Mario and Bowser have just left the castle and are on their journey to find the Ultimate Vegetable.
"So where does the map first instruct us to go?" asks Bowser.
"Let's have a look," says Mario. Mario pulls out the map. "According to this map we must first go through a cave located near Wart's Castle.”
The two turn their heads and see a large cave. "That must be it," says Bowser.
"Then let's go," says Mario.
The two begin walking.
"Hmm, Mario is a grasshopper," thinks Bowser. "Maybe this would be the prime opportunity to get rid of him. Nah, I need him to help me save my Koopalings."
Just then, two small figures appear on Bowser's shoulders. "Ah, who are you?" says Bowser.
"I'm the bad side of you," says a small Bowser with devil horns.
"And I'm the good side of you," says a small Bowser with a halo.
"Yeah, you got to kill Mario now," says Bad Bowser. "You'll never get a chance like this."
"No, you must not," says Good Bowser. "You teamed up with Mario, and can't betray him now."
"That goody two-shoes knows nothing," says Bad Bowser. "You know you want Mario gone."
"But then everyone would know you could only beat him when he was a grasshopper," says Good Bowser.
"A win is a win," says Bad Bowser.
"But he'll live with that guilt forever," says Good Bowser.
"You know nothing," says Bad Bowser.
"No, you know nothing," says Good Bowser.
"No, you know nothing," says Bad Bowser.
"No, you know nothing," says Good Bowser.
"N-" starts the Bad Bowser.
"Enough!" shouts Bowser. Bowser swats at the two figures, and they both disappear.
"Um, what's going on?" asks Mario.
"Huh?" says Bowser. "Oh, nothing. Woah, we're in the cave already?"
"Where have you been?" asks Mario.
"I honestly haven't a clue,” says Bowser. "Not a clue.”
"Well, stay focused," says Mario. "I've been studying this map thoroughly while you were day-dreaming, and figured out after we exit this cave, we need to go down the waterfall, and there should be a valley at the bottom where the Ultimate Vegetable lies."
"Sounds easy enough," says Bowser.
"You guys are done!" yells a voice.
Bowser and Mario jump and look through the darkness to see a giant figure. "Guh, who could that be?" says Mario.
"I don't know, but whoever it is needs to get on a diet even worse than Wart or I do," says Bowser.
The figure moves through the darkness, and a thin beam of light gets cast on the figure, revealing that the figure is Robirdo.
"Robirdo!" shouted Mario.
"You guys killed my master," says Robirdo. "Now I shall kill you!" Robirdo begins charging at the two.
"What do we do?" yells Bowser.
"When she spits eggs, catch them, and throw them at her," says Mario.
Robirdo opens her mouth, but instead of a giant egg coming out, a giant fireball comes out. "Ahh!" shouts Bowser. The fireball strikes Bowser, hurting him badly.
"Bowser!" yells Mario. Mario runs over to Bowser. "Are you okay?" asks Mario.
"D-d-d-duck!" yells Bowser.
Mario turns around to see another giant fireball inches from his face. He makes a quick duck and narrowly avoids the giant fireball.
"I'll be fine," says Bowser, as he pulls himself up. "What should we do now?"
"Run!" yells Mario. The two bear to the sides of the cave to avoid another giant fireball, then collapse into the middle and begin frantically running.
"Ugh, now being out of shape is really starting to hurt me," says Bowser.
"You can run but you can't hide," says Robirdo, who proceeds to spit out another fireball, only this time low at the ground. Mario and Bowser jump over the fireball and avoid it.
"That was too close," says Mario.
The two keep running until they reach a fork in the cave. "I don't remember this," says Bowser.
"Which way should we go?" asks Mario.
"Uh, this way," says Bowser, who begins heading down the left path. Mario follows behind him. The path is very curvy, and Mario and Bowser are constantly shifting from left to right to curve with the cave. Robirdo isn't as good at curving, and at each curve, is smashing into the walls.
"Hey, Robirdo is slowly falling behind us," says Bowser.
"Yeah, but the path can't be like this forever," says Mario. "Let's get as far ahead as we can here."
