As Pac-Man continued to blow shadow Toads off the platform, Peach stood back and plucked a healthy supply of radishes from the ground, offering support to the classic arcade character. However, Peach soon met her own problems: three shadow Toads got the jump on her at the same time, all about to land hammer fists upon her delicate head. Peach dodged out of the way as the Toads hit the ground, before countering a follow-up attack from another Toad with her own neutral special Toad. The generic mushroom retainer, mortified at the sight of these shadowy doppelgängers, winced as the shadow socked him in the chest, causing a release of green spores that latched onto the shadow Toad and dealt damage.

The Toads barreled into each other, toppling over and tangling in a ball. Peach whipped out a golf club and whacked all three of them off the platform, before running over to the ground-shaking gorilla to offer aid. She leaped into the air and spun once, activating her floating power, kicking away the shadow Toads that Donkey Kong launched into the air, blowing them off the platform. Any that tried to clamber back onto the platform promptly got caught in DK's hand slap-o-rama and subsequently whacked off the stage by a wild princess slap.

But a shadow Toad from behind headbutted Donkey Kong to end the ape's process of shadow elimination. Peach, descending from her float, kicked downwards at the Toad, hoping to drive it away from Donkey Kong, and succeeding.