Author's Note: I'm sorry for making you guys wait so long for this chapter. While I had difficulty spoofing "Toddler Terrors of Time Travel" due to the bad writing, its original companion episode took even longer, even though this was less dumb. Maybe that's because I was busy putting effort into My Fair Brenda. Anyway, now you can finally see this episode's spoof, and find out the confession I promised at the end of the last chapter!


"Reign Storm"

This particular turn of events in the Mushroom World actually began one sunny day in Grassland when something encouraged Toad to rush into his house. Nearby, Princess Peach (who wasn't wearing her crown) was walking towards some pipe, accompanied by the Mario Bros. and an odd-looking Mushroom Doctor, who of course didn't have a name, spoke no lines, and would just be forgotten afterwards.

"Plumber's Log, number 47-88," Mario narrated, without moving his lips. "Princess Toadstool, stressed under the pressures of ruling and being kidnapped so often, had been told it was high-time for a vacation."

"Hey Mario, I thought you'd stopped doing that!" Luigi pointed out.

"Old habits die hard, Luigi!" Mario spoke.

"And anyway, how're you doing that without moving your lips?" Luigi inquired.

"I've got bad animation on my side. Anyway, as I was a-sayin'..." Mario continued his narration. "Because her dad was to inept to run a kingdom, she was quite reluctant about taking a trip, as she feared the Kingdom would fall apart."

"I don't remember her saying that!" said Luigi.

"Well, she sur- Oops, forgot to switch out of narration." Mario started moving his lips again. "Well, she sure feels like it."

"I really shouldn't go to the Real World, Mario." Peach said. "I have a kingdom to run. And you know how dense my daddy is."

"Nuh-uh! Doctor's orders, Princess," insisted Mario. "You're overworked, overtime, and overdue for a vacation! Besides, Luigi and I can run the Kingdom while you're gone."

"You can?"

"Sure. I've had a lot of occupations..." Mario listed them all on his fingers. "Plumber, carpenter, villain, boxing referee, golfer, racer, tennis player and referee, party manager, baseball player, chef, doctor, ice skater, repairman, Ostro-tamer, gladiator, babysitter, pirate, mobster, imitation Zorro, inventor, wrestler, robot, typing tutor, giant ninja, pilot, vampire slayer, kidnappee, mascot, emperor of Japan, pop culture icon... Being a temporary ruler should be a breeze!"

As Peach jumped up onto the pipe that would transport her to "the Real World," Toad suddenly came running up in scuba gear, shouting gibberish about hitting the waves.

"Toad!" Peach let out. "We're only going to be staying in Hawaii for a few days."

"We're goin' to Hawaii?" Toad threw off his mouse-ears. "I thought we were goin' to Disneyland! I wanted to meet Kim Possible!"

"Don't be silly, Toadie," said the unnamed Mushroom doctor. "Disney doesn't make walk-around costumes of their Television Animation characters anymore! But why they won't do it is quite puzzling. It's almost as if they're trying to disavow any knowledge of that department's existence."

Luigi stuffed a lupine into the doctor's mouth. "Shut up, you! You're not supposed to talk!"

As Mario tossed Toad up, Peach considered, "Y'know, maybe I shouldn't really go at all..."

"Aw, ptooies! You're a-goin' even if I have to declare an all-out Super Smash Bros. Melee war on you!" Mario insisted again. "I can't believe you can't trust Luigi and I! We've saved you like a dozen times!"

"Hmph! Speak for yourself." Luigi looked quite angry. "I didn't get to go on any new adventures with you between Super Mario World and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga!"

"Well, promise you'll call me if you have any trouble." Peach jumped down the pipe, taking Toad with her.

"'Trouble', she says! Ha!" Mario held his suspenders like coat lapels again. "We're the Super Mario Bros.! The mascots of Nintendo! There's no way we could have trouble! How hard can a simple task like running a kingdom be?"

"...Said the man who recently had himself replicated at Hollywood's Wax Museum." Luigi looked quite angry again. "Mario, you really think the ruler-man can handle a responsibility like this?"

"Oh, the ruler-man can, Weege." Mario snapped his fingers and was suddenly wearing a sash that reads "Temporary Ruler". "The ruler-man can."

And with another snap of his fingers, Mario was suddenly atop a Mushroom Kingdom parade float (like in Super Mario RPG and Paper Mario), singing to the tune of "The Candyman". But not far away, Bowser, Ludwig, and Bowser Jr. stood from behind some large blocks as they spied on the musical number unfolding in front of them.

"Yes, sing all ya want, ya little pipesqueak!" Bowser gloated. "Running a kingdom can be very hard, especially when you have a lot of enemies! Heh heh heh! While the Princess is away, the Koopas will play, and destroy, and ruin! Hmm. That's not a bad one-liner, either. Sometimes I crack myself up."

"Uh, papa, I don't think that's a very good plan," Bowser Jr. nitpicked. "For one thing, these Mario Bros. always seem to defeat you, and therefore they're bound to beat you now!"

"Hey! Are you suggesting I won't be able to get away with the problems I'll cause for the Marios while they're running the Kingdom?" Bowser snorted.

"Well, that, and also in your presidential campaign against Mario." Bowser Jr. rolled his eyes in the other direction.

"Princie, that's just an advertising gimmick for Mario Party 5!" Bowser corrected. "Mario and I aren't really running for President!"

"You aren't?"

"Of course not! Who ever heard of turtle/dinosaurs running for President of the United States?" Bowser crossed his arms. "Besides, Kootie Pie still thinks it's my fault her imaginary enemies ruined her takeover."

"Takeover? Takeover, take over..." Ludwig Von Koopa snapped his fingers. "Zat's it! King Dad, BJ, are you pondering vhat I'm pondering?"

"I think so, Kooky," Bowser Jr. admitted, "but Wild Thornberry juice makes me vomit."

"Quiet, Princie! Your big brother's just had a brainstorm!" Bowser leaned on the block in front of him, only to have it break apart, causing him to collapse. "D'oh!" he grunted, before picking himself up and looking at the tag on a piece of the block. "'Property of Cheapo Props, Ltd.' Oh, that's it, Cheapo! You just made the list!" Bowser pulled a very long list from out of nowhere and, with his favorite pen, added a little something to it. It read:

KING KOOPA'S REVENGE LIST
Mario
Lu... Loogy... that green guy
The Yoshies
The Nester Awards
Higher For Hire
Rowby Goren
Herlock Somes
Billy Crystal
The Powerpuff Girls
That guy with the fairy obsession
Kootie Pie
The Ninja Turtles
PC World Magazine
Those two meddling kids with the blue guy
The ghost of Lord Farquaad
The time travel plot
Cheapo Props, Ltd.

