#before you ask : Mario and Luigi have faced so many weird things in the mushroom world

[istadris]

So this is a weird idea, but bear with me because these are awesome.

Bowser is frustrated as he is running out of ideas to defeat the Mario Bros. Kidnapping, battling, even karting or tennis, there just doesn't seem to be a way where he could stop them from thwarting him. How could he inflict the most humiliating and final defeat on these two pesky plumbers...?

"I know!!!" Bowser suddenly exclaims, feeling very smart, "seduction!! Forget Peach, I'm going after the Bros this time!"

"Which one-?"

"BOTH OF THEM!!"

Here is Bowser's plan :

Seduce both bros separately

Make them fall madly in love with him

Lead them along for a while

Dramatically reveal the truth, causing a never ending rift between Mario and Luigi as each realises the love of their life has been cheating on them with his own twin! How could he! The drama! The anguish!

Step back and enjoy

Flawless plan, surely! And once Bowser starts enacting it, it actually seems to work! Before he knows, he's so busy planning secret dates with one brother without letting the other know about it, he has to tone down on the kingdom invading business.

Except.

Mario and Luigi are aware of the whole plan.

Even if the bros didn't tell each other everything, Luigi can't lie to save his life and Mario has no concept of discretion, so of course it doesn't take more than a couple of days to realize they've been dating the same (evil, Koopa-shelled) guy.

And. They're rolling with it.

"I mean, I feel a bit bad leading him along like that," Luigi says as he's chilling with his bro on a beach of Delfino Island, "but he kinda started it? Yet I wonder if we should tell him."

Mario only lifts his sunglasses to give Luigi his best "are you really feeling bad for the double-crossing villain who decided of his own free will to star in a soap opera" unimpressed look.

"But as far as preventing him from kidnapping Princess Peach goes, dates with Bowser is more relaxing than running through kingdoms and jungles."

Mario gives Luigi cheeky finger guns in agreement.

"Plus, It's not like he's a bad lover," Luigi admits, prompting Mario to nod appreciatively, "and it's nice to be spoiled for once."

(Does Peach know? My dears, she asks for ~*~details~*~)

[plump-lips-imagine]

Super Mario Bros. Isekai!Reader (Bowser x Reader) (1/3)

You died. That’s how you got into this mess. You don’t know how and when but y’know you died.

And it looks like you were about to die again at the rate you were FALLING OUT OF THE SKY!

Princess Peach, looking at the night sky: Is that star…Screaming?

Reader: ÆAAAAAHHHHHHHH-!!! *Lands hard at the center of toad town*

The last thing you remember was being surrounded by toads and a woman wearing a Crown. Everything goes black.

You wake up in a very fancy room. The bed is very comfortable considering how far you well in the middle of the sky. You look around, the walls and pillars are creamy white and pink, with images of weird-looking mushrooms around and a blond Princess.

you see a toad with a nurse hat on.........Wait. This is all familiar....

You're..........YOU'RE IN THE MARIO UNIVERSE!

you gasp and sit up, groaning in pain from your muscles being sore and scratches on your body. The Pink toad gasps and calls for someone. Peach? You're in Peach's castle!

She walks in with a look of worry in her eyes. You gulp. This is all weird. You have been a big Nintendo fan for years, especially when it came to Mario. It seems like a very detailed lucid dream. But you knew from the pains in your body that you were awake. It made you flustered a bit. What's happening.

She's......really pretty. Her regal pink drees to the shine of her blond hair were surreal in real life. Would it be too weird to ask for her autograph?

She started to ask you questions in a gentle voice, as if not to startle you by how nervous you were acting. She asked you questions about if you were okay or feeling well, and if you knew why you were in the sky.

You answered 'Yes sorta' to your injuries. But 'Why were you in the sky?"........You had no idea. You tell her that you don't remember much. You weren't even from here. This land is unknown to you (kinda). Matter of fact, you tell her you might be from a different universe (it's not like it's far-fetched from the Mario Universe).

She looks surprised by your answer, but you knew she didn't think you were lying. She believed you. The question is, what now?

.........She then speaks up and asks if you had any place to go. You said no. She then asks if you would be interested in staying inside the castle until you find your home.

Peach couldn't just leave you to fend for yourself. It didn't feel right when you were in such a different place. This shocked you by how generous and kind she was being but of course, you said yes. This is a dream come true!

That's the short story about how you came into the Mushroom Kingdom, and how you became Peach's Lady-in-waiting.

What can you say, you worked really hard to stay at the place where you were able to help out a bit in the castle. You even became friends with Peach (goals).

The toads were so kind to you, and they were so cute, and everything was just so beautiful.

You also got to Meet Mario and Luigi along the way. They are even better in real life! You had to fight the urge to ask for an autograph.

All was going well.... until

You were having one of the many tea parties that you and Peach loved doing together when a loud ruckus was happening outside the castle.

Checking outside, you see a huge skyship. Oh No.

That was Bowser's alright. This is happening all too soon. You grabbed Peach's hand and make a run for a possible escape when he tries to kidnap her.

You instinctively grab a random power-up just incase something went wrong for Mario to take. You didn't have time to see what you grabbed.

Maybe sneaking in the backdoor can buy some time before he-

You are quickly interrupted by bumping into a large figure in your way while you were lost in thought. You had to look up to see his face. The Koopa King himself, Bowser.

"BWAHAHA! Trying to leave so soon, Princess? It's rude to leave a guest waiting. Nice Try!" He taunted as the princess took a step back behind you.

You're not really thinking. But you couldn't just let peach get taken. It'll be a minute before Mario and Luigi get here.

