Editing Super Mario-kun Volume 14

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'''''[[Super Mario-kun]]'' Volume 14''' is the fourteenth volume of the manga series. It contains the first part of the ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'' arc, which starts from where the "Koopa Empire" arc stopped, and the first part of the ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' arc. The volume's extras include 4-komas both starring [[Diddy Kong]] and [[Dixie Kong]] and some elements from ''[[Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest]]'' and puzzles.

[[Mario]], [[Luigi]], and [[Yoshi]] are still stuck in the future timeline of the Koopa Empire. Yoshi poops out an [[Yoshi's Egg|egg]] containing his feces, but inside he also finds an old photo of him in Yoshi's Island carrying [[Baby Mario]], while two ghoulish faces can be spotted in the background. Strangely, Yoshi has no recollection of that photo, not even Mario is sure if the baby pictured is him, but a voice behind them does recognize the baby as Mario. As they turn to face the person, they discover him to be [[Bowser]], happy to defeat Mario one more time. He transforms into a [[Megaton Koopa Hō|cannon gun]], but the [[Toad (species)|Toads]], having regained their freedom thanks to the Mario Brothers taking care of the [[Koopalings]], relentlessly kick and punch Bowser: his reign is over. Defeated, Bowser notices Yoshi's photo again and decides that, if Mario is going to ruin his future, he will ruin his past, and uses his powers to time travel back in time. A text box appears after he vanishes, explaining what he has done. Quickly understanding his plan, the heroes must find a way to travel back in time: luckily, one of the Toads sells [[time machine]]s, and sells them the [[Taru-gata Machine]] to follow him. As a payment, Mario sells him Yoshi: he will then reach them after he pays for another time machine.

In hyperspace, Bowser manages to lose the Mario Brothers and reaches the [[Bowser's Castle|castle he owned]] in [[Yoshi's Island (location)|Yoshi's Island]], where he correctly presumes the photo was taken, where he will meet up with [[Kamek]] (who was warned of his arrival). Bowser lands right on top of Kamek, knocking him unconscious. He then whispers in his ear to go and fetch the baby Mario Brothers that the [[stork]] is delivering when it passes over the island, then he goes to sleep. Kamek wakes up and, following the order, quickly kidnaps the bundled babies from the stork. Shocked and dizzy, the stork exclaims its worries for the two baby Mario Brothers, getting heard by the adult Mario Brothers, who then catch up to Kamek. Seeing their [[barrel]]-shaped vehicle, Kamek takes out a dagger and plants it into the barrel, expelling the two occupants, similar to a {{wp|Pop-up Pirate|One Shot Blackbeard Crisis}} game. As the Mario Brothers plummet down to Yoshi's Island, Kamek notices that he lost a baby bundle, yet decides to go and deposit the one he has.

Mario and Luigi fall into a bush near some [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshis]], but before they can investigate, a box from the time machine shop appears with Yoshi inside, having paid both time machines to the Toad. Right then, another Yoshi comes with a bundle that contains little Baby Mario. To avoid one of the Yoshis eating him, Yoshi takes him and puts him on his shell. To commemorate their arrival, the Yoshis ask them to pose for a photo, and Yoshi accepts. As the photo is taken, Mario and Luigi emerge from the bush in the background with bruised faces due to mosquito bites, scaring the photographer. Thanks to that, Yoshi finally puts together how that photo came into his possession: he simply left it by his unhatched egg.

Meanwhile, back at the Yoshi Village, Luigi is feeling the pain that is being inflicted to his younger-self, so it is decided to search for Kamek's lair to rescue him. Also, with the Yoshis being convinced of making Baby Mario their snack, Mario decides to take him with them. Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and Baby Mario begin a new journey. After some walking, the baby starts crying: to make him stop, Mario tries to stretch Luigi's face to make him laugh, and Yoshi tries to breastfeed him with a fake breast, but neither of their attempts work. As Mario finds a [[watermelon]] and feeds it to the baby, Kamek arrives and sics his Toadies to take the child, but he burps out flames, burning them: Mario fed him with a [[Fire watermelon|Red Watermelon]]. As Mario and his friends are distracted by the strange new enemies, Kamek, frustrated by his minions' incompetence, casts a sleeping spell on the heroes, then orders his Toadies to take the baby.

