Quick bro hug?"
"Sure" said Bowser as they do a one second bro hug.
"Don't tell anyone!" they both said to each other.
Bowser then led Rod and Reel behind the castle, where they would make their assault. Mario waited a few minutes before showing his face to Dark Mario.
"I sure hope I can beat him!" said Mario.
"You can, Mario remember what I trained you!" said Randolf's voice!
"Randolf? Is this some kind of Star Wars Ghost pep talk thing, like with Luke and Obi Wan?" said Mario.
"No, I am still alive you bonehead!" said Randolf.
"What, b-b-but how did you…?" said Mario.
"Just because someone gets shot in the back and lies unconscious for a few minutes doesn't mean they are dead!" said Randolf.
"Oh… Sorry!" said Mario.
"No worries, it was fun digging myself out of the ground!" said Randolf, who looked different. Last time he was dressed as a wizard, but this time he had Mario style overalls which were white, but he still had that long white beard. "Just remember everything I taught you, Mario!" said Randolf.
"I will, my master!" said Mario.
Bowser, Rod and Reel climbed up the back wall of the castle, Bowser doing most of the climbing while Rod and Reel grabbed on to his shell, and began to invade. Bowser destroying several Lugibots with one slash of his claws, and Rod and Reel using their Koopa guns.
"These things are so weak!" said Bowser.
But just as they started to get confident, some Super Luigibots showed up to ruin their fun.
"Those guys aren't going to be as easy to stomp!" said Rod.
"It's a good thing we have Koopa's Insurance!" said Reel.
WE ARE KOOPAS DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM!
"Will you cut that out?" said Rod.
"Stop or you will be destroyed!" said the chief Super Luigibot.
Reel then gets out a can of oil and throws it at the Luigibots' feet, causing it to spill all over them. Bowser then takes a deep breath and destroys them all with a single breath of fire, leading them to their demise.
"Genius idea, boss!" said Rod.
"I know" said Bowser. "Now let's go free the goody goody freaks!"
Bowser, Rod and Reel ran down the hall towards the room with all the prisoners in it, ready for anything.
Mario took a deep breath and he finally gathered up the nerve to walk out of the bushes into plain sight, where Dark Mario and his Luigibot army was waiting for him. Dark Mario stood at the top of the wall of his fortress castle, looking down at Mario, waiting to see what he would do. He highly doubted a retreat, but he was considering all the options before he made his command to the Lugibot army. Mario continued to walk slowly until he got to a good place to communicate with Dark Mario, then he stopped.
"Dark Mario! This is about you and me! We are supposed to fight til the end! I am now ready! Me and you! One on one!" said Mario.
"You have no idea what you are in for!" said Dark Mario. "I'll rip you limb from limb!"
"I believe he knows what he is in for!" said Randolf, who came in right behind him.
"Randolf?" said Dark Mario in shock. "You're alive?"
"Very much so!" said Randolf.
Dark Mario had to remain calm. He knew that Randolf posed a threat, but he wasn't going to be fazed by his old master, or this "Hero of the Mushroom Kingdom"!
"Very well, Mario!" said Dark Mario. "I will take you up on your challenge! Luigibots, fall back!"
Dark Mario jumped from the wall to right in front of Mario, taking off his black cape on the way down.
"I am sure, Randolf has taught you how to fight with a laser sword" said Dark Mario. "We will fight to the death? Or to til someone says 'uncle'?"
"Cute!" said Mario. "Quit the small talk and show me what you got Mr. Big and Bad!"
"As you wish, Mario!" said Dark Mario.
Dark Mario ignited his blade as did Mario. He gave Mario an intimidating look, like most villains give their adversaries, then he attacks. Dark Mario played offence and Mario played defense. Mario then stroke hard, to get the high ground. Dark Mario was a little fazed, but was able to recover. As the sword fighting continued, the fight got more and more intense! Mario took a big swing at Dark Mario but he jumped over Mario before he could finish. Luckily, Mario figured it out before Dark Mario could capitalize on his move, and protected his back with his sword.
"Nice one DM!" said Mario.
"Acronyms?" said Dark Mario. "So you really do know something!"
"Ha ha" said Mario as he took another strike.
Bowser, Rod and Reel had finally made it to the dungeon door and were getting prepared for an awkward rescue of their enemies. Bowser opened the door and started to yell! Two Luigibots and Black Yoshi were in there taunting Toadsworth in front of the others when Bowser went in. Bowser destroyed the Luigibots and Black Yoshi retreated out the door.
