(A/N): Mmkay, I know in the description I said I was going to update every weekend. I'm just going to upload whenever I can now, probably sooner then the weekends. Thanks for all of the reviews, I'm so happy you like it, and my friend is like super happy too. I hope you'll all be excited to know that there is going to be 40 chapters, and that there will be a sequal called Super Paper Mario 3 (haven't thought of what it's going to be called yet, if you have any ideas name them) and it's going to have the same amount of chapters. Anyways, that's all I wanted to say, enjoy the chapter! :)

1-1 A Rough Start

Once again, Mario and his friends set out to save all worlds, questions ringing in their heads. How did Dimentio plan to reactivate the Chaos Heart? How did Count Bleck become his ally? Why did he want to kill Bleck's minions? Mario, though, eager to begin a new adventure, wasn't bothered by these unknown answers. "C'mon!" he encouraged. "The first...err, second Pure Heart should be around here somewhere." And so our heroes started their journey to find the eight Pure Hearts once more.

A line was drawn.

Join this line were several others, short vertical lines that came in pairs of two. Above these lines, several other pointy lines appeared and joined the pairs of lines they appeared above, forming what seemed to be pine trees. Wispy clouds appeared in the sky, followed by a sun whose position indicated it was middle-late afternoon. The ground became colored green-and-brown, areas of green colored the trees, and the sky took on a blue hue with the sun becoming yellow and the clouds being white with an ever-so-light orangish hue. The white thingies on either side disappeared, the red door was drawn into existence, and before they knew it, they were standing in the middle of a forest.

"I feel the Pure Heart in this dimension..." announced Tippi. "But, like always...it's still far away."

Bowser groaned. "Why can't we just get these Pure Heart thingies right away so we can stop that lunatic? Wouldn't it make things a lot easier?"

"Be patient, Bowser," scolded Tippi. "It's no use complaining about the inevitable."

"HEY! Little butterfly things that lecture the great Koopa King don't have very pleasant futures."

"Bowser, It's no use," said Mario. "Let's just get this going."

Bowser turned to face Mario. "SHUT UP! You don't lecture me either!"

Luigi figured he might as well say something. "Bowser, you're the one who should be quiet. Let's get on with our search without distractions like these."

"Why, you...get over here!" Bowser looked raging mad.

"Bowser, stop griping and get on with it!" ordered Peach.

"Yes, my lovely wife."

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While he was no longer accompanied by any of the Pixls, Mario still had ever powered skills. He walked to the right, jumped on a goomba, did a stylish move, his some ? Blocks and Brick Blocks, got a few mushroom, and so on and so forth. After walking through the woods for a while, our hero's came upon a door, which they entered.

They emerged in another part of the woods, and they could hear water rumbling. "Is there a waterfall here or something?" asked Peach. Her question was soon answered, for as they took a few more steps, the forest abruptly ended at a cliff overlooking a lake that was being fed by a tall waterfall. A wooden bridge spanned the lake, but it seemed to have broken in several places.

"We'll have to be careful as we cross this bridge," warned Mario.

"Did you really need to point that out?" complained Bowser.

Mario jumped across the gaps until the bridge seemed to end, although it had another section that lay above them. He couldn't jump high enough to reach it! Oh wait. He preformed his trusty A-Button-Flip-Into-3D tecnique, and a spiral ramp appeared that took him to the above section, where he flipped back into 3D. He continued jumping across the bridges, occasionally using the conveniently placed Koopa Paratroopas as stepping stones. Eventually, he reached another cliff where the woods began again. There were a few pipes and Piranha Plants here, but they posed little trouble to Mario and friends.

The first disaster of their quest came not long after that. Our hero's were walking calmly among dense trees, although they could see and hear the waterfall not far away. Some of the trees stuck out of the ground at odd angles, making if difficult to avoid falling into the raging waterfall without weaving carefully through the branches. Mario, leading the group, came upon an area where he could look down and see the mighty waterfall break into a series of interrupted falls far down the cliff. He started upward, having no clue where the water was coming from in the first place.

