Chapter 10: Ultimate Airship
(Fighting Tooth and Veil - (The Super Mario Bros. Movie OST))
Peach and Daisy jerked at the bars of their cages as they hung inside a chapel within Bowser's Ultimate Airship. Try as they might, the two young women's efforts proved fruitless, and they collapsed into fits of exhausted panting.
"I don't wanna die." Daisy muttered and curled herself up against the bars. Peach saw the fear in her eyes, then shivered a little herself.
"They don't want to kill us, Daisy….It's much worse than that."
Before Daisy could even ask what she meant, the doors burst open and the Koopalings raced in cackling. Wendy threw flowers from a basket while Ludwig climbed onto a Piano and began playing the wedding march. The others ushered up various koopas, goombas, and other minions into the seats. Daisy's heart began to pound faster and faster as she put the pieces together. A sharp yelp escaped her mouth as Bowser and Morton Sr. entered the chapel wearing tuxedos. Bowser wore the same white one he had a year earlier while Morton Sr. donned a black one.
"No! No! No!" Daisy hyperventilated as the Koopa brothers approached the altar with Kamek.
"Oh Peaches, it's exactly as I imagined it. The happiest day of my life." Bowser stroked her cage but Peach delivered a sharp kick to his finger and grunted in pain. "Hmp, feisty as ever. Good." His evil grin made Peach shutter.
"Why are you doing this!?" Daisy stuttered as Morton Sr. loomed over her cage with malevolence in his face.
"Hmm, hmm, hmmm, this." He held up the Chaos Heart. "It's powerful, but the only way to unlock its true potential is through the most chaotic act imaginable. The marriage of a fair princess to a fire-breathing monster!" Morton Sr. gestured to Peach then his brother.
"My plan was originally to have my brother marry Peach like he always wanted and unlock the Heart's power. But then, you came along my dear. Another fair princess. So I started to wonder just how powerful the Chaos Heart would become if not one but two princesses married two fire-breathing monsters! Plus, my children could use a stepmother." The koopalings cackled louder and Daisy's face turned white as snow when they all turned to her.
"Let us begin!" Kamek conjured up a book and turned the two women toward the Koopa brothers.
"No! I won't do it!" Peach roared, but Bowser shook her cage.
"Oh, this won't go like last time, Peaches. I promise you." Bowser cackled and gestured out a balcony to the Mushroom Kingdom below. There hundreds of transformed toads, including kappa Toad lay in slave labor to Bowser's troops below.
"No." Peach and Daisy muttered together.
"Get this through your beautiful head, Peaches. You have lost. Mario is dead, and now you're about to become Queen Bowsette!"
"My King!" A blue shelled captain raced in, pale and out of breath.
"What!?" Bowser snarled, ready to turn him into a dry bones.
"We, we have a problem." The koopa stuttered and Bowser went cold.
"No, no, no, no, don't tell me." Bowser turned his head back to the balcony and almost collapsed as he saw two figures riding atop Yoshis toward the Mushroom Kingdom.
"I knew it."
"Luigi!" Peach and Daisy pulled themselves closer.
"Let's-a go!" Mario and Luigi cried.
"Yoshi!" Green and Blue Yoshi cried with Yellow and Red Yoshi. They charged towards the occupied Mushroom capital, but not alone.
"For the Princess!" A toad elder cried and soon hundreds of toads and toadettes followed their heroes with any weapons they could muster. Alongside the toads came more wild yoshis and the Polterup.
"Arf arf!"
"No! No! No! Battle stations!" Bowser snarled as his minions below scrambled into position. However, it proved fruitless for Green and Blue Yoshi pounded a group of goombas beneath their feet then snatched and spat two koopa shells into another dozen enemy troops.
"Wahoo!" Mario and Luigi leaped off their Yoshi and went to work.
"Hang on, Peach, we're coming!" Mario propelled himself off one goomba after another then landed his jump kick square into a sledge bro's jaw. With an outstretched arm, Mario seized the bro's tossed sledgehammer and tossed it to his brother. "Luigi, catch!"
"Don't mind if I do!" Luigi caught the hammer and smashed a giant venus plant out of its pipe. The moment he landed, Luigi punched two yellow shells out of their shells and kicked them into two parties of koopas, who fell like dominos before them. Soon, their reinforcements swarmed past them and occupied most of the koopas. This gave Mario and Luigi time to think.
"There!" Mario pointed to the airship's anchor chain. "That's our way onboard! Come on Luigi!"
"Right behind you!" The two brothers fought through another few Koopas when a trio of toads emerged on a rooftop over them.
"Mario, Luigi, catch!" They tossed down two power-ups, a golden and silver flower. Mario seized the gold while Luigi took the silver and in that instant both transformed into a gleaming version of themselves.
"Ohh, yeah, now we're talking!" Luigi cried.
Mario saw more koopas, shy guys, and goombas racing at them, and hurled his fist ahead. However, instead of a fireball, golden fire flew from his hand and tore through the entire platoon.
"Woah!" This golden power made fire flower power feel like nothing. Luigi too spotted a squad of fire brows from the other direction and hurled three balls of fiery silver at them. To his delight, the silver smashed through any fireball they breathed and knocked the koopas aside. Gold Mario and Silver Luigi carved a path through the streets with their lustrous power-ups while toads and yoshis cheered around them.
