Far off in the distant freezing Iced Land, Double D landed in the snow. "Iced Land...the first thing I saw when I came here so many weeks ago...ironically, it may also be the last thing I see."

Kamek, who had also been sent there, popped his head out of the snow. "I should have known not to trust that guy!"

"Well," shrugged Double D, "any of us could have told you that. It's common sense, my good Kamek. Of course, I was moronic enough to trust you back in the dungeon, but that's another..."

"Enough!"shouted Kamek. "I may be fired, but I can at least finish you!" Kamek ran for Double D with his wand extended, when a Piranha Plant came out of a pipe and ate the MagiKoopa in a second.

Double D stared in shock. "That's partly comforting and partly unnerving."

Suddenly, a white puffy creature skated over. Double D recognized him. "Flurry! Lemmy's pet snowman, an enemy who appeared in 'Super Mario Brothers 2!' Actually, in Japan it's called 'Super Mario USA,' because it's actually a..."

Flurry shoved Double D. "I get it," said Double D, "you want me to stop talking. Okay, Flurry...you can stop pushing me now...oh dear." Double D realized that he was being pushed towards a ledge which dropped into a freezing ocean. "The Koopas sent you, didn't they? Fine...push away. I have nothing left."

Double D was shoved over the edge. However, he landed on the jacket-blimp, driven by Ed.

"Nothing? I am Ed!"

"Ed!" cried Double D. "Oh, I'm so relieved!"

Flurry saw this and accidently slipped off the edge, plunging into the icy water.

"Well," said Double D, watching him sink, "I think we can skip saving him, seeing as sub-zero water temperatures won't affect someone made out of frozen water."

Ed nodded. "He reminds me of the killer snowmen in 'Death-sicle 3: The Miniseries.'"

"I missed you, Ed. Hurry! We must get back to camp! I have a feeling everyone needs our help..."

They found a warp pipe on a nearby ledge and jumped in. The two emerged out of a book in the camp's main room, only to duck back in as two Hammer Bros. walked by.

"Hammer Bros?" whispered Double D. "Aside from them, the room's empty! Bowser's obviously been here!"

"Body Snatchers!" agreed Ed.

"We'd better sneak by them and do a quick search for anyone," advised Double D. They darted by the Hammer Bros. when they weren't looking and opened up the door of a storage closet to see Calvin, Hobbes, Eddy, Jason and Marcus inside.

"Close the door, will ya?" cried Calvin. "Those Koopas are looking for us!"

"There they are!" shouted one of the Hammer Bros. "Get them!"

Calvin sighed and calmly stomped on the two of them.

"Bowser's captured everyone but us," explained Hobbes. "They're in his castle."

"Why are you telling him this!" cried Eddy. "He's deserted us!"

Jason looked guilty. "Uh, actually, we were thinking about this."

"It's more like we've deserted HIM," nodded Marcus.

"Well," glared Eddy, "asking Nazz out was a bad move."

Double D narrowed his eyes. "For whom, might I ask?"

Eddy thought for a few seconds. "Uh...darn it."

"Look," said Double D, "I honestly apologize for everything! But all the kids and the Hitchhiking...ghost-genie-hybids...are in trouble! They need us!"

Jason jumped up. "Yeah! Let's go risk our lives again!"

"If they don't thank us for this..." grumbled Calvin as they ran to the Mario books.

"Isn't this great, Double D?" grinned Ed.

Double D jumped in. "Indeed! High adventure!"

Sorry about how short the chapter was, but I want the climactic fight to be its' own chapter.