Hobbes woke up surprised when Moe dropped a huge stack of books on him. "Gonna talk?" laughed the bully. "I guess I'll just drop some more!" He continued crushing Hobbes until he lost interest and left the room. Hobbes angrily scrambled up and managed to push off the pile of books on top of him.

"That kid's nuts!" hissed Hobbes.

Mario bounced over, oblivious as ever. "I'm proud of you for not talking, Hobbes. A weaker man would have crumbled."

Hobbes shoved the last book off of himself and smacked Mario with it. "You idiot! He didn't really mean that! It's just one of his deranged psycho games he plays!"

"Still," said Mario, "I might not have held up if the Koopas were doing that stuff to me on one of my adventures."

"Thinking about us?" Led by Ludwig, the Koopalings suddenly crawled out from the room's many corners. In a few seconds, Hobbes and Mario were surrounded.

"Not them again!" groaned Hobbes. "This is still your fault, Mario."

Mario put up his fists in a weak fighting pose. "If we can hold off Moe, we can hold off them!"

The Koopalings all raised toy swords.

"Grab a weapon!" ordered Mario.

Hobbes picked up a toothpick, which broke. "Dang it."

"Fire flower time!" Whipping out his little accessory, Mario "shot" fireballs at the Koopas, who stared in confusion.

"Is he trying to mess with our minds or something?" stared Roy.

Iggy laughed evilly. "Ha! Not gonna work!"

"Our minds are messed up already!" agreed Lemmy.

Mario batted his fire flower against the ground, trying to get it to work. "I didn't know these things could jam..."

Hobbes noticed a button on Mario's back. "Hey, what's this do?" The tiger pressed it. Mario's fists suddenly shot out and punched Jr Koopa, sending him flying into the wall.

"How did you do that?" cried Mario in shock.

"Not now," Hobbes said quickly. "Fighting."

"Retreat!" screeched Wendy. Hobbes eventually beat all of the Koopas off and watched them flee in terror back to the dark shadows they came from.

Hobbes turned to Mario. "See?" he glared. "That's what happens when you make a bad first impression! Now, if you'll excuse me, I've gotta get out of here and home!"

Hobbes ran for it, but his path was easily blocked by Scud. "Not him again!" groaned Hobbes.

"Split up!" said Mario.

The two toys made a run for it. Hobbes tumbled down the stairs with Scud in hot pursuit. Trying to find something to aid his friend, Mario snuck into the living room, where a TV was playing.

"Mario!" cried Princess Peach. "Save me! Bowser's here!"

Mario whirled around in confusion. "Bowser! Where!" Mario looked up to see that Peach's voice came from a TV set. It was a commercial. A toy commercial.

"And now you can help Mario on his missions with your very own Mario toy!" yelled a loud announcer. "In fact, the world's greatest toy! Mama Mia!"

Mario gaped. "What?"

"With crazy swarming arms and a fire flower," continued the annocuner, "Mario is the best toy ever! EVER! Luigi and Toad sold separately."

Mario sadly left the room. Was Hobbes right? He wasn't really a great hero? What about all the great things he had done? Through an open window, a stray leaf blew in. Mario picked it up. "A racoon leaf," he said quietly.

Maybe Hobbes was wrong. With that in mind, Mario clutched the leaf and jumped off of the staircase railing. There was a crash. When Mario opened his eyes, he was lying on the floor missing one of his arms, which lay a few feet away. The defeated plumber looked down. "I will go sailing no more..."

The Jimmy doll from a previous chapter was not Jimmy Neutron, but Sarah's friend from Ed, Edd, 'n Eddy. The femminine one. A lot of laughs from that kid. I thinks some scenes here are a little rushed, but I'm having fun with the Koopalings being evil. However, I'm not sure how Mario's arm will get fixed now, since the Mutant Toys did it out of kindness in the original movie. I'll come up with something sinister.