Super Luigi Sunshine! Part 13; Shadow Duel!
Shine 7/8: Shadow Mario!
A/N: Bastion means a thing or person regarded as upholding or defending an attitude, principle, etc. That is why I said Bastian is a play on words, not some sporting person or anything else.
^Day 4 After Lunch - Corona Mountain | Bowser's Base^
"HE LOST ANOTHER!" Bowser roared in anger as Luigi, Bowser Junior, Iggy, Kamek and Wes cringed in fear.
"Forgive me my lord, but if I were to be involved I could help," Kamek suggested.
"NO! He'll recognize you!" Bowser roared loudly and angrily as the six superiors sat at the large oval shaped table deep inside the Corona Base.
"Don't worry, I have no further plans for Petey, even if he survived his most latest defeat that is," Luigi says looking over his list of plans.
"Maybe it isn't the minions that are failing, foolish planning and stupid leaders are probably the cause!" Wes states, Wes being the unintroduced character that won't be described until he is a major character in a chapter sometime later on.
"Hey! I'm just in charge of security and keeping the vault safe! Which… was sadly raided…" Iggy says.
"IT WAS RAIDED!" Bowser yelled making everyone cringe again.
"How much did we lose?" Luigi asked worriedly checking his list.
"A lot…" Iggy says.
"Maybe I should personally deal with Mario… while being Mario!" Bowser Junior says lifting his bib up over his face.
"Alright, you can go… I was planning on having Iglimar attack the village but you seem like a more working plan…" Luigi says.
"The fat thing?" Iggy asked.
"Yep, but it shoots lighting from its shell," Luigi says.
^Delfino Plaza^
Mario was getting ready for another horrible time in Bianco Hills when a Pianta rushed over to him while shouting. Mario stopped in front of the huge statue as the Red Pianta made his way to him.
"Thank you kind sir for waiting, I am Durro from the Durian Shop and today I am giving out a free Durian in hopes of raising awareness!" Durro says.
"Of what?" Mario asked.
"Durians and their upmost lovable taste of high protein and energy and protein and vitamins and whatever other good stuff things have!" Durro says and held out a small Durian. "This is for you kind sir." Mario took the spikey fruit cautiously and noticed that Durro was waiting for him to taste it.
"I'll-ah {pauses briefly to think of an excuse} taste it later, I just had lunch!" Mario says nodding.
"Oh sorry then, farewell kind sir!" Durro says and ran off towards a Yellow Pianta that was staring at a tree with a Banana in it.
"You are so mean," Emile says.
"I'm not eating this! It'll kill me!" Mario says and to avoid being seen dropping it off he entered the portal with it.
Mario appeared in Bianco Hills and saw Mr. Shades as he ran to him.
"Mario! I just spotted that doppelganger of you running about causing havoc in the village! You must quickly fight him and reproclaim your hero status!" Mr. Shades says and Mario nodded.
"Thank you for the info!" Mario says and ran off down the slippery path.
"You're too trusting, what if he is lying?" Emile asked as Mario jumped onto the log.
"I see goop so he must be right!" Mario says as he jumped into the village, near him was a sunken Pianta. He freed the Pianta and cleaned them.
"Thanks Mario, that's the third time I've been gooped! I think I should start a club for all the people who've been gooped!" The Pianta says.
"Have you seen the fake me?" Mario asked.
"No, but I guess he must've been here considering that huge colosseum made entirely of goo over there! A lot of houses are gone because of its size," The Pianta says pointing at a huge silver coloured goop structure.
"It'll be gone soon!" Mario stated and ran towards the huge building. Once he reached it he conveniently found a large door.
"My toxicity scans show that this goop is safe to touch and has a neutral Ph level," FLUDD says.
"Toxicity scans?" Mario says confused, FLUDD didn't answer so he opened up the door and walked it, the door closed behind him causing everything to go dark. "By chance do you have Night Vision?" Mario asked barely able to see his own hands... and the Durian he still held for whatever reason.
