Maro & Drenched

Maro & Drenched are a pair of Mario-based Horrorbrews created by MX-Enthusiast. They serve as their creator's personal take on a "Mario Mix" of Hog & Scorched.
Maro is a rip-off of Mario hailing from a bootleg game called "Maro's Super Duper Lands", while Drenched is the actual Mario who almost got erased in a universal overlap when the bootleg game was placed in a Nintendo console, and now he shares a body with Maro while desiring revenge on the guy for replacing him.
==Appearance==
===Maro===
Being a bootleg version of Mario, Maro has a similar look to the iconic Nintendo character, being a short and stout human man wearing a shirt and matching cap, overalls and brown shoes and sporting a mustache. Unlike Mario, Maro's shirt and cap are coral-colored, his overalls are a paler blue, his shoes are a paler brown, his hair is a lighter brown, and his mustache is brown instead of black. The emblem on his cap is also bare, and he wears mittens rather than gloves.
===Mario/Drenched===
Mario used to look the way his canon self does, but being trapped in the void changed his appearance: His skin is paler, his eye sockets are wider, his hair is now black instead of brown, as well as unkempt, and his clothes are darker.
As Drenched, Mario is taller and slightly skinnier, with a longer mustache, messier hair, and a mouth full of sharp teeth. His clothes are now soaking wet, along with his hair, and his skin, which is now tinted slightly blue. What were originally mittens worn by Maro turn into clawed gloves for Drenched. The emblem on his cap remains bare.
==Personality==
Maro acts a lot like Mario does: Polite, jovial and always ready to save the day when there's trouble.
Drenched lacks none of Mario's original personality due to the universal overlap and his time in the void completely twisting his mind. The incident turned him into a bitter and highly irritable monster who is still hurting from the loss of his home world and loved ones, and now his focus is entirely on revenge on Maro and his peers for replacing him.
==Biography==
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The story begins with a small group of anonymous individuals creating a blatant bootleg Mario game christened "Maro's Super Duper Lands", complete with code mainly copied from Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World as well as some aspects from Super Mario 64, a cast of characters that all blatantly rip off Mario and his pals. The group had the bootleg game's cartridge hooked to a Game Boy Advance with a copy of Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World, to see if their game was compatible with the console and if they could potentially use their creation as an add-on to insert content from the bootleg into the copy of Super Mario Advance 2.
Linking the two games resulted in a complete mess of similar coding colliding into each other and an overlap of the canon Mario universe and the bootleg Maro universe. The overlap led to a lot of different assets, enemies and characters getting placed into a Void where they were stored and had their code stripped from them to be reused for later. The process kills the cast immediately once they enter the Void, leaving their bodies to rot in the empty space. This affected everyone except for Mario, as the bootleg game's code reused the pre-existing code for his controls and added on some additional abilities, allowing him to stay alive even after being tossed into the Void.
After initially waking up in the Void, Mario looked around in confusion at his surroundings, with nothing but chunks of terrain and fragments of power-ups all floating around in a barren space, as well as random numbers and letters giving the impression of clouds. As Mario explored the place, he noticed his surroundings got even stranger: the ground was littered with the lifeless bodies of galoombas, koopas and other enemies, some of which were missing body parts and flesh. It wasn't pleasant to look at, and felt like something out of a nightmare. Eventually, Mario found Luigi standing in front of him with his back turned. At first, he was delighted to see his brother, but his joy quickly turned to despair when he got closer and turned Luigi around only to be greeted with a decomposing face devoid of life. "Mamma mia!" Mario shouted in horror before averting his eyes as tears began to drip down his face. He looked around for a 1UP mushroom in hopes that would save Luigi's life, but had no luck in finding any. Mario then continued to press on through the Void asking himself how this all happened and determined to find whoever was responsible for his brother's death. It was a long search, for the Void is a large place with very spacious areas. Minutes of exploring and search turned became hours and hours became days, and the passage of time was definitely taking its toll on Mario. He felt drained.
Eventually, Mario found the bodies of Yoshi, Princess Peach and Bowser, all of whom were disfigured in similar ways to Luigi, with Yoshi missing the tip of his tail, Peach missing her hands and Bowser having a gaping hole in his gut. By that point, Mario was so exhausted that he couldn't feel anything towards their deaths.
