You... Didn't get the reference? Go see Back to the Future, right now! Go ahead, I'll wait...

Ah, you're back. So, you know about the car now? Good! Let's begin!

"This is not happening... This is not happening..." Mario muttered to himself as he ran to the outskirts of Mushroom Town. He stopped for a moment to catch his breath, looking back at the Mushroom Castle fading on the horizon. "Okay, this might be happening."

"Oh, it's happening, alright."

He spun around. A cloaked figure stood, looking menacing. "Hello."

"Uhm... Hello..."

"You're probably wondering who the heck I am, right?" He nodded. "I thought so. Well, I don't exactly have a given name, but most people call me Father Time. I monitor and control the course of time. You, my friend, are in a heap of trouble." He paused, summoning what looked like a crystal ball. E. Gadd appeared in the crystal. "Do you know this man?" He nodded again. "Yes, Professor Alvin Gadd. He interrupted the course of time by creating this machine." The time machine appeared in the ball. "Now, I could return you to the year 2000, and this whole mess would be gone, but that's no fun, is it?"

"It might be," Mario suggested.

"Heh, no," he replied, slightly amused. Slightly. "So, I think it might be fair to warn you. Don't mess with the time line. Don't change anything." He got a puzzled expression. "Seems like you might've changed something already. Look at your hand."

Mario did so. He could see right through it to the ground! "AUGH! What's going on?!"

"Well, first, you might want to go back to the future sight of Gadd's home, maybe tell Annabella to release security, that way she will be killed."

"Why would I let her die?"

"Well, either let her die, or never see Peach or, for that matter, anyone, ever again. The choice should be simple." With a sweep of his cloak, he disappeared, leaving Mario dumbstruck and wondering.

He decided what to do, and turned and ran back to the Mushroom Town.

--

"So, how do we go about doing this?" Peach asked.

"First, we have to extract the Time residue from the existing machine. Then, we must carefully, carefully, remove the wires and attach them to the car. Then comes the hard part." Gadd made a small note on a piece of paper. "We have to find a substance strong enough to resist the pressure of time travel. Steel won't do... Iron would melt..."

"How about something made from both?" Luigi suggested.

Gadd snapped his fingers. "That might work! Steel's ability to resist fire and Iron's to stay standing just might dilute the pressure!"

"R-really?" Luigi stuttered. "OK, then."

"But how would we get the two to mix together?" Peach asked.

"Hm... Perhaps I could invent some sort of device that fuses things together... Of course, that would take months, maybe years-"

"E. GADD!"

"Oh! Sorry."

Hm. I... KIND OF like it. What do you think?

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