One summer morning, Ludwig von Koopa was working on the final touches of his newest invention.
"Aha!" he exclaimed. "I'm finished! My siblings will get a kick out of this."
He chuckled evilly to himself, then went outside to find a victim. After walking out of his room, he witnessed his brother Morton coming out of the bathroom.
"Morton!" he called out. "Thank you for trying out my latest invention..."
"Wait," Morton explained, "I never agreed to this..."
"Nonsense!" Ludwig interrupted. "I think you'd be willing to test this one out."
"It can't be that bad, I guess," Morton thought to himself. At times, Ludwig's laboratory gave Morton the creeps.
When he came out with his invention, Morton wasn't that impressed. "Here it is!" Ludwig said, holding what appeared to be an ordinary can of soda pop.
"It's a soda can."
"Oh, but it's not just any soda can..." Ludwig emphasized.
"My mom would have wanted me to become a lawyer..." Morton thought. "What's it called, anyway?" he asked his older brother.
"Invisi-Cola."
"So, it makes you disappear?"
"Say no more!"
"You know, I think I may try this out." Morton took the can.
"Thanks, Morton! You won't regret it!"
"I know just who to try this on..." Morton smiled mischievously. He went over to Wendy's room and knocked on the door.
"Who is it?!" she yelled.
Morton could tell Wendy wasn't a morning Koopa, "Wendy, my favorite sister-"
Upon hearing those words, she immediately opened the door and began shouting at him.
"Number one: I'm your only sister. Number two: I hate you. Number three-"
"Woah! I take it, you don't even appreciate anything I do?"
"Not even the time you taped your big mouth shut."
"How about a soda and everything's forgiven?" Morton handed her the can.
"Is it diet?" Wendy asked. "I can't stand diet."
"No, but you'll be nothing once you're finished!" He left, chuckling to himself.
"I was adopted, I know it," she said, opening the can and chugging it down. Once she was finished, there was a small POOF and she disappeared!
"Hey! W-where am I?" She ran frantically into her bedroom and looked in the mirror.
"That idiot!" she gasped. "He made me disappear! I'll kill him!" She sat on her bed and tried to calm herself down. "Okay, Wendy, pull yourself together. You can make it through this..."
"What was that awful scream I just heard?" Ludwig moaned to himself in his laboratory.
"Oh, that would be Wendy finishing off the Invisi-Cola." Morton said, entering the room.
Ludwig's jaw dropped. "Wait a minute... You mean to tell me you made our sister vanish into thin air?!"
"Would I lie to you?"
"That can had enough formula to make her invisible for forty years!"
"Well, it's not like she really mattered."
"Now what am I going to do?" Ludwig yelled, distraught.
"Invent a soda that makes her reappear?" Morton asked.
"Hey, why didn't I think of that?" He suddenly beamed.
"Good one, Professor Brainard," Morton thought sarcastically.
Meanwhile, Iggy was getting ready to sit down and watch TV in the castle den. "Hurry up, Lem! You Can't Do That On Television's almost on!" he called.
And then, CLICK! The TV suddenly turned itself off.
"What the?!" Iggy was surprised. He went over and turned the knob. "There we go."
But, again, the TV turned off.
"Hey! What gives?!" he exclaimed, turning it on again. After a few seconds, the TV seemed to be changing channels by itself. This began to amaze and scare him at the same time.
"Lemmy! Come quick!" he yelled.
"What is it?" his brother asked while he came into the room.
"The TV's possessed!"
"Cool!"
"Not cool!" Iggy corrected. "Look! It's changing channels on its own!"
"Hang on." Lemmy walked up to the TV. "Let me fix thi-"
Then, a strong force caused Lemmy to hold his gut in pain.
"Now look what you did! You gave it an attitude!" Iggy shouted.
"My stomach..." Lemmy groaned.
Meanwhile in Ludwig's laboratory, Morton and Ludwig were preparing another soda pop formula to try to get Wendy back to her own self.
"Quick! Get me the Erythorbic Acid!" Ludwig commanded.
"Right here, Ludwig."
"There's not a minute to waste! We have to get the formula ready before someone-"
Just then they both heard Lemmy and Iggy scream from downstairs.
"-finds out," Ludwig finished his sentence.
