The Mario Bros were in their kart as they drove down the dusty path on their way to Canterlot in Equestria. They had recently received an invitation for a nice vacation at Equestria where they would have an Origami Festival.
“Are you excited for this vacation bro?” Luigi asked.
“Of course I am Luigi, ever since the incident at Prism Island I have been wanting to relax for a while, I’m also happy Peach was invited.” Mario said.
“Oh I’m sure you are.” Luigi nudged his brother playfully.
“Luigi stop it.” Mario said blushing in embarrassment.
“I’m just teasing bro, don’t worry.” Luigi laughed.
“Oh, hold on bro.” Luigi said before they saw a gate with two alicorn statues on it.
“Here we are Canterlot.” Luigi said happily as they drove through the city of Canterlot.
Mario inspected his surroundings as Luigi slowly drove down the streets of the village. The first thing the two plumbers noticed was that nobody had come to greet them upon arrival.
"Huh where is everybody? I was sure that at least one would be around to say hello.” Luigi asked "Mario check the invitation, when are we supposed to be here?"
Mario reached into his pocket and pulled out the small beige colored scroll.
"Hmm it's the right day," Mario said "But I don't see anyone around here.”
"They're not here eh?" Luigi asked Maybe we should go check the castle.”
Mario nodded as he jumped into his cart. As Luigi drove down the empty streets, Mario noticed that several large holes on the walls of the houses. The cart carrying the two drove out of the city and made it's way to the large castle in the distance. As they drove, Mario continued to inspect his surroundings.
“That’s weird, ever since we showed up, not a single pony has appeared.” Mario mumbled to himself.
"Well here we are," Luigi said, surprisingly the gates to the castle were wide open with no guards. Mario jumped off the kart and looked at Luigi.
"Alright I'll go park the kart, won't be too long," Luigi said.
Mario nodded as he watched his brother drive off.
Mario examines the outside of the castle and was weirded out at the fact that there were no guards.
“That’s strange why aren’t any ponies guarding the castle?” Mario asked.
Luigi then walks to the castle without his kart “Sorry for the wait bro let’s go check out the castle.”
Mario and Luigi then walked inside the castle, there was nothing but silence, "Kinda spooky isn't it, I'd figure we'd meet SOMEBODY by now.” Luigi said.
"Something's not right, I don't know if it's just me, but I suddenly have a feeling that we shouldn't be here," Mario mumbled. His thoughts were interrupted by Luigi's gasp.
"Mamma mia, I forget our luggage in the kart, hang on bro, I'll just go grab them real fast.” Luigi turned around and began approaching the doors, but they suddenly closed shut on their own. "Huh?"
Luigi grabbed the handle and pulled only to find the doors had locked them in. "Ok, I don't like that.” Luigi said.
“What’s wrong Luigi?” Mario asked curiously.
"Uh I think we're locked in," Luigi answered.
“Well if we’re locked we might as well find the key, right?” Mario suggested.
“Oh of course, I knew you'd be smart enough to figure that out bro!" Luigi exclaimed "Alright I'll go find us that key, if you happen to run into Peach or any other princesses be sure to tell them hi for me."
Mario nodded as he watched his brother dash off in search of a key.
Mario looked at the double doors behind him.
"I suppose I should go find the Princesses for now," Mario said to himself. He was about to go look for them when a familiar voice called out to him.
"Mario, is that you?" Mario turned around to see Peach walking slowly walking down the stairs. "How good to see you.” she said.
"Princess?" asked Mario as he walked up. He noticed that she looked different. Her body looked different, and rather rigged. Her soulless eyes began staring at him.
"It's not just me Mario," she said in an emotionless voice.
"Huh?" Mario looked at her with a confused expression. At that moment two ponies slowly flew down next to her. One was white with a pink, green, and sky blue mane, the second was dark blue with a navy blue mane that seemed to sparkle. Both had wings and a large pointy horn, and like Peach, their bodies seemed rigged and off and had soulless eyes like Peach.
"I want you to meet the royal sisters," Peach introduces "Princess Celestia and Luna,"
"You must be Mario, we've heard a lot about you," Celestia said emotionlessly.
"It's a pleasure we get to meet like this." Luna said in the same tone as her sister.
"Um it's an honor to meet you too, your majesties," Mario said taking off his hat. "This is strange they don't look normal.” he mumbled to himself.
"Mario we wish to ask you something," Peach said.
"Hmm?" Mario asked.
"Shouldn't the Mushroom Kingdom and Equestria be unfolded and be refolded unto glory?" Peach asked.
"Um I don't really know what that means but, no?" Mario answered in a confused voice.
"And what of those Toads, shouldn't they be silenced for all eternity?" Peach asked.
"What is going on, this is starting to creep me out." Mario mumbled to himself as he nervously shook his head.
"Last question, will you crease yourself and be reborn like us?" Peach asked.
"Ok, something is definitely wrong, what's going on here?" Mario asked himself as he shook his head.
