(Mario Party, Nintendo, and any mentioned works of fiction or products to not belong to me in any way, shape, or form. This is just a story written for fun.)
(A/N: Apologies for this part of the story being so late. Classes were tough, I had writers' block, and I really wanted to play through Skyward Sword. Hopefully writing this chapter will get me back into the kick of writing in general, because I had fun writing this chapter once I got over the block.)
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Episode 3: Molto Mario Party
Location: Peach's Birthday Cake
Game: Mario Party 1
Team Royal Green: Luigi, Daisy, Koopa, Rosalina, King Boo, Petey Piranha
Team W-Shell: Koopa Kid, Yoshi, Hammer Bro., Boom-Boom, Toadette
Team Zero: Blooper, Shy Guy, Dry Bones, Waluigi, Dry Bowser, Birdo
Bowser and Bowser Jr. were on the Koopa Kruiser.
"So Dad, you managed to get rid of Wario! All the teams had to look for stars in Pyramid Park, and Team Zero won, but Team W-Shell lost, and Wario got sent to the dungeon for being too lazy!"
"Yeah son, but it'll be harder for Koopa Kid and Boom-Boom to win the games now that they're on the smallest team. And Dry Bowser is all alone on his team! But I'm working on something, don't you worry about that!"
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Team Royal Green:
"Curses! We would have won if it weren't for that Blooper!" King Boo lamented. Petey shrugged.
"Eh, we would've done the same thing."
"True."
Luigi was pacing back and forth, much to Daisy's confusion.
"Luigi, what's up?"
"I'm trying to think of where we could be going."
Rosalina was just sitting in her seat. "From the looks of the windows outside, we're headed into Cookie Land. The party board present in that location would be Peach's Birthday Cake."
"Wow… I'm just glad we're not going to Bowser's Nightmare or something like that. That sounds nightmarish! I don't like scary things!" said Koopa.
"Do you like me?" King Boo asked, feeling offended.
"You're all right."
"So what, I'm not scary or something? You jerk!" King Boo was a handful.
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The Koopa Kruiser and three airships landed at the destination.
"Bwahaha! Welcome to your nightmares!" Bowser greeted. All the teams looked around. A giant cake was their terrain.
"… Yep, we've got a killer, here." Blooper snarked.
"Without Wario here, Waluigi can finally come out of his shell! So tell us the game, Bowser!" Waluigi ordered.
"Fine. First we play a mini game! Then the winner gets an advantage in the real challenge! That's how we play in Bowser Party! All of you pick someone to play the game!"
"At least this is how we do it for today. He's making this up as he goes." Toad revealed, much to Bowser's annoyance.
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Team Zero:
"Not it!" Everyone but Waluigi covered their noses.
"Waluigi hates you all!"
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Team W-Shell:
Toadette walked up to Boom-Boom. "Since you're the strongest, how about you go?"
"Boom-Boom accept challenge."
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Team Royal Green:
"I'll do it!" Daisy volunteered.
"Gee Luigi, letting your girlfriend do the hard stuff? Lame!" King Boo taunted.
"WHOOOOOOOA!" Petey and King Boo hollered at once. They were silenced by a death glare from Daisy.
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Game: Hot Rope Jump
Players: Daisy, Boom-Boom, Waluigi
Instructions: Try to last the longest while jumping over the rope of Podoboos! Last one standing wins!
Controls: A (jump)
Tips: "It gets faster, and therefore harder to jump over, so watch out!"
"Waluigi can do this in his sleep!" said Waluigi before neglecting to jump, taking fire to the ankles and losing the mini game for his team.
Daisy and Boom-Boom were jumping more successfully, though Boom-Boom's weight was not doing him any favors. He eventually lost.
"Yeah, Daisy's the winner!" Daisy announced.
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"Bwahaha! Team Royal Green gets an advantage! Now follow me!"
"Hmm! Hmm-hmm! Hmm!" Petey and King Boo made that noise in unison.