'This is a bad idea.' You thought to yourself as you stood your ground, although shaking a bit in fear. "Leave her alone! S-She's tired of all this kidnapping! Please Leave!" You urge the Monster.

He only looks at you with a mix of anger, confusion, and disgust.

"Who is this pipsqueak!? OUT OF MY WAY IF YOU KNOWS WHAT"S GOOD FOR YOU!!" He growled.

You Gulped. This is a REALLY bad idea. But your body moved on it's own as you suddenly jumped up and skull bash your head to his surprisingly strong that it shocked both of you as he went back a bit.

Peach looked in shocked as you did this. this was a sight to behold. No one was brave enough to fight him besides the Mario Bros.

You don't know why you did that but it hurts. Really bad. He held his head in pain. He then growled and roared loudly. His piercing red eyes glaring down at you. "HOW DARE YOU!!" You didn't have time to think as you were sent to the wall with a powerful punch to the face. You hit the wall with a thud and felt a bit of blood in your mouth. And felt something moving in it and spat it out. A tooth. You took out your tooth.

Although vision blurry, you saw move closer to Princess Peach. She called out your name in worry and fear. You had to do something, but it hurt to move.

You then remembered the item you took with you. You pulled it out. A feather.

You lookin front of you. You couldn't wait for Mario to show up. You never tried a Power-u but first thing for everything!

As Bowser Stepped closer to Peach, he was suddenly stopped by a foot coming towards his torso!

It was you, in a cape, with a bruised cheek and bloody head.

You still think this is a bad idea, but whatever.

"You don't know when to quit do you? PEACH IS MINE!"

That's how your battle started. As someone who has never fought before, at least with a Giant Koopa, You were still at a disadvantage. You got hit, scratched and stomped on. But you were resilient. And didn't stop coming back up

Which is why you won. Peach was able to buy you some time with her heart power and weaken him. Just Enough for you to do the famous tail swing out of the castle., sending him flying.

...... You then collapsed out of exhaustion and from being beaten.

Peach gasp and hurries to your side. "Oh My Goodness! Are you alright?!"

With a blank stare, you smile dumbly at her, your new gap teeth showing . "You're safe, thank goodness……When did you get 3 heads?"

Peach smiled and giggles at you, worry still in her eyes. "My hero…let's Get you healed up, ahall we?"

"Okey dokey."

Meanwhile, Somewhere else

A loud Thundorus roar echo across Dark Lands, shaling the castle that settled there.

"Calm Down, your Angrieness!" Kamek tries to pacify the King.

"THIS BLOWS!!" He stomps and stomps in a Tantrum fit. Bandages on his chest, tail, and his forehead where covered up. "

"Not only do I have to deal with thosel lousy brothers, BUT NOW A RANDOM BROAD!?" He stomps the ground some more!, shaking the ground!

"IT'S NOT FAIR!"

He's so mad. The next time he goes to that Castle, he's going to pummel you. He doesnt need anyone else interfeing with his evil plans! Count your days, pipsqueak! You mess with the wrong King!

[coll2mitts]

Super Mario Bros. (1993)

Thanks to the awesome people who donated to Extra Life (you still can, btw!)  y'all will now be treated to a retrospective on the 1993 classic movie, Super Mario Bros.  When I took on this milestone, the first (and only) person I messaged for ideas on terrible (but wonderful) films based on video games was my friend Max, who has a history of viewing and talking about bad movies.  He suggested this, and while I was aware of this magnificent piece of cinema history, I had not had the pleasure of viewing it myself.  He hooked me up with a copy, and to say this film lived up to my expectations would be an understatement.

I couldn’t help but be charmed by this movie.  It is filled with so many questionable creative choices that were fucking ridiculous.  Mario and Luigi not being blood related?  Sure.  Cheesy Italian accents replaced with a New York ones?  Yeah, why not?  Having all the enemies in Super Mario Bros. be canonically dinosaurs?  I mean... It's a choice informed by the great media dino wave of 1993, but whatever.  Yoshi is a dinosaur, if we want to extend that to goombas and Koopa for whatever reason, I'm down.  Having these dinosaurs live underneath New York City in a parallel dimension?  It's based on a video game, why the fuck not?  Everything is so goddamn bonkers.

The opening credits roll, and we’re told that 65 million years ago, a meteor created said underground parallel universe dinosaur land.  We witness a human-looking woman, who is really a dinosaur, leaving an egg baby on a church doorstep.  Don’t think about it too hard, the logistics of a human giving birth to an egg that size are just... it’s gross to think about.

We’re then introduced to the titular characters, Mario Mario and Luigi Mario.  Yes, their last names are Mario.  Making them the Mario brothers.  Because this movie is interested in answering the important questions.  Mario is the owner of a failing plumbing business, while Luigi is a conspiracy theorist who would have really enjoyed modern-day YouTube.

While they’re out trying to find work, they run into Miss Amy March herself, Daisy, who is an archeologist in charge of digging up dinosaur bones from a New York City construction site.  She’s being forced off the property by the mob, who apparently are annoyed that a blonde lady in cargo shorts is coming between them and whatever the fuck they’re building.  

They try and intimidate her, she storms off to use a payphone to call for security, and is almost picked up by two inconspicuous bozos in a cab who apparently are stealing Brooklyn women off the street for no reason.  Their plan is quickly thwarted by a random moving pane of glass.

Instead, Daisy runs right into Luigi, who forgets how to human once he sees her pretty face.  He asks her on a date, where she reveals even more exposition.  She believes the meteor that destroyed the dinosaurs landed in New York City.  Oh, and also, she’s the abandoned egg baby.  Luigi is also an orphan, and this shared trauma apparently gets them both hot and bothered.  They wander off to the dig site, because an underground pit attached to a sewer is so romantic, and it is also where Daisy feels the most comfortable.

