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Hello people of kinds, here's the prologue of my new Paper Mario game collab called Paper Mario: The Temple of Permanence, where each chapter is written by a different person over on Fantendo! However, the prologue is written by me, though we did collectively think of the ideas for the main plot! SO here it is!

Mario and Luigi are in their house when they ordinarily receive a letter from the postman: Parakarry. Luigi opens it and reads out loud to Mario "Dear Mario... and Luigi! I recently found out about a very interesting place. It's known as The Temple of Permanence! I don't know to much about it yet, but apparently it has some origins concerning Time and Dimension. Anyway, I though you might be interested too, so if you want, please come to the Temple as soon as you can! Sincerely, Peach".
Interested, Mario and Luigi get ready to travel to the Temple of Permanence! And so, after a long journey, the Mario Bros. reach the foot of the temple, where an old, large, stone stairway leads the bros. up the mountain. (This is where you can actually control Mario now), so, along the way, you can talk to tourists as well as the Magikoopa Priests that work in the Temple. Anyway, after travelling up some long stairs (which at this point, Luigi has decided to take a rest), Mario reaches the main temple, atop of the small mountain that its perched on. Mario is greeted by Princess Peach who is standing with a woman wearing a red cloak with a feather on her head. The woman introduces herself: "Greetings! You must be Mario! My name is Clare; I am the proud caretaker of this brilliant ancient temple!". Peach agrees but wonders "So, what exactly is this Temple used for or used to be used for?", Clare answers proudly "Well, centuries ago, the Mushroom Kingdom set their goals on creating bridges into other dimensions to discover new worlds! So, using some VERY complicated engineering and ancient mumbojumbo, they created this amazing Temple! If you look around, you can see that there's many portals setup around here, and you see, each one is able to travel into different dimensions, or... used too, some still work though, but it's much to dangerous to exploring unknown dimensions right? Anyway, if you're interested in learning more then I suggest you take a moment to admire your surroundings, and when ready, I'll meet you on the central platform at the top of the Temple, take your time though".
So, Mario takes a look around the different platforms of the temple, finding out interesting things about it from the tourists and priests, but on one of the platforms, Mario sees Clare talking to a young green Toad wearing headphones. "Now, now Bill T., we've talked about this, look around you why don't you, can't you see all the happy sightseers? Let's not ruin their fun with your ridiculous "Dark Talk"! Okay?". The Toad argues against "Ergh! They wouldn't be this happy if they knew the truth! They deserve to know do they not?" the toad then walks off in mood and sees Mario looking at him as he passes. "What are you looking at?!" he says to Mario, and then stamps off into the lower areas of the temple. Clare then notices Mario and apologizes for their squabble, but asks Mario to join her at the top of the Temple. So, Mario makes his way up to the Central Platform, where giant, stone portal gate stands at the back the platform. "This is the Grand Gate" Clare explains "It once served as an entrance to what we know as the Central Dimension". "Central Dimension?" Peach ponders, "Yes" Clare confirms "It is believed to be where the center of all things existing, and is the origin of the universe itself... Unfortunately, the portal no longer works". Peach asks "How come? Why did it stop working?". Clare stutters unexpectedly "Eh, well you see eh... truth is, it's a long and eh, somewhat boring story so... I think I'll leave it at that".
This confuses Mario and Peach, but then, a familiar voice chuckles "Gwahaha! There you are!". Every turns to see that none surprisingly, Bowser is out doing what pretty much anyone could expect: To capture Princess Peach! Mario then jumps forward, ready to battle "Huh? Hey move it short-stache! Haha, I'll just have to deal with you first then!". And so, the first battle infuses! As it is the first battle, Clare will explain the basics of battle. After the battle, Bowser is knocked down and so Clare orders the guards to take Bowser out of the Temple. 2 knights then get ready to drag Bowser out the Temple when suddenly, the Temple begins to shake, the Grand Portal lights up, and somehow, a green, glowing vortex forms inside the portal frame. "What? How is this possible?" Clare astonishes. The guards drop Bowser and prepare their spears incase anything dangerous comes out. Everyone waits, but strangely nothing seems to be going on. Curious, one of the guards approaches the portal with his spear out first, when suddenly, a dark orb flies out the portal knocking the guard out, and sending him flying while everyone else backs away from the portal.
