"STOP! LET GO OF ME! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!"

Marilyn and Beldam dragged Merlon to Tatanga's chambers, where the main man himself was waiting for their arrival.

"Ah, excellent. Thank you Marilyn and Beldam. I can take it from here." The purple alien said as the two Shadow Sirens pushed Merlon to the ground.

"Yes, my king..." Beldam answered and she and her sister disappeared into the shadows.

Merlon looked up and his body froze in fear. It was him, the evil character that appeared in his vision.

"No...NOOOOOOOOOO! IT'S YOU! WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME!?" Merlon screamed, fearing for his life.

"You really wanna know what I want? I want you dead...and I want some chocolate milk! WHERE IS MY CHOCOLATE MILK!?" Tatanga angrily shouted, stomping his foot on the ground repeatedly.

"Right here, my king!" answered a Koopatrol as he entered the room. He brought over a tall glass of chocolate milk and gave it to him. Tatanga gulped the drink down in a minute and threw the glass behind him.

"Thank you. You may go now!" Tatanga said and the Koopatrol quickly left the room.

"You...want me dead? But why? What did I do!?" Merlon panicked, getting more scared as each second passed by.

"I saw everything that happened through this neat scepter, here. It's like a crystal ball, should I say. It's very powerful, but not powerful enough to take over the world. Not even close. But enough about that, I saw YOU explain everything to those idiotic heroes about how there's this Crystal Star Rod that can stop my plans from making half the people in the world my slaves and killing the other half. And now since they know everything about what I'm gonna do, I have no choice but to get my revenge on you for what you did. You will pay." Tatanga said in a very threatening voice and pointed his scepter at the wizard.

"Please...please don't! I'm sorry! I'll do anything! Just please don't kill me!" Merlon begged and got on his knees, and even started to cry.

"It has to be done. But since I have my morals...I'll make your death a quick and painless one!" Tatanga yelled and blasted Merlon with a white beam that came from his scepter. Merlon disintegrated into nothing but a pile of dust.

"Well, that's one annoyance taken care of! Actually, you know, I've always wondered what dust tasted like..." Tatanga said to himself as he picked up some of the dust with his fingers and put it in his mouth. Tatanga almost hurled as soon as he tasted it.

"Oh god...I'm gonna be sick! I NEED A PAPER BAG!"


Morning arrived and the sun rose over the horizon. Birds were happily chirping as they flocked around the tall trees.

It was 9 am and Arfur came into everyone's room to tell them to wake up so they can get an early start on their mission.

In Luigi and Daisy's room, Daisy had gotten up first and brushed her hair with a brush that Kylie lent her, and looking at herself with her own hand-held mirror. After a few minutes of doing that, she took off her t-shirt and went to her dress. Inside the dress was her traditional sports attire, and she put on the shorts and then the shirt.

Luigi made a loud yawn and opened his eyes. He turned over and saw Daisy finished putting her shirt on.

"Woah! Where did you get your sports clothes from?" He asked.

"Didn't I tell you before? I wear them underneath my dress. Gosh, we've been together for like 5 years and you haven't known that by now?" Daisy groaned and rolled her eyes.

"Well sorry! After everything that we've all been through recently, my memory on certain things isn't very exact. I can't even remember if I used the bathroom last night or not!" Luigi whined as he rubbed his eyes.

"Sigh...sorry. I'm just totally nervous and stressed for this mission we have to do. We have no idea what to expect and there's also the fact that the entire world is depending on US to save them! Life of a hero, I guess." Daisy freaked out and rapidly ran her hands through her hair.

"Yeah, I know. I'm scared too, Daisy. I really am. Just promise me one thing, please?"

"Yeah?"

"If we are cornered by an enemy, could I use you as a shield?"

"Excuse me!?"


DK and Rosalina were the first to get to the Arwing room.

"Oh! Hey Rosalina. So, are you ready for this mission?" DK asked.

"I'm as ready as I will ever be...yet, I feel weak. I feel like maybe I'm not cut out for this kind of work. Maybe I should just quit and let you guys go on without me..." Rosalina said with a depressing tone.