Due to the cries of Baby Mario being taken away, the group wakes up and sees Kamek flying away with the baby. Hungry, Yoshi notices a [[bubble]] containing something floating towards them and eats it: due to it being a [[morph bubble]], Yoshi turns into a [[Helicopter Yoshi|helicopter]] and the heroes follow the kidnappers in the sky. Mario then feeds a green watermelon to Yoshi, making him spit seeds at the Toadies and Kamek, who then plummet straight into a [[Burt The Bashful's Fort|fortress]]. Yoshi and his friends also crash into the palace when the morph bubble effect runs out.

Inside the fortress, the heroes follow the cries of Baby Mario, who is floating in a bubble inside a room, where they are attacked by [[Burt the Bashful]]. He quickly squashes Mario, and when Yoshi tries to stomp on him, his squishy body bounces him against a wall. Seeing an [[Egg Plant]] in the room, Luigi tells Mario to use the eggs and throw them at Burt, but he dodges it by skipping around the room. When Mario tosses him more eggs, they just bounce back at them. Mario then suggests jumping at him all together, but in doing so, they all grab the only thing they can, his pants, and accidentally pull them down. Burt shrinks down in embarrassment from being naked and, while Yoshi retrieves Baby Mario from his bubble, Mario punches Burt, taking advantage of his small stature, but ends up piercing him like a balloon, making him fly all over the room, hitting and hurting them.

Meanwhile, Bowser disappointingly retrieves Kamek and his Toadies, who fell in the [[Blargg (small)|Red Blargg]]-infested lava pits.

どうくつ{{ruby|対決|バトル}}！パワフル{{ruby|赤ちゃん|ベイビー}}{{ruby|大|だい}}{{ruby|活|かつ}}{{ruby|躍|やく}}!! (''Cave showdown! A Powerful Baby in action!!'')

After a little incident in which Yoshi gets short on eggs to throw to a [[Piranha Plant]] because his friends feasted on them, and after being saved from the Piranha's jaws, he got burned by Mario's [[fireball]], Yoshi almost falls off a cliff. With no way to cross it, Yoshi sees a morph bubble and pops, hoping to get the helicopter form again, but he is turned into a [[Mole Tank]]. In this form, he digs a tunnel under the cliff, but when he resurfaces, Kamek is waiting for him with a mallet to whack him with. No matter where Yoshi surfaces, Kamek whacks him, forcing him to take another route through the underground caves, where the transformation effect runs out.

Little does the group know, Kamek and some [[Shy Guy]]s are preparing a trap, taking advantage of the darkness. They first use unsettling sound effects, first with a stereo and then by scratching glass. They then plant giant footprints, but when they are placing the second set, the heroes catch them in the act. Kamek then resorts to using his scariest trump card and then proceeds to present a small [[Frog Pirate]]: [[Froggy]]. The heroes are unimpressed, until Kamek shrinks them and lets the frog eat them.

Inside Froggy's stomach, Baby Mario ends up in a bubble crying, and Luigi is melted by the acid drops. When Mario and Yoshi start dodging the drops, Kamek (monitoring their situation with a camera probe) makes Froggy eat his Shy Guys, but Yoshi eats them all, causing him to lay a [[Giant Egg]]. Mario takes it and tosses it, but due to the softness of the walls, the egg bounces around and hits Mario and the uvula. Hearing the frog moan when the uvula is hit, Yoshi realizes that is the weak spot, but Kamek sends a [[Fat Guy]] inside, squashing them under it. Due to the thump caused by the Fat Guy falling, many eaten things emerge from the stomach, including a [[Super Star]]. Yoshi tosses it to Baby Mario (still floating in the bubble) and he turns into [[Superstar Mario|Powerful Mario]]. With his powers, Baby Mario defeats the Fat Guy, runs on the stomach walls, and beats the uvula until Froggy croaks.

