Making their way to a swamp, Mario and Luigi still had no idea what Toadsworth was up to. They speculated the fumes from his prison cell had some sort of an adverse effect on his brain. The passageway the swamp led to took them to a small hut, but that was about it. "No worries guys, Candy and I go back a long time," Toadsworth assured them. Despite this, only Toadsworth, Toad, Mario and Luigi dared enter.

"Toadsworth," she greeted. Mario took a good look at her, she was a tall Caucasian woman with blonde hair. She appeared to have a bit of importance about her.

"Candy," Toadsworth calmly said back. He strided over to her, almost knocking his head on a pair of hanging jars. She, however, spotted Mario and just as the old steward reached her, she walked over to him.

"Mario," she said calmly. "You... you have a touch of multiversal destiny about you, Mario."

"You know me?" Mario asked, fixating on her words. Perhaps she could give him some answers about what Bowser said.

"You want to know me?" she asked. Mario did not know what to make of it. She seemed about forty, his age, but he had a sneaking suspicion that she was much, much older than that. Nonetheless, Toadsworth quickly ran over between them, looking concerned. For what, exactly, Mario could not determine, but he backed away.

"There will be no knowing here!" Toadsworth declared, grabbing Candy by the arm and leading to the other side of her shack. "We've come for help and shan't be leaving without it!" He looked at Mario with concern when he turned back. "Please don't know him."

"Well all right. Come," she beckoned. Toadsworth called Mario, but Mario only and called for Luigi and Toad to stay where they were. Mario treaded over carefully, taking a look at a bunch of trinkets. One caught his eye. It was a red tie, like the one he gave Donkey Kong Jr., but there were no words on it. It was just a red tie but he swore that he recognized it. Shaking it off, he went over to the two crazies and followed them to the second story in the hut. "What do you want?" she demanded to know. "You know I want payment!" Toadsworth looked uneasily at Mario for a second there.

"I brought payment!" he said after an awkward half minute. He reached into Mario's toolbelt and pulled out an ammo magazine. "Look, interdimensional heavy metals!" Candy grabbed the cartridges and analyzed them for a second, putting a finger over the grooves in the packaging. She then looked at Toadsworth quite seriously, making Mario feel uncomfortable... but she laughed and Mario believed that the payment was considered fair. He was relieved for a second there, he was worried that she would kill the two of them. "We're looking for this and what it leads to," Toadsworth brought out the folding of the key and let Candy analyze it.

"The compass I gave you, why can't you use it?" she wanted to know.

"Maybe it does!" Toadsworth stated.

"Let's go back down," she suddenly stated. While they did, joining the others, they saw that more from the crew, Larry and Lemmy, had come in the hut and joined up in conversation. "So Toadsworth does not know what he wants or how to get it? Or you do know but are loath to claim it as your own? Your key goes to a chest and you want what's in the chest, right?"

"And what is inside?" Dane asked.

"Jewels, gold and treasure?" Lemmy suggested.

"Nothing bad I hope," Larry glumly commented.

"Do you all know of King K. Rool?" asked Candy. "A great sailor, until he ran afoul of that which vexes all men!"

"Oh my dad used to mention him!" Lemmy put out, drawing glares from the crowd. "The vex was women and the gold!"

"NO!" Larry slapped his elder brother. "That was a metaphor, it was the dichotomy of good and evil!"

"It was a woman!" Candy put out there, annoyed by the Koopalings. "He fell in love."

"I heard it was the sea he fell in love with," Dane commented.

"Same story different variables," Candy brushed him aside. "See it was a woman as changing and untamable as the sea in THIS universe. But the pain she caused him was too much and though he did not stop loving her, he could not live with a heart."

"So what did he put in the chest?" Luigi asked.

"His heart," Candy simply said. Luigi was astonished at that, how on Earth was that possible. It seemed like something out of a Gore Verbinski movie, just disgusting. Then again, maybe the science in this dimension was actually advanced and did more than cause pollution... but to live without a heart. That was just, something else entirely. Pure astonishment fell upon everyone's faces as well.

"Literally or figuratively?" Luigi asked again. He knew it was probably literally, did Bowser literally or figuratively turn into a monster. Chances were literally.

"It was not worth for him to feel the small fleeting joy of life," Candy answered. "So with a blade brought by Tatanga from the far emptiness of space, he carved out his own heart and hid it in the chest, keeping the key on him at all times."

"Did you know this?" Luigi asked Toadsworth.

"No," answered the old steward. "I did not know where the key was, but now I do. So now all we do is get the key, head off to Dinohattan and save Daisy! A much more easy and simple adventure than your last one. I'm sure your feeling it's much less stressful too. I mean, this time all you did was rescue me from a bone cage and go on a boat with me. Now we find Rool, make an exchange and leave!" Candy grabbed his hand and pulled of the glove, showing a red spot to everyone. They were shocked at the presence of it's hideousness.

"Land is where you are safe Steward Toadsworth," she told him. "So keep land on you at all times, you too Mario." She gave the plumber a jar of dirt.

"Dirt?" Mario asked.

"If you don't want it, I'll take it," she offered.

"NO!" Toadsworth almost shouted.