The wreckage of Toadstool castle was devastating. Some of the marble walls had turned to rubble, which could take weeks or even months to repair. Ambulances that had come from the Mushroom Kingdom hospital had come to take at least a few hundred guards to try to get them to recover from their wounds. Some funeral services were already being planned for the brave guards that had died trying to defend the princesses from the clutches of Bowser. Overall, there were dark times in store for the Mushroom Kingdom. Sarasaland was already experiencing some of the same problems as its ally, but on a much smaller scale with the only concern being of the kidnapping of Princess Daisy.

As recovery units were searching for any missing guards or people of importance from underneath the rubble, one of the units spotted something underneath a destroyed bookcase. "Hey we got a live one," said one of the units. "He's not in serious condition, but if we had waited longer to find him, he might have been." Four recovery units had managed to life the destroyed bookcase up in order to grab the person underneath. They had happened to find Toadsworth, who was still feeling groggy about the events that transpired between him and Bowser.

"Oh my aching head," said Toadsworth in a soft voice as raising his voice would have caused an increase of his pain. "Where are the princesses? Did they make it to the bunker?" All of the people there could only shake their heads no, which led Toadsworth to believe that Bowser did kidnap them. "Do we have any leads as to where this Bowser fellow might have taken them?" Again all of the people could only shake their heads no. "Great," thought Toadsworth. "I had failed them and I don't know where they could be. It's all my fault." Toadsworth began to shed a tear as he was led to the Mushroom Kingdom hospital.

Meanwhile back in the real world, Mario and Luigi had returned home to the real world, ready to make themselves their dinner before bed. "Oh boy, what a job," said Mario, who was getting ready to take a shower. "I didn't think we were going to see the end of it. How does one person become so mindless as to let their plumbing get that bad?"

"Your guess is as good as mine," replied Luigi sitting down on the couch watching TV. "At least that part is over now." Luigi was switching the TV on from channel to channel, until he caught himself watching a show called the Twilight Zone. He got intrigued when the narrator revealed that there were other dimensions to other worlds, making him remember that dream all over again. Mario saw what he was watching and decided to join his brother. "Uh Mario, shouldn't you take a shower first. Who knows what you got on yourself from that job, I want this couch to be as spotless as possible."

"Relax Luigi", replied Mario. "I only wanted to see what you were watching. Anyways, why are you watching this show anyway? Is it because of the dream you had?" questioned Mario, as he went back to the bathroom to begin his shower.

"Yes." Luigi replied as he began to doze off.

"Mama Mia," though Mario as he closed the bathroom door behind him. "Hopefully he gets off of his little fixation soon."

After one episode, Luigi had decided to shut the TV off. "That's just silly," he thought as he was getting ready to prepare dinner. "How all of that stuff could happen without an explanation, you can't write it off as something otherworldly. It's just not possible." Luigi got his mind off the show as he was preparing his famous spaghetti and meatball dish, which both brothers loved to it after a hard day's work of plumbing which was almost every day. "I'm surprised we aren't sick of this stuff already." Luigi chuckled at the thought while continuing to cook. When Luigi was finished he called out "Mario! Time to eat."

Mario got out of the shower just in time to hear Luigi's last comment and rushed over to the dinner table. "Mama Mia, I'ma so hungry I could eat a horse." Mario said as he was setting up the table.

"Well, unfortunately Mario, we got no horses." Luigi said chuckling to himself while Mario could only roll his eyes at him.

"You know I needa to teach you some sarcasm." Mario replied as they the brothers were sitting down ready to eat.

Dinner conversation between them was quite amusing to say the least. They were talking about the day's events, how the sports teams were doing today which only got them talking mostly about the Yankees or the Mets. Mario was a huge Yankees fan, while Luigi was a huge Mets fan. They then proceeded to talk about their love lives.

"So Mario," piped Luigi taking a bite out of another meatball. "Have you seen any Ladies you've been attracted to or vice versa?"

"Mario took a big gulp out of the water that he was drinking as he responded to Luigi's question. "Well, not as of now, but we have been busy these past few months that I have not been looking around as of yet. What about you Luigi?"

Luigi finished swallowing his meatball when he responded "No me neither, but there will be something down the road. I just know it. The truth is I don't like the girls we have been surrounded with. They are too mean, too money driven, they are just like gold diggers. I want a woman who's kind, sweet, smart, an- WOAH what was that?"

Luigi and Mario got up as they both felt an earthquake around them, shaking the house around wildly. "Earthquakes in New York, at this magnitude," said Mario in disbelief. "That's impossible. Luigi we need to get outside now!"

Luigi and Mario got out of the house as they saw their apartment get torn up the power of the earthquake. The house was left in tatters and most of their stuff, if not all of it, was destroyed. "Great we are homeless," cried Luigi shedding a couple of tears. "Now what are we going to do?"

"I don't know Luigi," said Mario shaking his head. "But we always think of something. It's how we've been able to survive this late in the game right Luigi?" Mario tried to comfort Luigi but to no avail. Mario meanwhile surveyed the area when he discovered something peculiar. "Hey Luigi, get a look of this."

Both brothers ran towards the strange object which looked to be a green pipe. "What in the heck is that?" said Luigi which now got him shaking his head in disbelief.

"I have no idea, but methinks we should go down into it," declared Mario, who was always the adventurous one. "And see what we can find."

"Are you crazy Mario?" yelled Luigi, getting nervous shakes around his body. "We have no idea what it is down there. What if there are scary monsters or maybe mutant turtles with non-chucks or swords. I don't want to be turned into sushi."

Mario slapped Luigi on the head to get some sense into him. "Luigi relax, there is nothing to be afraid of. You watch too many cartoons. Now let's a go." Mario climbed to the top of the pipe and immediately slid down it like a slide.

"I'ma not going to like this." Muttered Luigi as he climbed up the pipe and slid down in too.