Editing Super Mario-kun Volume 13

Furious for the double defeat, [[Genie (Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3)|Genie]] is about to throw his most powerful attack, the "Genie Machine Gun". A bunch of cannons appear on his belly and, after a little mishap by having the projectiles set on "magic trick tools", a bunch of energy beams are shot, but Genie soon loses control and cannot manage to stop and the [[Syrup Castle|castle]] starts trembling from all the damage. Tired of her useless genie, [[Captain Syrup|Syrup]] takes her escape pod shaped like a gacha ball and rolls away to safety, leaving [[Mario]], [[Luigi]], [[Yoshi]], [[Wario]], and the Genie to their doom. Genie pleads the heroes to help him, in exchange he will return the favor. Luigi notices an electric wire connected to him and unplugs it, finally ceasing the Genie's fire. As Mario asks him about the whereabouts of [[Princess Peach]]'s golden statue, Yoshi finds a "gift" left from Syrup: a giant [[bomb]]. When Mario tells him that, panicked, Yoshi tosses it in the air and it lands straight in Genie's mouth and he gulps it. Now scared, the heroes run for the exit, followed by a scared Genie, who pleads them to not let him die alone.

Between trying to survive the crumbling castle, deviating and avoiding the Genie, and trying to avoid detonating the bomb early by saving him from lava pits, Mario finds himself alone with the Genie. After trying to put off the fuse with a [[barrel]] of liquid (which is revealed to be petrol) and defenestrate the Genie (only for a [[Chicken Duck]] to save him and take him back inside), Mario suggest using his magic to remove the bomb and, holding the lamp, wishes for the bomb to roll out of the Genie's mouth. His plan works, but by laughing out of joy, Mario ends up gulping the bomb.

Right then, Luigi, Yoshi, and Wario falls from the ceiling: the situation has not changed at all. Mario is now more in distress and enters a bathroom, and when he exits it, he reveals he defecated the bomb out: the situation has been solved, but the bomb is still active and there are only three seconds left. The bomb explodes, destroying the castle and blowing up the heroes. Mario is distraught that they will never find the golden statue, but as he rises his head, the giant statue is standing in front of him in the middle of castle ruins: it was concealed as the castle's foundations and skeleton all this time. As the heroes rejoice at their success, Syrup is regretting the choice behind her nausea-inducing escape pod deprived of air holes.

The chapter opens with Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi thanking the readers for supporting the manga as this is its final page, but this is revealed to be an {{wp|April Fools}}' prank. They then proceed to cheer for finishing their mission, happily observing the retrieved statue. Yoshi starts sneezing due to his pollen allergy, but even the statue is suffering from allergies and starts melting into a golden puddle. Syrup arrives to the scene on a helicopter, holding the real golden statue with a cargo chain and, revealing this to be her April Fools' prank, activates her last monster: the golden puddle takes the shape of a mechanical Syrup Castle. As Syrup flees, [[Jet Wario]] follows her, leaving Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi to deal with the robot.

The Castle is merciless on them, beating them up and making use of its pollen allergy to trap the heroes in its mucus. After emptying all the [[block]]s in the castle onto them, Mario finds a [[Garlic Pot]] and dons his [[Dr. Mario|doctor outfit]] and offers to cure its hay fever by offering him a [[capsule]]. The castle accepts, and while Luigi asks why his brother is helping the enemy, Mario reveals the content of the capsule: the Garlic Pot mixed with vitamins that makes the garlic grow and then harden, trapping the mecha with hard garlic roots. As the robot growls at Mario for being tricked, with him responding "April Fools", Jet Wario returns with the statue, but Syrup pokes him with a spear, causing him to revert to [[Tiny Wario]] and making him fall with the statue onto the mecha, crushing it.

A strange sound comes from inside the statue and, worried to have activated an exploding mechanism, Syrup flies away. Immediately after, the statue uses its prehensile tongue to grab Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi, eats them, and warps away, leaving Wario alone. The Genie, who was resting far from the battle, comforts Wario by giving him the promised reward for helping him with the bomb, earlier. Wario asks for his dreamed [[Wario Castle|castle]], but all he gets is a doghouse, while the Genie yells "April fools!"

The statue seems to be a spaceship of some sort and when Mario asks it when is leading them, the statue responds that they have to solve "Mario's Picross in his head". Mario is confused, but Yoshi notices a {{wp|nonogram}} on the back of Mario's head. Luigi solves it and the solution is「未来」(the future). After a time jump, the statue lands in the [[Mushroom Kingdom]] of the future, which results as being pretty deserted. Yoshi finds a [[watermelon]], but when trying to eat it, it is revealed to be a [[Suika Nokonoko|Koopa Troopa with a watermelon-like shell]]. The Koopa is surprised in seeing Mario, which immediately explains of being from the past, and asks the Koopa if he can guide them.

