The Return of the Shadow Queen

By Petey Piranha Fan

Luigi, Bowyer, and Toadette land outside of Creepy Steeple.

Bowyer: Huh? Close to Bowser’s Castle this is not, close to Bowser’s Castle we must go!

Luigi: Toadette, what gives?!

Toadette: Heeheehee! Slicks, Toadette may have been with you before, but the being with you now is none other then the maniacal maniac…

Toadette spins around five times and becomes Doopliss from Part 1 Section 2 of this story!

Doopliss: …DOOPLISS!!!

Bowyer: Doopliss! Should have known we should!

Luigi: And what’s with the “maniacal maniac”? You should be known as the “maniacal moron”!

Doopliss: Insult me while you can! Soon the Boos of this place will destroy you!

Bowyer: See Boos I do not.

Luigi: Less Boos, more answers! Where’s Toadette?!

Meanwhile...

Toadette: (tied up and gagged inside Poshley Sanctum) Hello?! Hello?! Where am I?!

Back at Creepy Steeple…

Doopliss: Someplace special.

Bowyer: Boos I see!

Luigi: All right, do you think I’m gonna fall for the whole “Boos I see” trick?

Bowyer: … Yoshi I see.

Luigi: A Yoshi?! Where?!

Luigi spins around and comes face to face with the Black Yoshi from the end of the last part. Behind it are millions of grinning Boos.

Bowyer: Great…

Doopliss: Yesss! Hehehe! Great!

Black Yoshi: So you are Luigi… My queen was most displeased to find you missing from her jail cell… No matter. I will put you there again, thanks to Freak-in-a-Silly-Sheet!

Doopliss: My name’s Doopliss, Slick boss.

Bowyer: Hmmm… Like Freak-in-Silly-Sheet better I do.

Luigi: And…how do you plan to put me back in that stuffy dungeon?!

Black Yoshi: Like thissssss…

The Boos behind the Black Yoshi all join together to create an absolutely massive Boo wearing a crown and carrying a scepter.

Luigi: King Boolossus!

King Boolossus: Yes, the former giant Boo that taunted you long ago! King Boo lost all his power after you defeated him…

Luigi: So you bullied your way to the top!

King Boolossus: Bully THIS!!!

King Boolossus rises into the air and thrusts himself at Luigi. Luigi is grabbed and they both rise up into the air until they are out of sight.

Bowyer: Luigi!

Black Yoshi: Hahaha! I have no quarrel with you, bow creature! Begone!

Bowyer, casting one long look at the sky, runs inside Creepy Steeple.

Doopliss: Hey Slick boss, lookit this!

Doopliss reaches down to the ground and picks up a box. It is the box that Luigi and Co. had found earlier.

Black Yoshi: Let me see.

The black Yoshi picks it up and begins examining it.

Doopliss: So Slick boss, where’s my pay?

Black Yoshi: (without looking up) Pay? You don’t get any pay, Freak-in-a-Silly-Sheet!

Doopliss: My name’s Doop-

Black Yoshi: HERE IS YOUR PAY, FREAK-IN-A-SILLY-SHEET!!!

The black Yoshi thrusts open the box and a force begins tugging at Doopliss. He howls as he is sucked inside and the black Yoshi slams the lid.

Inside Creepy Steeple…

Bowyer is wandering around helplessly.

Bowyer: Gone Luigi is… Gone Toadette is… Alone I am…

Suddenly, a warp pipe appears.

Bowyer: Huh?

Out of the warp pipe comes Mario, a troop of Yoshis, Birdo, and Boshi.

Bowyer: Oh no.

Mario: It’s-a me!!!

Birdo walks over to Bowyer.

Bowyer: Explain!

Birdo: Look, I’m SURE you’re not happy to see Mario and Boshi and me, but you gotta understand! Mario and Boshi washed up on the shore of Yoshi’s Island. They put the Yoshis in bags and did the dog paddle to Keyhaul Key. They then bagged me and did the dead man’s float to Poshley Heights! We got out there, and we picked up a certain someone!

The Yoshis part to reveal Toadette.

