“Run left!” yells Lemmy. The Koopalings do- right into a newly-formed force field. They all fall over again. As they get up, Peach pushes the button to form a force field on their right as well. “We’re trapped like rats!” Roy yells.
Go to chapter 56.
Ludwig checks his pockets. “Hmm, no Fire Flower,” he says. “This tail can’t fail me now.” Ludwig wags his Raccoon tail at the angry plumbers, hoping for a hit, but keeps missing, as the Mario Brothers keep jumping over it. Ludwig realizes his tail isn’t doing enough, so he tries to run and grab Mario. Bad idea. Mario ducks, causing Ludwig to trip right over him, and go flying off the doomship. Even worse, a propeller on the bottom of the doomship cuts off Ludwig’s Raccoon tail. Although this causes Ludwig no real pain, it does make it impossible for him to avoid landing in a pool of lava.
I almost forgot to mention, the Mario Brothers go on to destroy Castle Koopa.
GAME OVER!
Ludwig reaches for the Super Leaf. “This ought to be interesting,” he says as he swallows the leaf. The feather evaporates into thin air instantly. Then Ludwig takes off. The easy-to-control Raccoon Suit lets Ludwig effortlessly reach the doomship and land aboard it.
“Hey, it’s that Ludwig,” says Luigi.
“Let’s throw him overboard,” Mario says. But Ludwig is too smart to get thrown off like that. He whacks his tail at Mario, knocking him over, and then does the same to Luigi. Unfortunately, the tail doesn’t have enough force to keep a super plumber down, so they both get up quickly.
“Hmm, I need something that will attack these guys, and fast. I can’t put on a suit like a Hammer Brothers suit because I have this Raccoon Suit on, but I could use an item like a Fire Flower because I hold it, making it separate from this suit,” Ludwig remarks.
If Ludwig has the Fire Flower, go to
chapter
45.
If Ludwig does not have the Fire Flower,
go to chapter 42.
“I learned a lesson from watching my
Fiery Walking Piranhas get beaten,” Ludwig says. Then he
triumphantly pulls out the Hammer Brothers
suit he got from Mario and quickly puts it on! He ducks down right in front
of the Mario Brothers, who cannot hurt him with their constant flow of
fireballs thanks to his protective Hammer Brother shell. All of a sudden,
conveyor belts appear (thanks to Princess Peach’s button-pressing), pushing
all the Koopalings besides Ludwig across the palace floor. Since Ludwig
is standing so close to the Mario Brothers, he does not get pushed by the
conveyor belts.
Ludwig suddenly jumps up, throws a couple of quick hammers, then ducks down again. The two Hammers both rip the Mario Brothers’ pockets, making coins pour out of them, which Ludwig picks up. All of a sudden, the conveyor belts disappear and the castle’s front doors open. The Mario Brothers, dropping their Fire Flowers into the moat, run out of the castle towards the doomship!
“Oh no,” says Roy, as the Koopalings rush to Ludwig’s side to see the Mario Brothers get ready to take off in Lemmy’s doomship.
*The Koopas collect 15 coins.*
Go to chapter 50.
Ludwig pulls out the trusty Fire Flower given to him by the other Koopalings and starts to throw fireballs at the plumbers. “Watch out!” Mario says, ducking a fireball. Eventually, the plumbers are chased to the edge of the ship. “I’ve got you now!” Ludwig says.
Just as Ludwig is about to throw a potentially deadly fireball at Mario, Lakitu comes flying by. “Need a lift?” Lakitu asks. “Ten coins per passenger.” Mario and Luigi both give Lakitu a fist. “Uh, I’ll give you a free sample ride,” he says, as the plumbers jump on his cloud and Lakitu whisks them away.
“To Peach’s Castle!” Luigi yells.
'Peach’s Castle?' Ludwig thinks silently.
'I’ve got to fly back there all over again.' He pilots the
slow-moving doomship to turn around
and go back to Peach’s Castle. He watches Lakitu take Mario back into the
castle through the same palace window Roy suggested to jump through, while
Luigi strangely jumps off the cloud and runs off. “What a strange guy that
Luigi is,” says Ludwig, putting the Fire Flower back in his pocket.
