Chapter 4: Recruitment: Toad and Yoshi
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*Tweet* *Tweet* …the birds sang and chirped around Toad Town. Toads were everywhere, at shops, outside, in their houses, and maybe even dating.
"What a nice day," a toad sighed. A butterfly passed by, but it looked like it was running away… "Hm? Is something scaring him…?"
RrRrRrRruuummbbbbbbbllleee!
The toad was confused, and a bit worried. He was about to mind his own business again, until he saw a princess and a goomba running towards the town…
"*Phew*, we're here! And I thought this was near your castle!" Bob panted, finishing his run.
"Yeah," Peach panted again, "sometimes I would think that a group of toads should build another town right my place. Now, let's go find Toad first."
"Sure thing, but… um… how do we know which one is Toad, not just a regular toad…?"
They looked around, but all they saw was that the toads were literally all the same.
"Arrrggghhhh… I hate it when this happens. Now we gotta ask every single toad in sight if they are Toad," Peach complained angrily. And so they asked every toad they see. Although, the toads were saying dumb answers like, "Wait, who's Toad?" or "Well, I AM a toad," or "Toad? We're all toads. There isn't possibly a toad named Toad."
Peach and Bob soon got tired of it. "I knew it was bad idea. Maybe we shouldn't find Toad after all," Bob complained. He was about to give up until…
BAM!
"WHOA!" he yelled out loud, being knocked down by a Toad who was carelessly running. The Toad looked down at him, and then suddenly saw Peach.
"Peach! It's your friend, Toad! I was just running for errands to your castle until I bumped into your friend of yours. Apologies," he bowed down in respect, "so who is this friend of your—AGH! A GOOMBA!" he frightfully exclaimed.
"You don't have to be afraid. We'll explain everything to you later, but we're just here to recruit you and Yoshi with us, Mario, Luigi, Bowser, and two others who are his minions," Peach explained a bit.
Toad breathed in relief, "Oh, good. We'll, hey. Wassup. Nice to meet ya." He tried to shake hands with the goomba, but that didn't really work well… "Oh well. AIR hand shake!" he thought, and so he did.
This is freakishly retarded, Bob thought dumbfounded.
"Well," Toad said, "I'll join. Now… we just need Yoshi, right?"
"Yes," Peach replied, "though, we need to go to Yoshi's Island just to get him. But then we're gonna need to ask every single Yoshi in sight. He could've just painted himself another color, you know."
"Ha! I get it, just like when you were trying to find me in this huge group of Toads. But no worries! I just invited him for some tea a long while ago. He's at my house and… oh! He's running up to us right now!" he spotted a green dinosaur running up to them excitedly.
"'Sup, peeps," Yoshi, as he got to them, did a peace sign. Bob and Peach turned sweat-dropped.
"Uhhhh…" Bob stammered, "h-he c-c-can t-talk now…?"
"Oh! Forgot to mention," Toad remembered something, "Professor E. Gadd came over and left a while ago and he put a "thing" inside Yoshi… looking like a cookie. Yoshi ate it, and now he has the ability to communicate and hear us normally."
"Um… okay. Well, we got everybody! Now let's go to Bowser's Castle!" Peach exclaimed, and the rest cheered excitedly.
And so they did…
To be continued…