Castle Crashers

> *"Now behave yourselves. Merry Christmas."* -Edgar
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**Castle Crashers** is the seventh episode of *Bowser’s Koopalings* and the fifty-first episode overall. It is also the fifth Bowser’s Koopalings Christmas special. In this episode, Bowser Jr. is left alone at the castle while his father and the Koopalings attend a business party for the weekend, prompting The Shadows to rob the castle.

## Plot

The episode begins with Bowser setting up a meeting with the Koopalings to tell them that he's going to make an appearance at Mushroom City's annual Christmas party next week and invites them along with him, getting them excited except for Mr. Bah Humbug himself, Ludwig. But did warn them not to take the invite as an excuse to puke all over the tables, start food fights, or kiss their Mayor which Bowser did at last year's party. When Larry brings up Junior, the Koopa King decides not to include then Ludwig gets excited about the party. Kamek, Wendy, Lemmy, and Iggy tell Bowser about their problems with his biological son, then again he still isn't sure if Jr thinks he's invited or not, or may or may not tell his ex-wife.

As the four Koopas play their game, Morton and Iggy tell Travis about the Christmas party while Larry is upset that Junior isn't invited. "Speak of the devil", he appears as he is looking forward to making the Koopalings carry him to the halls until Iggy and Morton bring the rumors of Old Man Shivers, the old man who went insane and murdered his family, including his mom for not giving him the right gift, which has Larry spooked. Then Iggy continues that he's looking for more victims as he still has frozen remains, then Travis interrupts him as he doesn't buy it yet it interests Junior as he suggests employing Old Man Shivers to the Castle because he's good at killing people.

Later at the basement of the Shadows' hideout, Mouse and the others are enjoying their beer and pizzas as they plan to heist the treasure from the Royal Koopa Treasury as one of Mouser's spies has informed Mouser that Bowser and the Koopalings are heading to Mushroom City for the party. Overhearing their conversation, Edgar tells them that he's talking with very important people upstairs. As Mouser tells him their plan, Edgar forbids the quartet from doing that because it's not worth it as he prefers to let Bowser bankrupt the Koopa Kingdom on his own. As he notices the smell of pizza, Edgar is given a box and wishes the four a "Merry Christmas". As Tryclyde, Clawgrip, and Fry Guy were bummed out by Edgar's orders, Mouser however defies his orders as he still plans the castle raid.

The next morning, the crowned Koopa prince gets up and tells his father that he's ready for Mushroom City, but no answer. As he kept on looking for the others by his name-callings, he sees on the camera that one of the airships have been stolen before realizing that the others had left without him. Junior goes on a tamper tantrum rampage around the castle, then he realizes that also means, he has the castle to himself and decree himself as King Bowser Koopa III.

Hours later, defying orders from Edgar to not raid the castle, Mouser & crew arrived at the castle in a car, as they are going around the back. When Fryguy asked about the back being protected by security, the useless Security Bros. were having a Christmas Party of their own as a Security Bro leader gets a helmet for Christmas, from Johnny. Then Mouser uses a Bob-omb to boom the pipe bars, as they enter in the castle through the pipe. Meanwhile back in the castle, Junior was looking for a movie to watch and founds "Koopa Kingdom Massacre" as he was watching it with a drink and a bowl of ice cream while sitting on his throne. Laughing at the final girl being chased by a killer, until the killer admits that the mindless violence wasn't worth it, Junior criticizes the ending of the film. To ease his boredom, he goes around Iggy's room to find the person who killed him on Fortnite, before getting scared away by Jaws. Then went into Morton's to eat all his food, until he saw his moldy food. Then went into Ludwig's to read his books, and threw out the "Top Tips on How to be a Good King" book by Cardinal Sylver. Then went into Roy's as he was reading his magazines with women on the cover, then saw his blasters. As Junior took his blaster, he dressed the Mecha Koopas as Koopalings as he prepares for their "execution" until he used it on the wall.

As Mouser gave the cue, Tryclyde was distracted by the Y-Box then Fryguy tells him that they didn't break into the castle to play video games. As the quartet about to go to the throne room to find the Treasury Chamber, they were spooked by the sound of the blaster and fled the castle.

Meanwhile, at the Mushroom City Christmas Party, the Koopalings and Travis were having fun (well, most Koopalings). Larry feels bad for leaving Junior behind, but the others do not. Back at the castle, Junior makes a prank phone call to the Marine Kingdom with Osorio, the magikoopa of the Defense Department as he tells Osorio that the Kaktus Kingdom has attacked the Koopa Castle, although they agree to a truce. Osorio tells him that the Marine Kingdom is sending in reinforcements to help their allies, and then Junior hangs up the phone, laughing. Back at the basement of the hideout, Mouser considers their first attempt a disaster, although Clawgrip found a few coins in the basement and Fryguy swiped a few beers from the fridge. Not caring about their boss' opinion, Mouser plans to go back tomorrow, in the evening before the Koopa family gets back.

