Noko the Koopa, for most of his life, had a difficult time making it onto the Mario Tennis scene. He would practice and practice, but every time he had to do a move involving spinning in his shell, he would slip out! Noko had some very embarrassing matches from his days in the more minor tournaments around the mushroom kingdom, with most of them involving him slipping out of his shell in one way or another. One would think he’d learn to slip some undies on under his shell, but Noko would continue to proclaim that they “limited his movement”. This lead to some embarrassing reveals on the court, leaving Noko sprawled out on the ground with his privates on display for the whole audience. While this resulted in many lost matches for the Koopa, the bigger hit Noko took was to his reputation. The nickname “Slippery Shell” started to spread around the tennis scene, and when Noko practiced hard enough to make it to the major tennis tournaments, nobody forgot what he was known for. 


        Today was Noko’s first professional ‘Mario Tennis’ tournament match, and was more nervous than he had ever been in his life. The match was going to be broadcast to the whole mushroom kingdom, and if he lost it, he’d have to go back to playing in the minor tournaments. He’d been working hard on his shell spinning moves in order to traverse the court quickly enough to get those tough to reach shots. In his practicing, he would still have difficulty with spinning inside his shell all the way across the court and would often still slip out. He figured he’d pack some undies in his tennis bag in case he wasn’t feeling totally confident, but it was most likely that he would go with a white shirt, tennis shoes, wristbands, and his trusty birthday suit for his lower half.


        As the start time for his match approached, Noko sat in his personal locker room, twiddling his thumbs nervously. He was sitting on a bench without his shell and with his Koopa bits out in the open. He figured he’d do some pre-match stretches before he was called out to play. Noko stood up and stretched his arms in the air. After this, he bent over and reached down to touch his shoes with his tail lifted up high, exposing his big, yellow rear end. Unfortunately for Noko, this was the exact moment the press decided to barge in for his pre-match interview. Noko’s stomach dropped when he heard the door barge open and the sound of wings flapping toward him. It was a female paratroopa with a red shell holding a microphone and a Boo holding the camera for her with a red light on above the lens.


        “Oops!” the reporter lady said, holding her microphone and looking into the camera which was catching Noko in his bent over position across the room, “looks like we caught the rookie ‘Noko’ in the middle of his stretches!” Noko yelped as he heard the reporter flying closer to him and reached for his shell, unable to put it on fast enough and instead resorting to just holding it over his naked front half. The reporter lady landed next to Noko and the camera focused on the two of them, panning out for a full body shot of both (and drawing more attention to Noko’s makeshift cover). She held up her microphone and proceeded to give herself and Noko and introduction. “Hello, Mushroom Kingdom! I’m Shelly Koopa and right now, we’re checking in with Mario Tennis’ newest player: Noko! Hello, Noko,” Shelly said, shaking his hand, “let me ask you, how does it feel to finally be on the professional scene?”


        “Um...u-u-uh…it’s, uh...exciting?” Noko stammered out of nervousness, suddenly fumbling with his shell and dropping it on the ground. His little Koopa bits were out in the open for the camera to see! He quickly bent over again to grab on to it and hold it over his front again. “Sorry...just some shell issues,” Noko said sheepishly.


        “Haha, that’s alright, Noko,” said Shelly, “we can get someone to just edit that part out.” The Boo then leaned in from behind the camera and whispered to Shelly. “What?” responded Shelly, “our Censors are on vacation? Well, let’s hope that’s the only nudity that slips out today. Otherwise, the audience watching at home is gonna see a lot more than they bargained for.” Noko’s eyes shot wide open and his cheeks turned red after hearing this from Shelly. “Speaking of nudity, you’re very famous for achieving the nickname “Slippery Shell”, Noko! Why don’t you tell our audience how you came to get that nickname?”


        “I, uh...w-w-well, I--” stuttered Noko.


Suddenly, a dry bones with a clipboard poked his head through the locker room door. 
“Wrap the interview up!” he said, “the match is about to start. Noko, we need you out here ASAP!”


        “Oh well,” said Shelly, “I’m sure the audience might have a chance to figure it out today during the match.” She turned back to the camera to sign off and she flew out the door with the camera Boo following behind her. Noko’s stomach dropped after her last remark and he decided that he might need to put some underwear on after all. He ran over to his bag and began rummaging through, but no matter how hard he looked, he couldn’t find the pair he packed!


