Birabuto Kingdom
A desert town that is all quiet, leading Mario, Luigi, Daisy, Azalea and Suuko to march forward while seeing a ghost town.
It's all quiet and nothing but the sound of the wind and sand is coming through as it breezes in the air.
"So, where is the king?" Mario asks.
"Over there. The pyramid. This is where King Totomesu lives." Azalea points at the large pyramid, indicating that it's their destination.
"Really? It's so big." Suuko is in awe about the pyramid this large is right in front of her and her new friends.
"Yeah. Let's check it out." Luigi starts until his arm is groped by his own brother.
"Hold it. This town is quiet. Maybe something's up." Mario is feeling suspicious about the pyramid itself.
"Relax. They're in the pyramid. It's the Birabuto Kingdom's tradition, having a meeting at the pyramid, so let's go visit." Daisy leads the way as the group follows.
Even when the group marches, Luigi is showing more worry as he looks at Daisy.
Fortunately for Mario, he nudges Luigi's arm as he tells his brother not to worry, making Luigi nod and look back at Daisy, but less worried.
Suuko is curious about the group's relationship and their dynamic with each other, being new to their adventuring.
As the group reach their destination, many shouts are coming from outside the pyramid which alerts the group, except for Suuko, to run and push through a crowd of large felines and a bunch of moais with limbs.
"What in the heck is going on!?" Mario exclaimed.
In front of the group are a couple of larger creatures as one looks like a sphynx lion and the other is a larger moai wearing swagger shades, headbutting each other as they growl.
"Totomesu! I will never forgive you for what you're doing to my son!" A large moai yells as he squeezes his hands onto a sphynx lion's paws.
"Art thou starting an accusation!? Thou must be ashamed for attempting to assassinate I, King Totomesu!" The sphinx lion, King Totomesu, roars while pushing the large moai that is called King Hiyoihoi.
So much argument as Mario and Luigi are shocked to see both kingdoms are at each other's throats.
"Oh no! Daisy, what should we do!?" Azalea shrieked.
Daisy can tell that all this fighting is nor good for her guests, leading her to quickly step in between both kings and burst out a shout. "HEY! That's enough fighting! We can't have that in front of these tourists!"
This had many creatures, even both kings to quickly fold as they hastily bow.
"P- Princess Flora!"
"Forgive me, your highness." King Hiyoihoi apologises.
"My apologies, Lady Daisy." King Totomesu does the same.
"Hmph. I bet you two didn't change your acts. I was expecting a warm welcome to those outsiders." Said Daisy.
"Outsiders!?" Both kings exclaims as they quickly bow and slide towards the Mario bros.
"Welcome to our wonderful kingdom, dear sirs! I am Totomesu, the king of the Gao race!" King Totomesu introduces himself with haste, surprising Mario and Luigi.
"Y- Yeah! And I'm King Hiyoihoi of the Tokotoko race! It's nice to meet you young men!" King Hiyoihoi also introduces himself while shaking the bros' hands.
"Um… Hey. I- I'm Luigi Mario. T- This is Mario… Mario, my brother." Luigi nervously introduces himself as well as his brother.
"H- Hey." Mario waves while rubbing his head.
"Ahem! It seems that thou heeded my calls, Princess Flora, young Azalea." Said King Totomesu.
"Yeah. Now tell me, what are you guys doing?" Daisy asks.
"Well, your majesty…"
"He almost smashed my son to pieces! That's why we need him to confess!" King Hiyoihoi interrupted, leading King Totomesu to growl.
"Wait! Really!?" Azalea gasped, only for King Totomesu to sigh and rub his paw on his face.
"No, princess. I cannot stand his accusatory means. That said, he almost killed me and that wasn't an accident." King Totomesu explains.
This causes an uproar between both Gao and Tokotoko races, causing the Mario bros to stay silent.
"Hey. Why is everyone fighting?" Suuko asks as she arrives.
