A/N: So…it's been months since I last updated. I'm so sorry about that. I really lost my motivation for this. That's probably mostly due to the rapid decline in the quality of Heroes this year. But I definitely plan to finish out through Volume 4 ("Fugitives") and might (well, probably) will continue afterwards. The casting spoilers for Volume 5 intrigue me. As always, feedback and ideas are appreciated.
Now then. What does the future hold for this formula? Let's find out!
Disclaimer: I do not own Heroes, NBC, Super Smash Brothers, Nintendo, Sega, Konami, or anything contained herein.
(Open on Diddy's lab. Floating in the air is the title card: "Chapter Four: I Am Become Death."
At one of the workbenches, Diddy sits speaking into a tape recorder.)
Diddy: The formula appears to have worked. I do seem to possess abilities now. The only negative effect is an unusual rash.
(He stops as he hears a loud bang and people yelling at each other from above him. He looks concerned.
Cut to outside the apartment. Diddy pounds on the door. It suddenly opens to reveal an angry-looking dude.)
Guy: What do you want!?
(Diddy looks in to see a girl in tears in a corner of the apartment.)
Guy: I said, what'd you want, monkey man!?
Diddy: Is everything all right?
Guy: We're fine here.
Diddy: Are you sure –
Guy: We're fine, tiny! Get out of here!
(Diddy's eyes narrow. He suddenly grabs the guy and slams his head into the door. The guy tries to shove him away, but Diddy punches him.)
Girl: Stop it!
(She runs over and tends to the guy. Diddy looks at his hands in wonder.
Cut to Dr. E. Gadd's house. He and Tetra walk into the house together.)
E. Gadd: You were one of three triplets. You, Zelda, and Aryll. Your birth parents ended up dying, so you were ideal test subjects. We gave you the formula and separated you to see what would happen.
Tetra: The formula?
E. Gadd: A formula that would make you...incredible. Let you do things you never thought possible.
Tetra: I don't know what you're talking about –
E. Gadd: Enhanced speed? Strength?...Is it something like that?
(Tetra's eyes widen in recognition, then anger.)
Tetra: Why!? Why did you do this!?
E. Gadd: We were arrogant, selfish. Thought we could change things for the better. A group of us, working together.
Tetra: What group??
E. Gadd: (trying to remember) I'm not sure...I don't know. They made us forget.
Tetra: Well my ability's already hurt people. You gave it to me, you have to take it away. You have to!
E. Gadd: I can't, I'm sorry.
Tetra: No!
(She grabs him and ice starts to form on his arms. He gasps, and suddenly Tetra realizes what she's doing. She lets him go and he returns to normal.)
E. Gadd: I'm so sorry.
Tetra: (whispering) What have you done?
(Cut to a camp in Distant Planet. We see various paintings on the wall: one of Peach with dark hair, looking evil in her leather catsuit; one of a mysterious figure in a red hoodie; one of a man looking scared as he stands over the bleeding body of another.
We then pan over to see D.K. sitting in front of a plate of food. He has some markings on his face and tries some of the food.)
D.K.: I don't think it's working.
(Olimar comes up behind him and takes off his headphones. He puts them on D.K. After a few seconds, D.K.'s eyes go white.
Cut to a street in the Mushroom Kingdom, with the subtitle "Four Years In The Future." A puddle on the ground reflects the painting of the world splitting in two on the wall. Future and Present Mario both appear and then start walking down the street.)
Future Mario: This is why I had to bring you here. To see what will happen.
Present Mario: This world doesn't seem too different.
Future Mario: Well it's just like the one you're from. With one big difference.
(They stop at a corner. Present Mario looks out to see tons of people flying, speed-running, and teleporting places. He looks on in shock. Future Mario starts walking again, back where he came from, and Present Mario catches up to him.)
Future Mario: There's this formula. It's made abilities available to everyone. They're going to destroy the world. The people can't be trusted.
Present Mario: What? There will always be good people.
Future Mario: (shaking his head) How could I be so naïve? I brought you here to show you this.
