Zombie Invasion

Zombie Invasion is the third episode of Bowser’s Children Season 5 and the thirty-fifth episode overall. It is also the fourth Halloween-themed episode in the series. In this episode, the virus outbreak that originated from the Redwood Kingdom has spread around other Kingdoms, including the Koopa Kingdom as Bowser and the Koopalings, while self-quarantining in the castle as the other residents are reanimated as zombies, as well as eating them

## Plot

The episode begins with Larry, Morton, Lemmy & Ludwig heading into the Bass Station as Larry talks about the recent battle royale video game, Fall Guys. As the Koopalings enter the Bass Station, A. Byzmal, who gets annoyed with the Koopalings entering, tells them to get stocked up as there's been a deadly virus going around that spread around the Redwood Kingdom and caused a bunch of deaths (yeah, the similarity to the real deal). Although Ludwig says that the virus is "fake news" as this is "an attempt to scare people, or possibly increase sales of toilet paper." After the Koopalings finished buying, they saw a Koopa outside who was looking pale as he was puking on the ground because he ate something.

As Wendy, Iggy & Roy are standing in the castle hallways, the other 4 Koopalings enter as Morton eats the food on their way back. But when Larry asked the other 3 about the virus, he wasn't the only one as Wendy heard about it on her social media, where Ludwig again used his famous Donald Trump 2 words about news of the virus. Iggy tells him that the virus can slowly terminate brain activity, Lemmy tells him that Morton may be immune from the virus. Ludwig tells them that this virus will be forgotten in a matter of weeks, another Trump reference. Meanwhile, Bowser has set a cabinet meeting as they agree about building a golf course in the woodlands near Ocean Side. Kamek interjects by asking Bowser to address "the elephant in the room", Bowser gets mad at Kamek for addressing that literally, thinking he's talking about General Snorky who's an official cabinet member, and yes, also literally an elephant in the room. Kamek clears it up by addressing it figuratively on the virus from the Redwood Kingdom after some guy at a bat as the Redwood Kingdom is in lockdown and flights have been canceled, also tells him to act on this or they'll be spending Christmas in radioactive suits. Bowser doubts the virus is deadly as he says they have their medical experts taking care of it. Meanwhile, in the Hospital, the doctors were too busy watching a soap opera instead of instantly helping a Goomba on fire. Kamek tells him that this virus is quickly spreading and that it could destroy the entire Koopa Kingdom, when Bowser asks Snorky, the elephant makes a sound as Bowser declares that restaurants are obligated to be open till 5:30 which Kamek regrets speaking.

Later at night, the Koopa from earlier entered in the Bass Station as A. Byzmal reminded him that it was 10 minutes past closing, but this Koopa has been turned into a zombie as he snacked on the meat, ignoring him. Then 2 more Koopa zombies broke in the Bass Station via window. As A. Byzmal tells them to get out, the Zombies lock onto him as they start to bite the owner of the Bass Station. The next day, Larry greets A. Byzmal, who is now reanimated as a zombie, and then he encounters the same Koopa from the first scene, and the Chargin Chucks who are now zombies, as they approach him, Larry flees back to the castle.

As he arrives to the castle, he tells his siblings that there are zombies everywhere which Ludwig has doubts about, but Iggy believes what Larry is saying. As Wendy tells him what had happen during his encounter with the zombies, Larry tells them it was during his trip to the Bass Station. Then Bowser and King Boo appear as they heard the Koopalings' commotion, as the Koopa King has been hearing reports of all the sick people with that virus turning into mindless zombies, infecting more people. He announces to his children that he is considering locking down the castle until there's a cure, shocking everyone (including King Boo) as Iggy, Roy, Morton, & Wendy had plans of their own. Then enter Bowser Jr. (not the episode) as he tells them that he was playing GTA V then changes his saying to Minecraft as his father tells him the news about the virus, but Junior didn't give a damn about the pandemic breakout. But when Bowser tells him that he cannot leave the castle, his son throws a tantrum as Junior's trip to the park is canceled. But to make matters worse, Ludwig begs the King not to let Jr stay in the castle with the Koopalings' tyrannical hellion before making his word final as the Koopalings gets mad at Larry for ruining their plans.

