The group was back in the foyer of Peach's castle.

"Alright Peach, think, you MUST know where the painting to Wet-Dry World is considering you live here and know the place better than we do." DK said.

Peach rubbed her chin and thought hard. "Hmm...well...it's not on this floor obviously. I don't think it's in the basement...umm, maybe the second floor?"

"Do you know where exactly on the second floor it is?" Birdo asked, wanting confirmation.

"What do I look like, Einstein!? I can't remember every single thing about this place!" Peach argued.

"Oh for crying out loud, Peach! You've lived in this place your entire life so you should know the place's layout better than all of us here combined!" Waluigi angrily yelled at her.

"Stop yelling at me! You're lowering my self-esteem!" Peach cried.

"Okay guys, enough. Let's just get to the second floor and we can go from there, alright?" Daisy asked, hoping the tension would turn down. They all ran up the stairs, entered through a set of double doors, ran up another set of stairs, and entered through another door. They were met with a circular, narrow hallway that had numerous paintings on the wall.

"Alright, here are the paintings! We just need to look for the one that probably fits the most with Wet-Dry World." DK said and everyone started to slowly walk down the hallway, checking out each painting they came by.

"God, these paintings are so ugly. Who could've made them? It wasn't you Peach, was it?" Waluigi critiqued.

"Nope. They were made by some guy named Smitty Werberjagermanjensen and he sold it to me for free because he told me that he had nightmares that a bunch of goombas would jump out of the paintings and eat him in his sleep." Peach answered.

"Wow, that name sounds REALLY familiar. I wonder where I've heard it from before? From a cartoon, maybe?" Yoshi wondered out loud.

"AHA! I've found the painting to Wet-Dry World!" Fire Bro happily announced. He jumped up to the painting, only to hit his head on it and fall back.

"Fire Bro...that's a painting of a CLOUD! Are you freaking kidding me right now? How stupid can you possibly get!? MAN, I NEED AN ASPIRIN!" Birdo raged and stomped the ground.

"Chill out sister. I think that's the painting right there." Dixie pointed to a painting that had a blue spider-looking thing on it that was standing on top of water.

"Oh yes! This is the painting that leads to Wet-Dry World! THANK THE STARS AND THE GODS OF RAIN!" Toad cheered.

"Alright you guys, you all ready? Remember that we have to stick together throughout all of this so we can get the world done easier." DK speeched to everyone else. They all jumped at the same time and successfully went through the painting.

Everyone screamed as they all landed on some tall boardwalk that was barely above the water. The group looked all around them and saw that there were these huge gray walls towering over them. In front of them and to the right was a large and tall brick architecture that had four 'floors' to it. There was another brick architecture straight ahead of them that didn't have any floors to it, except up on the top. There was also some platforms floating in mid-air. Lastly, to the right of them was a huge, black-colored caged square wall that behind it, looked like it had a secret passage that led to somewhere else.

"Oh sweet, another water level! You know I can't help but really feel like a pirate right now. YAR HAR FIDDLE-DEE-DEE BEING A PIRATE IS ALRIGHT WITH ME, DO WHAT YOU WANT CAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE, YOU ARE A PIRATE!" Fire Bro sang and jumped around everywhere.

"There's no time for that now! Okay, if I remember correctly there's a switch that lowers down the water level so we can all walk on the ground instead of having to swim everywhere." Daisy explained to the group.

"Do we even have any idea where the gem could be at anyways? There doesn't seem to be an indication of where it will be located at..." Toadette pointed out.

"Hmm. The gem is definitely here. I can feel its special energy coming to me all at once...although, it's a bit weak. Maybe we should move around the area a bit more so I can see if I get a bigger reading?" Rosalina suggested.

"Sounds good to me! Alright, you guys stay here while I find the switch to lower the water level." Daisy said and then dove in to the water.

"Man, she is sooooo brave. I'm so glad I have her as a girlfriend! Did you guys know that we already named our future kids that we're going to have? Only problem is, is that Daisy wants 2 kids, while I want 7! We always get into an argument whenever that topic comes up for some reason..." Luigi bragged.