Then, a short Ninja woman stylishly jumps out the portal sword-first. However, Mario is still prepared to fight. Clare gets "Hey who are you people?! AND WHY DID YOU ATTACK IS LIKE THAT!?". The Ninja draws her sword back and speaks "It won't even matter in the long run... Not after we accomplish what we have in store for this Temple". "And just who is this "we" Peach asks angrily. The ninja bows her head "see for yourself...", 2 more figures then step out the portal: The first is a suited man with a robotic, metal face. Then, a large and tall man holding a staff steps out. Clare then goes mad wondering who in the world they are. The tall man then introduces himself and the others "My name, if you must know is Lord Diamont. This isn't by any means our full group, but together, you may know us as... the Nenisions". Clare then gasps on hearing the name "Nenisions!? No... but... how? and more importantly, HOW IN THE WORLDS DID YOU OPEN THAT PORTAL?". The ninja and robot man then step forward, ready to battle "Let me take care of these barriers lord!" says the suited man. Diamont however, refuses "No. Terrorance, Umbra, come back, you know I don't like fights..." The ninja turns around "But sir, if we don't get rid of them now, then they'll surely be injured when we take the temple..."
Diamont ponders "Hmmm... I care little for this world... though it does pain me to destroy such beauty, the pain you caused me outweighs it by thousands! Now scram!" Some people run away (such as Luigi) But Mario gets ready to battle. "Have it your way..." Diamont says, and so a battle infuses between Mario and Diamont. However, Diamont is much to strong to even be damaged by Mario, and so Diamont charges up an attack to defeat Mario. "Mario!" Peach screams. Diamont then nods "Unbra, Terrorance... It's time!". Unbra and Terrorance then attack Peach and Clare, knocking them backwards, in which Diamont takes a step back and raises his staff. The portal begins swirling faster, and causing a larger green portal to appear behind it, sucking every small or loose object from the temple inside, while reject any people. Bill T. then notices Clare on the floor "Mother!" he then helps her out. "Bill T.... go, get out of here!". Bill T. looks over at the Nenisions and gets angry from what they're doing to the temple. Bill T. aggressively runs over Lord Diamont and attacks him, but Diamont shakes it off easily. "Stop! Have you no respect for the people here?" Bill T. infuriates. Diamont turns around to take a good look at Bill T. "Hmmm... say... have we met? Argh, never mind! I suggest you run while you still can you brat!" Diamont then creates a large shockwave knocking Bill T. off the platform. Meanwhile, Mario tries to traverse the temple as rocks from it are sucked into the portal. However, as Mario runs up some stairs, Bowser is flung down and knocks Mario back down the stars onto a smaller platform, and Bowser lands on it, causing the rock floor to break. The whole platform then breaks off from the main temple, and takes Mario with it... and so, the Temple is engulfed by the massive portal, while Peach, Bowser, Luigi, Bill T. and Clare are all flung off into different areas bellow... The Temple of Permanence is no more in this world...
We later meet Mario lying underneath a tree where he is approached by Bill T. "Hmmm... ergh, why did this have to happen!?". Bill T. then picks up an apple, unentertained, and decides to chuck it at Mario. Mario wakes up on impact wondering where he is. "Finally! You woke up!" Bill T. crosses his arms. Mario wonders what happened, in which Bill T. reminds him of the attack in the Temple. Mario then realizes that Peach is missing, as is his brother and the others. Bill T. just shrugs "That's kind of why I wanted you to wake up. You are known for fighting and stuff, I thought you might have at least been able to hand+ +-le those guys back at the Temple, but even so, I need to find Mother Clare before anything, I only really woke you up because I felt it was wrong to just leave you there, but now you're okay, so... later!" Bill T. then walks off. Mario gets up but since there's no other paths, he follows Bill T. to the west. After traversing a few basic grassy terrains, Mario catches up with Bill T. who is confronted by a simple Goomba. Bill T. bravely gets ready to fight, but then another Goomba leaps out a bush and attacks him. Mario then jumps forward and gets ready to battle. After the battle, Bill T. thanks Mario "Eh, hey sorry about me leaving you back there, I don't suppose you could help me out while I try and find Clare?" and with that BILL T. JOINED YOUR PARTY!!!
