"Hmmm..." Red Toad looked at the sleeping Luigi. "Didn't know it was still possible for a human to sleep for THIS long! It's amazing!"

Alice chuckled. "Well, the rain has relaxing sounds, it could help him fall asleep more deeply." She looked out the window. It was raining HARD out there, with a black sky and all. "I just hope it doesn't get any worse-"

A certain magician on her broom flew into the house. "Aliiiiice! Can I borrow a towel?"

"It got worse." Alice sighed. "Marisa, this is the fifth towel you've borrowed... And none of them returned."

"Aaah, no need to be rude about it, ze!" Marisa already went off to grab a towel. "I know you like my company anyway!" She then blinked to notice everyone else in the room. "Ah... Alice, are you havin' a party, ze? Without inviting me? The audacity..."

"It's not a party, it's a gathering!" Alice retorted. "And I never liked your company, I always end up losing something with you around."

"Yeah, well I lost my feelings! I'm heartbroken!" Marisa fake-cried. "In fact, I wanna take my anger out on the man who beat me up earlier, ze!" She turned to the sleeping Luigi.

"Really?" Alice deadpanned. "You're gonna hit a guy who's asleep?"

"..." Marisa paused. "N-not anymore."

E. Gadd chuckled. "Good! You have remorse!"

Marisa scratched her head. "So what's even happening here? How is everyone here and WHAT is going on?!"

Red Toad sighed and turned to E. Gadd, ready for the overly long explanation.

"So..."

Luigi thought deep in his mind.

Satori and her third eye both glared. "You know you're helpless without a Poltergust, right?"

"Not this time!" Luigi smiled as a bunch of clones of Luigi showed up. "Time to get Luiginary!"

The clones kept spawning in the masses until they formed a giant hammer.

"WHAT-" Satori looked up. Even her mind reading abilities could not predict this as they came down HARD on her.

BONK!

Satori groaned, rubbing her head. "That has to be cheating in some way..."

Luigi already formed a green fireball in his hand. "Don't underestimate me. You're in MY dream."

Satori dusted herself off, glaring at Luigi. "You're awfully confident. The second trial will be sure to crumble you."

Luigi simply shrugged. "I dunno, the first trial only confirmed that my brother loves me. And it shattered my delusions."

Satori charged a danmaku pattern. Luigi saw this and dived to the left, only for Satori to immediately throw the danmaku left.

The bullets hit Luigi, grazing him and of course, brutally wounding him. "OUCH! How did you-?!"

The third eye came eye to eye with Luigi as he practically winced in fear.

His teeth chattered due to his hairs raising, causing goosebumps.

"ZOINKS! Wait, wrong catchphrase!" He mixed up catchphrases due to being in fear.

"Now you die." Satori charged straight at him.

Red Toad felt a gut feeling. He looked at the sleeping Luigi. "Guys, I get the feeling something is INCREDIBLY wrong!"

Blue Toad also looked at Luigi. "You get that feeling too?"

Red Toad nodded.

Alice blinked. She turned to Marisa. "I didn't get it... did you?"

"Nope! And I usually get them all the time, ze!"

"..." Alice deadpanned. "Maybe you're always hungry."

"Whattya take me for? A explosion mage who eats breadcrumbs?"

E. Gadd was typing some code in his Wii Boo. "Strange how only the Toads get it and not anyone else... I'm not getting this 'gut feeling'!"

Red Toad then went to the front door. "Has the rain stopped? I'm gonna go check!"

He gently opened the door, only to find a red-hair girl in a black T-shirt and a planet hat staring right at him.

...

Red Toad slowly closed the door again.

Blue Toad looked at his red self. "Well? Is it over?"

"...No... But I found this weird planet girl though!"

...

Red Toad felt the GLARES of Marisa and Alice. They were both in massive shock. Both completely out of character for them.

"...what?" He looked confused. "Is that bad? Is SHE bad?"

They both nodded. Very slowly. Alice decided to clear the room of any doubts.

"Uh, yeah, that planet girl is actually the goddess of Hell... And yes, she is very bad..." She was shivering. "Why is she outside MY house...?!"

"Because I wanted to be?"

Then EVERYONE shivered. Everyone turned to the source of the voice to find Hecatia staring right at Red Toad.

"AH!" Red Toad jumped back.

Blue Toad hid behind E. Gadd, with the professor's face also being in fear. "Who ARE you?!"

The girl did a cutesy bow, showing her sinister face. "Hecatia Lapislazuli. But please, call me Hecatia."

"Excuse me." E. Gadd finally got confident. "I have some questions, oh Goddess of Hell. What is Gensokyo? Where is it located? How is this entire forest thing only part of a region? Why is it a Japanese theme instead of a typical medieval theme where all other Isekais take place? And tell me who does what with the magical girls? Is there a Goddess of Heaven? Does Heaven exist here? Why is Luigi able to open up dream portals out of nowhere? Why are most of the girls here blonde? Why does barely anyone have a shower? Do girls in this world even stink? Why does a 'kappa' have a giant lab while I'm stuck with my portable hut? Does any girl here even have a working TV? What would Mario say?"

