"Bowser!" Peach cried, getting over her surprise as Bowser punched into the bottom of the U-shaped table and walked towards her. "What are you doing here?"

"Well duh! I live here, your royal genius." Bowser replied with a snort. "I heard there was a meeting going on so I came to see why I wasn't invited!"

"Don't be ridiculous," Starlow said. She had heard about Bowser before and knew he tended to cause a lot of trouble for the princess. "You have no right to be here!"

"That's right," Dawn added, feeling brave knowing that Mario and Luigi were there, even if Luigi was fast asleep. "There's a very important meeting going on and the last thing we need is you messing everything up!"

The Koopa King turned to glare at her, making the girl shut her mouth quickly.

Seeing his chance while Bowser was distracted, Mario jumped on top of the Koopa's head, starting a battle.

"Master Mario!" Toadsworth called, having woken up rather quickly. "It's been a while since your last battle, hasn't it? Would you like me to remind you of how fight?"

Mario took a moment to give the old Toad a weird look before saying, "No thanks. I've got this."

"Very well. I should have known."

Mario turned his attention back to the fight just in time to dodge a ball of fire that Bowser had shot from his mouth. After that he went in and did a double-jump.

Everyone in the room–save for Luigi–watched the fight and cheered on Mario as he dodged Bowser's attacks and flawlessly preformed his own. The Koopa King soon got tired and fell on his face after Mario preformed one last double-jump.

"Yes!" Starlow cheered. "My Star Power along with your Wishing Power weakened him, Princess Peach!"

"Wh-what?" Bowser said, wondering why he wasn't aware of the princess' "Wishing Power".

"It's time to finish this," Peach declared.

She put a hand into the air, and, as if by magic, Bowser levitated off the ground. When she sharply pointed at an angle, Bowser was send flying away through the roof of the castle.

Mario watched, amazed by the princess' powers. He hadn't realized she was capable of doing such things. What did she need him to rescue her for?

As if thinking the same thing, Dawn commented, "Maybe if she could do that more often, she wouldn't need Mario to save her all the time."

Ignoring this comment, the princess walked up to Mario and gave him a quick peck on the cheek.

"Thank you, Mario," she said softly.

"I-it was nothing," the plumber said, blushing and rubbing the back of his neck.

"That caused quite a bit of damage, though," Toadsworth said, looking around. "I don't believe we can continue to use this room until it's repaired."

"Should we cancel the rest of the meeting?" Toadbert asked.

"Nonsense! We shall simply find another room to use."

"But, wasn't the meeting just about over?" Dawn asked, confused. "Mario and Luigi were going to look for clues to find the strange salesman. Is there more to talk about?"

"While they're doing that, we should discuss possible ways to cure the blorbs," Peach said. "And shouldn't you be off to school by now, Dawn?"

"Okay, okay. But before I leave at least let me find another room you can use for the rest of meeting."

The princess nodded, and the young girl ran off.

"I guess we better get going," Mario said. "Come on, Luigi."

But there was no answer; Luigi was still sleeping. Even the noise from Bowser being thrown out of the castle hadn't roused the younger of the two brothers. Mario did a sweatdrop.

"Why don't you let him sleep?" Peach said with a kind smile. "I doubt that it'll take both of you to ask about the salesman."

"Alright," Mario agreed. "I'll be back soon to tell you all what I learn."

With that, the red-clad hero left the room.

"Well," the princess said turning to the remaining people in the room. "Shall we play cards while we wait?"

From his spot in the sky, Kamek sighed as he watched Bowser go flying through the roof of Peach's Castle. It was clear the Koopa King had failed to kidnap the princess yet again.

The Magikoopa had been sitting idly on his broomstick, waiting for Bowser to need his assistance. He figured his boss's plan would be ruined like usual, but he hadn't expected this. Mario was getting rough.

Kamek flew to where he had seen Bowser land so he could make sure he was alright. He had gone towards Dimble Wood, so it took a few minutes to actually find him.

"Lost to Mario again, I see," Kamek chuckled as he raised his wand and cast a spell to revive Bowser. "Wake up!"

Bowser groaned as he opened his eyes.

"I guess your plan failed?" Kamek asked.

"Ugh, yeah." Bowser sighed as he sat up. Then his determination quickly returned. "But it does not end like this! I'm going back there to kidnap Peach!"

Kamek gave him a skeptical look.

"...for real this time."

"Unless Mario is still there, in which case he'll probably once again kick your—"

"Don't say that name!" Bowser roared, infuriated by the name of his number one enemy.

"Geez, chill out." Kamek went onto his broomstick again to fly into the sky to avoid be harmed by Bowser in his anger.

"Hmph, chill nothing," Bowser grumbled to himself. "I have a princess to capture!"

Looking around, Bowser realized he didn't know where he was. Some forest, but which one? Oh well, he couldn't be too far from Peach's Castle.

He started walking in a random direction, hoping he was going the right way. Whenever a tree or an oddly placed bolder got in his way, it was burned down or punched into rubble.

After a while of this, the Koopa King got tired and was beginning to wonder how much farther he had to go to finally exit the forest when a voice called out to him.

"A winner is you!"

Bowser turned to see who was talking and saw a small person wearing a gray cloak standing in what looked like a carnival booth. The forest was a rather odd place for such a colorful booth, though.

"Huh? I won something?" Bowser asked going towards to the booth. "What did I win?"

"Jackpotting!" The person, who appeared to be the one running the stand, had a high pitched voice that Bowser found to be extremely irritating.

"'Jackpotting'? Hold up there, buddy; what are you talking about? I didn't even do anything and you're saying I won something?" Not that Bowser had a problem with an easy win, but all of this seemed fishy.

