"Gwah hee haha!" Bow chortled gloatingly as she and her new friends ascended to her bedroom. It was a bit hard to hear her over the sounds of celebrating Boos around her, but she made sure to be extra loud so both Mario and Shaid could hear her. "I see Mario has some refined taste under that moustache after all! Trust me when I say that letting me join your party was the best decision you've ever made."
"You've told us that, like, five times already." Goommaria stepped awkwardly around two Boos as they kissed each other, one kissing the other so hard that they phased through the wall they were making out against. "And it's only been a few minutes."
"Yes, but victories are like pastries - they're best enjoyed while they're still fresh. Gwahahaha!" Bow fanned herself haughtily at her maid, but the older woman didn't seem to be upset by this. Just disappointed.
"Is it just me, or does Bow sound a lot like Bowsa when she laughs?" Koopie asked as she avoided a Boo with a lampshade on her head. "But, like, sped up?"
"You've… heard Bowsa laugh before?" Bombette asked, eyebrow raised.
"Yeah, she tried recruiting Koopas at my village once," Koopie explained. "Some left with her but most just stayed inside their homes relaxing the whole time she was here. I remember her being very big and loud, and she lit someone's hair on fire after they asked if Prince Peach actually liked her not."
"That sounds about right," said Goommaria.
"Hey! No talking about that trash queen!" Bow snapped her fan shut and turned around to scold her friends. "Now's the time to talk about me, and how I'm going on an adventure and Shaid is not!"
"Congratulations, my Lady." Shaid said. "It may be dangerous, but at least you are getting what you desire."
"Uuugh, it's less fun when you don't put up a fight like that!" Bow groaned as she continued her way to her bedroom, the gang hopping through a portrait to get there. "As punishment, you're going to be in charge of my estate while I'm gone."
"B-but my Lady! You know how much I detest having power!" Shaid waved her arms around, exasperated. "Who will have the nerve to spank me while I am in charge of everyone?"
"They will spank you if you order them to," Bow pointed out.
"But that ruins the whole point!" Shaid complained before forcing herself to regain her composure. "I… suppose I'll learn to live with it. But I will still call you my Lady even if you have no power over me."
"Fine," Bow said before throwing open her bedroom doors. "Hey, star boy! Today is your lucky day, because you finally get to go free!"
Mario looked up and saw that the Boos who were surrounding Skolar's cage earlier were still there, though now they weren't randomly flashing their breasts at him anymore. If anything, it looked like they were in the middle of a conversation when their Mistress burst into the room.
"Oh! So you've returned victorious!" Skolar looked down at the group with a wide smile on his face. "Good show! I just wish I was there to see that villain get her just desserts! Er, no pun intended."
"Well, don't worry, because that nuisance shouldn't be bothering us for a very long time." Bow paused for a moment before letting out a sigh. "And I guess we should stop bothering her for a while too, I guess."
Bow snapped her fingers and the cage was lowered to the floor, allowing Mario to unlock the cage door and let him out.
"Thank goodness! It was stuffy like a library in there, and at least libraries have books." He adjusted his glasses a bit before turning to Mario. "I assume that you've still lost most of your memory, correct?"
"I'm afraid so." Mario rubbed the back of his head, clearly embarrassed.
"Well then, close your eyes and I'll see what I can do to help with that," said Skolar. "It's the least I can do to repay you for rescuing me."
Mario nodded and did as he was told, letting himself be taken back in time…
"Welcome… to Toad Town!" Prince Peach's voice was ecstatic as their carriage rolled through the gates of the city. Mario could hear a small blaring of trumpets, followed by more than a few cat calls by the guards as they entered town. "It's the capital of the Mushroom Kingdom, and has the highest percentage of males anywhere in the kingdom. Security is very high, so you two should be relatively safe here."
"Uh, are you sure about that? The guards here look rather… eager." Luigi stared at out the window at a few guards who 'accidentally' moved their uniforms to the side to show off their bras.
"Oh, that's mostly just for me." Peach waved his hand, trying to downplay the Toads' behaviour. "I'm the prince, so I'm pretty popular. You probably won't get raped if you stay here… too much."
Mario glanced out the window too, watching the people in the bustling streets go about their days. Almost everyone there was a 'Toad', but he could still spot a few 'Mono' interspersed in the crowd, including what looked like a woman with bird wings instead of arms, and a girl with dark skin that walked around on all fours.
"So… how does this place compare to the town that you're from?" Prince Peach asked curiously.
"Well… it's not too different from the suburbs, I suppose, but some of these buildings almost look like castles," Mario replied.
"Yeah, those ones have been around for hundreds of years," Peach explained.
"Everyone seems to be on foot, too," Mario commented.
"Well, of course! Most people can't afford to hire a Wiggler to pull them everywhere, though I do hear these things called 'trains' are starting to catch on. Is that what you used to get around back home?" Peach asked.
"Er, not exactly." Mario scratched his moustache. "Some people did, including us, but most people used these things called 'cars', which are kinda like trains but you use them on the road?"
"On the road? Isn't that… dangerous?" Peach asked.
"Extremely."
"Wow… that sounds so cool!" Peach clapped his hands together with glee. "Do you think you can draw me what one looks like if you get the chance?"
"I'm not much of an artist, but I can try!" Mario said with a nervous laugh.
"So, are people, like… segregated in this kingdom?" Luigi spoke up. "Why is there a town specifically for Toads?"
"Well, I find it rather distasteful myself, but it's a bit of a necessary evil. There are far more Mono than there are Toads, and they would gladly marry all the male Toads if they could. But, if they did that, then the female Toads would make fewer and fewer male Toads, and the desperation for males will only get worse," the prince explained.
"And, uh… what was that gender ratio that you mentioned earlier?" Luigi asked.
"20 to 1," Peach replied. "And it's actually the least bad here. In some other kingdoms, the ratio is 1000 to 1. It's, uh, kinda why the Mushroom Kingdom gets invaded a lot."
"Mama mia…" Luigi slunk down in his seat, overwhelmed by just the thought of being surrounded by so many women. "How does this world even exist?"
"Well, most male Toads work in the Toad House service at least once in their lives, though, so we still try our best to make sure that Mono are breeding and satisfied." Peach replied. "Some of the bigger houses see thousands of women pass through them per day. You'll be hard-pressed to find a Mono who wasn't conceived in one."
"You mean… women pay men to have sex with them here?" Luigi asked, sitting up. "Not the other way around?"
"Well, yeah, of course! Why would it be the other way?" Peach gave a lighthearted laugh, but it died off as he saw how serious Mario and Luigi were both staring at him. "Oh wow… your world really is different!"
"So, we're not going to be… required to meet some kind of sex quota, are we?" Mario asked nervously.
"No, of course not!" Peach replied. "I mean, there are certain… political factions who think that should be the case, but my mother has made sure to keep our consent laws in place, even for Toad women. You can still have sex with whomever you desire, but if word gets out that you're 'floppy', you might get more attention than you want - especially since you're human."
"What's… so special about being human?" asked Mario.
"Have you eaten any mushrooms here yet?" asked Peach.
"No… why?"
"Well, as soon as you do, you'll understand why humans are notorious for being easy prey, here. Plus, they're known for being very good breeders, with a high compatibility for all Mono species." The Prince shivered in his seat. "But enough about this world… I want you to tell me more about ours!"
"Why do you want to know about that place so badly?" Luigi asked, confused. "This place is so much more amazing! There's so many cool things, and people, and even magic here!"
"I know it's silly, but… I want to know where I came from." Peach looked directly into Mario's eyes as Luigi kept staring out the window. "Is that… really so much to ask?"
"No… not at all, your majesty," Mario said, trying to hide his blush. "What do you want to know?"
"Well… what is your queen like? Do you have a queen too? Can men and women inherit the throne in your world?"