Ludwig suddenly sees a horrifying sight in the distance. 5,000 Bob-ombs are marching towards Peach’s Castle in army lines! There are 50 in a row, and each line of Bob-ombs alternates between black and red. “They’re going to blow up the castle!” Ludwig yells. “Should I let them go, or fire some cannonball blasts to stop them prematurely?”
Solve this puzzle to find out who is
leading the Bob-ombs:
Figure out what each of the following
phrases is describing, then take all of the answers’ first
letters and put them in reverse order,
bottom to top. The answer will tell who is leading the Bob-ombs.
Always-hungry dinosaur
Forgotten and oblong ghost
Koopa ruler of Giant Land
Star that sets in the desert
Enemy that can come back to life
If Ludwig should blast the Bob-ombs
to prevent them from blowing up Peach’s Castle, go to chapter
47.
If Ludwig should let the Bob-ombs blow
up the castle, go to chapter 51.
“Uh, there’s no item to use in return,” says Ludwig. “Let’s fight them hand to hand.” As they are about to try to tackle the Mario Brothers, conveyor belts appear beneath them, pushing them all into a wall, knocking them over. The conveyor belts all are pushing them to one little spot on the floor, and they are on a very fast speed, making it impossible to escape. These belts appeared courtesy of Princess Peach’s button-pushing, of course.
“Now I know why you love Princess Peach so much,” Luigi says to Mario as they practice for baseball season with their fireballs. You know who the catchers are.
GAME OVER!
Ludwig looks a little closer down at the castle. “My siblings aren’t outside. That means that they are inside the castle. I can’t let them get blown up,” he says. Then he starts blasting cannonballs at the army of Bob-ombs.
Once the first line of Bob-ombs has
exploded, the next line starts to blow up as well. Soon all of the
Bob-ombs have exploded, without any
harming the castle. Ludwig thinks he sees a brown-haired girl and a guy
with a green hat off in the distance, but he can’t be certain.
Ludwig lands the doomship next to the palace and runs to the door. As he does so, he feels his Raccoon Suit fade away. “Well, that was pretty useful while it lasted,” he says. Then he reaches for the door.
“Halt!” a Mushroom guard says to him. “I just took over for my brother guard, and he has bad eyesight. He just let a whole bunch of your siblings in, but I’m not that stupid. You’re not getting in this castle!”
“But I just saved this castle from destruction!” Ludwig pleads. “Here, take some coins. Just let me in!” The guard refuses, so Ludwig knows he must take action. He pulls back out his Fire Flower, but the guard pulls out a Starman.
“You can’t even touch me!”
the sentry laughs.
Ludwig backs away from the sentinel, then thinks of a plan. “I’m going to have to blast the door open with a cannonball from the doomship,” he says. He runs to the doomship and blasts a huge cannonball, right at the castle doors.
BOOM! The doors blast apart. The watchman is so scared he drops his Starman. “Perfect!” says Ludwig. He runs after the Starman, but it falls into the water. He sees several hungry Boss Basses jumping out of the water near where the Starman fell. “Hmm,” he says. “Should I risk going after that Starman or just enter the castle?”
If Ludwig should go after the Starman,
go to chapter 55.
If Ludwig should enter the castle,
go to chapter 54.
“The Magic Feather is the one for me!” Ludwig says cheerfully, and he swallows the Feather. The Super Leaf disappears instantly, as promised. Then Ludwig starts to run to try to take off. He eventually does, but then has tons of trouble in mid-air. “I forget how this works. Do I lift open the cape, or do I turn around, or do I pull back, or do I go forward, or do I twirl my cape, or do I-” WHAP! Ludwig plunges right into the ground. It just so happens that a Koopa Troopa runs by and takes off Ludwig’s cape. “That cape is so hard to control!” moans Ludwig, as he lies on the ground.
Needless to say, the Mario Brothers go on to destroy Castle Koopa.
GAME OVER!
“Like the cliche says, you’ve got to
fight fire with fire!” Ludwig says. “Hand me the Fire Flower!” The
Koopaling who grabbed the Fire Flower
hands it to Ludwig, and he starts to throw fireballs at the Mario Brothers,
who of course fire back at him. As they are fighting with fire, conveyor
belts appear, courtesy of Princess Peach’s button-pushing, causing all
of the Koopalings to get pushed across the castle floor, except for Ludwig,
who was standing very close to the Mario Brothers and just past where the
conveyor belts start. “YEOW!” all the Koopalings scream as they are pushed
across the room.
