Mushroom Kingdom 2
A great sense of dread filled Luigi and Daisy as they drove the tracks through the Mushroom Kingdom. Usually at this point, they would have seen Peach's Castle in the distance. It was too big a landmark not to notice its absence on the horizon. That did not make the confirming blow any softer as they came around the corner to Peach's gardens. Daisy screeched to a halt, jumping out the Bloom Coach as she beheld the wreckage of Peach's Castle. Luigi followed her, falling to his knees. "It's all gone. Blown-a to pieces. Wah?" He spotted the trophy of Yoshi. He ran over to it, touching its baseplate and reviving the dinosaur.
YOSHI!
"Yoshi! What happened here?"
The dinousaur bounced up and down, differing between pointing at the debris of the castle and the sky. "Yoshi! Yoshi! Yoshi!"
"I-a don't understand."
"Yoshi!" He gestured with his hand to follow as he ran towards the castle.
They came to the trophies of the Toad Brigade laid on top of the bridge. Luigi and Daisy revived all four of them. They each yammered as they came back to life. "Slow down," Daisy shouted. "What happened here?"
"There was an airship," Hint Toad said. "Then we were all hit by cannonballs. We don't know what happened to Peach."
"Peach was here?" Something moved beneath the rubble of bricks, carpets and paintings that were the remains of Peach's Castle. "Stay back." She pulled a turnip from the ground, just in case. A pink mushroom emerged from the wreckage. Daisy relaxed, reaching her hands out and helping pull Toadette from the rubble she was stuck beneath. "Are you alright?"
"Bowser has Peach!" Toadette yelled. "Bowser has peach!"
"Oh-a no-a! What-a we gonna do? What-a we gonna d—"
Daisy slapped Luigi across the face. "Calm down, man." She turned back to Toadette. "How did Bowser capture her?"
"The Koopalings turned her into a trophy. Then they took her up to Bowser's airship. I was hiding in here from all the commotion. When I stuck my head out the door, I saw a giant Bullet Bill coming towards the castle. I was stuck under the rubble until you came."
Daisy shook her head. "The castle is ruined. Too bad we'll have to clear up this mess later. Peach is out there somewhere under the vicious hands of Bowser. Have you seen Mario?"
"We have not. Peach hinted she rushed back to the castle to see him, but he was not here."
"It must have been a ruse from Bowser. Yet something doesn't add up. He has never had the brains to pull something so crafty off before. He has certainly never tried to destroy the entire castle before. If only we had some kind of machine to fly after them in."
"Yoshi! Yoshi!" The dinosaur ran to the bottom of the gardens, leading them to the Odyssey airship parked by the fountain.
"Good-a thinking, Yoshi," Luigi said, patting the dinosaur on the head. Luigi's smile disappeared. "If only we-a knew how-a to fly it."
They opened the door and entered the flying vessel, looking over the controls and not having a clue what any of them meant. "It's no use," Daisy said. "Even if we knew how to fly this, how would we ever find Peach?"
"I can help with that." Luigi nearly banged his head on the roof as he leapt up at the sight of the talking cap. "Sorry," Cappy said. "I didn't mean to scare you."
"Yoshi?"
"That's right. I know how to control the Odyssey. I flew it with Mario when we went after Bowser before. He'd taken Peach and my sister Tiara. In fact, Peach seems to be wearing Tiara right now. I know, because I can track the movement of my sister. She is up in the air somewhere which makes me think Bowser took her as well. I can help you all find them."
Daisy, Luigi and Yoshi nodded in agreement. They made sure Toadette and the Toad Brigade were happy to stay with the remains of the castle before setting off into the sky.