Chapter 8: One More Secret Revealed

"Again! How is it that she can get past everything I throw at her!" Bowser roared. "Suddenly I don't feel very safe," Ian whispered to Peach.

"You get used to it," Peach whispered back. Ian giggled.

"What can I do to get these people back? Maybe I should put Yoshi on the line now. Wait! Fly guys!" Several mecha fly guys, tiny guys wearing red robes and white masks and had air paddles on their backs, flew down from the ceiling. "Yoshi," Bowser told them, and the fly guys flew over and grabbed Yoshi. They carried him off to a high tower...

The room Jessie, Mario, and Luigi came out of the pipe into was a cavern. There was another pipe on the other side of the cave, sticking out of the low ceiling. "Uh-oh, dead end," Jessie said.

"What are you talking about? There's another pipe on the other side of the room," Mario said as he and Luigi continued to the other side of the cave.

"But it's upside-down. Can't we only use them if we jump or fall into them?" Jessie asked.

"No, you can enter them no matter what way they're facing. In fact, the one you crawled into when you were one was laying on its side," Luigi explained.

"...Oh," Jessie said and jogged to catch up with them. They made their way to the other side of the room. When they got to the pipe they jumped up and were kind of sucked into it.

After going up for a while, with a few twists and turns, they were spit out into another room. It was very narrow, but very high. A hole in the wall was the only way out visible to them from where they were on the bottom. Suddenly five fly guys flew out of the hole carrying something. As soon as they were out, a brick wall slammed down over the hole. "Hey, what's that they're carrying?" Mario asked.

They all looked up. Finally whatever it was called down to them," Guys, help!" "Yoshi!" Jessie exclaimed. "They're going to take me to the very top and drop me! You gotta get me!" when he was about a quarter of the way to the top. They weren't moving very fast, but it would be hard for anyone to get up there.

"You have to get to him before the fly guys get him to the top. Then he's free, otherwise they drop him and he goes splat," Bowser said.

"You gotta wall jump, Jessie," Luigi told her. She immediately leapt at the wall and rebounded off of it. She continued this for a while. When she was about half way up, the fly guys were about three-quarters. She kept going, wishing they would stop going up and started coming down. Suddenly, they did just that!

"How could I forget!" Jessie thought, "I haven't done anything like that since I came to Mushroom Kingdom!"

"What's going on?" Yoshi said.

"Why are they going down now?" Mario said. Jessie kept jumping until she got to Yoshi. When she had reached them she jumped to one of the fly guys and held on tight. She struggled to untie Yoshi with one hand while she held on with the other one. Finally she got him untied and the fly guys disappeared into thin air. Jessie and Yoshi started falling.

"Yoshi, when we get lower, mid-air jump so we don't go splat!" Jessie yelled. When they were about twenty feet above the ground they did mid-air jumps, like in the Smash Bros tournament, and then landed safely on the ground.

"You did it again, Jessie," Luigi said.

"But I wonder why they stopped going up," Mario said.

"Oh, um, that..." Jessie stammered.

"Huh? Do you know why, Jessie?" Luigi asked inquisitively.

"Actually, I made them do that," Jessie told them.

"What?" all three of the boys said.

"Well, I have telekinesis... I mean- I only use them when it can't be helped. I had forgotten all about it since I came here..." she tried to explain.

The boys stared at her for a minute and exclaimed in unison, "Telekinesis?"

"Yeah, I got it in Hyrule," she said.

"Where Link came from?" Luigi asked.

"Uh-huh-"

"So you knew the guy?"

"Yeah, it's very complicated so we don't really have time if we want to get out of here alive," she said.

"Don't worry," Mario said. "She's telling us some stuff about Hyrule when we get home."

"Oh, stop being such a big brother!" Jessie exclaimed.

"Hmm, we still need to get Peach," Yoshi said.

"Peach?" Jessie asked, "Who's Peach?"

"She's the Princess of Mushroom Kingdom," Mario answered.

"She's Mario's girlfriend," Luigi whispered with a smile.

"At least I have one," Mario retorted.

Luigi turned red, "Anyway, we should get going." Apparently he was very sensitive on that point. Mario blushed and muttered something about being sorry.

They were getting ready to start wall jumping when Mario spoke up from his position still down on the floor, "Guys?" They looked down at him and remembered his ankle. They stood there for a minute trying to think of a way to get Mario to the top of the tower.

Finally, Yoshi spoke up, "Does anyone else realize that I have a saddle on my back?" They looked at him and their faces lit up.

"That'll work," Mario said. Luigi and Jessie got down for him to stand up with them. When he was up he got one leg over Yoshi and held onto the saddle. Then they started jumping.

Bowser trembled, trying to contain his rage. Finally it exploded in a thunderous roar, "How can she keep doing that! And why the heck did those fly guys stop going up!"

Peach whispered to Ian, "That was kind of weird." Ian didn't say anything in response but shrugged. It was then that the conversation about Jessie's telekinesis appeared on the screen. They watched it, wide-eyed and open-mouthed as she told her brothers and Yoshi that she made the fly guys fly downward instead of upward, how she had gotten her powers in Hyrule.

"Telekinesis!" Bowser gasped.

"Mario's baby sister has telekinesis? Ian, that's- I just can't believe- what a surprise!" Peach stuttered. She looked over at Ian, but the look on his face showed no surprise, shock, or other synonyms. "Ian? Don't you think that's weird?" she asked him.

Ian shrugged. "Weird," he said, "Yeah, but I'm not surprised. I knew about them back when we were in Hyrule and the El Nido Archipelago."

"What?" Peach asked.

"Those are some of the worlds I lived in before coming here, Jessie was there too," Ian explained.

Bowser growled angrily, "I'm going to see how she stands when the ruler of Mushroom Kingdom is on the line. Then we'll see how she reacts..."