Disclaimer: I don't own Hammer Bros., Luigi Circuit, Baby Park, Donkey Kong (the arcade game), Boos, the Music Keys, or Jumpman.
World 3
As Toad and Mario entered World 3, Mario noticed and pointed to the large amusement park that took up nearly all that world.
"Of course we'll be going there," Toad replied. "Where else could it be?"
Toad and Mario soon disembarked the S. S. Brass and entered the fairground—or rather, were about to.
A lone pair of Hammer Bros. was standing guard at the gates. Amazingly, admission seemed to be free, but these trained Koopa Troopas weren't about to just let the duo pass.
"Would admission normally be free if you weren't there?" Toad had the courage to ask.
"Yes," the larger Hammer Bro replied, "but you had to pay time in order to enter. Right now, while we're standing guard, you have to pay both time and calories! And you might have to pay with your fitness, too."
"How does that work?" Toad asked again.
The smaller Hammer Bro eagerly answered, "You have to dance while we throw hammers at you! Ha ha ha!"
"Is this reasonable?" Toad asked further.
"Yes," the larger Hammer Bro simply replied.
"Can't we wait until your shifts are over?" Toad asked yet again.
"Yes, but we aren't leaving for an hour yet," the smaller Hammer Bro responded.
Toad redirected his gaze to Mario. "Mario, do you think we should try to gain entry now or later?"
Mario was brave (or should we say foolish?) enough to reply by dancing. The Hammer Bros. immediately sent a barrage of hammers straight at Mario. The dancing plumber dodged them all.
"Argh, we must try again!" the bigger Hammer Bro yelled as he loaded his arms again.
The Hammer Bros. missed twice as Mario kept on dancing.
"We can't let him enter the fairground that easily!" the smaller Hammer Bro cried.
"Then get out the exploding hammers!" his elder brother bellowed.
The Hammer Bros. sent out a volley of exploding hammers. They blew up and made a wonderful explosion, but Mario was only singed slightly by the attacks as he kept on dancing. Toad, however, bore the brunt of one of the blasts and had his clothes scorched off.
"I'll be back soon!" Toad cried as he ran back to the S. S. Brass to get more clothes.
After Toad successfully put on his clothing and came out of the S. S. Brass, the Hammer Bros. were surprisingly non-aggressive.
"Fine, we'll let you both pass," the elder Hammer Bro declared as he opened the gates.
"I gotta admit, that red-capped guy has the best dancing I've ever seen for someone who wanted admission…" the younger Hammer Bro remarked.
Mario and Toad passed through the gates and ran to a ticket booth.
"We'd like twenty tickets, please," Toad ordered.
"That'll be fifty coins," the Toad clerk replied.
Toad paid the clerk the required coins and they got the tickets. The twosome immediately ran to a popular roller coaster.
"This one seems to be a recommended ride, according to this World 3 Fair brochure," Toad told Mario as they ran to the roller coaster's long line-up.
After fifteen minutes of waiting in line, Toad and Mario finally got a chance to ride the roller coaster.
"Seven tickets, please," the Shy Guy clerk ordered as Toad paid up. "Thank you," the Shy Guy replied as he opened the bar-door.
Mario and Toad walked to a roller coaster car, pulled down the safety bar, and held on tight. The two of them screamed as the ride started and the music from Luigi Circuit of Mario Kart: Double Dash played in the distance. This soon changed to the Baby Park theme music as the roller coaster train did a loop-de-loop.
After the ride, Toad felt like throwing up. Mario did too, and the pair ran to the washroom and vomited into the sinks.
Mario, surprisingly, decided to check out the haunted house. Toad followed him, and they both went into the haunted house's line-up.
"One ticket for the scariest time of your life!" the Boo clerk cried out.
Toad reluctantly paid the required tickets and walked through the doors with Mario.
In the haunted house, things were initially going along smoothly. Skeletons popped out of nowhere, Boos did too, and eerie music was heard. That was, until Toad noticed some music from the video game Donkey Kong.
"That sounds like an arcade game," Toad commented. "Should we go there?"
Mario made no reply, so Toad yanked him to the music's source.
In that particular room, a Boo was playing Donkey Kong on an arcade machine. Another Boo was watching, and yet another Boo was offering criticism.
"You can't play that game with the volume on like that!" the third Boo complained. "That isn't scary music at all!"
"Come on, this game is fun!" the Boo playing the game protested back.
"This is an outrage!" Mario wrote into a sheet of paper. "They release a game involving a copy of me called 'Jumpman', a totally wrong characterization of DK, and some woman I don't even know! This is all wrong!"
"You can keep that to yourself," Toad replied to Mario's writing.
Toad and Mario soon came out of the haunted house, sorely disappointed about its scaring abilities. They looked around, until Toad's naturally keen senses caught sight of the glimmer of a Music Key.
"Hey, I think the Music Key's that way!" Toad exclaimed as he yanked Mario to a large Ferris wheel. Mario did not resist Toad's tug.
When Toad and Mario arrived at the Ferris wheel, Mario looked up and gasped—and that moment was one of the only times that Mario emitted a noise from his mouth. Toad didn't gasp, but he knew Mario would.
The person Mario saw in the Ferris wheel was Wario, the long-time rival of Mario and the older brother of Waluigi. Wario was currently carrying a Music Key in his strong-gripped hands. He was currently enjoying his ride, and he wasn't letting go of his key.
"Oh, man…" Toad groaned. Mario shared Toad's feelings, but didn't utter a sound.
When the current Ferris wheel ride was over, Wario came out and walked towards another ride. Toad took that perfect opportunity to say, "Wario, do you know whether we can get that Music Key back now, please?"
Wario screamed, "No! Of course not! You can't possibly get that!"
Toad easily replied, "I'd say Mario here has good enough dancing to deserve that key, not you."
Wario then howled, "Fine, then! A dance-off it is! I say I have good enough dancing to keep my Music Key, and I will!"
Mario took the first step. Wario replied with his first step, and the two cousins officially started their dance-off. Wario danced rather clumsily, and when Toad tried dancing along, Wario danced even worse than Toad. Mind you, Toad isn't a very good dancer, even though he is competent. Mario, on the other hand, danced like a star.
"That confirmed my statement," Toad remarked as they all stopped dancing.
"As the unbiased judge," a passing Koopa Troopa that was getting off the Ferris wheel announced, "I say Mario wins!"
"Confirmed again," Toad commented. "Now can we please have the Music Key?"
"I don't think that was enough to get my Music Key," Wario answered.
"We'll see whether this is enough," Toad responded as he easily pulled the Music Key out of Wario's hands and gave it to Mario.
"You caught me off-guard!" Wario bawled. "How could you!"
Toad quickly whispered to Mario, "He's going to be distracted for a while yet."
The two of them swiftly ran out of the site and exited the fairground. As Wario kept on fuming, Toad and Mario embarked back on the S. S. Brass.
"Now we need to find World 4," Toad announced. "Where is it? Oh, there it is!"
Toad steered the ship to World 4, hoping to grab the last Music Key.