At that point, Mario felt like giving up. He sat down and thought back to the good ol' days of traversing the different terrains with Luigi, riding on Yoshi's back and jumping over large pits with his assistance, defeating Bowser and saving Peach. He missed those days very much. As if that wasn't bad enough, he was also starting to hallucinate, hearing things like the footsteps of Goombas and Koopas, the gentle breeze of wind, etc. Then, Mario heard a voice he recognised very well:
"Ready for this, bro?"
"Luigi, is that you?" Mario asked hopefully as he followed the voice and noticed a shining light to his left. He then headed as fast as he could towards the light, despite his exhaustion making running rather painful.
"Come on, you're almost there!"
"I'mma coming, Luigi!" Mario shouted as tears of joy streaked down his face and he stretched out his arms. Then suddenly, he stopped. In front of Mario was a large screen, and on the screen he saw someone that looked a little like Luigi but clearly wasn't Luigi, and yet he had the familiar voice. 
"You made it! That wasn't so hard, was it Maro?"
"No it wasn't, Lugi. Boser's fortress is closer with every step." An unfamiliar voice replied to the first one. The voice belonged to a short and stout man who dressed a lot like Mario but clearly wasn't him, with a small mustache, lighter colored clothes and a hat with a blank patch. This was Maro, the protagonist of "Maro's Super Duper Lands", accompanying his brother Lugi on their quest to save Princess Pach from the diabolical villain Boser.
"WHAT IS-A THIS?" Mario shouted in shock at what he was seeing, before covering his mouth in case Maro or Lugi heard him, but they didn't. "Who do these-a jokers think they are?" he asked as he took his hands off his mouth and looked at the lookalikes in confusion. Mario then observed the actions of Maro and Lugi as they made their way through the "Super Duper Lands", and all the while his confusion from before had turned to anger, as all he saw was a pair of no-names having taken over his life while he was stuck in a barren place all by himself. He tried making contact with them by waving his hands, calling out their names, clapping his hands and stomping his feet, but to no avail. They never heard him. Once he even tried to reach through the screen, but it felt like he was putting his hand on a wall.
"It's like looking through a funhouse mirror", Mario muttered to himself. "There must be a way to make contact with them. I just gotta figure out what it is, and then I'll teach that Maro guy what happens to those who dare to replace Mario." He then sighed, "I miss you, bro..."
Shortly after he said this, Mario heard what seemed to be footsteps around him. It caught him completely off guard, for he thought he was alone in the Void. He turned around and slowly walked towards the source of the footsteps, in hopes that maybe if there was someone else in here, they could help him escape. After a bit of walking, Mario came across a silhouette. At first, the silhouette didn't look familar, but then a glimmering light revealed who it was: Luigi, who seemed to still be alive and without a single hint of decay or decomposition in his skin or his clothing. "Luigi? Is it-a really you?" Mario asked with complete astonishment, "How are you here? I thought you were dead!"
"Hey bro." Luigi replied in a somber tone. Mario jumped and gave Luigi a big hug. "Oh BOY, am I happy to see you're alright, bro! Now come one, let's-a get outta here. Do you know where the exit-"
"MARIO!" Luigi shouted, interrupting his brother, before clearing his throat, "You don't have-a much time left."
"What are you talking about?"
"Take a look." Luigi pointed to a mirror that was suddenly right next to them. Mario walked over to the mirror and stared at his reflection.
"Well, I'mma not seeing anything wrong. I mean, I do look pretty worn out, but- MAMMA MIA!" In a quick flash of light, the reflection revealed Mario's true appearance: His skin had turned pale, hollow and wrinkly, his eye sockets had widened, while the pupils of his eyes had dilated heavily to the point where they made his eyes look pitch black. his hair had turned black and his clothes were darker and felt stiff. His mouth had also widened due to his laps cracking. Mario could feel his overall figure was much skinnier underneath his clothes, having lost weight from malnutrition.
"What's-a happening to me?" Mario asked in horror.
"You're rotting away, Mario. This place is slowly killing you." Luigi answered. "You need-a to get out of here, or else you'll fade into nothing."