"Anyway, Kooky, what's this idea of yours?" Bowser asked once he put his list away. "I trust that it's disgusting, and yet devious at the same time! Because I like disgusting and devious." He turned to Bowser Jr. "Don't you?" He turned back to Ludwig. "It is disgusting and devious, right?"

"Even worse! Er, better. Depends on your point of view," Ludwig explained. "I'll build a Robot Princess to take over the Kingdom while the real Princess is gone!"

"But what if Mama Peach herself returns while the robot takes over the Kingdom?" Bowser Jr. nitpicked.

"A perfect idea, Kooky m'boy!" said Bowser, ignoring his clone. "I'm so glad I thought of it! Now get going on the royal XJ-9!"

"Ho boy," said Ludwig as he left the scene, "I thought only Chuck Jones could do zat..."

"I still think my nitpicking makes sense..." Bowser Jr. rambled.

"C'mon, Princie!" Bowser interrupted. "We got some damn good reputations to wreck!"

0-0-0

Sometime later, on an unidentified (by the writers) island in the state of Hawaii, Princess Peach and her loyal companion who seemed to get a kick out of being pulled out of nowhere during melees were at a badly-drawn beach watching the waves come crashing by. Peach herself was wearing a single-piece bikini and tennis shoes, with sunglasses to match. Toad, on the other hand, had on his own swimming trunks (he picked them himself 'cause every time someone else picked out his swim wear it'd be too uncomfortable for him).

"Kick back, Princess!" Toad suggested. "Catch some Z's and UV's! We're in paradise! Dis place is like Noki Bay or Peach Beach or whatever dat place is called, but without dose irritatin' Cataquacks."

"Catch some Z's and UV's?" Behind her sunglasses, Peach looked confused. "Look, Toad, I don't know what UV's are, and I can't stop worrying about my kingdom. What if Daddy pardons all the criminals in the city jail?"

"Don't be silly, Peach! Mario and Luigi can handle it! Besides, your papa's not even in dis episode! He's not in any episode, actually! Now last one in's a rotten Koopa!" Toad headed off into the waves.

"Whatever happened to 'Last one in is a rotten fungus'?" Peach wondered.

Toad paddled against the waves. "Come on, Princess, this is awesome!"

"Well, even if the doctor wasn't supposed to have any lines, he did say I needed to relax..." So Peach threw off her shades and took to the wades. Uh, waves.

They were making good time when Toad stupidly decided to make a fool of himself again. In his badly-executed attempt at hanging ten, he fell off his surfboard and also knocked Peach off hers. Fittingly, Toad landed in some well-placed seaweed on the bay. When he picked himself up, he saw Kool-Aid Man standing nearby, with a scowl on his... face. He had some advertising agents with him.

"Scorch must be around here somewhere!" Kool-Aid Man deduced. "I bet that hot-tempered troublemaker is the cause of that incident there!"

"Uh, no sir, Mr. Kool-Aid Man," one of his agents confirmed. "We looked all over the beach, and we didn't see a sign of your archenemy anywhere."

"Aw, screw it then." Kool-Aid Man walked over to Toad and said, "Hey, I had nothin' to do with it, but to make up for your untimely tumble, here's some of my Surfin' Berry Punch! OH, YEAH!"

"Gee, t'anks, Kool-Aid Man! Wait a minute..." Toad realized. "Surfin' Berry Punch-flavored Kool-Aid doesn't exist no more!"

"You're absolutely right! C'mon boys, we gotta retreat!" Kool-Aid Man and Company ran off faster than he could say "OH, YEAH!" again.

Toad was still trying to figure out the giant pitcher's involvement in this episode as he soon discovered that Kool-Aid Man wasn't the only one who happened to be nearby. A stereotypical blonde male surfer with sunglasses who happened to be there was helping Peach up, although she probably could've been able to pick herself up easily.

"You okay, dudette?" asked the surfer stereotype. "That was a totally gnarly spin!"

"Well, I think I'm OK." Peach dusted herself off.

"My name's Kutter," the stereotype introduced himself. "My parents just happened to like the name 'Kutter'. They figured that 'Scissors' sounded too feminine and gay. Well, whether or not you care what my name is, you could use some lessons."

"Heeeey!" Peach looked insulted. "What are you insinuating? That I suck at surfing? I could surf circles around any of your buddies! My retainer there just screwed me up!"

"Y'mean that little kid in the Fun-and-Sun hat you're babysitting?" said Kutter. "I could understand that part, but you didn't have to shout! Don't go all bad on me!"

"I'm not bad..." Peach replied. "I'm just drawn that way."

"Really? So am I."

"Uh... Peach?" Toad interrupted the conversation. "I t'ink dis guy is hittin' on ya. Dat's bad news!"

"What do you mean?" Peach asked.

"Well, most of dis franchise's fans prefer dat you be paired up wit' Mario," explained Toad. "Dey won't like it if you develop a relationship wit' another guy. Especially one in a world you're just vacationing in!"

"WHO CARES!" the Princess yelled. "He's a one-shot! He'll just be forgotten after this episode!"

"Oh yeah..." Toad shook his feet.

"Come on, babe!" Kutter called. "The waves are wastin'!"

"And he thinks I look weird! Hmmmm... dat's da foist time dis show has ever addressed da fact dat its guest stars are badly drawn," Toad said to the TV cameras behind him. "Well, maybe he'll take her mind offa her stupid worries dat da Kingdom'll fall apart."

0-0-0

Back in the Mushroom Kingdom, the Mario Bros. were presenting a newly-built dam to the citizens of Toadtown. Yoshi stood nearby, blowing a trumpet fanfare, as Peach's butler, Toadsworth, announced, "Announcing your temporary rulers for the time being... Master Mario... and Master Green Man... uh, I mean, Master Luigi!"

"Thank you, thank you!" Mario addressed the applause. "As your temporary rulers..."

"We're proud to dedicate this new dam!" Luigi declared.

"Oh, dammit!" Mario shouted. "This is my speech, Luigi!"

"But you always get to make the company speeches, Mario!" whined Luigi. "I wanna make a speech for once!"

"OK, Mr. Lean-and-Green," Mario shoved his finger on Luigi, "you tell them the village'll never be flooded again!"

"Oooguck! Flood!" Yoshi shivered. "Flood mean water. And I scared of water!"

