Nintendo World

Chapter One: "The Meeting" or "The Beginning of a New Age"

"Is everyone into position?"

"Yep!"

"Affirmative!"

"Yes, Sir!"

"Perfect! We'll strike in T-ten minutes!"

It was another nice and cozy day in the Mushroom Kingdom; It's been two whole weeks since Bowser had invaded the land and everyone was living their lives as they should: selling goods and buying them, playing games, singing songs, enjoying the pleasures and experiences of being alive.

In town, the legendary Super Mario Brothers were buying new pipes to sustain their plumbing business. While in the store, Luigi was inspecting the varying shapes and sizes of the pipes that were on sale. Mario, although there with his brother to help him look for pipes for their business, was bored out of his wits.

"Hey, Mario!" said Luigi, "Do you think I should go with the elbow joint or the T-joint?"

Mario nonchalantly looked at the pipe joints in his brother's hands and looked away, "Whatever."

"'Whatever'?" Luigi asked confused, "What do you mean 'Whatever'? Just pick one."

Mario yawned, "It doesn't matter to me, Weege."

Luigi started to get a bit annoyed. "It doesn't matter to you‽ Mario! Are you loopy in the head? It's important for us to choose the right type of piping so we can satisfy our customers."

"I know, Weege." Mario sighed, "Sorry if I've been lethargic for the past several days. I'm just a bit bored."

Luigi tilted his head and asked, "Bored of what?"

Mario shrugged, "I don't know; Maybe I just want something to happen. I mean, it has been two weeks since Bowser attacked the kingdom…"

Luigi stopped Mario right there. "Mario! Are you saying you want Bowser to attack the kingdom‽"

"N-NO!" Mario answers back, "I'm not saying that at all. It's just there's nothing exciting to do or anything other than work. Maybe a little thrill would be nice."

Luigi shrugged at that statement, "Personally, I enjoy this peaceful lifestyle. I don't want anything 'exciting' to happen at all!"

And of course, the World has a funny way of jinxing people at the right time, as a heavy explosion was heard which resulted in a massive quake that shook the very foundation of the Mushroom Kingdom. Luigi, after finding his legs after the violent shake, commented, "Did I speak too soon?"

The pair of brothers ran out the store without hesitation and witnessed something I would call 'Deja vu': Bowser and his entire army was invading the Mushroom Kingdom. "I just had to open my mouth!" Exclaimed Luigi as he and Mario instinctively ran to the castle to see if the Princess was still safe and sound.

As the two ran, they heard the all too familiar laugh of the Koopa King himself. "Mario! Luigi!" He roared, "So nice of you to go check on the princess." The brothers looked up and witnessed Bowser whizzing in his Koopa Clown Car.

Mario glared at the monstrous turtle tyrant, "You won't get away with the princess this time, Bowser!"

The King Koopa grinned menacingly, "Oh, really? You and what army?"

Mario turned to Luigi so he can say to Bowser: "Me and this army! The Mario Brothers!" or something on the lines of that. But he was surprised to find…well actually, not find Luigi behind him. "MARIO!" Mario immediately looked up and saw his younger brother being carried away by a large, purple…pterosaur…dragon…thing. I don't know what it is. The point is Luigi was in it's grasp and it screeched and wailed as it fell away brother at hand.

"LUIGI!" Mario exclaimed and began to chase after Luigi and the flying monster.

Luigi shouted back "Don't worry about me, Mario! Save the Princess!"

"But, Luigi, I can-"

"Please, Mario! Protect Peach! She needs you more!" With a hard choice and an equally hard swallow, Mario turned back toward the castle and ran.

"Tough choice isn't it, Mario?" Spat the turtle monster still hovering overhead.

Mario glared back at Bowser, "I don't know what you have up your sleeve this time, Bowser. But you can't stop me!"

Bowser laughed, "Just wait tell you get to the castle!" And with that he hovered away.

Mario wondered why Bowser was whizzing away instead of fighting him. Was this part of Bowser's plan to leave Mario to get the Princess? If so, then why? Mario didn't have time to ponder on these questions and continued running to the castle until he was in front of the bridge that lay before it. Mario stopped dead in his tracks as he beheld the awful sight before him.

Princess Peach, the beautiful, innocent ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, was unconscious. Not only that but was also in the arms of an unknown assailant with greenish skin and a dark outfit mounted on a horse who was just as unsettling as its rider. He was tall, almost as tall as Bowser. He looked at Mario and grinned evilly. "Oh, is this your princess? Well, too bad! She's coming with me!"

"Who are you?" angrily asked the plumber.

The man simply stretched out his hand and shot a powerful wave of energy at him. The blast was so strong the Mario was barely conscious. "You fool!" the man laughed, "I'm Ganondorf! King of the Gerudoes. And Bowser, Ridley and I will take over the world!" He rode off with the Princess still in his grasp and Mario slipped into a deep sleep.

"…"

"According to my sensors, his vitals are functioning."

"If we can get him some medical attention- what! He's waking up."

