Hello everyone, Thank you for taking the time to view this story. Honestly, I don't know what I am doing since this IS my first story about Super Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog after all. I don't know where this would go but I hope it would turn out for the better. This story is set after Super Mario Odyssey and Sonic Forces for those who don't know and as you may probably know by now, E3 2018 had revealed Super Smash Bros Ultimate. With the reveal of Mario along with all the other characters being in and with the release date being December 7th, I am a bit trilled. I am looking to give it a try once it comes out.

Okay just to put it out there, I am going to be attend my first year in College soon so I am a bit nervous about it as I heard the rumors about studying plus exams and all that. This would be the turning point in my life as I transition from being an teen to an adult. It's going to be a lot different then High School as I know. This is a warning to you all if the chapters start to begin to come up slow, some characters might not get to have time to shine because of it but I'll try my best. With the end of explaining, let's get to the story...hope you like it and as always, enjoy the chapter.

Chapter One: Trouble in the Balkans

April 5, 2018

8:00PM

Near the border of Romania

It was a cold day in these part of the world, cold but decent in the year of April 2018 to be exact. The world was in great shape, though not the best. For the past hundred years, wars were fought, lost and won. On this day, it was going to be a bit different. The distant chopping noise led to a fleet of fourteen helicopters were flying towards the border of Romania, flying low with the terrain. The helicopters were a mix of machines that were designed for different types of tasks.

Inside were soldiers, locked and loaded. The soldiers were all wearing the same uniforms, all a mixture of dark green and dark blue. On the right shoulder of one of the soldiers, if not all...bore the NATO frag while on the left shoulder had a patch of two birds. One was peregrine falcon with it's talons extended to grip a star. The other was a short eared owl, looking in the other direction of the falcon as if it was going to make a quick sloop on something. Below the two raptors were the words Breaknecks.

Going back to the beginning...Breaknecks was founded in 2016 as a private military company to operate around the world in a similar fashion as Academi, formally known as Blackwaters. Due to an incident with another company back in the same year, the Breaknecks were integrated and while still serving as a private military company was found to be more trustworthy as it operates with NATO. This led to being given high tech military equipment but this came at a cost. The small company were only given equipment that had no use with current militarizes. They were still a small company with over a thousand imployed and flying UH-1D Huey helicopters, AH-1W Cobra attackers, and CH-53E Super Stallion heavy lifters.

Weapons like the M16A4s,M14s, and M60A3s were the least modern that the company was able to field with the acceptation of civilian night vision goggles and weaponry from WW2 like the M1 Thompson. Basically in a nutshell, most of them were hand me downs. There wasn't any complaining as the equipment was the best that they could afford, as long as they were cared properly. To avoid drama, Breaknecks only hire those who had served in the military. Anyone who has served within NATO were welcomed to take part, only if they were still willing to continue to serve alongside with the military.

Today wasn't anything out of the ordinary, a secret mission into Romania, to capture some high value target. The target was a scientist who used to work for the former Soviet Union, the reason he left was not known.

There were a few who were chosen to lead this mission, including those was a United States Marine named Walker Sanderson or "Pack" to be short. At the age of twenty eight, He was young for this type of mission but had proven himself enough. He grew up in a lonely town in North Carolina, passed High School and joined the Marines. Another chosen to lead the raid was a thirty-year old SAS Operative by the name of Finn Callum to be simple. He had been involved in these types of operations before. Along with these two was a US Army Sergeant, his name was John Haring Patterson; with two tours and at the age of twenty-nine years under his belt. He grew tired of being back in the states and had decided to join the Breaknecks.

The call sign the helicopters were using was code named Echo, short but simple. Flying in Echo One was Colonel Orwell, the leader and commanding officer of the Breaknecks. He was a forty-five year old African-American who was born in Atlanta, Georgia with twenty-four years of service under his name.

