Super Mario 24

The following chapter takes place between 10:00 AM and 11:00 AM

On the day the King of the Mushroom Kingdom will hand over his power to Peach.

Outside Mushroom Castle - 10:00 AM

Parking was hard to find as everyone started heading for the castle for the opening banquet, and then the ceremony. There were large crowds, and plenty of security everywhere. In the tall tower, Peach was there just finishing up her shower. From a far, in a very small Lakitu Cloud a mushroom man in a black suit spies on her as she puts on a towel and walks towards her dresser where she pulls out an extra sparkly pink dress

Man: She's alive

As she puts on her pink dress, she soon attaches the broach, her special bracelet, her earrings, and finally the tiara. The man still watches

Man: Good, all goes according to plan

The man picks up a transmitter

Man: This is agent 005. Proceed with Operation Uncover

???: (Raspy) Will do, we'll be ready to go with the plan at noon

Man: Make sure to get the dinosaur's help

???: Right

Man: Over and out

Restaurant - 10:08:13 AM

Mario: Well that was a nice breakfast

Daisy: Sure was. Who's paying?

Mario: I guess I will

Mario pays the waiter and gets up just as the pink Yoshi behind him does the same thing. They run into each other and fall to the ground with a mighty thud

Birdo (in disguise): Watch where you're going!

Mario: Sorry miss

She opens her eyes and is shocked to see she ran into Mario himself

Birdo: Oh

Mario: Are you hurt?

Birdo: Uh... No, out of my way!

She ran outside shoving Mario to the side. As she jumped back into her car she thought to herself

Birdo: That was close. I better just head to the castle

Daisy: What's her problem?

Mario: I don't know, but she seemed familiar

Daisy: Oh well, let's go back to the castle before it gets crowded

They jump into her car and drive back towards the castle

Mushroom Kingdom Slums - 10:15:37 AM

Still at the bar

Luigi: This place is starting to get boring. Can't we go somewhere else?

Bowser: Not really. I mean I destroyed my castle, guards currently occupy the Forest Maze, and I have hired help running around

Luigi: I get your point

Suddenly the phone rings. The bartender was about to pick it up but Bowser beats him to the punch

Bowser: It's obvious it's for me! (To the phone) Hello?

???: (Raspy) Wow, I can't believe I'm talking with the man himself

Bowser: Who is this?

???: Maybe someone you know. My friends call me K.B.

Bowser: Should I call you that?

KB: Sure you can, if you want to be my friend

Bowser: Hmm... What's your angle?

KB: I just want to help you

Bowser: Why would I need your help?

KB: I've been watching you. Every plan you've thrown has failed. You're the only one with potential that I need to help bring the king down. We have unfinished business with him

Bowser: I'll think about it

KB: I'll call you back in a half hour. If you don't come up with the right answer then, we can easily take you out

Bowser: What?

KB: Until then... *click*

Bowser slams the phone

Luigi: Who what that?

Bowser: K.B.? Why does that sound familiar?

Luigi: K.B.? I think I know someone by the name K.B., but that was a while ago I couldn't really remember

The two continued to ponder over the phone call

Mushroom Castle - 10:21:12 AM

The pink Birdo drove up and heading for the gates to get in. About a minute later Mario and Daisy drove up. To hide her face, Birdo put on a pair of sunglasses that had a tracking and aiming system hooked up to make her snipping easier

Guard: Pass through gate A please

She did was she was told and quickly went past the gate without setting off any alarms. Inside the castle, Yoshi and Mallow were pigging out at the buffet

Yoshi: Yah know, I haven't seen Geno ever since we got back

Mallow: I think he's doing some exploring of the castle. Looks like he's looking for something

Toad walks up

Toad: Hey guys

Yoshi: Hi yah Toad. Want some food?

Yoshi offers him a half eaten apple

Toad: Uh, no thank you. Listen, I've been up since midnight and I have to head home to freshen up for a little bit. If the King is looking for me, just tell him I stepped out

Mallow: Sure, we'll tell him

Toad: Thank you

He quickly ran off and out the door. Though, just a Toad ran out the door Birdo walked in

Yoshi took notice and his jaw dropped with the chewed up food falling out

Yoshi: I think I'm in love

Mallow: Huh?

Yoshi walked up to the pink Yoshi totally taken in by her beauty

Yoshi: Hi, what's your name?

Birdo: Who wants to know?

Yoshi: You are so beautiful

Birdo: I know

Yoshi: Let's say we go somewhere private

Birdo: Get away from me!

She runs off and gets lost in the crowd

Yoshi: Playing hard to get, huh?

He quickly follows her

10:28:08 AM

Meanwhile, in the throne room Peach arrives to find her father there with a bunch of men holding gifts

Peach: What are these?

King: Gifts other kingdoms have sent for your special day

Peach: Wow!

The first man walks up

Man: This is from the Kingdom of Dreamland

She opens it and finds a warp star with a card

Peach: Let's see here. The card says: How to operate warp star. Hmm...

