For years, Dimentio had been chained within the walls of the Underwhere's most powerful jail, locked inside a metal dome. He was alone- not even the D-Men could be near him, only Queen Jaydes on what few visits she made. Everyone else in the Underwhere feared the metal dome.

Dimentio knew that he could scream to his heart's content, yet no-one would hear him- the dome was soundproof. His magic was just as useless, stripped away from him beyond his reach. Nobody could hear his pleas.

Except the one in the darkness.

Someone from Dimentio's past, the controller and user of the Dark Prognosticus. Dimentio's heart was the Heart of Chaos. Was. Not anymore. It had been taken away as well, by the bloody person that lived in the shadows.

He was, appropriately enough, named Blood: a creature that took on the shadow of the user, tasting their blood when the user's sanity could no longer protect them. And Dimentio had very little of that in the first place...

Dimentio tugged on the chains that incarcerated him every day, but his resolve was ebbing away with each day the chains continued to hold him. The descent into misery was so great, that one day he abandoned entirely any idea of possibly escaping from his maddening cell.

The white hands still reached out for him in his mind.

He hated this place, it was a painful reminder of his bloody past. He longed to get out, most of all so that he could refresh his whole life. He started to miss stealing Mimi's diary, and giving bets to Mr. L, even though he had killed him... Maybe Mr.L was still in Luigi's body, pulling pranks on O'Chunks, sitting on Count Bleck's top hat, battling the heroes.

The jester had to get back. He needed to see it all again, be a part of it all. Maybe he could escape from Blood's greedy grasp, just maybe...?

"Huh?" Dimentio looked in the corner of his cell, where there he could see light and then-

BAM!

"Oops! Sorry, I didn't mean to hit you in the face!" said the light shyly.

"Oowww... huh?" It was a golden Luma... with wings?

"What the hell... who are you?"

The golden Luma laughed. "I'm Goldie! And, I'm guessing you're Dimentio!"

Dimentio was still dazed, his palms becoming painted with blood as they rubbed his forehead.

"How did you get here?" Dimentio asked, confused.

"Oh, I'm from the Overthere. I don't transform like normal Lumas, so I could only die." Goldie spoke wistfully. Dimentio was visibly disturbed, but the little Luma kept talking regardless. "Anyways, that's why I will have these wings forever. But I do have the power to bring us back to life, and I might be able to give us the power to flip through dimensions if we can get back to the real world safely."

Goldie paused, taking Dimentio in properly for the first time.

"Hmm. Dimentio, you also have strange energies emanating from your body... only I can sense it, which is pretty rare. Hey, I think you might have something to do with some prophecy mama told me." Dimentio listened well, but had no idea what prophecy the little Luma was talking about.

"Hey, want to be friends?" asked the Luma abruptly.

Dimentio nodded, unsure what else he could possibly do. "Yeah, sure... but, where would we be once we return to life again? Merlon's house, Flipside, Flopside, Peach's Castle, deep in a random forest?!" Dimentio enquired, slightly nervous.

Something creaked in the distance- the metal door of his prison was opening.

Queen Jaydes was coming.

"No time, Dimentio!" squeaked Goldie. "We gotta go NOW!" No sooner had she said it than the two of them dematerialised, appearing almost instantaneously above Peach's Castle. The pair fell through its roof, landing in a small little room without a door.

"Ow... where the hell are we?" Dimentio looked around, recognition coming to him gradually. He... he knew this place, he had hid himself here many times. It was his secret room.

He looked over to Goldie who, thankfully, seemed undamaged. She woke up and looked around eagerly, thinking as she did. Did she... yes, she could. Her last bits of power, she could use them to...

"Umm, heads up, this may sting a tiny bit. Now... I'm going to give ourselves flipping powers..."

A huge light shone, too bright- Mario could see it, and decided to check the room. Dimentio heard four knocks on the wall, and quickly he and Goldie flipped so no-one in the second dimension could see them in the third.

And then he realised something.

"Um, bad luck Goldie. Mario can flip too! Oh shi-"

Mario flipped. He was in 3D.

Mario flipped. He was mad.

This chapter was written by ED-boi and is also a great friend of mine :3

and is also amazing at writing stories :3

Goldie is owned by me

everyone else is owned by Nintendo