"They don't look very threatening with their signs for weapons." Mario said to himself.

Of course, at the moment he said that, the entire mob pulled out pitchforks and torches and swords and whatnot. The mob rushed at them waving their weapons around and all that good stuff.

"Ahh! Everyone, back in the coach, I hear some people coming from he back." Chris said and hurried back into the coach. Sure enough, another mob was coming from the back, carrying weapons of all sorts.

"Protect the Prince, protect the Prince" they all chanted.

"Finally, someone to help us." Princess Jennifer said.

The other half of the kingdom (the new mob) engaged in a battle with the first mob. Swords clashed, torches burned flesh, and all other things that could be used as weaponry was, in the appropriate fashion, including people. While the mobs fought on, the carriage slowly slipped away and towards the neighboring kingdom again. That night, no one could sleep. Everyone was worried what they would find in the next castle. They all sat up in the coach, talking very little.

"We will be arriving in 10 minutes!" yelled the driver from up front. The sun was just beginning to rise over the hills in the horizon.

As the coach approached the castle of Prince Toadstool, everything seemed to be in place. Luigi hauled himself on top of the carriage to see if there was anything unusual in the distance.

"Hey, Mario," Luigi yelled down, "there is something on top of a hill in the distance."

"Let's go check it out." Mario got back in the coach and motioned for everyone to follow.

The coach sped away toward the hills on the horizon. An hour or so later, they were looking at an old castle with tall towers and a big draw bridge stretching across a moat filled with piranhas and anacondas. All of a sudden, 50 koopas jumped out from behind some bushes and trees. The koopas attacked Jennifer and Chris Toadstool. Mario and Luigi kept the koopas from getting them, and just when they thought things couldn't get any worse, who should come over the drawbridge but Bowser himself.

"Shit!" Luigi yelled as he noticed Bower. "I will hold of Bower, you keep the koopas back." Luigi left Mario and went to fight the Koopa King. After some blood loss and koopa bashing, Mario killed all of the koopas. He ran over to see Luigi still duking it out with Bower. As Mario started running over, he saw Bower grab Luigi by the face and drag him over the drawbridge. Mario looked over to find Jen and Chris, but they were gone.

"I hate having to do this alone." Mario said to himself. He walked over the drawbridge into the big dark doorway and into a corridor. He walked down the corridor and saw strange cases with stranger things inside. In one, was the arm and tongue of Princess Peach Toadstool.

"Oh my god! This is just like my dream. I am going to go to the end of the hall and enter a torture chamber." Mario thought. He started to walk down the hall again then stopped and went back to the display case.

"This isn't right. These should be with the rest of her body." Mario mumbled to himself and opened the display case. He took out Peach's arm and tongue and put them in his belt pouch. He then turned again and walked to a door at the end of the corridor, he put his hand on the knob.

"This is it, the final confrontation. It is gonna decide my life or death." Mario wiped some sweat of his forehead and took a deep breath. He turned the knob and stepped inside a dark room. He couldn't see anything, including his hand right in front of his face. He groped around for a torch or some sort of light source but couldn't find a thing. He reached in his pocket and found a book of matches. He lit one and looked around, he thought he saw a door right before the match burnt his finger and he dropped it. He walked straight toward what he thought was the door. He felt along the wall until he felt the wood of the door. He put his hand on the knob and it opened without even being turned, as if someone was expecting him. He walked in to (surprise, surprise) a torture chamber. There were 3 tables, one had the Princess strapped to it, the other the Prince, and the third had Luigi strapped to it. And a fourth table Mario didn't notice before had Toad strapped to it. They all appeared to be out cold, or dead.

"Hellooooo?!?" Mario called, "Anybody home?"

"Huh? Maaarriooo?" Luigi groaned.

"Luigi, your alive!"

"I am? I have a pounding headache."

"What's going on?"

"Well, Bower had his hand over my face so I couldn't see where we were going. It got really cold when we got into a room past this. He let go and I tried to run, then some guy in a cloak came in and grabbed my neck. He was really strong, he held me down with one hand and strapped me down with the other. Then he made a slit in my throat and put a little plant in there. That's all I remember."

Mario looked around for some of the others, and saw that many other people, beside the crew were strapped to tables and chairs and other sorts of objects you could strap people to if you wanted to torture them. He saw Tenchi Muyo, Ash Ketchum, and Brock. He also saw numerous members of the Power Rangers and the kid from Digimon. He then noticed Princess Jennifer (who had been raped in a high degree) and Prince Toadstool (who put up a good fight and had multiple wounds). He started to walk over too Chris to un-strap him when he felt the shrieking, piercing, high-pitched noise that he felt in the hospital that day. His hands shot to his ears to try to block out the sound, no good. He hit the floor with a juicy crack. When he woke up, his whole back was soaked with his own blood. His hat was gone and he was strapped to, yes, that's right, a table. He was very woozy and out of it because of the Screech Machine and some intense blood loss. He felt something in his throat, like a plant.

"Probably the plant Luigi was talking about." Mario thought.