What if we made out at the bone pit?

Their touching moment is cut short when the mob sabotages the plumbing in the sewer and water starts flooding the area.  They run to get Mario, because he is a plumber, to fix the pipes, which is so fucking clutch, I love it so much.

While the Mario brothers are distracted, Daisy is captured by the weirdo twins and dragged into the alternate dinosaur universe.  Mario and Luigi follow, and we’re treated to the most fucking amazing transition scene of Bob Hoskins spinning wildly through colorful rocks.

Turns out, parallel dinosaur world, or Dinohattan, is fucking lit as hell.  I am convinced that Futurama based their sewer city on this movie.

King Koopa, who is a dinosaur with badly bleached hair gelled back in an effort to look like Michael Douglas in Wall Street, has taken over Dinohattan.  He is the one who asked the goons to kidnap Daisy, because of the tacky crystal necklace she wears.  Apparently, it is a piece of the meteorite that crashed into earth, and once he puts the piece back into the original space rock, the dinosaur world will merge with the mammal world after 65 million years of his people being sequestered underground, and Koopa will have endless resources at his disposal.  Also, Daisy is a princess, and her dad is a giant fungus taking over the city, so that’s totally normal and not at all weird.

Problem is, the two idiots he sent to grab her didn’t think to check if she was wearing the necklace.  Turns out, Luigi has the necklace, or had the necklace, as they are quickly mugged by a granny, who is then robbed by a lady with a bright red spiky latex coat and springy robot feet.  The brothers are then arrested by the dinocops and are grilled by Koopa for the whereabouts of the rock.  When they play dumb he uh... reacts in a proportionate way.

I am not even going to attempt to explain the devo process...  It is a combination of insane and fucking disgusting.  Whoever in the costuming department looked at the cute fucking mushroom Goombas in the video game and decided to translate them into this scaly, jagged-teethed nightmare fuel deserves to be committed.

Also, there’s only one lizard king, and that’s Jim Morrison, so back off, buddy.

What is hilarious to me is this is the story the screenwriters came up with.  Super Mario, as a video game, doesn’t have much lore, right?  You slide down pipes, you jump on mushrooms, and you save the princess from a spiky turtle.  They took that game and created... This.  A parallel underground dinosaur universe that has a sentient fungus as a king, taken over by a human-like t-rex that devolves other lizards into tiny-headed night paralysis demons.

The middle of this movie alternates between a slog of expositional scenes about Daisy being a princess, and pretty entertaining action scenes of the Mario brothers running from Goombas while trying to find and save Daisy.  Mario and Luigi steal a cop car and drive it off a cliff Thelma and Louise-style; They cosplay as Ketchup and Mustard to steal the necklace back from Big Burtha while asking her to stomp on them; They jump off a bridge into a garbage truck; They break the pipes in Koopa’s building to freeze everything, and get past an elevator full of Goombas by making them dance.

Watching Daisy damsel-in-distress-it in Koopa’s high rise office building and fend off advances by a long-tongued dude who devolved her father into a mushroom was pretty boring and disturbing.  Alternatively, witnessing Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo pretend to jump on giant sheets of fungus really sold this movie for me.  It succeeds when it tries to be ridiculous and fun, and fall flat when it attempts to integrate any sort of drama that I’m assuming was added to make this story more appealing to adults.

Mario and Luigi eventually find Daisy, and she introduces them to her father - a giant dripping blob suspended from the ceiling.  Luigi wants in her pants badly enough that he pretends this is a reasonable thing to do.  Mario heads further into the building to free the other ladies kidnapped by tweedle dee and tweedle dum that they initially thought were Daisy, but weren’t.  The newly assembled group are able to escape by sliding down the frozen pipes on a mattress before they are green-screen launched out of the pipe and back into the greater Dinohattan area.

The amount of times Mario and Luigi use their plumbing skills to overcome obstacles may be my favorite part of this movie.  The plot goes out of its way to justify a really bizarre character trait for the original game.

Anyway, the end of this movie comes at you fast.  First, the sentient fungus king gives Mario and Luigi a bomb, and they decide to wind it up and aim it at Koopa.  This takes about 10 minutes of screen time to matter again.

Koopa’s second-in-command tries to merge Daisy’s stolen necklace with the meteor, and instead gets skeletoned to bits, prompting the best line delivery reaction from Daisy, a deadpan “Yikes”.

Because the necklace has now been returned to its resting place, the worlds start to merge Infinity War style.

“Mr. Koopa, I don’t feel so good.”

Koopa and Mario end up back in Manhattan, and Koopa just starts shooting his devo guns at human mobsters, turning them back into primates, and giving their wardrobe a whole new literal definition of monkey suit.

Luigi uses his super plumbing powers to drill the necklace back out of the meteor, separating the worlds again.  The bomb finally goes off, they devo Koopa into slime, and the citizens celebrate by immediately painting over his ever-prevalent propaganda.

The king evolves back into a mushroom person or something, and Daisy stays in Dinohattan to get to know her father better.  Mario and Luigi return to their lives in Brooklyn as plumbers, and their heroic acts make them conspiracy community famous, as they now refer to our heroes as the Super Mario Brothers.  Roll Credits.

Except not, because Daisy returns to ask for the help of a couple of great plumbers, setting up a sequel that will never, ever happen because there is no god and we’re not allowed to feel joy.

Honestly, Super Mario Bros. is great.  It owned every bold plot and visual choice it made, and I have to respect it.  I could listen to John Leguizamo say Mario like 700 more times.  Y’all are missing out if you think you’re too cool to watch this movie.

I’ll be back to musical reviews later this month.  I have a few seasonally appropriate movies in my big red sack waiting to be placed under the tree...  Yes, I meant to phrase it that way.