"Uh, some places still have monarchs, but our country actually elects its leader." Mario explained.
"Whoa! Like some kind of… super mayor?" Peach asked. "Does the super mayor have super powers too?"
"Not really…"
The cavalcade of questions continued as the carriage continued to the castle. Mario explained to the young prince how governments worked, what jet engines were, what computers and phones were, and what kind of food they ate. One thing Mario couldn't explain to him was what birth control was, so he just gave up on that one part way through to explain subway systems.
"Your world sounds so advanced! Like… some kind of science fiction novel!" Peach said, sparkles in his eye. "Oooh, how I wish you could have brought some of those things with you!"
"Well, I still have my cell phone - but it doesn't get any reception, and the battery ran out while we were in the desert." Mario took out a small flip-phone and handed it to the Prince. "You can keep it if you want."
"You're… really giving this to me?" Peach's hand shook as he held the magnificent object.
"Sure! Like I said, it's worthless to me now, so it's no big deal!" Mario said as casually as he could.
"Thank you… I'll treasure it always!" Peach said before opening the phone. "Ooooh, so many buttons!"
The carriage came to a stop a few moments later. Outside, Mario and Luigi could see a magnificent castle looking down at them, with the glass portrait of a Toad woman with a crown on her pink-dotted cap displayed over the main entrance.
"Ah, we've arrived! Welcome to my home, gentlemen!" A Toad guard opened the door and politely held it as the trio exited out into the sunlight.
"Wow, we're going to be living here?" Luigi craned his neck back so much to look at the castle that he actually fell onto his back. "I'm starting to think that maybe losing our old plumber business won't be so bad after all."
"Well, I'm afraid our guest room is only reserved for diplomats, and I won't make you sleep in the servant's quarters - but my family does have this summer cottage that we never use that you can get to by pipe pretty easily." Peach replied. "I'm sure we can talk something out with my mother once you meet her."
Mario opened his eyes again and found himself back in Bow's mansion, Skolar panting as he took his hands away from Mario's head.
"I'm afraid that's all I can do for now. I need to return to Star Haven so I can regain my strength." Skolar paused for a moment. "Or, at least, I should go back to Star Haven."
"Should go back?" Goommaria asked, eyebrow raised.
"I must confess… I've actually found this whole experience to be rather exhilarating. I barely got out into the real world before this, and these Boos are actually quite nice once you get to know them." The Boo girls all smiled and blushed at Skolar's comment.
"Well, I'm afraid saving the world takes precedent," Bombette pointed out. "You're going to have to go back home."
"Okay…" Skolar said with a long sigh. "Is there any chance I can have some… escorts back to Shooting Star Summit, though?"
"Of course~" one of the Boo girls replied. "If you get scared on the way, just be sure to hold one of our hands~"
"Splendid! Thank you again, Mario!" The Star Spirit floated to the door, the six Boos following closely behind him. "I hope we meet again soon."
Koopie let out a long yawn as the door bedroom slammed shut. "Well, good job everyone," she said, bags starting to appear under her eyes. "So… are we going to rest here a bit? We've kinda been up all night."
Chompy yawned and barked in agreement.
"Only if you want to stay in a clean room," Shaid cut in.
"Hey, I said I'd dirty my room eventually, so leave me alone already!" Bow said, waving her arms in exasperation.
"Whatever you say, my Lady," Shaid replied in a non-judging tone that somehow still sounded judgy anyways.
"Well, I think I'm going to find a way to sleep anyways." Bombette kicked off her heels and dive-bombed the bed. "Goodnight-er, morning, everyone."
"Bark bark." Chompy did a circle on the bed a few times before laying down to sleep as well.
Koopie and Goommaria both joined in on the massive bed as well after slipping into their nightwear. Bow and Shaid, however, didn't move to get ready for sleep at all.
"You're not going to join us?" Mario asked them.
"I'm afraid not, Master Mario." Shaid replied. "Boos don't need to sleep nearly as often as other Mono, so we will avoid resting at this time."
"So the real question is… will you be joining us?" Bow floated over to Mario and traced a finger along his chest.
"As tempting as that sounds, I kinda need to sleep too," Mario pointed out.
"Oh please, you're human! You don't have to worry about energy when you can just eat a mushroom. Besides… you wouldn't keep a Lady waiting, would you?" Bow pulled on the front of her dress, showing off her cleavage to the plumber in front of her. "I'll even throw in my maid if you'll keep my company~"
"I recall that I no longer have to do as you say," Shaid reminded her mistress.
"But you'll do it anyways." said Bow.
"Quite right." The maid grabbed her skirt and took off her entire uniform in one motion, leaving behind only her white lingerie underneath. "What do you say, Mr. Mario?"
Mario looked at his friends sleeping on the bed.
"Do you promise not to wake them up?"
"I swear, we'll be silent as the dead," Bow whispered before flying over to Mario and unbuttoning his overalls. "Now let's see what has made so many Mono howl like banshees over the years."
Once Mario's overalls were off, Bow got down on her knees (or at least, as down as she could get without actually touching the floor) and began to pull down Mario's underwear. She let out a pained gasp of surprise as Mario's hard dick sprang free, hitting her right in the face.
"Ow! Hey, do you realize how rude that was?" Bow scolded Mario quietly as she began to stroke his cock. "Hitting a Lady of my stature in the face with your meat… you should have at the very least asked permission."
"I'm… sorry?" Mario was a bit reluctant to take the blame for what wasn't his fault, but he didn't want to upset Bow even more.
"Clearly I need to teach you some manners on how to treat a lady~" Bow extended her long tongue and slid it up and down the side of Marios shaft. "If you want to make it up to me, you're going to have to follow my instructions exactly. I want you to grab my head and fuck my face as hard as you can. Don't stop even if it looks like I want you to. If I pass out, keep going. In fact, if I pass out, go even faster."
"Are you really sure about that?" Mario asked, his voice having trouble remaining quiet with how much Bow worshiped his dick.
"Of course." Shaid answered for her. "And now that you've questioned her, her resolve has no doubt hardened."
"Exactly." Bow carefully placed her mouth in front of Mario's penis and wrapped her delicate lips around the tip. "Now get started! My throat isn't going to ruin itself."
Mario took a deep breath and began to push his dick inside her mouth, but did so at a pretty slow pace so he could let Bow get used to it.
"Ah, I almost forgot the motivator." Shaid reached between her breasts, pulled out a small red mushroom, and popped it into Mario's mouth. "Terribly sorry."
Mario felt a sudden surge of energy and virility as the fungus hit his stomach, and he shoved Bow's face towards his groin out of reflex.
"Mmmm, glllck!" Bow sputtered, taken by surprise as her throat was suddenly speared. She could feel Mario's cock throb deep inside her, and the sensation caused her mind to flutter as she felt the alien sensation of a heartbeat through him.
"Mama mia, I'm sorry! Let me just-" Mario began to pull out, but Shaid's hand stopped him before he could make it all the way outside Bow's mouth.
"I believe she said not to stop for anything," She pointed out, hand resting on top of Mario's. "So now is definitely not the time to quit."
With a powerful shove, Shaid forced Mario's dick back down Bow's throat, causing it to bulge a little to handle the sheer girth of it. Mario's hips bucked as he felt the Boo's throat squeeze down around him, cramming every single inch of his cock into her mouth right down to the base.
"Mmmmm~" Bow moaned through Mario's cock, vibrating it. He honestly couldn't tell if that was satisfaction or a request for air, but he had a feeling he would get an earful if he pulled out either way.
So, he began to thrust - partly to satisfy Bow, and partly to satisfy his own turbo-charged desires. Her throat felt so good, even though he knew her sharp teeth could leave a mark if she wanted to. Every time he felt her throat stretch to accommodate him, a shot of pleasure went up his spine and encouraged him to thrust even harder. He partly worried by how much he might be hurting her throat, but a little voice assured him that she was a Boo, so she could probably take it.
