I decided I couldn't take any more of these confusing and scary nightmares. I took my hat off and placed it on my shelf. I would stay up. I crawled into my bed, and saw Luigi in the bed across the hall to me. "Good night, brother." I whispered.

It was boring at night. I sighed, twiddling my mustache. I heard a sudden 'bink-bink, bink-bink'. My eyes widened and I got a hot sweat as I hid under the covers. The bink-bink came closer until I saw who it was. A toad. It had came in with cleaning supplies and a miner's hat. The light was on on the miner's hat and the toad started to clean our room and shine the wooden objects. Then it came close to my bed. It dropped the cleaning supplies carefully and lifted the covers. I pretended I was asleep, holding one eye open. It looked on the bed and I decided it was looking for stains on the bed and sheets. It pulled the covers back over me as it walked out of me and Luigi's room, it's feet making that same bink-bink noise. I slowly got out of bed, and checked the clock. 12:37. I tip-toed out of the room, following the toad.

It went downstairs and into Princess Peach's room. I rolled my eyes, thinking it would do something more interesting and went into a random room as I saw millions of Toads working at a control area. There were cameras and switches and my eyes flickered to all of them as I stayed hidden behind a pile of large boxes. A significantly larger Toad with golden and bronze spots with an earpiece was ordering directions to the multicolored Toads. "Mario's gone." One of the toads spoke as it observed me and Luigi's room camera. "Order a patrol to his room and around the castle. Report back if you don't find them." The bronze and golden spotted toad with an earpiece ordered, nodding. I saw Toadette ordering a group of Toads with her. I took this as my chance to run out, as I ran upstairs. I dashed into my bed, acting as if I hadn't gone out at all. I took a quick glance at the clock. 12:57.

Bink-bink, bink-bink. Multiple toads with flashlights dashed into my room and looked under my covers. "Well, that darn Tord again..." Toadette muttered. "Uh, Toadette? What if that's a dummy?" A toad with green spots said. "It's not a dummy! It's breathing, see?" She motioned for the toads to come and study my breathing. "What if Mario programmed a mechanism for his mechanical dummy to breath when idle?" The same green-spotted toad said. "What do you want us to do then!?" A toad with blue and black spots said, attempting to tower over the green-spotted toad. "T-T-Take it back to the uh.. control room and study it." He gulped. Toadette nodded and ordered the toads to pick me up. She led the toads back to the control room and they set me down on a table and put a blue and white tinted clear cylinder above me.

"It's a real Mario." Toad said, and Mario recognized his voice from long ago...


Sorry, but the princess is in another castle." Toad said. "Oh come on! All that traveling and defeating Bowser for this stupid message!?" Mario snapped. "She just is." Toad said, with as little as emotion as possible. Mario muttered swears under his breath and stormed out of the castle, throwing his hat at the ground angrily.


"Oh... Uh, sorry guys."

"Ugh... Let's return him to his bed, then."

The machine was opened and I was carried back to my room. I looked at the clock again once I heard the bink-bink noises fade out of my room. 2:45. I widened my eyes. Had I stayed up for that long? I heard familiar footsteps quickening to my room and a "Yoshi, no!" Yoshi ran into my room, nudging me as a toad tried to drag him by the tail. I pretended to wake up, opening my eyes slowly. Yoshi suddenly sank his fangs into my torso, and everything began to sprout fangs and come near me, I shrieked as a high pitched scream blended in with mine. I widened my eyes and then everything went black.


AADB

I saw the castle floor and rose my head, shaking it. I turned to see Luigi shaking me. "Mario, you had a nightmare!" "I know Luigi..."

"I know."