(They stop at the painting of the world splitting in two.)
Present Mario: That's what's going to happen?
Future Mario: (nodding) Unless we prevent it. Right now I'm considered an extremist. A villain.
Present Mario: But you changed everything. Luigi didn't reveal us to the world.
Future Mario: Well someone from your time still invented the formula to give people abilities. You have to stop it.
Present Mario: Why can't you do it?
Future Mario: Because I made terrible choices. Stepped on too many butterflies. We have to find Mewtwo. If you get his ability, you won't make the same mistakes I did.
Present Mario: Mewtwo!? You bring me to the future and you want me to see him!? What about my brother? Peach? Even Diddy?!
Future Mario: They're not the same people you used to know. Not all of them were born with abilities. Some were given them. A line was drawn that tore them apart.
(Suddenly, a gunshot rings out. Future Mario drops to the ground, bullets in his chest. Present Mario turns to see Future Peach, dressed in her leather catsuit, lower her gun.)
Present Mario: (in disbelief) Peach??
(She starts to walk toward him, raising the gun again. Present Mario thinks better of it and turns and runs the other way.
He suddenly notices Future Bowser, dressed in a military-looking uniform, walking towards him. Present Mario grabs a garbage can lid and hits Future Bowser with it as he runs at him. Future Bowser drops to the ground and Present Mario keeps running. Future Peach fires a few more times at him, but he gets away. She looks down and sighs.
Some time later. In a facility somewhere, Future Peach is still looking down. We pull back to see she's standing over Future Mario's corpse.
At the doorway, Future Sheik zips in. Her hair is a lot longer and straightened. Future Wario also walks in. They're both dressed in military-looking uniforms that say "DL" below their names.)
Future Sheik: You got him! Congratulations.
Future Peach: I got this one. There's another one still out there. I think he's from the past.
Future Wario: Well, our orders are to kill Mario. All versions of him.
Future Peach: We need to use Mew.
Future Sheik: What? Mew?? You can't.
Future Wario: (going to her threateningly) I can make you.
Future Sheik: I'm not afraid of you.
Future Peach: No, but you are afraid of Mario. And you know he won't stop, not ever. Until we find him – and we kill him.
(Cut back to the present. We see the prisons on Level Five of Compositech.)
Marth's voice: Let me out! I have to save the world!
(Cut inside one of the cells. Roy sits on a bench, looking weary. Marth stops pounding on the door and looks around the cell.)
Marth (translated): We can escape through the vent. Come on! Help me!
Roy (translated): No, I won't.
Marth (translated): What!?
Roy (translated): You said you didn't need me. (He shakes his head) Ever since you came back from the future, you're distancing yourself from me.
Marth (translated): (sadly) How could you kill me?
Roy (translated): I wouldn't! But I'm starting to understand why I might.
(Marth looks at him worriedly.
Cut to an office in Wiitown. Luigi is looking out a window. A Toad comes up to him.)
Toad: Sir, you need to choose a desk.
(Luigi glances over to see Ganondorf watching him.)
Luigi: Shouldn't Tetra do it? This was all her idea.
Toad: She's unreachable at the moment.
Ganondorf: Oooh, get that one. Saved the best for last.
Luigi: (handing the catalogue back to Toad) I'll take the first one. Thanks.
(Ganondorf looks hurt as the Toad leaves the room.)
Ganondorf: You don't trust me, Luigi?
Luigi: Of course not. I'm making the decisions here.
Ganondorf: Remember. This is God's plan. No matter what you try to do.
Luigi: God's plan? Like your plan to murder millions of people in the Mushroom Kingdom was? I'll pass.
Ganondorf: You cannot escape your destiny. Including the one where I make you President, Luigi.
(Luigi looks thoughtful.
Cut to Diddy's lab. Amy comes in with a garbage bag.)
Amy: Diddy?? Are you here? (She looks around) I've come to take your garbage out. (to herself) You're such a mess.
(Diddy comes in from the other room as Amy opens the blinds.)
