Finally done with the second chapter! I was taking care of my little cousin... :P

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Chapter 2: Blast to the Past

Meanwhile, at the present day…

It has been a year since Mario, Luigi, Sonic and Tails saved the Beanbean Kingdom from the clutches of Cackletta and Fawful. Today, on the month when Sonic, Tails and Amy made their visit to the Mushroom Kingdom as always, some news spread through the kingdom:

'Mushroom Kingdom news flash!

Famed inventor Prof E. Gadd has completed his time machine! The machine's energy source? This amazing Cobalt Star! The unveiling took place at Peach's Castle and was seen by luminaries from near and far. Princess Peach and Amy Rose were reportedly overjoyed by the contraption… So overjoyed, in fact, that they promptly set off on a voyage to the Mushroom Kingdom's past! Of course, the princess' able ward Toadsworth is beside himself with worry. Details at 11!'

The scene shifts to the throne room of Peach's Castle, where Mario, Luigi, Sonic, Tails and E. Gadd watched Toadsworth filled with worry as he called out loud:

"PRIIIIIINCESS! MISTRESS ROOOOOOSE! Please return!" he let out a sigh to try to calm down before continuing: "I say… I am simply beside myself with worry!"

"Heh heh heh!" E. Gadd laughed. "No need to worry yourself. My machine's safe as can be. Why, there's a 99.999999999% chance the princess and miss Rose will return!"

"THE HORROR!" Toadsworth shouted in a dramatic tone before fainting.

"T-Toadsworth?!" Luigi stuttered as he and Tails went to the downed old Toad.

"Toadsworth! Wake up! Toadsworth!" Tails tried to wake him up, but nothing worked.

"Whoa, he worried so hard, he KO'd himself!" Sonic said surprised. "Now how are we going to wake him up?"

"If I'm correct, a Refreshroom might do the trick." Mario said. "I'm pretty sure Toadsworth has one in his room. Maybe I should head there and get it."

Mario left the throne room and went to Toadsworth's room, where he found an item block containing the Refreshroom, which was a green-capped mushroom with stars instead of dots.

Back at the throne room, the Toads place Toadsworth on a hospital bed and a Toad Doctor was examining him.

"Toadsworth!" one of the Toads called out. "Any final words? Can I have your cane?"

"Princess… Mistress Rose…" Toadsworth groaned quietly.

"Doctor! SPEAK, man!" the other Toad demanded the Toad Doctor. "Will Toadsworth recover?"

"Oh, the prognosis is grim… I'm afraid our dear Toadsworth has worried himself into a state of shroomshock. Without the restorative properties of a Refreshroom, there's naught we can do." The Toad Doctor said.

"Not to worry! Mario is here to save the day!" Mario came into the throne room while jumping in joy and showing the Refreshroom.

The Refreshroom levitates into the air before dissolving into small bits and they fell into Toadsworth. Eventually, Toadsworth's body glowed gold, and…

"HUZZAH!" he cheered as he stood up from his hospital bed.

"Hey! It worked!" Tails exclaimed.

Suddenly, the whole room shook and the group heard something coming from behind. Eventually, a yellow and magenta vortex appeared in the sky and out of it came E. Gadd's time machine and it crashed into the throne room. For some reason, the time machine appeared wrecked with its glass domes cracked.

"Well, take a gander at that! The time machine's returned!" E. Gadd exclaimed. "Something's amiss, though… What could've gone wrong?"

Luigi helped Toadsworth approach the machine by pushing the hospital bed towards it.

"Oh, Princess! Mistress Rose! Welcome home!" Toadsworth exclaimed in joy.

Then, the time machine's door opened up.

"Your Majesty! Sweet Rose! I've been fraught with-"

But Toadsworth couldn't finish his sentence as he, Luigi and E. Gadd saw a pair of demon eyes from inside the machine's darkness. That's definitely not Peach nor Amy…

Before long, two green claws and the head of a hostile alien came out as it lets out a loud roar:

*ROOOOAAAAR!*

"AAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Luigi screamed in horror and he immediately dashed out of the throne room.

"W-Wait! Master Luigi!" Toadsworth called out, but Luigi was already out of the room.

The alien knocked the unaware Toadsworth backwards and roars again. Mario, Sonic and Tails leaped into action and prepare to fight the alien, known as the Junior Shrooboid.

Mario started by jumping on Junior Shrooboid's head. Then, Junior Shrooboid tried to attack the trio by spinning his body and charging at them, but they dodged it by jumping over it.