The helicopters were flying towards a section of land that no one was using anymore so no one was going to get in the way except for the mercenary groups that was hired to guard against the force. Orwell looked from the GPS tracker and held a mike to his mouth."Alright team, strike fast and they won't have time to react."

"Copy, Echo Leader."

"Split up and come in low."The helicopters began splitting into smaller groups. There were four landing zones that had to be secured, all in specific areas. In the middle of the four sites was a tower where the scientist would be.

"Watch the power lines, Everyone."

"Echo Nine though Twelve!Your cleared to fire as well!"

"Copy!Engaging!"The cobras were the first to open fire using their unguided rockets on some vehicles. At all four landing zones, Mercenaries began to fire on the helicopters as well as try to take them down.

Pack and Finn were designated for landing zone one as it was the closest to the target building. The door gunners on their helicopter fired on the mercenaries that were shooting back at them. 0nce it looked safe enough to land, the helicopters landed on the helipad and soldiers began to spread out to secure the area. Shots echoed and one of the soldiers took a hit to the chest and fell back screaming.

"Snipers!Up in that watch tower!"

Pack pressed himself against behind a wall, gesturing towards Finn."Toss a frag, fry them!"

"Be gone!Fools!"Finn squeezed the pin and threw a grenade through a broken window. Pack watched as the resulting explosion blew out the rest of the windows out along with the sound of screaming.

"Medic!I need a Medic here!"Pack looked back and saw the soldier that was shot was bad, even though he wore a bulletproof vest. The medics had dragged him behind a wall and began the treatment. He didn't have time to wonder if the soldier would survive, as the battle was still going. From the radio chatter, it seemed to be going moderate as at the other landing zones, similar process was being made.

At Landing Zone Four, the helicopters flying under power lines while following a small river had arrived. Colonel Orwell surveyed the scene while his helicopter made a pass.

"Echo Ten, do you have visual on the enemy gunship taking off from LZ Four."

"Copy, Echo Leader, moving to engage."

The accompanying cobra unloaded it's 20mm mini-gun on a MI-28 Havoc attack helicopter that had just lifted from landing zone four, sending it spinning crashing back down on the helipad.

"Thanks for clearing the way, We're landing now."Colonel Orwell's helicopter made a gun run then made a landing on top of one of the buildings to begin dropping them."Go!Don't let that paycheck keep you waiting."

There was minor resistance thanks to the covering fire from the helicopters. As it would seem that the mission would be a cake walk, Landing Zone Three however was more defended, being centered around a complex similar to a farm. On the helipad, a Bell 206 was being readied to escape.

There was returning fire ranging from small to large, all aimed from blind spots. Eventually something had to happen as a result of that fire. Nearly all the helicopters in that area had taken hits but not as much as Echo Four. Echo Four was drawing fire so much that the pilot was having control problems, alarm blazed as they warned the helicopter was about to crash.

"Prepare to crash!"

The tail was the first to come off making the helicopter spin on the ground until it stopped completely, most of the occupants inside were uninjured."Echo Four is down!I repeat, Echo Four is down!"

"Copy, Echo Ten!Move to assist if your available."

The helicopter had crashed near Landing Zone Three so the mercenaries who were defending the place had something to concentrate their fire on. Thankfully one of the Super Cobras made a pass and ended it before they could. This however came too late as some of the soldiers inside were shot while trying to escape.

In retaliation, the soldiers fired back at the mercenaries who were getting in their helicopter. The hail of bullets broke through the glass and shredded anyone unfortunate to be in the pilot section. One of the soldiers who had a grenade launcher fired a shot into the helicopter and destroyed it. The mercenaries had no means of escaping now.

Patterson had been assigned Landing Zone Two, it was a bit similar to Landing Zone Three but it surrounded by mountainous terrain. He had expected for the place to be packed with bad guys but there wasn't any return fire surprisingly. Did the mercenaries not think of defending this site?There wasn't anything in the briefing about this but the orbiting satellites had shown activity coming from this place.