Bowyer: Toadette!

Toadette: Bowyer!

While Toadette and Bowyer stare at each other in shock, Birdo continues.

Birdo: Mario was going to the bathroom in the Poshley Heights fountain, but fell into a secret warp pipe. We followed him, and we ended up here! ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME?! HEY! HEY!!! STOP!

Toadette picks Birdo up and throws her at Mario, who knocks into Boshi. They all end up unconscious.

Toadette: Bowyer! Where’s Luigi?

Bowyer: Kidnapped by a giant ghost and a black Yoshi Luigi was!

Toadette: One word per sentence, remember?

Bowyer: Luigi… got… kidnapped… by… a… giant… ghost… and… a… black …Yoshi! Happy?!

Toadette: A giant ghost?! That’s awful! What do we do?!

Mario: (unconscious) I think I may have a solution.

Toadette and Bowyer jump twenty feet in the air.

Bowyer: Spirit!

Toadette: It’s the Star-

Bowyer clamps a hand over Toadette’s mouth.

Bowyer: Solution! NOW!

Mario (Star Wars Spirit): You may get Luigi back by getting to Grodus’s Magic Cure Shop. There you may find a cure for the Shadow Sirens and a potion to make you fly. By flying, you may find King Boolossus’s secret palace in the sky, where Luigi surely is.

Toadette: (pushing away Bowyer’s hand): Sweet!

Spirit: The force is with you…

Mario and the others regain consciousness.

Mario: I’m-a hungry!

Boshi: DUDE!

Birdo: Ugggh…

Toadette: Let’s find a place to sleep.

Mario: But I’ve-a got a tight-a schedule today!

Yoshi: What’s on that schedule?

Mario: “8:00 PM: Dance in the toilet-a…”

Bowyer: Had to ask you did.

Toadette: Grodus’s Magic Cure Shop is on Earth, I recall. And Bowser has a rocket ship. We definitely need some sleep before going off to Bowser’s Castle.

Boshi: Castles are dudely easy to find! I can guide you dudes there!

Toadette: Good, a guide! Well, I’m tired. Let’s go to bed.

Birdo: Here?

Yoshi: Now?

Toadette: Yup.

Toadette leans against a statue and falls asleep. Bowyer curls up on the ground. Birdo cracks open a bunch of her eggs to make a bed of yolk for her, Boshi, and the Yoshis. Mario puts his head in his pants and falls asleep. But outside, people aren’t sleeping...

Black Yoshi: With this box, I can trap that pesky bow-creature along with that fiddlesome fungus girl Toadette and that meddling Mario… I can also get rid of those obnoxious Yoshis and that ugly Birdo. My queen will be most pleased… MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

This evil laugh causes a tree to fall on the black Yoshi.

Black Yoshi: … Ow…

Two hours later, Toadette, Bowyer, and Birdo wake up in darkness.

Toadette: Where are we?

Bowyer: Black this is… Creepy!

Birdo: I suppose we’re still in Creepy Steeple. I heard it can get pretty dark at night here.

Toadette: Let’s wake up the others.

Bowyer: MARIO!!! BOSHI!!! YOSHIS!!!

Toadette: WHERE ARE YOU GUYS?!

Birdo: Perhaps they went outside… Boshi does like to see the sun.

Toadette: There is no sun around Creepy Steeple, silly!

Bowyer: Box I see…

Clearly in front of them, they see a large box. It is open.

Toadette: Hmmm… I could’ve sworn that Luigi said something about a box inside blackness…

Bowyer: Told me about this too he did. Said he did that this blackness was inside a box.

Birdo: … To put two-and-two together… We’re inside the box with the box that contained the Shadow Queen!!!

Bowyer and Toadette: Right!

Birdo: Great…

They walk over to the large opened box.

Toadette: What’s-

Suddenly, Mario pops out of the box!

Mario: I’m-a the Shadow Idiot!

Boshi pops out of the box.

Boshi: I’m the Shadow Dude!

The Yoshis pop out of the box.

Yoshis: We’re the Shadow Dinosaurs!