He struggled to get out of the straps and off the table, but it was to no avail. The straps were on tight and his ha had his lock picking kit in it. He heard some rummaging and clanking of metal and then footsteps coming closer. He heard someone screaming and crying, but it wasn't any of his friends. The torturer was cutting off Brock's, er never mind, lets keep this at PG-13. All the sudden he heard a loud whisper,

"Mario, you alive?"

"Huh? Yeah, you ok Luigi?"

"I think so."

"You're fine, Bro."

"Yeah, I guess. Mario, get your lock picking kit out of you hat."

"Don't have my hat, or my belt pouch. Oh fuck!"

"What's in your belt pouch?"

"Peach's arm and tongue. Among other things."

"Eh that sucks"

That was when it all went downhill. A cloaked mushroom person arrived in front of the four tables. None other than the giant Koopa king himself, Bower, accompanied him. Bower was rolling a cart along, crammed with all sorts of delightful torture devices. There was a big ring with a handle and spikes around it and a bed of nails. The room itself was filled with items that seemed to be used for torture also. There was a rack (the stretch thing were they tie you up and stretch you until you split) and a big wheel with spikes were they tie you to the wheel on the spikes and spin you around until you die. The cloaked figure picked up a pair of things that looked like pliers with points on the inside and a nail. He grabbed Mario's wrist and nailed it to the table next to his leg. Mario screamed in agony as blood spurted from his writhing wrist. Cloak grabbed the spike pliers and clamped them down on Mario's palm.

"AHHH!! Stop, please!" Mario sobbed.

"Tell me where I can find the Golden Mushroom!" Cloak growled.

"Wha? It is a legend. But I happen to know it doesn't exist." Mario said through gritted teeth.

"You lie, just like you poor Peach did!" He clamped down harder with the pliers. Mario clamped his eyes shut and tried to hold back his scream. He then got an idea. He used one foot to loosen his shoe, then he kicked it off and it hit the Mushroom man right in the nads. It gave Mario the chance to grab the pliers and tried to cut through his straps and get free. Unfortunately for Mario, Cloak got up and grabbed the pliers from him. He then proceeded to take Mario's boot and smack him in the head with it. Poor Mario woke up on the rack, tied and everything. He heard Bower grunt as he started turning the crank.

"Uh, boy. I will ask you one more time, where is the mushroom?" asked the mushroom man tiredly.

"There is no golden mushroom." Mario said.

"Crank em." Said Cloak.

Bower gripped the crank and turned it slowly, Mario felt his bones cracking and dislodging. He weeped in pain.

"Want to tell me now?"

"I t-t-told you! Theremushroom!"

"Fine." Cloak grabbed the ring with the handle and spiked and jammed it down on Mario's stomach. He whistled as he rolled it along and blood dripped all over the place.

"More!" Cloak commanded.

Bower turned the wheel even more, and Mario's skin started to break, muscle and tissue started to come out from the breaks in Mario's shoulder. Mario screamed so loud, it woke up Jennifer across the room.

"DAD! Where are you?"

"On the rack, get-AAAHHHHHHH!!! FUCKING SHIT!" Mario cut himself off with a nice food scream. "Luigi!" Mario finished his sentence.

At the moment, Mario's legs started to gush blood and veins cracked apart. His arms were now almost completely off. Only some tissue and veins were holding them on, same with his legs. His legs and arms came clean off at the same time with a resounding crack and squish as the veins and bones snapped. He was still alive, crying with pain. The rest of his body fell to the floor. Blood and gore went everywhere and Bower was sweating from all the cranking. Cloak picked up Mario and took his to a cage in the shape of a body, suspended in mid-air. He put him inside to let him die. He then went over to Prince Toadstool, and took out some lighter fluid. He covered the poor Chris in the foul smelling liquid and took out a match.

"This is it, the end of Prince Toadstool, the last of the Toadstools." Cloak said and put the match on the concrete.

"That's what you think. You forgot my dad."

"That's what you think." With that, he walked to a wall, pulled a level, and there, chained to the wall, was his father. He was covered in cuts and scorch marks and he was dead. Cloak lit the match and brought it right to the Prince's chest. He lit the boy on fire. He screamed as the flames quickly spread over him and onto his face. Cloak extinguished the flames. He then had Bower force open Chris's mouth and Cloak poured lighter fluid inside. He then covered him again and lit him for the final time. After five or so minutes he un-strapped him and let his corpse fall to the ground. He then went over to the Princess and was hit promptly in the back of the head with a giant spiked club. Cloak turned around and tried to leap around but couldn't in his cloak. He put down the hood and tore of his cloak.

"HOLY SHIT!" Luigi exclaimed. He was so surprised at who it was, that he staggered back numerous steps. Facing him, was the most unlikely culpritTOAD!

"Toad? How did you get so strong?"

"I have spent the past five years preparing, Peach treated my like shit, Toad this, and Toad that. I was sick of it, sick of you being so great."

Toad pulled out a knife and was about to kill Luigi when a blue portal opened behind Toad and out stepped a man that had white hair and was very pale. A hulking creature made of fire followed him. The creature walked up behind Toad and punched him toward the man. The man then took out a big sword and cut Toad into two pieces.

"Oops. Wrong stop." The man said and he and his fire creature went back through the portal.

Luigi un-strapped Jen and they left the castle.