"Really? I thought that only applied to your species' Isle Delfino branch. And please, Yoshi, don't talk like a baby!" Toadsworth pointed his staff.

"But Yoshi is a baby!" Yoshi cowered.

"No you're not; that was a stupid screw-up courtesy of the DiC producers!" Toadsworth complained. "I swear, they're about as bad as 4Kids..."

"Ohhh. Sorry." Yoshi apologized in normal English.

"OK, folks, long story short, your village is never gonna be flooded again. And to celebrate this momentous occasion..." Luigi sighed in reluctance. "My brother will perform this classic wartime song."

"Thank you, Luigi. Ahem..." Mario chomped on a carrot as he began his song.

"The tall man with the high hat and the whiskers on his chin
Will soon be knocking at your door, and you oughta be in.
The tall man with the high hat will be coming down your way;
Get your savings out when you hear him shout 'Any bonds today?'"

At this point, he started prancing about like an idiot, tossing bonds out of his hat and shouting, "C'mon and get 'em, folks! C'mon! Step right up and get 'em!" Then he continued singing.

"Any bonds today?
Bonds of freedom,
That's what I'm selling.
Any bonds today?
Scrape up the most you can,
Here comes the freedom man,
Askin' you to buy a share of freedom today!"

As Mario was singing, down in the barricaded water, Bowser and Bowser Jr. were swimming up to the dam. They were both wearing goggles and air containers, as well as snorkels tat somehow allowed them to talk underwater. And without moving their lips too! Bowser was carrying a Bob-Omb, looking quite silly.

"Do you honestly need those silly goggles, papa?" Bowser Jr. stated the obvious. "Mario and Luigi can see and breathe underwater, and anyway, you look like a deep-sea doofus."

"You've been hanging out with the other Tomato Sauce Vampires' lackeys, haven't ya, Princie?" said Bowser.

"Well, could you remind me what we're doing here? I don't see what this has to do with that robot Kooky's building."

"I figure that blowin' up this dam will make those plumbers really popular!" Bowser giggled a rather silly-sounding laugh.

"That wasn't a natural laugh, papa," said Bowser Jr. "And anyway, what makes you so sure the Toads are gonna blame Mario and Luigi for this incident? They've been saving this Kingdom from you for years, so therefore the Toads will be positive you caused this! Besides, we're underwater, and therefore, that Bob-Omb won't work!"

"Hey, if a sponge with a personality the opposite of his own species and a starfish with the IQ of a golf bag can light a fire underwater, so can I!" Completely defying the laws of underwater physics, Bowser placed the lit Bob-Omb on the dam.

As it prepared to explode, the Koopas swam away, and up above, Mario continued singing.

"Any stamps today?
We'll be blest
If we all invest
In the U.S.A."
"Here comes the freedom man!" Yoshi sang.
"Eh, can't make tomorrow's plan..." Luigi joined in.
All three of them sang at once. "Not unless you buy a share of freedom today!
Any stamps, any bonds too-daaaaaaaaaaaay?"

But then, the Bob-Omb exploded, and the dam started coming apart. Everyone ran for their lives, hoping not to be killed by the water that was about to break out.

0-0-0-

But before the effects of the flood could be seen, the scene changed. Outside Toad's House (it couldn't have been the Marios' House; theirs isn't a giant mushroom), a mailman with no dialogue (and who would later be replaced by Parakarry) was delivering a lot of complaint letters. Close by, a whole mob of various Mushroomites were banging on the door and holding up picket signs, all protesting that Peach come back, even though the guys they were protesting were the same guys who had saved their lives zillions of times. Obviously, it hadn't entered into them that their longtime enemy was causing these problems. How could they be such idiots?

Two of them, however, were too busy dueling with lightsabres to pay any attention. "I say Mario is Missing sucked more!" yelled one of them.

"I say Mario's Time Machine sucked more!" yelled his opponent.

"Frank, your sign's supposed to say 'Bring Back the Princess!'" a female protestor corrected.

Frank looked at his sign, which read "Screw the 65 Episodes Law". "Oh, sorry 'bout that." He erased it and rewrote the sign. "There we- D'oh!" he grunted when he realized he had written the same thing again.

Inside, Mario and Luigi were reading letters, while Toadsworth and Toadette looked on.

"Geez, look at all these complaint letters!" Mario griped. "The stairway to Skyland keeps flying off and dropping people in the garbage dump?"

"The new Mushroom Shopping Mall is haunted with Boo Diddlies?" Luigi read.

"Aren't they called Boo Buddies now?" asked the politically-correct Toadsworth.

"Shut up!" yelled Luigi.

Mario continued reading the complaints. "The Grassland Greenhouse General Store's infested with Petey Piranha and his gang? Chairs are asking people to play Scrabble!"

Luigi groaned. "There's more complaints in the Mushroom Kingdom than we can handle, Mario."

"But we've always been able to handle problems like these before!" Mario nitpicked. "And the worst part is, those stupid Mushroomlanders actually believe all this crap is our fault! Is that any way to treat us after how many times we've saved this kingdom from the brink of disaster?"

"Master Marios," Toadsworth suggested, "it is my firm belief that somebody is causing these problems in order to ruin your reputations."

"That makes sense, especially since Rowby Goren's not writing this episode!" said Luigi.

"I'll bet those troublemakers Wario & Waluigi are behind all this!" Mario pounded his fist.

"The Wario Bros.?" Toadsworth asked. "How can you be so sure of that?"

"It has to be Wario & Waluigi!" persisted Mario. "Who else would try to spoil our images?"

"Well, how many other rivals have we got?" Luigi asked.

Mario started counting on his fingers. "Well, there's Bowser and his kids, Foreman Spike, Wart, Tatanga, Stanley the Talking Fish, Anthony Scapelli, the Smithy Gang, Popple the Thief..."

"...the late Cackletta & Fawful..." Toadsworth added.

"...Lara Croft, the Ice Capades, .simpsons, the guy running PythoNET, 20th Century Fox, the Dixie Chicks... Oh, this is all very confusing! Hmmm... perhaps I'll wet my whistle..." Mario picked up a nearby beverage, believing it to be Pepsi Cola, and guzzled it down. But what he didn't know was that he wasn't drinking Pepsi right now - he was drinking alcohol! Almost immediately after setting the glass down, his right eye bulged and his skin flashed various colors right before he turned into a steam whistle shrieking endlessly, causing anything in the room made of glass to break, including Luigi's glass of Pepsi, spilling soda all over his overalls. During this, Toadette ran and hid in her brother's room. Finally, Mario landed right back in his chair and said, "Thanks, I needed that," before plopping his head down on the table.

