Chapter 1: Adventure Begins Again

This story begins on one particularly rainy morning at the home of the Mario Bros. Mario was humming to himself while cooking breakfast. Luigi, however, wasn't in as good of a mood as Mario. He sat at the kitchen table and gazed at a pink sparkly rock that he held in his left hand.

"Why the long face?" Mario asked when he heard Luigi sigh.

"Oh. I was just thinking about Yoshi's Island," Luigi said gloomily. "It's been about a year since I was there. I wonder if those yoshis I stayed with remember me."

"They probably do. I don't see why they wouldn't. Look, I've got breakfast ready. Why don't you go ahead and eat some, then tell me all about it when we're done. Okay?"

Luigi looked up from the rock. "Oh no..." he moaned. "Spaghetti again? You know that we always have a few days worth of leftovers when you make that. Can't you just cook less?"

"I don't do things that way," Mario said firmly.

Luigi wasn't impressed with the meal, but disdainfully ate it anyway. He didn't feel like arguing.

Mario had a word with his brother after dinner. "So about the yoshis..." he began.

"Well, I'd like to be able to see them again," said Luigi. "I was just beginning to fit in with them and then I got torn away."

"It's raining right now," Mario pondered as he looked outside. "If it clears up tomorrow, we can try to get Wario to lend us his ship. I'll go ahead and call him right now."

Meanwhile, Wario was relaxing in a recliner and doing a little nose-cleaning when his telephone rang. After it rang three times, he reluctantly picked it up.

"I don't care if it slices, dices, peels or has wheels!" Wario snapped. "I'm not buying!"

"Ow. My ear," said Mario.

"Is that you, Mario? Sorry about that. I thought it was another one of those no-good salespeople. You know how people would rather ask me for money rather than getting off their lazy butts and getting it themselves."

"Actually, I did plan on asking you for a favor. Of course..." Mario stammered. "I know you don't like doing a favors...unless there's money involved. And I'm kinda in the hole right now..."

"Get to the point, little man."

"Luigi wants to go to Yoshi's Island and we kinda need your ship to get there."

Wario was quiet and thought for a moment. Being a treasure hunter, he was always seeking out new places to look for treasure and he's never really had a chance to check out Yoshi's Island.

"Wario? You still there?"

"Okay, Mario. You can use my ship. But on one condition."

"Name it."

"Waluigi and I get to come too."

Mario shuddered when he heard Waluigi's name. He knew that he and Luigi didn't get along very well. In fact, he was the very reason Luigi was stranded on Yoshi's Island to begin with.

"Let me speak to him," Mario demanded.

Wario set the phone down and looked around for Waluigi. Mario waited for a few minutes until somebody finally picked the phone back up.

"Whaaaazzzzzup?!" It was Waluigi.

"Hello, Waluigi," Mario said, not impressed with the greeting. "Listen up. Luigi and I want to go to Yoshi's Island and-"

"Yeah. I know," Waluigi interrupted. "Wario filled me in."

"Just promise me that you'll be good and don't do anything stupid. Or else..."

"Eh, I'll be too busy to cause trouble anyway."

"Whatever. Tell Wario that we'll be over at your place at around noon. Ciao," Mario then hung up the phone.

"So what's the verdict?" Luigi asked.

Mario shrugged. "For some reason, Wario seemed kinda eager to go with us. In any case, we're going over there at noon tomorrow. By the way..." he added. "You don't mind if Waluigi comes along, do you?"

"What?! Are you kidding me?!"

"Don't worry now. I'll make sure he doesn't try anything. And if he does, he's getting his butt blasted."

"If you say so," said Luigi, not liking the idea of his rival going on the trip with him.

"Why don't you work on Link's Awakening?" Mario suggested. "Ever finish the Face Shrine?"

Luigi's eyes lit up. "Yeah. That's a good idea," He then went into the bedroom to fetch his Game Boy Color.

The next morning, the brothers began to pack their things after they ate breakfast. Luigi packed his GBC with three games, a flashlight, some batteries, some snacks, a pencil and a pad of paper. Mario packed some munchies as well as a couple sets of clothes for him and Luigi, a few books and a CD player with a handful of CDs.

"Is that everything then?" Mario asked when it was time to go.

