When Mario was finally able to open his eyes, he saw that he was in a gray mountain pass. The sun was no where to be seen as the rain clouds were starting to roll in. Mario slowly got to his feet. Where was he? Last thing he remembered was passing out. He looked around, remembering Lucas passed out too. But where was he? The rain started to come down as Mario started to run. He didn't know where he was going, right now, he didn't care. He had to get out of the rain. That's when he saw something. It was a building. Mario ran inside, closing the door behind him. He panted, a bit wet. He didn't notice the girl behind him.

"Who the hell are you?! What are you doing here in Nightmare Ridge?!"

Mario spun around, seeing the girl. She had long blonde hair in a red ribbon tying it into a high ponytail, green eyes, with a golden necklace around her neck, wearing a pink long sleeved blouse with white ribbons drifting off of the sleeves, a white purse with pink zippers, black jeans, light pink socks, and white running shoes.

Mario waved his hands and stated, "Hey, listen! I didn't mean to come here, I just passed out!"

The girl huffed, "You idiot, don't you know that this is where your nightmares go?!"

Mario kept his hands in front of him as he yelped, "Yes but I didn't think anyone was here in this building!"

She was about to toss Mario out when she heard a knock at the door. She walked over to the door, grabbing Mario's arm. Mario yelped in surprise about her strength, being dragged over to the door. She knocked back twice, hearing three knocks afterwards. Mario raised an eyebrow. The girl, however, gasped as she opened the door. Standing there, was Lucas, holding his bleeding right arm.

He breathed, "Alex..."

Alex yelped, "Get in here, Lucas!" Lucas entered the building, Alex closing the door behind him. Lucas didn't see Mario yet. She asked. "What the hell are you doing here, Lucas?! I thought you weren't coming back yet!"

Lucas sat on the ground as he groaned, "Yeah, well, not exactly my idea to come." That's when he saw Mario, gesturing towards him. He added, "What's he doing in here?"

Alex looked at Mario and then at Lucas as she explained, "He just barged in here, Lucas."

Mario defended, "Yeah, to get out of the fucking rain!" He turned to Lucas and told him, "Tell her I'm with you, Lucas!"

Lucas groaned in pain as he replied, "He is with me, Alex. Calm down, okay? He didn't know this was our temporary base."

Mario looked around the cabin, seeing that it was mostly empty, and asked, "Wait, a temporary base for Kids Network Studios?"

Alex wrapped Lucas' arm the best she could and sarcastically answered, "Tell the whole fucking world, why don't you?"

Lucas sarcastically stated, "Don't worry, he is on our side."

Mario shot them looks and replied, "There's no need for fucking sarcasm."

Alex told him, finished with Lucas' arm, "Listen, our leader has been captured. The original base destroyed. Half of the team is trying to get to the second in command to safety. I'm just glad that you weren't apart of their fucking game of trying to kill us!"

Mario was very attracted to Alex as he flirted with her, "Sorry about that, baby... I didn't mean to scare you."

Lucas hissed, "Hey, stay away from my little sister."

Alex waved Lucas off and promised, "Don't worry, Lucas. I can handle him."

Mario wigged his eyebrows seductively as he purred in her ear, "You can handle me anytime, baby..."

Alex looked annoyed, shocking him with a silver electricity. Mario fell to the ground, a bit paralyzed. Lucas walked over to Alex, looking over Mario.

Lucas commented, "Not bad, sis."

Alex stated, "Thanks bro." She looked at him and teased, "Sure he isn't a bad guy? You sure we can't just toss him outside?"

Lucas sighed in annoyance and replied, "I'm sure. We need to get back to Mushroom Kingdom, save Peach, and maybe I can come back afterwards to help."

Mario was quick to recover after hearing that. He sprung to his feet, looking at Lucas.

He asked, "Wait, we aren't staying to help Alex? Your boss is in danger, man. You don't want to help? And what attacked you?"

Lucas answered, "What attacked me were more of those drones that have been trying to flush us out. We can't stay here, even if we wanted to."

Alex groaned, "Great, you might have lead them here..."

Mario questioned, "So what does this mean? We have to leave?"

Lucas explained, "You and I have to leave Nightmare Ridge. Alex is the one staying here."

Mario huffed, "You aren't even going to help her?! You are supposed to be the hero!"

Alex rolled her eyes as she pointed out, "In case you hadn't noticed, red capped man, I can pretty much can fucking handle myself."

Mario sneered and sarcastically replied, "Are you two aren't related?"

Lucas warned, "Don't try it, Mario."

Just then, the front door burst opened. Lucas, Mario, and Alex all looked. They saw three or four robots there. They were all tall, had dark red bodies, they were heaver in the chest, their head was small. There were a symbol on the chest of the robot that almost looked like a dragon.

Alex breathed, "Crap..."

Mario was in shock as he asked, "What the fuck are they?!"

Lucas answered, "The reason we have to leave. Those are sent by Prometheus, the group that is hunting the members of Kids Network Studios."

The one robot stated, "We have finally found Alexandra Jill Silverstein and Lucas Jeremy Rossi."

The second robot replied, "Looks like that they have recruited Mario Gregory Manfredi Junior."

Mario started to say, "Actually, I didn't agree to..."

Alex grabbed his hand as she commented, "Don't argue, no time. Let's go!"

Lucas stated, activating his green electric wings, "Took the words right out of my mouth."

With that, the three of them ran out. Lucas took off as did Alex, carrying Mario with her. The robots destroyed the base in their retreat.

Wishmaker1028: This is why we listen to Lucas, Mario. This is why. Please read and review! And always think outside of the box!