This OG takes place in the future. For you timeline nuts, this would be the MMEDDP future. Keep that in mind.

Written by Luigi of the Pipes, Masamune, Blaine, Yoshiman, Ditto, Sapphire, Nintenfreak, and Flutter.

~The Nightly Fungus newspaper HQ, Toad Town MK~

*The year is 2024 (ooh, future-esqe), as implied by the title. Just so you know...

*An investigative reporter Luigi of the Pipes sits in a conference with his editor-in-chief, Eddy T.*

Eddy T.: Luigi...

Luigi: Yeah boss?

Eddy T.: This story just don't cut it.

Luigi: Wha? Why not?!

Eddy T.: Well, look son. What's the headline?

Luigi: "Farmers Finding It Hard to Keep Jobs"?

Eddy T.: You haven't experienced this first-hand.

Luigi: Sure I did! I... you know... I polled some of the farmers out there, and... maybe did an interview or two...

Eddy T.: That's not what I want from you.

Luigi: But...

Eddy T.: You grew up with all these fancy computer gizmos and stuff.

Luigi: Well actually...

Eddy T.: So, I'm going to give you a vacation.

Luigi: But!

Eddy T.: You'll be spending this vacation on an old farm I inherited a couple decades ago. Fix the place up, start some farming on it, you know...

Luigi: First-hand...

Eddy T.: Exactly. I'll expect you to be on the farm in a week, and plan to stay there... oh, maybe a month or so. Take your computer and e-mail your latest articles to me, of course, but I want more depth on THIS one.'
This farmers loss isn't something that'll go away in just a month, so you'll have plenty of time.

Luigi: Yes sir...

Eddy T.: Atta boy. Get on home, give the news.

~One week later, the "of the Pipes" residence, Goomba Village MK~

Rebe: Let me just say again that I don't like this.

Luigi: How so? The kids'll be at the Academy for the next few years, those Goomboys are finally off on their own. It would've just been the two of us anyway. It'll only be a month.

Rebe: That's what you said when YOU went back to the Academy.

Luigi: Can I help it that I didn't know as much as I thought I did?

Rebe: Yes.

Luigi: <!--emo&-_---><img src='http://69.93.183.37/html/emoticons/sleep.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sleep.gif' /><!--endemo-->0 *monotone* We'll be fine, dear.

Rebe: You don't think it's odd that a Toad inherits a plot of land on earth?

Luigi: No.

Rebe: *sigh* Fine, let's just go.

~Two hours later, somewhere in Kansas USA~

Luigi: Wife mine, welcome to "Dorado Ranch"!

Rebe: I'll set the fireworks.

Luigi: Spoil sport!

~The screen zooms out from Luigi and Rebe and zooms into a farmland, or that is, wasteland nearby, the screen them zooms in until it reaches a sign...~

"Welcome to Mean Acres!"

~The Screen zooms into two short elivish kids~

Masa: Meanacres is the place to be
Farm Killing is the life for me
Land spreading out,
so far and wide
Keep the internet,
just give me that countryside.

Mune: OG Board
is where I'd rather stay
I get annoyed seeing you
I just hate your positive view
Brother, I love you,
but give me The Gamehikers!

Masa: The Pranks!

Mune: The Ranks!

Masa: A Prize!

Mune: More lies... >_<

Masa: You are my bro.

Mune: I Know... >_<

Masa and Mune: Mean Acres we are there!

~Screen fades out and goes in again when the two are in town later~

Mune: I don't get it Mune... why did you quit Nichi!?

Masa: It shut down! The service providing the building and everything went down and so did we...

Mune: *grumbles* Farm indeed, why that's not even worth being used as a DUMP.

Masa: Whiner, once we get some seeds it'll be perfect!

Mune: *kicks pebble* This is why I stopped beign a Party Goer... same old thing, ridiculous plot angle, insane happenings AND nothing ever gets accomplished.

