Mario stood in front of green double doors lined up with large, white spikes. He had seen that door too many times. Mario straightened his cap and pulled open the doors. A large gust of wind blew on his face upon opening the door.

Mario sprinted down the large hallway that led to the room he desired to reach.

At the end of the hallway was a large opening. Once Mario entered the opening, a spiked wall slammed shut behind him. Mario was inspecting the wall, but whirled around when he heard a familiar voice yell "HELP!"

Mario looked up and saw a cage, dangling on a chain attached to the ceiling.

Inside of the cage was Princess Peach, the sole reason Mario had gone there anyway.

"Princess! I'll save you-"

Mario jumped just in time to dodge a full-speed fireball headed at him.

"I was REALLY counting on that to hit him." Mumbled a low, rough voice form the other end of the room.

"Bowser! I knew you would be here!"

Bowser quickly removed the palm from his face and stepped forward. "That was a good distraction, but I'm done playing games, Mario. See that grand star up there?"

Mario saw a small sphere with a grand star inside.

"That's gonna power up my invention, which will, powered by the star, turn the mushroom kingdom to ashes!"

Mario gasped, before jumping up there with no apparent regrets.

The chamber broke when Mario's hand hit the glass, and the star fell out. Mario and Bowser quickly gained composure and hopped to grab it. They both hit the ground empty-handed.

Mario looked up from the ground he laid on and saw a hooded person standing in front of him.

The hooded figure wore black, military style pants, with a belt holding four knives, and a much bigger back holster,for, what Mario assumed was, a sword. He also wore a vest, and shaded goggles.

The vest had a pendant with some letters on it.

MVP? Why does his vest say that?

The man looked in between the two on the floor. "Huh. This isn't surprising. Two fat men with a grand star... "

Bowser jumped to his feet. "HEY! Who are YOU?!"

"My comrades refer to me as S. I'm here to stop a supernova from swallowing your world and about twenty-five others... Now tell me, where'd this big star come from?"

Bowser fumbled with his fingers and then he said, very quietly, "I- uhh… I found it. Yeah! On the sidewalk, like a lost child-"

S dashed forward and stuck a knife right at Bowser's neck, touching the cold metal just enough to avoid cutting Bowser's neck. "Incorrect. Give me the answer, or I'm giving my boss your head and a gravestone."

Bowser quickly swung his fist into S, knocking him over. Bowser took this time to run.

Mario was gonna run after, but Bowser stopped running and started violently shaking, before falling backward. Another hooded person shoved their taser back onto their hip.

"Don't run. It won't help your case." The agent said, but his voice was muffled, due to his mask.

S had stood up in this time. "Took ya long enough."

The second agent walked toward S carefully. "You need to fix that distress call option, because NO ONE got it on time."

"Yeah right. Now, back to business. What do we do with red, here? We'll just have to interrogate thick boy, but red, what about him?"

The second agent exhaled loudly. "I have no clue. He's listening while we talk about him."

Bowser had shaken off the daze and stood up, trying to run again. He finally conked out when his legs got kicked out from under him. Bowser flew up, seeing a nice aerial view of the flooring, before he hit the ground and passed out.

"Can you two PLEASE hurry up?" Snapped a third agent. This one wore a vest and undershirt with long sleeves, just like the others, but what contrasted them was that they wore shorts that went to their knees, large boots that had long, unruly socks going a little bit higher than the boots, thick, black gloves, and the fact that they had weird tentacles in place of hair, sharp, pointy white material that wasn't teeth, but resembled it made Mario feel weird.

They were a bit taller that S, who had pulled up his goggles, and was staring at Mario.

"The Italian man is watching us. I'ma tell him."

The third agent instantly interjected. "NO. We're not supposed to do that!"

"He's a respectable man. I think I'll tell him."

"Go ahead. When we lose our jobs, don't look at me."

Mario watched as the S stuck his hand out. "I already said my agent alias."

The second agent, the middle sized one with the hood, mask, guns, and blue eyes stepped forward. "I am Agent L. The L stands for winner. If you tried, I could hit you with one bullet and one only while you drove in a kart at high speed."

The third one stepped up.

"The boys here think it's funny that every agent of my species is labeled 3. It's stuck since then. Don't try messing with me. I'll shatter every bone you have."

Mario felt a tiny bit threatened by 3, but they stopped staring eventually.

Mario looked up at Peach, who was silently watching the entire thing, and then back to the agents, who had started dragging Bowser.

"Open the portal, we've gotta get this guy in."

A bright, green outlined circle appeared nearby Mario's foot.

Mario looked up just as L dumped Bowser into the portal.

The agents then looked back to Mario.