As the fire battle rages on, with all three being able to deflect enemy fireballs with their own along with some really good dodging by Ludwig, the conveyor belts suddenly disappear, and the castle’s front doors open. Stupidly, all the Koopalings run to Ludwig, and Morton slips, knocking Ludwig over. Ludwig drops the Fire Flower, which is picked up by Mario. Then the Mario Brothers run out the doors, dropping their Fire Flowers into the moat.
“Where are they going?” Ludwig asks, wondering why he wasn’t mercilessly fireballed. Then the Koopas scream in horror as they watch the Mario Brothers board Lemmy’s doomship and prepare to take-off.
*The Koopas lose the Fire Flower.*
Go to chapter 50.
“They better not ruin my doomship!” yells Lemmy, running madly towards his doomship.
“Hey, guys, Koopas, Koopalings, siblings, what’s this?” asks Morton. Morton holds up a box with a Super Leaf and a Magic Feather.
“Where did you find that?” asks Ludwig.
“It was right here, sitting, setting, laying, lying on this bridge,” Morton responds.
Ludwig peers into the box. It says, “Princess Peach’s emergency flying gear. In case of emergency, eat whichever item you want to use. The other item will instantly disappear, to avoid it being stolen by a Koopaling.”
The other Koopalings have run towards the doomship, but it is too late. The Mario Brothers have taken off in it. Luigi screams, “Now to destroy Castle Koopa!”
“What can we do?” asks Wendy.
“Time for another risky mission by me,” Ludwig answers. “I’m going to take one of these two flying objects and fly after them and try to knock them off the doomship and fly it back. It’s weird eating the item, but I have to do it.”
Roy then says, “Well, you’d better take any items we have with you.” Ludwig takes any item he is handed by the other Koopalings, stuffs them in his pockets, and then says, “The other item I don’t use will automatically evaporate, so which one should I use?”
Solve this puzzle to choose which item
to use:
The correct item to use has the following
characteristics:
1. The original game it came from has
a number.
2. The item requires tapping of a button
to fly in that game.
3. The author of this story absolutely
hates the other item.
*Ludwig has all the items that the Koopalings
have.*
If Ludwig should use the Magic Feather,
go to chapter 48.
If Ludwig should use the Super Leaf,
go to chapter 43.
“I might as well just let them blow up the castle,” Ludwig says. “Then our job will be done anyway.” Ludwig waits for them to get to the castle, and as he expected, they detonate. The castle explodes, and the explosion is so huge, the doomship Ludwig is on also is blown up!
All of the Koopas (including the Koopalings, who had gone back inside the palace), Mushrooms, and Marios in Peach’s Castle and Ludwig land in Ice Land. Every single one is alive, but they are all captured by a Bob-omb spaceship that zaps them up into it!
They land in Sarasaland, where Princess Daisy has a big and beautiful castle. Millions of Tatanga clones and Gaos force them to file into her throne room. “I have you all!” the brown-haired princess laughs as she watches myriads of Flies, Tamaos, and Dragonmazus (all of the strange names are Super Mario Land enemies) push the Koopas and Mushrooms into jail cells and force Peach and Mario into their very own lava pit.
Of course, no Mario adventure could
end without a kiss. Unfortunately, that kiss is between Princess
Daisy and Luigi, watched by the helpless
Marios, Mushrooms, and Koopas.
GAME OVER!
Morton starts talking in a loud voice. “Yeah, be silent, quiet, not talking, not speaking, not making any noises, just shut your mouths, and do not open them, and I mean now, pronto, immediately-” As Morton is saying this, Peach notices them and starts pushing buttons. The Koopalings start running towards her, but hit a force field. They turn around, but run into another force field. Some run right and some run left, but they all hit force fields.
“Great,” says Roy. “Thanks to Morton’s speaking, Peach noticed us, and we’re trapped like rats!”
Go to chapter 56.
