Mario couldn't sleep, the rain outside battered against the Smash Tower like sun-rays to the roof of a car. It had been a long day, once again, Bowser had kidnaped the Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom, once again, Mario and his little brother, Luigi, had to go on a magical quest to save her and once again, the Princess, Peach Toadstool, was able to fight her way out of Bowser's castle herself, meaning Mario and Luigi had to make their way back to the Mushroom Kingdom with a boastful and proud Peach by their side.
There was a clap of thunder, but Mario was too tired to flinch. He just wanted the day to end. "Tomorrow's a new day," Mario said to himself. Then, before Mario knew it, he had fallen asleep.
It was the sound of church and clock bells that took Mario out of sleep, across all of Broa, every church and clock rang it's bells as make-shift bomb sirens. This happened every time the princess was kidnapped, it became almost a daily event. Mario sat up in bed, forced his window open and leaned out of it.
"WILL YOU SHUT UP!" he shouted at the top of his voice, "PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO SLEEP!" Then, there was a loud rapping sound at Mario's dorm door. The door burst open and a frantic Luigi dashed in.
"Mario!" screamed Luigi.
"I know, I know, the princess has been kidnaped," replied Mario, unamused, "I'll get dressed." Then, two more figures appeared in Mario's doorway next to Luigi. One was Mr. Sakurai, the leader of the Super Smash Bros. And the other was-
"PEACH?!" Mario cried when he saw the princess appear in his door way, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?! YOUR SUPPOSED TO BE KIDNAPPED, THAT'S WHY THE BELLS ARE RINGING RIGHT?"
"Get dressed Mario," Peach said in a stern voice, Mario hated it was she spoke like that, "once your done, Mr. Sakurai will take you and Luigi on the roof." Peach then walked out of sight, her pink cape flapping in the wind that had come through Mario's still open window.
"What the hell is going on?!" Mario asked, but no one bothered to answer him, not even Luigi.
Mario, Luigi and Mr. Sakurai took the elevator to the roof, as usually, the tense atmosphere died down once the elevator music started, but it immediately roared back to life when the doors opened. Sakurai, Mario and Luigi dashed out of the elevator, but Mario stopped when he saw what was waiting for them.
"Holy Mary, Mother of Joseph!" Mario shouted. There, sitting on the helipad, was an Arwing Bomber! They were much bigger than normal Arwings, designed for bombing runs, they were used frequently during the Lyat Wars over in Fox's dimension. The Arwing had been painted in Mario Bros colors, it's top painted red and its underbelly painted green.
"Is this for us?" Mario asked Sakurai.
"Yes," Sakurai quickly replied, "now get inside!"
"You still haven't told me what's going on?"
"Mario, you'll find out soon enough," Luigi told his brother.
"YOU TOLD LUIGI?" Mario shouted, "WHY CAN'T I KNOW THIS BIG SECRET?"
"JUST GET IN THE FREAKING PLANE!" Sakurai shouted, grabbing Mario with his only working arm and threw him into the Arwing's two-seated cockpit. Luigi climbed into the cockpit, not needing any outside help like his brother. The two men sat back-to-back as the Arwing's visors closed over them.
Then, Luigi realized something. "Do any of us know how to fly this thing?"
"Fox has been teaching me for a while now," Mario replied, looking at the controls confused, "First, we check the G-Diffuser." He looked for a diel on the control panel, one half was green, the other red. The needle was in the green area. Mario breathed a sigh of relief, he then reached for a red leaver with a post-it-note stuck on it reading, 'DO NOT PULL!' "Next we-"
Mario didn't get to finish his sentence as he pulled down on the leaver. The Arwing sprung into the sky like a frog! Both Mario and Luigi screamed as they ascended higher and higher!
"TOO FAST, TOO FAST, TOO FAST, TOO FAST!" Luigi shouted as the Arwing broke through the clouds! The fighter jumped above and below the clouds like a dolphin! "MARIO, STOP THIS CRAZY THING!" Mario quickly pushed the red leaver back down and the ship leveled in the air, finally returning control to Mario.
"See, we're fine, right Luigi?" asked Mario, looking over his seat to Luigi's.
Luigi didn't reply, he had fallen into a fever, repeating "TOO FAST!" over and over again. Mario slapped Luigi across the face, knocking him out of the fever. "Thank you, Bro," he whimpered.
"Luigi, tell me what the hell is going on?" Mario asked, "you, Peach and Mr. Sakurai woke me up from my well-needed beauty sleep, all of the island bells were ringing and now I can see a plum of smoke in the distance… wait, SMOKE?!"
It was pretty obvious that the only dark clouds against the blue sky would be smoke, and it was luck that Mario notices it when he did, because at that moment, natural dark clouds rolled in from the east. There was a storm coming, both figuratively, and literally.