Amy: And why is it so dark in here?
Diddy: Ah! (He runs over and shuts the blinds again) Don't touch those!
Amy: Sorry. (She regards him) You don't look well. Maybe you should go outside, get some fresh air.
Diddy: (angry) Go outside!? I'm doing all this work for you! To find a way to remove your ability!
Amy: (hurt) I only came to help you. I'm sorry to bother you, then. I'll let you get back to your work.
(She heads towards the door as Diddy comes after her.)
Diddy: Wait, Amy. I'm sorry. I'm just tired. I want to find the answers for you.
(Amy just looks at him. Then she turns and goes.
Diddy sighs. He heads back to his workbench and picks up his tape recorder.)
Diddy: The rash is spreading. And I'm also becoming more aggressive. The formula is transforming me, and I fear... I fear what I'm becoming.
(He puts the recorder down. We stay on it and watch as dust settles over it. We pull back to the same lab, now a lot dirtier, with the subtitle "Four Years In The Future."
The door opens and Mario comes in.)
Mario: Diddy? Are you here?
(He stops to look around.)
Diddy's voice: What do you want?
(Mario turns to see Future Diddy standing in the corner in shadow. He's also wearing a large hoodie, so we can't see his face.)
Mario: I need your help. I need to tell me everything you know about Mewtwo's ability. (after a few seconds) Wait…are you all right, Diddy?
(Future Diddy drops to the floor. There's a scampering sound and Mario looks around, having lost him.
Suddenly, a scaly hand grabs Mario's shoulder. He turns to see Future Diddy, still obscured by the hoodie, behind him.)
Future Diddy: You're not scarred, you must be from the past. Whatever you do, don't repeat my mistakes.
Mario: What happened to you?
Future Diddy: I was selfish. Impetuous. I wanted an ability so much…I got the formula wrong. So wrong.
Mario: What about Mewtwo's power?
Future Diddy: It's dangerous. You don't understand. I won't do that to you.
Mario: Tell me where he is!
Future Diddy: I won't.
(Mario squints at him, reading his mind.)
Future Diddy: The Bennet house. Pallet Town.
Mario: Pallet Town, thanks.
Future Diddy: No! Don't go –
(He reaches for Mario, but Mario has closed his eyes and disappeared.
Cut to the Bennet house. Mario walks up the front door and throws it open. He produces blue flames on his hands and goes inside.
He hears someone coming down the stairs and prepares himself. Suddenly, a young boy comes down the stairs and walks over to him, grinning.)
Boy: Hey, Uncle Mario. Dad's making waffles.
(Mario looks confused as the boy runs off. Mario follows him to the kitchen. There he sees Future Mewtwo, wearing an apron and his old glasses. Future Mewtwo kneels down and gives some food to Future Yoshi.)
Future Mewtwo: Now Peppy, you know Yoshi needs to get some waffles too.
(He sees Mario and grins.)
Future Mewtwo: Hey Mario!
(He walks over and hugs Mario, who looks really confused.)
Future Mewtwo: I haven't seen you in so long. (He breaks the hug) If I'd known you were coming, I would have made extra.
(Mario looks hopelessly confused as Future Mewtwo turns back and pours a glass of orange juice for his son.)
Peppy: Uncle Mario? Where's your scar??
(Future Mewtwo looks back, noticing that too. He puts down the juice.)
Future Mewtwo: Eat your breakfast. Your uncle and I have to go talk in the other room.
(Mario and Future Mewtwo walk into the study. Future Mewtwo shuts the door.)
Future Mewtwo: You're not from around here, are you? (Mario takes a step back in fear.) You must be from the past. Which means to you, (he chuckles) I'm the boogeyman. It's a hell of thing, you coming here to find out we're brothers.
Mario: Brothers!? What do you mean!?
Future Mewtwo: It doesn't matter. I'm not going to give you my ability.
(Mario squints at him, trying to read his mind. But Future Mewtwo resists. After a while, Mario breaks his hold.)
Mario: Me, the future me. He's dead. That's why I need your power. To fix everything.