Luigi looked at the stains on his pants. "Son of a bitch..."

"Master Marios, since you'll need to stop whoever's causing these problems, why don't you ask the Princess to come home?" suggested Toadsworth.

Mario picked his head off the table. "We can't do that, Toadsworth! Peach needs her rest; you heard what the doctor said!"

"I thought he wasn't supposed to have any lines!" Luigi pointed out.

"Besides," Mario ignored his brother, "you know how stereotypical DiC thinks she is."

"I wouldn't know," said Toadsworth. "I'm not supposed to be on this show."

"Oh, just face it, Mario!" Luigi agreed with the servant. "We're plumber-heroes, not princesses. Oop! Princes!"

"All right, all right! I'll write her a warpogram message to get back here pronto!" Mario got out a piece of paper. "Then we'll stop those no-good Warios!"

"Here," Luigi handed a letter to his brother. "I already wrote it."

"Wait a second, Master Luigi," Toadsworth interrupted. "I wrote that warpo-"

Luigi took off his left glove and slapped Toadsworth in the face with it. "Oh, shut up! I wanna take credit for something!"

"Uh, thank you. I'll go deliver it; I can handle a mob like this." Mario was about to exit the house, when suddenly...

"Luigi! Look! I found an unused Chia Pet in Toad's room!" Toadette ran in, carrying the box it was in. "Remember the commercial jingle? 'Chia-Chia-Chia!'"

"'Chia-Chia-Chia'?" Luigi looked at her. "That's not how it went. It was 'Ch-Chia-Ch-Chia!'"

"No it wasn't."

"Now wait a second - I thought it was 'Chia-Ch Ch-Ch Chia!'" Toadsworth butted in. "You're both wrong!"

"Have you guys gone out of your mind?" yelled Toadette. "'Chia-Chia-Chia!' That's how the commercial went! How could you not know that!"

"I think you've been using that Golden Mushroom one too many times, Toadette," Luigi reprimanded. "It wasn't 'Chia-Chia-Chia', and definitely not 'Chia-Ch Ch-Ch Chia'. It was 'Ch-Chia-Ch-Chia', plain and simple."

"CHIA-CHIA-CHIA!" Toadette yelled.

"CHIA-CH CH-CH CHIA!" Toadsworth yelled back.

Mario turned around and screamed, "YOU IDIOTS! IT WAS 'CH-CH-CH-CHIA!' HOW STUPID CAN YOU BE?"

"Sorry," the three arguers apologized.

Mario exited the house and walked among the crowd of angry Mushroomites as he made his way to the mail-pipe. "Shut the hell up, you bitches! I've saved your lives Mr. Miyamoto knows how many times; you shouldn't be pinning this mess on me! Now if you'll excuse me, I must tell the Princess to get her stereotype balls back in this kingdom." But just as he was about to drop the warpogram down the pipe...

"Here comes the Thnikkaman!" the Unseen Singers belted out.

"Whoa! It's the Thnikkaman!" Dropping the warpogram down the pipe, Mario followed the Toads to meet Bubs, who was walking around wearing sunglasses and a "TH" label taped to his chest.

"Hey, Thnikkaman!" Mario called, along with the Toads.

"Hey kids!" said Bubs.

"Can we have some?" asked Mario and the Toads.

"Yeah, okay," Bubs replied.

"Thanks, Thnikkaman!" said Mario and the Toads.

Bubs took off his sunglasses. "Yeah - shut up, kids!"

As he walked off, his Unseen Singers could be heard saying, "There goes the Thnikkaman!"

"Oh boy," Mario rubbed his hands with glee, "Luigi and Toadette are gonna be so jealous when they find out I met the Thnikkaman!"

But what Mario didn't realize was that the warpogram message had been eaten by a Nipper Plant hiding in the pipe. Afterwards, it hopped out and over to Bowser and Bowser Jr., who were hiding in the bushes nearby.

"Warpogram message to Princess Toadstool intercepted as ordered, your royal rottenness!" the Nipper Plant Extra belched.

Bowser put a hand on the Nipper Plant's head. "Ehh-xcellent. But next time, say 'excuse me' when you burp! Now then... Princie, hand me the communicator wand."

"Here." Bowser Jr. did so. "But I still say this Robo-Princess plan's a flop."

Bowser called up Ludwig. "My plan's working like a charm! When is the Robot Princess gonna be ready?"

Ludwig was in his secret laboratory, working on his so-called "Dynamic Robot Princess Toadstool". Despite its full name, "RoboPeach" wasn't really dynamic, and because it looked barely anything like a human such as Princess Peach, any idiot could tell it was really a robot.

"Hold your Goombas, King Dad!" Ludwig responded. "It's wrong to rush genius! Maybe not illegal-wrong, but plain wrong, definitely."

"I need the Robot Princess now, Kooky!" Bowser shouted into the phone. "Finish it up or I'm sending you to your room and cutting your allowance!"

"Uh, how long vill you be cutting it?"

"Let's just say until Disney releases all of their animated TV shows on DVD, which won't happen for a very, very long time, by the way!" Bowser sneered.

"Oh, crud! Curse that Michael Eisner! Vhy can't he get the company to release TV shows on DVD like normal companies?" Ludwig quickly finished up RoboPeach. "Hmph. Here you go, King Dad. No one in the Mushroom Kingdom will even suspect the real Princess is still in the Real World!" He attempted to laugh maniacally.

Bowser Jr. nabbed the communicator wand. "No one! Ludwig, you mean everyone! That robot doesn't look at all like Mama Peach! I mean, you can see the nuts and bolts on it!"

"Quiet, Princie!" yelled Bowser as he took the wand back and turned it off. "You shouldn't doubt your big brother Kooky's genius! The Robot Princess is sure to fool those stupid Mushroomites!"

"Really? Well then, if it works, I guess 'stupid' is the right word," mumbled Bowser Jr.

0-0-0

While Ludwig was bringing out RoboPeach, in Hawaii, the real Princess Peach was having all sorts of fun with her new friend Kutter. They were diving by waterfalls, wind-surfing, water-skiing, surfing, paragliding... basically, every recreational activity there is to do in Hawaii. All the while, an off-key version of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper was blasting from out of nowhere.

"Great, huh?" Kutter asked in midair, somehow not having to shout. "You can really get away from it all up here!"

Peach sighed. "I'm not sure I ever want to go home..."