Lemmy and Iggy were hiding in their shells while Wendy walked out of the room thinking to herself, "That was fun! Now, who should I pick on next…?"
A short while later, they both came into the laboratory simultaneously screaming, "Ludwig! Morton! Help! We're scared! Please! There's a ghost in our room!"
"All right! ALL RIGHT!!" Ludwig yelled, "Let us clear up a few things."
"This castle isn't haunted." Morton explained. "We made Wendy disappear."
There was a long, unusual pause.
"Are you sure?" Lemmy asked.
"Hey, I didn't believe it at first..." Morton started to ramble.
"Did Einstein have this happen to him?" Ludwig thought.
Meanwhile, Larry was walking casually down the hall.
"Hey, Larry," Wendy called to him. "Could you do me a favor?" She didn't have to hide from him.
"Sure, Wendy, what?"
"Get me a sundae."
Larry began to look around the hallway. "Where are you, anyway?"
"THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT!" Wendy screamed. "JUST MAKE ME THE SUNDAE!"
"Patience, patience..." he whispered to himself. He almost thought he'd gone deaf for a moment.
About a few minutes later, Larry was finished making the ice cream sundae. "Let me bring this up..."
Then, it seemed as if Larry's eyes were deceiving him. The sundae began to eat itself! "Hey, what? It's disappearing?!" he exclaimed.
"Where's my sundae?" Wendy asked in her nice girl voice.
He gulped. "Uh, I ate it?"
"You buffoon!" she yelled. "You'll pay for that!"
"No! Please!" he begged before something grabbed his hand.
"Stop hitting yourself!" came Wendy's voice, and Larry got punched.
"Ouch!" he cried. "What hit me?"
"Stop hitting yourself!"
"Hey! Have mercy!"
Lemmy, Iggy, Morton, and Ludwig were listening to the whole thing from up in the laboratory.
"This is bad," Lemmy said.
"Well, I'm doing the best I can…" Ludwig spoke.
"This is your fault, Ludwig," Morton blamed him.
"Oh, come on!" he retorted. "You gave the drink to her!"
"Guys, please," Iggy tried to break it up. "This isn't going to solve anything."
"I'll wring your neck until it looks like a popsicle!" Morton shot back.
Iggy took a couple of steps back.
Meanwhile, outside the castle, Wendy was taking a walk.
"I never knew
being invisible could be this much fun..." she said to herself. Then, an
idea popped up. "Maybe I'll go shake things up in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Every Koopa knows revenge is a dish best eaten steaming hot..."
Larry stayed in the kitchen, nursing his bruises with ice packs. He began to worry even more once Roy came inside for a snack.
"What did you do to yourself?!" Roy noticed him.
"I don't know," Larry moaned. "I heard Wendy yelling at me but I didn't see anybody."
"You've been watching Poltergeist again, haven't you?"
"No, this is serious!" Larry yelled. "Do you think it had to do with why Ludwig has been in his laboratory for so long?"
Roy shrugged. "I heard he was working on a potion that makes you invulnerable, but nothing of this sort."
"Hey, wait." Larry paused to think. "Are you sure it wasn't invisibility?"
Roy was about to say something when Bowser walked up behind him.
"Morning, boys, have you seen-" Bowser said, but then stopped dead in his tracks when he saw a black and blue Larry. He then gave Roy his best "What have you done now?" look.
"Hey, w-wait!" Roy tried to explain. "I-it wasn't me! I swear!"
"He's right! He didn't do it!" Larry backed him up.
"Come with me, boy," Bowser growled, dragging Roy by the arm to the dungeon. Larry followed quietly behind them.
"Would you mind explaining yourself?" Bowser asked him in a gruff voice.
"Please, King Dad," Roy begged, "I'm being honest!"
"Son, if you keep beating the stuffing out of your siblings, you won't be able to rule the world without their help!"
"But I-"
"No 'buts', young man! March in there!" He pointed inside the dungeon.
Roy put his head down and walked in the cell. Bowser slammed the door behind him, then turned around to find Larry.
"What are you doing down here?!" Bowser demanded to know.
"He didn't have anything to do with this," Larry tried to set things straight.
"Then who?"
"Roy did tell me that Ludwig was inventing an invisibility potion..."
"And?"
"I bet Wendy drank it and then beat me up."
"Are you sure?"