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Team Royal Green was standing at an outdoor kitchen near a field. The field resembled those that farmers would use for plowing and such. Only with sweets. The kitchen was very fancy. Team W-Shell was standing by a modest kitchen on the other end of the field. Team Zero was standing by a pedestal with a dirty microwave on top, plugged into convenient power generator.
"Listen up! Tomorrow is my darling daughter Wendy's birthday, and the cooks are on strike!" Bowser announced. He started muttering under his breath. "No-good pansy guards. I pay them one coin a year, they should consider themselves lucky! Er- Anyway! Make a cake for me to give Wendy and take the credit for! Whoever doesn't make a good one gets to pick who they want to send to my dungeon! Bwahaha!"
Bowser flew away in his copter, leaving Toad behind. The fungus man announced the rules in better detail.
"You guys have six hours to make a cake! It had better impress Wendy, or else Bowser will be furious! You have everything you could need in the fields and kitchen!"
"Where's our kitchen?" Dry Bowser roared. "This is an outrage!"
"What do you want to bet the stick man losing at Hot Rope Jump is what got us stuck with this set-up?"
"Grrr! Waluigi hates this!"
Toad left.
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Team Royal Green:
"Well it's a step down from attacking each other with Chain Chomps, but hey! It's not scary! … I don't know how to cook." Koopa said.
"Neither do I. That was more Peach's thing." Daisy admitted.
King Boo shrugged. "I don't need to eat ever, so I never learned how to cook. And Petey will eat anything, so he's never had reason to cook."
"It's true. I'll eat anything. Come to think of it, I saw a tasty-looking warp pipe on the way here…"
"Then I guess it's up to me, Luigi!" Luigi tried to sound heroic, with respect to his cooking prowess. Rosalina nodded.
"I have baked pastries for my Luma children many times, so a cake should come easily to me." Then King Boo stepped in.
"Hey Tin Chefs, let's not forget: It's for one of Bowser's kids. She's not just gonna want sugar and rainbows! Anyone know what his little demons like?"
"I don't-a know. I just hope this goes better than that time Wendy got into Rose Garden, a few years back. Hmm, what to do…"
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Team Zero:
"A microwave." Dry Bowser summed up.
"A dirty microwave." added Blooper.
"A dirty microwave that still works!" Birdo tried to be optimistic.
"A dirty microwave that still works… but really doesn't come in handy for cake." Dry Bones concluded. "Your thoughts, Shy Guy?"
Shy Guy looked down and shook his head.
"Waa! Dry Bowser, Wendy's your daughter! You should know what she likes!"
"Well technically I'm not Bowser. Well I was, but now I'm not. There's a lot of time travel, time paradoxes, and Kamek. Oh and something with a pool noodle. Besides, that brat's always changing her mind on what she likes, I've got nothing!"
"Hey! Since I have no life, literally and figuratively, I've spent a lot of time on the internet. I know someone who started a cooking blog for about a month or two before abandoning it. Maybe she had a cake recipe." Dry Bones suggested. "I mean… it's all written in Japanese, but I can use a translating thing."
"Waluigi loves this!"
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Team W-Shell:
"A cake that looks like a hammer! Specifically the Kelman series of hammers, made in 1942 by the Charismatic Hammer Mc-"
Boom-Boom punched Hammer Bro. "SHUT UP! Boom-Boom remember from years working in fortresses. Wendy want America! We make cake that looks like America!"
"Eh bratty kids, always changing their minds. I bet she wants Canada this year! Let's just make a cake that looks like that!" spoke Koopa Kid.
"Well let's think for a minute. Is there anything that Wendy O. Koopa has liked consistently for all this time?"
"Rings." was Boom-Boom's answer.
"Pink." Hammer Bro.'s first sentence that excluded anything to have to do with hammers all day.
"Okay! We make a pink ring cake!" announced Toadette. "Any objections?"
Boom-Boom raised his hand. "It has to be certain pink."
