Within moments of opening the lid, Mario and his four friends were sucked into the box. The sensation was very strange, but not too dissimilar to traveling through a warp pipe, only with far more colors swirling around them as they went.
When the group finally came to a stop, the group was more than a little bit disoriented. It was almost as if the whole world was made out of a spinning funhouse mirror, and none of them could see perfectly straight.
"Ooooh… where… are we?" Bombette asked as she held her head in her hand.
"I think… we made it inside the toy box…" Mario said as his eyes slowly drifted from the ground up towards something that was towering over him. "Or, at least, we better be inside the toy box…"
The plumber had to clear rub his eyes to make sure they weren't deceiving him but, sure enough, he was standing in the shadow of a massive rocking horse, it's hulking wooden form adorned with soft pastel colors. Beyond the horse were large, plastic trees, houses made of massive plastic bricks, streets paved with wooden blocks, murals drawn on the sides of buildings in crayon, and colorful wooden building blocks forming things like bridges and arches.
The only things that didn't seem to be toys around here were the inhabitants, who were either Toad men and women or Shy Gals, the latter of whom were in the clear majority. To Mario's surprise, though, the Shy Gals weren't attacking the Toads or trying to kidnap them; instead, it looked like they were just going about their everyday lives, playing, heading to work, and buying plastic food that Mario hoped they didn't actually try to eat.
"Huh, I wasn't really sure what I was expecting to see in here, but this really wasn't it," Mario said as he scratched the back of his head. "It's just like a normal town here."
"Yeah, they even have an elementary school!" Bombette pointed out before nudging Koopie with her elbow. "Say, do you think that they play with office supplies and vegetables there?" the blonde woman joked.
"Actually, I think that's a high school," Goommaria spoke up as she pointed to the open area next to the school. "You can tell because they have signs by the playsets and the seesaws reminding them not to have sex during school hours. That tends to be less of a problem when they're just kids."
Sure enough, when the school bell rang and the students were let out of their classes, dozens of Shy Gals began to stream out of the building. And while they were pretty short, even compared to Mario, their curvy bodies underneath their hoodies let Mario know that they definitely weren't kids. That didn't stop several of them from immediately going to the playground to mess around with the carousel there, though.
"Wow, I guess you were right…" Mario said as he scratched under his hat again. "Wait, did you just say it would be less of a problem? I'd hope that it wouldn't be a problem at all before they're in high school."
"Actually… I remember reading somewhere that, with the exception of Koopas, the average age for Mono losing their virginities is quite low," Koope replied as the town continued to hustle and bustle all around them. "Like, in the single digits low."
"What? How is that even- actually, nevermind. Forget I even asked," Mario dropped his face into his hands in exasperation. "Let's just focus on figuring out what's going on here, okay?"
His friends all nodded in agreement and set out after him to help explore the town. They didn't get very far, however, before they caught the attention of two Toad women with brown hair, black caps, and red spots wearing blue guard uniforms that looked they'd be more appropriate on a nutcracker than a person.
"Say, do those people seem a bit suspicious to you?" one of the guards asked the other, playing with the pink hammer in her hands while the other pretended to drink out of an empty glass of water.
"Hmm, you're right. They don't look like they're from around here… alright then, break's over!" The guard put her fake glass of water away, took out a real one from behind a nearby bush, and chugged it as fast as she could before heading over towards Mario with her friend. "Hey, you! Stop right there!"
"Oh! I'm sorry!" Mario said nervously as she saw the two women approach. "Can we help you with something?"
"Yeah, could you please explain where you five just came from? I'm pretty sure you're not from around here," the Toad with the pink hammer replied.
"Yes, actually, we're from out of town," Koopie volunteered. "Well, actually, I guess we never technically left town, have we? So I guess you could say that we're from… around town?"
"What? That doesn't make any sense at all," the guard replied. "Are you from here or not?"
"I think it's pretty obvious what's actually going on here," the other Toad woman cut in, taking out her own plastic mallet. "You're spies for her, aren't you?"
"What? No, no, not at all!" Goommaria flatly denied.
"Yes, believe me - if I wanted to spy on you, you'd never know about it," Bow said as she fanned herself lightly. "Well, not until it's too late at least~"
"Well, aside from maybe her, I can vouch that we're all decent people here," Mario added as he stood in front of the group. "But, just for future reference, could you remind us who exactly 'her' is? With the gender ratio being what it is, that description doesn't really narrow it down."
"What!? You've never heard of 'her'? The scourge of stuffed animals? The bane of bubbles? The basher of blocks!?" The Toad woman jumped backwards in shock. "Now I know for sure that you're spies! I don't know what you're doing here, but I plan on making you tell the truth one way or another."
Mario was going to try and say something to try and calm the woman down, but he simply couldn't speak fast enough before the guard charged towards him with her hammer raised high. Knowing there wasn't enough time to dodge out of the way, Mario closed is eyes, git his teeth, and braced for impact.
But instead of landing with a thud or a thwack, the hammer collided with his chest with just a soft squeaking noise.
"Uh… oh no?" Mario looked at the guard in bewilderment as she proudly withdrew her 'weapon'.
"Ha! That should teach you! My hammer might not look like it, but it's a super ice hammer with ultra death powers." The guard spun the pink hammer around in her hand like it was a switchblade. "One more hit with this baby, and you're done for! You might as well just surrender now."
"Oooh, you got your hands on the ultra death sticker?" The other guard looked on in amazement at the picture of a purple skull that was placed onto the side of the toy mallet. "That's so cool! I've been looking for that one for forever now!"
"Thanks! My wife got it for me for our anniversary!" The other Toad puffed her chest out proudly as she spun the fake hamer once more.
"You can't honestly believe that those stickers give your weapons any magic powers, do you? That's just ridiculous! They're just useless pieces of paper and glue!" Bow fanned herself even faster as she shot an intense glare towards the two guards. "Everyone knows that it's badges that give you special powers, not stickers."
"Gasp! How dare you insult Kersti's gift to our world like that!?" The two guards gasped in shock. "You take that back right now!"
