"Wait, remind me why you're dressed like an architect again?" Blossom asked.

"So I can look for TEE-" Buttercup stops mid-sentence to correct herself. "Uhh I mean... so I can look for piranha plants!"

Blossom looks at Buttercup suspiciously. "Ooooooookay..."

Mario and Luigi look at each other with a puzzled expression and he just shrugs as opposed to what's going on. They keep following the banana path until they heard a very loud growl, almost blowing the heroes away. The group turns around to see a humongous piranha plant. A plant with one large head and two other small heads.

"A three headed piranha?!" Blossom and Luigi exclaimed. Buttercup looked amazed at said piranha.

"That's not just any ordinary piranha," Mario explains, "that's the Lava Piranha Plant. This thing's really dangerous and it can shoot fireballs everywhere: I should know, I fought this guy once in Lavalava Island."

"Ah not to worry. We can beat him in a second," Buttercup said.

"And there's a door behind the plant too," Luigi mentions, pointing at the giant red door. It seems to have a field around it; a piranha plant field to be exact. It seems to lead to the ruins.

Then the lava piranha proceeds to spit out multiple orbs of fire but Blossom freezes them with her ice breath just in time: As the orbs start falling down, Mario and Luigi hit them towards the lava piranha with their hammers. As a result the lava piranha is left stunned momentarily before Buttercup uses her laser eyes and Blossom gives out one last sucker punch to the lava piranha before it falls and spits out a shiny cyan crystal. The heroes looked in awe as Luigi picks it up.

"Do you think it can unlock that door?" he asked, gesturing to the giant door.

"Well, we'll just have to see," Mario answered. The girls observed the door for a minute until Blossom gestures the others to come over.

"It seems to have some sort of lock on there," Blossom said. Upon closer inspection, it looks like a diamond shaped lock that would fit perfectly. Luigi put the diamond in and the door slowly but surely opens.

The door reveals a huge grassy piranha plant field... and a lot of them have a murderous look on their faces. It also has a sign that says "WARNING: Beware of the man-eating plants. What you may see are the many piranhas that exist from within. Here also lies the legendary Piranha Hydra which has been sealed away many centuries ago. When awakened, he will rise with enraging power. If you really must, enter at your own risk."

Then as soon as they finish reading the sign, it starts raining rapidly and the wind is blowing really hard: It might even blow you away. Literally.

"Aww come on! Did it HAVE to rain?!" Buttercup complains.

Suddenly, two giant piranha plants emerge from the shadows and who should appear none other than... Petey Piranha and Dino Piranha! Not those two again... Mario thought.

"Oh no, is that Petey Piranha and Dino Piranha?!" Luigi asked.

The red plumber nodded. "These are are the same plants I fought on Delfino Plaza and in Good Egg Galaxy."

"Ha! These guys don't look so tough," Buttercup claimed. "We can take them-" Suddenly the Dino Piranha uses its tail whip to slam Buttercup against the tree. "...down..."

"Okay, let's get those stupid plants!" Blossom declared.

The Mario Bros get their hammers and powers ready and Blossom and Buttercup get in a fighting stance, ready to defeat the two gigantic piranhas. The battle begins with Dino Piranha charging at us while spitting out a bunch of rocks. This is something none of them had seen before; they just stand there shocked.

Blossom and Buttercup dodge the attack: However Buttercup just punches the rock towards Petey's mouth and he just chomps on it easily. Blossom uses her ice breath on the rocks and deflects them towards Dino as he gets knocked back unconscious.

Then before the heroes knew it, Petey Piranha spat out mud and flapped his petals to form a mud tornado. The mud tornado spins around like a normal tornado would and practically gets everything-including us- into a muddy mess.

"I think we may need to look for F.L.U.D.D.," Luigi whispered. Mario nodded.

"Uhh we'll be right back, girls," he said. "We gotta look for F.L.U.D.D."

"Okay, we'll figure out a way to distract Petey," Blossom said.

"What if that giant plant almost kills us?!" Buttercup asked.

"Just... come up with a strategy to stun it or something. Water usually helps," Luigi replied. "Let's-a go Mario."

