Hey, Hey, Hey everybody! I'm back with another chapter! Okay, I got the inspiration for this chapter and the one after it from an old German Mario comic. The plot of the comic was that somehow Mario wounded up in the Land of Oz and had to find his way home, along with some familiar faces helping him along the way. It then gave me the image of Mario as Dorothy and Yoshi as Toto. After some brainstorming I came up with this!

Enjoy!


"Yoshi!" Mario called out to his dinosaur friend as he walked into the living room of his house. After saving the day again with the help of his younger brother, Luigi, and best friend, the three had a celebration in their honor from no other than Princess Peach herself.

The celebration had started off without any problems. Luigi had gotten the courage to ask his crush, the beautiful, but mysterious Princess Rosalina to dance, Yoshi indulged himself in a buffet full of all his favorite foods, and Mario...well he was just relaxing relieved that he could have some rest after a hard adventure.

It wasn't until later did things started to go wrong. Yoshi had gotten tired after a day of partying, and asked Mario if could crash in his house for a while to rest.

"Say no more Yoshi." Mario had said. "La mia casa e la tua casa." Yoshi had just stared blankly at him, not knowing what the heck he just said.

"My house is your house." Mario bluntly stated, as Yoshi's eyes widened, giving a 'oh' of understanding.

Mario never knew that a tornado would strike this day. When he saw the powerful winds from Peach's Castle, he felt a sinking feeling in his chest.

'Oh Stars...Yoshi.' the plumber worriedly thought of his friend alone, and scared out of his wits from a tornado striking. So he did the most logical thing anyone would do for their friend in a situation like this.

Run outside of the castle and into the chaos the tornado was causing.

Well it seemed logical to him.

When Mario arrived to his house, he saw no sign of Yoshi, and was about to give up hope until a little timid voice called out his name.

"M-M-Mario?" Yoshi meekly called out to the red-hatted plumber.

Mario turned around, and smiled seeing Yoshi there huddled at the top of the staircase, trembling in fear.

He was scared out of his mind, but he was safe and sound.

"T-there's a tornado." Yoshi squeaked.

"I know." Mario nodded. "I'm here to take you to Peach's Castle. It's the only place that's safe from this weather."

A crash was heard in the background, startling both plumber and dinosaur.

"What was that?!" Yoshi yelled, whimpering a bit.

"Probably just the wind knocking over a tree." Mario responded.

Another crash was heard, this time more violent than before.

Mario gasped, knowing what it meant.

'The tornado.'

He was too late.

A loud creak was heard as the house began to lose its foundation from the ground. "Mario! What are we going to do?" Yoshi screamed, tears threatening to spill from his eyes.

Mario bit his lip, trying to come up with a reassurance of some kind that Yoshi and him would come out of this tornado unscathed and well.

It was a total lie, and he knew it.

There was no sudden miracle appearing out of thin air and transporting them both to the castle safe and sound.

This was the end.

No way out of this problem.

There was only one thing Mario could think of to do: Survive.

"Let's go upstairs and into my room. There are too many things in here that might hurt us when the tornado unleashes its full force."

Yoshi did not need to be told twice, as he zoomed into the room, leaving Mario alone.

'Stars...let this be some kind of twisted nightmare.' Mario prayed, as he entered his room, and huddled next to Yoshi.

Mario wanted to deny that his demise was just a few feet of happening.

He wanted to suddenly wake up, and breathed a sigh a relief to see that no tornado was there, and it was all but a dream. But as the clock reached zero, and the house was lifted up to the air, Mario knew that this was reality.

That he was literally inside a tornado, both Yoshi's and his life hanging on a single fragile piece of string.

'Is this how people feel when they die?' Mario wondered.

He started to feel woozy.

Yoshi began bawling, as he hugged Mario, burying his face deep into the plumber's chest. Mario absentmindedly petted him, as he looked out of the window.

The ugly brown caused by the tornado had suddenly turned into a bubbly pink color.

It reminded him of Princess Peach.

'Ah, Princess Peach.'

Mario felt his eyes close, and swept into a state of unconsciousness, not knowing what fate he and his beloved friend would face.