"Oh gee I wonder why she gets just SO worked up over that topic!? It is definitely a mystery!" Waluigi said in sarcasm.

Fire Bro hopped on Yoshi's back. "Come on you guys, sing the pirate song with me! YAR HAR FIDDLE-DEE-DEE! IF YOU LOVE TO SAIL THE SEA, YOU ARE A PIRATE!"

"Will you shut your mouth already? God, do your own parents even like you!?" Birdo angrily asked.

"Eh, probably not. I was adopted like 5 times so I think that explains it. THE MORE YOU KNOW!" The psycho informed.

"Wow, you're definitely lighter than Mario was! Yeah, about 100 pounds lighter! Someone needs to tell Mario to lay off the spaghetti already!" Yoshi said.

"AND the mushrooms, don't forget about the mushrooms! But yeah, he has definitely let himself go in the past few months. But he's still in better shape than a certain yellow man who's obsessed with garlic and takes a shower only once a week!" Dixie scowled and smirked at Waluigi.

"You shut your mouth! Wario may be annoying, fat, dumb, smelly, and lazy, but he's my brother and I'm not gonna let some irrelevant monkey chick talk smack about him, considering the fact that Funky Kong made it in Mario Kart Wii over you!" Waluigi insulted. Dixie started to fume at this statement.

"The only reason Funky Kong was chosen over me for Mario Kart Wii is because Nintendo is sexist towards female characters! Seriously, why the hell else do you think there are so many more male main characters than female main characters!? Not to mention, they had the whole 'Birdo wanting to be a boy thing' that happened years ago, they make Peach a constant damsel in distress who can't do crap to save herself, and don't even get me started on the 'HI I'M DAISY!' stuff!"

"Sexist? HA! That's the biggest joke I've heard all day. Please, if you're gonna come up with some bitter excuse to justify your 'reasons' for why you weren't put in Mario Kart Wii, then at least come up with something other than that overdone excuse." Birdo argued.

Dixie sneered at Birdo. "At least I actually look like a girl. You look like one of those drag queens that perform at clubs."

Birdo clenched her fists and teeth. "Do NOT test me, little girl. I can put you in the hospital so fast, your head will spin!"

"Alright alright, that's enough you guys. Let's try to get along here so we can get this mission done quickly, okay?" DK said as he got in the middle of it.

"No! Let them go at it DK! It's been a while since I've seen a cat fight so I need some entertainment!" Waluigi butted in.

"Hey you guys, do my lips look chapped to you?" Peach asked, changing the topic.

They all noticed that the water was suddenly going down. Once the water reached the very bottom ground, they all could see Daisy clearly, who was waving at them.

"Hey you guys! I did it! Woohoo!" She cheered in happiness.

Everyone else carefully got off the tall boardwalk and safely landed on the wet ground, however, Daisy noticed some tension going on with them because of how quiet and serious their faces looked.

"Um, are you guys alright? Did I miss anything important?" She asked in curiosity.

"NO! EVERYTHING IS FINE! NOW LET'S GET A MOVE ON SO WE CAN GET OUT OF THIS STUPID PLACE! Dixie screamed and walked the opposite direction.

"Errr her and Birdo kind of got into it while you were searching for the switch. But I wouldn't worry about it, they'll get over it sooner or later." Luigi said in reassurance.

"Grrrrr! That stupid banana-weaved loser, who the hell does she think she is trying to pull the 'gender' card on me when she is the one that's been screwed over by Nintendo multiple times than anyone else in the series!?" Birdo quietly growled as she stomped by Luigi and Daisy.

"Yeah, they seem to be handling it well..." Daisy said in sarcasm. "Alright everyone, just so we can make this search go faster, let's all split up to cover more ground. We'll meet back at this spot by the black-caged wall in 20 minutes!"

"Split up!? But that's a bad idea! Don't you know what happens when people split up? Murders occur!" Toadette shrieked.

Daisy had a blank expression on her face. "Toadette, this isn't a horror movie. Stop worrying so much. Now come on, let's get a move on people!"

"Aye aye captain! C'mon Yoshi, let's scale that path that leads up to the third floor of this fine brick building!" Fire Bro said in a generic pirate voice. Yoshi did his flutter jump onto a narrow, floating path that connected to the third floor of the brick building.

