"You can't bake a cake?"

Mario was at the tennis court with Luigi and they had just met up with Toad and Toadette. They had talked for a bit about general stuff, nothing important and then Toad went off to the washroom. Now, Toadette was telling Luigi and Mario she can't make a cake.

"So what were you doing in the kitchen that day when I had to keep Toad away from it?" Luigi asked.

"…Making a cake."

"A-ha! So you can bake a cake!"

"Heh-heh. Not quite. Turns out we aren't good at following the recipe. Well… I am. Peach is the one who isn't! See, when the recipe called for letting the cake bake in the oven for 30 minutes, Peach decided that it was too short for an extra super cake."

"So she put it in for…"

"2 hours."

"WHAT?"

"I know! That's what I said!"

"Why don't you just make the cake by yourself?"

"That's the problem. I would… but I'm too small to carry the cake. And if Peach even sees the cake, she'd say 'Toadette, this isn't fancy enough!' and put extra icing all over it and all these party decoration things. Pretty soon, the cake itself will splat all over the counter and make a huge mess and she'd say 'Toadette! You didn't make the cake strong enough!' and she'd go into the kitchen and make another reject cake that's just a waste of time."

Mario opened his mouth to say something but Luigi said "Shhhhhh!" because Toad was coming back. Mario and Luigi, seeing it was suppertime, decided to head back. They waved bye to their friends and the friends waved back (Toadette mouthed "Help me!" to them as well) and left.

Toad and Toadette also started walking to the castle. They walked on the path and talked about numerous things that they had done, saw or heard lately. They were having great conversations until Toad asked, "You know Mario and Luigi?"

Toadette stopped in her tracks. "What about them?"

"Well," Toad stopped and looked around to see if anyone was looking, then whispered "they've been acting strange lately."

Toadette closed her mouth. She had heard about Peach's "overexcitedness" yesterday and knew that Mario and Luigi must have really got Toad thinking. She decided to change the subject.

"I think they must have been-"

"Toad, have you seen Peach's room lately?" Toadette interrupted "There's a lot of posters of heavy metal bands. And she's asked us to paint it black. Sounds like she's Goth to me!"

"But I think Mario-"

"Have you noticed the increase of sales for black dresses lately? Maybe you've noticed that Peach's new lifelong dream is to die her hair black."

"Peach is not Goth! But Mario and Lui-"

"DON'T JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS!" Toadette smiled, liking where this conversation was going, "Just because you think Peach isn't Goth, doesn't mean that she's not! I think you aren't open-minded enough."

"I think you're being stupid." Toad started walking again. "Let's get back to the conversation we started about Mario and Luigi."

Oh no, Toadette thought, this isn't working! What can I do to get his mind off Mario and Luigi? Then she came up with the ultimate plan.

"They come up to the castle in fancy clothes-"

"My life is brilliant."

Toad stopped talking and turned to face Toadette. "What did you just sing?"

"My life is brilliant," Toadette sang "My love is pure. I saw an angel. Of that I'm sure!"

"Oh, no! Don't sing that!" Toad plugged his ears "That song his so annoying!"

"She smiled at me on the subway." Toadette grinned "She was with another man. But I won't lose no sleep on that, 'cause I've got a plan!"

"OH PLEASE! NOT THE MOST ANNOYING PART!" Toad dug his fingers in his ears deeper.

"YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL!" Toadette yelled "YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL! YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL, IT'S TRUE!"

Toad got his wallet and searched for some coins. "Here's 70 coins. Now stop singing!"

Toadette smiled, and took the money. Toad never brought up Mario and Luigi again in a conversation. Mission accomplished, Toadette thought in her head.

Meanwhile, Mario and Luigi had just gotten home and had a good idea. Why don't they make the cake for Toadette? All they had to do was get a good, tasty recipe and do one heck of a job (and not put too much decorations on it).

"How hard can it be?" Luigi asked, stating the rhetorical question.

So, they decided to get to work.

"Ok, Eggs. Do we have eggs?"

"Yes we have eggs"

"Ok, milk, sugar, flour and baking soda. Do we have those?"

"I think it's a better idea if I just took the recipe. Then we wouldn't go through all the trouble of having to say all the ingredients out loud."

"Ok!"

They had all the ingredients (left over from when they made Birdo's birthday cake a few months ago), and the job wasn't difficult. Most of the time…

"Ok, it says 2 pounds of salt." Luigi looked at the recipe with one eyebrow raised "Who the heck would put 2 pounds of salt in cake?"

"Luigi, that's the recipe for the Salt Cake. We're making the Chocolate Vanilla Cake!"

"Oh. Ok, sorry. Wait a sec. Salt Cake?"

In the end, they had made a beautiful cake. It was so good, Mario had a hard time getting Luigi not to eat the cake (and vice versa). And all they had to do was deliver it. And that would prove to be an adventurous challenge.

A/N: Hoped you liked chapter 2. I am taking requests of what can happen in Chapter 3. Just put it in with your review.