Mario's Miraculous Adventures Continued

Yoshi landed on something large and squishy.  He flinched at the possibility of what it could be but calmed down when he realized it was a large mushroom tree.

But then he was startled again to find that it was crawling with small mushroom like creatures; Goombas...

Mario stepped off his trusty dinosaur and onto the goomba's head.  It deflated with a loud pliffffff.

"Hooray!!" Mario shouted, punching the air.

But suddenly a giant pipe appeared out of the ground.

It began to spit out other small mushroomy minions.  The all were uniquely different from each other.

They marched forwards towards a very frightened Mario.  He began to smush them one by one but there were too many of them.  They heaved him onto their shoulders and hauled him off to a threatening castle.

Well... It wasn't threatening from the outside.  The inside is what really bothered Mario.

And far below lava bubbled eager to consume any clumsy soul in flames.

The Goombas disappeared into a pipe leaving Mario in the castle alone without even Yoshi as a companion.  He tried the large iron door, but it didn't budge.  He had no choice but to try and defeat the obstacles himself.  (to be continued)