"Gllk! Gllk! Gllk!" Drool was now dripping down Bow's face from Mario thrusts, the spit having nowhere to go but out as her mouth was invaded by his cock. She tried to bring her hand into her panties to pleasure herself, but her ethereal body felt so weak that there was nothing she could do but sit there and take his abusive meat into her gullet.
"So, what do you think of my beloved Lady's fine mouth?" Shaid asked casually over the sounds of Bow choking on Mario's dick.
"Very good… I can tell… that's she's of real fine breeding!" Mario found himself constantly gasping for breath, all his energy and effort going into ramming himself into Bow as hard as he could.
"You haven't even felt what it's like to truly breed her yet," Shaid countered. "But I promise you, it will be more than just 'fine'."
Mario's thrusts began to get more erratic the closer her got to cumming. He gripped her hair violently as he was torn between wanting to prolong his time in her mouth, and the animal urge to just finish as quickly as possible. Finally, his urge to cum won out, and he thrusted into her throat one last time before pumping his sperm directly into the heiress's stomach. He could feel her throat swallow out of reflex, but all that was accomplished was the further constriction of his penis, resulting in it being milked for all it was worth.
"Glllck! Gmmmph! Mmmmph!" Bow's eyes rolled back in her head as she felt her stomach filled to its limits with Mario's sperm. This made Mario want to pull out, but his dick was so sensitive while he was cumming that he could do nothing but stay locked into her aching throat.
Finally, feeling completely drained, Mario slowly pulled himself out of the noble Boo and let go of her hair, allowing her to flop down onto the floor with cum and drool dripping out of her mouth.
"You… call that… rough?" Bow coughed a little. "I didn't even… see spots."
"Oh? Would that mean that you're ready to start the next round?" Shaid revealed a pair of green panties in her hands. "I took the liberty of disrobing you further, if that is the case."
"Uh… you know what… you can have Mario for a bit, Shaid…" Bow said, still on the ground. "You've earned it."
"Very well, my Lady." Shaid removed her own underwear before setting them to the side, lying down at the far end of Bow's bed, and spreading her legs wide. "Please, Mr. Mario, have your way with me at your own pace."
"Okay, sure… just… give me a minute to catch my breath." After a quick break, and glass of water, Mario brought himself over to the edge of the bed and lined himself up with the maid's waiting snatch.
"I trust that you are still coated in my Lady's saliva." Shaid let out a small, but reserved, gasp as Mario slipped inside her. "My trust… was well-placed."
Without the pressure that Bow had laid on him, Mario began to fuck Shaid at a much more leisurely pace. His hands on the maid's lovely light green hips, he gently moved his cock in and out of her, letting him get to know every crevice of her pussy in intimate detail. Not only did it feel great, but it helped avoid rocking the bed too much and waking his friends.
"Master Mario… I would not be so rude as to complain, but your pace seems to be… rather slow." Shaid's breasts ever so lightly jiggled every time Mario thrust inside her, but it wasn't nearly as much as when her mistress fucked her. Ever since their first time together, there wasn't a fuck where Lady Bow hadn't fucked the girl so hard that her body felt like it had been launched to the moon.
"Don't worry… I'll speed up when I'm ready," Mario assured her.
Despite that, though, Mario kept up his slow pace regardless, his dick only half-lodging itself inside her with every thrust. It felt good for Shaid, sure… but she knew it could feel so much better.
"What the- hey!" Mario gasped as Shaid suddenly wrapped her legs around him and forced his prick even deeper into her body. His groin practically slammed into hers, her legs were so powerful and her body lusted for him so much. "What are you doing?"
"Whatever do you mean, Mr. Mario?" Shaid's voice was still calm and collected, even as she began to violently fuck herself with the plumber's thick pipe. "I am merely assisting you, as a good maid should."
"Th-that's nice, but - ah!" Mario was cut off by a particularly hard slam into the Boo's hips, causing her breasts to wiggle just the way she liked them to. "I'm still… kinda sensitive from Bow!"
"Do not worry about a thing, Master Mario. I promise to take the best of care with you." The maid's gentle demeanor was harshly contrasted by how powerfully she slammed Mario into her hips. Mario realized he should have been in control in this position, but he found himself entirely at her mercy as she used him like some kind of erotic toy.
"Are… are you sure… going this fast for you… is comfortable?" Mario mumbled, starting to feel ragged.
"Actually, it is kind of painful," Shaid explained. "Your large body feels almost like it bruises when it hits me, my clit is already starting to feel sore, and the entrance to my womb strains whenever your large size tries to push through it."
"Then… we should slow down?" Mario asked.
"No… I believe we should go even faster." As if summoning some demonic strength from another dimension, Shaid instantly tripled her pace. Despite Mario's resolve to keep quiet, he couldn't help but grunt as her pussy squeezed him over and over again in quick succession.
"You need not worry about me. You can be as rough as you like." Shaid said, her demeanour still not changing. "You can even spank me, whip me, leave hickeys… anything your heart desires."
"I… kinda desire you… to slow down." Mario said between grunts.
"I'm afraid that I can not hear you, Master Mario, you will have to speak up." Mario tried to speak again, but as soon as he did Shaid leapt forward and kissed him. He was so surprised by this that he accidentally bit her lower lip, but Shaid didn't seem to mind. On the contrary, this got the biggest rise out of her yet, and he could feel her body quake with every bolt of pain he sent through her body.
Finally, Mario reached his limit and he exploded inside her. He would have warned her, but she was still furiously kissing him. Not that it would have mattered, though - nothing could have picked her leg lock once she felt his seed inside her.
"Mmmmmm…" Shaid melted into her kiss with Mario for a few moments before finally regaining her composure and pulling away. "I trust you were satisfied, Master Mario."
"Uhhhhh…" was all Mario could say as he landed back on his ass.
"Very good," Shaid said proudly. "Lady Bow, are you ready to show off your proper breeding skills?"
"I was always ready." Bow had finished cleaning herself and swiftly pinned Mario to her bed. "You don't need to ask me like I'm some little girl. I'm a proud Mono, and I can take a man any time I please."
"I know, Lady Bow, but it is still polite." Shaid reached over to Mario's groin and helped guide his shaft to her lips. "And I trust you are ready too, Mr. Mario?"
"Yeah…" He wasn't, really, but he also didn't want another mushroom shoved in his mouth. His balls were already kicked so far into overdrive, they felt like they were on fire. "I'm… happy that you're part of the team now, Bow. And I'm happy that I get to enjoy this with you, too."
"Guuuh…" Bow's face lit up with embarrassment before she forcefully slammed her hips down onto Mario's. "How dare you speak so familiarly with someone like me! Don't you know your place!?"
"I-ah! Thought we were friends now!" Mario grunted as Bow bounced on top of him, forcing his dick ever further with every stroke.
"Well... we are friends now, but that doesn't mean you have to act like it!" Bow grabbed ahold of Mario's legs to help her bounce even faster.
"Uh… isn't that exactly what that means?" Mario asked, confused.
"W-well, not when you're friends with me!" Bow slammed herself harder as Mario spoke, as if taking out all her frustration onto Mario's groin.
"So… I shouldn't act friendly around you?" Mario asked.
"No, I didn't mean that!" Bow latched her mouth onto Marios neck and began to kiss it violently, leaving red spots all along its right side.
"Oh god! Then… what did you mean?" Mario felt himself growing even more confused, not helped by the fact that every time he felt his dick press inside her, his train of thought would be derailed.
"What I mean is… the next time you compliment me, ask permission!" Bow's face was an even brighter shade of red now, and it contrasted sharply with her light green skin.
