Meanwhile, in the sleepy town of Sunport, 4 kids were hard at it playing Super Mario Bros. U and were chatting excitedly; the first one Matt said "Man, I can't wait for the annual game competition at town hall!". His friend Mona agreed and asked the other two, Rollo and Alf on their opinions. "I just want to take home the 1st ribbon this year for highest score on Q*bert" answered Rollo. Alf, who wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, replied "I want to build the biggest dirt house in all of Minecraft!". The other 3 looked at him, with a bit of disbelief, and then quickly dismissed it when Matt's dad, Mr. Thomson walked in. He worked for the Federal Department of Surveillance, and often told his son about his many adventures, but this time he said nothing and walked into the basement. "That's odd, he didn't say a thing to me, I wonder why, come on guys" he called as the rest got up to follow. They quietly sneaked downstairs stairs and caught Matt's father near an old bookshelf filled with encyclopedias. He tugged on the last book on the bottom row, and the bookshelf swung to the side revealing an elevator, Mr. Thomson stepped inside and disappeared from view. "Let's follow him" said Mona. "Are you crazy?" asked Matt "Do you know what trouble we could get in?!". Mona wasn't listening she had already walked down and pulled on the book, the elevator appeared and she turned and said "You scaredy cats coming or what?" The boys had no choice they followed her into the elevator and started down. After a few minutes the elevator stopped and they came into a massive underground room. They went and hid behind some barrels. They saw that Mr. Thomson was talking to a man via webcam. "Are you sure he has them captive?" he said to the man. "Yes, and even worse he got the location of the pipe from them, if his plan's go into effect he'll have a army that can take not just this country, but the world as well!" replied the man. "What do we do?" asked Mr. Thomson. "I'm afraid we have no choice but to enact Plan X-7R13" the man told him, "Of course you know what that means for your son?" "Yes, I do" replied Mr. Thomson sadly. Matt was so surprised he jumped out from behind the barrels and asked "Dad, who is that man? What means what for me? And why is it now, when the game competition is this weekend?" His dad was in shock, but he recomposed himself and told the rest of his friends to come too, as they would have eventually heard this anyway. "This country and perhaps this world is in great danger, a bad man is trying to harness the power of what you call warp pipes to take evil beings from another dimension here to take over the place, this man is my boss, Silas Johnson". "But dad, warp pipes don't exist, there from the Mario games" Matt said. Mr. Thomson said "No Matt, it's real 98% of all video games are real, except games that are based off movies and TV shows, they are all in one dimension and can be accessed via warp pipe here on Earth. Video games are a way to view this universe without causing it any harm, two men who are protectors of the realm have been captured and well…..""Well what dad, tell us!" shouted Matt. "Well, the games they serve another purpose….they analyze the players skill and send it back to the group of protectors of that realm, so that way they know who they can recruit and I must say they have had their eyes on you and your friends for that past year, I just never hoped you had to go." replied Mr. Thomson. "But it is a big honor you 4, you'll be saving the World if this man proceeds, but we want you all to take him out he's on his way to the pipe now, so what do you guy's say, do you want to become explorers of the magical realm?" asked Silas.
They could not believe what they just heard but, they knew if what the two men had said was true, then bad things were coming to this world, so they shouted "YES! WE WILL"