Mario and Luigi Equestrian adventures

Chapters

The beginning... "Mamma Mia"
The new Prediciment
Two days around Ponyville.
'The 'inseperable' duo of thievery'
A new foe
(Special chapter 1) Happy holidays!

The beginning... "Mamma Mia"

Prologue

Mario and luigi were happily at home enjoying a cup of tea after rescuing the princess again and finally taking a breather from Pi'ilow Island's fiascos. Luigi was at the table happily enjoying a cup of tea while Mario just simply wouldn't allow for Princess Peach to be captured once again and waited patiently for her letter saying that she was home safe.

Things were calm but not too calm. Mario finished his cup of tea and decided to go inside to refill it. while doing so, a familiar voice called his name.

"Mario! I got you that Telegram!" It was Toad

Mario rushed out to greet toad and with doing so, spilled the hot tea everywhere.

"Mario, I hope you clean up this a mess!" Luigi shouted.

"So, the Princess finally got settled eh?" Mario asked paying no mind to Luigi.

the toad laughed "Oh, you bet Mr.Mario, She's real cozy. I think she's getting ready to bake a cake so head on over to the castle once you're done with the tea."

"Ha, Bro, I told ya!" Luigi laughed.

Mario was slightly angry but didn't let that effect his clean up. Rags in tow Mario cleaned up every drop then another toad with some more news.

"Mr.Mario! Mr.Mario!"

"What is it this time," Mario shouted out to toad.

"Um, Peach got kidnapped again..."

"Ugh, remind me to kick koopa's shell again." Mario blurted

"Um, Mario" the Toad still there said. "I think Bowser has backup this time"

"What makes you say that?" Mario asked toad

"Just come out here and look at the castle!"

Mario hurried out his door and past the clothes line and saw that Peach's castle was... Upside-down.

"I didn't know the koopas had the power to do this." Mario said just awe struck at what chaos must be happening at toad town.

"They don't." Toad said. "Look at this telegram."

The telegram was print with Bowser's signature at the bottom

Hi, Mario and Luigi,

By now I'm aware that you know that I've got backup. Extremely powerful back up. I challenge you at my castle bring everything in your arsenal for a battle to end all battles.

Bowser Koopa.

P.S. Come alone I don't want Green Stache' making me look bad like last time.

"Bowser's going to pay!" Mario shouted packing up his sledge hammer and plenty of restoring mushrooms.

"Mario Let's go together this time." Luigi yelled at his older brother.

"I'm a so sorry bro, but Its a me and only me this time." Mario said back tossing the telegram back to Luigi.

Luigi read the telegram and before Mario left for Bowser's castle "Go get him bro. For me!"

Mario simply looked back and thumbs upped his bro "Okie Dokie" Mario spotted Luigi's phrase back.

Mario began heading for Plack Beach to hopefully refine the skills he'd lost in the short time he'd been out. He knew that It was a long way to Bowser's castle from there, but Bowser wanted a fight to end all fights. Mario was going to bring his A-game quickly defeating the common enemies there.

Luigi took a quick look at the note once more and then sighed. In most all of Mario's adventures he's been there to support his bro. Well, except that one time he went to the Waffle kingdom and his bro was off doing something else. Surely this wasn't one of those times surely Luigi could too adventure with his bro like he has before in the Beanbean Kingdom. Luigi Began to pack his things as well heading off to intercept Mario except he'd taken the quicker route. the railroad connecting from the basement of Bowser's castle to the sewers of toad town were the fastest. Luigi was exhausted and didn't want to fight and left the common enemies untouched.

Mario finally neared his destination being ready for what Bowser could fire his way. Bumpsy plains were beautiful and Bowser path reeked of nothing but despair and hot burning lava pits.

Bowser's troop was prepared for mario. Unbound chain chomps roamed everywhere ready to sick themselves on Mario or any other intruder that would pass their midst. Hammer brothers and boomerang brothers too were at the ready prepared to lob anything at Mario or his brother should they need to. Mario was prepared for the on-coming horde and slipped through to the lower levels of the castle. Along the way he saw one he wasn't expecting.

"Luigi! what are you doing here I thought Bowser made it clear that only I could face him."

"Mario, Bowser has been behind tons of tricks I mean come on don't tell me you're not prepared for Kamek."

Mario pondered this then decided "Alright Bro, If Bowser does trick me with Kamek, you'll be attacking the Magikoopa."

The brothers then highfived in the air "Let's a go!" "Okie dokie!" and together they ran off to face Bowser together

"It seems as though the Brothers have caught on to our plan." a voice in the back room said.

"You're telling me Mr. Slithers." Bowser said. "you sure this plan will work?"

"Oh, it will even if there's one extra straggler... and I have a name you know"

"Right Disc-slither."

"Ugh, Its Discord!"

Mario and Luigi have made it to the throne room but nothing was there. Mario and Luigi checked every nook and cranny and finally found a Hammer button. Hitting that button post haste, revealed a stairway leading up from the slid-back thrown.

Mario and Luigi go up the stairs and find a fimiliar set up. Bowser placed on a rickety bridge with an ending axe. Was he going back to 8-bit if so, why'd he want to battle why not just settle the differences and call peach as good as rescued.

"So, Mario, you finally showed up." Bowser said "You kept me waiting for a while. I hope this battle is a good one."

Luigi sat this battle out

"Let's a go!" Mario shouted ready to beat bowser silly

"Show Time!" Bowser Roared in a defiant manner.

This battle was a simple dodge and attack win and the battle was presumed won as soon as,"Urg... Blarrg..." Bowser roared.

A finger snap was heard and Bowser instead of falling over onto his belly snapped to attention like nothing had gone wrong.

"What's the matter Mario? Got any more fight in you?"

Mario was at the brink after not battling in a while and only gaining scant experience on the way here.

Bowser went for his sliding punch effectively knocking out Mario and Luigi.

"Bwahahah" Bowser laughed "you were right, this plan of yours worked perfectly."

"Glad you thought so." said a figure stepping out from the shadows this figure had two antlers from two separate animals, a talon, paw goat hoof and cloven hoof; his body was half snake and half goat. "Now then Mario Brothers, I say I'm done here; Ta-ta and have fun, Bowser."

Mario within that short time ate a 1-up and quickly jumped on Bowsers head going for a hammer attack on whatever teamed up with bowser. the monstrocity split in half hotdog style and as mario brought up his hammer;

"Oh, looks like you do have some fight in you. I'm sorry, but you'll need a move with more chaos than a hammer to beat me." the creature said. "You're quite nimble, I sort of like that. Tell you what, I'll give you back your princess on one condition."

Mario was angry at being beaten but then settled down a little at the offer.

"What's your plan who or whatever you are."

"Please call me Discord, Spirit of Chaos," the creature said. "and the condition, you must pass a test that I have in mind."

"Hold it Mr. Slithers." Bowser commanded "You said nothing about giving back the princess. If your plan was that then I'll pulverize you!"

"My, my, my, such a haughty tone," Discord said "Need I remind you where you'd be without me?" Discord snapped his talon

"No!" Bowser instantly fell down knocked out. Discord once more snapped his talon once more. Bowser was now rejuvenated.

Bowser did nothing but growl to the one who made him bow at his power. Discord laughed "Besides this'll be fun." Discord said.

"Fine," Bowser said still enraged that someone else was calling the shots.

"you didn't get to the plan." Mario said.

"ah, yes, That. I want to see you two superstars in action on my world. Its either that or you fight an un-winnable fight."

Mario now had no choice. "Let's do this." Mario said.

"wonderful! you're going to have a grand time where you're going." Discord snapped his talon once more "you're not going to see me or Bowser until the very end, so, prepare to fight." Discord said snapping his talon.

In an instant Mario Luigi Bowser Peach and Discord vanished from the room leaving nothing touched...except possibly the ending axe.

Mario was knocked out instantly. but as soon as he reappeared he knew he wasn't on the mushroom world anymore... The humidity here was perfect.

Twilight was doing her usual thing when all of a sudden a figure appeared out of nowhere this figure one she'd never seen before. Twilight was going to grab spike to see if he knew what it was, but the books right in front of her hooves caused her to trip. Spike heard the commotion, and hurried to Twilight's side. "you alright Twilight?"

"Mommy I don't want to go to school..." came Twilight's dazed response.

"Come on Twilight snap out of it!" Spike yelled.

Twilight shook her head. "oh, Spike,"

"What happened?"

"I was just about to call you but I just...um..."

"I get it, who's that?" Spike asked pointing at a slumped figure in red on the floor.

"I don't know, its like he just appeared here."

"Hmm," spike said taking a closer look at the hairless monkey. "He looks like this thing off a game Button mash plays."

"Come again?"

"He looks like he's from the game Super Pony Brothers." Twilight had a lost look in her eyes "Never mind, Let's just get him to the couch so he can rest. It looks like he got mugged and I want to know the pony that did it." Spike said.

Mario was in a daze never experiencing this before "Mamma mia what happened?" he was on a couch he slowly opening his eyes and in the distance he saw a purple dragon? Mario shook his head trying to clear what had recently happened away to see what was really going on. He looked once more. A purple horse? no, pony and a purple dragon. Mario sat up seeing where he was. there were books everywhere. A library?

"where am I?" Mario asked to either one standing next to him.

"you're in golden oaks Library." the Dragon responded.

"Where are you from?" the pony...erm... unicorn asked.

"Whah! A talking pony!" Mario yelled!

"I'm kind of surprised you can talk as well." Twilight said "so, where are you from?"

Mario calmed down a little "Well, I'm from the Mushroom Kingdom"

"The what kingdom?" the unicorn asked.

"The Mushroom Kingdom." Mario stated back

"I've never heard of the 'Mushroom' kingdom before, and to answer your question from before, you're in Equestria."

Mario had never heard that word or that kingdom before. "Look, could I get your names and we go on from there?"

"My name's Twilight Sparkle student to the Princess of Equestria." the unicorn spoke.

"A-and my name's Spike student's assistant. The Drake Responded. "Is it possible you're name's Mario?"

"Well My name's... wait how'd you know?" Mario asked "and I Might as well start from the beginning."

Author's Note

This is just a test, if this receives horrible reviews then it's going out the door. My first fic was horrible and so starting anew was something I do. Sorry to those who have wanted something like this but just haven't yet been satisfied this is perhaps my first crossover. The Prologue may just be the longest chapter of this crossover I make but who knows.

Even though I don't know much about the tv shows of mario, However I know a lot about the games and the somewhat known RPG's that they have. Mario and Luigi's characters are based off the RPG's. I will also try to appease anypony who thought I got somthing wrong but I can't do anything unless you comment.

I hope that My first crossover is a success. and a small ps to those reading this this was written without an editor and before the story was even posted. Without, please enjoy the mind junk that I'd wanted to share for the longest time.

Storm Rival

The new Prediciment

Author's Note

I guess I imagine this taking place in the RPG games in which the comedy may seem a bit bland unless you've played the Mario and Luigi RPG series.

I also wish to apologize to any fans of the mario and Luigi rpg series because the references I put in here may contain some spoilers to the games. if you don't want spoilers then please watch a walkthrough of at least one of the games to get the references or just play it.

Also apologies for the random cutscenes I did intend this to be more like an actual game than a fanfic, I hope that this just isn't too unliked and that I can continue writing something I've wanted for a long time. also please tell me if there are any changes you'd like to see either to this chapter or to any chapter to come.

Storm Rival

The new Prediciment

part 1: Superpony saga...

Chapter 1: Luigi!!!

"Discord? Bowser? I don't even know those two are," Twilight said. "Unless you're talking about the Draconequus statue outside of princess Celestia's castle, I have no clue what you're talking about." Twilight began after Mario's simple action sequences. she lobbed a small book that read "Castle Stone Garden" on it. Twilight's page flipped to the statue of Discord.

"Mamma mia! That's him!" Mario yelled getting up off the ground.

"I don't even know how this is possible, it says he's been imprisoned far longer than Luna." Twilight said "I don't have a clue on your world though. Princess Peach or even your 'clumsy' brother Luigi, If I did I'd help you out no sweat."

Thankyou anyway Twilight," Mario said. "You wouldn't happen to have a map would you? I'm sure If I had one I'd know where to find Luigi." Mario stated.

Twilight used her magic to lob a massive book over to mario. Mario wasn't expecting a book of gargantuan size. the book literally squished him like his brothers hammer.

"What's the Idea here?" Mario asked Twilight getting off the ground miniaturized.

"You ok?" Twilight asked

"I'm a fine, I just gotta find Luigi and get him to hammer me back to normal size," Mario said "And when I asked for a Map I was asking for a small scroll."

"Sorry, the only thing close to a map in this library is that encyclopedia. Its got maps to every city and town in Equestria."

"How exactly do you expect me to carry this around?" Mario asked.

"I don't know I could use some magic." Twilight offered as Mario walked out the library door with a giant encyclopedia in tow.

"No, no I got this, I've carried heavier." Mario said to twilight walking out of the library. He was doing just about fine carrying the encyclopedia when he got off the front step He saw just how out of place he was. there were nothing but ponies here.

"Welcome to Ponyville." Twilight said

Mario's expression was that of shock. he wasn't in the mushroom kingdom no more

"Twitchy tail Twitchy tail!" a Pink pony yelled halfway down the block from Twilight's library.

"Mario watch out!" Twilight warned, but it was too late as just at that moment, when Mario took another step, something small and yellow came barreling from the sky.

"Heads Up!" It yelled just before making contact right on top, and dead center, of the encyclopedia and Mario.

Mario grunted as once again he was smashed by the heavy book. Mario slowly got up and saw that he was back to his normal size.

"Anyone hurt?" a yellow, floating, ball with a star on top asked. "Oh, right, I was told about this place..." the little thing recalled "Anypony hurt?" it once again yelled.

"Nope!" came the reply of a stallion about a block out heading off the opposite direction

"Who are you?" Twilight asked the small yellow ball.

"Hi, I'm Starlow Nice to meet you..." Starlow paused "who are you?"

Twilight stated prouder for the thing, "I'm Twilight Sparkle student of Princess Celestia."

"Hello Yellow!" Starlow shouted.

"who are you shouting to?" Twilight wondered as the yellow ball yelled towards the sky.

"oh, don't worry about it." the ball said

"Oof," Mario grunted "how come we always tend to meet at the most unexpected circumstances?"

"Oh, Mario!" Starlow interjected "I was told to help you out by the starsprites."

"Of course you were," Mario said.

"Hold up you said Sprite somewhere didn't you? Don't tell me you're a parasprite, because we just had that problem a month ago."

"Oh, Twilight, I'm not one of those monsters," Starlow said "I'm actually a friend of Mario's and we've helped one another out for a while."

"You could say that," Mario said.

The pony who had said 'twitchy tail' came over to see the commotion. "ooh ooh Twilight I'm so happy you weren't hit! also happy to see that your book was ok after all it was the one thing that was hit-" she said

"Pinkie," Twilight said

"-I mean there was a big dent in the book that's all and..." Pinkie looks at Mario and instantly "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, who're you?! I've never seen you around well except in that one game this foal plays but..."

"Pinkie!"Twilight slightly yelled

"Yes!" the pink pony came up to twilight closely

"This is Mario and we're looking for his brother. After this is all over you can throw whatever party you want at my place to welcome them to ponyville."

