Author's Note:

Four reviews I shall answer, first one from ultimateCCC:

"Doesn't Zelda have advanced magic techniques, including sensing the supernatural?"

Uhh...we'll just say that Zelda couldn't sense Doopliss in Link's body because Doopliss is from a paper realm. Yeah, we'll just leave it at that...for now. Next up is ayy lmao:

"...actual plot?"

Basically the plot is that Dimentio is seeking aspirations for world/universal domination, and has a nifty plan set out to do so. Sorry if it wasn't explicitly revealed in the previous installment, since there was so much going on. Lastly, we have Megaman nerd:

"I'd honestly like to see how you would portray Bass (and maybe Treble too) in a situation. What kind of situations would you put him in? Also, I kinda wanna see more of Protoman. I just love him. XD"

Good question; I've played Mega Man 7 back in elementary school, so I know a thing or two about Bass and his personality and all that good stuff. Knowing his beef with Mega Man, I would probably use him in a competition involving high stakes, and who knows, maybe Rush and Bass can be a part of it. As for Proto Man, I can make him appear more in Smash Life, seeing how underutilized he is. Also have one more review to answer, this one from Kat Says No:

"Could we possibly see Axl from MMX and Beck from Mighty No. 9? They're a couple pf my favorite characters, lmao..."

Ooh...I'm not so sure about that suggestion, but seeing how Mighty No. 9 has much similarities to Mega Man, perhaps I can work something out.


Episode 34: Dimensions Part 2

The Paper Mario storybook laid conspicuously in Ness's and Lucas's room, untouched for a great amount of time. The two PSI teens have yet to return from their little snack break, therefore leaving the storybook open for anyone to tamper with...anyone like Bowser, who intruded the teens' room undetected with his protege Corrin tagging along. Perhaps the Koopa King is using the storybook for another one of his dumb lessons? Who knows, but Bowser is still Bowser, and he'll likely utilize the storybook to fulfill his nefarious deeds.

"Those boys left the storybook open, just ripe for the taking!" Bowser grinned as he picked up the storybook, holding it in his hands. "A whole lot of crud is within this book, and we can use it to fulfill our wants and needs!"

"Why would Master Hand bother on keeping a storybook up in the attic, when he can just put it in the library?" asked Corrin. Bowser conjured of a legit answer in his head, an answer that will not only answer Corrin's question, but will prevent him from further questioning the Koopa King. The less questions that are asked, the more fun Bowser will enjoy "teaching" Corrin.

"You see, my boy, this storybook teaches loads of valuable stuff, like what type you should type online on social networking sites that nerds frequent, and it also contains superb mystery stories that will delight readers of all ages! Because of that reason, Master Hand stored his book in the attic, so that people like Kirby won't scribble all over it in crayon! Don't be fooled by Kirby's cutesy appearance, he's a thug through and through!" Corrin nodded at Bowser's remark about Kirby being a thug - that remark kinda reminds you of how Pit used to act towards Kirby, doesn't it?

Corrin: So far Bowser has proven to be a great, stellar teacher, he's very well-informed in many different areas of learning, such as core subjects, sports, and even life. Yet everyone insists on pitying me for being a protege of Bowser...they must be bummed out that they're not blessed a superb teacher like Bowser, they've never received such guidance in their lives and because of that, they lash out their sentiments upon me.

"Let's make a run for it before Ness and Lucas return!" Bowser said to Corrin as the Koopa King and the prince made a mad dash out of the room, with Bowswer holding the storybook in a secure place where no one will see it. They eventually came across Toad, the drug lord who refuses to admit his secret to the world.

"Mario is looking for the Paper Mario storybook, have any of you seen it anywhere?" Toad asked Bowser and Corrin, the former of whom hid the storybook behind his back.

"I do believe I saw the storybook," answered Corrin, leading Bowser to nudge the prince of Nohr. "...saw it in a vision I had once. Never saw the storybook in physical form." Bowser hid the storybook well inside his koopa shell, and he rarely puts anything inside there.

"Ah pooh, I thought that you guys would know where it was...Mario just checked Ness's room, and he didn't find the storybook there., and so he tasked me and Roy with helping him find it..." Mario already stopped by the room?! That plumber must move faster than anyone expects him to move, maybe that minor bit of flab isn't slowing him down a single notch. "Well if you see the storybook, just let me, Roy, or Mario know!" Toad happily skipped away, his drug lord secret still kept under the wraps.

"We'll be on the lookout, you can always count on us!" Bowser called out to Toad as the presumed drug lord happily skipped away. Once Toad was gone, Bowser pulled the storybook out of his shell.

"Why is Mario so concerned with this storybook, it's just a lousy book..." remarked Corrin. He's naive, so he won't honestly know the mighty power the storybook holds.

"Mario is just like Kirby - he wishes to scribble all over the storybook in crayon, or even in marker! I know he's jealous of Paper Mario, and he'll do everything in his power to disgrace his paper counterpart! Best to keep this book out of his sight!"


Doopliss, still gracing the body of Link, was present in the beauty salon, flirting with ladies such as Aerith. The goal plan of the Duplighost is for Zelda to stop by, and become distraught when she sees him flirting with other women. It would lead to a breakup between Link and Zelda, and Doopliss plans on departing from Link's body when the breakup has been made official.

"Link you're not acting like your usual self..." Aerith remarked as Doopliss snuggled with the flower girl. "What would Zelda think about your behavior?" Other ladies in the salon, such as Fiora and Palutena, witnessed this flirting take place - the facial expressions they had literally said it all.

Fiora: No, I don't think Cloud would appreciate Link flirting with Aerith, that's the kind of thing that would destroy their friendship. Those two have a lot in common - they're swordsmen, they're blonde, and they could care less about what others think of them...Shulk possesses those qualities, he could join Link and Cloud...but two's company, three's a crowd, and I don't to hamper the friendship Link and Cloud have.

"Will Zelda be greatly dissatisfied if she finds out about your actions here?" Aerith asked Doopliss, who was now trying to smooch Aerith, although the flower girl blocked every one of his attempts by pushing away with her hand. Nevertheless, Doopliss went at full force, not resisting for a single moment.

"You mean that frilly princess chick that cried like a little girl when I slapped her like a boss?" asked Doopliss, exuberating an absurd amount of confidence and swagger with his response, enough to make the ladies listening to him gasp in shock. "Eh, why would she care, she's irrelevant as far as I care!" The ladies quietly discussed among themselves if this was the real Link, or if Link woke on the wrong side of the bed this morning and decided to act like's he's above it all.

"And how about Cloud, he will be disappointed to see you acting like this! What would he think of you?"

"Like some dumb cloud is able to have feelings...what fantasy world you live in." On that remark, Doopliss departed from the salon, as Aerith and the other ladies looked on, distraught as ever. Once outside of the salon, the Duplighost was suddenly approached by Dimentio, who appeared in front of Doopliss in the blink of an eye.

"Mind if I ask who you are?" the evil jester asked. "Is there by any chance that you are...the famed Duplighost Doopliss?" Uh oh, looks like that crooked jester wants Doopliss to be a part of whatever evil plan he's plotting...two evils are certainly less greater than one.

"Got it right Slick!" exclaimed Doopliss. Dude sure loves to call every male person he sees Slick. "Surprised that you were able to detect me inside this blonde dude's body, too bad his girlfriend was unable to see me through!"

"I figured his lover wouldn't, for she cannot detect two-dimensional paper ghosts, like how a metal detector can't detect spilled orange juice on the floor. She's not from our world, and we're not from her's." Dimentio moved away from Doopliss, seemingly thinking for a brief moment. "Outside this mansion is a statue - a statue that holds a great deal of power that is more powerful than I. I was wondering if you could be a participant in my devious plan..."

"Hoo boy, I would absolutely love to! Good thing I had picked the perfect person to be doing whatever has be done, this man has a sword and junk, and I can use it to swipe people and..."

"I'm terribly afraid that you won't be using the sword you speak of - instead, I have something else in plan for you..." Doopliss rubbed his Hylian hands in excitement, wondering what Dimentio has in store for him. Knowing Dimentio's tendencies, it possibly can't be good...


Samus: Finally, after all this time I had to spend putting up with Zero's big mouth, and then with Squirps having to use the bathroom (as well as that brief episode with Captain Falcon, I'll never forgive that man), the robot is fully completed. Squirps is the head of the robot, and thankfully the robot has its own artificial intelligence, so we won't have to worry about Squirps controlling most of the robot except for when it comes to walking. Anyone who routinely uses words such as "squeeple" and "squoork" in the middle of their sentences as a part of their everyday language should hardly be trusted, and should probably be checked into a mental facility.

