Mario sat on the middle seat behind, Luigi was at his side, still frozen with a weird and funny face on, Alex sat at Mario's side, while Alice was driving and Fred was at her side on the front seats.
Mario had a poker face on, he didn't know what was waiting for him this time. Alex was trying to look at Luigi, he said:
"When will Luigi wake up? Why is he with this weird look?"
The car passed on rock, what made everyone jump from their seats, and Luigi fell at Mario's shoulder. For some reason that made Mario fell a little uncomfortable, but he didn't move, and just let Luigi there.
In the front seats, Alice was asking Fred directions, because he saw where Bowser went, so she was following what he said, and going to where Bowser went.
After a long ride, and a awkard silence, they arrived next to a woods. The destruction on the woods showed that Bowser was there before. It wasn't possible to keep going with the car, so Alice stoped the car, looked at the back seats, Luigi was still frozen, then Alice said:
"Mario... Do you want me to take care of Luigi? He's still frozen... He was supposed to be fine now already."
Mario look at Luigi, that was still on leaning on his shoulder, he looked at Luigi for a few seconds, then he put his hands around Luigi's waist, he said:
"He'll be fine soon. I know it. Just give him more time, I'll take care of him. And you guys, please go back I'll save the Princess... Like always."
"I think we should help you Mario! RIGHT Fred?" Alex said right away.
"He doesn't want help, why we would help him?" Fred said.
"You two shut up and go help Mario. He needs help at least until Luigi comes back from his fronzeness." Alice said in a angry tone, then she looked at Mario "And you accept their help, it's been years since you last went on an adventure!"
All of them look at her and just nooded, with a little fear on their eyes.
All them got out of the car, Alice went to her car's back and got the first aid kit she got there, and also some red mushrooms he had in a box in her car.
She went next to Mario, which was holding Luigi tightly, she said:
"Mario please take this, take good care out there, take care of Luigi. I'll have to go back and take care of the people who got injured in the destruction Bowser cause on the city.
Also don't let those two dumb heads disturb you, make them help you."
She hugged Mario and Luigi at the same time. She looked at Luigi and said quietly:
"Wake up soon Luigi, Mario needs your help."
Mario just nooded, Alice went back to the city, the toads, Mario holding Luigi went to the woodst's direction.
Mario wasn't saying anything, just walking holding Luigi, Fred and Alex were following him while they were talking to each other. They offered help to carry Luigi, but Mario always said he didn't need help.
The time passed, and it was almost night. Mario was very tired of holding Luigi, Alex noticed that, he said then:
"Mario, we should stop and find a place to stay by the night..."
"We need to keep walking." Mario said, with a very tired tone.
"Stop being stupid Mario. How are you going to fight Bowser tired like that, also with Luigi frozen like a retard. I'm also very tired too." Fred said.
Mario got mad at Fred saying that, then he said in a mad tone:
"Why did you come with me then? Why you didn't stayed at your house? Stupid toad!"
"Hey! Hey! Stop fighting guys, the only guy we need to fight is Bowser!" Alex said and then looked at Fred "Fred, shut the fuck up, you only say shit." He looked back at Mario "Mario, even though Fred is rude, he's right, we need to rest, you are very tired. Maybe during this night Luigi might come back."
Mario looked at Luigi, then he said: "Luigi should had come back hours ago... Well... You're right, let's look for a place to sleep..."
They walked a bit more, they then found a big tree, it's roots had a very big hole, like a cave.
"Look there should be a good place to sleep!" Alex said running there.
Fred and Mario with Luigi went there too. The cave wasn't very big, but there was two holes inside there.
Mario said pointing to a hole:
"I'll sleep in here with Luigi, you guys should sleep on the other hole."
They were so tired they just nooded and went to the holes laid down and almost instantly feel asleep.
Mario put Luigi down and laid at his side. He said to Luigi, running his hands throught Luigi's face:
"I'm worried about you Luigi... Why are you still frozen? I hope I didn't made a mistake giving you that green mushroom..."
Mario hugged Luigi, some tears falled from his eyes, but after a while he slept.
It was very late in the night, when Luigi started moving slowly, after trying to move a lot, he managed to move fully his body, he noticed he was in a different place, and he noticed Mario was sleeping deeply at his side, he asked himself:
"What happened?"
Luigi then moved his mouth and blinked his eyes, he said:
"I'm so thirsty and my eyes are so dry... I need water..." Luigi decided to wake up Mario, he shaked his bro's shoulder a bit, saying:
"Mario, Mario! Wake up! Tell me what happened!"
Mario waked up drowsy asking:
"What... uh... Who? Who is it?"
"Mario! Where are we?"
Mario noticed Luigi wasn't frozen anymore and then he sat quickly, saying:
"Luigi! Luigi you aren't frozen anymore!" Mario hugged Luigi.
"Mario... Where are we?" Luigi asked again.
Mario stoped hugging Luigi, and told him:
"We are in the woods, we are trying to find Bowser to get the Princess back..."
"So everything that happened wasn't a weird dream..."
"No... I was reality..."
"Mario... Mario..."
"What is it Luigi? Are you okay?"
"Mario! Your house! Bowser destroyed your house! What are we going to do? Where are we going to live?!"
"Luigi... We should care about this later... We need to rest to save the Princess... That is our job..."
"But... Why? Why? It's her fault we lose everything!"
"Luigi please, we'll take care of this later, let's go to sleep for some more time, we are in the middle of the night there isn't much we can do... Also... I don't care about the house as long you're fine."
"T-Thank you M-Mario... I guess it's what I think too... Mario... By the way... I'm very thristy, I need water..."
"Water? Oh no... We didn't bring water with us!"
Mario got up fast and said:
"I'm going to look out there for water for you!"
Luigi got up too, and said:
"Wait, I'll go with you!"
"Luigi you should stay there, I don't know if everything is really fine with you!"
"Mario I'm fine... Also, it's better if I stay with you, not alone, you're the doctor and can help me if I need.
"You're right... Let's go. But please stay at my side all the time!"
Luigi then went to Mario's side and grabbed his arm, he giggled, saying:
"So I'm going t stay like this."
Mario just smiled, and then the two got out of the tree's roots.
