Hello everybody! This story was highly requested by Zombielugia 123. He asked me to make a sequel to Super Mario 64, and I took note of the idea. I decided to base it off of "SM64: Last Impact". A ROM hack made by Kaze Emanuar. He makes some of the most impressive SM64 ROM hacks I have ever seen and I highly recommend you check them out.

For those of you who are fans of my other fic "Super Mario Sunshine: A Sprite of Light", don't worry! I'm not giving up on that story. I'll simply be developing them both back-to-back. This story takes place in the spring after that fic.

Rules:

I'm not gonna get all the stars. If I find a certain star to be either boring or unimportant, I'm skipping that one.

The powerups will be replaced by caps to really get the 64 feels out of it.

The Galaxy series powerups will not appear because at this point, Super Mario Galaxy hasn't taken place yet, and I don't want Mario to be introduced to these powerups yet. I'll think up an alternative.

With that out of the way, let's a go!

One night in Mario's Pad, Mario laid on his couch in the living room, snoozing. He had his cap off and had a book titled "Mario Story" over his eyes, indicating that he fell asleep while reading. The house was quiet. And only a lamp on top of the nightstand, and the fireplace were there to dimly light the room.

Said nightstand also had a digital clock saying "1:32" and a photo album of when Mario and his twin brother Luigi went on vacation to Isle Delfino with Princess Peach and her family last winter. There, Mario became great friends with Peach's 6 year old little sister, Aquamarine. And Luigi fell in love with Peach's 22 year old sister, Daisy. They're now back in their own kingdoms, and still come to visit Mario and Luigi every now and again.

But that's another story. As Mario slept, the fireplace began to grow. A trail of smoke traveled over to Mario's nose, making him catch a whiff.

Mario: ZZZ… Ah spaghetti… ZZZ… Ah ravioli… ZZZ… Ah mamma *cough* *cough*!

The book fell off his face as he coughed from the whiff of that smoke, then he yawned.

Mario: *yawn* Mamma mia, is it that late already? What time is it?

He got up to look at the clock.

Mario: 1:32am? *groan*

Mario was about to go back to sleep until noticing the fire in the fireplace getting bigger and brighter.

Mario: Maybe I should turn this off.

He flicks the switch that would normally turn the fireplace off, but nothing happens. The fire just keeps getting bigger. Mario begins to get frightened.

Mario: W-what's going on?!

The fire took the form of an evil face, and Mario began to scream before a black hand emerged from the fire and silenced him. Luigi ran downstairs after hearing his bro.

Luigi: Mario! I heard you scream! What's happ-?!

Another hand grabbed him. Both bros disappeared along with the fire. Leaving the house empty.

Peach's Castle

Meanwhile, Toad was working overnight at Peach's Castle. His sister Toadette was out visiting other kingdoms, so that left him on his own at the time.

Toad: *sigh* This job is harder than I thought. I don't even think Bowser or anything else is gonna show up tonight. C'mon Toad, stay awake! Maybe a song will help me stay awake.

Toad remembers a tune he learned from Yoshi and starts humming it. Little did he know of something lurking in the shadows behind him. A hand grabs him before he could scream and takes him away, leaving behind his royal shield and spear.

Outside Peach's Castle

Wario and his brother Waluigi were planning on breaking into the castle's tax vault to steal the loot there.

Wario: Glad you could make it this time. I don't know how I'd do this alone.

Waluigi: Wah. I had nothing better to do anyways. The Golf Tournament was canceled due to a storm.

Wario: Anyways, you got the hookshot?

Waluigi: Right here!

Waluigi took out a hookshot with his "Γ" logo, and shot the hook at a slightly open window.

Wario: Perfect!

Just as the two were about to climb it, an unknown force cut the rope.

Wario and Waluigi: Wah?

Wario: Hey! What's the big idea, Waluigi?! You bringing us a deficient hookshot?!

Waluigi: No! I tested it multiple times! It worked perfectly. I don't know how it got cut!

As they argued, the hand that cut the rope grabbed the two bros.

Wario and Waluigi: WAAAAAAAH!

They disappeared…

As you saw, five of our six heroes were kidnapped overnight by an unknown entity. Now, only one remains.

I made a lot of references, here are them all:

Mario's Pad is the name of Mario's house in Super Mario RPG.

The book that laid over Mario's eyes was called "Mario Story". Which is the Japanese name of Paper Mario. It's also a slight reference to Neville from Luigi's Mansion. Since he read that same book.

The photo album on the nightstand was filled with memories from my other ongoing story, "Super Mario Sunshine: A Sprite of Light". An adaptation of Super Mario Sunshine covering the bonding of friendship and teamwork.

Mario's sleep talk was in his idle animation in Super Mario 64.

The tune Toad hummed was a short tune made by Kazumi Totaka referred to as "Tokaka's song". It's an Easter Egg hidden in many Nintendo games Totaka had involvement in such as Mario Paint, Yoshi's Story, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Luigi's Mansion, Animal Crossing, etc. In Mario Kart 8, one of the Yoshis hums said theme, which is interesting because Totaka is Yoshi's voice actor. So he's singing his own song.

I had Waluigi say he couldn't come last time due to a Tennis tournament. This time his Golf tournament was canceled. Both spin off series were developed by Camelot. Miyamoto didn't create Waluigi, so that might be why he's a spin off exclusive character. Even Daisy debuted in a main game. How sad for Waluigi.

Tune in next time for the adventure to begin.