"I don't kno- Luigi!" Mario turns to his back and pushes Luigi.
What appears between the two of them is a large missile with eyes and arms, causing the Mario bros to gasp with shock until…
BANG!
"Sister!" Azalea shrieked.
"Ngh! Your majesty!" King Totomesu roars.
"Huh? What the!?" What catches King Hiyoihoi's attention is a flying object appearing out of nowhere as he's behind the sun through the sandstorm.
"Daisy!" Luigi shouted.
As many in the Birabuto Kingdom are in shock about a missile blowing Daisy into smog, a banging noise is coming from the sky.
"NOOO! What have I done!?" A creature in an unidentified flying object screams as he accidentally shoots Daisy down.
"What the? An alien!?" Luigi yelps.
"They have aliens now? This world makes no sense." Mario groans as a magical world has aliens included, making him facepalm.
"Ngh! I should've known that thou had arrived to assassinate us, Tatanga." King Totomesu growled as he and the Gao race growl and roar.
"Assassinate you!? I'm here for those outsiders! How dare you go out with my future bride and get away with it! I guess her younger sister is the only option left!" Tatanga snapped as he had his eye on Azalea, causing Azalea herself to gasp in shock.
"What? We already have a Bowser, we don't want another one!" Mario yelled out of frustration.
"Silence, shorty! Considering you and your brother are out in Sarasaland, I guess I'll have to tell you two what really happened to the emperor!"
Mario and Luigi are left unfazed as they already know about what happened to the emperor, even Azalea remained silent.
But those around are murmuring as King Hiyoihoi approaches Tatanga. "What are you talking about?"
"He's talking a load of RUBBISH!" Daisy's voice is now aggressive, only for the group to see Daisy carrying a brick and smash a part of the glass, causing Tatanga to shriek. "First of all, I said no! Second, NEVER touch my sister! Third of all, try to kill Luigi and you're dead! Leave this country, now!"
Daisy's return has Tatanga squeal with excitement after seeing Daisy alive again.
"Well, are you su-"
"NOW!" Daisy is exploding with pure rage, causing Azalea to panic as she witnesses the very girl she sees 7 years ago.
"That's right! Everybody! Stone that creature!" King Hiyoihoi orders as he and the Tokotoko race are raising their rocks and chucks them all over Tatanga as Tatanga himself screams.
As Tatanga flies away, he can tell the Mario bros are looking at him with hostility, leading him to growl and take off.
"This ain't over, outsiders! The Sarasaland princesses will be mine! When we're married, you'll be the first to beg, green man!" Tatanga shouted as he got away from the Birabuto Kingdom.
"That's right! Never come back, you monster!" King Totomesu roared.
Even Totomesu's kind roars which had Mario and Luigi remain calm.
In the end, the Birabuto Kingdom is temporarily at peace.
Approaching Azalea, Mario and Luigi pat her shoulders.
"So this is how Daisy felt a long time ago. Mama mia… I didn't expect it to be that scary." Mario can see why Daisy's been hiding her truth.
"I… I don't know what to do. My sister's always been like this ever since dad has been…"
"Murdered by Daisy. I heard it all." Luigi opens his mouth as Azalea gasps.
"Wait, did Mario tell you about this!?" Azalea is now in a panic state as she realised that the bros are onto her.
"Yeah. But I want to help too. If Mario's doing it, then I'll do it as well. We're worried about you." Luigi expresses his truth as he's lowering his head.
Even when Azalea wanted Mario to hide it, she can tell that Luigi is capable of helping, despite being shy and more indecisive with his choices.
Then she sighs.
"I guess that makes the five of us. But we need to keep it a secret from Daisy. We'll let each other know if there's any clues."
"Okay." The Mario bros nod.
On Daisy's side, Daisy pants as she falls to her hands and knees, hearing the whispers that've been coming after her for a long time.
"You're slowly exposing yourself. It's time that you'll pay the price, Daisy."
