In a bedroom, it's brighter than other rooms in Bowser's castle, as the bedsheets are red, the design is creepy with those black spikes on, the floor is more clean as there's tables, meaning Bowser had his room organised and cleaned up like some sort of a clean freak.

Reading, Peach is seeing monochromatic pictures with text that is very foreign, even this is coming from Bowser's table.

Opening the door, appearing is none other than Mario, who is carrying a tray that is a meal.

"Shortstack?" Peach is surprised to see Mario entering Bowser's room.

"Hey, princess. I got you something to eat. Bowser requested me to send it to you." Mario said while placing a tray on the table and then taking a seat on the chair that is higher and larger than he anticipated.

"Hmph. So I guess you work for him." Peach looks away while going back to reading a book.

"Yeah. Bowser seems to be a nice guy. Creepy, but nice." Mario said as he couldn't believe he said it himself.

"He may be nice…" Peach stops herself, sighing as she couldn't do anything about it.

Mario then turns around and back to Peach with a determined look on his face.

"I heard it all."

"Huh?" Peach raises her head with surprise after hearing what Mario said earlier.

"You've been out everytime and because you're a princess, you're pressured to do something you're not fond of."

Peach gasps, knowing that Mario had caught her from hiding the truth behind her masked personality.

"At first I thought you're just an idiot who thinks of no one but yourself, but I'm the idiot for not knowing who you truly are. Heh. Unlike you, I'm nothing but a huge jerk." Mario admitted as he chuckled bitterly.

Peach has bare witnessed a mirror who looks down on itself, knowing what kind of past he experienced.

After that, Peach stands up and hugs Mario, only to surprise him.

"Huh? Princess?"

"It's true… There is someone just like me…" Peach whispers with joy.

"Excuse me?" Mario is confused about what Peach means by someone just like her.

Finally, Peach is on her knees on Bowser's bed and pat Mario's shoulder and look straight into his eyes.

"Shortstack, when the clock strikes at twelve, meet me in Bowser's room here. That's the time where Bowser and his army are having their lunch break. I know an escape route, so all we need to do is to take one of his airships and head back to Mushroom Kingdom." Said Peach.

"But what about Bowser? I mean he's nice." Mario scratches his head while trying to act cool.

"He's not what you think. He may be nice on the outside, but deep down inside, he's a monster. He knows what he wants and he will get it no matter what. Please, shortstack, do not be fooled by him." Peach warned.

That puts Mario through a conflict after hearing Toad's warning earlier, causing Mario to close his eyes and look at Peach.

"Okay. We'll meet up in an hour."

"Thank you. I'll tell you who I am after we leave this castle." Peach is relieved to see Mario being less antagonistic than before.

Finally, Mario leaves Bowser's room while Peach continues to read a book, leading Mario to sigh and then approach Luigi, Pauline and Toad.

"Guys, change of plan: princess is coming with us."

"Really!?" Pauline and Luigi jolted up with surprise.

"Yes! Now we can finally get out of this castle easily!" Toad cheers. "But easily is an understatement. It's not going to be easy since Bowser increased his security."

"So what now?" Luigi asked.

"We let princess lead the way." Mario answered.

"Huh?" The group halts.

"She knows a way out, so we'll be meeting her at twelve o'clock where Bowser is having his lunch." Mario explained.

"Huh. Seems that you've been sharing some knowledge with Peach." Pauline said while smiling.

"Oh yeah! Mario, whatever you do, don't mess up!" Luigi warns while holding Mario's hands.

"Yeah. I won't mess it up and neither will princess." Mario smiles back while preparing for the moment.

With Mario, Luigi, Pauline and Toad place their hands on each other, they'll prepare themselves an escape, so Bowser won't know what's coming to him.

Later.

"Lunch time!" A koopa troopa called as a goomba hits a bong by carrying a stick with his mouth

"Ooh boy! I wonder what's for dinner!?" Bowser cheers while he and his troops are dashing towards the dining room, giving Mario, Luigi, Pauline and Toad the chance to enter Bowser's room without anyone knowing.

Finally as the door closes, Mario and his group arrive as Peach stands off of the bed and walks towards Mario and his group.

