Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-26892768-20180504103124/@comment-26120744-20180508052140

Mario stares at Bowser in shock and horror ..... which swiftly turns to rage.

He charges Bowser, and the Koopa King backhands him like it's nothing.

"Oh, and I haven't even told you the best part!" Bowser cackles.

Mario gets up and punches him in the face, hard. Bowser stumbles back and Mario keeps punching and kicking, punching and kicking.

It doesn't do much, but Bowser makes it look like it does, spasming and acting as if forced back in real time.

After a few moments of this Bowser lay face down on the ground.... before looking up with a grin wide enough to make Fawful cringe.

"Are you finished?" Bowser asked.

"No, YOU are!" Mario snarled. "This ends here, now and forever! You could never beat me!"

"Beeeeat yoooou~?" Bowser asked in a creepy as fuck voice. "Oh Mario, don't you see? I've already WON!"

In a single motion he both rises to his feet and uppercuts Mario, sending him flying back.

"But the real beauty lies in the blame!" Bowser shrilled. "Because all these years of me LETTING you defeat me has made the Mushroom people dependant! Soft! Powerless! All of their potential to defend themselves, to save themselves, squandered because you were always there! My Master Plan is at last revealed, and all your VICTORIES were the quintessential ingredient! Just ask those Toad friends of yours!"

With a wave of his hand, Bowser shows what's happening at the Mushroom Kingdom as they speak....

Airships. Everywhere.

Constant bombings, organized squads of Koopa's and Goomba's marching in the streets, funeral mounds everywhere, entire families sold into slavery....

And it's all Mario's fault.

Mario is too shocked and battered by this realization to see Bowser before he rips the Plumber's arms and legs off, cauterizes the wounds, and casts the limbs into lava.

"I think I'm going to leave you here." Bowser said. "While my ultimate victory is paraded across the universe and my Empire at long last realized, I'll leave you here to watch the world around you crumble, impotent and powerless, as you always truly were! It's been fun, Mario, but GAME! OVER!"

Bowser throws back his head in a final fit of laughter as his Clown Copter - now repainted to be black sphere with a red bowser insignia on the front - bursts from the ground beneath him and flies off.

Mario is left there with nothing but pain, and grief, and the scent of a rotting, decapitated head nearby.

But one thing was greater even than his shame, even than his grief and utter despair.

Rage.