"Alright, here's the deal, I break you out, you help me and Mario stop this guy! He is stealing my thunder and causing too much trouble for my taste!" said Bowser. "Are you in?"
Rod and Reel released Toadsworth from the torture equipment he was placed in, while Bowser ripped off the cell doors, and released the Mushroom Kingdom people.
"Am I seeing things right?" said Luigi.
"Peanut Butter Unicorns!" said Tuigi.
"What the heck?" said Bowser.
"Just ignore him" said Yoshi.
"Why are you helping us, Bowser?" said Peach.
"Just so I can be rid of this guy!" said Bowser. "I need Mario's help, as much as it pains me to admit it!"
"Good enough for me" said Wario as he had been itching to get out of there, since he and Waluigi had been in there the longest.
"Time to kick some bootey!" said Waluigi.
Bowser led them all out the dungeon door, and they started charging down the halls, destroying all the Luigibots in their path. Bowser and Luigi had run down a hall and found a cornered Black Yoshi, who was leaning on one of Toadsworth's inventions that he had forced him to build.
"Not another step closer!" said Black Yoshi.
"Why not?" said Bowser.
"Because this machine will make me huge and I will destroy you all!" said Black Yoshi.
Yoshi then sneaks up on Black Yoshi and grabs him. Both of them started to fight, causing Black Yoshi to bump the switch. Both Yoshi and Black Yoshi began to grow into giant dinosaurs, growing so big that they crash through the roof of the castle, completely destroying the west wing. It was such a big occurance that Mario and Dark Mario ceased their fighting to look to see what was happening. The Mega-Yoshi fight began!
"Oh great, you grew too?" said Black Yoshi.
"Wouldn't be fair any other way!" said Yoshi.
"Big pony!" said Tuigi, who had climbed up one of the walls to try and talk to Yoshi.
Black Yoshi saw him and flicked him off the wall and into the jungle.
"You will pay for that!" said Yoshi, actually caring about Tuigi.
"Bring it 'Big Pony'!" said Black Yoshi.
Yoshi started to 'bring it' by giving Black Yoshi a big kick with his iron right foot sending Black Yoshi flying into the jungle, crushing several trees, Yoshi then jumped out of the rubble, formally known as the west wing and continued the fight.
Toadsworth had Toad and the Princess help him build shrink rays to shrink Black Yoshi and Yoshi back to size, while Bowser, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi and the bounty hunters went to destroy more Luigibots.
Back to Mario and Dark Mario's fight, Mario had Dark Mario where he wanted him. Randolf was so proud of Mario, but he knew that Dark Mario had a lot of tricks up his sleeve. He continued to watch as Dark Mario appeared to be all but beaten.
"Alright Dark Mario, are you ready to surrender?" said Mario.
Dark Mario just laughed, as he sit on the ground breathing slowly. "Nope" he said as he all of a sudden springs back into action, beating Mario like a punching bag.
Mario had let his guard down, and it had appeared to change things again. Dark Mario continued to be motivated by his goal of total domination of the Mushroom Kingdom.
"You see Mario, you are too weak! You can't win!" said Dark Mario.
"No, you are the one who can't win. Evil never wins!" said Mario. "I won't let that change today!"
Dark Mario continued to laugh. "This isn't Bowser, you are fighting, this is me. The closest rival you have ever had!" said Dark Mario. "I'll be pooped if I'm gonna let you win!"
"Let me win?" said Mario. "Please!"
Dark Mario, starts to attack when Mario jumps to his feet and starts building a fireball. Dark Mario is suddenly stunned. "Where did you learn how to do that?" said Dark Mario.
"Where do you think?" said Mario, as his eyes pointed to Randolf.
Then it was true, Mario was just as powerful as him, and just as skilled. This fight was going to be close!
Mario then threw his fireball at Dark Mario. Dark Mario quickly prepared his hands to catch it.
"Nice try!" said Dark Mario as he threw the fireball in the air.
Mario, then re-ignited his saber and prepared to duel some more.
Yoshi and Black Yoshi continued their titanic battle, throwing trees and large boulders at each other. Yoshi swallowed some of the rocks and made eggs and threw them at Black Yoshi. Black Yoshi's strength was almost gone as he had used much of it while punching Toadsworth earlier, when he would refuse to talk. Black Yoshi was slowly failing to return the kicks and punches so Yoshi, seized the moment and gave him one more kick to the stomach and then a kick in the face and Black Yoshi fell. Toadsworth, Toad and the Princesses were able to get there just as Yoshi defeated Black Yoshi and shrink them back down to size with his shrink ray. Yoshi then ran into the woods after Tuigi to go see if he was still alive, while Black Yoshi retreated again, this time to run to Dark Mario.
