A/N: We're back again! I hope you're ready – this Volume takes off pretty fast. And I'm including one deleted scene that I heard about, because it's just too awesome to leave out.
Disclaimer: I do not own Heroes, NBC, Super Smash Brothers, Nintendo, Sega, or anything contained herein.
(Open on a row of warehouses at night. We see Mario, dressed in dark clothing, running quickly past them. He runs into one and shuts the door.
Cut to inside the warehouse. We see Mario lock the door from the inside. We also see a scar across Mario's face diagonally. There's a subtitle: "Four Years In The Future."
Behind Mario, there's a click as a gun is loaded. He closes his eyes in frustration.)
Mario: Come on, Peach. It's me.
(He turns around to see Peach, now with dark brown hair and wearing a leather catsuit, pointing a gun at him.)
Mario: Put the gun down. I'm gonna go back. To the day they all found out.
Peach: It's too late for that.
Mario: Think about it. No camps. No experiments. These powers, they're gonna destroy everything.
Peach: (while moving forward slowly) I made peace with that a long time ago. You never did.
Mario: (sadly) How did you get here? To be like this?
Peach: (angry) I'm different, remember? Special.
Mario: Don't do this.
(Peach seems to reconsider for a second. But then she steels herself.)
Peach: I'm sorry, Mario. I always loved you.
(She pulls the trigger. There's a bang as Mario closes his eyes. With a whoosh, the bullet stops and hangs in the air. Time is stopped.
Mario opens his eyes. He moves forward and takes the gun from Peach's hand. He then closes his eyes and disappears. Time resumes and the bullet bounces off the door as Peach looks around.
Cut to a closet somewhere. We see a subtitle: "Present Day." Future Mario appears. He grabs a hat and jacket off of a coat rack and walks out of the closet.
We follow him down a hallway as he walks over the title card: "Chapter 1: The Second Coming." He keeps going down the hallway and stops outside a conference room. We see Luigi, (Present) Mario, and D.K. up on stage. This is Luigi's press conference.)
Luigi: At first, I was afraid. But I, I'm not afraid anymore. I'm here to tell you the truth.
(He glances at (Present) Mario as Future Mario raises the gun.)
Luigi: I have the ability –
(Future Mario fires twice. On stage, Luigi falls as Mario and D.K. try to help him. Satisfied, he turns and walks quickly back to where he came from. Future Mario stashes the gun on a shelf and leaves the closet.
Cut back to the conference room. EMTs start to work on Luigi. Mario jumps off the stage and runs after the attacker. D.K. gathers some police forces and follows after him.
Cut back to Future Mario. He runs down the hall and into a men's room. A few seconds later, Mario runs in after him.
After a few more seconds, D.K. and the cops arrive. They run in, guns drawn. All they see is Mario holding the hat and jacket.)
Mario: I lost him. Damnit!
D.K.: Did you get a good look at him?
(Mario shakes his head. D.K. sighs, frustrated.
Cut to a TV broadcast of the shooting. We pull back to see Peach nervously watching in her bedroom. She goes to her phone and dials.
Cut to an ambulance. Luigi is laid out, the EMTs working on him, as Mario answers his phone.)
Mario: Hello?
Peach: (through phone) Is he OK?
Mario: He's alive, but in bad shape.
Peach: I should be there. I can help. My blood –
Mario: No, Peach. He needs surgery. Just stay where you are.
(He hangs up. Peach looks at her phone, confused and worried.
Cut to inside an ER. Everybody from the ambulance rushes in.)
EMT: He was down for four minutes.
(They wheel him into an OR. Mario tries to follow, but a doctor stops him.)
Doctor: I'm sorry, you can't be in here.
(Mario watches as doctors bring a defibrillator over and start using it on Luigi. He goes to the far wall and leans against it, slumping down to the floor.
Some time later. The doctor yanks off his surgical gloves and throws them against the wall angrily. Mario gets to his feet as the doctor comes out to see him.)
Doctor: I'm sorry.
(He walks off. Mario looks in at Luigi's body and opens the door. He walks over to the body. He leans down and kisses Luigi's forehead.)