"You're right on time." Peach said with a smile that is suggestive.

"I was making sure." Mario chuckles while flicking red his cap.

With Peach climbing out of the window, Luigi and Pauline gasp out of shock.

"Follow me. The air vent near the bedroom." Peach waves as Mario is the first to follow, then Toad, then Pauline, who was reluctant to go out like this.

Luigi gulps as he's the last one to follow, only to see Peach gestures to Luigi to close the window outside.

To Luigi's shock, he heard a humming, causing him to hastily close the window.

"Princess, dinner's re-... LORD BOWSER!" Kamek screams after witnessing Luigi escaping and closes the window.

"Sorry, Peach!" Luigi apologised while holding onto a wall.

"It's okay, Luigi! Don't worry, I know an alternative!" Peach called.

"Then what is the alternative!?" Pauline shouts.

"Wait! We're still taking the vents and the airship!?" Toad asked.

"Yeah! Come on!" Peach enters the vent first as she's followed in order from Mario to Toad to Pauline to Luigi.

Back inside Bowser's castle, Bowser is eating a large meat as the bone is being left as a toothpick for Bowser himself to use.

As the army laughs and chatting together, a door slams open as Kamek pants.

"Hey, look who's back." A goomba chuckled.

"Hey, old man wizard! Back from the retirement home?" A koopa troopa laughed.

"Hey, old man! Retirement homes are that way!" Another koopa troopa called.

This had the army laughing as Kamek growls and clench his wand out of pure rage.

"Shut your yap!" Kamek snapped. "Lord Bowser! Lord Bowser! It's the princess and our guests!"

"Oh? Are they playing with each other? That's cute." Bowser is glad to hear what's going on without even listening.

"This is serious, my lord! They're escaping!" Kamek exclaimed.

"Hm!? What!?" Bowser stops laughing and then hastily rushes to his bedroom.

As Bowser slams the door open, he checks different places like his table, his bed, even his closets, until he furrows his eyebrows as the flames slowly comes out of his mouth.

"Grr…" Growling, Bowser knew this was happening again.

Princess Peach escapes from Bowser's castle and it's not the first time it happened.

Bowser then roars as he bursts out fire from his mouth like a flamethrower, only for his rage to fuel up even further.

"STRENGTHEN THE SECURITY! DO NOT LET THOSE TRAITORS ESCAPE WITH THE PRINCESS!" Bowser orders, refusing to let Peach out of her new home.

"Sir yes sir!" The koopa army salutes and then calls for tighter security as they spread out to their position.

"L- Lord Bowser." Kamek stutters while waving his wand to cool Bowser down.

"Kamek, where are they heading to?" Bowser asks as he growls.

"I- I don't know, but I'll stop them for you, your majesty!" Kamek bows, summoning his broom and then hops on it and floats upwards.

"Good. Bring them back. Their punishment will be the only thing they'll be facing and we'll put the princess back and chain her up in my room."

"Yes, my lord!" Kamek agrees and then flies off out of the bedroom as Bowser picks up his book.

While he remembers reading it, he still doesn't understand the language in this book as he himself can tell that the pictures are the things he needs as weapons to block anyone who attacks and infiltrates his kingdom.

Bowser then smirks whilst he walks towards a different location that is another bedroom.

"Hey, son. Can you do me a favour?"

In another location that is a corridor, Peach and Mario's group are hiding as they see a koopa army strolling in different places.

As Mario and Luigi nod, the duo smacks their tools on a couple of koopa troopas, knocking them out as Mario and Luigi drag their bodies behind the door.

With Mario and Luigi calling for clear, Peach, Pauline and Toad are running while hiding from the security that is trying to hunt them down.

At the bridge where the lava is the only place that's a hazard, Luigi shivers as Mario holds Luigi by the arm and Peach does the same for Pauline, leaving Toad to carry no one fortunately.

With the five hiding behind another door, what they see is Kamek with a goomba and a koopa troopa that are saluting (despite goombas having no arms).

"Remember, Hal, Jeff: red hat, green hat, pyjama woman, one mushroom and Princess Peach! Find them and bring them to our lord!" Kamek orders.

