Peach, Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi marched into the hospital with Toad in their arms. They dropped his miniature body in front of the receptionist.

"We have an emergency situation!" said Peach.

"What's the emergency," asked the receptionist even though she didn't care. Peach shoved Toad in front of her face and squeezed his neck.

"Thank you Mario but our princess is in another castle," said Toad

"Oh," said the receptionist, still not interested. She picks a pad and pen and hands it to Peach. "Please take a seat fill in the spaces on this page and this page and the second half of this page when you're done put it in front the desk window the doctor will see you when he is available thank you."

"We can't wait that long," shouted Peach, "Do you even realize who I am?"

"Yes PRINCESS PEACH TOADSTOOL I know exactly who you are," the receptionist nearly gritted, "what, you think just because you are the ruler of this entire kingdom that you are somehow better than everyone else?"

Peach slowly pulled out of a frying pan but out of nowhere walked in Dr. Shroom. Peach put the frying back into her dress.

"Princess Toadstool, what pleasant surprise," said Dr. Shroom, smiling. "I didn't think you'd come back to the hospital so soon."

"I've been here before?" asked Peach.

"Well of course," said the doctor, "when you were in labor and you were rushed to the hospital. Remember you had that baby and Dr. Mario performed a C-section?"

"Completely different fanfic Doc," Mario said plainly.

"A different what-now?" asked the doctor.

"You see now we don't know what a hospital is."

"But you did in another time?"

"Yes...in the other fanfic."

"So, wouldn't you know now?"

"Ofcourse not, why would we?"

Dr. Shroom looked at Mario and then he turned to the receptionist who shrugged and went back to work or whatever standing around a desk is. "So," said Dr. Shroom, "What brings you all here?"

"This," said Peach. She held Toad in front of the doctor's face and squeezed his neck.

"Thank you Mario but our princess is in another castle," said Toad.

"You must enjoy doing that," said Luigi.

"I do," said Peach. Her face got all creepy and it sent chills down his spine.

"Peach, you've been acting pretty freaky lately," said Luigi.

"It must be that dinner you served us," Mario said to Luigi, "It's making everyone act a little strangely."



"Can someone tell Yoshi to stop chewing my tongue depressors?" asked Dr. Shroom. Everyone was in the doctor's office now. Dr. Shroom has been trying to make observations on Toad but it's tough because Yoshi keeps trying to eat his utensils.

Mario came to the rescue. "Yoshi, come here boy. Heel," he ordered.

"Yoshi's not your boy," said Luigi.

Peach put her finger to her lips to symbolize silence. Meanwhile Dr. Shroom set up the eye chart on the wall. Toad sat on a high chair. His face showed no sign of emotion or thought, like he was some sort of life- sized doll. After Dr. Shroom was done he walked over to Toad and placed an instrument over his left eye. "Okay Toad," said the doctor, "read the letters on the second level."

"Thank you Mario but our princess is in another castle," said Toad.

"Now read the letters on the third level," said Dr. Shroom

"Thank you Mario but our princess is in another castle"

"Now the fourth level,"

"Thank you Mario but our princess is in another castle."

"Just as I had expected," said Dr. Shroom, "This eye chart isn't helping at all!" Dr. Shroom threw the eye chart out the window. A car is heard crashing and exploding. "It's obvious that Toad is suffering from "It'sa Me" syndrome," said the doctor. "Basically, the person repeats a certain phrase without saying anything else, as I'm sure you all have experienced. It's not deadly though it can be irritating."

"Tell me about it," said Luigi, throwing Mario a crusty glare.

"I really don't think I can handle this sort of procedure," said Dr. Shroom, "But I know a doc..."

"I guess you don't do much of anything," said Mario.

Dr. Shroom paused. "Huh?" he said.

"Last time we were here you couldn't deliver Peach's baby," said Mario, "don't you do something around the hospital besides chatting it up?"

