This story was intended to have links to music that would go along with the events going on, but I do not know how to do that here, as the links disappear.

Prologue

There are some who say there are alternate dimensions, but to many it is merely fantasy. There could be an alternate dimension, where there is the same Earth as ours, and the same things have happened, except perhaps there are no such things as cats, or there could be an alternate dimension that is radically different, where there isn't even a place called Earth.

In our dimension, there are things that many people play called video games. Many of these video games have interactive stories with amazing characters. Perhaps, in other alternate dimensions, the worlds and characters in these video games are the reality.

One of those realities is known as dimension N, and in it is a one of the largest planets in existence. This planet is called Nintendo, and on it live many of the characters that people in other dimensions see on the Nintendo systems.

In our dimension, there is a fierce, unforgiving competition among video game designers. Many companies have been squashed by this competition. Perhaps, in a different dimension, this competition is manifested into a race of beings.

Chapter 1

Mario's Invasion

It was a clear sunny day in the Mushroom Kingdom, so princess Peach and Mario felt like going out for a picnic, just outside the castle. Peach was resting on a sun chair with an umbrella above her, while Mario, after eating the picnic food, was playing a video game on his Game Boy.

"What is it you're playing, Mario?"

"It's called Black Phantom; it's about this boy who does stuff on this thing called an Internet, going by the name of Black Phantom."

"Don't think I've heard of that one." Mario and Peach continued to relax, but after a while, something quite unusual happened. The sky began to darken a little, and far up in the sky was a small, black vortex. Electricity was sparking all around it, and the swirling vortex grew. In less than a minute, the vortex had become enormous.

"What's going on? This isn't Bowser's work, is it?" Princess Peach said.

"I don't...wait, this looks familiar. Yeah, last I saw this was..." Before Mario could finish, large circular objects came flying out of the vortex. They were flat and round with a round hole in the center, and they were about as big as the width of Peach's castle. More and more continued to fly out, seemingly without end, but the worst was yet to come.

As most of the flying ships had flown out, a large, rectangular ship slowly came out. The rectangular area of the ship was larger than the castle, and behind it were two long, round tubes that came out from behind. At the end of the two tubes were large objects that look like claws.

"Peach, I think we need to get out of here." Mario's usual happy voice had become quite serious. Peach and Mario started running towards the castle, and most of her servants were running towards her.

"Princess Peach! Princess Peach! We must take you to safety!" As they got close to the castle, all of the flying ships had come out of the portal, and the vortex closed, making it sunny once again. The ships scattered and left in all directions, but one of the round ships stayed, hovering above the castle. As they were inside, everyone was panicking, so Peach spoke up.

"Everyone, please calm down. Surely, we must try to make communication. We can not be sure that they are here to harm us."

"But just how to you suggest we do that? They're flying high above us!" Toad asked.

"Toad, go get Mario a Wing cap. He can use that to fly up to them."

"Oh, of course!" Toad rushed off to grab a Wing cap.

"Mario, you will do this, won't you?"

"Of course."

"Good, I knew you would." Mario was always willing to help the princess, and he wasn't going to stop now, but he couldn't shake his gut feeling that they weren't here to talk. Once Toad returned with the cap, he put it on, giving him the ability to fly.

Mario walked out the door and stepped onto the bridge crossing the moat. With a running start, Mario jumped three times before he had the momentum to jump high enough to start flying. Once in the air, he went straight towards the flying ship just over the castle. He wasn't sure what to do, so he landed on top of it and looked for some sort of sign of life. Mario walked around hoping to find a door or a pilot, but he couldn't see anything but the flat surface of the ship.

Before Mario was about to give up, a row of drone guns sprung out from the ship and pointed straight at him. It looked like they were charging up to fire at him, so he didn't waste any time getting out of there. Mario ran to the edge and jumped off, and just as he jumped, he heard lasers being fired at him. Mario quickly flew back down and went to inform Peach.

The doors flew open as Mario came running in, panting.

"What happened? Are you all right?"

"We need to get out of here, fast!" Peach was stunned at the news, but the worst was yet to come. One of the servants who were looking outside rushed in with a horribly scared face.

"P-Peach! The ship, it's, it's going to attack us!" Everyone went outside, and saw that something was happening in the center of the ship. Several lasers crisscrossed the center, and it look like it was charging up to fire something very powerful.

Peach pondered what to do, and though she hated the thought of it, there didn't seem to be any chance.

"Everyone! We must leave the castle at once! Everyone take the jet, Mario and I will be riding the kart!" As everyone ran towards the Peach's private jet, Toadsworth came up to Mario to ask a favor.

"We're counting on you to take care of our princess, Mario, so don't fail us!" Mario nodded, and followed Peach. He followed her to the side of the castle where the garage was, and they hopped into Peach's kart.

"Why are we taking the kart? Wouldn't the jet be faster?"

"Yes, but there's no landing strip where we're going. This will do just fine." She started the kart and drove away from the castle and onto the racetrack just outside. Peach was not bad at driving the kart, and had occasionally beaten Mario himself. They sped down the track as fast as they could, and probably could have even broken the record, but such a thing did not enter their minds in their present situation.

"Aren't we trying to get away? Why are we going around the track? Wait a minute, we're going back towards the castle!"

"Don't worry, Mario. In case of an emergency, I had the track constructed to give us a quick escape." They turned the corner and were approaching the long ramp with boost pads on the ground that would send them over the river and onto the track just outside the castle. As they got near it, princess Peach flipped open a cover on the kart and pressed the button under it, activating their escape plan.

The ground began to shake, and the ground that was beyond the track at the jump opened up. Out from the ground rose a section of racetrack and connected with the existing track, making the jump longer, with a steeper incline and an even more powerful row of boost pads.

As they went up the track, they could see the round ship becoming very bright, and looked as if it was about to fire any moment now.

"Come on, we can make it!" As they hit the new set of pads, the kart increased in speed, and they were going faster than any other kart was even possible of.

Just as they passed the castle, they could see a bright beam coming straight down from the ship towards the castle, and a giant explosion resulted from it. A huge wall of fire was coming from the point of the explosion and was coming right for them. Mario could see from the rear view mirror that the flame was very close, but objects in mirror are closer than they appear. Just as they could feel the heat coming on them, they reached the end of the ramp, and flew off into the sky.

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