Remember when I said I was gonna do all the arcs at once?
Hahahaha.
I lied.
Yeah, uh, if I wait until I finish all of the arc's, it's gonna be bloody 2021, so let's speed it up! A little.
Also, these chapters may be a bit shorter because they now follow the episodes of Date A Live. Or a lot longer, depends on the word count.
"Bowser! Come back-a here!" Mario was chasing Bowser through the interdimensional vortex. He landed with his fist on a platform. Conviniently, on that platform, were all the Mushroom Inhabitants. Everyone's favourite characters and Luigi.*
"Oh. Hey guys."
They all waved at him awkwardly, and then Mario turned to face the flying Bowser.
"MARIO!" Bowser roared at him. "You have way too many companions with you!" He aimed Megiddo at the party. "Or," he aimed at the ground, "let this void decide your fate. I'll take that chance." He fired a huge laser fire blast at the platform and everyone fell towards their ultimate demise.
Mario looked up. "Guys! Incoming!" He pointed upwards and swam out of the direct attack of a spinning flaming shell. The shell popped out and revealed Bowser. "Well, you're quick! Let's see what happens when I cut your team apart?" The flaming weapon turned back into an axe. He swung his axe in the air as it tore a fabric-dimension-portal.
Bowser himself was surprised to see this along with everyone else. "Huh, that's weird... I don't think I have powers to open up wormholes..."
Rabbid Peach was the first to be pulled in due to her small size, and the portal closed. Many more opened with various vague images of the location of the portals, sucking in Peach, who had a dark tower portal, & Yoshi, who had a portal that looked like out of a fairytale book.**
"LUIGI!" Mario grabbed onto Luigi's hands.
"Bro! Mario! I won't.. let go..!" Luigi struggled. But it was no use, as he let go due to the sheer strength of the wormhole. The last image Mario saw was that the wormhole lead to some sort of school.
"BOWSER!" Mario turned. Bowser was actually being pulled in again, this time the wormhole leading to a city of some sorts. Mario realised all alone as the main vortex he was in slowly opened up to a brand new world, and a brand new city. Mario saw a certain peculiar character and dived after him in order to soften the blow for that particular character, as Mario knew him well.
And thus, the title of the whole story begins.
SUPER MARIO SEPHIRA!
Mario yelled out in his classic voice.
"Hooray! I love eating out for lunch! Thank you so much, bro!" Kotori, the twin-tailed pink hair from before, with her brother, Shido, was walking downtown towards the diner. They eventually arrived.
"Yeah, sure, anytime." her brother replied, taking in the sights.
"Okay, so after school, meet me in front of the diner!"
"Sounds good."
"And don't forget! Even if the place is attacked by terrorists, WE'LL STILL EAT!"
..she's overexaggerating.
"If that happens, I doubt they'll let us stay." Shido used realism, it apparently wasn't effective enough.***
So instead, he gave her a pat on the head. "I'll be here. Just have a good day at school, okay?" He let go as Kotori began running to her school. "Yeah, and after that, meet me here even if there's a spacial quake!" Kotori might as well have summoned 2012.
"Great! Now go to school already!" Shido waved her off, but his shoulder was touched uncomfortably by someone, and he turned around. "Hey Shido." The shoulder-toucher called out.
"Hey, uh, Tonomachi." In his sights was a teenager with spiky hair and with black eyes to suit his black hair, and already prepped for school.
"A simple hey is nice? Nice, but, we're going to SCHOOL! It's going to be awesome!"
"Glad you think school is good..." He walked with Tonomachi right behind him toward the school, in sight of three girls.
"Oh my gosh, is that Tonomachi with Shido?" One with spike-blond hair along with her eyes, in her uniform.
"I heard he swings both ways, hope that's not to poor Shido." Brown eyes and short brunette hair, also in uniform.
"That's so lame..." And one with long purple hair and purple eyes.
Ai, Mai, and Mii. The first girl turned to notice a short white-hair girl peeking from a lamp post and then she went away as soon as she was spotted.
"Are you okay, Ai?"
"I'm perfect, just saw Supergenius creepin'."
"That's so lame..." Seems the purple-hair one found her catchphrase. And then they walked to their school.
"WaaaaaaHOO!" Mario landed with his fist on the ground. He looked around, and saw a sort of diner in front of him. He let go of the person he was carrying. A bunny in a Luigi hat and green robes.
