A New Threat: Part 2: Questions and Answers 
By Smash48
Chapter One: A Meeting 
As you remember, in Part One, Castle Koopa in Dark
Land was destroyed, and Bowser started to build a new
castle elsewhere. Now the work is almost done, and
Bowser and the Koopalings just moved in to oversee the
final touches, including the ceiling. 
“The dungeon’s almost done, King Dad,” Larry reported.

“The ramparts will soon be adequately completed,
Monarch Father,” Ludwig said as he entered the room. 
“Ludwig says the wall’s almost done,” Lemmy said,
entering the room right behind Ludwig, “And the castle
defenses are too. Speaking of which, why did that Exar
guy attack us? I can understand taking over the world,
but he seemed to have a personal grudge against you.” 
Bowser sighed, “I knew you would be asking that soon. 
Bring it up at the next family meeting, and I’ll tell
you the story.  Tell everyone else too, so they’ll
know what I’m talking about.” 
That night at the family meeting, all the kids had
heard and were sharing their opinions of the reasons
of the attack. Lemmy, Wendy and, Morton thought Exar
used to be Bowser’s second-in-command.  Ludwig and
Iggy thought Bowser defeated Exar in a long past war. 
Morton and Roy thought Bowser had kicked Exar out of
Plit a long time ago and he was just returning. 
Bowser started the meeting by breathing fire on the
torch in the center of the table.  After a traditional
prayer to DAD, they got down to the business at hand. 
“Okay, you’ve probably all heard that tonight I will
tell you about Exar. It all started when I was still
in school and DAD was the teacher… 
“Hey!” Larry shouted, “I thought you said DAD
conquered Dark Land 3000 years ago!” 
“He did, but did you think HE died right after HE
conquered it?” Bowser retorted, “Besides, your father
is older than you think.” 
Chapter Two: Flashback 
Note: From now on, when I do a flashback it will be in
script form. 
DAD: Evil Villain School will come to order!  Exar? 
Exar: Here!D 
AD: DeDeDe? 
DeDeDe: Here! 
DAD: Ganon? 
Ganon: Here! 
DAD: M. Brain? 
M. Brain: Here! 
DAD: Giovanni? 
Giovanni: Here! 
DAD: Andross? 
Andross: Here! 
DAD: That completes the roll call.  Now, we have a new
student here today. His name is Bowser. 
Bowser enters. He is sporting a few bruises from his
recent encounters with the Yoshis. 
DAD: Hello Bowser, I see you have already tried out a
few evil schemes. Here you will learn how to make even
better evil schemes and defeat your enemies. 
Bowser: Good, I can’t wait. 
Exar: (To himself) Phew, for a second there I was
worried that this new kid would be a threat to my
position in this class as best student. 
Two years later… 
DAD: …and that covers that chapter.  Now remember,
next week there will be a test over all we discussed
these past three years. After you take it, you will be
assigned to a world that will be easy to conquer with
your abilities. Also, the one who scores lowest on the
test will be expelled. 
Exar: (To himself) That Bowser is a bigger threat to
me than I thought.  I’ll have to make sure he scores
the lowest. 
One week later… 
DAD: Today is your final exam. I hope you studied. 
Exar: OH NO! I forgot to study! Rrrrrr… I hate Bowser!

Chapter Three: Ambush! 
“So that’s why Exar hated us,” murmured Lemmy after
Bowser finished his story. 
“Yes,” said Bowser, “Exar was expelled, and I got the
highest score on the test, so I was assigned to stay
here.” 
“So, what happened to DAD?” 
“The day after I graduated, HE made up the last of
life’s lessons, and died.” 
“Wow.” 
“Okay, meeting’s over.  Remember, tonight we’ll fix up
the ceiling and finish the castle.” 
That night, they finished the ceiling.  They were
eating dinner under it when an ominous rumbling began
to fill the castle.  The rumbling soon turned to a
roar.  Suddenly, a bomb careened through the ceiling
and exploded just inches above the table. 