"Actually, stickers don't make weapons more powerful, but they can be used as single-use items that range from healing items, evasive actions, or special attacks. But the stickers also have to be from the Sticker Comet that shows up every year, which complicates some things, plus they're mostly relegated to the Decalburg area to begin with…" Goommaria interjected into the conversation, earning confused looks from both sides of the argument. "Uh, sorry… I just really like Sticker Fest."
"Well, I'm not really sure what a comet is, but you five still better surrender if you know what's good for you!" the Toad threatened, brandishing her hammer once more. "So what's it gonna be, big guy?"
"Uhh…" Mario's eyes glanced around the area for a few moments before he suddenly noticed a plastic trash can sitting on a lawn right next to him. Thinking fast, he grabbed ahold of the trash can's lid and used it to block the guard's next blow before it could land. "Aha! Let's see you get past my everything-proof shield!"
"What? Heeey, that's not fair!" The guard whined as she beat on the makeshift shield again and again. "You put that down right now, or, or…"
Mario could see the guard starting to tear up, but those waterworks were suddenly put on hold when the ground began to shake and rumble. The whole town seemed to go silent as everyone turned to a large wall made out of giant letter blocks that seemed to be the source of the noise. A moment later and a parade of E-Scooters burst through the blocks and sent chunks of painted wood flying in every direction as Shy Gals in red hoodies and white armbands zipped across the plastic landscape. Each of them was armed with slingshots and/or rocks, seemed to cause nasty bruises as they opened fire indiscriminately on the residents of the town. This didn't seem to be too much of a threat to Mario, but it seemed to be more than enough to send the inhabitants of the city scrambling for cover, including all the guards.
"Oh no! I knew you had to be spies!" The Toad who had just attacked Mario panicked and ducked behind his everything-proof shield. "General Gal was planning to break her truce with us all along, and you were her vanguard! We agreed to let some of her troops pass through, but that clearly wasn't enough!"
"Wait, if you still think we're spies, then why are you using Mario for cover?" Goommaria asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Uh… that's a good point." The Toad woman slipped out from underneath Mario's shield and went running in the opposite direction of the Shy Gal attack. "Run for your lives! Toys and sweets first!"
"I guess we really should have suspected the natives here wouldn't handle real violence all that well," Koopie said as several pebbles bounced harmlessly off the shell on her back. "To think that Bowsa is trying to corrupt it just to stop us…"
"How fortunate for these urchins that they have us then, eh?" Bow cackled to herself as she put her fan away and made sure the fingers on her slapping hand were nice and limber. "Let's make these gals regret that they showed their faces around here, shall we?"
"Bark bark!" Chompy jumped up and down in agreement as she whipped her tail through the air.
"Yeah! We can handle a few bratty girls with pebbles, right, Mario?" Goommaria pumped her fist in the air and smiled towards the incoming enemies.
"Yeah… let's show these toy soldiers how it's really done!" Mario took out his hammer - his real hammer - and got ready to charge. "Alright everyone… let's-a-go!"
By the time the group finally sprang into action, the Shy Gals had already taken control of most of the town. They were chasing residents around in circles with their slingshots, drawing silly faces on the ground with chalk, and knocking over block buildings - only for them to quickly put the buildings back together so they could start their terror anew.
"Koopie! See if you can rescue those Shy Gals over there!" Mario ordered, pointing towards a small crowd of them that were being chased.
"A-alright!" Koopie said with as much conviction as she could. "J-just to make sure, you mean save the good ones, right?"
"Yes!" both Mario and Goommaria shouted back.
"Right, right, sorry!" Koopie retreated into her shell and shot herself forward, ramming into a Shy Gal with a red armband before bouncing off into another. She ended up bouncing into five of them before she finally came to a stop, each of them letting out a loud "Ooof" as they dropped to the ground, completely winded.
"Alright then! Bombette, see if you can interrupt their art project!" Mario shouted.
"Coming right up!" Bombette gathered up all the magical energy within her breasts, lit her fuse ponytail, and activated her power with a loud explosion. The energy launching her straight up into the air and allowing her to slam her fist right in the middle of the group of Shy Gals. The impact was so great that the ground cracked, and all the Shy Gals around her were sent stumbling to the ground. "Ha! Easier than bombing fish in a barrel!" Bombette smiled even though the explosion partly exhausted her as she began to destroy slingshots, tear off masks, and knock Shy Gals out.
"Good job!" Goommaria shouted at her bombshell friend. "Now, Bow! See if you can get them to stop destroying the houses! Uh, preferably right after they rebuilt them!"
"Do you even need to ask?" Bow suddenly disappeared and reappeared in front of a group of rampaging Shy Gals. "Hello there, miscreants. Isn't it far past your bedtimes?"
"Shut up! You're not my mom!" One of the Shy Gals charged forward, firing her slingshot, but the Boo disappeared before her rocks could even land. "Huh? Where did she go?"
"You know, you really should get better aim." The Shy Gal let out a high-pitched scream as Bow suddenly appeared behind her. The soldier tried to spin around as quickly as she could, but all that did was allow the Boo to slap her face so hard that she fell back onto the ground with her mask cracked. "Does anyone else wish to play hide-and-go-seek with me? Don't worry, I don't care if I keep winning."
"Hey! You can't do that to my friend! Hiyaaa!" Another Shy Gal charged forward, only to end up getting slapped as well. That one was soon followed by another, and then another, and so on.
"Good job, my Lady! And now, for Chompy!" Mario pointed his finger towards the Chain Chomp who was eagerly sitting on the ground in front of him, awaiting orders. "Uhh…"
"Go nuts!" Goommaria energetically interjected.
"Bark bark!" Chompy gave a small salute with her tail before dashing off into the nearest group of Shy Gal warriors, causing chaos as she nipped bottoms and whipped away weapons.
"Sergeant Gal, Sergeant Gal!" one of the Shy Gal soldiers shouted as she ran towards a Shy Gal with an oversized commander's hat who stood at the back of the attack. "Status report! I don't know how, but the forces of Blue Station are beating us back! Th-the losers must be cheating or something! Someone, check the rule book!"
