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Picnic Road. It was a nice and scenic place and it's name came from all the paper folk that came here to have well a picnic.
It always had the perfect weather almost like it was always sunny there.
It was always peaceful there...
Olly looks at the area. "Hmm. It's pretty nice here but..."
Olly points to the holes in ground. "Those holes there are ruining it. We should fix that shouldn't we Mario?"
Mario nods grabbing some confetti from the bag and they falls in place and fixing up the holes in.
Olly claps and he floats upwards to get a better view of the area. "Hmm alright we got a problem this place is full of Folded Soldiers Mario."
Olly pointed forward "So get ready for some hammer swinging and stomping Mario."
Olly floats back down towards Mario and they both continue on the way. Ahead of them some Folded Soldiers were walking around the place.
But also ahead of them was a large build it was in the shape of a yellow mushroom but... It was wrapped up in the red streamer. "Hmm? Hey Mario look."
Olly points to the building wrapped up in the streamer. "I hope nobody was in that building. Or maybe there is someone that is trapped in there and they need help."
Olly turns to face Mario. "After we get rid of that red streamer we shall rescue whoever is inside."
Mario nods to Olly as they continue their way through Picnic Road and taking care of some of the Folded Soldiers.
They notice a Koopa Troopa waving his hand to get their attention.
"Hey! You two!"
Mario and Olly looked confused but they went towards the Koopa Troopa. "Ah! Mario and uhh...Folded creature. I didn't know you were one of the faithful."
"Do you two seek shellvation like us?"
"Shellvation? What's that?" Olly asked confused.
The Koopa Troopa got closer. "I'm glad you asked!"
"It's what The Great Earth Vellumental will grant us! This is where The Earth Vellumental rests. They're powerful mighty god as they control the earth we walk and live on."
"Earth Vellumental...Hmm...Interesting..." Olly said out loud to himself.
"I can show you where The Great Earth Vellumental rests."
Mario tries to politely decline the offer but he was interrupted by another voice. "SITUATION!"
Another Koopa Troopa ran over to them in a panic and stopped in front of the three of them.
"SITUATION! WE GOT A SITUATION!" He yelled out.
"Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa, calm down. A situation? What kind of situation? A good or a bad one?" The other Koopa Troopa says trying to calm down the panicking one.
"A BAD ONE! A BAD SITUATION WE NEED TO GO NOW!" The Koopa Troopa grabbed the other's arm and pulled him along as they both called out 'bad situation' together along on the way.
Mario and Olly both look at each other confused on what just happened.
Olly then spoke up. "I have a feeling we should go and see what that 'situation' is Mario. It sounds really bad seeing how he freaked out about it that badly."
Then Olly face turned into a more cheerful one. "And I would like to see this Earth Vellumental. If The Earth Vellumental is as powerful as he says maybe they could help us out."
Olly goes ahead where the two Koopa Troopas went and Mario goes after him.
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Mario heads down the steps and past a few stands on the way there and saw the two Koopa Troopas at the bottom and Olly staring at something.
As Mario got closer he saw what they were staring at.
It was a Folded Soldier Shy Guy and it looked like it was trying to steal some sort of shell looking gem from a wall where it looks like it's missing four others in it's place.
As Mario steps behind them they take notice of Mario.
"OH MARIO THANK THE EARTH VELLUMENTAL YOU'RE HERE!"
One of the Koopa Troopa ran up to him. "IT'S A BAD SITUATION! REALLY, REALLY BAD!"
The Koopa Troopa points over to the Folded Soldier. "The Five Holy Shell Stones are the only thing that can open that door to The Earth Vellumental Temple and with it closed nobody can pay tribute!"
"Four of them are already gone! And now that heathen is trying to take away the last one!"
"We would stop it ourselves but...You know we're Koopa Troopas what are we going to do honestly? Walk up to it very slowly."
The two Koopa Troopas hang their heads down in defeat.
Olly floats over to Mario. "If Olivia is having the Folded Soldiers steal the Holy Shell Stones. It means she doesn't want us to get to The Earth Vellumental."
"So Mario teach that Folded Soldier why not to steal from a temple!" Olly yelled out.
Mario nods as he heads over to the Folded Soldier who has been trying to pull out of last of the Holy Shell Stones.
Mario slowly approached the Shy Guy from behind a raises his hammer up high ready and slams it at the Folded Soldier but it turns around to quickly and dodges out of the way.
It stares at Mario before running towards him with it's arms flailing.
Mario jumps up and slams his feet right onto the Shy Guy Folded Soldier and jumps backwards after the hit.
The Folded Soldier charges towards Mario again but Mario grips his hammer and hits the Folded Soldier with his hammer and knocks it into the wall as it bursts into confetti.
Mario sighed with relief and the two Koopa Troopas rushed over. "Whoa! Mario I haven't seen power like that since I watched a documentary on The Earth Vellumental itself."
"I mean I would love to tell you all about it but I don't want to spoil anything." The Koopa Troopa said looking down towards the ground.
"But what we going to do now? No one can see the exhibit with the other four Shell Stones missing."
"Hmm hey Mario I think we can spare a bit of our time and look for these Shell Stones." Olly said.
Mario thought about Olly's idea.
And he nods to Olly. "Well it's settled Mario. Let's get searching for those Shell Stones after all how dare those Folded Soldiers steal from a temple."
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Mario and Olly both heads back up the stairs and continue there way through Picnic Road after helping out some other folded up Toads and patching up some holes in reality along the way.
They were both getting close to the end of Picnic Road when they notice an origami dog barking at them and when they tried to go around the dog it blocked the way.
"Hmm Mario maybe this is a folded up Toad. Maybe give it a whack. I really hope it is a folded up Toad I don't want to hit an actual dog with a hammer.
Mario sighed and readies his hammer and slams the hammer down.
The origami dog unfolds into a Toad. "Woof! I mean put up your dukes!"
Mario and Olly look confused about what the Toad is saying. "I mean come to my Battle Lab then you can put up your dukes."
"It's in Toad Town next to the museum you can't miss it."
"Hmm a battle lab that sounds useful doesn't it Mario? But you're heading back to Toad Town? You sure you'll be ok to go back by yourself?"
"Ha! Of course Awooo! I still feel a bit doggy but I'll be fine I mean it would be better if I had a short cut of some sort I think there is one at Overlook Mountain over there but if any of Folded weirdos tried messing with me again they'll get one of these!"
The Toad then proceed to punch the air with his fists. "Haha! They won't mess with me now awoo! I'm going to woof it back to the Battle Lab! Bark! I hope to see you there."
The Toad goes to run back to town but stops for a moment. "Oh by the way I forgot to mention that we have a membership drive going on right now. Any new members gets a free gift woof!"
Then the Toad turns back around and starts heading back to the town again.
"A free gift? Mario when we have the time we should check out that dog like Toad's lab after all who could turn down a free gift."
"But for now we should continue following the Red Streamer and find those four other Shell Stones. That Toad said something about Overlook Mountain right?"
Olly turned to look at the path moving forward. "Maybe that's where the Red Streamer came from."
Mario and Olly both look at each other with agreement a head down the path to Overlook Mountain.
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