We enter the home-stretch soon.


List of Characters:

Birdo
Boo
Bowser
Daisy
Dixie Kong
Dry Bones
King Boo
Koopa Troopa
Luigi
Mario
Pauline
Peach
Rosalina
Toad
Toadette
Waluigi
Yoshi


Wake up.


Come on, get up.


There's no time for this.


Get up, Peach, do it for me!


Peach jarred awake, jumping and hitting her head on something. She groaned in pain. She looked around her. It looked plastic-like. Wait... was she... floating? Oh my god!

She looked down. Her head was encased in a cube. Barely big enough to fit her head. She looked around. The same thing had been done to all of her friends. She started to scream, panic, and thrash about.

"Help, oh my god! Help! Help! Someone help me! Someone help us!"She yelled, expecting someone to respond. But, of course, nobody came to their aid. She looked below. There was water below. Her hands were all tied up behind her back. She could turn her head around enough to see there was something shining behind her. She looked up and saw a keyhole on the top of her box. It was a key behind her. She tried to unwrap her arms. She eventually untied her arms, and tried reaching for the key. She couldn't grab it.

"Not so fast, Peach!" A voice laughed manically through the ever-so-familiar intercom. This caused everyone else to wake up and have the same reaction as Peach. Screams filled the air.

"Oh my god, where are we!?" Daisy cried.

"This seems very implausible!" Rosalina yelled, gripping the rope tightly.

Toad and Toadette cried out in their high-pitched voices. The others screamed.

"Are you done yet?" The intercom said impatiently. "I see you've already figured out how this works, Peach. I'll explain anyways. You have 3 minutes to untie your hands and grab the key behind you to unlock your box. Once it's unlocked, you'll fall down below into the water. Out of sight of being able to see your friends, of course. After 3 minutes, the water that will fill up in your box will reach the top, and you'll barely have enough time to get out of there before you drown. Sound good?"

"No, no no! It sounds t-t-terrible!" Luigi cried.

"I really don't care. And Peach, your key is harder to reach since you didn't wait for my explanation." Peach cringed. "3 minutes start now. Try not to die!" The voice said, laughing as usual, before closing the intercom's audio.

With that, the water began to start filling up in the tanks. The screams grew even louder. That didn't stop the time from ticking. Peach reached for her key. She couldn't grab it. She tried over and over, but it was just out of reach.

Over beside her, Rosalina had gotten a grasp of her key and grabbed on her box to unlock it. However, instead of falling like instructed, she pulled herself up to the top. Yoshi and Birdo looked over at her, since they were right next to her.

"Rosalina, what are you doing!?"

"Saving you!" She replied, jumping on top of Yoshi's box with her key in her hand. She unlocked his box, jumping to Birdo's and doing the same. Attempting to jump to the next box, she loses her footing and falls down after Birdo and Yoshi.

Beside Peach, Daisy manages to unlock her box, attempting Rosalina's trick. However, she's too slow and falls.

1:30.

Toadette manages to escape, followed by Waluigi and Dixie Kong. Dry Bones got out after.

Only Toad, Peach, and Luigi are left in the air.

0:45.

Luigi gets his box unlocked.

0:30.

Toad gets his key in his hands, and looks over at the princess, who is still struggling to grab her own.

"Princess!" He shouts. Peach is in tears. "This is it for me, Toad! Tell everyone I'm sorry that I got them all stuck out here!" She shouts back. Toad's tears well up in his eyes.

"Take my key!" He yells one more time. Before Peach can respond, he tosses the key at her. Peach manages to catch the key.

0:10.

"I'll... never... forget you, Toad!" She cries out. She unlocks her box and yells as she falls. "You were always my favorite!" Eventually, she disappears. Toad smiles and cries as the water fills up.


Boo awakes while the others are still sleeping. Yawning, Boo floats around for a second before noticing nearby bushes rustling. Curious, he flies high above the bush to see what it is, and sees nothing.

"Wonder what that could've possible been...?" He mutters to himself as he floats down to the ground, unaware of the ghost vacuum right behind him.


Rosalina looked up as Peach splashed down into the water. Seeing her in tears, she and Daisy went over to her to ask her what's wrong.

