Mario and Luigi arrived back in the Mushroom Kingdom and headed into Toad Town. The first person they saw was Toad.
"Hi! Um… Mario? Luigi? Where's the princess?" Toad asked.
"We made a deal with Bowser. If we-a get things known as the Ancient Gems, we-a can get the princess back," said Mario.
"But… how can you trust Bowser?"
"He swore it. And-a he said we could-a defeat him if he lied," Mario said.
"O…kay. But I am getting suspicious. Watch yourselves."
Mario and Luigi were heading to their house to get prepared but were stopped when they heard some yelling from a house. They headed over to it and knocked. A Mushroomer woman opened the door.
"Hello... hey! You're the Mario Brothers!" she said.
"Yep. That's-a us," said Luigi.
"I'm Toace T. Pleasure to meet you. We could use your help! You see, our pipe got clogged up by something and the pipe exploded. Our basement is flooded… almost. You're plumbers, right?"
"Yeah. We can handle the problem."
"Thank you!"
She led them to the basement. The plumbers held their noses when the horrible smell reached their noses. They saw a Mushroomer man trying to figure out what to do at the bottom of the stairs.
"That's my husband, Sall T. He's been trying to figure out what to do for a long time," said Toace T.
The Mario Brothers got to work fixing the pipe. After what seemed like hours of fixing the pipe that exploded, they saw what had stopped up the water and caused this: a red object. They put it aside and finished fixing the pipe. Once they were done they were thanked by the Mushroomers living in the house. They left and took the object with them. Once they got home, they put their wet stinky cloths in the washing machine and washed their hands. Luigi then remembered the paper Bowser had given them and took it out real quick. It was a little harder to see the Ancient Gems on the paper now that it was wet, but when it dried they would be visible again. They also decided washing their hands wasn't good enough. They took baths, and when they were done, their clothes were clean. They didn't feel like waiting for them to dry, so they went ahead and put on their clean clothes. They washed the object that had clogged the pipe and everything seemed clean now. They looked at the red object. It was sparkling and looked like a ruby. They looked at the now-dry paper and saw the Ruby image on the paper was the same as the red object that had been clogging the pipe. They had just found the Ancient Ruby!