Mario was anxious yet happy to be around this Pinkie. It seemed like she was a ticking bob-bomb that could go off at any second. She had balloons on her flank and didn't have wings or a horn so mario could only guess that she was a regular pony

"To interupt your thought Mario its Earth pony."

"whah! How'd you know what I was thinking!" Mario exclaimed

"oh don't worry about it." Pinkie looked off in the distance "Now then if you're wondering about a tutorial of this game, wait a few years for this to catch on and possibly get heavily liked..."

"Who are you talking to?" Mario asked

"Oh, Nopony." Pinkie calmly and cooly repiled.

"oh," Starlow said " I guess you have the same power as me then."

"Wait you can break the fourth wall too?" Pinkie asked Starlow.

"Yes, yes, I can." Starlow said "finally somebody- sorry, somepony that gets what I do! I'm not so good at fanfictions though,"

"How bout I help you out then Starlow?" Pinkie offered

"Sure! I'd actually like the help, breaking the forth wall is sometimes so tiresome."

"You got it..."Pinkie said.

"Are you two done?" Mario asked ready to move on.

"yep sure are." Pinkie replied.

"Well, Mario, this is my friend Pinkie Pie."

"Hello its nice to meet you." Mario said

"Its nice to meet you too Mario, although I'm not sure if you could count this as a first meeting considering..."

"Pinkie..." Twilight once more said

"Oh, Right." Pinkie said

"Hey, Mario considering that heavy encyclopedia how about I keep it in the star menu that you can open with... oh Right this isn't a game." Starlow said.

"Someone's getting tired." Pinkie said Breaking the fourth wall for the second time now.

The enormous encyclopedia just then vanished from mario's shoulders.

"phew..." Mario said "That's a lot of help Starlow.

"No problem Mario. I was actually sent by the starsprites to investigate why Peach's castle is upside down and put whoever did it into the underwhere.

"What?" Twilght was rightfully confused by having no knowledge of Mario's world.

"She basically means Mario's Tartarus." Pinkie said not actually guessing exactly what starlow was talking about.

"Well, I think this is our problem Mario confirmed that the culprit was this statue some way or another. I think that he should face our justice" Twilight replied.

"Yes, Twilight, but the crime happened on Mushroom lands, shouldn't this statue, thing, whatever he is, pay Mushroom kingdom justice?"

"I think this is up to Mayor Mare to decide." Pinkie said breaking up the dispute.

"Listen we haven't even gotten to my problem yet My brother is missing!" Mario shouted.

"Gee, calm down we were about to get to Luigi." Starlow said.

"Hey, Twilight, Mario, maybe Luigi is with somepony else we know." Pinkie said.

"You might be on to something Pinkie," Twilight said. "Mario, you might as well get to know my friends since you may be staying until I don't know, things get resolved."

"Okie dokie Let's go."

Twilight, Pinkie, Mario and Starlow slowly make their way to sweet apple acres. Along the way the town of Ponyville kept getting less and less dense until only one long road made the trail out to Applejack's abode. As apple trees came in sight, "Mmm, I smell apple pie." Mario said

"Well, maybe if Applejack's in a good mood, you might get some." Twilight said.

"Mmm, Okie Dokie." Mario hungrily replied

"Yeehaw!"

Who's that?" Mario asked but as he asked an orange mare came up beside him and interupted him

"Howdy Twilight, What can I do you for?" she asked

"Well I got someone out of town here and he seems to have gotten separated from his brother." Twilight said pointing to mario with a hoof

"Well, Howdy, Name's Applejack what's yours?" Apple jack said putting out a hoof

"Its Mario." Mario put out his hand for a shake

"Well Nice to meet you Mario." Applejack said shaking Mario.

"Woah!" Applejack shook mario's hand with so much force he began to slowly become a ball.

"Sorry about that sugar cube, I've been told I have a mean shake." Apple jack said.

"Mamma mia..." Mario said reverting back to his normal form. "Look I need to know where my brother is, he's taller than me and he's wearing green have you seen him?"

"Now that you mention it, your brother tried hiding from Rainbow Dash earlier," Applejack said He could've pulled it off if he'd hidden in the granny smiths rather than the red delicious'. and I'm not talking about my granny."

"Mamma mia he does have a knack of getting into trouble," Mario said "Do you know what he did?"

"Sorry, I didn't hear much, I was busy bucking apples for applebuck season. I did hear that your brother hurt Rainbow and she's not too happy about it."

"Do you know where he went once Rainbow dash found him?"

"I think he went to Rarity's." Applejack said.

Meanwhile at Rarity's boutique:

"Stop! you Ruffian! Stop Rainbow Dash! You're messing up my shop!!" Rarity screamed

"He's the one who started this!" Rainbow dash yelled.

"I don't care who started what I want this boutique cleaned up post haste!"

"Sorry, Rarity, but I'm not stopping til I catch this thing."

Rainbow dash went for a dive while Luigi dodged last second "Mamma miaaa!" Luigi yelled trying to escape the enclosed area.

Rainbow dash was up and ready to go in a split second "Get back here you coward!"

"When I get my hooves on the two of you I want this boutique spotless!" Rarity said running after Rainbow dash and the green thing.

Mario, Twilight, Starlow and Pinkie Pie continue their trek to find Mario's lost brother. The walk from Sweet apple acres back to town was something mario was used to especially traveling more than eight worlds on many different occasions just to rescue princess Peach. Mario couldn't help but wonder if things have changed both here and the mushroom world as he'd gone on his quest here. that question was halted because...

"Mamma Miaaaa!" something green passed by shouting.

"Get back here you coward!" a Rainbow blur roared.

A white mare was behind both of them huffing and puffing "Dash..." she said in a tone that hinted on insulted.

"Rarity! What's going on?" Twilight asked.

The white mare took a few breaths then said"That Dash just flew into my boutique and ruined everything!" Rarity said. "Not to mention something looking like him came in wrecking the place too." Rarity said pointing a hoof at Mario.

"Mamma Mia, I'm a so sorry, that was my brother just now that ran past us."

"Well ,your brother owes me a clean boutique! Same goes to dash but," Rarity cut off

"Look as soon as this whole mess is done me and my Brother will pick up your boutique ok?" Mario said

"fine, get your brother but soon after you do, I want him to clean up what he'd made a mess of."

"okie dokie." Mario replied

"Geez looks like your brother is getting pretty popular here..." Starlow said.

"You're telling me, he already met Applejack Rarity and I bet Dashie." Pinkie said

"Who?" Mario asked

"Rainbow Dash." pinkie replied

"you're talking about that Rainbow blur that passed us by right?"

"Indeedie that's Rainbow Dash."

"Ha! I get it!" Starlow said after having a small thought about names.

"Let's go already!" Mario said

"oh fine," Starlow finished.

Luigi continued his flight from Rainbow Dash. He eventually came to a lake in which he decided to dive into to loose his pursuer. Rainbow Dash looked high and low for the green thing but couldn't find him. she didn't want to get wet so she decided to move on. "He probably hid in a tree or something I'm going to ask Fluttershy..." Rainbow remarked to herself.

"Hmm..." Luigi thought to himself: i'd better wait this out...

He'd been in water for hours on end not ever running out of air. Loosing the Rainbow pony like this would be very simple Luigi though.

Rainbow Dash on the other side of things went directly to Fluttershy.

"Oh, hello Rainbow Dash, How are you?" Fluttershy asked.

"Very angry..." Dash said enraged.

"I'm sorry to hear that, is there any way I could help?"

"Sure, I guess you could."

"What can I do for you?"

"There was this thing that fell out of the sky and knocked me down from my nap in the clouds."

"Well that was rude of-"

Dash got closer to Fluttershy "I want to get it back but its underwater. Is there any way your animals could help?"

"Why, yes they could, but..."

"But what?"

"They're having a play day and It'd be rude to ask them to give up today. its been put off a week already."

"Ugh fine..." Rainbow dash admitted defeat there... "then again, I think I saw that he looked like a hairless monkey or something." Dash said coyly peaking Fluttershy's interest.

"Monkeys are actually very rare, and wait did you say hairless, monkey?"

"I did indeed."

"You've been spending time with Lyra haven't you?" fluttershy got in close and asked suspiciously "I know that there is no hairless monkey unless its a human from mythology." she said defiantly

"Well I swear it was a human!"

"Well, we'll just have to see about that..." Fluttershy said calling her critters "I'm sorry to all of you but play time is cut a little short."

the critters voiced their protest even Angel bunny who continually stomped at her hoof.

"I think something very rare may be in this lake, and it may be a fluke. If it is just a 'harsh prank'" Fluttershy said somewhat quietly "go ahead and blame Rainbow dash for lost time."

"Hey!"

"But If there is something out of the ordinary in there, go ahead and bring it out." as Fluttershy ended, the aquatic critters there began their search.

"Rainbow dash," Fluttershy said

"Yeah,"

"Should there be a human, I don't want you to harm it. Ok Dash?"

Rainbow stubbornly sighed "fine..."

As Luigi waited for his pursuer to leave, a bunch of aquatic animals began to swarm him. He was hard pressed trying to stay under, but it didn't really work with all the animals working against him.

Luigi yelled before hitting the ground. "Mamma mia," Luigi said looking up and finding that a yellow and pink pony was standing next to a rainbow maned pony. Luigi began to cry "I'm a so sorry I didn't mean to fall on you." he said to Rainbow Dash. "It was a fluke I mean how else do you think I'd be able to get up there without wings!"

Dash was silent and didn't have a back up.

"He's terribly confused about this whole situation and you trying to find him and make him pay have only made things worse Rainbow dash." Fluttershy said angrily somewhat staring at Rainbow Dash.

"Ok, ok. Look, I'm sure I over reacted a little about this whole thing." Dash said to the squabbling Luigi.

Mario, Twilight, Pinkie, Rarity and Starlow now saw the situation up ahead. Luigi on his knees crying. "Mamma mia this usually happens..." Mario said to Twilight. Fluttershy saw her friends and decided to tell Dash and Luigi. after a moment, they were all together finally.

Mario and Luigi had a warm reunion hug.

"Now that I have the chance to say this," Rarity said. "Dash, um Green thing."

"It's Luigi."Luigi said.

"I would really appreciate it if you could clean up my boutique. If you do I'll treat you to something."

Luigi agreed he did after all cause most of what was in there to be completely trashed; Rainbow Dash decided to do the same. The day slowly went from bright afternoon to dusk while Luigi and Rainbow Dash were cleaning up Rarity's place. After the day was done, the whole group was headed home. Dash flew off to her cloud home, Pinkie skipped for her place close by Sugarcube corner. As Mario Luigi and Twilight were close to Golden Oaks library,Luigi couldn't help but notice something peculiar in the distance. He brushed that off for some much needed R&R.

"Eeeyah ha ha ha, I'm back you troublesome fools..." a voice barely audible in the night cackled. "And I'm back for vengeance...and my wish." The figure retracted its gaze away from Golden Oaks library and slowly made way to the shadows.

Two days around Ponyville.

Hello Mario Brothers.

"I have waited a long time for this, yes I have... For my wish to rule a whole world. I feel it is slightly in my grasp... I must wait, wait for the untarnished voice so that I may reawaken you my sweet star. "

The figure in the night brought something out of her cloak it glowed a lima bean green. that green, made the figure's skin appear almost human like, but, it was all the same, green; The purple cloak that the figure had was now an eerie black, due to the alley way hue.

The green star slept through anything, even the severest of circumstances. There is one thing however, it will not tolerate, that is an impure voice commanding it awake from its slumber. The figure recalled I must find the one who can wake it once more...

"Peach..." the voice rasped "You and your protectors shall pay a gruesome price for interfering with my plans before...and separating me from my treasured assistant." The figure's raspy voice stopped there.

The figure moved on going further into the shadows No one, no pony the wiser anything had happened at all.

Mario and Luigi awoke as well as Twilight and Spike. "Wake up sleepy heads!" Applejack's voice rang up to the windows.

"Aah!" Twilight screamed. "I completely forgot! Today's the day I gotta help Applejack and her cousin in Appaloosa!"

Rainbow dash flew into the window hearing her friend being uneasy about her forgetfulness "Twilight, is there anything you don't forget?"

"Rainbow Dash everypony from time to time." Twilight said shrugging it off.

"Not you, You're so organized that you can remember what you bought five weeks ago."

Twilight nervously chuckled. "I hadn't had time to show these guys around Ponyville.

"You know I'm sure these guys could handle their own out here," rainbow dash said. "Let's go help AJ and her cousin then we can give these guys the tour later."

Twilight accepted her friend's suggestion.

"Y'all comin'?" Applejack asked.

"We'll be right down!" Rainbow Dash replied.

"Well hurry up we're about to miss the train!" Applejack said anxiously. "And Bloomberg gets antsy just being alone!"
"Yea yea, we're coming AJ" Dash yelled out.

Mario hopped out of bed Luigi following suit and asked after that "What about us?"

"About that, we told Braeburn that it'd only be us six," Twilight said hurrying down the stairs of the library. "With that said, have a couple of fun days around ponyville."

"Well Luigi?" Mario asked as Twilight walked out the door

"Let's do it!" Luigi said High fiveing Mario.

The six, Mario and Luigi; had only recently met gave their sincerest farewells. Luigi waved his cap as the conductor yelled "All aboard!" Twilight and her friends were headed off to Apploosa. Mario and luigi were now on their own to explore Ponyville and the out lying area of the Everfree forest.

They were walking along in the center of town when they saw a mint colored mare just staring at them. as they passed her, she bolted off in excitement not saying much or doing much before or after bolting. Mario and Luigi didn't pay much mind to her though.

Mario and Luigi continued on their marry way and decided to enjoy some shopping. unfortunate thing was none of the shops accepted Mushroom coins. Nopony Mario and Luigi went to knew the exchange rate of bits and Mushroom coins and said after looking at them "We only accept bits, but If you leave a coin here I'll have a specialized pony take a look at it and tell you the value within a week." Mario and Luigi left one coin with somepony named Filthy Rich, and he promised to have the value within less than a day.

The bros continued through town when suddenly the mare who had run off in excitement had returned. she was so excited in fact she pummeled them.

"Mamma Mia..." the bros. said after the powerful tackle.

"Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you," the mint colored mare said. "My name's Lyra and I wanted to invite you to the Anthropology club. We've been a little unorganized, but I guarantee that there will be a meeting on that date below especially if you two can come!"

"I'll see what we can do." Mario said to Lyra.

"See ya around." Lyra said with sparkling eyes trotting off happily. Luigi was enchanted by Lyra but immediately after snapped to his senses. The bros. took a look at the flyer handed to them by the mare.

The date listed was sometime next year in summer this actually being fall. The bros. had a good amount of time before any anthropology club meeting so, they were good. They continued around town when suddenly they heard a loud argument.

"Vynal, How am I supposed to practice this ensemble with your constant racket!"

"How am I supposed to get this to Neon before tonight with you being so busy?"

Mario and Luigi couldn't seem to get that argument out of their head as they passed by the place so, they went up and knocked to see if they could help in any way.

A whitish mare came out of the house. "Can I help you?" she asked.

"We heard an argument, is there any way we could help?" Mario asked.