"Well, it's been good talking to you buddy, but it's time we left…" S said, before dropping into the hole.

"Well, it's good to know I've met the legendary Mario before. See-ya sometime, or someplace, later."

L hopped into the portal as well.

3 stared Mario dead in the eye. "Don't get us fired. I'd hate to have to break your ankles to ensure you don't run."

3 walked and fell into the portal.

Mario looked into the hole and gasped in awe, and saw the three agents inside, strapping Bowser into a seat-belt, and then themselves.

"Ok, Multiverse jump in three... " S said, flipping switches in the cockpit.

Mario watched, a smile on his face.

"Two…"

The ship started violently shaking.

"One. Closing gate…"

Mario jumped back when the hole started shutting slowly.

"Jumping now!"

The hole shut, and Mario was left in silence.

Whoa...

Mario looked on the floor and saw S's knife. Maybe I should keep that… Mario picked up the knife and carefully set it in his pocket. Please don't forget that's there...

Mario jumped up and opened Peach's cage, before thinking to himself.

MVPs. I wonder if I could become an agent…

S piloted the M.V.P ship to a safe spot, and then turned it on autopilot.

"You two can stand up now. Don't take off the face coverings. Tubby might wake up."

L pulled his phone on and gasped at the amazing 12 messages left by his brother.

"Oh boy…. What have we done...?"

"What? Tampering with your brother? Oh, he's not the brightest." S said, mumbling on the second part.

"No, he's really digging the spy thing. I think he may be jealous... I really hope we don't lose our jobs, S!"

S laughed and turned back to the windshield.

"We should be arriving soon. Like I already said, keep your face masks on. Tubby will probably recognize L the best, so... just be careful. K?"

L pulled off his mask for a second to stroke his finely combed, brown mustache and then put it back on.

"Huh? Wuzza-... HEY!" Roared Bowser from the backseat. "You weird creeps will pay for this! I have an army, you know!"

S stayed silent, but turned around just in time to see 3 slap Bowser's face.

"And we know where your son goes to school. Keep it down, fatty."

"FATTY?! Who you callin' fatty, punk? I'll snap ya like a twig, Skinny!"

"I take that as a compliment. I don't eat donuts 24/7, thick boy."

"If I weren't tied up, you'd be dead where you stand."

"And if you weren't so fat and weighing down the ship, we'd have been to our destination by now."

"Screw Peach! I'll kidnap you!"

"Yeah, right after you get a life."

Bowser screamed and squirmed like a child with a temper tantrum.

"Now arriving: M.V.P landing bay."

"Can it, fatty! We're here." S yelled from the cockpit.

S had made his way into the landing bay of the facility, and landed the ship.

3 turned around, her eyes locking with Bowser's.

"You're dead to me." Bowser growled.

"I'm dead to YOU, but to everyone that's not dumb, I'm clearly alive."

S pressed a button on the back of Bowser's chair, turning it to wheelchair mode, and pushed it forward.

L pressed one of the switches in the cockpit, opening the back of the ship for them to exit.

S wheeled Bowser out, and the others followed, L shutting the door behind them.

"Where am I? Where have you creeps taken me?! I demand answers!" Bowser screamed, his loud voice echoing through the place.

"Be quiet, big guy. You'll be home faster than you know it." S said, not mentioning the interrogation Bowser was set to go through.

They wheeled Bowser through to a double door, which led to a long hallway. The hall branched off into many other directions, but they stayed on the straight path.

"Where are you taking me?" Bowser asked, this time more polite.

"To a temporary cell where you will stay for probably a couple hours." S replied.

Bowser groaned like a little child.

"It has a TV."

Bowser stopped groaning like a little child.

They stopped at a room at the end of the hall, where they pushed Bowser in.

An agent at a desk looked up from her phone to look at Bowser.

"Well hello there! S, what's he in here for? He looks fine."

"Well, he had found a grand star. And he also won't tell us who he got it from, so he's here until we can get on with the questioning."

The lady pulled Bowser from his chair, and escorted him to a cell.

"Hey, I like this lady! You three should learn from her!"

S scoffed and turned to leave.

L waited at the ship, as he couldn't stand two more minutes of Bowser.

L had taken his phone out, and was answering to all twelve messages from his brother.

"Luigi"

"Luigi"

"Luigi answer me please"

"Luigi"

"Bro"

"Please answer me"

"It's not about the leftovers I swear"

"Pls anwer"

"*Answer"

"LUIGIIIIIIIII"

"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"

"IIIIIIIIIIIIII-"

L finally sent a message back.

"Hi."

"Luigi I saw something cool today where are you"

"The store."

