Story Twelve: Orange
Two koopa-kids were stairing at a very odd item. It had an orange dome and was set upon a golden pedistal This in itself could be just shrugged off as one of the oddities about the Mushroom Kingdom, but the item had a lower-case "e" emblazoned on it. No matter which way you looked at it, the "e" never seemed to shift in direction. It was dead-center!
"What do you think it is, Larry?" the smaller one asked.
Larry Koopa shrugged. "I have no idea, Junior. It looks like one of those switches Ludwig and Morton both talked about a couple years back, but..." He moved a little closer to it to get a better view. "It has an 'e' inside it. The switches I heard about had an exclamation point inside."
The two Koopalings continued to look at the Orange Switch. As weird as it was, they knew better then to just push a switch. They had a variety of effects. Some caused bridges to form, some caused earthquakes, some destroyed bridges inside their father's castles... But none of them were orange. And none of them had an 'e' inside them.
"Should we tell dad about this?" Junior asked as he looked up at his brother, who thought long and hard about it before answering.
"Nah. I don't think he'd be interested in switches."
"Okay. Race yah?"
"You're on!"
And with that, the two left the bizarre switch alone as they raced each other home.