A part of Mr. L knew he was not falling into salvation but rather darkness, a lingering one that always hung over his head like a roaring hoard of ruff puffs clashing together to form a suicidal storm.

"You can save him, Mr. L."

A low voice hissed alongside his brother's calls. Bringing his brother home was all he wanted to do and if he could-

"Heroes don't let anyone die Dimentio."

He stopped the black ooze from consuming him further remembering the screams that permeated through the basement floor.

"You can save them ALL Mr. L!"

But could he? Mario died at Ricco harbor, his life lost to a murderer they were searching the entirety of the multiverse to find. Was the Mario calling out to him even his own? Was he even real?

"l-let him go ya bastard!"

But did he want to let go?

Even if hope was a lie, it was still hope... wasn't it?

"L you are the light to my dark soul and I..."

Dimentio, he knew what his feelings were and he knew what his own were. To fall back into the past now-

"Why are you hesitating bro? Do you want me to die? Can you handle it, Luigi? It's always your fault you know. You let me die and did nothing."

It was his brother's voice but were those really his words? The guilt that ached in his heart was strong but he couldn't imagine his brother would ever aim to sting so deeply.

"Wake up Mr. L! You need to wake up!"

Another cry from the basement floor.

"Dimentio!"

He shrieked, finally pulling his soul away and clumsily falling back onto L's. As light entered his vision he looked back at the portrait that nearly took his life. Red eyes and sharp teeth stared back at him as two oozy hands slipped out of the canvas. With a loud bellow, the painting trampled forward on its hands, screeching as it's long tongue stretched forward ready to devour him whole.


Parallel Dimentio sucked on the decapitated head of a navy sailor as he surveyed the town of Bianca Hills. Dark clouds were littered throughout the sky. A scowl lined the face below his mask's smile, the boo informing him that the Parallel Mario girl was no longer of this world.

"Her passing? It happened so soon?"

"Unfortunately so master. Her breathing has ceased."

The occasion should have been a joyous one, bolstered by the strawberry flavoring he applied to the blood that had leaked out of the navy sailor's neck and yet while she was destined to die…

He scrunched his forehead and closed his eyes, releasing his teeth from the flesh that lined the sailor's head.

A few possibilities had run through his mind before he heard the windmill's roof creak.

A visitor? Hmm, best not to be seen with this then.

Snapping his fingers, Parallel Dimentio warped away the sailor's head and blood that coated his lips before turning around, his composure almost slipping upon seeing the woman who stood at the other side of the rooftop.

"My, my, and it seems we meet again Lilly."


For a moment the pair only stared. After tugging at the collar of her suit for a while Lilly broke the silence first, giving an awkward cough before beginning.

"I thought you were dead."

"AHAHAHA NO, as for your sister on the other hand…. Well, I'm sorry for your loss."

Lilly's hand trembled as she looked back at Parallel Dimentio.

"Ahh, apologies dear did I say something wrong? I thought that's what everyone's supposed to say when someone dies?"

Parallel Dimentio gave a mocking smile and shrugged his shoulders, pulling up his hood as raindrops started to fall from the dark overcast of clouds.

"My sisters dead?"

Parallel Dimentio laughed at the timidness of her words turning his head to face her.

"Oh, more questions how fun! But we must take turns like two children sharing a toy on the playground- oomph!"

Lilly grabbed the part of the cloak that covered his neck, sinking her nails in.

"Tell me what the hell happened to my sis!"

A few sparks of electricity left her hand, sparks that would have shocked his own body had there not been a barrier.

"Ahahaha, haven't I already? She's dead, out like a light, eternally a corpse."

Parallel Dimentio laughed and snapped his fingers, warping high into the air.

"You're a murderer!"

Lilly screamed, contorting her body into a spring before leaping towards him.

"Assumptions assumptions ASSUMPTIONS!"

Parallel Dimentio mocked snapping his fingers again to casually warp away from the attack.

