Chapter One:
The Mysterious Purple Mushroom in The Woods
On a bright day as this, the Mushroom Forest was quite calm, even as it carried an eerie mood as the leaves of the tall brown trees blocked out the sky with rays of sunlight just barely pouring through.
He walked alone through the woods, humming in a jolly tune. This was Shroomy the Mushroom, the nicest scout in the world, and he was friends with the Mushroom Kingdom's resident hero and goofball known as Mario. Nobody could forget when they first met each other, on that fateful day, when Shroomy took Mario's tower challenge and made it to the top.
Shroomy was a resident of the Luncheon Kingdom, which was very food-themed, and he loved scouting. A belt full of badges rested around him, just as a hat sat upon his head.
The jolly scout mushroom was never usually worried about anything, he didn't even worry about the bite on his head. Nobody bothered him about it, but he was quite mysterious as he was optimistic, especially since nobody else knew what his life was like before he became a boy scout.
However, Shroomy knew plenty of people, even before he met Mario. In fact, he knew a fella named Doomguy, the famous demon hunting marine, and they went way back. And yet, no one else knew about what their relationship was like and Shroomy didn't seem to bring that up, nor did the likes of Doomguy if he remembered Shroomy or not.
Then again, who the heck cared about Doomguy or demon hunting, especially when being a boy scout was way more fun than that dark, gritty and edgy stuff?
Shroomy whistled a little and breathed in the fresh air, feeling very happy and at peace. Nature sure was a great place to hang out in and Shroomy didn't get his nature badge for nothing. Shroomy glanced up at the sky, seeing a few birds perched in the trees.
"Ah, what a gorgeous day..." The red mushroom quipped, "...A great day to explore nature."
Just then, he stopped and noticed something laying upon the ground. It looked like a mushroom, a very purple-colored mushroom.
Was it a Poison Shroom?
It didn't seem to have a skull symbol on it, only an odd T symbol. Shroomy looked around and picked up the mushroom, examining it with his own two eyes as his stomach growled. He looked up, finding nothing else in the trees. Either someone dropped it or it had grown on a mushroom tree that had been chopped down and this got left behind.
'Should I eat it?' Shroomy thought.
"Ah, what the heck." He shrugged, "How's a strange li'l mushroom for a meal gonna hurt anyone and I'm pretty hungry anyway."
Shroomy bit into the mushroom and it tasted... pretty juicy, very savory and salty. Shroomy nibbled on it some more until he was eating it whole as though he didn't seem to have an issue. Unbeknownst to him, at that moment, someone lanky with a thin mustache was hiding behind a rock, smiling with sinister glee...
SMG4: Mario and The Wah-pocalypse