Mario, Koops, Flurrie, and Punio were confronted by two X-Nauts
X-NAUT #1:
What the… who is this guy?
X-NAUT #2:
You know, fool, that's Mario!
X-NAUT #1:
Oh yeah, he's, like, that plumber who saves Princess Peach from Bowser!
X-NAUT #2:
We'd better report him to Lord Crump! We don't want him to get that Chaos Emerald!
X-NAUT #1:
(He points at Flurrie)
Wait, who the frick is that cloud lady!?
FLURRIE:
I can't believe you don't know me, I am Madame Flurrie, and I am a prize!
X-NAUT #2:
Dude, forget that lady! We better go tell Lord Crump about Mario…
(Flurrie whacked the X-Nauts with Mario's Ultra Hammer, knocking them out cold)
KOOPS:
Holy cow! She nailed it with your hammer!
(Flurrie hands Mario his hammer back)
PUNIO:
Yes! Now we can finally get inside!
(The quartet walked inside the tree)
MARIO:
Whoa! This is the first time I've ever been inside a tree!
PUNIO:
But… where's my people?
(Just then, a Puni popped out of it's hiding spot, and the other nine showed up, which includes a fat Puni named Puniper)
PUNIO:
Finally, some familiar face shows up, what are you doing for Pete's sake? Come on out!
PUNIPER:
Punio? Oh, thank Heavens your safe! Just as Randall's relatives captured Madame Flurrie, a plumber, and a turtle, some weird soldiers called X-Nauts came and captured nearly every single Puni in the tree, including your little sister!
PUNIO:
What!? Not Petuni!!! Oh, my little sister! How can this happen!
PUNIPER:
They told them where some Chaos Emerald is, but they told them they didn't know where that was, so they locked them up!
MARIO:
Did you say Chaos Emerald? That's exactly what we're looking for!
PUNIPER:
Well, first you gotta free the other Punies!
MARIO:
Free the other Punies?
PUNIPER:
Yeah!
KOOPS:
We'll do it, we don't want them dying in there anyway.
PUNIO:
And we gotta save my sister, too!
(Mario, Koops, Flurrie, and Punio entered a nearby warp pipe. They then took another pipe. They took the next pipe that leads them up. They encountered a Pider and Punio shrieked at the sight of it and hid behind Mario)
PUNIO:
Hide me, Mario! The Pider's gonna kill me!
MARIO:
Holy crap, that spider's huge!
(The Pider spitted web wads at the quartet)
KOOPS:
Eww, what the heck are those!?
FLURRIE:
Ugh, it's disgusting!
PUNIO:
T-T-They're w-w-web wads!
(Mario killed the Pider with his hammer)
MARIO:
There! It's-a dead now!
PUNIO:
Oh, thank goodness!
FLURRIE:
Look at that! Another pipe!
(They entered the pipe. At some other room, an X-Naut was just about finished searching in this area)
X-NAUT:
groans* Man… this is brutal! How much longer 'till we find that stupid Chaos Emerald? Not even those puny Punies we captured know about anything about it. After all this pointless searching, I'm thinking we're looking in the wrong place…
(Suddenly, two anthropomorphic rats show up and beat the crap out of the X-Naut)
X-NAUT:
Um… ouch?
(Back with the heroes, they emerged from the pipe)
PUNIO:
gasp* Oh… my… gosh!!!
To Be Continued