Mario and Luigi have prepared something to give the baby to eat, but Yoshi has already devoured it all. This angers the baby so much that he throws [[boulder]]s at Yoshi and even threatens to go after packing his belongings in a bag. Suddenly, a group of [[Fly Guy]]s pass by and snatch the child, avoiding the eggs that Yoshi throws at them. The Fly Guy takes Baby Mario to Kamek, but he is still hungry, so Kamek orders his Shy Guy to prepare a meal for him. The Shy Guy explains that he is lacking the ingredients, but Kamek does not want to hear it, and is left disappointed when it returns with a disastrous dish made of bugs and enemies. As the baby throws a tantrum, Mario and his friends arrive and start fighting with Kamek and his men.

Their bickering is put to a halt when Baby Mario grabs a Super Star, becoming Powerful Mario, and uses his strength to punch both Mario and Kamek. The two come to an understanding: they will set up a challenge to decide if the Mario Team or Kamek Team will win Baby Mario's ingratiation. First to go is Team Mario, using a morph bubble to turn Yoshi into a [[Car Yoshi|Car]], but Baby Mario takes him apart to rebuild it in a more casual way (even leaving out his skin). Kamek goes next and lure the kids to dance with him in a samba, but then he makes the mistake of doing a {{wp|Hadaka Matsuri|naked dance}}, getting bit in the crotch for that.

Next is Yoshi, using his friends [[Light Blue Yoshi]] and [[Red Yoshi]] for an unsuccessful poop-joke with [[Brown Yoshi]], then Kamek sends the [[Dancing Spear Guy]]s. Luigi and Yoshi make funny faces, but nothing seems to make Baby Mario happy, instead he becomes more annoyed. Kamek then asks his minions to "release the dog": a Shy Guy takes in a [[Big Chain Chomp|Shark Chomp]]. He then tries to do dog tricks with him, but does not get the desired result: asking for the paw makes the Chomp bite him. When the chain snaps, the Shark Chomp starts chasing everyone. Mario initially proposes to use Powerful Mario, but the transformation has ended. Yoshi, then, starts eating Shy Guy to lay a Giant Egg, then tosses it at the Shark Chomp.

Kamek and Mario are sure the egg will not do much, but when the egg breaks on impact, it released farts Yoshi stored inside: since [[Chain Chomps]] are dogs, their sense of smell is stronger than that of humans; therefore, the smell of the fart knocks it out. Mario and Kamek decide to end it with this foolish competition and go to take the child, but in seeing him mad like an ogre for having assisted a fart joke, the two invite their rival to take the angry child.

{{ruby|赤|あか}}ちゃんマリオが{{ruby|桃太郎|ももたろう}}？{{ruby|鬼|おに}}{{ruby|退治|たいじ}}はおまかせ!? (''Baby Mario is Momotarō? Leave the demon slaying to us!?'')

The heroes notice that Baby Mario is a bit too dirty from all these adventures, and Yoshi decides to bathe him in the river, but a floating Piranha Plant eats the baby and continues to flow down the river. While Mario comments that the Piranha Plant resembles {{wp|Momotarō}}'s peach, Yoshi quickly grabs a morph bubble and turns into a fish. Mario and Luigi hop on him and start following the Piranha Plant, but they are blocked by a [[Spray Fish]]. Yoshi retorts to the water squirts with his urine and then by spewing watermelon seeds at it. The Spray Fish laughs, and even gulps some seeds, which is what Yoshi counted on: the watermelon seeds grow, and soon the Spray Fish is defeated when an entire plantation of watermelon grows out of its mouth.

Right then, a [[liquid lift]] emerges and, grateful to them for getting rid of the Spray Fish, gives them three helpers: [[Poochy]], an [[Ukiki]], and a [[Goonie]]. Yoshi points out they are the same species as Momotarō's helpers, and eats up the Goonie, only to spew it out [[Flightless Goonie|without its wings]]. The liquid lift then tosses them over the Piranha Plant, so they can catch it, but Kamek beats them to it. Mario sics Poochy at him, but Kamek distracts him with a bone, so Mario grabs back the Piranha Plant and (literally) protecting it with teeth and nails, manages to rescue Baby Mario. All that is left to do is to deal with the "Oni".