Mario and Bowser continue their swift movements, while Robirdo continues on her path of destruction and is still crashing into the walls. Robirdo continues to fall behind Mario and Bowser. Mario and Bowser turn a bend and come to a straightaway. "This is it," says Bowser.
"Let's just hope we've lost Robirdo enough," says Mario.
The two reach the end of the straightaway and come to a quick halt. "Ah!" yells Bowser.
"This can't be," says Mario.
Mario and Bowser are looking down to see that they've come to the end of the cave and that below is a giant waterfall, and they are on a steep cliff near it. They begin to hear a loud noise growing louder. "Robirdo is growing closer," says Bowser.
A second later, Robirdo comes to the straightaway. "Got you," says Robirdo.
"We're trapped," says Mario.
"Um… Quick, run to the sides of the cave," says Bowser.
"What?" says Mario.
"Just trust me!" yells Bowser.
Mario and Bowser split up and get to the sides of the cave, right as Robirdo reaches them. Robirdo rides right past them and begins to stop. However, she doesn't stop nearly quick enough, and falls right off the cliff. "No!" yells Robirdo.
Mario and Bowser run to the edge to see Robirdo fall into the water. A second later, they see a huge explosion. "We beat her," says Mario. "Nice thinking."
"Thanks," says Bowser. "That was too close."
"Yeah," says Mario.
"Wait a minute,” says Bowser. "Didn't you say that the Ultimate Vegetable was located in a valley down by a waterfall at the end of this cave?"
"Yeah," says Mario.
The two look down to see a valley at the way bottom of the waterfall. "That's it!" exclaimed Bowser.
"We've made it!" cheers Mario. Mario and Bowser high-five each other.
"Well, let's get down there," says Bowser.
"How are we going to do that?" asks Mario.
"It looks like there are small rocks that we can climb down," says Bowser.
"Is it safe?" asks Mario.
"It doesn't matter," says Bowser. "It's our only way down there. We have to take a risk."
Mario and Bowser slowly begin their
descent to the valley. Mario is descending first, with Bowser following.
However, when stepping on a rock, Bowser slips and falls down, knocking
Mario down with him.
"Ah!" the two of them scream. The two
of them land hard in the water, but climb their way out and end up lying
on the grass at the bottom of the waterfall.
"Bowser!" yells Mario.
"Sorry, I slipped," says Bowser.
"I sort of had a feeling that would happen," says Mario. "You're not the most coordinated person."
"I know," says Bowser. "I just need a quick rest here, I'm exhausted."
"I guess it can't hurt," says Mario. "After all, we're right here."
Mario lays down in the soft grass. Bowser walks over to the water and sticks his face in. A loud sucking noise is heard. It lasts for a couple of minutes.
"Save some for the fish," says Mario.
Bowser stops drinking. The lake he was drinking from is noticeably smaller. "That hit the spot," says Bowser. Bowser lies down next to Mario.
"So, you almost ready?" asks Mario.
"Yeah, just another minute," says Bowser.
Bowser and Mario sit for another minute.
"All right, now I'm ready," says Bowser.
"Well, let's go search this valley," says Mario.
Mario and Bowser begin walking through the valley in search of the Ultimate Vegetable. "So what do you think it'll look like?" asks Mario.
"My best guess would be some giant vegetable standing out from the rest of them," says Bowser.
"Like that one," says Mario, pointing to a giant vegetable over on the horizon.
"That looks like it might be it," says Bowser. "Let's go over to it."
Mario and Bowser walk in the direction of the giant vegetable they saw. When they are about halfway to it, they are stopped by a river. "How are we going to get over this river?" asks Mario.
"One second," says Bowser. Bowser walks away to a tree nearby.
"What in the world are you doing?" asks Mario.
Bowser wraps his arms around the tree trunk.
"Tree hugger!" teases Mario.
"Guh!" grunted Bowser. All of a sudden, Bowser rips the tree right out of the ground and throws it across the river so that it forms a bridge.
"Woah," says Mario.
"I told you that I'm not just fat," says Bowser. "I got muscle."
"Well, looks like we’ve got a way across now," says Mario. "Let's go."
Mario and Bowser cross over the "bridge" and are on the other side of the land. They are within yards of the giant vegetable they saw earlier. When they draw closer, they see a sign. The two approach it.