"No! I've come too far for this! Children, destroy them!" Morton roared at the Koopalings who snarled.
"Yes, father." Eager for revenge, the seven raced to gun positions on the ultimate airship.
"Open fire on those plumbers!" The Koopalings directed dozens of Rocky Wrenches who unleashed a barrage of cannonballs and Bullet Bills upon the heroes below.
"Incoming!" Luigi pointed to the salvo and Gold Mario took his hand.
"Give em' a show, Luigi!"
"Here I go!" Silver Luigi flew into the air, propelled by his brother, then bounced off each cannonball and Bullet Bill which fell before him.
"No!" Ludwig snarled as he saw Silver Luigi land and help Gold Mario blow his way through their ground troops directly below the airship.
"Hmm, how about this." Kamek appeared over Ludwig and waved his wand over the next salvo of cannonballs and Bullet Bills.
"Look out!" Mario and Luigi shook when they saw the ordinance set on fire and speed up. Both brothers sprinted at the anchor chain and hurled a few gold/silver fireballs. A few cannonballs and Bullet Bills fell before these attacks, but the rest exploded around them.
"Mamma mia." Mario and Luigi groaned as the smoke cleared around them and the power-ups vanished. Yet even as their heads spun, they saw the anchor chain lift.
"No! Come on, Luigi!" Mario pulled Luigi onto his feet and raced toward the anchor. Just before it lifted out of reach, the brothers leaped up and seized the chain.
"Gaah! Cut the chain, cut the chain!" Kamek yelped and cast several spells at them. However, the Mario Brothers did not remain idle and scaled the chain even as fiery magic broke sections they passed. However, their hearts raced as two sledge bros raced over to the anchor winch.
"Ahh, Mario!" Luigi pointed to their enormous hammers and Mario grit his teeth.
"We've got no choice, bro. Go for broke." He and Luigi looked at Peach and Daisy trapped near the ship's captain's cabin. A fire lit inside the Mario Brothers and with tremendous effort they propelled themselves up into a jump that took them onto the bow. Within the same motion, Mario and Luigi leaped up again and punched the sledge bros onto their backs. The Mario brothers looked down the immense deck with dozens of koopas, goombas, and bros all decked out in spikes, eyepatches, and fangs. Cannons and Bullet Bill launchers scattered between them.
(Super Smash Bros Brawl: Airship Theme)
"Get those plumbers!" Kamek snarled and the crew charged like a tidal wave with cannonballs and Bullet Bills close behind. Despite this, Mario and Luigi hardened their gazes and tapped their fists.
"Together?"
"Yeah!"
"Let's-a go!" Mario and Luigi charged their enemy and jumped up together. Luigi jumped higher than Mario, who then pushed him up by the feet. With the extra oomph, Luigi propelled himself off the Bullet Bills and cannonballs one after the other. Each fell flat against his jumps until Luigi downed the entire salvo. Mario, meanwhile, came down and slammed his fist into an enormous Goomba which flattened like a pancake. The older plumber then flipped himself back up and kicked two spike-fisted red-shells back into their companions. With his way clear, Mario kicked off the side of a few bullet launchers. In doing so, he sent three Bullet Bills off course into minions. The wall kicks also brought him over a barrage of hammers thrown by two eyepatched hammer-bros. The pair tried to adjust their aim, but were too late, for Mario stomped them onto their backs.
"Stop him! Somebody stop him!" Kamek aimed his wand at Mario and a squad of para koopas soared down, spears lowered. However, he only smiled back.
"Above you."
"Huh?"
"Here I go!" Luigi came down upon the parakoopas who squealed moments before the green plumber spun them against his fists and sent them out of their shells. Luigi landed and Mario immediately jumped over him and smashed his foot into a sledge bro who readied a hammer.
"Luigi, the hammer!"
"I've gotcha!" Luigi sprung up after Mario and seized the sledge bro's discarded weapon while Kamek readied his wand.
"Here we go!" Luigi swung with all his might and hurled the sledge hammer at Kamek who yelped before the weapon sent him flying off his broom. However, Mario's eyes fixed on his wand which spun in the air.
"Humans!" All seven Koopalings charged from the gun positions at them, but Mario did not flinch. Instead, he kicked the wand to his brother.
"Luigi!"
"Gotcha!" Luigi seized the wand in his hand and landed beside Mario when all seven Koopalings skidded to a halt and trembled. Their eyes lingered on the wand and the siblings embraced each other.
"Uhhh? How about we talk this through-"
"Bye bye!" Luigi laughed and waved the wand toward them. Mario joined in the laughter as they watched all seven Koopalings fly away after Kamek. Mario and Luigi fist bumped each other before a burst of shadowy darkness struck and hurled them backward.
"Mamma mia." Mario and Luigi rubbed their heads and saw the wand shattered. Heavy growls filled the deck and then, they saw them. Bowser and Morton Sr. loomed over them.
Author's note
Yeah similar to the climax of the first movie, but its not like the Mario franchise isn't repetitive either
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