The brothers get out of the field and back into the forest to look for F.L.U.D.D. They looked beneath the trees, in the bushes, every place in the forest but to no avail. Luigi then suggested they split up; with Luigi going left and Mario going right. Where has that machine gone too...?


Buttercup and Blossom try everything to distract Petey Piranha: The "Look behind you" trick, attacking him from behind, even freezing him with the pink clad's ice breath. But just in seconds he broke out of his frozen prison.

"Nothing's working! What do we do?" Buttercup asked worriedly.

"We've tried everything," Blossom said. "I don't know what else we can do."

"Well I guess there's only one solution... I'm going in."

"WAIT, BUTTERCUP NO-!"

Despite the sister's warnings, Buttercup flies in Petey's mouth and tries to pull his teeth out but to no avail. Then about thirty seconds later Petey closes his mouth and Buttercup desperately tries to get out but his mouth remains closed.

"Spit her out right now or I'll make you spit her out!" Blossom exclaimed but she was only greeted by an evil grin. That dumb plant thinks he can get away with this? We'll see about that, she thought.

Before the girl could get to punching Petey's stomach, Blossom turned around when she heard Mario's voice calling out. "Girls, we found F.L.U.D.D.! Turns out he was stuck in one of the banana trees and we had to get him out of there." He had that water pump machine attached to his back, which turned out to be F.L.U.D.D.

"Not to mention he's had some updates added by Professor E. Gadd," Luigi mentioned. "Wait, where's Buttercup?"

"I'm trapped in that dumb plant's mouth!" Buttercup said, still in Petey's mouth. "Now will someone get me out of here already?!"

Mario, Luigi and Blossom looked at each other and nodded.

"Let's get her out of there guys!" Mario declared.

Blossom proceeded to do what she intended to do and kicked Petey in the stomach. His mouth then opens as Buttercup flies out of his mouth with a tooth in her hand. With F.L.U.D.D., Mario sprays the water in Petey's mouth and then the gigantic plant topples over. Mario and Luigi use the ground pound move on him about three times and when it's over, Petey Piranha spits out a scroll.

"Woah... there's a scroll here," Buttercup said.

As Mario cleans up the mess Petey had made, picks up the scroll after a few minutes and starts to read it, Blossom asks, "What does it say?"

"It says here," he begins, "that the legendary Hydra Piranha has been sealed away for ages ever since some legendary hero had defeated him and this plant would be sealed for all eternity until someone says a secret phrase. If we say that secret phrase, the Hydra will awaken and we have to destroy the crystal: But first we have to destroy the heads."

"What's the secret phrase?" Luigi asked.

"That's what we gotta find out!"

Buttercup took a guess. "Is it... abracadabra?"

A bunch of arrows came zooming by and she dodged them all. "Whoa, guess not," Buttercup said.

"Let me try," Mario said. "The secret phrase is clearly Piranha Rampage."

More arrows fly by but one hits Mario in the knee. He yelps in pain.

"Are you okay?!" Luigi and Blossom asked.

Mario stays silent for a minute as he pulls the arrow off of his knee until he says jokingly, "I'm fine, I just took an arrow to a knee."

"Yeah, I don't really think that was the secret phrase," Buttercup said as she rolled her eyes.

"Isn't the secret phrase Run-for-your-freaking-life?" Luigi said.

Even more arrows zoomed by and Luigi dodges them as well.

"That wasn't it either," Mario said.

"That was the only thing I could come up with!"

A thought came to Blossom's mind... first they fought the Lava Piranha plant, then Petey and Dino Piranha. These are three of the four classic elements: Fire, Water, Earth and wind. Then it all came to her. That's GOTTA be the secret phrase!

"I got it!" Blossom exclaimed. Suddenly everyone looked at her in wonder.

"What is it Bloss?" Buttercup said.

"The secret phrase has to do with the elements so the phrase has got to be The Four Elemental Plants!"

Mario, Luigi and Buttercup looked at the pink clad with bewildered expressions. Then a beep and rumbling sound was heard as the light turned green. Suddenly a hybrid purple piranha with multiple heads emerged slowly from the grounds. It walks slowly towards the heroes, observing them for at least five seconds and roars viciously.

