-...-
Going through the rest the trees and shrubs Mario and Olly notice the light of the sun getting brighter. They look around and saw they were finally out the forest.
But a white fence was blocking the path. Mario notices one of the fences looked a bit loose and out of place. Mario pulls out his hammer and hits it.
The white fence falls down to the ground and noticing a sign Mario decides to read it.
'KEEP OUT!'
'Unless You Want To Stay Forever'
"Pretty straightforward right?" The sign suddenly grew eyes just like the trees and Mario jumps backwards.
"They made me from one of Grandsappy's branches. Reduce, reuse, recycle I guess..."
Mario turns around and walks away from the talking sign and continue down path and Olly points to somewhere.
"Hey! Mario look." Mario looks where Olly was pointing and it was a Toad stuck in a bush a bit folded.
"I believe that's a Toad correct?" Before Mario could answer the Toad answered for him. "Yes! I'm a Toad!"
"Ah. I was correct. Mario we should help out this poor Toad." Mario nods agreeing with Olly and pulls out his hammer and slams it into the bush.
The bush splits apart and the Toad falls down to the floor but he was still folded up.
"Thanks Mario! But uh.. I need some flattening out as well."
Mario hits the slightly folded Toad with his hammer a few times and the Toad was finally flat again.
"Yes! Thank you Mario I'm flat again!"
"Excuse me but if you don't mind me asking. How did you end up in that bush folded up?" Olly asked.
"Oh! Well it's horrible! At first some of Bowser's Minions showed! We thought they were here to cause trouble but... They looked like they were being chased by some things...They looked folded up. They looked pretty weird! Then those folded up things turned their attention to us! And folded us up!" The Toad shakes his head.
"What do these folded up things have against us paper folk? First they're chasing Bowser's Minions and now they fold us up! This is paper folk abuse! You can't treat us paper folk like that! Even though...Bowser's Minions aren't exactly good guys..."
The Toad took a deep breathe and screamed. "AAAUGH! I JUST RETRAUMATIZED MYSELF!"
The Toad runs away to what looks like a campsite. "Bowser's Minions are here? Did some of them escape Olivia? Those poor minions...And those poor Toads...Mario! Let's look around for them and help them out!"
Mario was unsure with the idea of helping out Bowser's Minions but...They had a common enemy so it was in their best interest to help each other out.
Mario looks around camp at the tents and from one of them he heard two voices.
"Just help me out here!" A voice yelled but it was a bit muffled.
"Stop yelling! You're going to give away the hiding spot! The other voice said but it wasn't muffled like the other voice.
"But you're yelling too!"
"I'm only yelling because you're yelling!"
"Just unfold me!"
"I can't you idiot! I don't have any arms!
Mario heads towards the tent where he hears the yelling and opens it up and sees a normal Flat Paper Goomba arguing with a folded up Toad.
"AHHHH THEY HEARD US! Oh...Wait false alarm it's just Mario."
The Goomba sighed with relief. "Well this kinda be a first for me but...I'm glad it's you Mario...Could you unfold this Toad. He won't shut up and let us hide in peace!"
Mario holds out his hammer and slams it down onto the folded Toad and he goes back to his normal form. "Thanks Mario! I was thrown in that tent when I got folded like that. But then Goomba here came into the tent and hid in there with me."
"Well duh where else would I hide from those things. But...I guess it should be ok with you here Mario."
"Yeah! Mario will take care of those folded things."
Olly cheers. "That's correct Mario can do it!"
Goomba rolls his eyes. "Well it's better we stay on the same side than be enemies."
Mario gave them a thumbs up before leaving with Olly. Looking around the area Mario notices a megaphone in the tree and music was coming out of it.
Olly looks at a swing and notices something and pulls on Mario's clothes to get his attention. "Mario look! A Folded Soldier!"
They look from behind the tree to see a Folded Soldier Goomba just...Sitting there on the swing staring off into space.
"Mario this is perfect. It doesn't seem to have notice us yet. This is a good chance to get the jump on it."
Mario walks quietly behind the Folded Soldier and holds his hammer high above it and slams it right down onto the Folded Soldier. The Folded Soldier then bursts into confetti.