Mario: It should never have happened this way.
(He stands up and sighs. He looks down at Luigi again sadly.
Suddenly, with a loud gasp, Luigi sits up. He looks around wildly, disoriented.
Cut to a shot of Marth's face. He looks blank, but then appears to get an idea. He squints his eyes and concentrates.
We pull back to see he's sitting at a desk. Marth, wearing a business suit, is sitting at his father's desk in Yamauchi Industries in Tokyo. He's watching the clock on the desk zoom forward in time. Then backwards. Then forwards again.
There's a knock and Roy, also suited, comes into the room.)
Roy (translated): Just wondering if you were busy, sir.
Marth (translated): (standing) Cut it out! You don't have to call me that.
Roy (translated): Well, you are in your father's position now.
Marth (translated): I'm not turning into my father!
Roy (translated): Even so. All the power you have now is pretty intimidating. (He grins) Especially the two hundred and fifty million dollars you got from him.
Marth (translated): I have no interest in money.
Roy (translated): Well you're more than welcome to give some to me. I like money.
Marth (translated): I need something bigger, Roy! What is my destiny? I've already saved the world twice. I can't just go back to office work.
Roy (translated): I'm sure you'll figure out your destiny when you need to.
Marth (translated): (rolling his eyes) It's not like destiny is going to come knocking.
(Suddenly, there's a knock at the door. Marth and Roy look at each other, confused.)
Marth (translated): Come in.
(An older Japanese man comes in the room. Marth recognizes him and walks over. They chat quietly for a few seconds. The man hands a small disc to Marth and leaves.)
Roy (translated): Who was that?
Marth (translated): My family's lawyer. Apparently my father recorded a DVD message to me before he died. (with wide eyes) He said it was about my destiny.
(Cut to Peach's room. She continues to watch coverage of Luigi's shooting on TV. Then she makes a decision. She runs over and starts packing clothing into a gym bag. She zips it up and goes to walk out of her room. She opens her door…
…to reveal Mewtwo. He's standing on the other side, leaning on the doorframe. He smirks at her.)
Mewtwo: Hello Peach.
(Peach backs up, terrified.)
Peach: But…you…
Mewtwo: (conversationally) I've been away for a while, I know. I took a little detour from my career path down in Game Cubeland. But that's all behind me now, like a long night after a bad taco.
Peach: But I saw Marth Nakamura kill you!
Mewtwo: I've recovered. But not fully. (menacing) Which is why I'm here.
(The sound of ticking clocks is heard as Mewtwo keeps slowly stepping toward Peach, and she keeps backing away.)
Mewtwo: I want your power.
(Peach has backed up to a dresser which holds several cheerleading trophies. Behind her back, she wraps her hand around one.
Then, quickly, she lunges and smacks Mewtwo across the temple. He falls to the ground. Peach leaps over him and runs down the stairs. She gets to the front door and wrenches it open, but suddenly it swings shut. She pulls on it again, but it won't move.
Peach tries to run to the back door, but it swings shut too. She looks around for a way out. All of the windows slam shut and the lights short out. Peach runs to the kitchen phone, but when she picks it up, she hears nothing. So she pulls a large knife out of the knife block and stops, listening.
She walks over and opens to the doors to her father's office. She walks in as, behind her, Mewtwo walks past. He looks in and sees her, but he keeps going. Peach backs toward the door, then walks back into the kitchen. She heads back towards the stairs as, reflected in the glass door of the cabinet, we see Mewtwo come up behind her.
Suddenly, she spins and swings the knife at Mewtwo's face. He ducks to the floor as Peach runs past him again. She runs into the pantry and shuts the doors. Mewtwo stalks toward them, but Peach grabs a chain from Yoshi's leash and wraps it around the handles. Mewtwo tries to get the door open, but can't. He rattles the handle, frustrated.
Cut to another doorknob turning. We pan left to see Amy standing there with a baseball bat. We pull back to see we're in Diddy's apartment.
The door opens and Amy swings the bat. Diddy manages to duck out of the way and avoid most of the blow.)
Diddy: Amy!? What are you doing!?