"What?" The sergeant pushed the soldier aside and looked at her army being routed by Mario's friends. "Oh no! I was one conquered town away from getting a free ice cream! Broccoli Brigade, get out here!"
"Hup hup hup hup hup hup hup!" A large group of Shy Gals said in unison as they quickly lined up behind their commander, each one of them carrying a strange blue device in their hands.
"Ready… aim…" On the sergeant's orders, the Shy Gals leveled their weapons on the town. "Fire!"
A moment later the town was pelted with volley after volley of broccoli heads, each one fired out of a Shy Gal's gun with a popping noise not too dissimilar to a plastic food container opening. Despite their ammo being leafy greens, they hit with even more force than the slingshot stones did, which Bombette found out the hard way when they began to hit her side.
"Ow! That smarts, you short brats!" Bombette, despite how she wanted to fight back, was forced to duck behind a nearby plastic fire hydrant and use it for cover. "Mario! How do we deal with these girls?"
"Uh… Koopie, can you hit them?" Mario shouted to his Koopa friend from behind a large flashlight that was apparently acting as a street light.
"Sorry, but I think if I tried to throw my shell at them from here, then the shots would just hit me right back!" Koopie apologized as she hid behind a large wooden block with an M carved into it.
"Well, maybe if you can't make it… we can!" Mario declared. "Koopie would you mind lending me your shell for a little while?"
"Uh… I guess I could do that." Koopie slipped out from her shell and tossed it towards Mario, who was instantly reminded of how deceptively heavy it was when he caught it.
"Alright, thanks! Goommaria! Do you think you can help me carry this?" Mario asked over the sound of shattering vegetables.
"Yeah… are you thinking… what I'm thinking?" The Goomba smiled as she looked up at Mario from the stoop she was hiding behind.
Mario nodded, and that was all the signal that Goommaria needed. Dashing out from cover, the two grabbed ahold of Koopie's shell and used it as a shield to advance towards the Shy Gals' line of leafy green bullets. The hail of essential vitamins and minerals was harrowing, and they were nearly pushed back several times by the lofty goal of living a healthy lifestyle, but they kept pressing forward regardless by choosing one that worked for them rather than adhering to a vague one they felt was too nebulous.
"They're getting closer! Someone stop them already!" the sergeant shouted as the girls kept firing around her. "Get the carrots! Add some melted cheese! Just someone, do something!"
By then it was already too late, however. Despite the endless tide of locally-sourced produce surging towards them, they were able to make it all the way to the firing line, where they promptly threw the shell into the nearest local source's face. As the Shy Gal and the ones around her fell to the ground, Mario took his hammer back out and began to show them that exercise could be just as important as a healthy diet by striking down every Shy Gal within range. Goommaria took care of the ones she couldn't, using her mental health (i.e. the hard blunt top of her skull) to beat them down.
"Retreat! Retreat!" Sergeant Gal shouted as her soldiers picked themselves up off the ground and sprinted in the opposite direction of Mario. "We'll be back, you cheaters! This city will be ours!"
With that she, and the rest of the attacking Shy Gals, ran out of the city and disappeared behind a line of large toy sheep that were grazing in a plastic toy field.
"They… they did it!" one of the Toad guards from before poked her head out from the trash can she was hiding inside. "The spies really did it! They saved the town!"
"Those guys aren't spies! They're heroes!" the other Toad guard shouted from beneath her pile of discarded candy wrappers. "Huzzah!"
The whole town seemed to cheer along with the Toad as they all came out to thank Mario and his party for their hard work. Within moments, they were surrounded by throngs of thankful Shy Gals who lifted them up off the ground and paraded them like guests of honor through the streets.
"Wow, this is great!" Bombette laughed as she was tossed around like it was a mosh pit. "I could get used to this place!"
"I-I don't know…" Koopie replied from nearby, embarrassed that so many strangers were touching her body at once. "I-I just want my shell back…"
"Hold it right there!" a loud voice suddenly rang out from beyond the makeshift parade. The crowd turned in the direction of the voice and saw a Shy Gal soldier wearing a black hoodie standing by the tracks of the town's railroad station. "So, you think you've won, eh?'
"Well, yeah… that's why we're celebrating," one of the civilian Shy Gals replied.
"Heheh… that's what you think." The Shy Gal in the black hoodie reached behind her back and removed a strange electronic device with several red sticks attached. "You haven't won yet at all. Not by a long shot."
"Wait a second is that…" Goommaria squinted her eyes at the device. "A bomb!?"
"Huh, what?" Bombett's eyes shot around the room in confusion. "I didn't do anything!"
"Hahaha! I can't believe you fools left such a critical piece of infrastructure unguarded like this!" The Shy Gal began to laugh maniacally. "If we can't take this town, then we'll make you suffer for your resistance instead! All I have to do is press the detonator button, and you'll be cut off from all the other towns in the toy box! Yes, it will also cost my life, but it will all be worth it for our glorious leader! All hail General Gal!"
Mario watched in horror as the woman took out a large red button, and she was right about to press it when another Shy Gal soldier in a red hoodie suddenly topped out from a nearby block."
"Wait!" the new Shy Gal shouted. "You… do realize that the pieces of the track is made of plastic pieces, right? We can just cut off the town by just stealing the part you're standing on, no explosion necessary."
"Oh…" The Shy Gal in the black hoodie thought for a moment before putting her detonator button away. "I guess that plan does make a lot more sense."
"You, uh, sound disappointed," the other Shy Gal soldier pointed out.
"No, no, it's fine," the first replied. "It's just, the explosion would have been really cool…"
"We can, uh, still blow it up later if you want," the red Shy Gal suggested.
"I said it's fine, Share! Don't treat me like a kid! Geeze!" the Shy Gal in black groaned.
Share rolled her eyes under her mask but worked to steal the section of the track regardless, popping it out of place before disappearing off into the distance with it. The town, meanwhile, was left in a stunned silence and with one less functional train track.
