"Remember, Minmei's security is stronger as you said earlier. With the outsiders like little Mario and little Luigi hiding in the box, I want you and Azalea to confront Minmei as little Suuko disguise as a worker and citizen of the Chai Kingdom." King Hiyoihoi explains the plan.

"Cool. With that out of the way, I want Suuko to enter the hotel and act as a hostess there. Man, if only I were there to be served." Daisy sighs.

"Um, Daisy." Luigi calls out as Daisy stops fantasising herself being served by a hostess.

"Oh right! Ahem! Also, Mario and Luigi will take action with Suuko's signal, letting them in the kingdom with no problem." Daisy added.

"Once that happens, we'll make sure the princess accepts our plea and reconsider her alliance with Bowser. If not, then we'll have to use brute force." Said Azalea.

"Yeah. If that happens, then we don't have a choice." Daisy agreed.

"That means it'll take us approximately 5 minutes to stay in the box inside the building." Said Luigi.

"Luckily, our phones can function as a stopwatch like our old ones. If I recall correctly, the princess is someone who isn't to be messed with, right?" Mario asks as Daisy sighs.

"Yeah. Despite being the top of the food chain, Minmei is all order and no nonsense. The monk was her father and he supported her as a princess." Daisy points out.

"So her father is somewhat her loyal guard dog." Mario asked.

"No. It's more of the monk who will do anything he could to make his daughter a better ruler." Daisy explains.

"Isn't that unfair? What if the princess wants to live her life outside of royalty?" Luigi asks.

"The Chai Kingdom has no royalties and Minmei has won the throne with pure luck." Daisy answered.

"Then is the plan concluded?" King Hiyoihoi asked.

"Yeah. Unless there's some adjustments, Azalea, Suuko and the boys are ready to break in and face the princess once and for all." Daisy concludes.

"Then good luck, my friends!" King Hiyoihoi bids the group farewell and wish them luck.

2005 September 20th

The fireworks are popping as the crowd cheer and laugh, the music plays in an eastern style and the Pionpis are dancing alongside the humans and koopas.

They have arrived

Chai Kingdom

Sitting in a fairly large box, Mario and Luigi are able to fit in while poking holes for the bros to breathe and look through.

Suuko is now wearing a Chinese dress that is a qipao, a dress for the festival.

As the lid gets put on, Mario and Luigi turn on their phones and set the stopwatch in order to get the signal.

Finally, the boat stops.

"Halt. You three, why're you here?" The faceless rice hat person asks as the guard raises a katana at Daisy, Azalea and Suuko.

"Wait! We're here for the princess! It's all a misunderstanding and we have no outsiders with us!" Azalea explains.

"And this girl?" The guard asks.

"I'm just a worker there… Hmm… What is it called? A hostess! That's right! I'm a hostess and this box is for the place I work at!" Suuko points out while patting the box.

"Yeah. Now can you let us through?" Daisy picks herself up while looking at the guards.

With both guards nodding, they finally let Daisy and Azalea through, only for them to walk with Daisy and Azalea.

"You must get back to work, or celebrate, so leave the princesses to use." Said the guard.

Suuko nods and picks up the box that has both men inside there.

Humming to the festival tune, Suuko is seeing a sunset that is where the party continues.

Inside the bedroom, Mario and Luigi are still waiting as they're turning on their phones.

Before placing a phone on his ear, Mario is tapping Peach's name and number which make the phone ring.

[I'm sorry, please leave a message if you want to call me.]

Beep.

Mario sighs as he hangs up.

"Peach's not calling?" Luigi asked.

"I'll try again later. Right now, let's focus on breaking into the princess' temple." Mario nods.

"Okie dokie." Luigi nods back and look into his phone.

With the door open, Suuko appears with a koopa that is in a hoodie and sits down on a bed.

"So, is there something you want? Dinner? A bath? Or… Do you want me?" Despite showing innocence, Suuko is posing on a bed, since Daisy taught her, while blushing.

To this koopa, he's uninterested, moving his hood forward while covering his face.

"I'm here for these two." The koopa answers by flipping out a photo of Mario and Luigi out of his hoodie pocket, making Suuko surprised and in silence. "I know they're in this building, so where are they?"

"Oh, these two? Hm… Maybe they're next do-"

Interrupting Suuko, a koopa grips onto Suuko by the wrist, forcing her to look around left and right.

"Hm. What's this? A crate? What's inside it?" The koopa approaches the crate, causing the Mario bros to be on guard.

Surprisingly a stone hits a koopa's head, making him turn around, only for him to witness 4 more arms below the arms that's carrying the stone.

"Wh- What the heck!? A 6 armed human!?" A koopa shrieks.

"A what!?" Mario and Luigi exclaims after jumping out of the crate with shock.

6 arms out of a qipao, Suuko reveals to be a non-human type of creature, meaning she's an inhabitant of this world.

But the koopa has caught onto the bros after having a similar reaction to him.

"There you are! So that's why the princesses of Sarasaland appeared here which means you two are here-"

Before the koopa gets his hands on the Mario bros, more stones are hitting him like bullets, leading the koopa to flinch.

