After Peach and the Toads finished their day at the Park, I saw to it that they got back to the hotel safely, then met Shiki and Luigi in the town square.

"Alright, where did you last see your friends?" I asked Shiki.

"At Pinna Park," she responded, "We saw posters advertising the Fruit Festival, and went there to check it out."

"A Fruit Festival?" I asked. "I didn't hear of a Fruit Festival in Pinna Park."

"Then how do you explain this?" Yoshi reached under her saddle and pulled out a crudely drawn poster.

I looked over it, spotting several things wrong with it. "Well, firstly, this was obviously painted in less than five minutes. Secondly, it says, 'This trick was brought to you by The Bowser Corporation' on the bottom edge."

"Well, it's hard to see it when it matches the background so well!"

"It's a completely different color," FLUDD said.

"See? That's how colorblind we are!"

"And thirdly, it says 'Starting at 6:60 AM'. That time doesn't exist."

"Oh." Shiki hung her head in embarrassment. "That, I'll admit, was a stupid thing to miss."

"Well, at least now, we know how he was able to capture them all," Luigi pointed out.

"And I think I know where he might've taken them," I added, bringing out a map. I spread it out on the ground for all of us to see. "Last night, I heard Bowser Jr. order a 'retreat to Corona Mountain'. Which is right there," I located it on the map and pointed to it. "If I'm right, then that'll be the best place to start looking."

"Or maybe you could just look up!" a fourth voice called out, startling us. We looked up and saw none other than Bowser Jr. himself, no longer masquerading as Shadow Mario.

"You!" I exclaimed at the sight of him. "What've you done with the Yoshis?"

"They're all right here," he said, bringing out a remote controller and pushing a joystick. From behind him came a Bowser-themed helicopter, with a large bag (carrying all the Yoshis in their eggs) in tow.

Shiki gasped. "Let them go!"

Bowser Jr. fakely considered it for a moment. "Hmm… Nah! But you know what I am going to do? I'm going to get the Yoshi I missed, and then, I'm going to bring them to my dad, and put them to work in our master plan! With their special properties, we'll be unstoppable!"

"Special properties?" I asked. "You mean their appetite?"

Bowser Jr. did a double-take. "No! I'm talking about — actually, why don't I demonstrate?" He pressed a button on the controller, and the helicopter stopped. A hatch in the bottom of it opened up and out came a tube, which reached into the bag and sucked up one of the Yoshis.

"No!" Shiki yelled out, then strained to do something (I didn't know what at the time), but failed.

The tube retracted and the hatch closed, then two Koopas opened a side door and pointed a hose towards us.

Shiki knew what was about to happen. "Move!" she shoved Luigi and me to the side, then jumped out of the way just as the Koopas turned on the hose and sprayed a scalding yellow liquid out. She'd barely managed to get out of the splash zone in time.

"What was that?!" I was bewildered, confused, and a bit dazed from being pushed aside so suddenly. "Please tell me it's not -"

Luigi sniffed the air. "Banana?"

Shiki quickly explained, "As a defense mechanism, the Yoshis on Isle Delfino developed a process where we turn some of the food we eat into a scalding liquid that we can shoot out of our mouths!"

"What, really?" Luigi asked.

Then I had an idea. "Shiki, can you spray Bowser Jr. with some of that to teach him a lesson?"

She then became hesitant. "Actually, I've never been able to do it."

Luigi and I snapped our fingers in a 'Darn it' moment.

Bowser Jr., hearing this, said, "What? Then why am I wasting my time here? Later, losers!" He grabbed onto to bag and swiveled the joystick. The helicopter began to turn around.

In an act of desperation, I jumped onto Shiki and pushed on the back of her neck, causing her to spray a concentrated stream of pink juice (it smelled like coconuts) at the helicopter. Some of the liquid got onto the ropes that held the bag, weakening them until they snapped. With that, Bowser Jr. and the Yoshi eggs fell to the sand below.

"Curse word!" Boswer Jr. exclaimed. "I really should've made a Yoshi-capturing net that was Yoshi-proof. Oh well, live and learn." He pressed a button on the controller, expecting the helicopter to come back, but it didn't. "Wait, what?" He looked at the controller's battery compartment, and found it empy. "The batteries are...?" He looked back up at the helicopter and saw the two Koopas laughing (evidently, they pranked him by making him think he was controlling the helicopter when he wasn't

He angrily got up, brandished his paintbrush, and made a portal, then jumped through, the portal evaporating behind him. A moment later, the two Koopas were flung out of the helicopter, as Bowser Jr. had appeared in it, and it flew off, leaving the Koopas dazed on the beach.

I, meanwhile, was standing there watching in a confused silence.

Shiki snapped me out of it when she ran to the pile of Yoshi Eggs, yelling, "Guys! Don't worry, we'll get you out!"

Luigi and I ran over to the nearby market, where we bought all the fruit we could carry (Luigi was still very rich from his Mansion exploits), and brought it all back, freeing every Yoshi in the same way that we'd freed Shiki.

Shiki hugged one of the Yoshis. "Are you okay, Mom?" Shiki asked.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm alright!" She said. "So I'm guessing there's no Fruit Festival?

"It was a trick created by Bowser Jr. to capture us and use our juice for evil. But luckily, M—"

I interrupted, "Luckily, Shiki here was able to break out and use her amazing ability to free you all! We're just here because we were helping her get the fruit that saved you!"

Shiki and Luigi both looked at me quizzically.

Shiki's mom was ecstatic. "You juiced?! That's my girl!" She rubbed Shiki's head.

Shiki looked at me. "But Mario, —"

I continued, "Don't worry; We can just buy more fruit. You don't owe us anything."

Shiki finally understood what I was doing. She smiled warmly at me, then her mom led her back into the buffet, where she started telling them "what went down". I smiled, my work done, and we started to head back to the hotel.

Luigi looked at me. "Y'know, you might just be the most humble super hero I've ever met."

I smiled.

Suddenly, FLUDD piped up, "ALERT! ALERT!"

I looked up at him. "What is it, FLUDD?"

"Nothing, I just haven't spoken in a while."

We all chuckled.