Down below, Toad watched and listened with his magic periscope. "Aw, geez! One-shot or not, da Mario/Peach supporters are gonna be furious!"

0-0-0

But Peach would soon have a good reason to go home. Back at the ranch, the angry Mushroomites had mysteriously vanished (perhaps due to running off to meet the Thnikkaman). Not far away, Ludwig was activating RoboPeach. Right behind him, Bowser watched in anticipation as Bowser Jr. continued to complain about how unimpressive the robot was. "Kooky" ignored his little brother's nitpicking and sent the robot into action anyway.

"Mario! Luigi! I'm b-b-b-b-b-back." RoboPeach spoke in a robotic voice so monotone that anyone with ears could tell this wasn't really Peach.

Mario came running out of Toad's House with Luigi. "Haha, not a moment too soon! This mob was about to lynch us for all sorts of shit that Wario & Waluigi are getting us blamed for!"

"Uh, ignore Mario there," Luigi addressed his brother's cursing. "He firmly believes the Warios caused all the problems we had."

"Hey Peach!" Out came Toadette, carrying a fully-grown Chia Pet. "Look at the Chia Pet Luigi and I grew!"

"I thought those things took two weeks to grow," said a puzzled Mario.

"We gave it some extra fertilizer." Toadette looked around. "Say, where's my brother?"

"He's having such a g-g-g-g-g-great time I let him stay another w-week," RoboPeach stuttered.

"Well, it's a good thing you got back." Mario didn't seem to notice anything odd in the Princess' speech pattern. "Everybody in the Kingdom can't wait for you to rule them again!"

"Yes, and I can't wait to start r-r-r-r-r-ruling!" RoboPeach cackled madly.

"Uh, Peach? Are you sure you're fine?" Toadette seemed to be the only one who noticed anything different.

"Oh, yes. I am most certainly O-O-OK," lied RoboPeach. "Why d-d-d-d-d-do you ask?"

"Well, for one thing," Toadette pointed out the obvious, "your voice doesn't sound like it naturally does."

"Oh, it's an effect of drinking t-t-t-t-t-too much seawater," RoboPeach fibbed.

"And why doesn't your dress feel like its natural fibers?"

"That's just my m-metal suit. I made it to protect myself from p-p-p-p-perverts."

"Those aren't your normal earrings, and don't you use pink lipstick?"

"These sp-sp-spindle earrings and black l-lipstick are Hawaiian souvenirs."

"Since when do you have large eyebrows?"

"These n-n-n-novelty eyebrows are also a souvenir!"

"What's with these strange lines on your arms?"

"Trans-p-parent bracelets!"

"Why have your eyes turned black?"

"C-C-C-C-Contact lenses-es-es!"

"Toadette, will you stop pestering Peach?" reprimanded Mario. "If you wanted souvenirs so badly, you should've gone on the trip with her! Maybe Toad will share his when he gets back..."

"But Mario, don't you see? That's not Peach!" Toadette pointed at the imposter.

"Don't be ridiculous. If this wasn't the Princess, I'd know. Watch." Mario turned to the thinly-disguised robot. "Peach, who gave you that Samus doll for your birthday?"

"T-Toadsworth." The robot Princess answered wrongly.

"There, see?" said Mario. "Straight from the dame's mouth."

Luigi suddenly realized something. "Wait, didn't I give her-"

"If Princess Peach says she's Princess Peach," Mario ignored his brother, "then she's Princess Peach."

"But then why'd she get your question wrong?" Toadette nitpicked.

"Look," Mario ignored her as well, "the important thing is, she's back and we can bring the Wario Bros. to justice for all those crimes they're framing us for!"

Mario and Luigi followed RoboPeach back to the castle, with a suspicious Toadette behind. Bowser and his two most trusted kiddies watched from the bushes.

"Those dumb plumbers fell for our phony robot! It won't be long now, and the Mushroom Kingdom will be mine!" Bowser laughed maniacally.

"But papa," said Bowser Jr. as they began walked toward the pipe to Hawaii, "aside from the weird structure of that last line, I still say this isn't a good idea. The Mario Bros. may be dumb enough to fall for that robot, but the mushroom girl clearly sees right through it. If she knows that's really a robot, then we're in big trouble!"

"Oh, shut yer trap, Princie!" Bowser still wouldn't listen to him. "The Robo-Princess will get this Kingdom in my grasp!"

"But suppose all the other Mushrooms are as smart as that girl? Maybe you shouldn't have made Kooky do such a cookie-cutter job, dad."

"Oh, you're just jealous 'cause you're not named after a famous composer." Bowser turned to his older son. "Now then, Kooky, while our Robot Princess lets me take over the Mushroom Kingdom..."

"My job is to keep the real Princess Toadstool in real Hawaii!" Ludwig answered. "It's as simple as pie, bossy dad!"

"You mean the food, or the equation?" Bowser Jr. was curious about that expression.

"Uh, yeah, that's right," Bowser confirmed. "But how'd you know?"

"I looked over your script while Toadette was inquiring the Robot Princess!" Ludwig explained.

"Well, I should punish you for that, but since you know darn well what you gotta do... here's your Hawaiian disguise!" Bowser put a lei on Ludwig. "Now you can blend in with all the other tourists! Aloha, Kooky!"

"Aloha, pop!" Ludwig jumped down the pipe.

"That's a disguise? Now I know this plan's gonna fail." Bowser Jr. complained. "Papa, all you put on him was a simple lei. The Princess and/or her servant is bound to recognize him!"

"Princie, do you want me to take away the Bullet Blaster?" King Koopa threatened.

"No," answered Bowser Jr. sheepishly.

"Then stop whining about this plan!" said Bowser.

"Fine. But don't come crying to me when the Robo-Princess gets its ass handed to itself!" Bowser Jr. huffed.

Bowser sighed as they walked away from the pipe. "I gotta stop letting my kids watch 'Ren & Stimpy's Adult Party Cartoon'."

0-0-0

Later that day, Mario and Luigi were resting in front of a pond, fishing for Cheep-Cheeps.

"Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na Fishing!" Mario sang.

"Ugh!" Luigi grunted. "Mario, do you always have to sing that annoying tune whenever we do a one-syllable activity!"

"But Luigi, the fish love hearing the 60's Batman theme!" Mario reeled in a Cheep-Cheep. "See?"

"Aw, all I've caught are Bloopers. Anyway, shouldn't we be looking for Wario & Waluigi?"

"The Warios will come in good time, Luigi." Mario relaxed. "Until then, we're catching dinner!"