Patterson was dropped along with a few other soldiers on the helipad and began searching the buildings. The first buildings to be searched were the small ones along with garages, then the more large warehouse was searched. A soldier carefully placed a bomb on the side door and backed away. The bomb exploded,causing the door to blow into pieces."Breaching!"The soldiers rushed in and expected shooting to begin, only there was not. There wasn't anything in the warehouse but discarded crates of some sort.

"Clear!"

Patterson lowered his gun and took a look around."What were they doing here if they weren't gonna use this place?"

"Something bad, most likely."

"Corporal Sanders, see what they been hiding in here."The Army veteran gestured for a soldier to go into an officer on the left side. Seconds later, the soldier came back out."Sir, there are documented serial numbers here."The soldier given him a file that had some kind of writing on it, whatever it is. It just told a series of parts along with some tech computers. From what Patterson could tell, the serial numbers had to be the discarded crates. Just what was in them was what he was wondering. The distant booms told them that right now, the best thing to do was to head to the target building and get it done.

"Colonel, target zone is secure...We're on our way out."

"Copy, all."

"Let's roll!"Patterson looked into the room to double check before turning around to leave, they gotta see this.

With all the landing zones now secure, everyone converged on the target building. Pack and Finn had reached the entrance on the other side of the tower. Patterson soon joined them and stacked against the door.

"Ready?"

Finn threw a flashbang in a window and took cover. Seconds later, it exploded and blinded the enemies inside the building."Move in!"Pack and Patterson along with a few other soldiers fired their weapons at the enemies who were trying to recover. Some of them shot at random, relying on pure luck to hit anything. Once the mercenaries were taken down, they continued to move further into the building and upstairs. The stairs curled up the tower but there was little space so they each had to follow one at a time.

Just as they reached the second floor, a hail of gunfire erupted from the room on the other side. One of the accompanying soldiers weren't quick enough and was gazed by several bullets.

"Jesus!God Dammit!"The soldier screamed at the pain came from his lower arm and leg, if anything he was panicking as well.

"Hey, it only grazed your upper skin...your going to be fine once the medics get here."

Under cover, Patterson threw a flashbang as far as he could into the other room and blinded the opposing on the other side. The remaining mercenaries were then either shot or tackled down. It went like this for a few more floors until the building was secure. Pack radioed to Orwell over in the helicopter hovering outside.

"Colonel, We're clear but no sign of the target."

"Damn..."Orwell looked silently around outside and back to the door gunners. He tuned the the radio to a secure channel, pushing the button and spoke."Command, All the sites are secured but no sign of the package over."Seconds later, there was a response from the radio, coming in loud and clear."Check the surrounding buildings, he couldn't have gotten far."

"You heard him everyone, search for anything out of the ordinary."

Anyone didn't know where to look because the only surrounding buildings were the landing zones, other then that abandoned nuclear power plant next to LZ Two. Thankfully soldiers who had stayed behind, setting up charges to blow up Echo Four had spotted a place that wasn't checked."Captain Callum, there is a building near landing zone three..it's across the small dam."

"You heard them boys, lets all converge on that location."

"Lets go."Patterson was the first down and to move ahead onto the helicopter that would take them to LZ Three. A few minutes was what it took for all of them to reach the place. The soldiers crossed the dam, carefully stacking next to a door and a docking bay, ready to rush in on notice. All of them could hear muffled talking going on inside the building.

"Ready?"Patterson threw a flashbang inside and closed the door. Once it exploded, the soldiers rushed in. The few mercenaries were still standing were blinded by the flashbang. This give time for several of the soldiers to tackle them and secure their weapons. The building was vacant, only having several trailers and crates. There was one final door leading into a shed which looked like an office. Pack given the signal, opened the door and threw a flashbang in. Patterson headed in and pointed his gun to shoot if he saw anyone he deemed hostile, but he quickly pointed it down as he found nothing.

"It's clear!"