"T-Toad..." Was all she could mutter. Rosalina turned around and noticed that Toad was the only one missing.

"Peach, it's going to be alright..." She told her, trying to comfort her into feeling better. After a bit of coaxing from everyone, Peach stood up with a smile on her face, opening the door outside. Yoshi, Birdo, Dry Bones and Daisy followed.

Rosalina sat down. She began to ask how everyone left was doing.

"Luigi, how are you holding up?"

"Well, I really miss my brother. The only reason I came is because he wanted me to in the first place. The fact that he's out there, and could possibly be dead really scares. He's my brother, and I look up to him. I would be so sad if he was gone. But, myself... I'm holding up fine, I guess... That was scary. I feel really bad for Peach and Toad, especially."

"Same." Toadette chimed in, sniffling. "He was one of Peach's best toads. He was also my favorite. I'm really going to miss having him around. Especially since I can't mess with him anymore. I should've just been straightforward and told him how much he meant to me..."

"I can relate... Donkey Kong is gone, and Diddy is gone too... I have nobody except Pauline. But, for all I know, she could be gone, too. I don't have anyone anymore." Dixie Kong said. "It's just hard losing someone you care about..."

"Losing Wario was very tough as well, weeh... My pal in mischief being gone like that honestly makes me feel like my past acts were wrong, now. Doing mean things isn't something that you should do. Wario got his karma, I guess. It's only a matter of time before karma takes me from this planet as well." Waluigi replied.

Rosalina looked surprise. "Don't say that! You're going to get out of here for his sake. you don't want his death to be in vein, do you?"

"Of course not. I just feel as if in these circumstances that we all won't make it out alive. I guess it's only fair if I go down as well." He said.

Rosalina pulled everyone into a group hug. "We're going to make it out of this. Just be positive." With a last nod, the 5 of them exited, where Peach, Daisy, Yoshi, and Birdo were waiting.

"We should go look for Bowser's group and head west from the campgrounds and see if that's where the exit to the forest is." Peach told them all. Without hesitation, the remaining 9 of them set out to go find Bowser's group.


Mario awoke next to Bowser and Pauline. Seeing the sunshine, he awoke Pauline and Bowser physically and woke King Boo verbally. Together, the 4 of them looked exhausted.

"I need coffee..." Pauline said, sniffling.

"Wait, where's Boo?" King Boo responded, not paying attention to Pauline's previous comment.

"Where could he have gone?" Bowser responded.

"I don't know. He was right here last night!"

"He probably is out looking for something." Pauline said, trying to comfort the King.

"Yeah, yeah, you're right... Let's go look for him." He said.

The 4 of them got up to go look for boo.


Peach neared the clearing by the lake they'd been to a few times. With the chain chomps, and when they were chasing down the shadow that got them trapped in the camp. Daisy opened up the portfolio Donkey Kong had carried. Thankfully, she kept it from getting wet. She opened the page of the hit list and looked among it, trying to figure out who the killer could be.

Stepping out into the clearing, they could see Bowser and the others. They rushed over to each other, intertwining for what seemed like the 1000th time. Daisy looked at the objectives.

Group 2 Trials.
Group 3 Waterway.
Chain Chomps.
Water Box Trap.
Earthquake Trap.

"Wait, guys, the objective list says that there's an Earthquake trap?" She told the others curiously. "How did I not see this before?"

Everyone looked over at her as she realized that's what's coming at them next.

"Good observation, Daisy! Guess it's time for me to initiate the final trap already. Thought you would've had enough since you just went through one." The group of 14 looked horrified.

"Oh, and King Boo, Boo's gone. I got him. Wario, Diddy Kong, Toad, Koopa Troopa, and Donkey Kong are gone too." A look of grief struck King Boo's face. The voice chuckled.

"By the way, one of those is a bluff. One of them is still alive." King Boo had hope.

"Anyways, this time. You won't escape. Have fun!" The usual laughter followed, as well as trembles in the ground.

The ground opened up right behind them. They all began running, but it was too fast. One by one, they fell down into the abyss below. Whatever was ahead was not pleasant, to say the least.

King Boo looked around him. He's isolated. Off in the distance, he could see someone. He needed to get their help.

If he didn't, then everyone else would die.