"... the train for the tracks?" Mario asked as they finally entered the store room. Inside the room were dozens of brown boxes, many of which were coated in a light layer of dust, but one item was noticeably out of place and in pristine condition. It was a small wooden train car shaped like a large red mushroom, and it sat in the middle of the room on its shining golden wheels.
"Huh, that's weird. I don't remember ever stocking anything like this before." The Toad man who had let them into the storeroom picked up the train and examined it curiously. "I don't remember it on the inventory list either. And it's pretty old, too. It must have been my boss's when she was a kid. I should probably just throw this away or something."
"W-wait just a moment!" Koopie interjected, nearly jumping out of her shell. "Uh, actually, we'd like to have that if you wouldn't mind."
"Really? Are you sure about that?" The shop clerk blinked in surprise. "I'm pretty sure we have some Jammin' Jellies back here, you know. Are you sure you wouldn't want one of those instead of this old thing?"
"Trust me, we're certain," Goommaria replied.
"Alright then, here you go." The Toad handed the toy train to Koopie. "Are you all train enthusiasts or something? Are you going to add it to a model railway?"
"Something like that…" Mario replied. "Let's-a-go, girls!"
"So, we're sure this thing came from the toy box, right?" Bombette asked as they reentered the abandoned building where said toy box was being held.
"Yeah, I think so," Goommaria replied. "I mean, it even has the same logo on the bottom that was printed on the plastic train tracks."
"But if it is from the toy box, how come it's, you know… so small?" Koopie wondered.
"Well, maybe the dimension inside the box shrinks people and other things, but it just doesn't shrink toys," Bombette suggested.
"Oh dear! I guess it's a good thing that none of us had any toys on us when we entered the Box!" Koopie gasped. "Imagine if I had a toy car inside my shell when we first went in. My shell would have exploded!"
"I'm not sure if that's how that works either, to be honest," Goommaria cut in. "But I guess it's better not to take any chances. "So, how about I get behind the box and open it, and one of you tosses the train in as quickly as you can before any of us get sucked in with it?"
"O-okay… I guess that's as good a plan as any." Koopie held up the toy, got into position, and hurriedly tossed the train into the toy box. There was a flash of light before the box closed again, but no one heard it hit the ground. "Uh… look out below! Do you think it worked?"
"Well, there's only one way to find out," Mario said as they all gathered around the front of the box. A moment later, they were transported back into the fun-sized realm, where they spotted over a dozen Shy Gals gathering around outside Blue Station's namesake platform.
"Oh, hey! The model train is finally back! Hooray!" a Gal in a red hoodie cheered from the crowd as they looked up at the towering locomotive.
"Wait, hold on a second," another Gal in an orange hood rubbed her chin contemplatively under her mask. "If we use this thing as an actual train, does that mean it ceases to be a mod-"
"Wow, I'm surprised that actually worked," Mario cut in as he and his friends approached the station. "We even managed to get it to land on the tracks."
"Phew…" Koopie breathed a sigh of relief when she saw no one had gotten crushed by the train. "So, does this mean we can finally go to the other towns in the Toy Box?"
"Well, kind of," a Shy Gal in a blue hoodie replied. "General Gal's soldiers stole the tracks leading to red station, remember?"
"Oh yeah…" Koopie deflated in her shell. "Well, where can we get to if we go the other way?"
"Ooooh! We can go to Pink Station now!" A Shy Gal in a crimson hoodie jumped out of the crowd and excitedly around on the train platform. "Finally! They have the best food there, from all five food groups! Candy, soda, animal crackers, brownies, and candy corn!"
"Wait, candy corn is a food group!?" Mario asked in confusion.
"Look, I don't like it much either, but we all have to eat our veggies sometimes," a random Gal from the crowd replied.
"Well, General Gal is in control of Pink Station still, right? That means that if we kick her out, we'll be one step closer to beating her!" Bombette spoke up, pumping her fist in the air.
"Actually, you'll technically getting further away from beating her since she's based out of Red Station, which is on the other side of the box," a Gal in a green hoodie pointed out. "But I'm sure you'll find something useful there that will help you spank her silly!"
"Well, I guess anything's better than just sitting around here doing nothing," Goommaria said before jumping up in surprise. "Oh! Speaking of, we should probably go unground Bow now."
"Huh?" A look of realization shot across Mario's face."Oh, right! Good point!"
Mario and his friends dashed back to where they had left the noble Boo and found her still staring at the corner that Mario had ordered her to.
"There you are, Bow!" Mario let out a sigh of relief. "It's alright, we're back. You can turn around again now."
"Really?" Bow wiggled her floating rear in the air behind her as she glanced over her shoulder. "Does that mean I've been a good girl, da-"
"Please don't call me that," Mario interrupted.
"Sorry. I guess I got a little carried away there." Bow turned around and began to fan herself with her frilly pink fan. "So if I heard what everyone was shouting about right, we'll be heading over to Pink Station now, correct?"
"Yeah, that's the plan," Mario replied. "We probably won't find the next Star Spirit there, but at least we'll be helping put a stop to General Gal's plans."
"Hmph! A tedious errand, but I suppose it has to be done," Bow replied as a group of three Shy Gals walked up behind Mario.
"Ooh, ooh, can we go too?" A Gal in a green hoodie asked desperately. "Pretty please? We promise we won't get in the way!"
"Uh, sure, I guess you can come," Koopie replied nervously. "But… you do know that Pink Station is occupied by General Gal's forces, right? It'll probably be pretty dangerous there."
"Maybe, but our homes are actually in Pink Station. We've been hiding out here in Blue ever since the war started. So, we're not afraid to fight if we have to!" a Gal with a red hoodie replied.
"Plus, our animal crackers are getting really stale, so we need to get some new ones from the pastures of Pink," the third Gal in a blue hoodie asked.
"Okay, if you're sure… then follow us!" Mario led the small group of women back to the train platform. Two Toads in conductor outfits, with black caps with blue spots that matched their black uniforms well, filed everyone onto the train one by one.
"Say, are you the guy who got us our train back?" one of the Toad women asked as Mario boarded the train. He nodded in reply. "Well then, consider this ride on the house for saving our jobs!"
"Wow, thank you! That means a lot to us!" Koopie said as she got on as well. She was right about to take her seat when she noticed that the Shy Gals still hadn't boarded the train. "Well? What are you girls waiting for? This ride is on the house, so go ahead and hop on!'
"Well, uh, here's the thing…" the Gal in the red hoodie began, only to trail off.
"We, uh, get kind of nervous when get on trains," the Gal in blue finished for her friend.
"Wait, seriously?" Bombette asked in disbelief. "We're going to a potential combat zone, and it's the train that scares you?"
"Well… yeah," the Gal in green answered. "After all, trains are so big, and fast, and no one really knows how they work..."
"So, does this mean you won't be coming after all?" Mario asked.
"No, no, we definitely still want to come!" The red Gal replied. "It's just… is it okay if we hold your hands during the ride?"
"Well, if it'll help you feel better... then sure," Goommaria replied.
"Hmph! Well, my hands are off-limits." Bow placed her hands by her hips and floated closer towards the ceiling. "Boos are meant to stoke fear, not calm it."
"Aww, don't listen to her - we'll keep you safe, I promise!" Koopie reached her hand out to the Shy Gals and the one in the blue hoodie took it. Mario and Goommaria offered their hands as well, and soon everyone was finally on the train at once.
"Alright, everyone! All aboard!" one of the conductors announced as she started the rubber band engine. "Next stop, Pink Station!"
"Bark, bark!" Chompy smiled and hung her face out one of the windows of the train, allowing the wind to rush through her hair and past her long tongue as the locomotive picked up speed. Mario could feel the Shy Gal holding onto him tighten her grip through the sleeve of her sweater the faster they went, but a reassuring looked helped to calm her back down.
Eventually, Chompy had to put her head back inside the train as they approached a tunnel that led through a literal mountain of plastic. They were all afraid for a moment that they'd have to pass through it in the dark, but it only took a few moments for lights to illuminate the cabin.
"Hmm… this isn't so bad. Maybe my memories were making this seem scarier than it really was." The Gal in the red hoodie nuzzled her mask against Mario's arm. "Thanks for helping us, mister."
"Don't worry, it's no problem at all." Mario placed his hand on the girl's head and rubbed it until the train exited the mountain and began to come to a stop at the very pink train station at the next town.
