Authors note: This chapter adds two new characters in and is kinda sad, and i'm glad to be able to type this once more, since I could only do it at school, so expect this story to get longer, and Enjoy!
When Mario arrived back at the castle, everyone was asking him questions, about the fight, and if Voltaire was dead, all Mario could do is nod, since he was exhausted after the very, very long walk back(cause the mushroom lake was about 9 hours from the kingdom by car), he went into the kitchen grabbed a cup, and filled it with water, then he sat down on the couch, and chugged that water, Peach walked over and sat next to him, and asked "Are you alright?", Mario nodded, and said "just… tired.", Peach kissed him on the cheek, "Then go get in the bed and take you a nap.", Mario nodded, he went upstairs, and crashed on the bed, when he woke up 8 hours later, Peach was lying on the bed next to him asleep, he tried to get up without waking her, but failed "Mario, can I ask you a question?", Mario nodded, "how did you kill Voltaire? Cause nobody's been able to do that since my father's great grandfathers time.", Mario said "I lured him to the mushroom lake, and tricked him up the lookout tower, and brought him down with it, drowning him.", Peach said "They had to rebuild the tower, after it mysteriously fell down.", Mario sighed "Now they'll have to rebuild it again.", Peach said "Help them rebuild it, but that will have to wait, until this war is over.", Mario replied "Okay, Tell Luigi, Sonic, and Knuckles, that they can go fight and kill Bowser, with me as backup.", Peach told a toad to go inform them, then she turned to Mario "Where's your elite soldiers?", Mario answered "Yeah, about them, I kinda sent them to be back up for Sandras troops.", Peach sighed "So you fought Voltaire without any back-up?", Mario said "Yeah.", she looked furious "What if he injured you? Or Killed you? Worse still kidnapped you?", He said "I'm Sorry, I cared to much about you, and the others, and I didn't want to take our best men with me, when they could of be here helping Sandra keep you all safe.", Peach's anger disappeared "Oh, you put yourself in more danger to protect your family, I can't be mad at you for doing that.", Mario said "Thank you for understanding.", she nodded "Are you sure you want to fight Bowser to?", Mario said "He'll think that Sonic, Knuckles, and Luigi are the only ones he's fighting, but he won't expect me to be there, and when my friends need me, I wanna be there to help.", she nodded "Well, I'm going to go back to sleep(she yawns) I haven't sleep since you left for the castle.", he said "Okay, I'll go see if Sonic and them are ready to go yet. Sleep well Peach.", he kissed her, switched the light of and, left the room, shutting & locking the door from the inside, so no one can disturb her. Then he went down stairs to check on his friends, Sonic and Amy were locked in a kiss, Knuckles, and Tails was chatting with Luigi, Mario Walked of to Luigi, and the others, "When you guys are ready to go fight Bowser tell me, I'll be your surprise back up since Bowser thinks I'm fighting his dad, they disagreed, Luigi said Mario this thing between you and Bowser is personal, we'll be the backup, will you fight him.", Mario asked, are you all sure?", they all nodded, "Okay, let's go.", and they headed for