I'll say this in advance. If you spot many errors or crap in this chapter, well... haha, whatever. I don't got no excuse. (Yeah, real professional, me.)

And no, I'm not too serious with this story. I don't give enough thoughts about word choice and plot line planning for this story. Hm.

"Okay, enough UNO," Bowsette said as she packed her cards. "We've been playing for hours, I'm surprised those blasted plumbers haven't gotten here yet."

"To be fair, the story's skipping their adventure scenes but realistically it would still definitely take hours or days to travel through a huge region-like area," Petal the Pink Yoshiette said.

"True, true."

Queen Booette frowned. "Wait, you dolt. We haven't even decided on how to ambush those creeps!"

The blonde rolled her eyes. "Like I said, we're not setting up an ambush. That's in poor taste, and we need a proper final battle after a long journey."

Her most competent ally groaned. "This is why you never succeed..." she muttered.

"Anyways. That reminded me... who should I put as the bosses of Layer-Cake Desert?" Bowsette asked.

"...bosses of what?" Queen Booette asked.

"Layer-Cake Desert."

"...what the flippin' hell is that!?"

Chompie the Chain Chompette scratched her head. "I think, uh... it's the name of this area, the second world, isn't it?"

"That's right," Bowsette said. "Come on, Boobie. Just because we've got too many area names, doesn't mean we can go around forgettin' them. Right, girls?" she asked the two princesses, who were still tied up and unamusedly glaring at the villains.

Daisy raised an eyebrow. "Boobie?"

"Well, I figured calling her Queen Booette wouldn't work since I'm the only amazing queen here, and... oh, yeah, I see the problem."

One day I'm going to overthrow this retard... Queen Booette thought.

"...hey, Bowser," Peach spoke up. "Why don't you, uh, put a super weak enemy in charge? It might make Mario paranoid and catch him off-guard."

Bowsette rubbed her chin. "Hmm... that's a great idea..."

"Oh, you've got to be kidding me..." Queen Booette growled and quickly zipped to the pink dressed princess. "You! Keep your mouth shut!" she yelled and slapped tape onto the princess' mouth. Where she got the tape from, nobody questioned because fiction logic.

Bowsette winced. "Wow, no need to be so harsh on my princess, girl."

Magna the Banzai Billette suddenly opened the door and walked in. "Hey, uh, Queen dude?" she said.

"Yeah?" Bowsette said. "...and call me properly."

"Uh, right. Queen Bowser, we've got a weird injured Pokey wanting to meet you."

Everyone exchanged glances. "...and injured Pokey?" Petal said. "I don't think they should be moving around then..."

Magna scratched her head. "Yeah, same, but this one keeps insisting."

"Uh, sure. Let them in, whatevs," Bowsette said.

She opened the door again, and they saw a Pokey wiggle into the room, but this one had red spikes, was wrapped in bandages and had... uh... something that looked like white mustache on its face.

Everyone exchanged glances again. "...uh, hi," Chompie said.

"Greetings. This one is here to talk to His Majesty."

Bowsette raised her hand. "That's me. It's a her now, thanks to these crowns I've discovered."

The mummified Pokey tilted its body, then seemed to shrug. (The action it did to 'shrug' was basically tilt the other way very slightly as if representing a shoulder. Don't blame it, its body is just too plain to have shoulder control.) "This one sees. Putting that matter asides, this one would like to reintro-"

"Ah, don't bother, I remember you," Bowsette said. "How're you doing, Mummipokey? I haven't seen you since that time I hired you to stop Mario too many years ago."

Peach blinked. "...I still don't recognize it," she whispered.

Daisy stared. "...where'd the tape on your mouth go?"

The nearby Bowser Jr. shrugged. "Beats me. But yeah, I don't recognize the dude either."

Floating to the whispering bunch, Queen Booette gave them an odd look. "Gee whiz, I thought you guys would take better care of your memories."

"Well, it's not like I remember every single Toad in my kingdom," Peach said.

"Nor do I," Daisy said.

Bowsette, having been engaging in a catching up conversation with Mummipokey, turned to them. "Well, I don't blame you chumps, he appeared in only one game, literally. This is Mummipokey, the boss of the second world from that New Super Mario Bros. game on the DS."

"...wow, that is old," Bowser Jr. commented.

Suddenly, Mummipokey tilted its body again, seemingly appearing from behind Bowsette. "...this one recognizes you. Is this one correct in recalling you as His Majesty's son, Sir Bowser Jr.?"

