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Mario runs forward to find out who needs help.
He stops and notices some Folded Soldier Goombas surrounding some Flat Paper Goombas.
Mario pulls out his hammer and whacks away one of the Folded Soldiers turning it into confetti.
"Hey! It's Mario!" One of the Goombas said.
"Being saved by Mario...Did not expect that today."
"Well neither of us expected some folded freaks to try and kidnap us."
"Fair."
Mario takes care of the last Folded Soldier as it also bursts into confetti. Mario turns to the Goombas and they sigh with relief.
"Well I guess thanks Mario..."
"What were those folded freaks? They looked like Goombas but... off putting."
"But where were they trying to take us?"
"It's kinda weird to be saved by Mario...But hey we're all paper here and we gotta watch each others backs."
"Yeah with this kind of mess it's for the best."
One Goomba stepped forward who seemed to be the leader of the group of Goombas. "Alright guys! Let's show these folded freaks who's boss! Let's fight folds with stacks!"
The Flat Paper Goombas moved into a stack. "Alright move out!"
And The Stacked Paper Goomba ran off down the pathway.
Olly floats next to Mario. " Olivia...She's going after all these paper folk...What happened to her..? She used to be so nice..."
Mario notices the change of Olly's mood. "B-But...A King has to stay strong no matter what...N-No matter what!"
Olly flicks his folded up hair that covers one of his eyes. "I can...We can do..This and stay strong..."
Olly floats forward. "Come on Mario we need to get back to Town."
Mario followed after Olly but he was still concerned for him.
Down the path they heard foot steps and they both look at each other concerned. "Those foot steps they sound a bit loud." Olly looked above the wall they were next to but no one was there.
"O-Ok this is fine maybe we're just hearing things. Yes that must be it!" Olly said trying his best to stay calm.
Mario and Olly continue along the path and they reach the gates to the Town.
"We made it!" Olly cheered.
Mario and Olly enter through the gates and into Toad Town.
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Olly looks around the Town it was empty...No one there.
"No one is here. When he talked about Toad Town he said it was really lively with a bunch of Toads."
Olly looks over to a hole in reality on the right and it looks like an image of a bench was also gone from there.
"More holes!? Why is Olivia making all these holes everywhere?!"
Mario and Olly heard some crunching sounds. "Is someone eating?"
Mario and Olly look to the left to one of the houses to see what it looked like a huge Goomba but looked off. It looked like it was made from confetti with the confetti matching what a Goomba would look like.
And on the back on it was some sort of sticker on it's back. And sticker that's had a symbol on it looking like Olivia's face.
"What the-"
The thing turned around and pieces of the house it was in front of was gone and confetti was on it's face.
"It's eating the house!?"
Mario and Olly stare at it with shock.
"These things Mario...They're Paper Macho Soldiers...Did my Sister give them life? Unlike the Folded Soldiers they're not origami they're made from confetti considering our whole world is made from confetti. Olivia won't have trouble making more of them."
Olly takes another look at the hole that the Paper Macho Soldier had made on the house.
"Wait! That's why there are holes everywhere! But we're in luck Mario." Olly points at the sticker on the Paper Macho Soldier's back.
"Looks like a weak point. It looks like my sister's face though...But we got no choice and we got the upper hand with it being to busy eating that house."
Mario nods slowly sneaking up on the Paper Macho Soldier and holds up his hammer and hits the sticker on it's back.
It shakes it self from the hit and a white flag pops out from the top of it's head as the sticker falls off and onto the floor it stares at Mario and Olly with an emotionless stare.
It charges at the two of them but they move out of the way.
Mario holds up his hammer again and hits it and with the hit out came some more confetti as it falls to the ground.
Olly cheers on Mario as he deals two more hits to the Paper Macho Soldier. And it puffs into a bunch of confetti.
"Well done Mario you sure showed that Paper Macho Soldier. But we must focus on the matter at hand. Getting where that Princess's Castle used to be."
Olly looks over some of the houses. "I can see the gates over there. I say it's best we head over there and deal with any Paper Macho Soldiers along the way."
Mario nods and heads towards the gates of the castle but...
"WHAT!? The bridge is broken!" Olly yelled.
The bridge was broken and it looked too big to jump across.
"Mario do you have any ideas how to get across?"
Mario spots a green pipe on the other side and points to it.
"Huh? The pipe? Oh I get it! We find another green pipe we go in it and we get across! You're so smart Mario."
Mario looks to the left and notices a Shy Guy stuck in between the doors.
He walks over to the Shy Guy and pulls him out of the door and he falls flat on the ground and he quickly sits back up.
"Whew! Thank you for that. Well since you helped me I gotta owe you. Which I can pay you back right now with information!"
The Shy Guy points over to a manhole cover. "Well if you want to get to Peach's Castle you gotta take the sewers."
Mario gives the Shy Guy a thumbs up and heads over to the manhole cover and tries to pull it off but it didn't budge.
"Oh right I forgot to mention that you need a special manhole hook to open it."
"I believe my friend is using it at the moment. Just look for a Red Shy Guy like me but he's just not as handsome as me."
Olly ponders. "I see a Red Shy Guy. But not as handsome I believe we can find him."
Mario and Olly walk down the pathway but they stop when they hear screaming.
"HELP! THIS THING IS GOING TO EAT ME!"
They look at the wall that was made from hedges and Olly looks over it to see another Paper Macho Soldier and in it's mouth was a Red Shy Guy screaming trying to get out of it's mouth.