"Wait, I wanna come too!" Toad cried, making a leap faith to the floating path. He barely reached it and got himself up on it.

Dixie and Toadette jumped up and got onto the first floor of the brick building. All they saw was some type of robotic mover (Author's note: Mariowiki calls them 'Heave Hos') that looked like a large dustpan, a black floating ball, and some block wedged into a space in the wall.

"Well, this certainly can't get any more uninteresting. Let's check out that block, shall we?" Toadette gestured and walked to it. As they walked forward, the floating black ball suddenly let out a flame that floated quickly over to the girls.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! MOVE BACK, GODDAMNIT!" Dixie screamed as she and Toadette evaded the flame, which disappeared into thin air after a few seconds.

"Okay, what the hell was that thing and why did it randomly spout a flame at us!?" Toadette shrieked.

"No idea but we obviously need to be careful around it." Dixie answered. The two tip-toed their way past the black ball.

"Hey Toadette, I have a question for you. Do you honestly think I'm a bitch?" The monkey girl asked. Toadette was a bit surprised by how direct her question was.

"Uhh why do you ask that?" Toadette asked.

"Because I regret a lot of stuff that I've said to people and done recently...I mean, I KNOW I'm not mean-natured but some of the stuff that comes out of my mouth is just stupid or awful sometimes!" Dixie dramatically exclaimed.

"Well...uhh...I don't think you're a bitch, Dixie. It's true, you do say some offensive stuff, but you're definitely not as bad as other people like Wendy Koopa or Pauline..." Toadette admitted.

"Ha. That's true. They ARE pretty mean! But once we all regroup, I'm gonna go apologize to Birdo and Waluigi and start off with a clean slate." Dixie said with a proud look.

"That's the spirit, girl! Holding grudges is soooo high school." Toadette agreed.

"But you ARE in high school though." Dixie said.

The girls reached the block that was wedged in the wall. Since there was no way to pull it out, they decided to push it in to see if something would happen. After a few seconds, the block stopped moving and nothing happened.

"Wow, that was a waste of our time. Come on, let's go down to the ground floor." Toadette gestured. The black ball suddenly let out another flame and it reached Dixie this time.

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! SON OF A FREAKING BITCH! IT BUUUUUUUUUUUUUURNS!" Dixie screamed as she ran all over the place, holding her butt. She accidentally ran onto the Heave Ho machine, and then it flipped Dixie high up in the air, on to the next floor above.

"Aw man, Dixie! Oh well, she'll be fine. I wonder if the water in this place is safe to drink?" Toadette changed the subject and walked off.

On the ground floor, Luigi, Daisy, Peach, Rosalina, DK, Waluigi, Birdo and Goombella were checking every nook and cranny for the gem or any clues that could lead to the gem.

"I honestly don't think there's anything around this area. The gem's aura isn't getting any stronger." Rosalina said with a let down look.

"What is it with you and all these 'auras'? No one ever told me that you were some medium or psychic!" Waluigi spat.

"Well that's not surprising considering you rarely even hang out with me, plus, you don't even like me!" Rosalina replied as she rolled her eyes.

"That's not true, I do like you! You just creep me out a lot." Waluigi confessed, but then covered his mouth after he realized what he said.

"Wait a second...you LIKE ME!? My goodness, even I could not figure that out just by feeling your energies!" Rosalina shrieked in shock.

"I mean, I like you as a friend. Just a friend! Only a friend! Nothing more, nothing less!" Waluigi said as he crossed his arms and looked away from the space queen.

"Friend? What kind of friend has a constant attitude with not only me but with everyone else all the time?" Rosalina raised her eyebrow. Waluigi started to sweat.

"Umm...I...I'm not being serious when I do that! Yeah, I just say that because, well, I dunno! I just do, okay? It's in my genes!" Waluigi answered, still not staring at her.

Rosalina laughed at the poor guy and then walked away. "Whatever you say, Waluigi."