Returning is a spirit that's been all over Daisy, even though she's the only one seeing it whereas many have chatter with each other.
"Is it punishment? Or is it guilt?"
"ARGH! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! I GET IT, I DID IT! PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE!" Daisy finally snaps as she sinks her head onto the sand, making those around her worried.
With the group hearing Daisy's scream, Azalea, Mario and Luigi approach Daisy out of worry, leading Mario to raise his arm.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
This caused Mario to hesitate as it flashed back to what he saw in his childhood. One was Peach after having a fight with Mario himself as children, then his parents as his mother was forced to fold, even Luigi when they're high school students.
Mario is unsure what to do, making him close his eyes and then open them back by karate chopping Daisy's head, knocking her out as Azalea catches Daisy.
"Bro?" Luigi approaches while patting Mario's shoulder.
"Sorry. I was just having some flashbacks. It's painful watching a princess like this." Mario grunts out of worry.
"So you know about it too." King Hiyoihoi caught the trio hiding Daisy from other people.
"Please, Hiyoihoi! We don't want Daisy to end up in prison!" Azalea exclaims.
"Yeah. All we want is to find out the culprit that turned Daisy and the emperor against each other." Said Luigi.
King Totomesu sighs, realising what Mario and Luigi are going through after hearing about what happened to them a week ago.
"Young Azalea, let us start our meeting along with the outsiders."
"Ah. Yes, King Totomesu." Azalea nods and marches along with Mario, Luigi and the Gaos.
"And Hiyoihoi."
"What is it?" King Hiyoihoi turns himself towards King Totomesu.
"I must apologise for the misconception. It turns out that Tatanga is the fiend that's trying to split us all apart and hunt those outsiders down." King Totomesu apologises.
"Yeah. I'm sorry about what happened earlier. Maybe we've been accusing each other of attempted murder, huh."
"Indeed. You and your people should go back. We're preparing for tomorrow."
"Wait, Totomesu. I want to know. When will the princess of Sarasaland recover?" King Hiyoihoi asks out of concern.
"Unless the culprit is captured, then we'll see about that." King Totomesu concludes while leaving the Tokotokos, only to enter the pyramid.
"Hmph! Good luck, oh great lion."
As both kings separated, Suuko is watching everything that happened as she follows King Totomesu.
In the end, King Hiyoihoi and his kind are facing a bunch of flies and bees that are invading the kingdom.
Pyramid
Inside the pyramid is a bunch of paintings that are not unusual for Egyptians to own, but instead of humans, there's cats that are the old legends of the monarchy.
Chatting, a bunch of Gaos are discussing what's going to happen to not only the outsiders and the princesses, but themselves.
As Daisy is already awake, she squeezes her dress, worried that she'll be caught about her past. Azalea places her hand on Daisy's shoulder and smiles, soothing Daisy out of her fear and worries.
Afterwards, a bang is coming from a large paw that is King Totomesu.
"Everyone! What we're facing right now is an attack on not just the Birabuto Kingdom, but the Easton Kingdom, the Sarasaland Empire and the outsiders as well! We must unite and fend off against Tatanga and his potential forces!"
"But how, my liege!?" One of the Gao exclaimed.
"I have no recollection of what we're doing." King Totomesu admitted as he shook his head.
"I know!" Daisy calls as she raises her arm.
"Hm?"
"I get that my empire has more power than anyone combined, but let's convince the Chai Kingdom to address the incident that Tatanga has caused." Daisy suggested.
This had Luigi turning towards Daisy, nervous about her potential rash actions coming to play.
"And how does that work, your highness?" King Totomesu asks.
"Yeah! Your father cultivated our nation after you were born!" Shouted one of the Gaos.
Even Mario is unsure if a cultivated country could take action against an alien like Tatanga.
"I know, but with the outsiders on our side, I'm sure they'll tell the Chai Kingdom princess about what Tatanga has done. That means he won't come back to get us any longer." Said Daisy.