"Sure. Whatever you say, old man." A koopa troopa, Hal gets the gist of what Kamek meant.

"So we have Mario, Luigi, Pauline, Toad and the princess. Alright. That's the identity described. We'll look out for 'em." A goomba, Jeff said nonchalantly.

"Good! Do not disappoint!" Kamek then flies off as Hal and Jeff sigh and then sit down as they're bored.

"They're blocking our way out. Let's take the alternate route." Peach whispers.

Before Peach's group turns around, an armoured koopa appears with surprise, causing the group to gasp.

"Huh? Guys! I found them!" An armoured koopa called, causing Mario to block his group.

"So, you think you can run away from us like that. So, how would you like to survive with a hammer?" Another koopa raised his hammer near Pauline's neck which had her shrieking in fright.

"Wait. Spare them, kill me instead." Peach said as she's willing to sacrifice herself for Mario, Luigi, Pauline and Toad's safety.

"Like we would! The boss ordered us to take you back so you can be his bride!" A koopa with a hammer spat out of malice as he's grabbing Peach's arm, forcing her to come with them.

"Princess!" Toad yelled.

Mario grits his teeth and swings his fist onto a koopa's stomach that hard as the force causes a koopa with a hammer to yell and then fall.

This had all the koopas alert themselves by raising their weapons and an armoured koopa released his claws as he growled.

"You… Why did you do this!?" The armoured one growls.

Peach and Toad have never seen a human so determined to defend his allies that even Luigi and Toad nod.

After that, both Luigi and Toad headbutts the army which had an armoured one growling and dash towards Luigi.

"DIE!"

"Not this time!" Toad shouts as he releases sand dust onto a koopa's eyes, making him scream in pain.

With the army lying unconscious and the armoured one down on his knees, this alerts Mario and his group to make a run for it causing Mario and Luigi to jump on Hal and Jeff hastily.

"Huh!? My shell!" Hal yelps as he covers himself and then witnesses his friend being pancaked by the escapees. "JEFF!"

"Ow… Darn it…" Jeff grunts.

"Jeff, are you alright!?" Hal exclaims while picking up a flattened Jeff.

"Yeah. Call the medic."

"You IDIOTS!" An armoured koopa yelled while rubbing his eyes. "Do you have any idea what you've just done!?"

Putting his shell back on, Hal turns around while headbutting an armoured koopa.

"Now listen here, Captain Basilisx! We didn't know the escapees were coming!" Hal snapped.

"Silence! We need to report this to our boss!" Basilisx hisses while running towards the main hall.

"Uh… Are we done for, if our boss finds out about our performance?" Jeff asked.

"I don't know, Jeff. I don't know." Hal mutters

This leaves Hal and Jeff wondering if they're fired or not as both of them sigh out of disbelief.

The only thing left to do is to take Jeff to the medic.

At the large room where there's airships, Peach is leading the group to an airship near the exit, leading her to put Pauline, Toad, Luigi and Mario in before her as Toad himself pilots the airship.

"Alright. Is everyone seated!?" Toad calls.

"Oh yeah!" Mario and Luigi replied.

"Yeah." Pauline pants as she's finally safe.

"That's everyone! It's time for a lift off! Toad, take us back to the Mushroom Kingdom immediately!" Peach ordered.

"Yes, ma'am!" Toad replies as the ship is lifting itself and flies away by firing its cannons, blowing up other airships to prevent the koopa army from piloting one of them.

With the army appearing, they're all pushed back as explosions are stronger and heavier.

As for Bowser, he found out that his so-called guests are trying to escape without him knowing.

"So, you think you can escape me!? Kamek! Get them!" Bowser roars as he points at the smoke covered room.

"Yes, my lord!" Kamek zooms past as the army are opening their wings and flying along with Kamek.

"Hm. Oh?" Bowser halts as he witnesses a bunch of flying objects with cannon tubes that were built for his request. "Hehehe… Well done, my son. Now let's see how these humans escape from them."

Outside, an airship is being chased down by an army of koopas and Kamek as well as flying objects that are shooting large bullets with eyes and arms.

