Chapter 4: A Fusion of Confusion
Ludwig stared at his father with his usual grin, then entered the pod, though for what seemed the first time in his life, Roy was paralyzed with fear. He was the tough one, but... what could happen? Ludwig had told him something about brains. He had a stronger intuition than everyone else, even though he couldn't apply logic to any situation. His gut feeling said this would be horribly wrong, but he applied logic to the fact that Bowser would thoroughly mutilate him if he didn't enter the machine. And so he did.
The pods glowed once again. Everything else became pitch blackness as the tension of the moment increased. The screen became normal again once Iggy took a welding helmet off of the camera lens. The tube on the side Ludwig was in began to shake weakly. Roy's side of the tube shook like mad and received several dents from Roy's struggles. In the end, Larry and Iggy opened both sides of the door hesitantly, like they were middle school students on their first frog dissection. Gasps ensued.
"It's crazy!"
"It's huge..."
"It's pink!"
In the doorway stood Roydwig, a good foot taller than Bowser, extremely muscular, possessing wild black hair, and most notably, pink. The disastrous monster had under its lip white daggers that came out a good three inches (7.18 centimeters for those not in America). Despite the shades, there was a sick feeling among anyone that looked at it that the eyes were certainly bloodshot. Though it possessed Ludwig's hair, the monster's face was more like a fully-grown Koopa such as Bowser. However, despite being terrifying, the beast kept a straight back and a smirk.
"You see, Family? Ludwig's machine is clearly ingenious. I have the intelligence of him and the strength of Roy, got it?"
That was it for Lemmy. "Why are you speaking in third person?"
"I'm the both of them. It is only reasonable to allocate my body's halves by their names, and call the sum by a combination. How does Roydwig sound, big-little twerp brother?"
Morton glared. He wouldn't tolerate it, but this thing was scarier than Roy and Ludwig combined. But it was them combined. He even knew not to talk at the moment. He would only set his mutant brother off. Larry, however, thought otherwise. "Roy... Ludwig... Roydwig, get back into the @$%^ machine. I want to win, but not like this. It doesn't feel right."
He was promptly smacked directly in a pressure point. He stayed down. "There is no way to win other than this, see? We would've won by now. I'll maul the Marios, and if needed, I'll pummel the princess. We'll rule Plit."
Bowser walked up to his hybridized child. "For hitting your brother, you're paying taxes, Roydwig! Yeah, that's not going to catch on. How about Luddy? Yeah, it suits you. Lu-"
"Fine, I'll pay taxes, but I am Roydwig, nothing else. Now, Family, the princess is having a party. Shall we go?" interrupted Roydwig.
Iggy frowned, looking at the monster. "We shall," he said in place of Bowser.
Subchapter 1: Recipe for a party
Peach was sitting in her throne reading "Recipe for a Party". She smiled as she worked through one of several checklists in the back of the book.
"Stupid invitation to make people wonder? Oh, right, I turned that one down and wrote normal letters.
“Make sure there are absolutely no defenses from catastrophic beasts? Check!
“Invite people less pretty than me so I look better? ... TOADSWORTH, WHAT'S DAISY'S ZIP CODE?!"
"Princess, it's too late to invite her to the party!"
"Aww. Vat of chocolate sitting under vent system? Check!
“Rearrange said vent system so that it's almost like a videogame dungeon? Check!
“Lots of decorations, mainly banners across ceiling? Check!
“Rolling carts for servants to move food to and from tables in party? Check!
“Pen so that I can put checks in the checklist? ... TOADSWORTH, WHAT'S HERRINGWAY'S ZIP CODE?!"
"There's a pen in the cup next to the paper!"
"Yay! I have everything I need!"
Chapter 5: Gambling, Infiltration, and More Infiltration
Luigi crawled in, panting. "Mario, the party doesn't start for an hour!"
Mario stared at him. "Luigi, it took you an hour to get here!"
Luigi looked around. "Oh," he said. "You want to gamble with some of these guys?"
"Luigi, that's not appropriate!" scolded Mario. Luigi looked at Mario's intelligence coin. Mario shrugged his shoulders and they started gambling with Chet Rippo, who took Mario into a well-hidden storage room.
