Sorry this has taken so long, it's been a bit difficult. But anyways, the lessons kick off next chapter, by then I think almost every character (for now) will have been seen and heard. I'm a plotline freak and I'm trying to develop a reasonable story for a lot of the characters, without keeping it in the one spot forever.

Function Hall 8pm

The tables that had been set up last night were now mostly filled with teachers, except one table that featured Goombella, Goombario, Kooper, Koops, Lakilester, Waffles and Vivian.

A voice over a microphone on the stage caught the attention of everyone in the room "And presenting the new head for this year, Professor Calma T."

The other teachers clapped as the blue spotted Toad woman appeared, she seemed very business like, instantly reminding Goombella of Jolene who was also in the room sitting with Flurrie and Hayzee, although at the same time she looked more approachable then Jolene was.

Calma T. took to the top of the platform on the stage and lowered the microphone to her level, placing cards that probably had notes on them on a small rack "Thank you. I am honoured to have been given this job at such a wonderful establishment such as U Goom, the records speak for themselves and lately enrolments seem to have skyrocketed despite a slow start"

The crowd applauds once again but Calma T. quickly continues onwards "There are several new faces aside from myself this year, although unfortunately not everybody could make it but let's introduce everybody, old and new"

She expertly flicked a card from the board in front of her without breaking stride "First up is Professor Frankly. Yes, he's returning once more after many countless years of work teaching archaeology but this year he is also taking on a totally different area of Sociology. In fact Professor Frankly has been here for so long one of his former students is even teaching as well. Usually out and about and going from one exotic location to another, the famous archaeologist Kolorado will be teaching the art of adventure class as well as sometimes taking over from Professor Frankly's archaeology class"

Kooper had doubts of this even when Professor Frankly first told him. Kolorado couldn't keep himself in one spot for two seconds unless there was some potential of treasure to be found, but Frankly assured him that he will keep Kolorado interested.

"And now for those of us with a sweet tooth we have two cooking classes this year but our two teachers will be swapping themselves between the two classes in order to give the students a wider range of knowledge. Introducing Zess T. and Tayce T."

The two cooks were sitting together, being sisters with their brother or better known as the Master sitting in between them. Tayce T. gave a polite wave and smile to the clapping audience while Zess T. just waved her hand side to side lazily.

"Ah the Drama students are in for a real treat this year, the most famous actress Madame Flurrie and the equally talented director Hayzee will both be teaching the classes this year" Once again the usual clap and introduction phase took place.

Calma T. then flicked another card "Public relations and retail operations class… taught by former Glitz Pit promoter Jolene, I am sure she will be an absolutely perfect fit into the position and thank you for coming on such short notice"

Jolene nodded her head curtly as the crowd clapped once more as Calma T. flicked a few more cards. Finally her speech moved on to the lesser known teachers but still gave them the introduction they deserved while not keeping it too long and exaggerated.

"Thank you for welcoming each of these new teachers. As for those who could not make it today I'm sure they will make themselves known over time. I certainly hope we can all work together to bring U goom to new heights. For now though, dinner has been prepared and will be brought out shortly"

The Toad woman then let the crowd clap a little more and then walked off the stage.

Waffles stretched himself out "Man that took forever…but hey where's that yellow Koopa dude, he was here last night wasn't he?"

"Yeah but he's not here now, King K had other arrangements, or so he said" Goombella though believed K just lied to get out of it, she understood though, there were two groups on this table and he didn't really fit into either of them.

"Fair enough, more for me" Waffles said casually

"That's really odd" Frankly muttered out loud

"What's really odd Professor?" Goombella asked curiously

"Oh nothing, just unusual so many of the teachers weren't present"

Once again Goombella sensed Frankly wasn't telling her the truth, whether it was not for everyone's ears, or something that he wouldn't tell anybody she may never find out. Either that or she was just being really paranoid, she'd like to believe that but with all that was going on she had to lean to the conspiracy side of things. Now that was dumb… she was beginning to sound like Bandy Andy. Next she'll have the 7 wonders of U Goom, and with that thought she'd already come up with the first one, the suicide doors on the 10th level of the History tower.

