Review Responses:

Pandamonium - Thank you. I hope you enjoy this chapter and future chapters as much as you've enjoyed the rest of the story so far.

Brawler64Brandon - Thanks. I'm glad you're enjoying this.

Elemental Queen - You are correct, Mr. L isn't evil. He's just Luigi in a costume, this time around. He's only acting a bit differently so he can fool Bowser. He didn't say it outright, but he more or less admitted that he was still Luigi to Team Royal Green.

Episode 9: A Fool Named Roy
Location: Toad's Midway Madness
Game: Mario Party 4
Team Royal Green: Daisy, Koopa, Rosalina, Petey Piranha
Team W-Shell: Koopa Kid, Yoshi, Boom-Boom, Toadette
Team Zero: Blooper, Waluigi, Dry Bowser

"Bwahaha! All right, son! Are you ready?" Bowser was on the Koopa Kruiser. Today, he was joined by one of his sons- Roy Koopa.

"Uh, what's going on again?"

"Ugh… Okay, I'll go over it one more time. I had my prisoners go through Creepy Cavern while carrying a bunch of crystals. Everyone who didn't break theirs got to fight the boss and try to win for their team! Team Royal Green won, and Team W-Shell lost. So Hammer Bro. went to the dungeon!"

"Oh! All right!"

"I want you to host the game today, so I can focus on stopping Mr. L from interfering anymore! Got it?"

"Yeah, I'll crush 'em good!"

"I'll have Koopa Kid and Dry Bowser tell you everything about today's challenge."

"You can count on me, dad!"

Team W-Shell:

Koopa Kid was not with his team, as he and Dry Bowser were filling Roy in on how to run today's game. Toadette took this as a chance to speak to Yoshi and Boom-Boom.

"Guys, we absolutely have to get rid of Koopa Kid! He's the only one left who still likes Bowser! Mr. L told me that Dry Bowser's secretly going to betray Bowser!"

"Boom-Boom surprised."

"So if we lose, we have to get rid of Koopa Kid."

Yoshi asked if they should just not try hard at all today, to make losing easier. Toadette shook her head.

"No, Bowser's son will probably notice. But that said, if we happen to lose…"

Team Zero:

Waluigi and Blooper were alone.

"Waa, where's-a Dry Bowser?"

"He's with today's host, telling him what to do. It's Roy Koopa by the way."

"Never heard of him!"

All the teams were at Toad's Midway Madness. As promised, Roy Koopa was hosting in Bowser's stead.

"Myahaha! Okay you losers! I'm the boss, now! Dad told me everything I have to do! And somethin' about Blooper."

"That sounds about right." Blooper said. Roy started looking over a paper.

"Today, you… uh… BO-RING!" Roy threw the paper behind him. "I'm gonna decide what you clowns do today! And I say… one person from every team goes on the spinning cups and stays there all day! Last one left in there wins!"

"… I don't think I under-" Koopa started.

"DO AS I SAY!"

Team Royal Green:

"Not it." Daisy and Petey spoke in unison.

"I… would rather not."

Koopa was at a loss. "Well it's not like I wanna!"

"Koopa, be a gentleman and go instead of Rosalina!" Daisy ordered.

"Aww fine."

Team W-Shell:

"Koopa Kid!" everyone but Koopa Kid suggested at once.

"Nuh-uh! No way am I doing it!"

Boom-Boom threatened Koopa Kid. "Then team votes Koopa Kid off!"

"What! You've never played that card before! You'll pay for this!"

Team Zero:

"Hey Dry Bowser, how about-a you?" suggested Waluigi. "You have no insides, so you can't get sick!"

"As much as I want Waluigi to go, so I can laugh at him, he brings up a good point."

"Hey!"

Dry Bowser rolled the small lights in his eye sockets. "Fine, let's just get this over with!"

All Teams:

Koopa, Koopa Kid, and Dry Bowser were all in the cups. Roy smashed a button on the control panel, and they all started spinning real fast. Not only were the cups moving in a general circle, but each individual cup was also spinning during all of this.

"AAAAAAAAAA-"

"RAAAAAAA-"

"GAH! WHOA-WHOA-WHOA-WHOA-"

This continued for at least ten minutes.

Mr. L stood behind a rock just outside of the amusement park.

"So according to Dry Bowser, Roy is in charge today. Because Bowser wants to a-stop me himself. I'll have to be a-more careful today."

The cups were spinning fast, still holding the three players inside.

