Mario and Luigi: Brothers in Equestria

Mario snored as he continued his sleep into a new morning. Luigi, as always, was way up before him and already making Mario and him some mushroom surprise pancakes and defireflower coffee to help get their morning going. Luigi continued to whistle, before hearing the familiar flapping of the mail carrier nearby. He only heard the mailbox open, then close.

Luigi rasied an eyebrow, not hearing the mailkoopa yell out the normal 'Letter for Mario' speech it says whenever he arrives. Luigi turned the heater to the frying pan off and went to investigate, seeing a strange gray thing flying off in the distance. Luigi scratched his head. Must be a new mailkoopa of some sort...

Luigi shrugged as he walked over to the mailbox and looked inside to see what mail had just been delivered. he took it out, surprised to only find one letter in there, addressed plainly as 'From the Princess'. Luigi blinked before turning back.

"MARIO!" He called out to his brother. No response, Luigi sighed. Of course he wasn't going to be up for awhile, that new fire flower clock of theirs was needing some repairs ever since Mario needed to get his sleep. The thing wouldn't shut up and it got on Luigi's nerves as well. Luigi walked inside, placed the letter on the table, and turned the heater back on to continue making those delicious mushroom pancakes for him and his brother.

Mario woke up slowly to the continuous metallic clink of the broken and duct taped clock. Mario tapped it back into snooze mode, the neck of the fire flower clock snapping in half. Mario sighed as he got out of bed and rubbed out his eyes and looked out the window. The beautiful sun shining down on him gently through the curtains. He opened them up and sighed as he got rid of his night hat and put began putting on his clothes. He walked out to his brother Luigi, who was setting up the plates with the delicious smell of break feast looming over and tickling Mario's mustache gently as he sniffed up the smell.

Mario sat down, taking a knife and fork from the table and digging into his food straight away. Luigi gave himself a proud smile as he finished mixing the coffee with the water and placing it next to Mario's plate. He began to serve himself when Mario suddenly dropped his fork and knife on the plate. Luigi looked back to Mario, who was reading the letter in the most confused face he could manage to muster. Luigi walked over and leaned over his brother's shoulder to read the letter himself, and he couldn't help but giggle along with his brother.

"Dear Twilight Sparkle,

I am glad you had made it back safely from your adventure! I am sorry this letter had to be sent through mare mail, but something had interfered with our magic, not letting us to send it any other way. On the other hoof, we have had a lot of strange occurrences around here, who knows what may pop up next? Anyway, me and Luna are still glad that you had made it back alive, and managed to fix Rainbow Dash at the same time. Now Twilight, I know this may be odd for you take in, but I must request you stop sending letters through spike, as the letter will only just burn up into nothing and will never be sent.

From yours truly, Princess Celestia..."

Mario and Luigi began to laugh their mustaches off at that last name. Luigi began taking the letter and placing it elsewhere, then he began pretending he was writing the letter himself, trying to put on the funniest face possible as he danced around, writing on the letter, then he placed it on Derpy's head and walked back into his seat, his brother and him still laughing at their horrible reenactment of writing the letter.

Then they stopped and looked at the gray, smiling pegasus in the room.

"Hi Pinkie, Hi Twilight!" She said happily, her eyes crossing, but managing to look at Mario and Luigi at the same time.

Mario and Luigi looked at each other, then back to Derpy again.

"Hey, did you two go through a bad spell or something? You look different..." She said, concerned for her semi-friends, even if they weren't them at all. Mario and Luigi blinked again, before they realized it, they were being dragged out of their own home. "Come on then! We gotta go and find a way to fix this! We'll bring you back to Rarity's and she could find you a spell or something!" She said. Mario and Luigi began struggling, but to no use, as they soon realized they were sky high in the air. The fearful brothers held onto each other as they looked down at the grown, afraid of falling to a painful death.

Mario was first to look at the area they were headed, and tugged on Luigi's overalls. Luigi looked back with him, and they both held onto their hats as they were headed straight for a strange portal of some sort. The swirling blue mass that seemed to suck them inside it. The brothers looked at each other and gulped, before shaking their hands in most possibly their final farewell, as they were guided inside the portal by their wall eyed pegasus associate.

Mario and Luigi closed their eyes, holding onto each other again in fear as they felt their bodies rearrange as they were pulled apart through the dimensional portal, and then reassembled on the other side. Mario and Luigi were still shaking as they waited for what was probably the inevitable, but it never came. Luigi was first to notice this as he opened his eyes and looked around. Luigi poked Mario, as he cracked open an eye and looked around. They were still in one piece, and were still in flight. They sighed as they no longer saw the portal in eyesight and looked down at the town below them. It wasn't normal toad's town anymore, but it was something completely different then what they expected.