Mario woke up to the world spinning around like a top and not to mention so blurry that only the base colors of the figures in front of him can be made out. But quickly, the world was right-side-up again and the figure retained their unique detail. "Oh…my head…" Mario slowly got up but was gently pushed back down by a metallic arm.

"Sir, Please. Stay down. You were knock out." The person in front of him sported an orange metal suit with a green window of a helmet. Judging by the voice and the eyes behind the visor, the person inside was a woman. The other figure was a young man, younger than Mario, wearing a green…dress(?) and had a sword on his back, tucked away in its sheathe.

"What's your name, Sir?" asked the woman.

The plumber replied, "It's-a me, Mario."

Sorry. Had to.

"Mario, I'm Samus Aran. I heard your world was under attack by Ridley."

"Ridley?" Mario thought. "Didn't that guy on the horse say something about a Ridley?"

"I've been chasing that bastard for a long time now." Said the woman named Samus much to Mario's surprise of her use of foal language, "I'm a bounty hunter and I've been trying to blast him to smithereens for years." Mario began to think that this woman has some bad blood between her and this Ridley character.

Mario began to ask, "Uh, what does he look like?"

"He's the ugliest son of a bitch in the galaxy!" Samus spat out. "He's over twelve feet tall, purple in color, big ugly wings, a long whip-like tail, lanky limbs, a retarded looking bent neck, did I mention he's ugly?"

The description fit Mario's memory to a tee. This Ridley character kidnapped his brother! "I have to find him!" Mario quickly got up and began to run off only for a little blue light with insect-like wings to hover in front of his face. "Whoa!" Mario yelped in surprise at the thing's sudden appearance.

"And where do you think you're going, Sir?" said the little blue, uh, bug.

Mario stood there awkwardly with the bug in his face. "Uh, who are you?"

"I asked you first!" the little blue fluttering light responded.

"I'm going to find and rescue my brother!" Mario stated, "Now who are you?"

The little light answered, "I'm Navi and I'm a fairy." The fairy flies over to the man in the green…dress thing. "And this is Link."

The young man nods.

Navi continues, "He doesn't talk much."

"He doesn't. But she does." Samus interjects, "I've only known these two for a couple days and she's already driving me crazy!"

"Hey!" exclaimed Navi.

"Look." Mario spoke, "I'd like to stay here and get to know you more, I really do, but I've got to go save my brother and the Princess."

Navi flew in Mario's face again. "Did you just say 'Princess'?"

Mario leaned back from the fairy who was too close to his face, "Y-Yes."

The fairy began to dance around. "Hooray! We found the princess! We found the princess!" Mario smiled a bit at the fairy's innocent joy but was still a little puzzled.

"You know Princess Peach?" He asked.

Navi stopped dancing, "Princess Peach? No! We're looking for Princess Zelda!"

"Zelda?" Mario shook his head, "I don't know a Princess Zelda."

"We're looking for Zelda; Princess of Hyrule. We fear that she was captured by the evil Ganondorf." Navi said, fearful of the name 'Ganondorf'.

The name also jogged Mario's memory. "Ganondorf! Like that man who kidnapped Peach!" He thought to himself. He then spoke to the Fairy, "Is he about seven feet high, greenish colored skin and wearing dark clothing?"

Link frowned and Navi began to tremble. "You mean he was here‽"

Mario nodded, "He captured my Princess Peach!"

"Oh, Link! This is terrible! Ganondorf now may have both Zelda and another princess! How many more guiltless people are going to know his wrath‽‽"

Navi went on and on with her overdramatic babbling when the mustachioed plumber continued, "And he said something about him, that guy Ridley and Bowser are going to take over the world!"

Link gave a bitter look at the sound of that while Navi trembled, "It's even worse than I thought." She gulped.

"Ah, screw me!" exclaimed Samus at the mention of Ridley conquering another planet.

Navi then asked, "Wait a minute. Who's Bowser?"

"Will talk more about all that on the way." Said Samus who was walking toward a spacecraft that Mario didn't even notice until now. She continued, "Everyone. Get in!"

With that being said, the crew walked into the craft and sat into these tiny seats. "Sorry for the lack of room. This spacecraft was really made for only one person." Informed the bounty hunter as the plumber and swordsman struggle for elbow-space.

The ship began to rise as Samus punched in some coordinates. Samus turned to Mario, "You know which way they went?" Mario shook his head. "Damn. Well, we'll just have to go on a wild goose chase, now won't we?" She turns back around and pushes some buttons in front of her that made the engines hum. "Everybody hang on!" She commanded, both Link and Mario grabbing whatever they believe would be good support.

WHOOSH!

Hi. Thank you for reading my fanfiction. This is my first, so go easy on me, you hear? Before the rest of the story progresses, I want to inform you all that there will be no third-party characters in this story. So no Sonic, no Megaman, no PAC-MAN, none of those characters. I know, I know they're technically smash fighters, but I want to focus this story on mainly the Nintendo characters. I hope everyone comes to understand this. Anyway, I hope you like the first chapter and I'll see you in the next one!