053: Earth
Mario waved to the crowd as Peach put a medal around his neck. She leaned in and kissed him on the nose, like she always did. Then, she whispered in his ear, "Come see me later today. I'm going to bake a cake for you." Mario nodded, a big smile on his face. Peach straightened up and turned to the crowd. "I would like to thank Mario for saving me from Bowser once again. This is the fifteenth time he's saved me. Let's all give Mario a round of applause." The crowd clapped enthusiastically, some even jumping up and down.
Mario waved again, and walked down the steps leading up to the pedestal. Once he had dismounted the stairs, he flipped into the third dimension so that he could escape the crowds.
Making his way home, Mario tripped and fell flat on his nose. He pushed himself up and dusted off his hands. As he entered his house, he looked at his hands. "Why-a do I always get-a so much-a earth beneath-a my fingernails? With all-a of it, I could-a make a whole dimension from-a it."
The plumber went into the kitchen and made to turn on the faucet when he got a strange look on his face. For a while, he stayed like that, until he shook himself out of his stupor and headed to the bathroom.
When Mario entered the bathroom, he grabbed a scrubber and closed the drain on the sink. He began scrubbing furiously at his fingernails. The earth fell from beneath his nails into the sink. The earth built up, and finally his nails were clean.
Mario opened up the cupboard beneath the sink and pulled out his plumbing tools. He made his way back into the kitchen and got beneath the kitchen sink. Taking out his wrench, he worked with an enthusiasm he usually reserved for epic missions. He finally was able to take the u-bend pipe out. With a maniacal smile on his face, Mario closed the underneath of the sink and rushed back into the bathroom, where he emptied out the u-bend into the mounds of earth. More earth, grease, and old moldy mushrooms fell into the bathroom sink.
After throwing the u-bend into the bath tub, Mario pulled out a Fire Flower he had stowed in his pocket. He activated it, turning into Fire Mario, then grabbed the debris in the sink and mushed it all together into a ball of gross material. Then, using his fire powers, he charred the ball of stuff into a crispy sphere, also managing to scorch the sink black.
Luigi opened the front door and came in from working in the garden. He went into the kitchen and turned on the faucet, letting the water run over his hands as he washed them. It was when the water started coming from beneath the sink that he started to worry. "Oh, that's not good," Luigi said, watching water pour out from the pipe. Then it occurred to him to turn off the faucet.
He finished turning off the faucet, and heard Mario laughing crazily from the bathroom. Luigi groaned, and put his head in his hands. "He's trying to make a dimension again." After a little bit, he got up and went into the bathroom to talk Mario out of trying to make a dimension.
The scorched sink never got completely clean.
A/N: Alright, I lied. I couldn't resist writing one more story before NaNoWriMo. So, hope you enjoyed. Also, I plan on writing at least a special Thanksgiving story around Thanksgiving weekend or so, so look forward to that. Other than that, I might not be updating. But I'll probably change my mind for sure. What in the world did that mean?
