Chapter 2
"He is no hero!"
"Whoa! Frank look!" A toad and his friend stopped in their tracks to examine the damage. Apparently last nights storm has knocked down a tree. Too bad the tree landed and smashed some poor guy's house. "Wow, that storm was really something," Frank said. They both walked closer to observe the ruined home up close. As they approached, a muffled voice was heard from under where the tree landed. "mhmmh!" the muffled voice cried. "Did you hear that Frank?" the toad said, starting to shake. "I sure did dude," Frank said also starting to shake. They both looked at each other and yelled "GHOST!"
"Ha ha, that aint no ghost!" a voice said. The toads turned around and saw an older toad who was dressed in a black robe. "What are you talking about man?" Frank questioned. "That's definitely a ghost." The old toad laughed. "That's no ghost. Someone is under that tree. I guessed that storm last night knocked it over and the poor lad has been laying under it ever since." "I wonder if he's alive?" The younger toad questioned. "Besides even if he is alive, how are we going to lift the tree? We don't know anyone that can help." Frank looked at his buddy and smiled. "Silly toad. Don't you know who Mario is?" "Of course I know who Mario is," the toad said. "He's blue, runs really, really fast and can turn super sayian if he gets all the diamond emeralds." Frank walked over to his friend and slapped across the face as hard as he could. "OW!" the toad cried in pain. "We don't need that good for nothing plumber," the old toad said. "He has done nothing but destroy worlds and kill thousands of innocent lives, he is a danger to us all!"
The old toad kept talking and this went on for a while. He must have been talking pretty loud because he attracted more toads who came to see what he was fussing about. "MARIO IS EVIL!" The old geezer exclaimed. This rubbed the crowd around him the wrong way. "NO HE'S NOT!" one toad yelled back. "YOU'RE JUST A HATER!" another toad yelled. Now the old toad was starting to get annoyed. "FOOLS! YOU ALL WORSHIP A MAN WHO HAS NO PROBLEM WITH MURDERING COUNTLESS SPECIES! YOU ARE ALL STUPID! MARIO IS NO HERO AND MUST BE STOPPED!" One muscular toad got up in the old guy's face and said "Mario is no hero huh?" Then reached in his pocket and pulled out a photo. The photo was him holding hands with a koopa at a beach. The toad pointed at the koopa and said "Do you know who that is?" "A koopa?" the geezer responded. "THAT'S MY FREAKING WIFE!" The beefcake screamed. He then grabbed the old toad by the collar of his black robe.
"ONE DAY WE WERE AT THE BEACH JUST MINDING OUR OWN BUSINESS, AND THEN SUDDENLY AN AIRSHIP LANDED NOT TOO FAR FROM US ON THE BEACH!" He began to talk a bit slower and calmer. "It was Bowser. He needed more recruits for his army and he wanted my wife. I tried to defend her but he hit like an RKO on me, it was weird and from outta nowhere. He then took her and several others with him. I felt hopeless and I just laid on the ground for what seemed like hours. I finally looked up and that's when I saw him." Tears started to flow down the toads face. "It was Mario. He didn't say anything. This picture I'm holding now was taken on that day and it was lying right next to me. Mario picked that picture up, and looked at me. He could see my pain. Then he smiled and gave me a thumbs up and ran off. At the time I didn't understand, but now I do. It took some time but he brought down Bowser's plan and soon she returned to me unharmed. Thanks to Mario, I could live once more with the one I love the most." The muscular toad let go of the robe. He also wasn't the only one with tears, in fact the whole crowd around them had tears and once he was done, everyone started clapping. Well everyone except the old geezer.
"I HAD ENOUGH OF THIS CRAP!" The geezer protested. He then grabbed the photo from the toad and ripped it into pieces. "P.S. YOUR WIFE IS UGLY AF!" The crowd and the toad gasped. The geezer started laughing. "You should call Mario and tell him to fix that photo, or not. After all he's a plumber not a photographer." The muscular toad started to huff and puff. It was very clear that he was angry and about to destroy this old guy. The crowd was on his side, cheering him on to break the old man's neck. The geezer didn't back down and instead pushed the buff to the ground. "THAT'S IT!" the toad yelled as he ran at the geezer and threw a punch, but the old guy was pretty fast and was able to dodge it. The punch had connected with another resident, who also decided to fight back but missed his initial target and hit someone else. Then some started to push others, but it wasn't until one toad screamed out "MORTAL KOMBAT!" that things got real. Suddenly everyone just let loose and started to fight each other. The old geezer pulled out the blue ocarina but was tackled to the ground by the muscular toad, who began punching his face repeatedly, dropping it somewhere on the ground. The fight between everyone was getting more violent as it went on. Biting, scratching , punching, kicking, using anything they could find to hit others with like: sticks, chairs, rocks, one guy had a chainsaw. The green grass that surrounded them was quickly turning red and it needed to be stopped. So much screaming was coming from that fight, which attracted more people who ended up getting caught in the fray. The geezer was getting nailed by the muscular toad who just kept hitting him over and over, but someone from behind hit him across the back of the head with a baseball bat, leaving him frozen on the ground. The geezer managed to escape the riot and just ran away, holding his battered face. The fight seemed to have no end, and at this point people were getting injured. Not just people too, the whole area was getting destroyed.
This needed to be stopped, but by who? Everyone was too busy fighting to just stop.
A familiar figure appeared on the rooftop of a house above the violence. He looked on in horror, as the once peaceful citizens were straight up killing each other. This needed to end and he was going to end it.
"LET'S A GO!" Mario yelled as he jumped off the roof into the battle below.