"Mario's Missing? AGAIN?!"

Ok ok, so I didn't really give you ANY detail on how this story is going to flow, so I might as well now... You should probably know Super Mario RPG fairly well before you read this, since it will sorta follow that story line. Also, Toad is our protagonist, but my story will only feature him a little more than usually. And I didn't put this on the last one, but I have it in my profile, just a little safety...

I don't own Mario

Nor Luigi

They belong to Nintendo

So don't sue me!

(Goes for all Nintendo characters mentioned.)

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"WHAT?!" The little Chancellor of Mushroom Kingdom ran around the room hysterically.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S GONE?!" He was lucky to have gotten that cordless phone or he would have had serious tanglement problems with the way he was running around.

"YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE HE IS?!!... NO I WILL NOT CALM DOWN!!!" The police chief was starting to get annoyed. At first the chancellor thought it was a prank call to upset him, then he rufused to believe it until he finally realized that annoying beep was call waiting and hit the flash button. On the other line, Toad explained the story while the police chief sat on hold waiting to in*terror*gate several suspects... That was his favorite part of the job.

"WELL?! WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?!... SOON?! WHAT THE GOOMBA DOES THAT MEAN?!... FINE, BUT I NEED HIM BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!! IF I DO NOT HAVE HIM I WILL INFORM THE MAFI--FBI!!"

He slammed the phone down, which really wasn't necessary, those new cordless phones with the Caller I.D. and TeleZapper and stuff fit perfectly into their charger base. He stomped around angrily for a while and then decided that he had nothing to be angry about, just worried, so he stopped stomping, laid down in a fetal position on the floor, and started whimpering.

"Ohh.. ohh... what am I going to do?!... ohh... *tear*..." he cried as he lay on the floor. A faithful servant passing the doorway saw him and ran in, dropping his load of the Chancellor's dirty laundry on the floor in the hallway.

"Sir!! What's wrong?!" he frantically yelled.

"He's Missing! No way! To protect! Mushroom Kingdom! From evil! Ever-devouring scourge! Uther the Lightbringer! Prince Arthas!"

"... I think you've been playing a bit too much WarCraft 3 late at night, Chancellor..."

"No!! Mario is missing!!!"

"How could you play that? You don't have a Super NES!"

"... Dammit!! No!! The real Mario is gone!! We don't know where he is!!"

"Ohh... so what was that with Uther and Artha--" "JUST SHUT UP AND GET TOAD OVER HERE NOW!!!"