        The dry bones poked his head in the door once again. “Noko! Everyone’s waiting for you out there!”


        “C-c-coming!” Noko managed to say, panicking and just deciding he’d have to go without undies after all. He slid his shell on over his naked privates and grabbed his racket, running out the door and onto the court. The crowd cheered as the Koopa walked on, some of them familiar with how his matches normally went, and some of them in for a huge surprise if things didn’t go well for the Koopa. Noko’s opponent was a Para-koopa, and something seemed oddly familiar about him and Noko walked up to the net to shake his hand. He looked more closely and realized that he had played him before! In fact, one of their past matches in the minor tournaments had been the first match Noko fell out of his shell in front of everybody!


        “Hey, Noko,” said the Paratroopa to Noko while shaking his hand over the net, “It’s good to see ya again! How are those shell spins coming?”


        Noko blushed deeply after being asked this and appeared to be both angry and embarrassed. “You’re going down, dude,” said Noko, getting a burst of confidence from his anger. 


        The two Koopas went to their respective baselines and the announcer, a pink yoshi, gave the specifics on the scoring before the match started. “Today’s match will be played between Perry ‘Swift Shot’ Koopa Paratroopa and Noko ‘Slippery Shell’ Koopa Troopa.” Noko heard the audience giggle a little after his nickname was read aloud to them. He blushed and embarrassedly looked down at his feet. “It will be a single set match, and the first player to be two games ahead of the other will win. Noko has the first serve. You may begin.”


        Noko got a ball tossed to him from one of the ball guys and bounced it a couple times before serving. His shell was his main vehicle of mobility, so he had to be extra careful not to slip out of it. The first few points went by without a hitch for Noko; he was sliding around in his shell without any mistakes and consistently hitting the ball to the other side. Before he knew it, Noko had won the first game after winning the final point when the score was 40-15 and the serve switched over to Perry.


        The second game went a little worse for Noko, as Perry began to adapt to his play style and tricked him with a few shots. The second game, unfortunately for Noko, ended after Perry scored the winning shot when the score was 40-30. With the match score being 1-1, Noko knew he’d have to step up his game and move around faster in his shell.


        Noko put his game face on and played with extra focus for the next few points, which helped out a lot because he beat Perry after winning the game point when the score was 40-love! The Koopa Troopa was now one game ahead at 2-1 and could secure his win if he just beat Perry in this next game as well. The serve was back over to Noko and the Koopa put all his might into his shots. The score crept its way up to 40-30 with Noko in the lead, and the rookie Koopa could just about taste victory. He served for what he hoped would be the final point, and watched as Perry returned the serve with a sneaky drop shot. The ball bounced very far away from Noko near the net on his side. He analyzed the situation quickly and realized he had a shot of sliding over to the ball and returning it, throwing Perry for a loop, but he’d have to be super fast! Noko decided he felt that now was the time he wanted the match to end, so he curled up into his shell and spun as fast as he could to the front of his court! Unfortunately for Noko, he was spinning too fast, and the inevitable happened about half of the way to the net.


*POP*


Noko’s shell flew off of him and left him stranded out in the middle of the court, bottomless and lying on his back. The only thing Noko could hear other than the gasps of the audience was the sound of his shell ricocheting off of the walls of the court until it found its way directly out the door. Noko tilted his head up from where he was flat on the ground and looked down to see that everyone had a full view of his Koopa bits! “AH!” he shouted, standing up and quickly grabbing his racket to try to cover himself with. He couldn’t help but blush redder than a tomato after hearing some of the whistles and jeers from the audience behind and in front of him. What was most embarrassing for him were some of the remarks he heard from a group of female Koopas in the front row. 


“Hehe, it’s like a little bouncing button above his balls!” said one of them, pointing at his lower region.


“Are Koopas really supposed to be that small down there?” said another.


“Awww, he’s uncut! He looks so cute!” said a third one, making him smile sheepishly and try to cover it better.


Perry then chimed in from across the court. “Guess you didn’t have the shell move down after all, heheh!” he laughed.