"Alright everyone, this is our stop!" one of the Toad conductors announced. "Please exit the train in an orderly fashion, have a great rest of your days!"
"Wow… we actually made it!" The Gal in blue said as they walked out onto the station platform. "Finally, we're back home! Aaaah, even through my mask I can already smell the freshly-grown cotton candy!"
"I guess this is going to be where we part ways, then," Mario said as he looked out over the strange mixture of oversized candy and toys in front of them. "Be sure to stay safe out there, okay?"
"Don't worry, we promise to be careful!" the Gal in the red hoodie said before she and her friends ran off. The one in blue dived head-first into a puddle of rock candy, the one in red took out a fork and went hunting for animal crackers, and the one in green lazily climbed a nearby tree and began to munch on its multi-colored gummy leaves.
"Yeesh…" Bow visibly shivered. "I like sweets as much as the next person, but this is just far too much."
"This is why it's usually a bad idea to invite a Shy Gal over for dinner," Goommaria commented. "They'll only ever stay for desert."
"Indeed." Bow nodded in agreement."So, is the railway going forward still intact?"
"No, I'm afraid not," Bombette replied, glancing further down the track and noticing that a rather large piece was missing. "They must have removed a piece when they heard that our train coming."
"Well, if it was moved recently, then it can't be too far away, right?" Koopie asked. "All we have to do is find some clues pointing to where it went, and we'll find it in no time!"
"Bark bark!" Chompy barked in agreement before hopping over to the hole in the train tracks and sniffing the ground closely. It didn't take her long to pick up a scent and she promptly followed it towards a farm field packed full with stocks of candy corn ready to be harvested. There, the Chain Chomp picked her nose up off the ground ,not because she lost the trail, but because the trail was now so obvious that she didn't need her sense of smell at all; all they had to do now was to follow the obviously trampled stocks that were left behind when they were dragged through the candy corn field.
"Huh, I guess this really is going to be easy," Bombette said in amazement. "Alright, girls, let's get this firework show st-... wait, what's that noise?"
Mario and his friends listened, and, sure enough, they could all hear something growing closer. It was hard to make out because it was muffled by the rows of candy corn, but it sounded sort of like… carnival music.
"Oooopah!" Three Shy Gals shouted at once as they leaped up into the air, their legs somehow taking them several feet above the corn stocks. They wore the classic Shy Gal mask, of course, but instead of hoodies they were wearing what appeared to be jester outfits, with tight dresses that were red on one side and black on the other, and with bells jingling from the ends of their purple shoes and red caps that they wore on their heads. A total of three of them landed on the ground in front of Mario, with a fourth waddling out of the cornfield behind them carrying a large wind-up music box. Once their feet were firmly on the floor, the three unencumbered Gals struck poses that were halfway between dance poses and fighting stances.
"Halt! Just where do you think you chaps are going?" the one in the center of the group asked. "Don't you know that you're about to enter a secret restricted area?"
"Uh… how would we know this place is restricted if it's a secret?" Goommaria asked.
"That's… actually a pretty good question." The lead Gal rubbed her chin for a moment before striking a pose again. "But that's beside the point! We're the Groove Gals, and we stop anyone who's not authorized to be here from entering. And I'm pretty sure that you're not allowed in here!'
"Hmm, come to think of it, I don't think I've seen you people around here before," another Groove Gal spoke up. "You're not from this station, are you?"
"W-what, no, of course we are!" Koopie said hastily. "It's just that we don't spend a lot of time outside because of our… candy pollen allergy! But, they just developed a new experimental treatment that we volunteered to-"
"Excuse me there, miss!" The blonde Koopa was interrupted by one of the train conductors, who was walking towards the group with a small metal tin in her hands. "I'm so sorry about this, but it looks like you accidentally left a case of shell-polisher on the train. You know, the one you rode on the way here from Blue Station to try and liberate this town from the tyrants that are currently ruling it?"
"Uh… thanks, dear," Koopie replied, taking the polish and putting it in her shell. "That was a… real help."
"Anytime!" The conductor said before heading back to the station.
"Couldn't you have just told her that she had the wrong woman?" Bombette whispered to Koopie in frustration.
"B-but shell polish is expensive, and I didn't want to disappoint her when she's being so nice!" Koopie whispered back.
"Wait, you all came over here on the train?" the lead Groove Gal interrupted. "Then that must mean… you're the ones General Gal told us to get ready for!" The Groove Gals all jumped up into the air in panicked excitement, running around in circles for a few moments before striking the same poses in their original spots.
"Get ready for us… how, exactly?" Mario asked, afraid to hear the answer.
"Well, I'd tell you, but how about you just watch the show instead~" The Groove Gals all took out glittering jesters masks from their pockets and put them on over their normal Shy Gal masks. Then, they began to twirl around almost like ballerinas, with one foot extended back behind them and one hand extended forward. Their dances were anything but fanciful though, as they spun so fast and with such force that it was clear they were trying to knock Mario and his friends senseless.
"Uh oh…" Bombette said as they backed away from the spinning Groove Gals. "Mario, what do we do?"
"Split up!" Mario shouted, causing his party to take off in different directions. "Try to fight back when you can, but focus on not getting cornered!"
"Ahaha! Please! We already have you right where we want you!" the lead Groove Gal cackled as she took off spinning after Koopie.
Mario's friends all tried their best to fight the Gals when they could, but they seemed to be impossible to hit. They ducked every jab, sidestepped every blow, and they even managed to jump over Chompy's chain when she swept it across the floor like it was a giant jump rope.
"Teehee! No wonder you girls took the train!" one of the Gals laughed as she dodged a headbonk from Goommaria. "You're so slow, it would have taken you forever to get here otherwise!"
"Darn it… they're just… playing with us!" Bombette grunted, already partly exhausted.
"Huhuhu! Of course we are!" one of the Groove Gals said as she dodge Bow's strikes with well-timed electric slides. "And no one can outplay a Gal, especially not you lazy bones!"
"I think they're trying to tire us out… and… I think it's working," Mario panted as he uselessly swung his hammer. "But still… don't let them get close! We'll think of something, I'm sure of it!"
"Uh, Mario? Do you remember when you said we shouldn't get cornered?" Koopie asked right before she felt herself back up into the backs of all her friends. "Well… I think might have messed that part up."
"Teeheehee! That was fun!" The lead Groove Gal said as she and her friends finally stopped spinning. "But I'm getting bored of this game already. How about we go ahead and show you what happens when we play rough?"
The Groove Gal brought her sleeve hand to her double-masked mouth and somehow managed to whistle. This summoned two more Groove Gals, who jumped out of the candy corn field carrying two poles that were tied together by a thick cable. The two dashed over to where Mario and his party were surrounded and firmly planted their poles in the ground a few feet away from each other, creating an instant tightrope.
"Alright, Gals! It's time to execute formation Foxtrot Tango!" The lead Gal backflipped on the tightrope along with two other Groove Gals and began to dance, showing off surprising grace despite how tiny their dance floor was. While Mario and his friends remained trapped down below, the Gals on the rope began to jump up and down. Their combined momentum stretched the tightrope and sent them back up higher with each leap until, finally, they moved their weight slightly forward when they landed and stretched the chord backwards instead of down.
"Duck!" Koopie shouted when she realized what was about to happen.
The Koopa's friends all did as she told and dropped themselves to the floor just in time for the Groove Gals to launch themselves at the group and fly over their heads. This sent the group crashing into some haphazardly-placed toys behind them, creating a cacophony of broken wood and plastic. Two of the three Gals just picked themselves up afterwards and dusted themselves off, annoyed but unharmed. Their leader, however, emerged from the playful rubble snuffling and clutching her leg. Her subordinates all looked with worry as she pulled back her hands and revealed that their fearless leader had… scraped her knee!
"Sniff… sniff…" The Groove Gal stared at the cut for a moment, all pep gone from her step. "Wh… whaaaaahahahaaaa!"
"Oh my…" Bow placed a shocked hand over her mouth. "Is she… crying?"
"N-no! I'm not! D-does it look like I'm crying?" The lead Groove Gal insisted in spite of the tears running out the holes of her masks. "I just… n-need a time out is all!"
"Aww, you poor thing!" Koopie rushed over to the shorter woman and wrapped her comforting arms around her. "Ssshh, ssssh, it's okay. You don't have to be afraid."
"Koopie, what are you doing!?" Bombette asked in shock. "You can't just… cuddle the enemy like that!"