"So… I can fuck you without having to ask… but compliments… and cockslaps... need permission?" Mario grunted, his voice barely audible because of how loudly his body slapped against Bow's.
"Y-yes… that's just… common sense!" Bow said, taking a moment to rock her body from side to side to try and hide her frail logic.
"Okay then… can I… compliment you right now?" Mario asked.
"You… may." Bow's breasts bounced with her thrusts as she awaited her compliment.
"Even if Shaid doesn't like it, I think your room is very lovely… and you are even lovelier. Your makeup is great, and you obviously put a lot of effort into your hair," Mario said as he began meet Bow's thrusts with his own. "And your bows… are absolutely adorable."
"You… you…" Bow's manicured nails gripped into Mario's back so hard they left marks, and she thrust her hips down so fast he rammed against her cervix. "You moron! I only gave you permission for one compliment, and you gave me five just now!"
"I'm-ah! Sorry I was so nice to you!" Mario was mostly grunting by this point, his coherence sliding away as Bow fucked him harder and harder.
"Sorry isn't going to cut it, mister!" Bow was fucking Mario so hard that Chompy had to roll away from them, she was shaking the bed so much. "You are going to fuck the hell out of me until I can't see straight, and you knock me up like some common, back-alley Mono. Is that understood?"
"Yes… my Lady!" was all Mario could say.
"Don't just say it!" Bow took Mario's hands and placed them on her rear. "Show me!"
Instinctively, Mario began to bounce Bow up and down his cock, causing her pussy to squeeze down tighter around him with every thrust into her. His strength combined with Bow's made it feel like he was about to break his own dick, and yet it somehow kept going, plowing into her overeager cunt again and again.
"Harder! Fuck me harder… you… lowly pig!" Bow begged, her body growing hotter with every thrust. "Don't hold back at all! Or else… you'll never get to touch my perfect body again!"
Mario's pace slowly increased in response to the threat, but he found it hard to keep his movements steady with how powerfully Bow was already slamming into him. It was like he was swimming against a strong current, and his dick was drowning in the endless river of Bow's pussy.
"Come on! You need to go as deep inside of me as you can if you want to impregnate me!" Bow said, now panting so hard her tongue was hanging out of her mouth. "I'll have you know… that I don't sleep with subpar lovers! You need to knock me up on your first try, understood?"
"Are… are you sure… you even want to get pregnant?" Mario asked, looking for an excuse to slow down.
"How dare you ask something like that!? A proper Lady needs an heir, even if she's a Boo!" Her body shook even more as she felt a heat deep within her womb. "All the other men I've slept with have failed to give me a child, so you need to finish the job!"
Mario hoped that Bow would start to tire out, but she seemed to have an endless amount of energy. All he could do was try his best to keep up, thrusting his hips up to meet her as he felt his climax fast approaching.
"So hold on as long as you can… build up as much sperm as your balls can hold… and blast it deep inside me!" Bow kept slamming her hips into Mario even as an orgasm wracked her body. It was as if she needed to milk Mario as hard as she could, and her pussy clearly understood that. Every squeeze her cunt gave, every pull and bump inside seemed designed to make him cum as hard as he could. "Fill me up with so much of your disgusting sperm… that I explode!"
Taking a deep breath, Mario grabbed Bow by her sides and thrusted as hard as he could. He was using up all his energy for this, and it felt like he might pass out, but he knew he wouldn't last much longer anyways. If he was going out, he was going out with a bang at least.
"Yes! Like that! Just like that!" Bow screamed, no longer controlling her volume. "Show me just how strong those human arms of yours are! Fuck me as hard as you can!"
Mario only managed to get in a few more thrusts, but he lived up to Bow's request by making them as hard as possible. Her battered pussy seemed like it let out a sigh of relief when Mario's semen began to get pumped into it, cooling it off and signalling the end of her ravenous fucking.
"Oooooooh~" Bow moaned like a banshee. "That's… what I was waiting for. You really know how to make a lady cum, don't you? Such a gentleman~"
"Eheh, thanks," Mario replied, flopping onto the bed in exhaustion. "Can we go to bed now?"
"So soon? But the morning is still young, and we can still-" Bow was interrupted by a pillow being thrown directly into her face.
"Quiet down already!" Bombette complained, her eyes still mostly shut. "If I don't get some shut eye, then my fuse is going to be super short when we leave… and you don't want that."
"Fine." Bow removed the pillow from her face and placed it under Mario's head. She then carefully pulled herself off his cock, careful not to let too much of his sperm spill out, and laid down beside him. "Shaid, wake us at noon, would you?"
"Of course, Lady Bow," the maid said as she disappeared. "Sweet nightmares, everyone."
Bow snuggled up against Mario as he let out a sigh of relief and was finally allowed to rest.
When Mario opened his eyes again, he wasn't in bed with his friends anymore. Instead, it was on top of a cold mountain in the middle of a snowstorm, shivering and wondering what had happened.
"Goommaria? Bombette? Koopie? Anyone?" he called out. No one replied.
Then, through all the wind and snow, he spotted something.
It looked kinda like… crystals.
Mario opened his eyes again and found himself back in Bow's bed, surrounded by his friends.
"Well, that was a very weird dream…" Mario thought to himself as he rubbed his head. "None of that felt familiar though… so why did I even have it?"
Mario sat up from where he lay just in time to see Shaid reappear in the room, holding a massive cymbal in each hand.
Mario's friends' hearts all collectively skipped a beat as the green Boo slammed the instruments together and created a noise so loud that Mario's ears rang for several seconds after it past.
"It is twelve-o-clock, my Lady," Shaid politely announced as the others in the room slowly recovered from the shock.
"Are you nuts?! That was so sudden, I almost exploded on the spot!" Bombette shouted, Koopie resting in the pillows of her breasts after everyone collided with each other after waking.
"Oh, did I scare you? My deepest and sincerest apologies," Shaid replied.
"You dirty liar…" A disgruntled Gommmaria dissed/grunted as she stood up from the bed and began to get ready to head out. "Okay everyone… have a quick lunch, and then it's back to Toad Town, okay?"
"Mmmm, just five more minutes…" Koopie said, trying to sleep still on top of Bombette.
"Well, think of it this way… the sooner we get back to saving the world, the sooner you can rest again," Bow said before pushing Bombette and Koopie off her bed with her foot.
"Ooof!" Koopie grunted as she fell to the ground. "Fine…"
Bombette, was a little more disgruntled by the abrupt discharge, though, and took Bow's bedsheets and rolled them up into a ball in vengeance.
"Ah, so at least someone here knows how to mess their bed." Shaid gave Bombette a nod of appreciation.
"Hey, I said I'd do it eventually!" Bow complained. "Alright, new plan! We'll eat on our way out!"
A few minutes later, and Mario and his party were headed down the path away from Boo Manor and into Forever Forest.
"Please take care, Lady Bow!" Shaid shouted as they left. "I will send you letters updating the status of your estate, so remember to check your mail regularly!"
"Yeah, yeah, I will!" Bow replied before turning back to her new friends. "I swear, that woman thinks she's my mother sometimes."
"Speaking of which, uh… where is your mother?" asked Koopie, ducking under an extended tree branch. "She hasn't… passed on, has she?"
"Don't worry, she's just retired," Bow replied. "She gave me the family estate as soon as I was old enough and moved all the way to Poshley Heights. I almost never see her anymore."
"I'm… sorry?" Koopie said, somewhat confused by Bow's callous tone.
"Don't worry, we don't hate each other or anything, we're just… not on the best of terms." The midday sun overhead was soon eclipsed by the shade of Forever Forest, to the point where it already seemed like night again. "Okay, everyone, follow behind me closely if you don't want to risk getting lost."