After traversing the "Lime Fields" (as they're called), Mario and Bill T. eventually find Clare lying on the floor, in which Bill T. helps her out. "Mum! Wake up! Please!" Clare wakes up slowly, and realizes that Bill T. is there, in which she hugs him. "Oh Bill T. I'm glad to see you again". "Thanks mum, but now what? The Temple's been destroyed and we don't know where anyone is!". "Hmmm..." Clare ponders "You're right... hmmm... tell you what, we'll travel East slightly, where the Temple is, or... was... Meet me there". With that, Mario and Bill T. travel east, doing some basic things, until they finally reach the sight off the temple, which now nothing but a small ruin in the side of the mountain. However, the part of the temple that broke off still appears to be there from when Bowser crashed into it. Clare shows them that there's a portal on the platform which could still work and that it's probably the best bet they have at finding the "Nenisions". "The only problem is..." she says "The portal has no power. Portals need a special type of energy to open them, the energy in which is quite rare, and hard to utilize...". "So.. now what?" Bill T. wonders. Clare does have one idea though "Hmm... I do know of someone who might just be able to help us in this situation... He lives in Fungi Fjords, not far from here. It's possibly that he may know a thing or 2 about the situation at hand, considering he know a lot about energy". Bill T. then turns to Mario "Well, Mario, good luck on your journey!". However, Clare interrupts "Eh-hem, oh, he won't be alone"...
"Huh?" Bill T. confuses. Clare bows her head "Bill T., there's something you should know... I'm not real mother...". "WHAT!? But, but". Clare explains "truth is, I adopted you as a child. You were just there at the temple *somehow, next to one of the portals. You might have even came from a different world entirely. However, that is why I am sending you on this journey with Mario; I think it would help you if you went on this journey to find out more about those Nenisions... because it might end with finding out about your own past and who you really are.". Bill T. frowns "Hmmm... so be it, I'll go, but you could have told me this much earlier! Hmm, come on then Mario, let's just go...". Clare apologizes "I'm sorry for not telling you sooner, I was only trying to protect you, but good luck on your journey". Bill T. nods, and so Mario and Bill T. set off to Fungi Fjords to start their new adventure!

So yeah... THAT'S IT SO FAR! What did you think? Hope you enjoyed this so far, and I look forward to continuing it Ta-tah!

Paper Mario - Nintendo (C)
TTOP - Me and Fantendo (C)

Description
Hello people of kinds, here's the prologue of my new Paper Mario game collab called Paper Mario: The Temple of Permanence, where each chapter is written by a different person over on Fantendo! However, the prologue is written by me, though we did collectively think of the ideas for the main plot! SO here it is!

Mario and Luigi are in their house when they ordinarily receive a letter from the postman: Parakarry. Luigi opens it and reads out loud to Mario "Dear Mario... and Luigi! I recently found out about a very interesting place. It's known as The Temple of Permanence! I don't know to much about it yet, but apparently it has some origins concerning Time and Dimension. Anyway, I though you might be interested too, so if you want, please come to the Temple as soon as you can! Sincerely, Peach".
Interested, Mario and Luigi get ready to travel to the Temple of Permanence! And so, after a long journey, the Mario Bros. reach the foot of the temple, where an old, large, stone stairway leads the bros. up the mountain. (This is where you can actually control Mario now), so, along the way, you can talk to tourists as well as the Magikoopa Priests that work in the Temple. Anyway, after travelling up some long stairs (which at this point, Luigi has decided to take a rest), Mario reaches the main temple, atop of the small mountain that its perched on. Mario is greeted by Princess Peach who is standing with a woman wearing a red cloak with a feather on her head. The woman introduces herself: "Greetings! You must be Mario! My name is Clare; I am the proud caretaker of this brilliant ancient temple!". Peach agrees but wonders "So, what exactly is this Temple used for or used to be used for?", Clare answers proudly "Well, centuries ago, the Mushroom Kingdom set their goals on creating bridges into other dimensions to discover new worlds! So, using some VERY complicated engineering and ancient mumbojumbo, they created this amazing Temple! If you look around, you can see that there's many portals setup around here, and you see, each one is able to travel into different dimensions, or... used too, some still work though, but it's much to dangerous to exploring unknown dimensions right? Anyway, if you're interested in learning more then I suggest you take a moment to admire your surroundings, and when ready, I'll meet you on the central platform at the top of the Temple, take your time though".
