Ridley followed Luigi as they made their way out of the castle. A pair of short humanoid creatures opened the large set of double doors so that Luigi and Ridley to leave. Luigi walked outside while Ridley stopped to examine the creatures that had opened the doors for them. They appeared to have giant mushrooms of some kind growing out of their heads, which intrigued Ridley. He grabbed one of the humanoids by the mushroom cap with his talons and lifted the creature up to see if it was just some sort of hat. The mushroom didn't come off and Ridley ended up lifting the strange creature up off the ground. The fungus creature started having a fit and flailing its arms and legs around, so Ridley dropped it and it fell onto the ground with a thump. Ridley then realized that Luigi was leaving without him and he had to fly over to catch up with the green-clad human.

As he flew ahead, he passed by a tall blonde woman. Time seemed to stop for a second as he passed by and met her icy blue gaze. It was as if she were staring right into his soul. But a second later and he had caught up to Luigi while the woman had entered the castle, so he put the thought out of his mind.

Ridley continued to follow Luigi as they made their way through a town just outside of the castle. They passed by a post office, a flower garden of some sort, a strange building with a conical blue roof that seemed to spin around for some reason, some sort of training dojo, a large water fountain and a small shop before Luigi came to a stop in front of a large green pipe sticking straight up out of the ground.

"Well-a, Mario. Here-a we go!" Luigi suddenly jumped higher that Ridley would have guessed possible by the green-clothed man who did look like he was in particularly good shape. He landed on top of the green pipe and was sucked into it like it was some sort of vortex. Ridley was actually somewhat started by this unexpected turn of events and peered down the pipe to see what was inside. Even with his exceptional vision and ability to see into the infrared spectrum, there didn't appear to be anything down there but utter darkness.

"Well… So much for the green one." Ridley muttered to himself as he started to walk away. "You know, I'm actually a bit sad. I was looking forward to seeing what spaghetti was."

Ridley heard a strange sound from behind him and turned back to see Luigi standing on top of the pipe.

"What's-a the matter, Mario?" Luigi asked Ridley. "Do you have-a something that you-a need to do before we head-a home?"

"Um, no…" Ridley would have been surprised to see Luigi's sudden return but at this point, he wasn't sure anything could surprise him anymore. "I'll be right there."

Luigi went back through the pipe and Ridley walked back up to it. Perhaps it was some kind of teleporter? Ridley had never seen anything quite like it, but he decided that there was no other choice. Dinner was on the line. He climbed onto the top of the pipe and slid down. It was a weird, almost exhilarating feeling as he felt like he was being sucked through the pitch black tunnel at some point it felt like he had been spun around and was moving in the opposite direction before he resurfaced.

Ridley found himself in a small, secluded clearing surrounded by a white wooden fence. Directly ahead of him was a relatively large house of some sort that was painted a sort of creamy red color with a red tiled roof. There was a large pile of pipe similar to the one Ridley had just traveled through on one side of the house. On the other side of the house, there was a large wooden stake that had been hammered into the ground, with a long steel chain connecting it with a moderately black metallic orb that seemed to be swaying back and forth gently. Ridley had no idea what black orb could be, but he thought he could hear the faint sound of snoring coming from its direction.

Luigi stood on the front porch of the house, waving at Ridley to come over. Ridley jumped off the green pipe he was still standing on and glided over to the steps leading up to the porch. He walked up the stairs, which was a first for him because in the past he had always been too large to use stairs 'properly' and would just jump or fly over them. Once he was up, Luigi turned around and opened the door, then walked inside. Ridley followed him in and realized that he had never actually been inside of a house before. Sure, he had destroyed countless houses and homes before, but he had never really been inside of one. It had a cozy feel to it, which Ridley found unfamiliar and a little disconcerting but also mildly pleasant somehow.

"I'm-a going to get dinner ready." Luigi said, walking into the kitchen. "You-a can just-a sit down and-a relax if you want."

Ridley wasn't sure that he had ever actually used a chair before. So he decided to look around instead of sitting down. There was a painting of the princess hanging up on one of the walls which Ridley admired. It looked to Ridley like a near-perfect likeness of the princess but then again he had only seen her once, for only a few minutes. He wondered briefly if the portrait had been painted by the one they called Mario. Did Mario paint? It didn't really matter to Ridley very much. Either way, Ridley was probably going to take the painting when he left and add it to his collection.

Ridley walked over a window and looked outside, where he saw the black orb he noticed earlier. From this angle, he could see that what appeared to be a row of massive white teeth, possibly even sharper than his own. Further inspection showed that it also had eyes, though they were currently closed.

"Is-a Bow Wow still asleep?" Luigi asked from the kitchen. "That-a chain chomp is-a always so lazy."

Chain Chomp? Ridley had never seen anything quite like the creature before. The way the light reflected off of it made it look metallic, but the longer Ridley stared at it the more obvious it was that the thing was alive.

"Hey, Mario!" Luigi called for Ridley. "Dinner's-a ready! Why don't you-a come over here and eat before it-a gets cold."

Ridley turned around and saw Luigi placing a pair of plates on the table in what Ridley assumed must be the mess hall, or whatever the household equivalent was. He walked over to one of the chairs and fumbled around with it, trying to figure out how to sit down properly. He eventually figured out that he needed to slide his tail between the wooden posts that made up the back of the chair and was able to sit 'properly' while Luigi started eating.

Ridley looked down at the plate in front of him. It looked like 'Spaghetti' was made from the intestines of some sort of small animal, that were straightened out and served coated in the animal's blood. This was a clearly the kind of meal that Ridley could get behind. Maybe the natives of this backward planet weren't as useless as he thought. He looked up at Luigi, who was eating his food using a fork. Ridley looked down at his own fork, placed beside his plate, then back at his food. Ridley then lowered his head and started eating straight from his plate. He had never known what he had been missing out on his entire life.

"Boy, you-a sure are hungry, aren't-a you." Luigi said, not reacting to the spaghetti sauce flying everywhere. "It-a sure is a good thing that I-a made extra."