"Ah, Rabbid Luigi!" He thumbsed-up Rabbid Luigi.
"Bwah!" He also did a thumbs up.
"Okie-dokie. Where the-a heck are we?"
"Not so fast! YOU two will do nicely!" A mysterious voice perked up, quite an annoying one too.
"Capture: You will make nice models for our ninety-fifth competition: Bush trimming."
A set of twins...? Two with orange braided hair. One who's eyes were way too open and the other who was half-asleep. What weird clothing, with chains and keyholes wrapped around leather (and suggestive) clothing. One of the twins sported purple and the other blue.
"Uuuh, what's-a going on here?"
"Reassure: You will be used wisely when making models based off bushes." The robotic one assured Mario and walked to Rabbid Luigi. "Petition: Stand still."
Mario awkwardly looked at Rabbid Luigi before being dragged by the other twin.
"Now YOU! I demand you stand still so I can get a good look and trim this bush in the shape of you! Knowing Yuzuru, she can't trim a bunny as correctly as I trim humans!"
"Yuzuru?" Mario questioned.
"Scornful: Kaguya, this human has a big nose."
"Kag-Wh-hey!" Mario stuttered, looking angrily at Yuzuru, but then gave up. "Hrrrmph, what did you-a mean you had a ninety-fifth competition anyway?"
Kaguya looked at Mario and then spoke in a confident voice. "We're competing to see who's the best."
"Shoulda saw that-a coming..." Mario muttered, as Kaguya continued. "The winner will stay in this world, while the other will cease to exist! As you can see, it's pretty intense!"
"...Bush-a trimming doesn't seem that-a intense."
"It is when we have our life on the line!"
"Response: That is why we need you to stand still to make the perfect bushes."
"Fine fine." Mario agreed and Rabbid Luigi silently nodded as they stood still.
School had started. Normally, this would be doomsday, but Raizen High was the school that had an exception on that. Everyone was nice to each other, oddly enough. Bullies were scarce here which is even odder. Whatever works for Shido, works.
Year 2, and his designated classroom was Class 4. Nice. Shido took what every harem main protagonist takes on their first day of school: The back seat.
"Hey Shido." Oh great, Tonomachi's in the same room. "Isn't it great that we are in the SAME classroom together? Some say that fate or destiny has brought us together!" He flicked his hair as dazzling sparkle effects came from him.
"Sure it is." Shido replied, not wanting to deal with it. There soon followed an immense amount of awkward silence until Tonomachi's phone gave off a notification.
"Hold on a second, it's my girl." What news!
"Girl? Girl as in girlfriend?" Shido is the first to hear the news, apparently. Goodness knows what sorts of hidden talents Tonomachi was waiting to unleash upon the world. All his hopes were building up to this moment.
"Yeah, you wanna meet her?" He turned his phone.
Could it be the most beautiful woman on the planet?
A divine grace?
A warm character for all?
...
"That's a dating sim." Shido looked at the screen, it was an app called "My Little Seed" with a character that looked an awful lot like Kotori.
"Yeah, so? Don't judge me for having these tastes, okay?" Tonomachi protested. "This app will teach you everything you need to know on how to treat women! It's like a textbook for LOVIN'! This app is also famous for-" He rambled on and on.
"Shido Itsuka."
A white-hair girl uttered the half-asleep boy's name that brought him back to reality, he turned to the figure.
"Who, me?"
"Yes."
The white-hair girl looked him cold in the eye, and she did a pretty darn good job of intimidating Shido. "H-how do you know who I am?" He tried to break an uncomfortable amount of silence.
"You mean you don't remember?"
"Eeeeh..."
But the girl just sad down and pulled out her book, totally absorbed in it. Shido whispered to Tonomachi, "Am I supposed to know her?" and he replies "You should! That's Origami Tobiichi, also known as the Supergenius."
"Supergenius?"
"Yeah? She's always got near-perfect grades and I mean look at her! Gorgeous! On my list of 'Top 10 Women I'd Probably Have As A Girlfriend', she's never been out of the top THREE."
...Impressive... is all Shido had thought.
"It's strange enough that you don't know her," Tonomachi continued, "But more importantly, why in the world does she know YOU?" he turned to Shido.
