Now you may be asking. "Why is this ending one?" Well, dear reader, I am done writing this story for now, but If I ever have the hankering, I might write out a continuation. Now ON WITH THE SHOW!

"Welcome home Princess!" They cheered, as the crate was pried opened.

"Wait, what?" Barry, as well as everyone else in the room, was shocked to see a wooden carving of a red-haired woman, holding a 'Mona's Pizza' pizza box.

Mario's jaw hit the floor. "Where's Peach? Luigi, I thought you said you had her!"

"I thought I did! This crate was the exact size you told me."

Mario hopped back to the computer and rewound the video feed. He watched as the workers took a crate from the vault, and loaded it onto an orange plane. "We, we failed. She's gone." With that statement ringing through his mind, Mario grabbed his crutches and went into his room.

*Knock knock* "Hey bro, cheer up! The princess is just in another castle. We can still go get her!" Luigi tried to comfort him, but all he heard behind the door was silence. "Barry, Ivan, pour through what we've got and see if we can find that plane. "

Three hours later Mario finally came back out of his bedroom, to find the remaining three hard at work, trying to find Princess Peach. "Thank you for not giving up guys." He sat back down at his computer, depressed, yet determined to find the princess.

As they worked, a knock came at the door. Luigi put down his laptop and got up to answer it.

"Hey Daisy! What are you doing here?"

"Oh, I just wanted to congratulate you on a job well done!" She certainly seemed chipper, but that faded as she saw the looks on the boys' faces. "Oh, so you don't have her yet. Well I'm sure you guys have been working hard, let me take you guys out for a drink. You probably need a break."

"Hey? Where are we going?" Mario said from his wheelchair. Daisy knew he couldn't walk so she offered to push him there. Luigi, Ivan and Barry followed closely behind.

"I figured we could raid Peach's tea cabinet at the castle. I doubt she'll mind."

"Ok, then." It seemed kind of wrong, going to drink tea at the castle without Peach. But Mario didn't want to hurt Daisy's feelings.

"So how'd it go down guys?" No one wanted to talk about it, but Daisy seemed to insist.

Ivan was the first to speak up. "Well, we sent in Barry to be our inside man. He disabled the air conditioning, and called me and Luigi to fix it."

"After I called them, they made their way through the vents to the vault."

"I was the one who went into the vault, but by that time, the Princess was already packed up for shipping to some buyer."

"I wonder who would want to buy a Peach statue?" Daisy mused.

Mario continued. "So we sent Luigi after the crate using the pixellator, a kind of teleporter. But when we got the crate and returned to the house. We realized it was the wrong one. The right one was loaded onto a plane."

"Well, that's one heck of a story there fellas." Daisy said as they walked into the castle. "So I did some digging of my own, and I think I know who this mystery buyer is."

"Really?" "Who is it?" Everyone begged her to spill the beans.

"I did." Daisy announced. The five rounded the corner into the tea room to find at the end of the room stood a pink-gold Princess Peach statue..

Jaws hit the floor. Ivan even started to cry.

"So Luigi, there's no way I could help?" Daisy said with a smirk. Only to be tackled by a hug from Luigi.

"Barry, give me the fire flower." Mario said, taking the fire flower. He wheeled himself over and placed it into the Princess's arms.

Peach felt a warm wave flow through her. As the hindrances on the metal cap were lifted, she bent down and hugged Mario. "Oh, Mario"

"I missed you too Peach... but I already have a broken leg. Please don't break my spine too."

"Sorry, Mario."

"Princess." Barry spoke up, "It seems the fire flower freed up your movement, but you still have to wait a few hours for the metal crown to wear off."

Luigi was the first to put two and two together. "Hey, if you were just going to buy her off of Wario, why did you make us go to hell and back?"

"You said I couldn't help, you didn't think I would let that slip, did you?"

They all shared a few good laughs, Peach told her side of the tale while they sipped tea. But they were interrupted when a loud crash was heard in the next room. "Where is the Princess?" All six of them knew that voice. "Follow my lead." Peach whispered to the gang.

Bowser busted into the room, ready to try and take the princess for his own." Where is the Princess Peach?"

"She's not here, Koopa breath. Now buzz off!" Daisy certainly was not a woman to be trifled with.

Bowser thought it a little weird that they would have tea with a Peach statue instead of Peach herself. "You guys are weird. Where is she then?"

"She is on official business in the Waffle Kingdom. Now, I may be in a wheelchair, but I still can kick your shell six ways to Sunday. Now leave before you get hurt."

"I'll be back! Next time, your butt is mine." He walked back to his Clown Car and flew off.

Barry was shocked. "I can't believe that worked! Haha, I'm a genius!"

"I have to admit Barry, you did a good job." Praise from the Princess was music to Barry's ears. "Next time, make sure I'm not so valuable."

"Tell me about it! I had to drop 150,000 coins on her!"

"While I was there, I was appraised by a professional. In that professional's opinion, you got ripped off." Peach giggled.

"Well, since I technically bought you, that means you have to come back to Sarasaland with me, maybe invite Rosie over for a sleepover."

"Sounds good, you're buying the snacks."

Peach is right. Daisy thought. I did get ripped off.

So Peach is home, Bowser's been thwarted, and everyone is happy! That is until those bananas she ate come back to bite her... Thanks for reading!