Chapter Fifteen:

A Cuckoo Crazy Psycho Unmasked

Before he knew it, Mario was dragged into a dark room and placed in a metal chair. The chains released him and retracted, but that was when cuffs closed around his wrists, keeping the overall-wearing plumber from escaping. Mario wondered if this was some sort of electric chair, then a monitor appeared and that masked loon reappeared once more.

"I want to play a game." He said to Mario.

He'd heard that before, when that creep first revealed himself, but now he did not want to do this anymore. Mario was done with that lunatic's games, after everything he was just put through and after it seemed like he'd lost Luigi, he wanted to know the truth now.

"No!" He yelled, "No more games! I'm done with your sheet!"

"I'm going to ask you a question and all you have to do is answer it truthfully." The man told Mario.

'It's going to be a quiz, isn't it?' Mario thought, 'Here come the 'yes' or 'no' answers."

"Will you be my friend?"

The question struck him like an oncoming Bullet Bill as if he'd never been hit by anything in his life. Mario processed this and he was filled with shock, then the shock became anger as he glared at that creeper, knowing full well what his answer was going to be.

That guy put him through all of that insanity and was now asking him to be his friend, what the spaghetti sauce?!

"You bastard!" Mario cried, "You tortured me and made me think Luigi died. I will NEVER be your friend!"

"What if I said 'please'?" The man asked.

"Nope, nope, nope, so much nope!" Mario shouted, "Mario will never make friends with someone cuckoo-crazy as you!"

The man stared at Mario, the eyes of Majora's Mask glowing bright, and the fat Italian wondered what was next. It seemed like the mysterious creeper would be angry, disappointed, with the answer, as if he expected Mario to say 'yes'. Just then, the psycho began to chuckle and a purple aura surrounded him, then the chuckle turned into a laugh.

And the laugh became a cackle, just before Mario thought this guy was having a stroke. Black mist began to fill the screen, then the man reached up to finally remove his mask and vanished. A new image appeared, showing someone else and Mario's eyes widened when he saw who it was as loud cackling filled the room and the screen started to shake and sizzle.

Waluigi, tall, muscular, sporting long brown hair with a blue hair band and glowing blue eyes, laughed maniacally and the screen deactivated, retreating into the darkness even as the laughter continued to echo throughout the room.

Several seconds later, Waluigi appeared in front of the shocked Mario, laughing evilly as the aura around him let off a brighter ominous glow.

"Thank you, Mario..." Waluigi said with a sneer, "...Thank you... for REJECTING ME!"

He could not believe it, that lunatic wearing Majora's Mask was Waluigi the whole time, Waluigi who'd put them in that room with the Piranha Plants on their heads, dragged them through a tunnel of doom and then put him in that situation where it looked like he would lose Luigi.

And on top of that, this was not the first time Mario had seen Waluigi in a form like that, he'd seen it no more than several days prior to the day of that T-Pose Zombie debacle that had been caused by Shroomy eating a strange purple mushroom in the forest.

How Waluigi got that form was no secret, it was due to years of neglect, mistreatment and not being allowed into Smash.

All of that pain and anger had been building up inside of him and, when Waluigi had reached the tipping point of despair on that day as he struggled to figure out a special Smash-related move, his power awakened and enabled him to take the form Mario was seeing now

"WALUIGI?!" Mario screamed, "IT WAS YOU?! WHAT'S-A GOING ON HERE?! HAVE YOU GONE CUCKOO CRAZY?!"

The wah-man howled with villainous laughter and Mario could feel his ears ringing, his ear drums rattling from how loud Waluigi was cackling. He soon composed himself, staring at the dim-witted Italian man, as his eyes gleamed with more ominous power.

"Allow me to explain everything for you, my spaghetti-loving dim-witted friend." Waluigi said to Mario, "I sent out over a thousand fake party invitations to everyone and they all turned them down. Bob said 'no', Wario said he had a 'date' with KFC, nearly a thousand people all turned them down and, just as I was reaching my ultimate form, you said 'yes'. And now, you've said 'no' to me."

"You set all of this up to make me think Luigi perished so I could hate you?!" Mario exclaimed.

"Yes..." Waluigi hissed with glee, "...and the world shall soon know and fear my power!"

"Man, you have issues..."

"YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!" Waluigi glared at Mario with rage, "YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND, you and many of your beloved friends were accepted and loved, allowed to party and partake in Smash WHILE MY ONLY INVOLVEMENT IN SMASH THUS FAR IS A ROLE AS AN ASSIST FIGHTER AND I DON'T GET ANY RESPECT FROM ANYONE!

"And just between you and me, I was the one who gave that stupid Mushroom boy the T-Pose Shroom, I crafted it myself with my staff! ITS-A BRILLIANT, A T-POSING ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE CAUSED BY A MUSHROOM WITH MY COLOR SCHEME!"

"You bastard!" Mario snarled.

Waluigi calmed down a little, then he laughed maniacally again and raised his staff, conjuring a portal from nowhere. He glared at the shocked and furious Mario, not bothering to even let him go.

"Thank you, Mario..." He said, "We will meet again. When we do, you will watch the very world as you know it change forever..."

Eyeing Mario ominously one more time, Waluigi walked towards the portal and stepped through it, he turned to stare at the helpless fat Italian, who watched as the portal closed and the wah-man vanished. Mario sat helplessly in the dark, unable to break free from the chair, as he processed everything that had just happened.

"Can-a someone let me out?" Mario asked nervously, "My ass is itchy... oh shit."

Nobody came, the chains remained untouched, and Mario shivered, thinking of what Waluigi had become. And then, he thought back to where this all started, before the T-Pose virus, to the day he saw him reach his breaking point...