Chapter 7
And the culprit is...
A/N: Here it is. The answer to the whole gosh darn story. Like I said before, it probably won't make much sense, but none of this story really did. By the way, I've decided to merge this chapter and the epilogue. Here we go...
Toad: It doesn't make sense, but..
Mario: Go on...
Toad: ........
Everybody but Toad: WELL?!
Gee, you don't have to yell.
Toad: Um, well it was...Peach.
Everybody just kinda looked at me. Then they started laughing.
Mario: That's a good one, Toad. Now, who really did it?
I looked at him real hard
Toad: I'm serious. I thought about it real hard, and even though I'm a bit skeptical of it, that's my conclusion.
Mario looked ( along with everybody else) confused.
Luigi: But how?
Everybody: Yeah, how Toad?
Ok, let's see if I can explain this in a way everybody can understand.
Toad: Right. Um, well, first of all, when I started this case, I had almost everyone of you down as suspects. Right? Ok. Last night I had a dream about the case-
Mario: So you're letting a dream influence your decision?
Fox: Dude, that's messed up.
Kirby: How can you let a dream-
Toad: Can you guys just let me finish?! Hear me out, alright?
Everybody shut up.
Toad: Ok. So my dream went like this. I saw everybody who was invited to Mario's house right. Then I saw Peach's invite. Then I saw these words, right? The words were "hit dead pic". I got those words from some e-mail some wacko sent me. I saw everybody who was in Super Smash Bros. Ok?
Captain Falcon: So what's this dream got to do with anything?
Toad: I'm getting to that.
Geez, you people are impatient..
Toad: Ok, so who was invited to Mario's house?
Samus: Me, Kirby, Captain Falcon, Ness, Yoshi-
Link: Me, the singing marshmallow, pikachu and Luigi.
Toad: Right. And all those people performed in Super Smash Bros. right?
Everyone: Yeah.
Toad: Ok, so I come to my first point. Peach wasn't in the game. Peach wasn't even invited to the party.
Everybody looked at eachother, but didn't say anything.
Toad: To my next point then. Peach's invite, it said " Bring any games you have, cause we'll be playing Nintendo". How could she play Nintendo without an N64?
Mario: Because she was borrowing mine, I told you that.
Oh yeah.
Toad: Ok, I'll come back to that later. Next point, I got some important information from a very reliable source, but I'm not saying who. Ok, Jigglypuff called me-
Oops.
Toad: Ok, so someone called me and left me a message saying that someone knocked on your door Mario. Someone came in, leading me to believe that it was someone from the outside who stole it. Who wasn't at your house again Mario?
Mario looked pained.
Mario: ....Peach.
Toad: Yeah. Not to mention the fact that the e-mail that I got, the one that says ' hit dead pic', remarkably says when unscrambled, 'Peach did it'. Someone most probably saw her, and wanting to remain anonymous
e-mailed me.
I grinned. Pretty good, eh?
Toad: So what do you think?
Mario just kinda looked at me.
Toad: Mario?
Mario:.....Toad...well...the thing is..it kinda makes sense, but....
But at this moment, Princess Peach can be seen walking down the staircase, smiling from ear to ear, in a pretty white and pink dress.
Peach: Hi everyone! I'm glad you could co-
Mario: Peach, how could you?
Talk about the direct approach. ~_~;
Peach looked at him kinda odd.
Peach: Mario, if this is about you thinking I was dating Luigi, I already told you-
Mario: No! Don't play dumb! Why'd you steal my N64?!
Luigi can be seen taking a big sigh of relief in the corner. I raise an eyebrow at him and he laughs nervously.
Peach: Why would I steal your N64?
Toad: For your own twisted reasons Princess.
Peach: Oh, hi Toad!
Mario: Don't "hi Toad" him! Answer me!
Peach: Mario, again I say why would I take it?
Toad: I've got plenty of evidence that you stole it! Like the other day someone came into Mario's house-
Peach looked ticked.
Peach: Yeah, that was me the other day, but-
Luigi: So you admit to the crime!
Peach: NO!
Kirby: Someone get Bernard over here-
Peach: grrrrrRRR FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD, WILL EVERYBODY JUST LISTEN TO ME FOR A MOMENT?!?!?!?!
Silence. A word of caution, never get Princess Peach Toadstool mad. Never ever. It's not pretty.
Peach: Thank you! Ok, I did go to Mario's house the other day. And yes, I DID take the N64-
Mario: PEACH, HOW COULD-
She shot daggers at Mario with her eyes. He shut up. Man I wish I had that kind of power.
