�What didya do thata for?� The man asked.
Pikachu looked at the man. He seemed young and healthy, except
for the fact that he was overweight. He wore blue overalls over
a red shirt. His eyes were blue and his nose was big. The
mustache seemed to cover his mouth. He wore a red hat that had
a red letter M in a white circle on the front. Pikachu stood up.
�Pikachu!� Pikachu said.
�Thatsa your name?� The man asked.
Pikachu nodded.
�Well I�ma Mario Mario!� The man said. �But you can calla mea
Mario.�
Pikachu began to talk frantically and point in several
directions. He was trying to tell Mario where he had come from
and needed to get back. Mario watched pikachu�s movements
carefully.
�Oh Ia get it!� Mario said. �Thata Bowser has takena Peach
againa!�
Pikachu fell over backwards.
�Let�sa go little friend. I�lla show you how wea get thingsa
done arounda here.� Mario said.
Mario led pikachu to a run down old van. �Mario Bros. Plumbing�
was painted on the side of the van. Mario opened the back and
pikachu hopped in. Pikachu hoped this Bowser fellow would be
able to understand him, as this Mario fellow seemed like a
complete idiot when it came to conversations. Mario drove on
towards a large black castle. Mario parked the van in front of
the drawbridge, which was down at the moment. Bowser was
empting a trash can into a larger one on the curb. Mario pulled
out a large mallet from the back of his van and konked Bowser on
the head.
�Ow! What was that for you good for nothing plumber!?� Bowser
asked.
�Givea Peach back!� Mario said. �Or I�lla hit ya again!�
�I don�t have Peach here you moron! I haven�t done anything
wrong for weeks!� Bowser said.
Pikachu went up to Bowser and began to talk and furiously point
in every which way. Bowser watched pikachu and nodded every now
and then. When pikachu stopped, Bowser nodded his head.
�Youa understanda what he�sa sayin�?� Mario asked.
�Not a clue.� Bowser said.
Pikachu let loose with a thundershock on the both of them. A
large black portal opened up behind Bowser and Mario. Pikachu
jumped up and down and pointed. Mario and Bowser turned around
and looked at the portal.
�What in the heck is that?!� Bowser asked.
But before anyone could answer, all three of them were sucked
into the portal by a vacuum. The all fell through the same inky
blackness that Pikachu had fallen through.
Link was standing in Lon Lon Ranch, discussing with Malon his
latest victory in one of the temples and how he had just saved
Princess Ruto.
�And now she doesn�t want to marry me anymore.� Link said.
�Well I guess that means I still have a chance.� Malon said
with a giggle.
Suddenly there was a large thud behind them. Malon looked over
Link�s shoulder and stared at what was standing in her chicken
field.
�Link? What�s a short fat man, a large turtle, and a small
yellow creature doing in my chicken field?� She asked.
Link turned around, saw the group and drew his Master Sword.
Pikachu saw the sword and jumped up on Bowser�s head. Bowser
saw the man with the sword, pried pikachu off his head and put
pikachu on Mario�s head. Bowser reached into his shell and
produced a Chomp-Chomp.
�Who and what the heck are you?� Link asked.
�I�ma Mario. This� Pikachu. That�sa Bowser.� Mario said after
prying Pikachu off his head.
�We were brought here in some kind of freaky warp zone.� Bowser
said.
Pikachu nodded.
�Warp zone?� Link asked slowly.
�Yeah. It takes us from one place to another. But this one
seems a bit different.� Bowser said.
�How is it different?� Malon asked.
�Ita usually takes us toa different points ona oura worlda.
Buta nowa ita takes us betweena worldsa.� Mario said.
�Well that�s certainly odd.� Link said.
Suddenly a large black portal opened up behind Mario, Pikachu, and Bowser. �Is that the portal you guys were talking about?� Malon asked. Mario, Pikachu, Bowser, and Link turned to look at the portal and were all sucked into it by a powerful vacuum. Malon watched in horror as everyone disappeared before her eyes.
The woman sat on a metal table. Her arm was wrapped in a
bandage. A man was standing over a small tray of instruments.
He then turned his attention to her. He unwrapped the bandage
to reveal a deep cut on her arm. He picked up a needle and
string from his tray and began to sew up the wound.
�Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow.� She said every time he made a stitch.
�It would go faster if you wouldn�t complain.� The man said.
�I�m not complaining.� She said.
He jabbed at her arm with his index finger.
�OW! Don�t do that!� She yelled.
�Now you�re complaining.� The man said.
The man continued to stitch up her arm. She looked around the
room. It was furnished, in what she believed to be early
ugliness. A small wooden chair, a large table that she sat on.
A glass cabinet that held bottles and other medical knick-knacks
was above a metal sink. She looked over by the cabinet. Her
suit had seemed to be the only thing that made this room
remotely enjoyable to her. It had a large gash in the left arm:
her gun arm. Her helmet rested next to her. She put her free
hand on top. She had hurt herself in training. Since her
last mission, she had been doing little jobs here and there, not
really earning a lot of money. But the security forces had a
good health and dental plan so she stuck around. Since she was
doing little jobs here and there, she felt she was out of
practice and decided to go through a little basic training.