"Hey, don't get down on yourself! Sure, you might not be really physically strong, but mentally you are. Plus, you have all these weird 'energy feels' that can help us out on our journey. You aren't useless, trust me. We all need you." DK uplifted her in encouragement. Rosalina couldn't help but smile.

"Thank you DK...that really means a lot. I'm glad that I have a friend like you." The space queen complimented. DK tried his hardest not to blush.

"And what's going on here? Are you two going to have a steamy makeout session?" Waluigi butted in out of nowhere.

DK growled at him. "Shut up man! This is a private conversation we're having. Go somewhere else."

"Go somewhere else? We're all suppose to meet here though! You can't force me out of the mission, you know." The lanky man replied while cracking his knuckles.

"Waluigi, please, must you always be so rude? You always have such negative energies coming off of you...and yet...I can't help but feel like there's a soft spot that you are hiding from all of us, probably due to your troubled past of undereating all the time." Rosalina admitted while rubbing her chin. DK held in his laughter.

"Hey! My past is none of your business to know and I don't have a soft spot so quit being delusional! GOSH!" Waluigi stomped the ground in anger.


The rest of the group met up with Kylie and Arfur in the room where the Arwings were.

"Alright guys, this is it. The start of your mission that may or may not change the world and the way you think. If you don't wanna do this, then you can opt out right now." Kylie stated.

"ANYBODY WHO OPTS OUT IS A LOSERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!" Fire Bro randomly shouted.

"Um, yeah, I don't think any of us wants to opt out. Even though it's going to be dangerous for me and all of us, ESPECIALLY me, we have to risk it in order to defeat that alien and save the world from a generic 'take over the world' plan." Birdo added.

"I'll stay with this mission all the way as long as no one dies on me. I mean, you can die near me or around me, just don't die ON me!" Dixie dramatically preached.

"We'll make sure to take a mental note of that, Dixie." Waluigi scowled while rolling his eyes.

"I don't have a pen and paper though!" Peach freaked out. Waluigi had a certain look on his face that clearly said 'Is this girl for real right now!?'

"...Moving on...so, you guys know where you are going first, correct?" Arfur asked.

"Yes we do. We are traveling to Peach's castle and then jump in a painting that will lead to us to Wet-Dry World. I should know this because I've been in the castle far more times than any of these people have been in!" Toad annoyingly bragged.

"Congratulations...WE DON'T CARE." Birdo spat.

"We just need to hope that Peach's castle isn't destroyed. That's all we really need to worry about right now." Daisy said.

"Excellent. You guys get in your arwings and head off to the castle. We'll still stay on stand by for the communicator in case you need any questions and we'll be watching where you go, as well. Also, we will be looking up information for the other places that Merlon described last night so we can get this mission fully underway." Kylie explained in a tiny bit of excitement.

"Okay!" They all responded and headed into their flying ships. Everyone was nervous about what could happen, and they were even worried that they could die or get hurt, but they had to do this for the sake of the world.

The wall opened up and everyone blasted off into the sky.

"Okay, so we all know where Peach's castle is from here, correct?" Daisy asked.

"Not really. I don't know which direction the castle would be from this place since I've never been here before...DUH!" DK said.

"Don't worry Daisy, Peach's castle shouldn't be too hard to locate because of its size and noticeable colors." Rosalina assured.

"Hey! Are you calling my castle fat?" Peach argued.

"Peach...do you EVER pay close attention to anything!? I swear, you are being a TOTAL stereotype which isn't healthy for your mind, body, and soul!" Dixie scolded.

"And how would you know this, anyways?" Waluigi asked, totally not convinced at what she said.

"I read it in a book called 'How To Become Calm Natured Like The Pokemon 'Altaria'' it's really nice, and it only cost me 24 coins!" Dixie vibrantly explained.

"...Okay...I'm not even going to ask why the book is titled like that." Birdo commented.

"Hey guys look! I see Peach's castle and it isn't destroyed! RAISE THE ROOF Y'ALL!" Yoshi oddly cheered.

"PLEASE tell me you did not just say that." Daisy scoffed at him.

"You guys see Peach's castle? Excellent. But, since this world you're going into is inside the castle, I'm afraid me and Arfur can't help you from this point on so you guys are gonna have to be extra careful from now on. We are counting on you." Kylie stated.