Looking up at the ceiling, they saw Exar above the
castle in a huge flying machine. “That was just a
warning shot,” he called down, “now, surrender your
castle, before I reduce it to rubble!” 
“Iggy! Lemmy! Ludwig! Roy! Larry! Morton! Wendy!”
Bowser shouted, “Destroy that machine!” 
They pointed their wands at it, but they were ripped
out of their hands by a magnet at the bottom of the
machine. Meanwhile, Exar shot Bowser with a weapon on
his machine. A white light engulfed Bowser, and when
it dissipated, Bowser was gone!  Laughing madly, Exar
flew away. 
Chapter Four: Exar’s Life 
Bowser awoke with a splitting headache.  He was in
chains over some kind of lava pit.  Some kind of
hovercraft was in front of him. Exar was inside it. 
“So, the prisoner awakes,” Exar said, “How did you
like the welcoming committee?” 
“They were very… thorough,” Bowser murmured.  After he
had been transported to Exar’s castle, he had been set
upon by Sledge Brothers, and beaten into
unconsciousness. “Now, where are my Kids?” 
“Oh, them,” Exar laughed,“I left them in your castle.
It will be entertaining to watch them struggle through
without you until they are crushed by the rebellion I
started among your troops.” Bowser was silent “I
suppose you want to know what I did while I was away,”
Exar whispered, leaning close, “No? Well, I’ll tell
you anyway.” 
Exar: I hate him.  I HATE him.  I HATE HIM! 
Mysterious Voice: Who do you hate? 
Exar: Bowser! 
Mysterious Voice: Bowser from this world? 
Exar: Yes! 
Mysterious Voice: Come with me then, I may be able to
help you. 
They go into an alley and into a portal. As they are
being transferred, the figure removes his cloak to
reveal…Smithy! 
Exar: Who are you? 
Smithy: My name is Smithy.  If you want revenge
against Bowser, I will give you the chance to kill
him. 
Exar: (Narration) Smithy took me to his factory and
started teaching me to be a warrior. 
Smithy: No, not like that, like this! 
Exar: (swinging a hammer) Like this? 
Smithy: Exactly. 
Exar: (Narration) When Smithy attacked your world, he
sent me to pilot Exor, the sword. 
Exar: Oh no!  The eyes are offline. I’m unprotected.
The mouth is gone. I can’t hurt them. And everything
is going wrong up here! 
Computer Voice: Portal opened. Self-destruct in 3…2…1…

Exar dives out of the cockpit and into Exor’s mouth
After a long run, Exar arrives in Smithy’s lair. 
Exar: Smithy sir, Mario’s on his way here! 
Smithy: YOU MEAN YOU LET HIM GET PAST YOU!?! 
Exar: Well, sir… 
Smithy: YOU IDOIT! 
Smithy hits Exar with his hammer.  Exar goes flying. 
Exar: Wait, sirrrrrrrr… 
Exar: (Narration) After you defeated him, I discovered
his hammer had great power, so I stole it.  That
brings us to today. 
“Well, that’s my life,” Exar said, “Now say goodbye!”
He began to smash Smithy’s hammer against the chain on
Bowser’s right claw. Bowser struggled, but Exar glared
at him and he was paralyzed. “Happy landings, Bowser!”
Exar laughed. 
Suddenly the castle wall exploded, and through the
hole came…The Koopalings! 
Chapter 5: The Final Battle 
 “HA HA HA!” Exar laughed, “So the wimps are back for
more!” 
“We're not wimps!” Wendy screamed. 
They all took out a boomerang and threw it. Exar threw
up a shield, but the boomerangs weren’t aimed for him,
they were aimed for their wands! Exar dived for them,
but he was too slow. By the time he made it to the 
pile of wands, it was gone! “Aim,” Ludwig shouted,
“Fire!” 
As magic was shot at him, Exar began to glow red.