"But she's hurt, guys!" Koopie countered. "Does anyone have a first aid kit?"
"Weewoo weewoo weewoo." The sound of two women imitating a siren rang out from the field of candy corn behind Koopie. She turned around and, a moment later, two Shy Gals in white hoodies rose up out of the field being carried by strange white hover devices with bright red hearts on the front.
"Weewoo weewoo weewoo." The two Gals continued to imitate sirens until they landed and hopped out of their flying carts. "Medi Gals here, reporting for duty! What appears to be the problem, miss?"
"I… I'm fine, really," the injured Gal tried to insist, but Koopie cut her off.
"Sssssh, it's okay. It's fine to admit that you need help sometimes," Koopie said comfortingly as she pat her back. Bow was about to comment, but caught herself, seeing as the Gal wasn't scared and she was trying to do better.
"..." The lead Gal paused. "I… I… I have a booboo! Waaaaah!"
"Hmm, yes, this is very serious," one of the Medi Gals said as she looked at the injury. "We'll have to operate, stat." She reached into one of the pockets of her white hoodie and pulled out an adhesive bandage, which she slapped onto the woman's knee. Koopie then leaned down and gently kissed the bandage as the Medi Gal took out a small blue sucker and handed it to the Groove Gal.
"Alright, are you feeling better now?" The Medi Gal asked, to which the Groove Gal nodded. "Good. Just give us a shout if you ever need anything else." With that, the Medi Gals climbed back into their strange hover cars and returned to the field.
"Thanks, miss… that was really nice of you." The injured Groove Gal gave Koopie a tight hug.
"Don't mention it, sweetheart." Koopie hugged back just as hard. "You should really be more careful with yourself, though. Maybe it would be better if you did something else instead."
"Yeah… this game isn't fun anymore," the Groove Gal agreed, still sniffling.
"Hmmm…" Koopie looked around at all the various toys scattered around her and spotted a football nearby. "How about you play a nice game of catch instead? That would be much safer, and more fun!"
"That's a good idea, but… who am I going to play it with?" the Groove Gal asked.
"Oh! I'll play with you!" The Shy Gal who had climbed the gummy tree made her way to the group through the field, still munching on candy leaves. She then picked up the football and tossed it to the bandaged Groove Gal, who caught it. "Wow, nice catch!"
"Th-thanks! You're a really good thrower!" the Gal replied before tossing it back.
"Hey, wait just a minute!" one of the other Groove Gals spoke up. "I wanna play too!"
"Yeah, me too!" another Groove Gal said as the rest of them joined in. Soon, even more of General Gal's soldiers came by to see what was going on and wound up joining in on the fun as well, playing catch or other games. Soon, the people who still lived in the town joined in on the games as well, and it became almost impossible to tell who was originally part of General Gal's army and who wasn't. That didn't matter, though, as all their weapons and arm bands were tossed to the side like trash and fighting was the furthest thing from any of their minds.
"Wow… did you just liberate this whole town by being nice, Koopie?" Goommaria said in amazement.
"Huh… I guess I did, didn't I?" Koopie smiled proudly.
"Well, I honestly wouldn't have minded seeing a little bit more blood being shed, but… I guess you did a pretty good job," Bow reluctantly admitted. Koopie just laughed and kissed the ghostly girl on the cheek as thanks. "Now, let's go find those missing train tracks. I'm getting sick of this place already."
"Wait, hold on a second!" A Shy Gal in a pink hoodie wearing a black top hat and a monocle said as she dashed out of the crowd. "Why, hello there! My name is Mayor Pink, and I'd just like to personally thank you for liberating my town like that! Thanks to you, I won't have to hide among the candy hearts to survive."
"Oh, there's no need to thank us! Saving towns is just what we do," Goommaria replied with a blush. "... say, your voice sounds kind of familiar. You don't happen to be related to Mayor Blue, would you?"
"Nope! Not at all!" the Mayor replied.
"Umm… oka-"
"So anyways, I think it would be better for all of us if you knew a bit more about who we're all fighting; General Gal," the mayor said, interrupting Mario. "I'm sure you know by now that she used to be known as Jenny, but did you also know that she's one of the few Shy Gals to willingly leave this box to try and live in the outside world?"
"What? She did?" Bombette asked as she and her friends stared in shock. "But this place is like a Shy Gal's paradise!"
"Maybe, but Jenny was never really a normal Shy Gal," the mayor explained. "Inspired by all her war board games, she went out and enlisted in the Mushroom Kingdom army, convinced that she'd become Grand Supreme Ultimate General after only a few days. And while the Mushroom Kingdom's army is a little… underwhelming, it still proved to be a lot harder to be a part of than she imagined. She was expecting easy accolades, fame, and men, but instead she got so frustrated that she ended up sneaking off back to the box. She did learn a few things about real militaries while she was out there, though, which helped her come to power when Bowsa offered her help."
"Wow, she didn't cut it in the Mushroom Kingdom army?" Bombette asked in surprise. "Don't they, you know, give each other foot rubs every night?"
"Yeah, but they're military style - they really use their fingers," Goommaria replied.
"Well, I hope this information proved to be useful," the pink mayor said as she reached behind a nearby fruit gusher bush and pulled out a bag of golf clubs. "Now if you'll excuse me, there's a mini-golf course here with my name on it that I have to get to."
"Wait, why did you…" Mario shook his head. "Nevermind."
"So long! And good luck at getting the tracks fixed!" the mayor shouted over her shoulder as Mario and his party climbed the fence of the candy corn field.
The group followed the tracks easily through the candy corn field, but the trail became harder to track once they were beyond the farm and the dirt ground was replaced by the playmats that covered most of the floor of the toy box. They could still see a few scuffs on the ground for a little bit, but those became almost impossible to follow once they entered a shadowy forest of giant crayons.
"Hmmm… I think they went this way… no that way," Goommaria said as they stood in the middle of the woods. "Uh… sorry, guys, but… I think we might have lost the trail."
"Well, maybe Chompy can help us out again?" Koopie asked hopefully, only for the Chain Chomp girl to sniff the ground and shake her head. "Darn… don't worry, I know you tried your best."
"Wait just a moment… I think I hear giggling," Bow held a hand up to her ear. "Who wants to bet that's the sound of whatever foolish grunt General Gal put in charge of guarding the train track piece?"
"Good catch, Bow!" Mario pumped his fist excitedly in the air before taking off towards the source the laughter. There, they found a Shy Gal in a red hoodie sitting on the ground with a large brown bag on her right and a pile of discarded envelopes and papers on her left.
"Heheh… man, I can't believe that people still write love letters!" the Shy Gal cackled to herself with a paper in her hands. "Don't they know the best way to get someone's attention is to flick paper footballs at the back of their heads?"
"Hey, that's private information!" Goommaria spoke up as she and her friends approached the box. "Put that down right now!"
"Aw, geeze, it's the mail fuzz! I better scram!" The Shy Gal dropped the letter and dashed off into the woods faster than Mario or any of his friends could catch.
"Well, so much for that plan," Koopie said as she picked up the discarded letters and stuffed them back in the mail sack. "I'm sure Parakarry will be happy to get this back at least."
"Yeah, I guess that's something," Mario agreed. "Let's keep looking, though. This forest only has so many places you can hide things, right?"
His friends all nodded and they continued through the crayon forest together, with Bow occasionally complaining about the lack of spiderwebs or poisonous plants. After a few minutes of searching, they heard the voice of another woman, only this time instead of laughing it was humming. They of course followed the voice and discovered yet another Shy Gal, only this time she was wearing a familiar, dark black hoodie and was standing in front of a large red chest.
"Oh, uh, hey! How's it going?" Mario said awkwardly as they approached her. "Weren't you the woman who almost blew herself up earlier to stop us from using the train tracks?"
"Yeah, that was me~" she replied with a sing-songy voice as she danced around in place. "I'm an Anti Gal. Sorry if I acted a little weird back then, it's a little easy to get caught up in the explosive heat of the moment."
"Don't worry, I understand," Bombette said with a nod. "What are you doing all the way out here, though? Shouldn't you be off with the other Gals plotting for a way to defeat us?"
"Yeah, but General Gal herself heard about my dedication, so she rewarded me with an extra special assignment~" The Anti Gal replied, spinning around once. "An extra special, super secret, super important assignment! She told me to guard this box right here with my life, and to not let anyone who's not wearing an 'awesome general's cap' touch it."
Mario and his friends all glanced at each other knowingly.