"Please hurry I have something to show you"

"Ok C U"

L sighed, knowing what awaited him at home.

Mario stared at a small board, the board having several things pinned to it.

"Mario…" Toad, who was invited to come, mumbled. "I really don't see what this is about… You saw WHAT, exactly?"

"Well, Bowser got kidnapped by some strange agents of what's called M.V.P."

Mario wrote that down. "MultiVerse Patrol."

Toad watched Mario write things on the board.

"This isn't making much sense, Mario."

Mario pulled out the knife. "See? Look at the handle. It has the symbol here too."

Toad gave a long look at the symbol.

"Well… I don't know… It looks legit. Should we show the princess?"

Mario put the knife on the table beside him.

"She knows, and she's coming later too. Now, Luigi should've been here a long time ago."

Luigi bust the front door open right when Mario started getting annoyed.

"Luigi! How convenient! I have something to show you!"

Mario pointed the knife Luigi's way, and Luigi yelped.

"Mario! Stop that! Where did you even get that from?"

Mario pointed to the symbol on the handle.

"M.V.P? Che?"

Toad looked at Luigi and shrugged.

"Mario… what in the world? You find a strange hunting knife and- stop waving it around!"

Mario put the knife back.

"Brother… I am going to find these agents. We will find them. Look, Luigi. The public, the press, everyone needs to know about this!"

Luigi gave a shrug to the idea.

Mario and Toad exchanged glances.

"The princess is coming too. She wants in as well."

Luigi sighed and turned around.

"Ok. I will help you."

Oh brother…

3 burst awake, not realizing she had fallen asleep, this being the second time she had done this.

A knock on the door was what had woken 3 up, and another one came.

3 stood and slumped to the door.

Behind the door was a green colored Inkling, his tentacles everywhere, because laziness takes its toll, wearing a green woolly sweater, and jeans.

"Travis? I haven't seen you since that weird party that was, like, two months ago?"

Travis, who was actually a bit shorter than 3, laughed awkwardly, before speaking.

"Yeah, um… so, I somehow, out of the blue, randomly found myself with an… umm… a really expensive restaurant reservation, They said to bring a friend. I have none, but one friend. You can guess what I mean by that. So… d-do you want them? I mean, you don't HAVE to, but I thought it would be nice if-"

"Yes. I will accept them." 3 cut in. "So that you can stop being awkward about it."

Travis nodded excessively, and turned to leave.

"Oh, and… Thanks for coming." 3 said, a small smirk on her face.

"Oh… umm. Ok...?"

What's wrong with him today? He's not acting himself…

Travis waited until 3 shut the door to look around, make sure nobody stared, regained composure, and then checked the time.

Ah, 4:30… My shift begins soon. Time for work.

S, or, in his house, Simon Shallows, sat on his couch. Simon lived in a large house off the grid.

Simon's favorite show had come on, so he had entirely forgotten about his work to watch it.

No more than a second after he remembered his job's existence, the show cut off.

Simon stood and grabbed his phone.

3 messages popped up, one was a text, one a picture, and one a video.

The message was from the M.V.P base secretary; the nice lady who took in Bowser.

"We finished the interview. If you want the results, here's the video, and a picture of someone he described."

Simon pulled up the interview log first.

"King Bowser Koopa, that is your name, right?"

"Yeah, so?"

"You are here because something has been found in your claws that could show the secrets of the multiverse. Not the thing you want to have your nose in."

"All I did was take a star from the nice man who gave it to me, but he told me not to tell anyone that I did that, because I'd be in deep doodoo if I did… wait…"

"Could you describe this man for me?"

"NO! I won't tell you."

"It is very known by us that the same people have also scammed and killed many of their clients. You are a client. You can take yourself out of danger by telling us where and when he gave you the star."

"Well… hm... Fine. He just appeared asking for money. A lot of money. I'm a king, so I have a lot, but this man asked for about a fourth of my entire vault!"

"What did you do?"

"Well, I gave it to him, obviously. I thought I would have to scam him, but he gave me the star, so I was content."

"Can you describe the man?"

"Well, he had a hood on, so I couldn't see a face, but he wore a leather jacket with some weird symbol on the back. I can't read those Greek symbols well."

"That's enough. We've seen many other descriptions, and yours matches all of them. You will be mind-wiped, and then sent home by Thursday."

"Oh, ok- wait, MIND WIPE?!"

"Knock him out."

Simon looked up at a portrait on the wall, and then to the nearby closet.

I knew they weren't gonna let that slide!

Simon opened the closet and pulled out his M.V.P gear, and then opened the front door, and walked onto the lawn.

Simon then pressed the button to open the portal to the M.V.P base.