"Okay," Mario said before grabbing her right hand from behind. His other friends then all tried to grab his right hand all at the same time, causing some awkward laughs before they all rock-paper-scissored with each other to decide who would get to hold his hand. In the end, Chompy was the one who emerged victorious, despite the fact that she picked rock every time.
"Arf arf!" Chompy said proudly to herself as Bombette held onto her chain tail.
"Darn it… that's what I get for thinking about scissoring too much," Bombette chastised herself.
A few minutes later, their journey through the forest was interrupted by the sounds of confused grunting.
"Was it this way? No… I've already been that way. What about this way?" The voice droned on.
"Huh? That voice sounds kinda familiar," Goommaria said as the figure making the noises came into view. "Oh no…"
"Grr, why does this forest have to be so gosh darn confusing?" The owner of the voice was none other than Jr. Troopa, though she looked a little worse for wear, as if she'd been wandering around Forever Forest for hours. "Oh, Mario! Thank good- er, I mean, ah ha! I've finally tracked you down!"
"Oh no… what do you want this time?" Mario asked, hand preemptively slapping his face. "You're not here to challenge me to another fight, are you?"
"So, you're scared, huh? I would be too if I had to fight me!" Jr. Troopa boasted. "I had to pull a… tactical retreat the last time we met, but this time you're the one who's going to be running!"
"Who is this strange, lost child?" Bow asked. "I love terrified kids as much as the next Boo, but someone really should get her home before she gets hurt out here."
"I'm not scared, and I am not lost!" Jr. Troopa fumed furiously. "I'm here to finally get my revenge, and you're going to hand it to me on a silver platter! Hnnnnngh!"
Jr. Troopa concentrated hard, severely weirding out Mario and his friends until, finally, a pair of bat wings burst out of her back.
"Ahah! Let's see you beat me now!" Jr. Troopa beat the wings furiously until she was several feet off the ground. "Except you won't because I'm about to thrash you!"
"Uh, is this natural?" Mario asked, taking a step backwards.
"W-well, some Koopas naturally have wings, but they're always feathered and visible." Koopie explained. "So this must be the work of some kind of magic."
"That's right! Someone sold me soda called 'Totally Not Swooper Blood' and these bad girls popped out right afterwards!" Jr. Troopa gloated. "It tasted pretty nasty, but it'll be worth it to defeat you!"
"Look, kid, I'm not going to figh-yeeeaa!" Mario had to duck as the Koopa dove straight for his head, nearly bopping him and knocking him out.
"Yeah, you're not going to fight me! Fights are fair!" Jr. Troopa laughed before swooping down again and again. She was moving so fast that they all had to run to avoid getting hit by her, forcing the group to scatter.
"Hey, what happened to sticking together?" Goommaria asked.
"We can stick together later!" Bombette replied. "Right now, we just need to stay in one piece!"
"You can run, losers, but you can't hide!" Jr. Troopa announced to the forest.
"Oh, geeze… why do I have to be alone again?" Koopie ran as fast as her heavy shell would let her, coming to a stop at a fork in the road. "I forget… do I take the familiar route or the unfamiliar route, or - oof!"
Jr. Troopa laughed as she delivered a kick straight to the back of the blonde girl's shell, sending it and her bouncing through the woods uncontrollably.
"Hahah! That'll make choosing easier for you!"
"Bark bark bark!" Chompy barked, trying to get her friends to follow her as she tracked her own scent through the forest, hoping it would lead her back down the path she originally came. "Bark bark b-"
She too was cut off mid sentence by a kick to the face, which spun her around so hard she ended up tied up by her own chain.
"Good girl~" Jr. Troopa tried to pet Chompy condescendingly, only for her to try and bite the Koopa with her sharp teeth. "Guh! Fine, not pets for you."
"Come on, put that good memory of yours to good use…" Goommaria said herself as she ran too. "Maybe if I go this way… ah!"
Instead of Jr. Troopa cutting her off, the Goomba found herself stopped dead as she ran around a tree and came face-to-breast with Bombette and knocked the taller woman over in the process. Both laid dazed on the forest floor as Jr. Troopa hovered over them.
"Ha! I shouldn't have bothered to run last time! You're practically beating yourselves!" she said before flying off again.
Mario, meanwhile, had also stopped running as he ducked behind a tree and caught his breath.
"Okay… this isn't good," Mario said to himself. "My choices are… beat up this kid, or let the kid beat me up. Neither are very good options…"
"Agreed," a voice suddenly cut in, causing Mario to jump. "Oh, relax, I'm not trying to scare you on purpose this time."
Mario's heart calmed down as Bow made herself visible next to him.
"Oh, phew… it's only you." Mario tried to relax, but the sounds of beating wings kept him on edge. "What do we do about this crazy girl?"
"Well… this forest may be wild, but there are a few here who are loyal to my family." Bow looked up at something in the trees, but Mario couldn't see what it was. "You might owe them a favor later, though."
"Fine, just get this girl off my back!" Mario replied.
Bow nodded before she disappeared once more.
"I can smell you, Mario!" Jr. Troopa called out as the plumber heard her flapping grow louder. "You smell like tears and expired just save me some effort and beat yourself up a little before I find you, okay?"
It sounded like Jr. Troopa was about to be right on top of him when, suddenly, the flapping of her wings just… stopped.
"H-hey! What's going on here!?" Mario peeked out from his hiding spot and saw Jr. Troopa suspended in the air by her still wings. Upon closer inspection Mario saw what looked like the branches of the trees grasping onto the Koopa's bat wings. "Put me down! Put me down!"
There was a small popping noise, like the sound of a jar being opened, followed by Jr. Troopa falling down to the ground and her wings staying up in the trees. Mario rushed over to help the girl, but thankfully there wasn't any blood and the Koopa mainly just looked dazed.
"Darn it! You had to play dirty again, didn't you!?" stood up and pointed a finger accusingly up at Mario. "But I'll be back! And you'll be so sorry!"
And with that, the half-pint havok dashed off into the forest, leaving Mario behind as Bow reappeared beside him.
"Thanks for the save," Mario told her. "But, uh… what exactly did you do?"
As soon as Mario asked, the trees around him began to shake and a low, evil moaning began to fill the forest. The branches of the trees around him seemed to reach down for him, as if searching for a sacrifice to appease their hunger. Mario, in a panic, closed his eyes and waited for the worst.
"That's enough, you two." Bow said calmly. "Only I'm allowed to scare my friends."
"Sorry, force of habit," a voice said before the shaking trees suddenly stopped and withdrew their branches.
Mario opened his eyes again and finally noticed two women with tan skin, brown hair pulled back in short ponytails with acorns hanging off the ends, and clothes that were clearly made to look like the bark of the surrounding trees.
"Who are you girls?" Mario asked as they jumped down to his level.
"We are the Treevils - we speak for the trees," the one on the right with yellow eyes explained. "Well, it's more like we talk to the trees and tell them what to do, but it's a small difference."
"We basically work to keep the forest healthy and not burning down," her friend with orange eyes added. "And that occasionally involves scaring people away. So, uh, sorry if we freaked you out."
"Here," the golden-eyed Treevil snapped off the golden acorn from her ponytail and handed it to Mario. "As an apology."
"Uh, thanks?" Mario replied. "You didn't happen to see where all my friends are up in those trees, did you?"
"I'm afraid not," the orange-eyed one replied. "But our boss might have."
"Boss? Who's that?" Mario asked.
"Me!" Oaklie said as she jumped from the bushes. "Who else would it be?"
"Gah!" Mario gasped. "Okay, I am honestly getting sick of all these jump scares now."
"Jump scares? I'm just here to bring you your friends." Oaklie pushed down the bush she jumped out of and revealed all of Mario's friends standing behind it.
"Bark bark bark!" Chompy, still tied up, hopped her way over to Mario and happily licked at his face.