Petey was getting bored. "So is this, like, all we're doing?"

"Stop telling me how to do things! Fine then, we'll go to that house over there!"

Roy had everyone head into the nearby Toad House, leaving the others behind in the spinning cups.

"AAAAA-"

"AAAAA-"

"WHOA-WHOA-WHOA-"

Roy had everyone in a small bedroom.

"Okay, uhhh, two people get to play Bowser Bop!"

"There are three teams, genius." Blooper told him.

"Shut up! I knew that! Uhh… Three people get to play Bowser Bop! … You, you, and you!"

He pointed to Daisy, Yoshi, and Waluigi.

Game: Bowser Bop
Players: Daisy, Yoshi, Waluigi
Instructions: Run around the room and hit the Koopa Kid look-alikes with your hammer! Whoever hits more of them than the other two is the winner!
Controls: Joystick (move), A (swing)
Tips: "For the areas where two Koopa Kid heads are next to each other, try to position yourself so that you can hit both in one swing."

The three players ran around the room, bopping all of the Koopa Kid heads. Daisy was hitting two at once a lot, but Yoshi was swift and got a good amount. Waluigi, however, was having trouble finding a good place, since Daisy had either gotten a lot, or Yoshi had beaten him to it.

"Waa! Everybody's cheating but me!"

One popped up next to Waluigi.

"Wa-ha!" He bopped it before Daisy could reach it, and Yoshi kept going. Soon, the game ended.

All Teams/Team W-Shell:

"The dumb dinosaur won." Roy said. "Barely."

"Yoshi!"

"Okay whatever, we're going back outside!"

As everyone was leaving, Toadette stopped Yoshi to talk to him.

"Yoshi, you just made it easier for our team to win!"

"Owowowowow!"

"It's okay, just as long as we don't do so good in other things. Let's try not to get any Bonus Stars, okay?"

Outside, everyone noticed that the three were still in their cups.

"AAAA-"

"AAAAA-"

"WHOA-WHOA-WHOA-"

"So you decided that whoever's the last one in the cups wins, correct?" Rosalina asked.

"Yeah, wanna make something of it?" Roy responded, threateningly.

"What if none of them get out?"

"… Oh. This is hard!"

Mr. L was spying on the contest from a nearby cliff.

"Hmm. It appears Roy does not know what he's a-doing."

"There you are!" Bowser roared. Mr. L looked behind him and saw Bowser. "There's no escaping me this time, Mr. L!"

"Your son is improvising and failing miserably."

"Wait, what? Dang it, Roy!" Bowser stomped off to yell at his son. "Don't think I'll forget about you!"

"… L-ater, Bowser!" Mr. L taunted, as he jumped away.

All Teams:

"ROY!" Bowser roared. The Koopa King flew in on a Clown Copter. "Mr. L told me that you've been improvising!"

"Wait, weren't you trying to chase Mr. L?" Petey asked.

"Not in the mood right now, plant!" Bowser snapped. He turned back to Roy. "Roy, is this true?"

"W-w-Yes! So?"

"I gave you specific instructions! If you just make up a challenge on the spot, you'll run out of ideas! You have to have a plan, son!"

"Well what am I supposed to do?"

Bowser put a palm to his face. "How about you follow the instructions I left you!"

"Rrrrr, fine! What were the stupid instructions again?"

"You're supposed to make them all sit in the stupid swinging boat and see who lasts the longest!"

Waluigi was shocked. "Waa! That's no better than what he has a-done with the cups!"

"GET IN THE BOAT!" Bowser and Roy roared at once.

Bowser had gone back to searching for Mr. L, leaving Roy in charge again. The other three players were still in the cups.

"Now, last one in there wins for their team. Go!" Roy called. He pulled a lever, starting the boats up.

Team Royal Green:

"Waaaa!" Petey was getting dizzy on his team's boat.

"You know, Roy really doesn't seem cut out for this," commented Daisy, "since this whole day's really been kind of half-baked. I mean Bowser's challenges aren't that well thought out to begin with, but this is just sad!"

"I… can't hold on- OH NO!" Rosalina fell out of the boat.

Team W-Shell:

"Yoshi!"

"I don't know if the guys in the cups are still participating or not, Yoshi. But I do know that I'm gonna get sick if I stay much longer!"

"Boom-Boom feel wooz-EEEEE!" Boom-Boom shouted as he fell out of the ship, followed by Toadette.