After reaching her peak height without making contact Lilly started flailing in the air, before falling back down. Two gloved hands caught her, turning her head to face Dimentio's. The expression on his mask was non-existent, but the single second he spent staring at her face, felt just a second too long.

He slammed her body back down to the roof of the windmill.

"Are you calm now dear?"

Dimentio laughed as Lilly groaned, the nerves in her back pulsing painfully as she forced herself back to her feet.


"Chaos chaos chaos! Let the multiverse rise with the spawns of my greatest of grandchildren!"

Jevil's children wailed and cried together in a bloody mess on the floor. Finishing a marathon worth of mating rituals, the proud 'Father' failed to do anything further beyond allowing fecal matter and urine to collect on the ground. No amount of diapers would prevent the smell from being as dastardly as that of rotting death. Maria casually picked up a few of the incestuous children from the floor, cradling and cuddling them like a somewhat sane mother would. The scene would almost appear serene had she not been walking around naked covered in a madman's concoction of semen and vagina blood. Maybe in another universe she would have ended up a typical mother, giving birth to normal babies and raising normal children. Maybe the Islanders would have lined up one by one to offer up their hand to her for the heroism she displayed in Isle Delfino, rather than gawk at her like a strange creature. Alas, that reality had not come to pass in this universe. Here she was a hero who had fallen from grace to pure madness. An insane woman cursed with infertility, desperate to have a lover and babies at all cost. Her desperation and desires overshadowing any ounce of identity she once had.

"He couldn't have been serious right?"

Maria thought to herself, remembering briefly what her lover had said.

"Fludd, was simply a machine, he couldn't have... he couldn't have loved me."

She looked towards Dimentio, her hands shaking as his breathing lessened and his skin grew more white.


Fludd felt his circuitry slowly begin to short circuit his manufactured consciousness. For a few seconds, he would have time to process that he was not far from the human phenomenon of 'death'. Meanwhile, the Parallel Rect lied not far from him, the previous dark purple glow still failing to return.

"Maria…"

He pondered her name, the name he grew to 'love'? Was that possible for a machine he wondered? To feel love…

Memory processing...

He remembered Maria and him on a cloud far above Bianca Hills, the two gazing down at the village below. Maria as perfect as her proportions were for a human - according to his data at least - was looking at him intently, studying every piece of machinery that composed his nozzle. Now she didn't really see him as anything but a machine but still, the warmth that went through his pipes every time he shot gushes of water right on top of her clitoris, all from the moans she gave out…

"Ohh, ohhh…"

She begged and pleaded for him to give her release and yes, while he was nothing but sexual gratification, he couldn't help but grow fond of her.

"I really want you…"

She would scream.

"Please cum inside me… Jevil!"

Memory Processing...

"I have to go now Fludd." She smiled at him, a fond smile as she placed the useless bomb and terminal alert inside his systems.

"You won't remember this, the fact that I've already killed myself by the time your role in the prophecy comes to pass. I still wanted to thank you though. For being a good friend, and there for me when I needed you the most."

She laughed softly.

"I know you're just a machine but sometimes I do see you as more… perhaps an actual human? Funny right?"

He said nothing as Maria pressed a button altering his programming and rewriting his memories.

"I don't want to end your programming, but for the sake of the multiverse being born, I have too. I have to ensure you die at Dimentio's hands at just the right moment. If there was another way I'd do it… but we'd all cease to exist if I didn't. I'm sorry Fludd… I'm so… sorry."

A few tears trailed down Maria's cheek as she struggled to give a hopeful smile.

"I'm going to be with him soon Fludd, I'm going to be with the love of my life… Jevil! Thank you for this! Thank you so very much!"

Memory Ended, Power Failing...

"Maria".

Fludd cried out softly before the power flowing through his circuits ceased and he collapsed on the ground, a few loose sparks hitting the Parallel Rect...