The team has reached a deep level in the mansion, they better keep their guards up! Another thing, the events of this chapter will go quite different, so keep your guards up.

As the heroes got to a new area of the mansion, Tippi sensed danger up ahead.

The team came across a vase above a "?" block. Mario felt the need to strike the block and did it, things went downhill from there as the vase broke and a shriek was heard.

"You broke it! You broke my most favorite vase! DOOFUSES! I loved that vase more than ANYTHING! And you BROKE it! NYAAAAAARGH!

Oh, you'll pay for that! Yes, you will... I'll have you know that vase cost 1,000,000 Rubees...

So hand over that money! Now! Or you're DONE FOR!" Mimi's face was red.

"I'm sorry! Just let me take out… Wait, Rubees? What are those? We don't have any of them" Mario embarrassingly said.

"Maybe you can accept our coins or in this case, dollars?" Peach defended Mario.

"Coins?! Dollars?! No one uses COINS anymore, you peasants! And what the heck are those "Dollars" you're talking about?! I SPIT on your coins and dollars!" Mimi barked.

Heather's eyes twitched and pulled out her gun but withdrew after what the maid said to them.

"...So what are you saying? Are you telling me you don't have any Rubees at all?! Well, guess what? You're just gonna have to work it off, then!"

"Until you work off your debt, you naughty little things, I OWN YOU! You can go to the top floor to earn some Rubees from the generator.

ENJOY LABOR! So! Get to work, servants!" She happily left the group.

"What were you thinking, loser?!" Heather turned to Mario with a glare, "Gotta admit you messed up big time, Mario" Leshawna agreed.

Mario sighed sadly, "Calm down Heather. Mario didn't know that'd happen" Peach stood up for the hero.

Mario blushed a bit and thanked the princess.

"Well, I'm not going to be that crazy girl's servant!" the sister with 'tude said, "We have to find a way to pay off that debt quick" Duncan said.

"Let's explore the area, maybe we can find something" Tippi suggested. The five nodded and went upwards.

On their way, they came across several slaves under Mimi's curse. One of them actually offered them a secret number that supposedly could help set the heroes, him and the others prisoners free.

This password is heard from Mimi sleep talking by him.

However, he charged 10,000 Rubees for this code. When he was offered twenty dollars by Peach, he laughed at them until, Heather, Duncan and Leshawna pointed at him with their guns.

The man quickly changed his mind and accepted the twenty dollars from Duncan. He gave them the code: 41262816. He told them they could use the number on a vault located in the attic but it was protected by a security barrier.

Heather thanked him with a tone of sarcastic sweetness and the five left for the attic.

Once there, Mario, Heather, Peach and Leshawna tried to dash and destroy the barrier. They ended up getting electrocuted, rounded up by a mechanical hand as part of the defense mechanism and launched to the skies, suffering a Star KO.

The four returned via revival platform, "Nicely done, team" Duncan mocked them. "Allow me to show you how's done" he grinned as he pulled out a grenade and threw it to the barrier, followed by a Remote Missile.

The barrier was destroyed by a huge explosion, much to Duncan's enjoy and the others' overwhelming surprise.

"Talk about much" Mario said. "Whatever. It got the job done" Duncan replied.

The five reached the vault and Heather introduced the code. The door opened, revealing 1,000,000 Rubees. The teens' eyes widened but Mario and Peach brought them to reality before any of the three could take a Rubee.

All of them took the loot and quickly descended from the attic to the room where they saw Mimi entering before.

She greeted them with a big smile, the heroes gave her all the Rubees they had.

"Well, thank you SO much for paying off your Rubee loan in... full...? WHAAAAT?! How did you earn enough Rubees to pay it off?! That's not supposed to happen!" Mimi floated in the air.

"Noooo... You've broken my wonderful curse!

I'LL GET YOU!" she yelled before exploding out of anger.

Confessionals: Everyone

Mario: What

Duncan: The hell

Peach: Just

Heather: Happened

Leshawna: There?

End Confessionals

Tippi notice a door on the end of the room and told the heroes to continue exploring.

The mysterious handmaid Mimi disappeared in a bizarre explosion...

What exactly was her plan, and why did she try to enslave Mario, Heather and friends?

After the incident, Princess Peach notice stairs going down. "Here we go!" she said.

"Wonder if Merlee is down here?" thought our heroes as they traded worried glances.

The five solemnly made their way down, knowing there was no other path to follow…

The team knows Mimi's definitely up to something… But what exactly? Please review and see you next time!