Peach: I took the N64, on account of Mario said I could borrow it for the party.
Mario: I said I'd bring it with me though.
Peach: Yes, I know. But see, if you had checked your e-mail, you would have seen that I e-mailed you 3 days ago saying that I was gonna come over and take it. And even more, when I got there, you were all asleep, and I saw Toad under the window, but that's not important. I saw you all asleep, so I took the N64, and I even wrote on a paper that I took it and don't bother bringing it.
Jigglypuff: Uh, where'd you put the paper?
Peach raised an eyebrow
Peach: I put the paper in the kitchen. Why...?
Jigglypuff looked thoughtful.
Jigglypuff: Oh. I thought it was a napkin.
::TRIP:: Everyone fell over anime-style except Jigglypuff.
Mario: D'ohhhhhhh!
Fox: Typical.
Toad: ...Oh.
Peach: Yeah, 'OH!'. And Mario, the other day when you called to RSVP, I kept trying to ask if you got the note, but you wouldn't stop talking!
....That's why he was talking so fast, not wanting Peach to ask questions...Well, that changes everything.
Mario: Peach, I'm..I'm sorry. I was just a bit worried, cause you gave it to me and-
Peach shook her head
Peach: No, it's ok Mario. I understand. If something of mine was stolen, I would worry too.
She walked over and gave him a kiss.
Toad: Well, that's lovely and all, but um...did I get it right?
Kirby: Nope.
Toad: What?!
Dk: Not really anyway. It was her, but you twisted it and didn't look for clues right.
Toad: But-
Peach: But nothing. Case closed. Let's have fun.
Toad: Wait, one more question. Why were you guys acting so odd? Hiding stuff from me and what not?
Everybody looked at eachother.
Samus: You don't know?
Well, I wouldn't be asking if I knew, now would I?
Yoshi: Dude, don't you know what today is?
Toad: Sunday?
Mario: No, dork-wad!
Peach: Hit the button!
Someone pressed a button, and the lights flashed off, then came back on.
Toad: What the-?
Balloons. Streamers. Confetti. And a banner across the stairs.
Toad: Happy Birthday Toad?
Everyone: Happy Birthday Toad!!
......Damn.....
Toad: That's right....I must have completely forgotten since I was so wrapped up in the case.
Yoshi: And we were all acting odd cause we were getting your gifts and you always happened to be there.
Oh....that would make sense...
Peach: Happy Birthday, Toad.
She gave me a kiss on the cheek. Wow....anyway..
Peach: To the presents!
A whole bunch of servant toads came out with gifts.
I got a whole bunch of cool stuff. From Ness a yo-yo ( figures). From Mario and Luigi, my own Mario Brothers Hat. From Yoshi, an MP5 player for my computer. Pikachu, Ash, Misty, Togepi and Brock, a custom made Pokedex. From Link, a cross-bow. Samus, a laser sword. Captain Falcon, Free Admission to F-Zero Race-plex, Jigglypuff, a How To Draw on someone's Face when they won't listen to You Sing book, from Fox, a model of his ship. Kirby's was last.
Kirby: Go on. Open it!
I tore open the wrapping, and found a stuffed animal.
Animal: Hi, I'm Larry, the Shivering Chipmunk. Brrr, I'm cold, I need a sweater.
Everybody turned to look at Kirby who was beaming.
Kirby: Do you like it?
He whispered to me-
Kirby: It was Ribbon's idea.
Toad: I'm sure it was, spanky.
Larry: Hi, I'm Larry, the Shivering Chipmunk. Brrr, I'm cold, I need a sweater.
Toad: Well, thanks alot everyone, I really appreciated it and-
Peach: We're not done yet! We still have to play video games AND eat cake, specially made by Yoshi!
Oh. Ok.
Several hours and several rounds of Super Smash later, I left the castle. And who should I find floating around, but you-know-who.
Spike: Hey Toad! Happy Birthday dude!
Toad: Thank you, Lakilester.
Spike: GAH! Don't call me that!!
Toad: Sorry.
Spike: So anyway, you sure you didn't get my e-mail?
We were walking toward my bike.
Toad: I swear I didn't get it. All I got was some weird e-mail that helped me solve the case from some CoolioFlowerFieldsDude@coolguys.com
Spike: Dude, that was my e-mail!!
Huh?
Toad: Huh?
Spike: That's my e-mail address!
Toad: But how'd you know-?