"I wish I knew but I have no idea." That was the most logical conclusion he could make. But his thoughts were cut short as a chime sounded throughout the halls. It's the beginning of the school day. Everyone got up to greet their, thankfully not bald, teacher.**** Everyone cheered as one of the nicest was going to be taking them. A young appearance with light brown middle-length hair and cute thin-rimmed glasses.
Tonomachi was the first to praise her. "Oh heck yeah! It's Tamae!"
Tamae reassured Tonomachi, "It's Miss Okamine, please." Wow, most teachers would have erupted when students use their first name, but not this teacher, and she still remained as calm as ever. "Now everyone quiet down. I'll be your homeroom teacher this semester! I hope you're all excited to learn!" She said with a beaming smile.
Everyone clapped to welcome their new teacher, and Shido noticed that one wasn't clapping, and one who was staring directly at him - the same person who both wasn't clapping and was staring. Origami. "Origami Tobiichi..." His thoughts spoke. "Why does she know who I am? And why is she looking at me? This is so weird... What the heck is going on?"
A few.. couple hours... passed. Mario and Rabbid Luigi were still occupied by the strange twins and the school already ended. Time flies when you have fun, and it was true with this school: Tamae knows how to make stuff FUN.
Everyone was leaving with their bags, but Tonomachi and Shido stayed behind. "Hey Shido, wanna go home together?" Turns out Tonomachi is true about swinging both ways. Luckily, Shido is an excellent master at dodging things. "No thanks, I got plans." Tonomachi quickly caught on to Shido. "Oh yeah, is it a girl?"
He sighed. "Technically. It's just Kotori, though."
Tonomachi responded with a nice compliment. "Oh, I understand. As far as I know, there's not a single girl in this world who would have lunch with you!"
"...Thanks, but thaaaat was NOT a compliment."
ANOTHER moment of silence was interrupted by... uh oh, the Uh-Oh Alarm. Wait-no, a more sinister alarm.
"That's a spacial quake alarm!" Shido called out.
Tonomachi looked out the window. "We should go to the school shelter. Should be safe enough."
Shido noticed Origami going the complete wrong way. "Where's she going?" Maybe she wanted to end it all? Personal affairs? A luxorious shelter all to herself? There were a million possibilites, but the only SURVIVING one was to get to the shelter, in which he did.
"Aaah! Don't forget all your belongings!" Tamae was on the complete opposite side of calm now, she was freaking out HARD. "Don't run, don't push, don't-"
Tonomachi was the one who reassured her. "You MAY wanna take it down a skotch."
She calmed down, whew. "You're right, I'm sorry!"
Shido in the background was checking his phone. That's right, he made a promise to Kotori. "Oh, I just hope Kotori's not in front of that diner!" He thought as he waited for his little sister to pick up the phone in which he was currently calling her with.
"I'll be here even if a spacial quake happens!"
"Come on... She has to be fine! She HAS to. I bet the shelter she in just had bad reception," Gotta stay optimistic... "Or she has her phone on silent or something..." He stopped calling, and activated the GPS. "Just to be safe..." The GPS loaded, and her location is where Shido did NOT want her to be. The DINER.
Shido gasped, and ran and ran and RAN. Tonomachi tried to stop him. "Hey, wait!" But he kept running. Out the school and into the streets.
"Huh...?" Mario looked around, along with Rabbid Luigi. The two twins looked up as well. "What's-a that alarm?"
The energetic twin seemed to have known. "It's a spacequake alarm! If you don't get into a shelter, you'll be FLATTENED. Way to cut our competition short..."
"But it was-a three hours-"
The robotic one spoke up. "Conclusion: We declare this round a draw." The two figures poofed away in a hurricane-like fashion.
Mario looked at Rabbid Luigi, then angrily back at the sky. "Hmm. The last-a time something like-a this happened, Luigi got sepe-"
"Luigi."
"Bwah!" Rabbid Luigi pointed to the sky. Close to them, it was getting misformed.
"Come-a on, Rabbid Luigi! Maybe Luigi's in that-a misformed sky!" They both nodded and ran towards the spacial quake.
Shido ran towards the diner and not the quake. "Why?"
"Okay, bro, I love you!"
"Why...?!"
"Thank you so much, bro!"
"Why did she not just take shelter? The city's about to be destroyed and she's worried about a promise?!"