The small reptile's eyes slowly widened. "Uh... yeah. Yeah, that's me." What a respectful dude... he thought.

"This one is relieved to see you are fine." Mummipokey turned back to its boss. "Regardless, this one proposes to assist Your Majesty in his... her new battle against those wretched plumbers again. This time," it said and paused, standing up straight with pride, "this one has done some sufficient training to become much stronger than before!"

Bowsette rubbed her chin. "Hmm... I certainly would appreciate your help, Mummipokey..."

Queen Booette rushed to them. "Wait, wait, stop. Hold on." She turned to the mummified Pokey. "What exactly does your 'training' consist of, here...?"

Mummipokey seemed to, uh, 'shrug'. "This one does straightening stretches and bending exercises to obtain a better grasp on movement and agility. Those plumbers won't be expecting this one's superb increase in battle abilities."

Queen Booette looked back at Bowsette. The Koopa queen shrugged, obviously finding that impressive, somehow.

With another long sigh-that-sounded-more-like-a-groan, clearly tired of her companions' idiocy, Queen Booette lookedback at their guest. "Right. Um. I'm sorry, but to be strictly honest, I'm not sure you'd perform any better than other Pokeys."

"...this one does not understand. An intense amount of training had been done," Mummipokey said after a long pause.

"Well, deary, I think the problem's more with the lack of moves you can pull off as a Pokey..." Peach spoke up from afar.

Mummipokey shook its head. "No, no, this one is rather confident in its greatly improved abilities. There is confidence backing this claim."

"I'm more curious if the plural should be Pokey or Pokeys," Daisy whispered to her partner kidnapped princess.

"Not now, Daisy."

"Fine..."

Queen Booette sighed. "Sorry, buddy. I really doubt you'd make any other difference from other Pokeys. "

"...this one... regrettably... does not know how else to convince you."

"Pft, you guys are idiots," Daisy said and rolled her eyes. Never mind the fact that she's still tied up and being kidnapped, she has the guts to call her kidnappers idiots. Ain't she brave, fellas? "Why don't you use one of those stupid crowns that you got? Oh, right. Got no more, hm?"

Everyone stared at her.

Then Bowsette rubbed her chin. "Hm. Actually... I believe I do have plenty left."

Peach turned to Daisy. "...nice going."

"...whoops?"

Queen Booette turned to the Koopa queen. "Well, what're you waiting for? Stick it on his head!"

"Patience, patience, jeez." Bowsette turned to one of her princessified minions. "Hey, um, one of you. Would you mind grabbing the bag outside? Those have plenty of Super Crowns in them, thanks."

Petal, Chompie and Magna exchanged glances.

"I'll go!" Petal and Chompie exclaimed. ("Not it!" Magna had said.)

The two stared at each other. "No, I'll go!"

Then, a brief moment of silence following, the two ran out the room whilst trying to push each other away.

Bowsette whistled. "Wow. They sure get along well."

"You think?" Peach muttered.

"...hey, wait!" Queen Booette flew over to the pink princess again. "How'd you remove the tape to shut your mouth?"

Peach shrugged. "It just... straight up disappeared."

"Pft. Yeah, right."

Bowser Jr. nodded. "Nah, Mama Peach's not lying. I saw it happen, one second it was there, the next it was gone."

Queen Booette growled. "This story gets stupider every second I'm in here..."

Immediately afterwards, Petal and Chompie reentered the room, pulling the bag towards themselves. "Lord Bowser! I got the bag!" they both shouted, and sent glares to each other.

Bowsette frowned. "I expected it in two seconds, not twenty, but thanks," she said and took the bag from them. "...since, you know, it was just... right outside the door."

"W-we just faced minor obstructions," Petal said with a nervous chuckle.

"Y-yep. An annoying, minor obstruction..." Chompie added.

The two glared at each other.

"...right. So anyways..." Bowsette turned to her guest. "Mummipokey. What say you become a princess and gain an amazing humanoid body for combat?"

The mummified Pokey tilted its body confusedly, before nodding. "This one would be honored to become a princess, if Your Majesty wishes for it."

"I don't know about you girls, but I think turning a mummy that sounds like an old man into a princess is hella creepy," Daisy whispered.

"Agreed," Peach and Bowser Jr. said.

Bowsette grinned and gently lowered the Super Crown onto the bowing Mummipokey's head.

"Alrighty then... say hello to a whole new world..." she said.