Spike: Dude, Lakitu's see everything. I was just flying, trying to get away from my friends for a couple of hours, when I decide, " Dude, why don't I go visit Mario?". So I'm on my way there, and I see the Princess coming from the warp pipe, and I'm like " Hey, wassup, Princess dude?", and I told her that I was going to visit Mario, and she told me that he was asleep and that's where she just came from. She had the N64 with her. Then like later? I heard something about Mario's N64 has been stolen from the old gang. You know, Goombario, Kooper, them, right? Well, I heard that like you were trying to help, right? SO, I decided I'd help you out! I've been trying for the last coupla days to get in touch with you, but your answer machine is on the fritz, and everytime I tried to call, the line was busy.
So that's why that dork was trying to talk to me yesterday!
Spike: I tried to tell you yesterday, but you were too busy, so I e-mailed you in code, hoping you'd figure it out.
Toad: Oh. Wow.
Spike: Yeah, and now for some reason, I can't get online. They've like blocked me or something. And I can't figure out why.
Oops. Eh,heheh heheh. ^_^;;;;;;
Toad: Well, I don't know about that. But, uh, thanks La- Spike.
Spike grinned.
Spike: No problem, dude.
Epilogue
5 weeks after....
::Night Time::
Toad: Schnoor......
Toad: Snoor........
Toad: Schnooorr.............
Larry: Hi, I'm Larry, the Shivering Chipmunk. Brrr, I'm cold, I need a sweater.
( Toad wakes up, glares at Larry.)
Larry: Hi, I'm Larry, the Shivering Chipmunk. Brrr, I'm cold, I need a sweater.
( Toad feels around under the bed, finds what he's looking for)
Larry: Hi, I'm Larry, the Shivering Chipmunk. Brr, I'm cold, I-
SMASH!!!!
Larry: Hi,I'mLarrrrrryyyyyyyyy.......::sproing::
( Toad grins, puts down mallet, goes back to sleep)
Fin
HA!!!! I've FINALLY finished it!!! ::Happy witch dance around the campfire:: That took me forever!! I hope the ending was ok, and the answer kinda made sense. I'd like to thank my language arts teacher, Ms. Hansen, for proof reading this for me, and my sisters, for not bugging me when I was typing. I hope you guys liked it, for my first fic, I think it was pretty good.
I'll be seeing ya, and who knows? Maybe I'll write another story.
Good-bye, so long, until we meet again........
And the culprit is...
A/N: Here it is. The answer to the whole gosh darn story. Like I said before, it probably won't make much sense, but none of this story really did. By the way, I've decided to merge this chapter and the epilogue. Here we go...
Toad: It doesn't make sense, but..
Mario: Go on...
Toad: ........
Everybody but Toad: WELL?!
Gee, you don't have to yell.
Toad: Um, well it was...Peach.
Everybody just kinda looked at me. Then they started laughing.
Mario: That's a good one, Toad. Now, who really did it?
I looked at him real hard
Toad: I'm serious. I thought about it real hard, and even though I'm a bit skeptical of it, that's my conclusion.
Mario looked ( along with everybody else) confused.
Luigi: But how?
Everybody: Yeah, how Toad?
Ok, let's see if I can explain this in a way everybody can understand.
Toad: Right. Um, well, first of all, when I started this case, I had almost everyone of you down as suspects. Right? Ok. Last night I had a dream about the case-
Mario: So you're letting a dream influence your decision?
Fox: Dude, that's messed up.
Kirby: How can you let a dream-
Toad: Can you guys just let me finish?! Hear me out, alright?
Everybody shut up.
Toad: Ok. So my dream went like this. I saw everybody who was invited to Mario's house right. Then I saw Peach's invite. Then I saw these words, right? The words were "hit dead pic". I got those words from some e-mail some wacko sent me. I saw everybody who was in Super Smash Bros. Ok?
Captain Falcon: So what's this dream got to do with anything?
Toad: I'm getting to that.
Geez, you people are impatient..
Toad: Ok, so who was invited to Mario's house?
Samus: Me, Kirby, Captain Falcon, Ness, Yoshi-
Link: Me, the singing marshmallow, pikachu and Luigi.
Toad: Right. And all those people performed in Super Smash Bros. right?
Everyone: Yeah.
Toad: Ok, so I come to my first point. Peach wasn't in the game. Peach wasn't even invited to the party.
Everybody looked at eachother, but didn't say anything.
Toad: To my next point then. Peach's invite, it said " Bring any games you have, cause we'll be playing Nintendo". How could she play Nintendo without an N64?
Mario: Because she was borrowing mine, I told you that.
Oh yeah.