Waffles cried out happily as the food came "Yeah! Free food" Waffles then used his tongue to grab a burger on the tray that was coming in their direction but as he caught the burger with his tongue and tried to bring it back to him he lost control of his tongue as Vivian lit a fire underneath his seat to teach him better manners.

Waffles stood up alarmed trying to get the flames off his tail as everyone on that table laughed at the incident. When Waffles got the flames off he stood up on his chair giving Vivian an intimidating look "What's the big idea shadow girl? Think you can take me with such a cheap shot"

Vivian smiled as the burger landed conveniently on the plate in front of her ignoring the comment "I really don't want this, you've slobbered all over it already. This time use your hands…" Vivian handed the plate to Waffles who muttered something unintelligible and he snatched the plate ungratefully from her.

Koops was pleased to see Waffles was taking as much as he dishes out, especially from Vivian who needs all the confidence she can get. While it was probably at the expense of Waffles he had too much self confidence anyway and could do with a deflation of his ego. Although things certainly looked like they were going to be hectic this year, while this did not surprise Koops it was still a bit daunting for him.

Goomville

In the big city there were many different buildings, it would be hard for any single one to stand out more then the other, with one exception. This building looked as if it had been taken out of a book in the medieval times, even the sign that read 'Forge's workshop' fitted the look.

"What the hell is this ancient place" Gerato muttered. Unable to shake the annoying Piantayan off him and realising he become more annoying the harder he tried he just gave up... again.

"Looks like some kind of weapons factory, I like the old look about it actually"

"Figures, you seem to like everything"

"Gotta love life man, it's the only thing we have"

The two Piantas went inside, a young Toad woman seemed to be working very hard and focused solely on the work in front of her. In contrast to the dull colours of the building her hair was bright pink and in a braid, the black spots on her head further conflicted with her look. Piantayan waited for the wise crack that was bound to come from Gerato's mouth, which one would he use?

"Isn't that a man's job?" Gerato said arrogantly

"You think you can do better?" The woman replied without looking up

"Hmmph and honestly is Forge your actual name?"

"Don't mind him, he's just a little under the weather" Piantayan said lightly

"Whatever. As you can clearly see I'm very busy. However you are very welcome to look around" Forge spoke in a tone that suggested that she did not have time for stupid antics.

Piantayan noticed the hammer in a display case "Hey, I've seen this before, isn't this hammer like the top of the range stuff, or near top of the range" Piantayan then read the metal inscription "Used by the Great Gonzales, ooo cool"

"Don't mind him, he just doesn't know when to shut UP!" Gerato countered

Piantayan sensed the tension in the air had hit boiling point so made his exit "Alright we still gotta a lot to check out. Thanks"

Forge gave a silent sigh of relief as the two Piantas left, she just had no patience for stupidity and silly antics. She tried to get back to work again but her flow had been thrown off, not that there ever really was one to start with, she should have gone to that party for the teachers after all as she wasn't progressing here, she didn't even really need to work as hard as she did, it was just personal satisfaction. Deciding to call it a night, she started to close up shop so she could look at the basic guidelines for when she started teaching the Ancient History class.

5am next day - Woodmark park (Amusement park)

Mirage once again found herself talking to Koopfina after receiving a message about an hour ago. At least this time neither Duplica or Birdy would be around for her to need to create a diversion. Usually though if she was up this early it wasn't to see her handler, it was to go find something valuable and claim it as her own.

"The water view is really something here isn't it" Koopfina stared over the water as she heard Mirage's footsteps

"If you dragged me out here to talk about a puddle this may get violent"

Koopfina gave a light smile coming straight to the point "There is a complication in the assignment"

"And?"

"Two Koopas I know are studying here. They know me pretty well, so we will need to be more careful"

"So? I have friends here too, I have to work around it all the time"

"Yes but this is a bit different, as we've known each other for many years. I raised one of them"

"Ah your old foster care job, I read about that, so now one of the grown up ones is back in your life again. Can I know what they look like or who they are for my own knowledge?"

