Two weeks had passed.

The Isles of Ancients had been a giant, floating peaceful island populated with robots. These robots meant no harm to the world, as they were strictly isolated from the rest of it, and were peaceful creatures themselves. Of course, all this changed when the great monster, Tabuu, had used them as slaves to do his evil biddings, and now the Isles of Ancients was long gone, erased from existence. Too many Subspace Bombs had exploded on the island, tearing apart the atoms that it consisted of. It was impossible for it to return to normal. Now, the only proof that the mysterious island had ever existed was a giant 'X' in the sky, barely visible in the bright light of the day but shining like a star in the night. It was even more beautiful when it was sunset, because the sunlight shone through the middle of the 'X', making it shine ever brighter.

Two weeks had passed. Two weeks…

Mario and Princess Peach were making their way to where the Isle of Ancients was at the very moment. Princess Peach had come up with this 'fantastic' idea to spend a night on the rocky ledge where you could see the 'X' close up. The idea was to see the sunset there, and they would be in the tent they'd set up and do whatever young men and women do when they're about to marry! It'd be fun! Or so she thought.

She had sent a letter to Mario, telling him of her plans and he should go to the palace the very next day. Mario, when he read the letter, found it a bit dull to spend the night there just to see the sunset, but he decided to bring some things along with him to make the one-night trip a bit more interesting. A pack of cards, a book of crossword puzzles, his favorite plumber which he named Jacky-anything to kill time.

"Isn't it beautiful?" said Princess Peach as she looked at the breathtaking sight. She was lying in a portable chair, sipping her mai tai and wearing sunglasses for no apparent reason. Mario, who had been snoozing off on the grass, was awakened by the voice of the voice of the princess.

"What?" said Mario groggily as he got up. "Uh...I guess so...though it's getting a bit to boring just staring at the sunset." Mario failed to stifle a huge yawn as he got up, stretching his arms. "Why don't we go for a swim?" asked Mario hopefully. "I brought my swimming suit with me, and I bought you one for a present."

"Nonsense!" said Princess Peach, turning down Mario's offer with her hand. She took a sip of her mai tai and let out a refreshing sigh. "I'm too tired to swim...besides the sunset is too beautiful to miss." She sat back and continued to stare admiringly at the sunset.

Girls! thought Mario as he lied down again. What's so beautiful about the sunset? Besides, the 'X' in the sky just reminds me of that latest adventure we had...and R.O.B...

Upon thinking of R.O.B., Mario felt a sinking feeling inside him. R.O.B. was the leader robot of Isles of Ancients. Ever since his home and his fellow robots had been eradicated by the Subspace explosion, R.O.B. had remained distraught throughout the whole adventure, and had dissapeared after the adventure. The Smashers had yet to find him, and Mario was sure that they would never find him again, thinking he had destroyed himself. It was hard to believe a robot could feel pain, hatred, love and some more what's not, but then again the robots of Ancient of Isles were differnt from other robots.

Mario shook his head to clear away the thought and focused on the giant, glowing 'X' before him. The whole thing was shining white. No other colors. Just white, plain dull white.

But then Mario looked closely at the white 'X' and realized there was some other color after all. It started out as a tiny speck, no bigger than a speck of dust. But now, it had grown to the size of a beach ball, being dark bluish purple in color. And it was still growing, engulfing the bright 'x' every second. Mario detected something very, very wrong. "Princess! Do you see that?" asked Mario as he stood up. Peach, who obviously couldn't see much difference with her sunglasses on, turned to Mario and said, "What?"

"Look at the 'X'! Something's growing on it!"

"Can't see anything," mutterd Peach as she turned her attention back to the sunset. The ball was now enormous in size and had engulfed the whole 'X'. And it was inching closer and closer to the rocky ledge Mario and Peach was standing by the second.

"Take off your sunglasses, Peach! Something's wrong!"

Mario quikly swiped the sunglasses off Peach. Peach saw the growing ball and her jaws dropped in shock of the sudden event.

"But...what's happening?" whispered Peach as she continued to stare at the monsterous thing growing bigger and bigger by the second.

Mario didn't know what was happening. Although the growing ball looked similar to the Subspace explosion, the Subspace Explosion was darker in color and was a bit more purplish. But he could think of one thing that was behind this.

"Tabuu!" shouted Mario. "He must have done something to create this-this-this thing! And I have a feeling it's something bad!"

A look of shock spread across Peach's face as she said, "But that's impossible! Tabuu is dead! We killed him! We all did!"

Before Mario could reply, he felt a feeling on his body that was similar to how one would feel if a giant vacuum cleaner sucked him up. He saw in horror that several trees growing on the hill was uprooted and being sucked into the growing ball, which was bigger than the hill itself and was now only a few metres away from the two people.

"Run princess run!" shouted Mario over the noise of trees being uprooted. He grabbed the princess's gloved hands, who was too shocked to run or reply to Mario. Mario desperately tried to pull her away, but the Peach refused to budge.

"Peach!" screamed Mario. He saw that the hill was breaking apart and several chunks of it were being sucked into the ball-included the area where Mario and Peach was standing on. Out of the blue, Mario and Peach was lifted into the air, and was hurling towards to the deep, dark abyss before them. Peach screamed as she was sucked in, but Mario just closed his eyes, waiting for the worst to come. As trees, stones, large chunks of land and several droplet of seawaters flew beside him, Mario wondered what was going to happen to him afterwards. As he opened his eyes, he saw perculiar things berfore him. There were ghostly images flying among the dark surroundings, flying beside him, and all seemed strangly familiar to Mario...though he could not remember where he had seen them...

Then one of those ghostly images floated right next to him and what he saw nearly made him faint. Tabuu was sailing with him, his wings wide open, but as quick as he appeared, Tabuu was gone before Mario could do anything. Mario then saw the images growing clearer and clearer...a Subspace Bomb floated near him, he saw himslef riding on Yoshi as he escaped from a growing Subspace explosion, he saw the Ancient Minister float around and around. Mario closed his eyes, not wanting to see anymore.

Meanwhile, the ball had completely engulfed the planet where our heroes had began their adventures. And it carried on growing, and soon it would stop growing once it had swallowed the whole universe in its wake. But what exactly would this monsterous thing cause?

Two weeks had passed since the Smashers' latest adventure. And now, those two weeks were reversed, and would continue reversing until it went back to the time where it all began.