Just then, Toadette came running up. "Mario! Luigi! Get your tushies up! I got bad news!"

Luigi rolled his eyes at her. "Uh, Toadette, can it wait till we're done fishing?"

Mario did the same thing. "Yeah, just 'cause you're Toad's female counterpart doesn't mean you have to imitate all his actions."

"But this is urgent!" she waved her arms.

"So urgent that we have to forget about fishing to come see it?" Luigi guessed.

"Forget it, Toadette." Mario pulled his hat brim over his eyes. "We're not getting up from this spot till we've gotten out fill o' fishes."

"I'll do the Puppy Dog Pout and Plan B." Toadette said.

"Uhhhh... all right, we'll come see it." The Mario Bros. hated to see a grown man cry (especially when it was a girl), so they followed Toadette to see what was the matter. Much to their shock, they saw cars sinking into quicksand and firemen watering Fire Flowers.

"Aye aye aye! It's terrible, Mario!" Luigi covered his eyes. "I don't think I can look at it again!"

"Just look at this!" Toadette protested. "The Princess ordered the new highway to be built out of quicksand, and every Fire Flower in the kingdom extinguished!"

"Uh, how can you extinguish a Fire Flower simply by watering it?" Mario nitpicked this bit of idiocy. "It worked fine whenever I found one underwater!"

"But that's not the worst part. Look what her eyes did to my Chia Pet!" Toadette held up the Chia Pet, which had now been reduced to a pot of ashes.

"Really?" Mario looked at the pot. "I've never seen her act so strange! I didn't know she had Heatvision either."

"Maybe she needed a longer vacation," said Luigi stupidly.

"Or maybe SHE'S NOT THE REAL PEACH!" Toadette said it loud and clear.

"Stop making silly accusations, Toadette!" Mario still wouldn't listen. "I think maybe it's time we had an old-fashioned plumber-to-princess sex ses... uh, talk! Where'd you last see her heading?"

"To me and my brother's house," Toadette pointed.

"Then that's where we're goin'!" Mario shook a fist upward. "To the Toadcave!"

0-0-0

One scene-switch later, the Mario Bros. and Toadette arrived in front of Toad's House. But much to Mario and Luigi's surprise (but not Toadette's), they found "Peach" talking with Bowser.

"I don't believe this!" said Luigi.

"Neither do I!" said a shocked Mario. "Peach never told me she was having an affair!"

"Welcome, K-K-K-K-King Koopa!" RoboPeach stuttered. "I'm so glad you could c-come!"

"Good afternoon, Princess!" said Bowser politely. "So nice of you to invite me for tea!"

"Tea! With Koopa!" Mario stepped forward. "Princess, how can you be so nice as to have an affair and tea with Bowser Koopa? He's the bastard who keeps kidnapping you so that he can take over the Kingdom! This is more confusing than 'Cinderella II'! And just where did you get Heatvision! Answer the second question first."

"My Heatvision is a b-b-b-b-b-bonus for purchasing these contact l-l-l-lenses," shammed RoboPeach. "And why shouldn't I be n-nice? After all, I'm t-turning my kingdom over to him!"

"You're what!" shouted Luigi.

"And you t-t-two are fired!" RoboPeach declared. "You have exactly one hour to get out of King Koopa's Mushroom K-K-K-Kingdom!"

"Make it 15 minutes, plumb scum!" added Bowser.

"Now wait a minute, Bowser!" said Mario angrilly. "Luigi and I ain't leaving the Kingdom just 'cause you somehow got Princess Peach to surrender! In fact, we're not gonna listen to you either, 'cause despite the fact that you always have taller sprites than us, all we have to is jump on you a few times and you die. It's as simple as that!"

"Oh, you've gotten way out of line!" Bowser picked up the Mario Bros. and threw them aside. Then he did the same thing to Toadette.

Just as Mario and Luigi were picking themselves up, they heard familiar Italian cackles coming from the other side of the fence.

"Ah ha ha ha ha ha!" laughed Wario. "Look who just lost their jobs!"

"Yeah!" added Waluigi. "Some heroes you turned out to be!"

"Wario! Waluigi!" Mario shouted in a prejudiced manner. "I knew you two were behind all this!"

"Whachoo talkin' about, Mario?" Wario chortled. "Bowser's of a higher power than us."

"Yeah," Bowser called, "and they don't work for me, y'know!"

"And anyway, shouldn't yas be lookin' for a new job right about now? I hear Terlawk needs some new losers! Ha ha!" taunted Waluigi.

"And as for you two," RoboPeach declared to the Warios, "I am c-c-confiscating your treasures and sh-shutting down your microgame f-f-f-f-factory."

"What!" Wario jumped. "You're takin' my gold and shuttin' down Wario Ware!"

"Surely you wouldn't dare incur our wrath." Waluigi glared. "Surely you know what we do when you make us angry. Surely you can't take away our baubles and shut down our fair plant!"

"Oh, I m-most certainly can! And st-stop calling me Shirley," said RoboPeach. "Now all of you, get your derrieres out of King Koopa's Mushroom K-K-K-Kingdom!"

Wario shook. "I don't suppose I should make a speech of defiance?"

"Nah, it'd be wasted," Mario replied.

Bowser picked up the Mario Bros. and threw them aside again, this time much farther, before picking up the Wario Bros. and throwing them aside as well. Then he did the same thing to Toadette.

Mario dusted himself off. "Luigi, you get the feeling Princess Toadstool isn't exactly herself lately?"

"Yeah, I wonder what happened to the Princess that we know and love," pondered Luigi.

"I think I know." Toadette put up a finger. "That's a phony, and the real Peach is captured and/or still in Hawaii!"

"Toadette, we don't have time for your cornball objections!" Mario simply wouldn't listen. "Peach is surrendering the Kingdom to our greatest enemy! Of course you realize, this means a skirmish! Wario, Waluigi, you head over to our house and get the Red and Green Fires!"

"Uh, you guys get 'em yourselves! We gotta split!" Wario walked away.

"Yeah, we're gonna go gather up our stuff before the Princess takes 'em away!" Waluigi followed his brother.

"Well..." Mario turned to the girl. "Toadette, you get them!"

"Nope." Toadette refused.

"I beg your pardon?" Mario closed an eye halfway.

"I'm gonna go, uh, help the Warios."

"Care to explain why?" Luigi lowered his own eye as well.

"Well... you two won't listen to a thing I say just because I was created to fill a slot for a racing pair!" Toadette crossed her arms.

