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It's supposed to be a "Mario version" of the phrase "Having butterflies in my stomach", or just nervousness. All of this you probably already know.

Mario and Penelope walked back to the tribe in silence. Once they reached the tent again, the silence was broken.

"Sooo... we're right next to them?" Mario asked nervously. She nodded. Mario couldn't help put feel like there were Paragoombas flying in his stomach.

"So, what are we going to do?" Mario asked.

"Easy." Penelope answered, "We make the first strike."

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As everyone came into the large tent, Peach looked nervously at Mario, but he looked away. Everyone, Mario, Peach, Toad, Luigi, Penelope, and the entire tribe sat in a large circle somehow fitting in the tent.

"This is suspiciously... a large tent." Luigi noted. Toad rolled his eyes. Penelope cleared her throat and stood up, and gestured at Mario to do the same.

She spoke up. "My fellow Piantas, Nokis, Humans, and Toad, the time for battle grows near. Things have become grim for Isle Delfino." She threw what appeared to be a golden-disk onto the center of the floor. Suddenly, the disk became somewhat larger, and suddenly shot a holograph of Isle Delfino into the air.

Nobody could believe what they saw. Ricco Harbor was in flames and people were running around, falling into the water, others limping or slowly dying. And that wasn't the worst part: All over the island, explosions were occuring, massacres were beginning. The entire island was in chaos.

The projection seemed to be showing a newscast. The reporter faintly covered the story in the background. "The Island appears to be going into total destruction. Evacuations have been attempted, but all plane flights have been cancelled. It appears, we're... stuck." The reporter choked out the last word.

Everybody sighed in sadness. The Holograph disappeared, and Penelope resumed talking. "The only way to reach the President is by entering his Safehouse. Where he controls and oversees everything. We need to head into the only entrance we have a chance at. The Backdoor."

Luigi spoke up. "But how? There's probably a gigantic army guarding it!"

"We have an army of our own." Penelope replied. Mario looked around. The Tribe wasn't even 30 members, much less an army. But they were the best they could get.

Penelope threw a different disk onto the ground, and this holograph showed what appeared to be a labyrinth under the entire building.

"This," she said, "Is the Maze of Death. Under the President's building is a labyrinth that goes down 30 floors underground. The maze is full of dead ends, death traps, and tricks. But somewhere, is the Golden Door, which leads to the President's chambers. This maze is the reason we never got close to winning in the war. But not this time." She turned to Mario.

"But how are we going to do it?" Toad piped up.

"There's only one way." Penelope said. "Mario, do you remeber the old bottle the Noki Elder once took you inside?" Mario nodded. "Well, on the floor of the bottle is a building. Somewhere inside it, is a book. Nobody knows who wrote it, but it's said to contain the guide to the entire maze. If we wish to success in this mission, we need to get the book. And Mario, you are going to get it for us."

No, there's a move in Legend of Zelda known as the "sidle" or something like that where you hug the wall and move across the wall where keeping your hands on it.

First of all, did I spell that right? Is that even a word?

But anyway, I was just playing round today and I came up to a wall, and when Mario normally comes up to a wall, he acts as if he's pushing up against it. However, if you sort of move a bit away and tmove slowly to the left or to the right, Mario does a wall-sidle move. I don't remember that ever being needed to be used in-game or ever mentioned. Can someone check?

NIIICE!

More coming soon. I'm going to bring that "secret book" from Noki Bay's Bottle mission into play very soon. (If you have no idea what I'm talking about, look it up on YouTube.)