The town below them was completely full of ponies. and not just ordinary ponies, but multicolored ponies! Some with wings, some with horns on their foreheads! But before Mario and Luigi could take a moment to process this, Derpy let out a gasp of fright as she dropped her two companions and flew away. Mario and Luigi screamed, holding onto their hats as they crashed into a nearby house. Their was a family of two eating dinner, a mare and a stallion. They stared at the mustached duo, before slowly backing away from the two. Mario and Luigi got their faces out of the hard wood floor and stared at the couple. Luigi jumped up, a sheepish grin on his face.

"Sorry..." He apologized. This caused the couple to raise a brow at them, before they all heard a loud bang from nearby. Mario quickly responded by doing the most sensible thing possible...

He jumped sky high in complete fright, sending his face through an unopen hole in the roof. Mario looked around to the source of the explosion, and saw a big...thing...

Mario wasn't sure what to call it, but one pony managed to help him to the answer.

"IT'S DISCORD! EVERYPONY RUN!" Screamed a mare in fright as she ran past the house. The couple from before were quick to act as they looked outside and saw the horrible figure before them, then began galloping out of their house, leaving a confused pair of brothers in the half demolished house. Mario got himself out of the roof and landed next to Luigi, before discussing on how to deal with this obvious evil doer.

Luigi was quick to reject, afraid of dying to whatever beast was out there, but Mario convinced him otherwise. They were heroes! They had to do it! Luigi knew this very well himself, and sighed. Duty calls, he guessed. The brothers in Green and Red ran out, holding onto their hats as they ran towards the carnage through the large mass of ponies. Some barely gave the brothers a glance, as they were too busy running for their lives. Mario and Luigi had finally ran out of pony crowd to run through and reached the battle that awaited them. There stood a large beast, which looked like it was made out of multiple other beasts. There were 6 ponies, knocked unconscious under him.

"Oh, I you really shouldn't have awakened me! Now that you're done with, I can finally fulfill my dream in life and take over Equestria!" He let out a menacing laugh, before being stomped in the head. He turned around, rubbing his throbbing head in pain as he looked at the two, before blinking in disbelief. This was definitely something new...

Mario and Luigi stood there proudly, and Luigi began cursing at the beast in full blown Italian. Discord only gave off a small laugh. "This is seriously the best Celestia can do after I had defeated the elements of harmony? A couple of monkeys wearing clothes can't beat me!" he said as he readied himself for battle. Mario and Luigi got ready for battle, as the two jumped at Discord in a combined effort of an attack.

Discord didn't expect them to be so quick. He couldn't use his magic in time, as he quickly lost focus, let it be a stomp from the brother in red or the brother in green. He began to quickly throw punches at the brothers, sending them back a few feet, but they got up instantly and jumped back at Discord, resuming their continuous onslaught of headache inducing jump attacks.

Discord began to back away from the duo in fear. He had no idea what to do. He couldn't use his magic, despite the short amount of time he needed to conduct it, and he couldn't throw a punch in at the two without them both getting up and brushing it off like it was nothing. Discord was breathing, but he didn't feel anything hitting him anymore. He looked around, were they gone? He looked behind him and saw the swirling green and red, firey mass that was combining in the two's hands. Discord gulped as it was sent flying at him. He smacked it back at the brothers, but they didn't let up. They both took out hammers from seemingly nowhere and used their combined strength to hit the fireball back.

Discord began to volley the ball of fire back and forth. If he stopped for even a second to conduct any type of spell he knew, it would only cause him to burn into a crisp! Every time he hit the ball back at his opponents, they managed to make the ball larger in size by combining more fire ball into the swirling green and red mass. Both of Discord's hands were burning up insanely as he smacked the ball back at the brothers. Their hammers had been able to keep them going, probably longer then Discord could have held out.

Discord couldn't take it anymore, the heat was REALLY building up on him! He couldn't go on any longer as his hand slowed down in a final attempt to knock the ball back, and he was met with agonizing pain as his hand suddenly began to start turning back into stone. Discord screamed as he tried to pull his arm from its anchored position in the air, the stone virus climbing up his arm and around his body. He gulped, defeated because he was just too slow. It was even more embarrassing to see his victors dance as they saw what they had done. Discord's head cemented as Mario and Luigi high fived.

Twilight was first to wake up and see the booty shaking brothers in red and green, and the final stone crystallization of Discord. Twilight blinked as she stared at the brothers. The brothers soon noticed Twilight and they stopped their dance right in the middle of it, before innocently whistling and going into a normal standing position and rocking their bodies back and forth, refusing to make eye contact with the pony.

Twilight blinked again, just making sure what was in front of her was the real thing.

And it definitely was....