"Wrong answer, right answer, it matters not, your replies are all paper thin.” Peach said flatly.
"Goodbye.” Peach said. Suddenly there was a loud bang as the floor underneath him gave out, revealing a trap door.
Mario soon fell through the floor and was now underground.
“Mario?!” Multiple voices yelled.
Mario then saw four of Bowser’s minions in front of him, a Koopa, a Spike, a Buzzy Beetle, and a Hammer Bro.
"Always gotta make a flashy entrance huh?" The Koopa remarked.
"Wha, what are you guys doing here?" Mario asked.
“Never mind that, have you seen Master Bowser anywhere?” The Koopa asked.
"Well I haven't seen anybody since I arrived so I don't know where he is.” Mario answered.
"Whoa Mario you're here!?" a voice gasped from behind. Mario turned around to see a lone Goomba staring at him in awe. "I'm a big fan-er I mean....I've always wanted to battle you!" he corrected himself. "Even if I get stomped, it would be an honor!"
“Oh well glad you think of me that way.” Mario said a bit weirded out.
"Wow this is so exciting, first I see Peach and the Equestrian princesses and now YOU!” The Goomba said “Although I will say that the princesses looked a little different from what I expected, less um lifelike.”
Suddenly the door behind them opened as two figures walked out. A red Shy Guy and a yellow Shy Guy and their bodies looked rigged.
"Come with us." the red Shy Guy said.
"Yeah what's next I've never seen a Toad before or a pony, please tell me it's either one of those!" The Goomba beamed. He waddled past Mario and followed the other minions into the room.
Mario began cautiously walking into the room with them but the red Shy Guy stopped him.
“Not you.” The red Shy Guy spoke in a drone-like voice.
"Aww I hope you don't have to wait too long Mario, I'll say hi to Toad for ya, or a pony, or maybe both." The Goomba said.
Mario watched as the Goomba and the strange Shy Guy walked in, closing the door behind them.
"Huh, what was that all about?" Mario asked himself. His thoughts were interrupted by a timid female voice that seem to be coming from within the castle dungeon.
"Who's there?" asked Mario.
"I need your help, I'm.....I'm.....I'm in a very strange place," The voice explained "It's cramped and dark, almost like I'm in between dimensions or something."
"In between dimensions?" Mario asked
"I'm not sure if i should be amazed or scared, but I'm kinda both?" The voice continued "Anyway, if it's not too much trouble, I'd like to get out now, please, is there anyway you can help?"
“I’ll try but I’m not sure what to do?” Mario shrugged.
"Well you can try and walk around, maybe follow my voice?" The voice suggested. Mario looked around and pinpointed the voice near the wall.
"Here?' Mario asked as he walked over. He didn't notice the strange mark on the ground until he walked over it and it began to glow.
“Whoa what the?" He looked down at the now glowing mark on the ground. A large white hand symbol spun around an orange circle
"What was that, did something light up at your feet, is it a Magic Circle?" asked the voice.
"I don't know what a Magic Circle is, is it a orange circle with a hand in the middle?” Mario asked.
"Yes that’s the one, and that’s good, I think, I mean, I'm not really sure what you're supposed to do with it." said the voice. "But can you try to use it somehow?"
"I'm not sure how, but yeah.” Mario answered. He walked over it and felt a surge of new power flowing through his body.
"Whoa what's happening!?" He pulled in his arms before stretching them out only to find that his arms had now turned into large accordion style appendages with origami hands. He looked at his arms in awe
"That sounded good, are your arms all big and foldy now?" asked the voice.
"Well apparently they are." Mario answered.
"I've heard about this, I think those are called 1,000 Fold Arms.” The voice explained.
“Well that explains it.” Mario said.
"Try feeling around a bit, maybe you can help me escape from this strange dimension.”The voice suggested.
"Alright.” Mario said.
Mario then put his hands up against the wall and began to feel around for a bit. Eventually he was able to grasp onto what felt like a flap on the wall. "There." He grabbed the flap and tore it off, revealing and empty space and a small yellow figure stuck against it. Once the part of the wall fell to the ground, Mario's arms returned to it's original state, and the Magic Circle beneath his feet vanished, leaving only a faint mark on the ground. He looked up as the strange yellow figure pulled itself from the wall.
"Wow I'm free from that weird in-between dimension!" She gasped. She turned around to face the wall she just popped out of. "Oh was I just stuck in that wall?"
“Yep, you were.” Mario answered.
"Ah!" She quickly turned to face him. "You must be Mario.”
Mario nodded at this as the yellow figure began speaking "Well nice to meet you Mario, my name is Olivia, you'd probably like to know a lot more about me and why I was trapped like that huh?"
“I actually would, how come you were-a trapped?” Mario asked.
"Well sorry to say, but I don't think we really have time for that now, maybe we should just get out of here.” Olivia suggested. "There's just one thing, I'm not exactly fleet of foot, mind if I hitch a ride?"
“What?” Mario asked as Olivia then folded herself up and went in Mario’s pocket.