Future Mewtwo: There's the hunger that goes with it. It turned me into a killer. Every day is a struggle to control it. But I fight it, for him.
Mario: If I have your ability, I can understand the variables, and then –
Future Mewtwo: – (chuckling) save the world.
Mario: The world's going to end. I saw a painting of it. Paint it yourself if you don't believe me.
(Future Mewtwo looks back through the window at Peppy eating.)
Future Mewtwo: Don't let him see me. Not like this.
(He goes and gets a canvas out from a closet. He sets it on an easel and looks at it.
Cut to Diddy's old apartment. Future D.K. is feeding a young baby while he talks to Future Sheik.)
Future Sheik: It'll just be one time.
Future D.K.: I can't risk it.
Future Sheik: D.K. –
Future D.K.: I'm retired. We have a family now. You have to stop putting yourself in danger! We need you, Sheik! You can't risk yourself going after Mario, he's too dangerous.
Future Sheik: This will be the last time. Once we catch Mario, I'll be done.
Future D.K.: (sighs) Mew!
(Future Mew comes from the back room. She looks at her parents.)
Future Sheik: I need you to find someone for me.
(Cut to outside the apartment. Future Peach and Wario are waiting as Future Sheik comes outside, shutting the door.)
Future Sheik: He's in Pallet Town.
Future Wario: (turning to Peach) Why are you afraid now?
Future Peach: (glaring at him) I just killed my uncle today. And now I have to do it again. Forgive me for being human.
(She goes to walk away when Future Wario grabs her arm.)
Future Wario: Hey. Unlike you, Sheik and I can die. So get your head on straight.
(Peach just pulls her arm away and resumes walking.
Cut back to the Bennet house. Future Mewtwo's eyes are covered in white as he finishes painting. He closes them and reopens them to see the painting of the world splitting in two.)
Mario: You see?
Future Mewtwo: You're right.
(He silently goes to the desk and takes out a broken watch. He hands it to Mario.)
Future Mewtwo: This is the watch I was working on when I first discovered my ability. It's a reminder of what I was and what I could be again. If you want to access my ability, you have to fix the watch.
(Mario turns it over and opens the back. Various pieces of the watch start floating out.)
Future Mewtwo: Listen to it. Like a symphony, every piece has its part, all coming together in perfect harmony.
(The pieces float around and Mario repairs them.)
Future Mewtwo: This will allow you to understand how anything works. Action and reaction. Even how to change the future.
(The pieces float back into the watch. Mario closes the back cover and turns it over. It's running normally.)
Future Mewtwo: You have it now. (sadly) I'm so sorry.
Peppy: (urgently) Dad!
(Future Mewtwo and Mario run from the room back to the kitchen. They see Future Sheik and Future Wario holding Peppy on the other side of the room. Future Peach walks in, closing the front door.)
Future Peach: You can come quietly, Mario, and we'll leave these two alone.
Future Mewtwo: Just teleport out of here, Mario. Go!
Mario: No, I won't leave you. I brought this trouble here, into your home.
Future Peach: His home? This was my home. He took everything from me. (She raises a gun and grins evilly) So what's it going to be?
Mario: Look, Peach, I'm not the same guy that you know. I can change –
Future Peach: I don't care, Mario.
Mario: (shaking his head) How did you get this way?
Future Peach: I learned how to take care of myself.
(She turns the gun toward Future Mewtwo. Suddenly, Mario runs at her with super-speed. He punches her and she goes flying. Future Sheik then speed-runs into Future Mewtwo, knocking him through the wall back into the study. He slowly stands back up.)
Future Mewtwo: Peppy, go, hide!
(Peppy runs to the kitchen as Future Sheik runs in circles around Mario. He can't hit her but she keeps landing blows on him. Future Wario turns toward Future Mewtwo.)
Future Mewtwo: I know you gain strength off of other people's fear. But I'm not afraid of you.
Future Wario: No. (He grins) But he is.
