DanceDream: And the fact that they need to find a single princess who can do it, and that having another princess along is a requisite for doing so. That might be a bit of a challenge. Well, that's how much gold he has. Not much more, and you'll see who it is in time. It's heavily implied that Rosalina is a previous princess of the Mushroom Kingdom. ... We already finished moving. I've just been getting distracted. And his motive - What is it, exactly? As I said, 'rehabilitation', NOT 'retribution'. Big difference between the two.

Fyre Red: NEVER! Well, at least he's kind of smart.

TatlTails has her own account. Go bug her by giving constructive comments on her stories.

Adventures of Mario & Sonic: Peach's Adventure

But Still Mario

Sonic led Luigi to the place where he'd met his own ghost, knowing they'd be safe there.

They reached it within minutes, and dashed inside.

All the way, Mario was complaining about how they weren't letting him do anything, like he was some sort of fragile weakling.

"I mean, seriously!" Mario was saying as Luigi finally set him down inside. "I've proven that I can handle myself well enough!"

"Mario, your powers-"

"Yadda yadda, they're gone, bla bla bla, Waluigi took 'em, so what?" Mario asked. "I'm still me."

"Well, yeah," Sonic cut in. "But-"

"No buts. I'm still me, I'm still going out there."

And with that, Mario ran out of the building, somersaulting under Sonic's and Luigi's arms when they tried to stop him.

Sonic and Luigi ran out after Mario, looking around to try and find him. They didn't see him anywhere.

"He couldn't have gone far," Luigi said.

"Right. I'll go left, you go right." Luigi nodded in agreement, and the two took off. Meanwhile, Mario dropped from his spot hiding at the top of the door, and walked over to a building to begin carefully climbing it.

Mario finally managed to reach the top, and stopped to catch his breath for a few moments before moving on. He climbed between buildings, being careful not to make any jumps as he wasn't sure how well he could jump without his powers.

For a while, he didn't find anything, but soon he came across a strange metallic building, circular and suspended far above the lava by cables connecting it to other buildings.

Mario smirked, and started to shimmy down the nearest cable.

... As I suspected. Powers or no, Mario's not going to settle for being a bystander.

Sonic and Luigi met up back where they started.

"No trace of him..." Luigi said sadly.

"That's not good..." Sonic began pacing. "Where could he be?"

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"Hang on," Luigi said, looking behind him, "Do you hear that?"

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"Hm?" Sonic listened closely, "... Wait, that's..."

"Hi!" Tails said, as he flew down from above.

"Tails!" Sonic ran to his brother, hugging him. "Man, where were you?"

"Space."

"... What?"

"I was in some sort of space station with purple alien mushroom guys," Tails said. "They're-"

"Shroobs. Planet looters," Luigi said.

"You know about them?" Tails asked, clearly surprised.

Luigi nodded, looking around nervously. "Come on... We'd best get inside. I'll tell you there."

Mario sneaked into the building through an open window, and began looking around. He didn't see anybody, or anything much, other than a generic derelict 'haunted house' look. It seemed abandoned, apart from some vaguely familiar paintings of boos.

"I'm going to hazard a guess and say I need a vacuum," Mario whispered. He noticed a door at the end of the hallway, and quietly walked over and opened it. It was a janitor's closet.

"Convenient," Mario said taking out the vacuum, brandishing the hose as he turned it on. "Hey, Boos! I'm ready for ya!"

Ahahahawg!

Tails scratched his chin, "So... They're weak to your tears."

Luigi nodded.

"... That's... Wow. Well, good to know anyway," Tails grinned.

"Yeah," Sonic smirked. "Now all we need is to find some ghosts."

"Wait, what? No, NO! We are not going to-" Luigi's protests fell on deaf ears as he was dragged out of the room by Sonic.

The final boo zipped around as quickly as she could, hoping to avoid the vacuum.

"How are you doing this?" she yelled, "I thought your powers were gone!"

"They are," Mario smirked, swinging the vacuum around. "Thing is, they didn't start working until after I came into the Mushroom Kingdom anyway! No power stars in the world, no Mario Brother power!"

The boo gasped, facepalming as she remembered that she could phase through walls. She flew straight up, right through the ceiling.

"Yeah, you better run!" Mario yelled, turning the vacuum off before pulling out a roll of duct tape and using it to cover every possible exit. "I may not be Super, but I'm still Mario!"

Mario walked off in search of a bed to sleep in while he waited for Luigi to somehow be in one of rooms he hadn't explored yet, as usual.

A few hours later, Mario woke up, and stumbled into the kitchen he had found (On that note, why do ghosts need a kitchen?).

Guess who was waiting for him.

"Mario!" Luigi exclaimed, hugging his brother.

"This looks familiar," Sonic commented, looking at Tails pointedly.

"You hugged me," Tails pointed out.

"... Right."

"Hey, Weegee," Mario said. "So, I found this place full of boos, and took 'em all out with a vacuum cleaner, and now we have a safe base of operations!"

"... I sort of want to scold you, and sort of want to congratulate you."

"That's not-so-super Mario for ya!" Mario gave a thumbs up.

"... How did we get here, anyway?" Tails asked, looking around. "We were following Luigi, and..."

"Same way I travelled through space without a spaceship," Luigi said.

Plot hole, that is.

"How?"

"Heck if I know. I just kinda wander aimlessly and show up somewhere where I wait for Mario."

"Oh," Tails said, "... Hey, I got an idea! I can find a room to set up some sort of computer-y thing to monitor what's going on and stuff."

"I'll help," Luigi offered, and followed Tails.

The kitchen stayed silent for a bit.

"... Food-eating contest?" Sonic suggested.

"You read my mind."