"GAH! GET OFF OF ME YOU CREEPY SPIDER-LOOKING THINGAMAJIG!" Birdo screamed as she wrestled with a blue colored, four-legged enemy that indeed looked similar to a spider called a Skeeter.

"Um, do you need some help there, Birdo?" DK asked as he witnessed her biting into the spider's body.

"No, I can do this myself! Watch me give him an underhook suplex!" Birdo cheered as she did the infamous wrestling move on the poor Skeeter.

DK shrugged. "Fine by me. I'll just watch this oh so fascinating fight."

Birdo continued to struggle with the Skeeter, until she finally ripped off one of its legs, which made the Skeeter squeal in a SUPER high-pitched voice. She then grabbed it by another one of its legs and started smashing the Skeeter into the ground repeatedly until it no longer looked recognizable. DK was in awe by how violent Birdo got.

As Birdo was beating the defenseless creature to death, she was cackling crazily. "MWAHAHAHAHAH! WHO'S YOUR MAMA NOW, BITCH!?"

"Um...right...I'm just gonna back away slowly from all this..." DK said as he slowly tip-toed away from the massacre scene while cringing.

Meanwhile, Goombella walked all the way to the end of the area where the wall was and found a large block that looked like it was randomly put there.

"Hmm, this is, like, CLEARLY not a normal block! I wonder what will happen if I try to move it?" She asked herself and used all her might to move it. She successfully managed to push it forward a few inches, revealing a small hole in the wall. Suddenly, hundreds of tiny Skeeters (which actually DID look more like spiders at that size) of came crawling out of the hole.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! LIKE, OH MY GOD! THAT IS, LIKE, SO TOTALLY GROSS!" Goombella screamed and jumped into Daisy's arms.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEKKKK! DAISY, KILL THOSE THINGS FOR ME! I DON'T WANNA DIE!" Luigi also screamed and jumped into Daisy's arms as well.

"Will you both get off of me!? I can't you carry you both at once! Oh crap...they're getting closer! SOMEONE HELP US FOR PETE'S SAKE!" Daisy shrieked as she danced around the Skeeters/spiders that started to surround the three of them.

"Quick everyone! Hop on this stick I found, it will surely carry us away to safety from those nasty things! Go stick!" Peach cried at the inanimate object.

"Never fear, Donkey Kong is here!" DK announced as he popped up out of nowhere. He lunged into the crowd of tiny Skeeters/spiders. A few seconds later, and DK was seen running and screaming for his life as all the Skeeters/spiders attached themselves to the poor ape.

Meanwhile, Dixie got up and rubbed her head in slight pain. She looked around and saw that she was on the second floor of the brick building.

"Uggghhh...I'm starting to think that coming on this mission maybe wasn't such a good idea..." Dixie said in regret. The sound of a running machine was heard to her and it was getting louder with each second that passed by.

Dixie looked behind her and saw the Heave Ho coming straight for her.

"Oh no...NOT AGAIN!" The monkey girl screamed and she was suddenly flipped in the air and landed on the next floor above.

Meanwhile, again, Yoshi, Fire Bro, and Toad were checking out the third floor of the brick building.

"Argh mateys! I don't see any treasure around here! Perhaps we should backtrack and savage the ground with some kind of shovel?" Fire Bro suggested, still using his pirate voice and still riding on Yoshi.

"Where the heck would we get a shovel from, though? In case you haven't noticed, there's nothing here that we could even use to dig up stuff!" Toad pointed out.

"What about that machine thing over there? He looks like a dust pan. I shall call him Mr. Dustpan!" Fire Bro said as she pointed to the Heave Ho.

"Do you think I'd be able to eat that thing whole? I've always wondered what it was like to eat a machine. Do you think it would taste fruity?" Yoshi asked in curiosity.

"Why would a machine taste fruity!? If anything, it would taste metallic or, you know, just plain awful!" Toad scowled.

"Hey, you only live once!" Yoshi replied and ran over to the 'Dustpan'.

"Oh god...not THAT meme again!" Toad face-palmed and ran to Yoshi.

Yoshi let out his super long tongue and it grabbed the Heave Ho/Dustpan, and then Yoshi swallowed it whole.

