Chapter 26: Make Wiggler Squirm

Man, we're nearing the finale. Only three major areas left before the final boss! Are you guys excited? I know I am!

"Yeah!" Toad said.

"I'm a bit shy..." Yellow Toad said, shyly.

"I'd love to teach him a lesson a third time." Toadette said.

"We've seen this before over twenty years ago. Can I please leave now?" Blue Toad said.

"Oh, don't be so modest, Blue." I said. "I've got a special surprise for the final battle!"

"Whoa! Sounds good!" Toad said.

"Um...why are you saying that?" Yellow Toad asked.

"You'll see." I said.

The quartet jumped out of the Tall Tall Mountain painting.

"Alright, where to now?" Toad said.

"I saw another door. Maybe there's just one more painting I saw." Yellow Toad said.

"You lead the way then." Toad said.

Yellow Toad led them to another door. When they walked in, they saw a picture of two Goombas. One was in foreground, but it looked terrified of a bigger one in the background.

"What is this? Goomba Land?" Blue Toad said.

"Only one way to find out!" Toad said.

They try to jump into the painting, but instead they got hit in the head.

"OW!"

"What on earth?" Toad said.

Yellow Toad looked to the left and saw another painting that looked exactly the same except it seemed to be in a hallway that got smaller as you got closer, giving off the illusion to make it appear bigger when it is actually smaller. This is called forced perspective.

"Guys, look!" Yellow Toad said.

They noticed the other painting, but then Toad saw another painting with the exact opposite effect. It appeared the same size but it was in a hallway that got larger as you got closer so it's actually bigger. (Forced perspective again)

"Bowser must've learned about some optical illusions. Which one of these is the real one?" Toad said.

"We'll go to the large one." Toadette said.

"Suit yourself. I'm gonna go to the small one." Toad said, as he entered the small painting with no problem at all. But Yellow Toad, Blue Toad, and Toadette had to walk a bit of a distance to get to the large one.

Tiny Huge Island

"We're here! Yay! Huh! What happened to my voice?!" Tiny Yellow Toad said.

"My raspy voice is gone, too!" said Tiny Blue Toad.

"We sound like chipmunks from Alvin!" Tiny Toadette said.

Suddenly, they heard loud footsteps behind them. When they looked back, they saw Goombas. But they were so huge. About the size of the room they were just in. The three Toads screamed in terror realizing that they were shrunken down, until an even bigger shoe crushed the Goombas. They looked up and saw a giant that looked like it came right out of a fairy tale. The giant looked down at them, and picked them up. Once they were at the giant's eye level, they were shocked to see it was Toad, but more huge.

"Guys, what happened to you? Why are you so tiny?" Huge Toad said.

"What happened to us? What happened to you?!" Tiny Yellow Toad said.

"You're huge!" Tiny Toadette said.

"Well, I knew that mega mushroom would work on you, Toad!" Tiny Blue Toad said.

"Wait a minute, if I'm big, and you're small...I guess those paintings were more than just an illusion. This kinda reminds me of the Land of the Giants. But don't worry, I'm sure this won't cause too many problems. Let's just find the star, shall we?" Huge Toad said.

"But how? You're too big to get into that hole in the wall." Tiny Yellow Toad told Huge Toad.

"Well, I'll find another way. Just meet me at the summit of this island." Huge Toad told the tiny Yellow Toad.

"Gotcha!" Tiny Yellow Toad said.

The huge Toad put them down and they separated. The tiny Toads entered the hole that led them to a lake (that would just look like a pond to the huge Toad). After swimming across it, they entered a cliff side with lots of wind that almost pulled them off a few times. They then entered another area with rolling balls. Meanwhile huge Toad swam over another pond that would be a lake to the others and made a jump that would be impossible for the other three to make to get to the cliffside, where he met up with the others.

"Here I am!" Huge Toad said.

"Whoa! You scared us!" Tiny Yellow Toad said.

"Sorry about that. Now, how about I carry you guys the rest of the way?" Huge Toad said.

"Sounds good." Tiny Yellow Toad said.

Huge Toad simply climbed up steps that the tiny Toads would otherwise struggle on. Then they reached the summit of the mountain. There was a shallow body of water that seemed like just a puddle to huge Toad. He saw the light from the star through some small cracks so Huge Toad punched into the pool, causing water to leak into the mountain. The four Toads heard someone scream in there.

"Did we just hear someone screaming?" Huge Toad said.

"Let's go check." Tiny Yellow Toad said.

The tiny Toads fell into the crack while Huge Toad waited outside. They landed on a ceiling gate with a large Wiggler soaking wet.

"Whaa! You've flooded my house! Why?! Just look at this mess! What am I going to do now?!" Wiggler said.

"We're so sorry! It was an accident...my buddy thought there was something we needed in here and-" Tiny Yellow Toad said.

"You think I'd forgive you?! Look what you made me do! The ceiling is ruined, the floor is soaked...and it makes me so MAD!" Wiggler said.

"Calm down! We'll help you fix it." Tiny Toadette said.

"NO! Reckless people like you just made it worse! Everything's been going wrong ever since I got this Star!" Wiggler said as he took out his power star which was big in comparison to Blue Toad, Yellow Toad, and Toadette, but small compared to Toad. "It's so shiny...but it will make me feel strange."

"Why don't you give it to us so your problems can go away?" Tiny Yellow Toad said.

"You heard the small yellow guy! Hand it over and we won't hurt you." Tiny Blue Toad said.

"What? After what you did to my home?! No way! The only thing you're gonna get is a trampling!" Wiggler said, while trying to hold back his rage. He then ran towards the trio, but Yellow Toad just jumped on his head.

"Ugh! I can't take this anymore! First you get me all wet, then you stomp on me! Now I'm very mad! Grrrrrrr!" Wiggler said, as he started to run around the arena a little faster, but Toadette stomped on his head a second time.

"Hey! Cut it out! That's the second time you nailed me!" Wiggler said as he couldn't hold back his rage anymore. The flower on his head disintegrated, his yellow skin turned red, and his cute little face turned into RAGE!

"NOW YOU'RE REALLY ASKING FOR IT! LINGUINE BREATH!" Wiggler said. Wiggler's nose breathed out so hard it sounded like a choo-choo train, then started to charge at the three heroic Toads like an angry bull. Luckily, Blue Toad finished him off by punching him in the face, turning him back to normal.

"Owch! Uncle, uncle! Okay, I give in! Take the star!" Wiggler said as he inhaled and exhaled calmly and then smiled. "Whew. I feel much better now. I don't really need it anymore anyways. I can see the stars through my ceiling at night. They make me feel so peaceful."

"Sorry about the mess we made..." Toadette said to Wiggler.

"It's alright. Accidents happen. Please, come back and visit anytime." Wiggler said as he shrunk down and climbed through a hole, leaving the star behind.

"Aww. He wasn't so bad! He was just angry. I still feel sorry about doing this to his home." Tiny Yellow Toad said.

"At least we got the star and that's what matters." Tiny Blue Toad said.

"Hey! You okay down there?" Huge Toad said.

"We're fine, Toad. We just got the star!" Tiny Yellow Toad said.

"Great! Now throw it up to me!" Huge Toad said.

The tiny Toads struggled at first but then used their strength to hoist it up to Toad who caught it with just two fingers.