Minmei's Palace

Rushing forward, Mario and Luigi made it as they're heading towards the princesses.

"Daisy!" Luigi called.

"Luigi! Mario! You guys made it!" Daisy cheers while waving and runs alongside Azalea.

As the group reunited, Mario looks at Minmei with caution while blocking the group.

"Princess, stop what you're doing!" Mario shouts.

"Of course. That's why I'm here. You were being framed by King Koopa. That's why he's paying the price." Minmei agreed while approaching Mario and his group.

"Daisy, my love! You made it! Oh, and you brought in a couple of earthlings." A voice from above has the group looking up as they see a flying device.

"You!" Daisy growled as Mario and Luigi raised their hands to protect the princesses.

"You guys are really troublesome, but allow me to ask you boys a question. Will the truth change your mind about the princess of Sarasaland?" Tatanga asked while giggling.

"Whatever it is, you better tell us." Mario said while preparing himself with Luigi.

Daisy remembers what happened yesterday as Tatanga is prepared to tell the dark truth in front of her, including Minmei herself.

This causes Daisy to panic as she quickly looks around to see an item that'll stop him from opening his mouth.

"N- No! Wait!"

Azalea is calm after knowing what Mario and Luigi heard from before.

"Speak." Minmei ordered bitterly.

Tatanga laughs as he begins the story of what happened to Daisy in the past.

"Long time ago, the emperor was a ruler as he and his wife had a first born daughter named Daisy Flora. As the empress was sick, she gave birth to the second daughter, Azalea Flora. The family lived happily, even after the mother died, the emperor and his princess daughters are carrying the burden of helping their kingdom."

Mario and Luigi are still quiet as they get why Azalea is still searching for an answer to the death of the emperor.

Daisy is holding her beating chest in fear of being found out.

Tatanga continues.

"As years goes by, the emperor has turned abusive, trying to defile Azalea and constantly beating Daisy in a brawl. It ends in blood. In other words… Tell them the truth, Princess Daisy Flora!"

Daisy shudders as Azalea pat Daisy's shoulder with no option but to tell the truth in front of the man she fell in love with, the man she befriended and the princess of the kingdom.

Daisy finally sank to her knees and looked at Mario and Luigi.

"I… I did it… I killed my father…" Daisy finally revealed herself as tears were running nonstop.

"That's right, Daisy. Tell them the truth." The emperor's spirit appears as he's waiting for Daisy to repent.

"I know, dad… Please… Don't hate me. I killed my father to protect my sister. I can't let her get hurt anymore! Please forgive me!" Daisy begged, knowing she can't do anything, causing Luigi to approach Daisy and hug her. "L- Luigi?"

"You're just like my brother, always trying to protect a family member. So stop crying and move on. Your father doesn't want a princess to cry and beg like that. I know I'm a hypocrite, but please smile for me, my princess tomboy." Luigi smiles while looking at Daisy.

Daisy sniffles while wiping her tears.

"Luigi… Thank you." Daisy giggles while hugging Luigi back.

"What!? I- I thought you'd hate her for what she did to her empire!" Tatanga yells after realising his plan failed.

"We already knew about that before you opened your big mouth." Luigi called out while looking back at Tatanga.

"So better luck next time." Mario pulls a grin on Tatanga out of mockery.

"Princess Daisy…" Minmei is now unsure who to trust anymore after hearing what Daisy has done earlier.

"Y- You!" Tatanga growls while preparing the guns in front of the Mario bros. "If I can't get her to break up with you, then I'll kill you!"

"GWAHAHAHA! Isn't that ironic!?" A familiar voice calls as the heat is getting close.

After the voice, crashing through the door are a bunch of faceless guards and Donkey Kong, causing Mario and Luigi to rush towards Donkey Kong.

"Donkey Kong!" Luigi exclaimed.

Mario grunts out of shock. "What? How did Bowser…"

"Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me! I never felt the embarrassment coming from the monkey boy over there!" Laughing as he arrives with his scary smirk, Bowser is glad to invade the palace once again while stopping Tatanga with his fire breath.

"Eek!"

"King Koopa!?" Azalea gasps as Daisy guards her sister and raises her fists.

