User blog:Weirdweirdweirdo/64Pastas: Behind the Mirror & HER

In the Discord server, we have a Halloween event where we write stupid Super Mario 64 creepypastas. I decided to post my 64Pasta from last year and the sequel I wrote for it this year, and I'll publish a third one I made as part of a bet separately. By the way, Gamma posted his too, go read it, it's probably one of the best of them all.

Part 1: Behind the Mirror (2021)
I had recently bought a Nintendo 64 with Mario 64 because I wanted to see the personalization for myself. It played normally, until the second floor. I saw a small crack in the mirror in the mirror room. I punched it, but nothing happened. I went back to the basement to do some things, specifically Cavern of the Metal Cap. I went back to the mirror room to finish Snowman's Land, and a metal cap box was there. I didn't even see the transparent box before. I got it, and punched the mirror crack and it shattered. I decided to not go back there since I wanted to finish the regular game before going back there.

I got 120 stars and headed back. When I walked past where the mirror once was, it reappeared when I turned around, locking me in the mirrored part of the mirror room. I ran to the door because what else was I supposed to do? Beyond the door was a mirrored castle with inverted colors. I remembered Hot-Moist Void and jumped in the inverted Wet-Dry World painting. Yeah, I was right. It was Hot-Moist Void. But the lava was blood for some reason. I tried to get the first star but then I heard a loud screech and the game crashed. I booted it up again and started at the mirror room again, behind the mirror. I noticed my star counter went up.

I decided to try Snowman's Land and instead I ended up in some area called Cool, Cool Manor. It didn't have a star select screen, so I was just thrown in. It was a large mountain like area with a mansion in the center, with a blizzard outside depleting my health. I ran inside to not die, and there was a penguin impaled on the wall with an icicle. I decided to punch the icicle to see if it would trigger something, and it passed straight through the penguin and into the wall. The corpse fell down, and the door next to it opened. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the entrance room's layout, but that's not important enough for me to care. I went in, and there was a star. I grabbed it, no scream, instead mario did the death animation when he grabbed it.

I jumped out the painting with the star and decided to explore the mirrored castle. The path to the first floor was locked, so I tried to go up to the third floor. It needed a key. I went in the Tiny-Huge Island room and there was a Bowser painting, and there was only the middle painting, the other hallways being blocked by walls. I jumped in and, "Bowser's Dark Deep". I went in, and it was pitch black. I saw NOTHING. The music was a reversed version of the Bowser level music. I found a purple switch, pressed it, and the platform I was on lit up. There was a black cap box, with the dots and exclamation mark being marked with blood.

I left the level to find the cap switch, and entered Tall, Tall Mountain's inverted level. It was called "Bloody, Bloody Beach" which didn't even make sense for the painting. I started the first mission with no name, and it was a beach with blood red sand. There weren't any enemies, but instead corpses of them with blood everywhere. I jumped into one, and entered a cap switch course called "Light Cap in the Dark Skull".

It was a large goomba skull with a black brain floating in the center. Mario had a yellow cap on which emitted light. I ran around trying to find something, and noticed that an area I didn't emit light on had platforms that disappeared in the light. I platformed on top of the brain, and ground pounded through it, and it exploded into a bloody mess, with a purple cap switch falling out of it. I pressed it, and got sent back to the castle.

I went back to Bowser's Dark Deep, and hit the box to get the light cap. I platformed through, and reached the boss fight. Bowser was instead Dry Bowser, and clearly had been rotting there for a while. It ran away from my light, and was damaged when I got close enough with the light cap. When I defeated it, it dropped a key.

I went to the mirrored third floor, and there was Peach. She was looking down. As I walked closer, she looked up and her eye sockets were empty, and blood was pouring out. She ran at me at great speeds and my game crashed. The cartridge broke from then on, not turning on afterwards. I went to sleep extremely confused, and that Peach was in my dreams, and has been since. Wait, who's that out the window?

Part 2: HER (2022)
HER - A 64pasta by Jim, a sequel to "Behind the Mirror"

They call me insane. Maybe they're right. But it's all her fault. After I went behind that damned mirror, that Princess Peach with empty eye sockets has been following me. I saw her all the time in the corner of my eyes and outside. It could be at the window, across the street, in the back seat of my car. It was agonizing. Nobody else could see her. All of my friends ended up abandoning me due to what they thought was my mental collapse. My family has cut me off, thinking I went insane. All I had was her.

Someone ended up getting me a psychiatrist. I was sitting there describing what happened, and I look up and he's gone. Replaced with her. I immediately panicked and attacked them. Finally, after all this time, I was close enough to touch them. And they died. But I blinked, and they were gone. Replaced with the doctor. Dead on the floor.

I immediately escaped back to my house as I heard the police looking for me. I barricaded my windows and door, closed my closet door to make sure she didn't appear to attack me, and thought about what to do. And I had an idea. I dig up my Nintendo 64 and that forsaken cartridge. It started there, so I went back to fight her in her domain.

It booted up. I started a new save, with the hopes of obtaining all Power Stars to unlock everything and fight her. The opening letter had her instead of Peach, with a simple command: Stop. I shrugged it off. She must be scared. Scared of me. I was finally in control. It took what felt like days. Without food or water, because I couldn't leave my room. But I did it, and went to Bowser in the Sky.

A strange, untextured version of her started chasing me. I had to speed all the way to the end, and Bowser was there. He looked and sounded horrified. Horrified of her. Then suddenly she exploded out of him. His polygons scattered the floor as the rock textures turned red. It was time.

The fight was awful. She threw strange particles at me with a distorted texture, chased after me, threw objects and enemies from all across the game at me, so many things I can't even remember as the fight dragged on. Whenever I touched her, Mario jumped away like he jumped in lava. I couldn't do anything.

But then something happened. She threw the Jumbo Star from the ending. I immediately jumped into it, and Mario suddenly turned into some golden version of Metal Mario. And my screen was covered in Peach letters commanding me to stop. And I was able to dive into her, causing her to release this hideous screech and fly backwards. I could finally hurt her.

Again, and again, I endured the pained cries as she suffered. The one who ruined my life and took everything from me to make me suffer finally knew how it felt. But suddenly, she just disappeared when I hit her with a screech even louder than before. I had done it. I had killed her. But something was wrong.

Mario slowly walked towards the camera, gradually slowing down as the gold faded to metal, and the metal faded to stone as he stopped moving completely. I couldn't control him in any of this. Suddenly, an unfamiliar song began to fade in from the game. A depressing tune that gave me the feeling of a monumental failure. That I had lost everything. And I had, but that clearly wasn't what it was for. And a dialogue box popped up. "To free yourself, you doomed the last friend you had." I understood now. By killing her, I had doomed Mario. He was but a statue now, on an empty island in the sky. Everything he knew was gone. Just like me.

I walked outside. The police were waiting for me. I've been taken to the jail now. I know what they have planned for me. I've already lost everything, I have nothing left to lose. They mean nothing to me. But I won against her, at the cost of the one thing I had left. And now it's over. She is dead. I have won.

And soon I will join her.