Toad: Ok, I'll come back to that later. Next point, I got some important information from a very reliable source, but I'm not saying who. Ok, Jigglypuff called me-
Oops.
Toad: Ok, so someone called me and left me a message saying that someone knocked on your door Mario. Someone came in, leading me to believe that it was someone from the outside who stole it. Who wasn't at your house again Mario?
Mario looked pained.
Mario: ....Peach.
Toad: Yeah. Not to mention the fact that the e-mail that I got, the one that says ' hit dead pic', remarkably says when unscrambled, 'Peach did it'. Someone most probably saw her, and wanting to remain anonymous
e-mailed me.
I grinned. Pretty good, eh?
Toad: So what do you think?
Mario just kinda looked at me.
Toad: Mario?
Mario:.....Toad...well...the thing is..it kinda makes sense, but....
But at this moment, Princess Peach can be seen walking down the staircase, smiling from ear to ear, in a pretty white and pink dress.
Peach: Hi everyone! I'm glad you could co-
Mario: Peach, how could you?
Talk about the direct approach. ~_~;
Peach looked at him kinda odd.
Peach: Mario, if this is about you thinking I was dating Luigi, I already told you-
Mario: No! Don't play dumb! Why'd you steal my N64?!
Luigi can be seen taking a big sigh of relief in the corner. I raise an eyebrow at him and he laughs nervously.
Peach: Why would I steal your N64?
Toad: For your own twisted reasons Princess.
Peach: Oh, hi Toad!
Mario: Don't "hi Toad" him! Answer me!
Peach: Mario, again I say why would I take it?
Toad: I've got plenty of evidence that you stole it! Like the other day someone came into Mario's house-
Peach looked ticked.
Peach: Yeah, that was me the other day, but-
Luigi: So you admit to the crime!
Peach: NO!
Kirby: Someone get Bernard over here-
Peach: grrrrrRRR FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD, WILL EVERYBODY JUST LISTEN TO ME FOR A MOMENT?!?!?!?!
Silence. A word of caution, never get Princess Peach Toadstool mad. Never ever. It's not pretty.
Peach: Thank you! Ok, I did go to Mario's house the other day. And yes, I DID take the N64-
Mario: PEACH, HOW COULD-
She shot daggers at Mario with her eyes. He shut up. Man I wish I had that kind of power.
Peach: I took the N64, on account of Mario said I could borrow it for the party.
Mario: I said I'd bring it with me though.
Peach: Yes, I know. But see, if you had checked your e-mail, you would have seen that I e-mailed you 3 days ago saying that I was gonna come over and take it. And even more, when I got there, you were all asleep, and I saw Toad under the window, but that's not important. I saw you all asleep, so I took the N64, and I even wrote on a paper that I took it and don't bother bringing it.
Jigglypuff: Uh, where'd you put the paper?
Peach raised an eyebrow
Peach: I put the paper in the kitchen. Why...?
Jigglypuff looked thoughtful.
Jigglypuff: Oh. I thought it was a napkin.
::TRIP:: Everyone fell over anime-style except Jigglypuff.
Mario: D'ohhhhhhh!
Fox: Typical.
Toad: ...Oh.
Peach: Yeah, 'OH!'. And Mario, the other day when you called to RSVP, I kept trying to ask if you got the note, but you wouldn't stop talking!
....That's why he was talking so fast, not wanting Peach to ask questions...Well, that changes everything.
Mario: Peach, I'm..I'm sorry. I was just a bit worried, cause you gave it to me and-
Peach shook her head
Peach: No, it's ok Mario. I understand. If something of mine was stolen, I would worry too.
She walked over and gave him a kiss.
Toad: Well, that's lovely and all, but um...did I get it right?
Kirby: Nope.
Toad: What?!
Dk: Not really anyway. It was her, but you twisted it and didn't look for clues right.
Toad: But-
Peach: But nothing. Case closed. Let's have fun.
Toad: Wait, one more question. Why were you guys acting so odd? Hiding stuff from me and what not?
Everybody looked at eachother.
Samus: You don't know?
Well, I wouldn't be asking if I knew, now would I?
Yoshi: Dude, don't you know what today is?
Toad: Sunday?
Mario: No, dork-wad!
Peach: Hit the button!
Someone pressed a button, and the lights flashed off, then came back on.
Toad: What the-?
Balloons. Streamers. Confetti. And a banner across the stairs.
Toad: Happy Birthday Toad?
Everyone: Happy Birthday Toad!!
......Damn.....
Toad: That's right....I must have completely forgotten since I was so wrapped up in the case.
