"Peach!" Olivia gave her a hug.
"Aww! Thank you!" Peach smiled at Olly. "Hello there. I hope your kingdom isn't stressing you out too much?"
"No, I'm fine. But-Wait, is your hair up?" Olly noticed the pink ribbon holding her hair into a ponytail.
"Oh! During my vacation, my hair was up like this most of the time. I guess it just grew on me." She giggled.
Mario came over. "I haven't see you-a in a month or so. Something wrong, or are you just here for a visit?"
"Mm..." Olly said. "Do you have any cars or bikes that can drive on sand really well? Preferably both, if you have them."
"Olly, last time you tried to-a drive you broke your legs."
"I'm fine now, see? I won't crash it again, honest!"
"You didn't tell me about that," Dimentio teased.
"Oh, stop it! Just let us borrow the vehicles, please?"
"You can borrow them," Peach said. "And if they crash, there's new ones being made all the time, so you're fine."
Mario pointed to the Chaos Heart Entity, who was suspended mid air by Peter's forcefield. "What is-a going on there?"
"Nothing bad," Peter said. "It's just in air jail for being a mean little jerk."
It growled.
"Ooookay then."
Peach explained the karts and bikes, how to customize them, and then left them alone. Peter helped them find the best off-road combination for desert travel, and had them mass produce the karts and bikes until they had enough. Olly chose one of the bikes, as he thought it would be easier to control. After everyone had chosen a way of travel, Olly cleared his throat to get their attention.
"Okay, so this is probably going to be worse than what we have been dealing with. Antasma and King Boo were busy, so they couldn't come, but I think we have enough help already."
"Yeah, boss," Tape said. "Ya practically have ya whole kingdom 'ere."
"Okay, so we need to follow this map." Olly held up the map, which he had printed out before they left for the Mushroom Kingdom. "It's pretty far, so we might need to make camp. But if we can try to go non-stop in order to prevent the loss of Olive, then that'll be better. We'll try to keep the breaks minimal, but we'll take a break if somebody gets hurt or something. Any questions?"
"We have one..." It shifted in the barrier, looking pretty uncomfortable in the smaller shield than the one from before, which took up almost the entire room. "Why go through all this effort for a dumb blond? He did nothing to help you, so why even try?"
"Because, that's what friends do."