With the airship struggling to keep going straight, Mario pushes Luigi down as he shouts out. "Drones!"

"Drones!? But we don't have the technology for that kind of machinery!" Luigi exclaimed.

Mario then remembers what Peach read through a comic book which featured differently designed drones which had him realise Bowser took inspiration from that thing.

"Princess! That comic book!"

"You mean the manga I read!? Yeah! Bowser must've used that idea to stop us!" Peach can tell what's going on.

"Wait, you've been to Japan!?"

"Uh, guys! We got company! It's not just these things, but there's paratroopas and him!" Toad yelled as Kamek is leading all the paratroopas to get the airship.

Even the bullets hit the airship as Peach and Pauline screamed and Luigi rushed towards Toad and Mario held onto Peach and Pauline.

"Toad, please! GET US OUT OF HERE!" Luigi screamed.

"I'm trying! These guys are..."

An explosion has caught an engine as it interrupts Toad, the blades are pulled apart, leading the airship to split into two. On one side is Mario, Luigi, Peach and Toad and on the other is Pauline as she shrieks.

"Pauline!" Mario shouts as he reaches his arm.

"Mario! Luigi!" Pauline yells while reaching her arm.

"Mario! Wait!" Luigi tries to reach Mario while falling from the blue and yellow sky in a smashed airship, only for Kamek to go between both halves of a destroyed airship.

"Fools! You dare to leave this place!? After we give you hospitality and this is what we get!? No matter! You won't escape me!" Kame yells while waving his wand by creating a fireball and pointing at Pauline directly. "Perish!"

"PAULINE! NO!" Mario then tries to run, but is caught by Luigi and Peach as they don't want Mario to end up being caught by Kamek's fire.

Pauline grunts as she's prepared to jump before Kamek fires his wand at Pauline herself.

Then BOOM! A fiery explosion has left Mario in shock, bare witnessing the hellfire that took his older sister away.

"Pauline… No way…" This not only pushes Mario's buttons, but it leads him to feel guilt and anger that is flowing inside of him.

"Hold on tight!" Toad calls as the paratroopas are grabbing the remains of the airship, leading Luigi to shriek and Peach to grunt.

What Toad holds out is a bomb with white eyes, lighting it by scraping the wood on it and then tossing it into the engine room as the drones are being hit by cannon balls that Mario and Luigi throw.

"When we get back, you will be our servants! Now take them back!" Kamek is now at the point going directly at the escapees.

"Sorry, Kamek, but the Bob-omb's been lit. See ya!" Toad waves while pulling Mario, Luigi and Peach down through the hole.

"What!? NO! Everyone! Let go!" Kamek shrieked, ordering his army to let go of the airship until it caused a nuke to the sky, pushing all the paratroopas as they separated and crashed down.

Kamek had come to a realisation that he's been underestimated by Peach and Mario's group.

"Tch! CURSE YOU! I HOPE LORD BOWSER COMES BACK TO GET YOU!" Kamek lets out a yell as he's left with no targets nearby.

In the end, they all successfully escaped.

Unknown

Inside a jungle, waking up after feeling a few burns on her body, Pauline has survived Kamek's fire magic that almost incinerated her.

At least she's safe.

But she's alone.

"Mario… I hope you're okay with the others." Pauline sighs to herself as she picks herself up and then looks around the trees.

She can feel the stinging pain on her arm which isn't as worse than she thought, but at least she survived…

For now…

A voice of a monkey has caught Pauline's attention, leading her to turn around and look around her surroundings.

But to her horror, she's finally in front of a large one who is staring into her eyes.

It's not just the big guy in a red tie as there are more monkeys in different fashion that are hanging around, surrounding Pauline which gives her the impression that they're seeing her as a part of their kind.

"Aah… M- Mario! Where are you!?"

If only she's as strong as her brothers, then she won't have a hard time fighting back.

In the end, she was grabbed by the large monkey with a DK tie on and was being put onto his shoulder, causing Pauline to yell out.

"Hey! Let me go, you stupid ape! Help! Mario! Luigi! HELP ME!"