"I call heads!" said Mario. Chet Rippo called tails.
Mario flipped the coin and it landed in Rippo's wing. He looked at it for a second, then flipped it over onto his other wing, revealing a pair of underwear. Mario frowned. "Aww, tails!" he mumbled. "How about again?" Rippo flipped the coin. It landed in his wing, then he looked at it for a second. Mario looked at it, too. "Aww, tails! I bet I can win at least once, tonight!"
Meanwhile, Toad was in his beach house.
Toad stood there in front of a mirror. He placed a ski hat over his cap. He put war-paint on his face. He was dressed in complete black. He was ready to infiltrate.
"Bam!" came Toad, creating his own onomatopoeia. He dashed expertly to Peach's castle, then leapt into the moat. His ski-hat was already soggy to a very uncomfortable point, but he swam until he reached a waterfall. Like a green-hatted boy with pointed ears and a sword, he took climbing equipment out of an apparently invisible, weightless inventory, then proceeded to climb the wall behind the fall. Water poured down on him, and it probably affected his climb, but he looked like an expert. He finally came into a cave full of diamonds and metal. He resisted the current with his pickaxe, then leapt over to a large diamond. He placed it into said invisible inventory.
With that, the mushroom backflipped onto another raised platform, then leapt to one with a corridor. He went through, then at a dead end he climbed up to the ceiling and came out into, you know it- Hazy Maze Cave. He dived into Dorry's (who would now be a random skeleton in the water due to being literally the only thing in the lake)) aquifer and front crawled his way to a hill. An elevator stood before the Mushroom, and he stepped on, escalating onto a higher floor of the cave. He entered a huge room with a hole. Small pebbles came from one part of the ceiling as if a monster was once dropping boulders until it ran out. Toad sped down the slanted aisle, went around the gaping hole, and entered a door. He made a gallant leap, then climbed up a short wall with his equipment. He saw sludge in the ceiling and climbed through it into Peach's castle.
"Augh, what's this icky paint-like goop? Wait, I've already had that line. Wait, I've already had THAT line, too! Curse that chef and his beating me to the punch..." Toad complained, brushing himself off. He dashed through the room's inconvenient arrangement of stairs, finding himself in Peach's partly-flooded basement. He went to a door. "Grah, locked!" he cursed, then stared at Peach's new vent system, entering... the Twilight Zone. Nah, I'm just kidding. But he entered someplace really unpleasant.
Meanwhile, Bowser and his family were in their airship.
Morton was too terrified to say "Are we there yet?" for the entire ride. The moment of truth was coming, but it just didn't feel right. Not this way. Larry (who was still unconscious) was right. This wasn't right. He kept to himself. He knew that if he went, an unknown force would cause Wendy to be taken out shortly after, then Iggy, then Lemmy, and finally, Bowser. He couldn't let it happen.
Lemmy, however, didn't have anything to lose. Iggy, his only real friend, was being a complete kiss-up to Roydwig. It was wrong. It was so sudden, too. Why was Iggy doing this? Had he really accepted this whole ordeal? Lemmy couldn't bear the thought. Roy and Ludwig were the biggest bullies. Morton... Morton was strong, too. He probably could've beaten Roy up if he were the same age. Iggy... He was smart, too. He would plan how to fix problems, and he would persevere through anything to get them fixed. Ludwig would just make some invention to fix it.
Lemmy's thoughts were broken when a Bob-omb was dropped onto the bridge of Peach's Castle. He couldn't let this happen. He hopped on his ball. He rolled over to Roydwig's cabin, then blasted open the door with his wand. For his trouble he got the claw of his younger-older brother straight in a pressure point on his leg. Lemmy fell off his ball and Roydwig sighed, kicking him into the corner. "You're pathetic, Lemmy. Weak, stupid... You're nothing. At least Iggy has more than one thought each day!"
As Roydwig left the room, Lemmy realized. That was it! He could use his daily thought to find a way out. He didn't know how that didn't count as that day's thought, but he didn't want to ponder it. No use wasting a thought. Suddenly, he realized it, and spoke his thought aloud. "It's impossible to do anything in this situation!"