"But how do I do that? I have tried everything I could think of. Nothing's worked!"
"Not everything." Luigi walked over to the screen and distorted it with a touch.
"What's-a happening?"
"I'm giving you the answer." Luigi took his arm away from the screen, revealing a pointy-looking yellow object, glowing brightly and sporting a smile on its face. This was an Energy Schtar, the equivalent of the Power Star in Maro's universe. Mario had seen Maro collect them before, but didn't play much attention to it back then.
"How's-a that thing supposed to help me?" Mario asked in confusion.
"It'll connect you to their world. If you can-a manage to break the barrier between here and their world, you'll be able to go over there and make your presence known."
"And how am I gonna break a barrier that I don't even-a know about while stuck in the middle of NOWHERE?" Mario was frustrated.
"You'll-a figure it out soon, bro." Luigi replied with little to no emotion and walked away, as if his job were finished.
"Wait, Luigi! Don't-a go! Come back!" Mario called out as he tried to run after him, only to trip from a sharp pain he felt in his legs. The Void was really taking its toll on him now, and it was harder to ignore than before, though the only thing that hurt more was the fact that he was alone again. Mario made his way back over to the screen and continued to observe Maro's actions, waiting for him come across a Energy Schtar so he could figure how to break the barrier he was told about. As he waited, he experienced more encounters with familiar figures. First it was Peach, who told Mario he was running out of time just like Luigi did, but also encouraged him not give up, saying she was confident he could figure out how escape the Void, reminding him of how he and Luigi were able to traverse the many difficult worlds in order to rescue her from Bowser before giving him a kiss on the cheek and taking her leave. Then it was Yoshi, who observed Maro's world alongside Mario in silence but Mario could tell through the dino's facial expressions that he was being told that his time was running out and he needed to try harder to find a way out of the Void. Mario at that point was stumped. He felt like his mind was unraveling, and he could hear the constant echoes of his friends' voices, all of them telling him that he was running out of time. In particular, Luigi's voice was the loudest, and Mario kept thinking about his words on the Energy Schtar while wondering how he was supposed to use it in order to "break the barrier", not helping matters was the fact that it had been a while since the last time he saw Maro collect one. And then the final figure approached him: Bowser.
"Hello, Mario. Or, whatever's left of you."
Mario heard the Koopa King's words, but kept his focus on the screen while sitting in silence.
"Your time is almost up, but I imagine you already heard that before..."
Bowser then walked behind Mario and took a look into the distance.
"Heh, this place would've made for a PERFECT scheme. Sending you and your timid brother here to wither away and lose your minds while I would have the Mushroom Kingdom and Peach all to myself. Truly a delight, wouldn't you agree?"
Mario ignored Bowser's words and continued to look at the screen. The Koopa King hunched over and took a look for himself.
"Hmph, look at them. It angers you, doesn't it? How they stole your identity and jumped away with it? How they've replaced you as the hero? Face it, Mario. Your game is over. You've been left behind, forgotten."
Mario, having had it, stood up and looked Bowser dead in the face.
"And how am I to know you're not-a messing with me right now? That you're not just mocking me, like you always do? I'm not letting you ever get the best of me. Not in a million years."
"And yet", Bowser replied with a smug grin as he gestured to the screen, "It seems someone else already has."
Mario sat back down in front of the screen.
"You can ignore my words if you want, but the fact is, you can no longer tell what's real and what isn't."
"Shut up." Mario said with clenched teeth.
"You're losing yourself, Mario. It's so obvious that it's hilarious."
"Shut Uuuup", Mario said, louder this time while putting his hands over his ears, trying to ignore Bowser.
"And soon enough, you'll cease to be. You're already not looking quite like you used too. Who's to say how much time you actually have left?"
"SHUT UP!" Mario shouted as he jumped at Bowser with his fist stretched out, ready to punch the Koopa King right in the face, only to miss and land on the ground. He had been hallucinating the whole time.
"I'm not going crazy, I'm not going crazy, I'm not going crazy", Mario repeated repeated to himself over and over as he gripped his head. After a few minutes, he screamed. A scream so loud it echoed throughout the Void.