Masa: Tut tut... *goes into the store and returns with some seeds* Ah! Here we go! *munches*

Mune: *glares* So you bought... Salted Sunflower Seeds... Typical.

Masa: Hey! Don't cut me short, I got other seeds. I'm telling you, come Harvest Time, we'll have enough money to invest!

Seen zooms in at a nother fram in Mean achers. Wes see three yung men and a sliver colored tiger at a fram with a for sale sign in the tiger's mouth.

Blaine was wereing a hisurai armor as always neatly polished and in perfect condition. The gold armor gleammed in the sun as did his older brother Changs sliver armor. Techno's white lab coat was flapping with the breeze his hair was mussed by it was too. skiver's sliver and black fur was nice and clean and had a nice sheen. sliver spat out the sign.

Bliane: Bah! two v.IP. dynimos the most brillent man alive and a tiger reduced to fram work! there is no honnor in this!

Chang: I agree but an order is an order. We were told to buy this farm and get it started so that is what we are going to do.

Techno: Hmm this does give me a insperation for new fram equipement!

Sliver: Oh no! not this time last time we were on a fram you modified a tracter and I was at the vethospitel for nine mothes and It took two years to regrow my fur!

blaine: let's just clutivate, plant, grow, weed, and get out of here!

Golem: ~walks onto scene~ ~looks about~ Nope, no, doesn't look like me... ~walks off~

*Yoshiman and Mr. Predict drive by in a 4x4 by LOTP's farm*

Yoshiman: Hey! Look! It's an ORGANIC produce farmer! Let's all laugh at him! Ha ha!

Mr. P: Ha ha!

Fuzzball: Ha ha!

Tirk: Ha ha!

Luigi: And where might you boys be going?

Yoshiman: We were just driving down to one of our enterprise genetically engineered produce farms!

Luigi: Enterprise farms?

Yoshiman: Yeah! Watch out, or we'll buy you out!

Luigi: Uh. . . uh oh?

Blaine is culitvating his feild and still very peeved

Blaine: the empire is in neeed of more rice and bamboo so you have to grow rice and bamboo! Bah!

Narrator: Over at the G & W Ranchero, we see Ditto McCloaker III (grandson of the original owner), stepping out onto the front porch of his humble farmhouse in overealls, cap, and bandana. He stretches the sleep out of his limbs, and then surveys his large, fallow field. Birds overhead sing, and the sun shines happily down on this paragon of simple rural life...

Ditto: Aaaah... A brand new spring, and the weather is terrific! Now, what shall I plant... hm... Ooh. Eggplant would be good. Yes, now I shall... Wha-?

Narrator: Ditto happens to look over the fence around his property and is surprised at all his new neighbors. He decides to go over and say hello to his newest neighbor.

*walks up and peeks over fence, which comes up to just under his eyes, obscuring his face, a la 'Wilson' from Home Improvement.*

Ditto: Well, hidey-ho, good neighbor!

Luigi: *jumps* Oh! Um... hello. Who are you? I mean, er, uh, HOW are you? Eh heh heh...

Ditto: Oooh, I'm doin' fine. And I'm your patient, humble, world-wise advice-dispensing neighbor. Ditto McCloaker. But you can call me 'Wilson.'

Luigi: Uh, okay, Mr. McCloaker.

Ditto: New around here, aren't ya?

Luigi: Uh, yeah. Just moved in.

Ditto: Mm hm, mm hm, mm hm. How's it going?

Luigi: Oh, okay I guess, except I've been here a half an hour and people are already looking for ways to buy me out and/or make me want to run screaming for the city.

Ditto: Ah ha.

Luigi: Yeah.

Ditto: Mm.

Luigi: ...Well?

Ditto: Hm?

Luigi: Aren't you going to dispense some calm words of comfort and wisdom in soothing tones to help me adjust?

Ditto: Uh... don't get killed.

Luigi: ...Rebe...!!!

Just across the highway from Ditto and Luigi was Bliane and his friend's farm.

