What's up readers!

Author's Note:

Guess what...

Today is my birthday !

How old am I you might ask?

Well, let's just say I don't drink.

Anyways, I'm starting my B-day off by posting up my favorite (and longest) chapter in the story (so far).

Hope you all enjoy it!

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Disclaimer: I do not own anything but the story idea.

Chapter 12:
Crisis Between Brothers

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Just moments ago, Toad Town's Fundraiser Festival was full of laughter and fun. Now it was full of fear and horror at the reappearance of not one, but two major past villains.

Mr. L stood there in the center. His body firm, his glare cold, and his hands sparking with green sparks. Mario simply stared at the man before him; his firebrand was long gone. Slowly, he stood up; his bright blue eyes was glued on the taller man in front of him.

"Luigi…" he said softly.

Mr. L didn't reply to the name. He kept his cold glare on the man in red. Mario clenched his hands into fists. His partner… his best friend… his little brother… was under the control of evil once again. Angrily, he turned his glare to the jester.

"What did you do to him?" He demanded.

Dimentio simply smiled. "Ooh, nothing much; just a spell or two; actually… it's quite an improvement, don't you think?"

Mario growled; his firebrand returning to him. Daisy, however, was surprise. She turned to Peach, searching for answers.

"Is that… really Luigi?"

She was really hoping she that heard wrong. Sadly for her, the pink princess nodded. Her expression was full of sorrow.

"But…what happened to him? Why is he with that…that clown?"

"I prefer to use the term jester, dear princess." Dimentio interrupted. "And as for the gem… Oh, Shade?"

The Shadowpup appeared right behind the two princesses and Toadsworth. With a quick jump, he grabs the green gem out of Peach's hand and landed in front of them. Peach gasped at the sudden action. Despite the color change, she still was able to recognize the ghost pup.

"Spettro?"

The ghost dog growled at them. His sharp fangs cause them to freeze in fear. Satisfied, Shades ran over to the center with the gem in his mouth. He stopped in front of Mr. L and offers the gem to him. Mr. L took the gem and turn to Dimentio.

"My Lord, the Gem of Form…"

"Luigi," Mario cried out. "Don't do it, Bro. You can break free of Dimentio's control."

Shade growled at the red plumber as Mr. L gave him a slight glance. Dimentio laughs.

"I'm afraid calling out to him won't work, hero." He lowered himself to the ground and took the Gem of Form in his hand. "And now that we have both the Crystal and the Gem, we'll be taking our leave now."

"Not so fast," Mario interrupted. "You're not going anywhere until you change my brother and Spettro back to normal."

"Hmm, is that so?" Dimentio said, nonchalantly. "In that case…Mr. L, would you do the honor?"

In no time at all, Mr. L was on Mario. The green mechanic moved so fast, Mario hardly had any enough time to react. One second he was standing on his own two feet, the next he was tackled to the ground by his brother.

They rolled several times before stopping with Mr. L on top. Mario blinked, shock on what just happened. Before he could even process this, his whole body was consumes by thousands of volts of electricity. He cried out in pain.

"AAAAAAEEEEEIIIIIIAAAAHHHH!"

"Mario!"

Peach called out to him. She tries to run to him, to help him somehow, but Shade quickly stood in her way. He growled at her, baring his sharp canine teeth. Peach gasped and back away from the Shadowpup in fear.

"Stop it, Luigi, you're hurting him!"

Daisy tried to call out to the green man, but he simply ignores her and continues shocking the man he had pinned down.

With a sudden boost of strength, Mario threw Mr. L off him. The green man rolled once before standing, his hands still fresh with lightning. Mario stumbled back to his feet, his body recoiling from the sudden attack. Mr. L wasn't going to give him any time to recover.

With fists full of electric power, Mr. L rush towards him. Mario managed to jump out of the way, but his body was unbalance. He was stumbling all over himself. Mr. L saw this and rushes after him again.

Mario dodged one punch then another one. He jumped away, creating some distance between him and his attacker. But Mr. L quickly covers that distance before delivering a series of punches and kicks in his direction.

Mario dodges them all. Out of instinct, he threw in a punch of his own; his fist connecting with Mr. L's face. Mr. L stumbled back, a bit stun from the sudden punch. Mario's eyes widen as he didn't mean to hit him.

Mr. L lifts his hand up to rub his red cheek. It strings. He smirked on that. It wouldn't be much of a fight if he didn't get something out of it.

"Nice hit..."

He commented. His voice was so dark, so cold… the others almost didn't recognize it. Mr. L took a fight stance, his Thunderhand returning to him.

"Now it's my turn…"

He dash over to Mario. This time the red plumber decided to block the attacks coming to him. He blocked the first few punches, but unfortunately, he wasn't able to block the kick that come soon after. Mario fell on the ground and rolled away. He stopped in a crouching position.

"Luigi…" He gasped. "Snap out of it, Bro, I'm not going to fight you."

Fawful laugh. "The red mustache is not a genius. He will die if he does not fight back."

Mario frowned at the thought of that. He couldn't fight his brother, even if his life depended on it. He already had to do so once in his lifetime and that was a mistake he didn't want to repeat ever again.

He jumped, dodging multiple lightning balls Mr. L was tossing at him. He ran and quickly seeks shelter behind one of the wooden booths.