Well I guess that’s alright.” Mario shrugged.
Mario looked around the area and began speaking “Well I think I should be getting out of here.” He was about to start looking for an exit when he noticed something sticking out from behind the large boxes.
"Huh what's that?" Mario asked.
Curiously Mario walked over and found a large wooden hammer lying on the ground.
"What's this-a doing here?" Mario asked as he picked it up.
"Whoa what'd you find, it looks big and smashy, maybe try it on something around this room?" Olivia suggested as she flew out of Mario’s pocket before going back in.
Mario looked around and walked over to a couple of large boxes and began smashing them with his hammer, revealing a hole.
"Nice work Mario, I knew you'd be able to find us a way out of here!" Olivia said as she got out of Mario’s pocket "Oh by the way, I just came up with a great idea."
"Yeah, I don't know how useful it will be but if you ever get stuck just let me know and I can try and come up with something witty." Olivia explained "Maybe we can get to know each other a bit more.”
“That sounds great, I’ll keep that in mind.” Mario said.
"Great, but first let's get out of here," Olivia said.
Mario and Olivia then went out of the hole and into another area.
"Ok I'm getting my bearings, I think we might be in the castle dungeon. Dungeons smells like this place smells right?" Olivia said.
“I guess.” Mario said weirded out.
“Hey knock it off!” A voice boomed.
“Bowser?” Mario asked as he checked through a small hole in the wall.
"I can see what you're about to do to my minion, and I order you to cut it out!" Bowser(who was now folded into a square) roared. Looking to his left he could see the silhouette of a rigid Shy Guy and something large. As Bowser thrashed about trying to escape, two more shadows appeared from the right carrying what appeared to be a Koopa.
"What's going on?" Mario mumbled. He watched as the two Shy Guys approached the large object and then they stopped. The third Shy Guy raised his arms making the Koopa start levitating.
Suddenly the large object opened up like a large mouth as the third Shy Guy began folding up the Koopa before throwing it into the large object.
The top of the object slammed down with a snap as Bowser thrashed around hopelessly. The top of the object slowly rose up as the Koopa slowly rose to it's feet. The Koopa silhouette looked more rigid than before and walked away in a zombie like fashion. The two Shy Guys from before later returned carrying what appeared to be a Hammer Bro.
Mario backed away as Olivia got out of his pockets.
"What did you see, nothing terrifying I hope," Olivia whimpered.
"That was the last of them.” A familiar voice moaned.
Mario and Olivia turned around to see the two Shy Guys from earlier along with the rest of Bowser's minions in rigid-like states.
"Except for the mustachioed one.” The second Shy Guy said, Mario watched as the two left with the rest of Bowser's minions.
"Ok, maybe I have time to explain one little thing, those stiff-looking guys are called Folded Soldiers." Olivia explained.
“Folded Soldiers?” Mario asked.
Yep I don't want to scare you but they're unbelievably dangerous, I think we should try to avoid them." Olivia explained "What do you think they meant by That was the last of them anyway, the last of what? Oh well we should probably find a way out of here."
Mario nodded as he continued to search for an exit. He was about to go inside the door where Bowser was but a voice spoke up.
“Hello, anypony there?” The voice asked.
Mario looked around but no one was there.
“Who’s there?” Mario asked.
“I’m trapped in a crate and I can’t get out, I need help.” The voice explained.
Mario followed the voice and found the crate and smashed the top of it with his hammer.
“Thanks, it was getting cramped in there.” The creature said as he got out of the box.
The creature had a small purple scaly head with green spines running down it's back and tail. It had a lime green underbelly with two small wings on it's back.
“Oh so you’re a dragon.” Olivia said.
“Yes I am a dragon.” Spike spoke proudly “My name is Spike by the way.”
“Nice to meet you Spike, I‘m Olivia and this is Mario.” Olivia introduced herself and Mario.
"Wait, YOU'RE Mario?" Spike asked looking at the red plumber.
Mario nodded as Spike began speaking “Oh wow, I've heard a lot about you from Twilight. Anyway thanks for saving me, but I need to go find my friends!"
“Your friends?” Mario asked curiously.
“Yeah, we got separated during the attack.” Spike explained.
“There was an attack, what happened?” Mario asked worried.
“Well me and the six ponies I’m friends with were getting ready for your arrival but then some weird folded creatures showed up along with a bunch of big creatures with brown mushroom heads, Celestia and Luna tried to defeat them but they were outnumbered and some weird purple guy captured them, Twilight told me to run while her and the rest of her friends held them off so I reluctantly did and then suddenly I was captured and put in a crate.” Spike explained.
“Oh my that sounds awful.” Olivia gasped “Mario, do you think we could help him find his friends?”
“Sure I don’t see why not.” Mario shrugged.
“Really?! Oh thank you so much!” Spike said happily.
“You’re welcome, it’s-a too dangerous for you to be alone anyway.” Mario said.