Just before Noko thought it couldn’t get any worse, everyone’s attention was directed to the jumbo screen on the other side of the court for a slow-motion replay! The embarrassed Koopa watched as his humiliating blunder was projected for the whole stadium to see. The camera zoomed in as he rushed over in his spinning shell and popped out of it, landing on his back as his peenie flopped to and fro. Noko wanted to run back into the locker room and never come back out again. He attempted to shuffle his way over to the door, but the announcer caught him on his way out. 


“Noko! I’m afraid you can’t leave in the middle of a match! We’re broadcasting right now, and if you walk away, we’ll be forced to accept that as a forfeit,” said the announcer.


Noko couldn’t walk out right now! He’d been training his whole life for this moment! Swallowing his pride, he shuffled back over to his baseline, preparing to serve. Because it was deuce, he had to win two points in a row to take the game and the match. Right away, he had to overcome a new nervousness he was experiencing from the cameras broadcasting to live TV, where everyone watching could see his most intimate parts. He nervously removed the racket from his nether region (even though it wasn’t covering much) and tossed the ball up for a serve. Lucky for Noko, Perry was lost in his giggling and couldn’t focus entirely on the ball that was served to him. He ended up hitting it straight into the net. Noko looked up nervously to the big screen again to see that it was playing a replay of the last point. It was as if the camera Boos and the editors were trying to taunt him with the shots of his precious Koopa bits they were getting. He watched in disbelief as his little yellow uncut penis bobbed up and down over his taut balls while he was jumping up on his serve.


“Phew,” Noko said to himself, “you can do this. You just need to win this one point and it’ll all be over.”


Noko positioned himself to serve and tossed the ball up, jumping up to hit it to the other side of the court. He and Perry rallied back and forth for a bit, allowing the cameras to capture both Noko’s privates bouncing back and forth and the audience’s reactions to it all. Ignoring the laughter from the countless onlookers, Noko moved up to the net the volley the next shot Perry hit over and hopefully end the match. What Noko wasn’t expecting, however, was for Perry to hit a lob over his head! Noko looked back to see where the ball was going to land. He could’ve easily gotten there if he had his shell, but he unfortunately had to settle for sprinting over to it. The blushing Koopa ran as fast as he could to the back of the court, watching the ball bounce once and thinking about how he should hit the shot. He couldn’t get around it, so he decided he’d have to try one of the riskiest tennis moves: the tweener. He ran up to the ball and lifted his left leg up, exposing the area between his cheeks and his yellow balls dangling below them but allowing him to hit the ball backwards between his legs and over to the other side. The audience gasped when they saw this shot, both in awe of the skill required and of the view they were getting. Perry made the mistake of thinking he won the point, so he didn’t even see the ball coming towards his side until he heard it bounce and whiz past him.


“Game, set, and match. Noko wins!” said the announcer, leaving everyone in the audience to cheer for the bottomless Koopa. “Let’s watch a replay of that fantastic winning shot!” Everyone directed their attention to the jumbo screen again, watching as Noko ran to the back of the court and lifted his left leg to the side, flashing everyone in the stadium his pinkish butthole and small yellow balls. Noko, even in his victory, blushed and covered his rear out of pure embarrassment of the situation. He was then approached by Shelly and her camera Boo flying over.


“Noko, congratulations on taking the match!” said Shelly, her microphone projecting her voice to the whole stadium. 


“Thanks, heheh, it was a lot of fun,” said Noko into her microphone, looking up to the big screen to see that the boo’s camera was streaming the interview up there.


“You certainly lived up to the title ‘Slippery Shell’ this time, didn’t you?” she asked as the Boo directed the camera down to Noko’s penis and balls, taking advantage of the fact that Noko was still covering his butt. Noko looked up to the screen to see his privates and gasped, making the audience howl with laughter and whistles. He transitioned his racket back to his front, unaware that it wasn’t doing a great job of covering his bits as the Boo transitioned to a full body shot.


“Well...I guess so,” said Noko, looking more embarrassed at that point than he had been the whole day. “I’m gonna go and try to find my shell now,” said Noko, rushing off through the door with his bits still flopping for the audience to see. He was happy he’d won, but soon realized that this match was the first of many. It was going to be a long tournament.