Chapter 3: Something's Not Right

Something's Not Right is the third chapter of Mario Golf, following Level 1 Again? and preceding This One's Real. In it, Mario comes to understand the true nature of his repetitive morning, which is in fact an alien simulation. Something's Not Right is 3,635 words long.

Summary
Mario once again returns to his game of golf. Mario is now visibly distressed, attracting the attention of the two figures. It is revealed that one of the figures forgot to turn off some sort of "scrambler" which is implied to be responsible for Mario's repeating visions. Things get worse as the sky above the Mushroom Kingdom itself seems to break. Mario gets a brief look at a spaceship through the hole in the sky before it gets blown away. No one else seems to notice this, which begins to break Mario. The figures decide to "skip" the Bowser battle, and so Bowser flickers out of existence. Peach congratulates Mario on a victory that has not yet happened. As Mario's mental breakdown worsens, the two figures prepare to reactivate the scrambler. Just before they can, however, Mario figures out how to escape the time loop. He wakes up in a dark metal room with the mysterious figures, who are revealed to be insectoid aliens known as Space Pirates. The Space Pirates, referred to by the narrator as Red and Purple, attempt to return Mario to the simulation, but he leaps out of a window to avoid capture. He shatters his ankle, but he escapes. Running through the spaceship, Mario ends up nearly getting ejected from the trash chute, but is saved by a small elven creature. As they repair Mario's ankle, the creature introduces himself as Toon Link, a name he gave himself due to being a defunct clone of the hylian hero Link. Toon Link then reveals that "Mario" is a clone of the real Mario, and that clone Mario's entire existence has been a simulation. "Mario" is shaken, but takes the news with a surprising amount of levelheadedness. After they inject "Mario" with dubiously high amounts of anesthetics, the two set out to escape the ship - a frigate by the name of the Orpheon. Toon Link dubs his new friend "Dr. Mario."

Characters

 * Dr. Mario (As Mario)
 * Luigi (Simulation)
 * Yoshi (Simulation)
 * Screamy Toad (Simulation)
 * Bowser (Simulation)
 * Princess Peach (Simulation)
 * Red
 * Purple
 * Toon Link