“Go ahead, Ludwig,” Larry says. Ludwig starts hammering the door with all the hammers he can throw. After about fifteen hammers, the Koopalings hear some bells. Then they are showered with a ton of coins, an empty sack, a Frog Suit, a key, and a small piece of paper. Even more, the doors automatically open by themselves. “All right!” says Ludwig. “Put all these coins in the sack and drag it out to the doomship with Peach.” Roy does so, and goes to the doomship, still holding on to the squirming and mumbling Peach.
“What’s this paper say? ‘Keep only one item. The other will automatically disappear.’ Oh no! Not again!” Ludwig says. “Well, which one?”
Solve this puzzle to decide which item
to keep:
Unscramble the letters of the enemies,
and then figure out which item goes with which enemy.
Keep:
GBI RHBATE
Don’t keep:
NPOHTA
*The Koopas collect 100 coins.*
If the Koopalings should keep the key,
go to chapter 61.
If the Koopalings should keep the Frog
Suit, go to chapter 64.
Ludwig runs inside the palace and finds the other Koopalings fighting off a ton of small Mushrooms that look like Toad. “You’re back!” says Wendy to Ludwig.
“Did you stop them?” asks Susan.
“Yes,” responds Ludwig, “but they got a lift back to the castle. They’re somewhere upstairs now.” Ludwig pulls out his Fire Flower. As soon as the Toads see the Fire Flower, they rush downstairs, to the bottom floor of the castle, running and screaming.
“All right,” says Roy. “Now to get those plumbers and that princess.” The Koopas trudge back upstairs, remembering the trouble they had last time they were there. At the top of the stairs, the Koopalings run into Toad and Lakitu.
“Hey, Koopas!” Toad says. “I can lead you to the princess through a secret elevator that leads to a short hallway to the back entrance to her secret throne room, behind the force fields. And besides, this guy’s a traitor, because I saw him helping out Mario and Luigi.”
“What a liar!” says Lakitu. “He’s got a trap for you guys. And I only helped out those plumbers because I wanted some money and then was afraid of their fists. Look, Peach has those force fields, and they won’t help you at all, you know. Just follow me to a warp pipe I know and you’ll be spit out right in front of her throne.”
The Koopalings shake their heads in confusion, not knowing who to trust. But Lemmy notices a couple of flaws in one of the character’s reasoning. From that, he figures out which character to follow.
If the Koopas should follow Toad, go
to chapter 57.
If the Koopas should follow Lakitu,
go to chapter 60.
“It won’t hurt to go after a Starman, could it?” Ludwig reasons with himself. He jumps into the water and dives underneath the surface. Down there, he finds the Starman and a bunch of coins. “All right!” the Koopaling says, as he puts the coins and Starman into his pockets. As the Boss Basses try to get him, he pulls out his Fire Flower and gives them a blast of fireballs, defeating them. Then he swims back to the surface, shakes the water off himself, and gets on dry land again.
*The Koopas collect the Starman and
ten coins.*
Go to chapter 54.
The Koopalings, surrounded by all sides by force fields, spend a long time being the victim of Peach’s “experiments”. Peach tries out every button on her throne, which pour tons of elements into the Koopas’ invisible jail, just to see the Koopas’ reaction. These include things such as electricity, fire, ice, water, grass, mud, dirt, clay, prune juice...
GAME OVER!
“What you’re saying doesn’t make sense,” says Lemmy. “First of all, all but three warp pipes in Dark Land were turned off by my father. Second, if we were placed in front of her throne, we’ll be stuck in her force field jail. We want behind it. So Toad is the right one.”
At this, Lakitu angrily pulls a Spiny Egg out of his shell and throws it at Lemmy, but Lemmy ducks, letting the egg go flying down to the lower level of the castle. Then Ludwig pulls out his Fire Flower. “Whoa!” Lakitu yells, and floats away in his cloud, leaving behind his fishing rod. Ludwig pulls apart the rod and puts it in his pocket, hoping it may have later use.
“That was close,” says Lemmy. “Now why are you going against Peach, Toad?”
Toad replies, “I’ve been mistreated by that princess, and the Mario Brothers kick me around. I can’t take it much longer.” Toad takes the Koopas to a secret elevator, as he promised, and they find the hallway to Peach’s throne room. “Good luck,” he says, and he takes off running.
