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Everyone in that empty room tensed while awaiting the first question. Their eyes locked on to one another to find mirrored expressions of apprehension. This was nail biting nervousness, if their hands for that matter were accessible.
"WHAT IS THE BEST CONSOLE OF ALL TIME?"
"...T-the Dreamcast?" Luigi squeak.
Mario was shocked. "You mean SNES, bro?"
"The PlayStation three!" Peach pontificate, though that was really the only console she knew to blurt out. She was rightfully ignored.
"Maybe the Mega Drive?" Daisy answered. "I dunno. Moral Kombat was fun in the day."
"Eep eep! Atari 2600." No one knew it, but Donkey Kong had the emulator on his hacked PSP.
"Showing your age aren't ya, ape?" Wario sneer in his direction.
"We're getting nowhere. All our answers are different!" Toadette confessed with watering eyes.
"Homegirl, chill. I got the answer." Everyone stare at Toad bouncing excitedly. "The best console is… the one someone else's already bought so you can come over their house and play for free!"
His statement weighed on everyone before Mario spoke first. "You know, that does make sense. Otherwise we'd have to personally own every system."
"It is best when we share and swap games," Peach reluctantly added. "Except from Wario because then they come back smelling weird."
Wario glared. "Hey!"
Someone heavy stomp their foot down. "Gah! But no one shares with me at all!"
"Yes, dear. That's because you're Bowser," Peach deadpan.
"THAT WAS A VERY QUICK CONCLUSION, MAYBE TOO QUICK. Hmm… I got it..." That ominous voice trailed off. "COMPARE CONSOLES AS A WHOLE VS PC! AGREE ON THIS. HA HA."
In the back of Mario's mind, that sounded familiar.
"I AM WAITING!"
Wario glanced around with a sheepish smile. "What is Pee-cee again?"
Bowser sigh. "It can come in several models, formats, whatever, but it's a thing you surf the web on, play games, do business stuff or uh… watch videos on. Iggy watches these 'animes' and some of em I've caught are good-"
Toad, Donkey Kong, Mario, Peach, and Wario burst out in laughter.
"Teehee! It's 2006 dear," Peach tease.
"Anime is for losers! Ha ha ha!" Wario added.
Luigi rolled his eyes and just wished he'd fall over and wake up a moment later in bed. Daisy meanwhile was so annoyed she wanted to punch someone but her ropes were super tight and scratchy.
Meanwhile Bowser's embarrassment boiled to rage. "Good...for inspiration to beat you pesky losers up! Their fighting moves are awesome! LIKE ME!"
Mario eased off the laughter. "Koopa Ball Z is pretty 'hype' so you get a pass this time, nerd!"
"MAKE A CHOICE!"
Sweat droplets fell from Mario's face as he faced upwards and thought of his gambit. "PC. Everyone answer 'pc'. Just do it," he whispered at the end.
"PC."
"PC?"
"Computer."
"Pee-Cee. Wa! Am I saying it right?"
"Politically correct… I mean Personal Computer," and so on were said by everyone.
"Very good. YOUR COOPERATION WAS A LITTLE TOO EASY BUT YOU CHOSE CORRECTLY. NEXT QUESTION-"
"Oh but I have a question for you, mysterious voice." Mario smiled slyly.
"EXCUSE ME?"
"I know exactly who you are, 'bestie'."
"Bestie?" Luigi shook his head, bewildered. "It can't be-"
"It is! It's Yoshi!
"I knew it!… Actually I didn't." Wario proceeded to pick his nose. A feat, being tied up.
"But he's a nice guy and helps me with homework." Daisy got a little less confident with the stares she got. "I mean… we don't talk much but.."
"Stop pretending you have friends." Toad said, which made Toadette giggle. Both shut up when Daisy retaliate by lunging at Toad in particular. Her chair flip it forward with her still stuck to it and the brunette instead landed face forward near the stinky feet of Donkey Kong.
"Eep eep! We have to get Yoshi!" With his large muscles DK strain to break his locks but they were heavy steel. That was it dawned on the ape how everyone's restrains differ. The Toads were tied with wrapping tape, Peach a sort of thick ribbon, Mario and Luigi had steel cables, Wario had thin thread, Bowser had all of the above and Daisy… standard rope. He'd tussled enough with the Kremlings to know that-
"Ook! Burn her ropes. Ook!"
Daisy's eyes abruptly opened. "Say what, dawg?!"
Bowser's flame jet shot across half of the room inches above Daisy laid out, missing her actually. What was left when the fire subsided was someone short and crispy sitting in a chair.
"I'm.. okay...homeboys...*cough*" Toad was blacked but his wide smile was sparkly white.
"Perfect, now Toad can free us and we can all storm Yoshi's place. Right here. Right now!" Mario spoke.
"Are we gonna talk about-"
"No Luigi! Right here right now! You heard me!" Like a locomotive at full speed, nothing could stop a call like that from Mario.
Luigi was released to walk around in t-shirt and boxers along with others. The voice never spoke again so did that mean Mario was right? He felt a draft from the open door and he was the last one left inside. He discovered they were being held in a large rental storage area off of Starman road. Mario stood before the others with a flickering torch in his hand, dimly lighting them all.
"Just down the street is a warp pipe to the sewers. From there we can easily reach Yoshi's Island."
Bowser clinched his fists. "I don't even like ya losers but I'll help ya pulverize Dinosaur breath. LET ME AT EM!" Wario and Donkey Kong raised their fists also. Toad started to before Toadette prodded him to stop.
"Ya'll are whack!" Daisy scream, but they ignored her and march to that pipe except for Peach. She stood off to the side dainty yet impatiently.
"Do not look at me that way, dears. My loyal Toads are representing me right now. If I personally go to the island my hair might be frizzy later."
Both Luigi and Daisy brush past her. He held out his hand and surprisingly Daisy grab it in return. She only gave the green plumber a nod that signaled she was on his page. They were momentarily ejected from that warp pipe to a different side of the planet where it was also nice and warm for November, and the sun was rising already. They rush down a dirt path to Yoshi's village.
…
"Come out Yoshi! Your computer supremacy ends now!"
Yoshi's treehouse was located among other tall trees and exotic vegetation with huts of other Dinosaur residents were scattered nearby. None of them however featured a curious door bell involving a long string that hung to the ground and if pulled, rung a loud bell outside his tree house door. Needless to say, Mario was yanking on that string forever.
Finally Donkey Kong climb up the tree and peek though a window. "Eep! No one's awake in there as far as I can see." This news made everyone groan.
"Aww dude! I wanted to!..." Toad froze with his fists in the air. "What are we mad about again?"
"Something about 'political correctness'?" Toadette ask.
"'Pancakes and cheese', my favorite breakfast!" Wario's stomach began to growl.
Mario took a step onto the dirt street, barefooted. "We'll have to try again later, we're still half naked and we should probably get out of here before any neighbors wake."
"I don't think so, mustache. Get outta my way!" Bowser shove all overs away. "If that dumb dinosaur is sleeping his life away, I'll just show him my special alarm clock!"
Mario rushed to the koopa. "Bowser what are you-?!"
The plumber was knocked back when Bowser shot a fifty foot long flame jet shot high into the sky. It was blindingly bright and the roar could be heard a block away. This blast ignited some over hanging trees and spread quickly through out the canopy. Luigi and Daisy caught up just in time to see an entire patch of forest up in flames, including Yoshi's house!
To be Continued
Author note: Fixed up and chapter renamed on the third date. Org name 'Peak'.
Dates: (handwritten draft) 2/1/19, (other) 2/5/19, edit 2/13/19