Toadette: Morons.

Birdo: Quit fooling around, guys, we need to get out of here!

Bowyer: How?!

Mario: I’m-a Mario!

Boshi: Dudes, I have a plan!

All but Boshi and Mario: WHAT?!

Boshi: Dudes, we just need to fall asleep again! When we wake up, we’ll be out of the box!

Birdo: That is the dumbest idea I’ve-

Mario begins snoring. He suddenly vanishes.

Toadette: … How’d you figure that out?

Boshi: Dudes, I read a lot of Science Fiction, and this is definitely dudely Science Fiction.

They all close their eyes and are teleported out of the box.

Black Yoshi: What the?! I’m outta here!!!

The black Yoshi runs off.

Bowyer: Him that was! Kidnapped Luigi he and Big Boo did!

Toadette: Easy, Bowyer… We’ll get him later… Meanwhile, we need to set off to Bowser’s Castle.

Boshi: Me too, dudes!

Mario: I-a wanna go too, Mommy!!!

Bowyer: … FINE…

Birdo: Oh, there's one more that might want to come…

Birdo and the Yoshis part to reveal a small green Yoshi with blonde hair and a cute expression.

Birdo: He was born in Poshley Heights…

Toadette: How cute! Who’s his mother and father?

Yoshi: Me and Birdo!

Bowyer: Married you two are now? Sweet!

Birdo: We hope you can show him the way of the warrior!

Yoshi: Yoshi begs you to take care of him!

Toadette: Of course we will! What’s your name, little fella?

Yoshi Baby: I don’t really have a name yet… Hey, Mister Red Hat! Can you name me?

Toadette and Bowyer: NOT MARIO!!!

Birdo and Yoshi: OH GREAT!!!

Mario: I-a know a good name!

Boshi: What is it, dude?

Mario: Pork-a Chop!!!

Everyone but Mario and the Yoshi Baby fall over, anime-style.

Yoshi Baby: … Pork Chop?! O…k… Pork Chop it is!

Birdo: Make us proud, little Pork Chop!

Yoshi: Hit Mario for me!

Waving, Bowyer, Toadette, Boshi, Mario, and Pork Chop walk away from Creepy Steeple, leaving behind the Yoshis and Birdo that had been so kind to them. What sort of obstacle will our heroes encounter next? Will they eventually get to Grodus’s Magic Cure Shop? Can they rescue Luigi from the wicked King Boolossus and the black Yoshi? Find out in the next part!
 

Three days later, Boshi, Bowyer, Toadette, Mario, and Pork Chop arrive at Bowser’s Castle.

Boshi: I told you dudes I could guide you to this dudely castle!

Toadette: Twenty-six times.

Pork Chop: You got us lost like three hundred times!

Boshi: Oh, dudes, so what if I got you lost on the swamp moons of Magutti?!

Bowyer: Also got us lost in Forest of Illusion you did.

Toadette: AND the Vanilla Dome! AND Isle Delfino!

Pork Chop: AND Sub-con! AND Poshley Heights!

Mario: Heehee! I-a got it!

Boshi: Dudes, who cares about the dudely rest stops? We’re here, dudes!

Bowyer: See that I do.

Toadette: Let’s go.

They walk towards the castle, when suddenly…

???: HALT!!! Who goes there?!

Mario: Mario-a!

Boshi: Boshi, dude!

Pork Chop: Show yourself, you cowardly guard!

???: NO ONE calls the great Flavio COWARDLY!!!

Toadette: FLAVIO?!

Bowyer: FLAVIO?!

Mario: FUNNY BUNNY?!

Boshi: FLAVIO DUDE?!

Pork Chop: Who’s Flavio?

Flavio steps out of the shadows.

Flavio: Ah, ‘tis you, ya horrible cads!

Toadette: Uh…

Flavio: We shall fight to the finish, I say!

Bowyer: No.

Bowyer tranquilizes Flavio with a Flunkie.

Pork Chop: Nice job, man.

Mario: LA LA LAND!!!

Mario runs inside the castle.

Toadette: Ladies first!

Toadette runs after Mario.