Samus and Zero strolled through the mansion, with their robot (its walking movement controlled by Squirps) strolling right behind them. This robot received a last-minute upgrade, installed by Zero - the blonde robot attached Bombette to the robot as a whip of sorts, a whip that can explode at will. However, there's a catch - what makes Bombette different from other Bob-ombs is that while your regular Bob-omb goes away for good after detonation, Bombette can detonate...and return like she was never gone. Because of this, the robot (not Squirps, Paper Mario and his gang didn't even trust the little alien guy when they initially met him, just some food for thought) can use Bombette as a whip an infinite amount of times, to blow up stuff and whatnot.

"Man, Zero, you surely did a great job with this robot of yours!" remarked X, walking past Zero, Samus, and the finished robot; the renowned pacifist turned his head and saw a glaring Samus, with her arms folded. "...and you did an awesome job too Samus, you really worked your butt off!"

"Better be glad X is your best friend..." Samus murmured to Zero, who gulped nervously. Had X not been friends with Zero, Samus would have ripped the poor pacifist robot's heart out, and crushed it into pieces just by tightening her fist. This blonde bounty hunter shows no mercy, and it would be a horrid mistake to mess with her. "Let's keep pressing on, we don't need any praise for our efforts."

"But Samus, this is a major accomplishment, something that you can put on your resume!" Zero tried to convince Samus. Unlike the bounty hunter, who seldom takes credit for anything she does, Zero loves to bask in the glory of the things he accomplishes, whether they be mundane, or astronomical. If he was spotted leaning against the wall near the entrance to the arcade room doing a cool pose, he would expect his fellow brawlers to commend him for his pose...though he rarely gets commended at all, and for many good reasons.

"First off, no rational person would ever put 'built a giant robot' on their resume, that's downright asinine. Secondly, I have no intentions to join the work force - I already had my course at the Galactic Federation, and I don't plan on returning anytime soon."

"Who knows, there might be other galactic organizations that you can take a chance on..." Zero said as he, Samus and the robot continued their strolling through the mansion.

"Squirps sees people up ahead, squoork!" Squirps chirped as he saw Cloud and Link making their way towards the three. "Squirps doesn't like that shadowy fellow, squeeple, Squirps will take care of him real quick!" The alien threw Bombette at Link, sending the Hylian flying back a little bit after the explosion. But Squirps isn't even supposed to be controlling the arms, the robot's legs are the only thing the alien has control over.

"Nobody wants to just control the legs, the upper body is practically useless," Zero, who was responsible for the robot's moving capacity, had to explain to Samus, who was looking at him while impatiently tapping his foot.

Link: Not the first time I got attacked due to my state as a shadow...heck, I couldn't even enter the kitchen without being reprimanded. One foot inside the kitchen, and Palutena, who was cooking, immediately screamed ghost, and I had to make a run for it. Unfortunately I was tackled to the floor by Captain Falcon, and Palutena had to call over Luigi to "exterminate the ghost", and thankfully Luigi wasn't there at his home...but Pit was and he answered the phone, and he now he's coming over here with the Poltergust 3000. *sighs* Dark Link never had to go through this ghost exterminating crap...but he never had to deal with ghost-related technology, so I guess he gets a slight pass.

"Link are you okay, are you seriously hurt or anything?" Cloud ran over to his best friend, checking on him to see if he's fine. Due to Link's state as a shadow, determining his condition may not be so easy.

"The spiky haired man must be a ghost whisperer, squeeggle, he can communicate with the ghost!" Squirps moved closer to Cloud and Link (since Squirps can apparently fully control the robot, we'll mention him and the robot as the same entity). "No ghost whisperers allowed, squeem!"

"I don't think they're bad guys..." Bombette had to say about Link and Cloud. "They're just regular people, like the others that live at this mansion! Except maybe for the shadowy guy, he doesn't seem like the trustworthy type." Words of wisdom; never trust anything that is a shadow. You can't even trust your own shadow sometimes, who knows what things it can do unseen.

"Dang Link, trying way too hard to be like your doppelganger Dark Link, huh?" Zero asked the Hylian, rushing over to him along with Samus. "Pit tried to do the same thing months ago, and we all know how that turned out - still can't believe the man got himself arrested. You should probably quit before you can."

"I'm not trying to be like Dark Link...some dude stole my body and now I have to retrieve what is mine," explained Link. You'd figured that due to the outline as well as the color, Link is not a ghost nor is he attempting to be one like Dark Link, right?...Right?

"Only supernatural beings like ghosts are able to steal bodies," stated Samus. "Are you telling me that you let a ghost steal your body?" Link grew furious when he was asked this question and tried to lunge forward at Samus, though he was in some pain, thereby preventing him from doing so. Would've been a costly mistake anyways...

"No I didn't let him steal my body, he did a sneak attack on me when I least expected it! I was in the printing room, printing off things for Zelda, when some green sensor bar scanned be, and then I fell unconscious. Once I woke up, I ended up like THIS!"

"Link that's not really considered a 'sneak attack', seems to me like you let this ghost scan you and you bothered not to do anything about it whatsoever." Link grew even more furious, as he grunted in anger and folded his arms.

"How Link ended up in this state doesn't matter," Cloud spoke up. "What does matter is that we track down the ghost that stole his body. We have no idea what this ghost looks like, or if the ghost prefers to be visible or not."

Cloud: Last thing we need around here is a serious ghost problem, especially involving a ghost than can steal other people's bodies. The Pac-Man ghosts already drive us insane with the incessant noises they make, and to have a body-stealing ghost infiltrating the mansion, we simply can't let it happen, ever. Imagine King K. Rool having his body possessed by a ghost, think of all the things that ghost could do inside Rool's body... *shudders*

"Squirps will take out this wily ghost in no time, squeerm!" exclaimed Squirps. Link and Cloud looked up at Squrips, who was piloting the robot for some apparent reason, and then looked at Samus and Zero with questionable looks. Must have been real desperate to have Squirps as a part of their creation, but then again, it's not like they had any other choice...

"You guys seriously used that weird, ugly thing as a part of your robot?" Cloud asked the two robot inventors in a disapproving way. "Talk about a serious downgrade..."

"Look, I kinda slacked off on making the robot's head, so we had to use that green alien guy as a head instead," explained Zero. Hey, he finally admitted to slacking off on his job! Good for him! "Good thing that I installed some ghost hunting technology into the robot for good measure - that stupid Ghostbusters movie really turned me on, for some reason. The Leslie chick honestly scared the crap out of me, even more so than the actual ghosts..."

"The ghosts in that movie aren't even meant to be scary, it's a freaking comedy film for crying out loud." Some of the ghosts could have been scary...but Cloud has zero tolerance for anything scary (save for Jenova, of course), so who knows.

"You seriously watched that Ghostbusters movie?" grimaced Samus. "Let me guess: Aerith put you up to it, didn't she?" Cloud hung his head in shame when Samus said this. Like the blonde swordsman once told Pit before, whenever your girlfriend wants you to do something, you do it right away. So when Aerith wanted her and Cloud to go see that Ghostbusters movie, Cloud had to drop everything and do what his woman says.

"Wait, why are we even talking about Ghostbusters in the first place? We should be focusing on finding that ghost that stole Link's body! He might not be here for that long, we better find him and take him out as soon as we can..."


Chrom sat in the patient bed inside a nearby hospital, with a doctor nursing the bruises the prince of Yliesse suffered at the hands of Ganondorf. The Demon King didn't appreciate Chrom flirting with his supposed woman, and the prince had to pay the price.

"Your injuries are slightly severe, but not life-threatening in any way, so you'll be fine," assured the doctor as he pulled out a wheelchair, much to the chagrin of Chrom. Having to be transported in a wheelchair was definitely something the prince didn't have in mind, but he'll accept temporary fate for the time being. "On the flipside, however, you'l have to remain in this wheelchair until your bruises are fully healed, I don't trust you walking about with the injuries you sustained."

Francis: This is all my fault, I'm the one who got poor Chrom injured...how was I supposed to know Ganondorf had feelings for Rosalina? Inter-canon romances aren't my thing, I used to delve in that field of love but it never worked out so well. One time I had paired Brock from Pokemon with Mona from Wario, and as a result, I had nightmares - nightmares about Brock forcing his Onix to crush poor Mona with his Rock Tomb move!...But that's what I get for watching those sci-fi flicks about alien rocks past midnight.