Team Zero:

"WAA! WAA! WAA! WAA! WAA! WAA-"

"SHUT UP!" Blooper yelled. "It's bad enough we're stuck on this ride, I don't wanna put up with your screaming!"

"Waluigi hates rides like this!"

"Well it's either ride the boat or risk us losing!"

"Dry Bowser's going-a nowhere, I can slack if I want to!" With that, Waluigi jumped out of the boat.

"Oh no you don't! You did not just dump all of the work on me!" Blooper then jumped out as well, to Waluigi's dismay.

"Waa! What was that for?"

"There. I got you back, and you can't even touch me. If you tattle on me for this, I can tell them just who did it first."

"But-but-but-"

"BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP!" Roy shouted. "Get me a Koopa Kola, and I might add a point to your total!"

"You can't do-" Blooper got punched before he continued.

"Purple Mario! Go get me a Koopa Kola!"

"… Yes, sir."

Waluigi ran off to get Roy a drink.

Team Royal Green/Team W-Shell:

"WHOA!" Daisy yelled. She was about to fall out of the boat, but used cartoon physics to struggle in the air briefly, until the boat was able to catch her again.

"… That's a thing?" asked Petey.

"Yoshi!" Yoshi confirmed, from his boat right next to theirs.

"Huh. I just thought she was trying to fly like me- oh no." Petey was flung off the boat. He tried flying in the air, but got hit with a bob-omb, sending him crashing into the Bowser Bop house.

"No flying!"

Daisy fell again, and this time she was without luck. Yoshi won for his team again.

"Yoshi, come on!" Toadette yelled.

Mr. L dropped down right next to the cups.

"They'll a-never notice me from all the way over at the boats."

Koopa noticed Mr. L, and tried to talk to him despite being spun around.

"Hey guys… it's Mr… L! … What are… you… doing here?" Letting actions speak louder than words, Mr. L hopped over to the control panel for the cups.

"Thunderrrr!" He used Thunderhand to charge up his hand, and then slapped the controls on the panel.

"Phew!" Koopa Kid was relieved. Mr. L had made it so that the individual cups stopped spinning… all except for Koopa Kid's cup. Other than that, the three kept moving in the same circle.

"Hey… thanks you… jerk!" Koopa Kid shouted. "Why pick… on me… but… not Dry… Bowser?"

Mr. L remained silent and jumped away.

All Teams:

At this point, Roy had decided to forget Bowser's orders, inspired by when he had asked Waluigi for a drink. Now, Roy was sitting in a lawn chair, with Petey fanning him via his leaf arm.

"Faster!" Roy ordered. Petey flapped faster.

"I got your lousy bacon strips." Blooper dropped the plate on Roy's lap. "I can't believe our challenge is reduced to serving you."

"Cry more!"

Toadette walked up. "Roy, I can't polish your shoes. You don't wear shoes."

"Are you questioning me?"

"But-"

"Toadette gave up a point for her team! Anyone who wants a point had better start polishing my shoes!"

Waluigi ran up and pushed Toadette away. "Waluigi will do it!" Then the lanky man pulled out a case full of shoe shining supplies. "Which foot would you like first?"

"… You just happened to have that kit with you?" Blooper was incredulous.

"Well… I found it lying around. But still!"

Mr. L was still walking around the park, wondering if Waluigi would know how to properly use the shoe-shining kit he had left for him. Then Bowser dropped in front of him.

"Bwahaha! I have you now, Mr. L!"

"Just like Roy has the prisoners a-pampering him."

"… What?"

"After the boat challenge," Mr. L was explaining, "Roy started handing out points for doing him a-favors."

"Rrrrrrr! That stupid son of mine! I mean, if it was me assigning jobs like that, then fine! But I specifically told him what to do!"

Mr. L shook his head. "No-no. You only a-mentioned the boats and then left to a-find me."

"… You were listening?"

"It was a part of my plan! Now you can a-discipline Roy and get him to host today correctly, or let him run amok so that you can capture me. L-ater!" Mr. L high jumped onto the roof of the inactive carousel and ran off.

"Curse you, Mr. L!" Bowser stomped over to find Roy.

All Teams:

"ROY!" Bowser roared. Roy kicked Waluigi away from his feet and got up.

"Waa!"

"Mr. L told me what you've been doing!"

"Dad, why are you talking to Mr. L and me instead of just capturing him?"

"That's not the point! After the boat challenge, you were supposed to make the prisoners play Bowser Bop!"

Petey shrugged. "Meh, he already did do that."

"Yeah, a bit late there." Blooper added.