"Vynal who is it you know I don't practice well with others... Well except you sometimes, but, who is it?"

"I don't know, a couple of hairless monkeys-"

"We're the Mario brothers." Luigi said.

"Sorry, but I don't know the 'Mario brothers.'" the mare at the door said.

"Vynal what do they want?" the mare inside said.

"What's up, why'd you come here? We're very busy here and I don't see a whole lot you could do. Unless we had a plumbing leak but..." The mare said.

"We wanted to help out," Mario said

"They want to help, but I don't even know if they play an instrument or even know dubstep."

"Ugh just talking is wasting time, Bring them in I'd like to see who these monkeys are."

"Alright Tavi."the mare at the door came inside along with Mario and Luigi. They saw the setup of the house and saw that it was split almost 50-50 half to the mare that had invited them in and half to another grey mare already at a cello.

"We didn't call any plumbers, we need music expertise here." The gray mare said "and sorry for being rude, I'm Octavia."

"The name's Dj Pon3 and don't ware it out." the pony who'd invited them in said. "
The DJ leaned over whispering to Octavia, "And that's what I said before inviting them in."

"And pardon me asking, but what musical expertise do you two have?" Octavia asked, not giving what her cohort in music said.

Luigi got out an old tape recorder he'd always had on him. that tape recorder had a song track from the days he and mario were out in the Beanbean kingdom fighting baddies and the song he and Mario would listen to whenever fighting them. Luigi then said "I can help with beat if you need it."

Vynal wasn't completely sold on Luigi helping out, but she initially liked the idea.

"Well Mr. Red, you're with me, what Musical training do you have?" Octavia asked.

mario thought for a moment then brought out something he'd had in his cap as a memento from the very beginning. it was a box. as soon as mario began humming a tune the box played it back in a little 8-bit style.

"Woah, woah, woah," Vynal said "You have an 8-bit mixer?"

Mario wasn't too sure what this thing he had in his hands was but he was sure it was what Vynal had said. Vynal pushed Luigi aside to Octavia's part of the room and brought mario over to hers.

"alright then, Mr. Green Show me what you got..." Octavia said.

Luigi, then, at that moment, wished he'd gotten his instrument from home but he didn't... Starlow heard the wish and was on the case. She teleported to the Mario Bros. abode back in the mushroom kingdom and got Luigi's saxophone. the golden instrument was a thing of beauty and Jazziness that Starlow didn't want to bang it up.

"What do you mean you left it at home!?" was the first thing Starlow heard on her way back. she was close to Luigi when she did and let out a tremendous "Hello Yellow!" when she reappeared. All things stopped on both sides; Mario stopped helping Vynal and Octavia's questions to Luigi.

"Sorry to interrupt," she said. "But, I brought something from home Luigi." Starlow lobbed Luigi's saxophone down to him and He caught it with ease.

"Thanks!"Luigi said to back to the little helper on his team.

"No problem. see you later, I got something I have to do." she said disappearing as quickly as she'd appeared

Things resumed with the Mario bros Octavia and Vynal working diligently.

Starlow was now in a different dimension, one that reeked of chaos. "I know you two are here." she said aloud

"Oh well congratulations for finding my home." Discord said.

"Why'd you do what you did to Peach's Castle, and why are you holding Princess Peach captive?" Starlow asked

"I'm afraid that'd spoil the whole story my dear little sprite."

"Of course. But then again, this little cutscene could be me just collaborating with you but I'm too Loyal to turn just like that."

"You smart little thing."

"Just get her out of here." another voice rang in the background.

"Bowser?" Starlow asked

"Yeah what do you want ms. annoying shoes?"

"I want to put an end to what ever it is you're scheming." Starlow said plain and simple

"Well, I'm sorry to say but this visit is a failed trip because you don't even know what's to come do you?" Discord Rang in.

"Well, you're not wrong but I've had my fair share of adventures to know something's coming."

"Bwahaha. That's for Mr. Slithers to know and you to just fight through." Bowser said.

"Well, I'm blowing this popsicle stand..." Starlow said with a poof.

"Oh, she'll be back." Discord said.

Mario and Luigi Helped DJ Pon3 and Octavia piece together what they needed to have a peaceful afternoon after an hour of work. "Thank you ever so much Mario Bros." Octavia said bidding them a farewell.

With that out of the way, Mario and Luigi now had to ask Filthy Rich about the currency exchange. when going to his house, the bros found a note posted to the door. "I'm currently out at the post office be back tomorrow."

Mario and Luigi returned back to golden oaks library, and nopony or no one was at the library.

"Helloooo!" Luigi yelled out. with no response.

"Mamma mia," Mario said ready to hit the hay after some mario paint composer.

The evening was calm but not too calm. "Erugh!" a voice a long distance from the library huffed. "Where, where is Peach? This waiting is taking long enough." a colt passed by but didn't pay any mind to the figure in the distance. "They, will, PAY..." the figure said after the colt had passed.

The next morning Mario and Luigi headed out once again to Filthy Rich's house. the same note was posted as yesterday. Mario and luigi decide then to head to the Library. many of the ponies in Ponyville that day in the center of town would stop and stare but wouldn't do much else as Mario and Luigi passed. one pony however did; "Hello good sirs," she said. Her mane was a magenta with pink in the middle her cutie mark was wrapped up sweets. "I've been doing some scouting and have found new monsters in the everfree forest." She said

Mario and Luigi questioned this, but continued listening to what she had to say;

"The creatures in these photos haven't ever been Identified by any of the social media and are somewhat other worldly. I'd say you two are too. that's why I came to ask: have you ever seen these creatures before?" She asks them handing a folder to them with 'Classified' stamped in red across.

The brothers flipped open the folder and recognized these creatures immediately. A small brown mushroom with eyes and a mouth a goomba. a green or red colored two legged turtle. Koopa troopers. Mario and Luigi immediately told the mare.

"Ah, ok. Tell nopony that I was here, or even that I questioned you got it?" she said

Mario and Luigi accepted the terms then Mario asked "What's your name?"

To which the mare replied "Its..." the mare paused "Bonbon" she said running off with a classified folder.

Mario and Luigi continue on to the post office and finally catch up to The stallion who'd taken their coin yesterday.

"What do you mean I thought I made it absolutely clear that I needed that package today!" Rich said.

the mare at the counter said "It must've gotten lost in the mail."

"Well I want it found Post haste!" Rich said, stamping his hoof heavily on the ground. In doing so a large package came tumbling down on him. The contents of the package were now on the floor and it appeared to be a blender type machine. It was a mineral checker.

"Mr. Rich are you ok?" the mare behind the counter asked.

"I'm fine. I've just got a bit of a splitting headache is all," he said back. "And this is what I was looking for!"

"Well, I'm glad that it was just misplaced and not actually lost, lost." the mare chuckled nervously. "Anyway, I have other customers to attend to." she said noticing Mario and Luigi.

Rich turned and saw the ones who'd given him the strange coin. "Ah hello gentlecol- erm- gentlemen." Rich said to them. "I must apologize there was a mixup about the mail, and I'd needed that package here to discern the value of your currency here. I was just here to get the situation straightened up. I wish you a fine day and it's going to take about another hour to find out what value this coin has."

Luigi understood the mixup being that he's had to work for Professor E. Gadd before. Mario on the other hand was a little angered that this had happened in the first place. Rich left the post office and it was now the mailmare and the Mario brothers. "So, how may I help you two?" she asked.

"We were looking for Mr. Rich." Mario said

"He was supposed to get that coin analyzed for us by now, but, he had other things to do."Luigi said

"Ah I see," The mailmare said "Well, He walked out and just to be sure if you ever need to send a letter this is the place to do it. I'm the chief mailmare, Ditzy. would either of you care for a muffin?"

Mario passed, but Luigi indulged. Luigi took a bite and the muffin was unlike any other that Luigi had ever tasted, it was almost like his usual super mushroom except muffin flavored. Every bit of fiber and every bit of flavor that exploded in his mouth said mushroom muffin... Luigi was so taken aback by the awesomeness of the muffin that he'd almost forgotten, he wanted Mario to try this amazing muffin as well.

"Mario you have to try this!" Luigi said gleefully saving a mere half bite for his brother. Yet, that half bite was amazing. Mario couldn't deny that this muffin was the best he'd had too.

"Who makes these muffins?" Mario asked

"I do." Ditzy Replied back. "why?"

"This is the best muffin I'd ever had." Mario said.

"That's the best thing somepony has said about these muffins. usually ponies just leave their mail to get sorted and sent. Others usually complain because their mail is lost or misplaced, like Mr.Rich's. Not too many ponies sample my muffins."

Mario and Luigi decided to tip the mailmare for the best muffin ever while heading out. "Come again!" She yelled after them. It was for sure that they would to sample another awesome muffin.

The day just began and Mario and Luigi were at a loss as to what to do the remainder of the day. It was noon and still an hour before Mr. Rich, as he likes being called, finishes up figuring the value of a sole mushroom kingdom coin. as they waited in the center of town three rambunctious fillies ran through. they had a folder like what Mario and Luigi were given by Bonbon before.

"Cutie Mark Crusaders Monster hunters 2!!!" The three yelled out heading off on an adventure of their own.

"Get back here with that!" Bonbon said trailing behind the fillies.

They knew that there could've been trouble, and decided to go for the adventure. The Mario bros trailed Bonbon who was tailing the three filly thieves.

"Darn it, I lost them." Bonbon said at the entrence of a great forest. "Oh, its you two."

Mario and Luigi asked what was going on.

"Well these three fillies bumped into me while I was on my way to the post office to deliver that packet to princess Celestia. They saw that the contents was classified and well, once they opened the folder, they saw everything. the locations of those strange creatures called 'goobass?'" and that type of walking turtle soldier..."

Mario and Luigi corrected Bonbon.

"Anyway, I need the contents back and unharmed so that I can send this to the Princess. I'm sure you two can get those three out of trouble."

Mario and Luigi were off once again on an adventure. They scoured through the forest looking for any sign of the three fillies that had zoomed past them earlier.

"Hey! Over here, I think I found one of them!" came a voice not too far off from where they were. Mario and Luigi went through a dense part of the forest to find a clearing that showing an old broken down castle not far off in the distance. to the right they didn't hear much however to the left they saw the three fillies trying to battle a goomba and green para koopa.

two orange fillies took the front while a white one took the back. an orange pegasus flew up and began just hitting the para koopa with her hooves. The other earth pony bucked the goomba. Mario and Luigi were a little impressed that they'd managed to beat their foes. they took a victory pose then just took a breather. The white unicorn in back then noticed Mario and Luigi. "Aah there's two more!" she screamed.

Mario and Luigi explained the situation to the fillies.

"Huh, so, you came after us to make sure we're ok?" the pegasus filly asked.

Mario and Luigi nodded

The earth pony came up to them and said, "well, that was kind of you an' all, but you see we got things covered here as:" all three of them yelled "The Cutie Mark Crusaders Monster hunters 2!!!"

"Ugh, such racket!" another voice far off said. "Mind keeping it down!?"

"Another monster!" the unicorn said following the way to the other voice. the pegasus and earthpony followed. Mario and Luigi were once again dashing off to see what trouble they would cause. along the way, they got separated from the three fillies.

"Here we go again." Mario said

The cutie mark crusaders made it deeper in the forest loosing their perusers in the process.

Apple bloom was all alone "Guys where are ya?" she asked

"Right behind you." Scootaloo said.

"Thank goodness." Applebloom said. "Say, Where's Sweetie Belle?"

"I'm right here," Sweetie said. "And I'm making a few changes in this folder."

"Hmm, What does a soda call its father? pops!" A voice said off in the distance.

"Well that was a lame joke." Scootaloo remarked somewhat loudly.

"Scootaloo, shhhh!" both Sweetie and Applebloom said to her.

"Well, Whoever said that, what do you have in your arsenal of jokes?"

Sweetiebelle and applebloom were silent waiting for scootaloo to answer the voice of forest.

" "

There was silence for a moment then the voice said "Come over here, I'd like to hear more of those jokes.'

The Crusaders did so ready to tell their plethora of jokes to whomever had called them.

"Oh, so it was you three making the racket so I couldn't finish telling my jokes." a green plump figure said.

"You were what now? Scootaloo asked.

"Fermenting some soda. the figure said. "Care to have a taste?"

The three immediatly said yes.

Mario and Luigi heard the screams of the cutie mark crusaders. and hastened to their destination. Mario and Luigi came to a plump beanish figure standing next to a barrel. "What's a hippie's favorite soda? Granola cola." after he'd finished the joke he noticed Mario and Luigi. "You!" he said angrily. "You won't mess up my second Chuckola Cola blend as easily you did the first!" he said. "and to you three just hanging around, The name's bubbles. I've been crafting the Chuckola Cola reserve for over a thousand years, surely its taste is going to be bitter to the young." he said revealing the cmc stuck in barrels "We'd really appreciate your help right about now!" the earth pony yelled.

"Oh, Chuckolator!" Bubbles called." A monster soda came from the barrel ready to fight. Mario and Luigi were ready.

The monster had a shield and a sword ready to fight. "Hey red guy!" Scootaloo said. Mario looked up to the barrel and scootaloo tossed a hammer down to Mario "This should help you beat the crazy soda guy!" she said.

"Hey greeny I got sometihng for you too," Sweetie belle said tossing down a hammer. Luigi was less than graceful catching it.

The Chuckolator roared ready once more to battle.

Being well veresed in Hammer attacks and having impressive jumping skills to begin with mario and Luigi began wailing on the Chuckolator. the soda attacked with all its might to get the mario bros the tiniest bit sticky, but all those attempts failed. with continued attacks the massive soda retracted back to its barrel. Bubbles returned to the side of battle to heal his creation "you must battle me, the great bubbles if you wish to continue on destroying what I've worked so hard to create again!"

Mario and Luigi now had two targets to get rid of and began separately attacking Bubbles and the Chuckolator. Bubbles having tons of jokes up his sleeves but no battle experience fell immediately. leaving the Chuckolator to fend for its self. The attacks shot at the mario bros were desperate and at best mediocre to what they've faced before. but, the challenge of an old foe returning was an interesting one.

The Chuckolator returned to its barrel "Nooooo!" Bubbles yelled defeated once more sobbing. "All I wanted to do was create the worlds best soda but here I stand defeated to you superstars once again..."

Mario and Luigi were disappointed to have crushed someone's dreams when all they were trying to do was save these little fillies. Mario explained the situation to Bubbles while Luigi got the cutie mark crusaders down from the tree. "You say you were saving these fillies I say you have Ruined my dreams!" Bubbles yelled in a thick french accent still sobbing.

"Listen, um, barrel guy," Scootaloo said.

"What do you three want any how?" Bubbles said

"We wanted to say sorry." Sweetie Belle said

"All three of us know what its like to be so close to something yet have it be again just too far out of reach." Applebloom said.

"Your words are consoling." Bubbles said slightly calming from his crying fit. "but, what has happened here will make my dream never happen."

The cutie mark crusaders huddled around in a circle for a moment secretly discussing something. it took a couple moments but they broke from their huddle then Applebloom said, "You told us that that Chucko- whatever it was grew based on the jokes it was told right?"

"Yes, indeed," Bubbles said "But-"

He was immediatly cut off by applebloom "My sister's friend Pinkie Pie is the funniest pony in Ponyville. I'm sure she'd help you make another batch."

