A/N: I am sorry for any confusion last chapter; the word processor I use apparently does not transfer arrows to FanFiction, which I had been using for any dialogue from Luigi's Walkman. From now on, I will be using / to emphasize any song lyrics. Repeat: Anything in /this/ is simply song spouting out of Luigi's Walkman.

I have already mentioned "King" Koopa Bowser was a creative soul, right? This beast had, for maximum safety, deployed over 100 trained, armed Goombas and Koopas to guard the underground system. Few traveled the parts anyway, so the Megakoopa made it a sort of base of operations for his troops. The Mario Bros., too stunned to do anything, only watched as a Koopa shot a ball of lead which homed in on the pipe entrance. Our heroes were trapped, underground, with 1000 ways to die.
"We're dead meat." Toad spoke the sad truth.
Luigi, frightened out of his wits, simply dropped his jaw at the sheer number of enemies.
Mario, however, snapped out of his trance. He grabbed Toad's torso with one hand and his brother's foot with his other, and leaped 30 feet across the troops, landing on a Goomba which crunched into brown liquid on the ground. However, he had not leapt far enough. The three were being closed in on by the hundred-something army. Frantically, Mario looked for an escape. He found something better.
Nearby, there was a small space between the floor bricks. Out of a patch of dirt grew a bright red flower, with a pure green stem. He left his friends for a moment to tackle the plant and gobble it up. At that moment, his whole body heated up to an almost intolerable level. Wisps of smoke bounced from his hands. He pushed, and a ball of fire the size of a Goomba appeared out of air, and ran into a Koopa, causing it to hide in it's shell.
"Yippee-ki-yay, motherfuckers," Mario whispered, and then spun in a circle.
As the plumber twirled, fireballs left the man and hit soldiers left and right. Goombas exploded into sticky liquid, and Koopas crawled away in burnt shells.
Soon, Mario's body cooled down and he stopped shooting. Looking at the aftermath, he found that Toad and Luigi were okay, with minimal damage, and only a few enemies scattered across the room.
With a burst of confidence, Luigi leapt onto a Koopa, landed beside it, grabbed the shell and hurled it at a nearby Goomba. Toad entered a fistfight with a Koopa as Mario dusted off his overalls. Mario was impressed when he saw Toad deliver a solid uppercut to the red Koopa, making it break it's shell and run away.
"Well," Mario gasped out, "good work, team."
/From the one you left behind, from the one you left behind, from the one you left behind, from the one you left behind, behind, beh-/ Luigi's Walkman interrupted the silence, spouting The Smiths, before the timid man shut it off.
"Accidentally pressed the button," he said quietly.
Mario returned his attention to the emptiness of the underground system.
"Let's move on," Toad decided.
"Yeah, okay," Mario sunk to his knees, "let's just take a little break first."
"We're making good progress," Toad volunteered as he, too, crunched his knees. "Actually ahead of schedule. Koopaland is a few days away, as long as we can find a yellow pipe down here. Shouldn't be difficult, underground is where over half the pipes are."
"Okay," Mario repeated. As a silence followed, Mario spoke up, "Luigi, continue those Smiths, will you?"
Luigi nodded and worked out his Walkman.
/I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but Heaven knows I'm miserable now.../