[auroraknux]

I wrote something new for my Brotherswap AU. This time, it’s some Mario x Peach fluff! I’m not used to writing any of these characters at all, so I apologize if I messed up their personalities or dialogue.

I tried to convey that Mario and Luigi are still themselves, despite some changes to their personalities caused by their different circumstances in this universe. I don’t know how well that got across. (Just in case the story didn’t make it clear enough: Mario only acts shy around Peach, which of course is because of his crush on her.)

Oh, and for anyone who isn’t familiar with this AU: basically, Mario and Luigi’s roles are switched. Luigi is the hero, and Mario is the one who doesn’t get much attention.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I wanted this to take place during a party but I wasn’t sure what to have the party be for (I didn’t want it to be another “rescued from Bowser” party), so I randomly went with “the summer solstice”.

Story is under the cut. Hope you enjoy it!

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It was the night of the summer solstice. Every year, the Mushroom Kingdom held a festival for this occasion at Peach's castle.

The castle was crowded that night. It seemed as if the entire kingdom had come to celebrate. There were so many people there that some of them had to stand outside. Fortunately, the castle staff was prepared for this, and had food and activities available both indoors and outdoors.

Peach scanned the crowd, looking for one specific person. She was a little worried that he wouldn't be here, given his anxiety around large crowds. However, he had promised that he would come, and he wasn't one to go back on his word. Finally, Peach spotted a man in green.

"Luigi!" she shouted with a wave.

Luigi looked up, and smiled when he saw her. "Hey, Princess!"

Peach went over to him and gave him a hug. "It's good to see you, especially when I'm not being kidnapped."

Luigi hugged her back. "Yeah, it's nice to have a break for once."

They let go of each other, but kept smiling.

"How have you been?" Peach asked.

"I've been doing okay. I've been very busy, though. There was a huge pipe problem in Toad Town that everyone was expecting me to fix. Good thing Mario was there to help!"

"Where is Mario, anyway?" Peach asked. "Did he stay home again? He's been doing that so much lately."

Luigi grinned triumphantly. "Nope! I got him to come with me this time."

Peach's heart fluttered. "Really? Where is he?"

"Probably eating all of the cake," Luigi said with a chuckle. "We should go find him before there's none left."

Sure enough, Mario was stuffing his face with cake.

"Come on!" a toad groaned. "Leave some for the rest of us, uh...Marvin, was it?"

"It's Mario," Luigi corrected.

Mario turned around. "Hey, Bro!"

His demeanor turned shy when he saw who was with Luigi. "Oh, and...P-Princess."

Peach smiled. "Hello, Mario! It's good to see you. I'm really glad you came."

Mario fidgeted with his gloves. "It's good to see you too."

An awkward silence followed.

Peach coughed. "Luigi, would you mind taking care of that...thing we talked about?"

Luigi looked confused. "What thing, Princess?"

"You know…" Peach glanced back and forth between Luigi and Mario.

"Oh." Luigi realized what Peach was trying to do. "Right, right! I'll go, uh...do the thing."

He gave her a quick wink before running off (most likely planning to hide from the crowd in the bathroom again).

"What was that about?" Mario asked.

"Oh, nothing." Peach made a beckoning motion. "Mario, will you please come with me? I want to talk to you."

"Me?" Mario winced at how his voice cracked when he said that. He cleared his throat. "S-sure, Princess."

He finished the last bit of his cake, then practically jumped over to Peach.

"Okie dokie! Lead the way, Your Majesty!"

Peach smiled. "This way, please."

Peach led Mario through the castle. They soon came to a flight of stairs.

"I've never been to this part of the castle before," Mario said curiously.

"I don't bring many people here."

Peach glanced around to make sure no one was watching, then grinned mischievously. She leaned down towards Mario's ear.

"I'll race you to the top," she whispered.

Mario grinned back. "You're on, Princess!"

The two stood at the very bottom of the stairs.

"Ready…" Peach said. "Go!"

The two began to run up the stairs. Well, Peach ran. Mario's method was to use his signature jump, which allowed him to climb multiple stairs at a time. He may not have been able to jump as high as Luigi, but it was still rather impressive.

Mario reached the top first.

"Yahoo!" he cheered, doing a victory pose.

Peach giggled. "Oh, darn! You win, Mario."

When she got to the top, she motioned for Mario to follow her again. They soon came to a set of double doors. Peach opened the doors, and the two stepped out onto a balcony. They were greeted with a cool breeze, a strong contrast to the blistering heat they had endured during the day.

"This part of the castle gives me the best view of the stars," said Peach.

Mario looked up at the sky, eyes filled with wonder. "Mama Mia…"

"Beautiful, isn't it?" Peach asked softly.

Mario nodded. Then he looked back at her. "Oh, yeah, didn't you want to talk to me about something?"

Peach nodded. She was a little nervous, but she couldn't put this off any longer. She took a deep breath before she began.

"Mario...I'm sure you've heard those rumors about Luigi and me."

"Oh. Yeah, I have." Mario averted his gaze, his expression neutral. "Luigi, uh...he said none of that was true."

Peach nodded. "People like to speculate about us being a couple, but we're just friends. Luigi is a great guy, but he's not really my type."

"Really?" Mario's eyes shifted nervously. "So, uh...what is your type? I-if you don't mind me asking, I mean."

Peach smiled. "Well...there is a guy that I like. He's a little shorter. He's outgoing and energetic, and loves a challenge. He's very kind and selfless, and is always willing to help those in need. He's very supportive of his brother. He absolutely loves cake. And, he has the most adorable smile."

"Wow," Mario replied. "Sounds like a great guy. Does he know you like him?"