As the Gaos look at each other in silence and then look at Mario and Luigi, who're uncomfortable with all this fiasco that's been going on recently.
"Then we'll let them know that thou people are coming over." King Totomesu concludes, pressing the device in order to speak to another royal leader of a different kingdom. "Minmei. We need help."
[You need help? I should've known you have outsiders with you. I must speak with the princess of Sarasaland.]
"Huh? How did thou- Ngh!?" King Totomesu is the first to see a faceless rice hat bunch in black placing their katanas on his neck.
"What the!?" Mario is caught off guard as a katana appears out of nowhere as it's placed onto Mario's neck.
"Your maje- Eep!" Luigi yelps as well as Suuko.
"Mario! Daisy!" Azalea shrieked.
"What the heck!? Minmei! What's the meaning of this!?" Daisy snapped, but was forced to sit back down by two guards in black.
Appearing from the entrance and behind the group of Gaos and Daisy's friends are a bunch of jiangshi looking creatures known as Pionpi.
Even worse, the piranha plants from the pipes are now in pots as well as fully masked women that are like kunoichis in robes, landing near the table as one of them places a tablet on a table to reveal Minmei's face.
King Totomesu and others are surrounded, realising that Mario and Luigi are targeted.
"Hold on, Minmei! Thou art misunderstanding! These two are here to help us from King Bowser's terror!" King Totomesu protests.
[Actually, he's helping me with my freedom after years of our country being cultivated to the point that we're Sarasaland's side country. Bowser and I made a deal in order to take down the outsiders that's threatening our country.] Minmei explains, causing Daisy to clench her fists out of pure anger.
"Him!? Helping you!? You do realise all the crimes he did were unforgivable! But making a deal with him!? Are you mad!?" Daisy yelled.
[He knows I'll free the princess of Mushroom Kingdom from the hands of those outsiders.]
"What are you on about!? First of all, she came onto me! Second, we have known each other since childhood! And third, Bowser is constantly creeping on Peach for a long time!" Mario is calling out on Bowser's crimes and Peach's history with Mario himself.
"Also don't forget that she said no, no matter how many times, but Bowser is still chasing her until the very end like a pervert." Luigi added.
[Proof?]
"Listen to us, Minmei!" King Totomesu roared.
[Totomesu, I know how you feel, but considering you're working with those that threatened my country, I'll have you arrested for treason. So, no proof, no excuses. Take them away.] Minmei ordered.
"Yes, Gong-zhu." The faceless guards, the masked kunoichis, the Pionpis and the piranha plants replied as they got their hands on Mario, Luigi, Daisy, Azalea, Suuko, King Totomesu and his army as many are now in peril.
"Wait! Princess!" Luigi shouts.
[Farewell, if you're strong enough.]
"Why you!" Daisy growled.
"Wait. Daisy, do you have any power ups with you?" Luigi asks after remembering what needs to be done.
"Huh? Well, I have this." Pulling out a grey petals flower that is unusually like the orange and blue flower, Daisy revealed a power up that can be beneficial. "Wait! You guys are geniuses! Take it, Luigi!" Daisy then shoves the flower in Luigi's mouth, just like Mario did when facing Donkey Kong.
But the taste is still awful.
"Bleh! Again!?" Luigi exclaims, only for his overalls to turn dark grey as his hat and shirt is light grey. "Huh?"
"He's got a power up! Get him!" A faceless guard shouted.
This causes Luigi to yell as he fires a ball at a guards stomach, as the guard grunts, then bounces off on other guards and smashes one of the kunoichis' masks as she shrieks.
This causes the piranha plants to get smacked as some Pionpis panic and hop away from the ball that's bouncing everywhere, leading the guard to releasing the katana and split the ball in two, only to get smacked by another one.
The ball is everywhere as those from the Chai Kingdom are being attacked by Luigi's balls.
