Super Mario 24

This chapter takes place between 1:00 AM and 2:00 AM
On the day the King of the Mushroom Kingdom will hand over his power to Princess Peach...

Near Mushroom Kingdom in a Lakitu Cloud - 1:00:00 AM

The Lakitu cloud flies quickly towards the castle over the open field and . After several minutes, it reaches the tallest tower and lands with Mario and the rest jumping out. The King is there to greet them.

King: Mario, it's glad to see you're alive
Mario: I don't feel like right now
King: I understand. Follow me to the war room, we have much to talk about

They moved quickly down the stairs and down to the basement floor. There at the control room, Mario met up with none other than Mallow.

Mallow: Mario! It's good to see you. It's been a while
Mario: Yah, it sure has.
Mallow: Let me just say, I'm ready to go the distance to help Peach out
Toad: Oh yah. The Yoshi Team is coming to help too
Mario: Great. It will be just like old times

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The Sea Side - Yoshi's Boat 1:12:16 AM

About 45 miles away from the Mushroom Kingdom the Yoshi Team is riding on a boat made of Bamboo and Vines, but it looks like a yacht. On the upper deck stands Yoshi and several other color's of Yoshi. Blue walks up to Green.

(Note: I'm going to drop the translation for this part)
Blue: So, do you think Mario is all right
Green: We've been friends for a long time. I've got a good feeling that he's okay
Blue: It's amazing turn out, a lot of Yoshi's want to help. Even Boshi
Green: What? Boshi?

Green looks behind blue to find the Purple Boshi looking out at the ocean.

Green: Why does he want to help?
Blue: Heck if I should know
Green: Keep an eye on him. Something just doesn't feel right
Blue: Okay

Blue calmly observes Boshi, as he just stands there. Though, somehow Yoshi started to get sleepy as they started to enter Mushroom Kingdom time zone for the sky got darker by the minute.

Boshi: Ha, nice try...

Boshi knew that Blue was watching him and waited for this right moment. He walked off and went to the lower deck carrying a back pack. He walked up to a storage container and placed a rather large bomb disguised as a Yoshi egg inside.

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Forest Maze - Bowser's Location 1:20:13 AM

Peach lays unconscious in a small brick room with hay on the floor. As she wakes, she's unsure where she is and what's going on. Suddenly, she recalls what happened.

Peach: That bastard...

She holds her face, still sore in face from the whack of that fire flower. As she keeps looking around, she also finds Luigi, still unconscious. Peach walks over

Peach: Wake up Luigi

He didn't budge

Peach: Please wake up

He still didn't budge. Peach checked for a pulse and found that he was alive.

Peach: They must of drugged him
Voice: Finally awake I see...
Peach: Uh... Bowser!

She looked up and found a speaker in the upper right hand corner

Peach: What's going on!
Bowser: Why, you have been kidnapped of course
Peach: Mario will just come and rescue me! You know that!
Bowser: I think not young princess. I took care of Mario and now I'm going to rule the Mushroom Kingdom.
Peach: No... NO!!!
Bowser: When your father retires from the Throne today, he'll have to give up the power to me. If he doesn't, then there will be no more Peach!

All Peach could do was cry.

Bowser: I'm hoping to get a word from your father soon. Until then...
Peach: You won't get away with this. Others will come...

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Back on the Yoshi Ship - 1:27:22 AM

Suddenly, Blue woke up.

Blue: Ah crud, I fell asleep. Where did he go?

Acting on instinct, Blue follows Boshi's trail and soon reaches the steps that lead to the lower deck. Suddenly, Boshi runs up and bumps in to him

Blue: Where do you think you're going.
Boshi: The toilet is busted and I was about to tell you. You better go check it out.
Blue: Oh, okay.
Boshi: The tool are in the box in the left corner
Blue: I know...

Blue goes to the lower deck to check out the bathroom. Boshi was right, it was flooded over and water was everywhere.

Blue: Dang, I have to fix this before the ship sinks

He walks over to the chest and opens it up.

Blue: What is this?

He picks up the egg

Blue: What's a Yoshi egg doing here.

On the side of the egg, it says activate. It blew up catching Blue Yoshi and everyone standing near it in a ball of fire. Without warning, the entire ship blew apart in a burst of fire. Riding the force of the explosion, Boshi flies off on a pair of Yoshi Wings. Green Yoshi was the lucky one, being thrown a distance by the force of the explosion with only a plank of wood to hold him from drowning.

Green: Darn you Boshi...

He fell unconscious. A fishing boat passing by was able to pick him up and get him to safety...

Man: Oh my god, what happened?

Yoshi could barely talk.

Yoshi: Help, my friends...

The boat speeds across the wreckage as he looks for others...

