Paper Mario one and a half
Chapter 16: The Surprise in the Present Time
Right now you can see Luigi Junior waving Mario, Luigi, and Bow goodbye as they prepare to enter the portal. You see, Luigi Junior opened the portal with the "Back to Your Time" button he has in a secret box in a secret room. Anyway, the three entered the portal and left the future. First, Mario looked at his watch: 4:56 PM.
The journey was very breath-taking, like the one Mario (and secretly Bow) went through about 11 days ago. After what seemed like 10 minutes of getting inverted, they were spat out right in front of the tube and portal again, back at Yoshi's Island. Mario looked at his watch: 4:56 PM. It really does shoot you out at the exact time (obviously not year) as you entered!
Back possibly under Yoshi's Island, the three walked down the stairs, past the dark eco, when suddenly they were shot by a laser again and returned to one inch! Now as midgets, they entered the door to be back at the room with the corridor. After following it to the other end, they entered the door.
They walked ahead until they came back to the large Dark Eco Lake. Thing cleverly, Mario told Luigi and Bow to hop on, and he became Fire Mario. He then flew over the long lake, and at the other side, he threw them off and became normal Mario again. After some panting from Mario, they walked through the door Mario pounded open senselessly and they arrived back in the room that had the glass tube and the leaf elevator. He became Fire Mario, and the two sidekicks jumped on Fire Mario's back as he flew upwards, through the tube, and finally in front of the leaf elevator. He dropped them and became normal. The elevator clicked and went up after the three people were in the elevator, rising kind of slow.
30 minutes later, at 5:40 PM, the elevator at last arrived at the destination and the three got off the elevator, walked forward, and got shot by the laser, growing back to normal size. They entered the door right in front of them to be back in the water room.
Stupidly, the three jumped off the ledge and fell probably thirty feet before landing in one five feet of water. Now that they were at the entrance, they then started to swim through the opening, and against the current. The second they were out, they climbed out of the river and walked along it until they reached the jeep!
They got in without many words and drove along the tire tracks back to the ship by Yoshi's Village. They jumped out and climbed the ropes to arrive on the ship. It has been 2 hours since Mario was here last when he left (time freezes in this dimension when Mario enters the portal. Confusing I know) and he walked up to the Yoshi leader (BTW it is 6:15 PM).
"So, did you find out any information about the bomb?" questioned the leader.
"No, but I did find out there was one more left so I spent 11 days to get and destroy that last bomb, so the threat is over!" answers Mario.
"Nice! I guess that is as good as finding information about the bomb! BTW, who is this green guy?"
"Ohhhh, he is Luigi. Somehow, I found my brother in the future and rescued him."
"Why don't you have a shirt on?"
"I had a tough battle in the future."
"I see… did you get the Emerald Key?"
"Mario, we never got the key!" whispered Bow frantically to Mario. He ignored him and walked up to him. "Yes we do!" and he pulled out the Emerald Key!
"How…when…where…why!" asked Bow.
"Actually, Luigi gave it to me in the minor league room!"
"LUIGI HAD IT!"
"Yep! The guy who kidnapped me left, but he dropped the key on accident, so I knew this was my chance to get it!"
"Clever, Luigi!"
"I know…"
The three gathered around the chief, who pulled out a box and used the Emerald Key to open it. Suddenly, a ghost-like 40 foot spirit suddenly popped out of the box! Also, it was somehow nighttime when he was out!
"SO, WHAT IS YOUR WISH?" asked the spirit.
"To restore the island to what it was before the bomb hit it: primitive and full of life!" hollered the chief.
"IS THIS YOUR WISH?"
"Yes!"
"GRANTING WISH…"
Suddenly, everyone looked at the island, which was glowing white. Suddenly, a white beam covered the island, and after a few minutes, everyone could see the dead trees standing back up, the dead life sprung back up, the tumbled huts un-tumbled! Even the volcano was back to normal!
"WISH WAS A SUCCESS! BYE."
The spirit then flew into the box, which shot up into the air and was hurled through the sky to somewhere. After the chief seriously thanked the three characters, he announced that somehow the spirit accelerated time to 12:30 AM, 6 hours ahead of the normal time! Now, the Yoshis put the three people in the most comfortable straw beds and they fell asleep very quickly.
Mario didn't know what time it was, but he was suddenly waked up by Luigi! "Ahhhh! Ohhhhh, it is just you, Luigi. What do you want at…….. 5:30 in the morning?" Luigi responded by saying "I want to show you something cool I found by the beach! It is an awesome shell!" Mario said he would go, and he took the shirt the Yoshis made as a gift for him. Now, leaving Bow asleep, the two brothers walked together to the beach.
"You know, you are a great brother, even if you are annoying a bit and a glory hog!"
"Thanks, Luigi! You are also a great brother!"
After just 2 minutes, they arrived at the beach. About five feet from the seashell lied a piece of paper. Mario opened it and screamed in horror!
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What does the note say? It is fun to end a story with a cliffhanger, ey? You are lucky the next chapter will be made today also! Stay tuned!