A lot of time had passed since. Mario didn't know how long, but at that point he wasn't bothered by it. His focus was solely on how to break the barrier. He still hadn't seen Maro use a Energy Schtar since before he was approached by the figures, and he could still hear their voices echoing throughout his mind, all saying the same thing: "You're running out of time." Mario really couldn't take it anymore. He kept kneeling and gripping his head trying to drown out the visions and their voices, to no avail.
Then one day, Mario heard something on the other end of the screen.
"Alright Lugi, the Energy Schtar is at the other end of this series of perilous jumps. Once we grab it, we will be able to move on from this crazy place and be a step closer to defeating Boser!"
At the mention of the Energy Schtar, Mario stood right up, eyes open wide. At that point, he had an understanding of what was going on. At least to him, this was the truth.
"That's it. Of course. It's all so clear!" Mario said with a giggle. "All this time, you've been-a mocking me. Laughing over how I've been suffering here while you have what was once mine! How you've replaced me, my brother, my friends, my enemies, everything!"
A smile spread across Mario's decaying face as he started to laugh.
"Well, I'll show you. I'll show you how it feels to lose it all! I'mma gonna make you PAY. I will FLOOD YOUR WORLD WITH THE WAVES OF MY PAIN AND RESTORE MINE FROM THE SALTY DEPTHS! BUT FIRST, I'LL DESTROY ALL THAT YOU HOLD DEAR! MAKE YOU SHIVER AND CRY UNDER MY FEET! I'LL SHOW YOU ALL!"
Mario stopped and took a breath before storming up to the screen, which was displaying Maro preparing to jump across platforms high above raging water.
"You thought you could just replace me, Signor Maro, but I won't let you!"
Mario clenched his hands into tight fists and bashed them into the ground.
"I'MMA GONNA GETCHA IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO!"
Eventually, Maro and Lugi had reached the other side of the platforms, and the Energy Schtar was right in front of them. Mario watched with intense concentration. By then, whatever was left of Mario was long gone. The same thoughts were jumping around his mind: How to get rid of the rip-offs, to restore his world and finally return to his original, normal life. By any means necessary, he would pull it off.
As he stared at the screen, Mario then noticed something he had never noticed before throughout all the time he'd spent in the Void. Through the sky, Mario saw what appeared to be a bar on top of the screen, and looking closer noticed himself sitting and viewing the screen, as if it was from a lower angle.
It quickly dawned on Mario where the barrier was: Right below him. This whole time.
Mario looked at the screen again, and saw Maro about to grab the Energy Schtar. His time was running out. If he didn't catch it now, he'd have to wait until the next Energy Schtar, which would certainly take a long time.
This was it, his chance to finally break free of this hell. Mario jumped on the ground as hard as he could. Didn't make a dent. He tried the corkscrew jump. Still not even a scratch. Mario panicked for a brief moment, but then he knew how else to break the barrier: Ground Pounding. He jumped, did a flip, and slammed the ground with his rear as hard as he could. Cracks started to form. It was working. He repeated the process, slamming the ground with his rear repeatedly, with every landing denting the ground even further. With each pound, Mario could feel the pressure on his bones. They were snapping and cracking one by one, but despite the pain, he continued to push on.
"Come on, break! BREAK, DARN YOU!"
The moment got more and more tense the closer Maro was to the Energy Schtar. Eventually the final ground pound did the trick, and the barrier broke. Mario felt himself falling out of the sky, passing through several clouds before landing conveniantly on the Energy Schtar.
Everything went white as a jingle played and words flashed on the screen: "YOU GOT AN ENERGY SCHTAR!"
Suddenly, Mario opened his eyes. He looked around. It seemed like the nightmare was over. His body was no longer in the severely pained state it was in for the amount of time he was imprisoned. However, something wasn't right, but Mario couldn't quite put his finger on it. But then he noticed his hands. "Huh? These aren't my gloves..."
"Hey Maro, did you get the Energy Schtar?" Lugi called out.
"Maro? That's not my name-" Mario continued to observe his torso, his shoes and the mittens on his hands. This wasn't right. He was no longer Mario. He was now controlling Maro's body. His plan had worked, but not as he hoped it would.