Bubbles was relieved but then said "the special fruit though, how will I-" this time he was cut off by Scootaloo.

"There's this really awesome fruit punch pony who's good at finding fruit," she said "I'm sure she'd be able to help you."

Bubbles got up completely and decided to follow the fillies and Mario and Luigi to the exit of the forrest.

"There you two are did you get the files back?" Bonbon asked. Starlow came out of Mario's pocket.

"yow! what are you? Bright ball?" Bonbon asked.

"The name's Starlow, I'm a starsprite and no relation to a parasprite." she said to Bonbon who quickly jotted what she said down in a notebook. "And you?" she asked the plump green guy next to Luigi.

"Bonjour, The name is Bubbles. I am the worlds best brewer of soda."

"if that's so why haven't I heard of a Bubbles before." Bonbon commented to herself taking more notes down in her notebook.

"I wish to find a good punch maker in your town do you know of one?" Bubbles asked Bonbon.

"The only one I know is actually Berry Punch, that or Applejack. But Applejack just specializes in apple juice, cider and anything apple.

"I wish to meet one of them." Bubbles said ready to go to town

The day was slowly coming to a close the sun was setting and the evening was about to begin. There was a mare about a tone darker than the Chuckolator in color.

"She is the one!" Bubbles exclaimed and quickly went over to see Berry Punch.

"Uh, Bonbon what's going on?" she asked

"Just roll with it." Bonbon replied back to Berry Punch.

The sun continued to set. The cutie mark crusaders hightailed it home. Bubbles found somepony to help him with his soda and the day was almost complete. Little did the Mario brothers know that one more encounter awaited them. there were two figures silhouetted against the backdrop of the ending day one of a stallion the other of an old man. Luigi knew exactly who the old man was.

"Well lookie here." the man said

"Ah, who are these gents then E. Gadd?" the stallion asked.

"They're the Mario brothers I've been telling you about." E. Gadd said.

"You mean to say..."

E.Gadd just shook his head yes.

"I've been researching the merits of time travel since I was just a mere foal and now I've meet somepo- somebody who's actually done it!" Its the best day of my life!!" The stallion yelled. "uh, sorry good sirs, I've forgotten to introduce myself. I'm Dr. Whooves. he said putting out a hoof for a shake. Mario and Luigi both shook his hoof

"Now, tell me good gents, what's it like time traveling?"

Starlow caught wind of that last line then said: "Sorry doc, Spoilers."

Professor E Gadd saw Starlow and was caught off guard "Yowzer!" he yelled.

"Oh, Professor E. Gadd? What are you doing here? I thought it was just Mario and Luigi who got teleported here." Starlow asked.

"Well, That's just it. I don't know what even happened," E. Gadd said. I was studying boos and their strange properties to see if I could make any adjustments to the Poltergust 5000. When out of the blue me and the Poltergust just so happened to appear in this youngster's house. I tell you, It was quite the shock to the both of us."

"I swear I've never been so shocked before in my life." Dr. whooves interjected "But, as soon as we saw one another, I knew he could help me achieve time travel."

"And I somehow knew this youngster could help me a little with the Poltergust upgrades," Professor E. Gadd said. "To add to the subject, I've never seen a starsprite before. I've only seen a fake up on star hill back when you guys did that time travling thing. would you mind if I ask you a few questions uh-"

"Starlow." the sole starsprite replied. "and I don't mind answering a few, just as long as they're appropriate."

"Alrighty, Well, Enjoy the rest of your day," E. Gadd said. happily walking off with Starlow in tow.

"I just want to know what it was like time traveling." Dr. Whooves moped a little walking off with the professor.

Mario and Luigi headed back to the Golden oaks Library after an event filled day. It wasn't long before the others soon arrived. "who knew the answer to the problem was Apple Pie?" Twilight said recalling her day.

"Ooh hi Mario! Hi luigi!" Pinkie said bounding in.

The rest piled in bushed from that days travles and the tails of woe triumph and much more.

"So," Mario said. "How was your day?"

"It was as event filled as a lot of the other ones I've had here." Twilight said

"ooh and it can be summed up in one song!" Pinkie blurted.

"Pinkie," Dash said "You've already weirded me out enough for one day. I'm out." Dash said

"Oh don't be a party pooper Dashie." Pinkie called "Besides I left the costume back at Apploosa."

"Here we go..." Dash admited in defeat.

"Ya gotta share~ Ya gotta care~" Pinkie started singing.

Mario and Luigi lost the remainder of their combined health points listening to the song.

"What? was it really that bad?" Pinkie asked. the night continued on and both Mario and Luigi were carried to bed by twilight and spike as Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Pinkie all headed out.

The shadow from the previous night watched the fun as it transpired inside the library. "Peach... Where are you..." the Raspy voice said

"Somepony out there?" Pinkie said going towards the window of the library to peek. she saw nothing but a feeling in her body told her she was being watched.

Cackletta wouldn't let herself be caught so easily as last time. she waited and continued on in her head. 'I'm lost If Princess Peach doesn't show herself soon. she must be near those loathsome pests. This would be so much easier with Fawful, but I seem to have lost him somewhere. but at least I have you.' Cackletta pet the bearstar within her cloak. 'you are worth everything. every ounce of pain they have caused me, every second I'm stuck doing My minion's job, everything that has failed will not this time. "I shall prevail!" a shout escaped Cackletta's lungs but, there was nothing outside to hear her. or so she thought;

"A-ha I knew somepony was out here Pinkie showed up behind Cackletta.

"Yargh!"

"What're you and what're you doing here huh?" Pinkie asked for the only reply to be

"In due time, Pink thing, You'll know just what I'm after and when you do It'll be too late to stop me!" Cackletta transformed into a multitude of bats. "Farewell..."

"Oh, I think its you who'll be too late to stop us." Pinkie said after Cackletta had fled. Pinkie returned home. "You'll wish you'd wished for something different for sure." Pinkie said.

Author's Note

First off, this is a different Equestria than what you'd think events have yet to happen here that have already happened in the show. I promise that the mario bros being here won't make too much of a difference to cannon events. Also, not the Bubbles from Power Puff Girls. This Bubbles comes from the game Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga. he's a soda brewer but has had to put his dreams on hold for the greater good of the kingdom he lived in and was forcibly in the past made to do so.

Also, I didn't know what to have Luigi and Mario's instruments be, so, I just decided to ask a few friends. I wish to thank them both for helping me out one who'd like to remain anonymous but thank you golden oath for the help on this chapter and thanks to another nameless individual. for the future though, because this chapter took forever to come out I'll be asking common questions in the comments asking possible future questions for this

Also sorry to you grammar nuts out there. I don't have an editor so, if anyone is willing to help I'll gladly accept it. also, I heard from a friend that this particular crossover part may bring my fic down horribly. I don't plan to continue on with the horrible crossover stuff but the horrible must be gotten past to get to the beef of the story. I apologize also for how long this is taking, I've been in a spot of procrastination... (Sorry :fluttershysad: ) any way this will continue but slowly if what I plan comes to full force.

Storm Rival.

P.S. on account of how long this is taking, I'll post this chapter with possible grammer errors in which will be edited upon later.

'The 'inseperable' duo of thievery'

A voice within the claws...

After recovering with a few nights of rest the Mario brothers are once more on scene to help welcome the one and only Princess Celestia to Ponyville. With Twilight stressing over the situation, however, Mario and Luigi were pretty calm. Meeting Royalty was an everyday thing for the brothers; heck even saving royalty everyday... "Everything has to be perfect for Celestia to meet my friends... including you two." Twilight nervously blurted out.

"Twilight, this is what we normally wear when we see our princess." Mario said.

"I'd much prefer you in gentlecolt clothing for this afternoon. I'm sure Rarity is getting something completed as we speak for you two."

"Okie dokie!" Luigi said, leading the way to Rarity's.

Outside the brothers could hear Rarity in a scramble. "This dress must be absolutely perfect for the princess, no dirt no grime no stains no nothing!"

Mario and Luigi were at the door when suddenly, SLAM! The door had opened and Rarity walked out. Luigi, unfortunatly being the one pancaked between the boutique and door.

"Mamma Mia," Luigi said. falling to the floor like a leaf.

"Oh, Terribly sorry about that, Luigi." Rarity said.

Mario remembering the adventures in the bean bean kingdom had with him an air pump just in case this had happened. Luigi's flatness was soon rounded out.

"Thank you." Luigi said to mario.

"Well, that's quite a, uh, haphazard way to do things," Rarity said. "However, I must ask, why are you here?"

"Twilight asked us to get suits for Princess Celestia." Mario said

"Ah, so that's why, come in then, I'll get you fitted then we're off to meet the princess."

The fitting process didn't take long and neither did the waiting on the suits altercations soon after. Mario and Luigi had simply told Rarity their preference and both been measured. the suits were finished and the clock struck 11:30.

"Oh no, I have to go now!" Rarity said heading carefully out the door.

The suits were fitted to perfection; they even had red and green colored bowties for the brothers. From out of nowhere horns sounded giving fanfare to Princess Celestia and her fine kingdom.

"Let's a go!" Mario said eager to meet Celestia

"Okie dokie!" Luigi said just for the food

The brothers made it to Sugarcube corner, where Princess Celestia was going to have a not-so-formal get together with her student and the friends she'd made. The Mario Bros approached the guards and promptly they held up their wings preventing any uninvited guests from entering.

"Hault!" the first guard said.

"Who goes there?" the second guard said.

"The Mario Brothers." Luigi said.

"The who brothers?" the first guard said.

"We're the Mario brothers I'm mario and this is my brother Luigi and we somehow managed to get here into Equestria and we're invited guests."

"Huh, ok, um..." the first guard said.

"Miss Sparkle." the second guard called inside.

"Yes?" Twilight said coming to the door "oh, these two are on the list. I gotta say Rarity you've outdone yourself."

Somewhere within there was an unheard thank you.

Inside sugar cube corner there were many ponies eager to converse and hopefully get the chance to meet the Princess themselves.

Princess Celestia was seated at the back of the establishment being promptly waited on by Mr and Mrs. cake. "Gee I wonder what those guards are busy doing outside." Mario and Luigi heard Rainbow dash saying. "Maybe..." She said eagerly. hopping out of sugarcube corner with a woosh. it wasn't but a minute before "Ooh, you're good, too good. I'm bored.

Immediatly after, Fluttershy arrived in a hurry. "Phew I made it on time."

Mario and Luigi were by the door when they saw her outside.

"Hault!"

"Who goes there?" both guards ask as Fluttershy approaches the sweets shop. the guards wings held up in a protective yet unmenacing way.

No one. Never mind, I'll go home." Fluttershy said quickly and timmidly. Both Twilight and Pinkie were passing by at the time and Twiight informed the guards that she was indeed on the list.

"Thanks Twilight," Fluttershy said.

"I'm so glad you could make it, Fluttershy, it wouldn't have been the same without you." Twilight said.

Everypony and everyone were busy conversing and having a good time at Celestia's brunch in Ponyville. Spike busy with the cooking as easy as can be with dragon's flame, and Mr and Mrs. Cake busy filling everypony's orders including Princess Celestia's.

"Sorry I was late, I was busy taking care of a patient first." Fluttershy said

"Oh, you and your tender loving care of little animals, I know Princess Celestia's going to love that about you." Twilight got a little tense around the last bit.

"Wow Twilight I thought I was the only one who got nervous at social gatherings."

"Its not that, i just want the princess to approve of my friends."

"But she's met us all before," Fluttershy remarked

"Everyone except..." Twilight said...

"Gotta go!" Twilight dashed off to find Mario and Luigi.

Rarity was overconcious about getting anything on her dress, prompting Twilight to rush over. " what's wrong rarity?" Twilight asked

"I put on the most exquisit dress for this 'brunch' and I don't want it ruined in any way."

"Ooh that looks good," Rarity said, "wait does it stain!? Get it away from me!"

Twilight went back to Fluttershy.

"Suppose its not that formal of a get together." she said to twilight.

Luigi was sitting next to Applejack

"Man, I am starved," she said hapily at first then took a look at the spread "Uh, which is the appetizer and which is the salad? And which do I eat first." Applejack then sighed

Luigi hearing this Promptly answered. "The appetizer comes first followed by the salad, Unless you're having soup in which case soup comes first."

"Mighty thanks sugarcube, where'd you learn that?" Applejack asked

"In a haunted mansion with ghosts." Luigi earnestly replied.

"Tell me you're joking." Applejack said.

Luigi just didn't answer smirking and eating what was served along with Applejack.

Fluttershy and Twilight just looked that way astonished.

"Well, Luigi's really helpful," Fluttershy said.

"Helpful, and hopefully joking..." Twilight nervously added having a bit of a long slur on the word 'and'.

Pinkie was bounding about with energy that was unfathomable. She stopped at a chocolate fountain and immediatly stuffed her head into it, encasing her head in a chocolate statue. That chocolate statue cracked and cracked until, she'd eaten her way out. Mario was busy talking with Princess Celestia, who was eager to learn why he was in equestria when suddenly Pinkie bounded by, "Hey! you going to eat that?" she asked quickly and with no reply immediatly and happily snarfed the princess's cupcake; prompting Mr and Mrs. cake to respond immediatly with a cup of tea and another cupcake which the Princess partook of.

"So, Mario," the princess said; "you're out here because of the antics of Discord?"

Mario nodded "Mmhmm."

"I just don't know what to make of this, the discord I know of is trapped in stone in the castle's garden. I looked at his statue this morning." Princess Celestia said sipping her tiny cup of tea prompting Mrs. cake to refill almost immedietly.

Mario was perplexed at what was just said.

Princess Celestia took another sip leaving the cup empty, Mr.cake immediatly rushed the refill.

"So, tell me about your world, what is there that Equestria might have to face."

Mario told Princess Celestia about Bowser, the big, princess stealing brute, Bowser, whom he's defeated a ton of times.

"Well, Mario, you don't have to worry about this princess, She's safe in her castle." Celestia said on a pun of 'toad's' words. This time, she took a pretend sip out of her cup of tea and when Mrs. cake came for the refill the cup overflowed "Gotcha." Princess Celestia playfully said. Mr. and Mrs. Cake weren't sure how to handle this, and just shrugged it off, cleaning the spill.

Twilight was relieved that Mario had not acted Rashly at all in Celestia's conversation.

"Pleasure to have met you Mario." Princess Celestia turned "Now, you dear, Fluttershy is it," Celestia tuned and asked.

"Yes," Fluttershy said nervously.

"You like tending to the needs of woodland creatures right?"

"Absolutely I love taking care of animals." Fluttershy excitedly said.

"Well, Nothing means more to me than the health and well being of my subjects."

There was a bird cage next to Celestia that had a wheezing and caughing bird in it some of its wings had fallen off after that.

"Oh, philomena, my pet, you're awake."

The bird hopped onto the bird swing and caughed and hacked more.

"What do you think," Celestia asked Fluttershy, "Isn't she majestic?"

The bird hacked more with more wings sputtering off. prompting Fluttershy to say "Oh, my... I've never seen anything quite like it."

A royal guard popped in to whisper something into Celestia's ear. "Is that so, well then Royal duity calls."

