The closer we got to the castle, the bigger the lightning strikes got. It got to the point where Mario called out to us "Run!".
We sprinted toward the castle doors. Mario and Luigi matched speed in front of me. We got closer and closer, with more and more lightning hitting the ground all around us. It was terrifying, to say the least. My hair started to stand on end and my skin was starting to tingle. Mario and Luigi both jumped at the same time into a sort of drop kick super jump, hitting the door and opening it with a crash. I had just barely slipped through when the largest lighting bolt I had ever seen in this world or my own crashed down right behind us. Mario and Luigi slammed the doors a second later. It was aweful. The smell of ozone was strong and my hair hadn't gone down to normal. I was panting, out of breath... But the brothers seemed fine. "Is this a normal occurance?!" I gasped at them. Mario raised an eyebrow and Luigi nodded.
I was flabbergasted. This was way worse than anything I could have thought of. Way worse than the normal meat head Morton Jr. was portrayed as in the games. This was bad. There was real danger here.
Mario looked at me, understanding the danger I was in. He walked over to me, picked me up off the ground, and looked me in the eye.
"You will not be fighting Morton. It's too dangerous. But you will still have a job to do. You have to find where the power to this place comes from and disable it." Mario pulls out a fire flower from his pocket. "Use this and blow it up. We don't want Morton waking up and blasting us to smithereens!". I nodded solemnly. This was obviously an all too important task, too. I just had to trust that these two were going to take down Morton Jr.