"What's going on here?" Kamek asked, lowering himself to the ground. He had noticed Bowser stopping, and wanted to know what had caught his attention.

"This customer has luck!" the stranger said. "And with luck comes this Lucky Shroom!"

He held up a mushroom that was a sickly shade of green and had purple spots on top. Kamek shuddered, having a bad feeling about the odd mushroom.

"I wouldn't eat that if I were you, King Bowser..."

"But it will power your luck to Super Luck!" the cloaked person argued. "All of your hits in battle will be lucky hits! You'll have such fury!"

"Super Luck, you say?" Bowser asked suspiciously, raising an eyebrow. "Would that be enough luck to finally kidnap Princess Peach?"

"I said to you yes!" The mysterious shopkeeper laughed. "You will even be lucky enough to have the beating of Mario!"

"What?! I can beat Mario if I eat that mushroom?"

Kamek could see that Bowser was seriously considering eating the strange mushroom, so he said nervously, "King Bowser, I really don't think you should—"

But it was no use. Bowser took the "Lucky Shroom" and stuffed the whole into his mouth. Kamek sighed and hit his face in frustration.

After chewing the mushroom for a few moments and swallowing it, Bowser exclaimed, "Yuck! That tasted gross..."

Suddenly, he started to feel...weird. He covered his mouth with both of his hands and gave a confused moan.

"Bowser?" Kamek's annoyance for the Koopa's recklessness turned into uneasy concern. He turned angrily to face the person running the booth. "All right, you! What did you feed to Bowser?!"

By this time the person had gotten onto some sort of hovercraft. Laughing, he pulled back the hood of his cloak and revealed himself to be the Beanish known as Fawful. Kamek had never met him, but if Bowser had been paying attention, he might have been surprised to see him again.

"Oh, Bowser," the boy laughed. "Your stupidity gives me such chortles!" With that he flew off on his hovercraft.

As it soon turned out, he had a good reason to flee. Bowser opened his mouth and started to uncontrollably inhale everything around him. Kamek was quick to flee, as well, for fear of be inhaled.

Now, seemingly under the control of Fawful, Bowser headed to Peach's Castle once more.

Back in Peach's Castle, Princess Peach, Toasworth, Toadbert, and all of the Toads who had attended the meeting where playing poker while they waited for Dawn to return. Starlow was just watching. Instead of money, they where playing for candy that a Toad happened to have with him.

"I'll raise," Peach said, adding five jelly beans to the pile of bets.

"Well, I'm out," Toadbert said with a sigh.

A few other Toads folded as well, but two Toads and Toadsworth stayed in. In the end it turned out that Peach was bluffing and Toasworth won the hand by calling her bluff.

Aside from Luigi's occasional snores, the room was quiet as another hand was dealt.

"I wonder what's taking Miss Dawn so long," Toadsworth said sounding a little worried. "I would have thought she would be back by now."

"It's a big castle," Starlow said, remembering how lost she had gotten trying to find where the meeting was taking place. "There's must be hundreds of rooms here! Who knows how long it'll take to find one that can be used for holding a meeting?"

With this point in mind, the poker game continued. But it wasn't long before Mario returned.

"Did you learn anything of importance?" Peach asked, knowing the answer already by the look on the plumber's face.

"No," Mario said with a sigh. "I asked around but it seems that nobody really payed any attention to where the guy came from and where he went."

He sat down between Princess Peach and Luigi to watch the game. A Toad offered to deal him in the during the next hand, but as he was about to join in, a Toad ran into the room in a panic.

"Princess Peach!" he yelled. "Bowser has returned!"

"Oh dear," Peach sighed. "He just doesn't know when to quit, does he?"

Mario stood up and smiled confidently at her.

"Don't worry, Princess. I'll just battle him again and throw him out of here before Dawn comes back."

"Thank you, Mario. I'm sorry you have to trouble yourself like this twice in one day."

"It's no trouble, Princess."

Just then Bowser entered the room, so the red-clad hero went into a battle stance. His plan was to make the first move as he had done their earlier fight, but he never got the chance. Bowser opened his mouth, and Mario prepared to dodge a breath of fire, but instead of spitting out a fireball, the Koopa inhaled more strongly than anyone thought possible. A few Toads were sucked into his mouth, shocking everyone else in the room.

"Mister Mario! Help!"one of them cried as they disappeared down into Bowser's throat.

Then Toadsworth, Toadbert, and Princess Peach were trapped in the gust of wind and ended up getting swallowed, too.

"No! Peach!" Starlow cried as she too was sucked into Bowser's mouth.

Mario, who had somehow avoided being swallowed until now, was unable to react as he too soon followed suit and was pulled into the Koopa's maw.

Finally, Bowser stopped inhaling and took a few steps forward. Spotting Luigi, he began to inhale once more. Luigi was finally awoken from his long nap, and, not understanding what was happening but only being aware of Bowser, he started to panic and tried to swim in the air to get away. It didn't work, of course, and he was swallowed just like the rest of his friends.

Bowser started to laugh for reasons unknown even to him when all at once the Lucky Shroom's effect wore off and he promptly passed out.

"This has had much easiness!" Fawful chortled as he walked into the room. "Fawful's plan is going as smoothly as the icing on a cake!"

"Hey, everyone, I think I found another room for the meeting to continue in!"

Fawful turned around sharply, surprised by the sound of a young girl's voice. What was going on? Shouldn't everyone in the castle who wasn't a useless Toad have been inhaled by Bowser?

As the girl entered the room, she looked just as surprised as Fawful was.

"Oh, um...who are you? And where did everyone else go?"

Dawn didn't know what was happening, but she didn't like it.

This scenes in this chapters were more or less the same as they were in the old version, but I did edit some things to make it better.

~Dawn