"Well… that kinda sucks…" one of the resident shy gals admitted, her hand currently resting on Mario's butt. "But… you still saved the town! Hooray!"
The crowd instantly burst into another cheer, jumping right back into their celebration as if nothing happened.
"My, my, I see these people do not let go of an opportunity to throw a party easily," Bow said, hovering over the crowd rather than being tossed around like her friends. "It's almost admirable, in a childish kind of way."
"Alright, everyone, I loved being tossed around as much as the next guy… waaah!" Mario tried to shout as the mosh pit continued. "But could you please… put us down already!" The crowd let out a disappointed groan, but put the group down anyways. "Aaah… that's much better."
"Heroes! Heroes!" a voice suddenly called out from the crowd. "Please, let me see you for myself!"
Mario and his friends turned towards the source of the voice and saw a Shy Gal pushing her way through the crowd. She looked like most of the other Shy Gals there, but she was wearing a black top hat over her blue hoodie and a monocle over one of the eyeholes in her white mask.
"Allow me to introduce myself," the dapper woman said with a quick bow. "I am Mayor Blue, and I am in charge of the fair town you just saved. May I ask your names?"
"Well, I'm Mario… I think," Mario replied, rubbing the back of his head. "I'm from another planet, bit of a long story…"
"And I'm Lady Bow," the Boo said as she appeared next to the politician. "Remember the name, or you will learn to fear it."
"And I'm Bombette!" the blonde bombshell added. "Over there is Koopie, Goommaria, and Chompy, and we're helping Mario track down the Star Spirits to save the Mushroom Kingdom from Bowsa!"
"Star Spirits? Bowsa? Mushrooms?" The mayor shook her head in confusion. "I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you are talking about."
"Well… have any despots suddenly popped up out of nowhere, wreaking havoc like they never could previously?" Goommaria asked, to which the whole crowd nodded. "I thought so. What's her name again? Admiral Gal?"
"It is General Gal, and yes, she has been terrorizing us for a while now," the mayor replied. "She used to be such a sweet little girl, but instead of playing with balls, or dolls, or cooking sets, she always stayed indoors and played with her war games. Eventually, she became obsessed and… I guess we failed to take her seriously until it was too late."
"Oh my! You let kids play with violent board games? No wonder she turned out like that…" Koopie said, shivering as she put her shell back on. "Those things should be banned!"
"I'm pretty sure she had something wrong with her from the word 'go', but I suppose we could have paid more attention to her," the mayor admitted. "But now, she's taken over every single town here in the toy box, and there's nothing we can do about it."
"Hey, don't be like that!" Goommaria spoke up. "I'm sure we can beat her somehow! All we need is a good plan! Isn't that right, Mario?"
"Yeah! That's right!" Mario said with determination. "You can't give up! Not as long as you still have friends to help you!"
"Yeah… yeah!" The mayor jumped up and down in excitement. "Yeah! We can defeat General Gal! It doesn't matter how many soldiers she has, or what weapons she uses… we can beat her as long as we work together! And you and I are going to come up with the perfect plan..."
Suddenly, a loud ringing noise rang through the air.
"... right after recess." She finished as the crowd suddenly dispersed.
"Wait, what?" Mario asked, looking around in confusion.
"What? It'd be inhumane even for a mayor to work through their regularly scheduled recess," the blue mayor replied. "Don't worry, we'll figure out the plan right after we're done. Oh, and by the way, we all got you a cake, so feel free to enjoy that while we're gone!"
Mario glanced over to his right and found a small cake with pink frosting sitting atop a small table.
"Aww, you shouldn't have!" Koopie said sweetly before picking it up and trying to take a bite. However, that try came to a sudden end when her teeth collided with the pastry and discovered it was pure plastic. "Wow, you really, really shouldn't have…"
"Oy… every time I think I'm about to get used to the Mushroom Kingdom, it somehow finds a way to get even weirder." Mario groaned and walked over to a nearby park, finding an open bench to sit on and promptly resting himself on it
"Don't worry, this place is pretty odd even by our standards," Koopie sat down on the bench too.
"Bark bark!" Chompy barked in agreement, clearly not happy with the plastic flowers that were planted among the fake grass of the park.
"Well, it may seem a bit odd to us, but it's kind of a paradise too if you think about it," Goommaria said as she became the third person on the bench. "A place where you never have to really grow up… that must be so nice."
"Maybe, but it's also kind of creepy too." Mario looked out across the park and saw a group of Shy Gals playing soccer with each other. "Like, you see those girls over there? I can't tell by how they look or how they act how old they are. I'm not sure which are the adults and which are the kids."
"And… that's creepy because…?" Goommaria asked in confusion.
"You're kidding, right?" Mario replied as the Shy Gals continued to play in their toy fields."I don't really have to explain why that's creepy, especially to me, as a man, do I?"
"Well, I believe that I am a leading expert on what is creepy and what isn't, and even I have no idea what you are talking about," Bow said as she sat down in midair beside Mario's bench.
"It's because Mono are, you know… so sexual!" Mario replied, throwing out his hands in an exasperated fashion. "You said that they sometimes get started at early ages too. What if one of them tries to seduce me or something? I don't want to accidentally have sex with jailbait!"
Mario's friends all looked at each other, each sharing the same look of confusion.
"Uh… why exactly would someone go to jail for having sex with a willing girl?" Koopie ended up asking. "And what exactly does age have to do with that?"
Mario didn't reply, simply looking back at the girl with abject horror.
"Wait, wait, hold on, I think I get what's going on here," Goommaria interrupted before the situation could deteriorate any more. "This is just another Earth/Mushroom Kingdom cultural difference, isn't it?"
"Uh, yeah," Mario replied, still a little bit sweaty from the awkwardness. "Where I come from, a guy like me would get in loads of trouble for having sex with a girl who's under 18."
"Wow, seriously? This 'Earth' place sounds like it should be called 'opposite land' or something more appropriate instead," Bombette commented.
