It was a beautiful day at Peach's Castle. Mario and Luigi were getting ready to collect coins in their Raccoon Suits, while Blue and Yellow Toad were elsewhere. They were coming back with many power-ups they had collected when they saw the Koopalings rush by in their Clown Car. The Toads dropped their items in horror, as they were headed toward the castle.
"C'mon!" Blue Toad yelled to Yellow, and they ran as fast as their nonexistent legs could carry them. However, the Clown Car was much too fast for them to catch.
In the distance, they saw Mario and Luigi land as the Clown Car dropped, revealing Peach. She only saw the Mario brothers, not the Toads.
"Oh no!" Blue Toad cried.
"Let's hurry!" Yellow Toad responded. "Maybe we can take a different path to Bowser's, and then beat him!"
"Sounds like a good plan," Blue said. "Where do we find one?"
"Okay, I might have known a secret pipe that no one else knows about…" Yellow Toad stated.
"What?! Why didn't you tell me?" Blue Toad whimpered.
"I was afraid you'd use it to go on another one of your 60's music romps."
"Those are, like, a SO long time ago," he replied. "Now, the 70'S music is pretty boopin'."
"Right…" Yellow Toad rolled his eyes. "C'mon, we have to go!"
The first world was unlike any other. It was a nighttime world, with all levels placed in the dark. Except there weren't independent levels. The world was one LARGE level.
"Uh…this is different from that other adventure we went on," Yellow Toad noted. Blue Toad nodded in agreement.
"Whatever. Let's just go," Blue said, walking ahead of Yellow Toad.
Upon walking a few meters, there were three ? blocks. Two held coins, but one held-
"A Raccoon Leaf?" Blue Toad wondered.
"Cool! I haven't seen one of these since…forever!" Yellow Toad exclaimed. "I wonder what it does."
Soon, he was transformed into RRAACCCCOOOONN YYEELLLLOOWW TTOOAADD!
Er…Raccoon Yellow Toad.
"Uh, what do I do?" he asked.
"Beats me," Blue Toad replied. "We'll find out eventually."
The two continued down the path to find an army of Goombas talking to each other.
"I don't know why Bowser makes us guard this path," one said. "Everyone just goes the grass, desert, snow, sea, jungle, mountain, sky, and then lava way. No one travels here."
"You're ri-HEY!" another Goomba said. He spotted the Toads standing nearby and yelled, "GET THEM!"
There were more Goombas than they could hop on. Blue Toad began to shake wildly.
"AAAHHH!" he cried. "Yellow! HELP ME!" He spun around in panic as a group of the evil mushrooms walked by. He braced for impact, but it never came.
"Huh?" He turned around to find he had overturned all of the enemies, and they were left to be destroyed. Yellow Toad stared at Blue Toad.
"Blue?"
"Yeah?"
"I know one function of the Raccoon Suit," Yellow beamed. As more approached, Yellow Toad whapped all of the Goombas with his tail, and they fell to the ground.
"Agh!" they moaned.
"Let's leave this place!" Blue said. He and Yellow Toad ran past all of the Goombas, who were lying on the ground.
"That was close," Yellow Toad panted. His brother nodded in agreement. They realized that a cliff too high to jump over stood in front of them, and not even a super-jump could overcome it.
"Maybe if I did a triple-jump, it'd work," Yellow Toad said.
"It's worth a shot," Blue Toad noted.
Yellow Toad backed up, and made a running start. Jump, double-jump, and then the big triple-jump.
No luck.
"I'm trying again," Yellow Toad said. He was running even faster than the first time when he heard a fluttery noise. He ignored it, but when he jumped, he was flying.
"Holy-!" he started. He was scared, but flew until he was on top of the cliff. He heard the noise slow down and stop, but was still impressed. Blue Toad stared up and asked his brother-
"How did you...?"
"I wish I knew! Just bubble up here!" Oh yeah, they have the ability to bubble and get popped.
After being popped, Blue Toad gazed at the long way down. It was going to hurt if there was no other way to land.