Amy: I'm sorry! I thought you were Mewtwo! Why were you rattling the door like that?
Diddy: The key got stuck in the lock.
Amy: I'm sorry. How did it go?
Diddy: Fine. Mew got on the plane and the flight attendant said she'd be taken care of. I just wish I knew if I did the right thing.
Amy: No one will be able to find her there. (She smiles) Now didn't you say it was time for my examination?
Diddy: (shaking his head) I'm sorry, I can't help you, Amy.
Amy: What are you talking about?
Diddy: Mewtwo took everything. I'm at a dead end in my research. There's nothing left for me to do here.
Amy: So what are you going to do?
Diddy: Go home. Back to Kong Isle.
Amy: But… (getting angry) I came all the way from Segaland to find you. You need to help me find a cure. Help me with my sickness. Or I might kill again…
(She gasps as her eyes start to go black. Diddy's eyes also fill and he gasps for breath. After a few seconds, Amy composes herself. Her eyes return to normal, as do Diddy's.)
Amy: (sadly) I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.
(She turns to go.)
Diddy: Wait. Your ability…does it always manifest when you get upset?
Amy: Yes. It stops when I calm back down.
Diddy: That's it! The abilities must be tied into adrenaline somehow. My father was trying to isolate the gene that caused these powers, but he was looking in the wrong place! I can keep looking now!
Amy: So what do we do?
(Diddy goes to his desk and picks up a needle.)
Diddy: All I have to do is make you mad again.
(Cut to Marth's office. He puts the DVD into a player and turns on the TV. Ike appears on screen, seated behind the desk.)
Ike (translated): Marth. If you are watching this, that means I am dead. I have left you not only my fortune, but a sacred duty. You are now to be the sentinel of a dangerous secret. It was guarded by me, and my father before me. It is in my personal safe. In the wrong hands, it could destroy the world. It is your task, your sacred duty…to never open the safe. (He nods and the screen goes black.
Marth looks like he disagrees. He jumps up and starts rushing around the office.)
Roy (translated): What are you doing??
Marth (translated): Finding the control to open the safe!
Roy (translated): Open it? But your father said not to!
Marth (translated): I have to at least know what I'm guarding!
(He finally finds a control panel in the desk. He pushes a button and a cabinet slides open to reveal the safe. It has a thumb scanner on the outside as well. Marth goes to it.)
Roy (translated): Why would your fingerprint work? Your father doesn't want you to open it!
(Marth puts his thumb to the scanner. It beeps and a green light comes on.)
Marth (translated): Or maybe he does.
(The safe door swings open. They see some papers and another DVD with a note attached, reading "Press play." Marth quickly runs over and puts it in the DVD player. Once again, Ike sits at his desk.)
Ike (translated): (stern) I asked you not to open the safe!
(Marth gets an "Oops!" look on his face.)
Ike (translating): (lightening) But no matter. There are people who will stop at nothing to get this half of the formula. Should that happen, there is only one hope. A chosen one among you who carries the purity of blood, the "light" to safeguard against the darkness. Do you understand?
(Marth just looks confused.)
Ike (translated): Guard this half of the formula with your life. The fate of the world depends on it.
(The screen goes black. Marth stands up and opens an envelope. Inside is a scrap of paper with part of a complex chemical formula on it.)
Marth (translated): (distressed) I knew I should have paid more attention in chemistry.
(Suddenly, there's a fast whoosh. A yellow and blue blur speeds into the office and back out. The paper is gone from Marth's hand. He quickly shuts his eyes and concentrates. There's another whoosh as time is stopped.
Marth opens his eyes. He sees distorted blue and yellow waves in the air. He follows along them, amazed. He keeps following them to the hallway, where they lead to a blue-catsuited woman. She has short blonde hair and is frozen running in place. Marth looks at her, confused, when suddenly she unfreezes and turns on him.)
Woman: How are you doing this? Are you a speedster, too?
Marth: No, I…I stop time.
Woman: Mmm. Obviously you don't do it completely, or we couldn't be chatting like this.
Marth: So, you move fast?
