As Mario was flying across the sky he took one last look at the final resting place where Magikoopa's body lay and could not help letting out a few tears. For some strange reason, Mario felt like time had sped up. Mario flew in the sky in silence for a while staring at the fire ball which rested over what seemed like a castle. Finally Mario was approaching the Fire Ball, he could see that fire ball indeed rested above a castle. The land and the castle were separated by a long concrete bridge. Below the bridge was nothing but darkness that seemed like it would go on forever.
"Mario, you have exactly 60 seconds to get to the castle below the fire ball," said the figures voice. Mario could not believe it. He had 60 seconds left to get to the castle?! If he remembered correctly, Mario still had about 24 hours to get to his destination. "Mario, what's wrong?" "You seem very confused." "Do you not know what just happened?" "Let me explain." "While you were fighting Magikoopa, at one point his staff made contact with your stomach didn't it?" "That was his time travel technique, a very unique technique that only few people have." "It requires a time staff to perform." "If it makes contact with another being, time will travel at incredible speed causing pain to the one it made contact with." "Even though it seems like you just met and fought koopa just minutes ago, you actually fought him 24 hours ago." "Now then, I suggest you come to the castle if you want to see Peach again, you have 30 seconds left."
With this Mario forced the staff to land at full speed. 20 seconds left. He was now running towards the bridge. 15 seconds left. The bridge seemed miles long. It was now crumbling, and Mario picked up the speed. 10 seconds left. Mario was almost there; as the bridge crumbled down to the darkness Mario made a leap of faith and made it to the front gate of the castle. 5 seconds left. The gate was closing, Mario ran like his life depended on it. 1 second left. He jumped as far as he could and made it in by an inch.
Mario was in a very large open spaced room. Large enough for Mushroom Kingdom to fit inside of it. There were bright lights on the ceiling and pictures of what seemed like darkness falling upon the earth. A high platform was in the middle of the room, and two doors at the side.
"Well well Mario, I see you made it just in time." A shadow lowered from the ceiling and the figure appeared on the platform. "You must be determined to get to me," the figure said. "but its a shame that you might never pass this room." The figure snapped its fingers and the two doors on the side of the platform opened. An entire army of koopas, goombas, and MegaKoopas came out each of them carrying axes, swords, spears, and other weapons. "Kill him." They were moving towards Mario.
The army of enemies was moving towards Mario. He looked over to the figure who was still standing there, in the platform apparently enjoying every second that passed. Mario just stood there looking at the enemies that wished that they could tear Mario to shreds. Something shook in Mario's right hand. He looked down and saw the time staff that the magikoopa was carrying. Mario raised the staff and pointed it at the group of enemies, hoping that it would shoot out beams like it had done before. The staff shook again and began to fade. Within seconds, Mario was not holding a staff anymore.
The figure laughed. "Mario, where has your staff gone?" said the figure in a laughing way. Smoke started covering the platform where the figure was standing. When the smoke cleared the figure was nowhere to be seen. Mario had no choice but to use his secret technique. He pulled out a green whistle from his pocket and blew it. The whistle made a really high squeak and then everything was silent. The enemies laughed at Mario's desperate attempt. One of the MegaKoopas made a signal with his arm and a goomba threw a spear right at Mario. The spear seemed to go 90 miles per hour heading for Mario. Just as Mario was closing his eyes preparing for death, there was the sound of shattering glass and a long, and red tongue shot out and caught the spear in mid-air.
Mario looked, and there in front of him were an army of Yoshi's along with Shy Guys that seemed to be from the SGPD. The Yoshi that had saved Mario's life was none other than the one Mario had ever since he was a baby. Green with a red spot on its back, it was Yoshi number 1! He spoke.
"We got your back Mario. Just go and look for Princess Peach." He pointed towards stairs that Mario just noticed they were there. He nodded and headed for them. There were sounds of flesh being cut by sharp objects and sounds of Shy Guys shooting everywhere. As Mario looked down he saw that the Yoshi's were using skills from SSBM to give the enemies a good beating. The Shy Guys were also doing pretty well for what seemed like their first time fighting. Mario was now almost at the top of the stairs when somehow a MegaKoopa came crashing down from the ceiling. It was a miracle that the huge force of the MegaKoopa didn't make the stairs crash to the floor. This MegaKoopa was carrying a spear and immediately swung at Mario. This time however, Mario had a good idea of what he had to do to kill one, and he was also going to use the height they were at to his advantage. He kicked the koopa full force in the face, it staggered and then went to the edge of the stairs where it fell down of what looked like a 50 ft. drop. Mario heard a loud thud and then proceeded up the stairs where he encountered a door. Mario put his hand on the knob and opened it.
Mario was now in what seemed like a long hallway. There were a few lights hanging to the left and right walls that barely let out any light. As Mario got further into the hallway, it started to get darker. Mario had to put his hand against the wall just to navigate threw the hall.
"Mario, let me train you," said a voice from the darkness. A light lit up and another Magikoopa was standing in front of Mario. "Come," he said "let me train you."