Peach blinked. Is he teasing me, or is he really that oblivious?

"I’m not sure if he knows."

"Well, you should tell him! I'm sure he would like you back."

"Oh?" Peach playfully raised an eyebrow. "Why do you think that?"

"Well…" Mario looked down at his hands. "You're very kind and compassionate, always looking out for your people. You have a pretty voice, and a cute laugh. You're really fun to go kart racing with, or play party games with, or do anything with. A-and, you're really beautiful too. You're a wonderful person, and anyone would be lucky to be loved by you."

Mario was blushing, and Peach was pretty sure she was too.

Wow...he really feels that way about me?

"S-sorry, was that weird?" Mario asked.

"Not at all. I think that's really sweet of you to say." Peach walked closer to Mario. "So...you think I should tell him?"

Mario nodded.

"Hmmm, maybe I'll do it now," Peach continued. "He's here at the party right now, so this is a good chance."

"He is? You should go find him, then!"

Oh dear, Peach thought. He really is that oblivious.

"I don't have to."

"Huh?" Mario looked confused. "What do you mean?"

Peach gently took Mario's hand in her own. "Because he's right here."

Mario stared blankly at their intertwining hands for a minute, as if trying to comprehend the words he had just heard. Then his eyes went wide.

"...Oh. Oh."

Peach giggled. "I like you, Mario. I like your laugh, your smile, your voice, your energy, your loyalty to your brother, everything. I think you're a great person, and that you deserve more appreciation than you get."

"You...you really think so?" Mario asked softly.

He's not used to being complimented by people other than his brother, is he? Peach realized with a pang of sadness.

She knelt down beside Mario. Gently, she removed his hat. She was amused at his confused look.

"Yes, Mario. I mean every word.”

And with that, she planted a kiss on his nose.

Mario's face turned almost as red as his hat, eyes wide in surprise. Peach giggled. Once the shock wore off for Mario, a bashful smile formed on his face.

"Th-thank you, Princess. That means a lot, coming from you."

Peach ruffled Mario's hair with her free hand. "There's no need to be so formal when it's just us. You can call me Peach."

"Okay, Pr--uh, Peach."

Peach stood back up, still holding Mario's hat.

"Can I have that back now?" Mario asked.

"Hmmm, I dunno…" Peach said with a teasing smirk.

She took off her crown and put the hat on her head. "How do I look?"

Mario giggled. "Not bad!"

Gosh, he's so cute, Peach thought.

"Here." She placed her crown on Mario's head. "Now you can be the princess!"

Mario grinned. "For my first act as princess, I declare that everyday shall be National Pizza Day!"

Peach bowed. "It shall be done, your majesty!"

They both laughed.

"Ahem."

They both turned towards the sound of the voice. Toadsworth was standing in the doorway, tapping his foot.

"Princess, the guests are getting restless. They keep asking where you are. Please come back downstairs as soon as possible, before they begin to fear that you've been captured again."

"I’ll be right there, Toadsworth." Peach turned to Mario. "Well, this was fun while it lasted. We'll have to pick a less busy night to go on a date."

Mario nodded. "I'd like that."

After swapping hats again, the two followed Toadsworth back downstairs. The old toad's suspicious glances in Mario's direction didn't go unnoticed by either of them.

When they returned to the party, they quickly spotted Luigi at the snack table. He waved at them. Peach gave him a wink. He beamed in return.

"Will you excuse me for a moment?" Mario asked Peach.

Peach nodded. "Of course."

As Peach went to see her other guests, Mario went over to Luigi.

"I saw that." Mario crossed his arms. "You two planned this, didn't you?"

Luigi smiled sheepishly. "Heh, looks like you caught me, Bro. After you told me you liked her, I talked to her and found out that she liked you too. So I encouraged her to confess to you, and I suggested she do it during the festival."

"So you didn't just drag me out here because you thought I needed to get out more. You wanted to set me up with Pe--the princess."

Luigi nodded, looking rather proud of himself.

Mario smiled softly. "Thanks, Weeg."

Luigi hugged him lightly. "Anything for my Big Bro!"

He let Mario go. "Now go find your girlfriend. I'm sure you want to spend some time with her."

Mario's heart skipped a beat at the word "girlfriend".

I guess she really is my girlfriend now, isn't she?

He waved as he walked away. "Catch you later, Weeg. And make sure there's some cake left later!"

"As if you haven't had enough already," he heard Luigi mumble.

[milos-fanfics]

The Evils Within - Chapter 14

“Where do you think he could be?” Peach asked. Both she and Mario sat on either side of the bed, Luigi sitting up in the middle of it.

“Well, I did have this dream where I saw him on his way to Sarasaland. Maybe he's there," Luigi responded.

"Sarasaland? Daisy's place? Why would he go there? I thought he hated us, not her," Mario thought aloud.

Luigi shrugged, "I don't know. Power maybe? Sarasaland is made up of four kingdoms after all. But whatever he's doing there, I know it's not good."

~~~~~

Mario climbed out of the warp pipe, carefully stepping to the ground. Luigi followed right after, tripping over the rim of the pipe and to the ground with a quiet, but audible, “Owie.” Hearing his quiet exclamation, Mario turned to face him, rushing to help him off the ground.

The two wound up in Sarasaland’s warp room. It was vaguely similar to the Mushroom Kingdoms' except for the four green-colored pipes labeled to the adjacent kingdoms.

"Alright, you know this place better than I, so you can search the castle and I'll check the kingdom’s center for any hints to where he could be, okay?” Mario said as he and Luigi began to walk through the castle’s corridor.

“Just be safe, okay?” Luigi asked in a worried tone. Mario nodded before he reached the castle entrance, being careful as to not draw attention to himself.