"I must appologize to everyone here, The mayer has requested an audience with me, so, I must cut the festivities short."

There were groans all across the sweets shop as though everyone's favorite candy were sold out. Twilight couldn't help but think Fluttershy caused this to happen, however, she knew that Mayor Mare needed to speak with Princess Celestia about something in private and dismissed this feeling.

Mr. Cake packed up what was on the table next to Celestia and in tow what Applejack and Luigi were busy eating. Luigi, had managed to swipe one last cupcake before the whole spread was gone. He then threw the cupcake up in the air and caught it in his mouth, eating the cupcake and walking out of sugarcube corner. Luigi was satisfied with his portion.

"Hey, uh, Luigi," Applejack said. "Thanks a might for helping me out back there."

Luigi chuckled "You got it." he said holding a thumbs up for Applejack.

Back at Sugarcube corner, Twilight was relieved at having the party go fine and the princess being not at all displeased with her friends. There was however, one thing missing...

Meanwhile, at Fluttershy's cottage she had a very persistant house guest to take care of. Fluttershy was doing anything and everything she could to get Philomena to take medicine, have a stable temprature and find another way for her to simply rehabilitate herself, however all of these ended in failure. Mario being the first to notice the royal pet was taken knocked at fluttershy's door.

"Um, who is it?" she asked.

"Its a Mario." Mario replied.

"Oh, I thought it was somepony else, come in.

"I noticed you take Princess Celestia's pet," Mario said. "What were you planning on doing?"

"I was planning on nursing her back to health, but everything I've done hasn't worked."

"I'm a doctor," Mario said enthusiastically. "Maybe I could help."

"You're a doctor?" Fluttershy asked puzzled, "I'd heard from your brother that you're a plumber."

"Plumbing's just a hobby," Mario said "Medicine is where the real coins are."

philomena caughed and hacked once again, more andmore of her wings fell off with every hack. When suddenly somepony else knocked at the door.

"Who is it?" Fluttershy asked.

"Its Twilight."

"Come in." Fluttershy said.

"This is a desaster!" Twilight said panicked.

"What happened? Fluttershy asked

"Somepony stole Princess Celestia's pet!" Twilight hears Philimina caughing and hacking "It was you!?!" Twilight said more worried than ever before.

"Well, I couldn't leaver her in that poor of condition before the princess was off, so-" Fluttershy was cut off

"You just kidnapped her?!"

"Look Twilight,"Mario tried saying

"And you're her accomplice?" Twilight said furiously.

"Twilight, I was only doing it to help philomena feel better, then Mario showed up to help me with her treatment."

"What treatment were we talking about?"

"I was just using home remedies," Fluttershy said. "Soup, rest, consolence, but nothing worked."

"What about you Mario?"

" I was going to use a Megavitamine, Its a super powerful medicine that works in most all cases of illness in my world."

"I tried medicine before, Mario, but it didn't work. Fluttershy said.

"Did you try coating it in bird seed?"

"Yes, and she only ate around it." Fluttershy said

"Well, Let me see one of those Megavitamines and I'll make her take it. Twilight said

"I don't think-" Fluttershy said.

"There's obviously-" Mario said.

Both of them were cut off by Twilight who took a completely blue megavitamine from Mario and "Down the hatch." made Philimina take her medicine. "Alright, what's next?"

Well, um, she keeps pulling off her feathers at least those that don't come off after she caughs and hacks."

"you know Fluttershy, something seems to be-" Mario started

"Well, I know what to do about that." Twilight said cutting mario off and getting a cone puting it around philomena's head.

Philomena's weakened neck couldn't support the cone so she just simply flopped seeing nothing but Fluttershy's wooden floor.

"Anything else?" Twilight asked.

"She wouldn't eat her soup." Fluttershy finished.

Twilight got the soup and just like the medicine, she force-fed it to philomena.

"Mamma mia," mario said, his eyes were closed while he was faceplaming and shaking his head.

"What, did you have a better plan to get philomena back to her owner in better condition?" Twilight asked Mario.

"No, not really," Mario said back to her sternly. "However, its not at all safe for an unlicensed practitioner to adminester Megavitamines."

"What's the worst that could've happened?" Twilight asked unaware that medicine could be any different here to there.

" Well, you could've done more harm than good. Some enzymes in the Megavitamine could've broken down philomena's and made it so she..." Mario was a bit hesitant on continuing because of how the major efects of megavitamins work.

"She...?" Twilight hung on Mario's words waiting for him to continue

"Passed out for a few days and ended up in worse condition than before." Mario quickly said.

Fluttershy and Twilight were speechless, giving Mario an 'its the end of the world' look.

"What?" Mario asked "These vitamines are 'super powerful', and must always be used with caution; If that had happened, we would've noticed immediatly." Mario reassured "Thankfully she's got a good immune system and the Megavitamine had no efect

"We should return her back to Celestia's side right now, before anything else near devistating happens." Twilight said.

"I think you're right." both Mario and Fluttershy said.

They got a basket ready to drop off philomena and the door knocked.

"Is anyone in there?" the voice of the first guard saying hault portruded through the door.

Twilight opened the door. "How can we help you today good sirs?" Twilight asked trying not to sound suspitions at all. Luigi was with the two guards. "Someone has stolen the Princess's pet and we must know if you have any information on this theft." the second guard said.

"Luigi, would you mind coming in so I could give you a hug?" Mario asked.

Luigi was in too good of spirits to refuse. when the brothers embraced, Mario said "Act natural, we have Philomena and we were trying to help her condition, now we're trying to give her back without being noticed."

Luigi immediatly froze then turned around.

"Luigi," the second guard said to him. "What did Mario say?"

"Oh, Just that he loves me. A lot. As a brother." Luigi said.

Philomena was caughing and hacking in the background.

"What was that?" the first guard said.

Twilight first caughed with Philomena. "Erm. Must be the dry night air." she said

"But Ma'am, its daytime. the second guard said.

"and daytime air is dryer." Twilight said now with Fluttershy Mario and Luigi caughing and hacking along.

"Sorry to have troubled you all, have a fine day." guard one said. and without allowing any time for the guards to walk away, Twilight immediatly shut the door.

"Well, back to return Celestia's pet." Fluttershy said.

"No, we can't do that now!" Twilight said stressing more that when she realized she almost killed Philomena with a Megavitamine. "If we return her now, we'll be held accountable for stealing her and that..."

"That... what?" Luigi said sounding a little horrified.

"That would probably make Celestia banish us," Twilight said. "That, or lock us up. Or, even worse banish us then lock us up in the place we're banished to."

Luigi was cowering a bit hoping not to be banished to a haunted mansion.

"Would Celestia even do that?" Fluttershy asked confident that Celestia wouldn't do such a thing.

"I too would have to question that," Mario said however he was cut off by someone else.

Twilight was freaked out. suddenly through out of nowhere a masked thug broke into fluttershy's cottage.

"Ah, cripes. I look everywhere for something to sell for coins and turns out, this place don't have any coins." the masked thug said. "Might as well steal something for whatever currency ya got since I am the great shadow thief pop..."

The great shadow thief looks behind him. "Cripes! What are you two palookas doing here!!!" he said.

Mario and Luigi recognized this criminal as soon as they layed eyes on him.

"Its popple!"Mario said

"Get him!" Luigi said right after.

Fluttershy was too nervous to do a thing.

Twilight was too astonished and shocked to do anything.

"ha, looks like its your two new friends are scared as horses. and this time, I'm prepared, for you two, see." Popple said holding up a smokebomb. "See you suckers never!" he said running off with Philomina's basket.

Popple kept running knowing that those red and green mustached people never give up foiling him. in the Beanbean kingdom they killed his entire operation, on Pi'ilow island he was fooled into battleing Wiggler for a garden. But now that there was a new world around him, it was time to start new and fresh, "Heh, time for the shadow thief to cause mischef." Popple said aloud. he heard caughing and hacking coming from the basket he'd stolen. "huh, whadda we got here?" Popple said opening the basket. Philomena dropped out, caughing and hacking wings popping off her. "Criminy! What happened to you poor fella?" popple said removing the cone around Philomena's neck. "Say, its been a while since I've had a rookie."

Philomena caughed and hacked a little.

"Want to be my rookie?" Popple asked.

Twilight, Fluttershy, Mario and Luigi are now in a wierd prediciment, so they decide to catch Popple post haste and retrive Philomena. Scowering Ponyville high and low the four of them covered good ground, while also keeping a low profile. However, Popple and his supposed Rookie were one step ahead of them.

There were posters harboring Philomina's hoof-drawn picture. those were vandlized with fake mustaches, Mario and Luigi could tell that much. Twilight and Fluttershy thought they caught up with Philomena around a tree, however multiple times around there prooved that the bird just got away. Popple Showed up Right after the two of them were dizzy and said "Ha, now that's what I call a merry-go-round. That was fun, see ya!" he said running off.

Mario and Luigi were at the park when suddenly they saw somepony with a paper, they decided to ask this random patron if they'd seen anything, but alas he merely shook his head. When Mario and Luigi were gone this patron revealed himself to be none other than Popple. Heh, How's that for the saddle over the eyes ya palookas." Popple muttered to himself when suddenly Fluttershy and Twilight poped by the same spot Mario and Luigi checked. They found the same patron behind a paper however, this time It was Philomena in a mustache. Thinking nothing of a bird in plain view, they passed by, Philomena's cover was never blown.

Popple and Philomena were now cornered and seen together and into somepony's house they went. Mario Luigi Twilight and Fluttershy began to do the same except, which door did Popple and philomena use? altogether there were six doors and four possibilities led to a wrong door. Mario and company tried a seperate door but none of them were the one Popple had entered. Popple exited and Fluttershy followed. Twilight saw Luigi thinking he was Popple just cos of green and chased him. Mario saw Philomena and chased after her. Fluttershy decided to withdraw from chasing Popple and saw red thinking it was Philomena but she was tailing Mario. This escapade continued for about fifteen minutes until Mario opened a door only to see five other versions of himself. His Mario World, his 8 bit, his Mario-Kun, his newer wii version and his skinny. "Mamma Mia!" he said as all of his versions even him shut all six of the doors.

Popple hitailed it to the center of Ponyville, only thing was, Twilight and company had the same idea. Applejack Rarity and Pinkie were there on spot seeing everything go down.

"Give back Philomena you thief!" Twilight said exhausted

" Boo, boo I say," Popple said with a smile. "What if I told you he didn't want to go back to you palookas?"

"I'd call you a lier!" Twilight exclaimed

"Well, Rookie, Show em'" Popple said.

Philomena then smiled deviously. She flew up upon the water fountain.

"Rookie! How dare you do this to the person who'd saved you from such horrible treatment!" Popple yelled at his 'Rookie'

"My, that's not a very nice tone..." Fluttershy said too low for anyonelse to hear. " And all I did was try to help her recover. It was Twilight's idea of tough love, then you came here took Philomena as your partner in crime!" Fluttershy said yet again no one else heard it.

Philomena gave an exadurated caugh hack and the last of her wings fell off. She fell to the ground and in doing so caught on fire. Both Popple and Fluttershy went to grab Philomena. "No!" Fluttershy for once yelled.

"Rookie!" Popple said tears streaming down his face "We were supposed to become the inseperable duo of thievery you and I." Popple seeing Fluttershy's distraught face saw that this wasn't a facade like he'd seen in the past. Acting tough though, Popple then said "What you palookas lookin' at?" wiping away his tears.

"What is going on here!" Celestia's voice boomed. "Twilight? Mario? Luigi? and who?"

"There's been a terrable accident." Twilight said.

"It was my fault." Fluttershy said.

"I helped out a little," Mario said so, Its partially my fault too."

"No, It was my fault." Twilight said to both of them

"No," Fluttershy said

"Would you let me do this? She'll go easier on me!" Twilight finallly said before

"No, its my fault." Pinkie randomly cut in. "Wait what's my fault?"

"Who's this palooka?" Popple askes broad daylight.

"Who dares slander my name?" Celestia asks.

Everyone backs up letting popple take center stage

Popple was once more in tears. "Ya know what," He said to them all. "This is one time I, the Great Shadow Thief, will admit he's done wrong."

Everyone there was astounded at Princess Celestia's patience

"What happened here, Popple?" Celestia asked.

"I had taken a basket from these palookas," Popple said " I was going to sell what was inside until I saw that lil' mischevious bird."

"Its true." Mario said interupting popple

"Would you let me finish, scraggly beard?!" Popple interjected. "But, seeing as how she wanted a little free time I took her as my Rookie." he smiled a little.

"Well, That's rude." Fluttershy said under her breath about popple's first comment.

"Now, why would Philomena be in your care," Celestia asked Fluttershy. "I thought I'd left her at sugar cube Corner."

"Well, when I saw her, She looked pretty ill, and all I'd wanted was to get her to feel better." Fluttershy admitted

"Fluttershy, I commend your kind spirit in helping my pet." Celestia said to Fluttershy kindly. She then turned to face Popple "You on the other hand, Must learn that its not alright to steal." she began charging up her magic however, she decided against her action. "You must also learn to be nicer to those whom are more powerful than you.

"Well, ya can't teach an old dog new tricks, but, hey I'll try it."

Celestia now went to Philomena

"Philomena, stop joking." The ashes began to swirl and new life took the ashes as a flash of light appeared. Philomena was now revitalized, her wings glowed red her eyes orange and so on. She flew down to Celestia."

"Rookie!" Popple said trying to get close.

the guards stuck out their wings and Philomena stuck out her tongue.

"argh!" Popple growled "Why, Why, Why, does this always happen?! Every single Rookie I get just turns and dumps me."

"You know, you could try to be nicer to your so called 'Rookies'" Fluttershy said.

"Yeah, suppose you're right, I could've gone a little soft with Rookie over there." Popple said. "and it is what I just learned give me a bit to get it down.

Philomena flew over to popple and gave him one of her feathers.

"Thanks...Pal." Popple said hugging her.

"Ugh, Rainbow dash said "I didn't expect a thief to be all sappy." Dash had said

"Quiet ya Palooka! I'm sure if it'd happened to you, you'd be exactly like me." Popple said.

Everyone including Celestia looked at popple. "My bad." popple said

"Phhht yeah right." Dash said. "Hey, Philomena." Dash said. Philomena Flew up to Dash and Dash whispered somethig in her ear. a few moments later Dash finally got the Royal guards to laugh. Everyone else including Popple joined in.

With the day done, Celestia and her guards headed back to Canterlot. Little did any of them know that a saboteur had flown in.

"Yes," Cackletta said "She certainly has a pure voice. One that will go perfectly to my plan."

The cart landed in front of the royal castle.

"Shining Armor," the princess said.

"Yes, your majesty?" another voice protruded the back of the cart which Cackletta was hiding behind. "Is that the prince?" was all Cackletta thought.

"I had a bad feeling I was being watched on my flight back here," the Princess said.

"I will check it your majesty." the supposed prince's voice said.

Cackletta knew she was going to be discovered if she stayed there any longer, so after Celestia was inside and the guards had checked the back, she broke apart into bats and flew off. Shining Armor noticed them and fired multiple magic blasts at them, However, as soon as he had hit one, it retaliated back with a lightning strike. No words were had between the two adversaries. The bats flew off unscathed. As Shining Armor was knocked unconscious. Other guards immediately took chase after the bats and took care of their leader.

