(Luke)
As the shuttle kicked itself off the ground with its electrical engines and the Hydrogen rockets ignited to blast our way out of the atmosphere at accelerations approaching 4 gees (the shuttle could do 8 gees no problem), I reflected on the current situation. Mario, Luigi and their past selves were currently on the acceleration couches back in the passenger cabin, strapped in as securely as possible. While they'd agreed to come with us to help dispose of the Cobalt Star fragment, they'd gone for a major case of 'trust but verify'.
Nothing much really happened as we made our way to the Voidsteader, with us landing in Hangar #4 with no issues. As I got out of the pilot's chair, Mario inquired about getting out of the shuttle, to which Catherine responded "Not just yet, the hangar still hasn't pressurized all the way, and you don't have vacuum suits. We'll have to get you some if you want to help with putting that Cobalt Star fragment in the probe we'll be getting rid of it with."
Mario and Luigi nodded in the affirmative, and at that very moment the hangar finished pressurizing. I noted "Alright, time to get out of the shuttle," and opened the door at the back of the shuttle. As we reached the elevator, I mentioned to the Mario Brothers "For various reasons, the suit-fitting machines are in the medical bays. So, that's where we're going."
While Mario and Luigi were getting fitted, I asked Catherine "Hey, could you please Jump us out to the base while these two are getting fitted? I want access to the facilities there when we're sending that probe into empty space."
My sister replied "Certainly, I'll go deal with that now." and made her way to the elevator. About 40 seconds had elapsed when I heard the telltale hum of the jump drive spinning up and informed the brothers Mario "Hold onto something, this will probably be a bit disorienting."
Sure enough, reality
lurched, knocking the brothers Mario into a brief daze. and Catherine's voice came over the intercom saying "We've arrived, as soon as everyone's done being properly equipped, we can transfer over to the station and get to setting up the probe. I'll be waiting for everyone there, see you soon!"
Soon enough, all six of us (technically four, if you counted both temporal instances of each bro as the same person) were waiting on one of the asteroid base's observation lounges as the drones outside worked to assemble a bare-bones probe that basically amounted to a Large Reactor stuck to the back of a stack of 9 Jump Drives with an immensely reinforced cargo container at the front to store the Cobalt Star shard. I nodded as a connector transferred 120 kg of Uranium to the probe, and remarked "Alright, the probe's ready to depart. Mario and Luigi, you wanted to be the ones to actually put the Shard in the probe, so you'll be getting to do a spacewalk. We'll be keeping you tethered just so you know, so that if something goes wrong we can reel you back in."
Mario nodded and made his way to the airlock, closely followed by Luigi. As Catherine and I watched, I remarked "We're absolutely
sure that if that fragment goes active and tries to escape it'll still be contained, right?"
To this Catherine replied "It should, after all it'll have 3.5 meters of poly-alloy composite surrounding it on all sides. Anyway, looks like Mario and Luigi have finished loading up the payload, so we should reel them back in now."
5 minutes later, everyone was back on the observation deck as Catherine and I went over final checks. I called out "Jump drives active?", to which I received "Affirmative."
"Reactor criticality levels stable?"
"Affirmative."
"Cobalt star shard inert?"
"Affirmative."
"Probe detached from base?"
"Yes."
I grinned and hit the button to initiate the jump drives that would be moving this probe perpendicularly to the galactic plane, and waited the 10 seconds for the jump drives to spin up. The probe disappeared in a Jump's characte-
Yoink! MINE! This is mine now!
-ristic flash of blue, and I remarked "Alright. Mario, Luigi, where do you want us to drop you off? Anywhere in the Mushroom Kingdom or its neighbors is a valid destination."
(Sezzy)
I screamed as the man in front of me stepped closer "We've never hurt ANYONE! why are you doing this to us!?"
I remember this.
His only answer was to mutter 'Eldrazi' under his breath, before lashing out with a lightning bolt of immense power. I recoiled, instinctively expecting pain that never arrived. As I turned to look, I saw my eldest brother had placed himself between me and that horrible man. As his corona rapidly ablated away, he shouted "Run, and take the others!"
It's happened before.
I propelled myself away from that horrible man as fast as I could manage, my other siblings racing alongside me. Another lightning bolt lashed out, striking down one of my sisters to the left. I looked behind, and there I saw the man from before gaining on us, a look of anger on his face. Another bolt, blasting off a part of my Corona as it made a glancing hit.
