Departure: A Super Mario Fanfiction
Chapter 1: The Attempt
A/N: This is my new story, Departure: A Super Mario Fanfiction! This will serve as a prequel to The Greatest Enemy, and therefore will contain spoilers from that story. If you haven't read it yet, now is your last chance before I discuss spoilers.
Anyways, this story will feature Iggy Koopa as the main character, and how he came up with his plan seen in The Greatest Enemy. It will also describe how and why he betrayed Bowser. Anyways, I hope you enjoy :)
"Boom!" The sounds of the Airships cracked and whizzed as cannonballs and Bullet Bills flew through the air towards Peach's Castle. Two Airships stood out from the other smaller ones, one with the head of the Koopa King Bowser and one of his sons, Iggy.
Princess Peach of the Mushroom Kingdom stood in shock and awe on the balcony as Bowser's Airship flew in closer to it.
"Bwa ha ha, surprised to see me, Princess?" Bowser taunted, standing on the front side of the Airship near the balcony.
"This is seriously the second time this week you have come to kidnap me, can't you leave me alone for a second?" She responded angrily. Bowser laughed maliciously,
"Of course not Princess, you know I need you captured…"
"I think you got her, dad!" Iggy shouted excitedly from inside his Airship, which was right next to Bowser's.
"Well, not this time! Come on guys!" Peach shouted. Bowser stopped laughing, and changed his expression to one of confusion. Suddenly, Mario and Luigi emerged from two potted plants on the balcony.
"It's-a-us, the Mario Bros!" Mario shouted as he jumped up from his plant cover and delivered a direct punch to Bowser's nose.
"Huh? Get those pesky plumbers!" Bowser shouted to his troops as he retreated towards the back of the Airship. Hordes of Goombas, Koopa Troopas, Shy Guys, and Rocky Wrenches started to attack the red Mario Bro as he fought his way to the back of the Airship. Meanwhile, Luigi jumped onto Iggy's Airship and broke through the cabin door.
"Ok Luigi, you'll be fine, it's not like there are powerful enemies on here…"
"Powerful enemies, you say?" Iggy asked with a smirk, as he used his magic wand to summon a powerful Giant Shy Guy.
"Oh no!" Luigi shouted as he started running around the Airship avoiding the Giant Shy Guy's grasp.
"Oh, and don't forget about me!" Peach shouted as she jumped straight onto Bowser's Airship and started pummeling enemies alongside Mario.
"You didn't think I would stand idly by and let you have all the fun, would you?" she asked Mario coyly.
"Of course not, we fight together." Mario responded heroically as he kicked a Goomba off the Airship. While they were getting close to the back of Bowser's Airship, Peach saw out of the corner of her eye Luigi getting chased around by the Giant Shy Guy.
"Luigi!" She shouted. She turned to Mario,
"Luigi's in trouble," Mario gasped, "I'm going to help him out, you take care of Bowser." Mario nodded, grinning at this plan of action as he rushed to the back of the Airship. Peach jumped off the Airship, and used her magical ability to float over to Iggy's Airship. She forced herself not to look down at the ground far below and landed straight in Iggy's cabin. She quickly moved out of the way of Luigi running and proceeded to hit the Giant Shy Guy with a frying pan, stunning it. She then jumped high in the air and executed a Ground Pound on it, defeating the oversized enemy. Luigi, still running around tripped over a wire on the foor of the Airship, falling flat on his face.
"Oof!" He shouted. Peach rolled her eyes and helped Luigi up from the floor,
"Come on Luigi, stop making the ROBLOX death sound and let's fight Iggy." They both stepped into Iggy's cabin, and he turned around with a shocked expression on his face.
"You got past my Giant Shy Guy? No matter, I'll take care of you myself." He waved his wand and pointed it at both Luigi and Peach, encasing them in a box of steel.
"Oh, that's nice, some protection," Luigi commented. Suddenly, the walls started to close in on the green plumber and the princess.