"This looks like the door that leads into the room Bowser was in earlier, maybe I should try and go help him.” Mario opened the door and walked in with Spike following behind. Upon entering he noticed how bright the entire room was. he looked over and saw Bowser hanging from a close pin on a rope.
“Mario you’re here too?” Bowser asked “Who’s
the lizard and the floating girl?”
“I’m a dragon?” Spike said angrily spreading out his wings.
"Whatever, so what are you waiting for get me down from this thing.” Bowser lectured “Even you know that this is no way to treat royalty.”
"Royalty?" Olivia said in awe “Ooh nice to meet you, is everyone in your kingdom a face too?"
“I’ve got a body too, those folded jerks just...bent it in ways I won’t describe right now.” Bowser explained “It’s seen worse believe me.”
"Never mind that! I am the Great King Bowser and I demand to be set free and unfolded." Bowser growled angrily.
“Rude.” Spike muttered.
“Now Mario, ignore your two friends and get me down from here, Bowser commands you.” Bowser ordered, “I would do the same thing for you, You need me as much as I need you, ADMIT IT!”
“Plus I can tell you a secret if you free me, no one can resist a good secret, BWAHAHA!” Bowser laughed.
“Okay Bowser I’ll help you.” Mario said.
Mario then grabbed Bowser and pulled him off the ceiling and onto the floor.
"Oh, kinda thought I'd just unfold or something.” Bowser said.
"Well anyways, that secret I promised to tell you, there's a secret exit in this room," Bowser explained "I heard those jerks talking about it, lousy, no-good, body folding jerks.”
"A secret exit huh?" Olivia said "Mario let's find that exit quick and get out of here.”
Mario nodded as he began searching. He looked around and noticed that a couple of crates in the back corner looked ajar. He walked over and began smashing them with his hammer revealing a hidden Magic Circle. "Ah another Magic Circle, Mario you know what to do." Olivia said.
Mario walked on top as he unleashed his 1,000 Fold Arms and noticed that the right side of the wall seemed to have a loose flap. He reached over and tore the flap to reveal a hidden exit.
“Ah that must be the secret exit.” Spike pointed out.
“See where would you be without me?” Bowser asked smugly.
“We get it you were right.” Spike rolled his eyes.
“Oh shut up gecko.” Bowser said.
“I’m a dragon!” Spike yelled.
"You're really getting the hang of those 1,000 Fold Arms Mario!" Olivia cheered trying to break up the tension.
Mario and Spike began making their way up the stairs with Bowser following behind.
After climbing a long flight of stairs, and listening to Bowser rant, Mario and Spike finally reached the balcony of the castle, where they were met with a yellow folded Shy Guy, Peach, Celestia, and Luna.
"Eep, she can't see me like this," Bowser said embarrassed.
"Why are you still so flat?" Peach asked.
"Why haven't you joined us in folded glory?" Luna asked.
"Come we can reshape you." Celestia said.
"Patience your royal majesties, this will do just fine," the folded yellow Shy Guy said. “So you're Mario, Princess Peach's hero right?"
“Yes.” Mario nodded.
"Yes you'll do quite well, very crisp, bright colors, I can see it now," The yellow folded Shy Guy said.
“Hey I’m crisp.” Bowser called out.
"So what do you say, will you volunteer your paper body to the cause?” The folded Shy Guy asked Mario. "Or will we have to get crumply, join us yes or no?"
“No thank you.” Mario said firmly.
"So you refuse eh, take a good look at the princesses, their better this way don't you think?"
“No, I prefer them having free will.” Mario remarked.
"Hmph very well, you'll soon feel the power of origami for yourself," The yellow folded Shy Guy sneered.
Spike gulped, scared at what was going to happen.
"Folded Soldiers, come forth!" exclaimed the folded Shy Guy. The doors to the balcony swung open as two folded red Shy Guys emerged along with a folded Goomba.
"I've never seen a folded soldier like that, Mario, does it look like one of your friends?" asked Olivia.
"I never got to see Toad or a pony." The Goomba moaned as he approached the group.
Mario, Olivia, and Spike looked on with sympathy at the Goomba.
“PREPARE TO BE FOLDED!” The folded Goomba shouted.
Three more folded Goombas appeared as they begin charging at Mario and Spike but Spike began holding them off with his fire breath but it seemed to not burn them that much.
“Huh?” Spike said.
“Ha, the folded soldiers are strong against fire and magic, too bad so sad.” The yellow folded Shy Guy smugly explained.
"Oh no, I'm guessing this your first time facing folded soldiers Mario.” Olivia whimpered “Once these flat paper folks have been turned into folded soldiers, we can't turn them back!"
“What?!” Spike asked shocked.
“Seriously?!” Mario asked incredulously.
"Look I know it seems cruel to fight them, but if we don't they'll try to fold you into origami too!" Olivia explained.
"I'd help you attack but my tiny arms don't pack much of a punch, I don't want to get in your way," Olivia said “So I'll cheer you on, but you'll have to do the heavy lifting yourself.”