Pack and Finn moved in to back up Patterson as he continued inwards into another room."Wait for me to give the all clear."

"Roger that."

"It's clear here as well!"

Both the two entered the other room, guns lowered. There was barely anything, only lockers and a workstation. Pack and Patterson looked each other in disappointment."I can't believe we were led to a dead end, what are we suppose to say to Orwell about this?"

Patterson and Pack exited the room to report to Orwell about the looked around the floor, noticing the garbage laying around."Geez, you think this scientist would be a lot cleaner."

He was just about to turn away when he noticed something metal under some stacked cardboard, the outline of how the metal appeared told him that this was a hatch. He placed his weapon down and began removing the cardboard.

"Hey there's a hatch here!"Finn called to the other room and continued removing the stuff that was covering the hatch. Patterson and Finn came into the room, helping the Brit remove the cardboard.

"On three!Ready?"Using their strength, the three lifted the metal door open and began stepping down with caution. One by one, the three stepped into a room consumed in darkness. Thankfully the three got out their flashlights, shining around to inspect. All around them room were old looking equipment, probably dating back to the eighties. From what they could tell this looked to be some kind of old laboratory. They continued scanning the walls until Finn shined his light on what they were looking for.

"There is the power panel."

"I got it!"Pack opened to the inside, knowing what to do and flipped a few switches, making everything turn on. This did include something else that began making hissing sounds.

"What the devil is this?"

"Someone get the Colonel here."

A few moments later, Orwell stepped down not expecting the complexity of the situation. He pressed into his ear piece and spoke."Command, You might want to take a look at this."A soldier brought a camera out and was able to live feed a round shaped machine that had complex parts circling it.

"What the hell is this?!"

"No idea man!No idea!"Pack and Finn began going over what purpose the machine served. Was it a reactor?Was it a nuclear bomb?To them, it's design was similar to something fictional; Something straight out of a movie.

"So we fought all this way, just for nothing?!"

"No we do not kill for profits or anything like that everyone, if the world wants us to make it safe then we had better keep our word...we still have one goal, we're fighting for our families so they don't have to experience pain and suffering."

Pack looked towards Patterson."Did you find anything else?"

"Me and the others didn't find anything but we found a list of serial numbers that were registered with discard crates within LZ Two."Patterson pulled out the same file from earlier, showing it to Pack. The Marine took a moment to look it over since there was a lot on the list. This given the idea of what if there was still valuable info on that computer.

Finn, check the computer...there has to be something in it."

The British soldier made sure the cords were still in place then turned on the computer. The startup was slow as the computer was a Windows XP. It only frustrated them as these types of computers were prone to crashing on start ups or worse. The computer didn't crash as they expected, but of course with every computer there was...

"God Damn Password!"

"How are we suppose to solve this?Too many attempts and it would lock us out."

"We don't!We can extract it using this."One of the soldiers plugged in a small device into the computer's port. The device was high tech, only top of the line intelligence agencies were able to get. It began to make buzzing noises for the first couple of seconds and made a simple ding. Seconds later, the device made the computer boot in while starting the download. Once the download was complete, Finn began opening the only file on the screen. The name of the file on the computer was named Project Video Game. What did it mean? The word Video Game had meaning, but the concept of a game being projected through a screen was the only thing. To be honest, It didn't make sense. Orwell calmly picked up the radio,"Command, Who was the package?"

"The package was a ex-scientist who wanted to look into creating portals through time if not, different realities."

"Do you think we would take the risk of letting someone discover how to go back in time?What if someone wanted to change the course of World War 2?"

"In the long run, we are not ready for that yet."

"Sir!If I am readying this correct, the scientist has been experimenting with something that he didn't want us to see."Many of the other soldiers began to argue over the topic, as opposed to what to do.

"Yeah, leaving us with something like a video game."

"If it's a theory then transporting into a video game is not possible, what would you do in there?Unless it's a portal to another universe like those fiction books."

