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Chapter 2: Reviving The Lost Ones

All Peach did was stand there, until E. Gadd spoke again.

"I've invented the Dolansa Infinite T. It's a machine that gives you a way to go back to Rogueport, when it was never destroyed, although everything will be there, even the dead bodies. They look as if they had just died, but they've actually been there for a long time. Understand me so far?"

Peach nodded.

"My idea for the Dolansa Infinite T. is to send you back to restored Rogueport by going into it, and you must find the bodies to restore them back. Use this clock and turn it to the times they died," he said, giving her a clock. "I am sorry to say that Toadsworth will not be able to be saved, because this machine doesn't involve him. Once you save the other seven innocent ones, return back here. If by any chance you need to come back, the machine will never work twice, so please complete your mission. Are you ready?"

"Am I ready?" asked Peach. "But what are the risks of having to go back? Is something still bad out there?"

"To my calculations I did last week," said E. Gadd. "Nothing much, unless you get homesick or hungry. Just be careful."

"Okay," said Peach cautiously. "I know the times they died anyway, so I'll just do that with the clock. Do I press the clock against their hearts when I set the time?"

"No, I forgot about that," said E. Gadd. "Press it against the place they died. Such as if you found Toadsworth, push the clock against his head and set the time to 4:00, it doesn't matter A.M. or P.M."

"I'm ready!" said Peach after a moment of hesitation. "I'll bring them back safely." She went into the machine and waited.

"The instructions to go back are in the back of the machine!" shouted E. Gadd. "Good luck Peach!" The machine started to make a whirring sound, as wind blew all over the place. All Peach could hear was the loud wind and the machine seemed to spin in her head. She lost her balance and fell to the ground, as she tried to get up again. The curtain covering the entering place ripped off, revealing a white blur outside, as the place seemed to lift into the sky. She covered her eyes from the feeling of dizziness. Then everything stopped.

Peach opened her eyes, and quickly went outside the machine. She was on the gallows of Rogueport on a morning day, neither sunny nor cloudy. It was all empty as she stepped off the gallows, and she looked back at the machine. There were no wires connecting it, and it seemed like the same.

"What do I do now?" Peach asked herself. She went over to the Western side of Rogueport, only to see that the building had stopped pouring water from the pipe. The ground was slippery and wet, just as she had left it. She saw the huge pendulum scythe pendulum above the item shop, and shuddered to think about it. But then she remembered what to do.

She went into the garden yard, and then started digging with a shovel next to it. She kept on digging until she reached something hard, a coffin. Ms. Mows is here, she said to herself, as she got rid of all the dirt and tried to lift the not-so-heavy coffin up onto the land. But she lost her balance and slipped, causing Ms. Mows' body to fall out.

Peach shrieked at first, but realized that the body was still frozen. It was almost the same as before, but parts of her body were partially melting. She took out her water bottle and poured water, remembering that the ice would go away.

It worked, as the frozen mouse became unfrozen. Peach then took the clock out of her pocket, and pressed it against Ms. Mows' hands, as she turned the time to 5:20. She waited for something to happen.

All of a sudden, she stirred, as Peach looked down at her excitedly. Ms. Mows got to her feet, and rubbed some extra ice off, as she saw Peach, looking at her with open eyes and a wide mouth. Peach shouted in joy.

"You're alive!" Peach screamed in joyous disbelief. "I can't believe it! It's actually you! You cannot feel the joy I'm feeling right now!" Ms. Mows looked puzzled

"I'm a bit confused, can you start from the beginning?" the badge owner asked, and Peach told the whole story from where she knew of. Ms. Mows was surprised when the story was over.

"It sounds crazy," said Ms. Mows, "But I'll believe you, cause Koops was all fishy before I like, died. You know, let me help you make the others come back alive. Who is next?"

"Luigi fell with the elevator, and got killed," said Peach. "We need to get him back."

So they both went into the building behind them, and spotted the elevator doors.

"Do you have a way of opening them?" said Peach, trying to push the button. "It seems to be broken."

"This might help," suggested Ms. Mows, getting a sharp and long item out of her pocket. "I use it to open doors, so it's the perfect occasion."

"Let's give it a try," said Peach, and Ms. Mows slid the item into the middle of the elevator doors, while Peach helped to open them. They started to open the doors as much as they could, until it was big enough for both of them to fit inside. Peach was very anxious to see Luigi, and to bring him back to life.

But the elevator was only covered in rubble and destroyed walls, with a bit of electric sparks sparking out of the buttons. But Luigi was gone.

"Huh?" said Peach in confusion. "This is strange. Where is Luigi's body?"

"Maybe it rotted away," said Ms. Mows.

"No, it shouldn't rot in less than a day. Even though it's been a year, it has only been less than a day."

"Maybe he escaped," said Ms. Mows. Peach looked at her in wonder.

"It's impossible to survive a fall like that from four stories up," pointed out Peach. "There's no chance he survived."

"Really?" questioned Ms. Mows and she lifted a huge piece of metal in the corner, revealing the remains of empty juice cans, a sandwich bag, and a canteen bottle. Peach gasped at the sight.

"He…survived," she said, not believing it. She went over and saw that it was true, with Luigi's green canteen, and there was a container in the elevator that was broken open.

"That must be the pen-like item that could open the blue cabinet!" she said out loud, and Ms. Mows understood from hearing the story earlier. The pen-like item had been taken from the case, by Luigi.

"But where could he have gone?" said Ms. Mows. "There isn't a spot open in this place, and there---"but they both looked up and saw a hole in the elevator, big enough for a person to go through.

"He climbed the elevator shaft?" said Peach. "That's a brave thing for him to do. Instead of worrying where he is, let's be glad that he didn't die. So Koops' plans were actually foiled." She smiled, and decided to go to Yoshi's body.

They made their way out of the elevator, and then walked up the stairs. The whole floor and stairs were soaked with water, and water kept on continuing down the metal stairs they walked up. At last, they made it to the 5th floor, as water poured against them when they opened the door to the fifth floor. The whole floor was flooded about two feet, causing Ms. Mows to travel aboard a piece of wood.

"This place is still flooded?" Peach said. "Now I feel sorry for Yoshi, being trapped all alone, fearing his death as the vault flooded." They went into the room, which was flooded, and saw the bank vault; opened with water still coming out of it very lightly.

"I think Yoshi's body flooded out,"said Peach, and they went into the flooded hallway to look for him.

After no luck for 10 minutes, they found him caught in a window sill, which was a pretty unwell sight, but knowing that they would heal him immediately, they weren't frightened. Peach lifted his body out of the water, and turned the time on her clock to 10:25. She then put the clock over his stomach, where his lungs were.

"This has to work," said Peach hopefully. The two of them waited quietly as they watched Yoshi, waiting for him to revitalize.

Yoshi wheezed, coughed up water, and fell out of Peach's hands. He got up and looked around.

"I didn't drown!" he exclaimed excitedly. "I survived after all, but I thought I was dead!" He jumped around happily in the water.

"You were dead," exclaimed Peach, and she told Yoshi the story. Yoshi was baffled.

"Koops was the killer? That's absurd, it's impossible," he stuttered.

"But we need to hurry and get back the others," said Peach, and they all went out of the building to revive the others.


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