"Almost," Luigi said as he picked up the phone and dialed a number.

"Well, make it quick. I told Wario that we would be there at noon and it's eleven-thirty right now."

Luigi signaled Mario to be quiet as he listened to the phone ring.

"Hello?" Daisy said on the other end.

"Hi Daisy."

"Hiya, sweetums. How's it going?"

"Good, good. I just called to tell you that I'm going to Yoshi's Island."

"Yoshi's Island, huh?" Daisy giggled. "Wonderful place. Cute yoshis, pretty flowers, lovely beaches..."

"Yeah. I'm gonna be there for a few days so don't bother trying to call me for awhile."

Mario was now tapping his foot impatiently. "Hey, Luigi. What's the hold up?"

"Anyway, gotta go now. Bye."

"Bye," Then they both hung up.

The Marios grabbed their back packs and went outside. After Mario locked the door, they made their way to where the Warios lived.

Waluigi was casually leaning against the front door of his home when the brothers showed up. "Good timing, guys. Wario happens to be watching the weather report. Don't need anyone to go overboard this time, do we?"

"Heheh. You actually care?" Luigi asked.

"Look, I don't want any trouble this time. Okay?" Waluigi said as he lead Mario and Luigi through the door and down a hallway.

Wario was sitting in front of the TV while eating some greasy and heavily-salted snack chips. "Check it out, guys." he said with his mouth full.

Mario and Luigi looked at the television and saw that the radar showed no signs of rain. "Looks good to me," Luigi nodded.

"Waluigi! Do you have those suitcases packed yet?!" Wario barked.

"Geez. They're right next to you," Waluigi replied in a bit of an annoyed tone.

"Well, hurry up and grab them so we can get outta here!"

Mario, Luigi and Wario left the living room and exit the front door as Waluigi followed along while hefting along a couple of suitcases.

"Heavy packing, eh?" Luigi remarked when he noticed Waluigi struggling to keep up. "What do you have in those things?"

"None of your business," Waluigi complained. "I didn't even want to bring much. I'm probably staying on the ship the whole time anyway."

Upon arriving at the port, the quartet boarded Wario's ship. Luigi and Waluigi dropped off their luggage in the cabin, then Luigi went to the bow and looked out toward the sea. He's clearly excited about the trip even though he isn't saying much. Waluigi went to the other end of the ship to untie the rope so he wouldn't have a repeat of what happened last time. However, he was already too late.

"Hey you!" Mario called. "Tall guy with crappy voice! Untie the rope so we can get outta here!"

"Grrr..." Waluigi growled. "Hey! Short guy with girly voice! Do it yourself!"

Mario simply pointed a finger at Waluigi as he tried to think of a comeback, but one never came. Defeated, Mario untied the rope himself.

"Whahaha!" Wario laughed and slapped Mario on the back. "Waluigi is hard to beat at insulting, isn't he? Not that a goody two-shoes like you stood a chance."

"He had an advantage," said Mario. You can't expect a short and...well...slightly plump guy to compete with a beanpole like that."

"Huh. Interesting theory. Anyway, I'm just gonna go ahead and get this thing started," Wario then walked to the helm.

Mario didn't take a moment to leave his back pack in the cabin earlier so he went there to do so now. He had just set it down on the floor and flopped onto the bed when Luigi, Waluigi and Wario walked in.

"Come on, Wario. What did you bring?" Luigi pleaded.

"Nothing you'd be interested in," grumbled Wario.

"Just show him so he'll shut up," Waluigi said as his patience ran out. He then popped both of them open.

Mario and Luigi both looked, but were dumbfounded about what they saw. Inside one of them was garlic cloves, eggplants and other foods that didn't look the least bit appetizing. The other contained nothing but several empty burlap sacks which had dollar signs on them for some reason.

"Well, that would explain the smell," Mario said flatly.

"I don't get it," Luigi also said in a mono-tone voice.

"Look," Wario tried to explain "I needed something to do while you're spending time with cutsie-poo yoshis. That's not my sort of thing, you know."

Luigi put a hand on his chin. "I suppose. As long as you don't bug me or the yoshis, what you do is none of my concern. Now let's get this show on the road, shall we?"