"I believe so."
Meanwhile, somewhere in Giant Land, Wendy decided to have a little fun. She spotted two Sledge Bros. and a warp pipe not too far from them. Wendy peeked inside the pipe to find a huge, sleeping Piranha Plant.
"I wonder how dumb these Sledge Bros. can be..." She chuckled to herself.
"You rock, dude!" one of the Sledge Bros. exclaimed.
"No, you rock!" the other one said. "Headbutt!"
They did so and laughed stupidly.
Wendy hid behind the warp pipe and began to yell, "Augh! Help me! Please!"
"What was that?" the first one asked.
"I dunno," the second one replied.
"Help!" she shouted again. "It's got me!"
"I'm coming!"
"No, I'm coming!"
"I'll save you!"
"Not if I can save you first!"
"It's gonna eat me!" Wendy yelped.
The Sledge Bros. wandered over to the warp pipe and looked inside.
"She's probably stuck in there," one of them laughed.
"HELLOOOO!!!" the other one shouted inside. Upon hearing this, the Piranha Plant instantly woke up and licked its lips.
"Save me!" Wendy screamed once more.
"Let's go."
"I'm going first!"
"No, I am!"
While the Bros. argued, the Piranha Plant poked its head out of the pipe and began snapping its jaws.
"I'm in here!" Wendy yelled, trying to contain her laughter.
"Don't worry! Here we-"
The Piranha Plant swallowed them whole and retreated back inside its pipe.
"Where'd she go?!"
"Dude, I think we've been gypped."
"What?! You mean there wasn't a damsel in distress?
"I guess so."
"You idiot!"
"Not cool, bro."
"You're not cool!"
"You're uncooler!"
Wendy was listening to the argument from outside the warp pipe. "Losers," she snickered, walking away.
Back at Bowser's
Castle, Ludwig and Morton had finished creating their new soda
formula when...
"KIDS! COME DOWN HERE IMMEDIATELY!" yelled an angry Bowser from downstairs, shaking up everything in the lab.
"Oh nein," Ludwig frowned. "He found out."
They both came down into the dungeon along with the rest of the Koopaling boys. Bowser had previously unlocked the cell Roy was in.
"Where's my little girl?" Bowser looked around the room.
"How am I going to explain this?" Ludwig thought, distressed. "He's going to kill me!"
"Hey, uh, did you check the bathroom?" he then blurted out, avoiding trouble.
"Larry told me a certain someone made her magically disappear!" Bowser added.
Ludwig gulped.
"So, this was why the TV was acting funny," Iggy said.
"Oh great, Nerd Boy broke the TV."
"I did not!" Iggy shouted. "Remember when you hurled your dumbbell at our last one?"
Roy stepped forward, cracking his knuckles, but Bowser stopped him. "That's enough! Both of you!"
"Hey, that reminds me..." Morton said
Upon hearing this,
Ludwig became so nervous he began to nibble on a bar of
chocolate to
try to calm himself.
"I was with..."
"He did it!" Ludwig yelled suddenly, pointing at him.
"Did what?" Morton snapped. "All I did was give her the can! You invented it!"
"Well, that's not my problem, now is it?! I didn't-"
"SILENCE!" hollered Bowser. "Ludwig, Morton, stay here. Everyone else to your rooms, now!"
Larry, Iggy, Roy, and Lemmy marched off groaning.
"King Dad! It was an accident! I never meant to do anything wrong!" pleaded Ludwig.
"In fact, we have something that will bring her back to normal!" Morton got out the can.
"Hey, thanks! I love diet!" Bowser took the can and was about to open it.
"NOOOOOOOO!!!" Ludwig screamed, snatching it away from him. "That isn't for you!"
"Hey, you don't see me taking away your food!" Bowser yelled back.
"But, this is different!" Morton said. "We need that so we can make Wendy reappear."
"Are you sure this is going to work?" Bowser asked worriedly.
"The invisibility soda worked just fine." Morton then pointed to his brother, "Ask him."
"Yes, but did I want Wendy out of my sight?"
"How was I supposed to know that she'd be gone for forty years?!"
"BOYS!" Bowser roared again. "I don't care who's responsible! Just bring her back here or the dungeon for both of you!"
"Yes, sir!" Ludwig and Morton then sped off.