Mario then jumped on the four folded Goombas damaging them knocking them out.
“Those world famous Mario jumps never disappoint.” Olivia said.
Soon more folded Goombas showed up and Mario then used his hammer on them knocking them out.
"Hmph so you defeated the first Goomba, bravo, I assure you it is far from the deadliest creature in this realm," the folded Shy Guy said “I suppose there's no point in maintaining this charade any longer.”
“Charade?” Mario asked before the Shy Guy began levitating before it unfolded and refolded itself into a new form, this time taking on a similar figure as Olivia but with a purple outfit with yellow colors instead of yellow like Olivia's. the figure had yellow hair that covered it's right eye and a shiny golden crown that sat on top of it's head.
"Brother!" Olivia gasped.
"Brother!?" Mario and Spike asked shocked.
“Now that’s dysfunctional.” Bowser whispered.
"No it can't be, I didn't want to believe it could be you." Olivia cried "How many times have I told you to stop, please you have to stop now!"
"Why couldn't Mario have simply left you in that wall where I put you?" Olly groaned “Sister, if you stand in the way of my ambition, I'm afraid you will not share in my glory as family, Oh and by the way, I am no longer your brother Olly,"
“I am King Olly!" Olly said flipping his hair.
“King Olly?” Mario whispered to Spike who shrugged.
"By the time I am done, all of those miserable Toads and ponies will be folded, the flimsy minions of Bowser shall be reborn as loyal folded soldiers-serving me!" Olly proclaimed. "And I shall fold, crease, and bend the entire paper world to my whim, the birth of a new origami kingdom!" Suddenly his body began to glow in a purple light as five colored streamers of red, blue, yellow, purple, and green began wrapping itself around the castle.
"Over here!" Bowser shouted, Mario and the others looked up as a Shy Guy piloting Bowser's clown car emerged from the distance and flew towards them.
Mario jumped over the streamers with Bowser, Olivia, and Spike following behind him.
They jumped off the balcony as the Shy Guy swooped in and caught the group before maneuvering around the streamers to get to safety. When they looked back, the streamers wrapping around Celestia's castle tightened its grip and tore the entire castle out of the ground and into in air. The group looked down to see a familiar green hat with an L float down and land in the rubble where the castle used to be.
Mario looked at Bowser and nodded, letting him know to make an escape but before they could go, they collided with the red streamer, knocking Mario, Olivia, Spike, and Bowser out of the clown car. The Shy Guy quickly turned around and snatched Bowser before taking off leaving Mario, Olivia, and Spike falling. the last thing that Mario saw was the castle being carried and dropped onto a mountain and a purple light from Olly.
Author's Note
Well I enjoyed making this so far, I would have made this in my alternate account but it keeps taking too long to get approved so I’m uploading it here.
For Mario’s extra companion it was a tough choice between Spike, Starlight, and Twilight.
I made Spike Mario’s extra companion because I felt Spike needed more spotlight.
The Everfree Forest/Ponyville
Mario woke up in some strange woods, he felt uneasy as he began looking around for Olivia and Spike but then he comes across a huge hole.
"Watch out, unless you can fly like me and Spike, I'd be careful over there Mario." Olivia warned the red plumber.
"Do you see a huge hole in the ground, I don't think you'd like falling into it." Spike called out.
"Yeah I see the hole alright, so now what do I do?" Mario asked.
"Well maybe there's a way to fix it. But how? Hmm." Olivia pondered.
"Oh I've got it, catch this." Olivia called out before throwing Mario a bag which he caught.
"What does it do?" Mario asked curiously.
"Well it's empty right now but you need to fill it with confetti." Olivia explained "If you gather enough confetti and sprinkle it on that hole, it might just fix the problem."
"Not to be rude but can you hurry up, we're a bit stuck." Spike said.
"Can you try hitting flowers, grass, and trees with your hammer to knock confetti loose." Olivia suggested.
"And once you're done me and Spike might need rescuing again, so sorry." Olivia admitted bashfully.
Mario began hitting trees, flowers, and grass and it ended up knocking the confetti out, he collected it with the bag and went back to fill the hole with the confetti.
Once the hole was filled up Spike began speaking "Did it work, it sounded like it worked."
"Well if it worked this one time, it should work every time you find one of these, call me optimistic." Olivia said.
Mario then walked through the path to find Olivia's head stuck in the ground and Spike stuck on a tree.
"Oh no, I hope you won't remember me for this moment alone Mario." Olivia said blushing in embarrassment "Maybe you can help me get my head unstuck somehow."
"Yeah and can you get me down from this tree, I'm stuck in between the branches." Spike said.
"Sure thing guys." Mario said before pulling Olivia off of the ground.
"Whew, that's much better, thank you." Olivia said happily.
Mario then smacks the tree sending Spike tumbling down the tree.
“Thanks.” Spike said a bit scratched up.
"All right now...where are we?" Olivia asked curiously.
"Oh I can answer that, we're in the Everfree Forest." Spike explained.