"Well, we have to go, don't we?" Yellow said. He jumped off, hoping to land safely. He kicked his feet wildly, praying for another solution other than breaking one of them. The Toad noticed his descent becoming slower and slower. He landed on the ground with a light *thump*.
"Hey, that's cool!" Blue Toad yelled from atop. He kicked his feet furiously, even more than his comrade, and landed even more slowly.
"I say," Yellow Toad said, "we've found out what this leafy thing can do."
"Hey, it's okay!" Blue Toad said. "Might be among my favorite, by far."
"Wait," said Yoshi.
"Yeah?" Blue Toad asked.
"You guys NEVER saw a Raccoon Leaf before?" he asked in wonder.
"Nope. Never heard of it until then," responded Yellow.
"How…what?" the dinosaur friend sputtered in wonder.
"Only TOAD has, not us," Blue explained. "We don't run the Toad houses, and all of the adventures we've been on haven't offered any until this one."
"Oh, okay," Yoshi said. "Keep going."
The two came to a green warp pipe, leading straight into the grassy ground. Blue Toad peeked inside.
"Is it safe?" asked his brother.
"Don't know," replied the blue mushroom. "That is, until we've tried!" He hopped in, and Yellow Toad followed.
"OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!"
Blue and Yellow Toad landed underground. The cave they were in had faint beams of light shining from cracks up above, and large swaying crystals moved about. It was so dark; there was no way they could see.
"Oh no," Blue Toad mumbled. "We can't stumble around like this. We need some light source."
A fireball shot past them.
"Huh?" Yellow Toad turned around, spotting Piranha Plants…breathing FIRE!
"..."
The Toads ran as fast as they could out of there. "At least we have some light," Blue Toad said, trying to look on the bright side. This was hard, especially in a cave at nighttime.
At last, they saw a warp pipe on the ceiling. It led straight up, out of the rocky walls. They jumped in, eager to get out and back to the level ground.
But the pipe went higher than that. It shot straight up into the sky and ended at a mushroom platform. A beautiful sunset was taking place at the time, and the Toads reached the ground to see it just in time.
"Wow," Yellow Toad admired. "That is nice."
Blue Toad was already running off.
"HEY! Wait up!" Yellow Toad ran behind him, eventually reaching his blue brother.
"Finally!" laughed Blue Toad. "You were always such a slowpoke, and it never changed!"
"Shut up, at least I know something." Yellow shuffled ahead.
Ahead were three Koopa Troopas, walking around in circles. The green one was in between two red Koopas so that he wouldn't fall off.
The gang spotted the Toad Bros.
"Oi!" yelled one Koopa. "I seez a mushroom! And anotherz!"
"Stop talking like that," replied another one.
"K."
"Alright, let's take 'em out!" shouted the Green Koopa Troopa. All got into their shells and shot at the Toads. Blue Toad whapped one with his tail, but Yellow got hit and lost his Raccoon Leaf powers.
"Why, you little…" Yellow Toad grabbed the Koopa Shell and shot it at another one spinning toward his brother. The two shells both knocked each other out with a *clonk* and 500 points were added to the total.
"Sweet!" laughed Yellow Toad, breaking the fourth wall.
Ahead was a large gap, bridged by pink bouncy mushrooms.
"Is that safe…?" asked a frightened Blue Toad.
"Whatever! It looks fun!" Yellow Toad yelled happily. He jumped on, and then bounced freely. His brother stayed behind.
"C'mon, bro.! The bounce is fine!"
"Oooh…I dunno," he said. "I'm not too good with heights."
"Okie dokie, but you're missing out!" Yellow Toad laughed. He was at the other end in no time.
"Mind if I bubble over?" yelled Blue Toad.
"Go ahead, but that was fun!" Yellow Toad exclaimed happily. He popped his friend and they continued their journey.
World 1 (part of it, at least) DOWN! This is actually pre-typed. From now on, this will be written COMPLETELY from scratch. I know someone thought this story was a little short, but more is to come soon :) Don't worry!
All characters belong to Nintendo, not me.
