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As Mario walks out of the room using the hole Olly jumps out of Mario's pocket and checks around the corners.
"It's all clear for now Mario. I don't see any Folded Soldiers."
Folded Soldiers? Does he mean those Shy Guys?
Mario got out of his thoughts as Olly tried getting his attention. "Let's get going we don't want to get caught and I don't want to be in the wall again."
They made it to the end of the hall but some crates were blocking the way Mario grabs his hammer and smashes them hopefully it wouldn't get any of those 'Folded Soldiers' attention.
Once they did Mario heard a voice he recognized very well.
"I SEE WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO MY MINIONS AND I ORDER YOU TO CUT IT OUT!"
It was Bowser.
Mario looked through a small peephole on the wall and looks in to see Bowser but... He was folded up.
But...
Not like the others the way he was folded up he looked like a wet floor sign.
He was hanging from a clip shaking a lot trying to get free.
There were others in the room but Mario could only see their shadows.
One of the shadows looked like one of the folded up Shy Guys. And the other shadow he couldn't tell what it is but it looked really big.
The two other shadows that looked like folded up Shy Guys and they seem to be carrying a Koopa Troopa.
Then the shadow of the Koopa Troopa was lifted up into the air floating but... The folded up Shy Guy that was standing in front of the shadow that Mario couldn't tell what it is. Waved their arms in the air and the Koopa Troopa got all folded up.
The shadow then opened up and the folded up Koopa Troopa was then throwed into it as it goes down onto the Koopa Troopa making a loud piercing noise. And Bowser growls as it happens.
The shadow lifted up and the Koopa Troopa came up but his shadow was different...It was all wobbly and off...
Like the Folded Soldiers...
Olly looked at Mario and gave him a little tap.
Mario quickly moved away from Olly who looked a bit confused.
"You ok Mario? What happened in there? It sounded pretty bad."
Mario was about to answer Olly but they heard another voice.
"THat wAs thE laSt oF ThEm..."
They looked behind the crates where they were hiding and saw two red folded up Shy Guys but...The yellow folded up Shy Guy wasn't with them.
"ExCePt fOr tHe MuStaCHiOed OnE..." They both walk away and Mario and sigh with relief.
"Those Folded Soldiers did they do something to the others in that room? Because when I was stuck in wall I heard other voices. Is that what they mean by 'That was the last of them?'" Mario didn't know how to tell Olly what he just saw since on how disturbing it was.
But he then focused onto the door the two Folded Soldiers left it unlocked.
Mario and Olly headed towards the door and closed it behind them.
When they walked in there was Bowser still hanging from the clip and still folded up as well.
"Mario! You're here to?" Bowser said still shaking at the clip to try and get down from it.
"You have to get me down from this thing!" Bowser growled.
"You know this is no way you should treat royalty!" Olly perked up at Bowser when he said 'royalty'
"Oh you're royalty as well? Do you rule over a bunch of faces like yourself?" Olly asked.
Bowser rolled his at Olly. "No! I just been folded up by whatever those things are!"
"But...I might need a little help getting down." Mario looks at Bowser unsure if he should help him or just leave him.
Bowser notices this and says. "Hey! I would do the same for you! You need me as much as I need you Mario! ADMIT IT!"
"Plus... if you get me off this thing I'll tell you a little secret. And who could resist a good secret! BWAHAHA!"
Finally Mario decided to help out Bowser he walks oiver to Bowser and starts pulling on him to get him free from the clip.
He pulled harder and harder to get Bowser loose from it and than finally he went flying off the clip and falls flat right on his face.
"Oh...I kinda though I would just unfold...GAH! Whatever...Anyway now time for that secret I said I was going to tell you."
"There's a hidden exit in this room. Heard those jerks talking about it. Those lousy body folding jerks..." Mario looked over to the other side of the room and saw some crates and he grabbed his hammer and started to whack them with it.
Then under the big crates a glow appeared and there was another Magic Circle glowing at his feet.
"Oh another Magic Circle Mario. Let's use it's power to get out of here." Olly said.
Mario nodded as his arms lit up again and were all folded and stretchy and started feeling around like when he was trying to free Olly from the wall.
He then felt something and started pulling on it and the wallpaper came clean off and behind the wall were some stairs going upwards.
"Bwhaha! Where would you be without me Mario?"