"And we can't just get by with an empty ring! Unless we stack' em or something."
Yoshi suggested stacking rings, sticking them together somehow, and filling the center with candy. In his native tongue, of course.
"Good idea, Yoshi! Okay, you and Boom-Boom get the candy while everyone else stays here!"
"Who made you the leader? I want to be the leader!" said Koopa Kid to Toadette. The mushroom girl had a response.
"Okay fine, do you have any better ideas for a cake for Wendy?"
"Um… no… Gah! Fine, you get to be leader for now! But if you mess us up, I'm gonna make sure you go to the dungeon!"
"Whatever, there's no way she couldn't like this cake!"
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Team Zero:
"Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys, I found a cake recipe on the site." Dry Bones announced, with his Mushroomsoft laptop hooked up to the same generator as the microwave. "And guess what! It calls for microwaving! We're golden!"
"Now we're thinking with cakes. What all will we need?" Blooper inquired. Dry Bones tilted his head.
"Um… a tomato… and… this is a weird recipe. But it got a lot of hits, so it's gotta be good."
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Team Royal Green:
"Ta-da!" Koopa reached into the ground and showed off the unearthed clumps of cake ground in his hands. "The whole place is one big sweet, so why not?"
"My undead college roommate would tell me that I'm cooking all wrong and demand that I apply mathematics. He also preferred pie." Luigi recalled. "How about a pie-cake? It's a cake where the top layer is a pie."
"So we put this stuff in my hands into the pie?" asked Koopa. Daisy put her hand to her forehead.
"Come on guys, let's think. If you were Wendy, what would you want out of your cake?"
"I don't think she'd care as long as it was ginormungous," Petey started, "so we could probably just do whatever, as long as it's big. And edible."
"Aha! I've-a got it! Clear the big table over there, guys!"
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Team W-Shell/Team Royal Green:
Boom-Boom spun into a tree, shaking a bunch of candies loose. Petey noticed.
"I'll do that!" He head butted the tree and ate all the candy as it fell down. "… Oops." The plant left as Boom-Boom continued harvesting candy. He put it all into a sack on Yoshi's back.
"We have enough candy! Let's go!" said Boom-Boom. The two headed back to their team's area, though things were not pretty.
"What happen?"
The cake rings and Hammer Bro. were both on fire. Toadette sighed.
"The oven wouldn't work, so Koopa Kid tried fire breath. Unfortunately, he did a bit too well."
"You liked the idea when I suggested it!"
"Yoshi?"
Toadette shook her head. "I don't know what to do next, Yoshi."
Koopa Kid got mad. "This is your fault, Toadette! You let me do this! King Bowser's gonna let you have it!"
"You're the one who did the messing up! Well it doesn't matter anyway. We still have enough time to think of something else! We still have the candy, we can work with that! … Where's Hammer Bro.? Is he still on fire?"
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Team Zero:
Birdo had spit out some eggs to use for the cake and looked over to Dry Bones. "Like, how many?"
"The writer says that most recipes call for two or three eggs, but she likes to use more so she can make a bigger cake and share it with more people."
Shy Guy shrugged. He has never made a cake, so he sees no flaw with that logic. Birdo agreed.
"Like, whatever, she's the cook." Birdo and Shy Guy started cracking all the eggs and put them in the bowl. Waluigi walked up.
"I've got the whole bucket of water you asked for!"
Blooper rolled his eyes. "Are you sure that having way more of the ingredients than called for is a good idea?"
Dry Bones shrugged. "Hey, that's what the Japanese cook lady said. She has more experience than we do!"
Dry Bowser asked Waluigi the question on his mind. "There's water around here?"
"Apparently!"
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Team Royal Green:
Everyone was piling on all manner of scenery from around the area onto the table. The team decided to call it quits when their pile of Cookie Land went higher than the top of Petey's head.
"So… now what? We need to get it to stick together so it doesn't crumble."
"And the ice cream bits are melting." added Koopa. King Boo shrugged.
