*Old diary shows in the foreground. It slowly opens. Player can see the script.*
Script:
Day 1. Sunny. Our order got attacked by the extraordinary and malicious force. I've gone to investigate Warnet before she striked. I have noticed nothing out of its place so the location of the suspect is still unavailable for us.
Day 2. Foggy. Ternoxia got destroyed. Unbelivable! What kind of force can even violate the borders of the castle?!
*with a trembling hand* Day 3. Shadowy... My portal ...s ..oo po...ful t-to ke..p he..r. I just...need...to try it!
Day 4. Darky. The order has successfully locked the essence in some sort of parallel world. I don't know who touched my diary previous day.
Duoson: "Finally! He... she... no, it is now locked forever in the foreign kingdom! Hope she will learn a lesson or two!"
Ner: "Duo, I have some bad feeling after all that. She is too powerful even for us all."
Iyd: "Duo... This thing will never learn. I feel that we did something bad for the poor parallel universe with all these mushroom-like inhabitants."
Kam: "Duo, why haven't you captured their princess?"
Dix: "Duo, why have you denied me to remove the animation from her?"
Sir Edgus: "Duo... Destroying her actually would be better than just have her as a prisoner. She is just too dangerous!"
Srunx: "Duo, locking her on Aghora would be safer than..."
Duoson: *shouts* "SHUT UP, ALL OF YOU! I did what was right!"
Ner: "You are lucky that you have powerful artifact with yourself..."
*white sparkles around the screen. It is raining and there are lightnings everywhere. Player can see the giant fortress.*
Ner: *with the trembling voice* "Du... Du... Duo..."
Duoson: *sleepy* "What?"
Ner: *stressed* "She.. she... she has..."
Duoson: *yawn* "Tell that right in my face, don't be afraid..."
Ner: *loudly shouting* "She has escaped!"
Duoson: *very loud* "WHAT?!"
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Meanwhile, in Peach's castle...
Peach: *sad* "The days here became so dark! I can't sleep for the third night..."
*Thunderbolt strikes again. The door in Peach's room slowly opens...*
Peach: "Mario? Is that you?"
*Silence. The door opens and the shadowy being enters the room. It has the book in the shadowy hand. The book is called 'How to hack the royal world'. It quickly moves behind Peach's back.*
Being: "Obey me. Gu. Boo."
Peach: *fearfully* "G..get out from here, ghost! Get oooouuuuut!" *screams and runs away. Shade chases her. Suddently Bowser appears at the scene from his doomship and cuts the way of shade.*
Bowser: "Hold it right there! I am the ONLY one who can kidnap her! My right is official!"
Being: "Hack-thai-go-doh! *turns Bowser to the stone* Done. What a spike-shelled moron..."
*Peach managed to run to the Mario's house from the shade that chased her everywhere. She found Mario and Luigi sleeping. Strange figure was sitting at the table and writing something on the leaflet. It was Duoson.*
Peach: "Hey, who are you?"
Duoson: "Ah, your highness... Just in time. Sorry for the inconvenience I may cause but I want to explain all to those plumbers and you. Here, I've just finished writing. *leaves the leaflet near the bedstand* Now let's go away from here. *rapidly takes Peach's hand and uses bluestick to teleport away with her* After that Duoson falls unconscious."
*Some chants at the background. The leaflet appears...*
Leaflet: "Day 5. No! No! No! She has escaped! Why am I so unlucky? Why it happens to me? I'm going to use my last powers to handle this situation. I truly beg everyone who will read this one to find me in Aghora and help me to reunite the order before she will do something malicious. Please..."
*Leaflet turns around and goes away. Sunny morning. Duoson awakes in the bed somewhere in the order. Ner and Peach are entering the room.*
Ner: *worrying* "Man, you frightened us all! Using the bluestick twice..."
Peach: *resentfully* "He rescued me from the doom I can't even imagine!"
Duoson: *weak* "Whew... Morning already? Such a headache... Horrible."
Ner: *insulted* "For the name of Tegem, think about us too! What will we do without your leadership?!"
Duoson: "Hey, Ner, just calm down. I know my own power limits."
Ner: "But..but Duo! What have you thought about when you've casted the Bluestick twice?!"
Duoson: "Stop the childish mumbling, enough of that. I have just rescued the key to Alice."
Peach: "Wait a second... Have you just said Alice?"
Duoson: "The pesky being that hunts me down for trying to prison her and is the power of pure crack-thai. No hero can match her strength, so, I think, I've messed up a bit with that bluestick and casted mass teleportation to leave this shade in the void. The Mushroom Kingdom is now the island near Warnet."
Ner: "You're impossible, Duo! I'd better inform all that you are okay."