"No, NO, NO! This isn't right! What-a happened to my body-" As he shouted over his predicament, Mario didn't realise he was walking and then suddenly, he had moved off of the platform, and was now falling down, down, down into the rushing water below.
●SPLASH●
"MARO!" Lugi called out in anguish as he saw his brother fall to what would certainly be certain death.
But then, shortly after the splash, the water stopped rushing, almost as if it had been paused. Then, it started to rise. Lugi watched in complete disbelief as the water rose higher and higher until was it almost at the height of the platform.
"Maro?" Lugi called out hesitantly, still comprehending what he was seeing. Then, a hand emerged from the water, but this wasn't Maro's hand. It looked like Mario's hand but it wasn't exactly that either. It seemed to have sharp claws for fingers, nevermind the fact that it was soaking wet. The hand felt around until its fingers were on Lugi's feet. It then suddenly reached upwards and snatched him by the neck, as the figure the hand belonged to emerged from the water. He wasn't Maro. He was taller, with darker clothes, gloved hands, bigger nose and mustache, but his cap still didn't have an emblem and his clothes were soaking wet while his eyes looked pitch black.
"Wh-who or what a-are you?" Lugi barely managed to say as he was being choked.
"It's-a me, MARIO!" The being responded as he tightened his grip around Lugi's neck. "And YOU aren't my dear-a brother Luigi. You KILLED HIM AND YOU'RE JUST PRETENDING TO BE HIM!"
"Wh-what are you ta-lking ab-b-bout?" Lugi stammered as he felt his breath getting squeezed out of his lungs.
"DON'T LIE TO ME! YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID! YOU'RE-A GONNA PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO LUIGI, YOU LITTLE-" But before he could finish his sentence, suddenly Mario stopped. He let go of Lugi and felt himself collapse on the floor and blackout.
"Wh-wha...?" Maro regained conciousness as he found himself on the ground, in the spot where Mario had collapsed. He was back to normal, and his clothes had dried. The water went back down to the bottom of the platforms and resumed rushing rapidly like before. Maro immediately turned his attention to Lugi, who was catching his breath from the strangling he experience earlier.
"Brother, what happened? Are you okay?"
"No, I'm not okay. What happened to YOU? You just fell into the water all of a sudden, and then the water started rising, and then this freak popped out of it, and he said his name was 'Mario' and he was choking me and now he's gone and now you're suddenly here again!"
"I-I haven't a clue what happened to me. It's like I blinked and then suddenly I wasn't in control of my own body. I'm just as confused as you are."
"Well, whatever that was, I hope it doesn't happen again. That was horrifying..."
"Okay. Let us rest for a bit, then we shall resume collecting the Energy Schtars. And if this 'Mario' guy shows up again, I'll teach him not to mess with us!"
"Sounds good to me, brother."
The duo leave the scene to find a good spot to rest.
When Mario woke up, he saw his hand was no longer around Lugi's neck and the scenery was non-existant. He was back in the Void. His rage rose to the boiling point and broke.
"NO NO NO NO NO! WHY AM I BACK HERE? I WAS SO CLOSE! WHY-"
Mario stopped himself when he noticed a faint glow to his left. He looked in its direction. No way, he thought. The Energy Schtar was in front of him. He walked towards it, while questioning himself if he'd finally snapped. The closer he got to the Schtar, the more it looked real, almost as if he could pick it up... and he did. Mario started to smile.
"Oh boy, look how you shine. A real beauty. You and I do are gonna do wonders together. I can-a feel it. We just need to collect more. And then, I'll be able to change myself and this world back once and for all."
He looked back at the screen to see Maro and Lugi resting, and stared directly at Maro.
"This is just the beginning. I said I was gonna getcha, and now with this Schtar in my possession, I'mma do just that."
With the Schtar in hand, the similarities between his world and Maro's were more evident. He and Maro were now one and the same. Everytime Maro would collect an Energy Schtar, it would also count as Mario collecting them, and it allowed him to assert his control over the former's body while the world around him started to distort.
By the time Maro had collected 100 Energy Schtars, he blacked out and seemed like he wasn't really there anymore. Mario was now in full control. All he needed to do was collect the rest.