Blaine: Oh stuff it ya ****ing toothpick! Graagh! I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HAATE THIS PLACE!! Bliane retruned to his work. sliver was pulling a plow across the fields with no real effort at all Techno was only following only telling him to slow down or speed up if need be.

Techno; look bliane i know you hate it here but don't take it out on the neibers. hmm sliver just stay at that pace I've got some reserch to do.

Sliver: On what?

Techno: On none poisenus inset repelents and a way to genieticly enhance our crops so the ripen a week faster and produce a greater yeild with out the side ifect of the nagisake insident.

Blaine; Freshly grown rice growing wings and forming a carniverus ant like socisty... I wounder if they ever remided that...

Back at the Causack empire in the port city nagiisake a white clow sweeps over a cow and leaves it a pile of bones upon closer inspection we see that it is really the geniticly enhanced rice... Back with the Harvest goers.

Techno: I have no clue.

~ The scene shifts to an old fashioned farmhouse that outwardly displays all the requirements of classic rural life. It lays somewhere to the northwest of Ditto's and Luigi's respective farms. The occupants aren't new to the land; a seemingly “wealthy” relative is visiting a younger cousin who had decided to renovate the farm that she inherited from her.

Voice Over: Inside the farm, a girl, at least in her early twenties though appears younger is dashing about, clearing the table and humming cheerily to some classical music. She is dressed familiarly in a faded blue summer dress, with glittering red shoes. A sky-blue bandana is tied around her head like a headband. She has been up since four in the morning, but doesn’t seem in the least bit affected by this.

~ Camera: pans outside

Voice Over: As the camera moves to the porch, we see a (presumably adult) woman sitting in a porch swing. Two things obscure her face: A newspaper, which seems to be The Nightly Fungus Newspaper, and a white hat with a large brim.

Woman: Interesting. Luigi of the Pipes dispatched to a rural farm area to discover the truth behind why farmers are doing so poorly economically. Those mushrooms must really have nothing going on in their lives...

~ Camera pans over to the large country-style window.

Girl: (from window) Oh cousin Sapphire~!

Woman: (glances up from paper, slightly annoyed, and we finally see her face)

Girl: I think we might have some new neighbors.

Sapphire: How nice.

Girl: Perhaps we should introduce ourselves.

Sapphire: You go ahead, Lilac. I have about five other papers to finish reading.

Lilac: *in awe* How many are you prescribed to?

Sapphire: More than enough. c_c

Lilac: If you get bored, a Farmer’s Guide to Self-Preservation is around here somewhere..

Sapphire: No, I don’t think I’ll get bored. It’s probably my old copy from when I bought this place anyway.

Lilac: ^^; Be back in a bit. (Starts walking down the road)

Sapphire: (shaking her head)


~ We now return to Home Improvement, already in progress.

Luigi: Really, it isn’t that bad, is it?

Ditto: [laughing] Naw. Was just kidding.

Luigi: *wipes sweat off brow*

Ditto: I hope.

Luigi: O_o;

Ditto: ^^;

Luigi: [rubbing chin thoughtfully] But where do I start? I have to renovate the place.. [Glances around as tumbleweed blows by a broken-down tractor and some roof tiles get blown off and land nearby]

Ditto: Yep. This place has been falling apart. Wondered if anyone would ever come to fix it, but people say the lands been cursed.

Luigi: Cursed?

Ditto: Mm. But those are old tales anyway. Don’t believe them.

Luigi: ..O-kay..

Ditto: I can always loan you my copy of a Farmer’s Guide to Self-Preservation.

Luigi: Really?

Ditto: I can go get it for you now if you like.

Luigi: [nods]

Ditto: Okay. Be back in a jippy. [Goes into house]

Lilac: [arriving down the road] Howdy, neighbor!

Luigi: [turning around] Huh?

Lilac: [waving] I brought you a casserole to welcome you to the neighborhood.

Luigi: Why thanks. It's not by any chance, Eggs, cheese and sausage, is it?