"Ow! Hey! You little!"

"Hiya!" Luigi yells as he swings a crate lid down and smashes it through, causing the koopa to cover himself in a shell.

"Why you! When Lord Bowser sees you, mark my words…"

"Hah!" Mario finally boots the shell out of the window, smashing the glass with the koopa screaming.

"HE WILL BEAT YOU!"

After that, the koopa is no longer with the trio as Mario and Luigi sees Suuko only showing her human form that has 2 arms again.

"What was that just now? Your arms, they're…"

"That? Yeah, I forgot to tell you boys, hahaha!" Suuko laughs after Luigi's worried question.

"But who are you really?" Mario asked.

"I'm a Suu. My family are all Suus. Like spider people you guys see us as." Suuko reveals her true species, Suu, as she's still a humanoid spider.

"So what you're saying is that you're a spider, huh? Gee, Mushroom Kingdom's world is still full of surprises after all." Mario chuckles while rubbing his head uncomfortably.

"Y- Yeah… Um, I should've bought bug spray with us." Luigi gulps seeing as he's been with a spider this whole time, increasing his fear.

"Maybe Daisy and Azalea are at the palace by now." Mario picks out his phone and places it on his ear.

[Hey.] Daisy whispers through the phone, meaning she's quiet in order to avoid any hostility.

"Daisy, we're all clear. What about you?" Mario whispers.

[We're almost there. Bowser is in the main district. The time for action is now.] Daisy orders for action against Bowser and Minmei.

"Okie dokie. Good luck." Mario nods along with Luigi and Suuko.

[Yeah. You too.]

Beep.

After the call ends, Mario, Luigi and Suuko are sneaking their way out of the window as they're climbing down outside of the building.

Outside.

Dancers are dancing to perform and impress the audience on stage as well as those Inside of a fake dragon dances through the parade, gold and silver confetti falling as they're used for a large party of a festival.

"Wow… Hey, bro! Let's check out the performance!" Luigi pulled Mario's arm as Suuko did the same.

"Yeah! Please!"

"Alright, alright. We'll watch the dance, but we still need to keep going. Bowser is nearby and Sarasaland is in danger." Mario sighs as he accepts.

As the trio approaches the performers, Luigi blushes as they look beautiful and sexy, whereas Suuko is excited as she wishes to dance like them.

Mario can see the beauty as if he's engrossed by what the girls are doing for their audiences.

Behind is a masked kunoichi woman as she presses the speaker.

"This is Fang, I found the targets. They're wearing overalls, one red hat and the other green hat. They even accompany a girl who's said to be a hostess and a small one as she appears to be." Fang, one of the kunoichis leaps down as she hides behind the crowd while watching Mario and his group.

Later.

Mario, Luigi and Suuko stop as they bump into a large woman.

This said woman is blonde, muscular and hairy that is the opposite of the hair, wears a long dress and a hat that has a ribbon on it.

"Who's this hairy woman?" Suuko asks.

"Donkey Kong?" Luigi stops as he can tell the face and structure of a certain Kong.

"Donkey Kong? My sweetie, I don't know what you're talking about. My name is Lucia." 'Lucia' giggles, leading the Mario bros to stand unimpressed.

"You big monkey, it's us." Mario clicks his tongue while revealing Donkey Kong's identity.

"Guys! Don't ruin this for me! Can't you see I'm with the others in the festival!" Donkey Kong hisses as his tone Is back to normal.

"Suuko, this is Donkey Kong. He's the big guy that helped us on our adventure." Luigi introduces Donkey Kong with a positive tone.

"Cool. It's nice to meet you, Mr. Donkey." Suuko raises her arm with a wider smile.

"Hmph! Nice to meet ya too, kid. I'll show you the greatest strength of a champion like me!" Donkey Kong grins while flexing.

"Former champion. Remember what happened between us? Also what happened during the incident with Bowser's attack on the Mushroom Kingdom?" Mario corrects Donkey Kong with an eyebrow raised.

"Don't forget we had to save your life." Luigi points out.

"Why do you guys ruin my pride?" Donkey Kong moaned.

Suuko giggles as she can tell that the Mario bros and Donkey Kong are best friends, making her a part of Donkey Kong's friend group as well.

With the fireworks popping again, Mario and Luigi look at the sky with no words, but enjoy the view.

"Hey guys." Donkey Kong called.

"Yeah, DK?" Luigi leans down to see Donkey Kong.

"I had a call from Toad. Apparently, something bad has happened at the Flower Nation."

"What?" The Mario bros halt as they go closer to Donkey Kong.

"No kidding. The prince is forcing the princess to cut ties with you guys. I even had it recorded." Donkey Kong pulls out his phone as the recording starts.

Beep.

[... Cut the promise from the outsider. It's obvious that you're not there for power, but playing with other people's minds.] The young man's voice said.

[Haru!?] Toad's voice shouted.

[Haru… Why?] Peach gasped.

[When? When did you know those outsiders?] The young man asked.