The doctor helped Chrom sit inside the rolling chair, and then he rolled the prince out of the room, before getting inside an elevator and heading to the first floor of the hospital, where Lucina, Robin, Fox, Falco, Big Top, Little Mac, Doc Louis, and Francis were all waiting inside the waiting room. Lucina was overjoyed when she saw her father, safe and sound.

"Will my father be okay?" the princess asked the doctor when she first saw him. "We hardly have any insurance, and depending on the severity of my father's injuries..."

"No worries, the severity of your father's injuries are only minor," explained the doctor, resulting in Lucina letting out a relieved sigh. "He should be fully healed before the end of next week. Only thing you'll have to worry about is who's gonna push him around until he's 100% healthy!"

"I'll elect myself to partake in this duty," Robin volunteered; the doctor moved away and let Robin have it, as the mage secured his hands on the wheelchair handles. Lucina glared at Robin, for she wanted to be the one pushing her father about since she's his daughter, but Robin compensated for Lucina's frustrations with a wry smile. It will take more than just a smile to soothe Lucina's angry mood. "Our work here is done, you all can leave now when you're ready."

"Not yet, I must clean my glasses, the lenses are so foggy..." said Francis. How can the man clean his glasses if they're made out of paper? And since they're made out of paper, how can they be foggy? Might be an in-universe thing.

"Hurry up and do it man, I don't wanna accrue another parking ticket," Fox told Francis, who scurried to the bathroom. "Wish they'd make a separate parking space for my Landmaster, taking up two to three regular parking spaces apparently isn't gonna cut it..."

Inside the restroom, Francis was cleaning off his glasses with a wet paper towel, due to a lack of a cleaning cloth. Sometimes when you wear glasses, and you're lacking a cleaning cloth to clean your glasses, because of factors such as location, instance, or both, you gotta improvise when you can.

"Oh how very lovely, the otaku reptilian is making friends with offline companions...if only your mother was here as a witness."

Dimentio appeared inside the restroom, scaring and frightening Francis so much that the chameleon dropped his glasses on the floor. Due to the paper quality of these glasses and the fact that the glasses are from a different dimension, they weren't that much damaged.

Fox: *looking out through a window* Shoot, I can already see the police cars lined up near by Landmaster...Francis oughta hurry up, or my baby will be blanketed in tickets...it'd be embarrassing flying my Landmaster in the air, with those tickets flying off of it.

"Do my eyes deceive me?" Francis wondered after picking up his glasses and putting them back on, seeing Dimentio floating in front of him. "I know who you are, you're that jester that works for Count Bleck, Dimentio!"

"Used to work for Count Bleck, I played him like how a bluegrass singer plays a fiddle," corrected Dimentio, adding a clever simile in his response. They don't call him the King of Similes for nothing...but unfortunately nobody calls him that. Who said it's too late to start now? "I took full advantage of Count Bleck and his depressing situation, and I was oh so close to destroying the multiverse, but that dastardly Mario and his putrid friends had to spoil the party...and now, I plot to extract my revenge not on Paper Mario, but the real deal, the real Mario! Certainly you must want to extract revenge as well, after what went down at your precious fort..."

"Yeah, Mario had his goons beat the crap out of me, and to add insult to injury, they stole the schweet butterfly that I captured! You thinking what I'm thinking?"

"Oh, I have been thinking for far longer than you have...we shall work together, and destroy Mario, once and for all! Got a deal?" Dimentio held out his head, and Francis shook it, sporting an evil, malicious grin. "Great choice you have made, with you on board, nobody can..."

"DANG IT FRANCIS, MY ENTIRE LANDMASTER IS COVERED IN TRAFFIC TICKETS BECAUSE OF YOU!" Fox's voice could be heard through the restroom door. "NOT TO MENTION THAT I'M ALSO GETTING A FINE! PREPARE TO PAY UP MISTER, BETTER HOPE YOU GOT SOME CASH ON YA!"

"Meet me at the front of the mansion, where the statue is. I'll explain the entirety of my plan in full."


After their short snack break, Ness and Lucas made their way back to their room, hoping to actually read most of the Paper Mario storybook rather than touching random characters and making them come to life. They were completely neglecting the use of the storybook, and this time they'll do some actual reading. Just looking at some lousy pictures would be a waste of time...

"Wait, where's the storybook, where did it go?" Ness looked around for the storybook after entering the room, seeing that it was no longer on Lucas's bed. "It can't magically appear like that, I know it's magical, but still..."

"Somebody must have stolen the storybook while we were away!" panicked Lucas. "Sooner or later Mario is gonna find out, and the both of us will be in big trouble..." Lucas was now on the verge of crying his eyes out, fearful about the possibility of being grounded by either Mario or Master Hand. As you can might tell, Lucas can't seem to handle taking punishments or taking the blame for anything.

Mewtwo: Word has it that Mario is currently looking for the Paper Mario storybook, so he can return it to the attic in one piece...but if you ask me, this situation should have been taken care of a long time ago - just like how Mario should have taken care of his relationship with Peach a long time ago. Those two have been in love for as long as I know what, and it's appalling to see that they haven't tied the knot yet. Both Mario and Peach are at fault, in my opinion.

"Woah Lucas, take it easy man, chill out, this isn't that much of a big deal," Ness did his best to comfort his best friend. "It's not like we summoned genuinely evil dudes out of the book, they're not gonna take over the world or anything..."

"Chill out? CHILL OUT?!" Lucas snapped on Ness. Uh oh, the crybaby is becoming rather feisty... "The storybook is gone, and you think telling me to 'chill out' will solve our problems?!"

"Somebody is probably looking for the storybook as we speak. Once the book has been found, we'll go to Master Hand and explain everything."


"Sonic, this is flat out unnecessary and I don't believe this is such a good idea," Tails said to his hedgehog friend as he, Sonic, Knuckles, and Amy were hiding behind a wall in the hallway, where mousetraps were littered all over the floor. Sonic's plan is to capture Tutankoopa - the pharaoh koopa who stole the Sonic gang's spinner for the Twister game - through the use of the mousetraps scattered on the floor. Only way this plan would fail is if someone other than Tutankoopa stepped on the mousetraps, and Sonic possibly can't have that, he'll wind up being even more despised than usual...which is why he's using Tails as a fall guy.

"Shut up Tails, that koopa might hear us!" Sonic shushed the yellow fox. Although Tails was technically whispering, Sonic thinks that even the loudest whisper could blow his gang's cover. "He should be here any minute now, wondering what's taking him so long..."

All of a sudden, footsteps were heard. The Sonic gang hid closer to the wall as the sound of the footsteps came closer and grew higher in volume. Then the sound of a mousetrap snapping...

"GAAAAAAAH!" a voice yelled in pain, followed by a thud and more mousetraps snapping. Sonic and company appeared out of their hiding spots to see their victim...none other than Jacky Bryant, who was covered from head to toe in mousetraps and writhing in pain. "Sonic I knew you were behind this, you're gonna pay buddy!" The end result of Sonic's plan, obviously a failure, could have been worse - Jacky could have been bleeding from the mousetraps, but thankfully there was no blood. "Now you and your scrawny friends get these dumb mousetraps off of me!"

Sonic: So yeah, my plan to capture the koopa failed, got the wrong guy, but pulling off this plan was a great learning experience...next time, I'm gonna make the floor wet so that whoever's walking will slip and fall on the mousetraps! You can't tell me Jacky didn't intentionally step on those mousetraps, certainly he saw them lying on the floor conspicuously! Either that, or the man lacks peripheral vision...could be a lowkey side-effect from too much racing.

While Sonic and his crew helped get the mousetraps off of Jacky, Tutankoopa breezed right by, the Twister spinner still in his possession. Once he got far from the Sonic gang, so far that he was now by himself in the hallway...the pharaoh koopa was suddenly approached by Dimentio, who magically appeared in front of him.

"Riddle me this, good sir: what has hands, but no feet; a face, but no eyes; tells, but not talk?" riddled Dimentio. So not only the jester is the King of Similes, he's also the King of Riddles as well! Might as well start calling him that from now on.

"Hmm, the answer to that riddle would be..." Tutankoopa stroked his chin, thinking of a valid answer. "...a clock! Wait, what does this riddle have to do with anything? I might need some clarification..."

"The clock, like pouring sand inside an hourglass, is a representation of time, and you, good sir, have time...to join me and others in my quest for world domination! Have you ever been wronged by felled by Paper Mario before?"