"Like, don't even sweat it! We'll be more careful than, like, a jackrabbit that's trying to outrun a kangaroo in the middle of a scorching desert that's right next to a volcano!" Goombella said.

Everyone lowered themselves and parked their arwings anywhere they could in front of Peach's castle. They all got out and walked up to the bridge that led to the front door of the castle.

"Well guys, here we go. This is the official start of our journey. There is no turning back now. We have to stick together and stay strong." Daisy said as she started to sweat in nervousness.

"Are you done with your dramatic monologue now? Good because I wanna go in and get this over with!" Dixie yelled and rushed to the door.

"Yeah Daisy! This isn't some kind of epic disaster/drama movie!" Waluigi agreed and moved on ahead.

"Yeah! Quit being a drama queen you drama queen!" Peach stupidly added. Daisy sighed at them in frustration and went in with the others.

The inside of the castle looked exactly like it was before. Peach smiled in relief, seeing that everything here was completely unharmed.

"Alright then. Wet-Dry World, right? Um...crap, I forget where that painting is located at...and I just got done playing Super Mario 64 last week too! Do you know, Daisy?" Toad asked in desperation.

"Erm...no, I don't think so. I remember what the world looked like and all, but I don't remember where exactly it's located at. Anyone else know?" Daisy asked but everyone shook their heads.

"Wait a second, have you guys even played Super Mario 64?" Toad questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"I had a copy but Petey Piranha ate it because he got mad I stole his apples! WHAT A DUMBYHEAD!" Yoshi pouted.

"I don't play video games." Birdo egotistically said while checking her nails.

"I don't play ANY video game that stars Mario as the main character in it!" Waluigi shouted.

"Never played the game because I was too busy being caught up in other revolutionary games such as Ocarina of Time, Banjo-Kazooie, and Super Smash Bros." Dixie answered.

"I didn't play the game because it had Boos in it...and boos freak me the hell out!" Toadette shivered.

"I had the game at first, but I traded it in for 1 million bananas because someone offered me it." DK said, being proud of his 'accomplishment'.

"I was too jealous of my brother being the main star in it. Seriously, I was suppose to be in that game but Nintendo decided to be eggheads and take me out! I still have a grudge against them for that, don't you know?" Luigi explained.

"I'M A SPRINKLER! CHIKA CHIKA CHIKA CHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Fire Bro screeched, ignoring the main topic at hand.

"I didn't even know such a game existed!" Rosalina exclaimed in shock.

"Wow...that's just...WOW." Yoshi commented.

"Peach? What about you? You live here so you obviously must know where the painting to Wet-Dry World is!" Daisy pointed out and Peach laughed at her.

"Oh of course I know where it is! Follow meeeeeeeeee!" The princess squealed and led the group up a short staircase to the right and entered a door. They came into a room with big fish tanks and a painting that had a boat sunken under water with bubbles around it.

"Uhh, Peach, are you sure this is the right painting? I thought the Wet-Dry World painting looked a lot different than this..." Toad said with a concerned expression.

"How dare you question my authority, Toad? Just for that, you will get no more Cheesecakes from me!" Peach rudely remarked.

"Nooooooooooooooooo! How could you!? That's the most evil thing anyone could ever do!" Toad cried.

"Seriously? You think that's more evil than someone taking over the world!?" Birdo said, completely dumbfounded.

"Guys, can we stop talking and get a move on? I wanna get this gem and take a picture of it so I can show it off to people on Facebook!" Yoshi cheered. He then ran and leaped toward the painting...only to completely miss it and hit the wall instead.

"This is odd. I'm not feeling any kind of special energy from this painting. Are you sure this is the right one, Peach?" Rosalina asked. Peach makes a growling sound at her.

"Will you people stop being so judgmental!? Let's just go for crying out loud!" She then jumped into the painting with everyone else following suit.

They all landed on a dark beach area where the sun was blocked by clouds and everything seemed a bit misty.

"Peach, you idiot! This is NOT Wet-Dry World! This is Jolly Roger Bay! I can't believe you led us to the wrong world!" Waluigi shouted.

"Oh, all the water levels look the same to me! I'M JUST A CHILD!" Peach started to cry.

"Wow, this looks sooooo neat! Let's go surfing everyone!" Fire Bro gestured.

