Episode 23
Another boat ride for our heroes, but this time, the ride was free!
Spiky Joe: What? Oh, uh, yay, free boat rides are fun?
Mario: Yes indeed! No need for my coins to get wasted on something needed to save the world!
The boat ride was going all swell and dandy until...
Koopinator: ! Something's amiss here. Gonzales, stay on your guard.
Mario: But we didn't even enter the mysterious fog yet.
Spiky Joe: Er, w-what?
A thick fog suddenly covers the boat, causing the boat to stop in the water.
Ultra: Man, l can't see anything in this soup!
Mario: But, l didn't have any corn!
Koopinator: We must have drifted close to a haunted island or something.
Spiky Joe: Haunted lsland?!
Mario: Hm, it's a piece of land surrounded by water that is inhabited by ghosts and poltergeists and other such phenomena.
Spiky Joe: What?!
Mario: Hm, l can't make it any simpler than that.
Spiky Joe: No, l mean, you used some really long words there! I'm surprised you even know how to say them!
Mario: Well of course I know how to say such words. It is only rudimentary that a living being knows the correct terms of the English language.
Spiky Joe: Er, what? Did he have a brain fart or something?
Ultra: I think he's possessed.
Mario: Possessed? Why, l most certainly would not be! I mean, this Mario fella speaks such basic language, does he not?
Spiky Joe: Possessed.
Ultra: OK, where's the Tiny Li'l Ghost who's in charge?
Mario: Oh, so you aren't a couple of numskulls then?
Spiky Joe: Oh yeah? Well... I can't think of a witty line, so we'll just knock the ghost outta Mario!
Koopinator: Taking a beating doesn't release a poltergeist.
Spiky Joe: Er....
Ultra: What made you think beating Mario would work?
Spiky Joe: Uh... "Leap before you think?"
Mario: Ha! It is laughable that you have no real strategy or any Exorcism Slips with you!
Koopinator: I have some back at the castle...
Mario: Wee hee!
Spiky Joe jumps on Mario with his Spike Top, causing 5 damage to Mario.
Mario: 25/30 HP
Mario: Ah, yow! That ain't cool! I'm not allowed to mess with your heads?!
Ultra: What?
Mario: Geez, I was just Joshing you two.
Koopinator: So, while you were messing with our heads, the boat was left drifting towards that island then?
Mario: What? No, the boat driver jumped off the boat and swam away, leaving the boat to the current... which could mean that we're slowly heading towards that brown island over there.
Spiky Joe: Huh? It looks like the island shown on our map!
Mario: The nonsense! We are searching for the Chocolate Island! The one with a brown mountain... on...it......... Oh, l get it, heh hee!
Ultra: So, what's with this fog then?
Koopinator: Perhaps it got haunted over the years.
Mario: Oh, hm... Looks like we're getting close to its shores. At this rate, we only-
Mario stops as the boat bumps into something and stops moving completely.
Mario: Oops, we hit a sandbar.
Spiky Joe: Oh great, now we're supposed to swim the rest of the way? With all those Chomp Sharks in the water?!
Mario: We walk the sandbar, duh.
Ultra: Hm, the fog makes it hard to see. We'll have to be careful where we walk.
Mario and his friends jump out of the boat and onto the sandbar. They slowly walk on the mushy sand and encounter a few water-type enemies. After enough walking, they reach the shores of the island and look around for any signs of the Colour Star.
Spiky Joe: No suspicious activity here. Well, aside from that ominous house with the steam coming out of it.
Mario: Hm, yeah, it looks so normal here. Aside from the fog.
Ultra: Er... You don't think the fog is...
Mario: Nope.
Koopinator: Ahem, the fog is coming from that house, we can see.
Mario: Huh? Oh, yep, I knew that!
Mario and the team walk to the small, brown house with the fog coming out of the vents on the side. Mario opens the door, revealing an empty, foggy, and echoing room with stairs leading to the basement.
Spiky Joe: Is it really OK to open someone's door without knocking at least?
Mario: Of course! I do it all the time! Especially since we're on a mission. And on that note, our current objective is finding the source of the fog. By using these round balls called, "Eyes," I can locate the source of this pea soup fog!
Mario uses his eyes and sees that the fog is coming from the staircase leading to the basement. Mario points his finger towards the stairs and walks down them. The basement is foggy, yet dark. A loud whirring noise is coming from a square, white box shaking back and forth. There is a Yellow dotted Toad turning dials on the white box.
Mario: Oh, hello! What is this machine you're working over?
The Toad could not hear Mario over the loud whirring of the machine.
Mario: MACHINE YOU'RE WORKING ON TOAD?!
The Toad jumps and notices Mario and his fiends.
Toad: What? Oh, sorry, I didn't notice you! My name's Mellon!
Ultra: What's this machine doing? Why's it so foggy?!
Mellon turns off the white box and it slowly stops whirring and the fog stops pouring out of its back.
Mellon: That's how it vents its heat.
Mario: Your plan to cover the world with fog is very elaborate!
Mellon: Er, what?
Mario: Oh yes, but l found you out! You won't be getting away with it!
Mellon: Oh... It's a crime to do laundry?
Mario: Buuut, if you hand over the Yellow Colour Star, I'll let you cover a few continents.
Mellon: Huh? How do you know of the Yellow Colour Star?!
Mario: Aha! You fell for my tarp! I was just pieing words together! But the real question is... Why do you know of the Star?
Mellon gives off an evil glare...
Mellon: I was appointed by Ashi Boke to protect it from a chubby guy named Mario. You look like a chubster to me, so you better just beat it!
Mario: But... I'm not fat... That Boke guy looked more fat...
Mellon: True, but... Uhm... In comparison, you're a stick.
Spiky Joe: Heh, it's true! XD
Mellon: Stop distracting me! Are you gonna leave and stop bothering me? Or shall l show you what it's like underwater?
Mario: I've already been underwater before. It wasn't all that bad.
Mellon: OK, fine, Mr. Smart Jumper, we'll just battle it out here!
TO BE CONTINUED