Sabie: YES!!! SMRPG FIC!!! MALLOWGENOMALLOWGENOMALLOWGENOYAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aika: OO You're really starting to scare me now.

Sabie: And with a new fic, comes more additions to the favorites cage!

Mallow: It's not so bad in here, besides not being fed.

Geno: Speak for yourself.

Aika: Sabie does not own SMRPG or the Mario series. But she does own herself and her character here.

Sabie: MALLOW!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!

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The girl tensed up as Smithy prepared his attack. Out of Mario, Bowser and Mallow, only Bowser remained, she was out of pick-me-ups, and Smithy was in the 90's for HP. By some miraculous fluke, Bowser survived the blow with 10 HP left, and struck the boss with more that enough power to take him down.

Kate breathed a sigh of relief, pushing her brown hair back as the ending scene played. It was the 5th time she had beaten the game, using a different party each time for the final boss.

This was by far her favorite grouping: Mario was mandatory, Bowser stood by with good attack power, and Mallow... well, she couldn't help but like the little puffball. He had that kind of personality that told you everything was okay, that you were a somebody.

"I wish I was a somebody." She sighed to herself, putting the game away to wait until after her walk. Even though she had a great family, there were times when she just hated life. She was overweight, she needed glasses for things like reading and school, which was where most of her problems lay. Looking like she did- and liking video games and manga no less- had instantly made her invisible girl when she started high school.

In fact, games and manga were often her only escape from her self, taking her away to where she could be anyone. She didn't care what anyone thought about her after hearing a speech from a Skies of Arcadia character, or rushing through a level as Sonic. They were her sanctuary.

"Speaking of games..." Kate had to get to the video store before it closed to return her games, before the fines wiped out her savings. Pulling a blue sweater over her Nintendo t-shirt, she slipped on a pair of sneakers, stuffed SMRPG and Paper Mario into her backpack, and ran out the door.

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Kate walked down the street, looking up at the sky. No matter what she tried, she just never seemed to fit in. She had tried everything short of dressing like everyone else, and strangly, that seemed to be what mattered. It wouldn't work, though. She didn't know what it was, but it felt like she just... didn't belong in this world. But that was silly, where else could she go?

Nowhere. That was the problem. She was usually happy until she got to school, when she was ignored and always left behind. She tried, she really did, but she never seemed to change that one fact. Home was better, but there were still time when that doubt would run though her thoughts. Too slow, too weird, too... weak. Everyone around her always seemed to be stronger. No one else cried when they couldn't do that stupid fitness test, or got frustrated on a tough science question.

She gave a long sigh. "I wish I could be stronger. I mean, I have a better life that most other people, why do I feel like this? I'd just like to give up, but... I can't. None of my favorite characters give up, and that's why I admire them. But it's so hard..."

Kate gave her head a shake. "I've got to snap out of it." She mumbled to herself. "I can't keep getting hard on myself, or I'll cry again. Besides," In an attempt to cheer herself up, "It's a great day! The sky is clear, The sun is shining, a giant sword is coming out of the sky-WHAT THE SPORK!!??

She blinked a few times to make sure she wasn't hallucinating, but it was still there. A giant sword, so large the entire population of her high school could stand on it, was falling from the sky and looked like it would land in the middle of main street.

"What's going on here?" Kate cried out, completly and utterly confused. Then she thought, "Where have I seen that before?" when it clicked.

It was impossible. But then, any other reason would be even more unlikely, so it had to be true.

Exor. The sword monster in Super Mario RPG. The thing that shattered the star road, crashed into Bowser's keep and set one of her favorite games into motion.

And it was about to hit Earth.

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Well, that was the first chapter. Do you like? Great! Do you not like? Tell me how it could be improved! Any flames will be given to the local pyromaniac.