Bowser and Luigi continued to use their fighting skills to destroy more robots, while Wario and Waluigi were getting use of their bombs that they had brought with them. Rod and Reel were having a blast with their Koopa guns, literally blasting Lugibots to smithereens! Bowser soon grew tired of dealing with them and ran to see if Mario was succeeding against Dark Mario. Luigi saw Bowser leave the scene so he followed after him.
Mario and Dark Mario's fight wasn't going as Mario had hoped. Mario's strength was almost gone, and Dark Mario wasn't letting up. Randolf continued to sit and cheer for Mario.
"Just like I told you Mario, you and Bowser are too weak to amount to anything!" taunted Dark Mario. "Especially Bowser, he is such a whimp!"
Bowser had arrived just in time to hear him say that, but before Bowser could make his move, Black Yoshi ran limping to Dark Mario.
"Dark Mario, help!" said Black Yoshi.
"What is it now?" said Dark Mario.
"It's Bowser! He came back and freed the prisoners, and destroyed everything!" said Black Yoshi.
"What? Bowser came back?" said Dark Mario. "You!(looking at Mario) You knew this was happening didn't you?"
"Well, duh! You play dirty, you get dirty play back!" said Mario.
"Killing you will be quite enjoyable" said Dark Mario.
But before he had the chance, Bowser came running behind him and before he even noticed Bowser had slashed at him with his big claws, draining the rest of his strength. Bowser, still energized was ready to take Dark Mario out; Dark Mario was helpless as was Black Yoshi.
Dark Mario realized his defeat, and was prepared to be destroyed, until Randolf butted in.
"Wait!" said Randolf.
"Why?" said Bowser. "I want to take him out now!" said Bowser.
"Because, you can't do that!" said Randolf.
"Why not?" said Bowser.
Before Randolf could tell him, Dark Mario had knocked out Bowser with a kick to the head. Bowser lied motionless, but alive, on the ground. Mario used what was left of his strength to knock out Dark Mario, before falling unconscious himself.
Luigi ran up to Mario to help carry him to the van. Not long after, Yoshi with Tuigi on his back arrived to bask in the glory of victory. Wario and Waluigi set bombs all over the castle to destroy it for good, by pushing the button that would destroy the building with one blow, taking with it Toadsworth's inventions, Dark Mario's Luigibot factory, and Dark Mario's dignity.
Mario had woken up from his small time of unconsciousness and was relieved to hear that they had won. Luigi and Randolf had taken care of Dark Mario and Black Yoshi by locking them up on one of the Mushroom Kingdom's high security prison cells.
"We should go back to that small Mushroom village to celebrate" said Peach.
"Great idea!" said Daisy.
Toad was especially happy with this idea! "Yes! Let's go back!" said Toad.
Mario and Luigi were anxious to meet the village as well, so everyone loaded up in the van and headed for the village. If you are wondering what happened to Bowser, they let him go since he helped them defeat Dark Mario, even though they knew he would be back to his old ways again, while Rod and Reel were nowhere to be found, many think they hightailed it out of there after it was all over. On the way there, Mario took his mind back to the moment where he and Bowser shared a secret bro hug, which would become one of his favorite and most secret memories of he and Bowser's many adventures together.
When they got to the Mushroom village, the party began. Mario and Luigi had a blast meeting everyone and getting new pointers from Randolf. Toad and Toadette reunited and greeted each other with a kiss. Toadward, Toadette's brother was curious about Toadsworth's future inventions and asked to be his apprentice, which Toadsworth gladly accepted. Wario and Waluigi sold a lot of bombs to the Mushroom people, because they never knew when they would need them. Peach and Daisy got more pampering from the friendly Mushroom people, that they missed so much after being taken captive. As for Yoshi and Tuigi, Yoshi played as many games of "Cowboy and Pony" with Tuigi as he wanted because he had finally let Tuigi grow on him.
Rod and Reel had gotten their car fixed because of their insurance plan and were driving to Dolphin Island for a vacation of their own.
"You see with Koopas Insurance we can afford this vacation" said Reel.
WE ARE KOOPAS! DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM!
"NOT AGAIN!" said Rod as he drove while annoyed at Reel and his stupid jingle.
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