Olly cheers but he then notices some sort of folded Cicada on the swing. "Hey Mario look at that Cicada it looks really big. Are Cicadas normally that big?"
Mario looked at the Cicada and holds up his hammer then gives the Cicada a whack and the Cicada unfolds into a Toad.
"Whew! Thanks Mario! I wanted to have a go on the swing but that weird looking Goomba cut in line."
The Toad jumps onto the swing and starts swinging it.
After helping the Toad out they head over to the bridge to cross and just like the sign the bridge planks grew eyes and started talking after every step Mario took on the bridge.
"Do."
"Re."
"Mi."
"Fa."
"So."
"La."
"Ti."
"Don't mind me!"
"What a musical bridge." Olly said.
Mario ignoring the last thing the last plank said looks over at a single bench. Olly seems to have taken an interest in it. "Ooh! Mario! Mario! That bench looks like a nice place to sit on. It would also be nice to have something to rest on."
Olly was already heading over to the bench and sits down on it. "Hey Mario join me on this bench. It is comfy."
Mario walks over to the bench and sits next to Olly. "Ahhh...Breaks are nice Mario. After all it's what a King needs to perform his duties just like hero does like yourself. If you don't stop and take a rest how could you do anything correctly? Right Mario?"
Mario nods and Olly relaxed against the bench. "You know Mario...What do you think is making those holes in the ground? I mean Olivia is probably behind it but...I don't think she does have that kind of ability herself. And those three trees mention something about some things... that ate Grandsappy's face..."
Olly was right...Who or what did that..? Olivia was all the way back at Peach's Castle...He doubted the Folded Soldiers could of done it...Does Olivia have some other forces on her side?
Olly floats off the bench. "But...We should get going...If whatever made those holes are lurking around we gotta get rid of them."
Mario hops off the bench then he and Olly head down a few stairs and spot a Yellow Toad stuck in a stump and a normal Flat Paper Shy Guy was trying to pull him out.
"You're really stuck in this stump."
Mario heads over to the Shy Guy and gives him a tap on the shoulder and turns around to face Mario.
"Oh Mario you're here to? Us minions decided to hide out here but...We kinda led a few of those folded things here...I kinda felt bad so I'm only doing this as a one time thing and helping this Toad out."
The Shy Guy rubs the back of his head. "But he's really stuck in there I would like some help if you don't mind."
Mario gives him a thumbs up as the Shy Guy grabs the Yellow Toad again and Mario grabs onto the Shy Guy and the both of them pull together. The Yellow Toad got more and more loose and then finally after some tugging the Toad.
He flies onto the ground and lands right onto the floor. "Haha! Thanks Shy Guy! Oh and thank you too Mario. I guess it wasn't a good idea cutting wood like that. But now I've got pleanty!"
The Shy Guy sighs. "Right... Anyway us minions are just going to hang out here while this whole thing is going on."
The Shy Guy goes and stands next to the stump the Yellow Toad was now standing on and the both of them started talking to each other.
Mario looks over to the wood that was all piled up. "That's a lot of wood Mario." Olly comments.
"Yep we're!" Mario and Olly backed away as all the wood grew eyes.
"We used to be trees but don't worry once we burn we'll turn to ashes and grow again so we'll be fine."
Their eyes vanished and Mario heard a buzzing sound. It was coming from a nearby tree and Mario heads over there to see another folded Cicada.
Mario hits the tree and the folded Cicada slides down the tree and now with the Cicada much closer Mario hits the Cicada and it unfolds into a Toad.
"Phew! Thanks Mario that sound...The buzzing...I just felt so compelled to make it...I would of lost my mind if you didn't save me."
Mario gave the Toad a thumbs up as they walk towards some picnic tables a Folded Soldier Goomba was sitting on top of a log and under that log was a Toad squashed under it.
Mario pulls out his hammer and slams it into the Folded Soldier knocking it back and turning into confetti.
Mario heads over to the Toad stuck under the stump and pulls him out from under it.
"Ah! Thank you Mario! I was upside down with the log side up. Now I can be upside up with the log side down. Or something like that..." The Toad comments sitting down on the log.