Lilac: That's precicely what it is. <!--emo&^_^--><img src='http://69.93.183.37/html/emoticons/happy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='happy.gif' /><!--endemo--> [tilts head to the side as she looks at him]. You’re not from around here, are you?

Luigi: Nope.

Lilac: You must be from the city. Could you be that investigative reporter that my cousin was reading about this morning?

Luigi: You get Nightly Fungus News here?

Lilac: No. My cousin does. She travels so much that she subscribes to everything, even in Japan.

Luigi: O_o;

Lilac: My farm isn’t too far from here. Just a bit northwest. [points]

Luigi: [nods] I hope that my wife and I can settle into this farm business pretty quickly. Hopefully, if all goes well, we might even enjoy ourselves after the month and have a longer stay-

Rebe: [voice over] NOT ON YOUR LIFE, BUDDY!

Luigi: whoops. c_c; [Sticks out hand] I’m Luigi of the Pipes, by the way.

Lilac: [shakes hand] Well.. it’s a pleasure to meet you, Mr..?

Luigi: …of the Pipes.

Lilac: ^^; I’m Lilac Blue. I've been staying out on my cousin's farm. She bought it on a whim, so I decided to live out here so it wouldn't break down. [glances around at Luigi's farm] Like this one. ^^; They say it's cursed.

Luigi: I heard. u_u;

Lilac: Just a rumor though. Don't worry about it.

Ditto: [returning] Found it!

Lilac: Is that..?

Ditto: Yep.

Lilac: You'll like this book. Very informative. <!--emo&^_^--><img src='http://69.93.183.37/html/emoticons/happy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='happy.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Lilac and Ditto high-five one another after Luigi takes the book.

Luigi: Mighty nice of you neighbors. Looks like I'll be seeing you, then. *carries stuff back inside*

Rebe: What's this?

Luigi: Country hospitality. Stay away from the guy across the street. He called me a toothpick.

Rebe: Sounds familiar.

Luigi: Yeah... Don't cross THE FENCE either.

Rebe: So what's this about being haunted?

Luigi: Not haunted. Cursed. Eddy T. didn't say anything.

Rebe: Naturally.

Luigi: There's a library nearby. If you want to research it while I'm working. Maybe I can pry some more information from "Mr. Wilson" over there, too. Who reminds me a lot of my old CEO at Nichi, ya know...
Blaine, ol' buddy! It's me! I wasn't at the Academy THAT long, was I? I mean, for you to forget me?

Blaine: Do... do I know you sir?

Luigi: Sorry, must've been a different Blaine Hala Yein...

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Secretary: How well did it go, sir?

Flutter: Quite well actually.

Secretary: Would you like to spy on someone?

Flutter: Anything to end this unstructured conversation.

~Town square~

NintF Jr.: Ah ha! you blinked!

Scarecrow: ...

NintF Jr.: Yes you did! I saw you.

Scarecrow: ...

NintF Jr.: That's it. *beats up Scarecrow*

Scarecrow: ...

NintF Jr.: There is a lot more where that came from!*Popeye theme plays, and NintF Jr. crushes a beer can and Liquid courage comes out, and is spilled all over the ground* NO! Why, oh why!?!? *cries*

Enthree: Let's go home, dad.

~Masa and Mune, disguised as bushes, make their way under the cover of broad daylight in the suspicous eyes of a hundred bystanders~

Mune: Somehow I don't like this idea... it seems... IDIOTIC!

Masa: Exactly, no one would expect anyone to be as stupid as to go to such a degree of secrecy in plain sight!

Kid: Oooh! Look!

Parent: Hush, their probably doing some skit about how we need to become better people, ignore them.

Mune: *sweatdrop* Point taken...

Masa: Now... with these seeds... all we have to do is find a mom... or someone to pass as one.

Mune: Why!? That's bloomin' ridiculous!

Masa: *narrows eyes* We'll sneak in... tell old Ma we traded the cow for seeds, she throws them out the window, next thing we know we're in a land of Giant Treasures!