The Koopalings see a chair with blonde hair cascading down the back of it. Of course, it doesn’t take much to figure out it is Princess Peach sitting on the throne dead ahead of them. “Be silent,” whispers Larry in his quietest voice possible. “We don’t want to alert Peach to the fact that we are sneaking up behind her.” Morton opens his mouth to speak.
*The Koopas now have the fishing rod.*
If the Koopas have the duct tape, go
to chapter 59.
If the Koopas do not have the duct
tape, go to chapter 52.
“What if an alarm goes off?” asks Larry. “Let’s figure out a different way to get out of here.”
Then a Mushroom guard walks by. “Hey, pal, let us out,” says Iggy to the sentry.
“Are you kidding?” the sentry replies. “You’re kidnapping the princess!”
Ludwig shows the guard his hammer. “I mean, right away, guys!” the guard says, hitting a switch on the wall and pushing a button to open the doors up. Roy runs off with the princess to the doomship, while the rest head back upstairs, hoping to find the Mario Brothers.
Go to chapter 65.
Ludwig reaches into his pocket and whips out the duct tape. As fast as he can, he pulls the end of it and seals it over Morton’s mouth. This muffles Morton’s voice from making any noise, as he was about to repeat exactly what Larry said, only in his own wordy version.
With Peach still not noticing the Koopalings sneaking up on her, Susan thinks of an ingenious plan. “Let’s use the duct tape on her,” she suggests in a very quiet voice. “That way, Mario can’t hear her screech, and we’ll tape her hands and feet too, so she can’t grab anything or run away.”
Wendy frowns about Susan’s plan, as she figures that Peach won’t be dumb enough to be taped up. But the Koopalings are now right behind her throne, and she can’t put in her opinion. Ludwig takes a piece of the tape and is about to use it on her when Peach hears the tape being pulled.
“EEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKK!!!” Peach starts pushing buttons on her throne, but since the Koopalings are right next to her, the effects of the buttons don’t hurt them, so she gets up and starts to run- right into her own force field.
Peach wakes up to find herself taped up and being carried by Roy. “MMMMMMPH!” she says.
“Now, now,” Roy says. “We’ll treat you with care. After all, Bowser doesn’t want you to be upset. Now we need your plumber friends.”
The Koopalings head down the stairs
to the main floor of the castle. “Here’s my idea,” says Roy, still
holding Peach. “I’ll go put Peach on
the doomship and stand guard. Then you seven go after the Mario Brothers.”
The other seven Koopas agree with Roy, and Roy reaches for the doors. He
then realizes that he can’t open the doors. “How am I going to get out?”
he asks.
“Well,” says Ludwig, “I could hammer it down.” He reaches for his Hammer Brothers suit.
“MMMPH!” Peach cries.
“Ha! The princess doesn’t want me to hammer the doors!” Ludwig says.
“Wait! Maybe there’s a reason,” Wendy replies.
But Ludwig has his Hammer Brothers suit on, and he pulls out a hammer.
“I’m not letting this opportunity get taken away,” Wendy says. She runs to push Ludwig over, but Larry stops her.
“Let’s think this over,” he says. “Should Ludwig hammer away, or should he stop?”
If Ludwig should hammer away, go to
chapter
53.
If Ludwig shouldn’t hammer the doors
down, go to chapter 58.
“It’s obvious that Lakitu is telling us the truth. First of all, there are no elevators in this castle. Second of all, how does he know Lakitu’s a traitor? He doesn’t. Show us the way, Lakitu,” Lemmy says.
“No! No!” says Toad, as the Koopas follow Lakitu down the hall. Lakitu takes out a key and opens up one of the doors along the first hallway the Koopas walked down. Then he lets them into the room ahead of him and closes the door behind him, staying out in the hallway.
The Koopalings are in an empty room with only a television screen built into the wall. It suddenly turns on, revealing the face of Princess Peach. “Welcome to your new jail. You’ll be staying here for the rest of your lives, so make yourself at home. Sure, there may be some ‘annoyances’, but you’ll just have to live with them. See you!” The TV turns off, and tons of Spike Tops start pouring out of the ceiling. Roy rushes towards the door to exit, but it is locked, as Lakitu locked it behind him. The Koopalings spend the rest of their lives with infestations of Wigglers, Dry Bones, Hot Feet, and Dino Rhinos, just to name a few.
GAME OVER!