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“Mario, why do you look like a bear?! What is this?!”
That was what Luigi was asking his brother while he was studying his costume. Daisy approached the brothers.
“That is a Tanooki suit,” she explained to Luigi. It is a power-up you can use to enhance your prowess.”
“Yeah, Lu,” Mario added. “Eating a red mushroom can make you big and touching an orange flower can give you fire powers.”
“Ohhh!” Luigi reacted as if he understands now.
“Now, then,” Mario began as he glanced at the Sarasaland Princess, “who’s your pretty friend there?”
“Oh, that’s Daisy,” Luigi answered. “She’s the princess of Sarasaland, a desert kingdom.”
“Pleasure to meet ya, Mario,” Daisy greeted in her tomboyish accent. She, then, shook hands with Mario like crazy.
“MARIO!!!”
Mario turned to see Toad running up to him. The red plumber is happy to see him, too.
“Toad!” Mario cried out. “You’re okay! Wait, where’s—“
“MARIOOOO!!!”
Mario turned around to see Princess Peach running up to him. He is both relieved to see her well, and amazed at how beautiful she looks in her wedding dress.
“Princess!” Mario returned. “Wow, you look beautiful!”
Peach got down on her knees and she wrapped her arms tightly around the plumber in the Tanooki suit. She started crying.
“I thought I lost you!” Peach cried. “Oh, Mario, I thought you were dead!”
“I thought I was dead, too,” Mario admitted. “But, I’m not!”
The two giggled as they separated from each other. Peach giggled more as she messed with her friend’s Tanooki hood playfully.
“Mario, about your invitation to Brooklyn,” Peach began, “I decided to take up that offer. Once I’ve clean everything up, I’ll come to Brooklyn with you and see it.”
“As will I,” Daisy added. “I always wanted to see the human world.”
Everybody laughed. Peach and Mario gazed each other, and they locked their hands together, preparing for a kiss.
Before the two can lock their lips, however, an explosion occurred near them. The entire group, Donkey Kong, Toad, Daisy, Luigi, Peach and Mario turned to see that Bowser has freed his head from the ice.
Bowser looks mighty mad as the dickens. “LAUNCH THE BOMBER BILL AND DESTROY THE MUSHROOM KINGDOOOOM!!!”
“Bomber Bill?” Mario repeated questioningly.
Suddenly, the ground of the wedding chapel began to shake. The group turned to face Bowser’s volcano on top of his lair, and they spotted something being shot out of it.
What they saw is a bullet with eyes and teeth that resembles ones that belong to a shark. It went high up into the sky and then it started to plummet down to Peach’s castle.
“NO!” Peach squealed in horror. “My home!”
“Don’t worry,” Mario said bravely. “I’ll stop it!”
“Mario, no—“ Luigi intended to stop his brother, but he was too late.
Mario used the Tanooki suit’s ability to fly off after the Bomber Bill. Everybody else watched with intense anxiety.
“Can he stop that thing in time?” Daisy asked with worry.
“I hope so! That castle, and my Toads are all I have!” Peach replied panicking.
“He’ll do it,” Luigi said with confidence, making everyone else look at him. “I know my brother; he’ll put a stop to this.”
Minutes later, the group watched as the Bomber Bill suddenly stopped just before it could touch the top of the castle’s highest tower. Everyone sighed in total relief.
“Whew!” Peach sighed in relief. “That was close!”
“I’ll say!” Daisy added.
“I can’t believe that guy actually did it,” Donkey Kong chimed in.
The group watched as Bomber Bill started chasing something. Luigi gasped.
“Uh-oh! Something tells me that that bullet is chasing my brother!”
“He better not die on us,” Donkey Kong (DK) said. He owed me a rematch of Smash!”
“Smash?” Luigi repeated.
It’s a fighting event where individuals fight each other either to death or until one admits defeat,” Daisy answered.
“My brother beat you at such an event?!” Luigi asked DK after Daisy explained what Smash is.
“Technically,” DK began to reply, “I let him win!”
“Yeah, right,” Toad replied. “Mario wiped the floor with you with that cat power-up!”
“Guys, enough!” Peach shouted, putting a stop to the chatter. “Something’s happening over at the Mushroom Forest.
That was where a colorful explosion occurred, one that shook the whole kingdom. Then, suddenly everybody and everything started getting sucked to the forest; to the warp pipe.
Apparently, Mario led the Bomber Bill to the warp pipe where he came from to defeat it, but the explosion on the other side caused the pipe to react. And now it is because of that reaction that everything within a large radius was being sucked into the pipe, including the heroes, the villains and Bowser’s whole fortress.