Luigi sighed, "Mario, Mr. Sakurai didn't think it was wise telling you about this mission when we first got it because he was worried that you would freak out!" He took a deep breath and looked over his seat, straight into Mario's eyes. "Bro… have you ever heard… of the Terran Link?"
With a loud splash, another dam section was lowered into place. Dozens of large heavy-lifting helicopters were being used to quickly build a large dam around the city of New York. The dam was made of Bedrock and reached a height of thirty feet. It wasn't just New York, across the world, dams were hastily being constructed around almost all coastal cities the Earth had to offer. In Sydney, the Harbor Bridge was destroyed using controlled explosives (the bridge had been evacuated first) and in its place was another dam section. The Tower Bridge in London and the Brooklyn Bridge in New York both met the same fate.
After some painful trial-and-error, Mario and Luigi piloted the Arwing out of the clouds and towards the heliport of the headquarters of the United Kingdoms and Nations! The Arwing landed on the helipad with a loud metallic thud! The cockpit's visor rose up and Mario and Luigi jumped out, they could see the ever-growing smoke cloud in the distance. Suddenly, there was a clap of thunder and a bolt of yellow lightning struck a building in the distance! Mario's eyes widened with horror, that building was the north tower of the World Trade Center! Another golden bolt of lightning struck the building's radio antenna, there was a large black hole near the top of the tower, that's where the smoke was coming from. Fire-Planes and helicopters were dropping pink foam across the hole in a sort of 'hit-and-run' operation.
"Is… is that?" Mario stammered, trying to comprehend the sight that fell upon his eyes, "Isn't that the-"
"I'm afraid it is, Mario," Luigi replied grimly. There was a third lightning strike and Luigi screamed! Even when he was the 'guy who knows more then the hero', Luigi was still a hopeless coward. One of the Fire-Helicopters they had seen landed next to the Arwing, a fireman jumped out of the chopper and walked up to Mario and Luigi.
"You must be those 'Super Smash chaps' the British and the Japanese are so proud of," the fireman said, "I'm Tennent Duncan, fire chief." The three men then shook hands.
"Well, I'm Mario and this is my brother, Luigi," Mario replied, gesturing to himself then to Luigi, "What's going on? What's with the dam?"
"To be honest, I don't know what's been going on," Duncan answered, "all I know is a small plane lost control and crashed into one of the twin towers, might have something to do with the sudden change of weather."
Mario looked back at the Trade Center, the smoke had now totally blended in with the black storm clouds above. "That couldn't have been a small plane," he said. There was another flash of golden lightning, this was the fourth one. "GET INSIDE!" Mario screamed!
"What? Why?" Duncan asked as Mario herded him and Luigi in to the Secretariat Building of the United Kingdoms and Nations' H.Q.
"Mario, what's going on?" Luigi asked, "Oh… so that's what it feels to not be in the know."
"Not the time, Luigi!" Mario cried, "it's going to blow!"
"What's going to blow?" Duncan asked.
"Oh, the Empire State Building," Mario replied sarcastically, "NO YOU IDIOT! I MEAN THE TOWER! THE TOWER IS GOING TO BLOW!"
Mario was horribly right! The remaining windows of the north tower shattered floor-by-floor! Aircraft surrounding the complex (Firefighters, Police, Air Doctors, Coast Guards and News Choppers) instantly knew what this meant and backed off! People on the ground were forced back by Police and Firemen, they could only watch helplessly as the north tower twisted and buckled! There was a fifth loud and violent lightning strike, the tower was consumed by a bright yellow light! Across the world, the events were being aired on TV live!
On Horsell Common, the same type of clouds were forming over the park. The radio tower suddenly exploded as a lightning bolt (this one red) struck it, melting its metal frame! Just like in New York, four more lightning strikes hit the sand pits of the Common before the entire patch of land was consumed in a red light!
Back in New York, the light cleared. The police, firemen and civilians looked at the space were the north tower once was. Now, there was a long beam of yellow light busting out of the ground and rising up into the sky! Several dozens of people lay around the light, dazed but alive. They were the people inside the tower during its destruction!
There were an estimated 3,000 people lying around the tube of light. Quickly, firemen helped paramedics climb down the newly created crater to retrieve the people. The south tower was, shockingly, still intact, despite some large burn marks on its right side and a few shattered windows. Then, there was a loud roar, followed by a boom! The middle of the second tower was engulfed in flames!
The time was 9:03AM!
Mario, Luigi and Fire Chief Duncan watched the scene unfold with horror and wonder! The beam was so bright, that they didn't see the explosion in the south tower from where they were standing!
"What- What the hell was that?" Duncan asked.
"I don't know, fire chief," Mario quietly replied, "I really don't know."
"This just in. You are looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there. That is the World Trade Center and have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center.
"CNN Center right now is just beginning to work on this story, obviously calling our sources and trying to figure out exactly what happened. But clearly, something relatively devastating happening this morning there on the south end of the island Manhattan.
"That is, once again, a picture of one of the towers of the World Trade Center."