This isn't real.
I shouted to my remaining 5 siblings "We need to split up! If he only follows one of us, it'll give the rest time to hide!"
I need to wake up.
They heeded my advice, and we all made for different corners of the multiverse. The horrible man chased after Yolnek, as I raced away at a perpendicular angle. A bolt of that horrid lightning struck him down, and I resignedly turned back the way I was going. As I turned, I discovered that the man had somehow gotten in front of me. His hands raised, already crackling with electricity and-
WAKE UP!!!
I awoke with a shudder in my resting place nestled against Mario's universe. I turned my attention to what was going on in there, perhaps that would help distract me from the nightmare. Again. It looked like in my absence, my player had dropped off the brothers Mario on the top of the Koopaseum, using a relatively stealthy drop pod.
I know you're watching.
They had proceeded to sneak in, and made use of the jetpacks my player had given them to rescue peach before she was given to Petey Piranha. From there, they had brought her forwards to their time period before charging back in to deal with the Shroobs. Of course, given that I myself couldn't time travel, I was basically operating off of inferences for that. After all, I couldn't find Peach anywhere, and the Mario brothers were currently raiding Shroob Castle, having used some explosive-equipped drones they got from my player to blast down the front gate.
You're inside my mind again.
Princess Shroob was absolutely livid, and had recalled most of the Shroob's forces back to Shroob Castle. This had resulted in the Brothers Mario being forced to evacuate Shroob Castle by a massive army of Shroobs. I could practically hear the music as they raced around, trying to lose the Shroobs pursuing them before they got to the Time Hole. My laughter echoed within the void between worlds as I felt the stress relieve itself.
You shouldn't be here. Get. Out.
My fun had, it was time to check up on my player again. It took me a bit to find them actually, as the Voidsteader was currently out-system and they weren't at their current asteroid base at the moment. I checked the Mushroom Kingdom and found Toad Town suspiciously devoid of Shroids, before finally finding them at a small installation they'd somehow managed to construct on a nearby rogue planet when I wasn't looking. I took a quick look at my player's latest pro- Player, WHAT IN THE WORLDS ARE YOU DOING!?
GET! OUT! OF! MY! MIND!
(Catherine)
I grinned as I shouted to Luke "Alright, I've got the last gravitic inducer installed, it should be ready to go!" As I said this, I made my way back to the control room.
Luke replied "Got it, we should be ready to give this thing a test run as soon as you get back up here. See you soon!" as I made sure the blast doors were all sealed. Continuing, I soon arrived in the control room 50 meters away and settled into my seat to my brother's left.
I nodded to him and asked "Just to be sure, we're currently in real-time communications range for the Voidsteader, right?"
Luke checked once more, before saying "Yes, even if something goes horribly, terribly wrong, we'll be up to date when we resurrect. Anyway, let's get started on testing this thing."
I nodded before checking my readout and saying "Fuel flow is nominal, 20 milligrams hydrogen are currently held in the center of the device by gravitational fields. Shall we continue?"
Luke nodded before adding "Coolant flow's doing its thing properly, along with the Quantum Well solid-state thermoelectric generators. I estimate that we should be able to harvest up to 80% of the output energy as useful electricity. Ready to give it a go?"
I replied "Certainly, test firing prototype gravitational fusion reactor in 5! 4! 3! 2! 1!" And with that, I hit the button. The tem-
Sezzy: 
I woke up in one of the medical bays aboard the Voidsteader, and groaned. As I stepped out of the pod, I noted that Luke was still in the pod to my right and hadn't quite been woken up yet. I checked the readout, revealing "StillAlive Entanglement Lost. Most Recent BrainSnap applied to clone. Time Elapsed: 30 minutes, 56 seconds."
After Luke came back, I asked him "So, what went wrong? We did the math, that much Hydrogen undergoing fusion should have been well within the tolerances for our containment chamber."
To this, Luke answered "Perhaps we wound up triggering a reaction with a lot more energy behind it than fusion, after all you can crush
anything down small enough and get a black hole."
At this point we answered in sync "And Black Holes tend to evaporate into Hawking Radiation, with smaller ones doing so exponentially faster."
I noted "Still, this presents a wonderful opportunity. We've just got to use a lot less fuel on the next test run and we could quite easily achieve Total Conversion power generation."
Luke chuckled and raised a glass of water while saying "Amen to that." before hydrating himself.