"You thought you could get rid of me, Signor Maro. That you could just run around on your merry little adventure while I lay here on rot. Well, to that I say: Guess what time it is? It's-a time for you TO BE REPLACED!"
Now that he could finally execute his plan of revenge, Mario knew where he was gonna start: Much like the first time he took over Maro's body, Mario reached for Lugi and grabbed him, only this time he was holding the lookalike of his brother by the waist instead of by the neck. Lugi screamed and begged for mercy, but Mario ignore the screams as he stretched Lugi's body until it snapped in half.
"One down, plenty more to go." Mario thought to himself with a devious grin.
Mario continued the journey solo, destroying pretty much everything in his sight, sometimes with his own hands and feet, other times with his water powers, which he'd been experimenting with throughout his journey, and enjoyed the capabilities they gave him. At one point, he came across a green reptile with an orange saddle and a forked tongue that called itself "Yohi", which Mario immediately recognised was this world's version of Yoshi. Humoring himself, he rode on the Yohi's back for one of the levels, only to dismount from it at a pit for which the jump to get across wasn't even that big.
Eventually, he reached the fortress of King Boser with all of the Super Duper Lands' Energy Schtars in his possession. Rather than enter the fortress and climb to the top, Mario decided to summon a wave big enough to knock it down. As the force of the water washed away the fortress, Mario looked up to the sky and down floated what looked like a copter car with a mime's face on it, and sitting in the car was Boser, who stared in shock at the scenery below him.
"Well, that's an annoying new trick you got there, Maro."
"Maro is-a not here, you cheap Koopa King copy. I am-a Mario, and I'mma here to kill you, just like everything and everyone else in this miserable world that dared to rip off my own."
"I wouldn't know anything about this 'Koopa King' or 'world of your own', but either way, your journey ends here, you drenched freak!"
Mario looked at himself in respones to Boser's words. "Drenched" was certainly an accurate description, for he was indeed soaking wet, with some parts of his clothes being covered with more water than others. He quickly looked back up and stared at the monarch and his Mime Copter Car with a look that could pierce the soul. While a little put off at said look, Boser remained calm and immediately proceeded to toss a cluster of explosives down at Mario, which all detonated at the same time and engulfed him in a cloud of smoke and flashing light. Boser, thinking he had won the fight, laughed in celebration, only to stop when the smoke cleared and he saw not only was Mario very much alive, the explosions hadn't affected him even a little bit. Mario grinned a huge grin, revealing a mouth full of sharp teeth.
"MY turn."
He waved his hand, and suddenly a heavy rainstorm engulfed the scene, followed by another wave, bigger than the previous one, which splashed with enough force to knock Boser out of his Mime Copter Car as well send flying the vehicle's other occupant: Princess Pach, lover of Maro, crush of Boser and the world's equivalent of Princess Peach, who eventually landed far away in the sea, never to be seen again.
Having landed on his back after the wave attack, Boser struggled to get back on his very stubby feet as Mario slowly approached him.
"I-is there a chance for m-m-mercy perhaps?" the king stammered with a sheepish smile.
"No." Mario answered bluntly. "I'mma gonna enjoy this one in particular..."
Mario stretched out his arm, and curled his fingers. Suddenly, Boser felt a sharp pain as his arms twisted and bended in very uncomfortable ways.
"H-HOW A-A-ARE YO-OU DOIIIIING THIS?!" Boser cried out in between screams of agony.
"That's-a easy. My abilities of controlling water aren't just for making water rise and fall or summoning rainstorms and big waves" Mario explained with soft-spoken yet sadistic glee, "I can control ALL forms of water. That includes the water in your BLOOD. You are now like a puppet, and I'm the one with the strings. Have a nice fall!" With a series of arm movements, Mario made Boser roll off the mountain and plummet to his doom, hitting many rock formations on the way.
Shortly after the defeat of the final boss, something big and shiny floated down in front of Mario: The Grand Schtar, the final Energy Schtar, and as far as Mario was concerned, the key to restoring his world. As the Grand Schtar finished floating down, Mario stopped the rainstorm and let the clouds part. The sky was clear, but instead of a calm blue accompanied by a shining sun, it was flickering between red and gray, for the world around Mario had been distorted heavily by his actions, but he didn't mind, as he was sure once his world was restored, the sky would be fixed as well.