"Do you know how to get out of here?" Olivia asked in hope.
"Well not really, this could be a problem." Spike rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.
Mario and Spike began exploring the area while Olivia stayed in Mario’s pocket. Mario began collecting confetti along the way when they came across a magic circle.
Olivia then jumped out of Mario’s pocket and began speaking “Ooh one of these, here?”
“Oh that means my brother is already folding the world to his whim that’s bad news.” Olivia pointed out.
“Oh no.” Spike said, scared.
Mario then used the magic circle to gain the 1,000 fold arms and bashed the tree down creating a bridge to the other side.
Mario then hit a question mark block which contained a mushroom.
Mario, Spike, and Olivia then continued to traverse through the Everfree Forest they then saw a mountain.
“Hey look it’s the Canterlot Castle and it’s all wrapped up in streamers.” Spike pointed out.
“My brother’s probably still in there with the princesses. Ooh he’s probably just plotting away.” Olivia remarked “I’m going to stop you brother, as your sister it is my duty.”
“Oh speaking of brothers, um...” Olivia said with hesitation “I saw a green hat falling into the hole where the castle used to be. I’m so sorry the green hat was related to your hat wasn’t it?”
“Yes it was, my brother wore that hat.” Mario explained.
“Ooh I just knew I was right about that hat, this is a big problem.” Olivia said worried.
“It might be good to hurry back to Canterlot so we can see what’s going on and so we can find your brother Mario.” Spike suggested.
“Yes let’s-a do that.” Mario said before he and Spike began exploring the Everfree Forest some more until they saw a Toad all bent up stuck in a shrub.
“Uh oh what’s that?” Olivia asked.
“Some kind of face...head...hat... thing is stuck in that shrub, I’ve got a bad feeling.” Olivia called out.
“I’m a Toad!” The Toad called out.
“Wait that’s what a Toad looks like, wow I was way off.” Olivia said.
“That’s because my face is all folded up, please help me!” The Toad begged.
“Don’t worry little guy I’ll-a help you.” Mario said before destroying the shrub with his hammer.
“That’s marginally better, now I just need some flattening out.” The Toad said still bent up.
Mario then used his hammer to flatten the Toad out making him no longer folded.
“I’m flat again, thank you.” The Toad said happily standing up.
“I don’t mean to be rude Toad, but how did your face end up so bent and wonky?” Spike asked.
“Oh it’s bad, real bad.” The Toad explained fearfully “These horrible folded guys showed up and started folding Toads and ponies left and right.”
“Most of us got folded before we could ask what was going on.” The Toad explained.
Mario noticed Spike looked very worried, and he couldn’t blame the dragon as his friends obviously meant a lot to him, so he had a right to be worried.
“Aaaaugh I just retraumatised myself.” The Toad said before running off panicking.
“Sounds like Folded Soldiers to me, this must be my brother’s doing.” Olivia told Mario and Spike.
“I know we’ve got a few other things on our plate but we’ll help any Toads and ponies we find, right Mario and Spike?” Olivia asked.
“Of course we can.” Spike beamed.
“Yes I will make sure to help the Toads and ponies anyway I can.” Mario nodded as Olivia went back in his pocket.
Soon Mario and Spike came across a bunch of tents, Mario thought he heard someone in there screaming and opened it up.
Mario saw a bent pony and her with the hammer to bring her back to normal.
“Oh my gosh you’re the world famous Mario, we’ll thanks for saving me, I’ve been in there for a long time.” The pony spoke happily.
“You’re welcome.” Mario said with glee before going through the area getting more confetti and sprinkling it in a hole.
Soon four Folded Goombas showed up and were charging at Mario and Spike.
Mario and Spike began getting into battle positions.
Mario began jumping on one Goomba’s head while Spike punches one in the face and breathes fire on another one, Olly said that they were strong against fire not that they were immune to it so it could still damage them so he used that to his advantage.
As two folded Goombas began attacking Spike, Mario jumped in between the three and used his hammer on the two Folded Goombas knocking them out.
Spike then kicked two other Folded Goombas in the face knocking them out.
Mario put his ear on all the Folded Goombas.
“Okay they’re still breathing but they’re weak, we have to get out of here before they attack again.” Mario exclaimed which Spike nodded at before they both left.
They then saw a fireplace and a yellow Toad stuck on a log, so Mario decided to pull him out.
“Oh thank you, I don’t know why I was trying to cut firewood like that I have plenty more.” The yellow Toad said.
Mario then hit another tree to get confetti when a folded creature came down, Mario smacked it with it’s hammer revealing it as a Toad.
“Thanks Mario, it was annoying being stuck in that tree.” The Toad said.
Mario and Spike went along the Forest while saving a few Toads and ponies along the way until they saw an opening to a village.
“Look guys it’s Ponyville, my hometown, we gotta head over there, there is a train station that leads to Canterlot.” Spike pointed out excitedly.
Olivia then got out of Mario’s pocket.
“Well what are we waiting for, let’s go.” Olivia said with the same amount of excitement as Spike.
