Chapter 3: Stop, Thief!

Well, since Wex hasn't told me what he'll do next, I'm just taking this into my own hands.

Roo: Yay!

I don't own Mario. Wow, that was fast.

Ech: Zero to story in 2 seconds. Wow, that's a world record.

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Mario looked left, then right, then left again, just as he heard the computer repeat every time over and over and over again in drivers' ed. He saw the train, then the Goombas, then the train again while looking. He couldn't take much more of this dilemma, and he was starting to get dizzy. He asked the conductor for a coin to flip to decide what to do, and then he flipped it. He saw it land on tails, signifying that he'd go after the penny. "Oh–!" he shouted and he threw a fireball at the conductor, burning him. The conductor's face turned red and Mario turned and ran after the Goombas, hoping that the kid hadn't spent the purple penny yet and that the conductor wasn't following him. He saw the Goombas ahead running slower and slower. Suddenly, they stopped and turned to look at him.

"He's found our secret, run!" the old Goomba said, putting on a mask.

"Well, he'll just have to catch us first!" the smaller Goomba answered as he got into a go kart.

Mario watched in horror while they peeled out of the grass on the side of the road and onto Toad's Turnpike, the Mushroom Kingdom's busiest highway. They were stealing the purple penny! Mario ran after them for about a block and, even though the Kart was a piece of junk that could only go about 10 miles per hour, Mario couldn't even see them when he stopped. "Mama mia!" Mario cried, "I lost the purple penny!" He was about to turn to go home when he heard an engine roaring towards him. He looked into the dust cloud that was forming just over the horizon the opposite direction from where the Goombas took the purple penny. Mario could barely make out the figure on the kart driving towards him, he didn't think it could be, but it was. Luigi was speeding towards him in excess of 100 miles per hour! Mario ran again, this time back to where the Goombas were heading, just to escape Luigi. "Come-a on, Mario!" Luigi yelled to his older brother, "We're-a gonna get that penny back!" Mario hopped onto Luigi's kart and he and Luigi drove off towards their destination: the purple penny.

Mario and Luigi sped down the turnpike, using every mushroom that they could find to catch up to the Goombas who stole the penny. Luigi was driving, so Mario didn't really even feel safe. "Luigi! Look out for that-a truck!" "I've-a got it, Mario." "Just don't forget about your speed, Luigi!"

Mario saw the Goombas' kart ahead, and he saw the glint of something purple in the smaller one's hair. "The purple penny!" the Mario bros. yelled together. The Goombas heard them though, and the small one yelled "Step on it, Grandpa!" Luigi pulled closer and closer to a large truck next to him, and suddenly jumped into it. "Luigi, what are you-a doing?" Mario shouted as the kart slowed down. "Solving your Goomba problem, Mario!" Luigi yelled back while he kicked the driver out of the truck. Mario hopped into the driver's seat of the kart and continued driving while Luigi sped up in the truck. Luigi ran over the Goombas with the truck and the purple penny went flying–right into Mario's hand.

"Hee hee! I've got it!" Mario yelled triumphantly while he held the penny up into the air. Suddenly, Mario heard a train whistle and saw a very angry conductor in his rear view mirror. No, it couldn't happen. Not here, on the highway! No! Not a flying train! Aaaaaah!

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Yep, Mario got ran over... again. Why? I don't know. It's funny. Review and maybe I can get Wex back here for more crazy stuff.