(Future Mewtwo looks back to see a clearly afraid Peppy hiding under the kitchen table. Future Wario steps forward and punches him. Future Mewtwo goes down hard. Future Wario lifts him up and slams him through the coffee table. He then kicks Future Mewtwo, who goes flying back into the kitchen and into the island.
Everyone pauses as Future Mewtwo gets himself up. He then realizes what happened and turns around. The remains of the kitchen table are shattered against the island.)
Future Mewtwo: No.
(He digs through the rubble, looking for Peppy.)
Future Mewtwo: NO!!
(He stands up and turns back, the evil look back in his eye. He stalks forward and starts punching Future Wario repeatedly. Future Sheik, distracted, gets flung into a wall by Mario's telekinesis. Future Mewtwo keeps punching, even when Future Wario is clearly unconscious or dead. His hands begin to glow dangerously.)
Mario: Stop!
(Mewtwo screams in rage. He steps back to see his whole body begin to glow.)
Mario: (worried) Gabriel!
(He starts toward Future Mewtwo. Future Peach gets back to her feet and raises her gun at them. Future Mewtwo screams again –
– and we quickly zoom out to see a huge explosion and a mushroom cloud settle over the city.
Cut back to Compositech in the present. Marth is trying to use his belt to get the air vent open.)
Roy (translated): Would you stop? It's pointless.
Marth (translated): A hero must try.
(Roy rolls his eyes and gets up. He goes and grabs the belt from Marth. Marth pulls back, and the two of them pull back and forth. Roy yanks it and Marth tumbles to the ground. Roy smiles and turns back to the vent. He tosses the belt up and it latches on. Roy pulls it once and the vent is opened.)
Roy (translated): There. Enjoy your escape.
Marth (translated): My escape?
Roy (translated): You obviously don't want me around.
(Marth sadly goes to the vent. He jumps up, but can't quite reach. He turns back to his friend.)
Marth (translated): Please, Roy. I need your help.
(Cut to a short while later. Marth stands on Roy's shoulders, trying to climb into the vent.)
Marth (translated): I'm sorry, Roy. You've always been by my side. I've been a bad friend to you.
Roy (translated): Maybe now is not the time for apologies.
Marth (translated): I will change not just the future, but myself too!
(He finally gets his upper body into the vent.)
Marth (translated): I did it! I'll help you up, Roy!
(Roy turns back to see Bowser watching him in the doorway. He looks unamused.)
Marth (translated): (confused) Roy?
(Cut to Tetra's apartment. She's on the phone.)
Tetra: (upset) Hello, yes, are you the detective working on the Mayer case? I have some information, I think I know what happened to him. (pause) I…I…
(The phone turns to ice in her hand. Tetra looks at it in confusion.)
Tetra: Hello?
(No one answers. Tetra sighs, dropping her hand and the phone down, then slowly bringing it back to her mouth.)
Tetra: I killed him.
(She then opens her hand. The phone drops to the floor and shatters into a million pieces.
Cut to Diddy's loft. He sits at his bench, talking into his recorder again.)
Diddy: I have so far been unable to reverse the formula's effects.
(He shuts it off and goes to pick his hand up from a stack of papers. He looks down to see some kind sticky substance, sticking the papers to his fingers. There's a knock at the door and he quickly goes to it and opens it. The guy he attacked before steps forward and hits him, hard.)
Guy: That was for before. You stuck your nose where it didn't belong.
(Diddy slowly turns back, not seemingly fazed by the blow. He grabs the guy's shirt.)
Diddy: So did you.
(He suddenly yanks the guy forward into the loft.
Cut to Luigi's office. He's sitting in prayer when Tetra comes in. She hands him a piece of paper.)
Luigi: Tetra! What's this?
Tetra: My resignation letter. I'm sorry.
Luigi: Your resignation? (She nods) Okay. Is there anything I can do to change your mind?
Tetra: No. I know what I have to do now.
(She turns and walks out. Luigi watches her go. He turns back to see Ganondorf sitting behind his desk.)