Roydwig bodyslammed off of the airship and into the roof of Peach's castle. Iggy hopped in, and the other unhindered Koopalings followed him. Other airships landed. Bowser was dropping Bob-ombs on every possible escape route. "My boy... He's put us into full command!"
Chapter 6: Down and Out
Toad crawled through the vents, hearing the booms and crashes. He was already significantly in, though. Had the bomb-squad found out about him? Why in the world did they want to go after HIM anyways? He saw light coming from below and opened the area under him. He fell straight into a vat of chocolate and struggled to get out. When he did so, he plopped out, covered in chocolate and nearly unable to see. He crawled onto a food-cart, immediately taken by a servant Toad. Soon, Toad was on a tray of chocolate truffles. He was eaten by a Yoshi before he could move.
He looked around to find he was within an alternate dimension of sorts. An orange Shy Guy in front of him turned around. "Hiyah, newcomer! I'm the most recent guy to be eaten. If you look, there's a line of 100 guys here. Well, the first 100 things eaten by a Yoshi don't get made into eggs. After that, every guy eaten ends up moving the line. Got it?"
"Got it. Since it's a Yoshi, this should be quick."
"Oh, this Yoshi is trying to lose weight. I've been here five months," said the Shy Guy.
Toad buried his face in his hands. "Why me?"
Outside of the Yoshi, battle raged. Mario had lost all of his money to Chet Rippo, including the coin he was flipping, and Mario was accusing Chet Rippo of cheating, causing a brawl. And as for Bowser and his kids? In the ballroom, Roydwig and Iggy wreaked havoc on the citizens. Morton and Wendy were looking for escape routes, and Wendy actually swam across the moat. Unable to swim, Morton was forced to look for some other way to escape the chaos. Bowser saw Wendy's pink shell from overhead and threw Fly Guys out of a cage, thinking it was Peach. She was pulled into the castle.
Roydwig hadn't ended any lives yet, but nearly half the Toads, plus Luigi, were unconscious. Many stood in the moat, then ran back into the castle screaming, with no place to go. The Yoshi who ate Toad surrendered himself as a prisoner, and was promptly tied up by a Koopatrol. Iggy was throwing dishes at fleeing Toads. Once the room was sufficiently mauled, Roydwig and Iggy trounced up to the top floor, where the princess and Toadsworth sat. Toadsworth was thrown into a wall by Roydwig, and Iggy chased the pink princess around the room. He retracted into his shell and shot himself at her feet, toppling her over. Roydwig took her onto his shoulder and went to exit the castle. Iggy followed.
Meanwhile, Mario was brawling with Chet Rippo to get his coins back. Chet lowered Mario's maximum amount of health and his maximum amount of Flower Points, though significantly raising Mario's use for badges. Mario grabbed something out of a box. It was a Quake Hammer Badge. Mario pinned it onto his overalls, then smashed his trusty mallet into the floor of the room. Chet Rippo was flipped onto his back, revealing two webbed feet. Mario searched through the boxes frantically until he found a podiatrist’s license. Err... The Podiatrist License Badge. He pinned it onto himself, then went up to Chet Rippo's feet. He gave the worst massage in the history of the planet, and Chet fled for dear life.
Chet was stepped on by Roydwig, who paid no notice. He grabbed Morton with one arm, then Wendy, and exited the castle. He leapt over the moat, and Bowser came down in his airship. The other airships went in to get the KO'd Toads as prisoners.
"So," Roydwig began, "Iggy, when did you knock out Mario? I don't remember doing it."
Iggy paused. "I- I thought you did!" he murmured.
Roydwig roared as Iggy scampered out of the room as quickly as possible.
What will happen to Lemmy and Larry? Why is Bowser perfectly fine with Roydwig? Why is Iggy such a kissup to Roydwig? Will Toad get out of the Yoshi within the next 500 months? How is Chet Rippo relevant to this story at all? And Why is Roydwig so much more vicious than Ludwig or Roy? Will you find out these questions in the next installment? I don't know, just wait until the next installment!