Toad Town

The sky is now amber.

At the farm where there's cows and milk at the barn, Toad is sighing while watching the builders driving the Kongs' karts as a way to make haste.

Thankfully, Toad is getting another payment as a green farmer toad girl with braided twintails marched by Toad.

"Oh? Maisey?" Toad jumps up while rubbing his white mushroom 'head.'

"Hey, Toad, you haven't been around for four days after the princess' disappearance. I bet Bowser isn't hurting you guys." Maisey said while helping Toad move the cows back to their barn shack.

"Oh he didn't, alright, but he's out to get us." Toad worries while continuing his work.

"Huh!? That means everyone is in danger!" Maisey exclaimed.

"Don't worry, Maisey, at least the outsiders are our only hope! I'm just scared that they're putting their own lives at risk." Toad's smile fades, unsure about the possible future that'll kill Mario and Luigi.

With Toad sighing after working, Maisey leans by the door with Toad, seeing as Toad is acting unusual as he's always cheerful in his behaviour.

"Toad, before dad pays you, do you have something you wanna tell me?" Maisey asked out of curiosity.

"Huh? No, why?"

"Because that look means something is going on with you."

Toad worries that Maisey is going to act the same way as him if he reveals himself, especially after Kinosen told him who he really was.

Toad then sits down and looks at the castle.

"Maisey, be honest with me, why do you want to know about my past?" Toad asked as his tone was becoming sombre.

"Because I care about you. And we both have the same dream is to have a proper job that isn't punching blocks everyday." Maisey is being honest with herself, giving Toad the chance to speak up.

What Toad didn't know is that he's not the only one with issues that's been lingering throughout all his life.

"Fine…"

Before Toad explains his past, he and Maisey turn towards the sky as they witness a bunch of flying koopas with the drones and a single airship with a laughter that is creepily familiar.

"Bowser!" Both Toad and Maisey exclaimed, knowing that Peach is in trouble.

Afterwards, both toads are running from the barn, even before Toad is getting paid, heading straight towards the castle before Bowser and his army do.

Peach's Castle

In Peach's bedroom, Mario and Peach sigh after the announcement went well, giving Peach a boost in confidence as well as making her more of a nervous wreck.

"So, feeling better, princess?" Mario asked with confidence in him.

"Yeah. Thanks to you, the Mushroom Kingdom will finally function well. If it weren't for you and Luigi, then this kingdom would've fallen." Peach felt relieved after the Kongs' assistance as well as Mario and Luigi, knowing Mario, Luigi, Pauline and Toad played a big role in her life. "But I'm still worried about you guys."

"Is it about Bowser again? If so, then I won't hold back to stop him." Mario clenches his fist while declaring his life to protect everyone.

In Peach's mind, Mario can be just as stubborn as she herself was. In the end, Mario and Peach are slowly opening up the shells that are covering them up for a long time.

In Mario's mind, Peach is someone who isn't actually consistent when it comes down to her decision making, but is actually trying to be as straightforward as she can.

Mario smiles while thinking about what the future holds for him and his brother as well as his friends.

"So what are you planning for us if we're dating? Well, just to know." Mario asks out of curiosity.

"Oh! Um… I haven't thought about that. Maybe I was a bit too forward on you, huh." Peach admitted.

"Heh. We're humans, we're not the smartest bunch. If anything, the Kongs are the ones who surpassed us, if I could be wrong."

As Mario and Peach laugh together, both of them then look each other in the eyes as Mario and Peach are seeing something that is far more beautiful than the ugliness they're surrounded by.

"Ahem! So tomorrow is working, huh?" Mario quickly asked while looking away and rubbing his neck.

"Ah! Yes it is." Peach quickly answered.

"Okay, I'll be off. See ya tomorrow, Peach." Before Mario opens the bedroom door, he ends up getting his arm gripped as Peach is giving Mario something in return.

"Wait! How about you sleep in my room… Ahem! Just for tonight?" Peach offers while clearing her throat.

"Oh. Okay." Mario nonchalantly agreed, thinking that Peach needed some comfort. "Well, knowing that I have nothing to wear, maybe my overalls shall do."

"Hold on, you've been in the same overalls for the last four days. Same goes for Luigi." Peach points out as Mario laughs it off.

"Sorry, Peach. I didn't notice either." Mario lied.

Finally, Mario lies down on Peach's soft bed as he's in his red and white socks and leaves his white gloves on the desk as well as his red cap.

"Mario, how often did you brush your hair? It looks wavy and cared for."

"Oh that? Yeah, Luigi and I usually take care of our hairs and moustaches, like combing them and washing them everyday. For a blondie like you, I'm surprised your hair isn't dyed." Mario rubs his hair as well as the tips handing out of the back of his head on the left side.