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Mushroom Kingdom Castle - 1:31:02 AM

Toad is typing away on his computer as Mario walks up to him.

Mario: Hey Toad, do you have a spare outlet around here. The batteries to my cell phone died and I need to try and call Luigi.
Toad: Check the spare office, I'm sure it has an extra one
Mario: Thanks. Hey, what are you working on?
Toad: One of the Koopa Troopa's that invaded Peach's room drop this. It's in code so I'm trying to decode it.
Mario: All right, keep me posted

Mario walks to the spare office and plugs in phone while dialing the number. Where Peach is being held captive, the cell phone located in Luigi's pocket starts to ring with the Mario Bros. theme song. Unsure what to do, Peach picks it up and answers

Mario: Luigi, this is Mario
Peach: Mario...
Mario: Peach?! Where are you?
Peach: Trapped in this Prison cell with Luigi
Mario: Luigi is with you? Can I talk to him?
Peach: He's unconscious right now. I've tried to wake him, but he appears heavily drugged
Mario: Mama meya. This is what I want you to do. Keep the line open so we can trace it, all right
Peach: I'll do...

Suddenly, the door starts to open

Peach: Got to go...

With little time, she hides the cell phone in a pile of hay. A koopa troopa comes in with a tray of food.

KT: Here you go princess. Bowser thought you might be hungry
Peach: I'm not
KT: Doesn't matter

The Troopa leaves and Peach picks the phone back up

Peach: Mario? Are you there?
Mario: Right here Peach

On the tray of the meal is a camera and a microphone hidden in the drink. Bowser and Wario are observing

Wario: Looks like Mario is still alive
Bowser: Indeed
Wario: Should we stop the Princess's phone call
Bowser: Not yet, we might learn something of Mario's plans

***
Sea side - 1:47:56 AM

Yoshi is standing on his feet again as the Fishing Boat starts leaving the area. There were no survivors

Man: Sorry there Yoshi, there was nothing we could do
Yoshi: Darn, but I still need to get to the Mushroom Kingdom though. Can you take me there?
Man: Sure, my late night shift is almost over anyway.

The boat heads for the coast, suddenly Boshi falls from the Sky and lands on the boat with a mighty thud

Boshi: I guess I missed one
Yoshi: You, why?
Boshi: Bowser's paying me a lot of Cookies stop the Yoshi Team. He wont pay me though if you're alive.

Boshi pulls out a fire flower and open fires. Yoshi rolls out of the way and comes in kicking knocking the fire flower out of his hands. The kick then turns into a brawl as Boshi tackles Yoshi to the ground and proceeds to punch him in his gigantic nose. Though, Yoshi saw an opening and nailed Boshi right between the legs making his sun glasses fly off his head.

Yoshi: You play dirty, I play dirty

Boshi falls over to his side and Yoshi stands in front of him

Boshi: And I'll continue to play dirty

Boshi sucker punches Yoshi right between the legs and he also falls to the ground holding himself. But as both of them are squirming on the ground in pain, the fire flower comes into view. They scramble for it, but Yoshi kicks it out of range and throws a punch hitting Boshi right between the eyes. Then he followed up with an uppercut, but Boshi back flipped and kicked Yoshi in the chin. With Yoshi down, he went for a head lock and tried to break Yoshi's neck.

Boshi: Come on, where's the snap

He was almost there until a stray fireball hits Boshi in the arm. There stood the fisherman with the fire flower. Yoshi then reversed and trapped Boshi in a headlock and broke his neck instantly. The limp body slid out of Yoshi's hands and fell to the deck. Yoshi then followed up by kicking the body into the deep ocean.

Yoshi: Thank you
Man: No problem

The man observed the boat and noticed that it was starting to leak due to the fire flower.

Man: I better call the coast guard

1:56:29 AM

A Lakitu cloud appears and gets Yoshi and the fisherman on to the cloud and heads for the Mushroom Kingdom

Yoshi: Do you guys have a phone I could use?
Pilot: Yes I do. Here
Yoshi: Thank you (dial's number)
Toad: Hello, Mushroom Kingdom Emergency Force. Toad speaking
Yoshi: Toad, it's Yoshi
Toad: Yoshi, where are you?
Yoshi: In a Lakitu cloud over the sea side. Boshi was working with Bowser and set a bomb in the boat. I'm the only survivor
Toad: Damn! Is Boshi still at large?
Yoshi: No. I took care of him.
Toad: I'm sorry that this happened...
Yoshi: ... Is Mario there?
Toad: He's alive, don't worry. And right now we are tracking Peach.
Yoshi: Great. I should be there in 15 minutes.
Toad: See ya

The chopper flew west towards Mushroom Kingdom while Peach continues to talk with Mario as Bowser and Wario watch and listen.

2:00:00 AM - TO BE CONTINUED...