Darkness Shines - A Movie Idea I Had

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New chapter up!

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Dang, I'm taking WAY too long to post the next few chapters. So I'm just going to post more parts of DS2 until I (hopefully) get caught up.

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Part 2:

Isle Delfino

Marty Pianta sighed as he sat up on the ratty old sofa. He slowly got up to his feet and walked over to the broken mirror in the corner of the abandoned apartment. He took a good look at himself, what he had became since... the incident.

He wasn't expecting to see anything amazing look back at him. There wasn't. In his reflection, all he saw was a Pianta with a broken life, no home, and no love-of-his-life. No wife. No Penny.

He had grown quite a long beard, all tangled up, possibly harboring some sort of new species of life. There was an uncountable number of bags under his eyes, and his palm tree atop his head and grown wildly as well, almost reaching below his nose.

"Look at yourself," He said in disgust to the reflection. "What are you...? WHO ARE YOU?" He cried, and threw his fist straight at his reection. The Glass shattered and revealed the emptiness behind it.

However, Marty didn't pay attention to that. He looked at his fist, which was gushing blood now. He cursed, and ran to the bathroom.

It was full of garbage and Lil' Mouser feces. The toilet and bathtub were dirty, and the cabinet's mirror had fallen off. It was the cleanest area of the apartment.

As he bandaged and tried to heal the wounds, Marty thought about the incident. He struggled to remember every detail of it, for the first time in weeks.

-

"Look, I'm fine, okay?!" Marty yelled at the police chief who had taken him into custody. They were inside the Police Station, which was bustling with many accountants, interns, and a few cops on break. The Chief was trying desperately to calm him, but it was useless.

"Marty, please, we're just trying to-" The chief started.

"NO!" Marty yelled at the top of his lungs. "You're not searching hard enough! Penny's out there!" He stood up angrily.

"Marty, sit down." The chief finally said. He said it with such patience, such calmness, Marty found himself sitting down. The chief spoke again.

"Listen, please. We're doing the best we can. We know she's out there, and we won't give up. Not by a long shot. Until we find her, all we want you to do is relax. Relax, thinking the possibilty that she's still alive." He said.

It took a while, but Marty finally agreed. "Alright... Sir."

-

Now, he regret being convinced, due to the fact that three and a half weeks later, he recieved a call from the station. The police was calling it quits.

After that call, all that was left of Marty's life fell apart. He couldn't focus, didn't care, and lost his job, his house, and now his family hd turned away. He wasn't Marty, he was a nobody. But wait- even a title like "nobody" seemed too nice for him.

Marty finished up with the bandages when the sirens began to wail outside.

"Whuh?!" He blabbed out unintelligently. Marty ran into the living room and ran to the rusty Television set in a corner of the room. He turned it on, just to find static. He kicked it a few times, and finally, a black-and-white newsreport appeared. Oh well, color didn't matter.

It was kind of like his life. Devoid of color, just shades of White, Black, and Grey.

The pretty newsreporter started the story. "This just in, every one of Isle Delfino's sirens have gone off in alarm. The Government has not confirmed why, however, they have stated the situation is an emergency and that all citizens on the southern part of the Island evacuate. The Delfino Military will be doing searches of every house in the Southern area to make sure everyone can escape safely."

Marty stared at the screen, dumbfounded. Emergency? What emergency? He looked out the blinds, and sure enough, Piantas and Nokis were running to the north. Military troops surrounded them, making sure everyone staye in line. Marty's brain was trying to form complete thoughts when a knock came from the door.

"Delfino Military! If anyone is in here, open up!" A voice barked from outside the door.

Marty quickly shut off the TV, turned off the lights, and ran into a medium-sized closet in his bedroom. He ducked behind a line of dirty, formal business suits. Whoever lived here years ago had bad taste.

From inside the closet, Marty heard the front door bust open as heavy footsteps came in the apartment.

"Yeh, what a dump." He heard one voice note.

"Nobody could live here. It's so... hazardous." Another voice said.

"Well?" A third voice snarled. It was the Pianta that had knocked on the door. "Sorry if it couldn't meet your standards, princess." He said sarcastically.

One of the voices snickered, but quieted after he was given the famous military order known as "SHUT UP!". The third voice continued on, "Better check the place anyway."