"Really now?" Bow asked curiously. "And what exactly is in that box anyways?"
"Well, that's for me to know, and you to never find out!" The Anti Gal back-flipped onto the top of the chest and kicked her feet. "It could be something really big, or it could be something really small. Heck, for all you know, it could be a whole other toy box, just like this one! But I guess you'll just have to lay awake at night, wondering about it~"
"Hmmm…" Mario took out his hammer and his friends all got into their battle stances and surrounded the box. "Well then, I'm sorry but we're going to have to ask you to step away from the chest?"
"Really now?" Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, the Anti Gal didn't look the least bit worried. Instead, she just walked forward and playfully flicked Mario's nose. "Well then, if you really want me to move, then why don't you make me~"
"Uh… I don't know what you're playing at, Anti Gal, but we really don't want to hurt you," Goommaria said, trying to reason with her. "We will do what we have to, though."
"No, you'll just try; try and fail~" The Anti Gal replied, every syllable a musical note. "Fail fail fail~ It'll be so bad that I almost don't want to see it! You better just move along now before you have to use your own underwear as arm braces."
"Wow… what is wrong with this Gal?" Koopie said as Chompy growled next to her. "Does she really have a death wish or something?"
"Wait, hold on a minute!" A voice suddenly cut in. Mario turned the the source and saw the Shy Gal in the red hoodie they rode with earlier walking towards them through the woods, munching on a bunch of animal crackers she kept in her pockets. "That Anti Gal's not to be messed with. One time, in college, I lost all my juice boxes to her in arm wrestling, and she didn't even break a sweat. And that was after she already beat all ten of my friends beforehand!'
"Yeah, that sure was a good time~" The Anti Gal said nostalgically. "Speaking of, you don't happen to have any juice on you now, do you?"
The civilian Shy Gal let out a small yip and dashed off into the woods, dropping crackers behind her as she went.
"Well, tough Gal or not, we need what's inside that box," Mario said with determination as he gripped his hammer harder. "So just step aside and make this easier for all of us."
"Really now? Are you really sure you want to fight me over this?" The Anti Gal asked, trying her best to hide how excited she really was.
"Yes, we're sure!" Bombette replied.
"Are you sure you're sure?" The Anti Gal replied, rocking back and forth on her heels.
"Yes, we are!" said Goommaria.
"Are you suuuuuure you're-" The Anti Gal began, only to be cut off.
"Yes! Yes we are, you little ingrate!" Bow shouted as she gripped her fan so hard it nearly snapped. "So just run away in terror or fight already!"
"Wow, really? You guys are all nuts!" The Anti Gal was taken aback, but only for a moment. "Oh well~ I do love a good challenge~"
Deciding not to wait any longer, Mario raised his hammer and prepared to bring it down, only for the Anti Gal to punch him in the chest so hard that he went flying several feet. His partners were so stunned by this that they didn't even have time to react before the Anti Gal pounced on Koopie and sent both her and her shell flying through the crayon woods with a kick of her tennis shoe.
"Bark, bark!" Chompy leapt into action as fast as she could, trying to latch her teeth onto the Gal's legs. However, the instant Chompy got close, the Anti Gal just slid into her blindspot, grabbed the Chain Chomp by the tail and swung her around over her head while singing a merry tune before letting go and sending her careening into the distance.
"Wow, you guys must be optimists if you really thought you could take me fighting like that~" The Anti Gal sung, spinning around in the open and not even trying to find cover.
"Why you little…" Bombette jumped forward and tried to punch the Shy Gal, but the Anti Gal managed to dodge the blow even more easily than the Groove Gals had. She kept going, though, unleashing a barrage of fists so fast the human eye couldn't keep up with it; and yet, the Anti Gal still somehow found the time to yawn as she dodged the blow. "Darn it! Hold still!" Growing angry, the blonde fuse on Bombette's head caught fire with frustration, and when the flame reached her skull, she let out a punch so powerful it smashed one of the giant crayons in half. Once the crayon hit the ground, she wound up swiftly joining it, as she was completely exhausted.
Goommaria was the last one to try fighting the Anti Gal, trying in vain to jump out from behind a giant crayon and hit the Gal in the back, only for the Anti Gal to just step to the side and trip her.
"Ahah! It looks like I win again~" The Anti Gal did a little victory dance as Mario and most of his friends struggled to get back on their feet. "Hmm… wait a second. Wasn't there another one of you here?"
Her question was answered when she suddenly heard the chest unlock behind her, and she turned around to see Bow floating over the open container.
"Hey, there aren't any train tracks in here!" Bow reached inside and pulled out a small purple bag. "This looks like it's just a sack of cookies."
"Noooo! Not General Gal's secret stash!" The Anti Gal called out dramatically while stretching out her hand.
"Well, they're not so secret now, are they?" Bow asked, taking out a chocolate chip cookie and taking a bite of it.
"No… I… I lost?" The Anti Gal dropped to her knees and stared at her sleeved hands in shock. "I'm… a failure…"
"Hey, there's no reason to be so dramatic about it," Mario said comfortingly as he stood back up on his feet.
"Yeah, that bag of cookies isn't even what we're looking for," Koopie agreed as her shell finally stopped spinning. "So, we can just put the cookies back and we can just pretend this never happened."
"What? No! I want a do over!" The Anti Gal demanded fervently. "I wasn't ready, and the sun was in my eyes, and you cheated, and this one was just for practice anyways! So let's do this again!"
"Again?" Goommaria asked, scratching her head as she stood up. "But we just told you that you don't have what we're looking for."
"I don't care!" The Anti Gal said insistently. "We're going to do this again, and this time I'm going to win easily, I swear!"
"What? No, we can't waste time on this," Mario said as he turned to leave, only for the Anti Gal to dash in front of him.
"Come on! Can't you do just one more little robbery attempt? Please?" The Anti Gal begged. "I promise I won't even leave any bruises this time!"
"Uh… sorry, but I think I left my easy-bake oven on…" Mario said hastily before dashing in the opposite direction, his friends following suit.
"Hey, wait! Come back!" The Anti Gal shouted as she ran off after them. "Come on, rob me! Rob me! Rob meeeee!"
"Okay, I think we finally lost her," Goommaria said as she and her friends all panted from exhaustion. "Geeze, what a weirdo…. Does anyone have any idea where we are right now?"
"I'm not sure, actually." Bombettee placed her hand over her eyes and scanned the area around her. "Hey, wait a second! I think I see the missing train tracks in that big crayon box over there!"
Sure enough, they all looked where Bombette was looking and spotted the plastic train tracks hastily hidden behind discarded shredded pieces of colorful paper inside a crayon box the size of a large outlet pipe.
"Wow, good eye, Bombette!" Goommaria said as they walked in that direction. "Now let's get that thing out of here before we run into another-"
Before the Goomba could even finish her sentence, the largest Shy Gal any of them had ever seen suddenly walked in front of the box. She was a good foot taller than the tallest member of their group, Bombette, and she was as wide as all of them put together. She was wearing a classic Shy Gal mask with a red hoodie, but a rather fancy napkin was sticking out the front of her shirt as it shook with her large breasts whenever she took a step. She wasn't moving that fast, but her breath made it sound like she had just run a marathon. After taking just a few more steps forward, she stopped panting in front of the crayon box and collapsed flat onto her back, blocking the way into the box in the process.
"What the…?" Goommaria blinked in shock and rubbed her eyes to make sure what she was seeing was real. "Hey! Hey, you! Who are you, and what are you doing here? You're not another one of General Gal's soldiers, are you?"
"General who?" The fat Shy Gal tilted her head slightly to look at the adventuring party standing beside her. "What are you talking about?"
"Uh… General Gal? You know, the evil fascist dictator who's been trying to take over the whole toy box?" Koopie explained.
"Never heard of her," the large Gal replied. "My name's Gourmet Gal, I just came here because I heard there was free grub… and I was right." She sighed contently and rubbed her large stomach.
"Well then, would you mind moving just a little?" Goommaria asked. "We need to get into that box behind you."
"Oh, sure," Gourmet Gal replied.
"Really? Thank you! You're so nice~" Koopie smiled and rocked on her heels for a few moments but the Shy Gal didn't budge. "Uh… aren't you going to move now?"
"Nah," Gourmet gal replied. "I'll do it eventually when I'm less tired."
"Alright then…" Goommaria quietly turned towards Bow and began to whisper. "Say, do you think you could phase in through the box and then carry the tracks back out?"