"So you're the feared King Bowser Koopa, huh? Perfect! Square up, Koopa! We'll brawl so I can kick your butt!" Daisy taunts Bowser while waving her hands and grin, showing off her shark-like teeth.

"Daisy, be careful. This guy's no joke." Mario warned.

"Aww, look at you. Defending each other from the great, scary and future king? GWAHAHAHA! Guess again, puny humans! It seems Tatanga is running away from the bigger truth that your sister has been searching for." Bowser clicks, ordering Kamek to use his memory recording magic like he did to Pauline and then connects it onto Bowser.

After Tatanga was searched for, Bowser opened his eyes and then looked into Mario and his friends while frowning out of disgust.

"Princess Daisy, Princess Azalea, is this what you're looking for?" Bowser asks calmly.

"What are you talking about?" Azalea asks, suspicious of Bowser's behaviour as Bowser usually attacks with brute force.

"Hmph! The truth is not that simple. Before the empress' passing, Tatanga was there to rule any planet, even trying to send his people down to earth as part of his invasion. He attempted to marry the empress before the emperor won her heart, making Tatanga jealous, even taking advantage of the emperor himself." Bowser points out, causing the group to gasp in shock.

Daisy and Azalea are the most shocked after hearing what happened to a hotheaded lovable man that turned abusive.

"After the empress died and the young princess' birth, the emperor's grief was being used time after time until Princess Daisy's 12th birthday. That's when Daisy, at the age of 14, offs her own father, because all Tatanga wants is a Sarasaland ruler to take. In other words, Princess Flora, it wasn't you who killed your father, but him." Bowser revealed, causing the Mario bros, Donkey Kong, Minmei and her soldiers to stare, horrified about what Tatanga had done 7 years ago.

"What!? He did what!?" Mario growls as rage has fueled into him.

"But… Why!?" Luigi is no longer scared as he too was enraged with what's been going on in the past.

"Treason!" One guard yells as many of them are raising their weapons at Tatanga out of malice.

"You're under arrest for the manipulation of the emperor and his daughters, repeated harassment and attempted murder!" The other guard yells with a naginata pole raised as well as katanas and spears.

"Oh poop." Tatanga has finally realised that he's screwed, causing him to panic and start his ship before he's caught by many surrounding him.

Azalea is silent as shock has caught her in mind and shatters her heart and tears welling from her eyes, realising that Tatanga has been using her father all this time.

Daisy on the other hand is not only shocked about what she heard, but was now on a similar level, if not, more than enraged than Mario, panting as those cherished memories are shattered by one alien that's the cause of Sarasaland's downfall.

"Hahaha… I get it now… I didn't kill my father, you stained us with his blood…"

"Daisy?" Mario halts as he witnesses the princess with similar emotions as him, making him worried about Daisy herself.

"Mama mia! Daisy calm do- Ah!" Before Luigi grabs Daisy, Daisy instantly charges forward, jumps on the guards, leaps onto one of the pillars, making her jump onto the spaceship.

Tatanga is really screwed big time.

"EEK! D- Daisy! I can explai-"

"EXPLAIN WHAT!? YOU! YOU KILLED MY FATHER! YOU MURDERER!" Daisy's piercing scream is never something that anyone wanted to hear, even slamming her fists on the glass is enough to crack it, making Tatanga scream.

"Princess Flora!" A kunoichi called Daisy, who is now being taken away along with Tatanga.

"Leave her." Minmei orders in a bitter tone.

"What do you mean!? She's being kidnapped by that alien Tatango!" Donkey Kong snapped, mistaking Tatanga's name.

"Mr. Kong's right. We can't let that alien get away." One rice hat guard agreed with Donkey Kong.

"Tch! Bro, take care of Azalea! I need to stop them!" Luigi said, then was grabbed by the wrist by his older twin brother.

"Wait. I know what's happening. I remember Peach had that kind of anger when Pauline was gone. Those eyes, I never know how Peach felt, but I know Daisy's. It's bloodlusting rage, vengeance, frustration and grief." Mario explained.

Luigi gasped, witnessing what Mario had been saying.

Daisy is unable to overcome her past, seeing as she's still out and about hunting Tatanga down.

"Mario… Luigi… Is this why dad changed? Because of him?" Azalea asks as her tone is shaky.

Mario and Luigi are now feeling even worse after knowing that the other world is filled to the brim with people who're in pain and even the Mario bros felt right at home.

