Super Mario: An Equestrial Adventure

Chapter 1: Bowser Attacks Again

Mario's Perspective:

It was like any other day morning. Quiet, peaceful, boring. When I woke my brother Luigi up to start the day, he didn't answer. He was in one of those dreams that's so hard to wake up from. I strolled into the bathroom to fill a cup of water, dumped it on his head, and he jumped out of the bed, pretty angry.

"Why? Why Mario?! You know not to wake me up this early! Sometimes you really know how to ruin my mornings." He grabbed a towel and slumped to the bathroom to take his shower.

"Didn't you just take a shower?" I asked him in a joking kind of way.

"Oh yeah. Thanks", he growled. So he walked out of the bathroom, threw the towel into a hamper and went downstairs.

Guess his dream was too good to ruin. I followed him downstairs, started to prepare breakfast, when suddenly a knock at the door. I opened it and Toad was out of breath. Like he ran a marathon.

"What's wrong Toad? You never really run like this."

"Mario! Luigi!" he nearly coughed out, "Peach's Castle, Bowser- raided again." From what I can tell, I knew where this was going. Bowser just won't stop kidnapping Peach, trying to marry her, forcing him to the throne. Just how this royalty thing works. But this time, smoke billowed from the highest tower, airships firing at the castle, many Toads screaming in terror. No time to eat at a crisis like this. I ran upstairs to change into my main suit, a red shirt, a pair of overalls, my hat and gloves, and when I came down, Luigi was already gone. He was sprinting to the castle while Toad leaned against the dining room wall, still out of breath. I had to leave the house and follow my brother to the crumbling abomination that was Peach's Castle.

When we made it to what was left of the front gate, many Toads were lying on the ground. Some severely injured, moaning in pain, though some of them were buried in rubble. I tried to dig some out of the bricks, shingles, and a flagpole, when a small arm grabbed a hold of me. I pulled them out, it was just another toad, with a bruised mushroom head and he shrieked,

"Where were you when the attack started? Peach was stolen, the castle is destroyed, many Toads might still be buried alive! You have to help us. Go get Peach back from Bowser's big, greasy hands."

I ordered Toadsworth and the other Toads to begin a search for any survivors in the ruins, while Luigi and I headed for the darkest part of the Mushroom Kingdom. Then I was suddenly stopped when something gripped my ankle. I fell to the ground and started being dragged away. When I looked at what caught me, I almost knew what it was. A long, slimy, pink rope. But it wasn't a rope. It was a tongue. Luigi tried pulling me out from its tight grip, and with one large jerk, the tongue let go of my foot. It retreated into some bushes by the Castle wall and moaning emerged from the bushes. I went over to check it out, and I couldn't believe it. Another familiar face buried in concrete chunks. A large, green nose, white cheek, two eyes protruding from the top of the head and orange spikes down the back of his head. It was Yoshi. I suppose he was standing guard at the Castle when Bowser attacked, and he was half-consumed by what was left of the walls.

The dinosaur started to cough,

"Help me. Mario. I'm stuck." He could barely speak with bricks crushing him. I could tell by the pain in his voice he was that hurt.

Luigi and I started to dig him out, and after scooping up bricks, he finally got loose. We pulled his arms, and he slipped out like the bricks were waxy. And they were. Luigi picked up a brick and saw dark green sludge on a few sides. Nothing we have seen in the Kingdom before. It's like the slime was not of this world. Yoshi grabbed the brick and examined it closer.

"Well, I can't make any ideas of what this is, or where it came from. But whatever it is, Bowser is using it as a new type of bomb. Meaning, it probably isn't good. We should probably head to his castle and stop whatever it is he's up to."

Now it leaves me wondering what he really is planning. New weapons are never a good sign. We began running for the castle again when it hit me. I pulled five things from my pocket. They were a golden triangle with a sphere at one end. They were star chips. I started to craft them into a Launch Star, which if you spin when inside of it, it will send you flying in whichever direction it faces. I connected the pieces, the Star enlarged, and we flew off toward Bowser's Castle. When we reached the castle, he smashed through a stained-glass window and landed in the Entry Hall. The two massive doors that led into the main part of the castle towered over us. Luigi and Yoshi both picked up a small marble pillar and tried knocking the doors open.

"You going to help us or not?" Luigi snapped, still ticked for waking him up.

I grabbed the end of the pillar and with four swings, the doors broke open. We set the pillar down and were confronted by an army minions, a caged Peach, and Bowser himself, sitting in his grand throne. By the look on his mug, he wasn't pleased with our arrival.

"MARIO! What are you doing in my castle? You know how rude it is to come barging in and ruining everything!"

"Are you kidding me?! You obliterated Peach's Castle! And you're complaining about two doors and a stone pillar?" Luigi yelled in fury.

"Uh! Marble! It's marble. Much more expensive. And my doors are meant to keep losers like you out of here." Bowser pulled out a scepter and waved it around. "With this new Dark Staff of Evil Power and Awesomeness, or DSEPA, I have total power over whatever I want. If I wish to have something, I get it. If I want to destroy entire dimensions, I get to. And I can create portals into any dimension I want. Want to see?"

He waved his Staff into the air, aimed it at the ground below us, and created a portal. Right before we can escape, the three of us fell into another world. Peach screamed in terror when we warped away,

"MARIO! LUIGI! YOSHI!"

We fell into what looked like a forested area. On the way down, I hit a few branches, one hits me in the jaw, others slapping me as I fell by. When I hit the ground, regardless of the pain, I got up in search of Luigi and Yoshi. Nowhere. I'm alone. Or at least, that's what I thought, when two figures appeared before me. They both looked like unicorns. One was short, turquoise, and had a messy mane and tail, while the other was taller, yellowish, and had a straight green mane. These two seemed pretty strange, but I can't let that stop me from explaining who I am or where I came from. I tried to keep calm and talk to them.

"Hello. I am Mario, from the Mushroom Kingdom. I don't belong here. I just fell through a portal. I just need to get back so don't mind me."

The shorter one looked at me, "Well we don't know what a Mushroom Kingdom is, but you're in Equestria. My name is Snips. And this is Snails. I think we can help."

"Yeah," the taller one said, "you'll have to meet Trixie. She is an amazing magician. If anything, she might know where you're from and help you. Just follow us."

And bfore I knew it, I was escorted by these two strange unicorns into the woods to see one known as Trixie. But where are Yoshi and my brother? Who are these two? Who is Trixie? What plan has Bowser concocted? And where am I? What is Equestria? All I know is that I can't go bac the way I came. I have to trust these two, who I currently know as Snips and Snails.