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The Brain Game: Chapter 2

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Kooky gazed over at the sizzling remnants of the Brain-O-Matic Duplicator, having little time to assess the impact of his own failed invention coupled with Bully's zealousness. He turned just in time to see Hip, or who he thought was Hip, stretching his arms. Kooky walked, or rather wobbled around in Kootie Pie's high heels, to where he lay before tripping and falling flat on his face with a yelp.

"Blech!" The petite Koopa Kid stuck his tongue out at Kooky, "This is the ugliest mirror I've ever seen!"

"Oh no," Kooky squeaked, looking up at Hip, or rather Kootie Pie in Hip's body, like he would if Mario was about to jump on his head.

"What-who are you!?" Kootie Pie demanded.

"Now, Kootie Pie," Kooky tried calming her down, "This is not what you think."

"Of course it isn't," Kootie Pie retorted, "There is no way another Koopa can be more stunningly beautiful than I!"

When Kootie Pie gestured to herself, she finally saw the black cuff around her wrist. She glanced back at Kooky, then looked up to notice the brightly colored strands of hair dangling from her head.

"What happened to me?" Kootie Pie shouted, "I look like Hip!"

"That's because y-you ARE Hip," Kooky explained with a tremor in his voice, "A-and I'M in YOUR body."

Kooky knew it was coming so he figured why fight it?

"PUT ME BACK IN YOUR BODY THIS INSTANT!!" Kootie Pie shrieked, pounding Hip's fists on the laboratory floor, "I WANT MY BODY BACK!! I WANT IT! I WANT IT! I WANT IT!!"

"Urrgh, where's da volume control on dat brat?" Kooky listened for Bully's voice over the racket. Kooky looked over to find Bully still out cold but next to the hysterical Kootie Pie, Hop covered his ears, or where his ears should be. Kootie Pie stopped her tantrum and accompanied Kooky in cornering Hop's body.

"I hope you're happy, Bully," Kooky folded his arms.

"Yeah," Bully retorted, "I'm happy that ya finally stopped screamin'."

"That was me, you jerk!" Kootie Pie grabbed Bully from under the arms.

"Hip?" Bully exclaimed, "What's gotten into ya?"

"Try little ol' Kootie Pie's brain for size?" Kootie Pie snapped, "Thanks to you, I'm trapped in a twerp!"

"So ya Kootie Pie?" Bully chuckled, "Nevuh woulda guessed with dat makeovuh!"

"Speaking of which," Kootie Pie folded her arms, "How does it feel to be a clone? MY clone?"

Bully flinched and looked down at his now-puny self. He then rustled his existent hair and whimpered.

"Where's dat Hop?" He thundered, "He's gonna get it!"

"I can't say who's who out of everyone else," Kooky forewarned him, "We'd better wake the rest of our siblings up and-YAAAAHH!!"

A shaky pivot was enough for Kooky to stumble again over Kootie Pie's stilettos and crash to the floor. He chose to lie down for now in the midst of sickening cackles from Kootie Pie and Bully.

"Will you keep it down?" A voice rang out from clear across the lab, "I'm trying to get some sleep, rest, shut-eye, siesta because my head hurts so much that I can't think or concentrate or-"

"Shut it!" Kooky called to an unconscious Big Mouth.

"I'm over here, Kootie Pie." Big Mouth waved Bully's hand in his direction.

"There's no way this can get any worse," Kooky buried his face on the floor.

"How can it?" Big Mouth asked, "I'm over there but I'm talking to you from here. How is that possible?"

"You're Bully!" Kooky attempted to push himself off the ground.

"Is that why it's so dark in this room? No wonder I can't see a thing with B-B-B-Bully's glasses."

"Don't touch 'em!" Bully trotted over to Big Mouth.

"Hey, Hop, what's-"

"I'm gonna pound ya so hard, yer gonna fly outta my body!"

"Ha!" Big Mouth taunted him, "Look at you. You're so weak you'll b-b-break your knuckles just by cracking 'em!"

"All right, that's enough! Whoa-oh boy!" Kooky wiggled uneasily, trying his darnedest to keep balance.

"Hey, Kootie Pie!" Big Mouth called to Kooky, "Don't you need water if you're gonna surf?"

"He's Kooky," Kootie Pie corrected him, then pointed a finger at Kooky, "And you'd better not scuff my shoes or you're stealing me a new pair!"

"Ow, my head."

"What happened?"

