Chapter Twenty:
Opening the Illegal Meme-Dealing Business
Mario and Luigi spent a while at the worktable, working to replicate the meme that had restored Luigi to his normal self. On one attempt, the meme came out looking like a Robotnik chicken, which exploded after coming to life.
During another attempt, all the Mario Brothers created was a Heavy Head, who spouted "pootis" before Mario threw it out. At last, after enough trial and error, Mario and Luigi's efforts procured a PINGAS. They took a minute to reflect on their efforts, looking at how pretty the meme looked.
"Will it work?" Luigi asked.
Mario rubbed his hands together with a sinister expression on his face. "It's-a time to find out when we test it." He said, "Mario's going to do something illegal."
The brothers turned on the ignition and drove off across the desert, driving through the countryside of the Mushroom Kingdom with their newly-created meme in tow. Mario and Luigi drove until they'd entered the closest area imaginable where they could test the PINGAS and begin curing the Mushroom Kingdom's inhabitants of the firewall's effects.
After checking the surrounding environment to see if there were Nintendo Ninjas, Mario and Luigi set out past a couple Warp Pipes towards an area where two Koopas were roaming around near a pack of Question Blocks and brick blocks.
It was Mario who made the first move, he lunged at the Koopa and grabbed him, keeping him from going anywhere, while Luigi stepped in with the Robotnik head and fed it to the Koopa. The Koopa gobbled the meme for a while and the brothers backed away to a safe spot, watching as events began to play out.
The Koopa froze and his eyes began to spin until they'd become just as wide as Mario's during instances of stupidity. The Koopa began to make "oooooooh" noises and his fellow Koopa watched with concern for his now-mentally challenged comrade.
"D-Daniel, are you okay?" The Koopa asked.
In a heartbeat, the Koopa, Daniel, started making whooping sounds and dancing around, hollering like a goofball and his head widened before it shrunk and then went back to normal. Daniel bounced around, disturbing the Goombas in the vicinity and the other Koopas who saw the oddity of it all.
Mario and Luigi high-fived, now all they had to do was to make more memes and get as many of the world's inhabitants on their side as soon as possible. It wouldn't be long before they'd returned the Mushroom Kingdom back to the way it was before the firewall and Lawyer Kong was defeated.
Just then, a wailing siren cut through the landscape and a van rolled up. A pair of Nintendo Ninjas stepped out and grabbed the idiotized Koopa right as he was doing more stupid antics.
"You're under arrest for not being a normal Koopa." A Ninja said.
Another ninja grabbed a giant fly swatter and bashed Daniel in the head until he was knocked out. However, the Koopa who hadn't taken any memes came running up to the Ninjas, his eyes wide with concern and pleading too.
"Sir, it wasn't his fault." The Koopa said, "Those two gave him something weird to eat and that's why he's acting like this."
The Koopa pointed to Mario and Luigi's current position and the Nintendo Ninjas glared at the plumbers. In a heartbeat, the Ninjas took action and launched their attack.
Mario kicked down one of them and Luigi tried to avoid getting nabbed. The Ninja who'd knocked out Daniel the Koopa grabbed the stunned turtle and threw his shell at the two Italians, attempting to knock them out.
Luigi jumped to avoid the incoming Koopa, however, he heard a rip and looked down to see his pants had been torn off, revealing his green shorts underneath. Mario and Luigi scrambled to their van and drove off, the Nintendo Ninjas scrambled and were soon giving chase in their vans.
However, Mario wasn't the one driving the van, Luigi had taken the wheel and was driving like a maniac while Mario did his best to make sure the meme lab didn't get wrecked by how fast the van was going.
Luigi steered the wheel hard, veering to avoid crashing into a taco stand run by none other than Waluigi, who'd somehow managed to avoid getting affected by the firewall, likely due to his powers.
'Lucky Wah...' Mario thought when he saw Waluigi running the taco stand.
Sweat ran down Luigi's head as he gripped the wheel hard, his feet hard pressed on the gas. The ninjas couldn't catch them, their mission was too important and SMG4 was counting on them to succeed.
He veered around the rock and drove on, hearing the explosion that indicated one of the ninja jeeps chasing them had crashed. The green Italian was partially panicked and super focused, even as hyperventilation started to kick in. He drove on, racing hard to avoid being caught.
His vision blurred and his eyes became misty, Luigi's palms sweated and he tried to watch his surroundings, a jolt indicated the RV had hit a bump, a large rock came up in front of the window and a foot slammed on the brake.
But the foot slammed the brake too late and the van crashed...