"Dude, we don't even have surfboards with us! Besides, that water looks freezing and who knows what kind of enemies are down there?" Birdo says with caution.

"Okay thanks to Peach's stupidity, we have to find a way out of here now. Uhh...does anyone know where the exit is?" Dixie asked as she looked all around her.

"Oh, that's easy! All we need to do is pause the game, go to 'Exit Course', press A, and presto! We're back in the castle!" Fire Bro cheered. Birdo slapped him out of anger.

"IDIOT! We are not in a freaking game! Even if we were, we would have zero control over our actions because we're not the ones PLAYING this." Birdo pointed out to everyone.

"We may not be in a game, but I think video game logic still applies here. In Super Mario 64, the player could exit the world if they got a star...so, uhh, I guess we just need to find a star then." Toad said.

"Well, do you know where a star would be then?" Dixie asks.

"Hmm...the only star that I can remember in this course was a star that was attached to the tail of an eel. If I'm correct, all we need to do is wait for the eel to come out of his home and then we swim over and grab the star. Simple as that!" Toad answered.

"An eel? Nasty. But if it's the only way, then we might as well do it. There will be no objections on this, I assume?" DK asked to everyone else.

"Wait a second, the eel is underwater, right? That means I'm going to get my dress wet! No way am I doing this!" Peach crossed her arms and shook her head.

"Uhh, yeah, I'm not comfortable in getting my dress wet as well..." Rosalina agreed.

"Guys, we need you both. If this eel turns out to be trouble then we'll need all the help we can get with it." DK said in encouragement. Rosalina smiled at him again.

"Okay okay! Enough with the cheesy empowerment! Let's get this overwith so we can find the first gem and leave!" Waluigi said and dove into the water.

"Come on Toadette! I'm super fast and strong at swimming underwater, so in case there is trouble alert, I can use you as a water torpedo to knock back the enemies!" Fire Bro informed.

"Wait, was that about a torpedo!?" Toadette shrieked and before she knew it, she was picked up by the maniac and brought underwater with him. Everyone else followed into the water as well.

The water was cold, but not too cold to the point where you could get hypothermia. They all were amazed by how neat the underwater scenery of the bay looked. There was clean-looking seaweed and large clams everywhere they looked.

"Woooooooow! This is, like, so neat! WOAH! Did I just speak...underwater? How is this possible?" Goombella shrieked in amazement.

"Like I said, video game logic! Either that or this chapter would probably be boring without some more dialogue." Toad answered.

"Huh?" Everyone responded.

"Nothing! Forget what I just said! Just keep going! I SAID GO!" Toad shouted.

Everyone swam to a bigger part of the underwater area, which looked more like a gigantic hole actually. As they swam further down, they noticed more clams at the bottom and a smaller hole on the wall at the end with an eel's head barely poking out of it.

"AHA! There it is you guys! Let's get closer!" Daisy pointed out in excitement. Everyone swam closer to the hole with the eel.

"Um...right, does anyone have a plan that involves getting the star, but not getting eaten?" Dixie asked with worry.

"We have to wait for about a minute or so for the eel to swim out. Once it does, someone's going to have to grab the star that will be at the end of its tail." Toad explained.

"Sounds simple enough." DK answered with a grin. Suddenly, the eel roared and immediately started swimming out of the hole, aiming towards Peach.

"OH MY GOD! SOMEONE SAVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Peach screamed and started to swim away as fast as she could.

"TORPEDO POWERS ACTIVATE!" Fire Bro yelled, and thrusted Toadette toward the eel. Toadette successfully hit the eel's mid-section body, which made the eel screech out and turn himself around.

"Oh great, now he's coming after you! Goombella, use your Tattle ability!" Yoshi cried.

"WHAT GOOD IS THAT GOING TO DO RIGHT NOW!? HOW IS SHE EVEN GOING TO READ UNDERWATER!?" Daisy screamed and panicked.

Much to Daisy's dismay, Goombella got out her book and began reading out loud. "This is an Eel...DUH! Max HP is 20, attack is 5 and defense is 1. It attacks by trying to chomp or eat you. Since this is an underwater enemy, this is going to be, like, hard to beat because...well...unless we do those turn-based battles in the first two Paper Marios and in Sticker Star, this is going to be almost impossible!"