"ROOOOAR!"

"But dad, I like making them do stuff for me!"

"If I come back, and there isn't a real challenge going on, you're grounded!" Bowser whistled for his copter. The bowl appeared, Bowser hopped in, and began pursuing Mr. L again.

"Rrrrr!"

"Yoshi?"

"That's it! I'm in a bad mood! This whole park's going down!"

Rosalina was surprised. "Well that hardly seems rational."

"Forget rational! I'm Roy Koopa, I can do what I want! Hrrrgh!" Roy threw a bob-omb at one of the inactive swinging boats, destroying it. "Hahaha!" Then Roy ran away, throwing bombs everywhere.

"Bowser, Roy's gone crazy!" Toad reported, interrupting Bowser's search for Mr. L.

"What?"

"He's in no condition to run your game for you."

"Rrr! Now I gotta put him in time out!"

"Why not just leave it to the players? That can be their last challenge, and we can give up on today."

Bowser sighed. "… Fine. Roy's their boss challenge then. But don't try anything funny! Now I'm gonna keep looking for Mr. L."

All Teams:

All of the players who were not in cups were busy hiding behind a ring toss gallery. Toad hovered over in his spotted bowl copter.

"Guys, you have to knock some sense back into Roy!"

"I'm not getting in trouble for beating up Bowser's son in Bowser's own contest!" Daisy said.

Toad shook his head. "It's okay, I mentioned it to Bowser. He's had enough of Roy's behavior today, and I suggested this as an alternative to putting him in time out. So calming Roy down will be your last challenge for today."

"Okay… so where is he?" asked Blooper.

"He's in the House of Pipes. One person from each team should go. When you've decided, we'll all head over."

It was then decided that Petey, Yoshi, and Waluigi would go.

"Yoshi, remember what we mentioned." Toadette told him. The dinosaur nodded.

Petey
Vs.
Yoshi
Vs.
Waluigi
Vs.
Roy Koopa

Game: Roy's Rumble
Players: Petey, Yoshi, Waluigi
Instructions: Roy's gone on a rampage inside the House of Pipes! When he throws a bob-omb, throw it back at him on his platform!
Controls: Joystick (move), A (jump), B (pick up/throw)
Tips: "You're on a field of pipes. He could flip the switch and activate random pipe torches, so watch where you stand!"

Petey, Yoshi, and Waluigi were on a field of pipes, just as the instructions described. Roy was standing on a platform floating above them all, with some levers by his side.

"Y'all aren't gonna beat me!"

START!

Roy started throwing bob-ombs randomly at the pipes below him. The three players were fighting each other to reach them, or rather Petey and Waluigi were. Yoshi stood still in the corner. Petey grabbed a bomb and threw it at Roy, earning a point.

"Waa!" Waluigi grabbed a bomb and threw it, then another. Roy pulled a lever, lighting a few pipe torches and making a new hazard. Waluigi was standing over one of these pipes, so he got burnt. "Waaaaaaaaa!"

Waluigi lost a point for suffering fire, but was moving quicker in order to make up for it. Petey kept throwing bombs, and Waluigi was a little bit behind.

"Hrrrr! At least Yoshi's not doing anything!" Waluigi said.

But eventually, Roy looked significantly damaged and got mad.

"Rrrrr!"

Team Royal Green - 8 points
Team W-Shell - 0 points
Team Zero - 7 points

Roy pulled a second lever. Now all of the pipes at the edges were spouting blue fire, limiting space and burning Yoshi for that matter. Roy's bomb tosses were much faster, and his activation of the red fires were more frequent.

Yoshi decided to participate at least somewhat, and threw a bob-omb or two back at Roy. Petey and Waluigi, on the other hand, were having troubles avoiding the flames. If that was not enough, they were a bit slow on picking up and throwing bombs, thereby getting caught in explosions.

"Oomph!"

"Waaaaa!"

This cost both of them a lot of points. In the end, Yoshi won the finishing blow.

"WAUGH!" Roy Koopa fell over.

FINISH!

Team Royal Green - 2 points
Team W-Shell - 3 points (2, +1 tiebreaker point for finishing blow)
Team Zero - 1 point

All Teams:

Petey walked out of the House of Pipes, as Waluigi and Yoshi carried Roy's unconscious body out.

"It looks like Team W-Shell won the game!" announced Toad.

"Yoshi, what gives?" Toadette asked. The dinosaur shrugged.

"Wait, you don't want to win?" Blooper asked.