Koopfina nodded taking out their U Goom file and handing it to Mirage

"Oh naughty, naughty, your not supposed to take those off the premises" Mirage lectured jokingly as she flicked through

"I commandeered it" Koopfina replied sternly

"Haha" Mirage said dully "So Michael and Koopalajan? That's a long winded name"

"You won't find them being called that around U Goom though. Most people refer to Michael as King K and nobody refers to AJ by his actual name, almost nobody knows of it"

The Squeek nodded to this as she finished her skim read and gave the files back "For good reason I imagine. You find any useful intel while at the party or while you somehow 'commandeered' those files?"

The Koopa nodded slowly "Yes. There's a new dean this year, seems like a good fit for the job. I've found someone who can help me get my feet on the political situation in U Goom, where friendships stand, who's in and all of that"

"So far so good then?"

"Yes, so far so good. Well that was it really, I will tell Michael and AJ about what I'm teaching this year and have a basic social catch up"

"Alright, I will see you whenever" Mirage then left Koopfina to stare over the water view as the park began to open and play the usual carnival music. While it was an interesting development, it wasn't something she needed to know right there and then, it was kind of weird, it's not like Koopfina to get paranoid or worried about something so trivial.

Bow's mansion

Bow, Watt and Bombette were all in a circle, Bow as the only of the three that had hands held a basic bottle in her hand and spun it around on the creaky floor, although as Bombette was the only one with legs this wasn't too much of an issue. The bottle spun around several times before ending up pointing to Bombette.

"Ooooooh…" Bow and Watt chorused at the same time

"Yeah yeah just get on with it…"

Bow grinned, asking the most cliché question in truth or dare "Okay, who do you have a crush on?"

"Dare"
Suddenly bits and pieces of the door to the room flew everywhere as an explosion occurred outside the room.

"Huh? What was that?" Watt looked around puzzled

"I think I know, HOW hard is it for me to lose that guy" Bombette seemed disgusted

"It's an impossibility my love for we are just meant for each other" Bruce recovered from his own explosion and immediately ran up to Bombette "So where have you been lately, I used to see you all the time at the Koopa Village"

"Yeah I know, that's why I don't hang out around there anymore"

"Ah well, that's okay because I'll see you all the time at U Goom then. I'm attending this year too" Bruce grinned happily

Bombette promptly exploded in more ways then one creating a big hole in the ground. She fell through to the next floor down but everyone upstairs could still hear her shouting "YOU ARE WHAT!"

"Would you guys STOP wrecking my mansion" Bow screamed out "Seriously I'm taking law this year so I WILL SUE!"

"Don't you know that someone who represents themselves has a fool for a client" Bruce suddenly went serious as he was not talking to Bombette

"YOU shut up! This is all your fault!"

There was a tense silence while Watt was trying to avoid being shouted at by Bow or being the cause of another explosion "Um, how did you know Bombette was attending U goom?"

"Because I'm observant baby, class lists are available across the Internet now, so when I found out that Bombette was at U Goom as well" He then turned to Bombette who had come back up to Bow's room "You know I will go to the end of the world for you darling"

"Yeah, but if you did, would you stay there? Or better yet, could you just die for me?"

"Oh you are so cold sometimes, but that's what I love about you. I will win your heart just you wait and see. I had to go through the scary forest and the awful monsters, but for you I conquered my fears"

Bow sighed it was time to get rid of this annoying intruder "Okay, you've had enough fun Bruce. Boys escort this gentleman out… PRONTO!"

About 5 Boo's appeared and lifted Bruce into the air and out the door "I love you Bombette! SEE YOU SOON! AHHH!"

Bombette looked furious but didn't seem prone to another explosion "Why me! Why does he have to pick on me! Of all the girls out there and he targets me!"

