Max, the girl in the jogging suit, and the two men walked down a huge and luxurious hallway. "Heh, dude are you serious? Mario Brothers? Anyone ever make videogame jokes about you guys?"

Luigi blinked for a minute, confused. "I haven't played da game in awhile, so if dis is some joke about my weight, I'm really not getting it."

Max shook his head. "No, no man! I mean it! I mean look at you, a short guy named Mario, a taller guy named Luigi... they call them the Mario Brothers, they both got these big mustaches... What, are you guys plumbers for a living, too?"

Mario shrugged his shoulders. "Eeehhhh, yes n' no..."

Max looked at Mario. "huh?"

Luigi started laughing. "Hehe, nah what he mean ta say is we used ta be plumbas, back home... we still do dat here a little, but it's mostly maintaining stuff, ya know?"

Max nodded. "Uh, I don't mean to sound rude or stupid or anything, but where exactly is "here" Is this The Hill in Saint Louis or something?"

Luigi looked at Mario. "Yo, Mario, I don't think dis kid knows what's goin' on. Shouldn't we... ehh... you know...?"

Mario smiled and put an arm around Max. "My brotha in da green of green peppas means to ask if you'd like ta know where ya are. Let's start wit United States. You from dere?"

Max nodded. "Y..Yes..."

Mario nodded. "And when ya got here, you was in a big pipe right?"

Max nodded again. "Yeah."

Mario smiled. "Aha! Well, hate ta break it to ya, tortellini, but you ain't in Kansas no more!"

Luigi added to his brother's statement. "You're in da Mushroom Kingdom now, kid!"

Max stopped dead in his tracks. "...Where?"

The quiet girl in the back finally spoke up in soft voice. "T-this is my kingdom. As princess, I rule over the Mushroom Kingdom much as a mother would her children. I love the mushroom people of this land very much..."

Max uttered a syllable. "daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

Peach blinked for a moment, then continued. "Awhile back though, I had a lot of problems with a big bully named Bowser... he turned many of my subjects into stones, plants, and other inanimate objects. Then, in order to keep me from changing them back, he had me locked up... I thought all hope was lost, and that all my children would die... ...then, I heard Bowser arguing with someone, then I heard an axe, some screaming... and then these two brothers saved me... They explained their story to me, and they've lived in this land ever s... huh?"

Max had passed out. "Oh my... I hope I didn't bore him..."

Max woke up some unknown time later on a huge soft bed. "Hey, look, he's wakin up!"

Max opened his eyes to see Mario, Luigi, Peach, and a few mushroom retainers. "...Huh? The acid trip is still going on? What happened last night..."

Luigi blinked and poked Max's gut. "Hey, kid, you alright?"

One of the retainers raised himself up on his toes to get a better look. "Hey, look at his shirt! That looks like my Nintendo!"

Max held his head... "Oh... right... me and Robert were... the cops came... I... huh?"

Mario was looked over the bed at his shirt. "Hmm, dey got Nintendos where you come from, kid?"

Max looked at Mario, beginning to understand what was going on, despite the fact that it what he was witnessing should have been pure bullshit. "Yeah, why? You guys wanna play with yourselves?" he said with a snicker.

Mario shrugged. "Nah, it's just dat we got one guy alreddy from Earth said he gotta Nintendo, but I sure don't rememba nothin like that when I lived dere."

Max blinked. "That's weird... and you guys came from Brooklyn, right?"

Mario's eyes got wide. "How'd you know that?"

Max stopped for a minute. "Well, it's uh... well come on you guys have Nintendos, it's common videogame knowledge! It's like the Konami code, or getting into the Minus world!"

At that moment, everyone started staring at Max. "...You guys have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?"

Mario started talking very slowly. "Ya know we came from Brooklyn, ya know da Konami code... ya know about da Minus world... what else do ya know?"

Now it was Max's turn to be a little surprised. He shook it off and eagerly responded. "Well, I know about entering your name as ZELDA to get the second quest, and about the Chris Houlihan room under Hyrule Castle... heck I even know about the Famicom converters they put in early NES carts..."

This went on for many minutes as Mario and Luigi listened intently.

"...the Japanese differences in Zelda 2 compared to the US version, the golden armor in Megaman X3, I even unlocked most of the cheats in Perfect Dark! Why?"

Mario stood there trembling, and slowly walked toward Luigi. When he got there, he whispered something into his ear, to which he nodded some, then said out loud "MAMA MIA!"

Max was a little worried. "Did I do something wrong?"

Mario calmed himself down and smiled. "No, no it's okay kid, don't worry... Just, ah... ya said you came outta da pipe... You didn't happen to have a "Sophy XR 34 did ya?"

Max nodded, and Mario nodded as well. "Well guys, he knows his stuff, he looks like he's got a good body attached to dat head of his, and he even came outta da same TV as Kevin did!"

Peach stared at Mario, then Max in absolute shock. "OH MY GOD! Mario, is this... is this... him?"

Mario nodded. "Looks like it, I just need to know one more thing..." then, he looked at Max. "Hey, son, how would you like a job?"

Max smiled. "What kind of job?"

Mario smirked. "Oh, if ya know what I do now for Peach, it's kinda like that... ...except for everywhere. Here, Hyrule, Mobius, Gradius... you name it."

Max quickly responded "Yes!", locking in his fate with confidence and happiness."

Mario smiled and nodded. "Thanks." Then, he turned to everyone else in the room.

"Alright folks!", he said with a big smile, as he anticipated great applause from the small group of people in the room. "Say hello to Captain N!"