"She's right; while there are cultural taboos in our world against having sex with young boys, there's not really any for young girls," Goommaria went on to explain. "I mean, yeah, they're technically supposed to wait until they come of age, but no one really holds that expectation because 'girls will be girls.' If a girl here is interested in dick and sees the opportunity to pounce on one, there's no way anyone here would expect her wait just because she's young."
"I know I certainly didn't," Bow added as she fanned herself.
"Oh, really?" Koopie leaned over and looked at the ghost girl curiously. "When did you lose your virginity?"
"Well, I was fifteen years old and still learning how to properly scare people," the heiress explained. "I was practicing on different houses in Toad Town, and there was this one Toad guy with blue spots that I practically scared the pants off of. The face he made when he screamed was so cute that I kept coming back to scare him, and one thing led to another…"
"Wow, that actually sounds romantic in a macabre sort of way," Koopie blushed in her seat. "I kinda wish my first time was something like that."
"Yeah… sorry about that," Mario said bashfully next to her.
"Don't worry, I know you did what you had to do," Koopie placed a soft, reassuring hand on Mario's shoulder. "Besides, at least I lost my virginity before I turned 100, right? Not every Koopa I know can make that claim."
"Wow, seriously? I didn't know anyone could live that long without sex," Bombette said, rubbing her breass as she spoke.
"Well, we like sex too, it's just… we get started later than most other peoples," Koopie replied with a blush. "And you know what they say… once a Koopa starts getting into sex, it's hard to get them out of it."
"Right, 'slow and steady wins the race' or something like that," said Bow. "Speaking of… when exactly did you first cross the finish line, Goommaria? I'm curious."
"Well, not that it's actually a race or anything, but I lost my virginity when I was 12," Goommaria explained, eliciting a gasp from Mario. "Oh, don't worry, that's, like 14 years old for Goombas."
"That's still pretty young!" Mario countered, though Goommaria simply shrugged in response.
"Anyways, I managed to have my first time with another Goomba girl near Shooting Star Summit," Goommaria continued. "I don't know if the Star Spirits were listening that night, but I definitely got my wish that night either way~"
"Oh, so you think sleeping with other girls counts as sex?" Bow asked, a little surprised.
"Well, yeah, why shouldn't they?" Goommaria asked in response, causing the Boo to contemplate the question for a few moments.
"Hmm, I suppose you're right. Forgive me, my parents were a little bit antiquated," Bow apologized.
"What about you, Chompy?" Koopie asked the Chain Chomp woman sitting in the grass. "What was your first time like?"
"Bark bark!" The dark-skinned girl smiled, turned around, raised her rear into the air and thrust it backwards several times, all while moaning and whimpering as she played out the sex act for her friends.
"Oh my! That's even more risque than I imagined!" Koopie blushed as she watched. "You go, girl!"
"Well? Aren't you going to ask me about my first time yet?" Bombette crossed her arms underneath her breasts and tapped her foot impatiently. "Or am I not interesting enough?"
"Oh, right! Sorry, I didn't mean to ignore you!" Koopie apologized. "So, how was it that your cherry bomb came to be blown? Is there a cool story behind it?"
"Well, as a matter of fact, there is," Bombette replied. "It was back when I was about 13, when I was still as flat as an ironing board…"
"13, and not even apples on your tree yet? Wow, that's pretty rare for Bob-Omb," Goommaria interrupted.
"What can I say, I was a late-boomer," Bombette replied. "And being flat actually helped me get laid for the first time too! When I went to a Toad house for the first time, I actually managed to get a pity discount for having such small tits, which was good because their asking price was way above what my allowance could afford."
"Wait, don't you need to be 18 to use a Toad house?" Koopie asked in confusion.
"Yeah, but I had a fake ID that said I was actually 22," Bombette explained with a wink. "That alone probably won me a few extra pity points."
"My my, I had no idea that you could be so devious, my explosive friend." Bow smiled deviously behind her fan as she moved it even faster. "You and I should spend some time together, once this adventure is over."
"Uh, thanks, I guess…" Bombette replied. "Well, with my story done, I guess all that leaves is you, Mario! I bet your tale is going to completely blow mine out of the… out of the…"
Bombette paused when she and the others finally noticed that Mario had all the tell-tale signs of being weirded out, including a wide-eyed look and an expression that was halfway between a frown and a look of fear.
"Oh, lighten up!" Bombette said as she patted the man on the back. "There's no reason to be freaked out! I mean, yeah, we got started earlier than Earth women, I guess, but we had fun, didn't we? And we turned out fine, right?"
"Y-yeah, I guess so…" Mario replied, finally starting to relax again.
"Sooooo… when did you lose 'it'?" Bombette asked, her breasts bouncing a little as she leaned in towards Mario. "I mean, if you don't mind us asking."
"Well, I think I'd probably tell you if I could, but I don't think I've gotten enough of my memory back for that quite yet," Mario replied, scratching his head. "So, I guess Goommaria is my first time until I remember otherwise."
"Heh, it's an honor to have such a title," Goommaria said with an exaggerated bow right before a school bell rang out through the town once more. "Welp, break time is over, I guess. Let's go find the mayor so we can try to find a way to end this madness, okay?"
"Yeah, the sooner we get out of here, the better," Mario agreed, standing up. "Let's go show this 'General Gal' woman… that playtime is over!"
*Bad End*
"Yeah… let's show these toy soldiers how it's really done!" Mario took out his hammer - his real hammer - and got ready to charge. "Alright everyone… let's-a-go!"
Mario and his friends leapt forward into action to fight off the invading army… only to promptly realize that they had spent so much time on their pep-talk that the entire town had already been conquered, and that they were completely surrounded.
"Oh… uh, that's not good," Mario said as the Shy Gals all readied their slingshots. "Uh… could we maybe get a time out?"
The Shy Gals just pulled back on their rubber bands even more.
"Augh… alright… we surrender," Mario said as he put his hands up.
"Wow, seriously? The great and famous Mario is going to give up just like that?" Their commander, a sergeant Shy Gal in a red hoodie, asked in astonishment. "We haven't even fired a single shot at you yet."