The Suika Nokonoko flees in a museum, followed by the heroes. Inside, Mario's story is pictured: after their adventures on [[Dinosaur Land]], [[Mario Land (Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins)|Mario Land]], [[Subcon]], Yoshi became a eating contests champion and Mario and Luigi became comedians following the loss of their powers, leading to the return of [[Bowser]] and his ascension to the Mushroom Kingdom throne, now known as the Koopa Empire. Mario cannot believe his eyes and, seeing a janitor, tries to ask him if that is actually true, only to discover that the janitor is [[Ima no Mario|his exact copy]], with a K on his hat emblem. Right then, the Suika Nokonoko returns with the museum director, [[Ludwig]], to confirm that after Bowser's ascension, Mario's descendants became his slaves, however, he can make things easier if he kills the past Mario now. Mario is not worried, recalling how he already defeated Ludwig (and even killed him, once), but Luwdig retracts in his shell and starts rolling around, hitting Mario and making his descendant more and more weak and transparent.

Yoshi suggests using the museum items to help them, discovering that his [[Yoshi (species)|species]] went extinct and the items exposed are fake. With his last strength, the descendants pass Mario a [[mushroom]] that is revealed to be the [[Kinoko Sword|Master Kinoko Sword]] from his adventure in [[Hyrule]], and uses it to defeat Ludwig. Intentioned to fix this dark future, Mario decides to take care of the rest of the Koopa Empire but, since "they cannot bring another Mario", his descendant is left exposed in the museum, much to his embarrassment.

With the intention of helping this dystopian future, Mario decides to remain, but his good intentions are easily swayed after being attacked by [[Mecha Kuribō (enemy)|robotic Goombas]]. Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi run for the statue, but it is attacked and destroyed by the Mecha Kuribō. Luigi manages to distract the Mecha Kuribō by pointing to a non-existing beautiful girl in the distance, buying them time to escape. In the middle of a desert, the trio meet [[Iggy|Iggy Koopa]], but they ignore him. Furious, Iggy uses his [[Magic Wand]] to make it rain and grow a rainforest around them, but once again, he is not acknowledged as a threat, not until he uses his magic to wash them at his feet with a downpour, claiming they will not escape from hi enemy-filled jungle.

Mario does not believe him, and tries to escape by swimming, but he is met with a [[Porcupuffer]], then by stepping on some stones, only to discover he was stepping on [[crocodile]]s. When not even that break their spirit, Iggy summons a [[Nettai Pakkun Flower]], whose breath turn them into flower. However, Mario is turned into a nose and, after Yoshi bites him out of that form, the Nettai Pakkun Flower sends him some [[Piranha Plant]]s to chomp him and toss him to it, so to maul him. Mario manages to avoid the fangs of the Nettai Pakkun Flower, and using his hand, turned big due to the bruises, executes a [[Hand Slap]], but only manages to hurt his friends and to root up the enemy, giving it walking limbs.

Iggy exclaims that until it touches the wet jungle ground, the Nettai Pakkun Flower is invincible. The Hand Slap vibration also revealed some block, and in one of them, Mario finds a [[vine]] that takes him above the clouds and then comes down holding the [[Angry Sun]]. Thanks to the heat, the humidity disapperas and the Nettai Pakkun Flower is shrunk and defeated, turning Luigi and Yoshi back to normal. After assisting a punch to the head to Iggy, that was trying to escape dressed like a bush, the trio continue their journey, but are now stalked and boiled by the Angry Sun.

The heroes have finally reached the main city and their first stop, at the insistence of Yoshi, is a restaurant, which in the future are managed by robots that can immediately create the dishes that the client is thinking of. Despite the messed caused by the overload of orders, Yoshi enjoys a nice dinner. Right after, the group is stopped by some [[Lakitu]] policemen: the news of Mario's return has already spread and is now wanted, but thanks to the bruises, Mario is not recognized, for now. Realizing this, the heroes use a marker to disguise their identity and enjoy the city. While entering the Bowser Mall, where there is a sale event to celebrate the publication of CoroCoro Comic 50,000th issue, [[Morton]], the mall director, recognize them and follow them inside.

