Chapter 2

A chilly breeze brushes over Toad. He is lying in a bush upside down with a few scrapes.

"Urghhhh, my mushroom hat. Hmm, where am I? What just happened?"

Toad climbs out of the bush and brushes himself off.

"Oh yeah, I just triple jumped! But I went too far, I must have fallen into the Forbidden Forest. Where's Peach?" Just then, Toad hears a familiar voice.

"Toooad! Are you OK? I think I taught you too much at one time!"

Toad looks up and sees Peach floating down from the sky to meet him.

"Peach I did it though! You saw me, right!"

"Yeah, you did great Toad; you jumped much higher than I ever could." She smiles, "But we have to get out of here, it's danger…" Peach stops mid-word. Another voice can be heard through the woods.

The mystery voice, "…been found, don't you read the Koopa times?"

Another voice, "No, I canceled my subscription a few months ago, its all adds anyway. If I wanted a shell that looked like Mario's head, I would have stayed in Dinosaur land"

"Well anyway, they found the Tube Switch Point, Bowser is on his way right now to activate it. Once he does, the tubes to other worlds will open up, and Bowser will rule ALL the worlds, not just ours."

"Bowser doesn't even rule this one…not with Mario around anyway."

"Well yeah, I think the real reason is so that Bowser can find a new place to conquer, without Mario interfere..." there voice trails off.

Toad looks up at Peach, "What do they mean 'new worlds.' Is Bowser really here!" He begins to panic, running around in circles.

"Toad, we have to follow them and find out what's going on. They talked about the Tube Switch Point. You remember how Mario activated the Yellow, Blue, Red, and Green switch points, and those same colored blocks started to appear in our world? If this is a tube switch point, then new tubes will appear too! If Bowser is trying to get to another world, we have to stop him before he does!"

"What other worlds! I just want to go home!"

"Well you wanted to be part of an adventure," Peach starts to move toward where they overheard the voices, "this might be your chance."

Toad shrugs and starts to follow.

They catch up to the 2 mystery voices. They see that it's two koopa-troopas, a paratroopa and just one that is walking. They stopped talking, but a cacophony of sound begins to pick up as they keep walking.

"This isn't good Princess, there must be hundreds of them! Are we really going to go closer?"

The two koopas finally reach their destination; A huge clearing and a gigantic digging site, a Huge Pipe is at the bottom of the site, but it has no tube, the top of it is rounded out, like a half of a circle, a ? is drawn onto it.

"Bwahahaha. Fellow Koopas, Through your hard work and determination…"

One of the koopas who Peach and Toad were following adds in, "yeah determination, if we didn't do it wed be squashed." The other agrees. They enter the site and joing the hundreds of other minions, all scattered all around the tube. Most have shovels in their hands and dirt over their faces, others like the two koopa's who just arrived, sit in a bored, "here he goes again" type attitude.

"…We finally managed to find the Tube Switch. Now MagiKoopa, you said, if I switch this Tube, then we'll be able to go to different worlds?"

Magikoopa, "Yes Sir, if you switch on this switch, according to the ancient texts, it should open up tubes to new worlds, but I would be weary, it will…"

"Ok, Then here goes nothing!"

"But Sir!" Magikoopa can hardly get a word out before Bowser jumps high up into the air, and comes crashing down using his patented ground stomp. The tube is pushed downwards, and the round top smashes open. A rush of air begins to blow out, pushing Bowser off and head first into the dirt beside it. The air blows so strongly that most of the 100's of koopas standing around get blown over.

Peach ducks behind a tree as Toad gets blown past her through the air. She grabs his hand just in time. The air blows and an eerie sound echoes throughout the forest.

The wind begins to slow down, and Peach lowers Toad back to the ground. They peer around the tree.

"Bwahahaha, It worked! Now Magi-Koopa, where will this pipe bring me?"

"Ahem, like I was saying Lord Bowser, I still haven't deciphered all the ancient texts, they are written in a language that isn't native to this world. But…the watermark at the bottom had 3 triangles on it. Also …"

"Three triangles, Bwahaha, How sissy, then I'm going in." cutting off Magi-Koopa. Bowser jumps up on top of the tube and leaps in. The minions look around, as if waiting for something to happen. Seconds later, a loud noise comes from the pipe.

"Ahhhhhhh, hahaaa," Bowser screams as he is thrown from the tube and falls on the ground. "This tube doesn't even work! Its broken!" Bowser roars as he picks himself up.

MagiKoopa begins where he left off, "Bowser, if you would have let me finish…"

Bowser interrupts, "I did let you finish! You're finished whenever I start talking!" Magi-Koopa rolls his eyes.

MagiKoopa continues, "Lord Bowser, this is just the switch, just as Mario activated the block switches, the portals to new worlds should open up throughout this world. The Mushroom Kingdom is the gateway, and the hub to all the other worlds around it."

"So you mean that EVERYONE will be able to use these portals? Including MARIO!"

"Yes, it would seem that way"

"ARGHHHHH! Ok Koopa-Troops, move out! Find all the new tubes before anyone else even knows what's going on. Once you find one, bring the news straight back to me." Bowser begins to march off. The troops look at each other, bewildered. "GOOOOOO."

Peach and Toad look at each other and run off.

"Toad, we have to go inform the Chancellor about this!"

"Yeah, and Mario! But first, we have to get outta here, right?"

"Yeah, lets go!"

End Chapter 2