"King Koopa… What?" Minmei halts after seeing Bowser gone as well as his servant Kamek.

"He's gone, gong-zhu." Fang said while patting Minmei's shoulder.

This had Minmei clenching her teeth, anger flowing as she turns around and unsheaths her katana and then zooms past Mario and Luigi.

"Huh? Princess?"

"She's heading towards Tatanga!" Luigi points out.

"Let's-a-go, then!" Mario nods, hopping along with Luigi as they're heading towards the direction Minmei went. "Donkey Kong, take care of Suuko and Azalea."

"Will do, Mario! Next time, I'll beat Bowser once more." Donkey Kong rolls his arm as pain is stinging him.

The guards are seeing the fireworks along with Donkey Kong and Azalea.

Following the fireworks is Azalea weeping, falling to her knees as the guards are there to comfort a crying teenage princess.

Donkey Kong can tell why Mario and Luigi are hurt all the time after a week of being outside of their world.

Outside as the festival continues, the Mario bros rush as they're near Daisy and Tatanga as they hear Tatanga continuously screaming as Daisy screams out "GIVE HIM BACK! GIVE HIM BACK!"

"Daisy! Stop what you're doing!" Mario shouts.

"Yeah! Please! We'll get him to tell your people the truth!" Luigi yells out.

"SILENCE! I'LL KILL HIM! I'LL KILL YOU!" Daisy refuses to comply as she's still prepared to have the alien's head.

"Someone do something! That girl's a psycho!" Tatanga shrieked

"And whose fault is it for using the emperor!?" Mario called Tatanga out while he and Luigi were still dashing on rooftops.

"Mario! He's about to hit the festival ground!" Luigi warned.

"Not on my watch!" Mario grabs Luigi's arm and chucks him towards Tatanga's ship, making Luigi scream.

After successfully landing on it, Luigi was able to stop Daisy by groping her wrists and looking her in the eyes.

"Let go of me!"

"Daisy! Stop it! I know what he did, but that's not going to bring your father back!" Luigi shouts as Daisy struggles.

"What do you know!? You don't even know anything!"

"I know I don't! Because unlike your father, our father's not manipulated, but manipulative!" Luigi reveals his old man as Daisy halts out of confusion.

Luigi lowers his head before Tatanga has his chance to escape.

"Our family never takes the name of our old man, but keeps our mother's name, Mario. Also, ever since we lost Pauline, Mario is easier to anger, but at least he's not going out of his way to end Bowser's life! He and I are trying to keep going for our sister! So please come back to us! We'll have Tatanga be held accountable for what he did to you!" Luigi explains his reason, causing Daisy to slam her fist on the ship.

"Hahahahaha… I get it… So I was weak after all… I'm a failure of a sister… Azalea… I failed you." Daisy is now cooling down, but is now at a state of loss, giving Luigi the impression that Daisy is now in deep depression.

Before Mario leaps onto the ship, a straight line has caught the group off guard, leading Mario to yelp and fall onto the side of the ship.

"Bro! Huh?" Luigi can see a straight line that is slowly splitting the ship apart, even Tatanga is spared, making him panic at a worse state.

"No no! Please! Not like this!"

To the bros surprise, a naginata pole is revealed to he Minmei as she actually split Tatanga's ship in half, causing the circuits and engines to blow up.

"Oh poop." Tatanga concludes his final moment.

As for Daisy, she's being hugged by Mario and Luigi while falling.

BOOM! The ship is now gone into flames along with the fireworks as the people of Chai Kingdom cheer as well as the disguised Kongs.

Later at the village area, lying on the ground are Mario and Luigi as well as Daisy and Tatanga after the incident that caused Daisy to go on a rampage.

Groaning, the Mario bros are seeing a ship that is now a wreck and Tatanga is now outside of his ship.

And then there's Daisy, sitting on her knees as her eyes become dull and hollow and her lips are dried up, rendering her to look like an empty shell that has lost the very things to an alien that's been doing harm to her country and her family.

"Daisy…" Mario was worried as he called out to her.

"It's okay, bro. She's calmed down." Luigi stops Mario from approaching Daisy.

To Mario's surprise, Luigi is acting brave after stopping Daisy from going after Tatanga.