"Oh! Listen here, you little bitch!" Mario cussed. "I've had about of you! Wait'll I tell King Toadstool about this hostile treason!"

"Need I remind you that he's not the best ruler we've had?" Toadette put up her arms.

"I think she's got us there," said Luigi to his brother.

"Look, if you won't listen to me when I talk about fakes, then screw you!" On the last three lines of Toadette's sentence, a truck drove by, honking its horn loudly. And then she walked off in the Warios' direction.

"Fine!" Mario shook his head in disgust. "Luigi, I'm beginning to think that Toadina's been possessed by... TINY INVISIBLE GHOST MONKEYS!"

Luigi looked weirded out. "That line was too silly for its own good."

0-0-0

Back in Hawaii, the now-tanned Princess Peach came a-surfing up to the shores where Kutter was waiting, all the while laughing like she was on crack.

"You're getting so good you could enter next week's surfing contest, which wasn't mentioned before!" said Kutter.

"Well... why not?" Peach considered. "C'mon, I'm gonna tell Toad we're gonna stay a couple more weeks!"

"Really? Just how long you here for?" Kutter wanted to know.

"I was taking a two-week vacation... but who cares!" Peach ran to tell Toad.

Not far away, Toad, still disgusted with how well Peach was getting along with Kutter, was trying to relax in his beach chair when a little girl and her blue-haired dad came walking by. Were they from some anime? In the background bushes, the pathetically-disguised Ludwig snuck around, trying to keep his lei on.

"Daddy," the little girl asked her father, "why does that little boy have an umbrella on his head?"

"Eat pineapple, kid!" said Toad rudely. "Do ya have any idea what it's like t'try t'relax when yer female companion seems t'be havin' romantic sparks with some utta guy rather dan da guy everyone wants her to get togetta wit'? Put yerself in my shoes sometime!"

"And why is that other guy sneaking through those bushes?" the nameless little girl noticed the thinly-disguised Ludwig.

"Probably a rock star hiding from his fans. They're everywhere." The blue-haired dad walked away with his daughter.

"Rock star!" Toad looked over the back of his chair. "Where?"

Peach walked up with Kutter. "Great news, Toad! I've decided to spend another week here in Hawaii!"

"Hey, dudette, I thought ya said "a couple more weeks"," said Kutter, "meaning more than one."

"Save it, Kutter! Dat's no rock star in da bushes; it's Kooky Von Koopa!" Toad pointed to the badly-camouflaged Koopaling.

"What?" In his hiding place, Ludwig threw off his lei and stomped on it like it were a hat. "Shit! He recognized me! I should've known not to trust King Dad with my disguise!"

"What? Kooky? Is he taking a vacation too?" Peach figured.

"If Kooky's here in Hawaii," Toad deduced, "da rest o' da Koopas must be up to somethin'! Why didn't Mario and Luigi let us know!"

"Aah! I gotta get back!" said a startled Peach. "My subjects need me!"

"Subjects?" Kutter didn't understand. "What are ya, some kinda Princess? Like I'd ever meet one."

"She's not kiddin', Kutter!" yelled Toad. "She's da Princess of da Mushroom Kingdom!"

"And it's time I started acting like it!" said Peach. "Where's the nearest drain pipe?"

"Over there!" Toad pointed. "But if you ask me, I don't see how warp pipes can possibly be popping up on this planet. Maybe Nintendo Power's 'Project M' ruse was no joke!"

"'Princess'? 'Drainpipe'? 'Mushroom Kingdom'? 'Project M'?" Kutter was getting more confused. "Will someone tell me what the shell's goin' on?

"Look, Kutter, you ever play those Nintendo games with the plumbers?" Peach broke her fourth wall.

"Oh yeah!" Kutter remembered. "You're that Princess who keeps getting kidnapped! Golly, I never figured I'd meet someone from a video game!"

"Well, Kutter, someday I hope I can make you feel as welcome in my world as you did in yours," said Peach.

"You sound like Roy Disney." Kutter pointed out.

"In the meantime, kiddo, we'd appreciate it if ya kept all this secret." Toad followed Peach to the warp pipe.

"No problem!" said Kutter, obviously faking sinceirty. "Like, no way I'm gonna risk mentioning this to anyone!" He looked around, then ran to the nearest telephone booth, dialed a number, and called a friend. "You were right, Milo. Video game characters are coming to take over the world!"

0-0-0

Soon, at Peach Castle, the incredibly phony RoboPeach was performing the ceremony of turning over the Mushroom Kingdom to Bowser (who wasn't wearing his own crown per se) in front of a crowd inside one dinky room. Strangely, none of the Mushroomites were impeaching this bad move, despite all the impeachments they made earlier. And of course, none of them saw anything strange about "Peach's" appearance. Even stranger was that Ludwig was somehow in this audience, along with the other Koopalings, even though he was still in Hawaii.

"The Mushroom K-Kingdom is about to crown a new ruler! It is with g-g-g-g-great honor that I t-t-t-t-t-turn the crown of Mushroom Kingdom over to..." RoboPeach took its crown off during this announcement. "...the great..."

"Make that magnificent," suggested Bowser. "I like being called magnificent."

"...over to the magnificent King K-K-K-K-K-Koopa!" stuttered RoboPeach.

"Yay!" Roy Koopa applauded. "Yay! Yay!"

"Good goin', King Dad!" cheered Morton Koopa Jr.

Unbeknownst to everyone, Mario and Luigi were watching from behind one of the columns. "Tell me, Luigi," Mario was finally starting to notice something weird, "if the Princess had a vacation in Hawaii, why doesn't she have a sun-tan?"

"Beats me," replied Luigi. "I'm beginning to think maybe Toadette was right!"

"By the power vested in me as Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom..." RoboPeach announced.

Outside, Peach and Toad came out a warp pipe sticking up in the air, landing by a big stupid water pipe that happened to be outside.

"Hurry up, dumbass!" Peach yelled, despite seeming to whisper it.

Toad turned the valve, and immediately water came gushing out at a high pressure towards the room where the ceremony was taking place. That's pretty good aim for someone who doesn't know which room it's in! Peach then got herself and her surfboard onto the water stream and, taking Toad with her, headed towards the window.

Inside, RoboPeach took its crown off again. "...I hereby n-n-name you Mr. and Mrs. T-T-T-T-Thomas Pic-uh, I mean, r-ruler of all the Mushroom K-K-K-Kingdom!"

