Author note: Forewarning: Boblivia (BobbyxOlivia) ship reeaaal strong in this chapter. If you don't ship it, you can either skip or just stop reading; I don't care. Just to let you know, I do in fact, ship Boblivia.

Bowser had led them to the airship's launching room. Mario had to help him open the door because Bowser had forgotten the passcode. Olivia was very impressed with the airship.

"Grahaha! Just wait until you see this thing fly!"

"It can fly?! Wow!" She smiled at Mario. "This thing flies? Wow! I want to see that!"

"Do whatever you need to prepare, then come on!" Bowser went on board.

"Reporting for duty, ma'am."

Olivia excitedly turned. "Bobby?! But I thought you died!"

"I'm Bob-om, actually. You must have me confused with another Bob-om. It happens all the time."

Olivia's excitedness faded a bit. "Oh, well...I still want to say thank you. For everything."

The Bob-om in front marched onto the airship, the ground behind him following. One at the end stopped and came over to Olivia.

"Oh? Shouldn't you be heading on board? Do you want to hear about how heroic Bobby was?"

"I think I should know that already, ma'am."

She tilted her head. "Huh? But I don't think you're Bobby either. He doesn't have a fuse, see? And you do, see?"

The Bob-om smiled, and Mario recognized him. "Oh, ma'am. You really need to get out more!"

"Silly Bobby! I've been outside all day! It's been a while, see?"

Mario fought back his shock to see if Olivia would catch on.

"Oh yeah, because that tram ride. It was so funny seeing you so surprised from mountains!"

"Wait...how'd you know about that? Are you a friend of Bobby's?"

He chuckled. "Close. Keep going, Olivia."

"Wait a minute...Mario's been so quiet, and you mentioned the tram ride, and you're not a friend of Bobby so that means..."

She let out a small squeak and went over to Bobby, tears in her eyes. She brought him into an embrace.

"Bobby! I missed you!"

"I missed you too, Olivia! Don't cry, you're going to make me cry!"

"I thought you were dead!"

"I was afraid I was going to be!"

Olivia gently pushed herself off of him, smiling whilst still crying. Bobby was crying now as well, for he had not known if he'd ever run into Olivia again. Mario couldn't help but also begin crying, for seeing his friend again was so touching after such a long day.

Olivia cleaned the tears off of her face. "Okay, we should probably go onto the ship now. Heh..."

Bobby stopped her before she continued, but let Mario keep going. "Olivia, I uh...I need to tell you something..."

"Ooh, you sound so nervous! Did you make me a present?"

Bobby's face became hot again, turning a bit red. "Um...Olivia?"

"Yeah? What is it?"

"I uh..."

She didn't stop smiling at him, making his face turn redder.

"Um...Olivia?"

"What is it? Do I have something on my face?"

"I uh..."

"Go on, you can say it! I won't judge you!"

"I-I...! I l-l-lo...ve y-y..."

"Hm?" She chuckled. "You're being so weird! It's adorable! I hate to remind you, but we don't have all day, Bobby." She started off again.

"I love you, Olivia!"

She stopped and turned. "Oh? I love you too!"

Bobby shook his head. "No, it's more than that!"

"O-oh?" Her face became a little red. "L-like that play with the Birdo...?"

Bobby hesitantly nodded. "Y-you're m-my Birdo and I-I'll be the B-Big M..."

Olivia's face turned bright red. "O-oh...? Really? You mean that?"

Bobby nodded, almost loosing his balance. "Yeah...I love you ma'am. I have ever since you were so brave to rescue Big M from Chestnut Valley. You were so much braver than I realized I was, so I fell in love with you f-for that." Bobby couldn't tear his eyes from the floor. "In fact, going against your own brother like this? Th-that's pretty brave, Olivia. Braver than I'll ever be. I hope y-you understand that...Now that I say this out loud, it sounds so corny, help."

"I-I...! Bobby..."

He could finally find the courage to look up at her.

"I th-think I love you too, just n-never knew...But you saying that...thank you. I feel at my weakest right now, since Olly's so powerful compared to me-"

"But you have your friends!" Bobby encouraged. "And Big M! And heck, even Bowser! Be brave, Olivia. Be brave like I know you can!"

"But I'm not...When you died I-I lost myself. I almost gave up, if it weren't for Mario..."

"Even brave people can be weak sometimes, ma'am. I know that. I was so scared of the Gooper Blooper when Big M and I encountered it again, but I was brave anyways, for you." He moved closer to her. "I sacrificed myself for you, Olivia."

"I know...And it was the sweetest thing anyone's done for me."

"That was scary!" Bobby admitted. "I had a chance of not surviving, ma'am. But I did it anyways, for you, so you can be brave and stop your brother."

Olivia sniffed. "Yeah, you're right. I can do this! I've got the bravest and strongest people on my side! I shouldn't be scared of Olly, he's just being a jerk right now, after all."

"That's the Olivia I know!" Bobby stated.

"Thank you so much, Bobby; for everything. And for everything you might do in the future too." She smiled at him.