"It reads 'The Ultimate Vegetable'," says Mario.
"That means this is it!" exclaims Bowser.
"We've found it!" cheers Mario.
Their excitement is quickly halted once the two look up at the Ultimate Vegetable. "Uh, Mario, how are we going to move this?" asks Bowser.
The Ultimate Vegetable is towering a good thirty feet off the ground. "Um, lift it?" says Mario. Mario goes over to try to lift it, but fails miserably.
"This is too big," says Bowser.
"Who goes there?" calls a voice.
Mario and Bowser begin looking around. "Who said that?" says Mario.
A large figure descends from the skies and lands in front of Mario and Bowser. "That is one big Pidgit," says Bowser.
"I'm not a big Pidgit," says the figure. "I am the Pidgit Guardian. It is I who watches over the Ultimate Vegetable. What business do you two have with it?"
"We need it in order to be used in a formula that will return myself and the Koopalings to our normal forms," says Mario.
"And just who are you, Mr. Grasshopper?" asks the Pidgit Guardian.
"It's-a me, Mario," says Mario.
"Mario?" says the Pidgit Guardian. "You mean, the Mario?"
"Yup," replies Mario.
The Pidgit Guardian drops down and begins bowing to Mario. "Mario, oh Mario, thank you, thank you so much," says the Pidgit Guardian.
"For what?" asks Mario.
"Killing Master Wart," says the Pidgit Guardian. "You see, not everyone in Sub-con likes Wart. The people in this valley and the area around it don’t like Wart at all. However, the other 98 percent of Sub-con does. The people in this valley like to live peacefully, and don't like having to fight off intruders. I must thank you for killing him."
"I helped too!" shouts Bowser.
"Who are you?" asks the Pidgit Guardian.
"Bowser, King of the Koopas," says Bowser.
"Doesn't ring a bell," says the Pidgit Guardian. "Enough of this foolishness now. Didn't you two mention that you need the Ultimate Vegetable for something?"
"Yes," says Mario. "I need it to make me human again."
"And to make my Koopalings Koopa again," says Bowser.
"Well, I'd love to give you this to use for a little, but it's my duty, and I can't," says the Pidgit Guardian.
"Why not?" asks Mario.
"In order to rent the Ultimate Vegetable for a day, you need to catch a Gold Trouter," says the Pidgit Guardian. "You must fish for them in this river. If you want fishing supplies, they're all over in that bucket conveniently located to your left."
Mario and Bowser turn to their left but see nothing. "Wait, I mean right," says the Pidgit Guardian.
Mario and Bowser turn to their right and see fishing supplies.
"Now good luck," says the Pidgit Guardian.
Mario and Bowser take the supplies and get to the river shores. "This shouldn't be hard," says Bowser. "I'm an expert fisherman!"
"Really?" says Mario.
"Yeah," says Bowser. "How do you think I get my Cheep Cheep to eat?"
"You eat Cheep Cheep?" says Mario. "Sounds disgusting."
"You should really try it sometime," says Bowser. "Maybe after this adventure you can come over to my place for some Cheep Cheep."
"Uh… Sure… Why not," says Mario.
"Nice!" says Bowser. "I'm finally going to have company for once!"
"As nice as that sounds, I think we really ought to start fishing," says Mario.
Mario and Bowser begin fishing. Within seconds, Bowser has already caught a Trouter. "Dang, this one isn't gold," says Bowser.
"Keep trying," says Mario.
Bowser immediately catches three more, but none are gold. The same thing continues on for about thirty minutes. Bowser has caught about forty Trouter, none golden, and Mario has yet to catch any Trouter.
"Wow, how are you so good?" asks Mario.
"I fish for Cheep Cheep a lot," says Bowser. “Maybe before we eat the Cheep Cheep we can catch them."
"Um… Ok," says Mario.
The two get back to fishing. After an hour and still no golden Trouter for Bowser or Trouter period for Mario, Bowser begins to get frustrated, having just reeled in his 70th regular Trouter.
"You know what?" says Bowser. "Take this!" In a fit of rage, Bowser breathes fire on the Trouter, burning it to a golden crisp. "There, this better be good enough for that bird-head," says Bowser.
