Disclaimer: Characters that were made in Nintendo do not belong to me. Even this story isn't truly mine. It's my sister's story.

"I say we go on with Plan Bowser."

It was another meeting of the 'G.P.A.V.T.', otherwise known as Get Plum And Vine Together, association. After many failures to get the two together throughout the year, Daisy was now persistent on going on with the 'Plan Bowser'. The others were still a bit uneasy about this, though.

"Are you sure it'll work? If any one of them finds out, we might as well give up on a uniting through marriage," Luigi said thoughtfully. Mario took off his famous plumber's hat and rubbed his temples.

"It's worth the try. If this doesn't work, though, I don't think anything will."

"Oh, quit the negative attitude! I think this plan will work smoothly," Peach smiled brightly at Mario and Luigi.

"YEAH! Now, that's the spirit! Come on, you two have faced many more, er, things that had less the chance of success than this! YOU can't chicken out HERE. This is the COALITION of our kingdoms!" Daisy stood up with such force that she topped her chair over.

"Daisy is right. We'll never know if this will work out if we don't act it out first. Let's do it!" Luigi sighed and shook his head.

"All right. I guess there's no way that I'll let this opportunity fly away when I can still catch it."

"That's it, Luigi! Now you're getting the hang of it!"

A few months later...

Vine tapped his fingers on the table in front of him. He was supposed to start off his visit with Plum by having lunch with her, but she was nowhere to be seen. Girls, he thought, always having to get dressed and changed before EVERY single occasion. He tapped his fingers a few minutes more before he got tired and dozed off. It wasn't long before his mother awakened him roughly.

"Vine, wake up. Something DREADFUL happened!"

"What, Plum made a run in her stocking?"

Daisy gave Vine a shocked face before she shook her head. "Goodness, no! Something worse! Plum was kidnapped!"

"REALLY! Great! Then does that mean that I'll never see Plum again? Oh, joy! Wow, I never knew your wishes really DO come true! Hmm... This time, I think I'll wish for a..."

"VINE!" Daisy slapped Vine across the back of his head. "This is serious. We believe she was kidnapped by Bowser."

"I don't believe you and I refuse to believe you. This is probably a trap that you and the others set up to try and get us together. What did you think I'd do? Grab a sword and run after Bowser? Please, tell Bowser to stop acting. I won't waste my time trying to save Plum when she's not really in danger." He leaned back in his chair.

"Vine, you don't understand. Bowser has turned his back on us! He broke his alliance with us! He only made the alliance in the first place so that he could get to Plum and make revenge on Mario!" Daisy clasped her hands together and tears started to form in her eyes.

"Then why doesn't Mario go save her? He should know how to defeat Bowser a whole lot better than me. I don't have a clue what Bowser's weakness is. Besides, Mario went after him all those other times. Why doesn't he now? Mom, you can't fool me this time." Vine talked with very little interest.

"But, Vine! You can't expect Mario to go after Bowser! Mario has a whole KINGDOM to rule over!"

"And a bunch of plumbing jobs to do..."

"VINE!"

"You can keep on pestering me about it, but you can never make me actually do it."

"Fine, then. Don't believe me." Daisy stood up and walked out of the room. As soon as she stepped foot in the other rooms, she shook her head.

"I guess we should tell Bowser to let her go," Luigi reached over to the phone...

In the other room...

Vine sat there thinking. Resting his forearms on his knees, he hung his head to ponder over what his mother just told him. His mother was too serious about this. It was almost as if she was telling him the truth and wasn't trying to pull a prank. Taking his hat off, he rubbed his temples. If she WAS telling the truth, Bowser actually might do some serious damage to Mushroom Kingdom. If this was a prank, though, ...

Sighing, Vine grabbed his hat and ran out the door.

At the sound of the servant's protesting and of the doors slamming open, the four adults ran to the closest window. Cramming their heads out of the window, they were both shocked and happy to see Vine jumping into his car.

"Well, we better hurry up and tell Bowser to keep up with the acting."

A few minutes later, the adults were stunned when they found out that Bowser had already let Plum go.

"THEN WHERE IS PLUM NOW?!?!?!?!"

"Bowser says he searched the place, but Plum ran away some place."

Peach groaned as she fell into a chair. Mario felt all the blood drain from his face as he looked out of the window once more. Looking back at where Vine's car was just minutes ago, Mario felt himself feel like going on another adventure.

"Guys, I'm going to go follow Vine..." Mario was cut short when he was grabbed and wrestled down by Daisy.

"No, you're not. You're going to stay right here. This is even better! Don't worry about Plum. She couldn't have gotten far away, and besides, if she did, Vine will find her in a nifty." Daisy placed her hands on her hip and kind of glared/ smiled at Mario. Mario sighed. Looks like there's no other choice...

Meanwhile...

"I. HATE. THIS. PLACE!!!!!!!" Plum grinded each word out as her foot sank into the soft mud. By now, she had lost her shoes, got her dress muddy and messy, and her hair was a disaster. "Just watch... Once I get out of here, I'm going to make sure that not one single swamp is left... Oomph!" Plum fell over flat on her face. Looking up, she was surprised to see her father's arch-nemesis, Wario.

"Why, what a surprise to meet you here, princess. Do you wish to go my place and meet MY son? I assure you, he is much better than Vine." Wario laughed, his belly vibrating.

"I would never go out with whoever your son is. Even if he is the most good-lucking guy in the universe." Plum glared at him as she felt herself going into those defense modes she saw boxers do.

"Well, then, princess. I'm afraid I'll have to take you by force." With that, Wario swiped a bag out from behind his back and shoved Plum into it. Tying the ends together, he slung Plum over his shoulder and walked away, his laughter echoing throughout the swamp. Plum screamed as loud as she could, hoping someone could hear. Even Vine...

Vine frowned slightly as he braked the car to a stop with a screech. Looking over to the swamp area, Vine opened his door and stepped out slowly. He would've sworn that he heard Plum screaming.

"That doesn't make sense... Mom told me she was at Bowser's place... Maybe she escaped... Oh, wells. I'll go check Bowser's place first." Vine slammed his door shut and sped towards Bowser's Castle.

An hour later, Vine opened the door to his car and sat there thinking. Bowser had given Vine no trouble at all. In fact, Vine was right; it was all Daisy's doings. Something was wrong. Bowser had let Plum go, but wasn't able to locate her anywhere. That would only mean that Plum was in trouble in the swamp.

Slamming his foot onto the gas-pedal, he quickly drove back to the area that he had heard Plum. Upon reaching the area, Vine instantaneously began to search the region. He was just about to give up looking when he found one of Plum's many hair accessories buried half-way into the mud.

Pickling it up, Vine muttered to himself, "Where ARE you, Plum?"

Finally! Sorry if this took long to update!