(A/N: Hello everyone here's chapter 2!

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Here's the second chapter of the story!)

Chapter 2: We're still here.

"Hey Sho."

"What."

"Can you explain why we're still here?"

Both Reapers remained silent until Penelope turned to face Joshua from within the game.

"Joshua. Why are we still here?!"

"I don't have to free you. I put you and Sho here."

"A******." Penelope cursed before looking at Sho.

"Guess what, Pi-Face? We're stuck here. I think there's something we need to do unless… Wait…there must be a reason we're at Mario's house…OH NO."

"What's up with you, hectopascal?"

Mario came outside, mainly because of the odd noises, but it was more awkward as he saw Penelope and Sho.

"…?"

"Hey Mario. Can we come with you to wherever you happen to be going? Let's just say that something weird just happened."

Mario went quiet for a moment before nodding and gesturing towards the green pipe. Pointing at herself, she asked, "Me?"

Mario nodded. Then Parakarry delivered a letter and Luigi came outside, but he went quiet upon seeing Penelope and Sho. Ignoring them, he opened the mailbox before walking over to Mario and said, "Mario! We've been invited to a party at Princess Peach's castle!"

Mario said something before gesturing towards Penelope and Sho. "They can come too, I guess."

Allowing Penelope to go in first, the Mario Bros., and Sho went into the pipe, unbeknownst (well, not so unbeknownst to Penelope) of what would happen that day.

(Toad Town)

Mario, Luigi, Penelope and Sho entered Toad Town.

Heading to the Castle, Luigi spoke to Mario, Mario went to leaving the room, which Penelope, dragging Sho along, followed him in case of backup for the event ahead.

After heading through a few rooms, Mario eventually reached the hall, in which Peach was waiting.

"Its going to get bad soon…If I remember this prologue correctly."

"Oh Mario!" Peach began. "You came to the party to see me! You're so sweet! Thank you!" Mario walked closer, causing Penelope and Sho to follow him, but kept their distance.

"I was just resting a bit," Princess Peach explained. "It gets tiring, greeting all those guests out there! Nobody will bother us here. Shall we relax and chat, just…the…two of….Mario, who are they?" Peach asked, noticing Penelope and Sho.

"Let me explain. We need to be here for backup just in case something happens." Penelope indicated.

"I don't see why though." Peach stated.

"Don't argue with me. This is serious." Penelope growled at Peach. Peach said nothing else to Penelope.

Peach went back to speaking to Mario. "It's a lovely day today, so I'm sure its comfortable out on the balcony right now. Would you accompany me, Mario?" Peach asked.

Penelope got in a fighting stance, well aware of what was just about to happen. Suddenly, the room began to shake, confusing Mario and Peach as they looked around.

What was happening? Peach's Castle was being uprooted, unbeknownst to Mario and Peach at the moment. Sho had a feeling that this may have been what Penelope meant.

In panic, as the castle began going higher and higher up into the sky, Mario and Peach ran back and forth in panic. Eventually, the castle got up into space, where it stopped.

Upon the halting of the castle, Mario and Peach stopped their pacing and Peach turned to Mario, being aware of Sho and Penelope's presence too, as she said, "Oh! Are you all alright? What in the world was that?"

"I can't give spoilers, sadly." Penelope answered. Turning to face the window, Peach jumped and shouted, "Oh my! Look! It's still daytime outside, isn't it? …But I can see stars outside!"

"Now you know where we are." Penelope commented. Then Bowser came in on his Koopa Clown Car and broke the window, making Peach and Mario as well as an annoyed Penelope and Sho, with his megaphone prepared, turn to face him. Then Kammy Koopa appeared behind Mario's arch nemesis.

"Gwa ha ha ha ha ha! Long time no see, Princess Peach!"

"…Bowser! But this can't be! It was you who made the ground shake just now, wasn't it?"

"Duh. Who else would it be? Its something called…"

Penelope got interrupted by Bowser, Peach and Sho, who all shouted at her, "WILL YOU SHUT UP?!"

Penelope frowned at them, keeping her lips sealed. Continuing on what she said from her previous question, Peach asked Bowser, "Whatever did you do?"

"Gwa ha ha ha! Yeah, that was me! I've lifted your castle up into the sky! It's sitting on my castle now! Weren't expecting that, huh?"

Penelope blinked before nodding, with Bowser responding, "Nobody asked you."

Eyes flickering purple, Penelope stormed over before socking Bowser with her left fist and then going back over to her initial position. There was an awkward silence for a moment as Bowser recovered from the blow.

Like with Peach earlier, Bowser continued on with his statement, "Ha! This castle's under my control now, my dear! Now you will obey ME!"