Woman: No, I move really fast. Fast enough to get this!
(She shows him the stolen formula. Marth yells and tries to grab it back, but she pushes him away. She then grabs him by the throat.)
Woman: So how does this time thing work exactly? If you chase me to Zoness, will time stay frozen here in Tokyo?
Marth: (confused) I, I don't know.
Woman: Oh. I guess you can think about it when you get back on your feet.
Marth: (still confused) But I am on my feet.
(The woman rears back and punches him across the face. Marth falls into a desk and time resumes normally. Papers from the desks fly into the air. The woman shrugs.)
Woman: Gotta go.
(She turns and runs out of the office in another yellow and blue blur.
Cut to the closet at the Corneria police station. Mario comes back in and reaches to the shelf for the gun. But he can't find it. He looks confused when D.K. walks in. He's holding the gun on a pencil, looking accusing.)
Mario: (forcing a smile) Did you hear? They're calling Luigi's recovery a miracle. The bullets hardly did any damage. Like his body had already healed from the inside.
D.K.: How'd you know where the gun was, Mario?
Mario: I was…looking around for it.
D.K.: There was no reason for you to think he left it behind.
(He and Mario stare at each other. D.K. narrows his eyes, trying to read Mario's thoughts. But he doesn't hear anything. He tries again and his hand goes to his head as he yells in pain.)
Mario: (sneering) You had to go and be the detective, didn't you, D.K.?
(There's a shimmer and Mario's appearance changes to that of Future Mario. The scar reappears on his face and his clothes change. D.K. looks stunned.)
Future Mario: I had to come back to stop Luigi from telling the world about us. Now that you know, you can't be here.
(He raises a hand, and suddenly D.K. flies toward him. He hits Mario's hand and disappears.
Future Mario reopens his eyes and heads out of the closet. He reverts his appearance back to that of Present Mario and walks out of the building.
Cut to Luigi's hospital room. He wakes up with a jerk. Looking around, he sees a suit and dress shirt hanging on the back of the door.
Cut to the entrance to the hospital. Mario walks in. He goes to Luigi's room, but finds it empty. As he turns to go, he shuts the door, and we see the suit is gone as well.
Cut to a courtyard outside the hospital. A reporter does a TV segment on Luigi. Behind him, dressed in the suit, Luigi walks across the courtyard. He enters a chapel there.
Cut to inside the chapel. Luigi walks to the front and kneels at the altar. After a quick prayer, he stands and turns to the people praying there.)
Luigi: I saw God today.
(Cut back to the courtyard. Mario arrives, looking around. He sees the camera crew heading into the chapel and follows them.
Cut back to inside the chapel. Luigi continues to talk to the people.)
Luigi: I was dead, but God gave me another chance. Now I know why I'm here. It's to do God's bidding.
(The reporter and crew come into the chapel. The reporter approaches Luigi.)
Reporter: Mr. Petrelli? You said in your speech earlier that you had a message to deliver. Are you ready to do that now?
(In the back, Mario reaches into his jacket and holds the gun. But Luigi just shakes his head.)
Luigi: God is the only one with the message. It's a message of hope, and urgency, because he's not going to wait much longer. His message is a simple one. We're all connected. Only together can we make our time on this planet mean something. We all have one goal. Save ourselves, save the world.
(Mario lets go of the gun. He walks forward and touches Luigi on the shoulder. Luigi shakes and falls to his knees, Mario supporting him.
Cut to the pantry of the Bennet house. Peach sits in the pantry. The doors shake violently as she closes her eyes in fear. But the doors don't open.
Cut to outside the pantry. Suddenly, Yoshi comes in from the other room. He runs up close to Mewtwo and begins to growl. He barks his name a few times. Mewtwo grins wickedly. He raises a finger, pointing it at Yoshi's head.
But then Mewtwo merely twitches his finger and Yoshi goes shooting backwards. He flies backwards out the small Yoshi door. Mewtwo turns back to the pantry.)
Mewtwo: Peach, I know you're scared. I would be too, all alone in this house with someone like me. A man you barely know.