"Eh, maybe they'll get sticky and hold the whole thing together. Point is, we've got a giant birthday cake now! There's no way we can lose!"
Rosalina floated around the cake, placing candles at strategically distanced points. "All we need now is a means of lighting the candles."
Luigi snapped his fingers and created a small, green flame on his fingertip. "Leave it to me!" The plumber threw fireballs at all the candles. "Bingo! Ho-ho-ho-ho! Now we wait!"
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Team W-Shell:
The team panicked. They were running out of ideas. Eventually they resorted to rolling up the candy into a ball of cake ground and dipped it into a chocolate pool.
"This… might work out… and I might suddenly grow three feet." Toadette lamented.
"Yoshi!"
Koopa Kid stroked his chin. "Hey, the dumb dino's got a point! Maybe if we decorate it a lot, we'll be good!"
"This calls for a frosting dispenser! Don't worry, I can dowse for one with my hammer!" Hammer Bro. whipped out his hammer and pretended to start dowsing… and walked straight into the chocolate pool. Everyone else groaned.
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Team Zero:
DING!
"Finally!" Dry Bowser pulled the cake out of the microwave. It looked awful, it was just a pile of mush. "… Dry Bones! What's the meaning of this!"
"Gaah! Uhh… according to the recipe, she's had it come out like this before! Err… This is kind of terrible."
Birdo came up with an idea. "I know! What if, like, we decorate it so it looks real good?"
"So good! Good thing I'm wearing gloves!" Waluigi cracked his knuckles, not giving his team any more confidence.
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Eventually, six hours were up.
"TIME'S UP!" Bowser roared. "All right, chumps! Time to see how you can mess up a simple cake! I have Wendy here to judge your cakes! The one she likes best wins, so it'd better be good!"
"Heeheeheehee! I want the best cake ever! It has to make Koopella jealous! Let's see…" Wendy inspected Team Royal Green's cake.
"What even is this? This just looks like some big mess! And green fire? Are you kidding me? Yuck!"
"Hey, it's not easy being green!" Luigi added, only to be ignored.
"Team Royal Green? Ha!" Wendy scoffed. "More like Team Peasant Green! This cake makes me sick!"
"… So can I eat it?" Petey asked, hopefully.
Wendy ignored him and headed over to Team W-Shell and their cake. A chocolate ball with pink frosting. Toadette tried to think of something to say.
"It's a… cake ball… or something."
"Yeesh, it looks dumb!"
Hammer Bro. raised a finger. "But check this out!" He hit the cake ball with his hammer and made a small hole, showing the candy inside. "Ah? Ah?"
"Hmm…" Then the Koopa Princess headed over to find Team Zero's cake. It was still a bunch of mush, but Waluigi had sculpted it to resemble a jewel.
"What do you think?" Waluigi asked.
"It smells like garbage!"
Dry Bones put his arm around Wendy. "But just imagine it! Jealous people! Jealous people, everywhere!"
"I don't care what it looks like, because it smells like him!" She pointed at Blooper.
"Hey!"
Wendy then returned to Bowser. "They all stink! … Well… Actually the ball filled with candy might be good. But I still want a better cake!"
Toad was confused. "So would you say Team W-Shell wins?"
"Whatever! I'm going home!" Wendy stormed off. Bowser stomped over to Team W-Shell.
"Congratulations, losers! Today you're losers less than you normally are! Get to your airship! My minions will take the cake. Literally." Team W-Shell left, so the Koopa King turned his attention to the others. "The rest of you! Gather!"
Team Royal Green and Team Zero got together.
"Time to decide the Bonus Stars! Today is the Red Star, Minus Star, and Travel Star!" Toad said. "Here's a quick refresher on what each star does!"
Red Star - Team that suffers the most physical pain
Happening Star - Team that caused things to happen
Travel Star - Team that took the most steps in general
Plus Star - Team that gained the most objects
Minus Star - Team that lost the most objects
Shop Star - Team that shopped the most
Toad cleared his throat. "The Red Star goes to… Team Zero! The Minus Star goes to… no one. Nobody lost any objects. All right then. The next one could determine the winner or cause a tie! The Travel Star goes to… Team Zero!"