Bowyer: Wait up you must!

Bowyer runs in.

Pork Chop: HEY, WAIT FOR ME!!!

Pork Chop runs after them.

Boshi: DUDES, WAIT!!!

Boshi runs in. Flavio is suddenly able to move.

Flavio: … What happened?

In the castle…

Toadette: So… which way do we go?

Boshi: How should I know, dudette?

Pork Chop: WHAT?! I thought you could guide us!

Bowyer: More annoying than Flavio you are!

Boshi: Sorry, dudes.

Toadette: Who votes we go down the easy hallway with the pink carpet?

Toadette raises a hand. Crickets chirp.

Toadette: And who votes we go down the sinister hallway with the bats hanging from the ceiling?

Everyone but Toadette raises a hand.

Toadette: Morons.

They begin walking down the sinister hallway.

Bowyer: Creepy this is.

Pork Chop: Hey, look, a spider!

Toadette, Bowyer, Boshi, and Mario: AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Pork Chop: Never mind. It’s a tarantula.

Toadette, Bowyer, Boshi, and Mario: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

They run down the hallway, screaming. Pork Chop slowly follows.

Later…

They end up in a large room with coffins.

Boshi: How strange, dudes.

Toadette: This is really a puzzler.

Suddenly, a coffin door creaks open.

All: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

They jump behind coffins to hide. A woman Toad comes out of the coffin.

Jolene: Huh? Who’s there?

They peek out from behind the coffins.

Pork Chop: Who are you?

Jolene: Hey, little Yoshi! I’m Jolene!

Toadette, Bowyer, Boshi, and Mario come out from behind the coffins.

Toadette: Hey! You’re the manager of the Glitz Pit!

Jolene: Yes. Bowser kidnapped me and stuck me in that coffin there.

Bowyer: Why?

Jolene: I think he found me cute!

Boshi and Mario begin rolling on the floor, laughing. Jolene’s eyes turn fiery, and Toadette, Bowyer, and Pork Chop back off. Jolene begins beating on Boshi and Mario.

Later…

Boshi’s sunglasses are broken, and Mario has a black eye.

Toadette: Yikes.

Bowyer: Strong she is.

Pork Chop: Wow. Just wow.

Jolene: So, what brings you to this castle?

Toadette fills her in on their adventures.

Jolene: So the Queen of Shadows has been released.

Toadette: We could use someone with your strength on our team.

Bowyer: Yes! Join us you must!

Jolene: How can I say no?

Pork Chop: Yay!

Boshi: *groan* Oh… great… dude…

Mario: Hee…hee… I got-a… it…

Jolene slings Mario and Boshi over her shoulders. Toadette, Bowyer, and Pork Chop follow her out of the room. They soon come to Bowser’s throne room, where they see Bowser on his throne.

Bowser: Jolene! How did you get out of your coffin?!

Mario: I’m-a Mario!

Bowser: MARIO?! What are you doing- HEY!!! You’re that BOW CREATURE I fought back in Rose Town!

Bowyer: Me that was!

Bowser: And YOU’RE that TOADETTE! YOU gave Mario all those cool badges and showed him how to use them!

Toadette: Well, um, er…

Bowser: GUARDS!!!

A whole bunch of Koopatrols run into the room.

Bowser: ATTACK!!!

The Koopatrols jump at them, and a battle begins. Toadette flings her pigtails around and knocks out a couple. Bowyer shoots at them with his arrows. Jolene knocks out a whole bunch with her punches. Pork Chop ground pounds them. Mario dances around the room kicking them, and Boshi slaps them. Soon, all the Koopatrols are defeated.

Bowser: My Koopatrols! GRRR!!!

Toadette: We haven’t come to fight you, Bowser! We need a spaceship!

Bowser: A spaceship? Really?

Bowyer: Yes. Have one you must!

Pork Chop: C’mon, we really need one, Koopa dude!

Jolene: Give one to us, or we will knock you out!

Bowser: Hmmph! Well, I wouldn’t, but considering I’m terrified of you, I will.

Boshi: Good, dude.