Cackletta now took further refuge in the castle's sculpture gardens. "I must get to the princess." Cackletta said "The way she spoke to that thief earlier, she must have an untarnished voice." She continued through the garden in her regular form taking note at the statues. One had three ponies earth pony, pegasus and unicorn all supporting one another. 'Harmony' was the title of that piece. Cackletta particularly liked what it'd symbolized. She continued on seeing a singular earth pony sculpture with stars 'victory' was feebly scratched upon it. she scoffed and made note that her victory won't be as feeble as the title on the sculpture. she continued on to see a statue of a... 'What is this?' Cackletta asked herself. The sculpture was of a weird creature. one not found in the Mushroom kingdom nor Beanbean kingdom abroad. this creature had a head that screamed goat to her, a lion paw and a talon took both the left and right hands respectively; the body seemed snake like and over all had an expression that had made Cackletta laugh.

Soldiers marched to the gardens looking for the one who had taken out their commander. Cackletta hid behind the pedestal that had held such a mishmash of chaos. A few moments passed and there was a small crumbling to be heard from somewhere, causing Cackletta to flee once more out of fear of being caught. Little did she know, though, the statue of chaos was slowly breaking free. The guards were unaware of anything going on and continued patrolling the stone gardens for Shining Armor's assailant.

She flew away until, she saw another pony like the princess, however, she was completely navy blue to black. "She will be my fall back in case things don't work out." Cackletta noticed the pony move to look elsewhere than her telescope. Cackletta made note of her fall back plan and quickly continued indoors. 'Who was that though,' was Cackletta's only thought before continuing on. Cackletta saw that the royal guards were posted at the door. Her only way in was through a window.

The princess's castle was a sight to behold, and would be a fine place for the great witch to rest, once she was done conquering this kingdom. Cackletta was then reminded of her defeat. She'd wanted so much to forget her trials back in the beanbean kingdom, however they were her drive to continue conquering from the shadows.

The guards from the stone garden quickly gave a report to those outside; "Someone has attacked and Shining Armor is down," one of the guards said. "We must search inside. There is a chance the Princess is in great danger." he said Cackletta smirked as her feats tonight were taken with great awe and fear. ' The great Cackletta shall rule you all!' she thought to herself. a third voice protruded through the door only prompting Cackletta it was time to move on.

Cackletta made her way into Celestia's sleeping quarters. Seeing that there were guards posted at her door, Cackletta had to, once more, try another option, the window. the guards only heard a small pop as Cackletta had gone through the small crack that was the window. She was now outside, the night's crisp air, the crickets chirping, both had reminded Cackletta of a forgotten childhood. The moon was huge though, never in her life had she seen a brighter moon. a night guard bat pony came out and began pursuing Cackletta. The speed and attack of her adversary were nearly that of the only two who had beaten her before.

"I must commend you," Cackletta said "You're the most threat I'd had all night." She said grinning.

The bat pony said nothing and charged with a spear in hoof at Cackletta. Cackletta just, before the spear, hit her transformed into her bat form yet again and began to swarm the guard that had posed such a threat to her plan. The guard was overwhelmed by how Cackletta attacked and was unfortunately defeated. Cackletta now made way into the princess's sleeping chamber.

The area was big, bigger than any other Cackletta had seen in a long time. The bed faced the balcony which Cackletta had used to enter. The bed was double that a king sized bed. aside the princess were crumbs of sweets, the likes of which were more than defiantly brought by the help.

Cackletta now began her plan, pulling from beneath her black cloak's pocket, a box. Cackletta stealthily walked over to the muzzle of the princess. The box she pulled sprung open, scaring princess Celestia awake. The box then sprayed nauseous gas. Celestia screamed frightened, terrified even after some odd thousand years, however, not a sound came out, but rather the Princess's voice. Cackletta then absorbed the gas, which had contained Celestia's voice, in her minion's spare head gear that she always keeps handy. With her job done Cackletta then flew off once more into the night, leaving as she had come.

The guards were one step behind Cackletta and one step too late. Princess Luna had entered her sister's room and asked what was going on, Princess Celestia tried to tell her sister about who was in here, however the only thing to escape her lips was... BOOM!
There was a small note on the ground, Luna picked it up and began reading it.

Author's Note

First off, I will be remaining mostly true to cannon events, however those events will have Mario and Luigi wrapped around them in some way or another. Was mario right in saying what he did to Fluttershy about being a doctor? I mean it would explain why in his games he almost never fixes a pipe. I'll put it up to debate please no dislikes for that line though, if it was completely out of line, I'll change it.

Second, Will popple listen to the voice of reason or will he once more be the great shadow thief he once was before? find out some time later... (Shameless self promotion I know...)

Finally, I was wanting a better scene with the guards, however, Cackletta is the type to just attack and leave. I was also trying to get a good angle on popple, however, I feel as though I didn't get him quite right in the end. Sometihings to fix later I suppose but, the story must go on.

Storm Rival.

A new foe

The owl, Dragon, rat and Yoshi.

It was a new day, and everything started off with the usual Mario and Luigi bang in Twilight's humble abode at the Golden Oak Library. The sun was shining, the birds singing, it was a swell harvest day.

Because of the horrifying time Twilight had yesterday, Mario Luigi and Spike were all in the kitchen working on some breakfast for the four of them. Apple juice, check; Eggs, Check; toast... Spike Belched, releasing a flame that would toast the wheat bread nice and crisp, yet soft enough, that it had seemed like a well cooked grilled cheese except without the cheese.

"Wow, Spike!" Mario said astounded at his fiery breath, and exceptional cooking skills.

"Well, you're the one who doubted my cooking skills." Spike said. "And do you remember last night?"

"Well played..." Mario grumbled defeated, handing spike ten mushroom kingdom coins.

"Well, Mario," Luigi said breaking up the sore looser from the sore winner.

"What?" Mario said "I just lost ten coins."

"I was going to say we should take this to Twilight and surprise her." Luigi said.

"Oh," Mario said "Yeah."

Twilight was happily asleep underneath her covers. was she dreaming or wasn't she, only time would tell. Mario and Luigi quietly huddled into the small room that was above the staircase, Twilight's room, and Mario gently placed the tray of food gently over Twilight. She'd noticed the weight and slowly awoke from her slumber. Her purple and magenta mane were matted with the obvious case of bed head. She saw Mario Luigi and spike at the tale edge of her bed, Surprise they said to her quietly.

As Twilight awoke more and rubbed her eyes with her hooves she noticed that breakfast was served. "Thank you, Gentleco-" she began to then correct herself "Gentlemen." She began chowing down and that had prompted Mario, Luigi and Spike to leave the room. upon exiting, Spike belched, along with the belch came a small stream of emerald, fire and a note with the royal Canterlot seal.

"It's rare for the princess to send a letter without her getting one first." Spike said with the letter in his claws. "I think we should let Twilight know right away."

Mario and Luigi nodded and went for the bedroom posthaste. Twilight was moments from finishing up her breakfast when, suddenly Mario Luigi and Spike once more came in.

"Can I help you?" Twilight asked a little concerned

"The Princess sent you a scroll, Twilight." Spike said.

"That's odd," Twilight remarked, as she opened it up and read who it was for and who it was signed by. her eyes got big as she'd read further what was happening.

"Mario, Luigi," Twilight said, " It seems you're requested at the castle in Canterlot. Twilight said, handing the scroll to the brothers to read.

Mario and Luigi,

This is Princess Luna writing in stead of Princess Celestia, I wish to see you two at the Canterlot castle as soon as you get this. There has been an amargency happening over last night. There was some intruder who wore a black cape and had green skin, this individual had stolen Princess Celestia's voice. I request you here instead of Twilight and her friends knowing that I would most likely scare them the way I did when I was Nightmare moon. If you would please hurry, My sister can not write otherwise the parchment she writes upon burns and she can not speak for she has quite literal 'explosive vocabulary'. I the sisterly monarch can not run Equesatria without the aid of my older sister taking charge during the day, especially with recent events, ask Twilight what I mean. I must see thou here posthaste.

Sincerely,

The princess of the night, Luna.

"Mamma Mia!" Mario said after reading the scroll "How could she be back?"

Luigi finished reading the scroll saying "Oh, no! Not her!"

"um, Boys," Twilight said, her annoyed voice not getting the attention of either of them

"We're going to have so much trouble now!" Mario exclaimed

"I don't want you to nearly turn into a bean again bro!" Luigi yelled frantically

"Guys!" Twilight said. a little louder.

"How're we going to get Celestia's voice back if we don't know where sheis!"

"I don't know Mario I just want to never see her again!"

"Quiet!" Twilight yelled at the top of her lungs.

Mario and Luigi stared at her.

"Would you mind telling me who this 'She' is?"

Mario and Luigi begin delving into the long tale of how the beanbean kingdom had treated them and their fare Princess.

It was a fine saturday, sun shining and nothing out of the ordinary, or so many ponies in Equestria would think. fillies off doing anything they like, the teachers sipping their own cup of tea, This made the school the perfect place to house a secret plan.

Cackletta shut all the shutters in the school, it was completely dark she set the Beanstar in the center of the room and right next to it, a robot projecting Celestia's voice.

"Ho, ho, ho," the Robot laughed. this continued for about a few moments when suddenly the green welcoming glow of the Beanstar turned ravaged red, The nice smiley face turned to a displeased frown as it shook violently back and fourth trying to dispel the tarnished voice brought before it.

Cackletta, immediately seeing the reaction turned off the robot. "EYURRGH!" she yelled. "Why? Why why why!" she pondered frustratedly. She was about to hit something inside the schoolhouse, however, she heard three fillies pass by "We really need to get Rainbow Dash's story!" She heard one of them say. the other two had agreed. They passed by, and Cackletta using every ounce of patience she had refrained from hitting a single thing in the class, until she'd punched a desk in the back of the room. There was no damage seen, yet the collateral damage probably would get either snips or snails into trouble come monday.

There was a pause, Cackletta was thinking of her backup plan. Surely, she must have an untarnished voice, Cackletta thought thinking back to the navy blue princess she saw. At least when I'd first tried this, I'd known my target, Cackletta thought. She was now contemplating how she'd get into the castle once more. with the guards on high alert still, and the other Princess's voice gone, she would have to battle her way through an entire army of trained soldiers. at this point she'd wished for Fawful back, however, she knew it wouldn't happen.

suddenly, the schoolhouse's door was opened. not by the inside, however by the outside. there was a figure standing in the door way, not a pony figure, however, a human figure. "No," she said slightly frightened "not you troublesome boys from the mushroom kingdom."

There was no reply from the figure.

"I'm not ready, yet. If you'd give me enough time, I'll have a grand finale for you..." she said to the figure once more, however there was no reply. "What do you want? Who are you?" she finally asked the figure.

The figure stepped into the dark room, and luminescent green projected by the sleeping star right next to him and Cackletta. "Let's just say, I'm a friend trying to cause some havoc."

"How are you in anyway my friend?" Cackletta asked "For all I know, you could've been one of the mushroom munchers out to get me."

"Let me ask a similar question," He said amidst Cackletta's questioning.

"You don't dare silence the great Cackletta do you?"

Without any quiver or pause, he simply asked "How come your venture into the castle last night, went without a hitch?"

Cackletta pondered that. there were enough guards to tackle her and plenty of winged ones as well to bring her down, so why hadn't they?

"I know exactly what you're thinking." the figure said to Cackletta, "You're thinking how it was possible." he laughed "Now you're thinking its impossible."

Clever one; "Fine, know-it-all," Cackletta said "enlighten me."

"It was I who subdued most of the guards, and, Let's just say, I borrowed a cloak."

it was now a stalemate, Cackletta had no clue if the figure had told the truth or not at all. he was clever enough to be her right winged man, however, dare she replace Fawful for this unknown guy?

"Alright," Cackletta finally said after minutes of thought. "You want to prove you're on my side, prove it by snatching that other fare Princess's voice."

Cackletta had handed the figure a music box and her minion's head gear. "don't disappoint me, other wise you're never welcome in my sight." she turned her back to the mysterious figure and kept her head held high.

The figure chuckled "you won't be."

Meanwhile, Mario and Luigi were pantomiming and acting out how they'd defeated the great witch Cackletta before. Bounce Bros. nearly took out the roof, Mario wanted to do chopper bros, however Luigi wasn't prepared and was nearly hit into a book case. a few of those moves had gotten a little too close to book shelves and nearly knocked down what was in the library. Twilight was at her breaking point, I mean, we all know how she likes books. "GUYS!" she'd yelled.

Mario and Luigi quickly stopped their old Bros. move and went straight to Twilight.

"I get that you've battled and beaten her before," Twilight said to them. "But must you practice your old moves now? In a Library no less?"

Mario and Luigi saw nothing wrong with the room they'd pantomimed in, however Twilight's stern look told otherwise.

"Look, I've prepared your trip to Canterlot for you. all you need to do is take the hot air balloon up and fly to the north east. You'll eventually see mountains, There'll be a castle there and that's where you'll find Celestia and Luna.

"Okie dokie." Mario said "I've piloted a hot air balloon before."

"Don't you mean that one time we went to dinosaur island, met up with Yoshi and rescued all his friends and Princess peach from bowser?"

"Yeah," Mario said "I mean that time."

Luigi had fond memories of Dinosaur island. "Oh, I can't wait to get onto a hot air balloon again."

"Well, before you guys do more damage to this library, I suggest you be on your way then." Twilight somewhat irritatedly suggested.

"Let's a go!"

"Okie dokie."

"The balloon is parked in the center of town." Twilight said.

Mario and Luigi were heard and were already on their way. in a few short minutes the balloon was ready to go all that needed to happen was a sand bag needed to be dropped and off the Mario Bros went.

The calm skies of Equestria, reminded them of what the trip to Dinosaur island was like. barely a cloud in the sky save for one or two covering a mountain. Barely any wind whatsoever, making it very easy for Mario to steer the balloon. Luigi was looking down below and he saw the landscape of the land ponies called home, it was quite a sight from the altitude they were reaching. the remainder of the trip was calm and collected.

Mario and Luigi could see that there was a landing strip for an air balloon and other things as such. As soon as they'd seen the strip, pegasus guard ponies came and escorted the balloon the remainder of the way to the strip. once the balloon landed, Mario and Luigi weren't greeted by friendly guards, they were instead greeted by spears being pointed at them.

"So, you two must be the Mario Brothers." a voice said in the background.

"Oh, yeah." Mario said

"Princess Luna wishes an audience with you immediately,please follow me." the voice said and revealed a white cote, with a blue mane.

Mario and Luigi had no choice in the matter as they both were slightly poked by spears to continue moving every second or two.

Mario then asked "Who are you?" to the mysterious colt in white.

"I am Shining Armor," he replied. "And I'm to immediately escort you to princess Luna."

"Why the spears?" Luigi asked "We're friends."

"According to her, you're wanted for questioning, and possibly to fix a plumbing leak at the castle by the looks of it." Shining replied

"Oh," Luigi sighed slumping back a little. a moment later a spear poked him "Youch!" he yelled jumping high into the air only to end up right on his feet moving with the rest of the entourage.