"Wow, so that's what Piranha Hydra looks like," Buttercup said.

"Well let's try and seal it back to where it belongs! We gotta find its weak points first," Mario said.

"I think I know where its weak point is! It's right... HERE!" Buttercup proceeded to kick the piranha in the stomach and then Piranha Hydrid blew ice out at Buttercup: Blossom used her laser eyes to melt the frozen statue she was in at just seconds.

"Okay maybe that wasn't the best idea..." Buttercup muttered.

"You think?" Blossom said unamused.

"Let's just... look everywhere," Mario said, getting his hammer ready. He slammed his hammer against the main head, only to leave him momentarily stunned, Luigi shot his electricity at the piranha and Buttercup and Blossom used their laser eyes towards his stomach but this only results the Piranha Hydra into slamming the heroes into the ground as hard as he could.

"Ugh... you wanna do this the hard way, you stupid plant?" Buttercup said, weakly sitting up. "We'll do this the hard-"

Suddenly Bubbles Kong came over and knocked the four heads out with a club. The main head looked over at her and attempted to bite her, but she dodged. We got up slowly, shocked at what's happening as of now.

"I think Bubbles has found its weak point!" Mario exclaimed. "Quick, let's destroy that thing, while she's distracting it."

The others nodded. Blossom blew her ice breath at the Piranha Hydra and Mario uses his fire attacks in order to burn the plant. Then Mario's face lights up as if he had an idea.

"Buttercup, Luigi, you guys remember the crystal at the door we put in earlier?" Mario asked.

"Yeah," Buttercup and Luigi said in unison.

"Get the crystal out of the door and destroy it. It's the only way this hydra can be sealed."

"Got it," Buttercup said. Luigi and she rushed over to the door to destroy the crystal.

Blossom gets out one last sucker punch towards the main head before a crash is heard. The crystal is destroyed and the Piranha Hydra is sealed back away for centuries. Luigi and Buttercup rush back to where Mario and Blossom are.

"Oh thank god, we finally did it," Luigi sighed as the others walked out of the ruins and towards the ship.

"Yeah, but what are we gonna do about the banana hoard?" Blossom asked. "King K Rool and his minions already-"

The heroes stopped in their tracks as they saw the destroyed ship and the banana hoard is now gone. Had someone beat them to it already? If so, who could it possibly be?

"What the heck happened here?" Blossom asked.

"I guess whoever destroyed King K Rool's ship must've beaten us to it," Mario said.

Suddenly we hear vicious growling right behind them: as they turn around, there's Bubbles, with a malicious look on her face. And she's about ready to maul the heroes. She growls at them in a vicious manner.

"I should've KNOWN Bubbles was up to this!" Buttercup exclaimed. "Let's get her back to normal!"

They chased Bubbles around but they kept failing every single time. They tried giving her a banana, holding her back-she got out of the grip- and even trapping her with a net... except she broke out. Bubbles then climbs up the tree and starts throwing coconuts at the others, left and right. Mario and Buttercup both got hit by the coconuts but were only dazed for a minute.

This keeps going on for a long time. If only they could knock her out... Blossom had no other choice but to give up. However, she came up with a plan that involved the potion!

"Guys, I got a plan!" Blossom said, gesturing Mario, Luigi and Buttercup to come over.

"This better be a good plan, Blossom," Buttercup whispered. "Otherwise we're really screwed if Bubbles trapped us in a tribe."

"It'll be fine. Mario, do you still have that potion?"

"Yeah I do. I think Cranky may have put a sedative in it," Mario replied.

"Okay so we should pretend that this potion has... banana flavor! Then Bubbles will come here and we'll try holding her back, and Buttercup, you'll just put the potion in her mouth and she'll be knocked out in seconds."

"Uhh, are you sure this is gonna work?" Buttercup asked.

"I'm positive!"

Mario, Luigi and Buttercup looked at each other for a second before being completely sure about said plan.

"Alright, let's try it," Luigi said.