"I spoke too soon," Luigi said, facepalming himself and hiding behind Princess Peach. Iggy laughed manically as the boxes started to close in on the two heroes.
"See ya later, zeroes!" Iggy shouted, taunting by slapping his butt in the direction of the box.
"Um, boss, you know they can't see your taunting, right?" a lone Green Shy Guy asked. Iggy glared at him and cast a magic spell on him, teleporting him outside the Airship to fall to his doom.
"Any more questions?" he asked with hatred in his tone. All of the enemies took one step backward with shocked expressions on their faces.
On Bowser's Airship, Mario successfully chased Bowser to the very back.
"Alright Bowser, it's just you and I. No more running." Bowser snarled.
"I may have lost before, but I will finally beat you, my annoying adversary." Mario snickered,
"As if." Bowser smiled as well and threw a punch straight at Mario, which he dodged by jumping over it. As he came back down from his jump, he grabbed Bowser's arm and swung himself up, putting his feet straight at Bowser's mouth.
"Argh!" he screamed. Using this opportunity, Mario ran behind Bowser and grabbed his tail, spinning him around.
"Oh, why did have to be this move?" Bowser asked in despair. Mario continued spinning him eventually throwing him into a ship mast closeby. Bowser yelped in pain as he finally slumped. Mario dusted his hands off,
"Easy as pie."
"Mario!" he heard in the background. He turned around to see Iggy smiling through his Airship window.
"Princess! Luigi!" He shouted, "I'm coming!" He timed his jump off Bowser's Airship and onto Iggy's Airship, landing on the top near the propellor blade. He ducked to dodge the swinging blades. He crawled along the top of his Airship, gritting his teeth from the high velocity. When he got close enough, he jumped down and kicked the door open, sending some enmies flying out before shutting it again.
"Oh, why hello there Mario," Iggy said demonically while staring the plumber down.
"What did you do to my friends you idiotic turtle?" He shouted angrily.
"Ooh, touchy, aren't we?" Iggy taunted, "Your friends are in there." He pointed to the box that was slowly caving in. Mario gasped and started banging on the box.
"Luigi! Peach! Can you hear me?" He asked frantically.
"Mario!" Peach shouted, banging on the walls, "Get us out of here!" Luigi screamed, fearing his impending doom. Mario continued to bang on the box, to no avail.
"Ha! You'll never save your friends, and I will rule the Mushroom Kingdom!" Mario eyed Iggy, curious at what he said.
"Don't you mean your father?" Mario asked. Iggy stared wide-eyed into space,
"Uh, yeah, exactly what I meant." Mario shrugged and was about to continue banging on the box when he eyed Iggy's wand. He did some quick thinking and snuck behind the box, pulling his spare Hammer out of his pocket. He peered from behind it, and threw the Hammer at Iggy's wand, smashing it.
"Wait, WHAT?!" he screamed. Suddenly, the metal box disappeared.
"Ah! Don't kill me!" Luigi cried. Mario tapped Luigi twice on the shoulder,
"Ahem." Luigi stopped crying,
"Oh, yay." He said softly. Iggy simply stared at the 3 heroes while they stared back at him angrily. He laughed anxiously,
"Uh, this doesn't look good." He quickly reached into a drawer next to the steering wheel and pulled out a spare wand, casting a quick spell and disappearing.
"Huh, well that ended quickly," Peach commented.
"At least you are safe Princess," Mario said while bowing. Peach giggled,
"Yeah, thanks for the help guys. Anyways, we should take this Airship to the Castle garage and study the schematics. We might be able to thwart more of Bowser's schemes that way."
"Good idea," Luigi commented, "and maybe next time I won't be stuck in a metal box." He shivered for a moment.
A/N: And that is the first chapter! I know this chapter focused a little more on the heroes, but I needed that to happen for the coming chapters. I think this story should be around 10 or 15 Chapters, but I'm not sure at this point. Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed reading and have a fabulous day :D