Then, some kind of shield around him shattered, and
one more blast knocked Smithy’s hammer out of his
hands.  It fell into the lava pit, and broke Bowser’s
chain on his right arm on the way down.  With his
right arm free, he began to struggle free and climb
up. 
“NO!” Exar screamed.  He gestured like throwing
something, and seven knives flew out of his hand. 
There were seven screams as the knives struck home,
and the Koopalings sank to the floor. 
Then Bowser climbed out of the pit.  Exar came to him
and threw him a sword. “Now just you and me Bowser,
like it was always meant to be.  En guarde!” 
They dueled up and down the floor, left hand and claw
spread to grab or punch.  Exar locked hilts with
Bowser above their heads, a move that brought their
faces close to each other. “You know what I’m going to
do after I kill you, Bowser?  I’m going to revive your
kids and brainwash them.  They will serve me!” He spat
the words in Bowser’s face. 
That broke any semblance of calm Bowser had left.  He
screamed, “NO!” and charged at Exar. 
That was what Exar had been waiting for.  He dodged
Bowser’s blows until he saw his chance. He struck a
particularly vicious blow that sheared Bowser’s sword
in half.  Bowser was in too fierce a rage to notice. 
He jammed his broken sword half into Exar.  The sword
hilt sank into Exar’s chest and came 
out the other side.  Exar slumped to the floor, dead! 
Bowser stood in triumph until he saw the scene.  The
Koopalings were all on the floor, almost dead.  The
only one who showed any sign of life was Lemmy. Bowser
ran over to him, and took his claw in his much larger
one. “Lemmy.” 
“King Dad, I’m dying.” 
“Lemmy, you must live.” 
“I can’t.” 
“Lemmy!” 
“It’s okay, we will be in a… better… place.” And with
that, he died. 
Bowser buried his head in his claws and cried. 
Chapter 5: The Ending 
The Koopalings were floating upwards on clouds. They
came to a gate of white. As they looked at it, a Koopa
that looked remarkably like Bowser came up to them.
“Hello, I am known as DAD. I see you are Iggy, Lemmy,
Roy, Morton, Ludwig, Larry, and Wendy.” 
“DAD?” Roy whispered, “Does that mean we’re…” 
“Dead? I’m afraid so, but you won’t be for long.
Although I would love to keep you here, there is
someone down there who needs you a lot more than I do
up here. I will give you a choice though.  If you want
to stay here, I will let you, but if you want to live
again, I will sent you back down.” 
“I’m going back, Dad might kill himself without us.” 
“I concur.” 
“I want to leave too because if Dad is miserable he
might not beat the Mario Brothers and they might take
over Dark Land and capture him and torture…” 
DAD rolled his eyes and gestured. Morton kept talking,
but no sound came out of his mouth. “Are we in
agreement then?” 
“Yes. DAD, we want to go home.” 
As Bowser turned to leave the room, a light appeared
behind him.  Startled, he turned around.  His
Koopaling’s bodies were bathed in light.  It seemed
like they were being hung up by a string, like a rag
doll.  As the light began to infuse their bodies,
their eyes started to open and their wounds healed. 
Suddenly, a bright flash lit up the area.  When it was
gone, the Koopalings were standing in the room, good
as new. 
“Larry! Roy! Wendy! Morton! Ludwig! Iggy! Lemmy!
You’re alive!” 
Later that day, back in New Castle Koopa, Bowser
called another meeting. “Okay, now I have a question
to ask you. How did you weaken Exar enough for me to
kill him?” 
“Simple, (Well, not really) we remembered that both
times Exar attacked us, he stole our wands.  We asked
ourselves, why would he steal our wands unless he
could only be harmed by magic? Either way, it worked. 
Exar’s shield was broken, and you killed him.” 
“One more thing, Exar said that he had started a
rebellion among our troops.  Is that true?” 
“Yes, but as you know, they think we’re gods.  We
threatened to use our “divine” powers on them.” 
“I should have known that,” Bowser laughed as the sun
set behind the castle. 
The End
 

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