Red Toad finally processed all this information. "All toasters toast toast?"

"...But the big question is, why are you here?"

Hecatia blinked. Slowly gathering all of that questions in. "I'm afraid I cannot answer any of them, as I'm only here to see this man named Luigi."

Blue Toad started getting defensive. "Nuh-uh! He's sleeping right now! Best you come back later!"

E. Gadd shrugged. "Even if she did, I'm sure the two blondes here can stop her."

...Everyone except the Toads looked at E. Gadd.

"...she's the most powerful character, isn't she?"

The girls nodded.

The professor sighed. Hecatia floated on over (because she's too cool to walk) to Luigi. She looked at his sleeping face. She smiled. "So, he is the one, huh?"

"The one?" Everyone asked at once.

"The one that my new partner asked if he existed here."

E. Gadd got a chill for some reason. "New partner?"

"Mhm. New partner. And that partner had a plan for Luigi! I've been asked not to show any spoilers for the plan though."

She loomed over Luigi. Alice and E. Gadd were twiddling their fingers in sheer nervousness.

"Heh." Hecatia smirked. "What an innocent baby face, despite having a humongous nose and a mustache. What is he doing anyway? Sleeping peacefully despite how aggro some of the girls get?"

Red Toad decided to answer. "He's in the Dream World, so you can't really talk to him!"

The goddess winked at Red Toad. "I can always wait until he wakes up... buuuut!" She raised a finger. "I already got all the information I have! Now I just have to tell my partner!"

Blue Toad raised his hand. "You haven't even told us your intentions!"

She flew up right to Blue Toad's face. The latter being in absolute fear. "Oh, believe me." She narrowed her eyes with a devilish grin. "If I DID spoil my intentions, you'd be living your life in fear."

And with a single blink of everyone at the same time, Hecatia was gone.

E. Gadd looked at his trembling hands. "I have a feeling something massively bad is gonna happen... to Luigi, specifically."

Everyone gulped.

Luigi jumped onto a piece of rubble, the battlefield platform being absolutely destroyed. He balanced on it because gravity was... weird. He looked at the floating Satori.

She and her third eye both glared. "Ugh, you're so annoying." She flicked her hair. "Regardless, the first two trials aren't even about fighting. The third trial is the fight scene."

"Oooh, that makes sense." Luigi nodded.

"No it doesn't?"

"No it doesn't."

Luigi finally leaped off one of the platforms, summoning a dreamy hammer. "This trial is over anyway!"

He hammered Satori, who disappeared in a dreamy smoke cloud.

The world around him got warped and distorted again.

Luigi 'woke up' in the grass field again, the only occupant being Mugetsu. Well, not really. When Luigi's eyes stopped being blurred, he saw another maid character. A maid with average-length blonde hair and a long red frilly maid dress. The maid apron was also longer.

Mugetsu and the other maid turned to Luigi, the one donned in red spoke first. "Oh, this is the one you were on about?"

"Yes, yes... Yumeko, this is Luigi."

"Yumeko?" Luigi turned his head.

Yumeko bowed like a proper maid. "Yep. I am Yumeko. The... Dream World version."

"Huh."

And then, at that moment, a certain girl in a long red hat came in. Doremy again. "So, ah... It was easy to get Mugetsu here because she lives in the dream world... But do you have ANY idea how hard it is to find a Dream World variant of a character who doesn't go outside that much anymore?!"

Yumeko simply averted her gaze. "I know, I haven't seen anyone in a while..."

Luigi raised an eyebrow at Doremy. "You act like these are like a separate species or somethin'."

"They are!" Doremy nodded. "We call them 'PC-98' characters!"

...Luigi felt something break. Probably the Fourth Wall, but eh, who cares. "Anyway. Doremy." Now that Luigi had caught Doremy's attention, he could confidently say something. "I passed your first trial."

...Doremy slowly clapped. "Whoo. Good for you. Now do the other two." She quickly disappeared in a poof of smoke.

He groaned. Mugetsu folded her arms. "Well, she is simply using us as comfort fodder, so..."

"Don't need it." Luigi raised his hand. "I don't want maid comfort pillows. The fake Mario in the first trial already comforted me."

Yumeko had a smug face. "Oh, awfully confident, are we?"

"Not confident. Quite scared, honestly." He spoke the truth. "I just wanna get this over with so I never have to see this Dream World again."

Yumeko just... simply nodded in response. "Very well. Go to the second trial, then."

...Luigi was already gone.

"Wow, he is really desperate!"

...And then Luigi was hit with... warm blankets?

Second Trial next chapter.