She starts fettling with and out of nowhere it powers up and crashes right into a wall

Peach: Uh oh

King: Don't worry the repair men can fix it later

Man: This is from the Republic of Cornaria

She opens it to find sporty Cornarian Army uniform

Peach: This looks so cool! I'll try it on later

The next man walks up to present the next present to her. Unknown to her though, she was being watch from afar. The Birdo has her in her sights as she turned off the disguise and charged up a shot

Birdo: Time to finish this

Yoshi: Hello!

She freak out and put back on her disguise. Yoshi ran up to greet her

Yoshi: You know, I never got your name

Birdo: And you never will

And she started to walk off

Yoshi: Come on! We're meant to be!

10:33:33 AM

Back at the throne room, Peach continues to open presents

Man: And this is from the Congo Jungle of DK Island

Peach: I can already see what this is

And she opened it finding bananas inside

Peach: Great, another bunch of bananas

Man: This is from the Land of Kanto

Peach: Kanto!

She rips opens the package and finds a stuffed Pikachu doll inside

Peach: Oh, I've always wanted one of these!

She started to dance around with it. Though Birdo had found another location to shoot from

Birdo: Quick moving around

With all of Peach's dancing, she couldn't get a lock. Though time passed as she soon put the doll down

Birdo: Got you

Without hesitating, she quickly charged up but...

Yoshi: There you are!

Birdo: Damn!

She put back on her disguise and looked at him. She knew she wasn't going to able to get rid of this guy

Yoshi: Come on. Let's have a little fun

Birdo: You know what? (Grins) Let's say we have some fun. Follow me

They both walked over to a broom closet and quickly gets in

Birdo: I'm going to show you the time of your life

She pulls out some hand cuffs and locks him to a support beam

Yoshi: This is different

Birdo: You betcha, I like it wild

Yoshi: Uh...

She continues handcuffing his other arm and his legs leaving him completely helpless

Birdo: Now close you're eyes

Just as Yoshi closed her eyes, she walks out the door and quickly runs away leaving Yoshi

Yoshi: Uh, isn't something going to happen

He opens his eyes

Yoshi: Anybody there? Hello? HELP!!!

She ran back to the location where she can get a good view of the throne room. But by that time, Peach had already opened all her presents and was somewhere else

Birdo: Damn!

Mushroom Kingdom Slums - 10:42:41 AM

Bowser continues waiting for the man to call back. Suddenly, the phone rings shocking everyone causing Bowser to fling his hands in the air and knock Luigi right in the head

Bowser: KB?

KB: This is he

Bowser: I have thought about it. No

KB: No? Now I understand why you never win

Bowser: ...

KB: You keep making bad choices

Bowser: Hey! This is my turf, and I'm taking over

KB: Please. I've been working in this city before you were born. I know and done a whole lot more that you'll ever know or do in your life

Bowser: Huh?

KB: I'm giving you another chance. Do you want to join or not

Bowser: Well, you've put me in a tight spot. But, no

KB: Oh well. When we take over, you better watch your butt because there's going to be no rivals when were through

KB hangs up the phone, same with Bowser

Luigi: Are you sure you know what you're doing?

Bowser: I hope so. Come on, I just remembered a place we can go

Luigi: Finally

They get up and start heading out

Bartender: Hey, you didn't pay your bill! 300 coins

Bowser: Oh, how silly of me

He pulls out a fire flower and blows the hear right off the bartender

Bowser: By the way, your drinks suck

Mushroom Castle - Ball Room - 10:50:26 AM

There was quite a party going on. The king and the princess were sitting on the stage while Mario, Mallow, and Geno were at the buffet. Just then, the king walked up to the stand

King: May I have your attention. We'll be starting ceremonies around noon, until then I have invited a special musical guest

Unknown to them, Birdo had found them again and was ready to do her job. She put on her sunglasses and started to take aim from a balcony on the other side of the room

Peach: Daddy! Did you?

King: You betcha. Ladies and gentlemen! Toadovsky!

Toadovsky walks in and starts playing a piano piece. Peach groans in disappointment

King: Just kidding. Now presenting the heavy metal rock band, TRASH TALKERS!!!

Peach lights up and the crowd starts to go wild. The rock group walks in

Lead: (British Accent) Get out of here old man!

He shoves Toadovsky and his piano of the stage

Lead: Let's blow them out of the water!

The lead plays his guitar at a high volume. From where Birdo was aiming, the sound messes with her sunglasses causing them to maul-function and exploded. She starts yelling out crud profanity with the sound of the rock band muffling her out. Mallow notices here

Mallow: (To Birdo) Yah, rock on! I better go find Yoshi because this is great! He'll want to see this too!

Mallow leaves and starts looking for Yoshi. Suddenly, a whole bunch of guards run past him obviously in a hurry. He keeps looking for about a minute longer until he hears....

Yoshi: SOMEBODY HELP!!!

Mallow follows it to the closet and opens the door and goes bug eyed at what he saw

Yoshi: Thank goodness you found me. Now I know this looks weird but I was about to score with this pink Yoshi and then she left me here. Could you get me down?

Mallow just stood there totally shocked

Yoshi: Why are you looking at me like that? Quit it

Mallow: Just a sec

Mallow leaves for a moment, and then enters the room again still finding Yoshi handcuffed in there

Mallow: What the hell is going on!

Yoshi just sighed knowing they were going anywhere with this

11:00:00 AM

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