'Please don't check the closet, pleeeeeeeease!' Marty prayed to himself. Outside, the door to the bedroom opened. After what seemed like an eternity, the door closed and one of the voices said "All clear, General."

And with that, the footsteps could quieter until they were no longer visible to the ear. They were gone.

Marty crawled out from his hiding space, and looked out the window again. The three Piantas that had infiltrated earlier were leading the last of the evacuated away. Everything behind them was deserted, empty.

Marty ran down and opened the door. Nobody in sight. Knowing this would be another thing he'd later regret, Marty ran to the northern side.

Alright, as you can tell, this clashes with what I've written earlier. Well, I'm going to be rewriting a lot of that later. Anyway, I think this is the most depressing chapter yet. You guys like it?

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Oh, hai thar.

Second Chapter remade, you can find it on Fanfiction.net/.

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Now that I cancelled the Sunshine LP stuff, I suppose I should get back to the whole Darkness Shines business, huh? Fanfiction.net/ is a bust, so it's back to here for all the stuff I write. Haven't written anything new in a while, so while I'm busy rereading all the old stuff I wrote, to catch up, I'll upload the remade chapters (or I guess scenes, since this thing is more so intended to be like a movie than a book/story) that I uploaded on FF back in- what? November?

Mushroom Kingdom

"And did you see me?" Luigi yelled to Mario, Peach, and Toad, while they crossing a grassy, mushroom-filled meadow. "I was all like BANG! BOOM! And Bowser's all like, Noooooo! And that's how I was able to distract and defeat Bowser while you guys saved the princess!"

"Luigi," Mario rolled his eyes. "You passed out the moment you saw Bowser up close." The others snickered at this.

Luigi scoffed. "I like my take better. And I'm sure Princess Daisy will too." Mario rolled his eyes again.

"I can't wait to get back to my castle." Princess Peach sighed. "It's so nice, so relaxing, so cozy." She stopped and turned to Mario. "Have I thanked you yet?"

"Only a million times, Princess!" Mario smiled, and Toad laughed behind them. It was nice to have Peach around them. She was so nice!

"Almost to the castle, guys!" Toad yelled. "I see it over the hills!"

"Finally, some rest and relaxa-" Mario started, but suddenly his phone went off. "Hello?" He asked.

"MARIO!" A voice screamed on the other end. It was Toadsworth. "Mario, you have to go to Isle Delfino now! Something's up. I haven't heard from their senate for a whole month now! I think something's up!"

"Really? Are you sure?" Mario asked.

"Yes. Take the Princess with you too. The farther away she gets from the Kingdom, the better. You know that Bowser, never giving up."

"Now, just a second. I don't think-" Mario started, but Toadsworth had hung up. Mario sighed, and turned to the others. "C'mon, guys. We need to head off to Isle Delfino. Toadsworth things something's up."
They ran to the airstrip, where the Princess's Pink Jet was.

"So, what's going on?" Princess Peach asked.

"I dunno. Toadsworth says contact with Isle Delfino has been cut off for a month, so he just wants us to investigate." Mario replied, buckling himself in.

A voice went off on the jet's loudspeaker. "This is your captain speaking. We'd like to remind you that... blah blah blah..." There actually wasn't a captain, it was an automated voice. The entire jet actually ran on Auto-Pilot.

Nearby, Luigi began to fall asleep next to Toad, who already was asleep.

"I wonder if something is wrong with Isle Delfino," Peach contemplated. "We haven't gotten any food or grain imported from them for a long time."

Mario shrugged, and tipped his hat over his eyes, indicating he would doze off. Peach sighed and looked out the window at the Mushroom Kingdom's sunny skies. She didn't know that there would be no sunny skies at the Island, nor might there ever be again. Five minutes later, the jet took off and soared into the skies.

Peach decided to take a nap too, and rested her head on Mario's shoulder. Despite being asleep, a trace of a smile was imprinted on the plumber's face.

Everyone woke with a start as the plane rumbled through a spot of turbulence, less than 300 miles away from the island. Mario sighed, and got a glimpse of the outside. It was completely dark and cloudy above, rain starting to sprinkle down, until it turned into a full-fledged rainstorm. Was that hail? From that high, Mario couldn't tell.