"H-hey guys! It's good to see you're alright!" Mario said, trying not to laugh with the Chain Chomp licking him. "Uh… sorry that I let our team fall apart just now…"
"It's fine - we'll just have to try not to let that happen again in the future," Goommaria replied. "It wasn't too bad, though…"
"Wait, you don't really think that weird kid is going to be back… are you?" asked Koopie.
"I hope not, but at this point I'm starting to think that girl might just follow me until I die - and maybe even after that too." Mario turned back to Oaklie. "I know you've done a lot for us already, but… could you save us some time and show us the way to Toad Town? We've kind of spent a bit too much time here already."
"Oh, I'll say - you need to get back to Toad Town as soon as you can!" Oaklie replied. "Things are not good there right now!"
"Oh no! Bowsa hasn't attacked, has she?" Goommaria asked, terrified.
"Kinda… there is an army there, but it's not commanded by any Koopa," Oaklie explained. "Well, maybe 'army' isn't the right word. It's more like… a field trip."
"Toad Town is being assaulted by a field trip?" Bombette asked. "Just give them some ice cream, and they'll calm down."
"I wish it was that simple…" Oaklie replied. "I also wish I had some ice cream. That sounds like it would be really nice right about now. But there's no time! Follow me, and I'll show you exactly what I'm talking about!"
The strange woman took off down the path, where Mario and his friends promptly lost her.
"Where are you going?" Oaklie asked, popping out from behind the group. "Toad Town is this way!"
"I swear, if had the chance to bomb anywhere in the world to the ground…" Bombette grumbled to herself as they followed Oaklie again.
"Finally! Out of that cursed forest!" Mario heard Jr. Troopa's familiar voice say as they were reunited with the midday sun. "I could kiss this ground! Mwah! Mwah! Mwah!"
The group just barely caught a glimpse of Jr. Troopa before she dashed off into Toad Town.
"I know she kinda beat us up a minute ago, but honestly, same," Goommaria commented.
"Hmmmph! You just don't have a fine appreciation for a spooky atmosphere!" Bow turned her nose up at the Goomba. "Pine, Elm, you can return to your posts now."
"Right away, boss!" the Treevil with golden eyes replied. "Oh, and Mario… we will call on that favor later~"
"Uh… sure thing, girls!" Mario waved as they hopped back up into the trees of Forever Forest. "So… where is this army exactly?"
"Over there!" Oaklie pointed with a stick towards the guard booth that was supposed to keep watch to the entrance to Forever Forest. There, what looked like two short women, each wearing red hoodies with overly long sleeves and white masks that concealed their faces, ran around the station with spears over their heads, and a distressed Toad guard chasing after them.
"Get back here… you little… runts!" The Toad tried her best to keep up but had to stop to catch her breath, at which point the girls just ran around her instead with mocking laughter.
"Are those… kids?" Mario asked.
"No, though they might kinda look and act like it," Goommaria replied. "Those are Shy Gals, and they are adults. They're often obsessed with childish things, though, so you'll often see them in playground, toy stores, theme parks, those kinds of things."
"And… the masks?"
"It's because we're shy, of course!" Oaklie explained. "People make fun of our faces a whole lot, so we make sure to hide them as best as we can. It won't exactly be pretty, but a good way to get rid of a Shy Gal is to just take off her mask. If you're in public, they'll go running for the hills."
"Oh, that doesn't sound too bad." Mario did a quick double take. "Wait, did you say 'we' a second ago?"
"Well, yeah! Not all masks have to be actual masks," Oaklie replied from somewhere in her leafy getup. "So please, stop my sisters from clowning around before someone actually gets hurt, okay?"
"You're not going to help us?" Koopie asked.
"Well, I would, but… I've got things to do," Oaklie replied. "Trees to see, leaves to collect, you know how it is."
"Uh… no, we don't." Mario replied.
"Well, you would if you lived in the woods," she said before bouncing off. "Toodle-oo!"
"Okay…" said Bombette. "Well, let's not just stand here, guys! Let's save the town!"
"Yeah!" her friend cheered before they charged towards the guard booth and ripped off the masks off the Shy Gals.
"Eeep!" The girls both gasped and covered their faces, the lack of masks revealing that one had blue hair and the other had green hair.
"You… big meanies!" The blue-haired one shouted as they both ran away.
"We were just having fun!" The green-haired one added.
The Shy Gals promptly ran out the nearest city gate, where Chompy and Bombette promptly closed the door behind them.
"And stay out!" Bombette shouted.
"Phew, thanks for the help, Mario," the tormented Toad soldier said as she finally caught her breath. "If I lost those spears, they'd be coming straight out of my paycheck."
"It was no problem at all, Ms." Bow picked up the spears and floated them over to the Toad.
"Wait… you're a… g-g-ghost!" Before the Boo could even get a word in edgewise, the woman hyperventilated and passed out.
"Wow… am I really that scary?" Bow blushed and played with her hair. "I must say, the locals here really know how to flatter a lady. I must come here more often."
Mario was about to say that might not be the best idea, but he was interrupted by a cry for help.
"Help! Someone, get me out of here!" Parakarry's familiar voice rang out. "I'm trapped and they're stealing my letters!"
The group ran as fast as they could to the post office, where they found the mailwoman trapped underneath a pile of cardboard boxes while two more Shy Gals, these ones wearing blue hoodies, folded letters into paper darts and tossed them at each other.
"Heheh, I've got you!" the one on the right giggled as she scored a direct hit on her opponent.
"No you didn't! I was wearing my everything proof shield when that hit!" her opponent countered.
"Uh, hey… those don't belong to you, you know," Koopie spoke up. "And, while I'm not sure folding them is a crime, you should still… hey!"
The girls sprinted past the Koopa and out onto the streets, leaving her and the post office behind as they ran off with Parakarry's letter bag.
"Shoot… I should make my demands faster next time," Koopie scolded herself. "Are you all right, Parakarry?"
"Yeah… aside from all the parts of me that hurt," the other Koopa replied.
"Such violent ruffians…" Bow and the others began to move the boxes off of Parakarry. "I can't believe they did something like this to an innocent woman."
"Actually, that happened this morning. Turns out, you're not supposed to start from the bottom when you're trying to move things out of a pile." Once free, Parakarry stretched her wings and made sure they were both still attached. "It's good to see you guys again, though! How's the adventure going?"
"Could be better, could be worse," Mario replied. "We wish we could get some of these quests done faster, but we're trying our best."
"Bark bark!" Chompy barked in agreement.
"Well, at least they're getting done! It's like I always say, each letter delivered is a letter closer to being done!" Parakarry metaphored. "Oh, that reminds me! You've actually got some mail yourself, Mario!"
She reached into her hat and pulled out several letters.
"The Shy Gals stole a few of them, but I managed to save a few." Parakarry handed the letters over to Mario with a smile and a salute. "It was the least I could do for such an old friend! Speaking of which… has he remembered everything yet?"
"He's still mostly clueless," Goommaria replied. "I don't think he even remembers how many kids Bowsa has yet."
"I doubt Bowsa knows the answer to that either," Koopie said under her breath.
"Aww, that's too bad," Parakarry bemoaned. "You can always come by if you want me to help with that, Mario. I know this great doctor who is really good with a hammer! She always fixes amnesia on the sixth or seventh try."
"Uh, I think I hear more cries for help! We better go rescue them!" Mario shoved the letters into his pocket and ran out the door of the post office. "See you later, Parakarry!"
"See ya, Mario! Now, to get this box pile back in order…" Parakarry said to herself before starting on the pile with the smallest box.
It didn't take long after Mario left the post office to hear an actual cry for help, this time coming from the nearby park/playground. There, Shy Gals seemed to be using all the swings, slides, teeter totters, ridey-worm things, and sandboxes while an assortment of distressed parents and crying children looked on.