Travis strutted through the halls of an old, decrepit house like a maniac. The house itself had been broken and destroyed for a while now, so Travis himself hadn't done it…. That's not to say he wished he could have.

Travis reached a point in the house where no one could see him, and opened a portal.

Through the portal was a room, the room had red carpet and cream colored walls.

Travis stepped into the room carefully, and cut off the portal.

A little green Toad watched him from the door. "Well, you made it on time, for once."

"What about Thursday?"

Billy rolled his eyes. "Ah well, Boss gave a surprise meeting, said there's a meeting coming up in two weeks. But until then… You wanna go get some coffee?"

Travis followed Billy to another room, this one solely dedicated to coffee. A round wooden table in the middle, and a counter with all the necessary stuff for coffee.

"What is it?"

"Oohh… I remember that meeting. He was pissed. But he really sounded serious. I think we may be back. The Gamma return." Billy said before sipping his black, flavorless coffee.

"We're going back?"

Billy finished his coffee and hopped out of his seat. "Apparently… Oh well. There's machines to be primed, polished... Seeya around, Travis."

Travis waved and watched Billy hobble down the hall.

Travis soon finished his deal in that room and left for the camera room.

During work inside the camera room, Travis noticed a screen that gave no feed whatsoever.

Travis picked up a headset that sat on the desk and put it on.

As Travis looked back to the screen, he noticed two more inactive cameras.

Wait… It wasn't like that before…

Travis turned on communications to hear the ongoing conversation.

"Hey, guys? Is everyone accounted for? Because there's readings of a portal opening, and it's nowhere near time for anyone to arrive.."

"Nope, everyone clocked in."

"Cameras are going out..." Travis said over the comms.

"When did they cut? Billy claims to have just fixed them."

"Minutes ago…"

"Hold on, I'll send Billy your way."

Travis turned off the comms and waited.

About five minutes into Travis's waiting, a knock on the door came.

Travis opened the door, expecting his friend to walk in.

Travis's eyes grew wide when he realized he had just opened the door for an agent.

The agent kicked Travis in the chest, knocking him onto the floor.

Travis jumped back to his feet just as the agent flipped out a nightstick.

Travis grabbed the baseball bat that he kept under his desk for security purposes.

"Listen… Nobody has to get hurt, just put the bat down."

Travis knew he couldn't talk his way out of this, so he just stood with the bat forward.

"We don't have to fight, just lay down the bat and-"

The agent was cut off to a dang hard bat strike to the face.

Travis turned to see Billy in the doorway.

"Um… I guess now we know who broke the cameras, but where's his team?"

"This one's a scout. Alone."

Travis picked up the agent's leg and dragged him away.

"Where are we taking him?" Billy said, following Travis.

"To a cell."

Billy ran ahead of Travis to open the cell.

Travis tossed the agent into the cell, which was white on the inside, and had a glass screen as the entrance. The screen was controlled by a switch, pressing it made the screen open.

Thirty minutes later, the agent woke up.

"Hey, you there! You gotta help me get outta here!"

Travis tilted his head at the man.

I've never actually seen a human this close up before…

"Darn… I wish I could speak Inkling."

"Quiet."

The agent backed away from the glass and sat down on the cell floor.

"You work for Gamma, right? I can get you a job as an M.V.P if you want! Just help me escape."

"HEY! Shut it!" Billy yelled.

The agent shut up.

"So, T, Boss gives the okay for mind wipe. We technicians can have the machine ready by next week. It really does take a while to prepare…"

Travis smiled and waved at the agent, and then nodded to Billy.

"Ok…"

Billy yawned and turned around.

"T, I'm going in for the night. I'm on Monday. When's your next work day?"

"Monday…"

Luigi sighed as Mario, Peach, and Toad all searched M.V.P sightings on Google and found only three results.

"Mario… Why do you want to see these people?" Peach asked, even though Mario had said his motivation several times.

"I want to be one of them! Just think of how safe you would feel with ME watching you all the time! Bowser will never do anything bad ever again!"

Peach shrugged and left it there.

Luigi looked at Mario, who was watching some old dude rant about M. , and then to the door.

Hmm… I wonder…

Luigi left the room, a double cherry in his hand, to find his M.V.P suit.

This'll stop him for sure!

Mario stopped watching his videos to watch Luigi yell.

"Mario! Look out the window!" He yelled.

Mario looked out the window and screamed like that time he found a spider in his overalls.

Out there he was, the agent L.

Mario flew down the stairs and out the door.

"Hey! Agent L! Remember me? It'sa me, Mario! Don't you remember me?" Mario spat words faster than that time he went trick-or-treating.

