Bowser Makes a BIG Mistake: A New Foe
Chapter 1: Bowser’s Secret Weapon
It was a bright, sunny day. Mario and Peach were sat outside in the backyard of the castle, having a barbeque, along with Toadsworth, Luigi, Yoshi, Daisy and Birdo. Mario and Luigi had just defeated the evil Cackletta and restored peace to the Beanbean Kingdom. There was now very few wrong doers left to fight. Birdo had teamed up with them, Smithy had long ago been destroyed, Wart had been sent back to Nightmare World (the land he lived in that is parallel to the Koopa Kingdom, since Subcon is the parallel of the Mushroom Kingdom), Bowser was stewing in his half-rebuilt castle, and Cackletta was dead. There was nothing to worry about, so all there was to do now was to chill out until Bowser tried his next move…
Little did they know Bowser was preparing to make his move…
King Bowser Koopa stormed into his Castle, while the Goombas and Koopas were finishing one of the towers that had crumbled after the Bowletta incident. He was so angry at that moment that he squashed a Goomba, who ran squeaking into the Emergency Room.
“Why did my castle get blown up?” yelled Bowser, “I don’t even REMEMBER doing anything wrong! Why should I have to suffer at Mario’s hands? It’s a good thing Bowletta and Mario didn’t discover my ULTIMATE plan that’s hidden in the basement!”
Morton, at that moment, ran up to his Dad and said: “What is this ultimate plan of yours? And wasn’t you’re Koopa Cruiser you’re “ultimate” plan? And that crumbled after a few hits from Fawful’s headgear too! And…”
Apart from a large scream, nothing more was heard from Morton as Bowser had just thrown him out the window…
Muttering about the Koopa Cruiser being his ultimate weapon not plan, Bowser headed down to the basement, where Ludwig and Lemmy are watching over things. The secret staircase to this secret room was located behind the throne, so that he could make sure the Mario Bros never got into it. He pushed a button and watched as the throne slid sideways. The room he entered was circular, with computers lining the walls and a huge black cylinder in the middle of the room. Various Koopas, Shy guys and Goombas were walking back and forth, working like no other creatures could. They knew their motives were either “work hard, you fit in fine; hardly working gets you torched by the royal breath,”
Bowser stood on top of a staircase next to his two sons and watched the work, his mood lifting that no one had discovered it yet. He turned to his sons.
“Is it ready?” asked Bowser excitedly.
“Not yet King Dad,” said Lemmy.
“Yeah, according to my calculations, after the final piece of Deoxyribonucleic Acid has been added to the cellular structure of this new organism, we will only need to wait a period of 720 hours” said Ludwig, very fast (so three lines of text really only takes him about 1 minute to say)
Bowser and Lemmy just stared at him.
“Son, that did NOT make any sense at all!” said Bowser, getting angry again.
“What he meant was that we are nearly done, we just have to a bit of the old cell merging and we just have to wait a month.” said Morton with a missing tooth.
“How did you get back in so quickly?” said Lemmy in disbelief.
“I ran,” said Morton, strangely not resorting to his usual method of talking.
Shaking his head, Bowser yelled “How is it going?”
“Shouldn’t take long now,” yelled a Goomba wearing thick glasses and a white wig.
“We should have it finished by the time we return to the Koopa Kingdom,” said a Shy Guy.
“Excellent! The castle should be ready to fly tomorrow, keep up the work!” said Bowser, suddenly in a cheerful mood, and with that, he left for his bedroom.
Back at the garden, Peach said to Mario, “Don’t you think Bowser might try to attack us again?”
“Again?” scoffed Mario, “he’s too busy trying to keep the Koopa Kingdom from falling apart, he won’t bother trying to attack us. Besides, I can beat him like that,” Mario snapped his fingers together.