"That's because I'm a natural blonde, and just like you, I always take care of my appearance." Peach explained while acting all high and mighty.

With Mario and Peach watching the sky, the duo gasp as they witness what's in front of them.

"Mario! It's Bowser! He's he-"

BOOM!

An explosion has caught Mario and Peach as both of them crash onto the wall as well as interrupting Luigi as he and Donkey Kong rushed.

After the explosion, drones are pointing their cannons tubes at Mario and Peach, as well as the paratroopas and Kamek himself.

"Looks like we meet again, Princess Peach." Kamek laughs as he holds his wand out.

"Kamek…" Peach grunts.

This alerts Mario to block Peach while glaring at a bunch of koopas.

"Oh? Are you trying to stop us from confronting the princess? Now listen here, outsider, my lord has a bone to pick with you!" Kamek shouts.

"Why don't you go and tell him that Peach said no and she's taken!" Mario growls, raising his fists as he's preparing to face his worst opponent.

"Huh? So that's how it is?" Appearing is Basilisx while sliding his claws onto the floors and pointing out as the koopas move aside. "How about you see for yourself, princess."

To Peach's horror, what she sees this time is a sea of flames what is covering Toad Town which is burning the toads alive as well as the guards and the kongs fighting back against a koopa horde, even no one is safe from the airship cannonballs and the drones' bullets.

Is it bloodshed or…

"No… Why…"

"You were warned, princess." A familiar voice had both Mario and Peach gasping in fright as they turned to see the familiar face that is still as threatening as ever.

"Bowser…" Mario grunts.

"Bowser…" Peach gasps.

"Like the new kingdom you made? I say it's a fitting end to those who refused to heed my warnings. Now break up with this man and lay your hand on mine." Bowser raises his arm, waiting for Peach to hold it like the woman he viewed as his lover.

To Peach's disgust, Bowser never viewed her as a woman, but a doll that was only there to be his bride.

"I- In your dreams! And my nightmares! I will never marry someone like you!" Peach snapped.

"Well then… If you don't accept." Basilisx's voice is to Peach's right as he grabs Mario from behind and places his claws onto his neck. "Then he'll die along with his brother and his friends."

"Huh? What the!?" Mario grunts as he's shocked to see what's happening to him.

"Mario! Ngh!" Peach is now stuck in the middle of a conflict.

All she has to choose is either Bowser's marriage, or Mario's corpse, causing Peach to panic further.

"Choose, princess. Me, or him." Bowser makes a threatening growl as his smile is far more sinister that Peach has witnessed.

To Peach, Bowser is the type of guy who always gets what he wants to the point of acting like a spoiled brat.

Gritting her teeth, Peach is done with all the things that are holding her back which immediately leads her to raise her fingers at a hasty pace towards Basilisx.

Afterwards, the koopa army gasps as Basilisx screams, holding his eyes as Peach was able to poke them as well as freeing Mario, who was down on his backside with surprise.

"Don't mess with me. I may be a princess, but I'm not some helpless girl you see!" Peach finally swings her fist without any hesitation.

This leads to Peach getting grabbed by the arm by a large armoured koopa until her arm is being snapped, causing Peach to scream.

"Peach!" Mario yelled.

"Hey! When I said not to harm the princess, I meant not to break her arm!" Bowser roared while punching one of his heavy armoured koopa.

"Ow! Sorry, boss!" An armoured koopa cried while covering himself in a shell with his helmet popping off.

What Mario witnessed is Peach crouching down while holding her arm, crying with agonising pain.

"You! Why you! Bowser!" Mario yells while rushing forwards.

But he was unfortunately hit by Bowser's fist, leading Mario to crash onto the wall as he grunted.

"You wait your turn, human! Kamek, heal the princess!" Bowser ordered.

"Y- Yes, your majesty!" Kamek hastily slides while using his magic to heal Peach's snapped right arm.

"Mario!" Luigi slides while picking up Mario, who can feel the pain of getting punched by an overgrown turtle.

"Luigi… Princes… She's hurt." Mario coughs while getting picked up.

"Yeah. Now what?" Worried about what's going on, Luigi is also distraught by what Bowser did to not just the town, but the people in there.

"I'll handle this. Hey! Bowser!" Donkey Kong explodes as he catches Bowser's attention.

"Oh? You again? Aren't you that Kong who was beaten by a couple of moustachioed humans?" Bowser mockingly asks.

"Yeah! So what? It's between you and me, so let go of the princess!" Donkey Kong shouts while raising his hand.

"Gwahahaha! I think not. No one is taking the princess, but me. So scram, ape!" Bowser growled.

