This chapter is also not too action packed, but I have to get the ball rolling, this time I PROMISE next chapter will have a lot more going on! Don't get me wrong.. THIS is still worth reading!

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Suddenly Mario didn't feel so trusting of his little savior anymore. The fact had just now broken through his thick skull that Peach had NEVER mentioned anything about the war. Frog was the one who had told him all that bull shit about the warp pipe!

Daisy gave Mario a wondering look and he could tell a feeling of worry overshadowed all else. "Where do you suppose he's gone?" she asked.

Mario could only shrug, as he stood by the door praying Frog would just return.

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Luigi stood out in the middle of the open field with his arms folded, gazing triumphantly ahead. He and the other troops had a brilliant plan to toss on the oblivious toadstools.

As soon as the spy returned, he'd put the plan into action, murder Peach and capture the Mushroom kingdom power needed to add the finishing touches to their current project.. the most fatal bob-omb imaginable. Once the broach of Peach's was there's, they'd just have to fuel their bob-omb with the power, and it'd be ready to be set off.

Why those fools with their spotted heads hadn't concocted such weaponry when the needed ingredients were within their grasp was beyond him.

He would have ridded the world of that little blonde tic sooner, the eagerness to do so was numbing what little patience he had, but smearing out royalty is risky business. Only he and the toadstools' benedict Arnold would know of his assassination.

Just when he was about to hop a warp pipe to the mushroom kingdom and grapple with that flaxen haired broad out in the open, he heard someone treading behind him through the unkempt prairie grass, and just like clockwork, it was his cloaked emissary.

"You must be clairvoyant or something, just about every time I think about you, you show up behind me!" Luigi sneered.

The petite man underneath the dark cloak only grunted. He stood there in silence for a moment, and just as Luigi opened his mouth to speak, he said, "Forget the plan."

Luigi practically choked on his next words. "WHAT? We need to make a come back!" he cried.

"Foolish boy, you have no listening skills"

"well, go on then, but I wish you'd make it to your point rather than stringing me a long and watching me suffer!"

"The princess is already dead.I have managed to bring this back for you" after that statement he dropped a glistening, cerulean broach into Luigi's hands.

The plumber just kind of gazed at it, his mouth open and his mind dancing off in another dimension.

"You do good work, and I don't understand how you can slide by so easily without being noticed. I've run low on gold, but I can offer you this." Luigi then handed him a fire flower, they had been near to impossible to find around the mushroom kingdom lately.

The shrouded double agent merely bowed as he slid the flower into his pocket and gruffly replied "good day to you."

Luigi practically soared to the general's tent. Thanks to his new pal, he would become a hero in the eyes of the sarasa's especially Daisy.

His head was too full of thoughts of his own glory to let the topic of Peach's death remain for very long. At the moment, as he was entranced by the ease he detained the broach, and all that reflected in his pupils was the burnished, blue stone.

In his hands he held the power that kept the kingdom thriving when it was on the brink of destruction, that when used properly could conjure any potion, create any spell, and kill anyone instantly.

As he planted his feet onto the ground within the moth eaten tent, his smile so large it touched his eyes, the only thing he could do was cry "I've got it!"

The general looked up at him with a frown of confusion, but once he saw the sapphire broach, he too could not conceal his beam.

He was too flustered to even think straight. "How. but.. But how did you.."

Luigi had now gained enough confidence in himself to be quite a smooth talker. "Just one of the tricks of the trade, sir."

"There's something rather conspicuous about all of this, but I'm not one to interrogate. You have our most profound appreciation, I just wish we could offer you more than a humble 'thank you'"

The general seemed to be making a nice little collection of fingerprints on Luigi's precious treasure, as he gripped onto it firmly, held it to his chest and walked off with a conniving smirk on his face.

Luigi was tempted to follow him, he wanted to find out just what kind of assembly line was putting together this little toy, and how or even better, WHERE they were going about it, but the most important thing was that the new bob-omb was being created. So with one last smile of pleasure, he plodded out of the tent. In only a matter of time Sarasaland, and the mushroom kingdom would belong to the Sarasa's and if the bob-omb did its job, this would probably be one of the shortest-lived wars in history.
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AT that moment Frog scuttled back into the cabin, viciously slamming the door behind himself.

"Oh no. its over. we're done for, throw in the towel." he sobbed, flinging himself onto the cot.

"I've got some pretty good questions for you, little man!" Mario replied with a cynically ring.

"No time for questions, we have to go to the king. must warn him. oh no, Lord no!"

Daisy skipped over to the cot and knelt down beside Frog. "Please calm down! What is the matter?"

Frog gave Daisy a very disconcerting glare and turned his head away from her. "Get out! Get out of my cabin! Your veins bulge with the filthy blood of a sarasa! GET! You hear me? LEAVE!"

Daisy leapt away from the cot. "Why does it matter if I'm a Sarasa, I'd never harm you." She said with fury.

"All dirty Sarasa's are the same. Jealous of the toadstool empire, and about as smart as the logs on this cabin."

Daisy stared defiantly at Frog. "I'm not like that! And neither is my father, or any Sarasa for that matter!"

Frog raised his eyebrows at her.

"Frog! Stop verbally attacking someone you don't even know and tell me what's wrong!"

Frog sat up on the cot and shot Mario a look of antagonism. "We've lost, we have no chance Mario, and one of THEM took advantage of Peach's death and stole her broach! It had every bit of castle power in it! We're done! OVER!"

Mario looked down and said "How do you know it was a Sarasa, I mean, those persistent Toadstool troops could have easily come across her body and retrieved the gem before It'd get stolen."

"Of course that's what happened!" Daisy said, still looking hurt. "Your midget friend is just prejudice and thinks my name has something to do with my feelings for people in general!"

"Look, princess, You're supposed to be the royal to the rival army, and once something valuable to our side ends up missing, I don't expect any sympathy, or help from you!" Frog said angrily.

"Once again, Frog, how do you know it was stolen?" Mario asked sounding irritated.

"Think about it! If a Toadstool had come across her, don't you think the body would be gone and moved to a more respective burial place?" Frog cried.

"That brings me to another question Frog, where have you been this whole time?"

Frog stuttered slightly, "I was. off.. Seeing if the princess's body was still there. and if the soldiers had cleared yet!"

Mario frowned. "You're lying, all over again! Just like you lied to me about the war!"

Frog grimaced. "Mario, I'm sincerely sorry, but Peach had made me swear I'd stick to that story, you should have seen how broken up and afraid she- "

"I don't care, FROG! If I had known what was wrong. Peach would be alive now!"

"You think that doesn't bother me? I didn't even get a chance to know her!"

"Fess up Frog! You never cared about anyone, you were just getting paid, and to keep the thankless job you had you hid the truth, no matter what that would do to your master in the end!"

Frog eyed Mario with a solemn expression. "So you thank me for helping you by tossing all my past mistakes in my face? You really are an honorable and generous person..."

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Luigi had been pacing back and forth expectantly for what felt like forever when the general walked back up to him again. "Luigi, our little experiment has gone well, and our bob omb is finally finished. I need you to take a pipe to the mushroom kingdom so you can enter, and plant it there, the bob omb will do damage miles away from its location, but I want the most damage done within the castle."

Luigi nodded his head and took the brown bag in the General's hand from him.

"Do not open the bag until you set the bob omb down. After you remove the bob omb from its packaging, press the red button, and get back inside the warp pipe as soon as you can." The general finished.

"Yes sir." Luigi replied. There was one warp pipe he could think of that would lead him right to the courtyard of the kingdom, from there he could sneak in perfectly, as long as he could find an invisibility cap.