Boy, has BT really changed over the years, she thought. She was
running through a room where there were lots of explosions and
large spikes. An explosion surprised her and she tumbled
sideways and fell onto a spike. The explosions immediately
stopped and the spikes retracted. A bunch of medics were at her
side in moments. Next thing she new she was sitting in this
room, out of her suit, with a large bandage on her arm, and a
note that said the doctor would be with her in moments. Now she
was getting stitches. It had been a long time since she had
last gotten stitches. Too long.
�You shouldn�t train that hard.� The doctor said.
She ignored him. She looked at the gash in the arm of her
suit. A nameplate was on the chest of the suit. �Samus Aran�,
it read. It was a name that had become popular over the years
as the one who single handedly stopped the nefarious space
pirates. And single handedly committed genocide by destroying
the last of the metroids and the space pirates themselves. Her
memories of that metroid larva remained in her mind. It was the
only thing in the universe that had looked up at her as a
mother. In an odd way, she missed it.
�All done. Be careful next time.� The doctor said.
Samus got into her suit, which had already initiated self-
repair. She stayed within the pressure dome of the complex, as
it was in orbit around earth. She looked out towards the
earth. She stood there for a long time. Her suit beeped when
it finished repairs. She put her helmet on and headed for her
ship. Suddenly, there was a loud thud from behind her. She
whirled on her heels and stared at what had appeared behind
her. She didn�t quite know how to react to what she saw. A
large turtle, a man in a green tunic with a sword strapped to
his back, a man in plumber�s overalls, and a small yellow
creature. The micro-computer could not identify the creatures
but classified the short fat man as a human and the taller man
in green as mostly human. She kept her gun pointed at them as
she approached them.
�Does it always dump us out like that?� Link asked.
�Apparently so.� Bowser responded.
Pikachu noticed Samus. He didn�t quite know what to make of
her, so he panicked and jumped on to Bowser�s head. Mario and
Link noticed her too. Link drew his sword as Bowser pried
Pikachu off his head and placed him on Mario�s head.
�Who and what are you?� Samus asked.
Introductions and an explanation of how they got there were
made. Pikachu went into his routine of panicked explanations,
which crashed Samus� micro-computer�s translation chip. The
portal opened up again and the whole group, plus Samus, were
sucked into it by a vacuum. The all fell through the inky
blackness and were dumped into a large cave. Samus provided the
light so they could look around. They spotted some torches in
the cave and lit them. Once all the torches were lit a figure
in a black cape appeared.
�Having fun yet?� The figure asked.
Link drew his sword, Samus readied her arm-cannon, and Bowser
produced his Chomp-Chomp.
�Who the heck are you?� Bowser asked.
�I am Boblovoskoinsky Necheckomonosorlein. But everyone just
calls me Bob.� Bob said. �I am an immortal and I�m bored. So
we�re gonna play a little game.�
Bob snapped his fingers and four large rocks shot up from the
ground. The rocks began to change shape. The rocks became the
shapes of a Wheezing, a large Koopa-Troopa, a Space Pirate, and
a Like-Like.
�Now the fun begins.� Bob said as the rock-creations attacked
the group.
The Wheezing charged at pikachu headlong. Pikachu dodged and
let loose with a thundershock. The attack had no affect and the
Wheezing charged again, this time hitting its mark. Pikachu
tried to tackle the Wheezing. When Pikachu hit the Wheezing, he
found that the Wheezing was made of solid rock.
Mario and Bowser were dodging and attacking the large Koopa-
Troopa. Mario tried a fireball attack as Bowser threw his Chomp-
Chomp at the Koopa-Troopa. Neither attack had any affect. The
Koopa-Troopa stomped his foot down causing the ground underneath
Mario to start shaking. Mario couldn�t keep his balance and
fell over. The Troopa punched Bowser hard. Bowser was thrown
into a wall.
Link already had his bow out and was depleting his supply of
arrows into the Like-Like. He tried throwing bombs. He tried
using his fire arrows. He even chanced a sword attack. Nothing
did any good. The Like-Like began to suck in air using its body
as a powerful vacuum. Link thought he was out of range, but
found himself being sucked into the maw of the Like-Like. Link
tried to run but lost his footing and was sucked into the Like-
Like. But instead of the Like-Like stealing his stuff, it spit
him back out. Link hit the wall hard.
Bob began to laugh. The group got up for another round of
fighting. But was interrupted when a bright light began to
shine in the center of the cave. A woman appeared. With a wave
of her hand, the rock-creations disappeared. She looked over at
Bob.
�Bob. You know the rules. You can go around toying with the
lives of mortals for your own entertainment!� The woman said.
�Awww come on mom.� Bob pleaded.
�No. Go home. You�re grounded for a millennium.� Bob�s mom
said.
A portal opened up behind Bob and he disappeared into it.
�I�m sorry for what my son has done. I shall send you back to
your own worlds now.� She said.
She waved her hand and a portal opened up behind them. It
sucked them all back in. They all fell through the inky
blackness again. Each member of the group went their own way.
Link went left, Samus went right, and Mario and Bowser moved
between them. Pikachu kept heading straight. Once the others
disappeared, he saw a light and was soon saw that he was heading
for home. He was dumped down next to Ash, just as Ash was
waking up. Ash stretched and yawned.
�What a good night�s sleep.� Ash said. �Did you sleep well
Pikachu?�
Pikachu looked at Ash and then did a thundershock on him. Ash
fell over backwards.
�What�d I say?� Ash asked as Pikachu curled up and went to
sleep.