Chapter One: Video Games Gone Wrong

Disclaimer: I own nothing. If I did, the Mother series would be translated into English.

It was a beautiful morning on Earth. The birds were singing, the sun was shining, and all was merry an- "GOING OFF THE RAILS ON A CRAZY TRAIN" "uuugghhh…" "YEAH, GOING OFF THE RAILS ON A CRA-" *whap* After slapping her alarm clock until she found the off button, Kat Wellington blearily sat up in bed. "ugh…I officially hate alarm clocks."

She sat there for a moment, contemplating whether or not it was worth it to get up. "Hey honey, are you up?" "Not really, Mom." "Well get dressed and come downstairs, there's pancakes!" That cinched her decision.

Snatching her glasses off the nightstand and hopping out of bed, Kat yanked her dresser open and hastily threw on a light green T-shirt and jean shorts, her usual attire. She flew downstairs and put on the brakes only when she reached the kitchen table and almost crashed into it. Her mother, Delilah, was pouring blueberry syrup over Kat's pancakes. "Have a nice rest, Sleeping Beauty?" "Yes and can I have some breakfast now?" "Alright, alright."

Kat said thanks to her mother before digging into her plate. "Oh, Kat?" "Yes, Mom?" "I found this while tidying up the living room, I assume it's yours." In her hands was a video game box. But not just any video game box, it was the copy of Super Smash Bros. Brawl Kat had lost the previous week! "Yes it is! I thought I lost that! Can I take it over to Mia's house?" "Sure! Just be home by dinner, okay?" "Sure! Thanks Mom!"

Grabbing her shoes and the SSBB game box, Kat raced out the door and headed down the street to Mia's house.

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Arriving, she rang the doorbell repeatedly. After a few rings, Mia's father opened the door. "Why, hello, Kat! Here for Mia, are you?" "Yep!" "Well, she's still in bed, so you'll have to wake her up. I swear, a bomb could go off in the room next to hers and she'd keep on snoring!"

Laughing at that comment, Kat made her way upstairs. She opened her friend's bedroom door and peered in. Sure enough, Mia was still lying in bed, dead to the world. Quietly, Kat tiptoed in. Soft as a ghost, she closed the door. Not-so-silently, she took a running leap onto Mia's bed while yelling, "CANNONBALL!" "UWAH!"

Mia was now fully awake and irritated at her friend who was laughing on the floor. "HONESTLY! Couldn't you think of a NICER way to wake me up?" Kat stopped laughing long enough to say, "But I brought over SSBB! I thought you wanted to do a speed run on Adventure Mode again!"

"You still could have woken me up in a nicer way!"

Kat rolled her eyes. "At least I didn't go through with my original idea." "And what would that be?"

"Making Slenderman static noises in your ear." "Oh."

Mia leapt out of bed and grabbed her hoodie off her desk chair. "Well, now that I'm up, let's go do our SSBB speed run!"

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Downstairs in Mia's den the two girls opened the brand-new SSBB box. "Hey, Mia? Is it just me or does the disk look…off?" Mia looked at the disk. "Are you referring to the lack of picture or the blood-red writing that says 'failsafe'?" Um…both."

They glanced at each other. "Mia? This looks like a hacked copy…I think we should buy a new disk." "But we don't have fifty bucks to buy another one. I say we play until it gets too strange." With that, Mia popped the disk into her Wii.

The game started up normally. Same cutscene, same music, same everything. They clicked on Adventure Mode. Then things started to get weird. Instead of having The traditional opening sequence, it had some kind of questionnaire.

How many of you are there?

Mia selected Two Player.

What are your names?

Mia spelled out their names.

"Mia, I have a bad feeling…we should stop."

What kind of video games do you two like?

It only had one option, so Mia chose Adventure.

Who are your favorite characters?

It had Mia's name, so she chose Link.

"You like Lucas, right?" "Yeah, but we should stop…"

Mia picked Lucas for Kat's name.

If you were in a video game,

What would your power be?

It had their names and a keyboard.

Mia typed up 'plot book' for herself.

"Mia, what exactly would you do with a book?"

"It's a plot book. You write 'fire' and it makes a stream of fire, 'ice' and it makes a burst of ice. At least, that's how I think it would work." Mia replied.

And, after some thought on her part and complaints from Kat, 'Pokemon' for Kat.

Excellent…you two shall do well.

"Wait, what?"

The TV suddenly turned into some kind of vortex and before either girl had time to think, it had dragged them right through it!

End of Chapter One