What if all the video games you love playing actually happened somewhere?

What if Mario really does save Peach from Bowser?

What if Kirby and Meta Knight really travel through Dreamland on grand quests?

What if there really is a place where anime-style people catch and train Pokemon?

What if Link, Zelda, and all the other elves really live in a real Hyrule?

What if all the badguys were real too?

What if these places, all of which are on a giant, star-shaped planet, were really built as a real place by Nintendo, in a dimension apart from our own?

What if video games were originally meant to be a real-life experience, where you would travel to amazing, whimsical lands and become the hero?

What if that's not how it works only because something went terribly wrong?

What if with every life you lose, every game-over you get when you play a game here, you bring this breathtaking place the tiniest bit closer to being plunged into a unspeakable evil?

What if time is running out?

And what if the heroes we all know and love cannot do anything to stop it?

What if their only hope is the ones who are looked down upon and seen as useless?

A wannabe Pokemon trainer girl who's never caught a single Pokemon.

A young Elvin girl who can't hit the broad side of a castle with an arrow or sword.

A plain, simple, little Waddle Dee.

And a Toad.

These are this world's only hope. Will they be enough?

Welcome, dear Reader, to the once-Planet Popstar, now known as Nintendo World.

(Credit for the awesome cover goes to PrimeJourney! Please check out her stories and give her a follow!)