"Mama Mia..." Luigi moaned in his seat.

"You okay?" Mario asked.

Luigi nodded his head. "Yeah, just a bad nightmare. All this talk of something bad on Isle Delfino got into my head and made it was than ever."

Peach looked concerned. "Do you remember any of it?"

"Nope. Well, something about a giant beast, or maybe there was more of them. They attacked everyone- including us." Luigi said, then his eyes widened. "Oh yeah, I didn't mention, we were there."

"Well, we're here now." Mario pointed out the window, the Delfino Airstrip close now.

"I'm so tired of sitting." Toad groaned, and stretched his limbs. Luigi continued to tell about his dream, although nobody really listened.

"Oh yeah, and I was flying too..."

Delfino Airstrip

Finally, the plane touched the ground and came to a slow stop. The automated voice on the loudspeaker started up, telling that it was time to unbuckle their seatbelts, and "Thanks for flying Mushroom Airlines!"

Mario opened the door, and they walked out onto the wet cement of the airstrip.

Peach frowned uneasily. "Where is everyone?"

Mario shrugged.

"It was raining pretty hard a few minutes ago. Perhaps they went inside." Toad suggested. They all agreed with this and walked over to the tower.

"Hello?" Mario looked inside, but it was empty. "Nobody." Mario confirmed to the others. "Maybe we-"

"HALT!" A booming voice exclaimed behind them. Everyone jumped a little and looked behind them. A tall, large pianta in some sort of formal suit and sunglasses approached. Mario ran up to them.

"Oh thank goombas you're here, there's nobody-" Mario started, but the Pianta interrupted him by slapping him to the ground.

"MARIO!" Peach yelled in horror as Luigi and Toad ran to his defense, but the Pianta had not come alone. Three more Piantas in black suits, stopped them and put the three of them in handcuffs. Peach watched in shock until she heard a click and discovered another Piuanta behind her had snuck up and got her as well.

"What's going on here?" Mario yelled out loud.

The largest Pianta, the one that had slapped him, answered: "You are all under government arrest. Please come with us."

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The other remade scene I posted on FF.net/

"Get in there, you!" The Piantian soldier shoved Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Toad into a small, dark prison cell. They were in some sort of underground cavern, with cables running along the floors and walls everywhere and dim, flickering lights hanging from the ceilings.

Mario groaned and rubbed his cheek. "W-where are we?" He asked cautiously. The soldier ignored him and slammed the cell door shut. Now, it was practically pitch black, besides the ever-so-flickering light in the corner of the cell.

None of this made sense to any of them. They were under government arrest, but why? What had they done?

"I wanna go hooooome..." Luigi moaned as he curled up on the floor, but everybody else mostly just ignored him.

"What do we do now?" Peach asked, and Mario shrugged in reply.

"Just wait for something, I guess?" Mario suggested. Everybody else took this in painful silence, and they all curled up on the floor. They all knew nothing would happen.

But 3 hours later, something did happen.

"Hey!" A voice shrieked in the darkness of the room as Mario was smacked across the face with the top of some sort of gun. Mario opened his eyes, and saw two very angry soldiers looking straight down at him.

"May I help you?" Mario asked, though he figured it wasn't good to talk back to people like this. The two soldiers grabbed the plumber's soldiers and forcefully hoisted him up to his feet.

"Come on, tubby. Your friends are waiting." A soldier pointed past the open door and into a long hallway, where Mario caught a glimpse of the others being pushed along the hallway.

"Hey! What are you doing?" Mario asked, almost shouting it.

For the first time, Mario actually got in answer.

"You and all your friends will be held in a court of Government Law. Nobody will be there to help you. Now move along!"

Mario was amazed at the room when he was led into it. It was another room made of rock, but it was larger and had brilliant rays of light coming through small openings towards the top of the walls. Knowing better than to say or ask something stupid, he simply sat down next to his friends. Peach gave Mario a quick look full of fear from the corner of her eye, but Mario just tried to focus and look ahead.

Military court, or whatever they had said it was offically named, looked a whole let wierder then any court case Mario has seen on TV, on shows like "Judge Shroomy". There was no jury, no defense, no lawyer for them, just the prosecution. Mario, Peach, Luigi, and Toad all had a bad feeling about this.