"Yes!" Team Zero collectively went. They headed off to their airship. Dry Bones started talking.
"Man that recipe was a letdown."
"Like, who wrote it again?"
"Some chick named F. Yamagishi or something. Someone oughta tell her she has no idea what she's doing! I bet she'd burn my bread!"
Bowser turned his attention to Team Royal Green.
"Well then! Everyone say who you want off the team!"
Luigi thought about this. "I say Petey. He wanted the cake to be humongous!"
"What? I said big, not a pile! That was your idea! And she didn't even like your green flames! I think Luigi should go!" Petey said.
"Yeah, it was Luigi's idea!" King Boo said. "Man, I feel kind of empty ragging on Luigi for good reason instead of just wanting to spite him…"
"Though Petey Piranha did put the idea in Luigi's head, Luigi was ultimately the one who made his unfortunate interpretation of Petey's idea a reality. We technically lost due to Luigi."
Daisy was in shock. "That's lame! I blame King Boo! He was the one getting all the ice cream, making it look messier than it needed to be!"
"Um… King Boo."
"Bwahaha! One vote Petey, two votes King Boo, three votes Luigi! Goodbye, Green 'Stache!" A warp pipe appeared under Luigi.
"Mamamia!" Luigi's parting word echoed as he fell down the pipe, warping him to the dungeon.
"Luigi!" Daisy was shocked further. "You guys! How could you!"
"Well… he was technically the leader, so…" Koopa was nervous.
"All of you get back to your airship! We're all heading back to the castle so I can think of another game!"
Toad raised his hand. "Bowser, what about this pipe?"
"Eh, just leave it."
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Bowser was sitting on his throne, yet again. He was reading Of Squeeks and Koopas. That was when Bowser Jr. walked in.
"Daaaad! Wendy stole my paints!"
"Eh, it's her birthday, let her do whatever."
"So how did today's game go?"
"Got rid of another! Strange thing is though, one of the prisoners got out! It could either be Wario or Luigi. They could try to mess up my plans, though! Luckily the contract prevents them from competing for the C-Star! Not unless they became an entirely different person or something, anyway."
"So what happens now, Dad?"
"Whenever I can think of another game, we'll all go and see what happens together. Bwahaha!"
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Winners' Thoughts:
Koopa Kid - "Rar! We won!"
Yoshi - "Yoshi!"
Hammer Bro. - "I'm serious, I can dowse with this hammer! But it looks like my team won even though I was incapacitated for a good portion of the challenge, so we have that at least."
Boom-Boom - "Wendy annoying… Boom-Boom hopes Bowser or Wendy does not hear that."
Toadette - "Phew! After last time, I wasn't so sure if we'd win, especially not after the first cake went badly. But we won today, and that's what matters!"
Losers' Thoughts:
Daisy - "Poor Luigi… Don't worry, I'll try to make King Boo and Petey pay! I never did like them. I just hope you're the one who escaped Bowser's dungeon!"
Koopa - "I actually voted for King Boo because he scares me."
Rosalina - "Today was not our day…"
King Boo - "Man I sure hope it's Wario who got out, and not Luigi. That guy led us to failure!"
Petey - "… On the way back to the ship, I ate our failed cake. There, I said it."
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To be continued.
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Remaining Players: Daisy, Koopa, Rosalina, King Boo, Petey, Koopa Kid, Yoshi, Hammer Bro., Boom-Boom, Toadette, Blooper, Shy Guy, Dry Bones, Waluigi, Dry Bowser, Birdo
Losers: Wario, Luigi
A/N - Again, sorry for the long wait. Anyway I didn't mean for Luigi to get voted off so early, but that's just how it played out. There is a 50-50 chance that there will be more of him in the future, though.
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