Roy woke up. "… Huh? What? Let go of me!" Roy shook himself free from Yoshi and Waluigi, and landed on the ground. "That is it! Next person to tick me off loses!"

Then, fate happened. Koopa Kid's rigged cup broke off its hinges and skipped across the park until it rammed into Roy, knocking him over and shattering the cup.

"Owww…" Koopa Kid moaned. Roy stood up.

"THAT'S IT! YOU! DUNGEON!"

A warp pipe opened under Koopa Kid.

"Wait what? Why you-" Then Koopa Kid was gone. There was much rejoicing.

"… He's gone. He's gone!" Toadette cheered. Yoshi and Boom-Boom rejoiced alongside her, as did the present members of Team Royal Green, Blooper, and Waluigi.

"ROY!" Bowser roared. He stomped down from nowhere. "Did you just throw Koopa Kid into the dungeon?"

"He made me mad!"

"He was one of my inserts! Now I have to rely on Dry Bowser to win the game for me!"

"Oh, so he was one of the ones I had to avoid punishing…"

"You are in so much trouble, young man!" Bowser looked over at the players. "And what are you all looking at? Get to your ships!"

"Wait, what about a winner?" Waluigi asked. "If Koopa Kid lost, his team can't be the winning tea-"

"Ugh! Whatever! You! Okay? Your team wins, now get out of here!"

"Wahaha! Waluigi's the best!" Waluigi and Blooper gave each other a high five as they and all the other teams went to their airships. Later on, Koopa and Dry Bowser were retrieved from the spinning cups as well.

Mr. L appeared in the roof of Bowser's castle again. Dry Bowser joined him.

"Bwahaha! Koopa Kid's been eliminated. Bowser still trusts me, so now it's smooth sailing. I doubt he'll delegate the mini games to anyone in order to search for you, so you should be good for now."

"Okeydokey. L-ater!" Mr. L jumped away, leaving Dry Bowser alone, but the skeleton didn't notice.

"Yes! Bowser still trusts me. Now all I have to do is win, and I'll be able to use the C-Star to wish for complete control over Bowser's forces! Things are gonna be different once I'm in control! And now I don't need you anymore, Mr. L! Ha!"

With that last part, Dry Bowser spit a blue fireball at Mr. L. Though, he only just realized that Mr. L was not around. Bowser Jr. was, though. He stood behind Dry Bowser now.

"So you've betrayed my dad, and you think you can use the C-Star to take over his army? And on top of all of that, you were the one helping Mr. L? I can't wait to tell my dad!" Bowser Jr. ran off.

"Gaaah! Curses! I've been found out! Rrrr! So much for my cunning plans…"

Bowser Jr. revealed the treachery of Dry Bowser to his father.

"How dare that fool betray me! He is me! So, he's planning on taking my army from me? Well I have no choice but to treat him the same as Boom-Boom now. A normal player."

"But dad, now you don't have any inserts left!"

"Bwahaha! Or do I? I have an ace in my shell, and now's the time to use it! None of those other stupid players have beaten me yet, and neither have Dry Bowser and Mr. L!"

Winners' Thoughts:

"All right, we won. Well not really, but hey." - Blooper

"Wahaha!" - Waluigi

"Rrrr… My game's through. Now I've lost my advantage. I just have to keep Blooper and Waluigi on my side though. I doubt they'd like what I have in store if I win, so I can't have them getting rid of me now." - Dry Bowser

Losers' Thoughts:

"Yoshi!" - Yoshi

"Boom-Boom happy." - Boom-Boom

"We might have lost, but now we're in the clear since Koopa Kid's out! … I hope." - Toadette

To be continued.

Remaining Players: Daisy, Koopa, Rosalina, Petey, Yoshi, Boom-Boom, Toadette, Blooper, Waluigi, Dry Bowser
Losers: Wario, Luigi, Birdo, King Boo, Shy Guy, Dry Bones, Hammer Bro., Koopa Kid

A/N - I had Koopa Kid losing in this chapter as my plan from the start. But Bowser has a way to work around that. In addition, Dry Bowser is now a secondary villain force in this story.

A/N - The title of this chapter is a reference to one of my favorite fan fictions on this site. It stars another Roy, only he's not a Koopaling.

(Want to leave a review? Great. Don't want to? Great. I'll field any comments, questions, concerns, and criticisms and take them into account. I'm open to improving on any faults in this story, if you spot any, for your reading pleasure. Just be polite.)