(Mewtwo notices something on the counter. He turns and walks across the kitchen. He sees a box marked "Dad's Office.")
Mewtwo: I lost nearly everything that made me special.
(He opens the box and pulls out a bunch of files. There's a section marked "Level 5" that he opens.)
Mewtwo: But once was lost…now is found.
(He opens the files. He sees an orange fox, a nasty-looking guy with a large nose and a black mustache, and a blue and black dog-looking creature.)
Mewtwo: A whole shopping list of abilities right here at my fingertips. But I'm going to start with the best.
(He turns around to see Peach right there. She stabs him in the chest with the knife. He drops and she runs.
But Mewtwo recovers quickly. He points at her and she flies into the wall. She tries to move, but she can't. Mewtwo whirls his finger and Peach flips over so her back is pressed against the wall. Mewtwo approaches and raises his finger again and points at her forehead. Peach screams as a line of blood appears and her head starts to rip open.
Cut to Diddy's apartment. He drops some liquid on a slide as Amy watches.)
Diddy: Now we'll see if the proteins will bond to the chromosomes. (He smiles) You were very brave to come to me. I know your power is frightening. But it must be good to be different. Special.
Amy: It would. But I am a murderer.
(There's a beep. Diddy goes over and looks at the microscope.)
Diddy: I don't believe it. It worked! I've done it!
Amy: Done what?
Diddy: I've isolated the genetic building blocks of these abilities. I've found the source! I'm going to go to the loft to verify these results.
Amy: Verify them? How?
(Diddy shows her the syringe full of the stuff he used in the experiment.)
Diddy: What's in this syringe could give powers to anyone. Add adrenaline to it, and the effects could be instantaneous.
(He smiles and runs out the door. Amy looks after him warily.
Cut to the Bennet house. Peach is laid out on the coffee table, the top of her head gone. But she's still alive. Mewtwo examines her brain as he sits on the end of the table.)
Peach: What are you doing?
Mewtwo: (with a little anger) I'm looking for answers before I bleed to death.
Peach: I'm looking for answers too. Why can't I feel anything?
Mewtwo: The brain doesn't have any nerve endings. Such an amazing organ. Imagine how much we'd know if we used all of our brain power. Why is there evil? How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? How do we make love stay?
(He touches part of her brain.)
Mewtwo: All the answers are right here.
Peach: (fearfully) Are you going to eat it?
Mewtwo: Eat your brain? (He leans in and whispers) Peach, that's disgusting.
(He keeps examining her brain.)
Mewtwo: Ah, there it is.
(He touches her brain in one spot. He takes in one breath, then he…stands up.)
Peach: That's it?
(Mewtwo looks down and pulls the knife out of his chest. The wound closes up as Mewtwo smiles. The sound of ticking clocks is heard again.
He goes to leave, but stops. He sees the top of Peach's head and her hair sitting on the floor. He picks it up and puts it back on over her brain. The blood disappears as it reattaches itself to her head. Peach sits up.)
Peach: Aren't you going to kill me?
Mewtwo: (with a look of curiosity) Poor girl. There's so much about yourself you don't understand. Your brain – well, everything about you, isn't like the others. You're different. You're special. And I couldn't kill you even if I wanted to. You can never die…and now, I suppose, neither can I.
(He turns and walks out. Peach watches him go with a look of horror.
Cut to Douglas Mendez's loft. Diddy is working at a lab bench when Amy comes in.)
Diddy: These results are amazing!
Amy: You need to destroy it, Diddy.
Diddy: Why would I do that? This is a huge breakthrough!
Amy: It's a terrible thing. It could go so wrong.
Diddy: My father spent his life trying to figure out the source of these abilities. I can't just let that go. And maybe…maybe if I had had an ability, I could have kept Mewtwo from killing him.
Amy: You're going to inject yourself with it!? This…curse!?
Diddy: I need to test it.
Amy: You said you were trying to help me. Is what's in that syringe going to cure me?
(Diddy doesn't answer, but that's answer enough.)
Amy: Then it's evil. And you should destroy it. For the sake of all of us.
(She turns and walks out.