Mune: Are you sure about this?

Masa: I read it... ever heard of Jack? It's a biography about a wealthy man!

Mune: ........

Masa: BESIDES... what could possibly go wrong? We just need to find one!

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~The two are now seen at Luigi's home, bnoth are peeking in the back window....~

Masa: Must be the new neighbor...

Mune: Or the new neighbor's wife

Masa: Or the new neighbor's musclebound bodyguard equipped with a variety of multi-powered kicks and a powerful Teräs Käsi Deathblow!

Mune: .... you need to get out more, let's just get this over with.

Masa: Fine... through the backdoor.

~The duo sneak in~

Masa: Shame we left Dodo....

Mune: .....

~The walk up directly behind Rebe, without making a sound~

Masa: *slowly pulls out a foghorn and sets it on maximum* WE TRADED THE COW MOM!!!!!!

~A suprised (and nearly deaf) Rebe falls face flat on the floor~

Mune: Great, you killed her.

Masa: Oops....

Mune: Now what are we going to do?

Masa: I know. We'll hide the body. Then disguise ourselves as her. Next we'll toss the beans wait over night, the run away to land of Giant Treasures.

Mune: Won't people be suspicious?

Masa: No... of course not.

Rebe: Ow, my ears. *trys to get up*

Masa: *knocks out Rebe* You are suppose to be dead.

Mune: Great plan. Now let's hide the body.

~Outside~

Luigi: So Wilson...

Ditto: MR. Wilson.

Luigi: Sorry. Anyway, do you know any... you know... rumors about the curse on this farm?

Ditto: Nope. *nervous glance*

Luigi: *waves hand* You will tell me the rumor.

Ditto: There's no rumor.

Luigi: (Blast!) Well then, mind helping me with a little report I'm doing for a newspaper? It's about the economic downfall of farmers.

Ditto: Well... what do you have so far?

Luigi: I questioned a few farmers a couple weeks ago, but they wouldn't comment. So I did some tests on the soil and found it to be somewhat nutrient-lacking.

Ditto: Where'd you take these tests?

Luigi: In the Mu... (no wait, can't mention Mushroom Kingdom by name...) Mushroom Farms of Missouri.

Ditto: They farm mushrooms there? I'll be...

Luigi: So was I right?

Ditto: No.

Luigi: No?

Ditto: Mushrooms don't get nutrients from the soil, Weege. They decompose substances about them and absorb nutrients from THOSE.

Luigi: So... it doesn't matter how bad the soil is?

Ditto: The soil's fine around here. Now lemme tell you what the REAL problem is... *beckons Luigi closer to the fence and whispers* It's the government!

Luigi: NO!

Ditto: *smashes Luigi's face against the fence* Keep your voice down, they'll hear you!

Luigi: Mphmy... (sorry...)

Ditto: Ever since the Mega Mega Extreme Doki Doki Panik party dissolved, the government has gone downhill.

Luigi: Hey, I was a part of that!

Ditto: Really? Now that I think about it...

Luigi: Anyway, you were saying?

Ditto: Right right. We've been growing just as many crops as we've done in the past. The problem is, the government is taking those crops and genetically modifying them, then they tell us that those aren't OUR crops, but their own lab-grown ones. They simply tell us that our crops can't compete with "theirs" and that they were all shipped to Russia. Thus, we don't get payed.

Luigi: Wow. Anyone tried to stop it?

Ditto: I'd tell you, but I've already said to much. AACKK! Duck!

*Luigi and Ditto drop to the ground. Several seconds later, a black car drives past.*

Ditto: *waits for the car to pass* All clear. We'd better get back to our growing before we draw more attention to ourselves.

Luigi: Uhh... got'cha. Actually, I think I'm going to go inside for a bit of casserole. You want any?

Ditto: No no, go ahead. *beckons Luigi close again* And don't tell ANYONE about... (you know what)...

Luigi: Not even my wife?

Ditto: NO ONE!

Luigi: Uhh... all right...

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