So, Mario takes a look around the different platforms of the temple, finding out interesting things about it from the tourists and priests, but on one of the platforms, Mario sees Clare talking to a young green Toad wearing headphones. "Now, now Bill T., we've talked about this, look around you why don't you, can't you see all the happy sightseers? Let's not ruin their fun with your ridiculous "Dark Talk"! Okay?". The Toad argues against "Ergh! They wouldn't be this happy if they knew the truth! They deserve to know do they not?" the toad then walks off in mood and sees Mario looking at him as he passes. "What are you looking at?!" he says to Mario, and then stamps off into the lower areas of the temple. Clare then notices Mario and apologizes for their squabble, but asks Mario to join her at the top of the Temple. So, Mario makes his way up to the Central Platform, where giant, stone portal gate stands at the back the platform. "This is the Grand Gate" Clare explains "It once served as an entrance to what we know as the Central Dimension". "Central Dimension?" Peach ponders, "Yes" Clare confirms "It is believed to be where the center of all things existing, and is the origin of the universe itself... Unfortunately, the portal no longer works". Peach asks "How come? Why did it stop working?". Clare stutters unexpectedly "Eh, well you see eh... truth is, it's a long and eh, somewhat boring story so... I think I'll leave it at that".
This confuses Mario and Peach, but then, a familiar voice chuckles "Gwahaha! There you are!". Every turns to see that none surprisingly, Bowser is out doing what pretty much anyone could expect: To capture Princess Peach! Mario then jumps forward, ready to battle "Huh? Hey move it short-stache! Haha, I'll just have to deal with you first then!". And so, the first battle infuses! As it is the first battle, Clare will explain the basics of battle. After the battle, Bowser is knocked down and so Clare orders the guards to take Bowser out of the Temple. 2 knights then get ready to drag Bowser out the Temple when suddenly, the Temple begins to shake, the Grand Portal lights up, and somehow, a green, glowing vortex forms inside the portal frame. "What? How is this possible?" Clare astonishes. The guards drop Bowser and prepare their spears incase anything dangerous comes out. Everyone waits, but strangely nothing seems to be going on. Curious, one of the guards approaches the portal with his spear out first, when suddenly, a dark orb flies out the portal knocking the guard out, and sending him flying while everyone else backs away from the portal.
Then, a short Ninja woman stylishly jumps out the portal sword-first. However, Mario is still prepared to fight. Clare gets "Hey who are you people?! AND WHY DID YOU ATTACK IS LIKE THAT!?". The Ninja draws her sword back and speaks "It won't even matter in the long run... Not after we accomplish what we have in store for this Temple". "And just who is this "we" Peach asks angrily. The ninja bows her head "see for yourself...", 2 more figures then step out the portal: The first is a suited man with a robotic, metal face. Then, a large and tall man holding a staff steps out. Clare then goes mad wondering who in the world they are. The tall man then introduces himself and the others "My name, if you must know is Lord Diamont. This isn't by any means our full group, but together, you may know us as... the Nenisions". Clare then gasps on hearing the name "Nenisions!? No... but... how? and more importantly, HOW IN THE WORLDS DID YOU OPEN THAT PORTAL?". The ninja and robot man then step forward, ready to battle "Let me take care of these barriers lord!" says the suited man. Diamont however, refuses "No. Terrorance, Umbra, come back, you know I don't like fights..." The ninja turns around "But sir, if we don't get rid of them now, then they'll surely be injured when we take the temple..."
Diamont ponders "Hmmm... I care little for this world... though it does pain me to destroy such beauty, the pain you caused me outweighs it by thousands! Now scram!" Some people run away (such as Luigi) But Mario gets ready to battle. "Have it your way..." Diamont says, and so a battle infuses between Mario and Diamont. However, Diamont is much to strong to even be damaged by Mario, and so Diamont charges up an attack to defeat Mario. "Mario!" Peach screams. Diamont then nods "Unbra, Terrorance... It's time!". Unbra and Terrorance then attack Peach and Clare, knocking them backwards, in which Diamont takes a step back and raises his staff. The portal begins swirling faster, and causing a larger green portal to appear behind it, sucking every small or loose object from the temple inside, while reject any people. Bill T. then notices Clare on the floor "Mother!" he then helps her out. "Bill T.... go, get out of here!". Bill T. looks over at the Nenisions and gets angry from what they're doing to the temple. Bill T. aggressively runs over Lord Diamont and attacks him, but Diamont shakes it off easily. "Stop! Have you no respect for the people here?" Bill T. infuriates. Diamont turns around to take a good look at Bill T. "Hmmm... say... have we met? Argh, never mind! I suggest you run while you still can you brat!" Diamont then creates a large shockwave knocking Bill T. off the platform. Meanwhile, Mario tries to traverse the temple as rocks from it are sucked into the portal. However, as Mario runs up some stairs, Bowser is flung down and knocks Mario back down the stars onto a smaller platform, and Bowser lands on it, causing the rock floor to break. The whole platform then breaks off from the main temple, and takes Mario with it... and so, the Temple is engulfed by the massive portal, while Peach, Bowser, Luigi, Bill T. and Clare are all flung off into different areas bellow... The Temple of Permanence is no more in this world...
