Vacation visits to the Eighth World are far more common than the average toad might think. When the royalty is not off getting themselves kidnapped or saving the world or whatever, not much is happening. Heck, when things between the Mushroom kingdom and the King of the Koopa's normally go sour, it doesn't last longer than a few days, a few months at most. But all that time in between things are pretty calm and steady. In fact often times the kingdoms hold sports tournaments, races as previously mentioned, and other friendly enough shenanigans. Leaving the rather common folks of both sides to be on fairly good terms, both having accepted that their rulers were going to crazy things and that as that. Hence it was to be expected that enterprising minds would capitalize on the idea that people would want to get away from their home and experience something exotic, and whats more exotic than lava pits, insane architecture and the culture of a Princess obsessed monarch? To many World 1 denizens not much, so the tourist venue in the Land of Koopas was on a high in Bowser's not-kidnap-princess-and-rebuild-everything season.

Cindy couldn't decide if she had the pleasure or the tolerable annoyance to be sharing a couch seat with two such tourists. She may have been an icecream Koopa but there was only so much cute she could take.

"Mom! Look look! Itsa… um… Mom what is that?" the green toad asked his tired looking mother for the uptenth time

Cindy had to give props to the older Toad, she willing turned her head and took a gander out the window to try to answer her son "Frog, that's a tunnel wall sweetie, we can't see anything right now" despite her exhaustion she patted the kid on his head and leaned her head back .

"But mom, i thought I saw something! I swear I did mom!" the toad, apparently named Frog pouted

"I'm sure you did honey, but why don't we both take a small nap ok? I think the nice lady sitting across from us is trying to think and can't with all of your questions" was the mother's diplomatic way of saying to her child "Kid, you need to shut it for a few minutes and rest so I can regain sanity…"

"...Oh" fortunately the kid got the hint real quick and clammered down from pressing his face from the window "Sorry lady I guess I was being kinda got loud"

The Ice Sister was impressed, it wasn't often a kid apologized on his own, especially for something so "not bad". Sure maybe apologizing for stealing your lunch but just being an over excited youth? "Ah you're fine, first time to Koopa Kingdom I guess?" she had been rather silent the whole ride over here, mostly trying to figure out how she was going to locate her cousins as soon as she got off the train

Her question however brought the deflated toad back to life, as he beamed with excitement "Oh yeah! I can't wait to see Bowser's castle! It's going to be awesome! I wanna get a hammer bros autograph!"

Before Cindy could pipe up and explain that she was related to a hammer throwing koopa, albeit he was rather reluctant to actually throw any hammers, she was cut off by the toads mother "Remember dear we might not be able to go the Bowser's castle, we did book a tour of an airship though, remember?"

The small toad did seem disappointed but understanding, besides he did get to go on an airship and that was pretty cool "Alright mom, I remember now… but hey" he turned to Cindy, only barely being shy at this point "Um lady aren't you one of those ice throwing koopas or something?"

"Oh me?" Cindy laughed "Yes, yes I am sweetie pie"

"Wait really? So you work for the big guy, the king of da koopas?" Frog raised his arms wide to suggest that he could somehow represent the size of his royal terribleness

"You bet… well no, no actually, I used to, but I'm officially off duty now."

At this the toad once again seemed to be a tad disappointed but smiled none the less "Oh, well it's cool to meetcha anyway…"

Cindy crossed her arms, if this kid wanted to be impressed than she was going to deliver, in the instant and thanks to flower power she whipped up a ball of ice in her palm "Tell me sweetie pie, you like snow cones?" she smiled at him as his eyes went wide

"Whoa! Mom look, look!" Frog pointed, while his mother just chuckled and mouthed the words Thank You to the kind koopa

"Here let me get you a cup or something to put that in Frog…" the toad poked her head of their booth, trying to flag a busboy or something "Hmmmm I may have to go to the dinning ca- Oh here comes someone" a Toad of waiter-ish nature came scuttling by, running by the mother looking for a cup "...Well how rude"

Cindy frowned, still holding the ball of ice in her claw "Here, take this, I'll be right back" she took off her helmet, put the ice ball into it and passed it to Frog who squeed in typical Toad fashion

Cindy herself stepped out in the train aisle, looking for the rude Toad who ignored a paying train rider. Finding him at the end of the aisle, he seemed to be frantically jumping up and down at the door, making all sorts of nervous panic sounds, this general scene of distress did nothing to ease Cindy's tone

"Hey buddy, what's the big idea of just running past that nice Mom back there!" she tapped the train attendant on the shoulder, clicking her foot upon the ground

"Uhhhh, so-sorry miss I um…" the toad had turned around breaking into a heavier sweat than he had obviously been in before "It's just we're having a bit of a problem on the train, if I could ask you to return to your seat I'll be with you as soon as the problem is fixed…" the toad tapped his gloved fingers together hoping to something that everything would be alright

"Go back to my seat? Nothing doing, what the heck is wrong? We being attacked or something?" she glared, her claws going white with misty ice

"No! No, nothing like that, it's just… all the doorknobs are missing from the train doors...we can't get from car to car…."

"Wait what?..."

"Someone's stolen all the doorknobs…"