"Kotori... Kotori...! Kotori!"
He ran and ran, but it was too late. The impact struck like a natural disaster. Shido saw the light coming towards him and braced himself for his certain doom... But it never happened. He was still alive. He coughed and got up, and saw a massive crater in place of a diner. "Whoa, what-" He turned his sights to the other side of a crater.
And the other man turned his sights to the other side.
A schoolboy?
A fat chubby man?
But then they both turned to the centre, for there was something that struck their eye. A.. girl? And not just any girl, but someone unnatural. Long, dark purple hair? Purple eyes to fit the hair? She wore armor that is black and purple all around, and a poofy skirt to boot. Metal-looking gloves and boots too, this girl was impossible to be real.
Shido was the first to recover from his initial shock. "Is that.. a girl? What's she doing?"
No time for thoughts. She was also standing on some sort of golden throne. Almost like a princess. She reached her hands for the top of the throne and slowly unsheathed a SWORD. The sword was nearly twice her body. She swung one inch away from Shido. He dared not to look back at the crumbling buildings he could hear behind him. Almost like a sword beam from any RPG and-
"Not you too."
"Wh-" Shido was brought back to reality with the girl pointing her sword directly at him. This gave him a chance to look at her closely. The only word to describe her was an impossibly beautiful girl. She could be fun to have around if she wasn't going to kill Shido right then and there. Mario could only watch.
"So.. it's true.. you came here to kill me." That was brutal. Those could have been her first words. Kill. Kill. Die. I'll hurt you first.
"Ah!" Shido could only gape, as their first confrontation happens. The student and the princess. She needed a knight in shining armor. Shido got onto the ground and stuck his hand out in defense.
"Do not try denying you are here to kill me. I must kill you before the others show up."
Others?
"Wh-please don't kill me! I would never kill YOU!"
"What." The girl narrowed her gaze.
"I could never hurt anybody... Is that what YOU'RE here for?" Shido tried to talk, but the girl narrowed even more, almost to the point of shutting her eyes. She turned her head to the sky, and so did Shido. The day just got weirder when weird women in flying mechs came flying down with turrets and guns and all that. They fired on the princess, but she blocked with a mana shield.
"Why do they not realise the futility of their attacks?" She increased the pressure of the shield, causing the missiles to explode. Yes, they had missiles too.
"This isn't just any girl." No duh, Sherlock Shido.
The women homed in and the princess flew in the air (without any jetpacks or anything, it's like magic) and swung her sword horizontally, causing the missiles to explode beautifully.
"If she's that strong..." The girl turned to Shido, with an expression like she would cry. "Why does she look so sad?"
"Rabbid Luigi!" Mario called, with the called Rabbid looking at Mario. "Gimmie a boost! We need to save that princess!" Rabbid Luigi obliged and stuck his feet out. Mario collided his feet with Rabbid Luigi's. He leapt up with a massive "WAHOO!" The girls, the princess included, all turned to Mario in astonishment. Mario decided what side he was on. The princess' side. He swung his fist at one of the girls, her getting knocked back in the process.
"Ugh, dammit!" A black ponytail girl cried out. Must be the leader. She aimed her gun at Mario, and opened fire. The missiles homed in, and Mario saw it was too much, and he was running out of time before gravity imprisoned him. "Wah-!" But it was too late, the missiles hit and he was sent plummeting to the ground, with Rabbid Luigi catching him.
The princess landed on the ground, looking at Mario. But her sights were cut off by a troop aiming a massive gun right at her. She pulled out her sword, blocking out the blast, and cut off the gun. The white-hair troop gasped as the princess swung her sword to retaliate, luckily, the troop dodging. The troop landed next to Shido, and that she looked mighty familiar.
"Tobiichi?" Shido could only call out. Origami looked back at Shido, expression not changing.
"Shido. It's you."
"...Why are you wearing those clothes?" Probably not the best thing to ask. Those clothes were suggestive, but could withstand sword slices.
The princess swung her sword at Origami, Origami clashing with her own beam sword, the two glaring at each other. Rabbid Luigi watched in horror. Light came out from the clash, eventually blinding Shido and Rabbid Luigi.
"Finally. We meet again."
"Who... are you?"
Shido could only see the speaker's lips.
"I am so happy to reunite with you. I won't let you go again. I won't ever be wrong again."