Yoshi: And we were all acting odd cause we were getting your gifts and you always happened to be there.
Oh....that would make sense...
Peach: Happy Birthday, Toad.
She gave me a kiss on the cheek. Wow....anyway..
Peach: To the presents!
A whole bunch of servant toads came out with gifts.
I got a whole bunch of cool stuff. From Ness a yo-yo ( figures). From Mario and Luigi, my own Mario Brothers Hat. From Yoshi, an MP5 player for my computer. Pikachu, Ash, Misty, Togepi and Brock, a custom made Pokedex. From Link, a cross-bow. Samus, a laser sword. Captain Falcon, Free Admission to F-Zero Race-plex, Jigglypuff, a How To Draw on someone's Face when they won't listen to You Sing book, from Fox, a model of his ship. Kirby's was last.
Kirby: Go on. Open it!
I tore open the wrapping, and found a stuffed animal.
Animal: Hi, I'm Larry, the Shivering Chipmunk. Brrr, I'm cold, I need a sweater.
Everybody turned to look at Kirby who was beaming.
Kirby: Do you like it?
He whispered to me-
Kirby: It was Ribbon's idea.
Toad: I'm sure it was, spanky.
Larry: Hi, I'm Larry, the Shivering Chipmunk. Brrr, I'm cold, I need a sweater.
Toad: Well, thanks alot everyone, I really appreciated it and-
Peach: We're not done yet! We still have to play video games AND eat cake, specially made by Yoshi!
Oh. Ok.
Several hours and several rounds of Super Smash later, I left the castle. And who should I find floating around, but you-know-who.
Spike: Hey Toad! Happy Birthday dude!
Toad: Thank you, Lakilester.
Spike: GAH! Don't call me that!!
Toad: Sorry.
Spike: So anyway, you sure you didn't get my e-mail?
We were walking toward my bike.
Toad: I swear I didn't get it. All I got was some weird e-mail that helped me solve the case from some CoolioFlowerFieldsDude@coolguys.com
Spike: Dude, that was my e-mail!!
Huh?
Toad: Huh?
Spike: That's my e-mail address!
Toad: But how'd you know-?
Spike: Dude, Lakitu's see everything. I was just flying, trying to get away from my friends for a couple of hours, when I decide, " Dude, why don't I go visit Mario?". So I'm on my way there, and I see the Princess coming from the warp pipe, and I'm like " Hey, wassup, Princess dude?", and I told her that I was going to visit Mario, and she told me that he was asleep and that's where she just came from. She had the N64 with her. Then like later? I heard something about Mario's N64 has been stolen from the old gang. You know, Goombario, Kooper, them, right? Well, I heard that like you were trying to help, right? SO, I decided I'd help you out! I've been trying for the last coupla days to get in touch with you, but your answer machine is on the fritz, and everytime I tried to call, the line was busy.
So that's why that dork was trying to talk to me yesterday!
Spike: I tried to tell you yesterday, but you were too busy, so I e-mailed you in code, hoping you'd figure it out.
Toad: Oh. Wow.
Spike: Yeah, and now for some reason, I can't get online. They've like blocked me or something. And I can't figure out why.
Oops. Eh,heheh heheh. ^_^;;;;;;
Toad: Well, I don't know about that. But, uh, thanks La- Spike.
Spike grinned.
Spike: No problem, dude.
Epilogue
5 weeks after....
::Night Time::
Toad: Schnoor......
Toad: Snoor........
Toad: Schnooorr.............
Larry: Hi, I'm Larry, the Shivering Chipmunk. Brrr, I'm cold, I need a sweater.
( Toad wakes up, glares at Larry.)
Larry: Hi, I'm Larry, the Shivering Chipmunk. Brrr, I'm cold, I need a sweater.
( Toad feels around under the bed, finds what he's looking for)
Larry: Hi, I'm Larry, the Shivering Chipmunk. Brr, I'm cold, I-
SMASH!!!!
Larry: Hi,I'mLarrrrrryyyyyyyyy.......::sproing::
( Toad grins, puts down mallet, goes back to sleep)
Fin
HA!!!! I've FINALLY finished it!!! ::Happy witch dance around the campfire:: That took me forever!! I hope the ending was ok, and the answer kinda made sense. I'd like to thank my language arts teacher, Ms. Hansen, for proof reading this for me, and my sisters, for not bugging me when I was typing. I hope you guys liked it, for my first fic, I think it was pretty good.
I'll be seeing ya, and who knows? Maybe I'll write another story.
Good-bye, so long, until we meet again........