"This has to work." Mario muttered, as he stretched an arm out to the Schtar and harnessed its power. The Schtar's bright yellow glow pierced the sky like a laser beam, and Mario closed his eyes hard so as to not be blinded by it.
When Mario opened his eyes, the glowing had stopped, and he turned to notice a bunch of figures behind him: Luigi, Peach, Yoshi and Bowser. With the power of the Schtars, he'd brought them back, but not as he'd hoped: To his horror, they'd come back as zombies, looking as lifeless as they did when he found their bodies in the Void, and now they were feasting on the corpse of Boser, which wasn't too far away, for after using the Grand Schtar, Mario had been brought back to the bottom of the mountain. After they finished their feast, the undead remnants of Mario's friends collapsed into dust.
It was only after seeing the state of his friends that Mario suddenly noticed his arms: They were longer, and his hands were bigger. He looked down. He had grown bigger than before, and his clothes were still soaking wet. He also took off his cap to see the emblem was still bare, and felt his teeth were still sharp. The Grand Schtar had twisted his look, which he had already twisted slightly when he took control of Maro's body, only now it was twisted even further. An abomination. He looked around. The world was a complete mess. Everything was glitching and flickering and flashing in different colors.
As he took it in that his plan didn't work, Mario then heard a voice inside his head, shouting "STOP! GET OUTTA MY BODY! GET OUT OF MY BODY! GET OUT!"
Maro had been trying to regain control of his body and dispel Mario's influence ever since the 100th Energy Schtar was collected, but Mario thwarted these attempts up until now. This time, the struggling caused the both of them to seperate in a poof. Mario was back to his state from when he was stuck in the void, and Maro was back in his regular form now that he finally got his body back.
The two got up and locked eyes in deep stares.
"You... you... MONSTER!" Maro shouted as he jumped at Mario and tried to throw a punch. Mario dodged it.
"LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE! MY LANDS. MY FRIENDS. ALL GONE, BECAUSE OF YOU! WHY DID YOU DO ALL OF THIS?!"
"Because YOU STARTED IT!" Mario snapped back as he grabbed Maro by the chest and slammed him onto the ground. "YOU TRIED TO REPLACE ME, MY FRIENDS AND MY WORLD, WHILE LEAVING ME TO ROT IN AN EMPTY SPACE! I HAD BEEN TRAPPED IN A VOID FOR AN ETERNITY, looking for a way out. And when I found it, I tried to restore this world back to what it was before YOU showed up!"
"It DIDN'T have to be like this!" Maro protested. "I could've helped you. My friends could've helped you. Maybe together we could've figured out how to restore your world and your friends, but you took my body and forced me to kill them!"
The two continued to trade blows both physically and verbally, until they stopped to catch their breaths. Then Maro spoke up.
"And now look at what has happened. Everything is going to end, and all because of you. Was it worth it? Did you get what you were looking for, Mr. Mario?"
Mario didn't answer. He didn't even look at Maro.
"Well, are you going to answer me or not?"
After a minute of silence, Mario screamed "IT WASN'T MY CHOICE! I LOST EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE I EVER LOVED!"
"So you chose to take someone ELSE's life?! Because you lost EVERYTHING?!"
"YOU TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME, SIGNOR MARO!"
"And HOW did I do that? What part of ANY OF THIS was MY fault?!"
Mario raised his arm and opened his mouth, as if he was about to reply, only to lower his arm and close his mouth. He didn't know what to say.
"Just as I thought. You don't actually know."
Maro looked away in disappointment as Mario got on his knees and covered his face in his hands, ashamed and crying heavily.
As the glitches around the two of them got worse, Mario's life flashed before his eyes: Him and Luigi going on adventures as brothers-in-arms, jumping on Goombas and collecting coins, riding Yoshi and having him devour enemies, foiling Bowser's evil schemes, and Peach rewarding him with a kiss for rescuing her. All now distant memories lost forever thanks to his reckless endeavors. As he took his hands off his face, Mario saw Maro dejectedly walking away.