"Wait a minute," said Dr. Shroom, "weren't you just saying that...those occurrences were in another fanfic or something?"

"Yeah," said Mario.

"So doesn't that mean it didn't happen, according to your philosophy?"

"No of course it happened," said Mario, "You were there weren't you?"

"Of course I was there, I remember everything," said Dr. Shroom, "But you keep saying it's the first time you've visited this hospital."

"Right," said Mario.

"Which means none of those events happened?" asked Dr. Shroom.

"Yes, now you're getting it!" exclaimed Mario.

"But you just said that those things happened ten seconds ago," said Dr. Shroom.

"Of course they did," said Mario, "Why wouldn't they."

Dr. Shroom's jaw dropped. Nothing about that conversation made any sense. "Okay, you know what, I'm going to get the doctor who will handle Toad's situation and, um, I'll be right back!" After the doctor closed the door, Luigi immediately jumped down Mario's throat.

"What the heck was that about?" shouted Luigi. "No one knows what you're talking about."

"I know what he's talking about," said I, the author, "after all I did write those stories."

"You're not supposed to be here!" said Luigi.

"Oh yeah," said me, "Exit, stage right."

Something caught Mario's eye at this point. Yoshi was chewing Dr. Shroom's tongue depressors again. "Yoshi! Down boy!" commanded Mario.

"Popsicle?" whistled Yoshi.

"No not popsicle," said Mario. He took out a roll of newspaper and started whacking Yoshi over the head with it.

"Leave poor old Yoshi alone," said Peach.

"That's another thing," said Luigi, "You keep treating Yoshi like he is a dog."

"He's not a dog," said Mario, "He's more like a horse, since I can ride him."

"Quit acting like you own him," accused Luigi.

"Why not," said Mario, "I found him so the green horse belongs to me."

"You're only saying these things to make me annoyed," said Luigi.

Jenny Jones walked into the room. "Mario and Luigi used to be Dawgs...but that has stopped since Mario treats Yoshi like a Dog," said the host.

"Jenny Jones?" said Peach, "Your show got cancelled so that means no one cares about you or your stupid, lame rhymes." Peach threw Jenny Jones out the window, causing another car crash.

"That was weird," said Mario, "anyway, so what if I treat my friends like subservient animals, atleast I don't make rotten food like 'Dry Soup' and 'Eyeball Fruit Platter'!"

Luigi's blood was boiling up. "If it was so rotten then did you all want to eat it so much?" he asked.

"We were doing you a favor, we had no idea that you learned to cook in a New Jersey garbage dump."

"How could you not know how I cooked, we've lived together for our entire lifetimes."

"Yeah, but all you did was make breakfast. And really I don't see how someone can screw up milk and cerea..."

THWACK!

Peach had whacked Mario with the frying pan she had. He laid on the ground and his eyes were all swirly.

"Ow! Why did you do that for?" squealed Mario.

"Because you two were giving me a headache, but you more so," said Peach, "Have you both forgotten the reason why we are here?" Everyone looks at Toad, who sat on the chair like a silent witness. "I don't know what happened to us, why we've been so jumpy lately. Maybe it's because we're worried about Toad, or maybe when Toad was normal he worried about the things we didn't have to. All I know that I want Toad back and I don't think screaming at each other is going to solve anything."

"Thank you Mario but our princess is in another castle!" squawked Toad.

"OKAY TOAD!" screamed Peach, "WE HEARD YOU THE FIRST 3,714 TIMES ALREADY, WE KNOW THAT THE PRINCESS IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE SO YOU CAN STOP TALKING NOW!

--Silence--

"Yoshi needs to go the bathroom," said Yoshi, "Me wonder if there good bush around."

Yoshi got up and walked over to the door just as it swung open. Dr. Shroom had come back with another doctor. Yoshi slowly stepped backwards, right into his friends who were shocked by who the other doctor was in the doorway.

"You!" said Mario.