"Yes, the door behind you looks lovely," FLUDD says.
"ATTENTION EVERYONE! The event will soon begin!" A loud male voice yells from somewhere in the Colosseum, it was followed by hundreds of cheering.
"What? There's a wall in my road!" Mario grumbled as he tried to escape his small room.
"From the Stadium's very own team comes Mario! Mario will be facing off against... the fake Mario coming from the challenger end!" The voice yelled and bright light flooded into Mario's room, he walked out and once his eyes adjusted he gasped. He was in a huge stadium that was being watched by hundreds of Piantas, at the far end was his clone along with the brush. Some Piantas booed at Mario mistaking him for the fake "To win the fight one person has to either kill their opponent! Or force them to admit defeat! The winner earns themselves a lovely Shine Sprite! Let the battle begin!" The commentator yelled and Shadow Mario sprinted towards Mario.
"You must fight him, quickly before he beats you!" FLUDD told Mario. Mario sprayed at Shadow Mario but the clone sidestepped quickly while running. The clone reached Mario and tried to stab the brush at him like a sword, sadly being not a sword the brush didn't move through the air right and Shadow Mario missed Mario and instead burnt a hole into the goopy wall. Mario punched the clone receiving a lot of boos from the crowd. The clone jumped away from him while swinging the brush around to look fancy. Shadow Mario darted forward and stabbed at Mario. Mario moved aside and tried to trip his clone, the clone tripped and fell almost on top of the brush. Mario squirted at the clone's back and the false overalls acted like skin instead of material. The clone rolled aside while flicking its tongue out and Mario was slapped across the face by the unusually long tongue.
"That's disgusting why the hell would you do that?!" Mario yelled quickly wiping his face, this allowed Shadow Mario to have time to grab the brush and jump somewhat of a distance away from Mario.
"Probably to allow time to escape," FLUDD says and Mario sprayed a stream of water at his copy, the water hit the target doing nothing.
"I am not a creature of goo so lay off the water, all ya doing is wetting my clothes!" (Shadow) Mario yelled and ran at Mario, he swung his brush and Mario hit aside the brush (touching the wooden bit) and blasted a jet of water into the copy's face, unknown to Mario some of the water wet onto the transformer and sent jolts of electronic energy through Bowser Junior's body. "ARGH!" Shadow Mario screamed dropping the brush in pain, he quickly staggered back clutching what appeared to be his throat but was in fact his chin/transformer.
"So you're weak to water hey?" Mario mocking says and sprayed another stream at him, Shadow Mario screamed again and Mario laughed. "Face it! I win!" He taunted and FLUDD then quacked and no more water came out.
"No {gasps in pain} where to refill, {gasps} is there!" Shadow Mario yelled while his body pulsated. He picked up the brush with a deforming arm and drew a circle around him. "You may have won but I am still the victor with the Shine Sprite, later loser!" Mario glared angrily at him and saw the ground vanish under his opponent, the circle now a sort of portal. "Now bow to me, the victor!" The clone jested floating above the ready portal. Mario bent down and within hesitating grabbed the dropped Durian and piffed it at his clone, the sharp spikes stabbed into the false flesh and Shadow Mario fell into the portal with the impaled Durian. Because the Durian had hit Bowser Junior's body so hard the Shine Sprite flew out and slammed into a goopy wall, the impact caused the whole goop infrastructure to collapse onto the Piantas and Mario. (and FLUDD)
"Good work using your brain for once," Emile compliments as Mario walked across the now blocked portal and grabbed the Shine, this caused the goop to evaporate into some form of steam and dissipate away. As Mario warped back to the Shine Tower he heard cheering and apologies from the many Piantas... (improper use of an Eclipse)
A/N: Sorry for the short chapter, just want to make an update to say I'm back into it and I have finally fixed the earlier chapters, if you want to read them but nothing major is done and you'll probably only read relatively the same thing. I did however fix some concept mistakes and made the perspective much more easier to follow. Bye for now!
(In case you care piffed isn't a word but it means to throw something forcibly)