~~~~~

Luigi began throughout the many rooms. For the most part, it was empty. There was the occasional toad from here and there, but most didn't notice Luigi was there. The ones that did, however, their reactions were… unwelcoming to say the least.

They all feared him. They either ran or hid from. They didn't want anything to do with him. He found it weird but he understood how they were feeling but he didn't like it

The first floor of the castle was Mr. L free. Luigi made it to the staircase that connected the first and second floors. He carefully made his way up the stairs. He was only ever let up the stairs once or twice, but he still knew his way around, even if the hall was just a straight line. He poked his head in and out of each room, looking back and forth throughout each one. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, that wasn't until he reached the last door in the hall.

Luigi lightly pushed open the door with a flower in the middle of it. It was Daisy's room. Luigi looked back and forth throughout the room. It was fairly normal. He backed out of the room before realizing something caught his attention. He looked back in the room and there lied Daisy. Asleep. At least, that's what it looked like at first glance.

She lied on her bed, hands to her side, Lightly breathing. The way she lay, facing to the ceiling, rather than her side, implied that someone placed her there. A large gash visible on her forehead and her nose was slightly bloodied. Someone had hurt her. 

Luigi ran over to the side of the bed. He had to help her. He reached into his overall pocket and pulled out a super mushroom. It was his last one. He gently placed it in her mouth and started to back out of the room. He didn't want her to be confused if she happened to wake up. 

He was only a few steps from the door when he heard a rustle, followed by a groan of discomfort. Luigi quickened his pace and had only placed a foot in the doorway when he heard her voice. 

“Luigi?” Daisy asked in her dazed state.

Luigi stopped dead in his tracks and turned to face her, a nervous look on his face. Daisy has sat up. He marveled at the fact her injuries were already healed. “What are you doing here?”

“I-” He stopped. He couldn’t tell her about Mr. L. “You looked like you needed help…”

“Help? You’re here to help? After what you did to me?” Daisy’s tone was rather harsh.

Luigi was simultaneously confused and afraid. “...After what I did?” He quietly asked himself.

“Don’t play dumb with me. You know what you did!” She leaned forward and pointed a finger to him. “Please just- just go…” she leaned back into her pillows. Her tone shifted from slightly angered to a tad hurt. “I don’t know what you did out there,  but I don’t want any more of it…”

Luigi's eyes widened. It was just like the dream he had the previous week. He knew he couldn't defend himself, no matter how hard he tried. He continued out of the room and down the steps, blinking back the tears that started to form in his eyes.

Mr. L was nowhere to be found. That was both a good and a bad thing. It was good because he wasn't terrorizing anyone in the castle, but it was bad because he was probably off terrorizing someone or someplace else.

~~~~~

Mario walked throughout the center town of Sarasasland. He was shocked at the sight of it all. Bowser's minions like parakoopas and goombas roamed the streets, toads hiding in alleys, making secretive trades of trivial things like food and water, others hiding out in the central town's ruins.

He did his best to lay low and not draw too much attention to himself. That was short-lived, however, as a toad bystander gasped at the sound of him. A couple of others turned in the direction of the sound. They ran towards him, surrounding him. They look like they've been through a lot. Cuts, bruises, ragged clothing. What happened here? 

They begin talking over one another. Concerns and relieved comments. Mario couldn't understand. “Please- please. One at a time,” He cut them off from their overlapping comments. 

One toad, in blue color, spoke up first. “Oh man, are we glad to see you,” he said in a relieved tone.

Another toad, this one green with small brown pigtails sticking from under her hat butted in. “That brother of yours. Something is really wrong with him,” she voiced her concern.

“Yeah, look what he's done to this place!” An angry yellow toad gestured to the chaos that surrounded them.

Mario shook his head at the thought of Luigi, his younger and much more innocent brother, doing such a thing. “You're saying… Luigi did this?” he asked. The group collectively nodded, muttering variations of ‘yes’.

“We would have asked for your help sooner, but he won't let us out of this place,”  a quiet purple toad spoke up.

Mario was about to ask more questions when a blue cloud of smoke appeared before them. Mario was pushed out of the way behind a pile of rubble by the blue toad. From the cloud, appeared the temporary leader of the Kingdom, Kamek. He floated on his broomstick, staring daggers to the group of the remaining toads. They began sweating nervously as the Magikoopa carefully examined them before shrugging and flying off to terrorize some other toads.

Mario, along with the blue toad, poked his head from behind the pile. He looked to the group with a confused look, his head tilted to the side a bit.

“If Kamek catches you breaking the rules, who knows what happens to you?” the blue toad exclaimed. “And you’re breaking the first one!”

“No entering or exiting the kingdom without permission,” the green toad finished for him. “Your brother is not going to be too happy when he finds out about this.” A question popped up in Mario is mind. “Do you guys by any chance know where he went? He asked.

The purple toad shook his head. “No, he had more ‘important things’ to do, whatever that means,” he shuddered.

Mr. L wasn't around. Mario needed to find Luigi so they could report back to Peach. “Don't worry guys, I'll put a stop to this. I'll help free your kingdom as soon as I can.” He said with a nod, starting to walk back to Daisy's castle to find Luigi.

~~~~~

Luigi clumsily stumbled down the castle, clearly in distress. He needed to find Mario and fast. Sure he didn't exactly like being ignored in the past, but this was no better. He didn't like the looks. He didn't like the fear he caused. He didn't like not being able to simply say hi to someone. He wanted to go back. Back to being ignored. Back to being just a shadow.

He tried his hardest to block them out but he knew they were there. He felt like a monster and he didn't even do anything. His breathing quickens as he held back tears. Everything felt like it was spiraling out of control. He couldn't take it.