The Junior Shrooboid ended up becoming dizzy after its attack, giving Sonic the chance to Spin Dash at him, followed by Tails' arm cannon shot and another jump from Mario. With that, the Junior Shrooboid faced defeat in front of the trio.

"Well, that was easy." Sonic said.

"But… Why was this strange alien inside the machine in the first place?" Mario questioned.

"Speaking of the machine…" Tails went inside the machine to check if there was someone inside. He came out from it with terrible news: "Bad news! There's no sign of Peach or Amy!"

"WHAT?!" both Mario and Sonic shouted in unbelief.

"No! NO! NOOOOOOOO!" one of the Toads shouted in horror. "That awful monster…"

"Just take 'em easy, now. They weren't this feller's breakfast." E. Gadd said as he takes out a DS-like monitor. "My DS time radar puts Peach and Amy somewhere in the Mushroom Kingdom of yesteryear."

"Really?" Mario and Sonic were surprised.

"Time radar? TIME RADAR?! You just made that up! Where'd this monster come from, then?" the Toad asked.

"That I don't know. And with the time machine this dinged up, we're not going anywhere." E. Gadd stated.

Just then, Luigi came back into the throne room, but he was panicking as he tells them:

"G-G-Guys! You're not gonna believe this! I just saw a mysterious hole that just showed up at the castle's garden sooner after I ran out of the throne room!"

"What's that, sonny? A mysterious hole has appeared in the garden?" E. Gadd questioned. Luigi nodded in response. E. Gadd became silent for a bit before concluding: "Hmm… It's possible the return of the machine tore holes in the time continuum… To the garden, fellers!"

Mario, Luigi, Sonic and Tails followed E. Gadd to the castle's garden. There, they saw that there was indeed a strange hole making a vortex inside at the corner.

"As I suspected…" E. Gadd inspects the hole. "IT'S A TIME HOLE!"

"Time hole?" the four heroes questioned in unison.

"Yessirees, this time hole is a doorway to the past! No doubt about it, it appeared because of that time machine."

"But, I don't get it; how can time holes show up just because of the machine? That doesn't make sense…" Tails pondered.

Luigi then decides to look at the time hole a bit closer, so he jumped at the hole's edge and peeked down.

"Uh, Luigi… Be careful up there…" Tails warned with worry.

"If I'm right, that time hole leads back in time!" E. Gadd said. "Yep, to a younger Mushroom Kingdom. Question is, to WHERE in the Mushroom Kingdom?! The other question is, if a feller were to jump in, could he even make it back…"

"Who knows?" Sonic shrugged.

"Hey! If that's the case, maybe we could use this time hole to find Peach and Amy!" Mario exclaimed.

"Hmm… Now there's an idea. I'd bet dollars to donuts that's our best chance at saving them." E. Gadd confirmed.

"MASTER MARIO!" Toadsworth's voice came in.

Just then, the hospital bed where Toadsworth was still on came in and accidentally bumped at the time hole, causing Luigi to about to lose his balance.

"W-W-Whooooaa!" Luigi struggled to keep his balance, but no success; he fell face-planted into the hole, but for some reason, the hole wasn't deep, so he landed ON it like if it was normal ground.

But then, all of a sudden, as soon as Luigi's body touched the hole, it began sprouting colorful stars and laser lights as Luigi was hovering around the hole, which left everyone startled.

"GAAAAH! HEEEELP!" Luigi shouted as he was pulled inside the time hole. Once it did, the lights faded out.

"LUIGI!" Mario, Sonic and Tails cried out in despair.

"M-M-Master Mario! The princess and the mistress! Where is Princess Peach and Mistress Rose? And what were those lights? And what is that odd hole?! I demand answers, sir!" Toadsworth panicked.

"Sorry! No time to explain!" Mario warned as he prepares to jump into the hole as well.

"Wait, Mario! We'll go too!" Sonic called out.

The trio then jumped into the hole, only for them to face the same event that happened to Luigi.

"MASTER MARIO! MASTER SONIC! MASTER TAILS!" Toadsworth shouted out loud.

Inside the time hole…

"WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAA!" Mario, Sonic and Tails screamed as they fell and fell into the never-ending vortex. Little did they know, that this hole was immediately taking them to the Mushroom Kingdom's past.

The time hole took them to the Mushroom Kingdom's highest hills. They emerged out of the hole that also popped up in the area and fell to the ground:

*THUD!*

"Ow…" Sonic groaned.

