(A/N: As usual I don't own anything except for the plot and storyline.)

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The mushroom guard, the one that had run right past Mario and Amy, reached his destination. It was a communication tower on the other side of Peach's royal property. It was the place where all of the news of the mushroom kingdom intersected, but the mushroom guard wasn't expecting good news. One of the guys there called him and told him to get here as quickly as possible.

Not even waiting to catch a breath, the mushroom guard walked right up to the door and knocked. A few seconds passed.

"...What's the secret password?"

"My boot in your face now open up!" the guard demanded. The door opened and guard quickly entered in. he had expected the quiet tower to be stark and empty but to his surprise the tower was bustling with activity. People walked all along the levels attending to the machines and screens that covered the inside of the tower. One of the people climbed down from the second level and walked up to the guard.

"Hi, my name is Weaver; I'm the one that called you down here."

"Hello, what seems to be the problem?" asked the guard.

"Well we have just received a message saying that Mario has jumped out of the dungeon in the sky. We are not sure whether he is still alive or not."

"You had me come all the way over here just to say that? I have to go tell the princess immediately!"

"Wait! Yes I know that is something the princess will not like but we have more important news. Look at that screen over there."

The mushroom guard walked towards the screen. "......What is that thing?"

"It looks to be a base of some sort," said Weaver, "but that's all that we can get at this point. It's located near the Koopahari Desert, and yet it's close enough to us to be considered a threat."

"How long has it been there?"

"Not long actually. It seems to have just popped up over night."

"Do you think Bowser is behind this?"

"We assumed it was him at first but it doesn't seem to be his style. Whoever is behind this though should be under close watch.

*****

Tails the fox dropped the bag full of pamphlets on the floor. He had just spent the entire afternoon and now much of the evening giving away pamphlets for the "Kill Robotnik Foundation". None of the residents in the Mushroom Kingdom knew who Dr. Robotnik was but they accepted what Tails gave them anyway. The fox decided to see how Sonic did with his pamphlets.

"Sonic? Are you here?" Tails asked loudly. He went over to Sonic's door and knocked on it. He opened the door and was met with both shock and embarrassment.

"Sonic! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..."

Tails turned his head away. Sally and Rouge walked out of Sonic's room as if nothing happened. When Tails looked back up he saw a sweaty Sonic sitting lazily on sofa across the room from Tails.

"What?" said Sonic.

"Nothing," said Tails, listening to his own pathetic voice echo back and forth in the large room, "Um...I just wanted to know how you did with your share of the pamphlets?"

"Oh yeah, I didn't really bother with that today," said Sonic.

"Or yesterday, or the day before that," added Tails.

"Yeah, so what are you saying?"

"I just thought that...you would have done it within the past week. You're the one who's leading this program."

"Tails I already have enough to do already, I can't go around all day giving these pamphlets out." said Sonic, "That's why I need you guys to do it."

"Oh," said Tails, "Have Sally and Rouge given out their share?"

"I doubt it."

"Why?"

"I told them not to," said Sonic.

"Well I can't do it for them. I'm giving out more than my share to make up for Amy's disappearance...if you care at least."

"What's that, son?"

"I said if you care about Amy, she's been gone for at least a week. I wasn't sure if you knew since you've been hanging around like a lazy pervert all day....

Sonic was up in Tails' face in a second.

"Tails...you're my friend and everything but...you're going the right way for an @#$ kicking," said Sonic. Tails stared at the ground and didn't say anything. "I suggest you leave before I do something," Sonic said as he turned away.

Tails did what he said and left the room.

"And knock next time!" shouted Sonic.

*****

"And where were you guys when she left?" asked Peach.

"We were in the backroom," said Biggs.

"Why?" Peach asked calmly.

"Because we were looking for a game to torture the prisoner with," Wedge said gleefully, "Wasn't that smart of us?"

"No not really," said Peach, "Neither of you guys thought to at least chain her down before you two left?"

Biggs and Wedge gave Peach a blank stare.

"Never mind," Peach said in an annoyed tone, "Can you at least tell me where Amy is now?"

Before they could answer, or not answer, the mushroom guard that had been in the communication tower ran into the torture room where Peach and the two guards were standing in right now.

"Princess Toadstool, I have an urgent message!" said the mushroom guard.

"What is it?" asked Peach.

"It appears that Mario has escaped the dungeon he had been put into."

"WHAT!"

"Also I have some news on an unidentified building off of the Koopahari Desert...

But before he could finish another word, ANOTHER mushroom guy ran in. This time it was Toad, Peach's faithful mushroom retainer.

"Peach, bad news! Someone jacked your clown copter!"

Peach's eyeballs almost popped out of her eye sockets. "Are you kidding me! Who took it!

"Well the night vision camera was able to take some pictures," said Toad, "and looking at the photos...it appears to have been Mario and Amy."

Everyone looked at the princess to see what she would do this time. To their surprise Peach actually became calmer than ever. "Oh I see," she said.

"Are you okay?" asked Biggs, "this doesn't bother you?"

"No I'm fine," said Peach. She walked over to a messy table and started putting some pieces of paper in a neat pile. "I'm fine," she said again, looking at the papers, "I'm fine." She ripped the papers in half. She threw them on the floor and flung the table against the wall.

"I was afraid of this," said Toad

"Afraid of what Toad? I feel fine." Peach walked over to the television set and smashed the screen with her high heel shoes. "I'm fine." She crushed the insides with her heel and when she was done she kicked the broken T.V. into a stack of movies. The broken glass ripped her stockings apart.

"There goes another T.V." said Biggs.

Peach smashed the room's window one by one with her shoe in her hand. When she got all of them she threw her shoe into a lamp and broke it. Sparks flew everywhere. "I'm fine!" Peach moved onto the video game stacks pushed them to the ground. She kicked the little boxes on the ground like clumsy soccer balls. "I'm fine!"

Wedge intervened. "Princess, I think you should..."

Peach grabbed Wedge by the waist and threw him into the ground. She picked him back up by the feet and started beating him against the wall like a huge pillow. "I'M FINE!" She smacked Wedge against the ground and started jumping up and down on him until he passed out. After that she picked up his body and threw him out the window.

"I'M FINE!!! AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!"

Peach collapsed on the floor. Her body didn't move except for the gentle movements caused by her breath. Toad and the rest looked on with awe at what Peach had done at the room.

Biggs looked at Toad. "So...are we getting paid this week or what?"

*****

To Be Continued...