Watching from above, Dimentio observed the fight with interested. As he suspected, Mario couldn't bring himself to hurt Mr. L, even if it means him losing the fight. With his mind limited, Mr. L could use that very flaw to ensure the red hero's defeat.

As Mr. L continues his assault on the booth, Mario continues to hide behind it. Since calling out to him wasn't working very well, Mario decides to try a different approach.

Hoping he had something that could help him, Mario dug through his pocket and pulled out a power-up item. The item he pulled out was a blue, cyan, and white flower with eyes. Mario crunched the flower in his hands and his clothes began to change color. His overalls turn red, and his cap and shirt turn light blue.

He was now Ice Mario.

Timing his movement, Mario jumped out of his hiding space and tosses three ice balls at Mr. L. The first two counteracted with the lightning balls while the third one hit Mr. L's arm.

Upon contact, the ice ball caused instant freezes around the dark green man's arm, ceasing him from his attacks. Mr. L growled and tries to free his hand from the block of ice. Mario tossed three more ice balls, all of which made contact. Mr. L's other arm became frozen as well as both his legs.

Mario knew he wouldn't be stuck like that for long so he moved on to the next step of his plan. Putting his hands together, Mario began to summon a large ice ball.

"Sorry, Luigi," he said, "but this is for your own good."

Once the ice ball was big enough, Mario toss it with all his strength, and aim it right at Mr. L. Unable to move, Mr. L was force to take it. The ice ball hit him right on the torso, causing him to go flying backwards.

He bounced off the ground once, the ice around him breaking. He crashed into a small booth as it collapsed on impact. Mario ran over and tossed multiple balls of ice at the booth. As soon as the ice balls hit it, ice started to grow around.

"What's he doing?" Daisy asked worriedly. "He's not hurting him, he is?"

"I don't think so." said Peach. "I think he's trying to trap Luigi inside a large block of ice."

Indeed he was. Mario didn't want to hurt his brother so he thought he can restrain him from hurting anyone until they could figure out a way to change him back.

He continues to shoot more and more ice balls at the booth, causing the ice around it to grow bigger and become larger. Within a matter of minutes, the whole booth was nothing but a large ice pillar.

Once he was done, Mario left out a huge sigh in relief. The ice pillar should hold Mr. L down for a while. Fawful scowl at the outcome and turned to Dimentio.

"Your minion had loses."

"The fight is not over yet…" Dimentio replied. "Watch…"

Fawful turned back to fight and continue watching. His eyes grew with interest when he saw a heat source coming from inside the ice pillar. Mario took a step back, unsure on what to do. The heat quickly grew larger and larger in size until the entire ice pillar exploded. Mario shielded himself from the flying ice shards. Mr. L jumped out in front of him just as Mario unshielded himself. His eyes widen in surprised.

Mr. L's clothes had changed color. His shirt and hat had turned white and his overalls had turn dark green. His scarf had remained the same, but his gloves had change from grey to dark green. His hands were glowing with not only green sparks, but with flames as well. Mario gasped as he realized what this meant;

Mr. L had found a fire flower…

He has now Fire Mr. L.

"I have much excitement!" said Fawful. "The green mustache had become Fiery!"

"My, well this is surprise." Dimentio smirked. "Mr. L has a bunch of tricks up his sleeves, doesn't he?"

Mario groaned as he tries to think of a new plan. Mr. L smirked; he could sense the red hero was at his wits end. It was time to bring this fight to an end.

Using his Thunderhand as well as his required fire ability, Mr. L put his hands together to summon up a ball with a deadly combination of both fire and lightning.

Mario stared at the flaming spark ball wide-eyed. With a fierce cry, Mr. L tosses the sparking flame ball right at him. Mario throws an ice ball at it, but it simply melt on impact.

Mario gasped and crossed his arms to protect himself. The attempted block proved to be futile as he was hit head on from the powerful blast and was sent flying into the air.

He landed on the floor roughly, his power up disappearing. He was injured with serious burns and green sparks of electricity all over his body. Mario painfully tries to get up, but he was force back down by Mr. L's foot on his chest. Mario looks up this brother, his blue eyes pleading for him to snap out of it. All he got was a cold, blank stare.

Mr. L put a hand in his face and started to summon another sparking flame ball. Mario's eyes widen, his brow sweating under the intense heat of the attack as it grew in power. Mr. L smirked. He was about to put an end to the red hero once and for all.

"Enough,"

Mr. L paused from his attack. Slowly, he disperses the sparking flame ball from his hand. He took his foot off Mario and returned to where his master stood. Mario painfully turned around and reached out to his retreating brother.

"Luigi…" he calls out weakly.

However, it was no use. He could do nothing but watch as his little brother returns to the side of evil. Dimentio smirked under his mask. He enjoyed seeing Mario getting beaten by his own brother and even more so to see him lay helplessly weak on the ground.

Peach, Daisy, and Toadsworth quickly rush to Mario side. The red hero was severely hurt; however, he still tries to get up on his own.

"Mario, are you alright?" Peach asked him worriedly.

"Take this as a warning to you all." said Dimentio. "Mr. L could have killed him at that moment, but I prefer he didn't… not yet. You may have been spared today, hero, but next time you won't be so lucky. If you even valued your life or the lives of others, I suggest you stay out of our way."

Dimentio teleported him and his evil party away, leaving nothing but destruction and an injured hero in their wake.

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Ending Note:

I'm usually not that good with fight scenes so I'm quite happy with this one.

I'll see you guys next time!

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