"Are you guys okay?" Tails asked as he rubs his head.

"Yeah…" Mario responded. Unknown to him, he had accidentally landed on Luigi.

"Jeez… What a voyage!" Sonic stood up. "Are we actually in the past?"

"I guess so." Mario replied.

"Uh, Mario…" Tails noticed Luigi underneath Mario. "Not meant to startle you but… You just landed on Luigi."

"What?" Mario looked down and indeed; he was standing on Luigi! "Whoops!" he immediately jumped off. "Luigi! Wake up!"

Just then, another thing came out from the time hole and also landed on…Luigi.

"Huh? What is that thing?" Sonic questioned. "It looks like…a talking suitcase?"

"Watch the leather, Professor! No need for the shoving!" the suitcase warned by shouting at the time hole.

"Excuse me, but who are you?" Mario asked.

"Oh, you must be Mario, Sonic and Tails." The suitcase guessed. A nod came from the trio. The suitcase then looks around confused; it seemed that someone else was missing for him. "According to the professor, there should be a Luigi here as well, but I don't…"

"Umm, you see…" Mario pointed at Luigi under the suitcase.

Then, the suitcase was sent flying to the air by Luigi, who got up to his feet by jumping and glared at the suitcase.

"Could you please WATCH who're you stepping on, suitcase thing?!" Luigi growled with steam coming out of his head.

"Oh, my! Are you Luigi? I… Sorry about that." The suitcase apologized.

"Calm down, Luigi. I'm sure that was an accident." Tails patted his shoulder.

"Except for the fact that I landed on him first…" Mario thought while sweatdropping.

"Is that so? Hmm, alright then." Luigi said.

"I am pleased to meet you. I am known as Stuffwell." The suitcase known as Stuffwell spoke. "Professor E. Gadd invented me. I am what is called a suitcase."

"No shit, Sherlock!" Sonic thought while facepalming.

"The professor sent me back in time to be your assistant." Stuffwell continued.

"Uh…" the four heroes looked at each other in confusion.

"Yes, 'assistant' IS accurate… I'm more than just someplace to store your belongings. I have MANY complex sensors…and various memory apparati for data retention…and…er… Well, suffice to say, I am very technologic by contraption standards. I'll be a BIG help."

"Okay, we'll be glad to accept you." Mario said.

"All right! BACK TO ADVENTURE!" Stuffwell exclaimed and jumps inside Mario's pocket.

"It's amazing how a suitcase this big is able to fit into your pocket…" Sonic remarked.

"Yeah… Some things in the Mushroom Kingdom are odd to happen." Tails replied.

All of a sudden, the ground begun to shake. The heroes flinched by that.

"What the heck was that?" Sonic questioned.

"It looked like… Oh no! The time hole!" Tails pointed to the time hole while shocked.

Before their eyes, the time hole begun to sink into the ground!

"NOOOOOO!" Luigi panicked as the time hole completely disappears into the ground. "NONONONONONO! It still has to be here! It still has to be here!" he dug and dug into the ground in desperation, trying to locate any signs of the time hole.

"Face it, Luigi. The time hole is gone." Sonic rolled his eyes.

"*sniff* no…" Luigi cried. "How do we get back to our time now?"

"Don't worry, little bro. We'll find a way to return. I'm sure about that." Mario comforted his brother. "For now on, let's explore this old Mushroom Kingdom of the past."

They all nodded and moved on. As they were halfway to the top of the hill, they felt the ground shake again.

"Now what?" Sonic questioned.

Suddenly, a Toad fell from somewhere in the sky and landed on Mario!

"Ugh!" he groaned from the impact.

"Mario!" Luigi cried out. "Are you okay?!"

Mario shook his head to get rid of his dizziness and the heroes eyed at the Toad.

"The…village…of the…fairies… Dank purple…mushrooms…" the Toad murmured quietly.

"Fairies?" the heroes thought while confused.

Just then, they heard the noises from the UFOs flying above them.

"Look up there!" Tails pointed upwards.

"No way! Aliens in the Mushroom Kingdom?!" Sonic was shocked.

"And they seem to be heading to the village at the top!" Mario directed to the village at the top of the hill.

They saw the UFOs attacking the village by shooting blasts of energy everywhere.

"Oh no! They're attacking that village!" Luigi whimpered.

"We better hurry!" Sonic demanded.

They immediately nodded and made their way to the village at the top as quick as they could.

To be continued…

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