They must've waited for a half-hour or so when three old, powerful-looking piantas walked in, wearing cloaks to conceal their whole bodies, face included. Everyone was forced to stand up and bow at the appearance of these piantas, until one in a dark red cloak said "Dismissed." Everybody sat down, as well as the three piantas at three golden chairs, possibly... thrones?

None of this made any sense to Mario. The arrest, the secret underground military base, or the court. But none of this compared to what would happen next.

The three piantas whispered to each other, and for a bit, they glared directly at Mario, and then continued. Mario could not hear all of what they were saying, but what he heard sent excruciating rage through his veins.

"The One in Red will cause the most trouble of all, says the President. He fears the One in Red will lead the new rebellion." One whispered.

The other two nodded their heads and looked down upon the four.

"Now wait just a minute!" Mario immediately jumped up and slammed his fist on the table, startling Luigi, who had begun to doze off. "What do you mean, rebellion? Why me? WHO'S THE PRESIDENT!" Mario yelled before several rushing soldiers grabbed him and handcuffed him.

The three piantas looked dissapointed, as if he had failed some sort of test, and now all of the others had failed as well.

After a short silence, a Pianta in a blue cloak stood up and cleared his throat. Mario had not been carried out of the room, but was surrounded by soldiers holding guns and tasers.

"We three Elder Piantas... find these four guilty. They will each be executed tomorrow at 0900 hours, by beheading. Is that clear?"

The soldiers may have agreed, but this did was not clear to Mario or the others. They each tried to get up and yell something, but they were all hushed.

"What do you mean guilty? Of what?"

"What do you mean Mario will cause a rebellion?"

"What the heck does 0900 hours mean?"

"Beheading? Ohhhh..."

Mario heard a thud and figured Luigi had fainted. Moments later, the four of them were grouped together and were led to their cell. Peach carried the unconscious Luigi, and gave Mario another look of worry. This time, he returned it, and attemped to put a caring hand on her shoulder, something that would say it would be alright.

"No touching!" A soldier behind them ordered.

Peach, Luigi, and Toad sat down ont he cold, damp floor of their cell as Mario banged his fist against the large metal door.

"OPEN UP!" Mario shouted repeatedly, but nothing.

"It's probably soundproof." Toad threw out, helpfully. Mario sighed and sat down with the others. It was hopeless, they were all doomed to die. That's when Luigi's head perked up.

"Hey... do you hear that?" Luigi asked. Everybody went silent and listened hard.

"I do hear it!" Toad exclaimed. "But what is it?"

"Sounds like... a drill?" Peach was puzzled. Suddenly, a hole appeared at the corner of the cell, and a large cloud of dirt and dust exploded out of the hole. Mario and the others coughed and rubbed their eyes, and looked at the hole, now clear of the cloud of dirt.

"What is that?" Luigi asked.

"Looks like a tunnel." Mario said. "But why-?"

"MARIO!" A Noki's head immediately popped out of the hole, holding a drill-like contraption. Everybody jumped back in surprise. There was confusion for a second, until Mario came to a realization.

"Wait a minute- you're the Grandson of the Noki Elder!" Mario recognized him. The Grandson gave a quick smile, but returned to his serious face. "Listen, we have very little time to get out of here, and I have none to explain, but you guys have to come with me! Quick!"

They considered this for a moment, but knew getting led to another secret location was better than getting beheaded. They began to climb down into the tunnel when the sirens went off.

"Go, go, GOOO!" The Grandson yelled and the four ran off into the direction of the tunnel. He watched them dissappear into the tunnel's darkness, and turned around. The metal door slammed open as solders rushed toward him.

The Noki Grandson did nothing but threw a grenade towards the incoming soldiers. They reacted too late, and the Grandson disappeared down the hole as a rumbling explosion occured. He stopped for a minute, and set down a silver suitcase-like object with a countdown of 10 seconds on it. A bomb.

"That'll keep them." He muttered to himself as he ran down the tunnel, trying to catch up with the others.

The bomb went off.

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And for the first time since December. Sheesh. Well, the first part was with Toadsworth, and the second part with Marty, so now, let's just continue to see what's happened to Mario!