"Yeah, he and his bum companions defeated me in my own throne! The taste of revenge has alluded me, but the taste of world domination is more succulent...I'll join your little pact, who knows what we may accomplish!"

"The benefits of your alligence to the cause shall be plenty..." Whatever Dimentio is cooking up, it definitely isn't good.


"No, John, please don't leave me like this, think of the children! How will the children handle it with you away, I simply can't do everything on my own! I'm just but a lousy housewife, with lousy kids..."

"Patience, my dear, patience, everything will work itself out on the end if you just wait. My absence will not be as long as you think it will be, I shall return sooner than you know it!"

Yes, in case you may be pondering, those lines are from a soap opera - a soap opera that Pit, Viridi, Kirby, King Dedede, and the Waddle Dees are all watching in the living room of Luigi's home for reasons unknown. This wasn't a marquee soap opera, like General Hospital or Days of our Lives - this was some crappy soap opera that looks like it belongs on a reject local station, and it had King Dedede sitting at the edge of his couch.

King Dedede: Hoo boy, oh yeah, things were getting mightily intense up in here...John just told his wife Sarah that he accepted a job overseas, and that jerk didn't even bother to tell his woman! What kind of husband is he, hiding things from his lover, and on top of that, the children are a bunch of unruly, inconsiderate...oh, you were asking me about Luigi undergoing his "Mr. L" persona? To heck with that man...

"Luigi has yet to return ever since he underwent his strange 'Mr. L' persona..." Daisy worried as she vacuumed the living room. "It must be the work of that Dimentio creep, Luigi didn't act like he did until I let that man inside my home! He sure looks like a deviant folk..."

"Yeah I wouldn't blame ya, I wouldn't trust a Jehovah's Witness even if I was hanging off of a plane and I had to grab a Jehovah Witness's hand for survival," Pit somewhat agreed. What does Jehovah's Witnesses have to do with Dimentio? Oh wait, he still thinks Dimentio counts as one... "I knew Dimentio was shady from the moment I saw him, and you wanted to let him in.

"I can't bear to see Luigi gone this long! He must still be at the mansion, I'm going over and see whatever he's up to!" Daisy stopped vacuuming, putting away her vacuum, before grabbing her keys and opening the front door.

"Why would you wanna go after that man Luigi, did you not see how he acted under that persona of his?" frowned King Dedede, attempting to dissuade Daisy from leaving the house. Undeniably, the penguin would have far better success with talking Peach out of things - Daisy, she's quite the hard-headed woman.

"Luigi may be a different person and all...but deep down inside, inside of him, I know that the Luigi we all know and love is still there, just waiting to be unleash! And I will be the one to bring out the real Luigi!"

"You were kidding when you said we 'all know and love' Luigi, were you?" asked Pit, not wanting to anger Daisy, but he inadvertently did so, garnering a furious glare from the redhead. He probably knew that glare was coming his way.

"Can't believe you had the gall to even say that! Since you want to be so critical of my husband, Pit...you're coming with me!" Daisy grabbed the angel's hand and dragged him out of the house against his will, leaving Viridi alone with Kirby and King Dedede. Will the goddess of nature panic now that her boyfriend is no longer present, or will she try and socialize with those not named Pit?

"Wanna tell you embarrassing stories about Pit?" Viridi asked Kirby, King Dedede, and the Waddle Dees. C'mon Viridi, don't do your man like that, not when he's off saving the world...or at least saving Luigi.

"Ooh, embarrassing stories of Pit, please do tell!" King Dedede grinned, rubbing his hands in a presumably evil but not actually evil way. He's way too excited for this.


Mario: Minutes and-a hours - well, mostly minutes - have-a passed, and still no sign-a of the storybook! I've already been-a to Ness's and Lucas's room, and the storybook-a was gone, meaning that some-a one must have taken it! And now Master Hand-a wants me to see him-a in his room. He'll spite-a me for not completing my task...

Mario stood nervously in Master Hand's room, where the giant hand was present with Isabelle, holding her clipboard. Several seconds have passed, and Master Hand has yet to give any thought about torturing Mario...so far, so good.

"So Mario, have you located the storybook yet or is it still missing?" Master Hand asked the plumber. Mario's torture may be coming sooner than later, might as well brace for whatever Master Hand has up his sleeve.

"Not-a yet, I've been to Ness's and Lucas's room-a and the storybook wasn't present," responded Mario, slightly cowering in fear. "Somebody must-a have taken it when those two-a boys were absent..."

"I see...I shall punish the culprit who stole the storybook, and their punishment shall be swift." Mario let out a sigh of relief, knowing that he won't receive torture; it will likely be Bowser (and also Corrin, just because by association), who will take the fall. "In addition to the security of the storybook, we have another pressing issue on our hands...Isabelle, would you like to do the honors?"

"Yes sir," Isabelle nodded as she stepped forward. "That statue of Master Hand, the one Dr. Eggman had his Badniks build in front of the mansion...it's meant to bring back Tabuu."

"Say it isn't-a so!" Mario exclaimed at the top of his lungs. "Dr. Egg-a Man coming up with a competent-a evil plot?! Antarctica must-a be freezing over..." Mario stopped when he saw Isabelle with a blank stare on her face. Had Mario said this about Bowser, then go figure, but in terms of competency, Dr. Eggman blows Bowser out of the park. The man designed a weapon of mass destruction to blow up the earth for crying out loud!

"Anyways, we're not sure if the statue is supposed to be a portal to subspace, but given that Dimentio is floating about and is likely wrecking havoc as we speak, he might sense the strong power from the statue and use it to summon Tabuu. Therefore it is crucial that you defend the statue from Dimentio at all costs!"

"Very well-a then, I'll go check-a on the statue and leave Toad-a and Roy with finding the storybook. Once they find-a it, we shall-a warp Dimentio and the other Paper Mario character in-a side." Mario walked to the door, before momentarily stopping and saying the following under his breath: "That Pure Heart better be-a in one piece..."

"Did you say something, Mario?" inquired Master Hand; Mario quickly turned around and shook his head. "Okay then, off you go! Don't disappoint me this time!"

Master Hand: My statue, my beloved statue, is more than likely a stinking portal to Subspace, and I let Dr. Eggman build the statue for me! Why must I be so consumed with my own ego, why did I have to say yes...I know, I'll have Mario and Luigi build me a statue of myself - one without anything to do with Tabuu or Subspace, of course - this one in the middle of Seattle, so that the citizens can admire my profound greatness! In reality, it sounds like another egotistical hack job, but ego is all about self-esteem, and how do you expect to achieve self-esteem without having others and yourself (but mainly others) praising you all the time?


"See that loser penguin right there, the one with the detective hat and the bowtie and the magnifying glass?" Bowser pointed to a picture of a penguin that fitted the description inside the Paper Mario storybook, showing the picture to Corrin inside the room where the Koopa King usually holds his lessons. Bowser, knowing exactly how the storybook operates, knew better than to touch anything. "His name is Pennington, and he's the sorriest detective known to mankind...or at least to penguins. He's so sorry, that he makes...he makes...ummm...do you know any sorry detectives, Corrin?"

"Well you did say that Sherlock Holmes is a trash detective, and one of the more overrated fictional characters of all time," stated Corrin. Going by this logic, the Hardy Boys are also trash and overrated.

"Yeah, Pennington can make Sherlock Holmes look like the greatest detective of all time! When it comes to be a crappy investigator, Pennington is the..."

"Caught you both red-handed!" Roy barged inside the room, with Toad standing at his side. "Knew you were the culprits this whole time, Toad told me how you were acting shady - now hand over the storybook and nobody gets hurt!"

"Shoot, we're about to get it now!" Bowser panicked, immediately handing the storybook to Corrin. "Save yourself, my faithful protege, do what's best for me!"

"But I can't leave you like this Bowser, I refuse to leave my teacher behind!" Bowser and Corrin aren't having a heartfelt moment...are they? Judging by the grimaces on Roy's and Toad's faces, it certainly seems like it...

"No, Corrin, you must go and be free," Bowser rested his hand on Corrin's shoulder. This is starting to become a little over-the-top now. "Remember my teachings, remember everything that I have taught you. Now go, young Padawan, go and be free!"

Corrin nodded and ran out of the room, with the storybook in his grasp, while Roy and Toad chased after the prince of Nohr. Corrin kept running and running, and saw that he was running towards King K. Rool, standing in the middle of the hallway flexing his muscles like someone's gonna pay attention to him. Not wanting to risk running into the Kremling and dropping the storybook in the process, Corrin threw the storybook down a nearby staircase, before ramming into Rool and knocking him down, also while falling on the floor in the process.