Duoson: "Then do so immediately!"
*Ner quits the room*
Peach: "Is Bowser now turned to the stone forever?"
Duoson: "No. He will recover after some hours. That's under condition if no magikoopa will meet him as a statue."
Peach: "Beating King Bowser just in one shot... That's crazy!"
Duoson: "She can penetrate and absorb every damage and her own body is just impenetrable."
Peach: "Where is she now?"
Duoson: "Fear not, princess. She is now somewhere deep in the void, planning how to escape to the world."
Peach: "Wait, kind person... I don't even know your name. That angel-like person said something about Duo. Is that you?"
Duoson: "Pleased to help, I'm Simplar Duoson, the leader of the Tegem order and the main force against malicious hacking."
Peach: "Whoa! So cheating and hacking are not just legends?"
Duoson: "Listen carefully. Every world you know is hardcoded by someone else. Tegem made this world and inhabited it with the hidden fortress. Little is known about the thing that is called 'developer'. Someone just plays with somebody, teleporting them from world to world. Alice is the kind of such a being that wants to get a revenge by hacking my own world. I'm still surprised how developers actually can send themselves here."
Peach: "Wait a second! That's too much brainstorming! Just please answer: our enemies know more than us? They said something about the boundless screen they are wandering..."
Duoson: "Exactly. Developers usually give more power to the enemies in every world. Warnet's developer is known as Balance Dominator. I'm adressing him with the bluestick. Even he can't punish Alice forever. She is just tricking him around with all that hacking. We're fighting for the existance of our own worlds."
Peach: "So... Alice is actually the demon?!"
Duoson: "Tell no one about that. That's the secret."
Peach: "You can trust me." *thinks* "Hmm... So, developer is the sort of very powerful force... Isn't he one of them? All those pyramids and all that shining..."
Duoson: "Very well. Now tell me everything that happened before the grim events." *thinks* "Silly girl... She thinks I can't read minds." *smiles*
*Black screen. The text appears.*
Text: "Two weeks later..."
*Text disappears. It slowly reveals the great seaside castle, Infover. The ship with a big crowd enters the dock. After that camera changes the view and player can clearly see Mario with many of his companions around him.*
Yoshi Kid: *trippingly* "Hey! We heard you keep princess here! Could you handle her back to us? Else it will be some long and brutal fighting!"
Elite Troll Guardian: *laughs* "Whack-a-hahahaha! Some kid wanna bring his small guts to the bitter defeat? LOL NOT FUNNY!"
Elite Troll Devourer: "ZROOM ZOOM GLOOM! Totally bad joke!"
Vladykan II: *from the wall* "What the sort of Scrappy Doo wants to beat the great Fulcrum? For your information, get outta here, no princess lives here, sassy schoolboy!"
Yoshi Kid: *impatiently* "Bring it on! Mario, lemme at them!"
*After some time Duoson appears from the tree hole near the port.*
Duoson: *shouting* "Are you trolling your guests, Vladykan? Don't you think they are too tough for you?"
Vladykan II: "Not your business, traitor!"
Duoson: "That's you who are greesy liar and greesy traitor!"
Vladykan II: "Hey, you, wanna more punishment?"
Duoson: "Just stop punishing them! Or I will..." *raises his bluestick*
Vladykan II: "Burn that ship! And take your nerdy puppies, traitor!" *trolls kick the whole party to Duoson. All the party is heavily injured.*
Duoson: "You know what? Curse you!" *drags the party in the tree hole*
*Black screen, then the slight revelation of the beautiful and shiny underground crystal town.*
Duoson: "I hope you all are feeling better now. If you seek the princess, I can help you find it. But before it I have some things to do. *accidentally casts his bluestick and falls again*"
Diary:
Day 7. I have recovered after the injury caused by the bluestick. I never thought that princess-rescuing takes so much power! I'm glad that I've got accepted well. I feel lucky for my own portal code to work! So much hacking before that... Amazing results.
Day 8. There is a rumor about the ghost somewhere in Forum Fields of Warnet. He suggests you to read his diary. If you will do so, he will curse and kill you. But someone said that there is the way to read the cursed diary and get out alive. As legend says, the one who will read the diary fully and won't be cursed by the ghost, will receive very useful and rare badge from him! As for me, I'd thought on how to get along with some other ghosts that are probably living in Boo's Mansion.
Day 9. Alice came to Warnet again. Even when I told them not to fight her, they've decided to test the fortune and came to the evil tower of that scum. If I haven't appeared in time, I'd lost all my party. And princess is missing. AGAIN! Now I..eh-hehe... well, WE must explore all the parallel worlds for Peach and Alice. Dang.
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