Suddenly, the wall behind RoboPeach broke apart, and the real Peach and Toad came surfing in, with "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" blaring behind them again. At one point, Toad briefly flashed on his normal attire before switching back to his swimwear. This surprised the heck out of everyone, including the Mario Bros.

Mario gasped. "I'm seeing double here - FOUR Peaches!"

Peach fired a harpoon that snatched her crown off of Bowser's head (despite that RoboPeach hadn't actually put it on his head, and that it had briefly turned into Bowser's own crown when it was) and placed back on her own head before drenching RoboPeach, causing it to rust. Bowser, suddenly wearing his own crown for a few seconds, ran and cowardly hid behind the throne. Right as the song reached its end, Ludwig came flying out of the outside pipe and into the room, knocking the head off of RoboPeach.

"Hey! Kooky just knocked one of the Princesses' heads off!" Mario still didn't realize that was a robot.

"Dad!" Ludwig ran up to his pop. "I came to warn you - the real Princess is coming back!"

"You're a little late, Kooky!" said Bowser. "She just showed up and put a clog in our plans!"

"I told you this plan was gonna fail!" Bowser Jr. screeched. "You should've listened to me!"

Bowser talked under his breath. "There's only one thing that can possibly make this defeat any worse, son..."

"What's that, Jim? Uh, pop?" Ludwig asked.

Suddenly, the other wall broke apart, because the Wario Bros. were driving the Greedmobile inside, with Kim Possible in the back seat!

"Not so fast, Koopa!" yelled Wario. "Heeeeeeeeeeeere's Kimmy!"

"That." Bowser said, answering Ludwig's query.

Toad was estatic. "Hey, it's Kim Possible! And even better, not someone in a Kim Possible costume!"

Kim jumped out of the Greedmobile and looked at the downed RoboPeach. "Oh, sheesh. I know Drakken makes corny robots, but this takes the cake! It's not even working!"

"Robot?" Mario looked at RoboPeach. "That's a robot!"

"D'oh!" Waluigi slapped his forehead. "We showed up too late!"

Just then, Toadette came running in, followed by Ron Stoppable, Kim's sidekick/best-friend/unofficial-boyfriend.

"Uh, we're here. Is everything OK?" Ron suddenly tripped on RoboPeach, somehow tearing off part of its exoskeleton. "Woops!"

Luigi's eyes bugged out at the robotic face of RoboPeach. "Oh my god, it is a robot!"

"That's what I've been trying to tell you all along!" Toadette said angrilly.

"Ugh! Stupid Disney heroines! They'll be the death of me yet!" Bowser added to his revenge list "Kim Possible and her clumsy boyfriend," then grabbed Ludwig. "Stupid Robot Princess! It was all your dumb idea! And if I weren't such a nice father, I would never let you try it!"

"You should've listened to my criticism!" Bowser Jr. screeched again.

"C'mon, kids!" Bowser called to the rest of his kids. "We gotta return to the castle to prepare for next week."

"Why, dad?" asked Larry Koopa. "What are we going to do next week?"

"The same thing we do every week, kids," Bowser answered, "try to take over the Mushroom Kingdom!"

The good guys stupidly watched as Bowser and his kids escaped through the hole that the Greedmobile had made.

"Hey, the villain's escaping!" Ron stated the obvious.

Rufus popped out of his master's pocket. "Nuts!" he uttered.

"Hey, so not the drama, Ron," said Kim. "He seems like a regular villain."

"Yeah, don't worry; he always does that." Mario turned to Toadette. "Well, Toadette, I guess Luigi and I owe you an apology. We should've listened when you said that Peach was a fake."

"Yes." Toadette didn't seem to be in the mood for forgiveness. "That's exactly why I helped Wario and Waluigi call up Kim Possible! At least they saw through that pathetic robot!"

"They did!" Mario turned to his counterpart. "Wario, how did you know the fake Peach was a robot?"

"How did I know?" Wario scoffed. "That robot was so obvious even the most dim-witted Pokémon trainer could see through it! I mean, just look at it - the cold black lips, the non-natural dress fibers, the mechanical voice, the metallic hair, the lack of eye color... Clearly, that thing looked more like a reject from 'Robot Wars' than the Princess! I can't believe you didn't notice!"

The Mario Bros. thumped each others' heads. "D'OH!"

"Well, thanks for bringing us here anyway, Wario," said Kim.

"Aw, it's no big, KP," Wario grinned. "It was the least we could do, after you got us out of the hoosegow."

"She did?" Waluigi looked a bit confused. "But bro, I thought Samus Aran did..."

"Shut up, you fool!" Wario shoved his brother away and said to Kim, "Don't listen to him. He's a good man, but he's not quite right in the head. Uh, by the way, I think you and Ron make a great couple!"

"That's my line, you stealer!" yelled Mario as Kim and Ron blushed behind him.

"Say, KP," requested Toadette, "you think you could replace my Chia Pet that RoboPeach burned?"

"Chia Pet? Wait a minute... Toadette, I toldja t'stay outta my room!" Toad scolded.

"I don't recall you telling me that before you left!" Toadette stepped back.

"Are we gonna end this, or what?" asked Ron.

"Yeah! Thanks for your help, KP!" Waluigi said hurriedly.

"Yes, I suppose." Toadsworth stepped forward. "Oh, uh... 'rad' surfin', Princess!"

"Ha ha, Toadsworth's right!" said Mario to the Princess. "Your Hawaiian vacation really came in handy!"

"Yeah!" Luigi looked out the hole the Koopas ran through. "Now bad ol' Koopa's the one who's gonna need a rest!"

"Welcome home, Princess!" said the Mario Bros., in unison.

"Thanks!" said Peach brightly. "Star-shaped iris out and all that."


I have a confession about this DVD (as mentioned in the last chapter). On November 15th, 2003, I actually watched the bonus "Sonic Underground" episode. Yes, I wasted a half-hour watching that crappy portrayal of Sega's aquaphobic mascot. The plot of the episode, "Sonic Tonic", was done before - to be more exact, in AoSTH's "Full-Tilt Tails". Robotnik had a great line about his invention making French fries, and I think that's the reason Sleet made such a zoned-out expression following that line. But there were a lot of things I didn't understand. For example, Robotnik told Sleet & Dingo to roboticize Sonic, but Dingo just took Sonic to the dungeon instead. Also, Sleet & Dingo managed to fix their "big feet" problem by sweating the Sonic Tonic out of them, yet Manic & Sonia somehow cured themselves by whipping out their stupid instruments. Dumb. Anyway, now you've got the fifth chapter of this fanfic. Too bad the next chapter is the last one, eh?