"Watch where you're going bub!" Rool frowned at Corrin, slowly getting back up. "Ruining my workout plan...you sure got some nerve kid."

King K. Rool: Fact: flexing can not only build your muscles, but can also alter the shape of your muscles as well! It can improve upon things like muscle tone, muscle hardness, and even muscle density (like muscles are even supposed to have density). As you can see, I have been making some great progress with my muscles so far... *shows his muscles to the camera* ...Whaddaya mean, you don't see any muscle?...You telling me the only thing you can see is flab?! Whose muscles are you punks looking at?! Let me remind you, us Kremlings have the best muscles out of ANY species, and these muscles are a pure symbol of your manliness, and as a man... *a girly ringtone sounds, Rool looks around embarrassed* Sorry, but I gotta take this... *pulls out his phone and walks away out of humiliation*

The storybook traveled down the steps and miraculously landed in the lap of Chrom, who was being pushed around on his wheelchair by Robin. Lucina had opted to push Chrom around on the wheelchair, but Robin angered her by making her do some sort of favor - basically he made Lucina buy him some takeout food. Lucina is known for being awkward at times and not knowing how to take a joke, so it would be interesting to see the princess of Ylisse's exchange with whomever's running the cash register.

"My goodness, is this the storybook everyone's having a fuss over?" Chrom picked up the storybook, holding it in his hands. "I've always wanted to read this..."

Suddenly Roy and Toad came running down the steps, screaming like a bunch of maniacs as they ran down the staircase. Believing that the two wanted to read the storybook and wanting to keep the storybook from them, Robin snatched the storybook out of Chrom's hands and made a run for it, as Chrom was ambushed by Roy and Toad. The prince was knocked over as he fell on the floor, falling out of his wheelchair, and laid on the floor in pain face-first as the chase for the storybook continued.

"I suppose I'll get my chance...another day..." Chrom lifted up his head just to say this before resting his face back on the floor. Kudos if you got the reference...

Unlike Corrin, who ran like he was Usain Bolt, Robin ran a whole lot slower, which is kinda sad because he's supposed to run with that same speed with his tome. The mage, knowing this, handed the storybook off to Donkey Kong, who was walking by with an ice pack on his head, recovering from having his behind handed to him by Mr. L.

"Ooh, the Paper Mario storybook, never got the chance to read this!" Donkey Kong exclaimed as he opened the book; having never appeared in the Paper Mario universe at all (like Daisy, his existence could be implied), DK had to digest all the information he can get. But that won't happen, what with Roy and Toad running towards him.
"Those boys must be after the storybook, they must want to read it as well - but I won't let 'em have it!" Donkey Kong immediately took off, speeding down the hallway and down the steps when he saw a bitter Sonic walking with Tails. (And yes, Sonic is bitter about what happened with the Twister game he and his friends were playing, in case you may be wondering. ) Seeing that Roy and Toad were ganging up on them, Donkey Kong threw the storybook to Sonic as a sacrifice of sorts, and the book landed in the hedgehog's hands as DK was tackled to the floor by the duo chasing him.

"What's this, some crappy storybook from some crappy universe?" Sonic scanned the storybook, glancing at the cover and the back and the pages in between...before dropping it on the floor like it was nothing. That's no way to treat a highly magical book full of magical characters. "Bump that, I want that spinner back!"

Tails: Apparently Sonic is still bitter about that koopa dressed up as a pharaoh stealing the spinner for the Twister game (a blessing in disguise, I might add) and doing who-knows-what with it. Dude was complaining so much, that he annoyed Amy to no end and she had to leave the mansion on early notice. Sonic, finding out that his girlfriend had left, tried to bring her back, and he tried so, so hard - kinda like the times when Amy tried to win over Sonic with her yandere habits. Huh, funny how times have changed...

"Sonic this just isn't some ordinary storybook, this is the storybook that contains the entire Paper Mario universe!" Tails frowned as he picked up the book, dusting it off. "By dropping it on the floor, you could have done some serious damage, and the book might tear apart!"

"Pretty sure you're overreacting Tails, one little drop on the floor won't do anything," said Sonic. He may be right, but multiple drops on the floor can prove to be very disastrous. The storybook is more fragile than it seems.

Sonic and Tails suddenly heard fast-approaching footsteps, and then they saw Roy and Toad making a mad dash towards them - more particularly towards Tails, the one with the storybook in his possession. While Sonic instinctively sped away at the speed of light, Tails had to make use of his...erm, tails, by flying away. He flew out of a conveniently opened window, and flew over the mansion's gardens. He saw Fox and Falco, both searching for Francis's whereabouts, below him, and the fox dropped the storybook down at the two Star Fox pilots before flying back inside the mansion.

"Ow, my head!" Fox flinched in pain as the storybook dropped on his head. He saw the storybook lying on the ground, and picked it up. "Aw sweet, this must be the Paper Mario storybook from the attic!"

"No way bruh, I wanna see!" Falco walked over to Fox and snatched the storybook from Fox, flipping through the pages. Quick question: what if someone were to rip out a page from the storybook, either by accident, on purpose, or maybe even both (if that were to be possible)?

"Hey dude, no fair, give it back!" Fox snatched the storybook away from Falco, and would you know it, the two pilots then started fighting over the storybook. The group of Link, Cloud, Zero, Samus, and Squirps stopped by the gardens in search for Doopliss, and saw Fox and Falco fighting. Not a surprise for them, they've seen Fox and Falco fight over the dumbest things - like the time they fought over who would get to drink the last can of Pepsi at the 4th of July cookout. It got so out of hand, that Mario resorted to calling the police just to break Fox and Falco up!

"Are they...are they fighting over the Paper Mario storybook?" Samus scrutinized the storybook that Falco held up high in the air, preventing Fox from reaching it. "Should we like, return it to the attic where it belongs?"

"Squirps is on it, squeegle, Squirps is here to save the day!" Squirps extended his arm out to the storybook, using a clawshot to snatch the storybook out of Falco's hand before bringing it back to him. "The storybook is now in safe hands!" Link saw that the clawshot looked mighty familiar - in fact, it was his clawshot - and realizing that the clawshot was his, he then glared at Zero, who giggled innocently. Good thing Zero can't see the mean glare on Link's face...

Zero: Alright, so I installed Link's hookshot into the robot as an extendable arm without his permission...but so what, it's not like the man ever uses that thing anyways. Only time I see him using that thing outside of battle is when he's scratching his butt and armpits, and for that reason, I had to put a lot of sanitizing products on the clawshot. Now we're completely out of sanitizing wipes...

"And now the storybook is in safer hands," Mewtwo teleported to the scene out of nowhere, and grabbed the storybook from Squirps's hookshot hand. "Time to return this book to the attic where it belongs..." Mewtwo saw Link in his shadow state, wondering why the Hylian is colored purple. Shadows are meant to be black in nature, so the psychic Pokemon is a little surprised. "Whatever happened to you, Link?"

"Some dumb ghost stole my body, and he's meandering around the mansion in it!" explained Link. "I think he's from that storybook, if I'm not mistaken; these guys are helping me track the ghost down."

"No wonder...when I saw a blonde-haired lad in a tunic peeing inside one of the vending machines, I instantly knew it wasn't you, and that you might have been possessed or something." Doopliss peed in a vending machine as Link? Not a great look at all for the Hylian...

"Hey bruh, give us back that book we didn't even get to read it!" Falco yelled at Mewtwo as he and Fox came dashing towards to Mewtwo, only for the psychic Pokemon to repel the pilots with his Confusion attack, sending them flying into some shrubbery.

"I believe I saw the ghost inside your body heading to the front of the mansion. Follow me, we must get him out of your body and back inside this storybook before he causes any more ruckus."


Dimentio and his goons - Doopliss, Francis, and Tutankoopa - were all standing in front of a statue, waiting for Mr. L to finally arrive. Mario, who was supposed to guard the statue at all costs, stumbled upon Dimentio, and was now being tied to a stake by Doopliss, where Daisy and Pit - both of whom were looking for Luigi - were also caught and tied to the stake.

"How could-a you Link, why would you tie-a me, Daisy, and-a Pit to this stake?!" Mario furiously questioned "Link", not knowing that Doopliss had taken over the Hylian's body.