The plan begins with Mario holding up the potion and saying sarcastically, "Oh no, look at this dangerous drink I found!"

"Be careful Mario, I heard this drink is filled with chloroform," Luigi said.

"Yes, it may smell like bananas but it's really quite DANGEROUS," Buttercup said.

"Yeah I know right? It would be such a shame if someone were to drink it, even though this potion is... BANANA FLAVORED," Blossom said.

Bubbles perked at the word "banana." She comes down to the ground as fast as she could and pounces Mario to the ground to try to get the potion out of his hands. Luigi and Blossom pull her back from Mario and pin her to the ground: Buttercup takes the potion from Mario and shoves it into Bubbles' mouth. She struggles and struggles for a while until she falls unconscious. The others breathe a sigh of relief and take her back to the shack.


After the heroes laid Bubbles down on a bed in the shack-and putting her clothes back on and redoing her pigtails- Mario explains the whole thing to Cranky, who listened intently to every word he said.

"I'm really proud of ya guys," Cranky said. "I don't think I'd be able to handle her myself if I were in your position. But from what Mario's told me, I think you handled her just fine!"

"Yeah, she was a bit much to handle... but eventually we got around to it," Buttercup said.

Then suddenly Bubbles was heard groaning and she slowly started to wake up.

"Guys, I think she's starting to wake up!" Luigi said. Mario, the girls, and the green plumber rushed over to her side and Buttercup actually hugged her. That's actually an every-now-and-then moment thing. Buttercup may be tough, but she also has a kind heart.

"How are you feeling, Bubbles?" Mario asked.

"A bit better... I think," Bubbles said. "What happened...?"

Everyone looked at each other for a minute. Then they each started explaining the whole thing to her.

"Well... ever since the banana hoard's been stolen and Octi's been cut in half, you've started to go crazy," Blossom said.

"Yeah and then you threw coconuts everywhere," Mario added. "You almost wrecked everything in the shack!"

"You even ate a lot of bananas," Luigi said.

"And you wanna know what the craziest thing was?" Buttercup asked. "You destroyed King K Rool's ship and you brought the banana hoard back here!"

"I... did all of that...?" Bubbles said.

"Yes!" they exclaimed.

"The good news is, though, Cranky's fixed your doll," Mario said as Cranky holds up Octi.

"Octi!" Bubbles exclaimed as Cranky handed the doll to her. "Thank you so much Cranky!"

"I still don't get why-" Buttercup started to say but Blossom put her hand around the lime clad's mouth at the very last second. Now's not the time.

"Yeah yeah it's whatever. Just don't go bananas like Donkey Kong again," Cranky said. "Anyway! Who wants banana smoothies!"

"I'd love some but... I'm really full."

Everyone laughed at Bubbles' comment. Of course she's full. Otherwise she wouldn't have eaten a lot of bananas in the jungle.

After the monkeys and the heroes, except Bubbles, drank some smoothies, they exchanged their goodbyes to Cranky and the whole Kong family. However before they went, Bubbles hugged every monkey there, thanking them for everything and company. Buttercup even showed them her secret piranha teeth collection which made it into a full set of piranha teeth. Cranky complimented her skills and told her she could be an architect one day.

"Stay outta trouble, ya hear? I don't want anymore monkeys going crazy on me again," Cranky said. Mario rolled his eyes and Buttercup snickered.

"Well, we'll see you later Cranky," Luigi said as we climb down the ladder.

"And don't forget: KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THESE KIDS! Ya never know if one of them is about to cry, go crazy, or needs your help or something."

"Yeahhhh, I think we're doing just fine with that," Mario said, ruffling Buttercup's hair as she chuckles awkwardly.

Then they head down to a warp pipe that's supposed to lead them to the next place. They jump in the pipe, not aware of what's about to be in store for the heroes.


A/N: Hola! I actually had a lot of fun writing this chapter at the time. It was just too cool to pass on! Lol. Anyway now that the whole Bubbles Kong ordeal is finally over, the heroes can finally set off to their adventure in peace. But what will prevent them from doing so? Find out in the next chapter, and don't forget to read and review :3