Mario: LALALALA!!!

Jolene: Where is it?

Bowser: Right… HERE!!! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!

Bowser’s throne lifts off the ground and goes through the roof, leaving a big hole in the ground.

Toadette: Is this some kind of trick?

Pork Chop: Hmm…

Suddenly, Mecha Bowser rises out of the hole, with the seven Koopalings on top of it.

Lemmy: You’ll never-

Iggy: Get the spaceship!

Ludwig: ATTACK!

Wendy: Mwahahaha!

The Koopalings jump inside Mecha-Bowser, and it swings a punch at Toadette.

Toadette: Uh oh…

Toadette is knocked to the back of the room. The others get into fighting position.

Boshi: Get ready to fight, dudes and dudettes!

They begin battling. Mecha-Bowser tries to breath fire on Bowyer, but he dodges and shoots an arrow at Mecha. It bounces right off.

Bowyer: What?!

Larry: Nothing can stop Mecha-Bowser!

Morton: Give up, give up, give up, give up!

Mecha knocks Bowyer away, and then tries to jump on Jolene. She gets away with amazing speed, and then swings a punch at Mecha’s head. She bounces off, and is knocked into a wall. Pork Chop then tries ground-pounding Mecha’s head, but is flattened.

Roy: Why don’t ya dorks give up now?!

Wendy: Nothing can stop us!

Boshi: What do we do, Mario dude?!

Mario: Me going to burp-a!

Boshi: Huh, dude?

Mario makes a HUGE burp, and a rocket flies out of his mouth and at Mecha-Bowser.

Iggy: What in the-

Lemmy: World?!

Wendy: Brace yourselves!

Ludwig: HELP!

The rocket makes impact, and Mecha-Bowser blows up. The Koopalings fly all over the room.

Toadette: *pant* Wow, Mario, your stupidity finally came in handy!

Mario: FUNNY BUNNY!!!

Boshi: *sigh*

Jolene: All right, Koopalings! The rocket! NOW!!!

Wendy: All right, all right! Just don’t kill us!

Wendy presses a button on the wall and it opens up, revealing a rocket.

Ludwig: What do you need the rocket for, anyway?

Roy: Yeah, what gives?

Pork Chop: That Shadow Queen was released!

Larry: Who?

Jolene fills them in on the Shadow Queen’s return, the death of the Shadow Sirens, the journey to Keyhaul Key, the trap at Creepy Steeple, etcetera.

Iggy: Wow. That’s-

Lemmy: A lot of bad things!

Ludwig: Really.

Mario: MUMMY!

Wendy: And Mario’s still his stupid self!

Toadette: So you see, we need this rocket so that we can get to Earth, which has Grodus’s Magic Cure Shop. With that, we can cure the Shadow Sirens AND rescue Luigi! And then we can whup the Shadow Queen!

Wendy: I see…

Morton: That’s weird, horrible, fantastic- MMPH!

Iggy: It is our duty-

Lemmy: To stop this queen!

Wendy: What they’re trying to say is that we really want to come with you.

Jolene: Three more helpers?

Boshi: Sure, dudes and dudette, come along! We need all the dudely help we can get!

Bowyer: Right Boshi is for once.

Iggy, Lemmy, and Wendy: Yay!

Roy: We’ll take care of things for ya 'til you get back!

Ludwig: We certainly will!

Morton: MMPH!!!

Larry: See ya, guys!

Wendy, Iggy, Lemmy, Toadette, Bowyer, Jolene, Boshi, Mario, and Pork Chop pile into the ship.

Iggy: Bye-

Lemmy: Siblings!

Pork Chop: See ya! Wouldn’t want to be ya!

Jolene: Twelve seconds until liftoff.

Toadette: Bye, Koopas!

Wendy: Later, losers!

Bowyer: Be back soon we will try to be!

Jolene: Five seconds…

Mario: Byebye, birdie!

Boshi: See you, dudes!

Jolene: One second!

Roy, Larry, and Ludwig: SEE YAS!

Morton: MMPH!!!

Jolene: We have liftoff!

Read on!


 
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