"For the last time Slick, I'm not Link, I just stole the man's body!" Doopliss angrily responded, just when he was finished tying up Mario. "I stole his body because I liked his physique and features and all!"

"Nice-a try Link, we all know-a you have one of the worst-a physiques out of everyone-a in the mansion, with-a your skinny self!" Oh snap, Link just got burned by Mario - though the burn would have been more legit if Link was physically here.

Doopliss: As you might have figured, everywhere I go people call me Link...not knowing that it is I, Doopliss, who has taken over his body! *does an evil, maniacal laugh, before abruptly coughing afterwards* ...you didn't hear that. Anyway, I have this clause that nobody has ever heard of - should I remain in Link's body until midnight, then I shall remain in it forever, and Link will forever remain as a shadow! Which gives me the freedom to womanize all the ladies...already got my eyes set on that pale-skinned lady with them yoga pants on. I sure love me some yoga pants...

"We're gonna die, I can already tell we're gonna die!" Pit panicked, seemingly overreacting. "I don't deserve to go out like this..." So far, nothing's happening - there's no fire at the bottom of the stake, and Dimentio hasn't used the statue to summon Tabuu yet. Yet Pit could see his life flashing through his eyes.

"No need to fear Pit, nothing has happened so far..." assured Daisy. "...or at least not yet!" Her level of concern is as high as Pit's, but she's not overreacting like he is. Watching from behind, concealed behind bushes, were Peach, Goombella, and R.O.B., all three concerned for the well-being of those on the stake.

"Oh goodness, what is that dastardly Dimentio planning?" Peach watched attentively. "And why did Link just tie Mario to the stake just now, why is he working for Dimentio all of a sudden?!"

"Forget Link - Dimentio is already setting himself up for failure by enlisting Francis to join him!" remarked Goombella. To be honest, Francis isn't even a real villain, compared to the likes of Tutankoopa and Doopliss - he just happened to tick off Paper Mario and his gang by kidnapping Tippi, and there was a huge fight over the butterfly. "Otaku nerds have no business in involving themselves with evil matters!"

Just then, Mr. L came through the front door of the mansion, with the Pure Heart in his possession. Peach, seeing this, gasped in shock, for she was aware that Luigi has been hypnotized.

"Here's the Pure Heart, just like you asked for!" Mr. L handed the Pure Heart to Dimentio. "Sorry I took so long, I had to maneuver through the mansion without being detected. Keeping that Pure Heart under the wraps was awfully hard work!"

"Luigi you-a fool, you can't-a give the Pure-a Heart to Dimentio, he's insane!" frowned Mario, but what's the point of him ridiculing his brother? It's not like Mr. L will ever listen to his brother in the state he's in.

"Says the one who wanted to bring the Pure Heart out of the attic, some mistake you made!" Mr. L then turned his attention to Daisy, smirking at the princess. "Nice to see that your attempt to 'save' me failed miserably, just like I had figured!"

"I THINK I KNOW...A CURE TO LUIGI'S HYPNOSIS..." said R.O.B., summoning a siren from his torso. "STAND BACK...I GOT THIS..." The robot sounded the siren, and the siren sounded like a dog call...a dog call that sounded a lot like Luigi's voice.

And would you know it, Luigi's faithful ghostly canine companion Polterpup appeared, barking happily as he ran to Mr L. at the sound of the siren and knocking him to the ground, licking his face repeatedly, like most dogs typically do.

"Okay, Polterpup, cut-a it out, that's enough-a from you!" exclaimed Mr. L...or is he really Mr. L? Notice how the Italian accent has returned. "What-a am I doing in these-a black overalls, they're not-a my style!" Mr. L looked down at his threads. It's safe the say that the Luigi we all know and love...is finally back!

R.O.B. IN SOME CASES, GHOST SALIVA...CAN CURE HYPNOSIS...AND IN RARER CASES...HEAL ANAL ULCERS...

"Luigi, you're finally normal again, oh what joy!" Daisy exclaimed happily, joyful to see her husband back to his usual self.

"Had no idea ghost saliva can cure hypnosis..." remarked Francis, fretting over what initiate Dimentio will use now that his secret weapon is no more. Maybe if you do some research instead of watching and recording Starship X-Naut, then maybe you'll learn something new, Francis.

Luigi looked up from Polterpup, and saw Dimentio staring at him, with a look full of anger - Dimentio always has the same facial expression, so it's hard to tell what emotions other than joy he shows. But his facial expression was enough to make Luigi laugh out of nervousness.


Mewtwo and the group of Link, Cloud, Zero, Samus, and Squirps were located in the foyer, and through the window they saw Dimentio ordering Francis, Doopliss, and Tutankoopa to tie Luigi and Polterpup up to the stake. So why aren't they saving the others? Because Mewtwo apparently wants to strike when he feels it's necessary. Given that Dimentio now has the Pure Heart in his possession, you'd think that he'd...

"Excuse me, Mewtwo sir...but do you mind if Ness and I borrow that storybook for a minute?" Lucas nervously approached the psychic Pokemon, with Ness behind him to back him up. What a good friend Ness is, forcing his best friend Ness to speak to intimidating Pokemon like Mewtwo to get over his nerves!

"After all the trouble you brought upon everyone?" scoffed Mewtwo. "You two must be practically insane. The situation at hand is bad enough, and you two would make somehow make it even worse!"

"Hear us out Mewtwo - we can use the storybook to not only save Mario and others and get rid of Dimentio for good, but redeem ourselves in the process!" stated Ness. "Then we can put this whole thing behind us, and leave the storybook in the attic where it belongs!"

"He has a point Mewtwo; since they started the mess, they should be the ones to end it," Cloud sided with Ness. Will Mewtwo oblige to the PSI masters, or shall he take matters into his own hands?

"...Fine then, I'll let you boys have it," Mewtwo, in a rare act of kindness, gave the storybook to Lucas. "But before you do anything...do you have any sort of plan?" Ness and Lucas both looked at each other, each sporting a devious grin. They've must have been planning something legit for some time, if those grins are any indication.

Roy: It's close to evening, and we have yet to acquire the storybook. Man, we suck at our job...
Toad: We more than suck at our job - we somehow let Robin outrun us! Only a malfunctioning moped can move slower than him!
Roy: The last person we saw with the storybook was Mewtwo, who was flanked by that giant robot Zero and Samus built. Obviously, we knew better than to tango with Mewtwo, so...why don't we lend him a favor?
Toad: A favor? What do you possibly mean by that...?
Roy: You will see...just tell Fox, Falco, and Sonic to come here.


"Doopliss, you do have Link's Master Sword, is that correct?" Dimentio asked the Duplighost; Doopliss held up the Master Hand with his Hylian hand. "Excellent, now strike the statue with all your might!" Doopliss did as he was told, as he struck the statue of Master Hand with the sword, leaving behind a gaping crack in the satatue and unleashing a portal of subspace from it. "Francis, do you have a radar of some sort, to determine the power from the statue?"

"Thankfully I do, glad I brought one," Francis whipped out a radar, pressing all sorts of buttons. "This statue is meant to summon Tabuu, the king of subspace, and the portal before us leads to subspace! I detect that Tabuu will come out of that portal soon!"

The arrival would come sooner than expected, when Tabuu appeared out of the portal, hovering in front of Dimentio and his crew. Mario and company looked on in awe and fright, and Peach, Goombella, and R.O.B. did the same thing - this could be the end of the universe as we know it!

"Greetings Tabuu - you may not know me, but allow me to introduce myself," Dimentio greeted the king of subspace. "My name is Dimentio, and I am a power-hungry jester on the quest for world domination...or should I say, universal domination! Like two warring native tribes coming to a swift compromise, I come before you with a peace offering - this Pure Heart!" Dimentio held up the heart for Tabuu to see. Tabuu made some strange sounds, and not that many people were able to determine what those sounds meant - but thankfully Francis's radar picked up these sounds and translated them.

"I think what Tabuu is trying to say is that he finds your 'peace offering' inferior, and that he would prefer a more powerful artifact," Francis translated Tabuu's sounds through his radar. The Chaos Heart, a central object in Super Paper Mario, would have been a better offering, but that thing is nowhere to be found (thank goodness). "He also says he's not interested in world or universal domination, at least not yet, but he would like to take someone back to his subspace home as a prisoner - one that he can torture to no end!" What is it with Tabuu and Master Hand wanting to punish and torture others? Then again, Master Hand was controlled by Tabuu during the events of the Subspace Emissary, so the giant hand probably got his tormenting desires from Tabuu.