The castle's exterior was welcoming, yet intimidating to someone who'd never been there. big arches and other old architecture filled the castle, It had almost made Peach's castle seem modern at best. The guards took a turn and so did the Brothers out of fear of being speared. They all continued to the throne room where Luna was sitting on the throne and her sister, Celestia, was crying much like peach had when her voice was stolen. Luna saw that the two in question arrived and at this point stood up assuming the Royal form of the two sisters, back in the day.

"PEASANTS!" she yelled using some type of ancient yell. "HOW DARE THOU TAKEST THY SISTER"S VOICE!"

Mario and Luigi began saying how that isn't so, and how they'd been in Ponyville the whole time. Mario even recounts that he'd lost ten coins in a bet.

"SILENCE!" Luna once more yelled "I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR COVER STORY I WANT ANSWERS..." she'd paused waiting for either mario and Luigi to speak once more "NOW!" she'd yelled immediately after one of the bros had opened his mouth.

Celsetia had tried to speak "Try to be nicer on them, Luna." However the only thing to come out was explosions.

Luna had gone over to her sister, hugged her then said "Sister thou must watch thy mouth, you do have quite literal 'explosive vocabulary after all."

Seeing this small act of kindness on the Princess of the night's part, had dramatically chanced the tone of the room. and Luna, with her sisterly knowledge knew she was being too rough with her quarry. Luna cleared her throat, then said "I MUST APOLOGIZE, AFTER BEING TRAPPED ON THE MOON FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, I MUSN'T USE THE ROYAL CANTERLOT VOICE TOO MUCH."

Mario and Luigi recoiled at that abysmal fact, thinking what it had been like spending a thousand years on the moon. Luigi couldn't bare to think what would happen after a thousand years and hoped not to get banished to another's moon. Mario on the other hand had thought about how much time a thousand years could be to just eat spaghetti on the moon, given banishment had that sort of thing.

"I WANT ANSWERS NOW!" Luna yelled at them.

Mario and Luigi immediately after told her what had happened in the beanbean kingdom about Cackletta and her minion Fawful and how much trouble they'd caused

"NOW then." Luna tried to exercise some self control on her royal Canterlot voice. "It hast been brought to thy attention, that you two know who is behind this foul attack, I want you two to find them and send them back to where they had come." Luna said. "I also wish to say that I'd found a couple of things not of this world, in the castle's library." The guards then handed Mario a green shell, and Luigi a fire flower.

"I bid thee good luck," Luna said "And I feel as though the one you're trying to track, is closer than you might imagine."

Mario and Luigi heading the advice of Luna, decided to look around the castle for clues. all around the castle there were some ponies who were skeptical that Mario and Luigi had been there to begin with to help investigate as they had thought Mario and Luigi were the ones to instigate this whole speech theft.

Mario and Luigi time and time again said to those skeptical "Look, We're just trying to get home."

Some of the guards sympathized with them looking forward to getting home to their families in Canterlot and abroad, however, some of the others simply continued gazing for suspicious individuals.

Mario and Luigi continued out of the courtyard and into the sculpture garden. The garden filled with grey opaque statues was for the most part boring. surely, there were tidbits of Equestrian history there, however Mario was not interested at all in it. Luigi being the one to go to haunted mansions and vacuum up any old monetary and gold he could, was wide eyed and engrossed in the world that was Equestria. Whereas Mario made a beeline through the sculpture garden like he had that time in Honeyhive galaxy. Luigi diddled and dawdled on through the garden looking at the craftsmanship that went into every sculpture, sometimes fiddling with a couple of small things on them Luigi got to a statue that had resembled the figure back from Bowser's castle. "Mario!" Luigi called not too worried or stressed, but, "Its a discord!" Mario ran back to Luigi and saw the same statue. this statue however seemed to have a good solid crack at the end of its snakelike, amphibian, tail. The cracks stopped at about waist level of whatever Discord was, However as both brothers looked at the statue, the crack slowly grew. "Mamma mia, Let's get out of here." Mario said to Luigi not wanting another discord to deal with. "okie dokie," Luigi said shaken and followed his brother out of the garden.

Mario and Luigi continued their go through of the entire castle, and eventually ended up at the castle's labyrinth. There stood another figure. That figure, was a figure Mario and Luigi never had the pleasure of meeting.

"Hey, you!" Luigi called out to the figure.

The figure simply turned, then without saying a word was right next to Mario and Luigi. "You rang?" was the only thing he'd said.

"Wha!"

"Oh no!"

"Heh," you two are too slow the figure said. "No way either one of you'd win a battle against me."

Mario then said "I want to take you up on that bet."

"Oh, Really?" the figure said. "I must warn you, I'm the most dangerous human you'll ever meet.

"Well, Let's a go!"

"Okie dokie"

The figure had immense speed as seen before and neither Mario nor Luigi could call their command blocks to attack. The figure went to attack Mario "This is for the bet." He'd said as he brought out a couple of rocket hammers. The hammers hit Mario dead on. The figure now targeted Luigi.

Luigi, unlike Mario, was prepared, for once. He had his hammer ready and phew, bop! Hammers collide. "Oh yea!" Mario went for a jump on the mysterious man. "Sorry you're going to need more 'pow' than that." he simply said. Luigi tried a hammer attack. That didn't collide at all with the figure as he was simply too fast and dodged.

"My turn."

He went to kick Luigi who tried before to hammer him. the figure then kicked Luigi. Luigi couldn't remember a worse feeling except that one time he'd gotten falcon kicked. 'No wonder he called himself the most dangerous human' Luigi thought hoping to be ready for the next attack.

The figure then stood still for a little bit "Hit me with your best attack." He'd goaded the Mario bros.

Mario got ready the koopa shell, Luigi the fire flower. on Mario's turn they kicked back and fourth a koopa shell to damage the figure, however the figure was able to dodge a couple of them sending the shell back to Mario or Luigi.

On Luigi's turn, he and Mario both shared the power of a fire flower and began bombarding the figure with fire.

finally, he said "I concede." He smiled evilly.

Battle end

"Sorry to tell you guys," He said. "but that didn't even come close to scratching me."

"Mamma mia!" Mario shouted frustratedly "You've gotta be kidding me! I've already lost to Spike now you're telling..."

Mario had no time to finish as the figure knocked both him and Luigi out. "Easier than their RPG's." he said. he'd pitpocketed mario and only took one mushroom coin. "considering exchange rates and how much real gold is packed into a single coin, this is worth it." he noted running off. He had run off ready to continue the devious deed that he'd been assigned, or rather, that he'd accepted. It was slowly becoming night time, as Mario and Luigi were dazed and knocked out there was only one thing that had spurred them from their state of paralysis.

"WHAT ART THOU DOING!" there was a pause in Luna's Canterlot voice when suddenly she cried out

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

"Mamma Mia!" Mario said getting up off the ground dizzy and groggy.

"oh,ho" Luigi moaned getting up in the same condition as Mario.

as they had gotten up, and seen that it was night time, they heard only one thing to accompany it... Explosions.

...Meanwhile in ponyville...

Twilight was up doing some midnight studying, as that night was the night that a comet passed through the Horsehead nebula. she wrote her mini-lecture on a small piece of parchment, when suddenly she heard a clicking on the library's windows. feeling slightly anxious, she checked it out and found nothing.

The wind, suddenly, blew violently, causing one of her unlatched windows to open and causing a new house guest to appear.

"Must be pretty chilly out there huh

"Who."

With this, Twilight isn't the only pony to receive a random welcome...

Fluttershy, after the comet shower, was sound asleep in her cottage. the wind was howling, however despite this, all the animals she'd taken care of were sound asleep in their homes. All was quiet on her little corner of Ponyville. however, a few hours more through the night, all her chickens had started a riot. Fluttershy immediately went to see what was going on. all her chickens were crowded in a corner as Elizibeak began to cluck what had happened.

"Oh, dear." Fluttershy said worriedly "So this egg came from the sky?"

Elizibeak clucked in agreement.

The egg was whit as normal eggs are, however, as one looks closer at it there are green spots on the egg. "Well, I don't know what will come from it but an egg needs to be hatched." and so the remainder of the night, Fluttershy had put together an incubating tank for the egg, hoping that it will hatch eventually. "Elizibeak," Fluttershy said "Tell the rest of the flock that you are coming inside tonight."

The whole of the chicken barn entered and Elizibeak then clucked to fluttershy ("We have one condition for staying inside and warm,")

"What's that?" Fluttershy asked

("We don't want to be anywhere near that egg.") spending a couple of hours that night, Fluttershy made a one time accommodation to the flock, she'd let them sleep in her room. feeling satisfied and warm, she went to sleep and awaited tomorrow.

The Remainder of the night, however, for Mario and Luigi remained to be their longest as they had been asked by princess Celestia if they'd known who the attacker was who this time stole Luna's voice but returned her own.

"I want answers boys." Celestia said her patience running thin as they were all tired and groggy.

Mario after taking a huge breath then said "The only people we know of to have the power to steal voices and replace them with explosives is Cackletta and her minion Fawful." Mario said.

"The figure I saw tonight wasn't the one I saw last night. is it possible he's Fawful?"

"No." Luigi said "Fawful looks like a green bean, he has swirly glasses and a red cape." Luigi said.

"hmm," Celestia said thinking of what he looked like. "given your description, I don't think I've ever seen this character before."

"The figure," Mario was out of breath. "Wasn't Fawful nor Cackletta."

"Mario and Luigi," Celestia said sternly concerned. "I am wondering why does it look you just ran a marathon?"

Mario explained the altercation between the figure and themselves.

"I see, so you two get this way after you've been beaten in a fight." Celestia noted. "I have something from another alternative universe that may help you. There isn't much of it here at all, however have these two cups on me." Celestia hovered two tea cups to Mario and Luigi.

Mario and Luigi drank up the hot black steamy beverage.

"Owowow!"

"Hoooot!"

Mario and Luigi said jumping straight to the sealing of the castle. the bitterness of the beverage had healed Mario and Luigi completely.

"Thank you." both Mario and Luigi said.

"You're quite welcome, I'd given that to Luna after a bet she and I had not too long ago about roles here in Equestria."Celestia looked at her sister out on the balcony on a silent guard. "She'd tried to take over the day shift, however, That had proven too much for her. and after I'd gotten back, well, I'd given her that beverage for her usual night shift."

"That must have been a weird day."Luigi said.

"Oh, I didn't notice much of any difference." Celestia said silently keeping something from them.

"Well, we need to focus on finding Cackletta now." Luigi said

"Quite true Luigi." Celestia said "and I think I know where she might be hiding."

"Where?" Mario simply asked.

"I felt a small magical disturbance, Alicorns are able to sense such things as are other creatures in this fare land. However I'm sure your foe, or should I say, foes are hiding in Ms. Cherlee's school house back in Ponyville."

Mario and Luigi immediately remembered one place from their travels in the Beanbean kingdom, Woohoo hooniversity. It was there that they'd fought Cackletta and beaten her, or thought to have beaten her. She had terrorized the students there and turned the professors into monsters.

"Mamma Mia, we need to go now!" Mario said hurriedly

"Let's go! and quickly!" Luigi followed

---Then again, in Ponyville---

It was a fine sunday night, children in bed and teachers getting ready for tomorrow. Cheerilee now, just remembered somthing important.

"Oh no! Oh no!" She said to her self "I can't believe I've left those in my desk, I must get them and grade them by tomorrow."

Soon after she'd said that she remembered a small thing Berry Punch had said to her once.

"You know, weird things happen to teachers who go in on the weekends." That was something that Cheerilee had passed off as a drunk saying and nothing more, Berry Punch usually was the one to show up drunk while seeming completely normal.

'What could possibly go wrong' Cheerilee thought to herself heading out her door and to the school.

It was quite an evening, the stars shining, the crickets were chirping and the moon shown overhead illuminating her path to the school. She looked up admiring the moon. There were no craters on the moon in the shape of a unicorn mare as she'd remembered for the longest time being there. Cheerilee thought, that had it not been for Twilight and her friends a month back, that there wouldn't be any days, but rather, nights. the wind blew causing a chill down Cheerilee's spine and causing her to hurry up and get her students' paper work.

She'd rushed into her school house, closing the door behind her in a hurry keeping out any cold that possibly could've come in. Cheerilee sighed in relief to be out of the cold, however, she noticed something different with her class room.

There was a green ominous glow about the room. There seemed to be whispers about the place, whispers about usurping the thrown of Celestia with a star, whispers claiming to have the voice of Luna herself. she shrugged this off, and went straight to her desk. She grabbed her papers and then looked out over the desks of her room and found that there were four robots set up in a circle in her room, and a green star sitting in the center of them all. 'ok, Maybe Berry Punch was right about this.' she thought anxiously. then after she thought;

"You hooligans had better get out of my class room!" she'd said that out loud, yelling it no less. A horde of shadow came after her and quickly she ran to the door turning on the lights. The now lighted room revealed that there were two figures there.

"You've seen too much," a green figure told her.

"If you want me to take her out, it'd be my pleasure, for coins that is." a hairless and tailless monkey said to the green figure.

"No, no, I must conserve my riches, especially if this voice you brought me didn't work out." The green greedy figure said, " Besides I was able to deal with teachers when I was first pursued by those troublesome boys from the mushroom kingdom."

Another figure broke down the door and jumped into the fray. "Yahoo!" it yelled. this guy had on a red cap red shirt and blue overalls, and overall looked like a plumber. "Let's a go!" another figure right behind him said. that figure had on a green cap green shirt and the same overalls as the red guy, and admittedly looking the same. Cheerilee saw an 'L' on this green guy's cap and immediately thought 'please let this be my lucky break.'

"EEYARGH!" the green figure yelled, firing at Cheerilee.

The poor teacher remained motionless, as her cutie mark slowly overtook her instead of being her purple color she slowly began to turn green her head began to depress at the muzzle becoming more like a human face, however at this point, golden petals had began to form out of her face much like the flowers she'd had on her flank. a moment more passed and she'd become a flower.

"Howdy," the flower said. "I'm Flowey, Flowey the flower!"

Mario Luigi and even Cackletta were weirded out by this talking flower.

"Well, Boys, Its been fun and all, However me and my assistant must be going."

The figure behind her, the same from the gardens said "look I'm not your assistant, If I'd wanted to, I could totally wipe you all on the floor."

"George." Cackletta simply said.

"Sorry, Cackle, this is your fight." The figure or rather George said.

George left Cackletta and the remainder of the people and things in there.

Cackletta simply sighed then faced the Mario bros with a menacing grin. "Seems as though my magic has gotten a little rusty, I'm supposing the same for your hammers."

mario and Luigi brought out their hammers. They were shinier than a golden beany.

"Oh Great." Cackletta said to herself.

Cackletta began with a barrage of Lightning attacks at the Mario bros. "Still just as limber as I'd remembered."

"No matter," she said. "If you've still got the same moves I can counter what you've shown me."

Mario and Luigi took a moment to think, if the old attacks wouldn't work, then maybe the new ones will.

Mario and Luigi planned on this and quickly Mario pulled out his red shell. Luigi readily gave Mario the thumbs up and together they attacked using the shell as a soccer ball of sorts valeting it between them with Cackletta being the middle net.

"GAH, you two are troublesome." Cackletta growled angrily. "You, however, Can't use that attack again without repercussions."