“Alright then that will probably help us.” Mario shrugged as they got out of the Everfree Forest and headed to Ponyville.
When they got to Ponyville they were searching for any Toads and ponies.
“Hmm, it doesn’t look like there’s anyone here.” Olivia pointed out “Oh look there’s a hollow spot over there, which means my brother has been here already , and I’m pretty sure he was up to no good.”
“No somepony has to be here? Big Mac?! Discord?! Starlight?! Anypony?” Spike called out beginning to feel heartbroken.
Mario patted the dragon on the back “It’ll be okay, we’ll find your friends soon.”
“Thanks Mario.” Spike said feeling a little better.
“Hold on there is someone here.” Olivia said looking at a big paper macho Goomba that was doing something to Twilight’s crystal castle.
“Are my eyes playing tricks on me or is that creature way, way too big to be real?” Olivia asked.
“It’s not like any origami I’ve seen before and what is it doing to that castle?” Olivia said.
The paper macho Goomba then turns around with confetti on it’s face.
“IT’S EATING IT!” Olivia yelled incredulously.
“Eww, it’s eating the castle I can’t imagine how yucky that must taste.” Olivia said grossed out “These macho papery things must be the source of the holes we’ve been seeing everywhere, Ugh.”
The paper macho Goomba then turns around again to eat the castle and the group notices an Olly sticker on the paper macho Goomba.
“Wait, look at that thing’s back, that’s a seal of my brother’s face.” Olivia pointed out.
“That might mean that Olly is powering it somehow.” Spike guessed.
“If that’s the case, the seal might be some sort of weak point.” Mario said.
“Maybe if you hit the seal it will get weaker somehow. And then you can take it down.” Olivia said.
Mario then hit the seal on the paper macho Goomba, and began battling it, he began hitting the seal again and again until the paper macho Goomba exploded in confetti.
“So the weak point on that paper macho soldier was my brother’s seal. You should remember that.” Olivia said.
Mario then sprinkled confetti on the castle restoring it back to normal, Spike decided to go inside the castle to see if anyone was there.
To his surprise he, Mario, and Olivia saw a bunch of Toads and ponies inside.
“What the? What’s going on?” Spike asked.
“I think I can answer that.” A voice began speaking which Spike recognized immediately.
“Starlight!” Spike said happily tackling her in a hug.
“Gee Spike, you’re pretty happy.” Starlight said smiling.
“I was just so worried about you and the rest of our friends.” Spike said.
“Well don’t worry about me, I’m fine but what happened to Twilight and the others?” Starlight asked concerned. “Weren’t you guys preparing for the festival?”
“Well a bunch of folded soldiers began attacking us, and Twilight told me to run so I did, and now Canterlot has been taken over by the Origami King, King Olly.” Spike explained.
“King Olly, I remember that name, he was attacking Ponyville with Bowser’s minions and some giant paper Goombas, I tried to use my magic on them but it didn’t affect them as much as I would hope, so I made sure all the Toads and ponies were safe in the castle but then I couldn’t open the door due to the hole in the castle wall.” Starlight told the group.
“Oh apparently there’s a seal on the giant Goombas backs that’s their weak point.” Olivia explained.
“And you are?” Starlight asked curiously.
“Oh how rude of us, we forgot to introduce ourselves I am Olivia and this is Mario.” Olivia explained.
“Oh so you’re Mario sorry I didn’t see you there, nice to meet you I’m Starlight Glimmer.” Starlight shook Mario’s hand with her hoof.
“Anyway were about to head to the train to Canterlot.” Spike explained “Wanna come with us?”
“Sure, and on the way we could probably try and turn the folded soldiers back to normal.” Starlight beamed.
“Wait? But Olivia said we-a can’t turn them back to normal.” Mario pointed out.
“While I was in here, I was searching up some spells to see what was going on with Bowser’s minions as they were definitely mind controlled, so I took a look and saw that Olly was using the Fold of Corruption, where whoever folds someone into origami makes them a mindless minion, it’s a forbidden spell and only some are immune to it.” Starlight explained.
“So that explains why Bowser’s minions now follow Olly.” Olivia said.
“But there is a reversal spell, if I unfold them using my magic it should turn them back to normal.” Starlight said “But here’s one issue, Olly’s spell is really strong, but I’m thinking if Mario weakens the Folded Soldiers I can use the spell and turn them back to normal.”
“Okay that sounds like a plan.” Mario said.
“Great, I’m happy to join your quest.” Starlight said happily.
Soon Mario, Olivia, Spike, and Starlight went outside and saw a Folded Goomba and Folded Koopa waiting for them.
Mario and Spike began battling the Folded Koopa and Goomba, while Mario jumped on the Koopa making it hide in it’s shell, Spike punched the Goomba, the Goomba began charging at Mario but Mario counterattacks by jumping on him. The Koopa gets out of his shell but Spike kicks it sending him to the ground. Both Folded Soldiers were then seen tired.