"Maybe, but the tracks look pretty big, and I've always worked out my scaring muscles more than my lifting muscles," Bow replied, a ghostly echo to her voice as she whispered.
"Well, if that's not an option, then what do we do?" Goommaria asked.
"Hmm…" Mario scratched his mustache in thought. "Say, Gourmet Gal, is there anything we can do to help you get less tired?"
"Hmmm… maybe," Gourmet Gal replied, too tired to give an affirmative answer.
"Well, how about coffee?' Bombette suggested. "That always good and bouncing!"
"Nah, I never liked the taste," Gourmet Gal said dismissively.
"Well, if you want something else, I have some tea guaranteed to wake the dead," said Bow.
"T? How's a letter going to help us?" Gourmet Gal asked.
"No, it's a… never mind," Bow replied. "Shaid always made it better anyways."
"Well, what if we could get you some more food?" Mario suggested. "There's enough sweets around here to give you at least a little bit of a sugar rush."
"Well, I guess I might be able to squeeze in a little bit more food… but I have to warn you, you won't be able to satisfy me with something you just find growing on a tree around here," Gourmet Gal answered. "Trust me, I've tried it all already."
"Well, uh… how about you try some of this then?" Goommaria reached into her pocket and pulled out a handful of candy corn.
"Huh?" Gourmet Gal craned her neck over to look. "Isn't that just some of that candy corn from the field nearby?"
"What? Noooo!" Goommaria lied. "This is actually, uh… gourmet candy corn! It cost us hundreds of coins to buy! And here I thought you were a woman of taste!"
"Hmmm…" Gourmet Gal looked at the candy curiously before taking it shoving it underneath her mask. She chewed it for only a few moments, though, before spitting it out unceremoniously onto the ground. "No surprise… even gourmet candy corn is terrible. You girls should try cooking something yourselves instead."
"Oh, sure! We can do that!' Koopie replied before whispering to her friends. "Uh, can any of you guys cook? I usually just eat salads at home."
"Don't look at me," Mario replied. "The only recipe I still remember is spaghetti, and I don't even have the ingredients for that."
"Uh… how about you, Bombette?" Koopie asked the Bob-Omb.
"Hmm, that depends… does the food have to be edible?" Bombette asked. Koopie nodded. "Then no, I can't cook."
"Oh well… I guess we'll just have to head back to Toad Town for something instead." Koopie sighed. "We'll be back later, okay?"
"Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere," Gourmet Gal replied as they left. "Oh, be sure to get something with sprinkles if you can! I love sprinkles!"
"Alright, time to head back to the station," Goommaria said as they walked back through the crayon forest. "Uh… does anyone know which way that is?"
"Actually… I have no idea where we are now," Koopie admitted. "We ran around so much escaping that Anti Gal that it was impossible to keep track of what crayon colors we passed."
"Don't worry your little turtle head off." Bombette played with Koopie's hair to help comfort her. "This forest can't be that big, right? I'm sure we can find a giant field of candy corn soon enough."
Meanwhile, deeper into the forest, Kammy Koopa was floating on her broom above a small brown chest, her golden wand raised over her head as she chanted some kind of mystic incantation. When the spell was finished, she thrust her wand downwards, summoning a bolt of lightning that struck the ground. Instead of burning the ground, however, the lightning solidified and turned into a small yellow lightning-shaped figurine with adorable black eyes.
"Hmm… I'm not really sure this is going to slow Mario down, but if this is what Queen Bowsa wants, then so be it."
She Koopa witch then flew off out of the clearing just before Mario and his friends entered it, where they quickly spotted the abandoned item in front of the chest.
"Oh, look, a Thunder Rage." Goommaria picked up the lightning bolt and stuffed it in her bag. "These are great for attacking enemies in a pinch - or if you ever need batteries charged. I feel sorry for whoever left this thing here."
"Yeah, me too," Bombette agreed. "Say, do you think there's more in this chest right here?" She lifted one of her feet and kicked the chest open with her high-heeled shoe. "Wait, that's not a thunder rage. It's just a… frying pan."
"Huh, this is a weird place to store your kitchenware." Goommaria reached in and took the pan out. "Hey, wait a second. There's a name on the handle; Tayce T. Isn't that the guy who runs that famous bakery in Toad Town?"
"That must have been that Toad chef who we saw get robbed back in town," Bow commented. "But why they'd bother stealing a frying pan of all things, I 'll never know."
"Maybe they wanted to cook some scrambled creme eggs?" Koopie suggested.
"Well, either way, we should probably get this back to him," Mario said as she took the pan. "Who knows; maybe we can even get some cooking advice from him while we're there."
His friends all nodded in agreement and took off to find the candy corn field again, completely unaware of the trap they had just 'defeated'.
When they arrived back at Toad Town, the place was still clearly recovering a little bit from the mischievous rampage the Shy Gals had wrought earlier, but it was clear that things were mostly back to normal. One of the exceptions to this, however, was Tayce T.'s bakery, where they found Tayce T. himself trying his best to cook pancakes using only a spoon over a stovetop fire.
"Yes, yes… almost one tenth of the way there…" the Toad chef said to himself right before he heard Mario walk in. "Eh? Wait, is that thing you're holding… my pan!?" Tayce T. dropped the spoon he was holding and dashed over to the plumber, snatching the pan out of his hands and holding it like a long lost lover. "It is! I can't believe it, she's back! Wherever did you find her?"
"It's a bit of a long story, but the short version is that we found it back at the Shy Gal secret base," Goommaria explained.
"Ah, the lair of the ruffians who stole my baby? I am not surprised," Tayce T. said after kissing the pan a few more times. "They took her from me out of spite after I refused to bake them candycorndogs."
"... Is that even possible?" Mario asked.
"I don't know, but after they treated my equipment so harshly, I don't intend to bake anything for any Shy Gal any time soon," the Toad said as he gently put the pan down on a counter. "But thank you so much for retrieving her for me! Is there anything I can do to repay your kindness?'
"Well… there is something we were hoping you could help with," Goommaria answered. "You see, we have this friend who has a, uh…" she trailed off.
"Birthday! Birthday!" Bombette finished for her.
"Yeah, birthday, that's right!" Goommaria nodded. "And we were hoping you could make something that would really knock her socks off!"
"Really?" The cook smiled and walked over to his refrigerator. "Well then, I think I have just the thing for you."
What followed was a flurry of motion as he gathered ingredients; eggs, milk, flour, salt, butter, and so much more, tossing them all into a bowl and stirring faster than else there could even keep up with. Then, before they even realized it, Tayce T. tossed the concoction into the oven (already preheated somehow), and then pulled it out only a few minutes later, revealing a small cake that he quickly got to work frosting.
"Oh, it's… just a cake?" Koopie asked curiously when she saw it.
"Of course! What else are you supposed to give someone for their birthday?" Tayce T. asked. "But this isn't just any cake; this is my most delicious cake in my entire recipe list. Just one taste of it won my late darling's heart. I swore that I would never make it again, but I think you're earned this, Mario. Just one bite will make anybody go ga-ga!"
"Oh, wow!" Mario picked up the plate the cake was on delicately. "Thank you so much!"
"You're welcome, sir!" The Toad man smiled and did a little twirl out of pride. "Just be sure to get that to your friend quickly, or a Shy Gal might wind up snatching it from you!"
"Don't worry, I promise that we'll get it to our friend quickly," Bow said as she and her friends went for the door. "This little sidequest has gone on long enough already…"
When they made it back to the crayon woods, they found Gourmet Gal snoring on the ground in front of the giant crayon box, apparently having grown even more tired since the last time they met. Chompy took the liberty of waking the large woman up, licking at her mask until she woke up.
"Huh? What's going on?" She sat up. "Is it… raining mushroom sauce or something?"
"Not quite." Bow took the cake and floated it over to Gourmet Gal. "Here you go, one energy-rich cake, all for you.
"Hmmm…" she sniffed at the pastry curiously. "Well, it certainly smells good." Gourmet Gal took out a fork that she apparently kept in her hoodie pocket at all times and shoved a bite of the cake under her mask. The instant the cake hit her taste buds, her spine went rigid and there was a dramatic pause. "Wow, this is… it's… it's….!"
She jumped up into the air much further than a woman her size should have been able to, and hit the ground with a thud that shook the nearby crayons to and fro.