Later at the castle, Boom Boom lets in Kamek, who had been infected with the virus as he his now a zombie, for a cabinet meeting. Meanwhile in lockdown, Iggy has given the statistics about Mushroom City has 300 reports of zombies. Junior considers being in Lockdown as a joke as he wouldn't let it happen if he were in charge, as Ludwig tells him that everyone would be dead if Junior were in charge. As Larry hopes this outbreak is over soon, Lemmy blames him for blabbing to Bowser as well as Iggy blames Morton for eating all the food supplies. Larry suggested something as the other Koopalings stopped him from finishing the sentence as they knew he's about to say hide and seek. After Junior goes back to his room, Lemmy is relieved to have one annoyance out of the way but unfortunately for Ludwig, there's still six more to deal with, referring to his siblings.

Later at the Cabinet meeting as Bowser gets reported that also getting reports of zombies in both Desert Hills and Koopa Kanyon, it turns out that one of the sightings was false as one guy was pretending to be a zombie to get out of paying for his shopping. One of the two Commander Bros interjects him asking the King if he has a plan, then King Boo suggesting drop a nuke on the Kingdom (King Boo...this is the Koopa Kingdom, not North Korea). Both the second Commander Bro and Bowser reject the idea of the nuke as Bowser says building one is expensive, the King instead suggests sending in the troops to eliminate the zombies to rid the virus. As much as the first Commander Bro was against it as these zombies were once people, the second one was for it as he doesn't have to deal with his divorce payments. Commander Bro #1 suggested a cure, but then Bowser turns to the Zombified Kamek thinking that he suggested building a bar near the Golf Course as King Boo agrees to it. After getting one more smartass remark about the Zombie Invasion, Bowser executed Commander Bro #1 by throwing him in the lava.

Later as she approached to the door, Wendy let in her friends Lauren, Ally & Camilla, who is looking kind of pale as she was bitten on the arm by a zombie on their way to the castle. Wendy tells the girls that things weren't fun being in lockdown at the castle and Camilla agrees with her on it. Ally just doesn't get why the survivors have to stay home, as Lauren points her out that the zombies are infecting everyone. Then Roy approaches them as he hears the voices of his sisters' friends, Wendy explain to Roy that they're taking cover for the zombies, but Ally says that Wendy they're going to watch chick flicks in her room before Camilla tells her to shut up. But Roy won't tell anyone about her friends, Lauren thanks him for not letting her father find out as well and Camilla tells everyone that she's got five brothers and won't notice that she's gone. Roy is going to let them stay in his room as he promised Wendy to don't tell the others, then Camilla tells him especially not Larry which makes Roy laugh. After they go in, Roy sighs as he checks them out before Wendy tells him that dating one of her friends is never going to happen.

Back in the hallway, Iggy tells Larry and Ludwig that the 90% of the Koopa Kingdom is now in lockdown while Morton and Lemmy are playing video games. Iggy asked the two if they're going to play video games while the trio are trying to fix a zombie apocalypse. Larry has an idea which has Ludwig telling him to shut up if it is one of his Minecraft ideas, but Larry tells him that he was seriously thinking that Iggy can make an antidote as Ludwig sarcastically tells him that it's a great idea while asking "What can possibly go wrong with that?" (everything already went wrong). Unfortunately for Iggy, the only way for him to make the antidote is to be needing an actual zombie to test on. Then Larry suggest to capture a zombie and bring him back here, although Ludwig sees this as a stupid idea but Iggy agrees with Larry's idea. After Larry & Ludwig walks away, Ludwig sighs out of annoyance as he has to deal with their antics.

After Ludwig decided to join the two, he asked the two if they had an idea as Iggy pulled out a chicken as his way to lure the zombies because the scent of meat attracts the zombies before Bowser stopped the three Koopalings, as he saw this as a dangerous mission and lets the troops to handle it by himself. The three were shocked with the zombie Kamek, as he attacked Bowser trying to bite the Koopa King before getting knocked out by Iggy's tranquilizer cuff.

Later at Iggy's room as they await the results of Kamek, who is in the cage, Iggy has to tell his father that the virus toxin inside Kamek causes a mutation in Kamek's brain, causing his flesh to go rotten and his immune system to fail. Also, the virus spreads from the mouths of the infected, with one bite will be enough to transfer the toxins to one of their victims. Iggy tells Bowser that he's trying to make an antidote so he can distribute them across the Kingdom. Then King Boo enters to show everyone that the valley residents (especially Lucy and Courtney) as they're now zombies and trying to break into the castle. As Larry asked King Boo what do they want, the Ghost tells him that he saw them when he was out at the bar before switching his narrative with safely quarantining in his room. Then the Goomba tells everyone in the castle to let him in, as his family had been turned into zombies, but they wouldn't do it though but it's too late for the Goomba as he got eaten by a Paratroopa zombie. Ludwig suggested to Bowser that they got to warn everybody about the zombies, but Bowser is too damn stubborn to do that as he claims the castle has been through so many wars and natural disasters and hasn't budged an inch for over a thousand years before the foundation fell, missing the Koopa King. Larry agrees with him as Ludwig orders Iggy to continue on with the Antidote while he and the others will barricade the doors. But King Boo doesn't want too do it, then Iggy tells him if he wants to be eaten alive, the Chamberlin points out that he's a ball of gas before changing his mind with Larry's offer him a free drink.