They all started climbing up the stairs but the staircase was really long and Bowser said a lot of complaints as they were climbing up.
Mario and Olly didn't seem to have much of a problem of going up the stairs and they finally reached the top.
They saw a door a Mario knew where this on led.
It led to the castle roof.
Mario opened the door and they let's Olly and Bowser go through first before going through himself.
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Going through the door they were on the roof.
They were about to continue across the roof but...They heard a creak noise...
It was coming from the middle door on the roof.
It opens and what follows out of the door was the folded up Princess Peach and the folded up yellow Shy Guy.
They stood in front of the three of them. Then the Princess spoke in her eerie voice.
"Why...Are you still so..Flat?"
"Why...Haven't you abandoned that flat form...And be reborn...like me..?" The folded up Princess asked.
The folded up yellow Shy Guy stepped forward. "It's alright Princess. I'll handle this." Unlike the other Shy Guys this one spoke differently then the others. Their voice was less ominous then the others but strangely it was a bit more cheery...
They shift their focus onto Olly and stared at him. Olly looked a bit confused on why this Folded Soldier was staring at him and then they shift their focus to Mario.
"So you're this Princess's hero? Hmm why don't you join her? Don't you want to be with your Princess? Why not leave that...Flat paper form and be reborn into origami? It's your choice but...If you choose not to."
"The suprise that awaits you won't be pretty." Mario glares at the yellow Shy Guy and they let out a sigh.
"No? Alright you leave me no choice. Come along Folded Soldiers!"
The door still open as three Folded Soldiers come through two of them were Shy Guys but...One of the Fold Soldiers looked different one of them looked like the Goomba he had seen in the dungeon.
Then they all jump onto Mario at once without warning. Mario grips his hammer and gives and swing at them.
After a few swings there was nothing left of the Folded Soldiers as they just puffed in small pieces of paper.
Mario turns his attention right back to The yellow Shy Guy. "You did pretty well I must admit but those creatures aren't the strongest in this land."
"But there really isn't any point continuing being in this form any longer."
The yellow Shy Guy floats upwards and unfolds themselves and then refolds themselves into someone different.
They wore a crown with two points, yellow robe,brown shoes and had yellow hair. They looked a bit like Olly as they were also made of origami.
Olly stared at them in shock and yelled out. "SISTER!?"
"N-no I ugh! Olivia! I didn't want to believe it was you!" Olly yelled out confused by what was going on right in front of him.
Olivia let out a little laugh. "Oh. No worries Olly everything is going to be ok now. But I do wish Mario just left you in that wall a bit longer but I'm sorry you had to be stuck with those...Flat papery beings..."
Olly stared at her confused. "Olivia! Stop this please! What have you even got against the paper folk? Was it what happened wi-"
"DON'T YOU DARE SPEAK HIS NAME!" Olivia suddenly yelled out.
Olly flinched backwards at his sister's sudden raise of voice.
"Oh sorry Olly I didn't mean to yell. But you must understand why I must do this."
Olivia floats upwards staring up towards the sky. "Once my plan is complete everyone will be folded into origami."
"Then I'll never have to see any of their flat papery faces again!"
"Then this world... I shall refold into a Origami Kingdom! And dear brother I'm sure you'll come around to the idea."
Olivia let of a bright glow...
And suddenly Five large bright colourful streamers started to wrap up the castle.
Mario and Olly started to panic as Bowser calls out to them.
"You two this way!" Bowser yelled out to them.
Mario looked in the distance to see a normal Shy Guy piloting Bowser's clown car heading towards them.
The three of the jump to the roof dodging the streamers and jump off the roof and are caught by the Shy Guy in the clown car.
The streamers wrap tightly around the castle and it starts to lift the castle out from it's foundation lifting it higher and higher into the sky.
The clown car stops to take a look at the castle and it was just getting higher and higher as the streamers wrapped around the castle more and more.
Mario looks down to see a familiar green hat fall to the ground.
Mario felt a wave of worry wash over him as he thought of the safety of his brother.
"Step on it! We need to get out of here now!" Bowser yelled.
The Shy Guy speeds up the clown car dodging the streamers the best he could but suddenly they all crashed right into a streamer and it send all except the Shy Guy flying off and Mario and Olly were sent far away from the castle and the town...
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