Mario, like he usually did, being the silent protagonist he was, ran in front of Peach, with Bowser responding sarcastically, "Huh!? What? Its…Mario! What a shock!"

Afterwards, he said, "Ha! Not really! I expected you to turn up, right on cue, You're just as annoying as ever. I know one thing I didn't expect though. It was that one girl who was just shouted at to shut up storming over and punching me. Now that I think about it, that hurt. But anyway, unfortunately for you, there's nothing you can do this time."

"Haven't you learned your lesson by now, Bowser?" Peach questioned him. "You can never defeat Mario! Why don't you give up already?"

Bowser, putting his arms up in the air, with his eyes closed, said, "True, true, I have had my problems in the past…But this time is different! This time I'm gonna win!"

Opening his eyes he said to Mario, "Okay, tough guy! Let's go!"

(A/N: And…I leave you all on a cliffhanger! I apologize for this much shorter chapter, but I needed to update, as I haven't for a while. Sorry for my absence.

What will happen next? Will Mario win? (If you played Paper Mario, at this point you'd know what would happen.)

I will tell in the next chapter…not.

Knowing me, I won't leave you on a cliffhanger until a specific part in this chapter! Let this story continue!)

The battle began, with Mario jumping on Bowser's head…however, it eventually came to the point in the battle where Bowser revealed his secret weapon, the Star Rod, which made him invincible…except for one thing.

Penelope, well aware Mario was now unable to hurt Bowser, she decided to do it herself.

She came up to him and threw a left uppercut at Bowser, making him yell, "Hey! This is me and Mario's fight that I'm gonna win! Don't interfere!"

Then he finished Mario off by spewing fire at him, which hit Penelope (she was wearing a specific ring from a specific Kingdom Hearts game which made her immune to fire-based attacks/spells), but she seemed untouched by it. Peach was horrified by this as Mario fell to the ground and she knelt by him.

"Oh no! Mario! Get up!" Peach cried in fear, worried that her hero now had his game permanently ended.

"Yes! Oh yeah! I did it!" Bowser cheered in glee as he was victorious over Mario. "I finally did it! I beat my old rival, Mario! Yessss!"

"Congratulations on your victory, your Viciousness. That's why you're the King!" Kammy congratulated him.

Bowser turned to her and rose up the Star Rod. "As long as I have this Star Rod, everything I wish will come true! No one can stop me now!"

Turning back to Mario and the scared Princess Peach, Bowser said, "Well, well, well… I guess I might as well get rid of Mario. He's no good to anyone anymore, that's for sure." With his Star Rod, Bowser zapped Mario out of his Castle.

Inconveniently for Penelope, Sho said, "I'm going to leave now. This is cutting into my arts and crafts time."

Just before Penelope could stop the Math-Obsessed Reaper Officer, he summoned his six wings and flew out the window.

Peach went to the window. "Oh no! Mario-!"

Penelope blinked before saying, "Wait…am I trapped in this castle too?!"

Bowser went silent before coming to the haunting realization of something. "Oh wait…I didn't zap you out of the window?"

Penelope realized that with the Fire-Immunity-Ring-Whose-Name-I-Forgot, she was also wearing her Lightning-Immunity-Ring-Whose-Name-I-Also-Forgot.

The girl paled up before screaming, "NOOOOOO! I'VE BECOME A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS!"

Glaring at Bowser, who was starting to tremble a bit as the Star Rod strangely couldn't work against her abilities (this may be because of the fact she has abilities from another game world (TWEWY) causing her abilities to cancel the Star Rod's effects), and she had her left fist raised as she approached the Koopa King.

However, the Guards came in and took Princess Peach, and the now caught off guard Penelope, to Peach's room, with Penelope shouting, "WAIT! WHY THE HELL ARE YOU GUARDS TOUCHING ME?! GET THE F*** OFF OF ME!"

That didn't stop the guards from throwing Penelope and Peach into the room together.

"Dammit! This wasn't supposed to happen."

(Reality- Penelope's House- Penelope's room)

Joshua looked at the screen and seemed interested. "My, my. It appears that Penelope is trapped too."

Neku came in and noticed the screen, seeing Penelope. "Joshua…? What happened?"

"Neku? Is that you…? GET JOSHUA TO LET ME OUT OF HERE!" Penelope cried.

"Who's Neku and Joshua?" Princess Peach asked.

Penelope began to cry, which was extremely unlike her, but she was now loathing being trapped within being trapped in a game.

(A/N: Here's the real message, folks! So, Penelope got captured with Princess Peach (which will eventually change for Penelope, but you'll see why.), and she is now a Damsel in Distress…or is she…?

Please review if you'd like and I'd appreciate it if you didn't flame, though I can find ways to ignore them.

See you all in the next chapter!

Ciao!)