“Okay I think that’s enough.” Starlight said as she then began performing the spell the Koopa and Goomba suddenly unfolded and they were now no longer Folded Soldiers but they were now back to normal.
“Whoa what happened?” The Koopa asked.
“I don’t know, last thing I remember is being at Canterlot, and then suddenly we were being folded.” The Goomba said.
“You guys were turned into mindless Folded Soldiers but we turned you back to normal.” Starlight explained.
“Oh well thank you for helping us.” The Koopa said with gratitude.
“Yeah I’m glad I have a mind again.” The Goomba said happily.
“Sure thing just stay away from a purple origami guy and a bunch of folded minions.” Spike advised.
“Got it.” The Goomba said before he and The Koopa left.
“Well I guess I was wrong about not being able to turn them back to normal but then again my brother probably lied when he said we couldn’t turn them back to normal.” Olivia said.
“Well that makes sense, let’s-a go get all of the Folded Soldiers back to normal.” Mario said with everyone nodding in agreement.
Meanwhile in Tartarus there were two creatures in cages, one was a red flimsy centaur while the other was a filly with a pink coat, blue curly hair, and wings
“Psst Tirek.” Cozy Glow whispered.
“It is Lord Tirek and what is it now?” Tirek groaned.
“I just wanted to make sure you can see my best friend rock sculpture.” Cozy Glow beamed pointing towards a statue of her and Tirek making the centaur groan.
Suddenly the two teleported away via a purple aura.
Meanwhile in the Everfree Forest a black changeling with blue hair, named Chrysalis was ranting “One day, you'll see! I will defeat Twilight Sparkle and her friends! And they will pay for stealing my kingdom!”
She also was then teleported away by a purple aura.
In the underground a stick was used to make some symbol which ended up causing black smoke with green eyes and a red horn to appear.
Bits and pieces of a statue was seen on the ground, a purple aura then teleported those pieces away.
Soon Tirek, Cozy Glow, and Chrysalis found themselves in the Canterlot castle.
“Lord Tirek!” Chrysalis said angrily.
“A changeling? See she gets it.” Tirek pointed out to Cozy Glow.
“Chrysalis, queen of the changelings! Or at least I will be, when I'm restored to my rightful place! Why did you summon me? What do you want?!” Chrysalis said flaring up her horn.
“Gah, oh golly. We didn't bring you! I thought you freed us from Tartarus!” Cozy Glow said hiding behind Tirek.
“Tartarus? Whoever pulled you from there must have been somepony very powerful indeed.” Chrysalis remarked.
They suddenly heard an evil laugh as they soon see King Sombra appearing from black smoke.
“King Sombra! You have returned? Why did you bring us here?” Chrysalis asked as Tirek flared up his horns threateningly.
“He didn’t but I did.” A voice spoke from above.
Soon the figure flew down revealing itself to be Olly.
“You may call me King Olly.” Olly spoke.
“Wait? Who’s Olly?” Cozy Glow asked Tirek who shrugged.
“Foolish pegasus, I have freed you all so we can work together, however not everyone is here yet.” Olly said before putting together the statue he summoned before using an ancient spell to bring it back to life revealing it to be the Storm King.
“Woo it feels good to be out of there, Uh who are you?” The Storm King said.
“For the last time I am the Origami King, King Olly and I have brought you here because together we will take over this puny land equally and crush all of it’s resistance.” Olly explained.
“And why should I listen to you, I King Sombra work alone.” King Sombra spoke with defiance.
“So you dare to defy me, oh well I tried to be nice but now you shall feel my wrath.” Olly said angrily before levitating Sombra to the air and folding him up into a square like Bowser was.
“Wait, what’s going on, I demand you release me.” Sombra demanded.
“Very well I will release you into the fire.” Olly laughed before levitating Sombra next to a torch, for once Sombra felt fear as he desperately squirmed to try and break free.
“Fine I will join you.” Sombra yelled.
“Glad we see things my way,” Olly smirked before releasing Sombra and unfolding him back to his original form.
King Sombra shook off the fear he felt earlier “I wasn’t really scared I just didn’t feel like dying again.”
“Now any more questions?” Olly asked threatningly as the remaining villains shook their heads with fear.
“Good, now you will all go to the separate areas I will be assigning you to, with some of my Folded Soldiers and we will rule Equestria together.” Olly ordered.
“Got it.” Chrysalis rolled her eyes.
“Fine.” Tirek groaned.
“Good, soon this Kingdom will be all mine.” Olly deviously said to himself.
Author's Note
This is going to be different from the canon Origami King, I'm sure you've noticed that because I removed the talking trees and this is Equestria. I don't hate them but I couldn't find a way to fit them in the plot.
I love Origami King and I think it's a great game but for this crossover to work, I need to make some changes.
So I added Tirek, Cozy Glow, Chrysalis, King Sombra, and Storm King because I felt there would be potential to have them here, they will be replacing the Legion of Stationary because while I don’t hate them, I need to make room for the five villains.