"SAVE ME!"
Olly floats down to Mario. "Mario! It's a Shy Guy! I think he's that other guy's friend!"
Mario runs around the hedges and enter the house.
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Once they were both in the house Mario heads over to the door to open it but it wouldn't budge when Mario tried to open it.
"Something is blocking the door. Most likely that Paper Macho Soldier."
Olly looked around a spotted a window. "Hey Mario maybe we can try the window."
Mario tries to reach the window on his own but he couldn't get up the drawer. Mario then got an idea and pulled out one of the drawers cabinets and used it as a stepping stoll and climbs to the window and uses his hammer to whack it open.
And he climbs through it to the outside.
Once Mario and Olly reach the outside the Paper Macho Soldier didn't seem to notice them yet and Mario took this chance to strike the sticker that was on it's back.
The Paper Macho Soldier looks at him with the emotionless eyes and charges at them.
Mario and Olly move out of the way of the charging Paper Macho Soldier as the Shy Guy stuck in the Paper Macho Soldier's mouth cheers them on.
Mario keeps striking the Paper Macho Soldier and it bursts into confetti and the Shy Guy falls to the ground.
"Ugh...Thanks that was uncomfortable...If anyone could defeat the world's biggest and most disgusting Goomba. It would be you Mario."
"Wait you're that Shy Guy's friend right? You're red and you look almost as handsome to. You wouldn't have a that manhole hook for the sewer?"
The Shy Guy sat himself up. "Oh that thing? I left it in the red building all the way over there."
The Shy Guy pointed across to the other side of Town.
"Oh thank you." Mario jumps on a crate near the fence and jumps over the fence with Olly following behind him.
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After going through the Town patching up holes in reality and defeating a bunch of other Paper Macho Soldiers along the way they reach a big red building.
Which had another Paper Macho Soldier eating the door.
"I never knew that Paper Macho Soldiers liked eating buildings that strange indeed."
Mario grabs his hammer and strikes the sticker and moves out of the way of it charging at them and continues hitting the Paper Macho Soldier intil it explodes into confetti.
Mario grabbed the confetti off the ground and throws it onto the door and it fits right into place and patches up the door.
Mario opens the door but let's Olly go through first before going in himself and closes the door behind him.
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Entering the Building it was full with a few crates the shelves holding multiple boxes and Mario looked to his right and saw a tuft of hair poking out of one of the boxes it look paper like but not folded.
Mario grabs it a pulls and something went flying out of the box.
"GAH! Wait... I'M DOOMED! I DON'T WANT TO BE FOLDED!"
It was a Spike who was hiding his face.
"Hey it's alright we're not Folded Soldiers." Olly says trying to reassure the Spike.
"Oh wait Mario! And whoever this guy is. Thanks for the help."
"Well we're glad you're ok and I'm King Olly. The Origami King. But...You wouldn't happen to know anything where a manhole hook could be?"
The Spike thinks for a moment. "Hmm well maybe these boxes have a clue I mean that's where you usually put stuff right?"
The Spike walks over to a nearby shelf. "Here try hitting this shelf maybe that box up there can help us."
Mario grabs his hammer and starts hitting it and the box got looser and looser and it falls to the ground and it opens up as a bright light comes out of it in a form of a tiny triangle.
It floats into the ground and forms into a Magic Circle.
"What the- Mario what is that?!" The Spike said confused by the Magic Circle.
Mario steps onto the Magic Circle and his arms fold up into the Thousand Fold Arms.
"Ok what is even happening right now!?" The Spike yells out.
"This power is called The Thousand Fold Arms. Show him what it can do Mario."
Mario nods feeling around the wall for something.
And at the top left Mario found part of the wall felt a bit loose. He grabbed it with both of his folded up arms and pulled it off the wall revealing a door.
Olly clapped. "Yes brilliant work. Maybe we can find the manhole hook behind there."
"Uhh...Yeah you two go do that I'll just stay hiding in here I don't really want to go back out there."
Mario and Olly nod respecting the Spike's decision and enter through the door.
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Once Mario and Olly enter the room they notice two Folded Soldier Goombas and they take notice of the two of them and charge at them.
Mario jumps on top of one of them and strikes the other Folded Soldier with his hammer knocking it back.
The Folded Soldier knocks Mario off of it and charges again. Mario grips his hammer and gives it a swing and knocks the Folded Soldier into the other and they burst into confetti.
Olly looks up and notices something at the top of the crates.
"Mario! Mario! Look at the top!"
Mario looks at the top and notices the manhole hook it was at the top of the crates and was a bit stuck in one of the crates.
Olly floats upwards and grabs the manhole hook and tries to pull it free from the crate but it wouldn't budge.
"Sorry Mario I can't pull it free. Maybe you can...But how can you get up here?"
Mario looks around the room and notices a pushcart behind a few crates.
Mario slams his hammer into the crates breaking them and hit his hammer into the pushcart and it rolls to the other end of the room.
"Oh I see." Mario jumps up onto the crates using the pushcart as a stepping stoll and jumps across the gap to get to where Olly was.
Mario hits the crate the has the manhole hook and it breaks as the manhole hook falls to the ground.
Mario picks up the manhole hook and puts it in his pocket.
"Brilliant Mario now we can get to the sewers! Which isn't a place where people would be excited to vist really."
Mario notices an open window and jumps through it and lands outside.
"Ah it's much faster through the window I see. Well off we go."
Mario and Olly head off back to the manhole cover to use the manhole hook.
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