Kootie Pie and Bully recognized those two voices instantly, dashing over to where the bodies of Cheatsy and Big Mouth recuperated.

"Which one of you is Hip?" Kootie Pie looked on at them.

"You are!" They both pointed at Kootie Pie.

"Wait!" Hip's voice called out suddenly from Big Mouth, "I'M Hip! Or am I?"

"Look at yourselves and find out," Kooky requested, clinging onto a shelf for dear life.

Hip and Hop took one look at each other and screamed.

"You're Cheatsy!" Hip yelled.

"And you're Big Mouth!" Hop confirmed Kooky's observation.

"Cool!" They both exclaimed in unison after a moment of hesitation.

"You may think it's cool," Kooky grumbled, "Try getting used to it after a while like I'm trying to do."

"At least we're..." Hip began.

"Not a girl!" Hop ended the insult. Not skipping a beat, the twins snickered together. Kooky considered teaching them a lesson but rather than risk disfiguring Kootie Pie's face even further, he gripped onto the shelf instead.

"I don't know what you did," Kooky faced Bully from his stance, "But somehow you made the Brain-O-Matic Duplicator mix up all of our brains."

"I tought you said only ya own brain was in dat machine, you hack."

"Okay, I admit," Kooky sighed, "I analyzed specimens of all your brains, too."

"Why didn't you tell us first?" Big Mouth snarled, "This whole thing could have been avoided, prevented, averted, precluded if we all knew what you are up to when we-"

"That's enough!" Hip besieged him.

Coming from Big Mouth's body, everybody else in the room sat in stunned silence. In the meanwhile, Kooky took a quick head count and brain count matching each brain with its host. After counting six of each, he scratched his head, flinching without the cushion of his own hair.

"Who here has seen Cheatsy?" He asked, hoping to get an answer.

"Don't you mean me?" Hop clarified.

"No, I mean...who here has seen what Cheatsy's doing with my body?"

"Not me," Chorused the other five Koopa Kids.

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"Man, Kooky, you need to lay off those stupid bonbons."

Having slipped past his other siblings, Cheatsy staggered in Kooky's body through the castle corridor. Just when he thought he had gotten used to walking in another Koopa's feet, he faced the descending flight of steps to the grand hall. Shifting Kooky's weight backward, Cheatsy stealthily crept down each step until he reached the bottom. He breathed a huge sigh of relief, drawing the attention of the occupant already in the throne room.

"Cheatsy? Is that you?" King Koopa called to him.

"Eh-um...No," Cheatsy answered, straining his voice to sound like Kooky, "I-it is I, Kooky! Heh-heh, I mean, wah-wo-wo! Wah-ho-ho!"

"You sound like you have a Frog Suit in your throat," Koopa wasn't completely convinced, "Come over so I can hear you better."

"Uh, affirmative, King Dad," Cheatsy complied.

He forged ahead from the base of the stairwell and stopped on the carpet leading to the throne. A brief stare-off ensued between Koopa and what he thought was Kooky.

"All right, give me your status report," Koopa broke the ice.

"On what?" Cheatsy clarified.

"You said you had invented something that will help the family. What was it?"

"Oh that, that," Cheatsy thought of something quick, "It's, uh, coming along smoothly, that's what it is."

"No," Koopa's patience wore thin, "I mean tell me what you invented."

Cheatsy thought back to what took place before his brain moved into his brother's body and instantly clicked.

"It's a machine that turns everyday objects into Bob-ombs!"

"Then that explains the boom I heard ten minutes ago."

"Yeah, that was my fault, I mean Cheatsy's fault. Well, I better get back to work."

"Hang on there, Kooky-OW!" Koopa tried to rise from his throne but the pain from his injuries was too great. If Cheatsy had his own body, he would have dashed out in time.

"Yes, King Dad?" Cheatsy looked back.

"The check engine light came on again in the Doomship and I'm looking to save a little on repairs," Koopa requested.

"What do you want me to do about it?" Cheatsy snidely asked.

"FIND OUT WHAT THE PROBLEM IS, WISE GUY!!" The king roared.

"All right! All right! Sheesh!" Cheatsy complained, forgetting to mask his voice before stalking out of the throne room.
Chapter 2 is now up. I bet you can tell which parts I had fun typing. ;P

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LOL! Kootie Pie in Hip's body and everyone being in each other's bodies is hilarious. Can't wait to see what happens next. :D