Chapter 23: The Snowman's Big Head
The now complete quartet walked upstairs to the second floor.
"So...Blue Toad, I was just wondering, where's Green Toad? Isn't he always with you?" said Toad.
"You mean that super happy camper? I had forced him to do my work like cleaning my house and all that craze." Blue Toad said. "All he does is do a happy dance outside, frolic around in the garden, and tell funny jokes. He did help me cheer up when I was down in the dumps. But he's still a fun-guy. That's all I can say about him."
"Have you tried chasing that Green Toad around?" Toadette said.
"Yeah, I have. And I do enjoy chasing him around when I make him happy. What else do I do with him? Tickle him?" Blue Toad said.
"You sure he doesn't have any other interests?" Toad asked.
"Well...he does enjoy hanging around with his friends all the time. He jumps on Koopa shells, you know, the kind of things that give you 1-up mushrooms every time you stomp on them?" Blue Toad continued on. "Well, when we were little, whenever we saw a green Koopa in a backyard, we always played around with his Koopa Shell. The Koopa didn't like it though. Neither did the other Koopas. He wanted to have his green shell back, but we kept on playing with it. Until then, he started to run away, crying, all because of us playing with Koopa Shells. We even played Shell Smash with a ton of Koopa Shells. But I seem to be getting a little too off-topic about Green Toad."
"Err...I don't know if I'd want a ride on the Koopa Kart." Yellow Toad said.
"You sure had a lot of fun hanging around Green Toad, did you?" Toad said. "I like to hang around with Yellow Toad too. Right, Yellow?"
"Of course! You're my best buddy!" Yellow Toad said to Toad.
"Now can we get some stars now? I don't wait Bowser to make us do his work." Blue Toad said.
They walked back into the mirror room where Blue Toad's key was found. Toad began to notice that something was off. He looked closely and saw that there was a painting in the reflection, but not on their side.
"Guys, follow me." Toad said.
They noticed Toad walking towards the wall.
"Gee, what's he doing, Blue?" Toadette asked.
"Probably looking at the wall." Blue Toad said.
Toad disappeared into the wall with a wavy effect.
"How did he know that was there?" Yellow Toad said.
"I guess I'm not the only one to have a sense of suspicion." Toadette said.
They jumped into the wall, heading to Snowman's Land.
They spawned at the bottom of a snowy mountain.
"EEEE! Not another snowy place!" Toadette cried.
"Don't worry, Toadette! I'm sure this is the last one we'll come across, for now." Toad said.
"Oh, oh, I think I see light from the star on top of that GIGANTIC snowman! How are we going to get up there?" Yellow Toad said.
"There must be some sort of entrance. Follow me!" Toad said.
The gang walked around the snowman's base to reach an area with a few platforms in a shallow pond as well as an ice block shooter.
"There it is!" Yellow Toad said. "The entrance up the mountain! Here goes nothing."
Yellow Toad started to run towards the entrance.
"Uh, Yellow? I wouldn't go there if I were you." Toad said.
But it was too late. The ice block shooter shot a wall of ice that pushed Yellow Toad away.
"Waaaaah!" Yellow Toad cried.
"Yellow!" Toad said.
The ice block pushed Yellow Toad into the very cold water. Yellow Toad walked out of the water completely blue and shivering like crazy.
"Are you okay, Yellow?!" Toad said.
"S-s-s-so c-c-c-cold..." Yellow Toad was cold.
Toad hugs Yellow Toad to warm him up, crying a little.
"It's okay. Everything's gonna be just fine." Toad said.
"Poor little guy...Lesson is: Don't Touch Water Here!" Toadette said.
"Man, it IS cold!" Blue Toad said.
Soon Yellow Toad was back to normal.
"Thanks! But how are we gonna get past that ice shooter?" Toad said.
"By using our penguin suits?" Toadette asked.
"Uh...only one out of the four of us can do that, Toadette." Yellow Toad said.
"Aw..." Toadette said.