Olly looks at the egg on the other table. "Hey Mario...Does this egg look off to you?"
Mario looks at the egg that Olly was looking at and he was right it looked off.
"Mario could one of the paper folk be this egg thing? I mean they've been folded into other things."
Mario holds up his hammer and slams it into the egg and it unfolds into a Yellow Toad. "Phew! I thought I was done for by my own deliciousness. Thank you!"
The Yellow Toad sits on the stump that was in front of the plate he was folded on. Mario looked at the nearby hole in reality and he pulls out his confetti bag and throws the confetti onto the hole and it patches it up.
Continuing on the way Mario notices another Folded Soldier Goomba and next to it was another Toad stuck in a bush.
"We should take out that Folded Soldier before helping out that Toad." Mario nods agreeing with Olly.
Mario charges towards the Folded Soldier and slams it right down onto the Folded Soldier before it could do anything and it bursts into confetti.
Then Mario heads over to the bush where the Toad was and hits the bush and then the bush splits apart.
The Toad pushes himself off the ground. "You know I was expecting a helping hand. But I got a helping hammer instead. But everyone is full of suprises."
Mario giving the Toad a thumbs up before leaving to continue his way back to the castle. Olly takes notice to a large cabin.
"That place looks really nice. Must be really nice to live in there." Olly says going closer towards the cabin with Mario following after him.
Mario and Olly stand near the door. "Do you think who lives there is home?"
Mario gave the door a knock but no one answered but they heard a voice.
"Can I help you? The Toad who lives here isn't here at the moment. He's been gone for a while..."
Mario and Olly look up and they see that the cabin had grown eyes as well. Mario shakes his head at the cabin's question.
"Alright." The cabin's eyes vanish and Mario looks to the left to see a Toad crumpled up into a paper ball.
Mario holds up his hammer and hits the Toad unfolding him. "It was so lonely back there...No one to talk to...So I made an imaginary friend!"
"She's really cool Mario."
"But I guess you really wouldn't understand Mario after all you can get advice from your real friend."
Mario and Olly looked at each other before walking away to the right side of the cabin where a wood pile was a small structure was but it had a tear in reality in it as well.
Mario pulls out some confetti and throws it onto the structure and the pieces of confetti fall into place fixing it up.
Olly pulls on Mario to get his attention. "Mario look a Toad is stuck in the wood."
Mario jumps down to see a Toad stuck in the wood and he grabs the Toad and pulls him out but... He doesn't look happy about it...
"Look Mario thanks for saving me and all but...I don't think the creases I got will go away. They're to deep..."
"Poor Toad I wish we could help you..." Olly says with a sad look on his face.
Mario thinks on how he could help this Toad. He then notices a square like patch of dirt on the ground.
Mario stands on it and jumps upwards and a block appears scaring the Toad from the scare the creases on the Toad were gone.
"GAH! Mario! You just- Wait...Hold on... Mario! You scared the creases right out of me!"
Mario gave the Toad a thumbs up and Olly claps for Mario. "Great job Mario! Helping out that poor Toad with his creases."
Mario and Olly heading down the path go past the big sign above them and they read a much smaller sign in front of it.
'Firing it up so you can wolf it down...'
'Welcome to Toad's BBQ Foodeatery!'
'(All firewood used is happy to burn)'
"Well the wood did say they didn't mind being burned."
Mario continues down the path a comes across another sign saying.
'Toad Town' -
Olly cheers. "Oh we're almost back at Toad Town! I always heard him talk about it but...He said we wouldn't go there yet until The Origami Festival but I can't wait to see it!"
Mario confused asked Olly to explain. "Oh? Who I'm talking about? Well I'm talking about the one who folded me. And well...The one who also folded my Sister Olivia. He made us for The Origami Festival."
He proudly looks upwards. "He folded us for greatness and I couldn't wait to go there. He really appreciates the art of origami."
Before Olly could continue they heard a scream.
"GET AWAY FROM US YOU FOLDED FREAKS!"
"Mario! More paper folk are in trouble let's go!"
Mario charges forwards with Olly following behind him.
-...-