"Yeah, but I'd rather keep my eyes in two pieces, so I'm just going to give up now, if you don't mind," Mario replied.
"Ha! I can't believe this! Bowsa spends years trying to capture this guy, and we just capture him like it's Mouser's play!" the Sergeant Gal laughed as the heroes had their arms bound with jump rope.
"Hey, be careful with how you tie those!" Bow demanded as she was tied up. "I only accept the highest quality knots for my bindings, and I won't accept anything less!"
"Yeah, yeah…" The Shy Gal did her best to tie the rope into the biggest, fanciest bow that she could. "How's that?"
"Hmm… adequate," Bow replied, chin still up despite being a prisoner now.
"So, what's going to happen to us now?" Goommaria nervously asked the commanders.
"Oh, I wouldn't worry about yourselves too much, girls. You'll be well taken care of…" Sergeant Gal assured them with a soft voice. "... in the puzzle mines! Ahaha! That's right, you're going to spend your days searching for our lost puzzle pieces from in between couch cushions for ever! Take them away, soldier!"
"Yes ma'am!" one of the Shy Gals said with a clumsy salute before leading Mario's friends away at slingshot-point. "Keep moving, you lollygaggers! And I don't want to hear a peep out of any of you until it's snack time!"
"What do we do about this one then?" two of the other Shy gals soldiers asked as they presented Mario to their boss. "Should he go to the mines too?"
"No, I don't think so," Sergeant Gal replied. "You've all worked pretty hard conquering this Toy Box, wouldn't you say? I think you've more than earned a little extra relaxation right about now. Feel free to… 'add him to your toy box', if you know what I mean."
"Y-you really mean it, ma'am?" one of the Shy Gals asked as she jumped up and down in excitement. "We can really do whatever we want with him?"
"Of course! As far as I'm concerned, he's yours now as long as you don't let him escape," the lead Gal replied.
"Don't worry, ma'am, you won't have to worry about that!" another soldier said as the Shy Gals began to crowd around Mario, the latter of whom was starting to sweat uncomfortably.
"Great! Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to partake in the proud military tradition of taking my flag to the mayor's office and waving it around in her face for three straight hours," the sergeant informed them. "Try not to break him while I'm gone, because I won't be buying you another."
"Yes ma'am!" The company of Shy Gals saluted their commander before grabbing Mario by his shoulders and dragging him towards the nearby high school playground. The students had either fled or been captured, leaving the invaders to do whatever they wanted on the playsets there. Several of the girls immediately began innocent schoolyard games, including tether ball and four square, while the ones who had their hands on Mario started… less innocent games.
"Alright, everyone take off his clothes!" a Shy Gal in a blue hoodie said once they reached the area by the swingsets. "I know we've always been told to take good care of our uniforms, but he's not going to be needing one for what we have planned for him!"
"Wha!? Hey, let go of me!" Mario struggled but it didn't take the girls very long to remove his overall as well as everything below his waist besides his shoes. Mario could almost see the blushes behind the Shy Gals' masks as they all stared at his exposed genitals, looking at his dick like they were kids seeing a puppy for the first time.
"So... this is what the real deal is like, huh?" One of the masked girls curiously poked Mario's cock with her sleeve-covered hand. "It's so much squishier than I expected it to be."
"That's because you have to get it hard yourself first!" A Shy Gal in a yellow hoodie and red hair that poked out from around her mask explained. "Here, let me show you how to do it."
With that, the short, curvy girl got on her knees in front of Mario and began to rub Mario's dick with her hands. It was an odd sensation since her hand was still covered in her sleeve, so to Mario it felt similar to someone rubbing his dick through is clothes. However, the fabric of her hoodie was much softer than any of the clothes he wore, so that added an extra tickling stimulation to his dick. He could clearly feel her fingers pressing down around his shaft, trying their best to get a good feel of him, but still too shy to actually greet his cock themselves.
"Oooh, that looks fun!" A Shy Gal in a purple hoodie said before joining in. "Oh my! I can actually feel it getting harder!"
"What! No way!" another Shy Gal said in disbelief. "Let me see!"
That Shy Gal was soon joined in by another, and then another, until Maroi's cock was being greedily rubbed by seven different women, each wearing a different color of hoodie. His dick quickly hardened under their combined assault, but that didn't make them stop. If anything, the sight of his fully-hard shaft just made them more curious, as well as giving them even more dick for them to play with. Eventually, his dick began to drip a few drops of precum as well, smearing it onto the sleeves of their shirts in the process and staining them a silvery white. They still kept prodding his shaft regardless, however, each of them seemingly determined to play with his dick for as long as possible.
"Alright, that's enough roughhousing for now!" A Shy Gal in a green hoodie, who was clearly jealous that she wasn't fast enough to touch Mario's cock, announced. "Don't you girls remember all the fun things we planned to do if we ever actually had a guy of our own?"
"Oh yeah… I call dibs~" A Shy Gal in an orange hoodie said cheekily.
"Di- aaaw, darn it!" The Gal in the green hoodie stomped her foot and whined. "You always win dibs, Wary!"
"Well, if you don't want to lose, maybe you shouldn't be so slow!" The Shy Gal in the orange hoodie moved her mask aside just far enough so she could stick her tongue out mockingly, revealing some of her short brown hair in the process. "Come on, prisoner! We're going to play my game first!"
She then grabbed Mario by the arm and dragged him over to the swingset they were next to and promptly sat him onto one of the swings.
"Now hold still!" Wary said as she reached underneath her skirt and pulled off her white panties. "We wouldn't want you falling off and having an accident, now do we?"
Mario grunted, but he didn't move as the Shy Gal climbed into his lap, carefully aimed his tip at her hole, and slowly sunk herself onto Mario's cock. As expected with her short stature, the Shy Gal was an incredibly tight fit around his shaft. Although he couldn't really see it from this angle, there was no doubt in his mind that his dick was creating a bulge in her lower belly just from being inside her.
"Ooooh! This… this is already way better than a normal toy~" The Shy Gal shivered as she got used to his length and Mario felt her get more and more wet around her. "Alright then, let's get moving!"
