Chapter 1: Origins
Our story starts to take fold on Earth, a planet in the dimension that we all live in. Our hero is Matthew Engstrom, a smart boy who could probably use some (and by that I mean a lot of) exercise, he is an avid gamer & an anime fan. He has long brown hair, rounded rectangle glasses, is quite skinny (if only thanks to his metabolism), & is almost always seen wearing his black thick coat. His tale starts on August 20th, 2011. His summer before 9th grade is starting to end, but he has no idea what adventures he will get involved in.
August 20, 2011, 1:17 pm, Location: A campground near Redmond, WA.
A white Suzuki pulls up at the campsite. In it is the Engstrom family. Our hero is the eldest son. They are here to relax for a weekend before school starts. After setting up the tents, Matt said, "I'm going for a walk, I'm still kind of sore from the car ride."
"Okay. Make sure to be back by 5:00 for dinner."
"Got it. See ya later." One hour after leaving to take a walk, Matt noticed something weird. "What's that smoke pillar? There isn't a fire, is there?", he wondered. When he went to where the smoke was coming from, he saw a nuclear power plant. He stood in disbelief wondering why there would be a power plant right next to a campsite. "You would think a safety inspector would have noticed this", he thought. At around this time, inside the plant, a scientist was having trouble with a chemical solution. He was dealing with a solution that was highly unstable, & the wrong move could cause it to explode. Unfortunately, that move just happened to be him adding a drop of magnesium to it.
Outside the plant, Matt was about to go in to ask about it when, about a second after he started walking toward the plant, it exploded. Matt was so close to the plant that he couldn't escape the blast. It burned his skin & he felt as if his DNA was being torn out of him. If you want to know what that feels like, hit yourself with a DNA splicer because gods know I don't. After about 15 seconds, the pain made him fall unconscious.
Time & date: unknown, Location: Unknown
After waking up, Matt found himself on a bright green field. He remembered what happened & shuddered. He wondered if this was heaven, for he thought he died. After all, who survives a direct hit from a chemical explosion? Then he noticed something that struck down that theory. He saw turtle-like creatures that were throwing seemingly endless hammers at a fat man with overalls, a red shirt, & a red hat. "Am I in the Mushroom Kingdom?" Matt asked himself. As if to answer that question, Bowser, the villain of the aforementioned Mushroom Kingdom, showed up with a kidnapped princess shouting, "Help me Mario!"
After realizing what was going on here, Matt saw that the red clothed man, who anyone who knows anything about video games would recognize as Mario, was having a hard time with his foes, the infamous hammer brothers. Matt also noticed that he felt more powerful than before, so he decided to help. Matt ran underneath the floating block that one of the hammer bros. was on, knowing how you killed them in the games, & jumped up to break said block. He was successful on defeating that one, but the other noticed, & it started to blow a whistle. The whistle turned out to be a warp whistle that summoned reinforcements. The new enemies were a slew of goombas, sumo bros., whomps, & a lakitu. Matt decided to yell out two words, causing the fight to really begin. Those two words were, "OH CRAP!"
To be continued...