Ganondorf: You want to help her. I know. This is your path. You're just going to have to trust me, Luigi. You must help her!
(Luigi looks unsure, not knowing whether he should trust him or not.
Cut to a bridge. Tetra stands at the edge and looks down into the water. She sadly sighs and prepares herself. She steps forward.
A blur flies down out of the sky towards her. After a few seconds, Luigi floats up, Tetra cradled in his arms. She looks at him in shock as they float up, then turn and fly away.
Some time later. In Tetra's apartment, she pours herself and Luigi a drink.)
Luigi: So…are you all right?
Tetra: All right? (She chuckles ruefully) No.
(She sits down, handing him his drink. They sit in silence for a few seconds.)
Tetra: So... you can fly?
Luigi: (jumping her line) Yeah.
Tetra: Wow. That's…not at all like mine.
Luigi: Yours?
(She looks down at her glass. Ice creeps out and covers the whole thing. She sets it on the table and Luigi grabs her hands.)
Luigi: Wow, they're not even cold.
(Tetra looks at him with longing. After a few seconds, Luigi leans in. Tetra takes his face and kisses him.
Cut to outside an office marked "Dinosaur Land Research", with the subtitle "Four Years In The Future." Future Luigi is holding a press conference.)
Future Luigi: This is a tragedy. All of the families of those in Pallet Town are in our prayers.
(We pan back to see a future version of Tetra, wearing large sunglasses, standing next to him.)
Future Luigi: My wife and I urge everyone across the country to pray together for the families of those who lost someone. (He nods) Thank you for your time.
(Cut to a cell at the facility. Mario, stripped of his shirt, is tied down to gurney. Next to him is his dead future self. He closes his eyes, but nothing happens. He reopens them to see Future Peach and Future Bowser walk in.)
Future Peach: Trying to teleport? Not with my friend here.
(She goes to a tray and picks up a scalpel.)
Future Peach: There were 20,000 people that died in Pallet Town. I want you to feel the pain of each death.
Mario: Peach –
(She slices him once, slowly. Mario cries out in pain.)
Mario: Ow!! Peach –
Future Peach: One.
Mario: It doesn't have to be like this. I can save you.
(She looks unimpressed. She slowly slices him again.)
Mario: Agh!!
Future Peach: Two.
(Suddenly, the door opens. Future Luigi walks in with a bunch of Secret Service. Future Peach pauses.)
Future Luigi: If you don't mind, I'd like a moment alone with my brother.
Future Peach: Is this the President or my father speaking?
Future Luigi: Both.
(She reluctantly goes to leave, Future Bowser following her. The Secret Service go out and shut the door.)
Future Luigi: I know what you're doing.
(He starts to undo Mario's bonds.)
Future Luigi: I've seen the painting. Of the world ending.
(He releases Mario.)
Future Luigi: You're strong, Mar. But one man cannot save the world.
Mario: Thanks, Luigi.
Future Luigi: Of course. You helped me too. Congress has agreed to full proliferation because of what happened in Pallet Town.
Mario: Proliferation?
Future Luigi: Think about it. An entire army with abilities. (Mario is speechless. Future Luigi goes and looks down at Future Mario's body) I know you think the worst in people. But we were created in God's image. There's a goodness to characters.
Mario: No, Luigi. This isn't right. You've been manipulated before.
Future Luigi: (nodding) All right then. Go ahead, read my mind.
(Mario squints and sifts through Luigi's thoughts. He finally breaks out and looks at Luigi. He suddenly raises his hand and lifts Luigi into the air, against a wall.)
Mario: I know you think you're doing the right thing. But you're wrong.
(He slowly walks towards Luigi, with a slightly curious look.)
Mario: I need…I need to understand…
(He slowly lifts his arm up. He points at Luigi's head and starts to move his hand. A red cut starts to form across Luigi's forehead.)
Future Luigi: (struggling) Mar…stop…
Mario: I need to see…
(He fully cuts open Luigi's head and drops him. Luigi falls to the floor, bleeding profusely. Mario snaps out of his daze and looks horrified. There's banging on the door.)