"So delicious!" Gourmet Gal immediately began to shove the cake into her hidden mouth, running around the forest like a madwoman as she did so. "It's so silky! So sweet! So scrumptious! Oh fuck, I just have to have more!" By now, she was moaning so wildly that Mario couldn't help but turn a little red. "I feel so alive! So energized! So… horny! Is this what it's like when humans eat mushrooms? No, this has to be even better! It's just so amazing, so magnificent, so vibrant, so…"
"Wow… that must have been some really good cake," Bombette said as Gourmet Gal continued to rant and rub her body. "I wonder if we can figure a way to get Tayce T. to make more."
"Bark, bark!" Chompy barked in agreement.
"We'll have to see about that later." Mario crawled into the box and began to drag out the plastic train tracks inside. "Right now, we need to get this back to the station so we can keep the train moving. The sooner we defeat General Gal, and rescue the Star Spirit, the better."
"Alright, if you say so," Bombette said before moving to help Mario carry the tracks, only for her to be interrupted by a shout through the woods.
"I know you girls are out there!" the familiar voice echoed. "Come on, please just try to rob me again! I promise, it'll only take a minute!"
"Oh no…" Mario groaned as he and his friends hastily grabbed the plastic train tracks and started dashing through the woods. "And here I thought it was bad enough that we had to deal with just one tiny stalker…"
*Bad End 1*
"Alright, Gals! It's time to execute formation Foxtrot Tango!" The lead Gal backflipped on the tightrope along with two other Goove Gals and began to dance, showing off surprising grace despite how tiny their dance floor was. While Mario and his friends remained trapped down below, the Gals on the rope began to jump up and down. Their combined momentum stretched the tightrope and sent them back up higher with each leap until, finally, they moved their weight slightly forward when they landed and stretched the chord backwards instead of down.
Mario and his friends tried to move out of the way, but they were simply too slow, and they ended up being tackled to the ground. The Shy Gals wasted absolutely no time, taking out jump ropes and tying them all up as swiftly as possible.
"Wow… it worked! Formation Foxtrot Tango worked! Ooooh, I'm so happy that I could just flip!" one of the Groove Gals exclaimed before doing just that. "Uh… now that we actually caught them, what are we supposed to do again?"
"Well, General Gal gave us orders to send these intruders to her, but… she didn't say how fast we had to get them to her, did she?" another Groove Gal asked. Her friends couldn't see her eyebrows wiggling, but they could sense it.
"Yeah… yeah, you're right!" the first Groove Gal agreed. "So if we were to keep this mustached man around a little while longer, it'd be okay since we're not explicitly breaking any rules".
"Yep! That's why no one's ever beaten me at chess yet!" a third Groove Gal agreed. "It's also why I keep breaking so many coffee tables."
"W-wait, hold on!" Bombette growled and struggled as she and her female friends were all tied to poles and placed like scarecrows into the candy corn field. "Let us go right this instant! Or at least have us guard something crows would want to eat!"
"Alright, that takes care of them~" One of the Groove Gals said as she wiped her hands. "Now it's time to play with you~" She grabbed Mario by his bound wrists and pulled him to his feet. "Tell me, how do you feel about dancing?"
"Oh, I, uh…" Mario thought as quickly as he could. "I love it! But I'm afraid that I won't be able to do much with my hands and legs tied up like this. If you could just free me for a few moments, I'll be able to dance as much as you want!"
"Hmmm…" The Groove Gal holding Mario thought hard for a few moments. "Alrighty then! We'll untie you!"
"W-wait, seriously?" Mario watched in surprise as the ropes that were just put on his limbs were taken off. "Well, thank you so much for- w-wait, hold on! W-why are you picking me up!"
Before Mario could even fully process what was going on, the five Groove Gals had picked him up over their heads and threw him towards their makeshift tightrope. The angle of the toss forced Mario to land on the rope feet-first, and to his shock, he somehow managed to gain enough balance to avoid falling off.
"Phew... " Mario's relief was short-lived, as two Groove Gals jumped onto the tightrope after him, landing on either side of him and almost making him fall again with their shaking. "Wha-, hey! Could you please be careful?"
"What? You mean, you don't like our dance floor?~" the Groove Gal in front of Mario asked teasingly as she stepped closer to him. "I know its a little thin, but I think it'll do."
"Yes, this is such a perfect romantic setting~" The one behind Mario pressed her soft chest against his back. "But there's still one thing missing… oh, I know!"
The Groove Gal snapped her fingers and, inexplicably, a small band of Shy Gals wearing sombreros came out of the candy corn field and began to play slow, romantic salsa music.
"Perfect! Now, let's get started!" The Gal behind Mario suddenly spun him around on the rope and began to tango with him, moving back and forth along the rope with her head pressed lightly against his chest. Mario sweated nervously and occasionally glanced downwards at the floor below, but he didn't try to resist, instead trying his best to keep up with his partner.
Then, when the Sombrero Gals' music shifted, Mario suddenly found himself turned around once more, dancing with the other Gal again. This time, however, the other one refused to let up, and kept pressing herself against Mario's back and gently grinding herself against his rear while the other pressed her groin against his.
"Hey there!" a third Groove Gal said as she suddenly jumped up and latched on Mario's body. "I hope you don't mind if I cut in a little~"
"Of course not! You can never have too many dance partners~" the Gal behind Mario cooed.
Mario was about to disagree, but he was interrupted when the Gals began to take off his clothes, starting with his overalls and going from there. To his amazement, even the one who didn't have her feet touching the wire hadn't missed a single beat of the dance as the music continued to play around them.
Then, Mario found himself dancing with the Groove Gals completely naked except for his hat, unable to stop his cock from hardening and pressing up against the Gal currently in front of him.
"Oh my! That's quite the tightrope pole you've got there~" The Gal wiggled herself from side to side, rubbing Mario's shaft against the fabric of her hoodie. "It's so tall… I'm surprised that I didn't see this thing pitch a circus tent earlier~"
"I was… just a little tired is all," Mario replied, doing everything in his power not to focus on the erotic sensations that were assaulting his dick. "Speaking of which, is it okay if we… take a little break from dancing? My feet are… starting to get sore!"
"Are you sure about that?" The Gal behind Mario suddenly swung him around, pulled her white panties to the side under her dress, and aimed Mario's dick straight towards her dripping pot. "Why would we do that, when the music is right about to reach a crescendo?~!"
She then slammed herself down as hard as she could, shaking the rope beneath her as Mario felt himself enveloped by her squeezing pussy. Mario shivered but didn't try to resist, knowing that it wouldn't do any good. So, he just gasped as the Shy Gal began to thrust in time with the music, sending jolts of pleasure up his spine whenever he bottomed out inside her and she danced the tip of his dick close to her cervix.
"So, what do you think?" the Groove Gal asked teasingly as she ground her mound hard into Mario's groin. "I've always been more of an acrobatic dancer, but I've been told that I'm also great with my hips~"
"It feels… overwhelming!" Mario couldn't help but admit. "I can somehow feel… every one of your movements! H-how do you do that?"
"Lots of practice, sweetie~" She said before kissing him on the cheek through her mask and moving herself even harder. "But it's unfair to say that I'm good without trying out your other partners first~"
With a surprisingly swift motion, the Shy Gal pulled Mario's dick out of her squeezing snatch and spun him around, where the Gal who was behind him was waiting to instantly stuff him inside her. The moist folds of her pussy all began to massage his length as she moved, speeding up with the increasing tempo of the salsa music serving as their soundtrack. Then, after only a few more thrusts, she suddenly pulled out and hopped onto Mario's free arm, allowing the Groove Gal on his other arm to take her place and start fucking Mario instead.
"P-please! Slow down!" Mario begged as he became enraptured by the feeling of the Gal's ravenous bodies. "This is all… too much!"
"Heheheh, you think this is too much?" the Gal currently riding Mario's shaft laughed as her breasts bounced underneath her hoodie. "This isn't even the most intense sex we've had with each other! We haven't even put anything flaming underneath the net yet!"
"Maybe that's exactly what he wants~" the Groove Gal behind Mario suggested as her juices continued to run down her thighs. "Maybe he wants this little dance of ours to be truly death-defying, so he can so excited that he pumps us so full of his tiny dancers that we explode!"
"Oh, I'd love to see him try!" the Gal on Mario's shaft laughed as she squeezed her tunnel extra hard. "We may have bodies of dancers, but we're the toughest women in General Gal's army! We can take whatever he can dish out!"