While "distracted" in the bikini section, with unattractive mannequins of Bowser and a [[Wiggler]], and a very rude robot-Goomba employee, Mario and Yoshi lose sight of Luigi. On the intercom, the mall staff asks for the "parent of the green mustached child" to come and pick him up at the info point, but once Mario and Yoshi arrive, Morton comes out with a tied up Luigi and unmasks Mario. The entire mall is after them, and when they try to run away on the escalator, Morton activates a trap that tilts it to make Mario and Yoshi fall into a mouth at the base. Thanks to the massive meal of before, Yoshi's dump manages to clog the mouth at the base of the escalator, and the chase continues.

Yoshi is then captured by a [[Pokey]] and Mario bumps on a [[Grinder]] and a [[Chainsaw]] and is sent flying in the new articles section, only to find a [[Virtual Boy]] attached to his face. Seeing that, Morton decides to have some fun with it by manipulating what Mario sees: with Mario noticing enemies coming at him on the Virtual Boy screen, he keeps attacking Yoshi and Luigi, is bruised by what he thinks are non-existing [[Thwomp]]s and [[Sumo Bro]]s, and even mistakes Morton for Peach, kissing him. This comes to an end when, swinging a hammer, Mario approaches the sport isle, where the balls have been recently replaced with [[Bob-omb]]s, and he hits them, blowing up the entire mall and its occupants, much to Morton's desperation.

At Wario's base in [[Wario's Woods (location)|Wario's Woods]], the monsters inform Wario to have completed the construction of [[Drago]], the only thing left to do before sending it against Mario's crew is to infuse it with Wario's personality. After attaching a helmet on Wario and plug it to Drago, the transfer process begins and Drago is now in motion. Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, [[Toad]], and [[Wanda]] are attacked and Wanda is knocked out by Drago's fire breath. Yoshi attempts to reason with it using their reptilian nature to open a dialogue, but it fails.

Without Wanda's [[bomb]] magic and with [[Birdo]] out to pre-order the latest issue of ''Super Mario-kun'', it seems like the heroes are done for. Yoshi, noticing Drago's wings, express how tiny they are and Drago suddenly cowers in embarrassment. Seems that, just like Wario, Drago has self-esteem issues deriving from its physical appearance. Mario then goes all out on it, ridiculizing its snout, its shape, and its weight, but with one insult too many, Drago is now enraged and knocks them out with its fart and starts squashing them under his claws.

Someone arrives to the heroes' rescue, the [[Chiyōrō-sama|fairy elder]], still in his cursed watering can form, but still capable of using his bomb magic, by making grown a meadow of [[Tsukushinbomu|horsetail bombs]]. Mario, slips out from Drago's paw and grabs as many bombs he can and, about to toss them at Drago, it pleads for its life, claiming to have a 5-dragon head son to feed and a 25-year loan on its house. Mario and the other are touched by this, getting distracted enough for the bomb to explode on them, only then Drago reveals it was all a trick. About to serving the final blow, Birdo arrives on the scene, and seeing her, Drago starts cuddling her: turns out that it has a soft spot for ladies, to which Mario and the others all dress up as women to pass the dragon.

Mario and his party have almost retaken the peaceful Woods from Wario and the final battle is approaching with the barging in Wario's base, but they find not one but five threes with a sign claiming they are Wario's castle. Splitting up, each hero enters in one tree-castle and return with a tied up Wario: something is wrong. Looking closely, Wanda notices that four of the Warios are pretty different, and are in fact a [[Squeak]], a [[Spud]], a [[Beaker]], and a [[Spook (enemy)|Spook]] faking to be him, but Mario discovers that even the fifth one is a [[Fuzz]] disguised: Wario has already fled and left [[Fake Wario|fakers]] to lead them to think they have won.

Now busted, the monster come together to form [[Kyūkyoku gattai zen shū Wario-gao|a revolving cylinder formed by multiple Wario's faces]], which then starts spinning towards the heroes. Luigi tries to stomp it, but a face on the top side block this attempt. The monster then tosses Mario and his friends, except for Wanda, inside a hollow tree, which is then filled with a bunch of monsters. Yoshi eats some of them, but they are poisonous, so there goes this plan. The heroes make their way to the top of the monster pile, only to be met with a lowering ceiling.

Right about when the heroes are close to be squashed, Wanda returns with her fairy friends, and they all use their bomb magic to break the tree and free their friends. The Wario-faced monster tries to escape, but Wanda and her friends turn Mario into a [[Bomb Mario|bomb]] and Luigi grabs him and dunks onto the monster, blowing it up and defeating it. Unfortunately, Mario was also hit by the explosion, but Wanda heals him by using her magic again, turning him into a [[Bullet Bill]].