Bobby, instinctively, pressed his face against hers. She flinched, but leaned into it. Bobby turned away from her after a few seconds, face red.

"I-uh...I should have asked first. Dang it, Bobby!"

Olivia did suit. "Ohmygoshohmygosh, what was that?"

"I am an idiot," Bobby muttered, slamming his face against the wooden body of the airship.

"Oh...wow!" She faced back to Bobby. "Um...let's pretend this never happened for now, okay?"

"Yeah, good idea."

They went onto the airship, ignoring the cheers from the group. Stephen came over to Olivia.

"There you are! Oh, who's this?"

"Oh! This is Bobby! Bobby, meet Stephen!"

"I'm from Scorching Sandpaper Desert and promised not to return until this origami threat is neutralized."

"I'm Bobby, and I'm here to make some new, great memories with Olivia and Big M."

Olivia's face reddened again. "Yeah..."

"Great!" Bowser said. "Let's get going then! Peach's Castle isn't going to raid itself!"

The ship began rising, everybody near the edges grabbing onto the metal railing on the sides. They waited until the ship was airborne before letting go and wandering around on deck.

"Olivia was kissin' one of the Bob-oms," Olivia overheard Junior tattle onto Bowser.

Bowser peeked around Junior and gave them a smug smile. "Young love, am I right?"

Olivia faced away from him. "Wow, this is really impressive! This big thing can fly so well, and it takes me a lot of energy just to float a little bit! This is very you, Bowser."

"Grahaha! That's what I'm talking about! Full steam ahead to Peach's Castle!"

"Lord Bowser," a Koopa Troopa called. "There are enemies straight ahead!"

"What do you think those cannons are decorative? Light them up!"

Olivia and Bobby peeked over the railing to find a large army of light blue paper airplanes coming straight for them. Spikes, Shy Guys, and any other minion with arms loaded all kinds of things into the cannons such as Bob-oms, Bullet Bills, Koopa Troopa shells, and the Spike's spiked balls. Kemek flew with grace on his magic broom, annihilating any stray planes that drew near. Junior chased down three of them at once, attempting to set them ablaze like his father would've.

"Wow! You guys have such great teamwork!" Olivia cheered.

"Thanks, origami girl!" Bowser laughed. "That's the last of them! Let's keep going straight for the-"

"There are more of them, Lord Bowser!" A red Shy Guy warned.

Bowser sighed. "They just don't know when to quit, do they. Mario! Follow me!"

Mario was put in charge of the main cannon, while Olivia and Bobby were told to stay back. Stephen wacked a few away from the ship with his shovel.

"They're getting pretty close, Bowser!" Stephen announced.

"Great, grab a Clown Kart, destroy them, and don't crash the kart!"

A Fire Bro. brought a Clown Kart over to Stephen, who hopped inside. "Stay back, Olivia. You're too precious to sacrifice."

"Aww, thank you!" She watched the Fire Bro. fly away with Stephen.

"Waaah! What is that?!" Junior screeched.

"That must be the boss!" Kemek explained loudly.

Shortly after, they and all the other air troops reboarded the ship. Olivia checked over the side to see a larger-than-the-others paper airplane in front of the ship. Explosions were occasionally appearing on the surprisingly tough airship. It fired off smaller versions of itself at Bowser's Airship.

"Get them, Mario!" Olivia cheered.

"You've got this, Big M!" Bobby joined in.

The other passengers followed suit in cheering on Mario as he destroyed the paper plane. They cheered louder when the plane began going below the clouds.

"We did it!" Stephen said, ending the statement by high-fiving an Ice Bro.

Everybody returned to the main deck.

"Nice job, everyone!" Bowser congratulated. "Even you too, I guess, Mario."

Mario looked mildly upset, but didn't care enough to fight about it.

"And we didn't even scratch the paint!"

The troops began cheering.

"Too little, too soon," rang Olly's voice over the ship's intercoms.

"Olly? How?" Olivia started before being interrupted.

"Lord Bowser! There's one more! We missed one! Enemy off the port side!" The Goomba yelled.

Without warning, a paper plane as large as Bowser's airship crashed nose-first into the side of the airborne ship. The ship began tilting, Bowser's minions screaming and attempting to stay on.

"Olly! Stop this at once!" Olivia tried.

A Sumo Bro grabbed onto her foot and she began sliding down with him. She forced him off before her crushed her foot.

"We're going to crash!" Kemek yelled.

"Aim for the castle!" Bowser ordered.

"We're trying! All engines are down!"

They began their decent to the volcano's base instead of the castle itself.

"See you all in the new Kingdom!" Olly called over the intercoms before they turned to static.

And then they crashed.

Author note: Okay, a few things:

I changed Scissors' title to "Silent Slasher" because "Dual-bladed Dualist" was just stupid. (It's literally the same thing twice lol)

I do ship Boblivia (in case you missed the Author note up top) so that's what this was all about; and spent an entire week planning on how Bobby was going to confess.

Bobby cannot blow up indefinitely like Bombette can, he has a limit of ten. (Current amount: 8. One was used against the Super Gooper Blooper before his fuse was knocked out.)

That's it.

Stay fresh.