"A prisoner, he says?" Dimentio rubbed his hands together in a sadistic manner. "Good thing I have the perfect candidates...Tutankoopa, may I see that spinner of yours?"

"Spinner doesn't really belong to me, but I'll let you have it," Tutankoopa handed over the spinner to Dimentio, who enlarged it to the size of a master bed. Peach, Goombella, and R.O.B., watched attentively as Dimentio wrote down the names of Mario (red spot), Luigi (green spot), Daisy, (yellow spot), and Pit (blue spot) on the spinner. The four individuals on the stake (Polterpup doesn't really count) all have an equal chance of being surrender to Tabuu, meaning that they would have to remain inside subspace...forever and ever.

Peach: What do I do, should I intervene and save Mario and the others, at the same time risking myself by putting myself in the open and possibly being thrown into subspace, where I'll never be able to escape? *puts her face in her hands while R.O.B. comforts her* I just don't know what to do...
Goombella: No need to fear Peach, Mario will find a way out of this predicament. He always finds a way, one way or another!

"Time to spin the spinner, let's see which unfortunate soul will be joining Tabuu in subspace..." Dimentio said gleefully as he reached towards the spinner...

"...Not so fast, squeeple!" Suddenly an elongated arm, in the form of a hookshot, was fired at Dimentio, hitting the jester in the head. While Dimentio was rubbing his head, Bombette was extended out towards Doopliss, and exploded upon impact when she came in contact with the Duplighost, causing Doopliss to stumble to the ground. Who did these actions, you might ask? It was none other than Squirps, the young alien prince piloting Zero's and Samus's lovely robot. He stood at the stairway to the mansion, ready for action, and he wasn't alone either.

"Oh man, I'm so screwed..." Doopliss fretted when he looked up and saw standing next to Squirps Link, his arms folded in his shadow form. The Hylain carried Cloud's Buster Sword in his hands (the fact that he hasn't lost his balance given how heavy the sword is is just amazing) and inched towards Doopliss. "Hang on now Slick, get that sword away from me..."

"Give me my body back!" Link suddenly dashed at Doopliss, attacking him ruthlessly with his sword while everyone else watched in shock; they never seen Link this aggressive before, save for the times Sonic tampers with him. Once the beating commenced and Doopliss was in pain, the Duplighost reverted back to his original form, and Link not only got his body back, but everything else - his outfit, his weapons, the hickey on his stomach that nobody ever talks mentions or talks about, etc. "Man, it sure does feel great to be back!" He looked up at Mario and company, all of whom were still in shock. "...Why are you guys looking at me like that?"

"That's enough fun and games from you!" Dimentio snapped, particularly against Link and Squirps, once the pain in his head subsided. "Don't make me add your names to the spinner..."

"Hold-a your horses Dimentio - if you wish-a to do that, you'll just-a have to go through-a us!"

Of course, this response didn't come from Mario nor Luigi, for they're tied up to the stake and can't do pretty much anything, save for wetting themselves if they have to relieve themselves - more than likely Luigi would do that rather than Mario. This response came from Luigi's paper counterpart, Paper Luigi, who was standing strong with Mario's paper counterpart, Paper Mario. Ness and Lucas stood at the stairway of the mansion with the storybook, watching their plan come to fruition.

"Well what do we have here, the hero of light and the hero of dark wants to save the day, how cute!" mocked Dimentio, riling up Paper Mario and Paper Luigi. "I may have failed to defeat you the first time, but this second time shall go in MY favor!" And so, like two gleaming banjos on a moonlit stop, the twosome of Paper Mario and Paper Luigi dueled with Dimentio, in a battle that provided a whole lot of jumping and energy spheres and whatnot.

Ness: The original plan was to have Paper Mario fight Dimentio with Paper Peach and Paper Bowser, but we thought that having him team up with Paper Luigi would be more effective, since there's no stopping the power of brotherly companionship!...Also we don't have anything to carry Paper Bowser around, we don't know how his weight will translate to our world.

While the battle raged on, Roy and toad snooped by, with Roy untying Mario and company from the stake (Link offered to help the ginger swordsman out) and Toad tampering with the giant spinner on the ground. Who knows what that drug lord is trying to do.

"Thank-a you for saving us, Roy!" Mario thanked Roy as the swrodsman and Link helped the others down from the stake. "Did you and-a Toad find the storybook-a yet, I demand to know-a where me and Luigi's paper counterparts-a came from!"

"No, Toad and I never found the storybook, but I think we know who has it," replied Roy. "Mewtwo was the last person that had the storybook in his possession, he might have passed the book on to someone else..."

"Nobody undoes Dimentio's nefarious plan and expects to get away with it!" Francis, the nerdy chameleon, confronted Mario and company. Oh man, an asocial nerd is threatening the brawlers, Mario and friends are totally done for! (In Francis's own imagination, perhaps.) But Fox and Falco were here to save the day, as they leaped down and faced Francis, donning their blasters.

"Turning over to the dark side, huh Francis?" questioned Fox, making Francis sweat profusely. As stated earlier, Francis is far from a villain - he only joined Dimentio as a means to seek revenge.

"Don't let those bums overwhelm you, my reptilian friend, I'll take care of them!" Tutankoopa confronted Fox and Falco with a koopa shell, only to be ambushed by a homing attack from Sonic, who landed on the ground while sticking a perfect landing.

"Want some more, bub?" the hedgehog taunted Tutankoopa, who cautiously backed away. "I didn't think so!"

The battle of Paper Mario and Paper Luigi vs Dimentio finally came to a close, when Dimentio - surprise, surprise! - defeated the paper bros at their own game. Tabuu let out a very loud and ear-inducing noise, and everyone knew how Tabuu felt.

"Tabuu must be feeling very impatient, like a freight train waiting for its wheels to turn on a railroad!" stated Dimentio; you could literally make a book chock full of the jester's many similes. "It's about that time that we finally spin the spinner..."

"...Let me do the honors," Mewtwo teleported to the scene, standing near the spinner. Why does the psychic Pokemon want to spin the spinner for, is he rigging it so Mario can be sent to subspace as punishment for his ineptness regarding the storybook situation?

Mewtwo: Just as I figured, Ness's and Lucas's plan was a failure, now that Paper Mario and Paper Luigi lost to Dimentio in a very close battle. However, what Toad did to the spinner had me thinking...it's time for me to make my move.

"How lovely - a brawler willing to sacrifice one of his fellow companions to the likes of Tabuu!" gleamed Dimentio. Mewtwo looked towards Mario and company, who were quietly dissuading the Pokemon from whatever he's attempting to do. "Ready to spin the spinner?" Mewtwo nodded his head. "Excellent, now spin away, let's see who will be subject to endless torture in the wonderful subspace!"

So Mewtwo spun the spinner, and it spun...and spun...and spun...and so forth, and so on...until it landed on the blue spot. Which meant that...

"Wait, what?! This can't be!" Dimentio inspected the large spinner, and noticed something very, very wrong. Instead of Pit's name on the blue spot, which appeared to be fully erased, there was another name written on that very spot...Dimentio. "How did this happen, just how?!"

"Ahahaha, you just got bamboozled!" Toad, the individual who erased Pit's name and replaced it with Dimentio's, jeered at the jester, pointing and laughing with everyone else sharing his euphoria - though they weren't pointing or laughing, they were just amused. In Super Paper Mario, Dimentio had played Count Bleck, and pretty much every other key character in the game. This time around, it's Dimentio himself who's being played.

Now Tabuu, seeing the arrow on the blue spot, pointing at Dimentio's name, opened up the portal to subspace, emitting a strong force of wind meant to reel Dimentio inside. But the jester was undeterred, floating away from the portal to the best of his abilities.

"Don't think you're going anywhere, squoorp, say hello to your new home!" Squirps fired his hookshot arm at Dimentio, hitting him at a sideways angle and into the portal; a big fat "NOOOOOO!" could be heard as Dimentio was thrown inside said portal and flung through the depths of subspace. Tabuu, seeing that his prey has joined him in his realm, bid everyone a brief farewell with a farewell nod before returning to his subspace home, closing the portal behind him forever, or at least for a prolonged period of time. The portal is now closed, and the statue of Master Hand is, well, a little tarnished, but that didn't stop everyone from celebrating.

"Tabuu and Dimentio are gone forever, yeah buddy!" Pit cheered, resulting in a celebration of victory and euphoria. Ness and Lucas ran down from the steps to join in, and Cloud, Zero, and Samus headed outside to join as well - though Samus just watched from afar, smiling a bit.