"Alright, you heard the girl! TURN ON TURN-BASED BATTLE MODE!" DK yelled and suddenly, curtains dropped all around them and everyone was suddenly on a stage with an audience watching and cheering for them. The heroes were all gathered up to the left and the eel was on the right. Luckily for the heroes, the water was all gone so they could do this battle with ease.

"Woah, how the hell did you do that?" Birdo asked, totally amazed.

"I have no idea. It just came to me actually." DK admitted.

"Alright guys, it's 13 vs. 1, so there's no way we are gonna lose! You're up first, Luigi!" Daisy said and pushed Luigi to the front.

"Oki doki then! I shall use my super duper ultra mega fierce jump attack!" Luigi bravely said. He lowered himself by his knees, and suddenly launched himself up in the air. Unfortunately, he jumped TOO high and hit the ceiling, which made him crash back down on to the stage.

"BOOOOOOOOO! YOU STINK!" Yelled a Shy Guy from the audience and threw a bucket at him.

"HEY, THAT'S MY BOYFRIEND YOU ASSHOLE!" Daisy raged and jumped at the Shy Guy and started beating him up.

"Okay, it's my turn now! I shall use my crown attack!" Peach cheered. She took off her crown and threw it at the eel, but it didn't do any damage at all.

"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" The audience yelled.

"Wow. Way to go Peach, that was a COMPLETE waste of a turn!" Dixie scowled. "Let me show you how it's done! I shall use my hair whip attack!"

Dixie ran up to the eel and started whacking it in the face with her hair a few times. Each time she hit him, it only caused 1 damage but it was better than nothing.

Dixie only managed to do it only 7 times before she got tired and walked back to the group.

"Man, hair whipping sure gets you tired out easily! How the hell does Willow Smith do it!?"

"Good going Dixie! Now it's my turn! I'm going to use my egg attack!" Yoshi said and he 'pooped' out an egg, picked it up, and threw it out at the eel. It only did 2 damage.

"Um, I thought you had to eat something in order to poop out an egg?" Waluigi asked.

"Oh no, I just really needed to go #2 so it was the perfect timing actually." Yoshi clarified. Everyone had grossed out looks.

"Wait a second...so your 'poop' is actually just eggs!? That is so weird!" Toadette freaked out.

"Okay okay, let's stop talking about this and get a move on with the battle! You're up next, Toad!" Peach said.

"Um...okay...I...I can do this!" Toad said, shaking with nervousness. He ran up to the eel, smacked him, and ran back screaming for his life. The crowd booed him.

"Is that the best you can do? You didn't even inflict any damage! Watch how a real pro does it!" Waluigi laughed and leaped toward the eel. He did a power kick right to the chin with his pointy, elf-like shoes. He caused 3 damage. The crowd cheered.

"Grrr, show off!" Toad pouted.

"Wow, nice job Waluigi! That was actually pretty decent of you." Rosalina complimented.

"Hmph. It was nothing." Waluigi replied with a wink.

"Uhhh, hey Rosalina! Check out this move!" DK directed her attention over to him. He ran up to the eel and did his Giant Punch move from the Super Smash Bros. games to the head, which made 4 damage. The crowd cheered even louder this time.

"Grrr, show off!" Waluigi pouted.

Daisy came back on the stage, her hair all messy. "Man, that Shy Guy knows how to fight! I think he even tried to steal my bra! Anyways, I'm going next!" She sped over to the eel, jumped up high in the air, and stomped the eel between the eyes with her heel. She did 2 damage and the crowd cheered once again.

"Oh wow, great job Maisy!" Luigi said as he dizzily tried to stand himself up.

"Um, my name isn't Maisy, Luigi...it's DAISY!" She said.

"Why yes, I DO love cream puffs!" Luigi randomly spoke to her and fell back down again. Daisy shook her head and pointed at Toadette. "Come on girl you're up!"

"Hmm, I'll look through my items bag, if I can. Let's see what I have here...mushroom...mushroom...mushroom...mushroom.. .mushroom...mushroom...mushroom...mushroom...mushr oom...and a dried shroom?" Toadette said outloud as she checked her item options.

"Seriously!? All you have are health items? What a waste!" Birdo yelled while smacking her forehead.