Voice: Mr. President! Are you all right?
(Mario glances over then shuts his eyes. He teleports away.
Cut to Mewtwo's cell at Compositech in the present. He's sitting on a bench. Suddenly, Mario appears behind him. Mewtwo looks up.)
Mewtwo: Mario.
(He stands up as Mario runs forward. He grabs Mewtwo by the neck and shoves him against the wall, choking him.)
Mario: (angrily) I took your power!
Mewtwo: My power? Then you have the hunger. You're like me.
Mario: I will never be like you!
Mewtwo: (smiling) You already are. Brother.
(Cut to Distant Planet. We see D.K. lying on the ground, his eyes still white. We pan up to see the redone painting of the blonde woman dying in his arms. There's a white flash –
– and we cut back to Diddy's apartment four years in the future. Future Mew and Future D.K. watch a news broadcast about the explosion in Pallet Town. The baby is crying.)
Future Mew: It's my fault. I told her where Mario was. I'm sorry –
Future D.K: Mew! Just…help your sister. Please.
Broadcast: It's hard to imagine that there's anybody left alive.
(There's a knock at the door. Future D.K. looks up in hope. He runs and opens the door to see Future Sheik smiling at him.)
Future D.K.: Sheik!
Future Sheik: I wasn't fast enough.
(We pan around to see her entire back is burnt and smoking. She collapses to the ground, Future D.K. going to hold her. There's another flash of white –
– and we're back with the present D.K. His eyes clear and he stands up. He looks around at Olimar's paintings.)
D.K.: I saw it. The future, I saw it. All of these are going to come true.
(He goes to the painting of him holding the dying Sheik.)
D.K.: I have to find her. Help her.
Olimar: (nodding) You need to find your totem.
D.K.: Totem? What's that?
Olimar: A spirit guide. It attaches to your subconscious. It will lead you on your journey.
D.K.: Spirit guide? What, is that some kind of distant mystical mojo thing?
Olimar: (shaking his head) Carl Jung. Analytical psychology. (with a look at D.K.) You don't read much, do you?
D.K.: All right, so, what is this totem then?
Olimar: Usually an animal. If you think about your dream, you will find your guide.
(He walks off. D.K. sighs. He looks down to see the turtle again.
Some time later. The turtle makes his way across the desert. D.K. is following it. He stops once, obviously thinking about how ridiculous this is, but keeps following the turtle.
Cut to Samus's office in Compositech. Marth and Roy are seated in front of her, and Bowser stands by the door.)
Samus: So. Where is Ike's half of the formula?
Roy: This formula. What does it do?
Samus: It can turn people like you into people like us, and that will lead to disaster.
Marth: The formula…is gone. Taken.
Samus: That means they have both halves now. And our side lost. (She smirks angrily) Your father loved you dearly, Marth. He had faith you would grow up to be a great man, but he was mistaken.
Marth: (bowing his head) I'm sorry.
Roy: Enough of this! (He grabs Marth) Don't apologize! This is Marth Nakamura! He will not rest until the formula is safe!
(Samus slowly leans forward with a secretive air. Marth and Roy lean in too.)
Samus: Someone is behind all this. Powerful. Hidden. They're manipulating us. We have to stop them. (She sits back up) And you're the only one who can help, Marth.
Marth: (confused) Me?
Samus: You have the key to unlocking this entire mystery.
(Marth and Roy look at each other, confused.
Cut to a cemetery. Marth and Roy dig up a coffin. Roy looks worried.)
Roy (translated): I hope she's right about all this.
(They open the coffin. Lying there is David Monroe, his eyes closed, his hands folded. Suddenly, he opens his eyes and looks enraged. He grabs Marth by the neck.)
David: Marth, you son of a –
(Slam to black.)
A/N: The title comes from a quote from J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. He talked about the first test and said "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Fitting, for what happened to Pallet Town.
Anyway, next chapter we'll find out just who is behind the theft of the formula. Some old villains return and a new one emerges. See you then!