Wario is the only one left, but has gone into hiding. While searching for him, the heroes come across a fallen tree, but after touching it, the three gets up: Wario his inside it and, while waiting for a long time, he ended up [[Wariki|becoming one with the big tree]]. Taking offense at the mockery of the heroes, Wario discovered to have absorbed the evil nutrients of the earth and emits a gas that knocks down all the nearby fairies and turns the heroes into trees. Mario manages to save himself by using a gas mask, and hiding Wanda inside it.

Mario first attempts to use a [[fireball]] to burn him, but Wario has a sprinkler on him and put down the flames, then slaps Wario with his branch and then tries to melt him with his acid lymph, but Mario avoids it. Noticing how Wario is rooted to the ground, Mario tries to get far to avoid the next attacks, but Wario's roots coils him and start to strangle him. Right then, the elder arrives with the magical [[Seigi no Ono|Axe of Justice]], cutting off the roots and saving the plumber. However, Wario slaps the axe out of the way and right into a pond, but Bowser, dressed up as the goddess of {{wp|The Honest Woodcutter}} story, gives it back.

Having had his root cut off, Wario manages to use his branches to fly away, so that he can now spread his toxic gas all over the forest. Mario is about to give up, but Bowser, claiming that he had not invaded a story for some extra screen-time only to see Mario give up so easily, launches him into the air, but Wario dodges him. Luckily, Bowser threw Mario with such strength that he went around the world and is now back, striking the axe down and defeating Wario.

Wario's Woods is no more and the Peaceful Woods have been restored: Luigi and the others are no longer trees, the fairies have healed back from the poison and the fairy elder is no longer a watering can. As everyone is enjoying this happy ending, Wario arrives, in his normal form, with the axe stuck in his head, pleading for its removal, scaring everyone with his bloody appearance.

The day of the race, only Team Mario, Bowser, and Wario are taking part. The two villains immediately jump in their respective aircraft (the [[Koopa Clown Car]] and the [[Bulldog]]) and fly to the first checkpoint. Team Mario takes the [[Pipe Frame|kart]], but riding it with two extra passengers, the vehicle is too slow, resorting in them using Yoshi to travel. The first checkpoint is the Jungle, where the trio is hindered by [[Donkey Kong]], hired by Bowser with just a [[banana]]. Mario tries to beat the offer with a [[Giant Banana]], but Yoshi eats it, angering DK.

After getting hit by [[Roll Attack]]s and [[barrel]]s, Luigi pulls out an instant-[[Super Star]] to help his brother, but due to DK's Hand Slap, the star falls out of the cup and falls to the ground with all the water. Bowser then orders to toss Mario down a cliff, and DK does so. Luckily for Mario, he finds a [[Red Balloon|Life Balloon]] that he catches, floating back up. Mario then stomps on DK and kicks it in a [[Blast Barrel]] that Yoshi aims at Bowser. DK is then shot, hitting both Bowser and Wario, who was flying by. With this advantage, the heroes go to the next checkpoint.

Using them, Mario defeats the Blargg with a giant fireball, saving Wario. After using some water to free his brother and Yoshi, Mario goes to Wario, who accidentally activates another trap of his, locking them inside a cage. Meanwhile, despite Mario's worries, Bowser has not made it far, having fell for the fake map trick and getting himself trapped.

Bowser is approaching the goal, but discovers to have taken the wrong path and arrived to Mount Tanooki, instead of Mount Enoki. Not able to correct his mistake before his adversaries reach the goal first, Bowser calls one of his soldiers with the order of hindering the Mario Team and Wario until he arrives. Meanwhile, Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and Wario have arrived to the second and last checkpoint, in which they have to prove to be an excellent parental figure for a child in a series of test judged by Toad. However, Mario and Yoshi notice something is fishing about Toad, between the glasses and his "face that makes you irritable".

The first test is physical strength: the participants must score a goal to prove to be athletic enough for the kid. Mario goes first, but the goal is blocked by a bunch of [[Boo]]s, and when it is Wario's turn, a roller shutter denies his shoot, so both of them are disqualified. Bowser arrives and take his shoot, missing the goal, but the ball magically rolls inside, giving him the win. The Mario team and Wario complains to Toad, especially when the ball kicked by Bowser seems to be a [[Koopa Troopa]] with a painted shell.