"You're right Birdo, I need to get rid of one so I can save room for an attack item. I shall use the dried shroom on Luigi because he's injured!" Toadette proudly announced. She went over to his knocked out body, opened his mouth and inserted the dried shroom into it. Luigi slowly chewed the item and his eyes suddenly popped open. He stood up and hacked on the dried shroom, eventually spitting some of it out.

"YUCK! WHAT ON EARTH WAS THAT!?" The green man shouted.

"Excellent! Luigi is fully healed again! Party over here!" Toadette cheered and did a little dance.

"Okay, unlike a few other people who have wasted their turn, I will not! I call this attack...BOOMERANG BOW!" Birdo shouted, grabbing her ribbon and threw it like a frisbee at the eel. It hit the enemy, but it did no damage and the ribbon came back to Birdo. The crowd booed her and someone even threw a bottle of Windex at her.

"Wow Birdo, you definitely showed him!" Dixie laughed.

"GRRRR, SHUT UP DIXIE! This thing obviously isn't powerful as it was before! I'll have you know that I defeated Blooper once with the ribbon attack a few years ago in a wrestling tournament!" Birdo got in the monkey girl's face.

"Since when do you wrestle?" Yoshi asked as he turned to her.

"Since pet rocks became unpopular. NEXT PERSON!" Birdo yelled yet again.

"Like, okay, I'm going to use the most basic and unoriginal move ever created...THE ULTIMATE HEADBONK ATTACK!" Goombella said. She ran over to the eel and headbonked it twice, but she did no damage to it, making the crowd boo her. "HUH!? But, but, but, I thought I had an ultra upgrade from last time!"

"CLEARLY the 'upgrade' wore off. Next person!" Birdo said, pushing Goombella to the back.

"Alright everyone step back, this is going to be messy!" Fire Bro excitedly said as he laid on the ground with his shell down. He suddenly started spinning faster and faster until he zoomed off towards the eel. However, he completely missed the eel and crashed into a bunch of stage props on the other side.

"Wow. Talk about anti-climatic. Who hasn't gone yet?" Birdo asked, looking toward the others.

"Um...me." Rosalina shyly spoke. "But, I don't even know what attack I could do. Even if I did, I'm not even sure if I could cause damage..."

"Rosalina, just do what you can, okay? Even if you don't do any damage, it will be alright, at least you tried." DK said with a nice smile.

"No, it won't be alright! We're gonna die if we don't beat that thing this second!" Toadette freaked out.

"Oh calm down, Toadette. He'll only give us 5 points of damage if Rosalina can't do the damage." Birdo reassured.

"Alright...here goes nothing..." Rosalina sighed, preparing for the worst. She walked up to the eel and got out her wand. She whacked the eel in the head with it, causing no damage whatsoever.

"Oh...I'm so ashamed!" Rosalina buried her face in her hands in embarrassment.

"Don't be so down on yourself, girl. At least we can get him for sure after he attacks." Daisy comforted the space queen.

The eel roared and gave a big chomp at the group, causing everyone to lose 5 points of health.

"OWWWWWWWWWWW! VAMPIRE TEETH MUCH!?" Dixie yelped.

"Ewww, I think I got seaweed on me! I am SO taking a three hour shower when we get back to Mushroom Corps!" Yoshi complained.

"Just great, he tore a chunk of my hair out! DK, you're the strongest here so beat that biatch this second!" Daisy demanded.

DK did his Giant Punch move once again, and the eel was finally defeated, making everyone in the crowd cheer for the group.

"Woot! We totally did it! And we also got 20 star points!" Goombella cheered.

"What the hell do we need those for? We aren't in a paper mario game! Now take us back to the underwater area, whoever brought us here!" Daisy shouted to the air.

The curtains dropped yet again, and the scenery changed to how it was before. The eel had disappeared and the star was right there for everyone to grab. As soon as they all touched it, they got warped out of Jolly Roger Bay and back into the castle.

EOC.

So, the group is obviously having a hard time starting their mission on the first world, even though the first world is suppose to be the easiest world out of them all! Will they ever succeed in finding the gem? Will Peach's idiotic actions ever change? How much more can everyone handle Fire Bro's insanity? Find out next time!