"A-actually, on second thought, I'm okay with things as they are," Mario grunted, hoping to avoid potential burns.
"Whaaat? And I was about to get my hopes up," the Groove Gal on Mario's arm whined. "I know! How about we compromise!" Using Mario's arm as leverage, the Gal swung herself up into the air in front of Mario and wrapped her legs around his face, forcing his mouth up against her dripping snatch. "There! Now I get to have fun, and things are only slightly more dangerous for you~"
Mario tried to tell her to get off his face, but all that did was cause him to moan into her pussy and accidentally lick his tongue across her lower lips. She moaned in appreciation and tightened her legs even more, forcing him to keep going. The steaming waters of her sex dripped down his chin as the other two Gals on the rope took turns slamming themselves down on Mario's throbbing cock and carefully holding him steady so that he didn't fall off the tight rope. They did their best to keep their movements in time with the music, but eventually their desire to go fast outweighed their need to be stylish, and they were just fucking him as hard as they could.
This soon proved to be too much for Mario, as his own metaphorical tightrope finally snapped. Right as one of the Groove Gals shook her booty onto Mario's dick again, he began to unload inside her, stuffing her with wad after wad of his thick cream. The Gal simply sat there on his spear, shivering in pure ecstasy as she forgot about dancing entirely. The Groove Gal behind Mario didn't notice that, however, and moved to swing herself around to Mario's front, expecting his unobstructed shaft to be waiting for her there.
Instead, she wound up slamming the side of her hip right into the other Groove Gal, twisting her unexpectedly around Mario's cock. The momentum of the hit quickly threw them all off balance, and they wound up tumbling towards the ground right as the Gal riding Mario let out an orgasmic scream. The ground was padded like a child's playroom beneath them, though, so no one even had a scratch after they finally untangled themselves from their lustful pile.
"Wow… that was so much fun!" The Gal who was still on Mario's softening cock exclaimed. "I haven't had such a good time since we convinced General Gal to open that disco in the barracks!"
"Yeah… that was… a lot of fun…" Mario said with a groan, clearly exhausted. "Can you take me prison yet?"
"Awww, but I haven't even had the chance to properly dance with you yet!" one of the Gals who stayed on the ground whined.
"Now, now, that's no way to behave, is it?" the lead Groove Gal interjected. "Our prisoner is tired, so we should make sure het makes is way to his cell as soon as possible, shouldn't we?"
The other Gals stared at her in surprise for a moment before a moment of realization occurred. "Oh, right, of course! As quickly as possible!" another Gal agreed while the others nodded their jingly heads.
"Wait, what? Really?" Mario asked, a little bit hopeful.
"Yes, and since we can't take the train back, the fastest way to get there would be with… trapeze!" The lead Groove Gal excitedly flipped over to a nearby street lamp, which Mario hadn't really noticed until now, and kicked it hard at the base. A moment later, a trapeze descended from the overhanging light and hung there above them as the same thing happened to street lamps all around them.
"Uh… on second thought, I wouldn't mind staying just a little bit longer," Mario said as she stared up at the dangling bars.
"No way! It's just like you said; we need to get you back to your cell!" the lead Groove Gal said teasingly as the other Gals began to climb up the pole and toss themselves across the trapeze. "Don't worry, though, I'm sure you'll be fine!" With surprising strength, the Gal picked Mario up over her head and tossed him up into the arms of the Gal hanging above them. "Just make sure to hang on tight!"
Mario reflexively did as he was told, hugging himself into the breasts of the woman holding him as she dangled from her legs. She just giggled and began to swing, building up momentum before launching herself to the next Trapeze and then tossing him to the Gal waiting at the next one. This continued for a while, with the Gals swinging Mario around and taking whatever chances they could to hug him, squeeze him, and grope him whenever they could. By the time he was finally on the ground again, he was so dizzy he could barely stand up right; though his cock didn't have the same problem.
When the world finally stopped spinning in his eyes, Mario realized that his 'prison' was waiting there in front of him; it was a massive toy circus cage filled with adorable stuffed animals.
"Alright, here you go!" The head Groove Gal opened the cage door for Mario. "You can wait here until General Gal decides what to do with you! Although… now that we're actually here, I'm starting to feel... really sorry for you?"
"You… you are?" Mario asked, exhausted but still suspicious. "You're not kidding?"
"Yeah, definitely!" She said as she shut the door to the carnival cage. "Do I look like the kind of person who jokes around?"
"Uh…" Mario's eyes looked her colorful outfit up and down. "Kind of."
"Well, we're being serious right now, so believe me when I say it's seriously your lucky day!" The lead Groove Gal struck a dramatic, yet playful pose. "We're going to abandon General Gal and help you escape from the Box!"
"Uh… that would be very nice of you," Mario replied, wary that the only reaction the other Groove Gals had was muffled snickering. "But… how exactly do you plan on doing that? Going back to Blue Station?"
"No way! If we took a train, we'd be caught before you could say conga-rail-line!" The head Groove Gal took Mario by the hand and led him over to a large object nearby that was hidden underneath a massive white sheet. "So, we'll be taking the fastest form of transportation known to womankind; the cannon!"
Mario let out a gasp as the Groove Gal pulled off the concealing blanket and revealed a fifteen-foot long canon with a theatrical yellow barrel and a blue base that opened with a large hatch underneath it.
"... on second thought, I should probably stay. Those stuffed animals could get lonely, after all!" Mario attempted to make a break for the carnival cages, but one of the Groove Gals grabbed him by his naked shoulder before he could escape.
"Nonsense! We have to get you out of here as quickly as possible before General Gal catches on~" one of the Gals said with a song in her voice as they dragged Mario over to the cannon. "Don't worry, you don't have to be scared. We'll be with you the whole way~"
With that, they picked Mario up and shoved him into the cannon, and then all but one of them crawled in after him. The cannon may have been large, but it quickly became very cramped for Mario as he felt them stuff their soft bodies around him. By the time the hatch of the cannon shut behind them, the plumber couldn't tell if his face was stuffed between one of the Gal's puffy breasts or her plump backside.
"Alright, you're all in!" the Groove Gal who was still outside shouted. "Just give me a moment to get the powder ready, and I'll send you on your way!"
"Augh… is it just me, or is it a little… claustrophobic in here?" Mario asked, his voice partly muffled by a Groove Gal's glittering body.
"Maybe a little… but that doesn't mean we can't still take the opportunity to dance~" one of the Gals replied. A moment later, Mario felt the Gals all start to move their bodies, grinding against both him and each other. They moaned and gasped as they did so too, and the combination of touches and sounds soon unleashed the instincts Mario had been desperately hoping to keep suppressed, and he found his dick throbbing as hard as ever. Even if it was a little dark in the cannon, it didn't take the Gals long at all to locate the throbbing pole and start to rub it as well.
"Heheh, I see someone still wants to play~" one of the Gals said as Mario felt her hand rub his shaft from base to tip. "I can tell already that we're going to have a lot of fun together!"
"Yeah! Once you're 'free', we're gonna have so much fun partying together!" Another Gal managed to rearrange herself in the cannon so that her moist pussy was positioned right over his shaft. But with his face still smothered, Mario didn't notice that until he suddenly felt himself balls-deep inside her a moment later.
"B-but… what about my friends?" Mario was doing his best to keep his composure as he himself fucked, unable to pull himself away from the Shy Gal even in the slightest.
"Don't worry about them; we'll be here to keep you company~" one of the Groove Gals said as she danced sensually against his back. "With us, you'll be able to rock out with your cock out all day every day! If you ever feel the need to jam inside one us, you won't have to hold back in the slightest!"
"Although, I'll have to warn you, we don't hold back ourselves~" the one currently pounding herself rhythmically on Mario's groin added. "Whether it's freestyle, breakdancing, ballroom, or ballet, we'll be able to take whatever you dish out, I promise! After one full day with us, we're going to make dance clubs look like junior prom!"
"I… I think I'm getting close!" Mario warned her, though that just seemed to increase her tempo even more. "W-wait… do you hear something… h-hissing?"
"Oh, that must be the fuse!" The Gal riding Mario's shaft made her thrusts more long and sensual, letting him savor the feeling of her pussy clamping down hard around his base. "I hope you're ready to blow, big boy! Ready or not, here we go in three… two… one!"