The Shy Gal wrapped her legs tightly around Mario's waist, lifted herself up for a moment off Mario's dick, and slammed herself back down as hard as she could. This not only had the effect of subjecting Mario's cock to an especially tight squeeze from her warm pussy, it also caused the swing to start moving. The Shy Gal kept thrusting, but made sure to time all her movements so that they built up more and more momentum over time. Soon, their combined momentum was so strong that she barely had to move at all to keep going, and Mario found himself thrusting in and out of the moaning shortstack without any will of his own.
"Oooh yeah! Right there! That's the spot!" the Shy gal moaned over the sound of the squeaking swing as she embraced Mario. "Take me as high as you can! Take me all the way up… to the stars!"
The other Shy Gals grumbled as they watched their swinging, thrusting bodies careen back and forth through the air, but they knew better than to try to deny the power of the 'dibs'. So, they merely swung on the adjacent swings normally as they waited for Wary to finish her turn.
The girl definitely made good use of her outdoor voice as she continuously pounded herself onto Mario's groin, screaming to high heaven as she felt herself plowed almost all the way to her womb. And she kept going and going too, eventually becoming so wet that her juices went flying onto passersby at the apices of her swings. The whole time, Mario's cock was subjected to constant squeezing and rubbing by her walls, every fold seemingly trying their best to Make Mario cum inside her as quickly as possible.
In the end, the Shy Gal in the orange hoodie got her wish, and she suddenly felt Mario explode inside her. Her body twitched with every thick wad she felt enter her womb, growing hotter as she felt herself filled and satisfied like never before. Mario, meanwhile, could only just sit there and take it as he struggled to handle all the incredible sensations coming from his dick.
"Aaah… that was even more fun… than the time… General Gal let me color her coloring map for her~" Wary kept moaning and gasping as their momentum slowly dissipated. "We… definitely… need to do this again sometime~"
"Not before I get my turn with him!" the Shy Gal in the yellow hoodie said as she pushed the orange one off Mario's dick and began dragging him towards a seesaw in the center of the playground. The impatient girl kicked off her purple panties as quickly as she could and parked Mario's rear onto one side of the teeter totter. She then quickly slipped a small piece of mushroom into Mario's mouth, waited for him to get hard, and then planted herself pussy-first onto Mario's cock.
"Ooooh yes! This really does… beat just playing pretend!" she moaned as she wiggled her hips, making Mario's cock go as deep as she get it into her tight vagina. "Alright! Someone else… get on the other side!"
"Awww, jeeze! I don't wanna help you fuck him! I want my turn already!" the Gal in the green hoodie complained, stomping her foot.
"I'll… let you go next if you do it~" the Gal in the yellow Hoodie tempted.
"Mmmm… fine." The Gal in the green hoodie climbed onto the other end of the seesaw, though she wasn't heavy enough to lift the other side by herself, but two other soldier Gals swiftly joined in to help.
"Huuuup!" The Gals on the opposite end of the seesaw grunted as they all forced themselves downwards, sending Mario and the Gal in the yellow hoodie upwards and his dick straight up towards her womb.
"Eeeeh! So rough!" the yellow Gal squealed, her teeth audibly gnashing as she felt herself actually lifted up by the force of Mario's rising dick.
"Oh, I'm sorry!" a Gal in a blue hoodie swiftly apologized. "Do you want us to be more gentle?"
"Heck no! I want you… to go even harder!" the Gal in the yellow hoodie begged.
Her friends looked at each other for a moment before nodding in agreement and jumping up into the air. This had the effect of pulling Mario's cock slightly out of the cunt that was currently smothering it, only for it to be shoved back in with twice as much force once the Gals landed again. The Gals then jumped again and again, once gain thrusting Mario in and out of a tight short stack without any of his consent or control, though the sensations of his hips being forced to thrust certainly made it feel like he was willingly fucking her.
Another difference was that the swing caused Mario to grind a lot more, rubbing his shaft against the previous Gal's folds and allowing him to get a good feel for her entire squeezing pussy. Here, the movement was almost entirely up and down, so he only felt the yellow Gal's folds when they rubbed past his dick on its way towards her cervix. The soldier girl squeezed so tightly around Mario's length that he had trouble fitting his entire dick inside her, but the sheer force of the seesaw helped him get more and more inside her.
Eventually, not even that was enough for the Shy Gal, and she began to thrust herself down in time with Mario's upstrokes. This jammed his cock far deeper than any cock was meant to go. And yet, she not only welcomed this intrusion, the stretching actually made her cum. She screamed, squealed, and kicked her legs as she sprayed her feminine cum all over Mario's groin. The spasming of her snatch sent Mario over the edge shortly afterwards, forcing him to fill her body with a full load of his hot cum. Just the sensation of his warm goo entering her womb seemed to send her into another screaming orgasm, causing a hundred jealous stares to descend upon her as the other Shy Gals wished they were in the yellow one's position.
"Aaaa… that… was perfect…" she cooed as she finally came down from her high. "Maybe… we can go again?"
"Nu-uh! You said that my turn was going to be next, and I say that your turn is over!" The jealous Shy Gal in the green hoodie grabbed her yellow-hooded friend by the shoulders and pulled her off Mario's dick with a loud pop. "There! It's finally-"
"Too slow!" Before the Gal in the green hoodie could even touch Mario, two other Shy Gals in blue and purple hoodies snatched him off the seesaw and carried him away.
"Hey, that's mine!" the Gal in green shouted as she gave chase.
She wasn't the one who ultimately stopped the boy thieves, however. Instead, they were blocked by other Shy Gals who wanted in on the action too, forcing them to take Mario into a large playset that resembled a castle to try and escape. There, even more Shy Gals cut them off, cornering them both.
"Uh… care to open peace negotiations?" the soldier Gal in the purple hoodie asked.
The response of the Gals around them was to simply tackle the thieving duo, forcing Mario to the ground and igniting a struggle over who would have the chance to rape him next.