Then, he felt a hand on his shoulder. He didn't need to look to know whose it was. Almost instantly, most of his stress evaporated. He turned around to see Mario giving him a light smile. 

It was going to be okay.

~~~~~ Chapter 13 - Chapter 15 Cover

[superwolfiestar]

Super Caballeros Rewritten Ch.6

Panchito and Jose then proceeded to enter the road which, according to their map given to them by Professor Gyro, should lead them to the Darklands. It was almost nightfall and they decided it would be best to make camp by a huge tree that overlooked a small stream.

"Good thing I was born with magic abilities." Jose then use his hand and suddenly, the fish pole appears and he then went to explore the small stream in the pursuit of trying to catch fish.

Panchito decided to pitch the tent that’s made out of leaves. He then took out the picture of Boy Princess Donald that Scrooge handed to him during the briefing of their mission. The rooster couldn't believe that such a brute could ever get his hands on this wonderful creature. "He's so beautiful," thought Panchito. "If I could save him, if I could defeat the one they call Zeus, big would he even accept me as a friend? A boy like that has to be real shallow considering that there were no love interests showing up at his door to escort him dates or whatever they do in this Kingdom." Panchito then placed the photo back with all the briefing documents, grabbed his fishing pole, and decided to join his boyfriend at the stream.

"Mi amour. Any luck?" Panchito asked, sitting a few feet away from Jose, kiss his beak and proceeded to start fishing.

"Nope. fish aren't biting today." Jose replied, getting a little frustrated.

"Well. Let me show you eh Jose." Panchito said giving his lover a wink as he reeled in his first fish. "See it's that easy." Panchito chuckled to himself on how lucky he got getting a fish on his first try, while Jose just got annoyed from Panchito's lucky attempt. "So… Jose, can your magic turn people back from stones? I mean. You have so many magic abilities in you but can you undo the evil spell? And also, what do you think of this mission?"

"Panchito," replied Jose casting out his fishing reel further into the stream. "I don’t know if my magic can break the evil spell. His magic is different than mine. We don’t know how powerful he is. And to what do I think of this mission? Well, we have to defeat King Zeus, save a lovely boy princess, and be back in New Tenderfeet City. Why did you ask?”

"I don't know Jose," said Panchito getting a little tense. "I think we can have a fresh start here. You know what I mean? I mean there has to be more than just saving boy princess here and then leaving."

"You like Boy Princess Donald that much huh?" asked Jose completely starting his boyfriend.

"I-I…m-mean yes. Could you blame me though, he's a beautiful creature we have never seen before. One of a kind. His personality has a lot to be desired, but I won't know until the end. You can't tell me you didn't feel the same way about him too, right?" Panchito asked trying to put Jose on the spot now.

"Y-yes." Jose said completely blushing now from revealing this fact. "And beside, maybe he’s interested in polyamory relationship.” The red plumber rooster said as he winked at his green parrot boyfriend.

“But come on Panchito, we're only plumbers. He’s royalty and he is after the guys on top not the bottom dwellers. Furthermore I thi-. Uh Panchito we got company." Jose pointed at the tree to about three gangs.

One of them is tall and muscular physique, the other is very skinny, and the last one is ironically, and short. They are all wearing brown shirts, light orange pants, brown pants, and a broken mask that is shaped like a mushroom with big black eyebrows.

"Alright boys," said one of them who is the short one, rummaging through the brother's supplies. "Destroy anything that might lead to them to the Darklands. We can't have Zeus's plan foiled."

Panchito and Jose ran to the top of the tree where they spotted the battalion of troops. "Hold it right there you scum." Panchito shouted getting ready to fight. "Don't you wanna play tag?"

"What is this tag you speak of?" asked the skinny, confused at the weird game that was popular in the real world.

"It's a game where I tag you," replied Jose as he jumped on the macular one head and sent him a bad headaches. "And YOU'RE IT!"

"Enough games!" commanded one of them. "Finish them off."

They all charged at Panchito and Jose which made them dodge left and right in succession of each attack. Without a hint of exhaustion, the brothers jumped on each of their heads in succession, giving them unconscious, leaving the shorter one left.

"Try to dodge this you insolent." He said as he proceeded to ram the Birds Plumbers in 5 different directions. Panchito and Jose carefully timed their jumps.

"King Zeus will hear about this." The skinny one said as he pulled out a communication device to warn the other soldiers back in the Darklands.

"Send this message to Zeus for us then," said Panchito as he grabbed the collar and they give him a deathly glare. "Tell him when we come for him, he'll be turtle soup when it's all said and done. Jose, you can have the honor."

"With pleasure Panchito." Jose replies as he jumped on his back and he then hit the other two and send them flying into the river as they float away. "Who knew these three couldn't swim." They chuckled at this remark, but then yawned out of exhaustion from the skirmish.

"Alright Jose," said Panchito yawning again from exhaustion. "Time to get some sleep. We have a long day ahead."

"Wait just give me one second." Said Jose retrieving the fish that they caught from the stream as well as the fishing poles. "I also want to see if these troops have anything of value." Jose looted the pockets of the corpses of the adversaries they were fighting, retrieving about 150 coins, 5 red mushrooms, and 3 flowers and the Mushrooms and the flowers have a face. "Hmm" thought Jose puzzled at the last 2 items he collected. "I wonder what they do."

Panchito take out the book they got from Professor Gyro. “Hm…” Panchito turn the pages, they found what they are looking for. “Well, the red one is call a mushroom.” He said. “According to this book that Professor Gyro had written. It said that Mushroom also known as Subspace Mushrooms, add an additional mark or heart to the life meter, up to a maximum of four. Additionally, the Mushrooms also turn a person back into their Super forms if they are in their Small forms in the same manner as a Super Mushroom or a Small Heart, and the health meter is refilled upon collection. Mushrooms are found only in specific Subspace locations within the stage.” He read.