This made him smile as he patted Luigi's back.

"Oh, Lu, you wanted to be like your own brother." Mario chuckles.

"W- Well I just wanted to make you smile. I'm worried that you'll end up the same as her." Luigi admitted.

"Relax. I may be weak, but at least I can hold onto my emotions, aside from anger." Mario points out about himself.

Finally, the twin brothers laugh and sigh as they're finally fighting back.

Afterwards, Luigi lifts Daisy up by the arms while Mario approaches Tatanga and slams his fist on the ground as Tatanga shrieks.

"Don't think you'll escape us. You're coming with us back to Sarasaland and you will tell the people what happened to the emperor and if you lie, then we'll call your people and tell them that you're embarrassing your kind." Mario warns with a calm yet harsh tone.

"Wait! You know them?" Luigi asks.

"Nah. I was thinking if that would…"

"WAIT! Please don't tell them! I promise I'll tell the truth! Please don't call my kind!" Tatanga interrupts while panicking, realising that he's done for with no other options left.

"Huh." That was easy as they managed to get Tatanga to fold and beg that he'll admit to his crimes.

In the end, it's all over. Tatanga is defeated and the Chai Kingdom is no longer targeting the outsiders, even Daisy's issue is solved.

"Mario!" A voice yelled.

It's Donkey Kong, making Mario and Luigi gasp with surprise.

As they turned around, Donkey Kong hugged the duo as he's laughing.

"You boys did it! Beating an alien up! I bet you can help me beat Bowser the next time we meet!"

"Okie dokie. Then it's a deal." Mario accepts willingly while clapping his hand onto Donkey Kong's.

"How's Daisy?" Azalea asks as she appears to feel the same way as Daisy.

"She's alright. Just cooling down. Truth hurts, doesn't it?" Mario sighs as his smile fades.

"Yeah. Mario, Luigi, thanks. Without you guys, we wouldn't have found our answer." Azalea rubs her eyes and smiles at Mario and Luigi.

"You're welcome. We wouldn't have made it without you and your sis." Luigi said as he, Mario and Donkey Kong chuckled.

Arriving, Minmei points her naginata pole at Tatanga as Tatanga himself grunts.

"Tatanga, we're placing you under arrest for treason. Anything you say will be against you. You'll be in our prison until we take you back to Sarasaland." A kunoichi, Fang, said with both rice hat guards cuffs Tatanga's wrists and drag him towards the festival.

"Mario, Luigi. I challenge you two to a duel. A fight even." Minmei orders while pointing a katana at the Mario bros.

"What?" Mario gasps in shock.

"Wait, hold on! Why!?" Luigi exclaimed.

"A bet. You want me to join you in facing King Koopa, then prove to me that you're strong enough to face him. Defeat me and I'll consider joining your cause. You outsiders are struggling after all." Minmei giggles as no one does anything to stop it.

What Mario and Luigi didn't know is that they're actually being accepted but with a cost.

"Okay, so what happens if we lose?" Mario asked.

"Hehehe… You'll never know." Minmei concludes as she leaves, making Luigi cling onto Mario's back.

As hopeless as they are, Donkey Kong is silent as he can tell this princess is no joke, meaning he won't be able to be stronger than her at this rate.

"Mario, Luigi. Take these bags. 6 ice flowers each." Azalea said while handing both bags over to the Mario bros.

"Ice flower. Luigi, remember our fight against Donkey Kong?" Mario points out after what he and Luigi did earlier.

"Oh! I know." Luigi can tell that Mario is correct.

"Me either! Luigi can make an ice shield, so what does Mario make!?" Donkey Kong is curious about Mario's skill aside from throwing ice balls.

"Seriously!? I didn't know he could do that!" Azalea exclaims, hearing what Luigi did earlier.

"Ehehe, well, I didn't know either. Maybe I'm a defence type of guy while Mario is… Sword fighting! Mario, you can create a sword out of ice!" Luigi gives Mario an idea.

"Hm. With me being offensive and you being defensive, it looks like we're making a strategy." Mario grins as the plan is about to go out.

With Mario, Luigi, Azalea and Donkey Kong planning out, it's time for a decisive battle against the princess inside her palace.

At least Daisy is on the verge to recover after some horrifying truth.

The real battle is about to begin.