"I wanna go!" A brown-hooded Gal said as she took off her panties, hiked up her dress, and forced her pussy lips against the side of Mario' shaft.
"No way!" a Gal in a pink hoodie said as she did the same thing, only from the other side of Mario's cock. "If anyone gets to fuck him, it should be me!"
"Hey, back off!" the Gal in the green hoodie said as she added her own pussy to the mix. "I said it was my turn, and I meant it!"
Soon, there were five different Shy Gals rubbing different parts along Mario's cock with their dripping pussy lips, each trying their best to gain dominance and penetrate themselves, but each failing every time. Mario, meanwhile, could do nothing but grunt underneath their bodies, trying to control himself as they used their lower hips like weapons against each other and his cock. The feeling was not quite as intense as actually fucking one of these girls, but the teasing was still very exciting. Those feelings from his cock combined with the potent scent of their dripping pussies, their wild moans, and the simple knowledge that so many girls were competing for his dick at once almost sent Mario over the edge right then and there.
But, ultimately, Mario never reached his orgasm because the playground gangrape was suddenly interrupted by a loud voice.
"S-stop!" The Gals smothering Mario in their love and turn to face the source of the shout; a Shy Gal in a turquoise holding something in her sleeved hands.
"I… I… I made something for you…" The Gal in the turquoise hoodie stepped forward and presented Mario with piece of pink paper cut into the shape of a heart. The edges were lined with macaroni noodles that were held in place by glue, and there was a message in the center that was written with red crayon.
"I… like you?" Mario read out loud, amazed that a grown woman, let alone one who was supposedly a soldier, wold make something like this.
"Well… what do you think?" the Shy Gal asked nervously as Mario's cock continued to twitch against the labia of all the other Gals. "Do you like it?"
"I, uh, it's very, er…" Mario stammered, taken entirely off guard by the whole absurd situation.
"You… you don't?" the Gal assumed almost instantly. Before Mario could even say anything else, the girl had turned around and ran in the opposite direction, bawling her eyes out so much that her tears ran out the dark eyeholes of her mask.
"... How could you?" The Gal in the purple hoodie looked accusingly at Mario. "She lays her heart bare for you, macaroni and all, and you have the nerve to not even give her a chance?"
"B-but I didn't say-" Mario began to speak but was swiftly silenced by a sleeved hand.
"That's enough out of you," the Gal in the Green hoodie said as the group backed off his groin and picked him up into the air. "I think we can all agree now that you deserve a special punishment for that."
"H-hey, put me down!" Mario demanded as the shortstacks carried him over to a nearby jungle gym. Once there, they quickly got more jump rope and tied Mario's arms and legs to the structure, the plumber ending up slightly on her back thanks to the slant of the playset. "W-what are you doing?!"
"Simple; giving you a time out!" the Gal in a Yellow hoodie said as she tightened the last knot. "For making out friend cry, you're going to be here for the next five hours, and all of us can do whatever we want with you!"
"F-five hours?" Mario asked, his cock twitching at his words.
"Yep! And now, I'm finally going to get my turn with you~" the green hooded girl said as she climbed up onto Mario's body. It only took a little bit of wiggling before Mario felt his shaft slip into her eager pussy, her wet walls sliding over his length easily despite how tight she was. Clearly, the anticipation had built up quite a bit for her. "Aaaah yes! Finally! Your joystick… feels so good inside me!"
"I know!" the Gal in the orange hoodie agreed, her pussy still dripping with Mario's cum. "It feels even better when you call dibs first~"
"Sh-shut up, Wary!" The Gal in green tried her best to ignore her friends and just focus on fucking the man pinned underneath her. Her moans were ragged and uncontrolled, making it clear that she wasn't all that experienced. But, where she lacked in that area she made up for in enthusiasm, working and thrusting her hips wildly to get as much pleasure out of him as possible. Mario felt quite a lot of pleasure too, of course, especially when he felt another slice of mushroom slipped into his mouth, but he was distracted from it when he felt some of the other Gals climb onto the jungle gym as well.
"You didn't think we'd let you get off with only having to please one of us, did you?" A Gal in Pink hood asked as she began to rub her pussy onto Mario's arm.
"No way! Sh-sharing is caring as they say, so we're… going to share with you all at once now!" a yellow hooded Gal added as she claimed a spot on Mario's leg. "Don't worry, we'll let you go eventually, and when we do… you can go back to playing with us one on one!"
"That is… as long as you don't do anything else naughty~" the Gal in green said as she kept ramming her clit against Mario's groin again and again. "Or when we're having sleepovers. Which, since we all live in a barracks, is every night~"
"Oh, you've got to be-mmmmph!" Mario said right before she was silenced by another Gall smothering his mouth with her cunt.
The Shy Gals ended up keeping Mario there for well over five hours as they used his body however they wanted, crawling all over it to make sure not a single part of him went unused for sex. When they did finally realize it was getting late, they dragged him back to their barracks and repeated it all over again, milking his cock until it practically felt like it was going to fall off. They had him fill their pussies, cover their breasts, and one of them even gathered his sperm for a 'warm glass of milk' before bed to help her fall asleep.
In the end, this day would prove to be similar to many of his days to come as he lived in the town under General Gal's occupation. Along with his captors, he would 'guard' the playground of the high school, 'protecting' it from the girls who were actually supposed to be using it by hogging all the playsets for themselves. Mario grew to feel like a playset with the way that the Gals treated him, riding him practically to the point of breaking before finally giving him short breaks.
Mario would spend the rest of his life pleasing the Gals occupying the town while his friends worked tirelessly in the puzzle mines, never to meet again. While his days would technically be filled with play, it sure didn't feel that way to him.
The End.
A/N: Hey all, I got the next chapter for this up, I hope you like it. I do have a thing to say, though. One of the guests has some pretty in-depth thoughts on this work, but I can't really respond since they're all anonymous and such. So if you do have something important to say, then it'd be easier to address you directly rather than hoping I'd do it months after you make the complaint in a foreword/afterword type fashion.
Anywho, I'll see you all in Hotland.