Bow shook her head and sighed "I got the feeling he knew you were going to U Goom before he signed up. That guy is stalker"

"You don't suppose I could find a way I could sue him for sexual harassment, or stalking, or whatever it is he does that makes he outright annoying"

"Maybe you could just take out a restraining order" Watt suggested

"That's a good idea… but he'd ignore it anyway, GAHHHH!" Bombette cried out

Baseball diamond 11 am

Aliciagoom sat onto of the grass hills, things were already getting busier at U Goom, there were already a group on the field, she thought she saw Flare taking the bat, she wasn't sure as he was unusually without his helmet. While out loud she was a Rawk Hawk fan through and through, she had a little place for Flare as well, so under loved in her view because of his slightly stronger, less camera shy team leader Hamma Jamma.

Crack! The fire brother hit the pitch with perfect accuracy and power earning him a loud cheer as the ball flew away almost as if it was on fire which Aliciagoom reminded herself, it probably was. A Lakitu went to chase after the ball but it was pointless it was easily over the fence and a home run, he shrugged and gave up and waited for one of the other Piantas to come over who could actually boost themselves over the fence to get it. After what looked like a small argument the blue Pianta finally went and retrieved the ball.

Aliciagoom continued to watch dreamily as the fire bro was surrounded in a group huddle, and then she knew for sure as in the group was his two team mates, Jamma and Bamma. A rather big piranha plant took to the plate next as Flare and his other team mates took a seat on the bench, this time the red Pianta was a bit more successful in his pitching ability, but she wasn't watching the game anymore, she was watching Flare.

"Hey Alicia I got you those fries" a voice distracted her from her visions

She jumped quite a bit "HUH! Oh it's just you" Aliciagoom replied irritated

"Something wrong?" a female Crayzee Dayzee accompanied Parakenny sat down on her right as Parakenny slowly descended to the ground and sat down on Aliciagoom's left.

"No Kora, just thinking" Aliciagoom allowed the fries to be placed in front of her as she tried to pick one out without it spilling everywhere. Eating was always such a troublesome task for a Goomba. She turned to Kora as she held the fairy floss in her hand and watched enviously as she took an easy bite out of it, while Parakenny was stuffing one of his two hot dogs down his mouth, tomato sauce covered his mouth which he promptly licked with a look of satisfaction on his face.

Aliciagoom stared once more in Flare's general direction as she struggled another chip into her mouth, however the piranha plant who had been struck out had now blocked her view of Flare, how irritating. Life was like that sometimes, just when things are going smoothly something comes out of nowhere and blocks your progress, that made Aliciagoom think of her bitter rival Goombella.

Constantly Goombella out performed her, got the glory of Professor Frankly and got to go on a little expedition with him to Rogueport, a trip that was at first thought to be nothing more then a waste of time, but Mario just happened to show up and Goombella assists him to such an extent she becomes known as a hero.

If it was Aliciagoom who got those marks, Frankly would have chosen her instead, Aliciagoom thought Goombella cheated somewhere, but deep down she knew that while Goombella was lucky, to survive against a demon that could cause the destruction of the world meant that she had to have some sort of ability. The frustrating thing about the entire thing was she didn't know what Goombella had and she did not, was it determination, was it ability, or something entirely different? The fact that Aliciagoom came from a much richer life style made this all the more infuriating, being used to be able to buy anything she wants and if that fails, work hard towards it, however this time she was beaten… for now at least, there was always the future and that's what Aliciagoom depending on, would this year be any different? Maybe not, but she can't give in that easily.

A/N: Did Mario even have Medieval times? Ah well I will just make it up as I go along, sounds like fun yes?

A/N2: They have email in Paper Mario, so they must have the Internet too I guess. Yet if they have computers, have landed on the moon and have teleportation technology, why does Mario STILL have to walk everywhere? More ammo given to Bandy Andy's Princess Peach conspiracy number 2: Peach gets kidnapped so Mario gets exercise.

A/N3: The Master is really the brother of Zess T. and Tayce T. that's not just something I thought that would be cool for a laugh, it's a fact.

A/N4: The suicide doors actually exist in a University. More explained later…

A/N5: Forge belongs to Cyberweasel89 as do Buddy, Lead and Luna which will appear next chapter. Kora is my own creation as some of my readers would be aware. Bruce is just Bombette's annoying crush in case anyone doesn't know/forgot.