As Junior rides in the Clown Snowmobile, he crashes into the wall and it gets destroyed. As he is kicking it, he meets up with Old Man Shivers, and he checks on Junior to see if he's okay. As Junior realizes who that is, the elder tells him that the rumors about him are false, as he turns out to be a man who moved to the once called, Bright Valley with his wife during the reign of King Bowser Koopa I, as both had raised children and eventually their grandchildren. Unfortunately, around 15 years ago before this episode, Old Man Shivers had a fallen out with his eldest son and didn't get to see his family so much as he lost his wife. Despite this, he works at the animal shelter and donates his money to the children's hospital, as Junior is being **VERY** disrespectful to this elder. Old Man Shivers tells him that he would not be surprised to find himself on Santa's naughty list. After his final insult, Junior walks away.

At night time, with no security to stop the useless Shadows members, not even Boom Boom who was sleeping, the quartet arrived as they finally broke into the Treasury Chamber and to see all the gold. As Clawgrip has doubts about defying Edgar's orders, Mouser convinces him about his kids finding out that "Daddy's a millionaire" which Clawgrip told him that his two kids are in their 20s now. Then revises with about having a new suit of armor, as Clawgrip finally gives in and enters in the code, the doors open as the chamber was full of gold, jewels and treasure chests. As Mouser and the others take the loot, they are caught by their hostage from last season's Christmas Special and Junior knows his captors, but doesn't recall Fryguy being there with them, which angers the Cinder as he complains about being forgotten yet people remembering Triclyde as he doesn't even speak. As he tells them that he's here by himself, Junior gets chased by the quartet as he hides outside, as he is worried that he will get blamed for losing all the money, crying in his shell. Then, he realizes that he's in charge as he plans some antics on them.

As the defiant Shadows members have got their loot, Triclyde tells them that he needs to use the bathroom, and Mouser tells Fryguy to go with the three-headed snake. Then Clawgrip is going to hack the cameras to erase all the footage, after they have gone they're separate ways, Mouser intends to leave the others behind. As Clawgrip had erased all the evidence, Junior hacks into his system, blowing up his arm cannon, playing the non-copyrighted music on his speakers, and gave him Malware to damage him. As Mouser plans to flee to the Marine Kingdom, he gets the gravy as he opens the door, and Jaws can smell it from a mile away chasing him. After a bathroom break, Triclyde and Fryguy are met with cannonballs knocking out one, but hit the other as Fryguy goes outside but falls into the frozen puddle, getting rid of his fire and freezing him.

The Shadows met up with each other wondering what had happened to them, then they realized that it was Junior who showed up at their door as Clawgrip tells him that the suit the prince has destroyed costed him thousands of dollars, then Junior called their bluff as he's about to call the police as Mouser tells him to not follow him because he's got more traps, then Mouser has an idea. As Junior spots a present, hoping it's not PJs but it's a bomb that goes off, sending him flying.

As Clawgrip says "Hello, son", Junior regains consciousness as he thinks it's Bowser, only for him to get confrontation by the Shadows as they get him outside. He tells them that he doesn't want to spend another Christmas with the quartet, even Shadows isn't planning on it either. Junior was going to let them leave, then begs them to keep the treasure. He even asks Shivers for help, but he straight up refuses and tells Junior to "go to hell." Mouser and the gang proceed to beat the Koopa Prince up and trap him inside a box as a present, but when they are about to leave, Mouser gets punched by Boom Boom as he tells the others that the treasure belongs to Bowser. Mouser shoots the dullwitted Gatekeeper, but Boom Boom deflects the bullet towards Mouser. To make it easy, the trio escapes with no treasure to take and Mouser escapes via smoke Bob-omb. Making their return, Bowser and the Koopalings saw Boom Boom as he explained that the Shadows tried to take the treasure but he stopped him. Impressing the Koopalings, Bowser thanks him for his service, also throwing in the feast for his bravery. Overhearing the voices, Junior swears revenge against Boom Boom, for taking the credit and the others, not before Bowser notices that Junior has caused a war between the Marine and Kaktus Kingdoms, ending the episode.

## Youtube Description

Bowser and the Koopalings depart for Mushroom City and Mouser, Triclyde, Clawgrip, and the other guy use the opportunity to steal from the castle, against their boss' wishes. Unfortunately, when they eventually arrive at the castle, they discover that they're not alone. This video was inspired by a similar video by FutureSquash767.

Special Thanks to:

* Poppilo Power: Mouser/Travis/Kamek/SecurityBro2/Man on TV
* Swoldow EVGRB: Fryguy/King Boo
* Insta: Clawgrip
* Carmen: Wendy/Woman on TV
* AverageTroopa11: Lemmy
* Cowabunga: Assistance with Sprites
* Kool King Productions: Endscreen
* KavaehKoopa: Transistions
* PLK: Intro & Transition Theme

Sprites:

* RidgeTroopa (Laryy, Iggy, Morton, Lemmy sprites)
* Neo7Z (Roy, Ludwig & Bowser Jr sprites)
* Tebited15 (King Boo Sprite)

## References to other Series

### Wars of Frozen Flames

* Junior has found a guide on being a good king from Cardinal Slyver, as the surname is a connection to the Slyver Family.

## Trivia

* This episode is an homage to *Home Alone*.
* This is the final video appearance of InstaButNot
	+ Speaking of, one of his lines has to be filled by Freeze.