"Please, madams, have some consideration!" a Toad mother with green spots and brown hair begged. "You've been hogging the park for hours! Can't our kids have a few minutes in for themselves?"
"Yeah yeah, just give us like… five more minutes," a Shy Gal said as she made a sand sculpture in the shape of a xylophone. "Or until we get bored."
"Well… I've definitely seen worse crimes, but you girls really should move along," Mario spoke up.
"Oh no, it's the peach fuzz," a Shy Gal in a green hoodie groaned from the swingset. "Let's get out of here, Gals! We'll come back later when he's gone!"
The Shy Gals all ran off in a big crowd towards the center of town, though not before one of them grabbed a dictionary from a Toad woman with blue spots on her cap sitting on a park bench.
"Hey, I was reading that!" she shouted as she shook her fist.
"Can… people not afford actual novels here or something?" asked Bow.
"No, but what better story is there than the narrative of language?" the Toad asked in response.
"... Literally anything else?" Bow replied.
"Hey, you put that down!" a voice cried out nearby. "That's not a toy, that's a dangerous weapon!"
Mario's eyes immediately widened at that and he sprinted off in the direction of the noise. There, he found two women with blonde hair, dog ears, tan skin, and wearing short black skirts with red and yellow Hawaiian(esque) shirts. By the looks of things, they ran a store that looked from the outside like a jewellery store, but on close inspection the glass cases didn't hold any rings or necklaces - but badges. At the moment, the dog girls seemed to be trying, and failing, to get a group of Shy Gals to stop ransacking their store.
"Ooooh, this one is pretty!" A Shy Gal took a green badge shaped like a boot out from a smashed display case and pinned it on her hoodie. A moment later, she began to bounce all around the store, smashing more display cases and knocking over shelves until she finally took it back off. "And fun, too! I'm so keeping this one!"
"Hey, I'll have you know those badges are very expensive!" the taller of the two store owners complained as she bashed away at the buttons on the calculator she was holding. "You owe Rowf and Ruff three hundred coins for that, plus damages!"
"Oh? And what are you gonna do if we don't pay?" the Shy Gal asked 'innocently'.
"Then you'll have to deal with us!" Koopie announced as she and her friends all blocked the front door. "That was better, right? Much more succinct, and they can't run away now…"
"Aw… playtime is over!" One of the Shy Gals swiped the calculator from the manager of the store and dove through the display window out onto the street, sending glass everywhere. The other Shy Gals quickly followed, careful not to cut themselves on the shards.
"Well… so much for that," Koopie bemoaned.
"Oh, thank heavens you're here, Mario!" the shorter of the two dog girls greeted the plumber. "You've got to help us! My name's Rhuff, and his is my mom Rowf. Those girls ran off with most of our merchandise, and the rest we can't sell without my mom's calculator!"
"Really? Why does not having a calculator stop you from making sales?" asked Goommaria.
"Calculating taxes," Rowf replied, doggy ears drooping. "I mean, we could do it on paper, but then you have to do things like long division, and percents, and then you have to double check it to make sure it's alright… it's too much of a pain."
"Ohoho!" Bow laughed to herself. "People who pay taxes… this is why you get yourself declared legally dead as soon as possible."
"Uh… we promise to get you back your calculator as soon as we can, miss!" Goommaria said, ignoring the tax-evasion confession. "Just give us a minute, and we'll track those girls right down!"
However, no sooner than the group left the shop, they heard yet another cry for help, this time from the town bakery.
"No, my favorite frying pan!" A toad man with yellow-spots on her cap shouted as a Shy Gal in a red hoodie ran outside with the item in question. "How am I supposed to make my famous flap jills without it? I'll be ruined… ruined!"
"Hey, get back here with those!" a male voice shouted from a general store, with yet another Shy Gal sprinting from it. This time, she had a pink sweater and was carrying a miscellaneous collection of toys, snacks, and a keychain with keys still attached. "Darn it… how did those thieves even get into town?"
All around them, Mario and his friends watched as the Shy Gals ran amok. The town guard were still around, but as soon they got close to catching one Gal, two more would show up and distract them.
"Uh… can we go back into the forest instead, Mario?" Koopie asked. "I feel like things were so much simpler there.
"Mario…" A Toad guard with a red-spotted cap, brown hair, and an officer's insignia on her uniform panted as she came to a stop in front of the group. "You have… to help… restore order!"
"Calm down… I know things look bad, but all we have to do is take away their masks and force them all back outside, and things will be fine," Mario explained in his most calming tone of voice.
"You think… my women… haven't been trying that all day?" the Toad asked. "They just keep coming back! We don't even know how they got in… they just all of a sudden showed up inside the city walls! We can't find any tunnels anywhere, and we know they aren't using any pipes… we're just… at a loss!"
"They… they haven't assaulted anyone, have they?" Koopie asked grimly.
"No… actually, they're mainly just stealing things and holding up traffic with extended games of hopscotch," the guard replied. "But it's still pandemonium, and things are only going to get worse from here! You have to do something!"
"Well… I hate to say it, but I don't think there's much we can do right now," Mario admitted. "All we can do is keep looking for how they… hey, do you guys see that light up above?"
Mario's friends all craned their necks back and saw Twink slowly moving down from the sky.
"Ugh… shouldn't have had so much chocolate…" she grunted as she held her belly. "Hey… Mario! Over here!"
The mustachioed plumber ran over to the Starkid and let her land in his hand, and his friends all crowded around her.
"Are you okay? How's Peach?" Mario asked frantically as Bow and Chompy looked on in mild confusion.
"Don't worry… we're both fine…" the tiny, blonde woman replied. "Though, we both might have gained a little weight in the last few hours."
Mario let out a sigh of relief.
"Well… if you're not in trouble, then why did you come down?" Koopie asked curiously.
"Because I'm here to tell you where the next Star Spirit is, silly!" Twink said with a giggle. "We overheard Bowsa talking about it, and she says that there is one hidden in some kind of… toy box owned by Shy Gals. You wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you?"
Right after she said that, a Shy Gal in a green Hoodie ran out of a house with a teddy bear over her head and a crying Toad woman chasing after her.
"We, uh, might have suspected Bowsa was up to something with Shy Gals," Mario replied. "Do you happen to know where this toy box is?"
"I'm afraid not, Mario," Twink replied. "I wish I could be of more help, but that's all I have at the moment."
"That's okay… at least you gave us something to look for," Mario replied. "Now, get back and make sure that Peach is doing okay, alright?"
"Yes sir!" The starkid gave a little salute before taking off and slowly ascending back into the sky.
"A toy box, eh? Now it's all starting to make sense." Goommaria smiled to herself. "I've heard that some Shy Gals live in pocket dimensions. This must mean there's one in town somewhere."
"Hmm… are you thinking what I'm thinking, Mario?" Bombette asked with an eyebrow raised.
"I think so…" Mario pumped his right fist into his left palm. "We need to cut them off at the source!"
"Lalalalala!" The Shy Gal in the orange hoodie sang to herself as she skipped along the streets of Toad Town with a bag of stolen candy in her right hand. Occasionally, she'd reach into it with her sleeve-covered hand and stuff a collection of tasty treats under her mask, muffling her singing as she continued onwards. "Lalalala… huh?"
The Shy Gal stopped and turned around. She could have sworn that she had just heard footsteps right behind her, but when she turned around, the closest person was a Toad woman trying to stop her kids from playing catch with another Shy Gal thirty yards away.
"That was weird…" The Gal shrugged to herself. "Oh well! I better get these babies back home soon! The general will love this loot so much! Er, I mean, 'local appropriations'. I'm sure she won't mind if I have a few more, though!"
The Shy Gal skipped and skipped without a care in the world until she reached a small vacant house in the middle of town, at which point her singing and skipping finally stopped. Her eyes carefully scanned the environment around her from behind her mask, careful to see if anyone might be following her. When she was certain, she quickly went through the front door of the house and slammed it behind her.
