FLUDD: Go back into Bianco Hills.
Mario: Why?
FLUDD: Because there's another Shine Sprite there.
Mario: WHAT!? I have to go back there again!?
FLUDD: It's either that or face another giant piranha plant to gain entry to Ricco Harbor.
Mario: It appears you be right. Let's go back.
Mario turns around and jumps back into the splotch of graffiti and teleports back to Bianco Hills. He lands on top of a small Yorkshire Terrier, belly first. A young girl looks up with tears in her eyes.
Girl: You...you killed Sammie!
Mario: Killed who?
FLUDD: Look beneath you, Mario.
Mario: Oh. Oh, gosh! Well, I'm sure it's not dead, it's just--
Girl: YOU KILLED SAMMIE! YOU KILLED SAMMIE! MURDERER! COLD-BLOODED KILLER! INHUMAN BEAST!
By this time, every head in Bianco Hills has turned to Mario and the Pianta girl, watching her yell at him. Mario is feeling very sheepish, especially when everybody around him starts booing him.
Pianta: Get outta town, you creep!
Second Pianta: Yeah, you cold-blooded murderer! Why'd you do that to her dog, anyway?
Third Pianta: Men like you oughta be locked up!
Mario: SHUT UUUUUUUUP!!
There is silence for a moment in Bianco Hills.
Mario: I did not kill her stupid dog! It was sitting there when I warped here! You know what?
Mario turns around and kicks the dog. It flies over the fence and slowly falls into the ocean below.
Mario: There! It's done!
FLUDD: Mario...
Mario: What?
FLUDD: Look over there.
A van with the name "Animal Abuse Prevention Team" on it drives up. Piantas pile out of it, preparing to lock Mario up for being cruel to the dog.
Mario: Hey, look, dogs can swim, right? So it isn't THAT bad.
FLUDD: Have you ever owned a dog, Mario?
Mario: Once, but I accidentally mistook it for a rag and drowned it in a bucket.
FLUDD: Then you have no right to be talking. You are a lousy pet-owner, admit it. Even lousy to pets that aren't yours.
Mario: Shut up, FLUDD! Let's just get out of here!
--
Mario: Whoa...what is that thing on top of the windmill?
FLUDD: That is the next big beastie you are to take care of.
Mario: Uh-uh.
FLUDD: What?
Mario: I said uh-uh. No way.
FLUDD: You're supposed to. Get up there.
Mario: FLUDD, that thing is about nine times my size and has a mouth bigger than the rest of its body. You want a hero, get Superman. And he's not real.
FLUDD: In the same sense, you're not real, either.
Mario: Fair enough. I'll go, but reluctantly.
Mario arrives on top of the windmill and faces Petey Piranha. The giant piranha plant shrieks.
Woman: Dirty mouth? Clean it up with Orbit!
Petey Piranha chews on a piece of gum and grins a toothy grin. His teeth dazzle. The dazzle reflects off of several mirrors going down to the town. The light shines onto a Pianta carrying a basket of apples and blinds him. The man yelps and tosses the basket into the air. The apples bonk a Pianta woman, who angrily tosses the nearest Pianta clean through the windmill Mario is standing on. The floor beneath Mario's feet cracks and shatters. Mario and Petey Piranha fall down into the windmill.
Mario: If I wasn't in a video game, that would have broken some bones.
FLUDD: Correction: It would have killed you. Now stop jabbering and concentrate on the thing that's trying to kill you now.
Petey Piranha opens its mouth wide and regurgitates goop. Among the goop is a yellow sack.
Mario: My bag of cat-eye marbles! I wondered where those things had gone!
A cowboy hat also comes tumbling out of Petey Piranha's mouth.
Mario: And my play cowboy hat!
A teddy bear also comes out.
Mario: And my, uh, Hug Bug Teddy Bear from many years ago.
And a digital watch.
Mario: Have you been stalking me?
Petey Piranha opens its mouth again. Mario decides to spray water from FLUDD. Petey Piranha gets filled up with water and falls backwards. Mario graps a fistful of goop on the ground.
Mario: Have you tasted your own slop?
Mario dumps some of the goop in. Petey Piranha shrieks painfully.
Mario: Apparently not.
Petey Piranha sits back up and knocks Mario to the side with a swing of the head.
Mario: Oh, that's the way you wanna play, then?
Mario grabs the bag of marbles and beats Petey Piranha repeatedly with it. The piranha plant goes down, and Mario continues to whale away on its head.
FLUDD: Mario?
Mario: What?
FLUDD: I think that's enough.
Mario: Still hitting Petey Piranha What's enough?
FLUDD: What you're doing.
Mario: What do you mean?
FLUDD: Did it ever occur to you that Petey Piranha, at this point, might be dead?
Mario: Oh.
Petey Piranha's still body turns into goop and melts. The Shine Sprite appears where Petey Piranha once was.
Mario: Hey, it's my third Shine Sprite! How many do I have left, FLUDD?
FLUDD: Do you honestly want to know?
Mario: That's why I asked.
FLUDD: You have 117 Shine Sprites left.
Mario: WHAT!?
FLUDD: You don't need all of them to challenge Shadow Mario.
Mario: Oh. That's good.
FLUDD: You do, however, need a hefty number of them.
Mario: I knew that was coming. Let's just work on the one I have.