[13 years ago. We were elementary school classmates. I… Had a crush on Mario.] Peach revealed her childhood.

[And why?] The young man growls.

[Because he's unlike any other man I meet. Mario is actually a good person at heart, he's a hero to all his classmates, especially his little brother, and he's difficult to read, even when he said that I'm difficult to read. It's like we're meant to be together.] Peach admits.

[Huh!? Haven't we made a promise since childhood? We promised we'd marry each other and you even said yes.]

[We were children back then. Also I declined our marriage. We cannot be together.] Peach explained.

[I see. It seems that you like to tug on other people's hearts and play with them, even someday, you'll be messing with this outsider's head. How disgusting. You too?]

[Yeah! If Peach wants an outsider, then let her have him!] Toad growls.

[Guards! Seize them! Don't let them escape!] The young man orders with a harsher tone. [Princess… Here's the truth about your kingdom. When I rejected it because it's too expensive, I didn't expect the Kongs to be involved with your construction workers.] The young man explained.

[And yet you have an advanced society!? Such hypocrisy!] Peach snaps.

[If you truly want to save your kingdom and face Bowser, then you'll have to marry me.] Haru demanded.

That revelation had the Mario bros gasping in shock about the truth which explains Toadsworth's decline to rebuilding the Mushroom Kingdom.

[Huh?] Peach and Toad halts.

[That's right, marry me and have your kingdom cultivated and then we'll stop Bowser with our army.]

[Cultivated by a cultivated!? That means we'll be the weakest kingdom! I can't do that!] Peach protested.

[Yeah! Not even Cranky and his pals approved of this!] Toad snapped.

[Tch! Then I guess you'll have to rot in the room until you accept my offer. Take Toad to the dungeons. I'll take Peach somewhere.] The young man orders as Peach shrieks with a bunch of thudding and crashing noises.

[Yes, your majesty.] The voices responded which implies to be his guards.

[Peach! Peach!] Toad yells as he's unable to reach Peach, even Peach is doing the same.

[Toad!]

Beep…

After the record, Luigi is shocked as he takes a few steps backwards.

Mario on the other hand is clenching his fists with his eyes widened, fuming with anger after hearing what's going on.

"That guy… Just who does he think he is?" Mario is now set on saving Peach, even if it harms him.

Suuko is worried that Mario and Luigi are hurting themselves.

"Um…"

Luigi stops Suuko as Mario slams his fist on the wall to vent out his stress.

"So that's why Peach is struggling… It's because of him!" Mario snaps.

"Also, he kinda sounds like a clingy jealous guy that is similar to Bowser." Luigi points out.

"I know, right? The prince was never like this before." Donkey Kong agreed.

"Bro, we'll sort out Daisy's situation first. I'm sure Peach is alright." Luigi is unsure if Peach is alright, but is thinking if she's cared for by someone that's been trying to get her cut off from him and his brother.

"Luigi's right. Knowing Prince Haru, he knows when to let Peach conclude her decision, even if it takes hundreds of years." Donkey Kong added.

Lowering his head, Mario is now under the impression that this prince is a jerk, but was able to respect Peach, despite all the things he did.

"I think Sarasaland has another flower place. I was told by my family that Prince Florian is the one in charge of the Flower Kingdom." Suuko explains while thinking about another Flower Nation.

"You're right! If we report that to Prince Florian, then he'll stop all this mumbo jumbo!" Donkey Kong laughs as he jumps with excitement.

"But how are we going to get to the Flower Nation's palace? Maybe the prince is keeping his place in security." Luigi is thinking about what to do to get inside the palace.

"Then we'll turn ourselves in." Mario finally speaks out.

"Huh?" Luigi, Donkey Kong and Suuko turn towards Mario as they're curious to know what gave him that idea.

"Once we sorted Daisy's problem out, we're going to save the princess together. Luigi, have you played any RPG and platformer games?"

"To enter the dungeon is to turn yourself in, disguise yourself into a royal guard, or sneak in hidden exits… Bro, I see what you're getting at!" Luigi has realised that Mario is prepared for the worst as he and Mario are about to infiltrate another country and this time, it's rescuing the princess.

"Then I'll get Prince Florian to stop Prince Haru from trying to take the Mushroom Kingdom." Donkey Kong rolls his arm as he's ready to punch someone.

"Heh. You changed a lot since we teamed up against Bowser." Mario chuckles.

"Hmph! I need to learn how to rely on others sometimes. Besides, I wanted to beat some sense into this guy. Remember, Pauline is watching us, so never give up on her." Said Donkey Kong looks at the sky while straightening his wig and hat.

A heavy clicking noise that is footsteps has caught Mario's group by surprise as they witness a fully face masked kunoichi that carries needles, facing those who're targeted.

The only holes on the mask are those slanted looking eyes.

Mario, Luigi and Donkey Kong are raising their fists as Luigi himself is the least confident of the group.

Suuko gasped after witnessing the kunoichi ambushing and blocking the path that Mario and Luigi were heading towards.

"Outsiders."