Mario and Bowser walk back over the Pidgit Guardian. "Did you catch one?" asks the Pidgit Guardian.
Bowser shows him the fish.
"You did!" exclaims the Pidgit Guardian. The Pidgit Guardian takes the fish. "You may now have the Ultimate Vegetable," says the Pidgit Guardian. "In order to move it, just say the magic word, and it will follow you to its destination. Say 'Bowsadafatty' to get it to move, and say 'loosumwait' to get it to stop following you. Got it?"
Mario and Bowser nod their heads.
"Then that is all," says the Pidgit Guardian. "I will now be off." The Pidgit Guardian leaves.
"Bowsadaffatty," says Bowser. "That sounds like it's trying to tell me something."
"Same with 'loosumwait'," says Mario.
"Well, I'll work on cracking the code later," says Bowser. "Let's just do this thing. Bowsadafatty!"
The Ultimate Vegetable lifts off the ground and begins to glow.
"So now we just walk back to the lab?" asks Mario.
"I believe so," says Bowser.
Mario and Bowser walk back to the lab with the Ultimate Vegetable following behind them. When they get to the lab, they say the word to make it stop. "Loosumwait," says Mario. The Ultimate Vegetable drops straight to the ground, right in front of the Shy Guy scientists.
"You got it!" exclaims a scientist. "Now we can make the potion to get everyone back to their normal forms. We should have it in a few minutes."
The Shy Guy scientists begin to work vigorously, creating a potion to get everyone back to their normal forms. After several minutes, they have finished. "We finished!" exclaims a Shy Guy scientist, brandishing a potion high in the air.
"Give me that," says Mario. Mario grabs the potion. "Do I drink it?" asks Mario.
"Just dump it on yourself," says the Shy Guy scientist.
Mario dumps a bit of the potion on him. He begins to glow. After a few seconds, the glowing stops, and he is back in his normal form. "It's-a me!" says Mario, as he looks at himself in a mirror. "It's good to be me!"
"Now let's go get my Koopalings back," says Bowser.
Mario and Bowser head into Wart's room, where Peach and the Koopalings are waiting. "Mario, you're back!" cheers Peach. Peach runs over and hugs Mario.
"And here you go," says Mario, handing the potion to Bowser.
"Thanks," says Bowser. Bowser dumps the potion on each of the Koopalings. They begin to glow, and after a few seconds, they're back in their normal forms.
"I’m Koopa again!" says Lemmy.
"We all are," concludes Ludwig.
"Well, looks like everything is good," says Mario.
"I got to hand it to you, you make one great partner," says Bowser.
"I can say the same about you," says Mario.
"This calls for a celebration!" exclaims Bowser. "Cheep Cheep at my place! You're all invited. Even you, Larry."
Everyone begins to laugh.
"How are we going to get back?" asks Mario.
"We'll take one of Wart's crummy ships," says Bowser.
Mario, Bowser, Peach, and the Koopalings load into one of Wart's ships, and they all begin to head home. After they reach home, they're all seated in Bowser's dining room. Bowser comes around with a giant plate. "I made plenty of Cheep Cheep," says Bowser.
"Yummy!" exclaims all the Koopalings.
"Enjoy!" says Bowser.
Bowser places two giant Cheep Cheep on everyone's plate.
"Uh, Mario, I think I'm going to be sick," says Peach.
"Just, just do it," whispers Mario. "Let's not ruin a happy ending."
Mario and Peach slowly begin to force the Cheep Cheep down their throats. "This is worse than I thought," Mario thinks.
"You like?" asks Bowser.
"Uh, yeah, it's great!" Mario lies.
"Here, have another," says Bowser, as he happily places another on Mario's plate.
"Oh great," thinks Mario.
Bowser sits down. "A toast to Mario," says Bowser.
"And a toast to Bowser," says Mario.
"A toast to you both," says Peach.
Everyone toasts.
"To Mario and Bowser," they all say.
"You know, working with you wasn't bad," says Bowser.
"Maybe we can do it more often," says Mario.
All is silent for a second, before everyone bursts into a giant laugh, and they laugh all the way into the sunset.
THE END
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