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|The Camera|
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Syrup sits on the deck of the S.S. Teacup, watching the night sky in hopes of gaining inspiration for a plan to defeat Mario once and for all.
“All right, I don’t have Kamek for help anymore since he had to go back to Dark Land to do some stuff for Bowser, but that’s no problem. After all, I came closest when I worked alone. But what am I going to do to defeat that blasted plumber? Maybe I should try looking over that catalogue and see if I can find any ideas based on stuff it’s selling.”
Syrup reaches to her left and grabs a thick magazine. She opens to a random page, a page filled with children’s books to be exact. Upon seeing a certain item there she smiles gleefully.
Syrup walks into a small store in Dark Land that sells magical items. She walks up to the counter, which is being run by a Dry Bones wearing a robe similar to that of a Magikoopa.
“Can I help you with something?” asks the Dry Bones slowly. “We don’t get many humans around here.”
“I was just looking for something. See, I am trying to takeout Mario, and I came up with a brilliant plan. See, I was looking through a catalogue and came across some kid’s book and it gave me an idea. You wouldn’t happen to have a magical camera that can make bad things happen to people after a picture is taken with it, do you?”
“Sorry, we just sold out of those.”
Syrup sighs and turns to leave, but then the Dry Bones rasps out, “But I could special order you one. Won’t be cheap, though.”
Syrup merely laughs before asking, “How much?”
A few days later, Mario and Luigi find themselves at home, watching TV.
“I-a wonder,” Mario says to his brother suddenly, “why that-a woman’s been-a trying to kill-a me lately.”
“Who knows-a?” replies Luigi. “Perhaps she’s-a trying to join some club-a or something.”
“Why would she-a join a Clubba?”
It is then that the two Brothers’ door is kicked upon and in barges Captain Syrup. She is carrying one of them self-developing cameras by a rope around her neck.
“Mario… Luigi… Say cheese!”
Syrup raises the camera and snaps a picture of the two startled Brothers before launching a flying kick at Mario in the gut. The picture then develops, coming out to show a picture of Mario flying through the air and Luigi being knocked against the wall.
"Excellent!" Syrup yells as she launches into another kick on Luigi, causing the plumber to go back-first into a nearby wall. As Luigi sits, dazed, Syrup jumps once more and kicks Mario into the air. The scene's identical to the picture.
"This thing does work!" Syrup says menacingly as she snaps another picture of the taller Brother. This one shows a board falling in from the ceiling and landing on Luigi's feet.
As Syrup jumps at Mario and begins to throw numerous punches toward the plumber, she ends up knocking him into the wall and the punches there cause the small house to shake a little. Luigi pulls himself up from the ground just in time for a loose board hanging overhead to fall down and land... right on his feet.
"YOW!!!"
The taller plumber's yell startles Syrup, who turns toward him to see what happened. Upon seeing this, the pirate turns back to Mario, only to be caught with a fist in the face and knocked backwards. Mario walks toward Syrup, who is backing away. He looks ready to strike.
"You wouldn't hurt a girl, would ya?" Syrup says in a somewhat-flirtatious tone.
"I guess-a not..."
"Good. Now then, I'll just be leav- Say cheese!"
Syrup snaps another picture of the plumber and then kicks him in the stomach back against the wall. She then resumes a standing position and looks at the latest picture. It shows her with Mario above her shoulders on top of his roof, looking ready to toss the plumber off.
"Now we know what'll become of him... Hehe."
The captain looks up to see Luigi charging her. Syrup dodges a few punches and then stomps on his feet before poking him in the side of the neck. Luigi thrusts his hand over the spot she poked before falling over.
"What'd you-a do to him-a?!" Mario asks while standing.
"Relax, he's fine," Syrup answers. "I just pressed a pressure point to make sure he'd take a little nap while we finish this."
Mario, furious, tackles Syrup through the door of the house and to the ground outside. There, he punches her a few times before Syrup manages to poke him in the eyes, causing the plumber to get off, holding his hands over his eyes for a second before turning attention back to Syrup. He finds that she is climbing up his ladder onto the roof of his house. Mario follows up, and as soon as he reaches the top Syrup hits him with the camera.
Syrup then picks Mario up and raises him high above her head, walking toward the side of the structure.
"Well, Mario, it's been fun."
Mario, out of desperation, grabs onto the camera and begins pulling on it, choking Syrup, and holds on until he sees a light flash on it and hears a clicking sound. Syrup, noticing this as well, goes to thrust Mario off. However, at the last minute Mario slides off behind her and kicks the pirate off! She lands face-first on the ground and moans painfully. The plumber jumps down and asks, "Are you-a done now?"
Syrup replies by simply saying, "Uhg..."
"I-a take that as a yes," Mario says as he takes the camera. He chuckles, looking at the picture that has developed, and then takes the camera inside to destroy it.
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|The Epilogue|
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"And then I tried to kill him in his dreams but a large pyramid made of cheese melted and nearly killed me. And finally I bought a cursed camera and used it to nearly beat them, but just as I was about to finish Mario he used it to take my picture, causing me to fall off of a house," Syrup explains to Bowser and the other members of the NAVAL. "And so, I was wrong and you all were right. He is unbeatable!"
The members of the NAVAL look silent for a minute until the door suddenly flies open and in walks Chef Torte carrying a large white box. He sets it on a concession table sitting just in front of the podium at which Syrup is talking and then opens it.
"No... NO!!!" Syrup yells just before fainting.
"Vhat's vith heir?" asks Chef Torte as he pulls a chip from one corner of the box and dunks it into the cheese on the other side.
The other members of the group laugh in a cheesy Super Mario Bros. Super Show-esque way before Bowser says, "All right, the next order of business is Wario!"
The End
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