"Mario, thank you so much for saving me back there!" Peach thanked Mario as they traveled back through Twilight Trail.

"Hmmph," Mario grunted, turning his head away.

"What was that!" Peach asked, indignantly.

Mario refused to speak.

"Mario, what is it?" Peach asked.

"Hmmph!"

"Mario, please tell me!" Peach begged.

Mario sadly looked at Peach. "You couldn't tell that I was the real Mario!"

"Oh," Peach looked at her feet. "It was really hard to tell. You both looked the same."

"I thought you loved me..." Mario said.

"Oh, I do love you, Mario!" Peach said.

"Then why did you choose Doopliss?"

"I swear, he looked just like you!"

"You couldn't tell that I was the real Mario."

"I'm sorry, I thought he was you!"

"But I'm me!" Mario said loudly.

"I know! You're you! I'm sorry!" Peach apologized. "Sorry sorry sorry!"

Mario got an idea. "I'll forgive you if you say 'I love you' a hundred times."

"Again? Oh, Mario, don't make me go through all that again!"

"Hmmph."

"Oh, all right!" Peach gave in. "I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you..."


When Peach and Mario returned to Twilight Town, everybody was thrilled to see them. Nobody was a pig anymore! Now, instead of pigs, there was just a bunch of depressed villagers dressed in rags.

Mayor Dour was at the front of the crowd of poor, happy villagers. "Thank you very much for saving our town! It's now a much better place."

"Oh," Mario said, "it was nothing."

"Please," Dour said, "we invite you to stay in our bed and breakfast for free! It's the least we can do to thank you for saving us all!"

"What do you mean, least?" Mario asked, crossly. "Do you mean you could do more?"

"Mario, please don't!" Peach begged. She turned to Dour, "I'm really sorry about this…"

Mario continued his angry rant as the crowd of villagers gasped. "So we saved your stupid lives, and you do the least you have to in order to pay us back? What are you, a bunch of cheap little Goombas?" He wordlessly took his cap off, and violently shook it in the air high above his head, stomping his feet.

"Mario, don't!" Peach grabbed Mario's arm, turning him away from Dour and the crowd. She whispered, "Let's just go to the bed and breakfast."

"No!" Mario huffed quietly. "I hate these people. Stupid cheap monster people." He shouted, "Stupid cheap monster people!"

"Mario!" Peach shouted at him, "how could you talk this way to these nice villagers? They're really nice! How could you talk this way to them?"

"Hmmph."

"Come on, Mario. Let's go to the bed and breakfast."

Mario smiled. "Okeydokey!" He said, to Dour and the crowd, "Uh, sorry about all that!"

Dour only raised his eyebrows.

Mario dragged Peach, hand in hand, to the bed and breakfast.