"That is a loud of bull, you know."

"Everyone, let's just drop it...the mission is over, lets destroy that Huey and get out of here."Orwell calmly told everyone in the room.

The entire process that it took everyone to get back on board the helicopters took ten minutes. Ten minutes were worth while as they were headed southwest, towards the Mediterranean Sea. There were several ships waiting for the returning flights. Most of the ships were mostly destroyers but one ship almost stood out. The ship was the USS Essex, commonly known as LHD-2...the second in the line of the Wasp-Class amphibious assault ship. It was positioned in the water between Greece and Turkey as it served as home base for the Breaknecks until their contract was complete, of course their contract was complete but the failure to get the scientist was going to spread like wildfire back home. The Breaknecks were going to get a debriefing and transit back to the United States where the money would be handed out for the effort.

Pack watched as the last helicopter powered down on the deck and headed inside to get warm. Now there was the debriefing with the Captain Canton. Pack was soon joined by Patterson, Finn and Orwell at the Captain's Quarters."What are we going to tell him?The Breaknecks are starting to get wild up about today's failure."

"I suppose we could tell him about the file along with that project."

"You think he is going to believe this?What is going to happen is us being chewed out or command being taken off the grid for while."No sooner did Patterson finished, a high ranking tan dressed person approached from the upper hallway.

"Captain Canton!"

The four stood at ease and attention as the Captain got to the door and unlocked it."Gentlemen, After you."The four proceeded to sit down in front of the captain's desk. Soon after, he himself took his seat.

"Orwell, Patterson, Callum, Pack...Close the door behind you."

"So, tell me what went down over there?"

April 8, 2018, Several Days Later

10:30AM

Several Days had passed since then, the longest that he could ever endure. Once Canton was revealed the file and project, he didn't know what to say. The machine and secret location made sense but the project about a video game is what stopped him in his tracks. So far the Captain was silent ever since, he would occasionally come up and give a holler or two. And here he was, on the guardrail under the bridge looking out as the coast of Spain faded away in the distance. All he could see was six accompanying destroyers escorting the larger ship further west. Mostly everyone was quiet about this because some information was leaked about the raid. Some of the media was crying out that what the Breaknecks did was a crime against humanity. Of course, nearly all the sailors knew not to trust what was being said on nowadays.

He thought back to that soldiers that were shot during that raid, how were they doing now?Last time he heard from Finn, that the guy who was shot within LZ One had a bullet come inches from his heart. Thankfully the bullet was swiftly stopped in time. Of course he began thinking back to the other three. Orwell was in the hanger bay, helping to check the equipment of the helicopters. Finn was down in the cafeteria getting something to bite onto for a few. Patterson was also in the cafeteria doing the same but he wanted to get some alone time.

As Pack continued looking outwards, he couldn't help but notice the distant dark clouds in the distance. There were going to be storms in part of the Atlantic which proved fatal in the past but thanks to radar, they could be avoided by simply adjusting the heading.

"Hey Pack!"

Pack found Patterson up the stairwell, coming down to meet him. He acknowledged the US Army Sargent as he joined the Marine. He couldn't help but catch the storms in the distance."Christ!When did it get stormy all of a sudden?"

"This is the Atlantic after all, storms are forming all the time."

"Have you heard anything so far since then?"

"The Breaknecks are beginning to doubt that they would be paid, I mean I don't blame them since we failed were led to some dead end."

"That scientist could still be out there, you know."

"That file on Video Games doesn't add up, if it was some kind of experiment to fuse minds or some crap involving transitioning."Pack didn't have to respond as the intercom system came online."All Hands, prepare for approaching storm."

"A storm?Wait!Shouldn't we be clear of any storms?The only storm out there the one in the distance."

"It could have been a miscalculation, radar should have picked it up but it doesn't matter...let's get inside."