"WAIT!" He called out. Maro stopped, but didn't turn around.
"Please, don't-a go", Mario was a complete wreck. "I don't-a want to die alone."
Maro stared at Mario, pondering what to do after hearing his last words. Should he make peace with the monster that killed his friends and destroyed his world, or leave him to suffer the consequences? Before he could make a decision, it was already too late. The glitches around them got worse and worse as the sky turned stormy and Mario summoned one final wave, only this time unintentionally, that engulfed everything in sight until a void was left in place of the "Super Duper Lands".
The destruction was also felt in the real world, as the water summoned by Mario had somehow spilled out of the cartridge and soaked it, along with the console, causing its circuits to corrode until it could no longer function, rendering it unusable and sealing the fates of Mario and his lookalike.
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==Powers & Abilities==
===Both Beings===
*Teleportation: Maro & Drenched both can teleport when nobody is looking at them. For example, one moment one of them is far away, but then you look away and suddenly they're right next to you.
===Maro===
*Being a bootleg/rip-off of Mario, Maro has all of Mario's basic skills, from his agility to his jumping prowess to his corkscrew jump to his access to different powerups that assist him on his journey.
===Drenched===
*Hydrokinesis: Drenched has full control over water, from rain to puddles to big bodies of water like lakes and oceans and even water in the bodies of other beings. This allows him to alter the level of water as he pleases.
*Limb Stretching: Drenched can stretch his limbs out as far as he likes. He uses it to catch his victims mid-chase.
==Weaknesses==
===Maro===
*Maro is very gullible and will believe anything that you tell him. This means he could potentially be duped into jumping into a pit.
===Drenched===
*Drenched may look like he has big, pitch black eyes, but in reality his pupils are just heavily dilated, and as a result he has increased sensitivity to bright lights. Shine a light into his eyes, and he'll be blinded.
==Gallery==
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|-|Current=
Maro + Friends.png|Maro with "The Gang".
Lugi Render.png|Lugi, Maro's brother and Luigi equivalent.
Princess Pach Render.png|Princess Pach, Maro's lover and Princess Peach equivalent.
King Boser Render.png|King Boser, Maro's arch-enemy and Bowser equivalent.
Yohi Render.png|Yohi, Maro's Yoshi equivalent.
Drenched (Void Mario) Render.png|Drenched (Mario) as he appears when not in control of Maro's body.
Drenched (Void Mario) Stage 2.png|Ditto, but after a prolonged stay in the Void.
|-|Outdated/Old=
Maro + Drenched OG Drawing.png|The original drawing of Maro & Drenched.
Drenched Old Render.png|Drenched's old design.
Drenched Angry.png|Guess what time it is? It's-a time for you TO BE REPLACED!
|-|Fan-art=
Drenched Fanart by SkyManta.webp|Art of Drenched by SkyManta. (link)
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==Trivia==
*In Maro's universe, everyone's names are basically the names of their original counterparts but with a letter removed. Prime examples:
**Luigi = Lugi
**Peach = Pach
**Bowser = Boser
**Wario = Waro
**Waluigi = Walugi
**Yoshi = Yohi
**Toad = Toa
*Maro doesn't know he's a bootleg, believing himself to be the real deal. He's also unaware about Drenched inhabiting his body
*Maro has neither an Italian accent nor a Brooklyn accent. His accent is inconsistent. Drenched, due to being Mario, maintains an Italian accent at all times.
*Maro wearing mittens as opposed to gloves is a reference to Mario's sprites from pre-GameCube Mario titles, in which his fingers weren't visible in sprites due to the console limitations.
*Maro does have a mouth, but he doesn't show it often.
*Drenched is always soaking wet, even when he's outside the water for long periods of time, and even if he's standing in the middle of the desert, directly under the light of the sun.
*Drenched can still use powerups like he could before he became corrupted, with the only exception being the Fire Flower, as his new water powers have rendered the powerup redundant.
*Drenched's mustache is very sharp. Even lightly touching it with your finger can easily result in it drawing blood.
Category:Mario-Based
Category:Male
Category:Sonic derivatives
Category:Bootleg