“I don’t know Mario, I have a bad feeling about something that’s going to happen, something very, very scary, it feels like Bowser has been holding back for a while now, notice how he hasn’t tried to attack the Kingdom yet?” muttered Peach
“I expect he feels embarrassed by the entire Bowletta episode” said Mario, watching the sun set. Suddenly, his hand fell onto Peach’s; they both looked at each other and turned away, embarrassed.
“Peach, there’s been something I’ve been meaning to ask you,” ventured Mario.
“Yes, what is it?” said Peach, she knew what it was, but she was playing hard-to-get.
“I’ve wanted to ask you since I met you, and now seems the perfect time to ask it. Peach, will you…” began Mario
“Yes…” said Peach
“Will you…” said Mario; he seemed to be having trouble getting the words out.
“Yes…” said Peach getting excited.
“Will you…marry me?” Mario exclaimed at last.
“Of course I will!” shrieked Peach, and they fell on each other, hugging and kissing and goodness knows whatever else.
A few weeks later, after Bowser had arrived back at the Koopa Kingdom, he went back down to the secret lab, and stood looking into the gigantic black cylinder in the centre of the room. This was it… he thought, he had given this one everything, he had had his own brain cells infused with this, he had gone out and found brain cells from every villain he recalled and had added their DNA to this one. Now, he just needed to wait, tomorrow morning, he would announce the plan to release his ultimate weapon onto the Mushroom Kingdom. That night, he went to bed very excited, the plan was getting so good he could barely sleep! Then, at one point, he realized that he was thirsty and went down to the kitchen for a glass of blood juice. Rain lashed against the window, there was thunderstorm raging, and it looked like tomorrow’s weather wasn’t going to be very good... Along the way, he heard a loud bang from his throne room. Running along the corridor, he heard the bang again, from beside the throne, in the secret room! Tearing his throne from the wall, Bowser ran downstairs and found something he had not been expecting. The glass had cracked and all the computer screens in the room were flashing. “What’s going on here?” yelled Bowser. “Sir, the weapon has awoken!” screamed the Goomba from before, “the temperature of the tank is increasing at an alarming rate! We must evacuate immediately or risk utter destruction!”
This was too much for Bowser to take in, until the entire room started shaking as though from an earthquake! Screaming, Bowser and the others ran out, remembering how he was supposed to act tough and everything, Bowser ran back in and saw that the glass tube had been broken! The shaking stopped and he started looking for his creation, but couldn’t find it anywhere. Suddenly, he heard a hideous, inhuman (or in this case, in-Koopa) scream, and then a more Koopa scream split through the air! Running towards the scene, Bowser saw both Iggy and Wendy lying unconscious on the ground. A few Hammer bros that had come running towards the scene were staring at something in the window in horror. When Bowser looked, on the windowsill of the smashed window, a hideous black shape stood watching them, silhouetted against the lash of the thunderstorm outside. Its eyes were angry red slits and it was growling in an animalistic way. “W...What are… you w…waiting f…f…for?” stuttered Bowser to the Hammer Bros, “attack it already!”
One of the Hammer Bros stepped forward boldly and threw a Hammer at the shape. A minute later, the hammer disappeared in a flash of black flame. When the flames were extinguished, the hammer had been replaced with a small pile of ash. The Hammer Bros looked at Bowser in fear, and then looked back at the creature. Lightning struck somewhere close outside and the figure was lit for a moment, revealing a long, lolling tongue, mean razor sharp teeth, and claws that were sharp enough to put Giga Bowser himself to shame, and those eyes… oh they were worse if that was possible… those eyes were not normal, they were not just a little mad, like Iggy’s eyes, but absolutely insane, they showed an enormous evil appetite that could not be stopped or filled, and a creature which would go almost anywhere and do anything to try and fill it.
The last thing Bowser heard that night was the otherworldly scream of his worst and biggest mistake.
All he had wanted to do was create an unstoppable weapon that couldn’t be defeated by mere jumping, and he had succeeded.
…only too well…