"Oh Mario, you're safe!" Peach ran out of the bushes to hug Mario; Goombella and R.O.B. came out a moment later. "I had watched the whole thing transpire from the bushes; I wanted to save you, but I didn't want to risk putting you and the others at risk!"

"You wanted-a to do the right thing, and that's what-a matters," responded Mario. "I'm just glad that the both of us are safe..."

"Out of the way fools, coming through!" yelled Dr. Eggman, who made a surprise appearance as he flew in the sky on his Egg Mobile, before landing in the open field and getting out of his vehicle. Can someone tell that he's late for the party, and that Tabuu has already come and gone? "According to my detector, Tabuu has finally made his appearance from the statue I had my Badniks build, and..." Eggman soon trailed off when he saw everyone, from Mario to Squirps, glaring at the evil scientist. "Aw poop..." was the perfect response for Dr. Eggman, he couldn't have said it any better.


Master Hand: Got some good news...and some bad news. The bad news is, well, that the statue of me outside is damaged. But the good news is that the damage isn't that significant, and that it shall be repaired soon, so I won't have to worry about having to build another statue of I! Moreover, the portal has been shut momentarily, as far as I'm concerned, so the statue will no longer contain the portal! Now if you excuse me, I have to dole out some punishments...

Ness and Lucas were with Master Hand in the giant hand's room, awaiting their punishment. Lucas was more afraid, so afraid he just might wet himself. Think of the endless amount of embarrassment he could subject himself to...

"Ness, Lucas, you're the ones who started this mess," Master Hand began. "By touching random characters in the storybook and making them come to life, you brought forth Dimentio, who manipulated and brainwashed Luigi, and summoned Tabuu, with aspirations for universal domination." Master Hand then took a short breath. "But on the other hand, your plan of having Paper Mario and Paper Luigi fight Dimentio, though it may not have went the way you originally planned, gave Roy some time to rescue Mario and the others, and also gave Toad the time to tamper with the spinner that ultimately decided Dimentio's fate - gonna have to find a room for that giant spinner now. Anyways, the point of the matter is, you two may have started the whole debacle, but seeing that you redeemed yourselves, I'm letting you off the hook...for now."

"Awesome sauce!" Ness cheered as he exchanged a high five with Lucas. Has anyone ever seen or tasted awesome sauce before?

"Good, now leave my premises before I punish you for remaining in my presence for too long." The two PSI boys did as they were told, leaving the room. "Next!" Next up was Bowser and Corrin, who stole the storybook (although it was more of Bowser's doing). "Bowser, had you not taken the storybook, Mario would have eventually found it, and he could have put the whole Dimentio situation to rest, while warping all the other paper characters back inside the book. So for your punishment, I have decided to cancel your dumb lessons with Corrin indefinitely."

"You can't do that, Corrin needs me!" pleaded Bowser. "Without him, he'll forever remain a noob!" You're the one who's making it worse, Bowser.

"Bowser's right, he's by far the best teacher I have known, I would literally walk through fire for him!" Corrin stood up for Bowser. Kinda funny what he just said, because you don't hear Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings saying they would walk through fire, rain, hail, or the like for their father.

"Kid you're practically sheltered, not to mention that you hardly received any form of schooling at Nohr, so you wouldn't know a thing or two about a good teacher even if I had to tell you the qualities of one. Now you and Bowser SCRAM!" Bowser and Corrin left the room, both feeling some type of way.

Bowser: No more of my "lessons"...guess I'm going back to pranking! Watch out, Smash Mansion, the Prank King has made his defiant return! Mario may have told me not to prank anymore, but Master Hand didn't, and we all know how much power he has over Mario!

Last to meet with Master Hand was Dr. Eggman, who was nervously fiddling with his fingers as Master Hand hovered lower to him.

"I know what you're thinking, so I'm just gonna cut to the chase," began Master Hand. "Starting right now, you're officially banned from the mansion. Let me see you anywhere within the vicinity of the mansion, and I guarantee you I'll make your life a living...a living heck!"

"Certainly you can't ban me from the mansion, there has to be some leeway..." Dr. Eggman negotiated with Master Hand, hoping to appease him. But little does Eggman know that it's 100% impossible to appease the creator of the Smash Universe. He learned that the hard way, when Master Hand picked up the evil doctor, and flung him out of a large open window like baseball. Dr. Eggman landed in a faraway lake, and will likely never see the majesty of the Smash Mansion again...unless he views it from a far-reaching telescope.


"Here are the reports, just like you asked," Mega Man approached Zelda in the library, holding papers in his hand and giving them to the princess. Zelda looked through them before throwing the copies on the floor and groaning in distress. Since printing the reports was Link's job, and the job was never fulfilled, Zelda has Mega Man do the Hylian's dirty work for him.

"Mega Man, these aren't the right reports, they're all outdated," Zelda stated. "Most of them are profoundly outdated, I need recent, up-to-date reports that are crucial to my research!"

"How about these reports? I printed them out a while ago, and I never got the chance to show them to you...some ghost took my body. It's a long story."

Zelda slowly looked up, and saw Link, grinning from ear to ear, with the reports he printed out earlier in his hands. The look in Link's eyes instantly told Zelda that this is the normal Link, and not the Duplighost-possessed, girl-slapping, guitar-breaking Link she had witnessed earlier.

"I thought I had seen you earlier in the gaming room, but those actions you did...I just knew it was somebody else that was in your body," Zelda said to Link, slowly getting up.

"Just be glad that the real me is back, and better than ever!" replied Link, leaning out to Zelda and kissing her on the lips. Soon Link's lips were interlocked with Zelda's, and then two kinda made out in the library, with Mega Man looking on, feeling disgusted.

Mega Man: Watching Link and Zelda kiss in the library... *shudders* ...makes me glad there aren't that many female robots out there, save for Roll and Splash Woman. Besides, with the heroic stuff I do, I wouldn't really be the committed type.


Chrom and Robin met with Francis in the fifth floor - one final time before Francis returns to the storybook. Francis handed a book to Chrom, which was titled "How to Love: The Hi-Technicaaaaal Way". Wouldn't have it made more sense to use "hi-technical" instead?

"Make sure to read this book prior to your date, it shall work wonders!" Francis said to Chrom. The prince of Yliesse flipped through the pages, and judging by the look on his face, the book is sure to be a rather interesting read...

"Francis we're-a not waiting for you, get your butt-a up here!" Luigi called out to the chameleon from the attic. Francis climbed up the ladder and arrived in the attic, where Tutankoopa apologized to Sonic for ruining his Twister game, Doopliss was tied up by Cloud, Zero and Samus detached Squirps and Bombette from the robot (which will be kept inside the attic for the time being), and Peach was having a secret conversation with Goombella.

"Should Mario propose to you right now, or the day after, say yes at the top of your lungs," Goombella whispered to Peach. "You've known each other for far too long, it's about that time you tie the knot!"

"Is everyone-a ready?" Mario asked everyone inside the attic, seeing all the Paper Mario characters, including Paper Mario and Paper Luigi, were present. "Great, now everyone hop right on inside the storybook!" Mario opened up the storybook and held it out wide, as Francis, Goombella, Squrips, Bombette, and Tutankoopa went back inside the storybook, in that order; Cloud had to throw Doopliss in. Last were Paper Mario and Paper Luigi, who shook hands with their real-world counterparts before returning to the storybook in one piece. Mario placed the storybook back on the desk where it belonged, next to the blue Pure Heart. "You can-a all leave now!" Everyone except for Mario departed from the attic... "...Peach, do you mind staying for a minute?"

Peach froze in her tracks when Mario uttered her name. She slowly turned around and faced Mario, who slowly walked to her holding something behind his back. What is that plumber up to...

"So I've-a been speaking with Paper Mario and-a Paper Luigi, and I told-a them about this...this predicament I-a have, and Paper Mario had suggested that..." Mario slowly got down on one knee... "that I put-a this predicament to rest, once-a and for all, and he gave-a me this..." ...and pulled out the object he held behind his back into full focus for Peach to see...a wedding ring. Peach slowly teared up at the very sight. "Peach, the love of my life, the princess of the mighty Mushroom Kingdom...will you marry me?"

"Yes, yes, YES!" exclaimed Peach, channeling her inner Daniel Bryan, as Mario quickly stood up and embraced Peach with a strongly heartfelt hug, sharing this romantic and emotional moment with her for all of eternity. This moment can only mean one thing...

Mario and Peach are now bound to be married.