O.P.E.R.A.T.I.O.N. Princess

## **Plot**

Back in the Mushroom Kingdom, all seems well despite Mario still not getting back his powers. Luigi asks Mario if he truly feels fine and is not just putting on a façade. Mario assures him that he is fine but admittedly did wish that the ritual would have worked. Peach tells Mario that she will always see him as a hero, and so will everybody else, with or without powers. Squirt tells him that maybe he just needs to be "rebooted" as a joke which Mario just snickers off, saying he is just glad that he has everyone that loves him.

That night, he and Luigi go to bed feeling quite good about themselves. The next morning however, things take a strange turn for them. They wake up to greet Peach who seems off, different, awfully more cheerful and robotic. The bros realize this but Squirt says that he thinks Peach just needed some time to rest so she ended up replicating herself as a robot using one of Luigi's old inventions. Luigi points out that he hasn't invented anything in months, let alone a replication machine which according to him would take months or even years to build. Mario seems suspicious of the incident but admits that Peach has done so much for them and does deserve a break, only wishing she would have told them something first. Bowser comes out to greet her but is immediately horrified of the sight of a robot peach, so much so that he bolts back to the back of the castle. Lizel and Fawful make a defense stance and see the sight as well, becoming instantly horrified also, sprinting away.

Throughout the day, the robotic Peach tries to replicate the things Peach would do and say but it comes across as uncanny and annoying at best. This eventually gets to the bros who admit that it is starting to get rather deteriorating hearing a robotic Peach all the time. Squirt still tries to make the best out of the situation but immediately changes his mind once robo-peach breaks his video game console while trying to vacuum. This culminates into a scheme the trio hatches, with Bowser joining along for the plan. They plan to distract the bot while making a ruckus upstairs and while she is distracted, one of them will tackle her and remove her batteries, turning her off. Bowser and Squirt begin to make noise upstairs, alerting robo-peach's attention. They soon begin to roughouse, creating a mess everywhere they go. Robo-peach politely tells them to stop but when they continue fighting, she grows more angrier and ominous, eventually turning her eyes red and activates "get down to business mode". She whips out weapons and sprints into the room, too fast for the bros to tackle her and she ties up both Bowser and Squirt into a chair, force feeding them macaroni and cheese. She then yells for the bros to go to their rooms to which they disobey which causes robo-peach to chase them away, pinning them to the ground. Mario tells Luigi that they can't destroy her as Peach would be upset but Luigi points out that things have escalated too much at that point. Robo-peach locks the bros down in the basement, locking them in, leaving the keys on the side.

The bros try to escape on the chair but are unable to move, eventually ending up on the ground. Mario hatches an idea to yell for Lizel and Fawful who are right above them, still hiding. They hear their yells for help and they explain the situation. Lizel persists that she will never go up against a killer robot but the bros yell for her to do so. Fawful tells her that they will do it together, which gives them just enough courage to barge into the castle, facing head on with robo-peach who dashes to attack. They successfully avoid her dash, with Fawful wrapping around her and Lizel pinning her to the ground with her staff. Fawful tells her to get the keys to the basement while he holds her down. She goes to the keys but is dismayed once she sees how many there are. She tries her best to find the right key while Fawful begins to struggle keeping robo-peach pinned. Bowser and Squirt overhear the situation and try to head down the stairs in the chair. Lizel continues fiddling with the keys, trying every last one. Fawful warns he can't keep her pinned much longer. She finally finds the right one but robo-peach bursts out of Fawful's grasp, leading Bowser and Squirt to take a huge gulp before tumbling down the stairs straight into robo-peach who gets knocked down on the table. Lizel frees the bros who free both Bowser and Squirt. They all agree they need to take down robo-peach who gets up from the table, revealing her messed up state. She charges for the team who dodges her every attack, ending with Mario making a huge punch to her head, causing her to malfunction and turn off. The team congratulate each other but the robot reveals it was inflicted with a self-destructive system. The team scream in fear, with Bowser grabbing robo-peach and kicking her into the fields behind the kingdom, ending with a huge explosion. They question on why Peach would put a self-destruct on a robot clone of herself. Mario points out there is something much more sinister at foot.

He goes to Rosalina who tells them that something managed to leak back into their dimension from the Multiverse, revealing that when they were going through the dimensions, they went through a robotic one and one of the robots must've cloned Peach as soon as it saw her, and followed them back home. When asked on where the real Peach is, they suddenly hear muffled screaming coming from downstairs and it's revealed that she was locked up from the robot this entire time. They laugh the situation off but Peach jokingly admits that a vacation wouldn't be such a bad idea.

From the explosion emerges pieces of robo-peach that come towards another ominous looking robot who says that "it is almost time".