"Now that we're here, can you guys tell me whats going on?" asked Mario, still a little shocked from the incident.
"I'm sorry but we've already told you everything we know," answered one of the troops.
Suddenly they all heard an explosion and they ordered Mario into a hole in the floor.
"Its good I took a martial arts class before this," thought Mario. Then scilence. An uneasy scilence. Mario's eyes grew wider. The suspense was killing him. Then machine gun blasts and screams were heard, and it all went quiet again. He climbed partway up the ladder so he could see what happened, poking his head out of the hole. He saw three humans in black clothing. One of them was dead.
"Wheres Mario!" one of them said.
The one who seemed to be the leader cursed. "They said he was here!"
Mario grabbed one of the mushroom troop's postols and snuck up and out of the ladder, hiding behind a wall.
"What was that?" one of them said. They cocked their guns and apporched the hole. Then Mario jumped out from his cover, blasting away on both of them, falling to the ground. One of them was alive.
"Who are you working for!" demanded Mario.
He didn't hesitate to answer. "Your government..." He started coughing. "The Chancellor wants-" He started coughing again and set his head down, dead.
Mario's heart was struck with surprise. The Chancellor? Why?
"I've gotta get out of here," said Mario in a shakey voice, running up the steps and out the door with his pistol, the only one he could trust.