Bow then let out a gasp as she let go of her friends, allowing them all to become visible once more.
"You… people… need to… stop being so corporeal…" Bow panted as she floated onto the ground. "Otherwise… this is going to get real old… real fast."
"We'll, uh… try our best," Koopie replied before they all headed into the house.
Inside, they found an empty living room and an empty bedroom and… that was it.
"Huh?" Mario looked around but couldn't even find a back exit to the house. "This is it? Where did the girl go?"
"Hmm… hey, Bowbie, you'd be able to tell if that Gal was really a Galhst, right?" Bombette asked Bow.
"Trust me, you would have been able to tell too," Bow replied.
"Hmmm…" Chompy sniffed along the ground until her nose ran into a wall. "Bark! Bark bark bark!"
"Hmm? What is it?" Koopie asked curiously as she watched the Chain Chomp bark at nothing.
"Bark bark bark!" Chompy took a few steps back before charging at the wall - and to everyone's surprise, the wall is what lost in the end.
"Oh! A secret door!" Koopie observed as she approached the new opening. "Good job, Chompy!"
"Bark bark!" the silver-haired girl barked in pride.
"Wow, when Twink said to look for a toy box, I thought it was just a metaphor or something. I wasn't expecting an actual toy box," Mario said as he approached the chest in the corner of the room. The box was painted orange, and was covered in polka dots representing every color of the rainbow. "So, we just open it up and we'll end up inside, right?"
"Yep," Goommaria said before plopping her mushroom butt right onto the lid of the box. "But since no more Shy Gals can get out while we're here… we can take a break!"
"That actually sounds kind of nice," Koopie said as she joined Goommaria on the box. "It sure beats running around the place all day. And it will give you a chance to read those letters, Mario!"
"Oh, right, almost forgot about those." Mario reached into his pocket and retrieved the pile of envelopes. "Let's see here…"
"Hey, bro!" the first letter began. "Luigi here, just sending you an update. The Bob-Ombs say that it's safe enough for me to head back home, but my arm's still in a cast. It's made doing lots of things really difficult… which is why the penmanship of this letter might be a little off." Mario noted that all the 't's in the letter looked like 'f's and vice versa, making reading a little difficult. "But not to worry! Two of the Bob-Ombs came with me and they're helping me do whatever I can't! They're surprisingly hospitable for girls that are technically bombs."
"Nope, not surprising at all," Bombette spoke up. "You better get your best-man suit ready now, Mario."
"Anyways, I hope you're doing well, and I look forward to hearing about your next success! Love, Luigi~"
"Well, at least he's having fun," Mario said before moving onto the next letter, which was addressed from Sheek.
"Hey, nice guy," it began. "Just letting a nice guy like you know how things have been now that you've left for nicer pastures. Now that the nasty Tutankoopa has been removed, the desert has been much calmer. Archeologists are still poking through the ruins that you found, reading from the walls what the wise already know. Traffic through the mountain pass has already filled with people wanting to please their peepers with the sight of such a palace. People who need help navigating town. People who will pay to hear stories. So many people, that bandits flee deeper into the sands. It's very nice.
"With the palace reemerged, there are little, quiet whispers of a new Dry Dry Kingdom. Are these whispers of the wise, or just the prattling of fools? Sheek knows not. But either way, the future is looking sunny for Dry Dry Desert. Regards, Sheek."
"Ugh, sounds absolutely terrible to me," Bow commented. "I will never understand why anyone would wish to live in a place with so little shade."
"Huh… this next one doesn't have a return address," Mario said before tearing it open.
"Dear Chump… I mean, Mario," it began. "Red here, and Blue is here too but we tried writing at the same time and it… didn't work out that well. We've done a lot of thinking after you beat us, and now we're starting to think maybe following Queen Goomba wasn't the best idea. We still want our own Goomba Country where we are in charge, we just have to get it some other way. We heard from someone that the Star Spirits used to grant wishes before Bowsa stole the Star Rod, so our plan right now is to wait until you beat her so we can wish for our own kingdom! It's going to be so awesome! So finish beating Bowsa for us, okay? We might even invite you over for some nachos if you do! Happy smashing, Red and Blue".
"Well, I'd tell them that probably won't work, but to be honest I'd rather have them wishing and docile than angry and still trying to mess things up," Goommaria commented.
"Yeah, that's probably the best idea," Mario said before moving onto the next letter.
"Dear loverboy… I hope you remember me, because my pussy sure remembers you!" it began. "You stirred up my snatch like nothing else! I've managed to have a boy or two since we last met, but it was your rod that I come back to in my mind every time I stir my pussy up! Now I get why they call you 'super'! Be sure to come back soon, because next time I promise to blow you away! XOXO, Sirocco!"
"That… that jerk!" Bombette grabbed the letter out of Mario's shaking hands and tore it up. "As if assaulting you wasn't bad enough!"
Mario just sighed. "It's fine, girls. I'm… getting used to this kind of stuff. Or, maybe I got used to it a while ago, and I'm just starting to remember."
"Uh… okay, let's move onto this next letter," Goommaria said, picking it up. "This one is from… Wendy O. Koopa!? What!?"
The Goomba hastily opened up the envelope and began to read it.
"Dear 'Servant'," the letter began. "After my chance to be a desert princess was so cruelly taken from me, I went back to the Toad House to see you again, only to find out you didn't work there anymore. Not only that, but they didn't even have anyone in their records about anyone even matching your description! Then, I realized how familiar your moustache was, and then I was able put shell and shell together.
"I can't believe that a disgusting human like you could be so insolent as to take my virginity! I'm a princess, and we have to save that for someone special! Or at the very least, someone who isn't my mother's sworn enemy! I asked Kamek how much my virginity was worth, and according to her you owe me twelve million coins! So you better pay up and apologize for tricking me, or else mom is going to throw you into an even deeper dungeon than she's already planning!
"And another thing - you said I can't get fertilized during my first time, but Kamek says that I've got an egg growing in me, and it can only be there because of you! I can't believe you would lie to me like that, you slutty jerk! Now, none of my good dresses are going to fit in a few months, and then until I finally lay it! I'm not even going to let you help name her, I'm so angry right now! And if she has your moustache, there won't be a dungeon deep enough for you to hide from me!"
"Uh... I don't think that's how that works," Koopie commented before continuing.
"Anyways, mom found out I lost my V and sent me back home so I could spend my grounding in my room. That's another thing I'm going to make you pay for when I see you again! You're lucky that all I can do right now is stay here in my room. I had some of my servants help me make a replica of your penis, and I made sure it was 100% accurate. I've been taking out my frustration on it in preparation for what I plan on doing to you the next time we face each other. It's not because I'm reliving what happened every night, or anything, so don't even think that's why I had it made! Every time I slam myself down on this thing… I get more and more ready to take you on the next time! I'm not a confused virgin anymore, and I plan on what a royal Koopa can really do when she sets her mind on something! Your dick… won't know what fucked it! Your dick will never be able to finish inside another pussy again! Ohohoho!"
"Did she really write in her laughter?" asked Goommaria, to which Koopie nodded.
"I don't know, I think it was a nice touch," commented Bow. "It adds some real flare and menace to it."
"Infernally yours, Wendy O. Koopa," Koopie finally finished.
"Well, that's one more thing I have to worry about." Mario sighed and stood up from the toy box. "Let's get going before I find out she's put a hit on me or something, okay?"
"Okay, Mario," Goommaria replied as everyone gathered around the box. "Okay everyone, this will probably feel very weird when I open this… get ready!"
The latch on the box popped, and the lid slowly began to open.
A/N: There we go, a month, that's a much more manageable period of time for me to complete the chapter in. Now we can return to our regularly scheduled fish frying. See ya there.