"Yes, Mario. You need to stop looking for us. You are putting yourself in massive danger."

Mario's bright smile had an instant game over.

"What? I don't understand…"

L glanced at Luigi, or his copy.

Toad and Peach finally caught up to Mario at this time.

"Wait… They're real? Well, I wouldn't say 'they' more so 'he'" Said Toad, who was also out of breath.

"You thre- four are putting yourselves in danger for a job stopping multiversal threats?"

Mario nodded, along with Toad and Peach.

"You four are not ready to face the secrets of the multiverse. Now, drop the idea, and get some"-Exercise-" sleep."

Mario crossed his arms and frowned. "But… But I can handle tough stuff, you've probably seen me save the princess. I am ready!"

L shook his head and turned around.

"Stop searching. I am warning you."

And with that, L opened a portal under his feet and fell in.

"Wait! This isn't over-" Mario fell to his knees.

"He's gone… No…"

Double Luigi backed out of view to disintegrate.

Mario got back up and turned to Peach and Toad.

"We will NOT quit! I will prove to them that I, Mario Mario, am worthy!"

Peach and Toad exchanged glances, and then Toad raised his little fist.

"Yeah! We can do this!"

Luigi watched from a distance, still in his M.V.P gear.

Darn! I thought that would make him stop, it just fueled his determination!

Luigi sighed and changed out of his agent gear and back into overalls.

Simon stepped into a dark room filled with guns, knives, bombs, you name it.

The room was dark and dusty because they hadn't inhabited that room for a month or two.

Simon wasn't here for the weapons, or the laboratory, he was here to see someone.

Simon turned on all of the lights in the facility, and then sat down in the lounge.

Simon tensed when he heard footsteps coming from the hall.

The footsteps got closer and closer, so Simon readied his knife.

Simon saw a figure walk in the room and it was nearly instantly when Simon jumped.

Simon swung the knife, and the figure kicked it across the room.

Simon stopped to see the person.

The person was actually a little, grey spotted Toad.

"HEY, punk, who do ya think… Simon?" The little thing said in his raspy, high pitched voice.

Simon blanched. "C-Captain!... Sorry about the knife… hehe…"

"Grr… I've already strayed from my family to do this job, now my own mate tries to kill me… what a day I've had…"

"Yes, sorry to bother you Captain, but the-"

The Captain walked away without even listening.

"Captain! Wait up!"

Captain walked to the gear room. "So, uhh… Where are the others? The squid girl and Luigi?"

"No, sir, it's just-"

"CAPTAIN!"

Simon sighed.

3 ran and swept the Captain into a very tight hug.

"3, it's nice to be hugged but please put me down before I do something I regret."

3 set the Captain down and backed away.

"Geez, Satan, did somebody steal your sandwich again?"

Captain frowned, probably trying to be intimidating.

"It's Lucifer, and you would be unhappy too if somebody came and told you that was the last day with your family for another several years."

3's smile died away instantly.

"Hey, he's right…" Luigi said from behind everyone. "If you randomly had a hungry nopon run by and nab your sandwich, you'd be mad."

Lucifer was about to yell something consisting of fifteen curse words, but Simon interrupted.

"AHEM! The Gamma problem still exists, and they've already made two moves on us-"

Simon went to interrupt, before being interrupted.

"Three. They kidnapped a scouting M.V.P agent just yesterday. They really are back in business." Interrupted Lucifer.

Simon kept speaking with the other agents, but as he was, Lucifer walked away.

Lucifer walked himself to the gear room, where he put on the hooded vest and picked up a three foot pole.

"Oh, old friend, you will be put to use once again…"

Lucifer grasped the handles, and pressed a button on the side, and stuck a hammer head on the top.

He felt a small twinge of anger, before exhaling what seemed to be painful rage.

Lucifer put the hammer back on it's stand, and walked out to the hall, where the others stood.

"I'm going home for the day, fellas. First order of business next week, we get down to some REAL business."

3 simply waved.

"Bye bye." Said Luigi.

"Good night, Captain."

Lucifer walked out to the portal room, and left the M.V.P base.

At his house, Simon sat down at his desk and pulled up his laptop screen.

The news was blown up with a lot of things. President election... deadly viruses... armed people in leather jackets rampaging through the streets... wait, what?

Simon, after a hard double take, grabbed his gear, slammed his broken distress beacon, and ran out the door.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

It's done! The first chapter is done! If you have any nitpicks, just PM, I'll try to answer, but I'm bounding with excitement for what's to come. I'm also starving, time for some FOOD.

Suggestions are loosely welcome. Loosely as in, it may or may not become a reality... but if I like it, it might be a thing.