Cut back to Luigi's hospital room. He wakes up to find Mario sitting next to him. Mario shows him a newspaper with the headline "Miraculous Recovery for Former Senator.")
Luigi: (closing his eyes exhaustedly) I thought I dreamed that. (He pauses) God saved me, you know.
Mario: There are a lot of people out there with extraordinary abilities, Luigi. I came back from the dead before. Remember?
Luigi: And who's to say this isn't the hand of God? Maybe we're angels, here to do God's bidding.
Mario: (with a look) And what about your idea to tell the world about us?
Luigi: Well, we couldn't be angels if everyone knew, now could we?
(He closes his eyes. Mario stands and speaks softly to him.)
Mario: I don't expect you to understand what I did to you. But I hope some day you'll forgive me.
(He gives his brother another kiss on the forehead. Then he turns and walks out.
We pan over past the sleeping Luigi, to the other side of the room, to reveal…Ganondorf standing there. Luigi wakes with a start and sees him.)
Luigi: You. You're the one who healed me.
Ganondorf: (with a smile) There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will. It seems you and I are meant for great things, Luigi. Great things indeed.
(Cut a hotel room somewhere. An important-looking guy watches a TV bulletin about Luigi's recovery. He has grayish skin and dark hair.)
Zant: (calling out) Hey Tetra! I think we've found our man.
Voice: Isn't that my job, Governor?
(The voice belongs to someone walking in from the other room. It's…Zelda. Or at least a woman who looks just like her. She wraps a robe around herself and comes up, seeing the bulletin.)
Tetra: What's his name?
Zant: Luigi Petrelli.
Tetra: (with a smile) I like him.
(Cut to a desert somewhere. D.K. lies unconscious on the ground as a scorpion crawls across his face. He wakes up and notices the creature. He brushes it off and stands up.)
D.K.: No.
(He looks around, not seeing anybody.)
D.K.: No! (He calls out) Is there anybody here?!
(We pull back to see nothing anywhere near him.
Cut to Tokyo at night. Marth and Roy walk through the street.)
Marth (translated): It was like she was moving at the speed of sound. It was amazing. (He thinks) But how did she know I was going to open the safe?
Roy (translated): I don't know. This whole thing is crazy. You could go back in time, ask your dad about the formula.
Marth (translated): No! I've learned my lesson. I'm never going into the past again. (He gets an idea) But I could go to the future. See how the world might be in trouble, so I can stop it.
Roy (translated): I don't think –
(Marth closes his eyes and the world shifts around him. He looks around as a siren blares. People are running through the streets in a panic.
Marth walks a little farther and sees a walkway going over the street. On it, (Future) Marth faces off against (Future) Roy, clad in a military-looking jumpsuit.)
Future Roy (translated): (with his hand out) Give me the formula, Marth!
Future Marth (translated): No! If you stop me now, the world will be destroyed!
Future Roy (translated): This is your last chance.
(Future Marth says nothing, but reaches back and draws the Anri sword from the sheath on his back. Future Roy pulls his hands back…and suddenly thrusts them forward, shooting red lightning out of them. It zaps Future Marth and he falls to the ground, unconscious or dead. Future Roy takes a slip of paper from Future Marth and walks off.
Marth watches this in astonishment. Then there's a huge boom. Marth looks out over the water to see huge clouds approaching the city. The power goes out everywhere and a shock wave rolls into the city. Buildings collapse and people scream. The shockwave tosses things into the air, including a car right at Marth. It nearly hits him when he closes his eyes…
…and the world shifts back to where and when he was before. Marth looks around wildly as Roy runs up to him.)
Roy (translated): Well? What happened?
Marth (translated): (with fear) We've gotta find that formula!
(Cut to a harbor in the Mushroom Kingdom. Diddy stands on a pier. He holds a syringe out over the water. But he doesn't drop it. He slowly brings it up and examines it, then…pushes it into his vein.
He gasps and pulls the needle back out. His heartbeat picks up and he collapses onto the ground.
Cut to Luigi's hospital room. Samus is sitting at his bedside when Mario comes up. She turns and gives him a look. He walks past, but Samus gets up and follows him into the hallway.)
