Power of the Stars

"Get-a back here, Bowser!"

Bowser laughed, flying high in his clown copter. Of course, everything was going according to plan this time. Sitting next to him was the beloved princess of the Mushroom Kingdom, Princess Peach, who he of course kidnapped once more, to drag the heroes into another trap he had planned. The turtle dragon laughed, "Ya should know this by now, plumber! You have to catch me first!" he taunted, flying even higher.

"Mario! Luigi! Help!" cried Peach, reaching out an arm.

On the ground, there were three people already on the chase. Running was a mustached man wearing red and blue overalls, a red cap with an 'M' on it was worn on top of his head. Next to him was a green dinosaur running at his pace, and sitting on top, just as determined was a taller mustached man wearing green and blue overalls with his own green cap with an 'L' on it. The Super Mario Bros and their companion Yoshi were on the move, ready to stop Bowser once more.

"We're-a almost there!" shouted Mario.

Luigi held on to the back of Yoshi's neck while the dinosaur sped up, "Mama mia, Yoshi!" he cried out, feeling himself about to fall off his pal.

"Sorry, Luigi!" apologized Yoshi.

Bowser ignored the heroes, continuing the flight to his castle in the Dark Lands. "Bah, as if you can stop me this time Mario and Green-Stache!" he mocked. He turned his head to see Peach once more reaching out for her heroes. Not wanting them to rescue her, the Koopa King threw some Bob-Ombs their way in an attempt to distract them, "You're so lucky I didn't bring my troops with me! Because they'll make sure you don't go anywhere!"

Mario hopped over one of the tossed bombs, seeing it explode behind him, "Mama mia!" he shouted, ""Be-a careful you two!" he warned his companions. Another Bob-Omb was tossed in his direction, this time with his hands on his hat, he ducked underneath it, avoiding the projectile. Bowser grunted, and then saw that he had a few more Bob-Ombs to spare. Smirking, he grabbed another, ready to pelt his longtime enemies with them. Mario and Luigi saw it coming and with Yoshi they moved to the side, watching as the Koopa King threw more bombs below.

Yoshi extended his tounge, holding the ticking bomb in his mouth. He hopped, using his Flurry Jump to keep himself airborne with Luigi still on his back and spat the Bob-Omb right in Bowser's face, covering his face in ash. The Koopa King shook the dust off his face and growled in anger. "Yer gonna pay for that, dinosaur... thing..." he grunted, shaking his fist at Yoshi.

"Ha ha!" laughed Yoshi, now back on the ground.

Mario looked at Luigi, as though he had a plan. The younger brother nodded and hopped off Yoshi, "What is it, Bro?" he asked.

The red clad plumber whispered something in Luigi's ear, him looking worried, "A-Are you-a sure that this is-a gonna work?" he asked timidly. Mario nodded, "Then count-a me in!"

"Let's-a go, Luigi!" said Mario, jumping into the air and Luigi caught him, holding his brother over his head. The green clad brother ran ahead, never losing momentum despite the added weight. Luigi jumped and began to spin, allowing the duo to float high enough to reach the clown copter. Yoshi saw the brothers and decided to join in, jumping and usinf his flutter jump to reach as high as the heroic plumbers. Bowser was unaware of this, only looking ahead at his destination, "Finally! Now to get the Power Stars!" he declared with a loud shout. Peach decided to speak up.

"Power Stars?"

"Bwahaha! That's right, Peach! But after our little space adventure, I found a large amount of Power Stars present in another world! I already sent my troops there right before I got ya! Now, with them the pesky plumbers won't be able to stop me!" the turtle dragon laughed.

"I won't-a be so sure of that!"

Bowser huffed while pressing a button, turning around, "That's what ya think-" he was cut off by the spinning plumbers aiming themselves toward him. Bowser's eyes widened at the sight, trying to speed up, "Curse you copter mileage!" he growled. The spinning Mario Bros managed to hit Bowser's Clown Copter, but before Yoshi could reach the princess, something they were unprepared for occurred. A rift opened up, dragging in the brothers, dinosaur, villain, and princess within it.

It was a peaceful day in Ponyville, the various equines wandered around, conversing with one another. Pinkie Pie hopped around, a strange object on her back. It appeared to be a glowing star with eyes. Standing next to her was Fluttershy, who had decided to join the pink pony. "I sure can't wait to see Twilight's reaction when she sees what I found lying on the ground! I bet it will be confusion, then excitement over wondering what it is!"

"I bet she'll be surprised." suggested the yellow pegasus.

Pinkie smiled, "You bet she will! It will be as though I'm throwing a party for her, even though I'm actually not! But what if I secretly am? Wouldn't that be great?" she asked.

"I'm sure it will." said Fluttershy who was unsure of how to answer.

Pinkie pointed at the sky, "Ooh! What's that?" she asked. Fluttershy stopped and looked up as well. Up in the sky was a blur of red, green, blue, and yellow. They noticed that the strange lights were being scattered, the red one heading toward the edge of Ponyville. A loud crash was heard once it was out of sight. The two mares also noticed that the other lights were out of their eyesight, presumably also having landed somewhere in Equestria.

"Let's check them out! Hopefully they'll have more stars like these!" Pinkie cheered.

"Are you sure about that, Pinkie?" questioned Fluttershy.

Smiling, Pinkie ruffled the timid pegasus' mane, "Don't worry, Fluttershy! Your auntie Pinkie will keep you away from any monsters!" she declared.

"I'm a year older than you..." Fluttershy reminded her friend.

Pinkie bounced in each step, with the pegasus following suit. The two wondered what crash landed, but the pegasus hoped that it was nothing hostile.

'And so... It has begun.'

A hooded pony witnessed the meteors through a small rift within her deserted castle hidden away, 'Once I step through there, my search for the Warriors will begin. I've already sent somepony to Equestria through a rift before, so it should be easy to transport myself to another dimension. The so-called Displaced heroes are my only hope in stopping HIM. Who knows what else shall make its way to Equestria...' she said to herself.

The cloaked being stepped into the rift, awaitng whatever's on the other side.