Pack and Patterson walked into the hallway that led towards the cafeteria where they were going to meet up with Finn to discuss some issues. They didn't get as far as there was a voice on the intercom.

"All hands, ready flight operations for the Breaknecks...All breakneck soldiers, report to your commanding officer."

"What?Readying?"

"Sanderson!"Pack heard his name called from a sailor up ahead."Sergeant Sanderson!Captain wants you in the CIC ASAP."

"The Captain?Right away!"

"I'll go get prepared with Finn and Orwell then."

"Alright, I'll see what's going on."

A few minutes earlier

"Captain's on the bridge!"A sailor announced the arrival of Captain Canton as he came to sit on his chair and overlooked the flight deck. The Breakneck's helicopters were left in place and tied down.

He checked the file on Project Video Game, looking over the report of battle. Still he didn't have an answer, it just doesn't add up. His mind was telling him that it was not possible to travel through time and space. If the project does add the possibility of dimensional travel in the mix then why?Why try something that hasn't been attempted by anybody?Does he want to destroy the universe to prove the point?To play some kind of game?

The captain was shaken off topic as a bright flash started to come from the ocean in front of the ship."What the hell!"The captain sat up from his chair shouting, his eyes caught dark clouds forming in as he looked out the window. He was seeing that the waves were starting to get rougher then normal. He looked along the outlines, seeing thunderclouds. It can't be happening to him, can it?Some form or type of hurricane had formed in front of them.

"Sir?You might wanna take a look at the radar."

Captain Canton looked up the ship's radar hoping for the hurricane to show up but he was caught with awe because the radar wasn't showing back anything. Was the radar malfunctioning?

"Sailor, check the weather reports and see if there was a report about a hurricane."

"Sir, I checked and found no reports of a hurricane...the weather was reported clear."

"When was the radar check?"

"Ten minutes ago, Sir."

"Maintenance?"

"It was reported all green across the board."

It was just what he needed, to come face with a hurricane that the radar can't track. If they try to go through this one then the the escorting destroyers would use up all their fuel and become stranded."This hurricane didn't show on radar and had formed at random...what if."The topic of dimensional travel came back to him. The topic had started to match now. The Breaknecks weren't able to find the scientist because he was able to travel to another dimension somehow. If the scientist had successfully made a teleportation device or something like that then perhaps this was the butterfly effect. He could theorize that the machine that was discovered discharged some kind of energy into the air and caused this hurricane. Did this hurricane lead to whatever world that the scientist landed in or whatever video game?He is gonna have to take the risk of being relieved of command to prove that theory.

"Sailor, Get the Breaknecks to ready up within five minutes and get me Sergeant Sanderson, on the double."

"Right away sir!"

10:35AM

Pack made his way down the corridor and up a few stairs, taking him to the bridge. He found the captain still sitting in his chair with the file in his hands.

"Captain?You wanted to see me?"

"You see that out there?"The captain gestured him to look out into the storm and he did.

"What are you theorizing?"

"I taken the file into consideration about the dimensional travel and I believe that this has to be that portal to another world."

"Excuse me?"

The Captain told Pack about the hurricane not showing up on radar and what the machine could have done to make it.

"Options?"

"I am readying the Breaknecks for this, see this out."

Captain Canton turned towards the lone Marine."Pack, I want you to lead Breaknecks into the storm, if this is a portal that leads somewhere through time or that dimension stuff...we may not know what we are dealing with."

"Sir, if that scientist had anything to do with this, then it's worth letting Washington know."

"I am putting a lot at stake here to help catch this guy as much as you want to...I am sure you know the risk here."

"I am aware of it, but where do you think this guy could have done?If he really was sent into a video game."

"You have orders, I am relying on you four to come back and bring everyone safe and sound."Pack knew what he had to do, he looked around the bridge. This could be the last time he could see this place. He was starting to step down the stairwell but he was stopped by the Captain.

"By the way, Pack!If you encounter anyone threatening civilians, then you have my permission to fire at well."