If there was one thing Mario liked about being imprisoned, it was the sleep. Sleep came easy to him in a horrible place like this, believe it or not, because his jail cell was pitch black. Sleep was an escape, an escape to wild lands and exciting events, and old memories. Every night Mario slept, he dreamed of Peach, Luigi, Toad, and all of his other friends.

Mario hated sleep too. Because every morning, he was forcibly woken up with a bucket of ice cold water splashed on his face. Like right that second, for one instance.

Mario gasped for air and flew himself of the stone floor, and stumbled over to the closest wall. As soon as he remembered where he was and fully woke up, he turned around to see a Prison Guard, smirking, holding a now empty bucket. Mario couldn't exactly tell what species the guard was. He was no pianta, nor noki, nor tanooki, not even human.

"Wakie wakie." The guard muttered in a baby-ish and laughed cruelly at his own little joke. Mario sighed and, at gunpoint from the guard, trudged out of his cell in shackles and a prison jumpsuit.

-

So, for the past four days, Mario was held in the chambers of President Chuck Ster, which apparently was also a prison. He wasn't the only inmate either. Mario walked into the prison cafeteria, where he found himself facing a good twenty or thirty other prisoners, and a lot of guards. There were at least several of them on ground level, but there were at least twice that many above on a high-above catwalk.

Over the past few days, Mario had decided to make a game of how many expressions he could find on the inmates.

Sadness: 13
Resentment: 5
Fear: 9
Determination: 3
Glee: 1

Mario was genuinely surprised that every day, one inmate always smiled. But looking closer at the inmate, the smile was less happiness and joy and moreso psychotic, as if saying "Im'ma rip all of your limbs off!" So Mario avoided him, like every other inmate who had the will strong enough to live. But not all of them did.

Mario grabbed a tray full of dried fruit and looked around, and found himself face to face with two Nokis who had befriended him. They were twins, Reynold and Glenn. And they all shared a secret plan. He walked over and sat down next to them. They were the only people sitting at the table.

"Is it time yet?" Mario asked in a hushed voice. Reynold looked around, scanning the room. Being the brains of the trio, he calculated whether or not they had a decent chance of performing the plan correctly, and surviving long enough to escape afterward.

"I think so." Reynold answered, and Glenn nodded. They had been planning their idea long before Mario had even arrived to the inner chambers.

Mario, well aware of what they were about to do, nodded. He picked up his tray of dried up, leftover fruit and walked over to the only guard that was next to the entrance. The guard, just a little taller than Mario, looked down at the plumber.

"Whaddya you want?" He scowled.

Mario slyly looked up at the guard, distracting him. "Hey, guess what?" The guard regarded Mario suspiciously.

"...What?"

"Chicken butt." SLAM! Mario brought up the tray at lightning speed and slammed it across the guard's face. He was hit with such force that the guard spun around a few times before falling to the ground unconcsious. Mario, as fast as he had knocked him out, fell to the ground and searched the guard's pockets before finding a collection of keys. Mario sprinted to the large entrance door and opened it, all before any guards could reach him.

Glenn stood up on a table and shouted, "PRISON BREAK!"

And then chaos took over. Mario, Glenn, and Reynold all ran out the door into the hallways, with many other escaping prisoners and guards on their way. Many other prisoners and the guards all ran down the labyrinth of hallways, but Mario and the two Nokis stopped at the door to an empty room and hid inside before the others caught up.

The three turned and found that they were not actually in a room, but instead in an old stairwell. A dim red light tinted everything in the room. They, one by one, raced down the stairwell and opened the only door at the bottom of the stairs. At first it wouldn't budge, but with the combined strength of the three of them, the door pulled backwards and opened.

Mario, Glenn, and Reynold all looked at what lay ahead of them. Mario, not even fully realizing he had opened his mouth, answered the question of where they were.

"The Maze of Death."

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For those who have been following the Darkness Shines story, I would like to give a quick thank you. As for continuing the story, I will be trying to get some more chapters out soon. Next chapter will be for developing our antagonist, President Chuck Star and explore his motives a bit more, so he's not just some two-dimensional evil guy.

I use too many commas. You might say I have- Obsessive Comma Disorder.

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So guys, guess who has writer's block?