"Yaaaaaaah!" Mario shouted at the top of his lungs as he was fired out of the canon, disappearing into the sky of the Toy Box and leaving behind a faint rainbow glimmer of sex juices in the air as he flew. To his surprise, this really did launch them out of the Box and into Toad Town, but that didn't mean that things got any less stressful for Mario on the outside. Once they were out there, the Groove Gals wasted no time in calling up the rest of their dancing troupe and placing the whole of the town under their iron slipper. There, in the newly christened Gal Gaggle, Mario spent the rest of his days trapped in a paradoxical wonderland of childish games and adult pleasures, with most of his time spent either on his feet, getting fucked, or both. His friends, meanwhile, never got the chance to see him again, but they were at the very least responsible for some plentiful harvests for years to come.
The End.
*Bad End 2*
"Ahah! It looks like I win again~" The Anti Gal did a little victory dance as Mario and most of his friends struggled to get back on their feet. "Oh, and don't think I forgot about you, dearie~" The Anti Gal suddenly grabbed Bow's invisible foot right before she could reach the secret chest and slammed the ghost girl so hard into the ground that her titular bows fell off.
"Augh…" Bow groaned in complete exhaustion as she became visible again. "Darn it… I can't believe I let myself get caught off-guard like that…"
"Don't worry, it happens to the best of us." The Anti Gal gave a deep bow. "Except for me, of course! Nothing ever gets past me!"
"Alright, fine… we won't take what's in your chest." Mario tried to put his hands up in surrender, but suddenly felt himself pushed back down towards the ground by a foot wearing a little black shoe.
"I'm sorry, but I can't let you challenge me like that without at least a little consequence~" The Anti Gal sung as she stripped Mario of his clothes in fast, yet fluid motions. "And I can't think of a better prize than this adorable little cookie right here~"
"M-Mario!" Bombette reached out to try and help Mario, only to be stopped by Goommaria.
"Q-quit it!" The Goomba pleaded. "I don't want us to get even more hurt than we already are."
"Ooh, smart little mushroom cap! I like you~" The Anti Gal made a little heart with her hands before kneeling down in front of Mario's cock, which was already starting to get hard from anticipation.
"So… you're… going to rape me, is that it?" Mario panted, not trying to resist. "Then… I guess I don't mind too much… just leave my friends alone and get it over with…"
"Get it over with? Now, where would the fun in that be?" The Anti Gal pulled up one of her sleeves and revealed a smooth, dark-skinned hand with little white skulls painted onto her black fingernails. With a soft giggle, she placed one of her fingers at the tip of Mario's dick and slowly traced it along the front up to the very tip. "No, I think I'm going to take my time with you~"
"Ah? S-seriously?" Mario couldn't help but grunt as she teasingly kept tracing her finger up and down his shaft. "Are you sure you don't want to… m-move faster?"
"No way! I beat you guys so quickly that I barely had fun, after all. So, I'm gonna make sure you give up every moment of joy you owe me~" The Anti Gal leaned down and breathed a soft breath through the hole in her mask, eliciting a deep throb from Mario's long pole. "Yes sir, I'm going to spend so much time with this new toy of mine, that if you were to write it down in a novel, it would take well over thirty pages~"
"D-Doesn't that seem a little excessive?" Mario gasped.
"Excessive?" The Anti Gal cocked her head. "Oh, I get it! You want me to go even slower, don't you? Don't worry, that wish I can grant!"
"Gngh!" Mario grunted as she moved her delicate fingers along his dick so slowly that it was practically torture. "No, no! Go faster, go faster!"
"My my, why won't you just make up your mind?~" The Anti Gal gripped Mario's cock tightly for the first time as she shifted position, rolling up her skirt to give Mario a perfect look at her dark thighs right before she pressed them down onto his face. "Such a needy little man!"
With his nose planted firmly against The Anti Gal's gothic panties, she leaned forward and began to gently stroke Mario's dick with both her hands, occasionally blowing a short breath onto his tip whenever she sensed she could catch him by surprise. As a drop of precum appeared on the end, she shifted one of her hands to massaging his sack to help make sure the load he gave her would be as large as possible.
"My, you're not the only one who's impatient! This little guy right here is already begging me to put him inside~" The Anti Gal cooed musically. "I won't give you that just yet though - but I will give you the next best thing~"
Mario felt the Anti Gal's weight lift off his face as she whirled herself nimbly onto his lap, placing his hard dick right between her soft thighs in the process. He grunted as he felt her lower lips graze along his shaft through her satin panties, giving him the smallest taste of her tight sex, but still keeping it far out of reach. The Anti Gal couldn't help but giggle as she watched him squirm.
"There? Isn't that a little bit better~" The Anti Gal began to slowly move herself up and down, sliding his cock along her smooth dark skin and causing the tip to make a tiny bulge in her skirt whenever she thrust down.
"A-Actually… that just makes it worse!" Mario admitted, the feeling of her underwear sliding along him exciting him even more than he expected.
"My my, I guess you won't be satisfied until you've had the real thing! Well, lucky for you, neither will I~" The Anti Gal tightened the grip of her thighs and increased the speed of her movements. "So, how about this; if you last five whole minutes between my thighs, I'll let you stick this where you want it most~" Mario just gasped as another drop of precum leaked out of his tip and coated the inside of her black skirt. "I'll take that as a 'yes'~"
So the Anti Gal hummed happily for the next few minutes as she tortured Mario with her thighs, rocking herself back and forth on his shaft. Mario couldn't see it, but the smile behind her mask was growing wider every time she felt his dick shake. Her juices began to leak through her black panties as she grew aroused as well, the idea of having his rod deep inside her clearly setting off something inside her. She didn't really keep track of the time, but she decided Mario had finally had enough right when she felt his dick start to pulse more rapidly than ever.
"Alright, I think you've earned the right to have a shot at the big leagues~" The Anti Gal adjusted her position just enough to take off her panties and then lined up his tip with her dripping hole. "Now it's time for this game to get ser-"
The Anti Gal was cut off when she suddenly felt something warm and wet splash across her upper pelvis. This splat of goo was followed by another, and then another, until she finally looked down and saw that Mario was firing his entire load onto her groin.
"What?! No no no no no! You can't finish before you even put it inside me! That's not fair!" She quickly got off of Mario and tried to reinvigorate his deflating dick with her hands, but by then it was already too late. "Darn it! Uh, you don't happen to have a mushroom on you, do you?"
"Uh… of course not?" Mario lied unconvincingly, but the Anti Gal was in too much of a panic to notice.
"Alright then, uh…" The Anti Gal stood up, cums till dripping off her naked groin underneath her skirt, and looked around the crayon woods panickedly. "You wait right here and I'll… go get you some candy mushrooms! Yeah, I'm sure those will work just as well! Be right back!"
With that, she dashed off into the woods faster than any of them could blink, leaving Mario's party alone and confused by the chest.
"Uh… anyone else wanna vote for leaving before she gets back?" Goommaria spoke up.
Her friends all nodded in agreement, looted the nearby box for its cookies, and ran off without looking back.
The End.
*Bad End(?)*
Meanwhile, deeper into the forest, Kammy Koopa was floating on her broom above a small brown chest, her golden wand raised over her head as she chanted some kind of mystic incantation. When the spell was finished, she thrust her wand downwards and summoned a bolt of lightning that struck the ground. Instead of burning the ground, however, the lightning solidified and morphed into a small concessions stand filled with nuts. Then, a woman with light green skin, a short blonde hair, a yellow beanie, and an over-sized yellow sweater, stepped up behind the stand and turned the 'closed' sign to 'open'.
"Hmm… well, I'm not entirely sure why it needs to be a Pea woman selling these nuts, but if it will spell Mario's doom, then so be it!" Kammy cackled evilly. "Yes, I can see his face swelling up red with hives right now… oooh, my old bones just can't wait!"
Kammy then flew off into the sky, leaving the nut stand and the chest it was to be guarding just in time for Mario and his friends to walk into view.
"Why, hello there, sir!" the Pea woman greeted with a cheery look on her face. "Would you care for some delicious nuts?"
"Uh… what kind of nuts?" Mario asked curiously. "Are they candy or anything?"
"Nope! Just regular old nuts! There's not enough demand in the market to sell the better ones, I'm afraid..." She replied with a sad smile.
"Well… sure, why not?" Mario tossed the girl some coins and pocketed some nuts before heading over to the chest and opening it. "Huh? A frying pan?"
"Hmm… were things supposed to go this way?" the Pea woman wondered idly to herself as Mario and his friends went back to Toad Town. "Oh well! At least I had a satisfied customer!"
The End...?