Chapter 3

Luigi went to use the bathroom on the upstairs floor of the castle when Peach called to him.

"Luigi, could you come here for a moment?"

Luigi walked towards the voice to find Peach trying to set up her Playstation 2.

"I just can't seem to set this up right." She said.

Luigi, who had always been the TRUE handyman, started poking around the back of the Princess's television.

"You don't have an RF outlet." He said finally. "You need one."

"Well can you get me one?" she asked.

"No, I can make one. Give me ten minutes."

Luigi set off to the workshop, and within ten minutes he came back with a small box, and he hooked it into the back of the TV, and the PS2 logo came up on the screen.

"Oh, thank you!" she squealed, hugging Luigi. "I always knew that you were good with your hands!"

Luigi blushed a bit. He reluctantly pulled away. "It was nothing."

"And modest, too! My, my… I'd think it'd be hard to tell you were related to Mario."

Wario's words came rushing back to Luigi.

"She wants ya ta go up there and do some fun stuff, cos she gots the hots fer ya, dontcha know."

"Peach, do you need to tell me something?" Luigi asked, deciding it was now or never.

Peach became nervous. "Um, well actually… I was just going to ask you if you like, wanted to go get some dinner tonight or something. I mean, it looks like Mario isn't coming back, so I thought…"

"I'd love to."

Peach's eyes widened. "You would? Cool! See you tonight then!"

Luigi forced a smile, then returned down to the den.

"So what's the deal? Didja get down by the fire?" Yoshi asked.

"No."

"'ey, Yoshi n' me are gonna be goin' to the Mushroom Cocktail Tavern tonight. Wanna come with?"

Luigi frowned. "Nope. Can't."

Yoshi grinned. "Ah ha! They have plans!"

"Who has plans?"

"Why, you and the princess!" Yoshi and Wario slapped the high-five. "I knew it! She wants him!"

"No, no, you guys!" Luigi puts his hands up. "Let me explain!"

"We knew it! We knew it!"

"I'm telling you, it's nothing!"

"Okay then," Yoshi said, "We'll ask Peach to go with us, since you two don't have plans."

"NO!"

Yoshi pretended to be surprised. "What's the matter Luigi?"

Luigi sighed. "Okay, okay… she just wants to get dinner tonight, but that's it! There's nothing more behind it, there's nothing more to it! Okay?"

Yoshi and Wario looked at each other, then Yoshi grinned and said, "Okay! Cool!"

Meanwhile, in Colorado…

A group of four boys was walking down the street in a quiet mountain town known as South Park. There was Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McKormick.

"Hey guys, my parents wanted to invite you all over for a Hannukah dinner!" Kyle said. "You want to come?"

"I'll come." Stan said.

"Me too." Kenny said. (At least that's what it sounded like.)

"What about you, Cartman?"

Cartman turned up his nose. "No, I'm sorry… Jew holidays are so lame."

"You're lame, too, Cartman!"

"I'm seriously! Their holiday is about a candle burning in a war, or some garbage! Our holiday is about a cute little baby like me!"

Kenny said, (translated) "He may be a baby, but he's not cute and little."

Stan and Kyle cracked up. "Good one, Kenny."

"You piece of crap! I'm gonna pound your head in!" Cartman growled, but before he could do so, a swirling green portal opened behind Kenny.

"What are you guys looking at?" Kenny asked.

Stan said, "Um, don't turn around."

Kennu turned around, and screamed as the portal sucked him in. Before the others could call the portal a bastard, they got sucked in as well.

They crash landed on a green hill in a land that definitely wasn't South Park. Kenny was there and was still okay, but they had no idea where they were. Before any of them could say anything, they saw a big man in black armor walk up to them and stand over them menacingly.

"Dude, this is pretty f*cked up right here." Kyle said.