As Roy checks on Wendy to see how is it going with her friends, she tells him that that it's a bit strange that Camilla had eaten the a lot more meat than usually claims to be on the strict diet, then passed out on her bed. Larry & Ludwig approached to Wendy & Roy to inform the two that the zombies are surrounding the castle, as she was about to warn her friends, Roy volunteers to do that. After Wendy left with Larry & Ludwig, the now-undead Camilla approached to him as Roy vows to protect her from the zombies...without realizing that she is now a zombie. After the survivors had board up the doors, Bowsers orders his children to get their brothers as they plan to go down to the castle basement until the cure has made. Then Junior uses his flamethrower to burn down the boards on the door, as he is ignoring his father's lockdown as he is about to go outside. He even tells off Bowser as his father threatens to take away his video game privileges for a week if he doesn't follows his orders to go into the basement with him, King Boo, Larry, Wendy, and Ludwig. As Junior opens the door, the zombies enter as they have eaten Jr alive, killing him. While King Boo escapes to protect the beverages, the escapee quartet ran from a horde of zombies as Bowser tells them they got to go for the basement, but Wendy tells him that they have to warn the others. Ludwig asked her if they really need their brothers as he labeled Morton & Lemmy as "idiots, Roy as "useless" and Iggy as "a bloody know-it-all" which Larry and Bowser realizes that Iggy was the one working on the cure as they'll save him first.

But when the four entered in his lab, they were too late as Kamek broke the cage bars and bitten Iggy, who is now zombified. Then they saw Roy as Bowser tells him don't open the door, then realizing that Roy had been bitten by Camilla as he opened the door, the other hoard of zombies that were infected were Morton, Lemmy, Lauren, Ally, and the Koopa Troop forces that were fighting them, charging after the survivors as they knocked down Ludwig into the lava. As the four are about to make it all the way to the basement, Bowser tripped as he was bitten by the zombie Koopa in the tail, and then Ludwig makes the save to his father. After Larry, Wendy, and the weakened Bowser enter the basement, they lock Ludwig out as he lets them know that he's still alive, but he is *now* dead as he was eaten alive by Morton, Iggy, Lemmy, Lauren, and others. As they are sheltered, Bowser was starting to grow pale after being bitten as he begs his surviving son & daughter to send him back out there as he don't want Larry and Wendy to share his demise, but the two refused. As Larry tries to find a way to save him, then Wendy has an idea,

As Dark Valley was in shambles at Day 164 of the Zombie Apocalypse, things were about in the right direction as zombies were around the Bass Station, eating Goomburger on the bench, and the zombie Koopalings were playing ball outside as the medical experts were talking about of developing an antidote, as Larry and Wendy were watching the news on TV in the basement, are looking forward for things going back to normal. But when Larry asked their father of what he thinks, Bowser is now zombified and in a cage no less. Back after the successful Office Party, K. Rool was shocked to see how Dark Valley was in shambles without knowing about the zombie invasion, just because he's back from *Donkey Kong Island* Season 1, that doesn't mean he's returning to the Bass Station permanently, end of story and ending this horrific episode.

## Youtube Description

As if the year 2020 wasn't scary enough, zombies start appearing across the Koopa Kingdom, leaving Bowser and the Koopalings stuck inside the castle.

Special thanks to:

* Carmen: Wendy/Camilla/Ally
* TrashyKoopa: Lemmy/Lauren
* Poppilo Power: Kamek/Commander Bro. #1
* Swoldow EVGRB: King Boo
* Insta: Commander Bro. #2
* KavahKoopa: Scene Transition
* RidgeTroopa (Larry, Iggy, Morton, Lemmy Sprites)
* NeoZ7 (Roy, Ludwig, & Bowser Jr sprites)
* Tebited15 (King Boo sprite)
* CrusperButter (Chargin Chucks sprite)

## Trivia

* The zombification virus starting after a guy in the Redwood Kingdom ate a bat could potentially be a reference to the COVID-19 pandemic