Playing along, Kamek summons a [[Lunge Fish]]. Without Powerful Mario, beating it seems impossible, and the Lunge Fish releases a powerful electric shock that knocks out the heroes. Only Mario is left unharmed, since the electrical stimulation helped him relax his muscles. Furious, the Lunge Fish provokes an earthquake that sends Mario straight into a [[Winged Cloud]] that releases a [[Ice watermelon|Blue Watermelon]]. After Yoshi explains its property, Mario forces it down his throat and then makes him spew ice towards Kamek and the Lunge Fish, freezing them and defeating them.

The story ends with Yoshi trying to continue the bath he was giving Baby Mario, but the river froze as well. Meanwhile, Poochy asks Mario when he and his friends will receive the {{wp|Kibi dango (millet dumpling)|kibi dango}} like the animal pals did in Momotarō's legend.

{{ruby|大乱戦|だいらんせん}}！マンキー{{ruby|＆|アンド}}ダムドラムをたおせ!! (''Great melee! Defeat Manky Kong & Dumb Drum!!'')

 

 

 

 

#'''{{ruby|主役|しゅやく}}''' (''Protagonist''): Dixie informs the reader that DK has been kidnapped. Mario and Yoshi offer to help, but she states that this is a job for Diddy, as he now has become the protagonist. This news gets over Diddy's head, and he is now acting like a big, rich celebrity.

#'''{{ruby|海|うみ}}へいこう''' (''Let's go to sea''): Dixie informs Diddy that the Kremling Krew have taken DK to their island and they need to cross the sea. All that Diddy understands from that is to get ready for a beach trip.

#'''{{ruby|新|あたら}}しい{{ruby|服|ふく}}''' (''New clothes''): Diddy shows off his new clothes, thanking his girlfriends for it. When she tells him flustered to stop it, he asks her why. She responds that if they do not move out of the way, they will be killed by the enemies. The two young Kongs then flee from knives tossed by the Kremlings.

#'''スクイッター''' (''Squitter''): while running away from the Kremlings, Diddy finds [[Squitter]], jumps on him, and orders him to run. Squitter answers that he will, as soon as he finishes tying his four pairs of shoes. By then, the Kremlings have reached Diddy and are pummeling on him, behind the unaware Squitter.

#'''ハチの{{ruby|巣|す}}ステージ''' (''Beehive stage''): while traversing [[Krazy Kremland]]'s beehive, to avoid some [[Zinger]]s, the two chimps hide inside the hexagonal holes in the walls, but when Diddy gets out, he is shaped like his hiding spot.

#'''まちがいさがし''' (''Spot the differences''): There are seven differences between the two pictures below. Can you spot the differences?

#'''まちがいさがし''' (''Spot the differences''): If you compare the two pictures below, you'll notice that there are four different enemy characters. Which ones are they?

SMKun 14 puzzle 1.png|Spot the differences

SMKun 14 puzzle 4.png|Spot the differences

PrinceFroggySuperMarioKun.png|[[Froggy]]

WingedCloudSuperMario-Kun.png|[[Winged Cloud]] and [[Ice watermelon|Blue watermelon]]

Fooly Flower SMKun.png|[[Fooly Flower|Dizzy Dandies]]

Blow Hard SMKun.png|[[Blow Hard]]s

Blast Barrels SMKun.png|[[Mario]] and [[Yoshi]] fighting [[Very Gnawty]] while [[Donkey Kong]] and [[Diddy Kong]] travels through various [[Blast Barrel]]s

==Notes==

*One of the time machines sold by the Toad in the first chapter is {{wp|Doraemon}}'s gadget. Doraemon is often alluded in the manga due to his manga being published by [[Shogakukan]], the same publisher as ''Super Mario-kun''.

*Mario and his friends' reaction when they see Froggy is a reference to the {{wp|Edvard Munch}} painting ''{{wp|The Scream}}''.