"Soon."
Shido woke up with a blinding light in his eye. All he could do was get up and rub his eyes.
"Hm, it seems you are awake." Shido turned his head. What a sleepy woman, kinda unhealthy with those bags under her eyes. Pale blue hair and blue eyes. Everything about her seemed pale and unkempt.
"Er, who are you?"
"My name is Reine Murasame." She said, sleepy as ever. "I am the head analyst for Fraxinus. Do not be alarmed, first aid is hardly out of my league."
Head analyst? Thank goodness she isn't a penguin. *****
"Mura-Ah! My sister! I need to find my sister! She's waiting in front of the diner for me! I can't-"
"Your sister is alright."
"Huh."
Shido could only wonder at what Reine was on about.
"I am not best suited for this. Perhaps it is best if you ask the Vice Commander." She lead Shido out of the room and into another room with a bunch of monitors. This must be the control room where all the plot happens. Waiting for them was a blonde-hair man with brown eyes. Reine talked to him. "I brought him with me."
"Excellent." He replied. He turned to Shido. "Welcome onboard Fraxinus, Ratatoskr. I am Kyouhei Kannazuki. Vice Commander."
Shido looked at him for a minute, then turned to the Commander. It was Kotori.
Wait, what?
Kotori...?
"Kotori...?"
"Glad you could make it, bro! Like the idiot said, welcome to Ratatoskr." Kotori seemed completely unamused. "We not only have you, but we have a feeeew others." Kotori opened the door, and out came two figures. A chubby fat man with a big nose, amazing mustache, and mainly red clothing with a signature 'M' hat, and accompanied was some strange bunny-like creature with a green 'L' hat and green robes.
"Shido, I want you to meet Mario and Rabbid Luigi."
Shido blankly stared at them. That's right. They met before, when confronting the princess. Mario walked up to Shido while Rabbid Luigi was judgingly looking at Kotori.
"Hi?" Mario was the first to talk.
"...Er, hi." Shido replied.
There was a lot of uncomfortable silence. Kotori then spoke up and turned on the biggest monitor, showing the princess. "This is not a human, for it is a Spirit! All we know is that it's NOT of this world."
"It?" Mario questioned. "It's clearly a she."
Kotori continued, ignoring Mario. She switched screens. "The mecha women you saw in the sky are the AST. They try to eliminate the Spirit. Or, to put it lightly... Kill her."
"Kill?"
"You are here to kill me." the princess' voice rang through his head. "That's... wrong!" Shido continued more.
"Exactly, so I don't ask you to FIGHT the Spirit. I want you to go back to school as normal. I will give you instructions on what to do when school is over."
"Kotori, I-"
Kotori interrupted. "I'm not giving you a choice here. Your only option is yes."
Shido looked at her in awe, in which she simply ate her Chupa Chups.
"What were you doing in the streets anyway, bro?" Kotori asked. "Did you WANT to die?" Teasing now.
"No, I was looking for you because you promised you'd be at the diner!"
"I said that, but I didn't think you'd actually follow through. I forgot how much of a big idiot my big brother was-"
"But your location said you were at the diner!"
Kotori paused. "Huh. I guess you're right. Although technically we're ABOVE the diner."
"What." Shido had enough crazy for one day.
"Turn off the filter!" She commanded. The surrounding area went invisible, and they were 15,000 meters above ground, almost as if they could fall. Shido stepped back, as if that would do much.
"We're 15,000 meters above Tenguu City." Shido could only look down as his sister continued. "So, Shido, continue going to school as normal, and Mario..." She handed Mario a very familiar gun. A Bwahnzai Bill Blaster! "I want you to stall the AST. Fight back."
"And you, Rabbid Luigi." She turned to him. "I think you are already equipped." Rabbid Luigi nodded, pulling out his Bworb.
"Excellent. Fight back. Stall them."
"Save the princess."
Welp, I said it was gonna be shorter, but it's TWICE as long as previous chapters!
Early Yamai! Not everything here is copy-paste, y'know?
Yes, I use the Dub's lines. Please don't kill me. I just find the dub better. Now it's time for the references, and I will see you next chapter.
*rabbidluigi, a YouTuber
**Where all the characters are going to be introduced.
***Pokemon
****Baldi's Basics
*****Kowalski, from Penguins of Madagascar