The next test is intelligence: the participants must answer a math problem. Bowser's question is easy (2 × 2), but Mario and Wario's is unfairly long and complicated. Tired of his obvious bias, Wario [[Dash Attack|tackles]] Toad, revealing him to be [[Kamek]] in disguise, with Yoshi finding the real Toad tied up and gagged behind a rock. As Bowser flees, he orders Kamek to slow the rivals down, and he obliges, turning the Mario team and Wario into blocks. Toad asks Yoshi to munch on the ropes and, once free, just in time to avoid a magic blast from Kamek, asks the others to form a block totem that he knocks over the [[Magikoopa]], defeating him.

The Mario team has reached the goal, inside a mountain cabin on Mount Enoki. Once inside, the trio finds Wario and Bowser badly injured and unconscious on the floor by sharp objects. A ceiling of spear falls onto the trio, but Mario uses Yoshi to block them, passing the penultimate test: the last challenge is now awaiting all of them in the last room. Hearing this, Bowser and Wario get themselves up and enter the room with Mario, Luigi and Yoshi.

The room has three nonograms on each wall, Peach is behind one of them. First to find her wins the race. Wario completes his puzzle, which is the shape of a fist, but from his wall a giant fist lunges out to punch him silly. The Mario team complete theirs, but it is a bomb and are so blown up by an explosion. Bowser complete is puzzle, which is the picture of Peach, and she exits from the wall: the race is over and Bowser is the winner. Even more surprising, Peach seems to be okay with marrying Bowser. While Mario picks a fight with Bowser, Yoshi notices some clips and even a denture flying out of Peach and when he calls the other to see this, Peach is revealed to be a wrinkled old lady with her skin stretched and hold by the clips to appear slimmer and younger.

Right then, the real Princess Peach barges in, and by the way she keeps Bowser at a distance, the heroes are convinced of her identity. Turns out that the old lady is her [[Obā-chan|100 year old grandmother]]: in complicity with her father, granny organized this race to find a new husband, using her name to bait more people to the race. As Bowser is dragged away by granny, more of her elder friends arrive to ask the rest of the participants who want to win them in a new race, to which Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and Wario start running away.

Mario, Yoshi, and Wario are about to adventure inside of Syrup Castle, ready to fight for the golden statue. Their first obstacle is the entrance door: a password is required to enter, but after a lot of embarrassing attempts to guess it, the minion at the intercom decides to open the door, but it slams onto them. Unfortunately, as Syrup, through the cameras, is laughing at this, Mario and the others crawls inside the open door.

To get to the boss room, the trio has to go through a room where the [[Black Sugar Gang|Brown Sugar Pirates]] are having a New Year party. Dressed as [[Pirate Goom]]s, the three passes by, but are then forced on the stage to entertain. As they go with the flow, they present themselves as a trio of {{wp|Manzai}}. The audience, however, is offended by Yoshi's jokes, and unamused by Wario and Mario's sketch, to the point that a Gaugau tries to make things better by using Goom-Mario in his knife throwing act. It is only when Yoshi blasts a drunk Goom with a Blast Barrel and uses his tongue to steal all the food that the pirates grow suspicious of them and the Gaugau reveal their disguises, forcing them to run.

The trio is eventually caught. A [[Pikkarikun]], in the excitement, asks to go next on the stage, but a Goom forbids it. Suspicious of this, Mario tugs the cord of the Pikkarikun, making it shoot a lighting so powerful that the pirates turns into coins. One surviving Goom flees to inform the Captain, and she summons the Genie. Once Mario and the others enters the room, they find a giant golden Buddha statue, which is later revealed to be the Genie with some gold powder on. Syrup uses water to wash away the gold powder and then send the Genie to attack the heroes, but the Genie has caught a cold and his powers are washed up because of it. In his dizziness, Genie comments with Syrup that it would be bad for the heroes to attack his head, his weak spot, reaching it with the fumes released by his lamp.

As Syrup scolds him to stay quiet, Yoshi overhears him, but even the lamp has got a cold and is unusable. So Yoshi farts some clouds out to help Mario reach the Genie's head, defeating him with a stomp. Genie surrenders and offers to grant a wish if they spare him. Wario asks for them a castle and, based on the coins in their possession, Genie gives a castle each: having no coins with him, Yoshi gets a birdhouse, Mario has some coins and gets a castle that is later revealed to be a cardboard cutout, while Wario, who has many coins, gets his own planet.

Just then, Mario realizes that Syrup has gone and has left for them a giant bomb. The trio escapes but it is too late: the bomb explodes, destroying the castle and blowing away Mario and the others, who promises to never return to [[Kitchen Island]], even forgetting to go and get the statue.