We later meet Mario lying underneath a tree where he is approached by Bill T. "Hmmm... ergh, why did this have to happen!?". Bill T. then picks up an apple, unentertained, and decides to chuck it at Mario. Mario wakes up on impact wondering where he is. "Finally! You woke up!" Bill T. crosses his arms. Mario wonders what happened, in which Bill T. reminds him of the attack in the Temple. Mario then realizes that Peach is missing, as is his brother and the others. Bill T. just shrugs "That's kind of why I wanted you to wake up. You are known for fighting and stuff, I thought you might have at least been able to hand+ +-le those guys back at the Temple, but even so, I need to find Mother Clare before anything, I only really woke you up because I felt it was wrong to just leave you there, but now you're okay, so... later!" Bill T. then walks off. Mario gets up but since there's no other paths, he follows Bill T. to the west. After traversing a few basic grassy terrains, Mario catches up with Bill T. who is confronted by a simple Goomba. Bill T. bravely gets ready to fight, but then another Goomba leaps out a bush and attacks him. Mario then jumps forward and gets ready to battle. After the battle, Bill T. thanks Mario "Eh, hey sorry about me leaving you back there, I don't suppose you could help me out while I try and find Clare?" and with that BILL T. JOINED YOUR PARTY!!!
After traversing the "Lime Fields" (as they're called), Mario and Bill T. eventually find Clare lying on the floor, in which Bill T. helps her out. "Mum! Wake up! Please!" Clare wakes up slowly, and realizes that Bill T. is there, in which she hugs him. "Oh Bill T. I'm glad to see you again". "Thanks mum, but now what? The Temple's been destroyed and we don't know where anyone is!". "Hmmm..." Clare ponders "You're right... hmmm... tell you what, we'll travel East slightly, where the Temple is, or... was... Meet me there". With that, Mario and Bill T. travel east, doing some basic things, until they finally reach the sight off the temple, which now nothing but a small ruin in the side of the mountain. However, the part of the temple that broke off still appears to be there from when Bowser crashed into it. Clare shows them that there's a portal on the platform which could still work and that it's probably the best bet they have at finding the "Nenisions". "The only problem is..." she says "The portal has no power. Portals need a special type of energy to open them, the energy in which is quite rare, and hard to utilize...". "So.. now what?" Bill T. wonders. Clare does have one idea though "Hmm... I do know of someone who might just be able to help us in this situation... He lives in Fungi Fjords, not far from here. It's possibly that he may know a thing or 2 about the situation at hand, considering he know a lot about energy". Bill T. then turns to Mario "Well, Mario, good luck on your journey!". However, Clare interrupts "Eh-hem, oh, he won't be alone"...
"Huh?" Bill T. confuses. Clare bows her head "Bill T., there's something you should know... I'm not real mother...". "WHAT!? But, but". Clare explains "truth is, I adopted you as a child. You were just there at the temple *somehow, next to one of the portals. You might have even came from a different world entirely. However, that is why I am sending you on this journey with Mario; I think it would help you if you went on this journey to find out more about those Nenisions... because it might end with finding out about your own past and who you really are.". Bill T. frowns "Hmmm... so be it, I'll go, but you could have told me this much earlier! Hmm, come on then Mario, let's just go...". Clare apologizes "I'm sorry for not telling you sooner, I was only trying to protect you, but good luck on your journey". Bill T. nods, and so Mario and Bill T. set off to Fungi Fjords to start their new adventure!

So yeah... THAT'S IT SO FAR! What did you think? Hope you enjoyed this so far, and I look forward to continuing it Ta-tah!

Paper Mario - Nintendo (C)
TTOP - Me and Fantendo (C)