Life went on as usual. Nothing particularly interesting happened during the next through months. Looking through my old diaries I find them being absolutely boring, mentioning things like baking cookies for a bake sale Yoshi organized for charity, or visiting the museum.
Me and Peach did take a short trip to Earth after hearing descriptions of it from Daisy, Peach wanted to see what it was like. It was fun, we went to see all the world landmarks, every continents(except Antartica, I had had enough of that for a lifetime) and I took Peach to my old neighbourhood. I stopped by to see my old friends again, still using the pretences of being a secret agent as the excuse of my absence, and this time Luigi was on a mission in Nepal. I introduced Peach to the gang, I didn't say who she really was of course, but I did tell them she's the woman I loved ever since I saved her life.
It was September 1993 when life started getting back on the fast track. All the headlines were talking about in, Jewlery Land, a tiny country on a tiny planet in a tiny dimension I'd never heard of, had been attacked. The reason it had been making headlines was because the royal family of this nation, King Fret and Prince Pine, were in posession of the 12 Magic Gems, powerful stones, which can be used to produce great magic, good and dark. The gems were missing, as well as the King and Prince. Two armies, one from its own dimension and one from Star World, both had been defeated, and all of Toad's sources pointed to the Koopa Army. And of course, Peach, being the diplomat she was, happened to be very close friends with the King and Prince, ever since she was a child.
So I was persuaded to help the cause. I would have anyway, as soon as I heard that Bowser was behind it all. However, Toad was suspicious at how this was all set-up. It seemed to amutuerish for him. For one thing, while they warp pipes from Sarasaland and the Mushroom World were blocked from Jewlery, it was open from all other dimensions. Sarasaland was in complete lock-down, nobody could enter or leave the dimension by warp pipe, Mushroom World was still open to all other dimensions. Also, if Bowser was now in possession of some of the most powerful devices in the all the known dimensions, he sure wasn't making good use of it. Jewlery Land was completely conquered, but they were making no visible attempts to use them to take over other dimensions, or even other nations in that dimension.
Toad, feeling like it was certainly a trap, insisted I not go alone. Toad was needed to stay put to keep the citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom informed and feeling safe, and I didn't feel like putting Peach through any unnecessary danger, so I didn't even bring it up. I invited instead Yoshi to help me, and agreed of course. Before we set off, Toad gave me a strange weapon, and I was almsot certain what is was straight away.
"Is this, is this the rocket launcher that Luigi used when I was being held captive by Bowser."
"Oh mushrooms, no. Didn't expect Luigi to steal from another dimension, did you? No, this was created right here. I commissioned the Kingdom's army to build it, modeling it after the description Luigi gave me. It was built by a professor I am close to called Fungi, and added some magic touches to it. It doesn't have quite the firepower the original did, it was designed to be more practical in battle. It's called the Super Scope. I figured now would be the best time to use it. From what I've learned, the surviving soldiers have said that the koopas are carrying power mech weapons."
So we set off. We spent some time not quite sure where to go. I rode on Yoshi's back for the most part, firing the Scope at goombas, koopa troopas, and the usual baddies. Eventually we discovered Iggy Koopa, wearing a protective robotic suit! After a quick battle, I posed him for some answers. And it turned out Toad was right about this being too amutuerish, because Bowser wasn't even involved. Apparently, the 7 Koopalings, with a mix of teenage angst and their natural inclination to evil, had had a huge arguement with their father, and had all left the ailing Bowser to upshow him and take over another dimension themselves. They came here for it's small size and of course the gems. After I got everything I needed I shot him the head, and recovered on of the gems.
The 12 gems had been spread out throughout the country, in the possession of each of the koopa kids, and a few other anarchists they could gather up who were tired of their King's constant defeat at my hands. The Koopa Kids were each were all wearing protective suits built by Iggy, and each time I met them I was surprised by the sudden 180 they'd done. When I had last met them, they had been so utterly loyal to their father, yet now, they hated him, and it seemed the only reason they hadn't outright killed him was for the sake of their mother Clawdia.
About 2 weeks later I had gathered up the 12 gems, though it probably would have taken me much longer without the help of Yoshi, and of course the Super Scope. I freed King Fret and his son Pine, and they used their gems to restore Jewlery Land. Alls well that ends well.
And though I was never able to recover any bodies of Bowser's children, the fact I have never seen any of them in the subsequent decade after that, I can only assume that I really killed them this time. Bowser also has never brought them up. I guess he didn't really care that I had killed them, but there was a time I remember when they seemed to be the only things Bowser had ever shown any kind of emotions towards.
Some uneventual months later, and two major events happened to me at once in February of 1994. The first was that a solid pure golden statue of Peach was stolen straight from the courtyard of the palace. It was believed to be stolen by the Brown Sugar Pirates, an infamous gang of thieves led by Captain Syrup, who travel the world committing spectecular robberies. The second was of even more concern to me. It had appeared that the confusion spell we had cast on Wario had worn off due to the power of Bowser's original spell on him. Now he was travelling through several countries committing bank robberies wherever he went.
I was trying to keep on top of both, tracking down Wario and the pirates, until Toad found out that Wario had heard about the statue and was also tracking the pirates down to steal it for himself. About a month later, the military had tracked the Black Sugar Gang back to their home, Kitchen Island, a small nation halfway across the mushroom world from the Mushroom Kingdom. When I had gotten there to their headquarters I found Wario had beat me to it, and had taken the statue. A short and quick fight later, I had recovered the statue. As for Wario, we decided to be lenient on him, since he didn't actually injure anyone and we did return all the money he had stolen. Toad and Peach re-did the confusion spell and sent him back to the forest.
Again, a long spell of uneventuallness in my life. I passed the time having fun with my friends and family. In 1995 Peach held a charity tennis tournament after the success of the go-kart tournament in '92. We invited all the same people, me, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Toad, Trenston aka Koopa the Quick, and Donkey Kong jr. Daisy didn't come this time because she's horrible at tennis.
Still, I was always prepared for any kind of inevitable attack from Bowser. He hadn't shown any signs since the death of his children, which was worrying. Toad and several other psychics had tried to track his location, but he was hiding and wasn't about to let anybody find him yet. I trained almost everyday in the virtual platform game I had trained in so many years ago when I had first arrived in the Mushroom Kingdom. I even got Donkey Kong jr to help train me.
As 1996 approached, little did I know that I was about to begin two of the most unusual adventures I'd ever taken part.