One of the 'guys went for Finn, and Archie followed in defense – at which point half of the platoon trumped on top of Archie. Finn had just about gotten away when he heard his friend cry out. "Get off me, you little twirps!" The red yoshi shouted in some frustration.
Seeing that his friend was in trouble, Finn doubled-back toward the small army. At a loss as to how to counter them, he simply bowled right in and knocked them apart – and consequently off of the struggling red yoshi. Archie swung around with a vengeful punch at the nearest guy, knocking him back into a few others and momentarily dazing the small group. Another few leapt onto Finn and grappled with him – while one shy-guy wrestled the baby off Finn's back. Archie had just managed to clean his friend of soldiers when Finn caught sight of the lone guy's attempt to escape with the scrabbling infant. Something akin to rage bubbled up inside the blue dinosaur. "Oh no you don't!" he shouted angrily, before pursuing, tackling and nearly mangling the shy-guy before it released the child. Finn, having recovered the boy, just sat happily and hugged it.
"Uh, I'm glad you've gotten in touch with your maternal instincts, dude…" Archie interjected from a short way off: he was surrounded. "But do you think we could save cuddle-time for later, Finny, old pal?"
Finn jumped back up with surprise – the whole platoon was now surrounding Archie, and Finn would not be able to fight them all off at once… he started to back off, looking around panicked, and analyzing the situation – surely he could do something to-
-That was the point it hit him – quite literally – as his backward wandering had caused him to trip over what appeared to be a pile of bricks. He stumbled and landed on his back, almost dropping the infant, and cursed angrily. When he looked down at the block-pile, it was clear that he had kicked one rather hard and that it was somehow reacting. One of the old earthen blocks shifted and rattled, and then sort of… produced another object… It was as though it was suddenly ejecting the thing: a golden, shimmering, 5-point star with a bold yellow glow about it. Finn was momentarily mesmerized, and leant down as if to touch it.
Archie's calls for help dragged him back to reality yet again, as the poor yoshi was pulled under with the full force of a complete shy-guy squad. Finn dropped the baby and ran to help his friend, leaving the child in the big mess of brickwork… and alone with the shining object that had emerged from the very face of the block.
Anyone with the understanding of a child's mind could have predicted what happened. To Finn and Archie, though - who were far from successful parents - it was not fully understandable how the baby 'knew' what to do. All that they understood was that one moment they were brawling shy-guys; and the next, the shy-guys had been lobbed halfway across the cavern. It took a few moments for them to absorb and process what had fully happened, but eventually, it hit home: the baby had evidentially absorbed whatever power the star possessed, and had taken some kind of super form. It was quite hard explain: he was wearing a bright yellow cape and could suddenly run and jump like an expert tree-hopper, in a way that infants tend to be entirely incapable of. Under these circumstances, however, the child was bouncing from wall-to-wall, knocking back the soldiers with ease - far from incapable. He had easily diminished the entire squadron in only a few short moments. The team of guys evacuated into a nearby pipe, bruised and battered, shouting frustrated insults between intermittent outcries of pain.
Once the danger was gone, the baby stopped and stood, watching the pipe carefully, until his power drained. His cape came undone, he fell backward onto his behind, and – for all intents and purposes – seemed to have returned to normal. Archie slowly approached and picked the infant from the ground – it was happy as ever to see its red friend, grasping up at Archie with tiny hands and giggling. Archie, however, was a little shaken.
"Well that's not something you see every day." Finn said with an air of confusion. "Who'd have thought he could pull a trick like that – eh, Arch?"
Archie looked rather blankly at the child, still in disbelief. One question sat on his mind: "Where'd he get the cape?"
Finn shrugged. "Maybe the star-thing gave it to him? Well, it looks like we've got him a blanket now, at least." Finn let out a low whistle, followed by a deep breath in. "So… they called the little guy 'Mario'?"