"Hmm...you're right, Toad. It does taste metallic! Still, it's good enough for an afternoon snack." Yoshi said, being satisfied with the enemy anyways. Suddenly, a bunch of stomach gurgling and farting noises were heard.

"Um, are you okay dude!?" Toad said as he backed away.

"Uhhhh I don't think I should've ate Mr. Dustpan!" Yoshi shrieked as the bodily noises got even louder.

"Oh crap, he's about to blow! EVACUATE THE AREA!" Fire Bro screamed as he jumped off of Yoshi and hid away with Toad.

While this was happening, Dixie got up and rubbed her head again.

"Ugh, okay, I am NEVER going to buy another dust pan for as long as I live!" She raged and fixed her hair.

"Errrrrrrrggggggggghhhh...OH!" Yoshi squealed as the hugest egg anyone has ever seen popped out of him and hit Dixie. Both the egg and Dixie were flung to the wall on the other side of the area, and then they fell to the ground floor.

"Yowch...yeah, I'm definitely gonna be in pain for the next hour..." Yoshi cried as he fell to the floor.

"Wow that was totally, completely, undeniably insane dude! You have gotta do that again!" Fire Bro cheered.

"NO! Please, don't do it again! That actually looks like it hurts badly. I mean, just imagine a huge egg trying to squeeze out of your...EWWWWW! I DON'T EVEN WANT TO THINK ABOUT IT!" Toad said, grossing himself out.

"Welp there's nothing else of importance here. Let's check out the floor above us!" Fire Bro said as he got Yoshi up and got on his back again, along with Toad. Yoshi tried his hardest to flutter jump to the next floor because of his pain, but he made it anyways.

"Woooooow, we're all the way at the top! I think I can see Rome from here!" Toad said in amazement. (Fun Fact: It is said that the background to Wet-Dry World bares a resemblance to Rome)

"Eh, looks more like Greece to me." Yoshi disagreed.

"You're both wrong! It is OBVIOUSLY Atlantis and I should know this considering I've been there before!" Fire Bro clearly lied.

"Being there in your dreams doesn't count you loon! GOSH!" Toad yelled as he got off Yoshi.

"Woah, what is that huge purple thing over there?" Yoshi asked as he pointed to their right. They all saw what looked like a purple bob-omb with red boxing gloves, a red orb on top of their head, and gray arms, and it was moving around on some magnetic tip attached to its back.

"Ooh ooh, I know what that is! It's called a Chuckya, and you defeat it by grabbing him from behind and throwing him as far as you can!" Toad informed.

"Oh my gosh, I think I can totally defeat him! Watch and learn, kiddies!" Fire Bro said as he ran to the Chuckya. He got behind the enemy, and successfully hauled him up.

"Nice going, dude! Now all you need to do is throw him!" Yoshi called out.

Fire Bro did as he said and threw the Chuckya right at Yoshi and Toad, and it landed on the both of them, which didn't destroy the enemy.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH! I CAN'T BREATHE!" Toad screamed as he was being suffocated by the heavy enemy.

"FIRE BRO, WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT FOR!?" Yoshi yelled as he popped his head out from under the Chuckya.

"What? You told me to throw him!" Fire Bro remarked.

"Yeah, but not on US, doofus!" Yoshi spat. The Chuckya got up and grabbed both Toad and Yoshi, and hurled them away. They crashed into the boardwalk they started the world on, which made the entire boardwalk crumble down to the ground.

"YOU BIG MEANIE! How dare you hurt my friends!?" Fire Bro growled and picked up the Chuckya again and threw him across the area.

Meanwhile, Dixie picked herself up and breathed in and out heavily due to how exhausted and in pain she was.

"I can't believe I've already gone through so much crap! This kind of stuff doesn't happen in the very first world!" She complained while fixing her hair. She then noticed a shadow on her that was getting bigger and bigger by the second. She looked up and saw the Chuckya landing straight for her.

"OH SHI-"

CRASH!

EOC.

Yeah, Dixie got the worse end of the stick in this chapter. XD Next chapter will have the group figuring where the gem likely is, but, naturally, they face unexpected trouble on the way and they meet a familiar enemy that they all despise. Who do you think it is?