"Everyone! Retreat! We need to tell Gong-zhu about this!" The guard orders as many are running and hiding away from the pyramid.
As many are gone, the Gaos and Mario's group are sighing as Luigi's overalls are back to normal.
"That was amazing! I knew I found the right man to do it!" Daisy cheers while hugging Luigi.
"Ehh… Thanks." Luigi is glad that everyone is safe.
"Totomesu! What's going on!?" Appearing is King Hiyoihoi after seeing what's going on in the pyramid.
"Ngh… We were too late. King Bowser has his claws on the Chai Kingdom and now they want the outsiders. It's obvious that Bowser is targeting them as well as us since we're associated with the humans." King Totomesu answers as he growls.
"What? That means…"
"We'll be Bowser's slaves if he takes over every kingdom." Mario grunts.
"Excuse me?" Daisy turns towards Mario, shocked about what Mario said.
"That's what he's about to do if he rules the world. How many wives will he have if Peach isn't the only one with him? That means we'll be enslaved by him." Mario points out.
The murmurs of the Gaos and the group are heard as Mario and Luigi remain silent.
"In other words, he's even worse than Tatanga in terms of motivation?" Daisy asks as Mario nods. "Wow. That's low. He must have a few screws loose to have that mentality. This guy needs a butt whooping."
"But we must be careful. Bowser is not what you think he is." Luigi warns as he's worried.
"He broke Peach's arm when she fought back and what's worse, he's after us after we escaped. He took away our sister." Mario explained.
"He did what? That means…" Daisy knows that Peach was able to beat him, but not like this.
"No way…" Azalea feels the same way as Daisy.
"Tch. Looks like we're facing something far worse than the alien after all. Hiyoihoi, we need a plan." King Totomesu turns towards
"Hm. That's why I'm here!" King Hiyoihoi pat Mario and Luigi's shoulders as he laughs. "We're going to Chai Kingdom, but we need a disguise."
"Huh?" The group as well as Tomomesu are curious about a disguise.
"You there, young lady!" King Hiyoihoi points at Suuko as Suuko points at herself. "Yes! How about you disguise yourself as a resident of the Chai Kingdom? There's a chance that we won't get any hostility if you work there and hide the boys from the public."
"Oh! Like undercover work? Sure!" Suuko agreed, leading Mario, Luigi, Daisy and Azalea to look at each other out of worry.
"Are you sure?" Azalea asked.
"Yeah. If anything, I'm with you guys on an adventure!" Suuko laughs.
"Then it's settled! Daisy, Azalea and Suuko travel by boat and the boys hide in the box in order to bypass their security. Minmei is now at risk of what becomes of her when Bowser is involved." Said King Hiyoihoi.
This had Mario and Luigi nodding, thinking of a plan.
"If we enter there, we'll come out in a building." Mario said.
"Mario?" Azalea gasped, leading Mario to nod.
"It's one of the hidden places, since the princess' security is tighter than usual. Once we get out, we'll confront the princess and Bowser and get her to open her eyes. If Bowser accused us, then we have proof with us." Mario revealed his phone as the messages are sent by Cranky Kong, showing what Bowser has done to not just the Mushroom Kingdom, but the Kong Village as well.
"What!? That monster!" Daisy's anger is starting to fuel up and then calms down. "Bring it over to Minmei. Because we're getting even with that koopa."
"Then it's settled! Totomesu, we'll make sure that our kingdoms won't fall into Bowser or Tatanga's hands." Said King Hiyoihoi.
"Then thou must face thou challenge. Good luck, outsiders, your highnesses, guests of the kingdom." King Totomesu bows as many Gaos are howling, wishing many luck to stop what Bowser is actively doing.
Finally, Mario, Luigi, Daisy, Azalea and Suuko are marching along with the Tokotokos as they're preparing for their mission to sneak in and confront the princess of the Chai Kingdom.
It's obvious the Bowser has a vendetta against the Mario bros.