The Adventure of a Lifetime

The year was 1993 in Brooklyn, New York. In the real world, the existence of the mysterious yet odd creations of the Mushroom Kingdom was not brought to light. Instead other problems lay afoot in our society like robbery, assault, murder that caused chaos in its own right. Of course crimes like these would be handled post haste by any law enforcement and justice departments that were located here. There were no "famous heroes".

In a small apartment located on 36th avenue and 12th street lived a couple of brothers who were just trying to keep themselves afloat. One of them was named Mario, a short and a little chubby yet athletic plumber who was the owner of the business called Mario Brothers Plumbing. The other one was named Luigi, a tall and skinny plumber who was just as athletic as Mario but not as strong as him, was the other partner in their business. The apartment they had was a part of a complex that was run down due to age, which was one of the reasons why they were able to get it for so cheap. It had 2 bedrooms, a kitchen and a bathroom, which is all they ever really needed in life. Sure they had a few luxury items, but money was never a concern for them as they enjoyed just being in each other's company as inseparable best friends.

"Luigi hurry up, we got ourselves a job to do," Mario yelled as he got his tool kit and dressed in a red shirt, blue overalls, black shoes, and a red hat with a red M in a white circle on the brim of his hat. "It sounds like a big one too." Mario waited 5 minutes when he didn't notice any stirring in his room. "He better not be sleeping again…" Mario thought as he went to check up on his brother. To Mario's chagrin, it turns out he was right. Luigi was sound asleep as he mind was fixated on a dream that to him felt surreal.

"LUIGI!" Mario yelled as he shook Luigi over and over again trying to wake him up.

"Gahh…" Luigi yelled in utter annoyance as he was woken up from what seemed like an enchanted dream. "…why on earth would you wake me up it's only 9 in the morn-…Oh" Luigi replied as he looked at his clock to realize it was actually 1pm.

"Luigi we got a job to do. Meet me in the van in 10 minutes." Mario said sternly as he went to go find the keys.

"That was one heck of a dream." Luigi thought as he woke up to put on his plumbing outfit of choice. The outfit consisted of a green shirt, blue overalls, black shoes, and a green hat with a green L in a white circle as the same style as Mario's hat. He quickly left his apartment and proceeded to get into the van.

The Van was nothing special unfortunately. It was a cheap business truck they got from a junk dealer 5 years ago. It was surprisingly still able to chug along in the condition that it was in then and the condition that it had been in now with all the experience the Mario Brothers had in driving around New York. "

So what exactly do we have on our plates this time?" Luigi asked, curious as to what today's events would be like for the brothers.

"Let's just say it's a big one." Mario replied in a somewhat amusing tone. "

That's what I was afraid of." Luigi said, getting a few chuckles from the duo. Luigi then cleared his throat as Mario was driving along as they both were listening to some rock songs on the radio. "Hey Mario, I had one interesting dream last night."

"Oh really Luigi," Mario said in a faked curious tone. "What was it about this time?"

"Well, that's just it. I can't really describe it to you. I dreamed we were running off to some distant place. However, it was like we were in some different place. We weren't in New York or anywhere close there. It was like we weren't on planet Earth." Luigi said getting tense as he was recalling his dream.

Mario, snickering a little, replied "Yeah just like that one time you and I were government agents trying to take down a group of aliens wanting to blow up Queens. You have some pretty crazy dreams Luigi."

"Yeah, although this dream seemed more real than the others," Luigi confessed in somewhat of a serious tone. "I don't know I keep thinking something in our future is planned for us, that doesn't involve is in the plumbing game anymore."

Mario could only laugh at his brother some more as he was really amused by the ridiculous things coming out of his mouth. "Luigi, try to keep your head out of Cloud nine buddy. Plumbing is in our blood and ain't nothing going to change that."

"You think that now Mario, but you never know," Luigi replied as he was gazing out the van window trying to find something nice to look at through the slums of Brooklyn. "Who knows? A change of scenery would probably be good for the both of us."

"Well sorry to interrupt you dream Luigi but we are here." Mario replied as he stopped the van at a house around 35th avenue and 14th street. "Let's a go" Mario shouted, signaling the brothers' trademark phrase as they were ready to work. However, Luigi still was thinking about the dream he had, questioning if it really was his imagination or if it was real. Mario saw Luigi staring into space and yelled for him to stop daydreaming and get ready to work. "Geez, it didn't take this long for Luigi to get his mind off that other dream," Mario thought. "Perhaps I should just ignore it. I won't let his silly dream get into my mind." Mario chuckled to himself as they were on their way to complete just another plumbing job.