Samus: What have you done with Mario?
(He gives her a look, slightly surprised, as she continues.)
Samus: The first power you exhibited – your dreams – you absorbed from me. I dream the future, and I knew you'd come. What you'd do.
Mario: If you can see the future, then you know that the formula you and the other founders tried to hide gets out. It destroys everything.
(Samus pushes him against the wall.)
Samus: (angrily) The only future I've ever seen is the one caused by you.
Mario: I changed it, though. Luigi doesn't have to die now.
Samus: That's irrelevant. By shooting him, you screwed everything up. Something different happens now. And it's your fault. (She pauses) Now. What did you do with my son?
Mario: I put him somewhere safe.
(Cut to a series of prison cells. On the wall is painted "Level 5." We see a tall orange fox pounding on the glass of one cell, yelling.)
Fox: I'm Mario Petrelli! I'm Mario Petrelli!!! Let me out!!
(We pan left. We see a fat man with a large mustache, clad in a straitjacket, and a tall blue and black dog-looking creature. He shoots blue flames from his paws at the glass of his cell. We start to pan back the other way.)
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
(We pan past the fox to see him still yelling. The guards are ignoring him.)
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
(In the cell to the right, we see Peppy bouncing his rubber ball against the wall. He hears the fox's cries and looks curious.)
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
(Cut to the Bennet house. Vivian and Slippy come in the front door. They see Peach sitting on the coffee table, crying her eyes out, devastated.)
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
(Cut to the desert. D.K. wanders up to a rock. On it is an image of the world breaking apart. The rubble from the split appears in a loose version of the circular symbol. D.K. looks at it in wonder.)
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight…
(Cut to a street. Mewtwo strolls down the sidewalk, a folder under his arm.)
…somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
(Cut to Luigi's hospital room. Luigi sleeps as Ganondorf sits next to him.)
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
(Cut to the hotel room. Tetra watches the bit about Luigi on the TV again.)
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
(Cut to the Mushroom Kingdom harbor. Two thugs come walking up to the passed-out Diddy.)
Thug 1: Let's get his stuff.
(Diddy stirs, coming to.)
Thug 2: Hey! Give us your money!
(Diddy slowly looks up. One of the thugs points a gun in his face and clicks it, loading it.
Quick as a flash, Diddy grabs the gun and twists it sideways. There's a crack and the man yells in pain. He drops the gun, which now has a severely bent barrel. Diddy leaps to his feet and grabs the other thug. He tosses him away and he goes flying through the air.
Diddy looks at his hands in wonder as the men scramble away. Diddy watches them and chases briefly, but stops. He looks back at his hands.
He continues to do so as we pan around. On the building behind Diddy is a painted mural. It's a copy of the painting of the world breaking apart.
Slam to black.)
New characters:
Future/Present Peter Petrelli – Future/Present Mario Petrelli (1st Smasher/38)
Future/Present Claire Bennet – Future/Present Peach Bennet (2nd)
Nathan Petrelli – Luigi Petrelli (3rd)
Matt Parkman – D.K. Parkman (4th)
Future/Present Hiro Nakamura – Future/Present Marth Nakamura (5th)
Future/Present Ando Masahashi – Future/Present Roy Masahashi (6th)
Sylar/Gabriel Gray – Mewtwo/Gabriel Giovanni (7th)
Mr. Muggles – Yoshi (8th)
Maya Herrera – Amy Herrera
Mohinder Suresh – Diddy Kong (9th)
Molly Walker – Mew Walker
Kaito Nakamura – Ike Nakamura (10th)
Mr. Linderman – Mr. Ganondorf (11th)
Governor Malden – Governor Zant
Tracy Strauss – Tetra Strauss
Angela Petrelli – Samus Petrelli (12th)
Noah Bennet – Peppy Bennet
Sandra Bennet – Vivian Bennet
Lyle Bennet – Slippy Bennet
A/N: For the curious, yes, the poem at the end was indeed "The Second Coming" by Yeats. Sweet stuff, eh? Let's keep it going! R/R and I'll be back soon!