Luigi read Mario's face. "You're sure dumb-" he started, but it sounded like he wasn't finished.

Mario turned to where Luigi's voice was coming from. "Why, you-" he shouted, but then realized Luigi wasn't there. "Huh?"

"I WAS SAYING 'DUMBFOUNEEEEEED!" The other hero's looked in the direction of the voice. Apparently, Luigi had stepped on a loose branch, sending him careening over the edge of the cliff, precariously hanging onto a small branch.

"I'll get you," encouraged Mario. He weaved through the trees back to wear Luigi was hanging.

"Come on, bro, I'm not sure I can hang on for much long-" Suddenly, the branch snapped, sending Luigi tumbling down the falls!

"I'll get him!" announced Mario. He jumped down.

"Oh no," worried Bowser. "What are we going to do without them?" He turned to Peach. "Yeah! Now, my lovely wife, let's enjoy life without-"

"Bowser, if Mario jumped down there to save Luigi, chances are it'll be safe to jump if we land in the water. So I'm going too." She jumped down the falls.

"Oh, great," grumbled Bowser. "Well, if Peach is doing it, I might as well." He followed suit.

Tippi shrugged, which was pretty hard to do considering she had neither shoulders nor arms, and floated down.

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Luigi was kicking and screaming (as if that helped him at all) as he cascaded down the waterfall. Just before hitting the lake below, he closed his eyes, mumbled a quick prayer, and plummeted into the drink. Soon afterward, Mario, Peach, and Bowser followed. Tippi soon came down as well, floating above the water's surface. Luigi frantically thrashed in the water until he was free of the waterfall's crushing influence. "Help!" he cried, bobbing to the surface. However, he wasn't able to receive it; the current in the small lake pushed him away from the waterfall and toward another, luckily, smaller, waterfall. Luigi observed the others crashing down the cliff, and yelled "Help!" again, but it was too late. He was sent crashing down another waterfall, the other hero's quickly followed him.

"You're OK, Luigi?" asked Peach once they had drawn closer together.

"I think so."

"So how do we escape?" asked Bowser.

"It looks like the waterfalls empty out into a lake," explained Mario. "We might just have to wait until we get there, and then we can resume our search."

"What! More wa-"

"AAIIEE!" shrieked Peach as she fell over another waterfall onto a large rock stuck in the river.

"Peach! Are you OK?" asked Mario. He attempted to reach over to where she was, but the current pulled him and the others away from her.

Peach groaned, clearly in pain. She gently pulled herself back into the water, being as careful as possible, now floating several yards behind the others. "I've got to help her," explained Bowser. "I'll slow myself. You two go ahead."

"But-" started Mario.

"Just leave! I'm going to take good care of her!"

Mario and Luigi, reluctantly, wordlessly agreed with Bowser and continued down the raging river. Bowser took Peach's hand. "Is everything fine, dear?"

"I don't need help! I'm fine!" replied Peach, obviously just to get away from Bowser.

Apparently Bowser didn't get the hint. "Hmm...you look a little scraped, but aside from that you're fine. Say, when you're done with this adven-" Another waterfall shot Bowser away from Peach, who soon followed.

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Eventually, our hero's reached a calmer lake that they floated into. "Looks like we're safe," noticed Luigi.

Tippi had caught up with them. "Actually, I think that fall down the river might have been a good thing. I sense the Pure Heart more strongly here. It might be somewhere across that beach," she continued, referring to the beach in front of them.

"All right, then let's explore this beach and continue our search," announced Mario.

The group climbed out of the lake, Peach having some difficulty. Mario gently helped her out of the water and onto the grassy ledge. In front of them, a slope led down to a sand-covered beach. It had been some time since they had started their journey; the sun was lower in the sky, which was starting to acquire faint red and orange streaks, turning the water a multitude of colors. It was truly a sight to behold.

-END OF CHAPTER-