"Wait, I know!" Yellow Toad had an idea. He attempted the entrance run again, but this time jumped over one block, did a slightly higher jump over the second, and did a really high jump with a flip over the third, and getting to the top of the ice block shooter.
"Nice one!" Toad cheered.
Toad did the same triple jump move and got on top as well.
"Okay, Toadette, your turn." Toad said.
"Wish me luck." Toadette said.
Toadette started running, but she only had to jump over one block of ice before back flipping on top of the ice shooter.
"C'mon, Blue!" Toadette said.
"Watch and learn." Blue Toad said.
Blue Toad got out his penguin suit, and slid on a bunch of ice (which is something penguins would do) then back dipped to the rest of the gang.
"Heh. How did you like that?" Blue Toad said.
They continued up a hill until reaching a ledge they slowly creeped up against, which led them to a platform in front of the snowman's head.
"We're almost there, everybody! I can see the starlight from here." Toadette told the three Toads.
But...unexpectedly, the snowman started to talk.
"Hey, who's there! What's climbing on me? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it drops of pouring rain? Whatever it is, I think it's bugging me and giving me pain! I think I'm going to blow it away!" The giant snowman said.
The snowman blew the four Toads all away, and their hats flew off and landed on the snow.
Toad woke up in the snow.
"What happened?" Toad groaned.
Toad looked at his hair, and realized it only had three strands on it.
"Aah! I've got no hat!" Toad screamed. "This is not happening! This is not happening! I must be having a nightmare!"
Yellow Toad got up too, but he didn't have a hat on either.
"Oh..dear.." Yellow Toad said.
"Yellow, what happened to your hat?" Toad said.
"Huh, my hat? My hat must've been blown away by the wind that the snowman blew on." Yellow Toad said.
"It blew our own hats away! How could this happen?" Toad said.
"Okay, if we two Toads don't have hats, then who's that other Toad right there?" Yellow Toad said.
Blue Toad looked in a mirror. Blue Toad didn't have a hat either!
"Wha-wha-what's happening?!" Blue Toad screamed.
"I don't know, Blue! It looks like we've gone hatless!" Toad said.
"Hey! Are you guys okay?" Toadette said.
"Toadette! Hey, how come you don't have a hat on?" Toad said.
"My hat?" Toadette said. "My hat with two mushroom braids on it?"
"Yeah, that hat." Yellow Toad said.
"Better take a look." Blue Toad told Toadette.
Toadette tossed Blue Toad the mirror, and she shrieked. Her hair was purple and it had three ribbons on them, looking like pigtails.
"WAAH! How come I have hair, and you guys don't?" Toadette said.
"We don't know why, but we're all hatless!" Toad said.
"Hatless? Well, I do love my hairstyle though." Toadette said, stroking her hair. "Okay, we'll figure this out, boys. We'll just figure out where our mushroom caps are so we can see who's who."
They started looking for their own mushroom caps.
"Not my cap. That's Toad's cap!" Toadette said, seeing Toad's cap in the snow. "Where did I leave mine at?" Just then, Toadette found it. Her own pink mushroom hat, with two mushroom braids, and the third braid having white spots. "I found it! After all, I wouldn't be who I am without my cap!" Toadette said.
The three Toads found their own mushroom hats too.
"That was strange." Yellow Toad said. "I thought for a second somebody wouldn't recognize us without hats."
"Let's move on...we gotta find a way to get past that snowman." Toad said.
"We'll probably need something heavier than me to get past, like a penguin." Blue Toad said.
"How are we going to get the penguin to do that?" Yellow Toad said.
Toadette looked up at the summit and noticed a penguin (who was already there) at the summit that wasn't getting blown off.
One long climb later...
"You mind if we hitch a ride on you? We really need the star on top of the snowman, yet it keeps blowing us away, making us lose our hats." Toadette said to the penguin.
"Sure thing." the penguin said.
They hopped on the penguin's head and surely enough they were not blown away! They hopped off the penguin.
"Thank you!" Toad said.
"No problem!" the penguin said.
They walked up to the top and claimed their prize, like a nice shiny Power Star!