Chapter
12
Under
the Sea
There is nothing interesting near the surface of the water. But when they get deeper, they see all kinds of things; Bloobers, Cheep-cheeps, baby Cheep-cheeps, and Big Berthas (which they avoided). After thirty-two minutes of swimming downward, they reach the bottom. On the sea-floor they see coral, seaweed, the Titanic, the Little Mermaid, and the tail rudder of Amelia Earheart’s plane; nothing much of interest really.
Luigi turns to Mario. “Hey Mario, where do we find the castle?”
Mario turns to Luigi and shrugs.
Luigi looks down and sees a path.
“Mario, look down.”
Mario does so and sees the path.
“Look what I found, Luigi! A path! What would you do without me?”
Luigi moans. They go down to the path and follow it. They eventually come to a medium size castle. But it is guarded by Bloobers, Big Berthas, Koopas wearing scuba tanks, and Goombas in submarines.
“What the…” Luigi says.
“How did they get that many guys?” Mario says.
“How in the world do we get past?” Luigi asks.
“Don’t know. So Luigi, how do we get in?”
“Why me?”
“You’re the one who always has good ideas. You figure it out!”
Luigi thinks for a bit and then… “I’ve got it! I just remembered something I’ve seen from countless movies!”
Luigi whispers the plan in Mario’s ear. Mario smiles. They both hide behind a rock and wait for a submarine to pass. They then swim to the top of it and open the hatch. There is some magical water seal that allows things to go in and out of the sub, but nothing can go in. They Mario Bros. jump inside and tie up the Goomba. They figure out how to control the sub and turn around to go to the castle. All of a sudden, a headset radio from the tied up Goomba sounds. “TK-421, do you copy?”
The brothers look at each other. Luigi picks up the headset and puts it on his head. The speaker sounds again.
“Do you copy?”
“Oh yeah, we’r-, I mean, I’m okay. I didn’t get tied up or anything. I hate those Mario Bros. all right.”
“That wasn’t the question. TK-421, why aren’t you at you’re post?”
“Umm, I thought I saw the Mario Bros. coming.”
“That’s understandable…wait a minute! Who are you?!”
Luigi takes off the headset and throws it to the ground. He then steps on it.
“Nice going Luigi, now they know we’re here.”
All of a sudden, a face pops up on the screen inside the sub. It looks like Slippy Toad.
“Fire a torpedo to light your way!”
“?”
Then Falco Lombardi’s head appears.
“Don’t worry, you have unlimited torpedoes.”
“??”
Then Peppy Hare’s head appears.
“I’ve got a bad feeling about this…”
“???”
Mario turns off the screen. He looks ahead and sees a fleet of subs moving towards him. He fires a torpedo and destroys them all.
“That was easy.” Mario says.
He pilots the sub right before the door to the castle. They exit out of the sub,
into the water, and into the castle…