Cackletta was now on the offensive, she had brought out the same magic used before from the Beanbean Kingdom, Lighting bolts. Mario and Luigi easily dodged the telegraphed attacks and now it was Luigi's turn.

Luigi pulled out a fire flower

"Hey, That's my cousin you're using!" 'Flowey said.

"Mario Luigi and Cackletta disregarded that, and continued their assault.

By absorbing the flower together the Mario bros temporarely became fire bros, and bombarded the wicked witch of the beanbean kingdom with fire, perhaps they should've used water, or maybe ice, whatever the case, Cackletta was still standing.

"FEEL MY WRATH!" Cackletta yelled. the school house and schoolyard began to shake and quake, as it had Lightning began to spew randomly through the battle ground destroying the floors and some of the desks. as it had, portals began coming from the ground those portals if they had hit the Mario bros would bring them from the floor to the cealing and slam them to the ground once more, However seeing this attack before made them pretty prepared for whatever Cackletta could throw at them.

after that fine attack, Cackletta remembered her first defeat by the bros and found that it could've come from her lack of anger control, she then decided to calm down and take the situation seriously and suddenly she came up with a new attack.

"Hey, mushroom munchers, I bet you've never seen this move before."

Hearing this Mario and Luigi were pretty confident they had and decided to let Cackletta have an extra turn. Cackletta broke into bats, like before she had in the Mushroom kingdom; however, this time, the bats had a blue aura about them. charging random brothers the bats came for Mario and Luigi, however before slamming into them, they'd fired off condensed bolts of electricity.

Hammers, Mario and Luigi thought right after that.

"EYAH HA HA HA," Cackletta cackled. "You fools are just as clumsy as before, thinking your fancy moves have anything on me. Well, I just thought of that move on the spot! There isn't anyway for you two to beat me now!"

Having had their bros attacks used and hearing that they can't use them now without repercussion, they decided to Regularly attack Cackletta with Hammers and stomping on her head.

This had gone on for quite a long time. Cackletta after hours of continuously attacking the Mario bros. just flopped. "You win..." Cackletta said.

Experience aside, how does a battle last more than one hour tops?

Cackletta had gotten back up and then she now towered over the Mario bros.

Taking a defensive stance the bros were ready for another attack.

"You two are a troublesome thorn in my side, however, I bet that with my wish, you won't be able to to beat me!" she said cackling "EYAHAHAHA!"

The robots began to speak again, the first time for Mario and Luigi, and the beanstar in the center of the room began to cringe yet again wanting nothing more for the impure voice to get out of its ears, it began to float angrily up. noticing this Cackletta made quick haste and turned off the bots.

"GRRRRAH!" she yelled "Every time I do this, I'm foiled by either you or the princesses of wherever! I AM TIRED OF THIS! I WANT MY WISH! I NEED THIS..." Cackletta said. she was angrier than, well, rage its self.

Out of nowhere, Twilight fired off a blast of her magical energy and shot at Cackletta. Cackletta, whom was enraged beyond belief foresaw this coming and simply dodged. "You're going to have to do better than that, pony..."

"The name's Twilight." she said "and I must ask why were you hiding out in this school of all places?"

"Its none of your concern honey." Cackletta said in a voice that would give anybody a chill of fright. "I'll be back and I guarantee a world of pain." she said while grabbing the beanstar and flying off. The human in the room made a stealthy escape as well not being detected by Twilight, However being discovered by a mint mare outside.

"HUMAN!!!"

"No no no!"

Slam!

"Please come to my anthropology club."

"Fine, whatever."

"Bye~"

"So, Mario, Luigi what happened here and where's Cheerilee?" Twilight asked after the commotion outside.

Mario and Luigi explained to Twilight that somehow, some way, after beating her soul, Cackletta is back and is planning on causing mischief in Equestria.

"Well what's going to happen now?"

Mario and Luigi thought back to their superstar adventure, however, no answer came to mind as this is the first time she'd escaped unscathed.

"We need a safe place to chat Twilight." Mario said

"We should head straight to your library

"Well where's cheerilee?" Twilight asked. "I can't really leave this place without a teacher to teach her young foals and fillies."

Mario Luigi and Twilight went over to the teacher's desk and found amongst the papers a golden flower. "Waddya want?" the flower said.

Twilight trying all her might tried a reversal spell to change this flower back into a pony teacher. with time and concentrated effort the spell was reversed and slowly but surely Cheerilee returned to her former state "What the hell just happened..." was all that had escaped her lips.

Mario Luigi and Twilight all tried to explain the situation, however this all went over cheerilee's head. "You know, Its the weekend. " she said to the trio. "and I want you all out of my school house." Collecting up her papers, she, Mario, Luigi, and Twilight all headed outside. There Cheerilee said "Thank you."

"For what?" Twilight asked.

"For sparing me that horrible fate."

"oh, it was no trouble."

"Well, Twilight I hope you have a wonderful day. and I'd like it if you could supervise the science fare that's going to happen sometime soon.

"I will, just as soon as I get a date Cheerilee."

"Thanks much Twilight."

"No problem," Twilight said back. "See you later."

Walking away from the school house, Mario Luigi and Twilight began their walk to golden oaks Library.

"So, anything new happen while we were gone?" Mario asked

"Well, I got a new night time assistant, and he's really been bugging Spike.

"Who's the assistant?"

"He's an owl," Twilight said. "His name is Owlowiscious."

Mario thought the name just wasn't too cleaver at all, whilst Luigi just chuckled about it.

Just then, an owl flew down and landed on Twilight's back.

"Who." the owl greeted.

"Its a me Mario." the owl simply nodded.

"And Me the legendary Luigi!"

"who?" Owlowiscious questionably hooted.

"Luigi Mario's Brother."

"who."

"Loo EEE GEE" Luigi said to the owl.

"Who."

Luigi got angry however, Twilight simply interpreted for her pet; "He gets it Luigi."

"oh, ok." Luigi said calming from his anger.

Twilight and the bros quickly made it home in the late afternoon, and as they had they walked in right Spike's revenge plan was nigh complete. He was walking backwards with ketchup covered feet tossing feathers from Twilight's pillow across the floor.

"Muahahahahahaha!" Spike laughed with a black cape on a formidable top had and quite the respectable attachable mustache.

Spike bumped into Twilight immediately ditching the evil count getup.

"That poor little field mouse." spike said. "Torn to pieces..."

Mario and Luigi simply looked at this foolhardy plan and had remained silent letting the trouble come to spike.

"It must have been Owlowiscious!"

Mario Luigi and Twilight all remain silent.

"You know cos owls eat mice." he retorted. "What a terrible, terrible bird. He must be punished... Right?"

"Spike!" Twilight said. "I don't know what's worse. the fact that you'd deliberately set up Owlowiscious like that or you actually thinking this pathetic attempt would actually work. Jealousy has gotten the best of you, you're not acting like the spike I love."

Twilight left with Owlowiscious on her back, Mario and Luigi followed suit for spike to wallow in self pity over what he'd done, and quite possibly over what Twilight had said to him.

"Sorry about that boys, He's been really at it with owlowiscious and who's the best assistant and all." Twilight said. "So, How about some Lunch?"

Hours pass as Mario Luigi and Twilight are unaware of what spike was actually doing. Fluttershy comes along to see that Twilight and the bros are at lunch.

"Fluttershy!" Mario called

"Ah!" she screamed not quite familiar to Mario's voice. she looked over after her small fit of terror and saw that it was indeed a friend who'd called. "Oh, hi Mario." she said.

"How are you Fluttershy?" Twilight asks her friend.

"Oh, I'm doing fine, just been a little tired is all."

"Why's that?" Mario asked

"I've been keeping my eye on a peculiar egg that just appeared out of nowhere."

"Hmm," Mario thought for a moment then asked, "could I see the egg."

Fluttershy had the egg in her mane and had brought it out as gently as she could. The egg was white with spots of green covering some parts of it. Mario now recognized this egg.

"That's a Yoshi egg!"

"A what?" Fluttershy and Twilight asked.

"A Yoshi egg," Mario said again. "in our world Luigi and I have a few trusted partners that we sometimes ask for help in rescuing our princess and that is Yoshi."

"I didn't know that they could be of such service." Fluttershy said "I didn't even know what was going to hatch from it, I was just going to take care of whatever did hatch from it no matter what."

Mario Luigi and Twilight saw the element of kindness shimmer slightly against the afternoon backdrop of the day from fluttershy.

"Well, I'd better go and hatch this egg." Fluttershy said.

Twilight Mario and Luigi said their farewells to Fluttershy and they too left to return home.

Author's Note

For you Fawful lovers out there, He'll appear later, however, for now though, The story must continue without Cackletta's star apprentice (unfortunately)... Though, to some who've commented, I plan to do most all of the Mario and Luigi RPG arc. The only one I'm second guessing at this point is the only one to not yet be released to America. I don't want copyright stuff to deal with, so for now, its a maybe.

In other news, I thank Crash Bandicoot for editing this. His character makes an appearance here and in the first special chapter; and will throughout the rest of this fic. The most dangerous human, George Cunningham, is he merely an apprentice or is he something far more than that? find out next time.

IDW reference did you catch it? also Longest chapter? (so far?)

Finally, How should I write battle scenes? like the way of this chapter or like I did with Bubbles (The soda maker not the Powerpuff girl.) and the CMC? up to you guys. either way I'm out. also what special attacks do you see happening?

Storm Rival

(Special chapter 1) Happy holidays!

Mario and Luigi Equestrian adventures
(Super Mario-kun inspired)
Happy hearts warming and fourth wall breaking.

"HO,HO,HO." Mario bellowed like a jolly good red dressing character he knew for the time of christmas.

"And a happy new year!"

"Luigi," Mario said angrily "Its Christmas, new years isn't for another week!"

"SO, Its always good to be prepared," Luigi said to his Santa Claus brother. " Besides, why else do you think stores already have Christmas stuff after halloween?"

"Mamma mia Luigi, Christmas is only one day out of the year, Surely Halloween gets as much attention as…"

"Excuse me?" Twilight asked across the room "What was that holiday?"

"What was it supposed to be in Equestria, bro?" Luigi asked frantically

"I don't know I thought you were supposed to remember dates because you're so interested in history!"

"Well, Mario, I thought we were both told by Twilight to study up on these things!"

"so what, we haven't had any time in this fic to do so!"

"ooh hey breaking the fourth wall I see!" Pinkie cut in.

"Oh, Great Bro you just had to go and break the fourth wall." Luigi said

"Oh, why the long face Luigi? Breaking the fourth wall is so fun especially when you break desktops lock screens and other things like that!"

"I swear, I don't even know half of what she says in these moods." Twilight said in the background.

"Oh, Cheer up Twilie, You've broken the fourth wall once!"

"yea just to put your mouth back on, and even then I don't entirely know what happened after that. It just makes no logical sence."

"Um, Twilight," another voice from mario's pocket said.

"What is it Starlow?"

"I can say, that Pinkie here, just breaks every fiber of physics out there. No rhyme no reason she just does."

"Almost reminds me of how Paper Mario explained Lord Crump. Looking straight out into space just stairing blankly or with a smile telling random people past the screen not to blab a secret."

"Gee, That's my favorite way of fourth wall breaking." Pinkie happily skipped back.

"Oh…" Starlow moaned seeing as how Pinkie was never going to stop doing this well at least until this special chapter is over.

"Hey!" Mr. Author!"

oh, Great I broke the third wall… "what Pinkie!"

"How long is this chapter going on for?"

"I don't know yet. i'll know soon as I'm done writing it."

"Well, hey, mind if I hitch a ride to see how things are going from your perspective?

"Wait how the heck can.."
Hold on I gotta check My wallet Either I just got a huge bag of 20's or…

"AAAAH! Pinkie how'd you get into My wallet!"

"Easy I broke the fourth wall."

"and its quite comfy and warm especially considering the season."

'Pinkie could you just get back to the story?"

"Sure…" wait a minute I smell cupcakes"

"No! Pinkie! Those are for Christmas day not Christmas eve

"Just one Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaase?"

"fine, one cupcake, I'm sure my family will think my nephew took it."

"Thanks."

"No problem."

"Now, Please back to the story."

"Okie dokie Lokie!"

"Pinkie where'd you go!" Starlow asked just astounded that Pinkie just vanished and reappeared out of sheer will."

"Let's just say I've got more Detirmination than Chara and Frisk combined." Pinkie looked at the screen and winked twice.

"Mamma Mia now you're bringing other series into this!"

"Well that's what this guy was going to joke his way in the next chapter." Pinkie said pointing directly at ME WHILE I'M WRITING(NARRATING)…"

"gee really didn't need that capitalization there."

"I'm new to this, 'fourth wall breaking' ok Pinkie."

"Oh, Ok." she said to me.

"Well, I suppose we've got some major fourth wall breaking to fix here, so Let's wrap it up."

Mario: "Merry Chrismas!

Starlow: "Happy holidays!"

Pinkie: "Happy Hearts warming!"

Luigi: "And a Happy New Year!"

"Hey what about Hanukah or Kwanzaa?"

"Mamma Mia another fourth wall breaker just like the author!" Mario said

"Hey don't point fingers here, It was you who started this all Mario!"

"Right, Well then, Mind telling me why this guy isn't animated like Me or these other ponies?

"You got me I got no clue!"

"I'm just a new guy and Let's just say I'm here to have some fun on the holidays." he said

"Hmm…" Mario thought "will I have to fight you?"

"Spoilers, Unless you mean for that cupcake."

"Hey!" Pinkie said "Hands off my fourth walled cupcake!"

"No I want it."

"No! Mine!"

"Uh guys…" Luigi interrupted its past closing here and how about you two just share the cupcake?"

"As long as its not she getting the frosting and me getting the cake." the new guy said.

"OooooooK!" Pinkie said with a devious smile.

"What

"you can have half of this cupcake." she said splitting it oblongly.

"YOU CALL THIS HALF! THIS ISN'T EVEN A QUARTER"

"Hey you're the one who said half, you didn't really specify that it had to be complete 50/50.

"IT WAS EMPLIED!"

"Mamma mia, getting Pinkie to share her dibbled sweets is like taking candy from Batman." Luigi said to Mario

"Eyup." A stallion of all things appeared just for a brief second then vanished.

"Mamma mai this is getting too chaotic…" Mario said

"whaddya say we close off then Brothers?" Starlow said

"Happy Holidays!" Mario and Luigi said.

"Don't forget Hanukah or Kwanzaa!"

"Or hearts warming either."

"A-and a…" Luigi paused "Happy new year"

Author's Note

This was inspired by the holidays, and meant to be a fun fourth wall breaking chapter, That and the Manga of Super Mario-Kun. I realize that this manga isn't all that well known, but its got its good placed arguments between Mario and Luigi much like here. (As well as kiddish humor mixed with not so appropriate words but...)

I'll be off for a bit as I myself will be Enjoying the holiday with family and friends and more as for this fic this is just a random update and unfortunately its unedited (and not cannon as far as this fic is concerned) due to time and that, However, I do have an editor which is where this new guy is coming from, however you'll have to wait to see him in action.

I wish everyone happy holidays and a very awesome new year and hope that this special holiday chapter is well recieved and such so, Happy holidays and have an awesome new year!