“But what about this weird flowers one?” Jose hold them as Panchito turn the pages as he found them. ���Ah! Huh” Panchito exclaimed. “It said here that the flowers you are holding are certainly called, Fire Flowers.”

“Fire flower?” Jose raise his eyebrows, wondering what is that. “It said here that Fire flowers are a power-up that are obtainable. They can be found inside blocks (mostly ? Blocks) that normally contain Super Mushrooms if a person is already in their Super form (or in any other powered-up form), and obtaining one transforms the person into their Fire form, allowing them to throw fireballs.

“I see now?” Jose finally understood. “But let use them later. We need more powers up so that way. We could use them to help us defeat King Zeus and save the boy princess!” Panchito nodded after as Jose put the flowers always in his pocket. Then, they decided to enter their sleeping days and drift off into their dreams, resting up for the next part in their adventure to save the boy princess.

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Music:

2 PM - Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Bowser! - Mario & Luigi: Bowser Inside Story

Never Let Up! - Mario & Luigi: Dream Team

Boggly Woods- Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

[darkcloud-kcalifornia]

Well this week is going to be all kinds of horrible.  Oh sure, it’s nice to get together with family and feast at Thanksgiving.  Buuuuuut I work in a grocery store, which means the days leading up to Thanksgiving are going to be full of frantic people lined from one end to the other trying to get ready and then coming back the next hour/day because they forgot something.  This week is going to be hectic and loud and aggravating.  So.  How about some Mario before things go down?

 The live action portion this time around is “Do You Believe In Magic?”  Word is out on whether that refers to spells and rituals or the contents of a young girl’s heart (though I’m pretty sure that’s just blood and muscle tissue).  Oh, apparently it’s referring to “Magic” Johnson.  Don’t ask me who that is, I couldn’t care less about pro sports. Which means this is a pointless celebrity shill episode.  Wee. Anyway his old high school trophy is dented and he wants a repair job.  Luigi agrees and goes searching for a repair manual.  While he’s out Mario comes home and not knowing what all the junk on the table is tosses it all in the furnace.  I wonder what the laws regarding trash burning in Brooklyn were like back then?  Anyway, after the cartoon they have to frantically try and beat the now partially melted and thoroughly crushed piece of metal back into shape.  Luigi actually succeeds in remaking a player of the year trophy… but Johnson calls him out on having brought them his bowling trophy. But it turns out it wasn’t destroyed after all, just stewing in marinara, which managed to make it all nice and shiny again.

 The animated segment is “Pirates of Koopa”.  You know, considering how many Dry Bones Mario has taken on over the years and how many ghosts Luigi has busted they would probably do pretty well confronted by the weird stuff in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.  Er, getting off topic.  Anyway, Mario and the others get jobs on a ship to pay for their passage back to the Mushroom Kingdom, as all the actual sailors have been scared off by Blackbeard Koopa.  Who sadly does not have a beard when he shows up to attack.  Seriously, not even a bad looking fake one.  I call shenanigans on him calling himself Blackbeard while clean shaven.  I don’t care if he isn’t a mammal.  There are standards, sir.  Still, I will give Koopa credit, he is tough enough to take a bomb-omb to the face. Not many who can say that.  And hey, we actually get an instance of Toadstool defeating a Koopa Troopa by jumping on them and then grabbing the shell and chucking it.  But eventually they just end the fight in a way that leaves one with the distinct impression of a missing scene or two.  Now that’s just lazy writing.  Though I do approve of Koopa countering Toadstool’s argument that he agreed to leave the others alone if she went willingly with the fact that he had to send his men to fight and capture her (which must have happened in that missing scene), and thus it was not willing.  Rules-lawyer pirates are always fun.  Plus, you know, the entire point of presenting those kinds of terms of surrender is making it so you don’t have to spend the ammunition and manpower that Toadstool made him spend.  She really doesn’t have a leg to stand on here.  Anyway, Koopa’s ship pulls up to a wretched hive of scum and villainy, where he plans on selling her to the highest bidder.  Meanwhile Mario and the rest escape from their bonds on their sinking ship by Mario using one of the cartoon stars circling above their captain’s parrots head after it bonks it as a Starman to power up.  What.  Um, anyway the powerup runs out before they reach the port, so they have to disguise themselves to sneak in.  Luigi manages to win the auction by bidding one billion gold coins for Toadstool (and Koopa at the time was only asking for a million).  But after Toad sneaks over to rescue the Princess while Koopa counts his gold they get discovered and have to make a break for it, leading to a fight scene with entirely inappropriate music.  I mean seriously, you have no idea if you don’t watch this thing.  I guess I can best describe it as low key “goofy” background sound effects with a couple of notes here and there.  This is the kind of screw up that should result in lost jobs.  It completely ruined the scene.  And then Koopa is beaten in battle off-screen and sent flying as the Marios commandeer his ship.

 This one was pretty bad. I mean the live action segment was just typical cameo fare, nothing new there.  But the cartoon?  That one hurt.  Because there were several things there that could have been good if they’d actually finished the episode.  But between a beardless Blackbeard, two fight scenes without conclusions, and the sound department obviously asleep at the wheel you could just feel the fun potential of this episode die an agonizingly painful death.

 Lesson of the day:

Apparently this show didn’t just predict future Mario memes.  It also predicted the weird trend of people trying to figure out other stuff they could make pasta out of.  And yes, I know gnocchi is a thing, but that ain’t gnocchi, that’s just potato spaghetti.