Before both Bowser and Donkey Kong are raising their fists, Donkey Kong spins his right arm, giving Bowser the chance to run as his army is about to be used as his assistance.

"Gotcha!" Donkey Kong swings his fist, only for Bowser to hastily turn around and block with his shell and then swing his fist onto Donkey Kong's face.

Thus causes Donkey Kong to collapse and is surrounded by a horde of koopas.

"You coward!" Donkey Kong snapped.

"A coward? Why? Is it because my army is backing me up? Silly, Kong, I'm doing what I need to do! How about you stay with the plumbers and- !?" What stops Bowser from speaking is a potato smacking his face, causing Bowser himself to pick it up out of confusion. "What the heck!?"

"A potato!" A toad girl's voice called.

"Looks like we made it on time, Maisey!" Toad laughs.

"Yeah! Now let go of the princess, you fiend!" Maisey ordered, which surprised Mario, Luigi and Donkey Kong to see both toads standing back up against Bowser himself.

This alerts his army to point their weapons at both toads causing both Toad and Maisey to laugh it all off.

"Grr… You fungus freaks! Always getting in the way of my plan to marry the princess! Captain Basilisx! How long are you going to crouch down and hold your eyes!?" Bowser roared as anger built inside him way worse than before.

"Sorry, my lord… But I need to recover my eyes. So these two are my next victims to kill." Basilisx hisses while glaring at Toad and Maisey after letting go of his red eyes.

To Toad and Maisey's shock, a koopa with claws is approaching them as Toad raises his fists, protecting Maisey.

"Relax, unnamed servant, freckle-faced farm girl. My soldier will serve you nice mushrooms as your final meal. Kill them all." Bowser put his thumb down, ready to see a bunch of corpses with 2 humans, a bunch of mushrooms and monkeys.

"Yes, my lord." Basilisx starts to speed up, causing both Toad and Maisey to quickly duck from Basilisx's dive and then make a run for it.

"Go, go! Save the princess!" Toad shouted while running from an army of goombas, koopas and spinys.

"Yeah!" Maisey agreed as she and Toad charged towards Kamek.

This causes Kamek to shriek and create a barrier before they kick him and get Peach.

Unfortunately, Kamek was booted to the face as both Toad and Maisey pick up Peach as Peach is still in pain by her arm.

"Princes… What did he do to you?" Maisey asks out of worry.

"It doesn't matter… Mario and others are in trouble." Peach points as Bowser is picking up Mario and Luigi by their faces and stepping on Donkey Kong's chest.

"Maisey, get the princess out of sight. I'll handle Mario, Luigi and Donkey's problems." Toad nods while approaching Bowser.

"Okay. Please be careful, Toad." Maisey calls and then drags Peach towards the airship to escape from Bowser. "Let's go, princess."

"Thank you, Maisey…" Peach sighs, relieved that there's more people coming to her aid.

To Bowser's shock, he witnessed Maisey dragging Peach away from him, causing Bowser himself to panic as the army tried to break the barrier.

"NO!"

"Heh. Now it's our turn, Bowser. Let them go!" Toad points at Bowser, fueling Bowser's rage as he's being outsmarted again and again.

First was Peach's escape with the outsiders.

Second was Peach's affair with an outsider like Mario.

And now it's Peach's army preventing him from getting her, leading Bowser to have some flames coming out of his mouth.

"You… I have HAD IT! If I can't have the princess! Then NO ONE CAN!" Bowser roared which intimidated his army to the point that fear was on them.

"Boss. Handle these fools and get the princess. I'll take care of this fungus along with our army." Basilisx chuckles, raising his claws as he's prepared to give Toad a well deserved game over.

Bowser can tell that Basilisx is always determined to complete his job, especially when he's close to failing it.

Bowser then turns back to those he's grabbing as Mario and Luigi are grunting as pain is getting stronger and stronger.

"Then deal with him. He's the reason why Peach escaped again." Bowser lets out a low growl, giving Basilisx the opportunity to take out a measly toadstool.

"Yes, your majesty. And I'll make sure to recover Kamek when he's not asleep."

"Good. Koopa pack, split up and find the princess!" Bowser ordered.

"Yessir!" The koppa army salutes and then splits as one side is after Peach and the other is against Toad.

Toad knows how Mario and others felt after being up against a huge amount of opponents as well as a large creature.

He's actually afraid that he'll be on the receiving end of being dog piled by the koopa army.

Toad takes a deep breath and approaches Bowser and his army by picking up a halberd and pointing at the koopa army.

"Bring it on!" Toad shouts.

But what'll happen to Mario, Luigi and Donkey Kong if Toad didn't make it in time to save them?

Let's hope Peach is okay.