Mario woke up the next day feeling tired since he had been drifting in and out of sleep ever since the dream.
Luigi was concerned for him, he didn't think that this was shrooms anymore.
"Mario, are you okay? You seem, unsettled." Luigi asked, hoping this had nothing to do with Mario's dream.
"I didn't sleep much last night Luigi, after the dream I kept trying to figure out if it was real and what it meant," Mario replied in a sleepy tone.
"Oh Mario, you have to let it go, it was just a bad dream, we all have them."
"NO, LUIGI YOU DON'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND, this felt almost as real as this conversation, it was not a dream. Believe me or don't, I no longer care, I'm going to try and warn someone who will listen to me."
"What, Mario I have no idea what you are doing, but I can see that I can't convince you of anything now, so go, I'll talk to you at the smash tryouts."
Mario stormed off to go find someone who would listen to him as Luigi decided to let it go and just get ready for the tryouts.
"Why is he so sure of this, it was just a dream." Luigi wondered aloud while leaving the house to go the tryouts.
When Luigi arrived at the stadium entrance he looked at the time and was surprised to see that so many people had arrived already.
"Wow, Sakurai invited way too many people this time, and I thought that the 100 people at ultimate were too many even if only 74 got in," Luigi said while gawking at the sheer size of the tryout arena this year.
The arena was huge, it was over two football fields in length and almost fifteen stories in height. There were over 200 people that had shown up for the tryouts, and that's only the people competing. There was also around fifty-thousand spectators in the stands ready to watch the matches.
"HEY! Luigi! Over here!" Someone shouted from Luigi's right.
Luigi turned to see who had called his name and saw Daisy standing next to Peach, Yoshi, Rosalina, and the rest of the Mario characters that were competing in the tryouts this year.
"Hey guys, have any of you seen Mario today?" Luigi asked while approaching.
"No, we thought he would be with you." Peach replied.
"Yeah, you and him always come to the tryouts together, why isn't he with you this time?" Daisy questioned.
"Well you see," Luigi responded. "He had this dream last night and he thinks its real, I obviously said it was just a dream and that he was overreacting. He didn't take it to well and stormed off to talk to someone who would listen and not just call it fake."
Everyone looked at each other for a bit, trying to make sense of what Luigi had told them.
"Well, I overheard someone talking about something similar over in the Kirby section of the competitor's area." Yoshi finally said.
"OK, I'll go check there in a bit, first I want to know what new people we got representing our world," Luigi said.
"Well we are expected to have at least seven new competitors from our world but as of now we only have Waluigi, Toad, and Nabbit," Rosalina said pointing at the three she mentioned.
"The others should be here soon but I doubt they will show up in time," Wario commented.
"OK, tell me if they get here, I'm gonna go try to talk to Mario," Luigi said while walking away.
As Luigi walked over to the Kirby section he searched for Mario and found him standing next to Kirby.
"Hey Mario, the tryouts are going to start soon, come on over to our area," Luigi yelled while walking towards them.
"Oh, hey Luigi," Mario said much more calmly then Luigi had expected. "I was just talking to Kirby here about how we had very similar dreams last night. I'm starting to think we should call off the tryouts since something bad might happen."
"What! Mario are you crazy!? We can't cancel the tryouts, this is one of the biggest events all over the worlds, it would be insane to even try and cancel it!"
"OK, well I'm still going to warn Sakurai about this, we need to at least be prepared."
"Fine, just don't be late, you need to meet the seven new competitors."
Mario went off to the announcer booth to talk to Sakurai but Luigi stayed in the Kirby section to talk to Kirby and see what Mario had told him and if he really had a dream similar to Mario's.
"So Kirby, what were you and Mario talking about?" Luigi asked.
"Well Mario just wanted to talk about a dream he had, it's quite strange, the dream was very similar to mine, the only difference was obviously that I was in my dream on Great Cave Offensive instead of him on Mushroom Kingdom U," Kirby explained.
"Interesting, I'm still not convinced that this isn't a just a coincidence, do you know of anyone else that had a similar dream?"
"Well I don't know of anyone else that had a dream like mine but Mario did say that he wanted to ask around a bit more."
"Okay, thanks for telling me about this," Luigi said while waving and walking back to the Mario section.
Luigi needed to ask Mario if he could join him in walking around and asking people if they had a dream like his, he still needed proof that this wasn't just a weird coincidence.
"Ah, there you are Mario! If you want to go ask people if they had a dream like yours then we have to go now since the tryouts start in a half hour." Luigi said when he finally found Mario.
"How did you know I wanted to ask people if they had a dream like mine?" Mario questioned.
"Kirby told me."
"OK then, let's go! I want to check the Legend of Zelda section first, it's got a high amount of people in it, and none of them are spiky haired anime boys!"
"Great! We'll head over there now, we can't waste any time!"
As Mario and Luigi went to every section of the arena they found that the main hero of almost every world had a similar dream, they also found that most of them seemed to just think it was a dream. The only worlds that didn't have anyone who had a similar dream were Wii Fit, Duck Hunt, and Game and Watch.
"Interesting, it seems that the heroes of most major worlds had a similar dream. I think you were right all along Mario, it wasn't a dream!" Luigi said after they had visited everyone.
"Took you long enough to believe me," Mario said.
"Since it seems to be real we need to be careful, however, I don't think that this attack will take place today, the tryouts only have competitive stages and your dream happened on Mushroom Kingdom U."
"Good point, just keep a lookout for anything out of place."
During their conversation, Mario and Luigi heard the announcer make the first announcement of the day.
"Attention all fighters and spectators! We will be starting the tryouts in five minutes!"
"Oh crap! We got to get to the prep area underground so you can meet all the new fighters from our world!" Luigi said while dragging Mario to the stairs.
